The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 3, 1931, Page 1

Tae orker Y IN TWO SECTIONS WORKERS pane ha OF THE WORLD, ‘ UNITE! Central : unicst Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist International) Vi Vite. 2 SoS ‘NEW ‘YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3. 1931 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents ALL OUT TODAY TO DEMAND MOONEY’S RELEASE! You Can Defeat Wage Cuts! ee you who have had your wages cut; you who are ‘due to gi wages cut; you who are desperately looking for some way to aan | a wage cut! Read and learn from this example-that there is-a way out! Read and understand that it depends upon YOU as to whether you get @ wage cut or not! The Loft food factory at Long Island City, N. Y., works about 3,000 workers, mostly youth, many girls—all unorganized, with no strike ex- perience. The company celebrated last Christmas by putting a wage cut in the workers’ stockings; on Easter another cut; on Mother’s Day a third cut—and then—last week the company tried to put over still an- other wage cut in the form of lengthening the hours from 48 to 60 per week! The workers’ petition for restoration of the 48 hour week was re- jected with a sneer by Mr. Heller, the manager: “Let the dirty dogs work!” said this boss. No doubt thinking of the 1,000,000 unemployed workers in New York City. Remember, no organization, no experience in strikes, no Communists among these workers to lead them, no Party nucleus in the factory, no factory group or factory committee, no connection with the revolutionary Food Wrkers’ Industria] Union, no contact with the Unemployed Cuncils to prevent scabWing! Against them, all the clever devilish tricks of company stool-pigeons, company hoodlums, company “back to work” spies, and the entire brutal force of the strikebreaking machine of the New York City police! Did all these difficulties and odds-against-them stop these workers? IT DID NOT! Strike sentiment against the longer hours got to boiling on Saturday. ‘These workers had never been infected with the strike-breaking poison of the fake “socialist” party leader, Norman Thomas, who says that “soon or late wages are bourid to come down.” Their militancy was unspoiled by William Green, head of the A. F. of L., who breaks str-kes for the bosses by the unique method of turning the workers’ attention from picket lines to arguments about the “morality” of cutting wees and its “economic unsoundness.” THEY STRUCK! ‘Two workers hunted up the Daily Worker, It led them to the Food Workers’ Union. Monday the whole plant was out. In the natural con- fusion company agents managed to get the union organizers excluded by tricky cries of “outsiders,” and managed to get themselves on the strike committee. Tuesday, with the whole force Out in the mormiing, milling around in confusion, the strike committee came back with the bosses’ answer—a “compromise”—54 hours a week. “NOTHING DOING! 48 HOURS!” the strikers replied. But mé@the confusion hundreds of girls went back, thinking the 54- hour week was accepted, told so by the company stool pigeons. Once inside, they tried to get out again. And here comes a little lesson they Jearned about FORCED LABOR and what side police are on. Penned inside, the girls threw the following, note-out the window: A “We are forced to stay up here. We have no chance of getting down because the doors are all blocked with cops. We all want to stick together. Start a riot and try to get us ont to the ball field — From the,factory girls.” And there WAS something of a riot! And as they went out the management hung up the sign: WORKING WEEK OF 48 HOURS WILL BE RESUMED.” Of course the company will try some way to get even; to fire the “ring-leaders,” to cut the money wage, to speed up. And there are many dangers that the victory will be lost unless the Food Workers’ Union acts rapidly to buildsup a solid fighting front, a Shop Committee. BUT THE STRIKE WON! And not only there! Three blocks away the Sunshjne Biscuit Co., frightened, postponed a 10 per cent wage cut! STRIKES CAN WIN! Workers! You could hardly face a strike in your own factory under worse or more difficult conditions than did these workers at Loft’s! You, too, may" be unorganized; inexperienced! The Communist Party wants you to prepare better than they did—if possible! It wants you to get in touch with. the Trade Union Unity League, to form a Shop Group of the most militant workers! To estimate the possibility and the hour for strike! ‘To build up a Shop Committee if possible from all departments! Yet, if none of these things are possible in advance of a sudden rebel- lion—STRIKE. ANYHOW! AND STICK! But above all, the Communist Party calls on you to have GUTS TO STRIKE! Not to be influenced by bosses’ and misleaders’ talk about the “depression” being “no time to strike.” .There is NEVER a “good time And the girjs DID get out! “THE OLD ACT AGAINST PAY CUTS; | STEEL MEN A. F. of L. Fakers in From N. Y. to. Break Longshore Strike 200 Steel Workers at Campbell, Ohio, at Shop Gate Greet Call for Organization BULLETIN, BRIDGEPORT, Ohio, Oct. 2—The Hanna Coal Co. cut wakes 14 per cent in five mines, pagara 1,500 see NEW YORK.