The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 12, 1935, Page 1

Sell the Daily Worker Before Fac- tories, Mills, Docks, Shops, and in Your Union Press Run Yesterday—43,800 Daily, Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COM MUNIST PARTY U.S. Vol. XII, No. 37 > * Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1878 - (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERWATIONAL ) NATIONAL EDITION NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1935 (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents MUSSOLINI MOBILIZES FOR WAR IN AFRICA STEEL GROUP MAKES GREEN GIVE HEARING A.F.L. Council Refuses to See Delegation From the A.A. APPOINTMENT MADE Green Agrees to Meet Representatives of 78 Lodges WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 11. —Word that 25 new lodges have Joined the 78 now opposing the expulsion drive by International officers of the Amalgamated Asso- ciation, and that rank and file pressure has brought an interna- tional officer over to the side of the majority of the steel union membership, was brought here to- day by W. J. Anderson, president of District Four and one of the committee negotiating here. An- derson reported that Al Armour, recently elected International of- ficer, publicly declared his sup- port of the membership against president Tighe in 2 week-end mass meeting in Gary. [Full text of steel statement on page 3.) Bv Marguerite Young (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 11— Over the protest of President Michael Tighe of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, President Green of the an Federation of Labor was elled teday to recognize a committee of local leaders of the A. A., including three district presi- dents, for a full discussion of the effort by Tighe to expel the major- ity of the membership of the stee! unton, The committee of steel workers, representing 78 of the most imvor- tant lodges. ivered to the execu- tive council of the A. F. of L. a written statement denouncing Tighe’s “tyrannical and unconsti~ tutional effort to wreck this basic | union.” They warned that, if countenanced, it “jeopardizes the jentire trade union movement.” | They demanded action by the coun- j cil, saying, “we ask you whether a | mor | labor union and threaten a labor | movement could be designed by | Adolf Hitler.” Council Rejects Delegation The Executive Council flatly re- fused to receive the committee. They went to President Green. “President Tighe has wired me saying you cannot be recognized be- cause you have been suspended,” Green greeted the committee, “On what grounds?” chorused the committee. “I don’t know.” replied Green. “Insubordination, Tighe says.” The workers’ committee, thrown out by armed thugs when Green sent them to their International headaua: last Thursday, eyed reen viercingly. He added. “Fr— I’m mighty sorry any division has arisen at a time when we need to be united. “Unity is just what we want,” one of the committee returned. “When will you see us?” Green Makes Appointment Green then made a formal ap- pointment for late today. To the press, Green said that the Executive Council could not hear the committee in “ex-parte” pro- cedure, particularly when Tighe contends the 78 lodges acted un- constitutionally in calling the joint district conference which elected this committee to plan an organiza- tion drive for the Amalgamated As- sociation last Feb. 3. “This committee declared it was Tighe who acted unconstitutionally in attempting mass expulsions, and their statement proves it,” Green was reminded. “Besides, six inter- national officers were present when that Feb. 3 conference was called by unanimous vote.” “You know more about it than I do,” Green answered. The committee was held in an anteroom for almost two hours after they notified the Executive Council of their demand for a hear- ing. The Council was in session in the next room. Morrison Stalls Within ten minutes after the committes delivered their state- ment, the Council could be heard hheatedly discussing the steel situa- tion. Members of the Council later streamed out, passing by the com- mittee. Then Secretary Frank Mor- rison appeared, asked the commit- tee to identify itself and made a play of taking the Council word of its arrival. He returned immedi- ately, saying the Council “suggests ‘that you see the president—by which I guess they mean President \p Green.” \“We took President Green’s ad- vice and tried to take this up with Ti mo cf the committee de- \{clared. “He threw us out.” workers’ brazen attempt to wreck a| tion of diplomatic relations. venture for Hearst. Street Hearst's campaigns have cuimi- nated in sending American troops into two countries to give their lives and slay other workers to fur- ther his interests and those of his fellow-capitalists. Hearst is now clamoring for a larger army — for the first navy in the world. HE WANTS. BLOOD. Hearst: War Maker What has been Hearst’s role in the past for American imperialism? In 1916, the Wilson administra- tion sent