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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28

idea of scientific and technical pro-
gress on earth. The capitalist coun-
tries at present are squirming in the
spasms Of hopeless crisis. The
.--.'---'-- 'f-g ideas Of capitalism are
ideas # economical, technical a-d
poi.C.sal resrogression, ideas Of IA
scist racial fury"
amid the clank of arms Of the
modern barbarians, the U. S. S. r..
stands as the world stronghold Of
socialism, of technical and scientific
development, the stronghold Of the
great culture Of the future-Commu-
nisrn."
The appeal stresses the gigantic de-
veIopment in the country in recent
years of all branches of economic and
cultural life. 1t cites further the ire
mendou5 construction program OF the
second Five-Ye Plan. on the agenda
Of the Communist Party Congress.
For engineers and technicians, the
appeal states, "the ideology of capi-
talism is now direct treachery TO all
technical progress.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
Berlin Statistics Show
MassMiseryIncreasing

BERLIN, Dec. Embarrassing sta
tistical reports showing the growing
impoverishment of the German toll
ing masses under the fascist regime
continue from Berlin's registry Of
ficeS.
The city's head registry office
states that in November, 1888, the
number of deaths was 4,206, as COM
pared with 1884 in October, and 3,756
In November, 1892. OF the 4,2c6
deaths, 201 were infants under one
year, whilst in November, 1882, this
figure was 'only" 1874.
The number Of marriages has
dropped again, from 1888 in October
to 1889 in November
The number of births has in
creased. In November these counted
3,242, as compared with 3,147 in Oc-
tober and 1929 in November, 1882.
This increased number of births Is
the expression of the hopes set on
an improvement Of their material
situation by the broad masses Of the
petty bourgeois of national socialist
tendencies at the beginning Of the
Hitler government. There can be no
doubt that the number Of births will
fall off again, expressing the CRYING
disappointment Of the petty-bour-
geois masses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
Soviet Academy Of Science Halls
Party AS World Cultural Leader

"The Academy of Science and other
scientific institutions are proceeding
on unified front for the carrying
out of the Second Five-Year Plan.
I'VE are well aware Of the imperial
list clique preparing its praetorian
guard for sudden attack on us; we
are aware that German fascism is
openly working for seizure of Eu-
ropean parts of the U.S.S.R., and that
Japanese fascism Is ORIGINATING itself
for q seizure of an Asiatic part of
the Soviet Union. But let them try
it!
The Communist Party has iron
leaders, backed by hundreds Of mil
lions of toilers. II the enemy at
tempts to encroach on any of the Red
frontiers, the whole country will rise
in unified force to complete the rout-
ing Of the enemy!
I'VE meet the nth Party Congress
not as a parade but as battle review
Of the leading fighters for technology,
science, the happiness Of the brother
hood Of peoples for Communism"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
Cuban Govt Will
Not Pay Interest
On Wall st. Loans
But Outdoes Machado
In Numbering Work
ers and Students

HAVANA, Dec. 27.-Notice was
served today by the Cuban secretary
of the treasury that $3950,00o in
terest due on Wall Street loans would
not be paid.
Col. Manuel Despaigne, secretary
Of the treasury of the G-au-Batista
regime stated that the loans were
Illegally contracted by ex-President
Machado. The fact is that Machado,
working with the United States Am
bassador Guggenheim, the Chase Ma
tionaI Bank and the National City
Bank of New York grated huge
sums. The banks also were able to
pile up heavy profits through the
floatation of the loans, the payment
for which Machado wrung out of the
masses through heavy taxation.
The payments not being made are:
81, 100000 interest on $40000,000 in
public works bonds issued under the
auspices of the Chase National Bank
Of New York, most of which went to
graft for Machado and his supporters
and to American contractors; S650,000
interest and commission on $20000,-
600 short term notes of the same
bank; $2,200,0o0 interest on bonds
sponsored by the First National Bank
of Boston.
Col. Despaigne said the Grau re-
gime was considering a moratorium
on all foreign loans.
At the same time, President Grau
is carrying on negotiations with U. S.
Ambassador Caffery for recognition
of the new regime which is proving
itself as murderous as Machado's
government against the workers and
students.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
California Delegation
Makes Demands on
Nazi Consul
Workers, Farmers All
Over the Country
Join Protest

