The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 30, 1935, Page 1

Press, Movies, Radio Promote Fascism Here W. R. Hearst Had Pre-View of Fascist Film With Raskoh, duPont and Ambassadors of Hitler, Mussolini As His Guests ee By MARGUERITE YOUNG The big metropolitan newspapers, the radio chains, and the movie studios are busily preparing the way for Fascist dictatorship in the United States. Backers of “The President Vanishes,” one of the most subtle pieces of Fascist demagogy ever put into celluloid, asked Major-Gen. Smedley D. Butler to sponsor it. They gave him a special pre-view of the film. He was steered off it by a friend. Before the release of the movie, William Ran- dolph Hearst, who later berated it, showed it to a group in- cluding Italian Fascist Minister of Labor Rossoni, German Nazi Ambassador Hans Luther, and three magnate founders of the American Liberty League, E. F. Hutton, John J. Raskob and Irenee duPont. | “Crusaders” on Air Gratis | - 5 | The Columbia Broadcasting System is allowing The Crusaders, semi-Fascist organization backed by a J. P.) Morgan lawyer and an important Roosevelt government of- | ficial, exactly fifty nationwide¢—— — broadcasting periods free of charge. | They call it “a matter of courtesy.” | A speech by the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, rivaled only by Huey |» Long for first place among Fascist demagogues in the United States, appeared on Page One of every Hearst newspaper in the country on the morning after it was uttered. Anyone who has watched the op- | eration of a newspaper knows that. this was more than a happen-so; such a “play” is given, especially in the Hearst chain, only on orders from Hearst's baronial seat at San Simeon, California. The object of all this is to slide the American people into the frame | of public mind which the big bank- ers must secure to put over their | Fascist offensive. Scattered all | over the country, hundreds of news- | papers, radio stations and movie houses are co-operating to this end. | They are striving to blind the work- ing people to the Fascist threat in the preliminary steps which are now being taken by the Roosevelt gov- | ernment; the systematic lowering of | the living standard of labor, ae further trustification of industry, | the armed suppression of workers who exercise the hard-won right to strike. They are striving to make the working class embrace the “Don’t hit back” idea of ‘‘co-operat- ing” with its master, capital. They | hope to make at least a large part of the people accept the thought of war, of company-unionism, of the “corporate” state of full Fascism. Basically, the same handful who plotted to have Butler lead a Fas- cist Army control all these powerful oropaganda mediums. Specifically, the great food industries, such as Aids Fascism | WORKERS WANTED The sensational story of Wall Street’s fascist plot has boosted the “Daily’s” sale throughout the city. Newsstands in Brooklyn, Manhattan and the Bronx | united front agreement between the | | State-wide relief workers’ \for union wages and conditions on | front also calls for a united defense | for Unemployment Insurance. ..A | Vol. XII, 26 <> NEW JERSEY UNITED FRONT PACT IS MADE Unity of Soviet Masses Vividly Demonstrated At All-Union Congress Daily .Q Worker . CEHTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERWATIONAL ) NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1935 ‘Socialism Speeds On,’ Joint Struggle Pledges Fight for H.R. 2827 and Relief Strike italist Countries and in port Before Delegates | Contrast Between Condition of Workers in Capi- U.S.S.R. Pointed in Re- of 90,000,000 Voters NEWARK, N. ‘J,, Jan. 29-<A Essex County Socialist Party and | Section Six of the Communist Party | was concluded here Sunday at a meeting of representatives of the two parties. The united front calls for a joint | struggle for the enactment of the Workers’ Unemployment, Old Age and Social Insurance Bill, H. R. 2827, for complete support of the strike, (Special to the MOSCOW, Jan. 29 (By of building socialism. As Premier Viacheslav M. Molotov made his report on the inner and international situation of the Soviet Union, the response of the 1,970 delegates from every corner of the Union, which covers one-sixth of the world’s surface, revealed that this unity of the Soviet masses is greater and more enthusiastic than at any previous Congress. The report of Molotov vividly de- the relief jobs, and against the proposed 3 per cent sales tax of Governor Hoffman. The united struggle for Jack Rose, of the New Jersey State Federation of Unem- ployed and Relief Workers, who was | arrested in a relief