The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 17, 1935, Page 1

es ‘Scottsboro Issues Our Own,’ Says Bedacht | By MAX BEPACHT | National Secretary, International | Workers’ Order | The Scottsboro and Hern-| don cases hold very special importance for the members of the International Workers’ Order, and of all working- class fraternal organizations. The issues of unity of~black and white, of unemployment insurance and relief, so deeply involved in these cases, are our own. | I urge every member of our Order every member of a working-class fraternal or- ganization, hates protest movement led by the International Labor Defense to force freedom of these vic- tims. Funds are an immediate and essential need to the carrying on of the legal and mass campaign in these cases. Rush contributions for the Scottsboro-Herndon defense fund at once to the national office of the International Laber Defense, Room 610, 80) East 11th Street, New York | City. State Retains Neil McAllister, In Trial of 18 and Leo Kamenevy, leaders of the Zinoviev-Trotzkyite coun- le By Michael Quinn (Special to the Daily Worker) _ SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan, 16.— By special orders of Attorney-Gen- eral Webb, acting on the demands | of California industrialists, former | District Attorney Neil McAllister and his aides have been retained for the prosecution of the 18 work- | er-defendants charged with viola- | tion of the criminal syndicalist laws | because of their working class ac- tivities. McAllister was overwhelm- | ingly repudiated by the people in the recent elections here. \ | Under ordinary procedure, the prosecution would be conducted by the new District Attorney, Otis V. | Babcock, but the local business- | men’s groups and the press started a petition drive when it was inti- mated that the city could not meet the additional expenses of $50 a day. to MeAllister and each-of his aides during the period of the trial. Pres- sure was brought to bear upon At- | torney-General. Webb to appoint McAllister and his aides as special prosecutors. McAllister is the chief tool of the employers in the con- coction of the frame-up of the 18 workers. Terror Machine Functions | A terroristic campaign is now be- | ing worked up as a background for the trial, with the police holding daily riot drills in the city parks | Preparatory to the unemployment and social insurance congress here | in February, and the Californit Leg- islature introducing three bills to | illegalize the Communist Party and put it off the ballot. That the Communist Party is only the first target for a general onslaught on the whole working class is shown | by the proposal of several other bills prohibiting every conceivable activity of the workers and for the regimentation of students and pro- | fessors in the universities, Protests Urged } These bills have been drawn up under the supervision of local cham- bers of commerce and other ozgan- izations of capitalists, and are de- | signed as patterns for other states in a nationwide drive for legislation against the working class. Every organization interested in.the de- fense of workers’ rights should rush | protests to the California legisla- ture and Gov. Frank Merriam. The proposed legislation equals | that of Hitler Germany, prohibiting strikes and other struggles by the working class to better its condi- tions. The bills conform with the Hearst pro-fascist campaign. An attempt is to be made to rush them through the legislature before pro- | test actions by workers and other anti-fascists can be organized. The legislature has denied press creseN- tials for a representative of the Western Worker to be present at | the hearings. Investigation Is Asked Of Press Censorship By New Deal Leaders WASHINGTON. Jan. 16.—Strong | hints that the Roosevelt adminis- trat’on has been exercising influ- ence on all newspaper publicity on the N.R.A. were made by Represen- tative Martin Dies of Texas who introduced a resolution calling for | an investigation. : On these charges that the Roose- velit government is seeking to spread a direct censorship of the press, Speaker of the House Byrns de-| clared that he would not be opposed to an investigation, but tried to minimize the need of any real in- vestigation.. Tax Rates Are Cut In the Soviet Union (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Jan. 16 (By Wireless). —Workers earning less than 150 rubles a month in the big cities and less than 140 rubles in other parts of the Soviet Union will no longer pay the small tax (between 39 kopecks and a ruble’, the Soviet zovernment announced today. In eGCOoCoC————SSS—S—————=s SCOTTSBORO-HERNDON DEFENSE FUND $14,773.82 has been coltected by the I, L. D. since July 9, 1934. $10,226.18 more must must be raised at once for the appeals. eEuaCaeoCooooOOOOlllS]SSS=S=7[ Daily .Q Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONAL ) NATIONAL EDITION Vol. XH, No. 15 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at ee New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 8, 1878 | ¢ o every one who} lynching, starvation, | Jim-Crow, to join in the mass | 3 ROLE WHIC THE MURDER OF KIROV 19 CONFESS ANTI-PARTY H INSPIRED |*Moscow Center’ of Trotzky-Zinoviey Opposition Was Connected With Leningrad Terrorists —Accept Political Responsibil (Special to the D; MOSCOW, Jan. 16 (By ry jaily Worker) Wireless).