The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 26, 1935, Page 1

{ SeH the Daily Worker at Demonstra- tions Before Relief Agencies! Press Run Yesterday—46,100 Daily, Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) Vol. XII, No. 49 > * Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of Mareh 8, 1879. CONGRESS BODY BACKS WORKERS BILL NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1935 NATIONAL EDITIO (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents Hearst’s Anti-Soviet ‘Authority Never Was in the U.S.S.R. OFFICIAL FILES SHOW NO RECORD OF AUTHOR OF WAR-INCITING FAKES Ukrainian Farmers Tell Of Unprecedented Prosperity In reply to a cabled query by the Daily Worker as to the iden- tity of “Thomas Walker,” whose name is signed to the vicious series of faked stories about the Soviet Ukraine, published by the New York Journal and other Hearst newspapers in Hearst's war-inciting campaign against the Soviet Union, Vern Smith, Daily Worker staff correspondent, yesterday cabled the following re- sult of his investigations. By Vern Smith Daily Worker Moscow Correspondent MOSCOW, Feb, 25 (By Cable).— ‘The name and description of every person who enters the Soviet Union is recorded in the Narkomindel (People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs) here in Moscow. After a complete search of these records, and of those of all other bureaus where the names of visitors to the Soviet Union are listed, I can state positively that no person named Thomas Walker, correspondent or tourist, has ever been in the Soviet Union. Record Crop People here are somewhat puzzled at the stupidity of such articles about starvation in the Ukraine as published by the Hearst press. The fact is that 1933 had the best crop up to that time in the history of Russia or the Soviet Union, but in 1934, even with the bad weather, there was a better crop, due to the | benefits of collective farm methods. The Ukrainian peasant is not worrying about the food supply next year or this year, but is occu- pied with plans of building a new house for himself, or taking corre- spondence courses, or occupied with socialist competition with other kolkhozes for honors such as travel- ing, or the Red Banner, given for | the greatest yield per acre, or the best cultural conditions. Now that 1934 showed the way to get bumper crops, despite drought, all fears have vanished for the fu- ture. The average income of the col- lective farm family for 1934 in (Continued on Page 2) Coal Strikers Block Seabs. WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Feb. 25,— Three trolley cars taking strike- ture of All Humanity, Says Pravda (Special to the Daily Worker) | MOSCOW, Feb. 25 (By Wireless). —‘No army in the world enjoys such | love, trust and respect as the Soviet | fighters enjoy among the workers, peasants and toilers of all countries of the globe,” declared Pravda, newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, yesterday, on the seventeenth anniversary of the Red Army. “Our own people’s army, cemented to its people by blood, stands guard over the great and wonderful coun- tty of Socialism, stands by for the ordet, ‘To arms!’ at the motors, the tanks, airplanes, at the locks of guns, at the torpedo tubes of sub- marines, “Tt is guarding the powerful So- viet Union,.her plants and factories, | her land, which has been trans- ; ferred forever to the collective | farms; it is guarding her towns and villages, her people—the creators of @ wonderful, striking and well-to- do life. It guards the Soviet rivers, seas, mountains and valleys, the dense forests and boundless steppes the Soviet children and Soviet la- |bor. It guards the hopes and fu- ture of all humanity.” Toilers’ Own Armed Forces Pointing out the historical per- spective of thes Red Army, Pravda declares: | “The oppressed and exploited | throughout the centuries have al- | Ways dreamed of their own armed | forces. | “To arsms! This | ways resounded in the mountain passes of the class struggle. But the exploiters were masters of all the arsenals. The toilers could se- cure arms only through shedding their blood. And they suffered nu- merous defeats because they were lacking the means of answering the grape-shot of their enemies with grape-shot. Born of Revolution | “The October Revolution,” con- tinues Pravda, “created the armed forces of a toiling nation for the first time in history. The Red Army was born in the fire of the great revolutionary battles for Socialism for the independence of the great Soviet - fatherland. It grew in Strength