The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 13, 1935, Page 1

| Join the Subscription Contest and Help Increase Press Run Ye Vol. XII, No. 38 Daily Worker Circulation sterday—42,500 > * New York, N. ¥., under Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Daily QA Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST the Act of March 8, 1878 MUSSOLINI MOV WAR CLOUDS DARKEN AS PLAN TO NEGRO CO Fascists Ratile Saber; Envoy Prepares to Leave Italy ROME, Feb. 12—One hundred Italian bombing planes are roaring their way over the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, veering toward Abyssinia, headed for the Italian colony, Eritrea, where troops are now massing for war to enslave’ Abys- sinia, Negro independent country. Following the order to mobilize 250,000 soldiers for the proposed seizure of Abyssinia by Italian Fas- cism, the Supreme War Council met today to outline the plan of cam- paign in the rapidiy maturing war. eral Rudolpho Graziani was picked as commander of the Ex- peditionary Forces.. The General has long colonial experience as vice-governor for Cyrenaica, Italian colony in Africa, Air Marshal Balbo Ww par s called from Africa to Rome, to ke in the War Council meet- Envoy Packs Up The Abyssinian Ambassador in Rome is packing up, preparatory to returning to his country, in view of the open war talk against his country in the Italian Fascist press and in declarations of Italian statesmen. The Abyssinian Am- bassador declared that the people of his country would fight to the death to maintain their inde- pendence. He stated that more than 1,000,000 Abyssinians could be mobilized to protect themselves against the encroachment of Italian imperialism. Reports reaching Rome declared that Emperor Haile Salassie of Abys- sinia had massed 30,000. soldiers near Ualual, where the Italian Fas- cist, army is preparing for a major drive. Plans Bombing Mussolini’t aim is to launch a ter- rific air bombardment on peaceful Abyssinian villages in the North, and drive his army up along the plains from Italian Somaliland into Abyssinian territory. Fascist troops are already more than 100 miles over the Abyssinian border. Fascist statesmen here declare that since Abyssinia is a member ES HURRY Lundeen to Speak At Garden Meeting Sponsored by F.S.U. Ernest Lundeen, sponsor of the Workers Unemployment Insur- ance Bill 2827, has accepted an invitation to be one of the speak- ers on “The Breaking of U. S.- Soviet Debt Negotiations.” The meeting will be held Monday, Feb. 25, at the Madison Square Garden under the auspices of the Friends of the Soviet Union. The telegram announcing his acceptance, which was received at the national headquarters of the F. S. U., also announced that Senator Nye, head of the muni- tions investigations of the Sen- ate, will probably speak at the same time. | | | apes: RELIEF PAY CLAUSE GIVES AID TO CUTS to Senate Group on Measure WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 12.—| The Executive Council of the Ame: ican Federation of Labor today an- nounced that it had arranged for | the A, F, of L. president, William | Green, to appear before the Senate Appfopriations Committee to fight | for the “prevailing wage” rate clause | jin the $4,800,000,000 work relief bill. | The Senate Appropriations Com- | mittee yesterday voted “to recon- sider” its previous inclusion of the “prevailing wage” clause which was written into the bill last Thursday. An anti-labor amendment was voted into the works bill yesterday on the proposal of Senator Ty- dings. His amendment provided | that no person would be eligible for relief under the bill, if, within sixty days prior to application for relief, he had “resigned” from a job pay- ing more than $50 a month. By Marguerite Young (Daily Worker Washington Burezu) WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—Presi- dent William Green of the Amer- | TY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1935 NATIONAL EDITION | | | | U. S. Fascist’s Papers Suddenly Sing Praises Of Nazi Murder Regime | Green. Slated -to Talk. Monopoly of Foreign News in German Press Part) of Huge Transaction Followed by Cam- paign to Glorify Hitlerism in U. S. | Hearst has made a BIG BUSINESS DEAL with the! Hitler government. By James Casey ARTICLE Ty. Under the agreement, the chief spokesman of the fas- cist forces in America is to receive one million marks a directly under the supervision BOLD AND STATEMENT ABOUT GER- MANY’S DESIRE FOR EXPAN- SION TO THE EAST. Rosenberg here indicated Hitler's plans for | an attack on the, Soviet Union. The. conferences and the subse- | quent business negotiations followed Hearst's arrival