The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 7, 1935, Page 1

Get Daily Worker Subserip- ur Agta comics tiens From Yo: Vol. XH, No. 33 Press Run Yesterday — 49,700 >_> %* Daily .A Worker CONTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Aet of March 8, 187% NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1935 4 4 UNION DRIVE IS PLEDGED | BY CHIEFS WHO RENEW j i 1 i | Roosevelt Letter Seen As Strengthening Company Unions “CHALLENGES A. F. L. | | Open Shop DriveAmong | Auto Workers Is Predicted WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 8— Following President Roosevelt's letter to the American Federation of Labor counsel, Charlton Ogburn, defying all of labor's demands, and upholding fully the union-smash- ing position of Donald Richberg and the Auto Labor Board, A. F. of | L. leaders declared they would con- duct an organization drive in the {auto and steel industries. The send- hing of organizers into the auto and (steel fields, by the A. F. of L. was forced by the seething resentment of the steel and auto workers at the extension by Roosevelt of the anti- labor auto code. * But the A. F. of L. officialdom | immediately weakened this move by again expressing their faith in Roosevelt and attempting to hold out hope to the workers who are emanding strike, that Roosevelt is their “friend.” } William Green, in announcing ) he will seek an audience with the | President, declared, “Roosevelt is our hope and strength. We want to go over to the White House and discuss all labor problems and | show our faith in him,” It was revealed at the White House that another letter had been sent to William Green, headed ‘Dear Bill” which defended S. Clay | Williams, and flatly refused the de- ‘mand of the last A. F. of L. national convention that Williams be re- Fmoved, Williams is head of the }Reynolds Tobacco Company, “on leave” to head the National In- dustrial Recovery Board. “A Devoted Servant” Roosevelt said on Dec. 2, in this letter “He (Williams) has rendered a devoted, impartial service which has fully justified his selection.” “Williams has sabotaged a cigar- ette code, and there is no such code as a result of Williams successful efforts to keep down wages of cigar- ette workers. Roosevelt’s letter to Ogburn up- SN at mae ree nee ener Sn OA ROR Ne! (Continued on Page 2) Stay of Writ No Aid to Men The stay granted by Justice Burt Jay Humphrey, of the injunc- tion he signed Tuesday does not ‘permit united action between the jlongshoremen’s and teamsters’ unions on the waterfront, nor is it a guarantee against firing of union workers pending the appeal to a higher court, statements by Justice ‘Humphrey revealed yesterday. Justice Humphrey declared that iit the Brooklyn Chamber of Com- \jmerce, Merchants Association, or any of the other plaintiffs have reasons to find the workers violate the injunction that is, interfere with non-union trucking, they can apply at once and have the stay lifted. After explaining that the injunction means that unions must not inter- fere with trucks driven by non- union workers, the judge declared: “After the findings and decree were signed embodying these pro- visions, a provision was added at the bottom in my own handwriting with the consent of all parties. By this provision a stay of this decree is granted pending an appeal to the Appellate Division with leave to plaintiffs or any one of them to apply upon notice for a vacation thereof,” He explained later that “the pur- pose of this provision is that it be effective until the appeal is decided, unless disturbances arise which are of sufficient importance to justify a -jvacation of the stay.” The judge has made no decision which prevents the companies from firing union workers or cutting wages pending the appeal, as claimed by Joseph P. Ryan, Pres- ident of the International Long- shoremen’s Association, and Edward . Maguire, attorney for the union. Members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters report that foremen have been active yes- terday, “congratulating” non-union (Continued on Page 2) To the AF READINESS TO S Executive Council, American Federation of Labor, A. F, of L. Building, Washington, D. C. Dear Sirs and Brothers: ernment, is now fully coming into towards establishing in America a of Mussolini in Italy and Hitler in the activities of the auto workers, (Continued ‘FAITH IN ROOSEVELT’ L Council CENTRAL COMMITTEE, CPUSA, DECLARES UPPORT