workers’ strike. of the Socialist Party voted to give |the capitalist countries, contrasting complete support to the Workers’ | it with the huge advances on all Bill and the State-wide relief strike fronts in the workers’ fatherland, which has swept through Essex where crises and unemployment County. | have been abolished forever. Speaking of the greatly sharpened Mass Meeting Thursday danger of war on the Soviet Union The Workmen's Circle here has by capitalist countries seeking by donated the use of the Lyceum, 190 that means to find a way out of Belmont Avenue, Thursday night at their crisis, he declared that the 8 o'clock, for a mass meeting to hear reports on the National Congress (Continued on Page 2) pect ee In the past, the State convention | scribed the ravages of the crisis in| By Vern Smith Daily Worker) | Wireless).—The elected dele- gates of 90,000,000 Soviet voters, assembled today in the! Seventh All-Union Congress of Soviets of the Union of So- cialist Soviet Republics, dramatically demonstrated the unity | of the Soviet masses behind their leaders in the gigantic task Reports to Soviets representative of the Socialist Party will speak from the same platform as Communists and non-party workers on the fight for the Work- ers’ Bill H, R. 2827. The list of speakers, in addition to the Socialist Party member, in- AlDS NEGROES clude Louis Rosencahl, delegate have reported sellouts. Unemployed workers ! Earn money selling the || Daily Worker! Apply at | the City Office, 35 E. 12th |) Street (store), and get as- signed to a busy corner— leading financial | for either night or morn- || ing work. (Continued on Page 2) | Standard Brands, and other leading national advertisers, are J. P. Mor- gan industries. The publishers themselves, both big and little, are directly linked through banking connections and through their in- vestments in non-publishing indus- tries to the vast empires of the Morgans, Rockefellers, Hearsts and Astors. Two of the Grow Strong With the ‘Daily’! A Hundred Thousand Readers By July First of This Year! . landlords’ state power and estab- lished their own rule which made | it possible for them to advance to high standards of living and cul- 'HE Daily Worker is your weapon against the boss. The Daily Worker arms you for struggle against the capitalist system and for a new free Tife. The boss press feeds you poison. {t gives you the bosses’ point of view. It conceals from you the truth about the workers’ life. It tells you Hes about the goodness and greatness and liberality of the bosses’ government, It slanders the only country where the workers are free and have built a new, wonder- ful life, the Soviet Union. It hides from you the danger of war that the bosses are now preparing as their way out of the crisis. The Daily Worker shows you how you can improve your situation to- day. | It shows you how the workers and farmers can force the bosses to bear @ part of the crisis, It shows you the revolutionary way out of the crisis. It teaches the workers and farmers how to organize and to defend their vital interests at all times. It points to the example of the Soviet Union where the workers smashed the bosses’ and Casey Will WriteStory Of Hearst James Casey, managing editor of the Daily Worker, who has been ill for several days, is now rapidly re- covering. He will return to the “Daily” office to reassume his duties early next week. Upon the completion of the sen- sational expose of the Fascist con- spiracy, the Daily Worker will pub- lish a series of articles by Casey giving the “inside story of William Randolph Hearst.” Casey’s articles will expose Hearst as a liar, a grafter, a blackmailer, an accepter of bribes and will tell in detail why the chief propa- gandist of the fascist forces in America works hand in hand with Hitlew ture. The Daily Worker helps you |in your strikes showing how to| ;make them strong, united and successful. Strength and Hope In the Daily Worker is strength | for the working class. In the Daily | Worker is hope for the exploited | farmers. | The more the Daily Worker is | spread among the workers, the greater is the power of the working class, the greater are its chances to triumph victorious over the bosses, the nearer is the final triumph of | all the exploited in this country through the establishment of the | American Soviet. It is for this reason that the Cen- tral Committee of the Communist Party is devoting its major atten- | tion to increasing the circulation of the Daily Worker among ever larger numbers of the working population. A special committee has been set up, including the General Secretary of the Communist Party, Comrade