The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 14, 1935, Page 1

ru —————————————————eeee You Can Win a Trip to the Soviet Union By Joining the Sub- scription Contest Daily .QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERWATIONAL ) ATIONAL EDITION Vol. XII, No. 12 => Entered as second-class mat New York, N. ¥., ter at the Post Office at under the Act of March 8, 1878 NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1935 (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents PATERSON RANK-FILE SLATE WINS ern Nazi Gangs Mass in Saar During Voting ® - PUTSCH PLAN OF FASCISTS [S REVEALED Mayor of Siarbrnecken in Plot to Occupy Town Buildings SAARBRUECKEN, Jan. 13 (By Wireless), — Eight thousand Storm Troopers and Special Guards, as well as numerous Gestapo (Hitler's Secret Police) agents are flooding) the Saar territory preparatory to seizing the Saar by a putsch what- ever the outcome of the now clos- ing plebiscite, it was confirmed through several sources this after- | noon. Under the retext of “a victory celebration” a fascist torchlight procession will occupy the tawn hall and all administrative buildings here, The Nazi mayor, it was fur- ther revealed, is implicated in the scheme. Nazi chiefs and Saar in- dustrialists have already exported 100,000,000 gold marks from the ter- ritory, in order to avoid the future exchange into paper marks in the event the plebiscite votes to return | the Saar to Hitler. All the French franes now in the Saar will be called in by the Nazi government in ex-| change for paper marks. The pro-| ceeds are to be used to pay off the French mine owners, if the Saar is| transferred to Fascist Germany. The industrialists, working with the Nazis, were permitted to make the) transfer now in order to preserve} their huge gold reserves intact be- fore the exchange iakes place. Extraordinary menacing measures | are being taken to guard the 30,000 German Saarlanders who arrived | here yesterday to vote in the plebi- | scite. The hope for liberty is agi-| tating in many breasts, all observers | have noticed, and a leap to frecdom across the French border in case the Nazis win is prevented only by the armed guards now herding them to| the polls. Everywhere the srip of | fascist brutality and violence, which in two years of Hitlerism has now brought the masses of Germany to organized resistance. is spreading its | pall of terrorism over the Saar. This factor is hourly strengthening the influence of the mass united front | against Hitler and is gaining thou- | sands of votes for the status quo. A typical example of the manner | in which Saar Nazis have given the population a taste of what will come in the possible advent of fascism into this small but thoroughly work- ing class territory is the brutal treatment accorded to Jewish voters | in the plebiscite. Although Jews compose less than one-half of one per cent of the inhabitants and are an altogether negligible factor in the total vote, Nazi marauders have | made the rounds of Jewish voters and threatened them wtih their lives unless they turned over their plebiscite cards, without which no one may yote, The united front of Communists and Socialists, supported by the German Catholic People’s Front and numerous trade unions, has sent an emergency appeal to the League of Nations that under such conditions of fascist banditry no honest plebiscte could be held. Trial of 12 Pickets In C.C.C. Protest Set For Today in Newark NEWARK, N. J., Jan. 13—The trial of the twelve young workers who were arrested here last Sat- urday for picketing the headquar- | ters of the Civilian Conservation camps in protest against the firing of the mutineers of South Moun- tain Camp, comes up this morning at 9 o'clock in the Second Criminal Court, Seventh and Summer Avenues. The picketers were arrested last Saturday when they refused to comply with a police order to dis- | band. Frank Carlson, section or- ganizer of the Young Communist League, who headed the line, de- clared that the pickets had been elected at a mass meeting of five hundred workers who were as- sembled at a Lenin, Liebknecht, Luxemburg memorial and could not leave without the consent of the workers. The camp officials admitted to the delegation that there was mili- tary discipline in the camp and stated that the delegates needed “a little of the same thing. The Young Communist League of Newark is organizing a mass pro- tess against the militarization of the camps and has urged that all workers turn out to the trial this | | ARMED TROOPS MARCH AS SAAR GOES TO POLLS | IN BULGARIA DEATH TRIALS SET FOR 520 Dimitroff Wires to U.S.) Urging Mass Protest | Against Plot More than 520 Bulgarian soldiers and anti-fascists face death trials on charges of participating in anti- war activities, following the recent execution of seven soldiers for tak- jing part in August 1, 