in Nauheim in Cen- tral Germany ostensibly to “take a | | water cure.” | About Face for Cash It will be recalled that in 1933 jand the early vart of 1934 all the Hearst newspapers news services were apprehensive of | the Hitler regime. vices were permitted by Hearst fo and his two The news ser- year. This money is to come from. enterprises operating | of the Nazi regime. The deal was consummated after a series of conferences between Hearst and Nazi officials, including Herr Rosen- berg, Hitler’s assistant minister of propaganda. ROSEN- BERG 1S THE HITLER SPOKESMAN WHO MADE THE PROVOCATIVE ¢=—— report the widespread poverty and suffering prevalent in Germany. Then one day in the fall of last year came the surprising news that Hearst was leaving for a visit to Germany. Once in Germany, he met Hitler. He talked to high Nazi officials. There were letters ex- changed — then interviews and meetings. STEEL UNION. MEN DEMAND Force Executive Council | To Consider Organizing of Mill Workers (Daily Worker Washington Burean) WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—The | Organization Committee represent- ing the majority of the Amalga- mated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers have forced the Execu- tive Council of the American Fed- eration of Labor to place an or- ganization drive in steel on their immediate order of business. President William Green of the A.F. of L. last night publicly informed the committee that the Executive Council would formulate plans for the organization drive in steel this week, Led by President William J. Spang of District One, Pittsburgh, the committee today again pressed Green to bring them before the | Refused a definite appointment, |however, and informed from their |homes that their presence is needed |to advance the organization cam- AF. L. DRIVE Before an assembled vress corps, | | council to aid the steel campaign. | and file of the steel union, the committee left the capital declar- ing, “It is impossible for us to wait The first effect of these negoti- | ations was an abrunt cessation of | all news by the Hearst press deal- ing with the desperate economic conditions in Germany. For a brief |2%¢ 80ing home to build the union.” (Continued on Page 2) Compel Green’s Recognition It was the opposition of President ize the steel workers that WORKER SHOT paign already launched by the rank | around Washington any longer. We continue to Michael Tigue of the A. A. to the rank and file campaign to organ- | led to | | | jican Federation of Labor last night acknowtedged to the Daily Worker |that the “prevailing wage on re- lief jobs,” advocated by A. F. of L. All anti-fascists, all workers,| scales only where unions are al- Negro and white, are called upon/ready strong enough to have ob- to demonstrate in thousands today | tained recognition of their rates in before the Italian Consulate, 134 Private industry. Where trade test against the bloody fascist war Vailing wage” is a starvation wage which Mussolini is preparing against | maintained by open-shop employ- the Abyssinian peopie. ers, Green admitted, the A. F. of L. Every American worker, every) cism must act now to smash the war plans of the fascist Mussolini. Every worker must fight against | the fascist-imperialist efforts to en- | Abyssinia. | Demand that Mussolini stop his | war mobilization! Demonstrate your solidarity with | imperialist war plans of the butcher, | Mussolini! | Support the struggle of the Abys- sinian people for independence jalism! New York workers will stage a. mighty protest Sunday at 2 p. m.,/ at New Star Casino, 107th Street | TODAY AT 12 \officials, would guarantee union East 70th Street, in a mighty pro- | Unions are not strong and the “pre- enemy of imperialist war and fas. slave the 10,000,000 Negro people of | the people of Abyssinia against the from the yoke of fascism-imper- and Park Avenue, under the aus- | Proposal would make these rates standard. From this it would follow that the chief task of the A. F. of L. is to | build the unions and prepare | struggle to enforce union wages and | conditions. An effort to write the “prevailing | wage” provision into the Roose- | velt Administration’s $4,880,000,000 “relief” resolution is now before | the Senate Appropriations Commit- tee. President Roosevelt opposes it. The Government wishes to bar low ‘all wage-safeguarding language in (Continued on Page 2) Terror Rage Ss jof the Soviet Union. SOVIET FARM INCOME RISES (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Feb. 12 (By Cable).