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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-29
ROUNDING ROUND
.THEATERS With hI T45TE R
Jane Gent and Hale MacKeeu

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-29

w. L. Fields
w. c. Fields is featured in an
other OF his comedy sketches. This
one entitled The Barber Shop"
which heads the short subject bill
at the Lyric this week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-14
Full Fasciism Is
Near in Austria
Dictatorship by Three
Men Is Forecast

VIENNA, Sept. ia complete
Fascist dictatorship. led by Chancel-
lor Dollfuss, Prince Ernst Won Stair
enberg, leader of the Christian So
cial Heimwehr, a private Fascist
military organization of 100000 mem
bers, and Emil Fey, Austrian Minister
of Security, is forecast by the Wen
nese press today.
"Austria will go Fascist sooner or
later" Stahremberg said yesterday.
Better sooner than later, and better
adopt it ourselves than have it forced
on us by the Nazis.'
Stahremberg has been for several
years one of the most active organ
izers of international action toward
an armed invasion of the Soviet
Union.
BINGEN, Germany, Sept. i3.-wiI-
helm Mehrling, commander of the
Rhineland Storm Troops, killed him
self with shot in the head yester-
day, after having shot and killed
Reinhold Muchow, high official OF
the German Labor Front, in a tavern
at Bacharach. The police said the
first shooting was accidental.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-14
September Relief
Not Made by City

NEW YORK. AS in previous
months the Board Of Estimate has
not yet made any appropriations for
September relief affecting one mil
lion jobless. The only funds on hand
are 81, 10000 granted by the State
Temporary Emergency Relief Admir1i-
stration and 100000 advanced by the
same body.
1t is uncertain whether the total
of S2,14O,0O0 will even be sufficient
for the 10000 heads OF famiAes woo
are on work relief. The $4,000 farli-
lies who are on home relief are left
entirely in the cold. At least one
third on home relief were alreadv re-
moved from the lists. The rest have
been put OIL stagger plan whereby
relief checks are issued t..GTi..,.g alter
mating weeks to these families.
At the same time the Home Relief
Bureaus are informing their inYesti-
gators that many of them will be
fired by the end of the month. In
the Home Relief Bureau on Spring
and Elizabeth Streets alone it is ex-
pected that about 40 investigators will
lose their jobs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-14
Amendment Called Protection Against For
eign Menace; But America Is Main Foreign
Menace to Independence of Cuban Masses

the concession OF abrogation of the
Platt Amendment, relying on the
Monroe Doctrine; but this would not
undermine the hold Of American i'm
perialism on Cuba" 1t is therefore
all the more necessary to link up the
demand for the abrogation Of the
Platt Amendment with the other
basic demands already mentioned.
Atmosphere Prepared for Landing Of
Marines
American imperialism is warning
on the masses of Cuba. The reac-
tionary ex-generals of the Cuban
army Justify their refusal to recognize
the present government, by "the
growing unrest and Communist agi-
tatiop," and by the fact that "the
sugar mills are being seized by the
workers in the interior"
American imperialism wishes to
keep the sugar workers in Cuba in
serfdom. A war hysteria is being
worked up in the United States. The
patient, neighborly" attitude OF
Roosevelt is combined with glazing
headlines of American women being
driven from their homes, of being
spattared with mud by 'hoodlum
Communists The Sinking of the
Maine in 1892 will be duplicated by
atrccity stories as the 1888 pretext
for intervention. The sending Of
Secretary of Navy Swanson to Cuba
was no mere accident. 1t recalls
President Theodore Roosevelt's send
ing of Secretary of War William r..
Taft to Havana in 1906. who insti-
tuted the military occupation that
lasted until 1909. Only the loud pub
lie protest caused Swanson to con-
tinue on to other American posses
sions" in Central America.
MAZE This . National Campaign
American workers! In whose in
terests are American warships sent
TO Cuba? Surely not in yours. Police
and troops take the part OF the bosses
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-14
Workers Protest
Intervention in
Meets Thru Nation

