The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 19, 1935, Page 1

Build Leninist Newspaper of WorkingClass By Clarence Hathaway Editor of the Daily Worker LEVEN eventful years: have passed since the founding of the Daily Worker. | In these eleven years the) Communist Party has ad-| vanced with mighty strides. | Greater and greater has grown the portion of the working class to whom it has taught the meaning and tac- ties of class struggle. The Daily Worker has mounted steadily in influence. Into every corner of the United States it has pene- trated, carrying out the mis- sion of a Communist news- paper, organizing and leading} the workers’ fight for im- proved conditions. Today capital is sounding} the tocsin against the Com- munist Party and its press more madly than ever before. The Hearst newspapers, with | 2 circulation of millions, are| carrying on raucous campaign of lies, provocations and dis- tortions against the Commu- nist Party and every liberal} element. The aims of Hearst, of | | | | | | SESE SCOTTSBORO - HERNDON DEFENSE FUND $14,808.82 has been collected by the 1. L. D. since July 9, 1934, $10,291.18 more must be raised at once for the appeals. Vol. XII, No. 17 Sn Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1878 Daily ;Q Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1935 (Twelve Pages) NATIONAL EDITION Price 3 Cents FIGHT URGED FOR WORKERS BILL ZINOVIEV, KAMENEV AND THEIR GIVEN PRISON TERMS | HENCHMEN Five to Ten-Year Sentences Given to Counter- Revolutionary Clique Which Confessed Role Which Inspired Murder of Kirov (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Jan. 18 (By Wireless).—Gregory Zinoviev, | Leo Kamenevy and seventeen others, found guilty of terrorist Vladimir Ilyitch Lenin Died, January 21, 1924 Born, April 10, 1870 F which the first is to outlaw the Communist Party and its newspapers, are also the activities against leaders of the Communist Party and the Soviet government were given comparatively light prison | i | sentences by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court. Zinoviev was sentenced to ten® « | aims of the Dickstein Com- mittee and all the other agen- | cies of the Wall Street and| New Deal government. | With a program of fascism | and war, capital is making a| deadly offensive against the! vanguard and organizer of the | struggle against it—the Com-| munist Party. More than ever before is it| now necessary to rally the) workers and farmers of Amer- ica to the support of the Com-| munist Party. It is necessary | to show the American work- ing class that the attacks! against the Communist Party | are the ground-work for the! legal and terroristic suppres- sion of all who stand in the way of Wall Street—Social- ists, liberais, trade unionists, and every honest element. It is necessary to build our Party, build our press. The Daily Worker, our daily, our chief organizer and agitator, must reach into the hands of the millions of American workers and farm- ers. It must go into the mills, and the mines, into the hands of the Negro toilers, on the docks, among the women, youth and_ white-collar workers. A concentrated drive, with- out a moment’s let-up, to build the circulation of the Daily Worker, is now the ma- jor political task before us. The Central Committee of the Communist Party has therefore decided: 1—That a circulation of 100,000 copies a day of the Daily Worker must be se- cured by July 1. 2—That the present drive for 10,000 daily and 15,- 000 Saturday subscriptions must be successfully com- pleted by April 5. This decision must be im- mediately applied to all the ac- tivities in the districts. No Party campaign or any other Party activity, whatever its character, must be waged without putting the Daily Worker to the forefront. As a first step in the drive, the Districts, Sections and Units must engage in a con- centrated drive not only for subscriptions but for Red Builders to cover every busy intersection, factory, union meeting hall and every other place where workers congre- gate, in the country. Carrier routes in each district must be multiplied tremendously. The Daily Worker must be put on every newsstand where workers purchase their papers. Canvassing must be made systematic and _all- embracing. The widest publicity must be given to the drive, in the form of leaflets, symposiums, discussion. The widest pop- ularization must be made of the subscription contest be- ing conducted by the “Daily.” Forward, comrades, to a 100,000 circulation of the Daily Worker by July 1. Forward to 10,000 daily and years in prison by the Court, now holding session at Leningrad. Kam- | enev was sentenced to five years im- | prisonment and the seventeen lesser figures in the counter-revolutionary | clique were given various terms. | None was given a death sentence and earlier reports of exile verdicts were denied in the official announce- ment here, The seventeen others who ad- mitted membership in the “Moscow Center” were sentenced as follows: ten years for Gertik, Kuklin and Sakhov; eight years for Yevdokimov, Bakaev, Sharov, Gorshenin