The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 21, 1935, Page 1

| ——————_—_—_—_—_—_—= SCOTTSBORO- DEFENSE HERNDON FUND $45,000 mark passed by $60.70 in cam- paign for $25,000. $8,939.43 more must be raised at onee for the appeals. Vol. XII, No. 18 Daily Q Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONAL ) cs ass matter at the Post Office at r the Act of March 8, 1878 NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1935 NATI EDITIO (Six Pages) ONAL Price 3 Cents ARMED MOBS FORM IN SACRAMENTO Masses Force Congress Criticism of U.S. ‘Security’ Plan NEW SEIZURES. [sons rosr_| What Workers Demand NOW PLANNED | BY JAPANESE Military Mission in Man- churia Plans to Grab Chahar FENGNING, Jehol, Jan. 20.— Preparations for the imperialist seizure of Chahar, and thereafter | Dolon Nor and North China, were } continued today by the Japanese) military mission in Manchuria with the presentation of an ultimatum to the Chinese governor of Chahar. | Governor Sung, the note threat- ened, “must withdraw his troops or take the consequences.” Reports from Tokyo announce the usual excuses of the Japanese War Office before committing wholesale murder and destruc- tion in new Chinese areas. Saying that the North China government was not involved, the War Office raised the regular excuse of “ban- dit invasions” and the oft-broken promise not to advance beyond the Great Wall. The impending slaughter outrage upon the Chinese people is causing intense agitation through- out the country, a situation which the traitorous Nationalist Govern- ment of China is attempting to calm, in order the more easily to capitulate to the Japanese imperial- ists. Lynch Gangs Threaten Leader of Arkansas Tenant Farmers’ Union MARKED TREE, Ark,, Jan. 20.— ‘Ward H. Rodgers, who was acting as chairman of a meeting called to hear reports on the recent national conference of agricultural workers held in Washington, was arrested here, last week, and carried to a jail in an adjoining county. Rodg- ers, who teaches in an F. E. R. A. school, is charged with “conspiracy to overthrow the government.” While the repozt of the committee which prsented sharecroppers’ de- mands to A. A. A. Officials in be- half of the Southern Tenant Farm- ers Union and the Sharecroppers Union was being heard, planters openly threatened to form lynch gangs to run Rodgers out of the State. Cleveland Scottsboro Quota Set By Wm. Sandberg Ohio District Secretary, Interna- tional Labor Defense The Cleveland District pledges to raise its quota of $300 for the Scottsboro-Herndon defense fund. We recognize our definite re- sponsibility to do our utmost to carry it to a successful finish— secure the freedom of the Scotts- boro boys and Angelo Herndon and striking a blow at the lynch and legal lynch methods of the Southern ruling ciass. The district quota has been di- vided into branch quotas of from $5 to $25 each, according to the branch membership strength. Branches are to hold affairs and protest meetings in their neigh- borhocd. Sections are to hold united front conferences, reviv- ing Scottsboro Action Committees, and secure the adoption of pro- test resolutions by churches and organizations that can be reached in this defense work, Returns are to be made weekly by branches and sections to the district and the district is to make immediate remittals to the Na- tional office of the I. L. D. Funds urgently needed for car- rying through of the Scottsboro- Herndon appeals before the U. S. Supreme Ceurt should be rushed to the national office of the In- ternational Labor Defense, Room 610, 80 East llth Street, New Yerk City. British Government Issues Order To Bar Landing of Bela Kun LONDON, Jan. 20.—Customs offi- cials have been instructed by the government to prevent Bela Kun, leader of the heroic revolution in Hungary and of the Soviet state established there in 1919, from en- Engiand if he attempts to here. 4s reported that Bela Kun is ‘wey to England, and | _ ee VIGORITO DYERS HAIL VIGORITO | Newly-Elected Leader Calls for 100% Unionization rf oat NEE PATERSON, N. J., Jan. 20.— Pledging to subordinate himself at | all times to the decisions of the | rank and file membership, Charles Vigorito, the rank and file candi- |date recently elected president of the American Federation of Silk and_Rayon. Dyers, Local 1733, de- livered a stirring acceptance speech yesterday at the installation of the new officers. The new administra- tion will take office a week from tomorrow. Greeted with thunderous applause by the assembled dyers, Vigorito put forth the following program as the platform on which the new ad- ministration proposes to carry on the work of the union: 1) To live up to the agreement up to it, 2) To mobilize the entire mem- bership to make every shop a 100 per cent union shop. 3) To carry on an intensive cam- paign to force the manufacturers to re-open the shops locked out after the strike, namely: Lyon’s, Oriental and the two National shops. 