warring with the wild hordes of the entire imperialist world, and annihilated the armies of the white guard generals, drove out the British, German, Japanese, | Polish and other imperialists’ troops | from the land of the Soviets. “Led, organized and educated by the Communist Party, by Lenin and | Stalin, the Red Army is always vic- |torious. The Party gave it com- \ manders, the Party reared its fight- ardent call al- ers and heroes, the Party drafted its , |Red Army Guards Fu-) SERVICE UNION HEADS AGAIN BLOCK STRIKE Realty Owners Allowed to Score as Another Parley Begins Realty owners were allowed to score an imvortant point yesterday by officers of the Building Service Employees Union who agreed to call no strikes for the duration of the conference begun yesterday before Judge Jeremiah T. Mahoney, chair- man of the New York Regional Labor Board. This decision by union leaders came just as 20,000 building service workers were prepared, after the many delays, to tie up the entire garment and fur district. The gar- ment and fur workers in this dis- support. the strikers by refusing to work in scab-run buildings. Present at. the first session of the conference, which lasted from 12:30 to 2:20 in Mahoney's office at 51 Chamber Street, were Mahoney, Benedict Wolf, executive secretary of the National Labor Relations | Board; Samuel Lamport, industrial member of both the Regional Labor Board and the Labor Relations Board; Walter Gordon Merritt, open-shop lawyer appeared for the two organization of realty-owners, the Midtown Realty Owners’ As- | sociation and the Penn Zone As- sociation. Representing the union were | James J, Bambrick, president, Thomas Young, George Scalese, international vice- | president and the entire executive | board. At this session, union officials stated they felt “the spirit of con- ciliation could not be preszryed” if Willing to Die In the Chair For $6,000 Relief Worker Asks for Bruno’s Fate If His Kids Will Get Money | TRENTON, N. J., Feb. 25.—If it gets him $6,000 to provide for his | 14-year-old son and his 12-year-old _daughter, a Brooklyn war veteran \is willing to die in the electric chair in place of Bruno Richard Haupt- mann, condemned for the murder of the Lindbergh baby. This simple request was con- | tained in a letter received today by Governor Harold G. Hoffman from breakers to Glen Alden Company | fighting plans and victories, the | Samuel Prystup, a C. W. A. worker mines were stoned today by strikers when efforts to persuade the scabs to turn back failed. State troopers and local police were immediately rushed to the scene to protect the strikebreakers who, it is reported, were recruited by officials of the United Mine Workers of America. Strikers in many locals of the United Anthracite Miners of Penn- sylvania are incensed at the failure of last night’s district meeting of local presidents and secretaries to take measures for strengthening the strike. Thomas Maloney, dis- triet president, confined the order of business to finances. The eyes of the strikers were set on the meeting as it was expected that the strike situation would be the major point. Some rank and file workers at the meeting, nevertheless made pro- posals for tightening strike ranks, arousing more intense picketing and making the strike effective throughout the Wilkes-Barre- Scranton district, The meeting did not take up the defense of the seven strikers who have been framed on charges of dynamiting, nor was there any ac- tion considered for a fight against the injunction which orders the union to call off the strike. Thus far the district officials have not even issued a statement on the shameless frame-up of the seven workers, They were beaten mercilessly by the police to force fake confessions from them, sup- posedly admitting plans to bomb company property and homes of scabs. The only witnesses are two company policemen. Workers in all locals are aroused by the spineless attitude of Maloney and other dis- trict officials. Pat Mangan, a striker of Ply- mouth, was found guilty of assault. and battery. In this case, as in others “witnesses” were picked jointly by officials of the United Mine Workers and the company. gy f Party equipped it with the most ad- vanced technique. Red Army Ready “The enemy near the Soviet fron- tier is wakeful. He is attempting | to concoct alliances against the | country of the Soviets, he is raging, jhe is preparing for war, he is stretching his hands towards the | Soviets. The Soviet Union is sacred |and inviolable. It is saturated wiit | the blood of the best