—As October ‘first went by with over 5,000,000 receiving wage cuts rang- ing from 10 to 50 per cent, the workers realized CHEER FIGHT Boston Rush Ryan in ® by the latter action of the bosses that the open wage cut drive is just beginning and organiza- tion and strike is absolutely necessary to stop this incessant drive against the standard of to strike” if you take the bosses’ advice. Learn the lesson: YOU CAN DEFEAT, WAGE CUTS! SOLID MASS STRIKE! BUT ONLY BY STRIKE! A GERMAN JOBLESS MINERS REFUSE TO BE SCABS Reformist Leaders and Government Try to Crush Strike (Cable ty Taree) BERLIN, Oct. 2—The release of the underground miners from con- that participation in the strike means damage to the strikers. Tht reform- ist union offices are the center of wcab activities. The reformists denounced the red declare it is an outlaw strike and the employment agencies are sending un- employed miners to work in the pits. Refusal to sc’) means «stoppage iw relief for many weeks. Howe overwhelming majority of the ployed workers refused to scab. The police’ are preventing picketing and pickets have been clubbed and arrest- d, The distribution of leaflets has been prohibited and distributors are arrested. Meetings of the revolution- ary union have also been prohibited. Police fired into a, demonstration of miners at Hamborn and Wanee- ickel, wounding several. Collisions oc- curred between strikers and scabs. The Communist mtmber of the Réichstag, Dahlem, informed the del- egated conference of striking miners, that secret negotiations are proceed- ing between the leadres of the Gen- eral Trade Union Federation and the industrialists, with a view to carrying out the desired wage cuts without mass resistance. The authorities yesterday an- nounced that beginning on the 15th of October, unemployment support will be shortened from 26 to 20 weeks, on the basis of the Emergency De- cree. VET POLITICAL _ SYMPOSIUM SUN. All Invited _ to Hear Issues Discussed NEW YORK.—Inviting all war vets to listen to a discussion of the forth- coming elections, the Workers Ex- Servicemen’s League has arranged a symposium at Irving Plaza, 15tn St. and Irving Place, Sunday, October 4th at 2 p. m,* The Symposium will be on the in| question: “Which political party should the ex-servicemen support?” ‘There will be speakers from the var- isus parties. I. Amter, candidate for president of the Borough of Manhat- tan, will speak for the Communist Party. living of the American workers. That the determination of the workers is growing to resist the wage cuts is shown by many instances. A report from Youngstown, 0., to the Daily Worker states: “Over 200 workers, of whom the majority weré Negroes, gathered at a Shop gate meeting in front of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. at Campbell, cheered the speakers of the Metal Workers Industrial League, the Young Communist League and the Workers International Relief, who spoke on the organization of a strug- gle against the wage cuts. The Daily Worker sold like hotcakes.” ' In Lawrence, Mass., action for a united front strike against the Octo- ber 13 wage cuts is’ gaining wider support, Within the ranks ofthe A. F. of L. the fakers are finding it more diffi- cult to keep back strike action. In Boston, where the longshoremen voted for a general strike against wage cuts, the local misleaders were forced to call.in Joseph P. Ryan of New York, president of the Interna- tional Longshoremen’s Association in an effort to break the strike. ‘The men were ready to go on strike when Governor Ely met with the bosses and the union misleaders, with the result that the strike was called off and a hurried call sent $3 Ryan to. come to Boston. ‘The postponement of the strike is to give the bosses a better chance to plan their scabbing, and.Ryan is counted on to do all he can to keep back the strike. The longshoremen mean business and are determined to resist the wage cut, This is shown by the militant action against the few scabs who at~ tempted to go to work just before the union officials called the strike off for the time being. CALL FOR UNITED O., and enthusiastically TO HIT PAY CUT IN LAWRENCE Thousands At Textile Mass Meetings LAWRENCE, Mass., Oct. 2.—Show- ing their determination to fight against the .0 per cent wage cut which the bosses with the help of the officials of the A. F. of L. and the mayor's committee are trying to put over, effecting between 25,000 to 30,- 000 Lawrehce textile workers, over 2,000 workers have packed the Union halls for the past two nights and wildly applauded the organizers of the National Textile Workers Union when they called upon the worke.s to prepare for struggle to stop the wage-cut. At all thrte meetings the workers took a standing vote against the wage cut Despite the campaign of silence of the boss controlled press of the city, (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) . Soviet “Forced Labor”—Bedacht’ series in pamphlet form at 10 cents per copy. Read it—Spread it! 1500 War Vets Parade to City Hall; Demand. ‘Relief NEW YORK.