The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 18, 1935, Page 1

—___—_—_—S_S_Ee—— SCOTTSBORO - HERNDON DEFENSE FUND $14,808.82 has been collected by the 1. L. BD. since July 9, 1934, $16,291.18 more must be raised at once for the appeals. —_—————————[=Saacaaaa_=___— Vol. XI, 16 Sx Entered as secon Daily .Q Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUMIST INTERWATIONAL ) ss matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1878 NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 193 NATI ONAL EDITION (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents F.D.R. RUSHES FAKE INSURANCE BILL Saar Nazi Squads Murder 2 Workers Fascist Conspiracy INOVIEV AND ALL-RUSSIAN BALLOT FAKING FOUND BY DUTCH OFFICIALS, BRAUN TELLS LEAGUE Uniformed Fascists Beat Workers as Police Look On—Soviet Papers See Renewed Surge of Anti-Hitler Struggle LEGISLATURE CONVENES Cross - Section of Soviet Peoples (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Jan. 17 (By Wireless). |—The delegates to the All-Russian (Special to the Daily Worker) | Congress of Soviets represent a SAARBRUECKEN, Jan. 17 (By Wireless).—Two Com- Renae Pak penuiata: coekiteentlon ot munists were slaughtered in their own homes this afternoon | the population of this largest of the as terrorism by the “flying disciplinary” squads of the Nazi seven constituent republics of the | Soviet Union. Deutsche Front claimed new victims througout the Saar. i Faking of the plebiscite vote through the substitution en a ca of counterfeit ballot papers, modeled® st Sida ‘Heston GE eae! septibinks rHR hola a sete ah eb gitahs inet sitting in the press gallery of the ee red dey ee ee great hall of the Kremlin, one sees leader of the United Front of So- Tartars, Chuvash workers, Mordvi, clalists and Communists, The coun- | and all manner of Oriental peoples, terfeits were marked with a pro- | as well as pure Russian workers and German cross and handed to all collective farmers. whom the Nazis suspected of lean- ings toward the Status Quo, threat- | % ening them with their lives unless| The following letter, ac- the false slips were inserted into, companied by a donation of the voting boxes. The faking was/ five dollars for the Scottsboro- discovered by Dutch officials during | Herndon Defense fund, was a count of the votes. raun imme- received by the International diately notified the Council of the | 7 ahoy Defense, Thursday,|ent. The Congress is as severely League of Nations. The certain from Earl Browder, general evidence of the fraud ‘is-being held | practical as the huge plain white meanwhile in the possession of the! ' secretary of the Communist) hall in which all are seated. Pletal te” Com RIOn, | Party: Those who deliver their reports | Many Injured {International Labor Defense | &*Pose all weaknesses in the de-/| At Sulzdach a young Socialist Dear Comrades: tails of parrying: out their plans. | worker was attacked by uniformed | Herewith I am sending | The discussion reveals further de- sts be! oli tion be- f | tails and remedies applicable to fascists before the police station be. you five dollars in answer cause he refused to salute an ex- | Ay foe the each corner of the country are pro- | | Browder Sends Donation to Aid Scottsboro Fund All are gathered as equal legisla- | tors. and administrators of the country, representing the workers, the farmers, the toiling masses | without prejudice against any race. |A single will animates all varied types of professions and races pres- Delegates Represent Will Be Exposed in Daily Worker Series Full Story of dcheotee 8 Advais Toward Fascism | —Role of Hearst, Coughlin and Morgan | To Be Told by Marguerite Young The Daily Worker announces today that beginning next | Friday, January 25, it will start a series of articles on “Wall! Street’s Fascist Conspiracy,” written by Marguerite Young, which for the first time will lay bare the full network of fas- | cist scheming now going on in the United States. Scheduled | to continue for three weeks, in the?