The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 25, 1935, Page 1

f— ——————————————________ __________~ _ } SCOTTSBORO-HERNDON DEFENSE FUND Only $51.65 received yesterday by In- ternational Labor Defense. $9,109.60 more needed immediately for the appeals. . ~ Daily .Q Worker | CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) NATIONAL EDITION Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1878 WALL STREET FASCIST PLOT BARED Vol. XI, . 22 << 6 NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1935 (Eight Pages) Price 3 Cents Relief Dictators -F.D.R. MEASURE CLOAKS WELFARE PAY SLASH ON WORKS PROJECTS ‘Hitlerism’ Cry Is Raised | Amter Urges Continued As Machine Rides Over | Fight Against Latest Hunger Decrees All Opposition | hip Meets Opposition in Gagged Congress DICKSTEIN-W?CORMACK COMMITTEE HIDES VITAL CONSPIRACY PROOF: COVERS UP PROMINENT FIGURES Anti-Hearst Rally To Be Held Tonight At St. Nicholas Hall Pointing to the fact that Hearst’s anti-Soviet campaign is already taking effect in Congress with two resolutions demanding the withdrawal of recognition recently introduced, the Friends of the Soviet Union issued a call today for an overflow attendance at the symposium called to an- swer Hearst's anti-Soviet lies. | The meeting, to be held to- night at 8 p.m. sharp, at the St. Nicholas Palace, 66th Street and Columbus Avenue, will pre- sent a brilliant array of speakers JAPAN BOMBS CHINESE CITY: MANY KILLED Three Towns Seized as Army Advances in | New Invasion China, Daily Worker Reveals Direct Link Between Congressional Committee and Reine Close Associates of Morgan and Company -~ Publishes Testimony |Planes assisting Japanese Jan. 24—Air- troops, | |said to number over 4,000, pushing a . , ° : BULLETIN | tarasi Amtor, National Secretary|| that" weumies “ites "heme |{Smit £2 tuber over 4.00, pushing | of Gen. Smedley D. Butler Suppressed by the Committee WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 24, | 0f the Unemployment Councils, yes- || Strong, editor of the Moscow |/pombs on Tushikou, inside the | a ene EAE SAAS ee Representative Matthew A. | terday branded the Roosevelt re- | Daily News, Heywood Broun, || Great Wall today, official reports | noted columnist, Harry F. Ward ee | Exclusive Interview With General Smedley Butler in Tomorrow's Fascist Expose; Dont Miss These Startling Revelations Dunn of Pennsylvania, chairman of the House sub-committee on Unemployment Insurance, yester- day announced his endorsement and support of the Workers Un- employment, Old Age and Social Insurance Bill, H, R. 2827, WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 24— While cries of “Hitlerism” and “dic- tatorship” resounded through the House of Representatives, the Roosevelt political machine today capitalized on congressional opposi- tion by further restricting the $4,- 880,000,000 relief bill by striking out a long list of types of projects on which funds could be expended. The amendment permits Roose- | velt to utilize the huge relief fund for “Federal or non-Federal projects,” thus releasing any of the funds for war preparations. The blanket control which the bill confers on the president is an ‘“un- touchable” section, and amendments may be offered only to other sec- relief bill, which Roosevelt has demanded be passed “without strings attached,” limits average relief wages to $50 a month, provides jobs for only one out of every five unemployed even if carried out in its entirety, and carries a provision for a $5,000 fine and a two-year prison term for all violators of the presidential relief decrees. A con- gressional amendment struck out the jail term provision. The House rejected a motion made yesterday by Representative Con- (Continued on Page 8) Rakosi Flays Foes At Trial In Budapest (Special to the Daily Worker) BUDAPEST, Jan. 24 (By Wire- Jess)—“I’m sorry we didn’t shoot) Bela Kun!” shouted Count Berin- key, when Matthias Rakosi, now on trial for his life here, brought up the great Communist leader’s name in a powerful survey of proof and incitement revealing that the treacherous Hungarian bourgeoisie in 1919 had invited the English im- perialists and the Rumanian army to crush the proletarian dictator- ship of Soviet Hungary. The efforts of the fascist Goem- bos regime to try Rakosi by speedy lynch methods met with unusual embarrassment on the fourth day of the heroic anti-fascist fighter’s fight for his life. With great un- easiness the Horthy administration learned that following a huge dem- onstration in Prague, the Czecho- slovakian workers had sent a dele- gation of six, four workers and two intellectuals, to Budapest to de- mand Rakosi’s freedom; that in every capital in the world militant workers were sparing no efforts to convince