NEW YORK.-Demands for
the immediate, unconditional
and safe release of the Reich
stag defendants, whose lives
are still in great danger, despite the
forced admission of the Nazi Supreme
Court of their innocence, were cabled
to the German Minister of the In
terror, Prick, at Berlin, by many or
CARNATIONS in New York and other
cities yesterday. In many cities del
egations visited the German consuls
with similar demands.
IRONWOOD, Mich, Dec. 27.-The
National Cooperative, workers
and farmers organization, adopted
resolutions demanding the safe and
unconditional release of Torgler, Di-
4mitroff, Taneff and Popoff, CoYnmu-
mist defendants in the Reichstag
arson trial, admission of whose in
nocence has been wrested from the
Nazi Supreme Court by the world
wide protest movement. A cable de-
manding their release was sent to
the Nazi Judge Buenger.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. PA del
egation organized by the National
Committee for the Defense of Poll
tical Prisoners called on the German
Consul today to demand the imme-
diate release of the four defendants.
The delegation consisted of Noel Sui
Ivan, Langston Hughes, Helen Meik-
lejohn, Marion R. Roth, John Emer-
son, Gidlow, Florence Erskine. Rich
ard Bransten, Florence Wyckoff, Jane
Richardson, Cayendish Moxon and
Thomas Wsrd.
sTEUBENyILLE, Ohio. Dec. 27.--
The Youth Club of this city fore
warded a resolution to the Nazi AM
bassador Luther at Washington pro-
testing the failure of the Nazi re-
gine to release the four defendants
whose innocence is proven before
the whole world.
Minnesota Organizations in Protest
HIBBING, Mimi, Dec. 2-ProteSt
resolutions against the plans of the
Nazi regime to murder Dimitroff,
Torglar. Taneff and Popoff were sent
to the Nazi Ambassador at Washing
ton by the Working Women's Club
Of this city, the Finnish Workers and
Farmers Club of Kettle River; the
Argo-Wassa Working Women's Club
Of Embarass; the Deep River, Farm
ers' Club, the International Working
Peoples Cooperative of Gilbert,
Mimi.
Protests were also forwarded by a
meeting OF workers and farmers in
Toivola, MINI, who adopted a res
olution declaring, in part, we promise
to leave no stone unturned to arouse
wide masses against the fascist muir
der plans"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
War Vets to Protest
Cutting Of Relief
M e tin G Called for
This Evening

NEW YORK.-Post ! of the Work
ers Ex-seryicemen's League has called
a mass meeting for Thursday evening,
at 203 E. 18th ST., to fight the Citizens
Budget Committee in its proposed
move in Albany to cut off all state
relief to veterans, just as the Ma
tional Economy League forced
through legislature cutting veterans
compensation and disability allow
ances.
This act on the part of the Citizens
Budget C~mrli-+ee corres ~ TIE l,rals
Of President Roosevelt's statements
that each state should take care of It's
own veterans.
The veterans are fighting to keep
in force law which states that no
veteran should be pauperized. law
which the Citizens Budget Commit
tee is trying to annul.
The Mobilization Committee OF the
Workers Ex-seryicemen's League has
called on all veterans regardless OF
Affiliations, to attend the meeting on
Thursday. Dec. %, at 203 E. 18th St
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
Hand Local Beard
Task of Breaking
Truckers Strike
Wagner Says Sec. Ia
Needs Siren gthening'
Against Workers
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG

BY MARGUERITE fOUNO
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-Now that
the National Labor Beard has sue
ceded in breaking the Philadelphia
general transportation strike move
ment, Chairman Wagner announced
today that the demands of the taxi,
milk and bread truckers sill out have
been turned over to the Regional
Labor Board of Philadelphia for "set-
Element"
At the same time Wagner stated
that Section Ia of the N. I. r. A.,
supposedly guaranteed recognition of
the employees right to collective bar
gaining, needs Qualification" Wagner
made long explanation to the press
of the legal philosophy involved, and
promised that he would propose
strengthening Section Ia in the
next Congress.
Now it is obvious that the only hope
of insuring collective bargaining and
other demands of the Philadelphia
workers lies in continuation and
widening Of the strike, when Wagner's
only suggestion concerning the sit
uation today is a pious hope that the
Public Service Commission of Penn
sylvania, well-known reactionary
body, might step in on their behalf.
A reliable source sad toni9ht that
the National Labor Board is thinking
Continued on Puge q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
Waters Officials
Working With NRA
Halt Strike Action
Rank and File Aroused
Against NRA Wage
Cutting Code