of its sons, who in great and supreme fidelity | toward their class sacrificed their | lives for her sake in the civil war. “The great Soviet army, almost a | million strong, stands on the fron- tiers, ready to rush like an ava- Janche upon the enemies who might dare to disturb the peace of the So- viet country. We do not wish for- eign lands, but should the enemy attack us, let him blame himself. To defend its fatherland our glor- ious army will sweep away every hostile army. The Red Army, wtih its Stalin and Voroshilov, will un- furl its fighting banners in defense of the fatherland and will inflict such a defeat on the enemy as the history of the world has never yet known,” Switzerland Fascists Suffer Setback in Vote (Special to the Daily Worker) ZURICH, Feb. 25 (By Cable). — In a national referendum brought about largely by the Communist and Socialist Parties of Switzerland the country yesterday voted in favor of lengthening the term of military service, but the deciding margin was so slight that the ad- ministration, the fascists, and the reformist trade union leadership suffered a heavy blow. The total vote against lengthen- ing of military service was 431,902. for increase of service, 506,789. In the canton of Geneva the decisive margin was less than 5,000 votes. of 339 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn. His family, Prystup wrote, found it almost impossible to get along on j his $12-a-week work relief wage. | This is the wage all relief workers | will receive if the Roosevelt $50-a- |month proposal goes through in |the four billion dollar works bill ‘sponsored by the administration. Revealing no shock at the degree | of desperation indicated by the let- ter of Prystup, Governor Hoffman concerned himself solely with the. legality of the ex-serviceman’s pro- | posal. “The procedure you mention is not permissible under the laws of | the State of New Jersey,” Governor Hoffman replied to the writer. ers’ organizations is necessary Roosevelt's efforts to put over | labor wage—on work relief jobs. wage of $50 per month, and in wages lower than those paid by employers. than 10c to 15c per hour. Those “The fundamental principle of In short, through his so-called lief measure, Roosevelt inaugurates a gen- trict had announced they would) vice-president, calls a “security wage’—actually a slave The administration proposes a maximum In many parts of the country, the South particularly, wages would be no higher wages paid by Huey Long in Louisiana. ident’s proposal,” said Senator Robinson, Roosevelt's floor leader in the Senate, “is that work relief employment shall be on _@ basis that will not invite and attract persens now engaged in private enterprise.” ! IN BUTLER STORE STRIKE Reeve Chain Employees Indicate They Will Join Walkout The strike of James Butler chain store employes took greater effect yesterday as 100 of the 125 workers jin the company’s warehouse at |Long Island City joined the walk- out, and locals 202 and 807 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters declared that no goods will be hauled from the company's | Warehouses to any of the stores. | Fifty-six stores in Westchester County, and twenty-five in New | Jersey will also be called out. More than 400 of the 700 workers |in the 300 stores effected by the strike called Saturday are already out and the rest are expected out shortly, the Grocery Chain Store Executives and Employes Associa- tion declared. Pickets on Line Pickets appeared at most stores and the store clerks and managers have spent Sunday visiting custom- ers to appeal to them not patronize stores employing scabs. Reports in- dicate that the strikers are getting fine support, | Meanwhile votes of 600 workers in the Daniel Reeves chain of gro- ceries now being tabulated indicate that this chain of 622 will be called {on strike possibly tomorrow. Officials stated that if a strike is authorized by the members it will | be called immediately. Samuel Null, attorney for the inion, arinounced that he was called to a conference by the representatives of the Reeves Company, but from experience in at least three months of negotia- tions with the company little is ex- pected. The opinion was expressed | that the Reeves Company is ma- neuvering for more time to prepare scabs, | Reeves Men Eager The strike vote of the Reeves workers followed a special meeting held jointly with Butler strikers at Knights of Columbus Hotel, Sunday. The sentiment showed that the workers are tired of dragged out negotiations and are eager to come out, | The Reeves Company