an “expeditionary” force into Mexico after a systematic and provocative campaign by Hearst. The fascist publisher, the Morgans and the Rockefelless have long wanted to annex Mexico with its rich mines and fertile lands. By annexation, Hearst and the other -money. lords;-who already claim vast possessions in the border- i ty, feel they could reduce the Mexican workers and peasants to complete servitude. Hearst, ‘as an instance, claims ownership in Mexico to a ranch extending for seventy-three miles. Here he em- ploys peasant labor at the very cheapest pay. Wants More Blood When, during Carranza’s regime, the peasants and workers rebelled | against the slave conditions under which they were forced to work, Hearst fumed for armed invasion of Mexico. Some Mexican workers were killed by American soldiers, By JAMES CASEY Article 11 Hearst is now engaged in barraging the readers of his the Workers Unemployment, Old papers with flagrant and stupid lies about the Soviet Union. These fusillades are accompanied by arguments for disrup- The statements, becoming in- creasingly more brazen in violence, are obviously a forerun- ner to open demands for an attack upon the U.S.S.R. Fomenting war—imperialist war! This is not a new The fascist publisher has done it be- fore—for the Wall Street barons, seems intent on doing it once more—and He has succeeded. He again for Wall i d paca WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST as a result, but this did not at all satisfy Hearst. On May 3, 1916, Hearst called for open war on the Mexican people to gain the ends of Wall Street, As @ means of creating hysteria and (Continued on Page 2) State Troops United Mine Officials | Organize Scabs To. | March to Mines (Special to the Daily Worke: WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Feb. 11.— The strike of the Glen Alden Coal Company miners entered the sec- ond week today with the ranks of the strikers holding firm while more state troopers have been sent in to spread a reign of terror against the strikers, Contonuing their strikebreaking activities, top officials of the United Mine Workers of America have or- ganized a march of. scabs to the mines at Hanover and Nanticoke under the protection of police, In their march through the streets the scabherders made appeals to workers to join their parade of strikebreakers, : Leaders Fail To Act |mumber of demonstrations Although the strike is reaching | a critical stage, leaders of the United Anthracite Miners of Penn- } sylvania, the independent union | which called the strike, are not fol- Jowing a determined policy to smash | the injunction issued by Judge Val- | entine, declaring the strike illegal. | They still entertain hopes of being | able to change the through court appeals. District President Maloney, of the U. A. of P. in his radio broadcast yesterday declared that he “does not intend to violate the restraining order is- sued by Judge Valantine.” Miners Have Own Way The strikers, however, have their own way of breaking the injunction. Meetings are taking place, and picketing is being organized, in which women and children are tak- ing part. The miners have no illu- sions that anything favoring them as one a of the local courts. e miner at a meeting in declared that the “Luzerne oan Court is the headquarters of the Glen Alden Coal Company.” The miners are eagerly awaiting the Daily Worker, and show an in- creased support to the line put forth in it, that the members of both unions’ should unite behind the strike demands. The Unemployed | Council here has, likewise issued a statement along such a line, and ee to the unemployed not to seal injunction |!~- Vienna Troops Tn Mine Area Hoist Red Flag Mass Actions Begin in Commemoration of 1934 Uprising (Special to the Daily Worker) VIENNA, Feb. 11 (By Wireless) - Despite the stringent and ner ous precautions of the Austrian fascist regime, revolutionary actions on the eve of the anniversary of last year’s February armed uprising have already begun. Not only among the working class districts but even in the army the spirit of struggle is reaching organized ex- pression, In several barracks here in Vienna the red flag was hoisted in solidarity with the incveasing now held in the workers’ areas of every (Continued on Page 2) cent bloody incident at Ual-Ual imperialist Italy wishes to wage a war against Troops from Somaliland have al- reafily invaded Abyssinian territor. Italian imperialism is attacking Abyssinia, Abyssinia. Hands off Abyssinia! The fascist government, which is incapable of overcoming the serious crisis which is shaking the country—while the weekly wages of the workers are being reduced by a further 17 per cent, while the misery of the workers is growing—is resorting to every argument and making use of every occasion plunge Italy and the whole world into a mur- derous war. Italian imperialism considers the moment opportune to attack Abyssinia, the try of Africa which has been able to maintain a certain degree of independence. invading Abyssinia after the manner of the Japenese, without any declaration of war. The predatory coup of fascism in Africa may have serious international consequences. War in Abyssinia is not a military parade; UNIONS WANT INSURANCE Spokesmen at Hearing Monday Represented a Half Million By Seymour Waldman (Daily Worker Washington Burean) WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 11.