NEW YORK-A. F. OF L. officials
of the Hotel and Restaurant Union
joined with the N.RA. to halt strike
action by the walters Of New York
against the pending restaurant code
yesterday. The officials, who had
made no preparation for strike
among the members readily agreed
to submit the demands for changes
in the code to the employers for ne
gotiation under the supervision OF
tie MIA.
That the officials had no intention
of going through with their an
nounced strike threat is evident from
the willingness with which they SUBJ
mitted to the N.R.A.'s request to call
off any strike action. Their chief
aim was to stifie the tremendous
sentiment existing among the men,
bers for a strike by pretending to
favor such action, and to bolster ZIP
faith in the N.RA.
1t must be the task Of the rank
and file to demand that meetings OF
the locals be called at once to discuss
and prepare for strike against the
sell-out which the officials will nego-
tate with the NR.A.
The restaurant code, which is now
before the President for signature
is overwhelmingly opposed by the
restaurant and cafeteria workers. Il
enacted 1t would include tips In
wages and establish the split shift
among other infamous conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
National Student
Convention Opens
In Washington
NY. Delegates Refuse
to Stay at Jim
Crow Hotel

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. %
Three hundred students, delegates OF
clubs and chapters in colleges rang
ing from Yale to the University OF
Southern California, were present as
the third annual convention Of the
National Student League opened here
this morning in the Andrew Rankin
Memorial Chapel Of Howard Univer-
sity, the largest Negro college in the
country.
The convention bids fair to be the
most successful of its kind ever held
especially in winning the masses Of
Negro students to the NS.L. program
and in bringing about the unity OF
the student body as a whole on the
basis of militant program Of action
Many Negro delegates and visitors
were present. A Negro professor of
Howard, representing the faculty OF
that college, praised the program OF
the N.S.L. and extended the greetings
of the university in the name of the
faculty.
Refuse to Stay in Jim Crow Hotel
The New York delegation of one
hundred and fifty, upon their arrival
at 3 A. M, refused to register at a
hotel which Disseminated against
Negroes. They instead remained in
the buses until morning or slept at
private homes.
In the absence Of Edmund Stevens
executive secretary Of the N.SL.
Adam Lapin, expelled City College
student, gave the opening address
He pointed out the three great prob
lens facing the students in America
today-war, school retrenchment, and
the problem Of the Negro students.
students in Germany, Bulgaria
Poland and other countries have
played a shameful role in supporting
the currents Of fascism and reaction,
he said. ut is our job to see that the
American student does not take the
same course. We must fight with the
working class, for their interests am
our interests"
A student dance will be held in q
local hall Wednesday evening. The
dance was originally scheduled to be
held in the university but was called
OF by the college ofiicials who had
received protests from New York and
Chicago college presidents. The pro-
tests charged the N.S.L. with being 9
Communist organization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
Federal Insurance
OF Unemployed Is
Dodged by Green
Talks Of State" Bills
But Doesn't Say
Who Will Pay
BY SEYMOUR WALDMAN
DAILY Worker Washington Bureaa)

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27-William
Green president OF the American
Federation Of Labor, today officially
side-stepped Federal Unemployment
Insurance in any form, in an an
nouncement concerning the Fedora
TONS federal legislation prorram. All
subordinate organizations of the A. F.
of L. were urged" to work only for
the enactment of state unemploy-
ment insurance delegation.
Green announced conference of
national and international represen-
tatives to meet the Executive Council
of the A. F. of L. at its headquarters
here on January "a, 1884. This meet
ing, he stated, will be held "for the
purpose Of giving consideration to
federal legislation to be approved and
supported by the American Fedora
ton Of Labor at the next session OF
Congress-"
To Brace MIRA.
The conference will also do It's bit
to disarm criticism Of and buttress
the crumpling National Recovery Act.
'"This conference will give considera-
ton to the progress thus far made
in the application Of the National Re-
covery Act, and will consider recon-
mendations on legislative amend
ments in the Act, and improvements
which time and experience have
shown to be necessary" No mention
is made of the Roosevelt administra-
TONS failure to enforce the collective
bargaining provisions supposedly in
the N.R.A.
The official circular sent to organ
lied units of the A. F. Of l.. repeats
the usual vague and demagogic
slogans, such as social justice), "the
social, economic and industrial in
terests of the workers of the nation
The directions of the A. F. Of L.
chieftains for the enactment Of state
unemployment insurance contrasts
sharply with the demand of the Un-
employed Councils for unemployment
and social insurance at the expense
Of the employers and the government
Just who will be proposed to pay FOL
even state unemployment insurance
Green neglects to say.
Other legislative measures recon-
mended by Green for states include:
workmen's compensation laws; anti
Injunction legislation; child labor
laws; old age pensions; minimum
wage laws for women and minors;
convict labor laws; shorter work day
and work week for workers in public
and private employment, and safety
legislation.
Concluding his message, Greer
says:
II hope that we will make great
progress during the coming year In
securing the enactment Of socia
Justice and economic legislation sc
much needed by the masses Of the
people.
1.-THE American Federation Of Labor
will cooperate with you in all OF you
efforts to secure the enactment Of the
legislation referred to and will gladly
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
Sickness Rate of
Unemployed Up SIS
Per Cent in U.S.A.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. z.-The
sickness rate of Americans who
have been hit by the depression Is
IS per cent higher than it was In
1929, according TO s. d. Collins,
senior statistician Of the q. s.
PubE> Health Service, and G.
Perrot, vital statistics expert.
"That group Of Americans which
was in reasonably comfortable
circumstances In 1929 but had
dropped to poverty in 1882. showed
the highest sickness rate this year"
Perrott told the American Stats
teal Association.
The death rate in the Soviet
Union has dropped 40 per cent
since the revelation. Infant NOR
tality which was 270 per thousand
in Czarist Russia has been cut by
moro than half.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
War Preparations
Speeded Up in u. S.
And Great Britain

