The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 15, 1935, Page 1

———————— Give a Few Sample Daily Workers t- Your Shopmat jes; Then Ask Them To Subscribe Vol. XII, No. 14 FLOORS DRIP TURPENTINE, QUIZ HEARS Inquiry Wiiness States) Jobless Packed Like Sardines at Station By Simon W. Gerson Unemployed workers of the lower ast Side must apply for relief in a building which is an admitted “fire hazard,” it was revealed in testimony given yester- day before the Aldermanic Commit- tee investigating relief. The building used by Precinct 7 of the Home Relief Bureau is lo- cated at 27 Sheriff St., arz. not only has an overload on its electric wir- ing, but also has a paint factory on the third floor of the building. In- flammable material, such as turpen- une, leaks onto the floor occupied by the Home Relief Bureau, William J, Desmond. office supervisor of the bureau, testified. Newspaper men gasped as the witness drew a horrible picture of an over-worked staff laboring under miserable conditions, using orange boxes and floor space for files. The seeond floor of the building is built to bear a load of twenty-five peo- ple, but has in excess of 300 per- sons working on it, Desmond testi- fied. Packed Like Sardines Conditions,. while bad.enough for the Relief Bureau employes, were even worse for the clients, it was brought out. With a case load of 10.000, between 700 and 800 clients appear in the reception room daily. The reception room. 15- feet wide and 99 feet long, with a seating ca- pacity of 180, has about 400 people between © and 11 in the morning, Barnett Bogart, chief receptionist of the bureau testified. “Then they are packed like sar- dines?” asked Kenneth Dayton, counsel for the committee. “Yes,” agreed Bogart. “Absolute Fire Hazard” The piace is “an absolute fire haz- ard” it was brought out when a copy of a memorandum of M. Gold- field, chief electrician of the De- partment of Water Supply. Gas and Electricity, was introduced into the testimony. Toilet facilities for the relief workers are very meagre. For the 150 women workers there were two dad Entered as second-class ma’ New York and Fiv. Other Cities } »The strike of 3,000 National Bis- ‘cuit Company workers has now been | taken ‘into every neighborhood of New York and of nearby cities, as many strikers and sympathizers with placards are covering every store handling N.B.C. products, with the information that the company on labor's boycott list. Wherever | stores refuse to abide by the re- | quest of the strikers picket lines are ; thrown around, with the assistance of the workers’ organizations in the Despite the bitier cold at least two} j thousand workers turned out yes- | terday morning at the headquarters | of the Inside Bakery Workers Fed- | eral Union Local 19585, at 245 West | 14th Street for the scheduled mass | picket parade but were informed by the officials that the parade was Daily A Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COM tter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 8, 1878 NAZIS SET FOR CIVIL WAR While hundreds of other workers joined in the mass meetings, 500 staff workers of the New York Home Relief Bureaus pi central office on Broadway last Saturday. creases, the five-day week and full organizational rights. eted the They demanded wage in- 2,000 PICKET LAW SOUGHT NBC. PLANT TO BAR STRIKE Urge Laws Similar to Mussolini’s | WASHINGTON, Jan, 14.—Legisla- | tion” which would’ make illegal strikes called without the consent of the government ‘will be proposed to President Roosevelt by his ad- jvisors on labor relations, it was learned today. This proposal. differing little | from the laws of the Italian Fascist |government which also forbid strikes, would be slipped in as a joker with measures pretending to facilitate the organization of labor | unions. To conceal more effectively the proposal for outlawing strikes, a measure is offered for “majority MUNIST P, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1935 CE CALLED RTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONAL ) A (ATIONAL EDITION (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents FIRETRAP NAACP DENIES SOVIETPARLEY [er rs ras we reson vows] BROWN SHIRT SCOTTSBORO FINANCIAL AID Scottsboro - Herndon | Committee Rebuffed by Dr. Haynes | BULLETIN A call for city-wide support of the Scottsboro demonstration in Harlem this Saturday noon was issued yesterday by the District Office