— Negro and white spokesmen for nearly half a million workers, most of them in basie industries, ap- peared today before the House |Labor Sub-Committee to endorse | Age and Social Insurance Bill, HR. 2827. Their testimony, especially the statements of the coal and steel | workers, featured the opening day | of the second week’s hearings on the workers bill. Roy Hallas, the elected delegaie of a conference of all districts of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers (A. F. of L.) at which 78 lodges were rep- resented, told the House Labor Sub- Committee that the workers bill “is the only bill before Congress which will give any kind of security to the steel workers.” Hallas declared, “I am speaking for more than 50,000 | workers, speaking in their behalf so | that Congress may realize our need, and pass this Bill.” Convention Backed It The 59th convention of the A. A., |said Hallas, “unanimously adopted H. R, 7598 and instructed our del- egate to the 54th convention of the A. F. of L. to introduce this Bill to the convention. . . The present increases in production do not mean corresponding increases in employ- ment, instead they often mean re- duction in the number of workers. . The Wagner-Lewis Bill (The Roosevelt Administration Bill) does ~ | not provide any kind of unemploy- for the steel ment ‘insurance | MORRO es cing aca | Joseph Howard, Negro steel worker from Birmingham, Ala., and the representative of local 23 of the A, A, declared that the workers of his union and four other locals in the vicinity en- dorsed the Workers Bill “because they see the need for an adequate | Bill.” | Mine Workers Heard Seventy-two local unions of Dis- trict 4 of the United Mine Workers | jof America sent Joseph Finnan, a |member of’ the wage scale commit- |tee who was elected by the Rank and File slate over the heads of the John L. Lewis machine, to place their support of H.R. 2827 on the record of the House Labor Sub- Committee, Finnan’s district con- vention, just two or three days ago, | unanimously endorsed the Workers’ Bill. John McDonough, the President of the Western Pennsylvania Com- mittee for unemployment and social insurance, an organization of about 300,000 inembers, and the represen- tative of the Pittsburgh Water |Heaters Union (Independent), said to the committee: “My constituents believe this Bill, H. R. 2827, is the only adequate solution to the unemployment sit- uation that is confronting us toda We wholeheartedly endorse this bill | because it does not place its burden jon the backs of the workers, as jdoes the administration's Wagner- | Lewis Bill.” Dyer Speaks John Lyding, the representative of 15,000 members of the Dyers and Finishers Union of Paterson (A. F. of L), informed the committee that “the workers in the Passaic Valley feel that under this Bill they will have adequate protection in time of unemployment.” He reminded the committee that the United Tex- (Continued on Page 2) HEARST IS PREPARING HOUSE HEARS 5,000 HEAR FOR OPEN CALL TO WAR AGAINST SOVIET UNION ‘You Furnish Lies, [ll Furnish War,’ Is| Fascist Publisher’s Policy for His Editors in Slander Campaign -BROWDER ON LABORPARTY Audience Enthusiastic As Secretary of C.P. Analyzes Question (The text of Earl Browder’s speech on the Communist position on the Labor Party question made at the St. Nicholas Palace on Sun- day night will appear in tomor- row’s edition of the Daily Worker.) Speaking before an audience of |5,000 in the St. Nicholas Palace on Sunday night, Earl Browder, gen- eral secretary of the Communist Party, outlined the Communist po- sition on the possibility of a Labor Party as a means of “leading the | masses who are breaking away from the old parties onto the path of class struggle and bringing the working class face to face with the problem of State power and with | the problem of which class shall wield this power.” | In a brief, incisive talk, which stimulated some 700 questions from members of the audience, Browder declared that the recent resolution of the Communist Party Central Committee was neither an “about face,” nor a surrender to oppor- jtunist tendencies. “The Labor Party is not, for us Communists, a means of making peace with the LaFollettes, the Ol- sons, the Sinclairs, the Longs, the Waldmans and the others who will seek to turn a mass labor party movement into mere appendages to the old-line capitalist parties. “On the contrary, it is a means to make more effective war against and to defeat and isolate these gen- tlemen from the masses,” Browder said. Not a Substitute for C. P. “In no way do we bring forward the Labor Party-as a-substitute-for- | the Communist Party,” Browder