The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 9, 1935, Page 1

i | ok ‘| Canvass Homes Worker; with the Daily Build Carrier Routes! Press Run Yesterday — 45,900 Vol. XII, No. 35 > * Daily QA Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1878 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1935 - (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) NATI ONAL EDITION (Ten Pages) Price 3 Cents JAPAN MAPS HUGE FUND AGAINST U.S.S.R. Roosevelt Ignores Findings of Own Research Division HEARST RECORD SHOWS HIM LIAR, FOLLOWS U.S. THIEF, BLACKMAILER, SWINDLERIN NEW MOVE AUTO REPORT “ADMITS EVILS: CODE STANDS Document Many Days Tells Vile Conditions WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 8— The recommendations of the N. R. A. Research Division, which were approved by the National Indus- trial Recovery Board, were entirely ignored by President Roosevelt in extending the anti-labor code, was revealed upon release of the) N. R. A. auto report. This comprehensive report ex- posed the terrible conditions now imposed on the auto workers under the regime of the Auto Labor Board. The N. R. A. report, signed by Leon Henderson, whose publication was suppressed by Roosevelt for many days, admitted the extremely low annual wages, the terrific speed-up, the spy sys- tem, wholesale firing on the subter- fuge of layoffs, increased unem- ployment and other bad conditions, coupled with high profits for the manufacturers. The findings of the N. R. A were: “(1) Labor unrest exists to a higher degree than is warranted by the depression; (2) The fore- man’s power and the gap between the worker and executive are im- portant causes of labor unrest; (3) Espionage systems exist; (4) Ir- regularity of employment has in- creased in recent years; (5) Depression competition has spurred the speed-up beyond human capab- ility to produce day by day; (6) Automobile workers are considered old at forty; (7) Hourly earnings are high, annual incomes are low; (8) Relatively few employes obtain supplementary earnings from other sources during layoffs; (9) The privilege of averaging hours on an annual basis is neither necessary mor desirable.” New Board Proposed In a letter of the National In- dustrial Recovery Board to the President, accompanying the re- port of the N. R. A. research divi- sion, the Recovery Board proposed the establishment of a new “neu- tral automotive industry relations (Continued on Page 2) Jobless Mass In England LONDON, Feb. 8 (FP).— New demonstrations of half a million British unemployed sent a score of police to the hospital today, caused reactionaries in Parliament to tremble, and smashed the govern- ment’s plan to cut relief to the un- employed. The parliamentary ses- sion was nearly broken up. Most of the resentment lies in Wales, whence came the spark which ignited the great British general strike of 1926, About 300,- 000 gathered in monster demonstra- tions recently in South Wales alone, it was estimated. Many resolutions have been passed de- manding strike action to defeat the whole unemployment act. In Glasgow, Scotland, 40,000 peo- ple, with a band heading the pro- cession, marched upon the Un- employment Assistance Board members and demanded that the cuts be restored. At Dowlais, a town of 100,000 population, 40,000 staged a protest demonstration. A monster demonstration at ‘Hyde Park, London, has been called for Feb. 24, designated as the Na- tional Day of Action against new scales and slave camps. All groups, mostly united front organizations, ask full scale relief, abolition of the Means test, mass refusal to enter the “slave” camps, full trade union rates and working ©onditions on all York schemes. In the coming week the Daily Worker will publish a number of important articles dealing with the significant British elections, united front struggles with the Communist Party of Great ee cree een imperil New Taxes on Workers WILMINGTON, Del., Feb. 8—A tax bill to raise funds for relief pur- poses for 1935 and 1936 which puts the burden on workers and farmers in this country has been signed by the Governor and steps are being taken to set up the machinery to collect the tax by the State Tax Cot Suppressed | it | Browder to Discuss Labor Party Policy At Meeting Sunday Earl Browder, General Secre- tary of the Communist Party, will speak on the “Communist Position on a Labor Party” on Sunday evening at 8:30 p.m. at St. Nicholas Palace, 69 W. 66th Street. Browder will analyze the recent developments in the United States and answer such questions || as “Why Do We Need a Labor Party?” “What Kind of a Labor Party?” “What Should Be the Relations Between the Commu- nist Party and the Proposed La- bor Party?” The District Committee has issued a statement calling upon all Communists and sympathiz- ers and especially inviting all \ Socialist workers to attend this meeting. Admission is 25 cents, reserved section 35 cents. GREEN EVADES HOUSE QUIZ ON H.R. 2827 Perkins Also Fails to Answer Invitation to Testify | WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (UP).