ORGAN. IZATION DRIVE February 6, 1985. The arrogant blows delivered against the trade unions by Roose- velt through the extension of the automobile code and his method of handling the question, creates a very critical situation if not answered by a powerful movement of the working class. The whole trade union movement is in the most serious danger, An unprecedented “open shop” drive, with the backing of the gov- the open. The government which, with all of its promises cannot bring about industrial recovery, suc- cessfully brings the recovery of profits and the “open shop.” policy, now openly proclaimed by President Roosevelt, is a long step | This regime essentially similar to those Germany—that is, Fascism. That Roosevelt's policy, especially in auto and steel, until now had some success, is due to your support, is the consequence of the policy which you carried out in the unions. It was at the height of » when a hundred thousand auto workers went into the American Federation of Labor unions, that you on Page 2) AAA CRITICS. FIRED BY U.S. Officials Who Showed! Up New Deal Are | Thrown Out WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 6,— All officials in the Roosevelt A.A.A. administration who had been criti- reduction program on the living standards of the masses were fired today in a general “house-cleaning” | ordered by Chester C. Davis, A.A.A. administrator. Leading among the discharged | Officials is Frederic C. Howe, who, as head of the Consumers’ Council of the A.A.A., had been issuing Statistics showing that the A.A.A. program was steadily reducing the buying power of the city population | | through rising prices, without. bring- | ing the small farmers any benefits. “Purging” of Opposition Jerome N. Frank, A.A.A. attor-| ney, and his assistant, Alger Hiss of the Nye investigating committee staff, were also fired by Roosevelt's man, Davis. ‘The reorganization of the A. A. A. now going on is intended to supple- ment the general “purging” of whole groups of opposition figures within the various governmental agencies set by the N.R.A, and A.A.A, Data issued by Dr. Howe as head of the A.A.A. Consumers Council | revealed that the combined N.R.A.- A.A.A. program had raised the cost of living for the majority of the people. With the pretext of the filth- laden Czarist and Kerensky debts, Secretary of State Hull has opened up a provocative “diplomatic” attack against the Soviet Union. Just yes- terday Roosevelt's State Department, ordered a drastic reduction in the U. S. embassy staff in the Soviet Union, going to the extent of with- drawing the U. S. General Consul in Moscow. Navy and air attaches were also withdrawn, All this followed Hull's blunt re- jection, in a four and one-half minute conversation of the Soviet Union’s offers on these debts. The Roosevelt government knows that the history of the Czarist and Kerensky debts wont stand public airing, and hence the curt rejection. But the rapid-fire diplomatic moves in Washington are definitely timed with Japanese imperialism’s war moves in Chahar and on the border of the Mongolian Peoples’ Republic. GLEN ALDEN MINES CLOSED Strikers Keep Scabs Out As Company Threatens To Dismantle Pits (Special to the Daily Worker) WILKES BARRE, Pa., Feb. 6.— |All the mines of the Glen Alden cal of the results of the acreage- | Company, the world’s largest coal| producer, are shut today, as effec- tive picketing has prevented scabs from reaching any of the mines. In its attempt to break the solid front of the 17,000 strikers the com- pany is threatening to close the Avondale and Nottingham mines. Miners were told to take their tools out as the breakers are to be dis- mantled. Following this announce- ment, the United Mine Workers of- ficials called meetings in Plymouth, where these two mines are located, | bringing in many from the outside | to take a “vote” on going back to work so as to induce the company “not to abandon these two mines which employ 1,800 men.” The Glen Alden Company is also threatening to reopen mines in the Scranton area which have been abandoned for years. ~* Hearings on the injunction ap- plied for by the company are still going on in Luzerne County Court. The united front of the police and United Mine Workers officials ar- | rayed against the United Anthracite Miners of Pennsylvania, independent union which has called the strike, has aroused great militancy on the part of the strikers, as they see the existence of