of the International Labor Defense. All branches and affili- ated organiations are urged to turn out en masse with their banners and slogans. The call also stressed the need of pushing the collection of funds for the de- fense, . | A policy of “watchful waiting” in |the face of the frenzied attempts of the ruling class to carry through the legal lynching of the Scottsboro | boys was announced yesterday by | Walter White, national secretary of the National Association for the Ad- jvancement of Colored People, in answer to a request by a delegation from the ‘National Scottsboro- Herndon Action Committee for financial aid to help defray the tremendous expenses of the appeals to the U. S. Supreme Court for Haywood Patterson and Clarence 6,000 Now Involved in Roosevelt Advisors Will %°™*- The same delegation calling later at the offices of the Leibowitz American Scottsboro Committee was bluntly refused an interview by Dr. George Haynes, executive vice- chairman of the American Scotts- boro Committee, one of the leaders supporting the attempts of the renegade defense attorney, Samuel Leibowitz, to disrupt the Scottsboro defense. | Hides Behind Leibowitz Claim | The delegation, composed of An- gelo Herndon, Negro hero of the Atlanto “insurrection” trial; Sam- uel Patterson, secretary of the Ne- | tional Scottsboro-Herndon Commit- tee, and Anna Damon, acting na- tional secretary of the International Labor Defense, was received by Mr. | White when it visited the N. A. A. OPENS TODAY IN UKRAINE: Congress Coincides With | |Anniversary of Red Victory Over Whites (Special to the Daily Worker) KHARKOV, Jan. 14 (By Wire- less).—The opening of the Congress of Soviets of the Socialist Ukrainian | Republic with the fifteenth anniversary of great victories of the working class and the laboring peasantry of the U.S. 8. R. In December, 1919, the Red Army inflicted a crushing blow upon the| White Guard interventionist armies and liberated one after another the most important towns in the Uk- raine, Kiev and Kharkov. The workers and collective farm- | ers of Soviet Ukraine are coming | to their Congress of Soviets having achieved a number of new and bril- liant victories in the course of these fifteen years. In 1934 the metal- |lurgical works in the Ukraine pro- | duced 6,410,000 tons of pig-iron (40 tomorrow coincides 000 tons of steel (or 47 per cent | moze), 3,710,000 tons of rolled metal | (36 per cent more than in 1933). Achievements Clear The extent of these achievements will become clear if the fact is men- tioned that one metallurgieal fac- tory alone, the Kamensky, smelted 84,700 tons of pig-iron in 1934, or jtwice as much as the whole of | Polish metallurgy; and the Makeev- sky plant aone smelted 823,000 tons, or 35 per cent more than the whole lof Czechoslovakia, In 1934 the Donetz Basin tracted 53,000,000 tons of coal | against 44,000,000 tons in 1933. Machine-building in the Ukraine has grown unparalleledly, Whereas the production of the machine- building industry in 1912 amounted jto 83,000,000 rubles, in 1928 to 305,- 900,000 rubles, in 1933 to 1,751.800,- 000 rubles, and by 1934 it had in- jcreased to 2,200,000,000 rubles. New Eiast Furnaces During the years elapsing only ex- mule” of workers as a basis for de-|C. P. offices. Plainly nervous and | Since the preceding All-Ukrainian \ciding disputes between real unions) biting off his words during the in- | Congress of Soviets 13 new power- and company unions as to which|terview, White attempted to hide | ful blast-furnaces, 22 open-heazths, | Shall represent the workers in a | given. industry. | The various labor boards would be small toilets, while the 150 men Called off, because no permit was) ‘tripped of their present enforce- workers have the seme number. For the 800 clients who come to the bu- Teau daily there were not toilet fa-| tween the union headquarters and|tive in enforcing benefits cilities at all, it was revealed. “Lighting—Ventilation Bad” Because of the poor office facili- ties, investigators have to be stag- gered, Miss Grace M. School, case Supervisor of the precinct said. They were forced to keep half of the in- vestigators out in the field in order | obtained. The workers lined along | the sidewalk for the entire block be- |the Nabisco plant on 9th Avenue jand 15th Street. _ Approximately six thousand work- |ers. are involved in strikes at the company’s plants in. Philadelphia, |Atlanta, Newark, York, Pa... and