The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 24, 1935, Page 1

SS SSS SSS ESSER Saas ‘J OO SCOTTSBORO-HERNDON DEFENSE FUND Only, $215.20 the I. L. D. received yesterday by $9,161.25 more is needed immediately for the appeals. Daily ,& Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Vol. XII, No. 21 Ss Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 8, 1872 NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1935 NATIONAL EDITION (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents F.D.R. SETS SLAVE PAY ON WORK RELIEF Secret Roosevelt-Wall Street RASKOB AND MORGAN IN COMMITTEE OF 52, COUGHLIN ANNOUNCES Radio Priest, Aping Hitler, Talks of Leading Armed Reactionary Moyement—Atiacks Jews —Favors Long for President By A. B. Magil (Special to the ROYAL OAK, Mich., Jan. 23.—A Daily Worker) secret dictatorial o-—____- committee of fifty-two Wall Street bankers and industrial-| ists, headed by John J. Raskob and including J. P. Morgan} and Irenee and Pierre du Pont, has been appointed by Presi- | dent Roosevelt to pass on all legislation. This was the start- | ling declaration made last night by? - priest and founder of the fascist- tinted National Union for Social Justice, in a speech in the chapel next to his million-dollar Shrine of the Little Flower. Coughlin declared that he was | present at a secret dinner given in Washington last Wednesday for the committee of fifty-two by Secretary of Commerce Roper. He stated that with the appoint- ment of this super-government of the bankers and trust capitalists, open congressional hearings on various questions have been done away with. Coughlin’s assertions came in the course of a talk which was probably | the most important public utterance he has yet made. His speech, bris- tling with open anti-semitism, ran the full gamut of fascist demagogy | in a manner strongly reminiscent of Hitler before he came to power. Among other facts that emerged from his speech were: That the Catholic priests Mexico are plotting together with Coughlin and his clique in this country for an armed reactionary uprising in the Spring. The radio priest boasted of the fact that the leader of the Mexican Catholic counter-revolution, on whose head, he stated, five million dollars had been placed, had conferred with him in his office only a few hours before. That Coughlin is ready to lead an armed reactionary movement in this country. That “this is a Christian coun- try” and Jews should not be per- mitted to have any say in the making of laws. That Coughlin has formed a secret alliance with Huey Long, budding fascist dictator of Louis- (Continued on Page 2) Defense Group Recalls Death Of Katovis “Vigorous defense of the rights of the toiling population to strike and picket is the most fitting memorial to Steve Katovis, militant working class fighter against ex- ploitation and oppression.” This was the statement issued yesterday by the New York District of the International Labor Defense and the Food Workers Industrial Union on the fifth anniversary of the death of the New York Com- munist worker who was murdered by a police gun on a picket line. Katovis, one of the first victims of the boss terror unleashed under the crisis which has gripped the vitals of American capitalism since 1929, died on Jan, 24, 1930, of bul- let wounds received from the guns of policemen, who assaulted a picket line of the Food Workers Industrial Union at 161st St. and Union Ave., Bronx. : Steve Katovis died in Lincoln Hospital, where he was held a pris- oner, with cops constantly hovering about his narrow cot, harassing the wounded fighter of the working class, barring his visitors or limit- ing their time to two minutes, deny- ing him adequate medical attention. His last words, uttered to one of his comrades, were: “Tell the others outside to keep up the fight— organize the work- ers!” So Steve Katovis died, his last breath devoted to the cause of the working class, for whose interests he had ceaselessly fought ever since he had joined the Communist Party in 1921, to become one of the van- guard of the working class, com- posed of the most devoted, enlight- ened and militant members of his class, in | TAKE STAND Admit eset Placed Support Behind Soviet Power (Special to the Daily Worker) BUDAPEST, Jan. 23 (By Wire- less),—Very unwillingly and in spite of themselves two more im-. | portant witnesses on the third day |of Matthias Rakosi’s trial here ad- mitted that as ministers in the Karolyi government they recognized the mass support behind the Soviet power which overthrew their re- gime. The trial, partly through the skilfull