the various Hungarian consulates that they would never let Rakosi be murdered by a fascist court. Fears Kun’s Name The chief justice ordered Rakosi not to mention Bela Kun’s name and called the next witness, Reve, secretary of the Social-Democratic | Party of Hungary, whose leaders had so completely sold out the workers’ and peasants’ government, On Rakosi’s questioning him con- cerning the betrayal of the Hunga- (Continucd om Pas? 3) “THE RULING CLAWSS” The Daily Worker presents to- day for the first time a new daily feature, “The Ruling Clawss,” by Redfield, the cartoonist, who will aim his vinegary blasts at the kind of people the title of his feature describes. See the first on page six of this issue, lief program as one designed to re- | of the Theological Seminary of | duce still further the present relief | standards, drive down the wages of | the employed and set up a@ vast re- | lief bureaucracy to tighten the dic- | tatorial hold of the monopolies and | Columbia University, Victor Yak- hontoff, noted authority on Far Eastern affairs, and James W. Wise, editor of “Opinion.” All workers, sympathizers, in- ‘baat | Jehol-Chahar border, the Japanese After seizing three cities on the troops entrenched themselves, pre- paring to advance further westward to Dolon Nor. The number of dead is reported as 50 Chinese and 19 | industrialists, through their hired servants in the government, on re- | Hef. | most. vicious sort, and by the ap- | plication of Hitlerite methods, the United States Congress has sub- mitted to the autocratic rule of the Wall Street bankers through Presi- | dent Roosevelt. Roosevelt demands | unlimited control of the four bil- | lion dollar ‘social security’ fund, jso as to build up undisputed con- trol, as he hopes, for Wall Street,” Amter’s statement said. “Roosevelt has made it known that the average wages on the pur- lic works will be $50 a month, vary- ing according to locality. the Wall Street government ordains for 3,500,000 unemployed workers! “The National Council warns the workers that no time dare be lost. Tonight Roose- velt’s proposals will be law! To- night, the autocrat in ‘the White House will crack the whip of hun- ger over the backs of the masses as never before. Roosevelt and Wall Street may be powerful—but nothing is more powerful than the united power of the working class. We take up the challenge—the fight is ont” | “We will let nothing stop us from uniting our ranks in the fight for the Workers Bill H.R, 2827.” 25,000 in GeneralStrike Tie Up State in Mexico TAMPICO, Mexico, Jan. 24.—All industry and transportation have been effectively tied up by the gen- eral strike of 25,000 workers in the State of Tamaulipas, who walked out in sympathy with the striking oil workers yesterday morning. More than 64 unions joined in the action to force the Wall Street and British oil companies to grant the demands \of higher wages for the oil men. Troops and police are patrolling the streets. Railways, buses, tram- ways and taxicabs stopped when all of the workers joined the strike. The general strike committee is making provision for supplying the |needs of hospitals, and are issuing special licenses for automobiles in case of emergencies for doctors. The Mexican department of con- ciliation and arbitration is taking a hand in the strike in order to try to force a speedy termination. It is said in Tampico that the strike will last only 48 hours, but no time has yet been set by the general strike committee, which is formed of representatives of the 64 unions involved. “With the use of gag rule of the | ‘This is | the hunger standard of living that | Unemployment | tellectuals, are urged to attend in a united front against the yellow press of Hearst, Admis- sion will be 25 cents, AUTO MEN SET FOR PARLEY /Rank and File of Fed- ‘eral Auto Local to Meet in Detroit Tomorrow By A. B. Magil (Special to the Daily Worker) Saturday's conference of the rank {and file movement in the American locals approaches, announcement |is made of a movement for giving |national scope to the new Roose- velt-created “collective bargaining” ‘agencies in the automobile indus- try, which are disguised company | unions. | The rank and file conference will open Saturday at nine a. m. in Danish Brotherhood Temple, 1775 West Forest Avenue, Elmer H. Gustavson, chairman of the “collective bargaining” agency of the Cadillac Motor Car Com- |pany (a General Motors subsidi- ary), has announced that letters are being sent to twenty-five plants to sound them out on the setting up of a national organization. Gus- tavson, in addition to being chair- }man of the collective bargaining group, is also secretary of the offi- cial company union, the Cadillac Employees Association. “We have received communica- tions from a considerable number of employees’ associations,” Gus- tavson said, “pertaining to the adoption of a Grand Council of Associations, or rather a Federation of Automobile Industrial Employees, whereby we may bargain collec- tively for mutual benefit.” At the first regular meeting of the Cadillac group a resolution was passed calling for co-operation with the management in the matter of wages and bonus rates. The launching of the national or- ganization of the camouflaged com- pany unions, which are being set up in accordance with Roosevelt's automobile settlement of last March 25, is designed to offset the growing movement for a general strike in the automobile industry. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Jan, 24. —Announcement by the Richard Hosiery Mills that it will attempt to open its Arrowhead plant, one of the four closed by strikers, was countered by a mass picket line yes- terday morning, While the mill was closed “for repairs” during the pres- ence of National Guardsmen who tried to break the strike at the main plant in Rossville, Ga. the “re- opening” is to be under a wage cut ranging as high as fifteen per cent. The strike of almost 2,000 workers at the company’s Daisy, Soddy, Rossville and Arrowhead plants continues. The Chickamauga Knitting mills at East Lake, and the Richmond Spinning Mill both remain com- pletely closed by a strike, HUNTVILLE, Ala., Jan. 24. — A conference yesterday between rep- resentatives of the 1,400 cotton Strikers Tighten Picket Lines To Prevent Reopening of Mill ;strikers of the Merrimack Cotton Mills and company representatives brought no agreement. Following strikebreaking methods of other textile companies, the Merrimack management declares that the plant wlil remain “indefinitely closed until there is a better market for textile products.” SOUTHBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 24. —At a meeting of less than 100 of the more than 600 strikers of the Hamilton Woolen Mill here, a de- cision Was made to accept the offer ‘of the Hamilton Company to re- open the mill. The strikers had previously voted almost unani- mously against returning, consider- ing the company’s announcement of plans to liquidate as a bluff). This time the orders from the National office of the United Textile Work- ers were to return, on the com- pany’s terms. DETROIT, Mich., Jan. 24. — As | | Federation of: Labor federal auto | Japanese, not counting the civilian Population killed in the fighting. Considerable uneasiness is felt in | Peiping and the surrounding areas, | as the present drive of the Japanese | militarists is considered only the initial move to a larger offensive | westward and southward. | The Chinese newspapers through- ‘out the country charge that the Japanese are deliberately inventing | new pretexts, such as the existence | | of “irregular troops” under the | | leadership of General Sung Chen- ‘Yuan as an excuse for seizing | greater slices of Chinese territory, | particularly in Chahar and Mon- | golia. The Japanese military move- ments follow hard upon “peaceful” | expressions and intentions in China recently uttered by Premier Kesuke | Okada and Foreign Minister Koki Hirota. | The revolutionary press in China | points out that the Japanese drive |into Chahar was prepared with the | assistance of the policies of Chiang | Kai Shek, who not only withdrew | Kuomintang troops from the path of the Japanese, but sent them to |fight the Red Army of China. | Chiang Kai Shek has been negotiat- |ing secretly with the Japanese min- ister in China, and through the | |Peiping Council of the Kuomintang, | with the Japanese militarists in the North of China, doing everything possible to make easier their inva- sion of North China. “i Strike Chart Is Exhibited At Trial of 18 By Michael Quinn | (Special to the Daily Worker) | SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan. 24.—| Sacramento workers and out of town liberals are daily crowding the Superior court here where eighteen | workers are on trial for their strike activities on cnarges of violating the California criminal syndicalist law. Copies of the Daily Worker | and the Western Worker, which the | prosecution is trying to prove| “illegal” are eagerly bought up as they arrive. A blue print chart of California | Strikes during 1932 and 1933 was introduced by the prosecution today | to prove seditious interference with | industry and agriculture, | A chart on the general structure | of the Communist Party, published |in the Party Organizer, May, 1921, | was also introduced as evidence, | including accompanying statements on safeguarding the Party and its | leadership. Leo Gallagher, Inter- | national Labor Defense attorney, | carrying the attack to