—Gregory Zinoviev ter-revolutionary cliques, today admitted the guilt and moral and political responsibility of their group in inspiring the} assassination of Sergei Kirov and 17 others of their adherents were ordered brought to trial, on decision of the Central Executive Committee of the U. S. S. R. before the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union. All confessed their complicity in counter - revolutionary _ activities which led to outright assassinations. tions. Speaking of his responsibility for the crime committed on Dec. 1, 1934, the accused Zinoviev testified: “The progress of events are such that I must say with bowed head — the anti-Party struggle, which had assumed in former years exceptionally acute forms in Leningrad, could not but pro- moté the degeneration of these rogues. This outrageous murder threw such an ominous light upon the whole previous anti-Party struggle that I recognize the Party is absolutely right in speaking of the political responsibility of the | former anti-Party ‘Zinoviev’ group for the murder committed.” Zinoviev pleaded guilty, confirm- ing the existence of the center of the Zinoviev group, as weil as his participation therein. Connected with “Leningrad Center” Today's hearings at ‘Leningrad, following on yesterday's indictment of G, Zinoviey, G. E. Edvokimov, A. M. Getrik, M.'Y. Bakaev, L. Kam- enev, and others, made clear that the terrorist “Leningrad Center” had carried on its counter-revolu- tionary work hand in hand with the former leaders of the Trotzky-Zino- viev group and that the composi- tion of the so-called “Moscow Cen- ter” includes Zinoviev, Evdokimov, Gertik, Bakeyey, A. S. Kuklin, Ka- menev, J. V, Sharov, G. F. Fedorov, and I. S. Gorshenin. These had rallied around them- selves the most active members of the former anti-Soviet Zinoviev group, who established regular con- nections with members of the Len- ingrad group condemned on Dec. 28 to 29, 1934, by the Military Col- legium of the Supreme Court of the | U.S. S. R. in connection with Kir- | ov’s murder. The preliminary investigation re- vealed that the so-called “Moscow Center” did not restrict itself only to maintaining connections with the Leningrad underground group and its individual adherents towns, but played the role of a po- litical center which systematically, in the course of a number of years directed the underground counter- revolutionary activities of both Mos- | cow and Leningrad groups. One of the basic tasks of the Zinoviev counter-revolut ionary group headed by the “Moscow Center” was “the ac- cumulauon of forces and strengtn- ening the feeling of wrath and open hatred towards the leaders of the Party and the Soviet gov- ernment among the members of the group.” The accused Fedorov, character- (Continued on Page 2) in other | on Dee. 1.. Zinoviev, Kamenev U.S, VETERANS TO CAPITAL Government in Effort to Send Bonus Seekers to Labor Camps Veterans are on the march! Mass contingents from Biloxic, Miss,, Post 217 of the American League of Ex-Servicemen under the leadership of Oscar Matiock; a large group ‘of veterans from American Legion Post 135 of Savannah, Ga.; posts of the American League of Ex-Servicemen in Salt Lake City | and Midvale, Utah, have sent out advance groups for the trek to Washington demanding the enact- ment of the rank and file three- point program. In Southern California, members | mass march through the streets of of the rank and file groups are | taking the floor at the convention |of the Epic Party and calling for | Support of the three-point program j for enactment of the Workers’ Un- | employment Insurance Bill H, R. | 2827, immediate cash payment of | the bonus and repeal of the Na- tional Economy Act. Minneapolis reports 2 growing militancy on the part of the rank and file and assures a large con- | tingent at Washington by Jan. 24. | From Washington, D. C., word has come that the gavernment is seck- ing to smash the growing militancy | of the veterans by sending them to forced labor camps. Two hundred and fifty veterans of one advance contingent were sent to such camps when the Federal Government cut them off transient relief. Mass Rally Tonight | Tonight at Hempstead, Long Is- Jand, the National Rank and File Veterans’ Committee will hold a | large mass meeting at the Polish National Club Auditorium on Pros- | pect Street to explain the three- | point program and rally mass sup- | port for the bonus march. | Rally on Saturday | ‘The first rally will take place in Brooklyn. New York, Saturday. Vet- erans will mobilize at the Brooklyn | Borough Hall and march to the new | headquarters of Post 204, where the | rally will be held. |. The second rally will be held at | Harlem. Veterans will mobilize at | 110th St. and Fifth Ave. and will | march to St. Luke’s Hall, 127 W. | 130th St. for