— Federal relief rolls passed the 20,000,000-person mark today with the announcement by Administra- tor Harry L. Hopkins that 5,000,000 families were receiving aid. (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 8.— Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins and President William Green of the American Federation of Labor have ignored an official invitation to tes- tify on the Workers Unemployment, Old Age and Social Insurance Bill, H. R. 2827, it was revealed today by Chairman Matthew A. Dunn, of the House Labor Sub-Committee now holding hearings on the meas- ure, This is an obvious effort by Per- kins and Green to avoid public cross-examination of their reasons for supporting the Roosevelt Ad- ministration’s Wagner-Lewis Bill as opposed to H. R. 2827, the only gen- uine social security measure before Congress. Both fear to expose them- selves before the Sub-Committee as fundamentally anti-labor, especially in view of the fact that the millions of workers and professionals who have endorsed the Workers Bill, de- spite Green's opposition, include nearly 3,000 A. F. of L. locals and four A. F. of L. International Union conventions, Dunn made public the following letter, which was sent to Green and Perkins on January 29: “Hearings on H. R. 2827, intro- duced by Congressman Ernest Lundeen, ‘to provide for the es- tablishment of unemployment, Old Age, and Social Insurance, and for other purposes, will begin on (Continued on Page 2) Japanese Intervention Aided by ‘Advisors’ PEIPING, Feb. 8—The Japanese government is utilizing a new method in speeding up its iv e- rialist penetration into Nortnern and North-Western China by as- signing its own “advisory” commis- sions to local Chinese officials. A commission of this kind, di- rected, like the others, by officers, has been in operation in Kansu since last October. Another is at work now in Shantung, and a third is to be installed in the near fu- ture in Shansi. Wee Central Committee of the Communist Party this week sent an urgent proposal for joint ac- tion against Roosevelt’s anti-labor drive, to both William Green, head of the A. F. N.EC. of the Socialist Party. The Communist Party proposed concretely united action to build the auto and steel unions of the A. F. of L, into mass unions, and to prepare strike against the union-smashing drive of Roosevelt. The New Leader, official organ of the Socialist Party, in its Feb. 9 issue, takes cognizance of the growing revolt among the workers, especially those in the A, F. of L., against President Roosevelt's in- tensified attacks on the workers. The lengthy front page article of the New / LIFE TERM IS GIVEN TO RAKOS! Fascist Judge Sneers As He Imposes Brutal Sentence BUDAPEST, Feb, 8 (By Cable). — Life imprisonment at hard labor—a veritable death sentence in a Fascist prison—was today meted out to Mat- thias Rakosi, heroic leader of the Communist Party of Hungary. For eight years, Rakosi languished in a Fascist dungeon serving time on the very charges on which he was re-tried and is now being sentenced to torture. His “crime” was taht of leading the struggles of the Hun- garian workers after the bloody world war in the establishment of the Hungarian Soviet government. Judge Sneers The presiding magistrate, irritated at the heroic and brilliant defense of this working-class leader, sneered as he pronounced the brutal verdict against the outstanding anti-Fascist fighter. “It was not only Rakosi, but the whole movement of which he is an outstanding part, that was put on trial here,” declared the defend- ant’s counsel, Workers’ delegations and intellec- tuals, who had arrived here from all parts of Europe to bring protests of millions of workers against the out- rageous and brutal “trial” were shocked at. the savage sentence of the Fascist court. They publicly denounced this “trial” held on the pretext of charges 15 years old which had since been proven completely false and framed-up. Faith Holds Firm “I have taken the stand, not to defend myself,” declared Rakosi, “but to set forth the situation as it exists. During my ten years in prison I have not lost one iota of my faith in Communism. What I did, I did by conviction.” Rakosi again made clear, as on the first day of the trial, that he had been imprisoned as a Commu- nist “leader” on March 21, 1919. He was released when the revolutionary government seized power two days later. The following day he was in- formed that he had been appointed acting Commissar of Production. Relieved of his post at the end of April, he was sent to the revolu- tionary front, where he fought against capitalist-landord reaction. Trotskyite’s ‘Contession’ Aids Police By Michael Quinn (Special to the Daily Worker) SACRAMENTO, Calif., Feb. 8.