in this city. The struggle which was |forced by discrimination in wage ment powers, although these sup- posed powers have never been effec- for the workers. | The new legislation proposals ; would also provide for compulsory arbitration. Supposedly the proposed |laws would grant the workers the right to strike if mediation efforts failed, but the compulsory arbitra- tion provision would, in effect pre- |behind the false claims of the Leibowitz group that it was “repre- | senting” the boys when the delega- | | tion requested that the N. A. A. C. P. make a contribution from its treasury to help defend the boys. He was asked by Angelo Herndon if he did not have sufficient evi- | dence as to who were really fight- jing for the boys in the fact that the | stay of execution from Dec. 7 was obtained by the I. L. D., whose at- torneys likewise filed the writ of certiorari which the mass pressure has forced the court to grant; for a second agreeing to review to permit the other half to work in yates for several hundred workers Vent Unions from calling strikes if | time the death verdicts against Pat- the office. Commenting on the gen- eral situation in the place, she said: “Lighting is bad—ventiiation is bad—general conditions, " Some of the investigators had even bought little bridge tables out of their own monev to work on, and are even compelled to supply their own paper and pencils. Another shocking piece of evi- dence that brought looks of surprise even to the hard-boiled committee, Was rendered by Miss Scholl, about the inadequate telephone situation in the office. Emergency telephone (Continued on Page 2) Georgia Legislature Prepares Drive Against the Communist Party ATLANTA, Ga., Jan, 14. — The Georgia legisiature is preparing to join the ‘anti-Red” drive which is beins ovganized by the employers and the government all over the ccun-ry with two bills “to kill the snake of Communi:m before it gets big and dangerous.” Solicitor General Boykin has an- nounced plans for a bill which would forbid any political party “advocating the overthrow of the government” from placing candi- dates on the ballot. State legislators Almand and Hartsfield are pushing a bill defin- ing sedition as “an act tending to cause outbreak o- demonstrations against the state, the United States or any of their divisions.” ment is to be fixed at from five to twenty years with the provision that when death results from an act. of sedition the guilty person shail | In other words, new! be executed. and bigger Angelo Herndon frame- ups are being prepared Punish- | vin the Philadelphia vlant has now | developed into a fight for saving the | federal locals from destruction. The \ehief issue now is the company’s policy of shipping products from its unorganized plants into the cities where it was forced to introduce union conditions. “Mass picketing is your most im- portant weapon” reads a leaflet is- sued by the Communist Party to the strikers, with suggestions how to win the strike. “You have a chance now with all | your departments out on strike,” the party leaflet states, “to get the things you wanted right along. Your | Shop is out 100 per cent. You want | a general raise. You want payment \for holidays. You want free uni- forms supplied by the company. | will win them.” Approximately 1,500 foremen, in- | spectors, storekeepers and other miscellaneous classes of employes in the Interborough Rapid Transit Company won a 5 per cent wage increase yesterday because the com- pany feaxwd the growing dis- satisfaction of the men with their working conditions. The classifications benefitting by | the increase were not included in the “agreement” of the I. R. T. with the Brotherhood of I. R. T. Em- | ployes, a company union. This concession was granted as a mcens of preventing the workers from organizing into unions, or as Thomas E. Murray, federal receiver for the I, R. T., would have it, “as 1L,500LR. 7: Men WinWageR As Sentiment Grows for Union | their members were dissatisfied with |the decisions resulting from gov- | ernment arbitration. Guild Denies Reports | of Settlement Offer in Newark Walk-Out | NEWARK, N. J., Jan. 14—Re- joao that L. T. Russell, publisher |the arbitration offer of the striking | editorial workers was denied today |by the strikers. “The offer does | not provide for the basic protective principle of employee organizations, |under a contract, reinstatement of | Raise