1934, anti-war actions, This was revealed yesterday in a cablegram sent by George Dimitroff, | heroic Reichstag Fire Trial defend- | ant to Anna Damon, acting national secretary of the International Labor Defense. penalty for 17 of 38 defendants now on trial there. Seven of the defend- ants, including four soldiers, two| With streets bedecked with Nazi swastikas the British contingent of the League's police army marched through Saarbruecken thoroughf: ares while workers looked on. Clashes between the anti-fascist forces and the Nazi German front haye been frequent in the last few weeks. ‘We Ask You-to Help. Again,’ Ts Scottsboro Mothers’ STEPS TAKE TO KILL BONUS Tricky Compromise Is_ Hoped to Stifle the Mass Demand WASHINGTON, Jan. 13—The first steps in the fight against. the bonus are being prepared as it was reported yesterday that the House Ways and Means Committee would recommendation, Thus, the committee members, al- though eager to block the measure, are too fearful of openly recom- mending its defeat. It is felt that Roosevelt, unable to ignore the tremendous pressure from the starving veterans and the workers, will have to resort to some bind of tricky compromise in order to avoid direct veto, which itself is not impossible. Roosevelt is de- termined that the Government shall have no trouble in paying the Wall rtSeet banks the billion dollars due on the government debt every 12 months. This is close to the amount needed by the veterans. Immense pressure is being put on Congress by such capitalist bodies as the United States Chamber of Commerce for the defeat of the bonus, which this week sent every member a letter demanding action against the measure, It is felt that a presidential veto would be over-ridden in the House, but that the Senate would back Roosevelt against the veterans, hun- dreds of thousands of whom are penniless. report the Patman Bill without any | ial Urgent to ici | Appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court | By MRS. JANIE PATTERSON and MRS, IDA NORRIS | We are the mothers of the. two Scottsboro boys (Haywood Patter- |son and Clarence Norris) that have | jbeen given a new hearing by the Supreme Court. We have joy in our hearts for this decision, but we still have sadness also. Because the boys are not yet free. There is much more work that has to be done, so much more work, before our boys can go free. So we are turning to the readers of the Daily Worker. We know you are with our boys. We remember how the Deily Worker came to our help in those dark days when our us; people would only lift a hand against us to burn our boys. | Daily Worker that came out first showing how this was a_ dirty frame-up, how the boys had done nothing at all, had only been out of work boys looking for a job to do. Daily Worker has stuck by us, and the Daily Worker’s readers, who know the truth. We are asking through the Daily Worker for you people to help. You have helped so often, but now we have to ask you to help again. Be- cause the hearing is before the Supreme Court and they will decide if the boys are to have a new trial. And for that we have to have money for the briefs and all the legal steps and for the mass move- ment to continue that has saved our boys for almost four years. We can't let the Scottsboro fight do down now. So we ask, please help by sending money to the Interna- tional Labor Defense, at 80 East llth Street, New York City. Seen as Aid to OAKLAND, Cal., Jan. 13—Skill-, 13,—Skill- fully, and amid great ballyhoo, the wealthy aviatrix, Amelia Earhart, brought her plane down here after taking off alone 18 hours and 15 minutes before at Honolulu, Hawaii. She was greeted by a large crowd which had anxiously scanned the skies after a long silence in which no word was received from her, Her average speed was 140 miles an hour for the entire 2,400 mile flight. In preparing for the flight she was given every assistance by the government an* wealthy back- ers who are interested in developing trans-Pacific flights as part of the war preparation program which in- volves Hawaii as the main naval morning to demand the release of the picketers. base in the Facific. The 36-year-old flyer has com- Miss Earheart’s Hawaii Flight U.S. War Plans: pleted several other important flights which have brought her to |@ leading place in the aviation world, She has crossed the Atlantic twice, being the first woman to make the flight. She was the first woman to fly an autogiro, and to cross the United States in an auto- giro, and the first woman to make a transcontinental flight across the Saher: The importance of Hawaii as part of the United States war plans is apparently not lost on Miss Earhart, for on her arrival she told the press, “Anything I can do to help close the gap between Hawaii, as an integral part of the United States, and the mainland will be a work in which I can throw