PHILADELPHIA meeting OF
protest against American interven-
tion in Cuba viii be held under the
leadership of the Communist Party
Saturday, Sept. 16, at IL noon on the
Rayburn Plaza opposite the City Hall.
NEW YORK. American interven-
ton in Cuba has called forth ma
tion-wide wave of protest from
workers organizations and meetings.
Last week, 100 workers in an open
air meeting at Blocker, and Thomp-
son Streets. New York. voted to send
a protest 10 Roosevelt against Am
eerian Intervention.
The Polish workers of New York at
a mass meeting at the Polish Ma
tional Home added their protest to
those flooding Roosevelt.
The Bosco Workers and Farmers
Association in Hueysville, Kentucky,
has Joined other organizations in pro-
testing intervention. The District
Convention of the International La
Dor Defense. meeting in Philadelphia
demanded that all armed forces be
Withdrawn from Cuba and passed re-
solutions, pledging solidarity with the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-14


than 1000 armed workers and peas
ants camped on the company prop
erty.
Guards were posted in all parts Of
the plantations. A certain amount of
sheep was slaughtered every day for
the army" A Red Guard was or
ganiSed, armed with shotguns and
revolvers, and composed in its ma
jority of members of the Young Com
munist League and young workers.
This Red Guard stopped all cars and
buses going past and confiscated all
arms which were then given to the
workers. 1t raided all houses of the
arrangements and confiscated thou
sands of rounds of ammunition and
many guns.
Try to Hang Workers
However, with the aid of the gov
eminent and the rural guard, the
company was able to buy off few
men and taking opportunity of the
absence of the organizers, organized
a coup d'etat. When the organizers
came back they were seized and led
to be hung. One of them, the local
organizer of the Y.C.L., declared that
if they were killed, the workers from
the city of Cienfuegos would come
and wipe the murderers off the face
Of the earth. This worked and they
were released. When they were leav-
ing the Central, the workers, who had
already seen through the treachery,
cheered them, and promised to con-
tinue the struggle.
Workers, Students, Arm
In the meantime in the neighbor-
hood city of Cienfuegos, workers and
students raided all hardware stores
and seized arms. Soldiers and sail
ors sent delegations to the workers,
asking what to do. However, the
Committee Of Action was not suffi-
GENTLY decisive and lacked initiative
to seize power and organize the So
Wet. The delay in action was suf-
ficient TO allow delegates from the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-14

sailors have landed on Cuban soil.
American warshipS lie in Cuban har-
bors, backing up Ambassador Welles'
intervention in Cuban affairs. Is
there a foreign menace? Yes, but
that foreign menace is the United
States Government, whose warships
menace Cuba. American warships
indicted De Cespedes into Office as
president. American warships are
now nenacing Cuba, because the
Cespedes Government was over
thrown by popular uprising. Amer
lean warships compelled the Revo-
lutionary Junta (although it offered
to protect American property to
draw In many more conservative ele-
ments, because the Junta was con-
sidered by Roosevelt to be too weak
to suppress the rising anti-imperialist
workers and peasants movement.
American warships will try to in
sure a Cuban government safe for
American imperialist interests. Amer
lean warships will impose on the
Cuban people a government CT their
own choosing" their own" mean
ing of the choosing Of Wall Street,
and not of the Cuban peoples.
Fourth Intervention Under the
Plat Amendment.
The present Intervention is not the
first in the history Of Cuba. Since
the first occupation following the
Spanish American War, ito make
Cuba safe for the American sugar
corporations" and to be the United
States military key to the Caribbean
three military interventions have
taken place. The first, in 1906, lasted
three years, during which American
companies received many rich con-
cessions from General Magoon.
The second was in 1912. TO protect
American property" until the Cuban
Government was able to crush the
revolt of the Negro Party trying to
secure political rights for the Ne
groes.
The third intervention took place
in 1917, when American marines
drove Liberal Party revolutionaries
out Of the town of Santiago, and
backed up President Menocal, re-
elested by fraud: the same Menocal
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-14
French Send Air
Fleet to Moscow
Air Minister in Trip to
Demonstrate Planes