Earl Browder, and the Secretary of the largest district of the Party, District of New York, Comrade Charles Krumbein, and George Wishnack, business manager of the paper, The Central Committee | says; The number of readers of the Daily Worker must reach 100,000 within the coming few months, This can be achieved. The work- ers are opening their eyes to the Roosevelt trickeries. They are be- ginning to see through the fog of the N. R. A. They are awakening to new fights. Strikes are brewing everywhere. These strikes will be the more successful the more strikers are fortified by reading the Daily Worker. Ayy efforts of every class-con- scious worker, Communist or non- Communist, must now be directed towards gaining new readers for the Daily Worker. Forward to a new concerted drive to spread the Daily Worker! from the A. F. of L. Painters Dis- | trict Council 10 to the National Congress for Unemployment Insur- ance, Jack Rose, State organizer of | the New Jersey State Federation of | Unemployed and Relief Workers, and Israel Amter, National Secre- | tary of the Unemployment Councils. Militant Fight of Sugar, Detroit Labor Lawyer, Frees Jobless Two By A. B. Magil (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., Jan. 29. — Charles Lee and Monroe Brown, Negro workers, who on Jan. 8 were sentenced to ninety days each be- S cause they had “no job, no home and no visible means of support.” today are free, thanks to the mili- tant defense put up for them by Pledge of Cut In Water Rate Forced on City NEW YORK.—The fight of the against them was quashed in their small home owners of New York for second trial this morning, and the the reduction of water rates has defendants dismissed. met with partial success, it was re-| The two Negro workers were vealed yesterday in a report of | picked up on the night of Jan. 7 in | Maurice J. Davidson, Commissioner | accordance with the usual policy of of Water Supply, Gas and Electri- the Detroit Police Department of city, to Mayor LaGuardia. The report, transmitted to the | portunity. The next morning they Board of Aldermen yesterday, had were rushed through a_ so-called been on the Mayor's desk since | trial before the viciously anti-labor Jan. 10. |Judge John V. Brennan, without . A reduction of 30 per cent in the being allowed a defense attorney, bills of 301,500 unmetered, one and | With no evidence against them, and two-family houses was proposed. A | Sentenced to ninety days each in 16-2/3 per cent reduction in 140,000 | the House of Correction. _ metered houses was promised. In|_ Sugar, who is now candidate for the bills of 127,000 multi-family | Judge of Recorder's Court, the very houses without elevators, the reduc- Office which Brennan holds, on tion will be 8 per cent. | learning of this outrage, offered his 4, Services to the two men without The total slash in revenues will charge and secured a new trial. He amount to $5,900,000, the Commis- | woe ak {Tab paar by the International |Maurice Sugar, noted labor attor- | “vagrancy” | |persecuting Negroes at every op- > Vv. M. MOLOTOV STRIKE WAVE GROWS ANEW ae | Workers Prepare Wide | Struggle Against Attacks of N.R.A. By Carl Reeve Increasing thousands of workers in the American Federation of La- bor have gone on strike against the anti-union drive of the employers _and the Roosevelt government. Still more workers, in the basic indus- | tries, are preparing strike struggles for the immediate future, in answer to lowering of their living standards and attacks on their unions. Trade journals admit the probability of broad strike struggles this spring. The twenty-four hour protest strike of the 22,000 New York team- | sters backed by the longshoremen, | signalized this ferment of the work- ers. Four thousand glass workers | struck in the Pittsburgh area a few Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, M. ¥., under the Aet of March 8, 1878 (Six Pages) NATIONAL EDITION Price 3 Cents ! Smash the Injunction An Editorial HE splendid twenty-four hour strike of more than twenty thousand New York teamsters won the first round in the fight agains Judge Humphrey's union smashing injunction. The Injunction Judge was forced to defer action on the signing of the injunction. The tremendous power of the strike showed that the and the longshoremen supporting them took the right road The strike would have continued and spread to the whole water- front if the injunction had been signed. The teamsters should be on their guard against the maneuvers of the court to put over the injunction following its postponement. The national officials of the two A. F. of L. unions involved played a miserable and cowardly