myself wholeheartedly.” boys were framed und it seemed like | no one would lift a hand te help We remember that it was the) And ever since those days the | Plea DRIVE URGED FOR NEUMANN | Wide Protest. Needed to Halt Extradition of | German Communist of Heinz Neumann to Nazi Germany have now begun,” Alfred Wagen- knecht, secretary of the National Committee to Aid the Victims of German Fascism, said yesterday. | “They will last about three weeks, we have been informed. Thousands of protest letters from individuals, | thousands of resolutions from or- | ganizations, should be mailed to the Bundesstaatsanwalt at Bern within | the week. Organizations should ca- | ble their protests as well. | “Committees should visit all Swiss consulates with demands for the liberation of Neumann and demand | that their request for his liberation | be cabled to Bern by the consulate. | These committees should re-visit the consulate to ask for the answer | from: Bern to their demands. “There is practically no difference between the Nazi frame-up against Neumann and the Reichstag fire frame-up against Dimitroff and others, and we must take equally energetic steps to liberate Neumann. Besides, we must by no means allow the setting up of a precedent for ex- tradition of anti-fascist refugees back to Germany. If such a pre- |cedent is established, the lives of | thousands of fighters against fas- cism, leaders of German workers and intellectuals, who now reside in | France, Holland, Czecho-Slovakia and other countries, will be endan- gered.” Southern Mill Strikers To Refer Board Edicts To Big Mass Meetings CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Jan. 13. | —While National Guardsmen are Richmond Hosiery Mills, at Ross- ville, the National Textile Labor Re- lations Board entered the strike sit- uation here Friday wih a -onfer- ence at which representatives of the company and workers are to be present, Four mills of the company remain on strike. Prior to any new agree- ment going into effect, workers will hold mass meetings to give ap- proval. Thus far offers to place their demands ii the hands of an “The proceedings for extradition | protecting the main mill of the| workers, and the worker-deputy | Traikov, were murdered by the Bul- | garian fascists while awaiting trial | The Bulgarian supreme court has already death sentences ‘passed against anti-fascist soldiers and sailors, and | their execution is momentarily ex- | | pected. | “In greatest anxiety | myself through you to world’ public | , opinion,” Dimitroff cabled to Anna | Damon, “to raise a storm of pro- | test against raging Bulgarian fas- | cism. Rally your tried forces to foree the Bulgarian government to release its victims.” Answering this call, the Interna- tional Labor Defense, ‘through its national executive committee, has called on all workers’ organizations throughout the country to renew | and intensify their protest, to the Bulgarian embassy at Washington {and the consulates wherever these | exist, against the threatened ex- | ecutions, Organization of delegations to the consulates, from every organization opposed to war, and of demonstra- tions in New York, Chicago, and other large cities was urged. Bids Schools Support NRA WASHINGTON, Jan. 13, —Evi- dence of an organized drive to mo- bilize the entire school system of the country behind Roosevel*’s Wall by a carefully prepared radio ad- dress made by Secretary of Com- merce Roper in which he called upon the school system of the coun- try to “support a democratic capi- talist. system.” Defending the .Wall Street pro- gram of Roosevelt which has | brought increased misery and in- security to millions, Roper, who is Roosevelt's personal spokesman, said that “no government can guar- antee security for all.” Roper urged that all schools de- liberately -ducate the minds of the children in support of the Roose- velt program of curtailing produc- tion in the interests of the mo- nopolies. Newspaper Guild Wins | At Jewish Daily Bulletin The thirteen editorial staff mem- | bers of the Jewish Daily Bulletin | who called a strike on Thursday to collect more than $1,300 back pay were back at work yesterday after having reached an agreement earlier in the day with Jacob Lan- dau, publisher of the paper, and managing director of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. The agreement binds the pub- lisher to the regular weekly pay- ment of wages at the scale in force prior to the strike and to the liqui- dation of the back salaries claims at the rate of $200 a week. Mr. Landau also agreed to open formal tract with the Newspaper Guild, which led the strike, to cover the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. The Jewish Daily Bulletin contract in arbitration board have been rejected | by 1,000 workers on strike. force prior to the strike will remain in effect, Whatthe Election