organized scores of its “loyal” managers and executives to serve as “spotters.” These stood outside the hotel care- fully noting familiar faces. Mean- | While an effort was made by a few company agents led by one James | Sheehan to disrupt the meeting. Sheehan, when permitted to put a question, asked Martin Kyne, the local president, “What did the com- pany answer on union recognition to you and your Jewish lawyer?” Sheehan Ousted The workers answered him promptly by throwing him and the | few with him bodily out of the hall and proceeded to make preparations for a strike. Sheehan’s attempt Was considered a deliberate effort inspired by the company to create a division among the workers and / | the union officials on the basis of | fascist slanders. Another maneuver | the workers is to issue a statement |that only the clerks belong to the |union, while the managers are satisfied. This was answered by the union with a declaration that 90 per cent of the Reeves managers | were already in the union. The Reeves workers demand a 48 hour week; a 25 per cent wage in- crease and recognition of the union. a wide appeal will be made to all | People in the neighborhoods of the |stores not to patronize scab oper- |ated establishments. to defeat what he But workers know all cases Each capitalist will capitalist vicious circle, other! One were the temporary—but only the Pres- in the Senate. bill. work re- Union | by the company designed to divide | eral policy of wage cutting on all govern- ment work, with wages in all cases less than those paid in private enterprise. ernment does, private capitalists do! Roosevelt begins the drive on wages. turn, under Roosevelt's policy, would neces- sitate further cuts on work relief jobs. A This pet measure of Roosevelt received a It has been referred back to a Senate committee, while an effort is made to whip up “popular sentiment,” i-e., pressure on the Senators, in favor of the The workers and workers’ organizations must see to it that the Senators feel the pressure of true popular sentiments, the Street Car Employees, Government Workers Plan To Join HAVANA, Cuba, Feb. 25.—The general strike of 350,000 Cuban stu- dents and teachers is being extend- | ed to the factories. The workers of one of the largest cigar factories, the “Romeo y Julieta,” walked out. in sympathy with the students, and the street car workers and em- ployees of several government partments threaten Lo join the anti- Mendieta-Batista-Caffery strike. Recent events show that the stu- dehts and teachers realize their struggle will be successful only if | they receive the Cuban workers and peasants. At a general membership meeting of the students from Havana Uni- versity, a student delegate from the state of Pinar Del Rio made a very sharp attack on the government ter- ror against the sugar workers. The anti-imperialist daily, “La Palabra,” quotes part of his speech: “While the present government protects the lives of the hired as- sassins of Machado, it establishes the death penalty for the revolu- tionary sugar workers.” The students’ and teachers’ strike committee of Havana again pre- sented its demands yesterday to the government. They are: Demands Listed (1) Increased wages for all teach- ers. (2) Immediate payment of all back wages. (3) Repeal of the de- cree removing-the teachers’ rights as civil service employees. (4) More and better equipment for the schools. (5) The freedom of all im- prisoned students and teachers re- gardless of the nature of the charge against them. (6) Same wage scales for teachers outside of Havana as in Havana, (7) Free meals for poor students. (8) Creation of 5,000 new jclasses. (9) Regular increases in pay for the teachers according to the number of years of service, Terror Increased The government, in its desperate | attempts to stop the spreading of the strike to the workers, is relying more and more on terror measures. In Camaguey, where the school in- spectors decided to join the strike yesterday, the Army is in complete charge of the city, with troops patrolling the streets. At Havana | University the police dispersed a meeting of strikers with rifle fire. Immediate steps must be taken by all organizations, particularly students and teachers, to support these struggles, and to prevent an armed intervention by the United States Government. Rubber Plant Pickets Hurt by Clubs and Gas WILLOUGHBY, Ohio, Feb. 25. — Tear gas and clubs were brought into action by police today as strik- ers of the Ohio Rubber Company tried to prevent a truck from en- tering the nlant. Many