role. Joseph Ryan, president of the Inter- national Longshoremen’s Association, and Michael J. Cashal, vice-presi- dent of the Brotherhood of Teamsters, publicly declared the strike “unauthorized” and “illegal.” They favored appeals to the bosses courts. They raised the red scare to split the workers’ ranks. A committee of twenty-five of the teamsters led the strike Now that the hand of the injunction judge has been temporarily stayed, the teamsters and longshoremen must be on their guard. The injunction is not yet smashed. The anti-labor drive of the employers continues and will continue. The employers, remembering the San Francisco general strike, are determined to prevent the teamsters and longshore unions from working together in solidarity. use the injunction to force teamsters and longshoremen to work with scabs. They are continuing their policy of firing, of breaking union agreements, of cutting wages, of trying to smash the unions on the waterfront. Every worker on the waterfront can see from the results of the twenty-four hour protest strike, that is, a strike against the boss gov- ernment’s court action, that the way to defeat the drive of the employ- ers is through keeping the ranks solid and immediately preparing for further strike action against the injunction. The waterfront workers must prepare to strike at once as soon as Humphreys dares to put the injunction into effect. Ryan and Cashal have shown they are not acting in the interests of the workers. The strike preparations must be carried forward by the rank and file. All local unions of the teamsters and longshoremen should meet at once to make further preparations for the fight against the injunction. The locals of these unions, the docks and garages, should at once elect delegates to a city-wide conference to set up real rank and file leadership of the fight against the injunction and” to“mathtain the union agreements. Every dock and garage should elect Action Com- mittees to lead the fight. Locals and individuals should at once demand of Ryan, who is president of the New York Central Trades and Labor Council, that he call an emergency meeting of the Council to mobilize all New York labor to fight the injunction. Every local of the A. F. of L., every workers’ organization, should act against the anti-labor injunction. TEAMSTERS AND LONGSHOREMEN! On Guard! Follow up the great strike by completely smashing the injunction and maintain- ing union conditions. Organize real rank and file leadership by the elected committees of the workers. Kin 3 ar Rakosi. Pr 0 he s re Ask World Aid To Free Him Speeding their appeal, “Help us free Matthias Rakosi!” by wireless from the Soviet Union, Zoltan and Franz Rakosi, brothers of the great Communist leader now heroically defending the entire anti-fascist movement in Hungary before a fas- cist lynch court, asked American teamsters Mohawk Was Undermanned | passat At least two members of the Marine Workers Industrial Union, and pos- |when the liner Mohawk, under |charter by the Ward Line, sank | last Thursday with a loss of forty- | five lives. | The names of the two Union sibly three or four, were drowned | days ago. Twenty thousand cotton workers, liberals and professionals garment workers in four eastern |t© exert all their efforts in the states have turned a lockout into:a | World-wide campaign to have his | strike, 1,500 hosiery workers are | life. | striking near Chattanooga, Tenn.| The cable, dated from Moscow, Scattered strikes of textile workers | Teads as follows: are now taking place. Six thou-| “The course of the trial against sand National Biscuit Co., workers |our brother points to the intention | are striking. of the Hungarian Special Court to Auto Men Plan Strike condemn him, contrary to all prin- A conference of nineteen A. F, CiPles of law. After making im- of L. locals in Detroit voted Satur- |Possible his preparation for the i trial, they refused to allow our | day for preparation to strike. On : |Feb. 3, at a national conference |Sister, Yoalina, to attend, and or- |dered our sister, Hajnal, out of the called by lodges of the Amalgam- y és | ated Association of Iron, Steel and |COUrt Toom. They did not allow | one passenger died of a heart at- The communication did not state when these reductions would be- come effective. This move is seen as a concession to the growing in- dignation among the small home owners at the fact that water rates have remained at an exorbitant | level, despite the pre-election pledge |Engineers, the Trade Union Unity of LaGuardia elected. to lower rates if | Tin Workers, in which aluminum | Ported by practically the entire De- | and