—_———__— j well as social- -minded groups, intel- | | most comprehensive exposure of lectuals, scientists, teachers, artists, fascist plots yet seen in this coun-| and professionals, a grim Picture | | try, the series is the result of the of the terrorist violence and brutal work of Marguerite Young, well-| reaction which is now looming as a known Daily Worker Washington! sinister possibility in the near correspondent; John L. Spivak, future. famous for his exposure of the! In addition to sensational mate- Nazis, and Sender Garlin, Daily | rial suppressed by government in- Worker staff writer. vestigators fearful of the effects of | Based on the most painstaking! such disclosures involving leading study of original documents and figures in the Roosevelt govern- sources, the series will bring to light ment, the articles will contain in- | indisputable evidence involving | terviews with people prominent in such figures as William Randolph | the American Legion, Veterans of | Hearst, Father Coughlin, various| Foreign Wars, the Committee for | political figures behind the Dick- the Nation, and other implicated | stein Committee, and leading Wall! groups. Street bankers like Frank Vander- Revelations made by General lip, Felix Warburg, J. P. Morgan,| Butler before the Dickstein Com-| in revelations which make it clear | mittee which were suppressed by/| {that the full story of the advance the committee will be made public. | of American fascism will here be| In its entirety, the series will | told for the first time. present material which concerns the “The series goes far beyond the! immediate’ and future welfare of | guarded revelations of the Dick-| the whole working population as it | stein Committee and the Butler will be affected by the approaching revelation, and lays before the menace of fascism in this country whole American working class, as| and the forges organizing it. Ex-Servicemen Mass Parade tended swastika flag. The police | simply looked on. He is not ex- | pected to live. At Ludveiler a worker, Michel | Bott, was beaten to the point of death. Fifteen anti-fascist minezs | were forced to flee into the shafts | in order to escape pursuing Nazis. At Wexbach a miner was terribly | mauled by Storm Troopers, after | which a passing physician refused | to bring aid for the dying man. Altenkessel was the scene this) afternoon of blood thirsty lynch- mobs massing before the homes of | every supporter of the status quo | in the town. MOSCOW, Jan. 17. (By Wireless) —Citing reports in the foreign capi- talist press that the plebiscite re- sult had been obtained through un- hindered terror, Pravda and Iz- vestia, the newspapers respectively of the Communist Party of the Sov- iet Union and of he Soviet goern- ment, carried strong editorials in| encouragement of the further | struggle against Hitler fascism. Bitter for Fascists “Fascism in Germany is jubilant,” comments Karl Radek in Izvestia, “but the future will reveal whether | the dregs in the glass may not be bitter for the fascist victors. The efforts of the two-year struggle of the anti-fascisis in the Saar will not be quietly suppressed by fas- cist terrorism.” “with the experience in struggle of the Communist Party of Ger- many the entire anti-fascist move- ment will surge forward with great- er strength than ever,” declares} Pravda. | GENEVA, Jan. 17 (By Wireless) | outright lies about “famine” your appeals Scottsboro - Herndon De- fense. I appeal. to every person to do the same at once, or if not the same amount, as much as possi- ble, to meet the great emergency need to carry through this most import ant battle for Negro rights and workers’ rights. Fraternally, EARL BROWDER. Funds for the Scottsboro-| Herndon Defense Fund should be sent by airmail, wire, and special delivery, to the na-) tional office of the Interna-| tional Labor Defense, Room! 610, 80 East 11th Street, New! York City. Paper Exposing Hearst, (Will Be Issued Today. By Friends of Soviets Two hundred thousand copies of an anti-Hearst newspaper are com- ing off the press today to be dis- tributed in New York City and throughout the United States. The paper, issued by the Friends of the Soviet Union, is an answer to Hearst's lies which were widely’ cir- culated in the press and the radio. The newspaper refuted Hearst’s lies item by item showing how he dis- torts quotations, and how he utters and “terro-” in the Soviet Union. posed. The care of the population, | reflecting the emphasis of the Sec- ond Five Year Plan on the welfare of the people and the raising of the standards of living, is shown |by the prominent place given to| problems of the municipalities and | of public health. Rally Blocked In Birmingham BIRMINGHAM, Al Ala., Jan, 17.