— The American farmer, driven by a/ capitalist government into dire pov- erty, is slowly but grimly remem- bering the revolutionary strength of | his ancestors. If this same farmer | were in Moscow last night he might | have attended a congress of farm- ers, of collective farmers whose gov- ernment was their own revolution- | |ary government. This was the | | second such congress in the history The opening of the Congress last |night was a colorful scene of na- IN VIENNA VIENNA, Feb. 12.—A worker was killed and a_ fascist detective wounded today when police fired into a demonstration of Socialists and Communists, commemorating the armed defensive uprising against fascism last year. The clash took place on the out- skirts of Vienna, in one of the many demonstrations on this anni- “ersary throughout the country. Po- lice cavalry flung themselves upon several hundred marching members of the United Front of Socialists, Communists and Schutbundilers, shooting a Communist standard Tighe’s effort to expel the com- mittee and their supporters, the majority of the union. Despite Tighe’s telegraphed in- sistence that the committee be denied “recognition,” Green again received the committee today. As the committee departed. Green im- Plied that they would be included jin the Executive Council's organi- zation plan. Green smiled warmly, (Continued on Page 2) Gold WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 12— Clause Fund Is Bared BROWDER LASHES INSURANCE FOES ES T0 BOMB ABYSS COMMUNIS “FIGHTS FOR 1,000 Miners in Pit In Rumania Ready For Hunger Strike TIMISOARA, Rumania 12.—More than 1,000 coal at the Steierdorfanina wo! sent word today from the bottom || of the pits that they would go on a hunger strike unless their unbearable working conditions were remedied. Their second main demand is a 25 per cent increase in wages. | An entire regiment of infan- |] try was dispatched to the scene || to intimidate the frantic fam- ilies of the town. The mine man- agement had pri usly promised to better the men’s working con- ditions and to raise their pay, but later the negotiations were deliberately sidetracked. PACIFIC NAVY SUMS SOUGHT Doy Feb e- WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 jtailed in with the army reinfoi |ment program now before Con- \gress, a navy construction schedule {provides for a vast outlay for war | preparations in the Pacific area Chief item is $10,000,000 for a | floating drydock at Pearl Harbor, the huge war base in Hawaii. More than $1,000,000 is provided for building up the fleet air base at |Pearl Harbor. The hearty en- couragement of the Roosevelt war government of all long-distance flights from California to Hawaii, etc., is well recognized here as the advance propaganda for a powerful |air armada in the coming struggle with Japanese imperialism. New radio facilities from Alaska to Panama and extensive submarine | base construction are also provided |for. More than $6,110,000 is set | aside for armor, armament and am- munition. One clause in the bill would increase officers of the line from 5,499 to 6.531, and enlisted per- sonnel from 82,500 to 93,500. A com- |panion measure provides for selec- tion from among civilians of 498 Hearst Deal With Hitler Nets Him Million Marks a Year T LEADER H.R. 2827 BEFORE HOUSE GROUP Says Only Workers’ Bill Meets Immediate Need of Masses By Seymour Waldman (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Feb. 12. — Earl Browder. official general secretary of t Communist stated, which of ‘soci and thereby also dition of i represe: ers eign appeared for Today's hearings marked seventh day of testimony by spokes- men for millions of workers, far ers, and professionals who have dorsed H. R | Conspiracy of Silence “Enemies of the Workers’ Bill,” said Browder, “have fai! to pre- sent their argu: st it, re- rather upon an attempt to smother it with silence.” Speaking with that precise calm- , Simplicity and warm britlance iary to many thousands of workers and farmers all over the country, Browder pointed out, early in his testimony, “It is noteworthy that among all political parties the Comn t Pariy alone has a clear, definite, unequivocal position on this. question (social security).” Matthew A. Dunn, chairman of the sub-committee, denounced the Dickstein-McCormack committee on “un-American,” after Browder had rumored to have drawn up a rec- ommendation for the outlawry of the Communist Party, as itself \“un-American” after Browder had informed the Labor sub-committee that the Dickstein-McCormack Committee had refused to permit an Official spokesman for the taunist Party to testi hearings supposed: le A pices of the Communist Party ss inoriti at applause | hearer through 4 Tt a aviation cadets who would undergo ties of the Communist P of the League of