The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 23, 1932, Page 3

__ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 99 23, MIGHTY ADVANCE IN LIVING STAN Private Letter Honorable Matt I. Sullivan, Mills Towar, San Francisco, California, My. dear Judge Sullivan: to be adverted to, it seems to me this late hour, at the proposed Eighth. his host, and that Byington, aft un-American, said that he was and not the Governor, ing; wanted to know from me h iiton on the Eilers Building to herd Mr. Frank P. Walsh at a L: Since that time I have nev New Mooney Frame-Up In view of the information which has come to us and about by my laying any views before you touching the Mooney case, at I know that more or less two months age Mr. Lewis F. By- ington was a conspicuous guest at a Birthday dinner in honor of tion of his host, advised the guests there assembled that there was another subject which he proposed to discuss. He thereupon { launched into a tirade against Mooney, characterized all persons who hzJ supported hint or might say anything in his behalf as that Mooney would rot in jail before he would ever permit him to get out; the “he” referred to, of course, being the speaker When Mr. Byington was informed by another guest that a number of temperate and reasonable men, among them myself, believed in the injustice of Mooney’s conviction, he classed me | among those persons unworthy to be called Americans. About the same time, I rode on the streetcar with Mr. By- ington, from Montgomery Street to the City Hall, and engaged | that he had not read any of the record; said that at any rate Mooney’s advocate was an extreme radical and that he had I offered at that time, as I offered you months ago, to aid in any way in the solution of the Mooney case by furnishing records in our possession and personal views with respect there to. Shows April 8, 1932 that no purpose would be served conference today, Friday, April ter making a speech in felicita~ Governor Rolph’s adviser and ow Mooney planted Wade Ham- take the pictures; informed me jabor Day Picnic some years ago. er received any word from Mr. | ‘PA. RR. GUARDS Byington accepting my suggestion, and only the day before yes- | terday a telephone message from you. The newspapers report the Governor’s attitude. I feel that | any presentation of facts to yo it by me would be, through no | fault of mine, too late. The decision is for all practical purposes now settled. The invitation that I come before you seems to me to be but an effort to make it a) opportunity for presentation of Had Mr. Byington not disck ance of the case in which his guidance is sought, I might have ppear that there has been some views on Mooney’s behalf. josed to me his complete ignor- DA RD OF SOVIET MASSES 1932 CHICAGO WORKERS IN HUNGER MARCH TO STOCKYARDS ea. Above is shown a partial view of the 20,000 workers who massed before = w bs =r ie 7 sands of employed and unemployed workers who took part in the militant stockyard Hunger March. the gates of the Chicago stockyards in solidarity with the thou- NEGRO BOYS Were Picking Coal On Tracks of Penn. Railroad . Coe er | PHILADELPHIA, Pa—The house | | where Thomas Walker, 18 years of age lived was bittef cold- The gas} magnates had cut off the gas many | weeks ago because there was no noe | in the house who was working and | could pay the gas. The City Relief Committee had cut off the relief. | There was no food or a ray of bese | Protest the Outrageous Neihborhood, Factories, Working Class Organizations TO ALL DISTRICT ORGANIZATIONS AND LOWER UNITS OF THE | Dear Comrades :— The» Mooney decision has been rendered. The task of the Party at this moment is to organize the outraged sentiment of the working |class and to at once show the capitalist class that we ‘will not allow a ;moment to rest without a counter-blow. Therefore, the Party must at |once organize manifestations of protest of all kinds, stirring up the | masses, and thereby furnishing the broadest possible basis for huge | protests on the Mooney decision on May 1st. | The districts are directed to take the folliwng méasures |Mass Mobilization of the Workers In the | Bar ens in W. Va Prepare To Break | Steel Workers Have | Wages Cut Besides | Little Work | 9TH RED UNION CONGRESS NOTES 26 P.C. WAGE RISE ocial Insurance and Benefits Cover Whole Working Class in Soviet Union; Unem- ployment Completely Wined Out By MYRA PAGE (Daily Worker Foreign Correspondent} MOSCOW —Fourteen hundred delegates coming from Baku oil fields, the Don Basin mines, Ukrainian state farms, far eastern lum- ber camps, giant steel and tractor works in Stalingrad, Kharkov, Leningrad and