STRASSBOURG, Alcase, Sept. 49,
Three of the latest model French
airplanes, carrying Pierre Cot,
Minister of Aviation, eleven aSsoci-
ates and a crew of Il, left here today
on their way to the Soviet Union.
The expedition is intended to be a
demonstration of French commercial
planes, in connection with the trade
agreement which is now being nego-
tiated between France and the Soviet
Union.
They will be followed by Paul Codos
and Maurice Rossi, flying the Joseph
Lebrix," in which they recently made
a new distance record, flying 5,657
miles from New York to Kayak,
Syria,
PARIS, Sept. 13.-French royalists
greeted Edouard Herriot with boos
and jeers as he returned to Paris
after his visit to the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-14
Plat Amendment Americas Charter of Slavery for Cuban Masses

incidentally, who now Is spoken OF
as the leader of a new coup d'etat
more in lire with the wishes of Roose-
welt and Welles. And these troops
did not all get out of Cuba until
1922.
All of these interventions were un-
dertaken under the provisions of the
Platt Amendment. And now the
Platt Amendment is being again in
yoked.
Communist Party Raises Demands
The Communist Party and the
-Imperialist League of the United
States are demanding OF the Roose-
welt Administration the abrogation
of the Platt Amendment. But this
is accompanied with demands for
cancellation of Wan Street loans, Tor
the evacuation of the Guantanamo
naval base, for withdrawal of Amer
lean warships from Cuban waters;
and with campaign for support 10
the revolutionary workers and peas
ants Of Cuba vino have already seized
several American sugar mills, who arc
ShIcllulis>, tItelT SVI uSSiC w eunS OfS'
the property and lands of the imper-
iahsts and the lands of the large
native landowners, and who are sue
ceeding in rallying mass support for
resistance to the Yankee invaders.
It is not enough to call for the
abro3ation of the Plat Amendment,
as is done by liberals and the leaders
of the Socialist Party (who, however,
do not carry on any mass campaign
for even this demand. As pointed
out by ORD. in "A Model Colony
of American Imperialism" (Commu-
mist, July, 1880, ut is not excluded
that, in particular instances, under
certain conditions, American imper-
ialisnl may give up part Of its po-
litical privileges In the Caribbean, re-
lying on its tremendous economic
power, brides, underliand machina-
tons, ETC. for the exploitation Of the
Caribbean peoples" In order to es-
tablish a government In Cuba that
will protect American investments
and suppress the growing revolution
airy mass movement, it Is not excluded
that American imperialism may make
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-14

Sept. 81, will be presented.
At the opening session former Pre-
mier francesca Nitti of Italy, Rudolph
BreitScheid of Germany, Sir Stafford
Grips, Of England, and Georg Bran
ting, Of Sweden, will speak,
Nazis Publish Anti-Red Book
BERLIN, Sept. 13.-Attempting to
counteract the worldwide knowledge
that the Nazis fired the Reichstag
last February, the Associated Anti
Communists of Germany have is
sued book which was presented yes
terday to 100 foreign correspondents
at a meeting here, in which "evi-
dence" OF a widespread Communist
conspiracy is given.
Even the capitalist correspondents,
however, refused to be taken in, and
pointed out that although the book
declares that the Reichstag fire was
to be the signal for a nationwide
Communist uprising, no signs were
shown anywhere of the alleged up
rising"
The book contains no details of the
evidence the Nazi prosecutors pro-
pose to produce at the trial of the
Communist leaders on September 81.
New York Demonstration Sept. FL
NEW YORK.-On Thursday, Sep
TENDER 81, when the trial of the four
Communist leaders charged with set
ting the Reichstag fire begins, in line
with worldwide protests, a mass de-
monstration will take place before
the German Consulate at II Battery
Place under the joint auspices of the
New York District International La
Dor Defense, New York Committee
To Aid Victims of German Fascism,
German and Jewish Anti-Fascist
Committees.
In preparations for the demonstra-
ton, various sections of the New
York District of the International La
Dor Defense will conduct series of
rallies and elect delegations to see
the German Consulate. Resolutions
will be adopted to be sent to Hans
Luther, German Ambassador in
Washington.
Workers and mass organizations Of
the Downtown Section will rally at
It'll Street and Avenue A at 10 a. m.
sharp. They win then march to
Whitehall Street and South Ferry.
All workers, mass organizations,
workers clubs, and friends are urged
to send delegations to the German
Consulate on Sept. 10 and 20 to de-
mand the release Of the four Cornmu-
mist leaders.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-14
Forced on Cuban People by U. S. Bayonets
Amendment Has No Validity Except Might
of Wall ST. Governments Armed Forces