YOUNGSTOWN, Dec. 27-A project
to set up anti-craft guns and huge
searchIghts at strategic points in this
steel and war industry center was I'M
der way today, as part Of the frantic
preparations for new World War.
The movement, sponsored by the steel
bosses, is led by the Mahoning Valley
war veterans organizations under
their control.
LONDON, Dec. 27-Lord Lloyd,
former British Governor of Bombay
and butcher of the Indian masses
called for further war appropriations
in a speech at Brighton. lie de-
manded that the government increase
the huge funds already allotted for
the building of new warships and air.
planes, and visualized civil aircraft
as potential war factor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
Philadelphia Milk
And Taxi Drivers
Continue on Strike
Farmers Pledge Aid to
Strikers; Form a
Joint Committee

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Dec. 27-The
milk drivers here decided to con-
tinue on strike along with the taxi
drivers. Mr.. Billikoff, Of the local
Labor Board has already interviewed
with an arbitration scheme to fool
the drivers.
At yesterdays strike meeting, de-
legation of the Farmers Regional
Committee spoke to the milk drivers
pledging to support their strike.
A joint committee Yves elected, and
q program worked out for joint meet
ings in the farm and city districts.
Under the leadership Of the Com
munist Party neighborhood meetings
are being held to support the strikes.
In each neighborhood members Of the
Women's Leagues are on the picket
lines.
Thomas P. O'Brien, local organizer
of the Transfers Union, is laying the
basis for betrayal of the strikers
through arbitration.
The Communist Party issued a
leaflet warning the milk drivers of the
danger Of arbitration.
The taxi drivers at meeting dis
cussed the proposals of the Commu-
mist Party program on means of win
ming the strike. The Socialist leaders
raised the red scare and are thus
helping the Philadelphia Rapid Tran
sit Co. to sabotage action on the part
Of the workers.
The democratic comptroller, in a
demagogic move, started hearings to
revoke the charter Of the P. r. T.
The hearings expose the strike
breaking role of the city government.
Policemen are receiving special gifts
from the P. r. T. to club striking
! drivers.
The Trade Union Unity League is
calling mass protest meeting Tues
dev, Jan. 2, at Girard Manor Hall,
Oil Girard Ave, in support of the
taxi drivers, the Budd and Ford
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
Lynch Gangs Form
In Columbia, s. c.
Mob Threats In Texas
and Kentucky

COLUMBIA, S. c., Dec. 27.-Lynch
gangs formed before the local jail
today in a threat to lynch Robert H,
wiles. white 49-year old war veteran,
arrested in connection with the kid
mapping of Herbert H. Harris, Jr., 49,
year old son of a wealthy chain store
operator.
Machine guns were mounted along
the prison walls and State Troopers
ordered held in readiness.
NEW Reorganization of
lynch gangs was also reported from
Wazahachie, Texas, where police have
arrested Negro worker on charge
Of beating Mrs. Tom Prestidge, a
white woman, and from Mayfield, KY,
where Dave Freeman, Negro worker,
is also held on a framed charge OF
assault.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Dec. 27.-
The Bridgeport Board Of Apportion-
ment and Taxation last night voted
to increase the tax rate BY three
mills ($S per thousand dollars Of as
sessment). hitting mainly the small
home owners. 4,
The Socialist Mayor McLevy Was
conveniently In New York when this
action was taken, but he did not pro-
test against 1t ON his return.
The Socialist CITY Clerk, Schwartz
kopf, tried to disclnirn responsibility
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
Socialist Mayor Absents
Self As Tax Rise Is Voted