—A Scottsboro mass meeting was | | blocked yesterdav afternoon by Bir-| mingham police, whose squad cars | and motorcycle battalions gathered before the C. M. E. (Negro) Chureh | at 14th Street and Avenue G, where | the meeting was to be held. Negro and white workers, climbing | the hill at 3 o'clock in the after- noon, were met by policemen whose | principal object wa: to arrest the |speakers and disrupt the protest rally, arranged by the local Scotts- boro-Herndon Action Committee. At the last moment, the pastor of the church, Rev. Croom, realizing that the lynch rulers were opposed to any action in defense of the Scottsboro boys, refused to permit the meeting to be carried through when the workers, undeterred by the police terror, prepared to open | the meeting. In line with the new temporary friendliness existing between French and German impecialism, Hitler wired here this afternoon that Ger- many would consent to “demilitari- zation” of the Saar as the condi- tion of formally ceding the terri- tory to Germany on Feb. 1. Rumania Says Jasy Is Dying; Does Not Keep. Promise to Release Him | (Special to the Daily Worker) BUCHAREST, Jan. 17 (By Wire- less).—Following a promise made by the Rumanian government to the World Committee Against War and Fascism that the imprisoned. anti-fascist, Professor Constan- tinescu Jasy, would be released and proceedings againsS him dropped, Bucharest officials coolly issued a statement today that Professor Jasy was dying after a hunge: strike | maintained for four weeks. Ail Kurope is shocked at this imminent i Under No Mayor LaGuardia drew the card- board sword from the ancient scab- | bard and flourished it under the nose of The Vested Interests, The Power Trust, in his press confer- ence yesterday. The Mayor was making pointed reference to the letter of Floyd L. Carlisle, head of the Consolidated Gas system, in which Carlisle had contended that it was impossible to meet the Mayor’s request to reduce rates by 20 per cent. “It certainly discloses that the power trust can’t change its habits,” the Mayor said. “He certainly shoots a broadside into his own Washing- ton plan.” (The Washingto- plan is the pro- posal for progressive rate reduction on the basis of the expansion of the murder by the Rumanian fascists | of a great man who is guilty only! of being a liberal, use of electricity. It was initiated in Washingtcn, D. C., b,- local utilities.] The Mayor leaned forward, He raised his voice. He was not that Mayor Waves Paper Sword ses of Utilities corrupt up-state legislator whose connections with the utilities had been brought cu‘ last year. You could almost see the papier- mache point slash jagged holes in | the air. | “Mr, Carlisle might well know that he’s dealing with me and not with Senator Thayer.” The utilities, the Mayor barked, were only “sparring for time.” He knew them all—Insull, Car- lisle and the rest. He had “fought them all on the floor of the House.” “T've got them all catalogued,” he concluded. What the outcome of all this will be is not clear, observers feel. One thing all are in agreement on: the entire issue is making political capi- tal for the Little Flower and is dis- tracting considerable attention from such fundamental local issues as unemployment relief and the sales tax, Seottsboro Rally Called For Tomorrow Veterans will assemble at Brook- jlyn Borough Hall tomorrow at 12 noon and march to the headquar-| ters of Post 204, Americin League) of Ex-Servicemen, in the first of | four city rallies in support of the | rank and file three-point program. On the following Saturday, Jan. at Fifth Avenue and 110th Street | for a march to St. Luke's Hall, 127 West 130th Street. On Saturday, | Feb. 2, veterans will assemble at | Twenty- -fifth Street, east of Madi- son Square Park, and march to | Stuyvesant Casino. ‘These preliminary marches are in preparation for the trek to Wash-/| |ington to demand the immediate cash payment of the bonus, repeal of the Roosevelt National Economy | Act, and enactment of the Workers | Unemployment, Old Age, and So-| | cial Inst the bonus march to Washington at, the posts of the American League of | Ex-Servicemen: Post 1 at 303 East Fifteenth Street; Post 191 at 69) East Third Street; Post 204 at 