/ army Of occupation was to remain
IN Cuba until the Cuban Constitu-
tional Convention included these
eight provisions in the Cuban Con-
stitution. On June IL. 1901, they
were appended to the Cuban consti-
tuition, and included two years later,
on May az, 1908, in permanent
treaty between the two equal" coun-
tries. The Platt Amendment was
thus forced on the Cuban people at
the point Of bayonet; its only val
ldity Is the might Of American armed
force.
To special commission sent to
Washington by the Cuban Conven-
ton at the end of April, 1901, to
have the American Government speak
little more plainly, the corporation
lawyer Elihu Root, Secretary of
State, explained that the interview
ton clause 8 does not impair the
sovereignty Of Cuba; it leaves Cuba
independent and sovereign under
her own flag. 1t only will help the
United States in extreme cases to
assist Cuba in preserving her abso-
Lutte independence. And pray God
that case may never arise" said the
hypocrite.
He continued: 1.-THE spirit, the
tendency, the substance Of the Plat
Amendment is to establish In Cuba
an independent and sovereign ma
tion. But the United States 20
beyond that in favor Of Cuba; they
seek to guarantee the subsistence OF
Cuba as a free and independent re-
public" Intervention" added the
slippery secretary, as incompatible
with the existence of Cuban gov
eminent, and will take place only
in case that Cuba is left in a state
OF anarchy which will signify the
absence Of all government, and in
case Of foreign menace"
United States Is the "Foreisn
Menace
Well, what is the present interview
ton? So-called visiting parties OF
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-14
By WILLIAM SIMONS.

Intervention in Cuba is justified"
(of course only as a last resort'D by
President Roosevelt, on the basis Of
the duty imposed on the United
States by the Platt Amendment.
What is this Platt Amendment?
The eight clauses of the Plat
Amendment make Cuba a semi
colony Of American Imperialism. The
United States receives the consent"
of Cuba in clause 8, ''to exercise the
right to intervene for the preserva-
ton OF Cuban independence, the
maintenance of a government ade-
quate for the protection of life, prop
erty, and individual liberty" Clause
7 provides that to enable the United
States to maintain the independence
OF Cuba and to protect the people
thereof, as well as for its own de-
Tense, the Cuban Government will
sell or lease to the United States the
lands necessary for coa1ing or naval
stations"
And so the United States Govern
ment acquired" the Guantanamo
naval base, where there are now many
American war vessels. To keep other
imperialist powers away, Cuba was
forbidden to make any treaty with
any foreign power (which will i'm
pair or tend to impair the indie
pendence of Cuba" Gas much as was
left after the United States got
through with ID. Foreign powers
were also prevented from getting in
Cuba any naval or army bases, or any
land for colonization.
Forced on the Cuban People.
The Plat Amendment became
United States law on March 2, 1901,
authorizing the President of the
United States ITO leave Cuba to her
people when government had been
set up under a constitution which
contained as psst Of it, the eight
definite provisions known as the
Platt Amendment" The American
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-14
South African Negro
Court Forces British
to Uphold Its Edict

SEROWE, Bechuanaland, South
Africa, Sept. 13.-The native Negro
court OF this remote part of British
South Africa won a victory over the
British imperialists' arrogant rule of
discrimination, when it forced ap-
proval by a military expedition of its
having ordered the flogging OF a
white man.
Vice-Admiral E. r. Evans, who ar
rived with 200 British troops and two
field guns, was compelled to uphold
the decision Of the native court
against Phineas Mcintosh, a British
subject, found guilty of assaulting
native women. Evans further or
dered him banished from all native
territories.
Until after the hearing, however.
Chief Tshekedi of Serowe was held
under open arrest.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-14

when we go out on strike. American
warships take the part Of the Amer
lean sugar owners and bankers in
Cuba against the long suffering, Bit
terly exploited Cuban toiling masses.
Together with the Cuban workers, let
us fight against police. troops and
warships, against the state power" Of
the capitalist class.
American workers! Let us in our
factories and shops, in our organize
tions, at every meeting, raise the
question Of Cuba. Send kilograms to
President Roosevelt, demanding I'M
mediate withdrawal Of warships from
Cuban waters. Arrange open air and
mass meetings, and demonstrations.
Send kilograms Of greeting to the
revolutionary masses in Cuba. Tbs
addresses are Partido Communists de
Cuba, Hotel Saratoga, Havana; Con-
federation Nacional Obrera de Cuba,
Prado 1913, Havana; Liga Anti-Im-
perialista de- Cuba, San Rafael ia,
Altos, Havana.
American workers! Our Cuban
brothers and sisters are looking 10
us for effective support. Already in
New York City. a picket line paraded
before the Federal Building. Many
mass meetings took place. A delega-
ton from New York City protested
at the White House. But what Of
the rest Of the country? Chicago,
Detroit, Cleveland, and California?
Solidarity with the workers in the
colonies is an elementary duty on
the part Of the working class in the
depressing country. The fight against
U. S. intervention must be central
task OF tire U. s. Congress Against
War, which opens in New York Sept.
29th.
The entire working class Of the
United States, from coast to coast,
must take its place in this urgent
campaign against American intsrven-
ton in Cuba.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-14
Millions Grated of
ti-Japanese Fund,
General Ma Charges