Nations, such as e tional minorities, Great tats thr ti : | TanEAER Gf ThE Ce a a J fe s pear China, no official declaration of war ; seed : n rose from whe | ie \esieuiie axis sla ss | training at Pensacola for a year asked for all the material on the ae ee g against Italy’s war mobilization | tr 1Ke VEA rose £ the audience when Joseph | }lar stabilization fund to protect and then be assigned for war duty will be made. Instead, the Fascists propose to follow the tactics of Japanese imperialism, utilizing Dickstein-McCormack e |the Communist Party rer | tive and said he would “protest.” i | Stalin, general secretary of the |Communist Party of the Soviet | Union, was elected to the presidium. against Abyssinia and the drive of | the Fascist dictator Mussolini to enslave the people of the last re- Moscow Press Recalls Vienna Events | American business against any losses | Tesulting from Supreme Court ac- raat leet co dS gfe | tion on the gold clause was promised with the navy for three years. (Special to the aily Worker) (Continued on Page 2) Dressmakers Vote for Strike CHICAGO, Ill, Feb. 12.—At a meeting of 2,000 members of Local 76, International Ladies Garment Workers Union, a decision was made maining independent Negro country | in Africa. | The meeting will be addressed by Harry Gannes, associate Editor of Party, James W. Ford, Harlem Sec- | | a | (Continued on Page 2) WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Feb. 12— The familiar slo; Dynamiting scares reported from) by Stalin, of “Make all collective coal towns affected by the general| farms Bolshevik and all collective strike ot ea neni oy aiopeen teria well-to-do” was the key-| BH thes tel the Daily Worker, Tom | miners is being us y the com- | note, not only of his short opening | Many papers publis! m= and ieee Magan ae tne | pany controlled newspapers to whip | speech but of the entire evening as | Miscentes of those who actually par- Italian Bureau of the Communist | up an hysteria against the strikers. | well. (Continued on Page 2) gan, first set forth | MOSCOW, Feb. 12 (By Cable).— | The entire Soviet press was taken up today with the anniversary of the Alstrian barricade fighting, and Morgenthau. | tieip tion Organizer of the Communist | homes of miners, beating up many|by one single desire—to raise the |0f Moscow a huge celebration was foreign exchanges as to limit losses | sales tax must go forward imme: Party, and Richard B. Moore, Na- in a reign of terror here. From entire collective farm countryside | held, the hall being crammed full for domestic capitalists. tional Field Organizer of the In- | Plymouth it is reported that State/and all collective farmers, without with members of the Schutzbund ternational Labor Defense, who will | x4 preside. (Continued on Page 2) | today by Secretary of the Treasury Fight Ohio Sales Tax in Ohio to order leaflets The fight against the ately,” said the instructions. “Fift “We are prepared to manage the | thousand leaflets must be distributed | SU: jexternal value of the dollar as long | at once. The price is one dollar per }as is necessary,” Morgenthau said. thousand plus postage.” CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 12—In- | Breaking the secrecy which has structions to all Communist Party surrounded the operations of this | units |immense fund, Morgenthau assured | against sales tax immediately were American business that whichever |issued today by the Party District ated in the fighting. In the best way the decision will go, the Amer- | Committee. “Do not wait further in- State troopers are breaking into| The whole Congress is animated | Cultural hall of the metal workers ican dollar will be so supported on structions, Questioned on Communism Dunn also announced that he saw President Roosevelt recently on the Workers Bill. He told the President, he said, that “the Workers Bill is @ practical bill” and that “it takes care of the farmers, something the Admin: tion Bill ‘agner-Lewis) doesn't do. The chairman of the House Labor committee began his question= r with, “You are fam= Browder replied, good= for a Strike of all cotton dress work- naturedly and a trifle amused. ers, Officials of the union declared The committee stenographer’s yesterday. The time for the strike call was left in the hands of the officials, More than 10,000 workers in the Chicago shops will be affected The workers are not satisfied with the recent 10 per cent increase or- dered in the cotton garment in- dustry, and demand a $16.00 a week minimum for all women workers; a 15 per cent increase for cutters, and recognition of the union. DECATUR, IIl., Feb. 12.