and Tsarkov; .six years for Fedorov, Hertsberg, Hessen, Tarosov, Per- imov, Anishev and Faivilovitch; and five years for Vashkiroy and Bravo. All the personal property and effects of those condemned as par- ticipants in the counter-revolution- ary plots against the Soviet Govern- ment, were ordered confiscated, in accordance with Soviet law. Workers Ask Severity (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Jan. 18 (By Wireless). —Meetings of workers in all fac- tories and other enterprises through- out the Soviet country discussed with a fresh outburst of indignation and hatred towards the enemies of the working class, the case of Zin- oviev, Kameney, Evdokimov, and others of the “Moscow Center” of the underground counter-revolu- tionary gang. The 17 accused have just been sentenced to varying terms of imprisonment and exile. All workers discussing the case demanded in their resolution the highest measure of punishment for all the guilty. Moscow Ball Bearing plant work- ers in their resolution say: “Our hearts are filled with wrath and hatred for these contemptible (Continued on Page 2) Framed Trial Of 18 Begins In Sacramento By MICHAEL QUINN (Special to the Daily Worker) SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan. 18— The trial of the eighteen workers arrested in vigilante-police raids here last Summer and framed on charges of violating the criminal syndicalist law opened yesterday, with the defense vigorously object- ing to the appointment of Neil Mc- Allister, former district attorney, as special prosecutor. The ruthless hatred of the de- fendants by the court and prosecu- tion gave the opening session the atmosphere of the Nazi hangmen’s Peoples’ Court. Leo Gallagher, International Labor Defense attorney, accused Attorney General Webb of assuming fascist powers in appointing McAl- lister and his aides. Webb intervened in the case un- der pressure from local Chambers of Commerce and other business- men’s groups to have McAllister, who arranged the frame-up of the eighteen defendants, continue in charge of the prosecution after his term of office expired. A motion by Gallagher for a mistrial was brusquely denied by Judge Dal M. Lemmon, presiding. Gallagher offered a motion to have McAllister questioned on money received from California capitalists to push the prosecution. The motion was denied. Arrests Were Illegal The illegality of the arrests of the eighteen defendants and the whole terroristic character of the mass arrests and raids on workers’ homes and headquarters, following the West Coast strikes, were sharply brought out under cross examina- tion of state witnessses by the defense. Ray Peart, police officer who ar- rested Huffine and Fisher in front of the Hall of Justice last July 21, admitted he had no warrants for their arrest. Dewey Baker, under- sheriff, frankly stated that he hates Communists, and admitted he had no warrants when he arrested sev- eral of the defendants. BROWN SHIRT HORDES POUR INTO SAAR SAARBRUECKEN, Jan. 18.— An increasing number of Storm Troop- ers and Nazi police swarmed into the Saar territory today, all on the hunt for known or suspected anti- | fascists, Socialists, Communists and | Catholics. Four hundred or more poverty- stricken miners and others fled from their homes with their wives and children to seek refuge in the| French mining administration build- ing, seeking safety against attack. Up to today it was certain that) the Goverriing Commission, repre- senting the League of Nations, had deliberately refused to issue orders ‘to the’3;300 international troops in the Saar to intervene where Nazi murder and terrorism was breaking out. A high French official hope- lessly admitted that “personal se- curity has vanished in the Saar, and there is no police and no justice. The authorities refuse to do any- thing to protect these people, and they are absolutely helpless,” he added. Refugees Leave Saar At Forbach, on the Franco-Saar border, where Saar refugees con- tinue to pour across the frontier at the rate of 200 a day, scenes of cruel desolation occurred. Men, women and children pleaded with French guards to let them enter, as they had disposed of all their be- longings hastily and fled in fear of Nazi reprisals. * Members of the Plebiscite Com- mission are now, too late, confessing that during the vote on Sunday that the League’s “guardians of neutral- ity” were not stationed at the voting halls or outside of them. | | Admits Secret Pact ‘GENEVA, Jan. 18—While hypo- critically asking for guarantees that national minorities and supporters of the status quo in the Saar pleb- iscite will not be injured in any way, Pierre Laval, French Foreign Minister, admitted at the session of the Council of the League of Na- tions today that a secret arrange- ment existed between France and Germany concerning the disposal of the Saar. Upon the agreement by Germany to destroy two railroads, considered dangerous by French military ex- perts, Laval agreed that the date set for the formal taking over of the Saar be established as Feb, 15. Austria Legalizes Nazi Mass Organizations VIENNA, Jan. 18.