Means | The Daily Worker AN EDITORIAL extends its heartiest congratulations to the Paterson silk workers. A rank and file slate has been elected to office in the silk union by an overwhelming vote of three to one. The Love- stone-Socialist Party-Keller-Laks bureaucracy has been defeated Last week the dyers of Paterson in their elections also elected their militant leader Charles Vigorito and a rank and file slate. There. also, Lovestoneite bureaucrats were defeated Thus, where they stand Ammirato. colors Experience showed the workers the Lovestonei both the silk and dye workers of Paterson have made clear The class struggle policies of in the Paterson silk and dye locals have triumphed over collaboration policies of the Lovestone cliques headed by the rank and file the clas. Keller and With the local union leadership in their own hands, the silk and VOTE 3 10 1 FOR MILITANT CANDIDATES Old Guard Socialists and Lovestonites De- feated At Polls By PATER, rank and George Morris | The state prosecutor in Haskovo, | | Bulgaria, is demanding the death | ratified more than eighty | I address | dye workers of Paterson can now move forward to winning real ad- vances, to strengthening their union in the industry, to winning im- -proved conditions for themselves and their families. The election results are the best confirmation of the correctness of the policies of the Communists and the left wing. The results show that the workers appreciate that these class struggle policies are the Department o! eration of sweeping here yesterd dates on the ran’ elected by a three t only ones that can and will win them improvements in their con- The reaction: ditions, and strengthen the power of the trade unions against the | the lL employers, Daily rides Furthermore, the Paterson election results show how false and | )y.0 ely ae ogre, ee anti-working class are the activities of such people as the Muste- only able to m 326 votes for Cannon followers of Trotzky who fought against the class struggle policies of the left wing in Paterson. Finally the elections show what the workers think of the reaction- ary attempts of Green and Woll to oust all militant workers, left wing and Communist from the A. F. of L. They have given the reply which hundreds of A. F. of L. locals have given throughout the country. Now the Paterson workers can get to work with enthusiasm and energy on their big tasks ahead of them. | The industry must be 100 per cent organized. | Employed and unemployed workers must be drawn into united front in support of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill. Every shop must be made a 100 per cent union shop, with the full strength of the union mobilized to fight for better conditions. | For the dye workers this means to make sure that the signed agree- ment is lived up to. The union should prepare itself for the time when | it will be able to enforce its original demands for $1 an hour, the six- hour day,and full recognition of the union, For the silk workers, this should mean immediate steps to force the employers to grant the demands of the union. The Paterson silk work- ers’ local is now in a position to take the lead in uniting the silk work- ers of ihe country for the enforcement of the demands worked out at the last convention of the Silk Workers’ Federation. The silk and dye workers of Paterson can be assured of full sup- port from the Communist Party, the Daily Worker and the left wing movement as a whole, EASTMAN HITS REILLY DENIES Street ‘policies was given yesterday | In Sirike for Back Pay, negotiations on Feb. 3 for a con- | For Aid to ‘Sickly’ | Railroad Industry CHICAGO, IIL, Jan. 13.—Railroad labor must accept the six-hour day, if at all, at its own expense. Rail- road Co-ordinator Eastman told 2,000 railway union executives at | their conference at the Hotel Mor- |rison yesterday. The railroad | Stated that Eastman’s demands will |not change their legislative pro- gram. Eastman in his speech had told the union heads that the “sickly” railroad industry cannot better the workers’ conditions and that the rail workers must help the “industry as a whole.” The rail union executives asso- ing its intentior of demanding leg- islation for the six-hour day with- out pay cuts, the full crew bill, train limit bill, and other measures. ecutives Association, does not at- tions by organizing a mass move- ment, but confines its entire ac- tivities to lobbying. | ciation issued a statement reiterat- | However, the Railway Labor Ex- | tempt to gain these better condi- | 6-HOUR DAY NAZI SUPPORT Roper Address Federal Official Pleads | Meat: Lawyer Says Hitlerites Did Contribute By Allen Johnson FLEMINGTON, N. J., Jan. 13.