mining locals will also take | troit labor movement, including the | part, the question of preparation Detroit and Wayne County Fed- of joint strike action will be dis- eration of Labor (A. F. of L.), the | cussed. In the textile industry, a |Mechanics Educational Society of new general strike in the spring :s | America, The Society of Designing maturing. In the rubber, building trades, white collar trades, and |_ Sugar’s candidacy is being sup- |League, International Labor De- 'fense, Communist Party, etc. (Continued on Page 2) jhim to speak and deprived him of jthe elementary rights of defense while threatening him with discip- \linary punishment, thus meking his | \defense impossible. | | “We appeal to public opinion and | to all newspapers to protest against | this planned judicial murder. Help | ky free Matthias Rakosi! | “Zoltan and Franz Rakosi.” By Nat Ganley DETROIT, Mich., Jan. 29.—Dele- gates from nineteen local unions of the Automobile Workers of America (American Federation of Labor) passed resolutions for the immedi- ate preparation of strike struggles in the auto industry at a week-end conference here. The conference unanimously en- dorsed the Workers’ Unemployment. Insurance Bill (H. R. 2827). Resolutions for an immediate con- stitutional convention to set up the International Industrial Union and @ program of economic demands to overcome the grievances of the workers were among the main de- cisions of the conference. Applaud Anto-Lite Workers There were thirty-nine delegates present from nineteen local unions. Long live the Daily Worker! ~ | The delegates from the Ford, Chey- Tolet, Dodge, Motor Products and A.F.L. Unions Plan New Sines in Auto I ndustry —{/—_— other Detroit plants were present as , agreement of last March meant observers. that the workers went back to the The announcement by the cre- | Plants this season under worse con- 'dentials committee that the two ditions. The government agencies Toledo delegates were workers in | have not remained neutral, he de- the Auto-Lite plant was greeted |Clared. They have given the work- with applause in memory of the | ¢rs empty words and promises about heroic strike conducted in this plant | Job security” and “an annual last year. | wage” while giving the auto manu- The reading of a telegram from | facturers everything they wanted. the Hayes-Body Local of the Auto| Mortimer quoted from the record Workers’ Union in Grand Rapids, | Of William Green, F. J. Dillon and announcing that they had just won | Collins, A. F. of L. leaders, to show a fifteen-cent per hour increase and | that these top leaders could not be that they were negotiating to join relied on. “Our local has been able the American Federation of Labor to improve the workers’ conditions was also greeted with applause. |and maintain a strong organization Government Not Neutral | because we did not allow these top | officials to halt our local’ ivi- W. Mortimer, president of the | fies," he declared. ee White Motors Local in Cleveland, | St Tecan Program emands made a report on the purpose of | the conference. He pointed out that} Quite a discussion developed the auto code and the Roosevelt (around the question of endorsing the Workers’ Unemployment and | | Social Insurance Bill, H. R. 2827. |One of the speakers pointed out | that this bill has been referred to as a Communist measure, but after he made a detailed contrast of the Roosevelt “insurance” proposal and |H. R. 2827 the delegates voted unanimously for the Workers’ Bill. The following were the main de- mands adopted: (1) Thirty dollars minimum wage for production men, forty-eight dollars for skilled work- ers, proportionate increases for | those getting above this minimum; (2) guaranteed annual wage or its equivalent in federal unemployment. | insurance (H. R. 2827); (3) thirty- hour, five-day week of six hours per day; (4) regulation of speed of | production by agreement between \properly elected committees of ADR | (Continued on Page 2) \ members who are known to have lost their lives are Jack Orlick and V. Fitzgerald. Orlick was also a member of the Communist Party. The disaster which befell the Mo- hawk was the third visited on Ward liners in the last five months. The Morro Castle was destroyed by fire |last September with a loss of 124 lives and the Havana piled up on a Bahaman reef on January 6. No| lives were lost on the Havana bus tack in a life boat. The investigation of the disas- ter by the United States Steam- boat Inspection Service was indefi- nitely postponed yesterday after surviving officers of the ship dis- closed an almost incredible igno- rance of elementary rules of sea- faring. The