the prose- | cution, demanded that a large reproduction of the chart be put} before the jury tomorrow. The defense subjected Officer Russ, who identified 139 exhibits | of literature, documents, etc., as seized in the raids on the Workers | Book Shop, to a grilling cross-ex- | amination during which it was) clearly brought out that Russ does not know what was taken in the raids. A request by Gallagher for permission to examine other articles alleged to have been seized in the raids but not entered in evidence was denied by Judge Dal M. Lem- mon, presiding at the trial. Gallagher, questioning special prosecutor Neil McAllister, blasted as a forgery the letter use by Mc- Allister, defeated candidate for dis- trict attorney in the recent elections, to “prove” that Upton Sinclair, former Socialist who won the democratic nomination for gover- nor of California, was a Communist. By MARGUE! RITE YOUNG Wall Street chiefs and their politicians are conspiring to clamp a fascist dictatorship on the American people. The Dickstein-MacCormack Committee on Un-American Activities, supposedly set up to investi- gate just such developments, has systematically s uppressed evidence which is spectacularly relevant —facts and names which will arouse the population against the hidden authors of this plot. It is sitting on this testimony in fear of top- flight financiers and politicians who control the Committee and figure prominently in fascist activities. It is deliberately whitewashing fascist acts in which these gentry are involved. J. P. Morgan and Company’s close business a ssociate, Felix Warburg, of Kuhn-Loeb and Com- pany, has a direct link with the Dickstein-MacCormack Committee. It was through this connec- tion that the Committee was guided in censoring its report on the efforts of Gerald C. McGuire, a i} MR. STEELE HAS A NIGHTMARE se Gngate | NATIONAL REPUBLIC _ WASHINGTON DE | Attention hiet of Police W tear Chiete iste since 1930 op or large suns of Was your deyartsent mde any arraste of +o: hone persons you bare found checks. money orte: eoney? We are very anriour to obtain the maces of any euch communiate who way appear to have bees “pay-off” agent the communint wovecents in the Orited States. This evidence ‘s to beltted to Federal ‘th the hope thet they may be able to trace the origin of are flooding the country for such revolutionary purposes fn 1932 & commu.tat agent was arrested {n Wilning*on, Dols, agent ante. in whoa pos 20 or more Post Money Order receipt stubs mg that substantial aounts were Seing disburse? through him in the South. These are the types of cases | ‘Anxious to obtain detalles about at once if you have bad any such fore your departaent. Pleawe give us thee, their report + and date of arre harge age what fore, eter, Yours very sincerely Investigsting Division | PL | Mationel Republic Photostatic copy of form letter sent by Walter Steele of open shop “National Republic” to all chiefs of police urging them to seize funds in possession of arrested Communist organizers. Worker and Policeman War Clique Expects Die in General Strike} To Get One Billion In Porta Rican Mills Out of ‘Work Relief’ PONCE, Porto Rico, Jan. 24—One | WASHINGTON, Jan. 24. — The| worker and one policeman were | secret of Roosevelt’s insistence on| - killed in the general strike of sugar/a four billion dollar “work relief” workers and stevedores yesterday, as fund that will have no strings at- | the workers held their ranks firmly, | tached to it emerged today when demanding higher wages. | Army and Navy officials expressed Governor Blanton Winship of, the expectation that they would get | Porto Rico, appointed by President | more than one billion of these funds Roosevelt, is working furiously to| for war building purposes. break the strike, threatening that! In this way, Roosevelt has already if negotiations are not successful spent close to a billion dollars of the national guard will be called out “public works” money for war prepa- against the strikers. ‘rations. Writers @ Aid Ohrbach Strike In Demonstration Tomorrow Writers who Investigated the Edward Dahlberg, Nathan Asch strike of Ohrbach department store | James T. Farrell, ane Gregory Leane Zugsmith, ‘ace Lumpkin, employees and found that the strike Eawatd Newiotte Joaius Micits. was justified will back up their! Oakley Johnson and Slater Brown, opinion by action on Saturday af-| after Postponements dragging ternoon when many members of the over more than a month, twenty- writers’ committee wili lead a mass| nine Ohrbach pickets have been picketing demonstration, given suspended sentences while Among those who have already | three were dismissed. Seventeen to announced their intention of par-/ be tried at Special Sessions court for ticipating in