from: workshops throughout this vast country, gath- ered in Moscow to attend the 9th All-Union ongress of Trade Unions which opened here on the evening of April 20. While many national features and various native lang, uages charact the Congress, si ng the international i ; d, that T de- Me RETR GE Tia ae ao : { | sire Ri deck cig ey ab lg Sao wiles nese Sa Byington =| makeup of the Soviet U nion, the delegates are united as one in who, I understand, still is in the Governor's confidence. their confident determination to build Socialism and to further the steady increase in general welfare which inevitably accompanies every | t© three million people while during the cur a e houses. will ndustrial advance. in conversation with him with respect to the Mooney case. He Hi T YOUNG : | industa ‘ ; : par alo ‘ | * Behind them are over 16 and a| Pe erected for a similar number, had apparently not read a single word of the record in the case, | M D su ¢ A O | error ee x ¢ . si Bad 8 4758/000,000. roubles. hav | did not know where 721 Market Street was or the Eilers Build- ooney eciston---At nce half million union members who! $789,000,000 roubles having beet seb | chose these men and women to carry| Side for this purpose \ No wonder that building workers are not worried about being out ‘of Jobs. In addition, 51,000,000 roubles will be spent this year to construct free Among the delegates are a num-| DUrseries, bringing the total number ber of foreign born workers from} 0 Workers’ children cared for in nurs- Amerita, Germany and other coun-| @tles to 385,000, while 3,060,000 will be through the great tasks facing the| Congress on the approaching com- pletion of the first Five Year Plan and the coming second Five Year | tries. | attending free kindergartens. On the McKEESPORT, Pa., April 20—The | McKeesport Section of the Commu- | nist Party sent a shock brigade of 3 During the period since the last | Jtter, the unions spent eight million Congress, three years ago, unions| Toubles last year and will spend 14 | have made a great advance on every| Million during 1932. of its best fighters into West Virginia | rront keeping step with the growt today to help the steel workers and | oF ine total number ettiployed ia ine min 5 * Last year 1,600,000 spent their va- ations or rest periods with full pay of West Virginia carry or their | election campaign, with the immedi- | dustry, The union membership has| 1" Test homes, sanatoria. This year it increased by nearly six million since| ‘8 Planned to care for 2,300,000. So- the barriers set up by the ruling | thi 2 ie last Congress. class id. placing the Communist | . | cial insurance which covers all tyfies | of disability now includes over 1) | in the entire house: | 1) Commencing with Monday and continuing the entire week up Party on the ballot in that state. This period also saw the historic | 000,000 employed in industry so that | ascribed his remarks at the dinner referred to, to mere bibulous || walker decided to go and pick up| | to May Ist, mobilize every possible force to carry through hundreds of The Steel workers of Wierton W.| achievement of the final, perma- | nobody need fear old age, ecohomic enthusiasm, but Ibelieve that under all the circumstances I am }some of the cinders from the fail-.| | street, neighborhood and factory gate meetings, adopting short seven| | Va, have recently received a new| Rent abolition of unemployment, | stress, during illness or a A0tiae justified in stating that Mr. Byington’s interposition in this mat- | |road t rack. Something had to be | | line protest resolutions. At once making a complete mobilization, not| | wage cut. They didn't know about| Today this is the only country in | form of “rainy day” as in aioe: | EVM:M ter has been that of an advocate against the liberation of Mooney, and not in any sense the effort of one desirous of arriy- SINGER PLANT PREPARES TO TURN OUT WAR MATERIALS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) made easy to bring planes to the air days a week. They get- work for not more than five hours on these days. ‘Three or four porters used to work on done—a sick mother in a freezing home and there was coal wasting on track when the company thugs opened fire on the unemployed work. er. The shot penetrated Walker's hip from the back and passed through and struck an other boy, Laten Beard, 18, of Pelt St., on the feet. Walker was left lying on the ground bleeding for half an hour. Some! workers rescued him and rushed him to the Graduate Hospital. Some workers who gathered on the scene immediately after—the~shoot- ing militantly threatened the police thugs and had it no