— A hitherto secret stool pigeon state- ment given the prosecutor’s office last August by Norman Mini, sole Trotzkyite defendant among the 18 workers on trial here under the California criminal syndicalism law, was introduced yesterday by special prosecutor Neil McAllister. Mini’s statement consists of 28 pages of alleged “inside informa- tion” on Communist activities, in which he gave the names, vocation, identifications and activities of the other 17 defendants, as well as of many other militant workers not in- volved in the present prosecution. Tries To Incriminate Others ‘The document consists of ques- tions and answers between McAl- lister, at that time District Attorney, and Mini. McAllister’s questions are formulated along the lines of the criminal syndicalism law, while Mini's answers are deliberately sharply incriminating of the other defendants. Throughout his an- (Continued on Page 2) of L., and to the | N.R.A. and of Roosevelt. Life of the Chief Mduthipioee of Fasciow| in America Is So Corrupt His Deadliest Fear Is That Truth About Him Will Be Told By JAMES CASEY ARTICLE I. William Randolph Hearst lives daily in deadly fear lest | the readers of his chain of newspapers learn the truth about | him and his activities. The chief spokesman of the fascist forces in America| has issued orders to his editors to spread and manufacture more and more lies about the Communists and the Soviet | Union. Hearst wants no consideration of facts to ) temper his “holy crusade” for the outlawing of @——— = the Communist Party. As the mouthpiece of leading fi- nanciers and fascist groups, Hearst knows the Communist Party stands as the vanguard of the labor move- ment in the fight against new wage cuts, company unionism, fake in- surance plans, imperialist war schemes and the whole slave pro- gram of the Wall Street admini- stration. Hearst knows, too, that the Com- munist Party gives its own program —the program leading to Soviet power—as the way out of the capi- talist chaos, And, consequently, Hearst sees that success in the “crusade” against the Communist Party would serve to paralyze the resistance of American labor to the increasing attacks of Wall Street financiers—and to the movement for a fascist dictatorship. Liar, Thief, Blackmailer Yet this same man who has or- dered his editors to circulate all va- rieties of fabrications about the Communists—ALSO ORDERS HIS EDITORS TO KEEP NO AC- COUNTS OF HIS LIFE IN THE NEWSPAPER FILES. The morgues of Hearst’s newspapers must not bare the truth about his life to the readers of the twenty-four news- papers which he owns outright and the 400 others served by his news distributing organizations. An inquiry into Hearst’s activities | makes clear the reason for the in- structions to his editors as regards himself. Hearst’s life record shows him to be, among other things, a liar, a thief, a blackmailer, a re- ceiver of bribes and a swindler. In- cidentally, his record as a pervert Places him side by side with his companion in fascism, Adolph Hit- Jer. But of this more will be said later. Hires Scab Labor For many years, Hearst has played on the American scene as a champion 6f union labor. He has done this while employing scab labor at his California, mines. He has done this while employing cheap, non-union labor on his vast estate on the Pacific Coast. Posing as a friend of labor, Hearst has sought to divide the workers and cause bitterness and clashes among them with insidious campaigns against the Chinese people living in California, his home State. During these years, Hearst has gone before the American masses with a big army and big navy pro- gram “in the interests of peace.” Hearst has called for the invasion and annexation of Mexico. But a little study of his “peace” program (Continued on Page 2) | | | Lie Peddler Assails USSR WASHINGTON, ‘D. C., Feb, 3.— In a speech that abounded with typical Hearst slanders against the Soviet Union, Raphael Abramo- witch, leading member of the Second International (Socialist), here admitted that he is still smuggling counter - revolutionary newspapers into the Soviet Union calling for struggle against the So- viet government. This open admission of counter- revolutionary activity, made before 200 workezs here at a meeting called under the auspices of the Workmens Circle, definitely links Abramo- witch with the counter-revolution- ary groups now sending secret agents into the U. S. S. R. The murderer of Kirov was associated with similar groups. Abramowitch attacked the So- viet Union as a country of enslave- ment, admitting, reluctantly, how- ever, that the government had wiped out the rule of the capitalist class. Unable to ignore the tre- mendous Socialist victories of the Communist Party led by Stalin, Abramowitch took refuge in raw, Hearst-like slanders about “millions dying from famine,” and wild tales about “wholesale executions.” He was hotly heckled by many workers in the audience who rose to refute