testimony thus far adduced | at the investigation indicates that the disaster could have been pre- vented if the ship had not been under-manned. It was revealed, for example, that when the ship’s steering apparatus broke down five minutes before the crash there wasn’t a single officer in the auxiliary steering room who was qualified to steer the ship. For ten minutes after the crash, and while the Mohawk was rapid- ly sinking, a deck engincer was forced to guide the ship's course. It was also disciosed that an en- gineer was steering the ship when the collision occurred. When the chief officer of the Mohawk was on the stand yesterday he shocked the spectators at the investigation by becoming rattled when he was asked if he knew the difference between the old defini- tion of “port” and “starboard” and the new. Further investigation brought out the possibility that the ship’s engineers may have steered the ship into the collision because of a similar misunderstanding over unclear orders transmitted from the bridge DRIVERS READY FOR RESTRIKE Molotov Tells World SET TO ACT IF JUDGE SIGNS. WRIT Board of Trade Head Threatens to Call Out Troops More than 25,000 New York team sters are ready to strike again next the moment Judge Burt Jay Humphreys affixes h: the injunctio week ignature to union, declared Thor head of the Teamsters’ C of 25. As a result of the one-day strike of more than 20,000 New York truck: nen Monday, the fi signature upon junction was s The Judge's action came 25,000 the ed for one week. on to postpone ent when the ying waterfront. declared that is d, and ‘when up the whole New Yor! | Justice Humphr although his opinion he will sign the in | the necessary papers are in,” he will permit Edward C. Maguire, attorney for the International Brotherhoood of Teamsters, to prepare a protest by Friday. The decision will be made next week, he stated. { Thomas E. Smith, president of the truckmen’s strike committee of |25, which has been set up, in an- nouncing the calling off the strike, |deciared that only the de’ in |signing the injunction prevented the strike from spreading to involve | longshoremen and other trades on | the waterfront. He stated that if | the Judge signs the injunction next | week, the action will be a signal |for a renewed s v h would ‘al strike ike likely develop into a of all workers in New York, as in |the case of San Francisco. Is Si The short strike is regarded as one of the most significant in the |history of the American labor movement—a political strike, aimed at a union-smashing decision of an open shop judge, and against an attempt of the government courts to outlaw unity between workers. | The New York Times, character- ized the strike in yesterday's edition in the following manner: “Yesterday's strike was unique in American labor struggles, for never before have members of a union quit work in a concerted effort to compel a court to desist from enjoining a labor organiza- tion or any of its officers.” Macguire Fears Strike Spread | “As far as I am concerned the jcase has been decided,” Justice Humphrey declared. “I will sign when the proper papers are in. The opinion is fixed.” “But there is a social problem involved here that is important,” Macguire, the union’s attorney pleaded at the hearing, “to grant what is sought would be like jignificant throwing kerosene on the fire. It may cause the present strike to spread until conditions similar to those of San Francisco will exist.” of The thought was the most de San Franciso ve argument for (Continued on Page 2) Lay Hurts Scottsboro Fund Drive | Only $220.78 received by the In- | ternational Labor Defense Monday | and Tuesday although $8,529.26 more urgently is needed for the appeals. | “I cannot sit by and allow the loss of the Scottsboro boys and An= |gelo Herndon. I remember Sacco and Vanzetti,” a New Hampshire farmer writes the International La- bor Defense. “Have already con tributed five dollars previously. | “Enclosed find $5.33 collected from several Finnish lumberjacks, a farmer, a road foreman, a house= worker, the Marlow Unit of the Communist Party, and my family and myself. “As a member of the National Grange, the Executive Committee of the New England United Farm= ers Protective Association, and the Communist Party, U.S. A. it is my duty to help along in the great work of freeing the Scottsboro boys, Angelo Herndon, and other class-war prisoners. | LEWIS W. FENNER” |. Funds urgently needed for the Scottsboro and Herndon appeals in the United States Supreme Court should be rushed to the national office of the International Labor Defense, Room 610, 80 East 11th (Street, New York City, y