their union endangered. The Hearsts and Fishes are press- ing hard for the rupturing of dip- lJomatic relations with the Soviet Union and for friendly overtures to Japan's war plans against the work- ers’ fatherland, And all this is now done in the name of trying to bludgeon the So- viet Union into paying loans that never reached the Russian people. To ask the Soviet Union to pay the Kerensky and Czarist debts, as Roosevelt wants them paid for Mor- gan and Co., is like asking the steel, auto, textile and other unions to pay for the tear gas and machine gun bullets used to kill their strik- ing members. On November 16, 1933, the United States recognized the Soviet Union. Arrangements were made to discuss the debt issue. An Import-Export Bank was set up to facilitate trade relations. Later, however, the John- son Bill was passed, aimed to block trade with countries who did not NATIONAL EDITION (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents FOR DRIVE AGG, Thomas ‘Adenies Real Motive Is Fear of Mass Upsurge This is the concluding article of the series on Wall Street’s fascist conspiracy. ne et, By Marguerite Young Senator Elmer Thomas of Okla- homa, Congressional trumpet of the Daily Worker that capitalists who are traditional enemies are getting together for “monetary re- form,” or cheapening American money, in order to “offset Commu- nism.” “Our whole ‘monetary reform’ program is designed to offset Com- munism,” Thomas declared in an interview on Jan. 15. closed: “I had dinner with Russell Leffingwell, the Morgan partner, two weeks ago in New York, and I found that the only thing he was worried about was that I might be mixed up with a crowd who | wouldn’t stop short of uncontrolled aire creditor class to bring it on by | stupidity.” John D, Rockefellers are the main | traditional enemy cliques in capi- |talist competition in the United | States, Thomas's inflation program would somewhat..hurt the imme- diate interests of the Morgan camp. Thomas’ implication that Morgan interests are, nevertheless, coming to tolerate it is startling evidence of the capitalists’ desperate drive for labor, bringing together all |leaders of the fascist offensive. Thomas met me in the Willard | Hotel in Washington. Suave bit |frank as to the anti-radical, anti- | labor oe of the ‘Committee for the Fascist inflationists, informed | He also dis- | | inflation. I told him that the only | | way we could get into uncontrolled | inflation would be for the million- | J, P, Morgan & Company and the} a united front against American| the} S COVER AINST v ORKERS | Congressman McCormack the Nation, whose spokesman he is he told me he had conferred all day with another Committee for the Nation spokesman, Father Charles E. Coughlin, the radio demagogue who professes to speak for labor. He told me, too, how Coughlin, with his “Union for Social Justice,” and other leaders of so-called people’s| organizations are working with the! ruling big shots to put over this| |“monetary reform” program which, | as we have seen, is a disguised wage- | cut. The | “Sound Money League,” is led by James H. R. Cromwell, stepson of Morgan partner, E. T. Stotesbury, and banker Frank A; Vanderlip. With this “Sound Money League,” the inflation program. So are the heads of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars and Disabled American Veterans, and the big farmers’ “cooperatives.” Thomas revealed that his group | wants to cheapen the American dollar by 28 cents more. This _ (Continued on "Page 2) C. P. Leader Gets Term PHOENIX, Ariz, Feb. 6.— Clay Naff, Communist candidate for gov- ernor in the last state elections here has been railroaded to the state penitentiary for one to two years on a trumped up charge of “rioting.” Twenty-seven other workers are| facing similar sentences as the cop- | per interests mobilize their forces to crush the militant labor move- ment. The “rioting” charges against the defendants grew out of their mi!