these demands. You can and strikers and so on,” the American | ‘Newspaper Guild stated. ise |a reward for the loyalty and faith- | fulness of these employees.” The workers in these groups are | completely unorganized except for the beginnings of organization made by Transport Workers Union, an in- dependent union which has made |considerable strides among the workers in the operative depart- |ments. None of these workers be- long to the company brotherhood. Actual unionization of all the workers on the lines, many workers feel, and the establishment of one | Strong union in the traction system, tions of work. is the only way to reise the standard | |of living of the workers in the in-| dustry and improvement of condi-| \terson and Norris. Anna Damon then reminded White that Joseph Brodsky, chief of I. L. D. counsel, had sent him all the documents in| comprises 5,000,000, which is thrice |™ade against a Negro family by the | to sell the Daily Worker regularly |the case, clearly proving that Pat- terson and Norris had repudiated | Leibowitz and signed new retainers | with the I. L. D. “Watchful Waiting” | It was at this time that. White jenunciated his “watchful waiting” lpoliey; repeating the “hands off” at- \of the Newark Ledger, has accepted | titude which marked the N. A. A.| C. P. policy in the early days of the |case, when N. A. A. C. P. officials | refused to soil their skirts with the nine Negro youths charged with “raping” two white giris, although |the frame-up character of the namely, recognition of the Guild | charges was evident even at that Jewish, German, | time. The delegation told White in ef- | fect that such a policy was not in | reality a “hands off” policy, but a | direct aid to the lynch rulers, point- ‘ing out that White’s stand endan- gered the defense at this time when funds ars so urgently needed | to carry the fight to the U. S. Su- | preme Court. White then asked the | delegation to have the National Ac- | tion Committee write him an offi- cial letter, promising to take it up with the N. A. A. C, P. Executive Board. He stated that if the Scottsboro case was like the Hern- don case, the N. A. A. C. P. would know where to give its funds. Dr. George Haynes, refusing to see the delegation or to see Hern- him must be secured by request mail. Samuel Patterson pointed out to Dr. Haynes’ secretary that the National Action Committee had three times written him asking an appointment for a delegation, and had been refused each time. Dr. Haynes had likewise refused to see the Scottsboro mothers, don personally, sent out word to the | delegation that appointments with | 10 rolling mills, 2 powerful bloom- | ing mills, and 13 new and almost completely mechanized mines were constructed in the Ukraine, The victories attained by Soviet Ukrainia in agriculture have been no less grandiose. Seventy-four {and a half per cent of the sown areas belong to collective and 13.1) per cent to state farms. Catering | to the needs of the collective farms, | 782 machine tractor stations were organized; these possessed 44,000 | tractors, 7,1000 trucks, and 2,500 | combines. Simultaneously Ukrainian culture has. been steadfastly growing {primary education encompasses all \the children of the Ukraine, The |mMumber of pupils in the primary | middle schools in the Ukraine now |more than in 1916. The pupils at- | tending the primary middle schools lare divided into the following na- | tionalities: Ukrainians, 85 per cent; Russians, 9 per cent; Jews, 2 jcent; children of other nationai |4 per cent. The network of dren's cultural institutions has con- | siderably increased. In 1934 alone | |35 new children’s palaces and clubs | Were erected. | Extensive work has been carried on in the development of national culture among the national minor- | |ities of the Ukraine. There are | teachers in the Russian, Polish, | Moldavian and |Greck languages. Belles-letters and | political literature are published in these languages and there are na- | tional colleges 2nd technicums. The | eneral network of cultural institu- jtions has been greatly extended. In 1934 there were 2.489 clubs and houses of culture in the Ukraine, against 1,087 in 1930; also 86 urban theatres, against 42 in 1930; 3.505 tural moying-picture houses against 1,788 and 1,756 urban cinemas as against 1,003 in 1920. a | The Ukrainian press is particu- | \larly extensive, The circulation of |Mewspapers rose from 