—‘“The Third Big Pa- rade” took place yesterday when 1,500 worker ex-servicemen, marching un- der the leadership of the Worker Ex- servicemen’s League and Veterans from Relief Lines, swung up Broad- Tway from Bowling green to City Hall to be joined ‘by thousands of other ex-soldiers in a militant demonstra- tion demanding immediate relief. Many joined the lines even though threatened with a withdrawal of re- lief. “Our first parade—1917—to make the world safe for ‘demorcay’; our second parade—1919—after making the world safe for ‘democracy’; our now our third parade—1931—to de- mand relief from starvation, to fight for cash payment of the Bonus now.” This tells briefly what the Third Big Parade means. Dozens of placards’ told the imme- diate specific demands of the ex- servicemen: “Increased relief of $80 a month for married veterans, $10 a month for each dependent; $60 a month for single veterans, $10. a month for each dependent.” “We de- mand similar relief for widows and orphans.” “No discrimination against foreign born and Negro veterans.” “Stop the degrading questioning and brow beating of veterans’ and their families by the investigators of the American Legion.” These and other burning demands of the ex-service- men were written on the placards. Board Afraid to See Committee. A committee of three ex-service-to the hospital. men, De Nota, Harper and Levine, two white workers and one Negro worker, were elected to present the demands of tHe ex-servicemen to the Board of Estimate who were meeting in City Hall, apportioning out mil- lions of dollars for every sort of graft except relief for workers. Vets Address Meet. While the ‘committee was in the City Hall the ex-servicemen who were (Cable by | Rally at 12:30 Today Execute Harlan Miners, Scottsboro Boys NEW YORK.—All out in Unién Square at 12:30 today! All out to demonstrate for the immediate un- conditional release of Tom” Mooney, of the Harlan prisoners, the Scotts- boro boys and all other class war prisoners! ‘Thousands, responding to the call of the Néw York District of the In- | ternational Labor Defense, will gather at 12:30 p, m. to demand free- dom for all these brave fighters for the working class. It will be a dem- onstration that will be a mighty challenge to the efforts of the bosses to terrorize the workers into submit- ting to wage cuts and starvation. From a central platform loud speakers will carry the voices of a number of speakers representing or- ganizations that are participating in the demonstration. Robert Minor, who led the campaign for Mooney in 1916-17 and has since been one of | the chief fighters in his behalf, will be among the speakers. Others will NEWS FLASH! MOSCOW, Oct. 2—The Kharkov tractor giant opened up today in the presence of 25,000 workers. The Kharkov works are even larger than Stalingrad. The reconstructed Amo automobile works also opened today in the presence of masses of workers in Moscow: Twenty-five thousand trucks are scheduled to be produced annually. Demand Freedom of All Class War Prisoner to Protest Attempt to} # |Jobless Demand Insurance, Relief and | Wage Cuts; March on’ Washington, Dec. 7th | Santee BULLETIN i INDIANA HARBOR, Ind., Oct. 2.—Two thousand workers attended an open air meeting at which William Z. Foster, secretary of the Trade Union Many applications to the T.U.U.L. were made and a great desire to struggle against the wage cut was demonstrated. Action Committees are now being built to develop local struggles. Inprecorr ) be Sadie Van Veen, representing the League of Struggle for Negro Rights; |I. Amter, for the New York District of the Communist Party; Charles | Alexander, a Negro worker, for the |. L. D.; and Caroline Drew, who re- {cently returned from Harlan, Ken- tucky. Carl Hacker, secretary of the New York I. L. D., will be chairman. Today's demonstration is part of a See: ee | Scottsboro United Front Defense | Committee; Carl Brodsky, for the New York I. L. D.; Hope, for the Unity League spoke. Hoover for Pay Cuts to “Cure’’ Unemployment President Endorses Reduction of Hours and Pay in Chemical Industry No WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 2—President Hoover issued a public statement in favor of the six hour day yesterday as a cure for un- great mass campaign that the I.L.D. | has launched to force the release of , |Mooney and the other class war prisoners. Further steps in this cam- paign will be planned at a big mass conference Sunday, Oct. 11, at 10 a. m., in Irving Plaza, 45th St. and| Irving Place. All revolutionary | unions, A. F, of L. locals, shop groups, | employment. | working class: unemployed councils, workers’ clubs; fraternal and cultural organizations, etc., must by all means be represent- ed at this conference. Send one dele- gate for every fiye members. HOSIERY STRIKE IN MILWAUKEE IS Rising Workers PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 2.