by stating In the Bridgeport ".Tele-
gram" on Wednesday: THE matter
Of raising money to run the affairs
Of the city was a problem for the
Board OF Taxation and Apportion-
ment to handle and is not prob
lem for the Socialist city admins
tration."
The explanation Of the boards &C
ton by Mr.. Warner, member, is:
HE (McLevy) has not given us any
program"
Thus the Socialist solution to meet
the budget u higher taxes for all.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
Especial to the Daily worker)

Especial to the Daily worker
MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., Dec. n. -
Newspapers here today published the
appeal OF the Soviet Academy OF
Science addressed to all workers,
engineers, collective farmers and
scientists of the U.S.SR.
In this appeal, the Academy OF
Science, jointly with other scientific
institutions OF the U.S.S.R., calls for
the mobilization of the entire energy
of the Soviet Union for a Still more
stubborn and deeper struggle for the
-s.-hlishment of CLASHES Socialist
society,""
The appeal is signed by the menu
bers OF the Praesidium Of the Acad-
envy of Observation-Disclosures Blu
charm, Deborin, Joffe, Vayilov and
others, including the directors Of the
largest industrial plants and other
workers In the fields Of science and
technology.
I'VE are approaching the nth Con-
yress of the Communist Party-the
victorious force in the world, which
has become the embodiment Of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
In the Daily Worker
Today

Page 2
Sports, by 81 Gerson.
SEQ Furriers to make Demands
1t Washington for Code Hear
ing&"
aChicago District c. r. Criticizes
Its Weaknesses
Lewis Gets $4,000 Yearly
aNegro Shot A. Torturcd-Thea
Real Killer Confesses.
Page 4
Letter. from farmers, share CROP
pers, and agricultural workers.
ssParty Life"
Z SIn the Home" by Helen Luke.
Dr. Luttinger Advises.
Page 5
sWhat WoeId!" by Michael Gold
Tuning In, Stage and Screen,
Whst'D On.
sTrom Moscow to Siberia b.
Walt Carmen.
ssSoteA Singer Describes Soviet
world" by Edwin Rolfe.
Page 8
EAitorials: Toward Unity In Shoe;
A War and Hunger Budget.
Foreign News.
sSOviet Diplomacy and Social
Fascist Critics"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
CWA OFFICIALS DELAY NY.
JOBS: THROW APPLICATIONS
AWAY TO KEEP own JOBS
NY Workers To Hail
Tenth Year of Daily
in Coliseum, Sat'day

NEW YORK.-The outstanding
revolutionary event Of the year will
take place ct the Bronx Coliseum
this Saturday evening, when thou
sands of workers will gather to Gel
citrate the tenth anniversary Of the
Daily Worker, Central Organ Of
the Communist Party, U.S.A.
Every class-conscious worker is
urged to attend this event and to
bring his friends and fellow work.
ers. A program of unusual revolu-
tionary entertainment has been
arranged. Details Of this program
will be found on an inside page of
this issue.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
Fort Bliss Humming
With War Activity
lBy q worker Correspondentl

(By Worker Correspondent
FORT BLISS, Texas.-Work at
Fort Bliss calls for construction of
six ordinance magazines. At
present there is only one. If one
magazine was formerly sufficient,
there is every reason to believe
that war preparations are going
on at a terrific pace.
Also the troops stationed there
are undergoing intensive training,
and high school boys are being
drilled daily by regular army cor
porals and sergeants. They have
also been supplied with Springfield
rifles by the U. S. Army officials
at Fort Bliss.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
Two Pages Added to
Anniversary "Daily"

NEW YORK.-The tenth ami
versary edition Of the Daily Work.
err, Jan. 6, will contain 26 pages
instead of "a as previously an
nounced.
The additional two pages will al
low more space for the many rev.
dictionary greetings that have
come in from individual workers
and workingclass organizations.
Additional feature articles will also
be used.
There Is still time to order this
issue and to send greetings to 1t.
Rush your orders and greetings at
once to the Daily Worker, so E.
18th ST., New York City.