3,876,(®) in | 1933, to 5,000,000 in 1934, over 90 |Per cent of all newspapers being | Published in the Ukrainian lan- | Suage. COLD SNAP BRINGS MISERY CHICAGO, Jan. 14—A cold wave | Which sent the thermomieter to 30 |below zero in Winnipeg and 14 be- jlow zero in Superior, Wisconsin, moved eastward this afternoon, jleaving intense suffering for work- ling class families in its wake. Twenty-eight inches of snow was lreported at Superior. A} chil- | ee: KG a7 vAN rumbein Shows How | ‘Daily’ Circulation Can Reach 100,000 By Charles Krumbein Just what can be done at the present moment to in- per cent more than in 1933), 4235,- crease the circulation of the Daily Worker? For more than eleven years the “Daily” has appeared With the crisis Supreme Court Adjourns Without Mooney Verdict WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 14, —The U. S. Supreme Court re- cessed today until next Monday without a decision on the writ filed by Tom Mooney for a re- w of his framed-up convie- tion. This is the second time the court has considered the Mooney case, the first time being in 1918, when it refused to review the evidence, Mooney has been a prisoner in San Quentin penitentiary, Cali- fornia, since 1916, when he was framed-up on a bombing charge growing out of the San Francisco Preparedness Day parade. Millions of workers have dem- onstrated for Mooney’s release in every country in the world from the first day of his imprison- ment, City Seeks | To ‘Deport’. _ Negro Family | “Incompatibility with an urban | civilization,” is one of the charges | LaGuardia administration in the attempt by the Department of Pub- | lic Welfare to “deport” them back | \to North Carolina with its peonage |relief system, whereby unemployed Negro workers are farmed out to rich landowners and held in debt- slavery for the rest of their lives. The family is that of Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Goins, who with their six children came to this city early last year and“are at present living at 2682 Eighth Avenue, where the husband is employed as janitor Hearing on the case will take Place this Thursday morning in General Sessions Court, Part One, | White and Franklin Streets. Hearst Pap By Allen Johnson FLEMINGTON, N. J., Jan, 14— Led by Willidm Rendolph Hearst, | | the capitalist press began to steer | |a@ new course today in its attempt | to preserve the Lindbergh myth in the face of the mounting pressure of | facts that indicate the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby | was the product of an inside job in- | volving at least four men. | Coincident with the new tack | taken by the press to maintain un- blemished the reputation of the Super-salesman of imperialism who is now an associate of the Wall Street war-mongers his father spent a lifetime fighting, is the perfect ex- | pression of capitalist “justice” being’ ; and responsible las the fighting spokesman of the American working class. growing ever deeper and in the face of the frantic war preparations of the Roosevelt government, it is impera- tive that the Daily Worker increase its readers—and its mass influence —at once. The Political Buro of the Commu- nist Party recently decided that the circulation of the Daily Worker must be raised to 100,000 within six months. Is this possibile? I am convinced | that with the proper methods this objective can be realized. Here in New York, particularly, tens of thousands of workers, if | they knew about the Daily Worker, would become readers and enthusi- astic supporters. Yet we have oniy about 15,000 readers in New York. Many, many more indeed than these 15,000 readers contributed to the $30,000 New York raised in the Daily Worker financial drive. Surely | EVERY contributor can be made a reader of the Daily Worker, with the slightest effort. The most im- portant political task of all who agree with the principles and poli- cies of the Daily Worker reaches those tens of thousands of workers who are ready to become readers. The Party Sections, Units and Fractions, must immediately carry out the instructions sent in regards to the Daily Worker circulation campaign. The necessary, capable apparatus, Le. Section Daily Worker agents and Committees, Party Unit Daily Worker agents, and Committees in the mass organizations must be set up. If units adopt a Red corner, and a station at a factory or work- ers meeting hall, and supply forces there, this in itself would more