as- serted, rv us it is merely a part of our struggle to build and strengthen the Communist Party it- self among the masses, to extend its authority, to root its principles, tac- tics and organization deeper among the masses. | The key to the breakaway of the masses from the Roosevelt New Deal lis in the economic struggles, in the trade unions, Browder pointed out. “Our Labor Party policy, there- fore, depends upon fearless, en- ergetic and correct work in the unions of the American Federation of Labor. work which we are now completing after a year of cautious experiment and testing of our ground, have proved their correctness up to the hilt. The Party membership has already mastered most of the les- sons of this changed trade union policy. It will master more quickly the Labor Party policy in all its Getails when it understands this as only a further extention of the trade union policy, of the whole struggle for a united working class front against capital,” 700 Questions Asked During the brief intermission which followed Browder’s speech, |more than 700 individual written inquiries were sent to the platform in response to his announcement that he would answer questions. Browder prefaced his answers by \anmouncing that a systematized di- |gest of these questions and answers | would be published in the Daily | Worker at a later date. Most of the questions which Browder answered were representa- | tive of scores of others. He took occasion, however, to reply to ques- | tions which came, obviously, from |renegade elements or from workers | who have been misled by the at- tacks of renegades on the Commu- (Continued on Page 2) be converted into a and may become the prove that Italian workers! to pay the cost of war. Perialist war! in order to diers. only coun- against the economic Italy is it will soon barrel in Europe and in the whole world. The worsening of your standards of living is the necessary precondition for the war Policy of Italian fascists. The material sacri- fices which are imposed on you are to serve is the war organization of fascism. Not a man and not a cent for the im- Expose the war and starvation policy of the fascists, in the trade unions, in the or- ganizations of the Dopolavoro, in the fascist party, in all youth organizations, in the mili- tary formations and among the reserve sol- United front against war! of the fascists in order to enforce 48 hours’ pay for the 40-hour week, work for all, for relief of the unemployed, against the burden of taxation, against the militarization of the nation, for the freedom of combination and press, for the release of all political prisoners protracted bloody war spark to the powder Refuse Soldiers, The “corporate State’ Solr hs racks and with the Ai United front and politic: ve nd political offensive the Soviet Proletar' peoples of “The changes in our trade unions | 25 fn Adistosr> “. (ETHIO 0,000 Troops Called to Arms; Warships Steam Down Red Sea; Armies Marching on Abyssinia Ualyal +z PIA go 7 i} Conferences of Capitali Mussolini “a World to New Slaughter ims to Lead st Powers Aimed at the U, S. 8. R. and for More Intensive Robbery of Colonies A war of Italian fascism ning the world imperialist sl The avalanche of war co powers is bearing bloody fruit. The mobilization of 250,000 Italian soldiers for war grows directly out of the Franco-Italian pact, concluded on Jan. 5 in Rome. It is significant that the major centers of mobilization for the war in Abyssinia are in the most impor- tant industrial districts, such as Milan, Naples, Turin, Florence, Rome. It is also in these places where the rumblings of discontent have been mounting the greatest The aim of Mussolini is to shove these discontented workers into far- away Abyssinia, where he expects | thousands of them to be killed off Behind the Scenes Behind the scenes of the war in Abyssinia is British imperialism, | | | Franco-British pact and its invita- tion to Hitler, is trying to organize the world anti-Soviet war front. Mussolini, unable to stem the tre- mendous crisis of Italian fascism, overburdened by the huge war ex- cial and economic crisis—and above all by the growing anti-Fascist struggles of the Italian workers and into a criminal adventure to seize for Fascism. ‘The real story of the maneuvers for war in Abyssinia has not been (Continued on Page 2) Against Abyssinian War! Down With Fascism! APPEAL OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF ITALY Italian workers, soldiers and ‘alloy The conflict at Gondar and the more re- The money used for military expenditure to be spent in improving the Jot of the unem- ployed and reducing the burden of taxation imposed on the working peasants. Railwaymen, seamen, dock workers! to load munitions and arms, re- fuse to handle war transports to Africa! , sailors! in our struggle against war! Form Propaganda groups against war in the bar- on the ships! If you are sent to Abyssinia in order to fight there, fraternize byssinian troops! Down with fascism! down with the war! We demand the evacuation of Libya, Eritrea, Somaliland and of all colonies which are under the heel of Italian iniperialism! Bread, work, and freedom for the Italian people! Long live the proletarian revolution and Power! jans, toilers of Italy and oppressed the Italian colonies, unite! The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Italy and of the Young Communist League of Italy. 