— | The open collection of funds for the union executives | | using” defense of Bruno, Richard Haupt- mann by Nazis in’ Yorkville beer halls forced a denial from Edward J. Reilly, Hauptmann’s chief attor- ney, yesterday that the Hitlerites were contributing to his defense fund, but further investigation only orroborates the fact that the Nazis have accepted Haupmann, who has a long criminal zecord in Germany, as one of their own. At a meeting held recently in New York, Haegele, leader of the svazi its highest candidate, F The rank and f s 900 votes for est candidate, ceived 717. In a few weeks. election for offi- cers of the local will take place, and a final clean-up of the reactionary clique, which under the leadér= ship of the Lovestoneite, Eli Keller, Manager of the Union, is certain. The rank and e victory follows @ desperate attempt by the Keller group to confuse the issues facing the membership of the union with eleventh hour lies and rumors. This group fought hard to maintain its stranglehold on the organization. Charles Zimmerman, Lovestoneite manager of Local 22 of the I.L.G, W.U., was. brought paign to aid the Lo’ ward combination. His was that the Comm ‘orders from Moscow union.” Another trick v late a lying story in the er that Cha V ito, file candidate i sident in the Dyers Union, who ¥ elected last Saturday, was a fascist Following is the vote for the fifteen victorious candidates, all on the rank and file ticket Louis Valgo, 853; Edward Sochan, 805; Millie Delvi 2; Alec Phil- lian, 900; Sarkes Joseph Brooks, 887; Sa sky, 784; Sam Seber, 81 785; Joseph Sozain, 79 ayan, 797; Carlo De Nicola, | u = Al Van Vian: s Hajjar, 717. Laks, outstan candidate of the Keller mac! ly 307 votes Workers Rally Today at Hungarian Consulate For Release of Rakosi the fi Although Goemboes government has declared that the trial of Matthias will be postponed to Jan. 21 from its duled date, today, this report will in no way tne the demand of American workers that the heroi¢ faction that split off from the Je: f Friends of New Germany, the main pee es pe Rrtnenrysenn sie Nazi organization, and formed the Labor “Defense. annoumteed “ir a Teague of American Nation. Social- ists, charged that the maj group, led by Dr. Schnuk, was “mi the organization’s among which, Haegele said, w sums of money collected for Haupt: mann’s defense. Accordin= to Saturday's New York Journal, William Randolp! Hea: International News Service yester- day offered the services of Inspector Faurot, father of the American (Continued on Page 2) “My own father,” house at Town Hall Saturday night, | “was a simple peasant who . . . fin- ally became a professor and presi- dent of a university in Siberia. This shows,” the “newest critic’ of the Soviet Union reasoned, “that before the Revolution, even in the Czar’s time, the Der sant could advance to success!” Addressing an audience whose working class section in the bal- cony was at first neutral, then in-| credulous, and finally _ hostile, | Madame Tchernavin explained why she made her Soviets.” Algernon Lee, a leading Socialist, who since his recent chairmanship at the Cooper Union meeting held “escape from the} Lee Speaks i in a Manhattan With White Guardist Author announced | in defense of the saboteurs and as- Tatiana Tchernavin to a two-thirds! sassins executtd by the Soviet Gov- ernment, has appeared, to aston-— ished Socialist workers, in the role of friendly consort to White Guard- | ists, introduced Madame Tcherna- | vin as “one of a number of impar- tial lecturers sponsored by the Rand School for Social Research.” The former museum expert began with a recitation of “stories” and “facts,” of which had The New York | | Times been able to verify the small- | est part, that bitter anti-Soviet | newspaper would have spread four! and six column headlines across its front page. “The Communist Party of the Soviet Union,” Madame Tchernavin | (Continued om Page 2) Statement today. After torturing Rakosi for nine years in the fascist dungeons the Hungarian government is now at- tempting to put Rakosi to death, and is trumping up charges against Rakosi of committing twenty-seven murders, of being an accomplice to seventeen other murders, of insult- ing the king, ete. The fascist government, the trial of Rak hopes to terrore | ize all anti fascist workers, | “Rally to the dezense of Rakosi,” the statement declares. “Join the | demonstration before the Hunga~ rian Consulate at noon today, at 25 Broadway. Sed telegrams of pro= test to the Hungarian Consulate and the Hungarian Legation at | Washington, D. C.” through Secret Service Agents | Of Treasury Department Receive Rifle Training WASHINGTON, Ji Jan. 13.—Secret | Service agents of the Treasury Dee partment are now being trained to become expert marksmen, it was re- ported today. A nation-wide Treasury training of all Department agents in Shooting with pistols has been ore dered by | Morgenthau Some agents will be taught how to handle sub-machine guns and rifles besides small firearms, it was reported. ; Secretary of Treasury —