engineering of the defense by Rakosi himself, partly through | the clumsy maneuvers of the fas- ;cist Goembos government to de- jfend its rule of terrorism, is at- |tracting more and more interna- |tional attention. In fighting for jhis life in this obvious frame-uy,, | Rakosi is coming forward as 4 seen and sturdy defender of all the | working masses of Hungary in their lresentment against fascist rule. “Why,” the judge asked Buza Barna, Minister of Agriculture un- der the Karolyi government, “did you (collectively) yield so easily to the Bolshevik regime?” “Well, we though it would insti- tute a “pure” Socialist Party gov- ernment,” the Minister answered uncomfortably. “Was Communism really strong at that time?” the presiding justice inquired. The witness answered that his mind wasn’t very clear on that point: “So many intelligent people | didn’t know what violence would | be provoked through Bolshevism.” |The “violence” recalled by the wit- |Mess referred to the turning over jof the large estates and industries to the peasants and workers. The examination of witnesses for the state continued this afternoon. “Preventative arrests” occurred throughout Budapest as reports of the proceedings of the trial spread throughout the city. Intensified protest action against the outrageous proceedings now going on in Hungary aaginst Mat- thias Rakosi, Communist leader, was called for by the National Ex- ecutive Committee of the Interna- tional Labor Defense in a statement issued by Anna Damon, acting na- tional secretary. The address of the Hungarian Consulate is 7 Morris Street, and the telephone number is Digby 4-2672. A cablegram to Admiral Horthy, regent of Hungary, at Budapest, demanding Rakosi’s freedom, was sent by the National Executive Committee of the I. L. D. for the Russian workers, William Randolph Hearst weeps crocodile tears He says they are hungry and sad. But these three Russian kids watching a traveling circas, like aH children in the Soviet Union, KIDDIES ENJOY CIRCUS IN U. S. S. R. are the most joyful children In the world. The three shown here are having a swell time watching the clowns go through their antics. (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Jan. 23 (By Wireless). —Giving the lie to Hearst’s slander | stories of “starvation and misery in | the Soviet Union,” the report of the | Commissar of Health at the Soviet Congress of the Russian Socialist | Federtted Soviet Republic, one of | the Republics of the Soviet Union, now in session, showed that the days. Commissar Kaminski gave a pic: Health Report on Soviet Refutes Hearst Slanders | | | | Physical education and sports were | scientists, engineers, architects, and | death rate has been cut by 40 per|ing the Federated Republic, cent below what it was in Czarist | represented at the Congress. ture of a race of people growing! towns and villages from the re-| | strong, healthy and cheerful, with | motest part of the Republic. the science of medicine fighting a} ‘There are 273 women deputies at Winning battle against disease. A the Congress, including 39 per cent tremendous increase in sanatoria, workers and 22.9 collective farmers. hospitals, health resorts and | There are also a great number of reported with the great advance of also some of the leading specialists. Socialist construction. | pate Among them are the Academician Bakh, Academician Fersman, Pro- | fessor Kireyey and other represen- tatives of the Soviet professionals. The report of the credentials Forty-eight nationalities, inhabit- are The 1,748 Soviet deputies arrived in Mos- ow from all industrial centers, (Continued on Page 2) Cotton Goods Strike Dodged Declaring that they are satisfied | with the ruling of Justice Jesse C. | Adkins of the District of Columbia Supreme Court in denying the first step of the manufacturers for an injunction to stay an order for a ten per cent increase and a thirty six hour week in the cotton garment industry, Jacob Potofsky of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and Devid Dubinsky of the Inter- | national Ladies Garment Workers | yesterday called off the threatened general strike in the industry. Officials of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, declared however any of the 2,000 shirt workers locked out by eastern contractors return without the increase. Troy Workers Meet TROY, N. Y., Jan. 23—At a members of the Amalgamated Shirt facturers 24 hours in which to comply with the ten per cent wage increase Picketing in Cleveland CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 23.