—A strike against four large cotton dress shops is contemplated because the manu-| Concrete demands of the A. F. of L. Executive | anti-labor auto code, is being continued. Roose- | gaining. He said that “their treatment has been “eloauent and touching” appeal to employers on es ope eee one me ‘ factureiy refuse to recognize the| Council. William Green, on behalf of the A. F. of | velt’s works bill, which he is now pushing through | deep and bitter and is growing.” March, 1934, to voluntarily reduce hours ten per cause the effective use of this’ International Ladies Garment} UL. leadership, attacked the recent anti-labor acts of | Congress, is a wage cutting measure. The whole Workers Union, FORT WAYNE, Ind., Feb. 12— Following a strike of 350 workers of Pollack Brothers, manufacturers of cotton dresses, the firm was forced to sign an agreement with the International Ladies Garment The meeting between President Roosevelt and the Executive Council of the A. F. of L. on Monday / proves that only the mass pressure of the workers, only the broad united front to build the A. F. of L. unions and to prepare strike action will defeat Roosevelt's attacks on wages, hours, union condi- tions and the rights of the trade unions. Roosevelt did not accede to a single one of the Roosevelt and the N. R. A. But the present employers’ “open shop” drive of Roosevelt puts before the wrkers the question: How can the workers defeat Roosevelt's “open shop” drive? What must be done now to win the burning demands of the workers? Workers Union. On the same day that Roosevelt was conferring with the A. F. of L. officials, his administration “social security” program of Roosevelt is a program of denial of unemployment and social insurance, a program of relief cutting and wage reductions. The capitalist press admits that Roosevelt did not budge an inch in his anti-labor drive. The New York Heraid-Tribune of Tuesday, Feb. 12, declared, “Neither the President nor the labor Jeaders made one tangible concession of importance on issues | industry.” How Roosevelts Drive Against Labor Can AN EDITORIAL Senators in the Appropriations Committee reyoked the proposal for the “prevailing wage,” amendment in Roosevelt's works bill, and reverted to Roosevelt's original proposal for a maximum average of $50 a month on all work relief, which would go far to- ward reducing the whole wage level of the workers. Roosevelt’s wage cutting drive, instanced in his signing of the wage slashing tobacco code and the which have brought them into conflict." The New York Sun of the same date declared Roosevelt and labor “deadlocked.” In the meeting with Roosevelt, Green attacked the most recent moves of Roosevelt and the N. R. A. against labor. He declared that the workers were “shocked and disillusioned” when the govern- ment did not protect their rights to collective bar- Green again with unemploym: labor to support Green opposed the proposal of Roosevelt to establish a maximum “relief” wage in the works bill. He declared, “Two wage rates, a higher wage in private industry and a lower wage in govern- ment work, cannot be maintained. The higher rate will be forced down to the lower rate. - This would have a disastrous effect upon wage standards Green spent code just extend Board had “lost clared, has held and misleading” and wege rates established by labor in all lines of Be Defeated declared to Roosevelt, codes of fair competition to reduce unemployment through a substantial reduction in the number of hours worked per day and per week, has forced thirty-hour week.” criticized the codes when dealing ent and the thirty-hour week. He “The failure of industrial legislation which provides for the He reminded Roosevelt of his cent and increase wages ten per cent, and declared this has not been done. the most attention on the auto led by Roosevelt. The Auto Labor the confidence of labor,” he unfair elections and made “false statements. He also attacked the (Continued on Page 2) record narrates the following col- lequy between Dunn and Browder: Dunn: Does the Communist Party believe in a dictatorial form of gov= ernment? Dictatorship Browder: The Communist Party believes that all forms of govern= ment are dictatorships as against some classes, and democracies for . We believe the present form ernment in the United States, substance a dictatorship of the democracy depends upon the pos= session of property. As against $ form we stand for a rule of ¢he masses of the people, directed against those who own propesty, take this property away from and make it the common —all property in the means of \ (Continued on Page 2) Fight Against Mussolini’s War Plot in Abyssinia! Mass at Italian Consulate at Noon Toa