—Backed by 14 multi-millionaires whose for- tunes total $5,000,000,000, Major Gen- eral Smedley D. Butler, of the ma- rines, declared in a speech here ‘Thursday night he is preparing now for a fascist dictatorship against the workers. Butler's announcement, the recent speech of President Hoo- ver before the American Legion urging the ex-servicemen to be xeady | to back a fascist program, is of ex- treme significance. Asa marine of- ficer, Butler has had long experience in fulfilling Wall Street’s orders by means of opeh armed force in Latin America and China. The scheme proposed by Butler is described by the United Press as a “virtual dictatorship by an ‘extra- governmental’ agency.” “That the bulk of the nation’s wealth fs concentrated in the hands of a few,” General Butler stated, “is one of the things that ordinary people are concerned about. An- other is that there are so many millionaires ‘in the Cabinet.” Forsees Revolution As a result Butler foresees the capitalists in the United States along “with the rest of the world, over- tun by revolutionary hordes.” ‘To forestall this, Butler has been picked by the multi-millionaires he refuses to name, but who are un- doubtedly among the leading “59” who now rule the United States, to joined by thousands more workers, (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO.) prepare the fascist dictatorship. It is not only a question of a futtire inauguration of fascism. Every Fascism Planned In United States By Rich Major Gen. Butler of jer of Marines Says 14 Multi-| Millionaires Will Back Action Against following | Misleaders Forced to Act; Plan Sellout MILWAUKEE, Wis., Oct. strike of the 1,600 workers of Phoenix | Hosiery Co. here is in danger of im- | mediate sell out. Alfred Hoffman, | national organizer of the American Class Revolution creasing its terror against the work- | sent to Milwaukee to take leadership | ers, using the A. F. of L. leadership | Of the strike in order to sell out the to beat back strikers. As the crisis | Strikers. intensifies, the government comes; The strike In the Phoenix mills members of the local fo Te A | strike over the heads of the local of- | Byeh in. tls: Peonosal (pt dictator ieiaie ‘arid the talonsl anion’ cbf: | ship of the big -bankers, the CAaP- | cials. | italists, through General Butler em- | Full Fashioned Union men, and now | ploy the usual lying phrases about | nearly 900 union men and 700 non- “bettering the conditions of scheme of complete fascism. workers.” tatorship includes the spending of half the wealth of the 14 multi- millionaires for charity schemes, to to preserve the system that allows these capitalists to amass $5,000,000,- 000 from the toil of the workers. In offering his super-charity scheme, Butler says that the present government agencies won't do in the coming emergency of a “rising mob,” and hence an extra-governmental apparatus be built up. This will be a dictatorship of the multi-million- aires and their officers-of the armed forces like Butler and the fascist officials of the American Legion. Valunteers are wanted to collect | signatures for Williamsburg to- | day. Report at 73 Myrtle Avenue, | Brooklyn. Help get the Red can- didates on the ballot in the First bly District. Masses Continue Struggle in ‘ Thousands of workers demon- strated again on Frifay in Glasgow against the hunger budget of Mac Donald and resisted the police with the same determined militancy that they have displayed during the past several days in their struggles. The mass demonstrations in Great Brit- ain have going on for ten days al- ready. Fifty thousand workers are reported by the capitalist press as having demonstrated on Wednesday in Glasgow. Nine of the workers were so badly beaten by the Mac Donald police that they had to go The workers de- Resist Police Clubs; Demand “Not a’ Penny Off Dole” fended themselves with all manner of weapons that they were able to find at hand. When the patrol of police appeared on the scene the workers greeted them with a storm of jam jars and butter and lard tubs which they had obtained from-twelve shops in the vicinty. In Bristol thousands jof workers demonstrated and paraded, bearing slogans such as “Not a Penny off the Streets of Glasgow, Scotland “Down with the National Government,” and “We Support our Dole,” Naval Comrades,” The struggle of the workers in the streets is like the struggle of the sailors on board the Atlantic, fleet ships several weeks ago, the struggle against the wage and dole cuts of the MacDonald budget. While the workers in Great Brit- ain are rallying in ever greater mas- ses in demonstrations the left wing- ers of the Labot Party are intensi- fying their attempts to mislead the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Butler says that his dic- | keep the wage-slaves contented and | of 1,600 workers. | strike John Banachowicz, | as to the possibilities of betraying the | strike of the Milwaukee workers. All the time J. P. Marjeson, | manager of the Phoenix Hosiery Co., has been loudly proclaiming that the | wage cut was agreed upon between manufacturers. The National Textile | the workers to take the control of the -strike into their hands. NTWU also calls upon the workers to elect broad rank and file strike | committees, telling the workers to; fight against secret negotiations be- | hind closed doors. Take the power | away from the officials to negotiate. | Orgahize committees of action in| exery department to unite the strug | gle of the union with the non-union workers, thereby intensifying the fight against the wage cuts and fake agreements between the officials and the company!