000 people of Abyssinia is under way. o ich, at the same time, through its | penditures, by the corroding finan-| peasants—is now plunging Italy| Abyssinia as a way out of the crisis | By Harry Gannes for the enslavement of 10,000,- Mussolini is begin- laughter, which is part of the mobilization of all the imperialist powers for greater co- lonial booty—and ultimately for attack on the Soviet Union. nferences of the b Rally Against { War! | An Editorial TALIAN FASCISM is mobi- lizing on a gigantic scale for a murderous, war to seize Abyssinia, the independent Negro country. This is a drastic step aimed to plunge the world into a new imperial- ist slaughter. The Soviet Union is the object of feverish war maneuvers of the leading capitalist powers of the world. Every American worker, every enemy of fascism and imperialist war must act now now Mussolini, and of all the im- perialist bandit powers. Mass demonstrations should |immediately be called before every Italian consulate in the United States against the war on the Abyssinian people. Fight against fascist-im- perialist efforts to enslave the 10,000,000 Negro people of Abyssinia, Mass meetings against this war mobilization should be held everywhere. | The American masses must | be aroused to act against this | criminal war! | Flood the Italian Embassy jin Washington with protests ‘and demands against this |bloodbath being organited by | Mussolini. | Demand Mussolini stop his war mobilization! We appeal to the Socialist Party and Young Peoples’ So- \cialist League for united ac- ‘tion, for joint demonstrations | and struggles against the war 'mad fascist imperialist crim- \inals, against the bloody Mus- solini invasion of Abyssinia. New York Socialist work- (Continued on Page 2) ig capitalist | + to smash the war plans of! Fascist Press Bellows Loud for Invasion of African State BRITAIN IS IN DEAL Mediterr anean Ports Are Jammed With War Materials 11.—Muss has ion of a quar- Feb. mobi ter of a million tr ROME ordered t s for war for the seizure of Abyssini dependent Negro co The fascist press war fever throughout t Bo: the 1 of Italian t por boats, cruisers and are steaming down carrying tens of thou bound for Eritrea an maliland, both of w Abyssinia Italian troops are alread ing from Ualual northward Abyssinia In Rome today an official munique was issued declaring two divisions of Pelori Cavinana have been mol Abyssinian service in the Tenth a Bleventh Infantr3 Kept Date Secret All soldiers of the cl | have been called to the ate of the mobilizati kept secret, but it is clea solini had alread major war mea: present. inciden Afdub, Abyssin The class of 1911 number more tha Italian fascis' 1 openly calling for war bing of Abyssinia Mussolini follov upon the signing of an between France | would gr him ce |sions in Africa. The: | provide for the exten: Jin the North of rights for Italian fas Most particuiar: | which was backed | perialism, gave to jhand for the s The French, who control tt railroad into Abyssi f in the French Somalil capital of Aby granted Italian fa transport troops and munit war against the A try. It also granted Mi n Eritrea and Italian | Somaliland | ughout Italy unteers for the Al British Ambi The British imperia: {in on this deal at its ver are stated to have offered ‘good services” to avert war | known that British imper' territerial ambitions in the North of Abyssinia, where the Bri! Sudan }abuts an important Abyssinian tere ritory. In Geneva. it is openly declared that Mussolini's actions with regard to Abyssinia is creating the basis for another “Manchukuo” in Africa, It is said that the Council of the League of Nations would consider the matter at an early meeting. Italian finances, which have been in very bad shape are sharply hit by the opzn preparations for war. The stock market dipped wil . Ital bonds, which were quoted last w at 8114, dropped to 78ts becau: the recognition of the heavy ex~ penditures the nearly bankrupt Ital- ian fascist government is about to make for a major war. , who were inception, their It is has Supreme Court Refuses To Reconsider Decision On Tom Mooney Appeal WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (UP) — The Supreme Court today refused to reconsider its recent decisiori which sent Thomas J. Mooney, im- prisoned California labor leader, back to the local State courts in his 18-year old fight for release from San Quentin penitentiary. It was accepted as a foregone con- clusion that Mooney’s attorneys will file a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in California, Mooney is serving a life sentence in connesticn with the 1916 San Francisco prepareaness parade bombins>