4) To register all the unemployed workers and set up the necessary committees to approach the city, state and federal authorities for re- | lief for them. 5) To start an intensive cam- paign on the part of the entire membership to petition Senators and Congressmen, demanding that they support the enactment of the Workers’ Unemployment, Old Age and Social Insurance Bill, H. R. 2827. 6) For the establishment of Wom- en’s Auxiliaries in the union, and youth and sports activities for the young members of the union. Vigorito also reiterated his affirm- ative position on the question of rendering all necessary cooperation for the organization of the out of town shops, Havana Polica Aveest Anti-Fascist Students HAVANA, Jan. 20.—Seven anti- fascist students were arrested here today when students demonstrating against President Mendieta and Colonel Batista, head of the army, entered several theatres in the heart of the city shouting: “Down with Mendieta and Batista.” and force the manufacturers to live | And What | Offers on Sweep aside all the shining trimmings and the Wagner-Lewis | Roosevelt Insurance “Unemployment Reserves” Bill of the Roosevelt administration stands revealed as a fraud that grants not one penny to the present vast army of the unemployed, gives not one cent of Federal funds for any form of unemployment insurance, and straps the entire cost upon the | backs of those workers who come under its provisions, It doles out a beggarly starvation old-age pension, allots on the average a mere $10,000 a week to each State for child care, and pro- | vides the legislative machinery for | unemployables, the complete abandonment of the The Workers’ Bill, H. R. 2827, now pending in the House Commit- tee on Labor, provides full benefit payments to all workers, whether part of the vast army of the unemployed, the sick, aged or crippled, | those on strike or otherwise unemployed through no fault of their own. | A comparison of the two bills shows: Every workers’ organization, every that were represented at the recent THE ROOSEVELT BILL | Beneficiaries: Industrial workers | only. Subject to State laws. Leaves way open for widest possible dis- | crimination,. Administration: ‘Machine control through capitalist political parties and agents in the government and the establishment of a huge bu- reaucracy. No workers’ control whatsoever. Private plans permit- ted though not specified. Amount of benefits: Sets no fig- ure. Allows States to place bene- | (Continued on Pose 2) Mavchiers Hail LL.D.’s Gains ‘On Scottsboro More than 2,500 New York work- ers marched in the bitter cold Sat- urday through the streets of Har- lem in celebration of the important partial victory of the International Labor Defense in winning a new hearing before the U. S, Supreme Court on the death sentences against Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris, two of the Scotts- boro boys. The march wound up with a short rally at 126th Street and Lenox Avenue, where Richard B. Moore, National Field Organizer of the LL.D., urged those present to help in further extending and strengthening the united front fight and to mobilize support for the Scottsboro - Herndon Conference, Feb. 3, called by the National Scottsboro-Herndon Action Com- mittee, Philadelphia Rallies PHILADELPHIA, Jan, 20.—A se- ries of nightly Scottsboro rallies are being held here with Lester Carter, the star Scottsboro defense wit- nesses, and William Powell, district young Southern worker and one of field organizer of the International pt Defense, as the chief speak- The provisions for “mothers’ assistance, care of crippled children and child welfare” are grimly farcical, so inadequate are they in scope. Hearings on this Roosevelt “Social Security” Bill will be held during | the coming weeks. The National Joint Action Committee, which was elected at the Washington Congress for Unemployment Insurance, and the Unemployment Councils will send delegations to these hearings. trade union local, and all groups National Congress have been called upon to wire their demands for the Workers’ Bill to the House Ways and Means Committee and to the House Committee on Labor, THE WORKERS’ BILL H. R. 2827 Beneficiaries: Includes all occupa- tions: industrial, agricultural, dom- estic, transportation and profes- sional workers. Administration: Insurance com- missions of workers and farmers under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Labor. plans by industry are permitted, Amount of Benefits: Equal to local average wages; in no case to (Continued on on Page 2) Rank and File Silk Workers Take Office PATERSON, N. J., Jan. 20.