- itant leadership of a strike of F.ER.A. workers last September. The defendants were arrested and beaten up on September 6 when police attacked a demonstration in support of the strike. The Interna- tional Labor Defense has served notice of appeal against Naff's con- viction, and 1s defending all of the 28 workers. James Sanchez, an Indian work- er, was tried on the same charges but was released as a result of a Sanchez, the copper bosses and their hung jury. Enraged by their failure to “get” legislators have launched a drive to place a criminal syndicalist law on the statute books. The drive is backed by the lead- (Continued on Page 2) ists and their government. The only country this was used against was the Soviet Union. The Import-Ex- port Bank has since been dissolved, even before it functioned. Now Secretary of State Hull de- liberately picked the present time for his provocative demonstration against the Soviet Union. He knows Japanese troops are driving toward the Soviet border in Manchuria. And it is ironical to remember that he used the issue of debts—the very same loans which Morgan and Co. as well as Wilson turned over to Bakhmetiev and Ughet in 1917-18- 19 for the use of the White Guard butchers Kolchak and Semenov, who were then the agents of Japanese imperialism in Manchuria and Si- beria. The Soviet Union is now refused trade agreements because Roosevelt wants it to pay the juggled Keren- sky debt, the money loaned by the Pay their debts to American capital- Wilson government to the Provi- sional Russian Government to carry For Rakosi BUDAPEST, Feb. 6.—The omin- ous lack of news of their great anti- fascist leader, Matthias Rakosi, sentenced three days ago to 11 days | of solitary confinement in the Hor- | thy dungeons, has roused the work- ers here to extreme indignation. Twelve demonstrators were being held here today as a result of last Matthias Rakosi, At six o‘clock, when the evening traffic of holiday throngs is heaviest, the paraders emerged from side-streets in small groups, converged into a_ solid stream and finally met the attack | of the police. The prisoners are being held in the political depart- ment at police headquarters. “The emergency of the peril to Rakosi’s life,” a statement of the Communist Party of Hungary de- clared today, “has now made inter- national protest action the only weapon which can save him. Ra- kosi’s physical weakness, brought on by nine years of imprisonment for anti-fascist activity, and the ferocity | of the Goembos dictatorship in wanting to do away with this mili- tant working-class leader at all | costs, prove how urgently the mobi- lization of the masses must be or- ganized to prevent his murder.” on the Czarist aims in the late World War. Before the Kerensky regime could misuse all of the $187,729,750 handed over to it in the United States, the Soviet Government was established on Nov. 7, 1917, What then became of this money, which Hull is now using as a pre- text to strain relations with the So- viet Union, and to inspire Japanese imperialism to continue its war moves against the workers’ father- Jand? Here are some of the outstanding facts taken from court records, sen- ate hearings, and from private in- vestigations of the documents and facts in the Kerensky and Czarist debt question. First of all, J. P. Morgan and the du Pont munitions trust were the greatest beneficiaries of all the Czarist and Kerensky loans. It is also a fact that the du Ponts are in the foreground assisting Japanese imperialism today and urging the Picinedieleaticns | Saturday night’s demonstration for | tedlation sad Fascism PROVOCATIVE ACT AIMED ‘MONETARY REF ORM’ U.S. CUTS EMBASSY STAFF IN MOSCOW A.F.L. Leaders Rebuffed by Roosevelt ® TO SUPPORT WAR MOVES AGAINST USSR BY JAPAN Mongolia Warns Japan; Scores Troop Invasion (Special to the Daily Worker) | ULAN BATOR, Mongolian People’s | Republic, Feb. 6 (By Cable).—Af- firming the deliberate invasion of | | the Mongolian People’s Republic by | the troops of Japanese imperialism, | Premier Gendum asserted that the |longed to Manchukuo. Senator said that the | whole population of his country would fiercely resist any occupancy of their territory. This country, as is well known, maintains the friend- liest economic and political rela- tionship with the Soviet Union and its independence is guaranteed by | the US.S.R. “I already have had occasion to| notice,” Premier Gendum stated, | “that on the basis of information from Japanese sources the world press indicates | that the incidents of Jan. 24 and| 31 on the Outer Mongolian frontier | are explained as though the troops of the Mongolian People’s Republic | the Manchukuan authorities attain| UPion are the following seized a section which allegedly be- The Mon. | golian People know very well that | such an assertion is absolutely un- | founded. | | declared, Father Coughlin is cooperating for | | | the Negro people under the New Cites Documents “The Mongolian Government,” he| “has genuine documents | WORKERS BILL WINSSUPPORT Benjamin “nd Johnson Report to Committee | on Labor (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 6.