the rally. | Recruiting booths for the bonus | march have been opened in the | various posts of the American League of Ex-Servicemen. Workers and Farmers Meet In Russian Soviet Congress Gag Law Sought to Bar (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Jan. 16 (By Wireless). —Overcrowded by workers and col- lective farmers—the delegates from all regions of the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic—the six- teenth Soviet Congress of the R. S. F. S. R. continued its second day’s! work by reviewing the vast changes of the past four years and in pre- paring concrete plans for the fu-| ture. All 1,102 delegates shook the huge hall of the Kremlin Palace with long applause as Joseph Sialin, V. M. Kaganovitch, M. Kalinin, E.K. Voro- shilev and others stepped to the presidium. Amidst stormy ovations addition, large groups of workers will be tax exempt, Mikhail Kalinin was elected as chairman of the Congress, | In the course of the four years dividing the sixteenth Congress of Soviets of the R.S.F.S.R. from the previous Congress colossal radical changes had occurred in the econo- mics of the country. The R. S. F. 8. R., the largest republic of the U. S. |S. R., plays the biggest role in the general background of the tremen- dous victories of socialist construc- tion in the Soviet Union. Picture of Soviet Progress The victure of the achievements | the Congress in the Report of D. E. | Peop’s's Commissars of the R. S. F. |S. R. The report of the Commis: (Continued .on Page 2) * of the republic will be developed at | Sulimov, Chairman of the Ocuncil n* | | Fritz Pford, Communist leader (left), and Max Braun, Socialist Leader (right), shown at a united front anti-fascist mass meeting in the Saar just before the plebiscite voting took place. National Biscuit Strike Hold: Firm | As Company Mobilizes Scab Army Line of March In Scottsboro Parade Issued | | The Scottsboro demonstration and Harlem Saturday noon, will start | promptly at 2 p, m., at 126th Street | and Lenox Avenue, The line of march will swing from 126th Street and Lenox Ave- nue to 135th Street and Seventh Avenue, south to 123rd Stzeet, back | | to Lenox Avenue, then to 131ist | Street, where a mass rally will be | addressed by well-known leaders in | the fight for the lives and freedom of the Scottsboro boys. The Scoti: boro Mmother, Mrs, Ada Norri: | Richard B. Moore, James W. Ford. Mike Walsh, secretazy of the New York District of the International Labor Defense; ‘William Fitzgerald. Harlem I. L. D. organizer, and Sam- uel Patterson of the National Scottsboro - Herndon Action Com- mittee will speak. Through its chairman, the New | York District I. L. D. Bazaar Com- mittee, consisting of over 200 dele- | gates, yesterday pledged its support to the city-wide Scottsboro demon- | stration and parade, and announced that part of the funds raised at the five-day I. L. D. Bazaar, starting | Feb. 20 at Manhattan Lyceum, will be devoted to the Scottsboro defense. | With funds, however, urgently needed to push the appeals before |all workers and friends of the | Scottsboro boys are urged to rush | contributions to the I. L. D., 80 East Eleventh Street, New York City. Satuzday’s demonstration is called by the National Scottsboro-Herndon Action Committee to celebrate the tremendcns partial victory won by | the I. L. D. in forcing the court | to grant a review for a second time ‘of the death verdicts against Hay- wood Patterson and Clarence Nor- |ris, and to mobilize further mass| ‘ither Saturday or Monday, to start | | pressure for their unconditional re- lease. Workers’ Literature Among Armed Forces WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—Secre- | tary of Navy Claude A. Swanson came out today in open support of the campaign for more drastic laws ee bar working-class literature from workers in the armed forces. Refer- [ring to the distribution of anti-war | | leaflets among the enlisted men of | ficers were taking measures to pre- vent such leaflets getting aboard vessels. He charzed that the Com- ,munists were trying to ailors to enlist thom in the fight lagainst imperialist war. | the United States Supreme Court, | the Navy, Swanson declared that of- | contact | EW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1935 (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents Here Tomorrow at Star Casino cuit Company workers, in five cities. | The strike of 6,000 National Bis- | has now become a clear cut show- down between the Inside Bakery | Workers Federal locals and the compeny for the right of the work- ers to organize, as thugs, state po- lice, strikebreakers and machine guns were moved into action by the giant baking company. Four strikers were seriously in- jured when attacked by company | thugs at the Newark plant, 427 Ferry Street, while 24 were ar- rested. William Galvin, president of the union in New York stated that the company has placed thugs | inside the gates, who make a reg- | ular practice te jump out and at- tack the pickets outside. Nabisco trucks were stoned as they moved out of the Newark plant. Flying auto squads