—The rank and file Executive Board of the Plain Goods Department of the American Federation of Silk Work- rs, Local 1716, elected last week by an overwhelming majority of three to one, took over the admin- istration from the old executive at a joint meeting yesterday, Nomination and election of three organizers for the Plain Goods De- partment will be held at the regular membership meeting Saturday. Nominations for a general man- ager for the district, the post now held by Eli Keller, will also be made at this meeting. The defeat of Kel- Jer who headed the Lovestoneite clique in the nominations, is looked forward to by the rank and file as the final defeat of the reactionary administration, The constitution convention, com- posed of delegates to the various departments, held its last session yesterday and adopted a new con- stitution. The constitution gives proportional representation on the Joint Executive Board to all depart- ments and crafts. The Joint Board is the ruling body between conven- tions. Conventions will be held every three months with delegates elected for each 100 members. | the Workers’ ‘CONGRESSMEN Browder Flays Court ACTTOHALT HIT ROOSEVELT On Slanderous Charges CONFERENCE JOBLESS BILL! Sacramento Trial A wire, protesting the deliberate distortion of the Communist po- sition against individual acts of terrorism, in the trial of the 18 Sacra- mento worker-defendants, was sent to Judge Dal M. Lemmon yester- Lundeen Says Program| Provides ‘Security’ | For Bankers Senators and Representatives, feeling the mighty pressure of the | workers’ support of their own bill, | Unemployment, Old | Age and Social insurance Act, H.R. | 2827, continued yesterday to attack | the Roosevelt “Social Security” pro- | For the aged, the Wagner-Lewis plan of Roosevelt grants its | hunger dole only to American citizens who have resided at least five years in the State. Having reached this beggarly hunger hand-out of 50 cents a day, upon his death, the State can seize his property as a lien under rather complicated provisions, For “dependent children,” the Federal Government provides each State with an average of $1,156 a week provided the State appropriates funds under each of its political sub-division. gram, Senator Nye of North Dakota said of the Wagner-Lewis fraud: “It is just a bit of cheese in a trap to catch the mice—such a program should go far beyond the President’s Suggestion.” | Senator King of Utah said: “The | whole thing is poppycock.” Representative Lundeen of Min- | nesota declared that “The Roose- velt administration’s Wagner-Lewis ‘Economic Security Bill,’ like so many of the New Deal measures, provides added security for the bankers and industrialists who are | firmly opposed to the Workers’ Un- | | employment, Old Age and Social | tional Unemployment Councils will | Insurance Act.” a Senator Wagner, who introduced | the Roosevelt measure, said in a widely publicized statement, “There is not a single dictate of business judgement that has been neglected in framing this legislation.” Senators Borah and McNary, Re- publicans, and Representative Mc- | Groarty, Democrat, who introduced | the Townsend Old Age pension plan | No private| into the House, declared that the | Roosevelt measure was totally in- adequate. Borah said: “I am not satisfied to make an outlay of near- ly a billion dollars for armaments and $15 for old age.” The National Joint Action Com- mittee, which was elected at the recent National Congress for Unem- | ployment Insurance, and the Na- | send representatives to Washington to oppose the Wagner-Lewis Bill at | the hearings to be held before the | House Ways and Means Committee | today. 