— Members of the Sub-Committee of | the Labor Committee of the House of Representatives holding hearings on the Workers’ Bill, listened this afternoon to Herbert Benjamin, ex- | ecutive secretary of the National | Joint Action Committee for Genuine | Social Insurance, present a detailed | report of the broad mass support behind H.R. 2827. “The Workers’ Bill,” Benjamin told the Committee, “is a collec- tive effort in the sense that it has been formulatd in consultation with hundreds of thousands of workers.” Manning Johnson, the spokesman for the League of Struggle for Negro | Rights, discussed the situation of Deal so ably that Chairman Dunn) took occasion to compliment him publicly. “You delivered a splendi report,” Dunn told him. | Matthew A. Dunn, Democratic Congressman from Pennsylvania, announced today that he will intro- | duce the same bill as H-R. 2827 ir | the House of Representatives. He called upon other Congressmen to | follow his example. Congressman Theodore Moritz of Pennsylvania came to the hearings to tell the sub- committee that he is “heartily | |New York City where, (Continued on Page 2) Hull’s Anti-Soviet Moves Spur Japan’s War Plans in Mongolia-Manchuria By HARRY GANNES Roosevelt regime to aid in the war moves against the Soviet Union. | The du Ponts remember that in| 1916 they received the largest single | check ever handed over for war ma- terials during the last war. They got $60,000,000 at one grab from the Czar. Kerensky’s ambassador in the United States, later ambassador and agent of the white guard murderer, | Admiral Kolchak, five months after he received the $187,729,750, squan- dered and grafted $110,000,000 that has not been accounted for to this date. The United States government was informed by Kolchak’s agent that all the Kerensky and Czarist money in the United States was | turned over to the counter-revolu- tionary forces. The United States | Government helped Bakhmetiev col- | lect this money and put it in J. P. Morgan’s National City Bank of in a few weeks, a $60,000,000 deposit disap- at its disposal which incontestably establish that since 1794 the frontier between Mongolia and Bargut was considered the present frontier. fixed on all maps, and it is evident |that Lake Bor Nor, as well as the Khalkha River emptying into it, en-| | tirely belongs to the nomads of| |Khalkhask in Mongolia Without | | enumerating other documents at the | disposal of the Government of the| Mongolian People’s Republic, I think] the question as to how the claim of the Japanese and Man- chukuan officials, is exhausted. This information simultaneously | exhausts the question as to who is| really guilty of the incidents taking | and Manchurian | place in this district during 1935. | Desires Peace “You must involuntarily ask your- self this question:” continued Pre- | mier Gendum. “Exactly what will | by coming out against the Mon- golian People’s Republic with the accusation of invading the territory of Manchukuo? According to the desire of the Mongolian People’s | Government, the Mongolian People’s (Continued on Page” 2) ANOTHER SP IN TRIAL OF 18 U.S.; Stats a and Bosses | Linked in Frameup of 18 on Coast By Michael Quin (Special to the Daily Worker) SACRAMENTO, Calif., Feb. 6.— Evidence linking the State and na- tional governments to the big in- dustrial and agricultural interests | behind the frame-up “criminal syn- dicalism” trial of the eighteen worker-defendants here was brought out today during cross-examination of Melville Harris, stool-pigeon and | prosecution witness, by Leo Gal- lagher, International Labor De- | fense attorney. Harris testified that he had vias the Communist Party, the Young Communist League and the Can- nery and Agricultural Workers’ In- dustrial Union while employed at | the C. C. C. headquarters in this State. the State Bureau of Criminal Iden- tification, he admitted, although claiming he had received no pay from that body for his labor-spying ctivities. State-Boss Connection He had joined these organiza- tions last February and shortly after was sent by Rachel Sowers of the State Bureau to Mr. Dazey of the San Francisco Industrial Asso- | ciation, Mr. Dazy got him a job, he | said, with the city authorities of | Klamath Falls, Ore., as