355) Bushwick Avenue, Brooklyn; Post 212 at 1,664 Madison Avenue; and Post 165 at 190 Southern Boulevard. More than one hundred rank and file veterans of the American Le- gion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and American Lezzue of Ex-Service- men attended a mass meeting Wednesday night at the Polish Na-| tional Hall, Hempstead, Long Island, Lou Wittenborn, representa- tive of the Veterans Rank and File Committee, and P. V. Cacchione veterans and the fight for the en- actment of the rank and file three- point program, C. B. Cowan, na-) tional adjutant of the American) League cf Ex-Servicemen made | the main report, appealing to the various groups to join the mass bo- nus march to Washington, At Mass Lenin Rally In Philadelphia Tonight | PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 17.—Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party, will be the prin- cipal speaker at the Lenin me- morial meeting which will be held | here on Friday in the Market | Arena, Forty-fifth and Market | Streets, at 7:20 p.m. The other speaker will be Man- ning Johnson, widely-known Negro working class leader, of the Trade Union Unity Council of New York. | A workers’ chorus of 200 voices will | provide part of the cultural pro- gram for the occasion. 26, veterans will mobilize in Harlem | pointed out the conditions of the | Browder Will Speak Set in Harlem For Tomorrow Brooklyn organizations are rally- ing their memberships and sympa- | thizers for the city-wide Scottsboro demonstration and mass march | thy nrough the streets of Harlem to- morrow afternoon at 2 p.m., the dis- | trict office of the International La- | | bor Defense reported yesterday. Brownsville and Crown Heights workers will mobilize Saturday noon | at 1,410 Lincoln Place with their | organizational banners and plac-) ards. Organizations in that terri-| tory which have pledged their ac-| tive support to the Scottsboro vic- | tory demonstration include the Youth Club, Hinsdale | Slub, Young Liberator Group, the local Scottsboro Action Committees, Cleveland Workers Club, and Brownsville Youth Club. | | Following their mobilization at 1,410! | Lincoln Place, the workers will take | | | demonstration. Calls supporting the demonstra-| | tion have been issued by many or-| ganizations, including the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union,| Trade Union Unity Council, Inter- | national Workers Order, League of Struggle for Negro Rights, New| York District of the Communist | Party, the Young Communist League, etc. ) Called by the National Scotts- boro-Herndon Action Committee to celebrate the partial victory of the |International Labor Defense in) winning a new hearing in the United States Supreme Court for Haywood Patterson and Clarence | Norris and to rally broad mass pressure for the unconditional re- lease of all nine of the innocent Scottsboro boys, Saturday’s demon- stration promises to be one of the largest and most stirring held in! | Harlem. | Speakers at the demonstration | |and parade which will start at 2 p.m. from 126th Stree‘ and Lenox Avenue, will include the Scottsboro | | Mother, Mrs. Ada Norris; James W. | Ford, Richard B. Moore, Samuel | Patterson, William Fitzgerald and | Mike Walsh. | Strike for Wage Raises Voted by Glass Workers PITTSBURGH, Pa. Jan. 17—A decision for a strike of 4,200 glass |workers at the Ford City and Creighton Plants of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company was postponed | last. night, when the company and Libdy-Owens-Ford Glass Company | of Toledo agreed to meet represen- | | tatives of the Glass Workers’ Union. | The workers demand wage increases and a check-off of union dues, \ | KAMENEV AR BANISHED “We Were Not Loyal] to Working Class,” Says Evdokimo BULLETIN MOSCOW, Jan. 17. Gregory Zinoviev, Leo Kamenev and 17 others charged with terrorist ac- tivities designed to overthrow the Soviet government were ordered banished by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court tonight into exile for long terms. | | | (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Jan, 17 (By Wireless) More members of the Zinoviev- Trotzkyist counter - revolutionary group, now on trial before the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court, confessed their guilt in the moral and political responsibility for the