of the pickets, including women, were in- jured and overcome by the gas. | Fifty pickets were arrested. Five tents which had been occupied by } pickets just outside of the plant gates were burned. The strike entered the second week today, with scabs remaining inside the plant, where they have worked, eaten and slept for eight | days. The strikers maintain their siege with ranks solid, determined | _to win recognition of the United | Rubber Workers Union of the A. F. of L. and abolition of the company union. | Demand Union Wages on Work Reliet Jobs that what the goy- follow suit. This in wage cut after an- localities a temporary setback de-| support of the} STOP THE EXECUTIONS IN SPAI | | a Victims of the fascist firing squads in Asturias, Spain. These work- ers were slaughtered at the order of the Lerroux-Robles fa: ment. ist govern- The Socialist and Communist leaders of Spain have been sen- tenced to a similar fate. Only world-wide protests can save their lives, Act now! MADRID, Feb. 25 world -wide protests can stop the carry- ing out of the death sent2nce against the Socialist leaders of Asturias, Pena and Mendez, and the threatened death penalty against the Com- munaist leaders, especially Manzo and Simondiaz. The united front of Sociaiists a workers of all countries to hold mas: alties. execution of Secialists and Commun: Whole Seorteh By A. W. Berry and | | Benj. J. Davis, Jr. EPRIVED of the opportunity to play one attorney against an- other at the Scottsboro hearing last | week, the Supreme Court resorted to the most subtle maneuvers to stem the brilliant offensive launched against the Southern lynch system by a unified legal defense. When Justice Van Der Vanter in- | terrupted the defense counsel and stated, “It is not so much whether Negroes have ever been seen on the Morgan Count juries, but the point jis whether they have ever been called for jury service,” it was clear | that he was hoping to find a loop- jhole in the legal defense through | which the Supreme Court could | reach down and pull the Alabama lynch tribunals to victory. Veil Ripped But the basic International Labor Defense policy of fighting for the lives and freedom of the Scottsboro boys ripped aside the thin veil of STATEMENT BY THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE, C.P.U.S.A. INERGETIC action by workers and work- sentiment of the masses against this wage cutting measure, Everywhere the demand shonld be for the full union wage! Senators opposing the measure and the leaders of the American Federation of La- bor have demanded what they “prevailing wage,” as distinct from Roose- velt’s “security wage.” But what is the prevailing wage in most term the and in most industries? Nothing more than the miserable wage that open shop, company union employers have forced upon the workers by intrigue and terror, Certainly the “prevailing wage” is not a satisfactory wage for the workers. against such wages that the strike move- ment is developing in auto, steel, coal, tex- Tt is (Continued on Page 2) ————aanapeaammeccns mene RT ee Seaman ren enn em Send cables of protest to the Lerroux government. tests to Spanish consulates and embassies in every city. nd Communists in Spain urges the Ss meetings against these death pen- Wire pro- Stop the ists in Spain! oro Defense Should Emulate Unity Seen In Courtroom, Urge Writers ‘impartiality’ with which the white ruling class surrounds the Supreme Court. The essence of the upited legal defense was that the Norris and Patterson appeals were presented as one case. The briefs prepared by Attorneys Walter H. Pollak and Os: mond K. Fraenkel, were used by At- torneys Leibowitz and Chamlee, al- though the latter were attorneys of record for Norris. The main issue in these briefs was the unconstitu- tional exclusion of Negroes from the Alabama juries. By agreement of all four attor- neys of record, Leibowitz presented the facts of both cases and Pollak argued the constitutional law of both cases. While Leibowitz pre- sented a very able explanation of the methods of jury exclusion and the jury roll forgery, there can be no question about the fact that Pollak, eminent constitutional au- thority, was the guiding force of the legal defense. The use of Poliak’s briefs together with the agreement of counsel themselves to entrust him with the law in the case amply prove this fact. Certainly, Mr. Leibowitz him- self cannot honestly assert the con- trary Yet, Dr. George E. Haynes, head ) | (Continued on Page Soviet Air Gliders Set New Record in Moscow 2 (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Feb. 25 (By Cable).