—One hundred and sixty Nazi organizations were legalized today by the Schussnigg government. This is the first ap- Parent result of Von Papen’s ac- tivity here. Von Papen is Hitler’s official representative in Austria; his energy in attempting to effect some rapprochement with the Aus- trian fascists has redoubled since % From Drawing by M. J. Kallem Confidence in Masses Secret of Greatness Of Lenin, Says Stalin By Joseph Stalin b enonipameai and leaders of parties who know the history of nations, who have studied the history of revolutions from beginning to end, are sometimes afflicted with an unpleasant disease. The disease is known as fear of the masses, lack of confidence in the creative ability of the masses. Sometimes on this ground a certain aristo- eratic pose is displayed by leaders towards the masses, who, although not versed in the history of revolutions, are destined to break up the old and build the new. The fear that the elements may break forth, that the masses may “break up too much,” the desire to play the role of nurses who try to teach the masses from books but who refuse to learn from the masses—such is the basis of this sort of artistocratic attitude. Lenin represented the very opposite of such leaders. I do not know another revolutionary who had such pro- found confidence in the creative strength of the prole- tariat and in the revolutionary expediency of its class in- stincts as Lenin did. I do not know another revolution- ary who was so able to ruthlessly scourge the smug critics of the “chaos of revolution” and the “bacchanalia of ir- responsible actions of the masses” as Lenin was. I re- member during a conversation, in reply to a remark made by a comrade that “after revolution normal order must be established,” Lenin sarcastically remarked: “It is a pity that people who want to be revolutionaries forget that the most normal kind of order in history is revolutionary order.” Hence Lenin’s contempt for all those who tried super- ciliously to look down upon the masses and to teach them from books. Hence Lenin’s constant urging that we must learn from the masses, try to understand their actions and carefully study the practical experience of the strug- gle of the masses. Confidence in the creative power of the masses—this is the peculiar feature in the activities of Lenin which enabled him to understand the spontaneous movement and Lundeen Stresses Burning Need of Mass Campaign for HR 2827; Administration Bill Pro- vides Hunger Dole to Aged (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 18.— | Following the reading of President | Roosevelt's widely ballyhooed “so- | cial security” message to Congress | |today, Senator Robert F. Wagner | jot New York introduced in the Senate the big business-Roosevelt Administration self-styled Economic | Security Bill. ' |__Representative David J. Lewis, of | Maryland, the co-author with Wag- | |ner of last year's Wagner-Lewis | | bill, introduced the same legislative | |denial of genuine unemployment |insurance in the House of Repre- | sentatives. | |_The administration’s so - called Economic Security Bill is based | upon the special 35,000 word report |made to the President by his com- mittee on Economic security. | Ignores Present Jobless | This bill completely ignores the | 15,000,000 now unemployed, provides |for no security for the future un- | employed, and proposes meagre old age pensions. Even if enacted to- day, the Wagner bill wouldn’t be- come effective until Jan. 1, 1936 at the earliest. | Illustrating what he meant by his | declaration that his bill provides “federal encouragement to: the es- tablishment of State compulsory un- employment insurance system,” Wagner did not hide the fact that the bill, like the National Industrial | Recovery Act, is fundamentally a big | employer measure.. “There is not a single dictate of business judgment that has been neglected in framing this legislation,” Wagner declared | of his Administration bill. “These | Proposals,” he pointed out, “are | common sense, cheaper than relief because pre- Paredness is superior to planeless- ness.” The new bill generally follows | new Wagner-Lewis “Reserves” Bill, |dented broad representation to work Camden Police Hold Waif Fleeing Hard Work on State Farm CAMDEN, N. J., Jan. 18.— Boarded out by the county, a starving fourteen-year-old boy, weary from miles of walking, was detained in the Camden police headquarters yesterday. The homeless waif, William Sanders, had walked thirty miles after running away from a farm to which he had been boarded out by the county. He declared that he had been made to work constantly and so had run away. F.D.R. CABINET REPORT SIRED : WAGNER BILL By HOWARD BOLDT After nine months of labor, the Roosevelt Committee on Economic | Security has brought forth a ver- | sion of the fraudulent Wagner- Lewis “Reserves” Bill, a measure that gives not one penny of bene- fits to the vast army of the unem- | ployed and thrusts the entire prob- |lem onto the States, All that the | Federal government...will do under | the amount to employers who con- | tribute to an unemployment insur- | cabinet. The report, on which is based the Wagner Bill Ignores Jobless cS Demands for H.R. 2827 Must Roll Into House, Lundeen Says By SEYMOUR WALDMAN (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 18.