15,000 Paris Workers Vote to Support Saar Fight Against Hitler (Special to the Daily Worker) PARIS, Jan. 20 (By Wireless) — Support and encouragement of the struggle against Hitler in the Saar | was tumultously approved here yes- | terday at a monster anti-fascist | mass meeting attended by 15,000 French workers, A main feature of the meeting was the making of fur- ther plans for carrying on the fight against the French fascist leagues. | The occasion marked the first time | that representatives were present from the liberal League of Righis of Man and the C. G, T., the re- formist trade unions, PARIS, Jan. 20 (By Wireless) — The reformist trade unions, the C. G. T., has refused the invitation of the Unitary Trade Union Con- federation to participate in a joint demonstration on Feb. 12. The C. G. T., in refusing to form a united front, declared that “organic unity required further examination.” Win a free vacation in a work- ers’ camp by competing in the Daily Worker subscription con- test. Write to 50 East 13th Street for more information. day by Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party. wire of solidarity was also sent t! William Z. Foster at the decisi Committee of the Commu: Judge Dal M. Lemmon, Sacramento, California, Newspapers report that in Sa secution of eighteen workers, the stupid and ridiculous ch: A he 18 defendants by Browder and | on of the recent plenum of the Central Party. The wires follow: January 19, 1935. cramento criminal syndicali: by prosecutor that Communist Party wanted to instigate ‘armed re- volt at the time of San Francisco general strike and in connection with and to this purpose advocat absolutely baseless statement could or by professional red baiters. The Communist Party at all terror. The Communist Party had bu and general strike, that is to mol ed acts of individual terror, This only be invented by provocateurs times rejects method of individual it one role in longshoremen’s strike bilize all workers and arouse soli- darity of the toilers generally for the winning of the demands of the strike as formulated by the workers themselves. jective was largely attained is pro’ That our ob- ven by the substantial partial vic- tory won by the hercic longshoremen with the support of entire working class of San Fra: CO. During these strikes the Communist Party position was made clear in many articles and official statements which established that (Continued REILLY NAMES 3 “KIDNAPERS’ Divulges Fourth Noa to Hearsi-Conirolled N. Y. Newspaper By Allen Johnson FLEMINGTON, N. J., Jan. 20— Lieutenant Commander Edwari Reilly, former Secret Se:vice agent for the United States government who is chief defense attorney for Bruno Hauptmann, Nazi adherent | indicted for the murder of the Lind- bergh baby, has divulged the name of the “real” murderer to the Hearst-controlled N. Y. Mirror, that | newspaper asserted yesterday. Reilly named three of the four persons yesterday whom he charges | with the kidnaping and murder of the Lindbergh’s child. According to Reilly, they are: Ollie Whately, Lindbergh’s butler who died sud- denly soon after the kidnaping; Violet Sharpe, Mrs. Lindbergh's mother’s maid, who committed | suicide as she was about to be ques- | tioned by police concerning her whereabouts on the night of the kidnaping, and Isidor Fisch, Jewish | furrier who died in Germany last | March under circumstances which led hospital officials there to be- lieve that he may have been mur- dered. In pursuance with his agree- ment with Hearst, Reilly divulged the name of the fourth person who | is alive, to the Hearst papers, which will publish it on the day that Reilly makes the formal accusation | in court. Leibowitz Helps Nazi Samuel Leibowitz, renegade Scottsboro attorney who has been employed by Hearst to help the slow-witted Reilly defend the Nazi defendant, said yeste-day in the N. Y. Journal that, “The State has as yet produced nothing which, by itself alone, would de- finitely fasten the crime on Hauptmann.” After producing an e ‘an ex-convict and (Continued on Page 2) on Page ae SOVIETS HAIL. GIANT GAINS Great Activity Marks | Proceedings of All- | Russian Congress (Special to the Daily Worker) | MOSCOW, Jan. 20 (By Wireless). —The 16th All-Russian Congress is proceeding with great activity and |enthusiasm, All the representativ 8 | | from the autonomous republics, the regions and towns, from the fac- tories and collective farms speak from the Congress platform about the enormous successes of their en- terprises and farms. The representative from Dagestan, a toiler named Dolgat, spoke. In his speech he showed himself to be first a geographer, then an econ- omist, then a planner and finally an agronomist. But above all he was a statesman. | | Progress Described | His native republic, formerly a backward Czarist colony, is awake | wit great energy, and is building |a socialist ground-work that is al- ready developed and varied. The speaker described the progress of collectivization