were used by the pick- ets at Elizabeth and Linden, N. J. One worker was held on $100 bail, charged with stoning a truck. While no attempts have yet been made to operate either the Philadel- phia or New York plants, Galvin declared, at York, Pa., machine guns have been planted in front of the pretzel factory, and state police have been brought in. At Atlanta, Ga. scabs are being hired and strikers are-threatened with more than a year in prison on the charge of “agitation.” | Tt was learned that the company is bringing products into New York and Philadelphia from its non- union plants from as far away as | Detroit. old as seven months are being thrown on the market strikers’ in- vestigators charge. Aroused at the preparations the company is making to break their splendid solidarity strikers will hold a full mass strike meeting, at Star Casino, 105 East 107th Street, to- morrow, 2 p. m. A parade of the 3,000 local strikers will be staged | from the union’s headquarters at | 245 ‘West 14th Street, strike leaders | announced. Uninterrupted picketing continues | at the New York plant, while other | strikers are scouring every neighbor- hood with placards and appeals calling for a boycott of National Biscuit Company products. Conviction Is Reversed in Bank of U. S. Case | By Court in Albany | ALBANY, Jan. 16—The convic- tion of Isidor Kresel, attorney of the bankrupt Bank of the United States was rsed today by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court. Kresel had been sentenced to serve eighteen months to two and a half years for his part in the {bank's bankruptcy, 3,000 Sirikers to. Meet Large stores of biscuits, as | -@ AILINGS, TERROR FAIL TO MUZZLE RED PRESS IN THE DISPUTED AREA | SAARBRUCKE)} ported Hitler agents. NEW JERSEY WORK RELIEF STRIKE VOTED | A.F.L. Unions, Commu- | nist and Socialist Parties Support Walk-Out NEWARK, N. J., Jan. 16.—A gen- eral strike of all relief workers will go into effect on Friday. The de- | mands call for $18 weekly minimum wage for all unskilled workers, union rates for skilled workers, the right | of single men and women to work on all projects without discrimina- tion and a work week of not less than 24 hours. The strike call has been issued by the New Jersey State Federation of Unemployment and Relief Workers Organizations with headquarters at 52 West St., Newark. One hundred and twenty-seven delegates to the National Congress in | for Unemployment from New Jer- ~ | sey have endorsed the strike and | at the same time constituted them- |selves as the New Jersey Action Committee to carry through the Red Army who made the success-| decisions of the Congress and to ful march nearly ac: the whole/| force the enactment of the Work- of China passed over the border | ers’ Bill H. R. 2827 and to support into this largest province of China, | the strike. Chiang Kai-shek, fearing the vic- | tory of the Red Army in this sec-| tor, has dispatched some of his . crack regiments to assist General, tee of the Communist Party have Liu, war lord of the province. Sev-| also pledged to support the strike. eral Kuomintang generals arrived| A large number of A. F. of L. in Chungking two days ago via air-| locals have pledged their support. | plane to take charge of the defenses. In its effort to check the strike, | Panic is gripping the capitalists and | the relief administration is putting landlords in Chungking and sur-/| out a demand that the workers wait rounding territory as the Red Army | until Jan. 30 to see what the new gains greater and greater support | re-employment scheme will be be- | from the workers and peasants! fore striking. The State Federation against the imperialist - backed | states that this is only a scheme in native militarists. jorder to stop the strike. | -—_ | Picketing Begins Friday Harlem Workers Move Strike Committees and strike 2 s headquarters have been established To Spike ‘Deportation’ |in the following counties: Passaic, | Union, Essex and Middlesex. Picketing of all projects will he- gin Friday morning at 7 o'clock Red Army Set For Assault | SHANGHAI, Jan. 16.—Red Armies in Szechuan province are joining forces with the Red Armies of Kiangsi for a massed attack on the | most important industrial city | Szechuan province, Chunking, re- ports reaching here today declared. More than 40,000 soldiers of the eping Support The Socialist Party State Co vention and the District Commit- | A delegation of Harlem workers | visited the mayor's office yesterday | to protest against the city’s attempt | to “deport” Mr. and Mrs. Spencer | Goins, Negro workers, and their | back to North Carolina. | ployed organizations. Demonstration Planned A demonstration will be held at children, the opening of the State Assembly {In the absence of Mayor La/on Jan. 21 in front of ‘the State | Guardia, the delegation was re-| Capitol at 7 p.m. All unemploy | ceived by one of his secretaries who | gave it the “run around” by re- | ferring it to Paul Blanchard, Com- | missioner of Accounts. organizations, trade unions fraternal organizations are asked to send as many of their members as possible to this demonstration. Nazis Reported Behind Soa | mann’s alibi, may affirm: it under the grilling of the New York po- lice, one of whom brought them to this country. Relatives Guarded Allen Johnson ' FLEMINGTON, N. J., Jan. 15.