him and to defend the Soviet Union. An Ed Leader, in the face of the mass upsurge of the work- ers in defense of their living standards and right of the trade unions, becomes more critical of the the “social security” program of The New Leader concludes: “The organized workers and the Socialist Party find common ground in fighting together against the administration’s idea of ‘security,’ for the 30- hour week, for eliminating the fraudulent ‘unions’ of the big corporations, and for complete repre- sentation of the workers in the administration of the codes. This fight is also essential to prevent labor organizations from becoming tied to a gov- ernment bureaucracy so that all freedom of ac- Mine Writ Signed IS SWEEPING ATTACK ON STRIKE WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Feb, 8.— A sweeping restraining order against striking miners here was handed down today by Judge Valentine to the Glen Alden Coal Company. The writ goes into effect tomorrow. The injunction, one of the most. far-reaching that has been handed down in recent years against the miners bars all meetings, forbids any picketing or “interference with any person going to work.” The injunction forbids trespassing on coal company property and states that the .miners must re- strain “from interfering with the employees or officers of the Glen Alden Coal Company now in its em- ploy or hereafter to enter em1 ploy of said company by threats, Personal violence, intimidation, epi- thets or ridicule, or from congre- gating or loitering about or near the premises of the plaintiff com- pany.” Action Needed It is not yet known what the ac- tion of the new union will be, al- though it is hard to believe that they will agree to the injunction. If they did it would mean the end of the union. Maloney stated he has no com- ment to make until he consults his lawyers. It is, however, known that the miners now on strike are de- termined to fight the injunction. Resolutions are being passed at various meetings and being sent to Judge Valentine demanding the withdrawal of the injunction and the right to strike. Strike Solid The strike is solid in all but two mines of the Glen Alden Coal Com- pany. ‘he threats to tear down the Avondale and Nottingham Col- lieries have only remained threats so far. Boards have been torn loose on the roof on the side facing the street, and they have remained loose for the last couple of days. The Company is using the clergy and the petty capitalist politicians in town to urge the miners to go to work so that these two collieries will not be closed. Saloons here are com- Pelled to close their business for certain hours of the morning and afternoon. The men are being ar- rested on mere suspicion of being on picket duty while walking or rid- ing on cars, Three members of the new union at the South Wilkes- Barre Colliery were arrested yes- terday while riding in a car. Open Hearing on Fascism CHICAGO, Feb. 8. — An open hearing on the promotion by school authorities of Fascist propaganda in Lowell and Lafayette schools, ' this city, fascist - like police terror against unemployed workers and the preaching of race hatred by Nazi outfits, will be held at the North- West Hall, 2403 W. North Ave., next Sunday at 2 p. m. Steel Delegates To Visit Green By Tom Keenan (Daily Worker Pittsburgh Bureau) PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 8.—Six steel workers, representing the aroused membership of the Amal- gamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers are ready to leave for Washington, where they will de- mand a hearing with the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor. The six representatives were elected at the conference of A. A. lodges held here on Sunday, Feb. 3. Blasting Tighe’s traitorous action yesterday in summoning police and thugs to bar the international :of- fice to the committee from the rank and file, they declared: “Tighe’s action in refusing to meet the committee representing the majority of the membership of the Amalgamated, can only be in- terpreted by the steel workers as carrying through the policies of the United Steel Corporation. “When we went to the Amalga- mated office, on the advice of Wil- liam Green, to protest Tighe’s in- sane and unconstitutional expul- sion orders and to take up our plans for organizing the industry, we were met by a squad of police, depu- ties, and gangsters—the same weapon utilized by the Steel Trust in attempting to prevent the work- ers from organizing.” itorial tion by the workers will be lost.” Thus the New Leader editorial, ening its criticism of the N.R.A., still attempts to maintain the workers’ illusions that they can win something merely by securing more representation on the employer-controlled N.R.A. mand “complete representation in tion of the codes’ is to foster anew illusions that the workers can gain something by relying upon Such a position conceals the