— Five gliders towed by an airpiane went up at the aerodrome of the Moscow Aero Club yesterday, in celebration of the seventeenth an- niversary of the Red Army. The history of aviation knows of no air train with such a number of gliders. The Soviet gliders set a new world record. Attaching thin wires to the tail of the airplane, the gliders simultaneously took to the jair. In a well-formed group, they described several circlesover the |aerodrome, the gliders afterward being detached from the airplane |to continue their flight indepen- \dentiy. RE 0U1350,000 Out As Cuban School 4 MORE VOTES Strike Spreads to Factories WILL PLACE BILL ON FLOOR Full Committee to Take Up Measures Passed By Sub-Group By Seymour Waldman (Dally Worker Washington Burean) WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb, 25.— By unanimous vote the special House Labor Sub-Committee today favorably reported the Workers Un- | employment, Old Age and Social Insurance Bill, H. R. 2827. It now goes to the full House Committee on Labor Representative Matthew A. Dunn of Pittsburgh, chairman of the Sub- Committee, announced immediately | after reporting the result of the |vote that he would make “a big jeffort” to push the bill through the | full Labor Committee, to bring it before the House for consideration. |. This unanimous vote is unques- jtionably the result both of the | steady stream of letters and tele- grams from workers and their or- ganizations which has been pouring over the Congressional desks in the last few months and of the power, expertness and scope of the testi- mony given by workers and tech- nician witnesses who appeared re cently before the Sub-Committee. | Need Four Votes in Full Group Only four more votes are neces- sary to bring the Workers Bill fav- orably out of the full Labor Com- mittee since Chairman Connery of Massachusetts has already an- nounced himself for the bill The Workers Bill was initiated by the Communist Party and in- troduced by Ernest Lundeen, Farm- er-Laborite of Minnesota. While the Roosevelt administra- tion unleashed a press barrage designed to defeat the McCarran “prevailing wage” amendment to the $4,880,000,000 work relief bill and substitute the $50 average “security wage” demanded by Roosevelt, the Unemployment Councils issued an | appeal to all labor to demand trade union wages on all relief projects. | The Unemployment Council tele- 'gram which was broadcast to all State organizations of its affiliated bodies to call for mass meetings and outdoor demonstrations in co- |operation with local central labor bodies called for mass meetings | ganizations. It called further for a deluge of telegrams and resolutions to Washington demanding payment of trade union rates on all work relief jobs of all sorts. | Wire To Green 'T ° Unemployment Council asked William Green to inform all affilie- ted bodies of the A. F. of L. if this meets with the approval of the A. F. of L. The telegram to Green said: “Recognizing that President Roosevelt's attempt to secure public support for his effort to override the Senate vote on the prevailing wage amendment to the public works bill represents a serious attack upon the living standards of all workers, the em- ployed and unemployed, organized and unorganized, we believe that all labor organizations must unitedly meet this challenge with vigorous resistance and demand for umion wage rates. “We are calling upon all our affiliated organizations to co-oper- ate with Central Labor bodies and other units of the A. F. of L. for intensive action within the next two-week period. If this action meets with your approval, will you inform your affiliated organi- zations accordingly? “Have you any alternative pro- posals for concerted action if the above does not entiraly meet with your approval? In view of the urgency ~¢ the situation, ze hope that you find it possible to reply without delay.” The telegram to Green included (Continued on Page 2) Mass Rallies | Shake Britain LONDON, Feb. 25.—Huge dem- onstrations against the National Government's attack on the unem- ployed were held throughout Bri- tain yesterday, involving hundreds of thousands of workers in a mighty united front demonstration. Preparations are now being made for a one-day general strike in England, following the approval of a strike resolution by 60,000 miners and their wives at Glamorganshire Wales. The Communist Party of Great Britain sponsored th® idea of a general one-day strike to force the British government to stop ita jattacks on the unemployed