a spy on) the labor movement there. He re- (Continued on Page 2) peared, leaving only $1,000,000 left. This happened when Congress was | investigating the Kerensky and) Czarist debts. The pro-fascist Con- | gressman McFadden of Pennsyl- | vania, in a speech before the House | of Representatives, confirmed these facts. Here is the communication, signed | |by Serge Ughet, Russian Charge Affairs for the Kolchak and other |Czarist white guards, to the Mili- tary-Naval Agent of the Russian Embassy in Washington, dated July 17, 1919: “S. D. Szonov has notified me by telegram from Paris that the Supreme Ruler, Admiral Kolchak, has instructed him, as Minister of Foreign Affairs, to confirm the full powers of B. A. Bakhmetiey as ambassador of the Russian Provisional Government in the United States of America, of (Continued on Page 2) “just” is} He made regular reports to | Follews ‘Rejection by U. 8. of Soviet Debt Settlement Offer COURAGES NAZIS American Consulate in Moscow Abolished by Washington Order WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—Follow- | ing Secretary of State Hull's blunt | rejection of the Soviet Union's debt | settlement offer, the State Depart- |ment today drastically cut the | American Embassy staff in Mos- cow. The provocative form in | which these diplomatic steps were | taken undoubtedly are deliberately | aimed to encourage Japanese mili- tary forces on the border of the Mongolian People’s Republic and in Manchukuo to speed their war | moves against the Soviet Union. Among the changes scheduled in {the U. S. Embassy in the Soviet () The | American Consulate at Moscow will be abolished; (2) the American naval attache, Captain David R, Nimmer, will be withdrawn; (3) the assistant military attache for air, Lieut. Thomas White, will be with- | drawn. The purpose of these moves is to demonstrate that the Roosevelt | sta e is at this time extremely to the encouragement of | frlenaly relations with the Soviet ees Fascist Germany and perialist-military clique of Japan an know how to interpret this as inspiration to continue the drive oe, ie the Soviet border, without any Japanese-American | difficulties. Consul-General George Hamson is not expected to return to Mos- | cow, following the State Depart- ment’s decision. Hamson is now in the United States on furlough The “explanation” for the dras- | tie cut given at the State Depart- ment is as follows: “Due to recent developments it is believed there will be less business in Soviet Russia for American con- | cerns.” | The State Department also an- nounced that U. S. Ambassador William C. Bullitt will return to Moscow. Bullitt is now in a hos- | pital, where he underwent a minor pean on an infected jaw. Workers Balk Paris Fascists PARIS, Feb. 6—Fascists and roy- alists, attempting to strengthen sentiment for a fascist dictatorship on the anniversary of their defeat in last year’s momentous struggle, found themselves opposed this af- ternoon by increasing masses of Communists, Socialists, thousands of war veterans, and scores of thou- sands of anti-fascist supporters. Etienne Flandin, French Premier, grimly announced that he was pre- | pared to fight the solid hatred of |the Paris workers for his reaction- | ary pro-fascist program with a force of 14,000 police, 20,000 Mobile | Guards and 50,000 troops. The War | Department, it was confirmed here, has called on 250,000 reservists and | war veterans to gather at 8,852 ral- lying places in Paris and in sub- urban towns, as “a precautionary measure.” | Gangs of fascist hoodlums and | royalist “King’s Henchmen” made | efforts to assault members of the | United Front of Socialists and Com- munists with loaded canes, but were beaten back by massed and watch- ful anti-fascists. As the closing time for factories approached, thou- j sands of the anti-fascists met at | grouping places and quietly awaited |@ possible call to action. Fascists | provocatively tore down United Front posters, shouted nationalist slogans, and swore at Flandin for not having allowed them enough liberty to attack the anti-fascist front. Police and the Mobile Guards fell upon all groups small enough for them to attack and brutally beat those within reach with thick clubs, At the Notre Dame Cathedral, where Flandin and Prefect of Police Lang- eron hypocritically mourned the 19 individuals murdered by the gov- |ernment last year, cries sf “assas- sins” rose from the huge throng of demonstrators