— Members of the International Ladies Garment Workers, in cloak and suit and dress locals have de- cided to join the strikers of the L. N. Gross Company, in a daily mass picket demonstration. Workers Union held Tuesday night, | workers decided to give the manu-/| ByUnionHeads Fund Quota. | | | | | ‘Trial on Cau Seen As Blow At All Labor By Michael Quinn (Special to the Daily Worker) Chicago Sets Scottsboro By Andrew Newhoff Chicago District Secretary, Interna- Eons pee ear With the introduction by the pros- The Chicago district of the In-|ecution today of evidence purport- ternational Labor Defense accepts | ing to show financial contributions the quota set for it, of raising $1,000 | by James Cagney and other movie | for the Scottsboro-Herndon Defense | stars for strikers’ relief in the Im- Fund. |perial Valley agricultural strike last The $100 enclosed is our first»re- | summer, it became more and more mittance in this drive, whose im-|clear that the trial of 18 workers | portance to the national liberation here under the California criminal struggles of the Negro people, and | Syndicalism law is directed against to the entire working class move- | the entire working class, and aimed Dictator Gr ROOSEVELT ACTS AGAINST NEWS GUILD Intervenes in Jennings) Case on the Side | of Publishers | WASHINGTON, Jan, 23.—Presi- dent Roosevelt today intervened | |openly on the side of the news- | | paper owners against the American | | Newspaper Guild, organization of | ag newspapermen, when he ruled that | Plans—to pay $50 a month, $1 MEETS OP AT HOUSE | WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 23.—Roosev« oup Revealed STARVATION PROGRAM POSITION HEARINGS Immediate Action Is Stressed in Fight Against Wagner-Lewis Denial of Social Insurance— Maneuvers Made to Gag All Hearings It’s work relief 2 a week to the 3,500,900 un- the Guild. Previously the National Labor Re- lations Board had ruled for Jen- the Newspaper Guild Committee, | om loyed under the administration’s work relief program controlled by the publishers, has | “™POve¢ Un h ninistration’s work relief progran sole jurisdiction in deciding the | met with stiff resistance in the House today from Represen- case of Dean Jennings, writer fired | ives w nnvatt? £ 4ha inhloes swt 5 by the Hearst-owned San Francisco | tatives who sensed the DBCS Y of the jobless who h Call-Bulletin for his membership in | been repeater jobs and genuin surance, only t broken. ~|can Newspaper Publishers’ Associa- | SACRAMENTO, Cal., Jan. 23.—| ment, we not only recognize, but see in the response to the Scotts- that under no circumstances will| poro and Herndon issues in Chicago as a whole and on the South side where Negroes are segregated into the most miserable slums in the city. The issues of Scottsboro and | Herndon, with all that they imply, meeting of shirt and collar workers, | will be closely linked up with our present campaign for the repeal of the state. criminal syndicalism law, based on our recent victory in the Hillsboro case, and with the fight against deportations which we are now carrying on, BIRO-BIJAN GETS NEW SCHOOL MOSCOW, Jan. 23. — The first Jewish Technical School for Mines and Metallurgy is in the process of construction in Biro-Bidjan. The first. course will commence on Sept. 1, 1935. ‘Wall Street’s Fascist Conspiracy’ Expose in Daily Worker Pe iarroi The Dickstein Committee deliberately suppressed evidence of Fascist activities in the United States! This charge is conclusively proved in “Wall | Street's Fascist Conspiracy,” the sensational expose which begins in the Daily Worker tomorrow, “Wall Street's Fascist Conspiracy” is the result of weeks of intensive investigation by Marguerite Young, Daily Worker Washington correspondent; John L. Spivak, author of “America Faces Pogroms,” and Sender Garlin, staff writer of the Daily Worker. The “Daily” series is being prepared by Marguerite Young. The Committee refused to call prominent indi- viduals named by Gen, Butler in his testimony before the committee. What is more, it sections of Butler testimony because it did not want to “embarrass” men prominent in financial life of America, mony. The Dickstein Committee repeatedly refused to turn over a complete transcript of the Butler testi- But this transcript—revealing the sup- to crush the rising struggles against wage cuts, unemployment, starva- | tion and the right of workers to organize The prosecution, introducing a | letter allegedly written by Ella Win- | ter to Caroline Decker, a defendant, dealing with thg collection of relief funds, implied that Cagney and other contributors to the strikers’ relief fund, were supporting “‘sedi- tious