—| The mystery of why Hitler should allow three relatives of Isidor Fisch, ail of whom are Jews, to come to| the United States to help convict | Bruno Richard Hauptman, Nezi ad- herent, of the kidnaping and mur-/| municipal nurse who accompanied der of the Lindberzh baby, was par-| them, was one of the largest ever tially cleared up taday with the an-| mobilized for tronsatlantic visitors. nouncement that Fisch’s relatives; Fisch, a Jewish furrier who died may have come here not to convict | penniless in Germany last year un- Haupimann, but to free him by der circumstances which led hos- amenev Admit G ports from different points in the S fascists were murdered in cold blood this afternoon by im- As hundreds of hunted supporters of the status quo attempted to cross the French border a wither- ying fire w with mass pickets from all unem- To Name Fisch as Kidnaper The police guard thrown around | the Fisch relatives and the German} REPORT NAZIS KILL 5 IN SAAR uilt League Delays Action on Saar Question as the French Demand Non-Militarization— Anti-Fascists Continue Fight , Jan. 16 (By Wireless).—Various re- aar declare that five anti- ected against them from the Saar But the thousands where and the general of ss suppression of workers’ organizations and press leave the united front of Commu- nists and in their fight against fascism hough the offices of the Vo; imme d the Arbeiterzeitung have been closed by the police, of the Arbeiterzeitung, has strates gically combined the Volk- stimme, are being printed on secret presses and circulated throughout the Saar. Socialists firm large editions The Nazi Lie “The pro-Germany votes repre- sent the result of that Nazi lie that the status quo meant eternal separation from Germany and domination by French im- perialism,” the Arbeiterzeitung pointed out today. If the ques- tion were for or against the Hit~- ler regime, the majority would have voted against the Brown- shirt slave system.” Contacts with the anti-fascist press in France and Czechoslovakia as well as in Germany, are now transforming the Saar forces against Hitler into the spearhead of the powerful opposition against capital- ist-fas reaction in Germany. In fact, throughout the attitude of those Saarlanders who voted for re- turn to Germany, it is the fe of kinship with the ho: hatred and contempt f Hitlerism and all that represents which dominates the territory. Hold up Disposal of Saar GENEVA, Jan, 16 (By Wireless), —The meeting of the Council of the League of Nations, set for today in order officially to cede the Saar to Germany, struck a series of snags in the struggle of i on the part of the imperial powers. France has thus far refused to give its consent to the transfer of the Saar without a guarantee that the territory will be demilitarized and that no strategic railroads will be constructed. British industrialists, who also have a seat in the Couns cil, fear the continuation of Gere man aviation construction in the | Saar. Writing in the Deutsche Zentrale zeitung here on the Saar plebiscite and its results, Fritz Heckert, mem- ber of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Germany, declares: “The results are due first to the | unprecedented fascist terror di- | rectly supperted by the Saar police and the fear of reprisals in case the Saar joined Hitler Germany. Second is the equivocal attitude of the League National Commis- sion on the question of the rights of the Sear population. Third is the reaction to fifteen years of | imperialist policy and the occupa- tion by the powers of a pure Ger- man country and the depriving of the Saar people of their rights, especially by the exploiting meth- ods of the French mines’ adminis- ‘ration, which strengthened Ger- man nationalism, “The ballot, therefore, does not mean the acknowledgement of Hite |ler but the return to Germany dee spite Hitler. The masses did not yet understand that their decision runs counter to the liberation of Gers |many from Fascism. We Commu- nists waged the most aggressive struggle against the considerable | accentuatizn of the war danger, agains: the chauvinist fascist offen- | sive and against ail possible provo- cations, We shell expose all the plans of imperialist agreement with Hitler, particularly against the Soviet Union. naming Fisch. The Nazi government's move was inadvertentty revealed today in a disnatch to 2 New Yorx nows- paper controlled hy Hearst stating | that Fisch’s relatives, supposedly { brought here to shatter Haupt- | pital officials in Leipzig to believe that he may have been murdered, {has alternately been accused and absolved of the crime by Haupt- “Every toiler must increase the struggle for the support of the Gere man workers against Fascist meas- n.ann. At the time of Hauptmann’s ures, against the growing fascist | ——_ |terror and for the liberation of {Continued on Page 2) ‘Thaelmann”