assassination of Sergei | Kirov, on December 1, by a mem-| ber of their clique, Nicholaev. The defendant Evdokimov, one of the 19 which included Gregory | Zinoviev and Leo Kameney, stated: “We were separated from the | actual life of the country and we stewed in our own juice. Our counter-revolutionary connections were strengthened in us. Blinded by the wrath towards the leader- ship of the Party we did not see what was occurring in the towns and villages. We did not sée the colossal successes of Socialist construction. The tremendous historical processes of our country, influencing the international Peebeicee class movement went by us. We appraised the difficulties arising in the process of growth in the countries as enemies, mali- clously rejoicing at failures, and accusing the party leadership of these failures. “Apraising collectivization, we maintained our counter-revolution- ary position, not differing from the Mensheviks and other enemies of the working class. We believed the Party would encounter unsurpass- (Continued on Page 2) 78 in Chicago ‘Are Arrested On Picket Line CHICAGO, Ill.. Jan. 17—Seventy- eight were arrested today and many were clubbed as police launched an attack against the fur workers picketing the shop of the Evans Fur Company. The attack follows an anti-pick- |eting injunction granted to the) _company following the calling of a | | | | urance Bill, H. R. 2827. All| the subway to 126th Street and! strike by the Fur Workers Indus-| veterans are urged to register for | Lenox Avenue, to join the central trial Union. Although the shop operated for eighteen months under an agreement with the Indusirial | Union, the company entered into an | agreement with the Local 45 of the International Fur Workers Union, A. F. of L., and has received the) full cooperation of its officials in| efforts to break the strike. Since the strike was called there have been mass arrests. Last week when a large number of strikers | appealed in court, Ed Nockles, sec- | retary of the Chicago Federation | |of Labor, cross-examined each worker and urged each to join local « and go back pd work. , Wagner-Lewis |gram recommended by his “committee on economic OBEYS | BANKERS’ EDICT E BARRING ANY GENUINE Al FOR UNEMPLOYED Aiiiabiatis: Se Security Bill Merely Enables States to Pass ‘Reserves’ Measure Paid for Out of Payrolls By Seymour Gwaldaan (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 17.—In calling upon Cone gress to pass the White House-labelled Social Security pro- secur | ity,” President Roosevelt today in a special message placed his blessings upon the State “reserves” or Wagner- Lewis — —————_——_— “Economie Security Deal legislatis bankers’ federal 1 mandate BILL’S AUTHOR mploymen House's | Following the White schedule, the admir ation bill was introduced in the Ser the House immediate y after read po three per cent, and leaves the p: or non-passage of any kind of “1 employment in ance” to t States, was chara president promise “to s gram of action” the men, women ar (nation against certa | vicissitudes of life tion, he informed C conception of one of jectives of our Amer! children of the hazards and sponsors fake insurance in an at- tempt to sidetrack the struggle for real unemployment insurance as designated in the Workers’ Unem- ployment and Social Insurance Bill (H. R. 2827.) LL.D. lhecins Campaign Against Anti-Labor Plan Of Cuban Government In a cable sent to President Men-| dieta of Cuba yesterday, the Inter- national Labor Defense announced that it was undertaking a broad campaign against the plans of the Cuban Government, inspired by American Ambassador Caffery, to massacre the sugar workers in or- der to prevent strikes during the Sugar grinding season, The text of the cable follows: “President Mendieta, “Havana, Cuba. “We are mobilizing American workers to fight Caffery-inspired plans of your government to mas- sacre sugar workers stop We de- mand an immediate end to the decree suspending constitutional guarantees and fixing the death | Penalty for sabotage. “International Labor Defense.” All organizations of workers, stu- dents and intellectuals are urged by the International Labor Defense to send protests immediately against | the bloody plans of the Cuban Gov- ernment to President Mendieta, Ha- | vana, bine By Allen Johnson FLEMINGTON, N. J., Jan. 