been for the ar- only of our regular speakers, but all workers who aré capable of standing up before workers and stating their opinion. All of these meetings shofild be arranged after circularizing leaflets containing the short statement of Tom Mooney. But if it is not possible to give out the leaflets, arrange them at a moment's notice. The districts | |must operate with a clear understanding that the decision on the Mooney case must show whether the Party can respond to the blow of | the enemy and whether it can utilize such a tremendous political issue in stirring up the masses in connection with the objects of May Ist. The | Units and Fractions of the Party must not wait for directions from the} higher bodies but proceed to act at once in their territory. | Immediately upon receipt of this your Buro shall meet, assign! speakers, places, etc. and work with real Bolshevik decisiveness in car- rying through this Party task, | While the ILD Ssliall be kept in the foreground as the leader of the! it until they received their pay, which | high as 15 per cent. This is the! from the Central Commitee of the sixth wage-cut for the Wierton steel | gress, reported that the growth of| that they can take full part i the world where the masses are | During this same period, 1gfublic | Was short all around. Then they| Not suffering from this curse of | dining halls have grown to—t#.70 ing at the truth, the track. | 2) Utilize this occasion to really enter into A. F. of L. organizations,| | found out they had been working| capitalism. | whats: each day eterna 52. Yours very truly, waWa® dixinern Walker had scarcely reached the | | 8dopting short resolutions and caling upon them to participate in May 1.| | two weeks at a wage reduction as| Molotov, who brought greetings | 000,000 meals are served. In thisgffay . ic] » | working women are being freed so in- Company hot mill men in the last j Communist Party to the Union Con-| dustry, government and social year and a half, | production during the first quarter of | Finally, since the 8th Congress, 500 The tin mill in Steubenville is com- | the current year over last year was| additional workers clubs have been Steubenville works of Wierton steel} ty increased by 341 per cent. | are working across the river in Wier- | | pletely down, and the men from the | 19, while the output of heavy indus-| established bringing the total to 4,200 | and the number of libraries in fac- The unions as the broadest mass|tories and clubs to 25,000. Trade ton, doubling up with the men who | Organization, of workers have played| Union expenditure on cwltural work | have been working fairly steady on | important role in the world fam-| last year reached the staggering sum those mills. On top’ of the doubling| 0US developments during the first| of 683,000,000 roubles. up, which means that the pay is| Five Year Plan. | All these developments show how struggle for Mooney’s freedom, the initiative of all organizations must| | SPlt between two men, the com- Since the 8th Congress, the average | the Soviet unions are serving their | wage has risen from 702 roubles in| members. These are the purposes for | | pany is operating 4 six hour shifts port, test them, and if necessary ship |be aroused to independent action to react on this issue. Not a single | them to the Singer building. . The Singer company also owns Sofe boats and docks in Elizabeth- port, which has close connections with the plant. A brass foundry, # rolling mill, and all equipment necessary for the pro- duction of steel, are at hand in the Singer plant. Because the Bethlehem company is producing steel more cheaply, this equipment is not in use at the moment. It could, however, be swung into action at a minute’s no- tice. How the Singer Plant Helped to Fight the U.S.S.R, In 1918, when the Soviet Union was fighting for its existence against the imperialist robbers who besieged it on all fronts, ammunition produced in the Singer Sewing Machine plant was shipped to Europe for use against the young workers’ republic. The Singer company had a friendly agreement with the Federal govern- ment for the production of this am- munition. Here is the way the agree- ment worked: ‘That very year, the Federal govern- ment bought some property from the Central Railroad of New Jersey. At the expense of the Singer company, a huge building was erected for its use, This building is now known as the Dihel Manufacturing Company and is under Singer’s control. The Dihel company at once received from the government a large order for cartridges, which it began to manu- facture. The ammunition made in Singer's, as well as the ammunition