activities” against the govern- |ment. Police, who seized the letter \last summer during their raids on of the maritime strike, have accused Cagney and other stars of “helping to finance Communist activities.” Introduced as evidence today were jleaflets, bulletins, applications for membership in the Communist |Party, and membership cards, clear- jly indicating that the defendants are on trial for membership in the Communist Party, pressed portions—is now in possession of the Daily | Worker, and will appear as part of the first article | | tomorrow. workers’ headquarters at the time | 1,400 STRIKE nings against the newspaper which | fired him, and Donald Richberg'’s | adverse decision had been over- ridden. Roosevelt's decision once again upholds the position of the publish- ers against the newspaper workers. The special convention of Ameri- | Textile Workers Out— U. T. W. Heads Talk of Walkout tion, called to plan a nationwide | fight against the reinstatement or- : der, and the Guild, was immedi- are | ately called off by Howard Davis,|, HUNTSVILLE, Ala, Jan. 23 {chairman of the Publishers’ Code.| The Merrimac Mil here is com- President Roosevelt’s decision was) Pletely tied up as 1,400 workers jin the form of a letter to the Na- | came out on strike yesterday when \ tional Labor Relations Board, in- Jan, \n z its hiaiinie ee he) company hired non-union ‘orming its chairman, | i | Workers. The workers will con- | Biddle, that several codes, as in the Mie-Ane Wdin unless. the ‘oon: |case of the Daily Newspaper Code, |are out of its jurisdiction. The reversal of the reinstatement pany discharges non-union hands hired for the spinning department. order by the President further con-| Huntsville was the scene of the firms the correctness of the Ameri-| 0st intense strike struggles last can Newspaper Guild delegation in summer during the general strike. | walking out of the hearing in Wash- The workers are well organized. ington, when Richberg declared that SiRseypai ‘ \the case should be reconsidered, | CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Jan. 23 |Heywood Broun, chairman of the | —Three hundred employees of the F that the action of | Chickamauga Knitting Mills came jue Secaten Ae “the Out on strike yesterday. Pickets the President, showed that “the se ees ent newspaper publishers have cracked pray amen y ree n re | down on the President of the United the plant. Discrimination of union | States and that Franklin D. Roose- | YTKers is the chief issue, velt, has cracked up.” He stated further: “Under the advice of Elisha Hanson, the publishers have trot- ted out once again that old bogey, freedom of the press. They are arguing now that the right to or- ganize is an infringement of the freedom of the press. The pub- lishers announce that ‘a satisfac- tory adjustment’ has been reached. They mean satisfactory to the publishers. Neither the Guild nor any other interested group was consulted. The Presi- dent made no attempt to learn | from the Guild its bill of com- plaints against the stupidities and the inequities of the Newspaper | Industrial Board. We contend that the government of the United States has been held up by the threat and the bluff of the pub- lishers of the United States. That is tragic enough. It is even more so when we consider the fact that the President surrendered at the point of a wooden gun.” | WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 23— | Following a meeting of the emer- gency council of the United Textile | Workers, Thomas McMahon, and Francis Gorman, vice-president, jagain reiterated statements that a | general textile strike may be called this Spring. They stated however that such a strike will follow only if the Department of Justice does | |not prosecute textile manufacturers who defy the National Textile Labor Relations Board. They said that the national office of the union is flooded with complaints 2f whole- |sale violation of the Board deci- sions. | The emergency council further decided for an alliance with the | unions in the tobacco, oil, steel and |automobile industries for a drive to establish union recognition. |Uneeda incon Out On Line Despite Snow; The Dean Jennings case gives Vote to Stay Out |further evidence of William Ran- | | the organized ive agains! e . 5 Guild. The Call-Bulletin, which forced a test case for the publishers, | p04, rn i m ¥ "4 quarters in every borough of ‘a (a Fores which handle Nabisco Played a leading role in mobilizing products will be directed. Groups ny seee ie eee j of ten were formed out of all strik-| *\ers, each headed by a captain. - These will be units for picket duty YOUTH AID SCOTTSBORO lat the plant and neighborhoods. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 23.—Phila~| When William J. Galvin, presi- delphia pics Rat haat cee Jiaptied |dent of the Inside Bakery Workers | swung into the campaign for Federal Union, conducting the freedom of the Scottsboro boys with | strike, asked if the workers were a united front conference last Sun- | willing to return to work without day, at which delegates from white | the workers in Philadelphia, the, and Negro youth organizations drew | reply was a thunderous and unan- up a program of action. imous “no.” Casino, decided to form strike Whom did the Dickstein Committee want to shield? Can it explain why it suppressed this evidence? suppressed large the political and WANTED--100 RED BUILDERS. Beginning Tonight at 7 O’Clock One hundred workers, men or women, are needed at once. The Daily Worker, containing the sensational series, “Wall Street’s Fascist Conspiracy,” must be placed on sale at all principal corners, at all trade union headquarters, and in the factory areas No job could be more important! Besides you can earn real money. Comrades! Workers! once—today—at the New York District Office of the Daily Worker, Street, first floor. The Dickstein Committee knew of the offer made | to Gen. Butler to organize a fascist army of 50,000. Why did it ignore this until they were forced to | call him? Why was William Comly French, who first “broke” the Butler charges in the New York Post fired from that paper shortly thereafter? What is behind the anti-Communist provosais which the Dickstein Committee will make to Con- gress? | These and many other vital questions will be | answered in “Wall Street's Fascist Conspiracy.” Don’t miss the first article in this sensational series which begins in the Daily Worker tomorrow. | Place your order today at your corner newsstand. Report at 35 East 12th IN ALABAMA | way meeting Tuesday night at New Star A Ror that the en Ho 1 no si e the Roosevelt machine unlimited power to stifle all opposition to its forced labor £ program and al- locate the fund Chairman Conne of the House Committee on L in opposing the starvation wage, said that a wage “of decency and comfort” should be least $36 a week for skilled workers skilled. Conne and for ent un- how- the bonus through preference for all under the amendment further hibiting the u the establ Wages was r Adm Christian J ho was ap- pointed to study relief principles for Roosevelt Under any con Peoples said, the plan would not be under until at least 30 days had elapsed since its enactment. and the full program could not be under way until June 30 at least. Nevertheless, the Roosevelt ad- ministration has announced that the shift from the direct relief pay- ments will be le on Feb. 1 and the unemploya —sick, aged and blind—will be completely abandoned by the F.E.R.A. by the same date. The committees that are now try- ing to railroad through the Wagner-Lewis Bill are attempting to exclude from th are most vitally concerned with un= (Continued on Page 2) Witness May Place Condon Near to Crime By Allen Johnson FLEMINGTON, N. J., Jan. 23-— rise witness that Reilly, Hauptmann’s chief defense attor- ney, is expected to put on the stand sometime during the next few days will testify that Dr, (Jafsie) Condon, Lindbergh's agent, was seen in and around the Linde bergh home in Hopewell an hour before the kidnaping took place, it is reported on good authority here. Hauptmann will probably take the stand in his own defense tomorrow under circumstances which indicate that his attorneys will be able to tear most of the State’s circume stantial evidence to bits. Basis of State’s Case The State's case against the Nazt defendant, which Attorney General Wilentz is expected to wind up to- day, rests on the following testi« mony: 1. The opinion of the hand« writing experts that all the ransom notes, including the one left in the Lindbergh baby’s crib, were written by Hauptmann; 2. The statements by Condon that the “John” he gave the $50,000 ransom money to was Hauptmann and by Lindbergh that the voice of the man who received the money was Hauptmann’s; 3. The establishment by the State that the body of the baby found buried in the shallow grave neer the Linde bergh home was actually the body | of the Lindbergh baby; 4. The idene tification of Hauptmann at the scene of the kidnaping by several witnesses; 5. The possession of $14,500 of the ransom money by Hauptmann at the time of his are rest; 6. The identification of Haupt= mann by a Loew theater cashier as (Continued on Page 2)