inherent anti-labor character of the N.R.A. the N.R.A. apparatus. Not only that, but the entire critical of the role piayed by William Green and other leading A. F. of L. officials in tying the work- ers to the N.R.A,, in preventing strikes, and in sup- For a United Front Against Roosevelt’s Union Smashing Drive porting Roosevelt’s whole New Deal policies, which although sharp- workers, boards. To de- the administra- editorial is un- are responsible for the present starvation among the The editorial makes no mention whatever of the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill H. R. 2827, which is the only bill before Congress which would grant social insurance to the 17,000,000 now unemployed. said the Roosevelt government program accepted “the principle of social security.” Furthermore, there is no indication in the edi- torial of the difference between the present militant words of Green-Lewis & Co., and of their deeds in Only last week the New Leader (Continued on Page 2) ON SOVIETS Cites Soviets’ Defense Plans in Provocative Parliament Talk TOKIO, Feb. 8.—Taking advan- | tage of the Roosevelt government's anti-Soviet provocations, General | Senjuro Hayashi, Japan’s Minister | of War, today vigorously argued for | the rapid passage of the unprece- dented war budget to be used pri- | marily for var against the Soviet | Union. Speaking today before a budget committee of the Japanese parlia- ment, the Minister of War followed up Secretary of State Hull's dem- onstrative acts against the Soviet Union by raising the spectre of the | Soviet Union’s defenses against | Japanese invasion. “Tt is a great mistake,” said Gen- eral Hayashi, “to think that just because the Soviet Union is willing to sell the Chinese Eastern Rail- way, she has lost her hostile inten- tions in the Orient.” Seeks to Blame U. S. S. R. The War Minister was referring to the fact that the Soviet Union is doing everything possible to maintain the peace of the Far East, going to the greatest lengths in sell- |ing the Chinese Eastern Railway, | which the Japanese militarists had planned to seize by armed force, Without mentioning specific Japan- ese anti-Soviet war moves in Cha- har, Dolon Nor, and on the border of the Mongolian People’s Republic, General Hayashi hypocritically de- clared that the reason for Japan's | increased armaments is the defen- | sive steps being taken by the So- viet Union along the Manchurian border. “Russia is still increasing her military establishment along her Far Eastern borders and greatly improving the Trans-Siberian Rail- way.” That. the Japanese imperialists’ drive into Manchuria, beginning in September of 1931, with its open provocative moves along the whole Soviet border, with the blunt avow- als of intentions to seize the Chi- nese Eastern Railway, as well as the whole of Soviet Siberia up to | Lake Baikal, is the main reason | for the efforts of the Soviet Union to strengthen the border defenses of the Soviet land, was not men- tioned by the Japanese Minister of War. The huge military budget which the Roosevelt-Hull anti-Soviet ac- |tions has spurred toward passage in Japan, provides 1,022,641,000 yen for war, or 46.6 per cent of the total budget, which amounts to 2,193,414,000. The yen fluctuates around 30 cents. Largest War Budget This is the greatest war budget {in the history of Japanese im- | perialism. It is primarily intended | to advance the Japanese war plans | against the Soviet Union, and now this is openly declared by General | Hayashi, the day after Cordell Huil, Feecranty of State of the United States, cut the American embassy staff in Moscow as a demonstration of hostility to the U.S. S. R. The new Japanese war budget provides for especially heavy ex- penditures for war planes, to be stationed in the scores of air bases established by Japan in Manchuria, near the Soviet border. Of the Manchurian war expendi- tures of 152,000,000 yen, the cost of increasing the air strength is set at 25,000,000 yen. For reinforcement of troops, another 136,000,000 yen is provided. Workers in Brussels Stop Work to Demand Release of Thaelmann BRUSSELS, Feb. 1.—Kighty-five workers of Depot H of the Brus- sels street-car service in Schaer- beck, on the initiative of the Bel- gian Red Aid, stopped all work at mid-day in order to sign a protest addressed to the Hitler government on the prolonged imprisonment. of Ernst Thaelmann, German work- ing class leader. In their telegram the workers demanded Thaelmann’s immediate release and warned that they were rousing every depot to similar protest action. Hitler Speeds Armaments BERLIN, Feb. 8—The Kluessen= dorf factory in the Berliner Chau- see, Spandau, which formerly manu- factured automatic postage-stamp machines, is now making microm- eters for machine-guns and 98- model rifles. The personnel has been more than doubled during the last few weeks. There are now 375 workers instead of the usual 170,