17— ; Samuel Leibowitz, renegade Scotts- boro attorney, has joined forces | with William Randolph Hearst and the Nazis in the attempt to save Bruno Richard Hauptmann, Nazi | adherent indicted for the kidnap- | ing and murder of the Lindbergh | | baby, from the electric chair. In a long article under his sig- | nature in today’s N. Y. Journal, | owned by Hearst, Leibowitz, who Scottsboro boys by trying to wrest their case from the hands of the International Labor Defense, raises |enough doubts about the guilt of Haptmann to make it apparent | that if he were sitting in the bench at the trial here he would free the Nazi. Previous to Leibowitz’s alliance | with Hearst he declared in several | Tadio broadcasts that the evidence | jeopardized the lives of the nine| Leibowitz Supports oa In Defense of Nazi Suspect | Clearly | guilt. The Prosecution went ahead to- | | day with attempts to prove that the | body found in the shallow grave |in the Sousrland Mountains, near the |Lindbergh home in Hopewell, by William Allen, a Negro truck driver, was the body of the Lindbergh | baby. pointed to Hauptmann’s | Reilly has failed to keep his ac- | tions in line with his promises al- most totals the 302 contradictions found in Hauptmann’s statement’s to the police, it is expected that the | Nazi's lawyer will not raise the question as to“ whether the body found was actually the body of the Lindbergh baby. Last week Reilly promised that he would prove that the body was ;Not that of the Lindbergh baby’s, (Gawmend on Page 2) ; ” | Although the number of times | program.” Against “Extravagance” Warning Congress, or rather his. smooth-running px machine in the Senate and the House, against legislation of “too ambitious f@ scale” and “extravagant action,” ‘ Roosevelt made it clear that the \“rational human ‘ianism” slogan SENATOR ROBERT F:. WAG- | raised last Septe: in Washing- NER, New York Democrat, who |ton by the Ame: n Bankers Ase Sociation has been carried into ac- tion. In short, the “new order of things” mentioned so eke pero! by Roosevelt Jan. 4 in his opening mes- ; Sage to Congress is the bankers! or- |der of things—demagozic speeches |for the workers and farmers and | anti- -working class action to please the big employers. Such is Roos velt's “American plan for the Amer= ican people” and his method of isfying the American people's “dee sire for change” through “tested lib- eral traditions.” Roosevelt deci: that his de- nial of such gen ployment ins federal unem- e as is provided Unemployment, Old Age, and Social Insurance bill, House Resolution 2827, “will appeal to the sound sense of the American people,” despite the fact that the Workers bill has been endorsed by the trade unions and other repre~ sentative organizations of millions of workers, farmers and profession- als. With unemployment figures | Showing the sixth successive New Deal increase in the sixth year of the capitalist crisis, Roosevelt would have Congress “exercise sound cau- tion,” that is, enact the bankers’ and industrialistst’ anti-unemploy=- ment insurance program. Wants Quick Action “It is my best judgment that this | legislation should be brought for- ward with a minimum of delay,” the President said. He stated: “The di d report of the com- | mitee (Economic Security) sets forth a series of prop is that will ap- peal to the sou:~ sense of the American people. It has not at- tempted the impossible nor has it | failed to exercise sound caution and consideration of all of the factors concerned; the national credit, the rights and responsibilie ties of States, the capacity of in=- | dustry to assume financial responsi- bilities and the fundamental neces- (Contin nued on Page 2) Cotton Goods Workers Strike Two Ohio Plants ‘To Organize Industry . CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 17—As the first move to unionize the cot- | ton dress shops in this city, the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Wois- ers’ Union called the workers of the L. N. Gross Company plants here and in Kent on strike yesterday |merning. More than 500 workers | are out and both plants are shut. | This morning a picket line of more than a thousand strikers and other union workers appeared at |the local piant, but no effort was |made to bring in strikebreakers, ale | though there were large numbers of police on hand.