the picketing demon-_| violation of the injunction had their stration in defiance of an injunc-| cases postponed to Feb. 8 yesterda! tion issued to the store owners are | morning. | | he asked Butler to make a speech on the money question. flashy bond salésman for Colonel Grayson Mallet- Provost Murphy, to persuade General Smedley D. Butler to Jead a fascist army for them. Murphy, head of the big brokerage firm bearing his name, and an original bie con- tributor to the formation of the American Legion in the strike-breaking tradition, is a director of a Morgan bank and one of the leading Morgan insiders in the financial district, Contact With White House Testimony suppressed by the Dickstein-MacCormack Committee shows that MacGuire established contact with the White House, through a former National Commander of the American Legion, at a time when MacGuire had approached Butler, but had not yet broached the private army business, The connection with the White House was made for an okay on distinguished guests to be invited to an American Legion convention. The go-hetween, Louis Johnson, was on a “sound money” committee” which MacGuire told Butler he organized, So was Frank N. Belgrano, present National Commander of the Ameri- can Legion. Belgrano is al: banker linked with William Randolph Hearst and Amadeo Gianniri, Italian-American banker apologist for Mussolini. Belgrano was scheculed to testify before the Dickstein- McCormack Committee, but never appeared — although he was in | Washington the night before this, and had a private conference with President Roosevelt. The suppressed testimony discloses that the Congressional Commit- tee never questioned MacGuire about a statement that,)e or Robert Sterling Clark, Singer Sewing Machine heir, gave General Butler to understand that John W. Davis, chief lawyer of the House of Morgan, wrote a speech which Butler was asked to deliver at a Legion conven- tion. The suppressed testimony includes the following statement, which Butler recalled MacGuire made to the Marine General: Suppressed Testimony Revealed “He (MacGuire) said, “You know, the President is weak. He will come right along with us. He was born in this class. He was raised in this class, and he will come back. He will run true to form. In the end he will come around. But we have got to be prepared to sustain him when he does.” To summarize what is known about this fascist army plot, General Butler testified that MacGuire came to him in the summer of 1933 with overtures—MacGuire and his employer, Murphy, wanted the retired “Bluejacket” general to lead soldiers to a Legion convention, Later Finally it developed that he wanted to have Butler participate in a fascist coup, in which a “man on a white horse” would set up an outright dictator- ship for the bankers and industrialists. MacGuire called “this class +. us.” Other evidence now officially printed by the Congressional investigators proved that MacGuire during the period under discussion did handle vast sums of money, as much as $100,000 in one transaction, although he normally dealt in small sums. It proved that MacGuire did travel around the country during the time concerned, that he re- peatedly contradicted himself and never did account for about $65,000 which he disposed of ai a time when, he admitted, he wasn’t selling bonds, .slso, that MacGuire traveled all over Europe studying “veter= ans’” movements in relation tc the reigning fascisms. General Butler told me, as I will show tomorrow, that at only one point did MacGuire produce a record in an effort to controvert the General's testimony, Subsequently, Butler said, one of his friends declared he was ready to present evidence to show that MacGuire lied. Fascist Forces Gather In this series I shall show that this Wall Street effort to have Gen- eral Butler lead a fasciss army, backed by $3,000,000 to start and $300,000,000 if needed, is but one spectacular product of the gathering forces of American Fascism. These forces, which will be shown in ace tion, include revresentatives and associates of the Rockefellers, Mor= gans, Hearsts and Warburgs. These articles will demonstrate that leading American business men are backing—as Thyssen and Krupp financed Hitler's storm troops for years before putting the Nazis in power—important Fascist and poten= tial-Fascist organizations, such as the American Liberty League, the Crusaders, the Committee for the Nation, and Father Charles E, Coughlin’s Union for Social Justice., I shall show economic links be= tween backers of these groups and those directly implicated in the Fascist-coup plot. That the activities of all these individuals in certain so-called patriotic, farmers’, veterans’ and monetary-reform groups (Continued on Page 2) i