— Ernest Lundeen, the Farmer-La- borite Minnesota congressman introduced the Workers’ Unemploy ment, Old Age, ance Bill, H.R. 2! | agner-Lewis “Economic Security Bill” and called for intensified mass pressure on Congress, during a special inte! tonight with your correspond: He attacked t. ng the many | millions now unemployed and for strengthening the rule of the bank- {ers and industriali Informed that t \being held on the e Jorial meetings t United States and t world, Lundeen said | understand the which workers and farmer the world greet the ann of Lenin, the man who did so m to make the Soviet Union a real- ity.” Lewis Bill for ign Urges Mass Campaign Remarking that “Congressmen this plan is to levy a tax on pay-| Pay close attention to their mail,” in the tn | . v* | tinpncity Sat aay A grace | rolls, rebating up to 90 per cent of | Lundeen declared that “you'll see | results” when “the demand for | support of the Workers’ Bill roll ‘ ’ |into the office of the members of built upon the Gibraltar of business | 2M¢e fund under State law. The re- | in harbors. Unemployment is | Port was written by the Roosevelt | Congress like a mighty wave, It was obvious that he was still deeply impressed by theunprec: last year’s Wagner-Lewis “reserves” | does not specify minimum amounts | ers, farmers, intellectuals and pro- measure and involves the Federal| of benefits, whether the funds| fessionals of every political party government only to the extent of | contributing sums for what Roose- velt himself described, a couple of | months, as overhead expenses, | “As an added, incentive,” said | Wagner, “a federal subsidy, ag- |sregating $5,000,000 for the fiscal | Year ending June 30, 1936, and| $50,000,000 for each succeeding year, \is provided for allocation among |the states to aid them in admin- | istrating such unemployment insur- | ance laws as they may enact.” | What funds the employers in the | various states may see fit to pay, | under the Wagner Bill, are to be/ paid to the U. S. Treasury which | will control a trust fund to be| known as the “unemployment trust fund.” The bill also establishes a “Social Insurance Board” of three members. Each one would get $10,000 a year. This administrative body will be under the jurisdiction of the anti-strike Department of Labor. Thus, the provision which nominally guarantees “compensa- | tion” to “otherwise eligible employ- | ees” who refuse | work” while engaged in a “strike, jlockout, or other labor dispute,” isn’t worth the paper it is writ- ten on. Wagner's bill proposes a three per cent federal tax upon payrolls which will be remitted to employ- ers “insofar as they contribute to unemployment insurance funds un- der State law.” This tax, however, | struction it may become to the en- joyment of even increased corpora- |“In order not to burden industry | covery,” announced Wagner, “the | |unemployment insurance tax of | three per cent will not become fully | operative during the next two years unless the index of productive ac- tivity reaches 95 per cent of the| | 1923-1925 level.” “to accept new | is not definite because of the ob- | | tion profits under the New Deal. | should be financed by payroll tax| and trade union affiliation at the alone or by a tax upon workers and | National Congress for Unemploy- employers. No mention is made of | ment Insurance held recently in the guaranteeing benefits if a worker | Capitol to organize mass sentiment refuses a job which pays less than | for the passage of H.R. 2827. “Only trade union rates. On this score, | by mass action will the workers get the Wagner Bill, which is modeled after the report states that bene- fits should not be denied to work- | ers who refuse employment at wages | and conditions “substantially less favorable to the employee than | those preyailing for similar work in | the locality.” | | (Continued on Page 2) Kidnap Trial Evades Real cuigment Seve tee a| Crime Issues Roosevelt administration is given in | the report which declares that the Committee’s actuaries assumed “a| waiting period of four weeks, a 50 per cent compensation rate with a maximum of $15 a week, but no| Jersey. minimum.” The Committee sug-|" One was the child of Charles gests to States in framing their |yindbergh, a millionaire aviator, laws that the “maximum benefit} The other was only a union or- | Period cannot safely exceed 16 ganizer, Morris Langer. weeks.” | The murder of the millionaire’s | Nothing for Present Unemployed | child was flashed around the world. | No words are wasted in the clear | “Unemployment Assurance” By ALLEN JOHNSON FLEMINGTON, N. J., Jan. 18— | stigntiy more than two years ago | two people were murdered in New r | Priests, rabbis, ministers, war- | @dministration statement of prin-| mongers, leading gangsters and ciples in