made in the Yale and Town Manu- facturing Company in Stamford, thé Bethlehem Steel Company in Jersey City, and the Canadian Car and Foundry Company in Boston, was shipped to Europe. The world war was officially ended Where, then, was this ammunition bound? It was scheduled for use against the Soviet Union. It was shipped to the white guard counter- revolutionists, Kolchak and Semin- off, to the American interventionists who were operating with them in Siberia against the Soviet Union. What About the Singer Workers? What effect has the, present in- creased production of munitions in the Singer plant on the welfare of the Singer workers? Here are the facts: instead of increased employ- ment, mass layoffs; instead of higher ‘wages, more part-time work and ruth- less wage-cuts. In 1929, the Singer plant employed in its nine’ factories in various cities, 28,000 workers, and an army of 60,- 000 salesmen. The New Jersey fac- tory today employs only 2800 work- ers. Three weeks ago 350 more work~- ers were laid off. An extremely large proportion of the workers work only vart-time. The 200 workers in the foundry department work only threeget a bed to sleep on.” every floor. Now there are only two, and they are working only fhree.half- days a week. ny Wages are being cut to the bone. The bosses are using more women and} young workers to accomplish their wage-cutting program. This is especially true of Departments 6, 10, 29, and 50. Many of these workers spend 20 cents a day for car fare, and get from 30 cents to $3.25. Yes, a 30 cent pay-check was received re- cently by a young girl. Another young worker got a pay-check amounting to eight cents. He’s keeping the check in a frame. Porters make only $4 a week. SAYS U.S. WAR MACHINE READY Banker Baruch Hints Fascist Control At a meeting of the Military In- telligence Reserve Society, the banker Barnard Baruch, who was chairman of the War Industries Board during the last war, hinted as to the com- Plete, fascist control of the country which has been prepared for heal coming war. Baruch said the industria! organ- ization would be a scheme of “five big M’s—men, money, material, main- tenance and morale.” But what this is to mean to the workers is not rée- vealed in the press, but recent dis- closures of industrial organization explain this mysterious code. Sev-j enteen thousand factories have been registered for war production. Star- vation wages will be set by govern- and strikes will be of course, will i ployed. The first draft will call in 11,000,000 men, from whom the van- guard of the army will come. The hypocrisy of the hullaballoo| about the peaceful intentions of ; American imperialism is clear when they are ready for war. Wound Self to Get Bed to Sleep on BOSTON.—In his eagerness to “get in good” for the elections, Mayor Curley is telling a few tales of what the unemployed are suffering. In Boston, he recently said, “They are sleeping on cot and in the base- ment in the City Hospital. One in every ten who has come to the hos- pital in the last six months has come from self-inflicted wounds so as to | distributed. rival of heavy police reinforcements the police thugs would have felt the wrath of the angry workers, JAIL TWO YOUNG. COMMUNISTS IN PHILADELPHIA Given 10 Days for Pro-. testing Willie Brown Frame up PHILADELPHIA. — Two hundred wotkers listened for over one hour to the speakers of the Young Commu- nist League addressing the crowd at one of the preparatory meetings for the mobilization of the working youth of Philadelphia for the 10th anni- versary celebration of the Young Communist League. The police department was com- pelled to grant a permit for the meet- ing, and also stated that we had a right to march to our headquarters after the meeting. As soon as the meeting was over the chairman called upon the crowd to come with the Young Communist League to their headquarters. The detectives gath- ered in the crowd did not dare to arrest the speakers at the meeting but picked up Tom Holmes and Sid Green, who were especially active in rallying the working youth for the defense of Willie Brown. ‘These two young workers were sen- tenced to te ndays for disorderly con- duct. The police are especially in- censed at the support that the strug- gle at present conducted by the In- ternational Labor Defense and sup- ported by the Young Communist League is receiving in the territory where Willie Brown lived. Workers Prepare for May Day In Superior SUPERIOR, Wis—The Superior workers are taking the coming May | Day demonstration seriously and are feverishly preparing for its success. A May Day Committee composed of delegates from 16 different