_ The NTWU tells the strikers that all proposals for settle- ment of the strike must be made only through a two-thirds majority vote of the union membership. Suitcase Makers Vote Contempt of Socialist Officials of Local NEW YORK.—A well attended meeting of a local of the A. F. L. Suitcase, Bag and Portfolio Workers’ Union at its headquarters here Thursday night voted non-confidence in the socialist party officials of the local and elected a rank and file committee to run its affairs. The socialist machine and its al- Nes tried every trick of demagogy FACING BETRAYAL, day the capitalist government is in- | Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers was | out more and more into the open| started Sept. 28 against a 30 to 45) as the brutal dictatorship of the very | per cent wage cut due to mass pres- | multi-millionaires that back Butler's | sure from below, the rank and file| forced the} The strike started with 250! the | union men are out on strike—a total | From the very beginning of the) president | of the Milwaukee local, went to N. ¥.} to consult with the national officials general | Workers’ | 24-25; Union issued a leaflet calling upon|and march, Oct. The | other cities. | BUT the statement makes it |clear that the six hour day means a wage cut, another plan like the stagger system, with which the new plan | would easily combine, to spread starvation, over the whole Instead of taxing the profits of the big corporations and giving unemployment insurance, as demanded by the organized ® jobless and the militant unions, the Hoover administration’s whole idea jin this crisis which has already pro- | duced 12,000,000 hungry jobless, is to save profits and: let the workers | starve. Part of it is the open wage cut program, which Hoover does nob lift a finger to stop, while hypo- critically pretending he is opposed to it, Another part of it now appears— wage cuts in the iorm of unemploy- ment relief! Hoover's public six hour day cam- | paign is for the moment confined to 2.—The | his endorsement of the proposition of | the Manufacturing Chemists’ Asso- ciation, whose president, W. D. Hun- tington acted as his agent in an- nouncing the “hearty approval of Mr. Hoover,” yesterday. The association has already begun in many of its member plants to cut | both hours and wagés—the wages more than the hours, and it claims, that in some cases it takes on a few more men as a result-of the short- ened hours. It presents no real fig- ures for this, however. The Trade Union Unity League, the Councils of the Unemployed, and the Communist Party, in many state- ments here called for shorter hours, but without cuts in the day's wages; the workers who have jobs are al- | ready living on the starvation line. Hunger marches and demonstra- tions are taking place in many cities, active organization of the unem- ployed is progressing, in a campaign leading’ to a national hunger on Washington, Dec. 7, to demand un- employment insurance and im- mediate reief, and to‘fight wage cuts and speed up for those who stili are at work. Among the local hunger the national officials and the Asso-} marches sre the Cuyahoga, Ohio, ciation of Full Fashioned Hosiery | county hunger march, Oct. 16; the | Missoyri- state hunger march, Oct. the Detroit demonstration 5 and marches scheduled for Chicago and many \ 6,000 FILIPINO WORKERS STRIKE |Communist Party. Is Active in Walkout NEW YORK.—Cable -teports from Manila, Philippine Islands,, state that @ general strike of tobacco workers was called on October Ist, affecting six major companies. Over: 6,000 men are out for better, conditions, The present strike follows a whole series of similar actions taken by the Filipino workers in the present crisis. The strike is being led by reformist trade union leaders, and when the Communist Party of the Philippine Islands, through Crisanto Bvangee lists; one of the leaders, called for a united front on ® militans strike basis, the misleaders, who want to keep in the good graces of Wall Street, refused. The Communist Party, despite the refusal of the united front, is taking an active part in the strike and is and put up all kinds of fake issues, urging the workers to take the strike but the membership laughed at them. | into their own hands 4