in the mountain dis- tricts of the republic and the future | path of the development of animal husbandry. He spoke of the un- |precedented growth of culture in | this little mountain country, where : before the revolution only 5 per cent of the men were literate and only 2 or 3 per cent of women. Before the revolution there were 54 schools | here. Now there are 1,440 schools, | 18 colleges, 3 universities, about 30) newspapers in the native language, | la 5 theatres. This is the sal Soviet Dagestan. The worker Yesin, who spoke oS |ter him, described the construction | | of the new industrial city of Chelia- | | binsk and the gigantie tractor Plant) | erected there. | The Congress listened with tre- (Continued « on Page 2) ce Central Committee of the Communist Party has just con- cluded a four day plenary session which can truly be said tc have registered a growing influence of the Party among the masses and especially in the A. F. of L. unions, a further consolidation and growth of the Party and above all steady progress in the bolshevization of the | Party. The plenum was attended, in ad- dition to all members of the Central Committee, by almost all of the District Organizers, including West Coast and the Southern Districts, the editors of the most important Party papers, the leaders of the na- tional fractions in the trade unions and other mass organizations, mak- ing a total, in all, of one hundred Party leaders and functionaries, A special session of the plenum Cs Central Committee Plenum Adopts Decision On Labor Party and Unions on the fourth day, devoted entirely to the examination of the Party’s agitation and propaganda work, was attended by an additicnal one hun- dred comrades, agitprop directors, agitators, teachers, writers, shop paper editors, and many comrades active in important factories. The agenda of the C. C. meeting took up three main points. 1, Analysis of the present situ- ation and the chief tasks of the Party—with special emphasis on Trade Union Work, the Preblems of the Fight for the United Front and the Question of the Labor Party, Reporter Comrade Browder. 2. Report on the carrying through of the organizational de- cisions of the Party as laid down at the Eight Party Convention with special emphasis on Building i the eetepl! and the Young Commu- nist League, the extension of the Circulation of the Daily Worker, the bringing of all eligible Party members into the trade unions, Reporter Comrade Brown. 3. The examination of the Agi- tation and Propaganda Work of the Party and the Tasks of the Party in this field of work. Reporter Comrade Bittleman. There were, in addition to these main reports, a number of sub- reports dealing with questions on the main points on the agenda as well as special questions. Practically all of the members of the C. C. and the District Organizers participated in the discussion on one or the other points ae the agenda. One most gratifying events ae the plenum which brought cheer to all comrades was the presence of the chairman of the Party, Comrade Foster, at the plenum. Comrade Foster is now recovering rapidly and is already beginning to contribute actively to the leadership of the Party, The Central Committee meeting adopted unanimously the report of Comrade Browder, the General Sec- retary of the Party, and the reso- lution presented by the Political Bureau dealing primarily with the three questions emphasized in the report of Comrade Browder, namely —the trade union work, the united front and the question of the Labor Party. (The resolution will be printed in a few days.) All other reports were also adopted unani- mously, Political Growti We can indeed feel a Bolshevik pride in the fact that the decisions on all important questions dealing | with important changes in the im-| S| UNANIMOUSLY APPROVES BROWDER’S ANALYSIS OF CHANGED TACTICS REQUIRED BY LATEST DEVELOPMENTS | | mediate tactical line were adopted with complete unanimity. This is clearly a result of the growth of the political understanding of the Party and especially the political growth of the leading cadres of the Party. But above all it must be emphasized that this unity of po- litical understanding not only of the main strategical line and all questions of principle but also on the difficult questions of the work- ing out of the tactical line in the face of the important changes in th labor movement was only pos- sible because of the advances made by the Party in solving its prob- lems in the course of the practical struggles in the interests of the masses, and the