PEIPING, Sept. 1917 $40, 1000, 600
(silver) contributed by hundreds of
thousands of Chinese, some of whom
sold all their belongings, to finance
the defense of Manchuria against
Japan two years ago, only s1,713,OOO
(silver) was ever turned over to the
Chinese forces.
This is the charge made here by
General Ma Chan shan, who led what
anti-Japanese actions were made.
While his charges are obviously true,
their main purpose is to excuse his
failure at the Nonni bridge and his
full retreat before the Japanese.
The charges have aroused such a
Juror among the masses of Chinese
who contributed that an investigation
has been ordered.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-14
500 in Staten Island
De for
More Work Relief
10 Jobs, Slept, Repre-
sented at Mass Meet
Held Same Day

NEW K.-Five hundred
Staten Island relief workers who
for the second time received a
wage cut demonstrated at the Bor-
ough Offices recently, demanding a
IL days month work at So day.
A delegation of IL workers were
elected to see Borough President
Lynch who promised, with his eye
on the coming elections, that he
would vote in the Board of Esti-
mate for this demand.
Recognizing his promise as just
a political gesture for votes, a
mass meeting was called for the
same evening (Sept. 81 by the
Workers Ex-Servicemen's League,
the Unemployed Council and the
Relief Workers Action Committee.
The purpose of the meeting was
to consolidate the organization.
Eighteen different relief jobs
and 8 departments, from the Docks
to the Health Dept, were repre-
sented at the meeting. The South
Shore Action Committee was
elected with 2 organizers and a
secretary to give leadership to the
work in that section. A mass
meeting on the South Shore will
be held in Eltingville on Sept. Is,
Wednesday, at hamburger Hall on
Amboy Road.
Speakers addressed the meeting,
stressing the need for a strong or
ganization to carry forward the
demands of the relief workers for
free transportation to the jobs,
cash paid on time, and enough
work to keep a family alive.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-14

sage of the Federal BILL.
The congress was q representative
body of 314 delegates from trade
unions, unemployed and farmers Or
CARNATIONS in the state. 1t was held
over the Labor Day weekend. The
Unemployed Citizens League was rep
resented by rs, the largest group at
the congress, and the Unemployed
Council had As delegates. Locals OF
the National Lumber Workers Union
sent 10 workers with many from To-
Gals of the Trade Union Unity League
and the American Federation of La
Dor.
Nine workers, representing three
of the largest United Mine Workers
locals in the state, pledged support to
the congress decisions. They repre-
sented 900 miners who are on strike
in the Roslyn-Cle Elum fields in de-
fiance of Lewis and the NRA.
The gathering also went on record
to fight for local ordinances in every
community assuring immediate relief
to all jobless. To support the vet
Grams in their. fight for the bonus
and to participate in the national
anti-war congress to be held in New
York, Sept. 20,
To strengthen the unemployed
movement it was decided to affiliate
with the National Unemployed Coun-
ellis and build the Voice of Action"
the state labor paper.
A few weeks prior to the Workers
Congress the socialists had called to-
gether the Continental Congress. All
militant organizations representing
some of the largest organizations in
the state were kept out. Preparations
for the socialist meeting was made
by N. P. Atkinson, who operates a
non-union printing shop in this city.
1t was only on the initiative Of three
militant workers, Bradley, Harrington
and Didweel, who came to the ses-
sions that a measure supporting I'M
employment insurance was passed by
a vote Of AZ in favor, to 81 against.
The Workers Congress elected
state committee of II members with
four state officers. Richard c. Har-
rington was elected state chairman;
vice chairman, William Dobbins; or
ganizer, George Bradley; and secre-
tary, Mervin Cole.