tha double the circulation. Very important is the obtaining | of 400 to 500 Red Builders, workers and others who see the importance of the Daily Wo:ker as a leader and organizer, and who will con- scientiously and systematically es- tablish the Daily Worker on a cor- ner before a factory or at a hall where the workers assemble. They can at the same time in this way make expenses. If these first important steps are taken in all seriousness, we can be assured of doing our part in build- ing the circulation of the Daily Worker to 100,000 within the next | six months, er Aids Hauptmann Defense by Uncovering Writ provided by Attorney General Wi- lentz, who was proved today to be Suppressing evidence that may prove that Hauptmann had several accomplices, among whom might be Dr. John (Jafsie) Condon, Lind- bergh’s agent. The new tack being taken by the capitalist press is to indicate that Hauptmann, the Nazi adherent, even though he may be guilty of! everything he has been indicted for, is not guilty alone, and may have been aided by Isidor Fisch, a Jewish furrier, who died a year ago in Ger- many. The evidence being suppressed by (Continued on Page 2) ~~ HORDE BEGINS TERROR REIGN Status Quo Certain If Plebiscite Was Free, Newsman Writes BULLETIN (Special to the Daily Worker) SAAKBKUUNEN, Jan. 14 (BY Wireless).—Even underthe condi- tions of unparalleled Nazi terror- ism, so far, by a partial count of tne Saar piepiscite votes, more than 25 per cent have dared to | vote against Hitler and tor the status quo. (Special to the Daily Worker) SAARBRUCKEN Jan. 14 (By Wireless) —The ar is now bor= dering on civil war, it is becoming hourly evident here. Nazi terrorism has intensified to a pitch even une known in the days preceding Hit- ler’s seizure of power in Germany. The N power in many Municipalities are appoint members “Deutsche Front lice. “The impression, while the pleb- iscite was taking piace, was that the Saar was already under Nazi rale,” declared Max Braun, lead- er of the United Front of Commu- nists and Socialists. Terror Rises As the last votes were recorded and the official count of the pleb- iscite started at 5:15 Monday after- neon, the stark terrorism under which the plebiscite was held widely recognized, even by bour; newspaper correspondents. The cor: respondent of the Basle Monday Morning News wired to his paper: “If there had really been a FREE plebiscite a victory for the supporters of the status quo would have been certain.” Even at its highest point of say: agery and intimidation, the ter- rorism of the Nazis was absolutely unrestrained by the Plebiscite Com- mission. Despite the order of the Commis- sion forbidding the printing of newspapers or leaflets, the “Deut- sche Front” circulated numerous lying and scandal-mongering leaf- lets directed against the anti-fas- , cist “Liberty Front,” in which the is (Continued on Page 2) | Pickets Call For Rakosi Liberation In near-zero weather, one hun< dred anti-fascist workers picketed he Hungarian Consulate here yes< terday in protest against the threat+ ening frame-up trial of Matthias Rakosi, the world-known Hungarian anti-fascist leader who has already suffered nine years’ imprisonment at the har of the brutal Goem- boes dictatorshi; Although police time and again acked the picket line, and de= tectives and police filled and sure rounded the Consulate, the deme ing workers insisted that delegation be heard. The Consul was finally forced to admit a delegation of two, George Loh of the American League Against War and Fascism and D. W. Griffin of the International Labor Defense. Presenting the vigorous resolution adopted at the Rakosi defense meet- ing held Sunday afternoon, the dele- ,Sation pointed out that American workers, particularily Hungarians here, would take up the fight for Rakosi. “This fascist mockery of a trial the delegation declared, “based upon charges which every lawyer recognizes are vicious sub- terfuges for railroading a working class leader to his death, has called forth protests from workers throughout the world and we de= \mand that you transmit our pro« test to your government.” At the Mecca Temple meeting, | where Israel Amter was the main peaker, resolutions demanding the |release of Matthias Rakosi and John Hock, an anti-fascist priest \imprisoned by the Hungarian fas- cists, were cabled to Hungary. The same resciution was sent to the | Hungarian Legetion at Washington, Do their