work- ers’ organizations is plannig to hold several street meetings as steps to~ ward the mobilization of the workers for a huge mass demonstration against war, for social insurance, for thedefens e of the Soviet Union on May Day. Leaflets calling upon. the workers | to participate in the demonstration are being printed and will be widely | working class meeting on which we have influence shall go by without a statement of protest on the Mooney case. }| Fraternally yours, SECRETARIAT of the C. C., C. P. U. 8. Recommends Negro’ As Red Candidat Proposed For Vice- Presidency East and Foster the West. @ Let us look upon the present elec- of view. The Communist Party has re- ceived the following letter from a New York worker in regard to the presidential election this year: | Dear Comrades: | T wish to present a constructive Suggestion reJative to the election campaign, which, I think, is of the highest importance. The outstanding achievement of the Communist Party since 1928 has been the vast influence it has ac- quired among the Negro masses as a result of the Scottsboro case, Chi- cago eviction struggles, share crop- per organizations and the like. This mass sympathy should be consoli- dated and brought to a climax by the nomination of a Negro worker on the Communist Party ticket. We should have nominated a Ne- gro for Vice-President in 1928. 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WORLD TOURISTS, inc, Phone AL, 4-6656-8797 instead of three eight hour shifts | 1928 to 1101 roubles in 1931, an in-| as formerly, making another 25 per | Tease of over 56 per cent. Accordins ; to the plan for the current year which the union dues which amount o 2 per cent of the workers’ wages per month, together with government was a tactical error and a bourgeois | closed to union or workingclass meet- maneuver to nominate Gitlow in 1928| ings of any kind. | Simply because he represented the| Workers get around this sec | cent wage cut. | Breaking through the terror in| | the company town of Wierton would! | be no mean feat, Completley dom- inated by the company, Wierton is Of cow the but no open propaganda is permitted. | When Colum 4 of the National Hun- | ger March tried to go thru Wierton tion campaign not from the geo-|on Us. Highway No. 22, | the com- | graphical but from the class point | pany controlled sheriff plus a whole | } army of company police, city police, | leputies, state police, plus plain gun| | thugs barred the way and forced the | onvoy to detour. | | ‘RUSSIAN ART SHOP. | PEASANT HANDICRAFT 100 East 14th St, N. Y. C. Imports from U.S.S.R. (Russia) RUGS, SHAWLS, PEASANT LINEN, “4 WOODENWARE TOYS—NOVELTIES—TEA— | CANDY—CIGARETTES | Send $5.00 for Special Assortment | Yor Bazaars, Package Parties (Will Bring in $25.00) Mosselprom Candy IMPORTED FROM SOVIET RUSSIA 3 1b. Can Golden Fruit Filled Mixture | S125 Plus Postage | ' Many Other Varieties In Stock REP STAR IMPORTING CO. | 41 St. Nicolas Terrace, Mimeograph Supplies. | New Stencits §2.25 quire Black Ink, $1 Ib. Mimeographs $15 and up Paper 108 F. 14th St.. N. ¥. C. Algonquin 4-4763 Room 203 | | | ORDER YOUR |DAY “Ee Buttons Throucvh your District Office Send Money With Order $20.00 Per Thousand | COMMUNIST PARTY, U. 8 A. P. 0. BOX 87, STATION D. NEW YORK, N. ¥. | | | | wages will average 1202 roubles, an/ allotments, go in the Soviet Union, increase over 1928 of 71 per cent: Can thé American Federation of La- However, under Soviet conditions,| bor report likewise? the well being of workers cannot be| There will be reports and dis< considered in terms of wages alone|cussions by delegates, work in social insurance, medical and| commissions, elections and resolu- many other advantages guarantee the} tions. In intervals between sessions, security of them and their families.| the delegates will visit the Moscow During last year alone, a sum equal| main factories, museums, art galleries, to one third of the earnings of ali| industrial exhibits, and theatres, — workers was assigned by the state in- | Cards have been issued to delegates dustries for these purposes. Since the| giving them the right to get books * 8th Congress, new workers’ apart- and literature in all languages from ment houses built accommodate close state book stores in the red capitol Pa as RALLY THE WORKERS TO FIGHT BOSSES WAR AND TO DEFEND L.$o$.Re AND THE CHINESE MASSES WITH GREETINGS IN THE MAY DAY Dail orker Central Ong ; ; Porte USA ALL THOSE CONTRIB- UTING SINCE JANs 17 WILL BE THERE! WILL YOUR NAME AND THE NAME OF YOUR ORGANIZATION BE LISTED IN THIS MOST IM- PORTANT ISSUE OF THE YEAR? SEND IN YOUR GREETINGS NOW TO THE SO EAST RTH ST. Me Ve Co