so far as the present vast | Capitalist statesmen, movie stars army of the unemployed. The Committee reports states in com. | ment on its unemployment reserves scheme that “it will not directly benefit those now unemployed until they become reabsorbed ~ in in- dustry.” For those employed workers, and newspaper publishers —all Ja- mented the child’s death and heap- | ed execrations on its murderer. The | murder of the millionaire’s son be- |came the “most atrocious crime of modern times.” Hundreds of thou- |sands of dollars were spent by the who | Federal, State and city governments |to uncover the criminal. The arms |of the capitalist law reached into (Continued on Page 2) during its battle for complete re- | every country in the world in the Recovery Board Head search for the fiend who had slain |the first born of an associate of Wants Permanent NRA ‘5. p. Morgan . oo) Another Murder “To Encourage Rich”) qhe murder of the union organ- |izer? Why bother to even pose the Speaking to 1,000 merchants of} question. Langer was a working the acquisition of the Saar territory by Germany. direct it into the channels of the proletarian revolution. the National Retail Dry Goods As- sociation last night, Clay S. Wil- (Continued on Page 2) Biggest Bankers Plot Mobilization of Fascist Hordes in U. S. STARTLING REVELATIONS, UNEARTHED BY YOUNG, SPIVAK, GARLIN, BEGIN FRIDAY | By HARRY GANNES. John L. Spivak told me today of the coming sensational series of articles on “Wall Strect’s Fascist ~ Conspiracy.” Spivak’s ex- But the articles on the plots of the big bankers in the United States to mobilize their fascist hordes, as a result of Roosevelt's New Deal policies, will cause even a greater stir throughout the coun- posure of anti-| try. semitic propa- ganda in the United States, and his. bril- liant article baring the Mor- gan and war department the program of the Communist 15,000 Saturday subscriptions by April 5, i (Continued on Page 2) 2 connections of Marguerite Yount the Red Cross created a sensation, This new series is being done by Marguerite Young, of the Daily Worker Washington Bureau, John L. Spivak, and Sender Garlin, of the Daily Worker editorial staff. The first article will appear next Friday. They were assisted by a group of expert financial investigators who dug up startling ramifications of (the Wall Street interests linked with the Fascist groups in the United States. These articles will show that the revelations of Major-General Smed- ley Butler were but one of the minor facets of the many-sided moves in the United States to create a fascist army against the American working class. Young, Spivak, and Garlin have the documents, original interviews, and all of the available facts show- ing that fascist moves in the United States reach into the big- gest banking houses of Wall Street. No worker who wants to know figure in the American tobacco trust urged that the N.R.A. shoul | be retained “in substantially it | present form” for a further trial | period of from one to two years to determine what parts should be- come permanent legislation. The true intention of making the N.R.A. permanent, however, was re- vealed when he said: “There can be no such thing as }a complete distribution of wealth. The large property owners and the Freiheit. A parallel series will run | rich should be encouraged in their work for having created the high pay ead eames standards of living attained in " fron andal 0! ig attainet ety beeen dupe here Prot | the citizens of this country.” the many details and documents | ‘Williams is chairman of the Na- Which will comprise this series. tional Industrial Recovery Board. Be sure not to miss a single one.. Order your copy of next Friday’s Daily Worker. Get your shop mates and friends to] subscribe for the Daily Worker n order to read this entire series of sensational articles, | just how far the move towards fas- cism has gone in the United States can afford to miss this series of articles which will run simultane- ously in the Daily Worker, the Would you like to win a free trip to the Soviet Union for the May Day celebration? Join the Daily Worker subscription contest immediately. Write to 50 E, 13th St, for more details, liams, millionaire, and important | class leader who had given his en- tire life to the battle for the im- provement of the conditions of the working men and women in the fur industry. He was a Communist. The priests and rabbis and war | mongers and newspaper pubishers who lamented the death of the |Lindbergh baby so loudly were |characteristically silent at the newe |of the killing of the union organ |izer. His murder received no in | vestigation. His murderers, hired company gangsters, continued to |ply their trade. The bodies of both victims were found soon after they were slain. The body of the Lindbergh baby was badly decomposed—one of its limbs had fallen off. The body of Langer was al | mutilated—one of his legs had be blown off by the boss-hired pS men who had literally dynamig him. The murderers of Langer never sought and never -¢ne alted (Continued on Page