active participation of all the Party leaders and func-| tionaries in work among the masses | and the correct carrying through of the principles of democratic cen- | tralism in the Party. } The conviction and understanding | of the line of the Party was wrought | | in the very fire of the class struggle. | | This unity of will and action of the | Party is in contrast to the inner | difficulties and disintegration in the camp of the bourgeois and reform-| ist parties (reflecting the continued | crisis of capitalism, the ee of all bourgeois and reformist meth- ods of solving the crisis). It is an} expression of the basic and poten-/| tial strength of the proletarian class, embodied in its advanced guard (the Communist Party), | which faces the future with confi-/ dence of victory, with inspiration | drawn from the successful building OF JOBLESS Terror Drive Is Aimed At 18 Defendants Yow On Trial By Michael Quinn (Special to the Daily Wor! SACRAMENTO, Calif., . 20.— The frame-up trial of ree pert) worker-defendants charged with criminal syndicalism, entered its third day Saturday against a background of monstrous police in- citement agair the working class, and the public drilling of armed bands of vigilantes to prevent the holding of an unemploy ed. insurance Congress here on Feb. 2, the entry into the city of dele tions sent by wo) other cities in expression of jarity with the defendants. The drilling and arming of the vigilante bands has the official en- dorsement of city authorities, and y Manacer es Dean has been | app’ nted an ex-officio captain of the police, with extraordinary pow- ers to recruit his own private army against the working class. Over 500 business men have been sworn in as here, | special deputies. Yesterday the prosecution cone tinued reading fragments from pamphlets seized in the vigilante- police raids on the Workers Book Shop last summer, or furnished by Captain Hines of the notorious Los Angeles. Red Squad. Special stress was laid by special prosecutor Mc~ Allister on the*Communist position on the Negro question and inter- marriage in the hope of prejudic- ing the jury against the defendants, |A Hearst reporter frequently con- ferred with the prosecution, passing up notes several times. : The prosecution introduced into | the evidence many pamphlets which the defendants denied were in the Workers Book Shop at the time of the raid, including even publications of the “Communist Labor Party.” Leo Gallagher, International I bor Defense attorney, protesti against the introduction of extra- neous evidence, charged the court with attempting to place the whole theory of Communism on trial, with prosecution of the defendants inci dental to the development of an attack on the whole working class. Hearst Role To Be Shoun In Expose The role of William Randolph Hearst in preparing the way for fascism in America will be one of the highlights of the series of ar- ticles on “Wall Street's Fascist Conspiracy,” scheduled to begin in the Daily Worker next Friday, Jan, 25. The expose is a result of an in- tensive seven-weeks’ investigation conducted by Marguerite Young, of the Daily Worker Washington Bureau; John L, Spivak, author of “America Faces Pogroms,” and Sender Garlin, staff writer of the Daily Worker. The series will be written by Marguerite Young. “Wall Street's Fascist Conspir- acy” will reveal the machinations of Hearst following his visit with Hitler, the basis for his “Anti-Red” | campaign in his chain of news- papers, and will show how the millionaire publisher has rendered aid both to Hitler and Mussolini, Other individuals who will figure in this sensational expose include Father Coughlin, various polit- ical figures behind the Dickstein Committee, as well as leading Wall Street bankers such as Frank Vanderlip, Felix Warburg and partners in the firm of J. P. Mor- gan.and Co, What went behind the scenes in the Dickstein Committee as well as significant facts suppressed by the Committee in connection with the testimony of General Smedley Butler will also be revealed in the articles which will begin in the Daily Worker next Friday. The activities of the Commitiee for the Nation, the American Bankers Association and the Na- tional Association of Manufac- turers will be described in the series, and a vivid picture drawn of the full network of fascist scheming now going on in the United States. Readers of the Daily Worker are urged to make certain the widest circulation of the forth- coming series as one of the most effective weapons in the fight against fascism in America,