The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 2, 1932, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1932 MARINE WORKERS UNION ORGANIZES | NORWEGIAN SAILORS Leads Fighting for Manning Scale, Relief and, Demands Gold Standard Wages Editor Daily Worker:— On May 25th a meeting was called at 293 Columbia Street, | by the Norwegian seamen, with the cooperation of the Marine Workers Industrial Union. Several of the seamen came down to our local at 140) Broad Street and asked us if we would help them to organize r themselves against the rotten conditions existing on the Brook- lyn waterfront. The marine Workers Industrial Union being a working | class organization, with the interest of the workers in mine | all the time was vety glad to be able to help the Norwegian seamen. A speaker was sent to Brooklyn to speak and help the seamen organize. ‘The meeting was very successful. One hundred and forty men attended. A committee of six was elected to pre- sent the following demands to the Consul General of Norway: 1—Demand to be paid off on gold standard. 2.—Rotary system of hiring to be done by° committee of seamen. $.—Unemployed relief from Con- snl at exepense of shipowners. 4.—No men to be sent from Nor- way to take ships back from New York to Norway. 5.—Ships to be fully manned ac- cording to the law. 6.—3.50 Kronen to be paid for room in Norwegian Sailors Home Instead of 3.50. A resolution was unanimously adopted that the above demands be presented to the Norwegian Consul General. Speak in Native Tongue. Several seamen spoke from the floor in their native tongue and Stack from the M.W.I.U. spoke on the necessity for organization: What has been accomplished and what can be accomplished in the future also on the role of the 1.8.H. and the World Congress of Seamen in Hamburg. Comrade LaRocca spoke on the Un- employed Council. The majority of the men took out cards in the Un- employed Council. At first the Counsel General re- fused admittance to the committee. He wanted to see 2 at a time. The committee said all or none and were edmitted. ‘The counsel began by brazenly trying to buy them off with personal cash gifts. The committee Young Worker Get 50 Cents a Week in Reading. Reading, Pa. I am employed in the Reading Clothing Co. which moved here last summer from Philadelphia. The firm employs about 60 boys and girls between the ages of 14 and 20, They work 5's to 6 days a week and receive for their work from $1.50 to $6 a week. New York Painters Strike A Victory | (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK—The striking paint- ers of the Sol Cohen and Son Realty Company won a complete ‘victory un- der the leadership of the: Alteration Painters department of Building Workers Industrial League and with the help of the tenant workers tn the homes of this company. The strikers won the following: No reminded him that they spoke not in the name of the committee but in the name of the unemployed coun. cil, He also made many vague prom- isés to see what can be done after- wards. A meeting held at Court and Car- rol Streets, the largest open air meet- ing ever held by seamen on that corner, heard a report on what hap- pened in the Consul’s office. The| chairman concluded the meeting by | pledging the support of the M.W.I.U. to the Unemployed Council and our utmost cooperation, | Another meeting will be held at 193 Columbia Street, Brooklyn, on Sunday 7 p. m. and on Monday morning after the many petitions circulated are collected, a demon- stration will t ake place in front of the Norwegian Council General's office and the committee will again present their demands. This time) with the men on the spot, | Get Free Meals. | The next day the committee went | to the Norwegian Sailors’ Home and demanded a dinner. The manager refused to feed the unemployed and | also refused to cali the consul. One} of the committee called the consul who in turn called the parasite’ in charge of the home and advised him to feed the men before trouble ge- gan. Seventy five men went in to cat. Fifty more came from a nearby park | and when they heard meals were being given way. All were fed and | they ate from soup to nuts. As a} result of this victory of the Unem- | ployed Council scores of men lined | up in the Unemployed Council. —A Marine Worker. | The boys must stand at the stents | pressers 9% hours a day. | The boss, Jacob Speller, is one of | the meanest bosses. I am ready to fight against these conditions here and also against the bosses’ war. A Presser.” wage cut, one dollar increase for help- ers, recognition of the Alteration Painters Org. and shop committee, hiring’ and firing of workers under control of shop committee. The strikers atribute their victory to mass picketing and call upon all shops to elect shop committees and to organize into the Alteration Paint- ers Org., at 1130 Southern Blvd. American Worker Delegates Hail Soviet Victories (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) trial establishments, such as metal- lurgical, electrical, mining, construc- tion, agricultural implement, auto- mobile, power plants and clothing factories. We found that the major number of these plants are equipped in the most modern manner and those that are not are in the process of becoming so.” ‘Phe statement says “this progress of the Soviet Union has by far ex- ceeded our expectations and stands in sharp contrast to the low level of the life of the workers in Russia prior to the revolution and the con- stantly lowering standards of the workers in capitalist countries, RAISE FUNDS! 52 Issues $2 Name city THE WESTERN WORKER A fighter to organize and lead our struggles in the West BUILD IT! 26 Issues $1 Rcidanvunwe(hashdsadvevideassucaviess] BEAU coaphgs cankaceed ye) Western Worker Campaign Committee 1164 MARKET STREET, San Francisco, Calif. “We have found no unemployment in the Soviet Union, but wherever we went we found a shortage of labor. ‘The Workers’ ang Peasants’ Govern- ment has provided the workers with a system of social insurance, cultural and educational institutions and op- portunities free of chafge, such as sanitoriums, rest homes, medical at- tention, universities and technical schools. No capitalist government provides its workers with such bene- fits.” Commends Communist Leadership. The delegation commends the Communist Party and the trade unions of the U.S.S.R. for their spten- did leadership and concludes the statement with the following words: “Be it further resolved that we Pledge ourselves to return to the United States and truthfully tell all we have seen in the Sovict Union. ‘We pledge to mobilize as rapidly as possible a movement among the workers of the United States for the defense of the Soviet Union against war and intervention. We will mob- ilize against the supplying of muni- tions for war to the imperialist in- terventionists who scheme the de- struction of the Soviet Union. We will work in order to influence pub- lic opinion for the recognition of the Soviet Union by the United States.” ‘The statement is signed by sixteen delegated members of the American Workers’ May Day Delegation of the Friends of the Soviet Union. SUBSCRIBE NOW! 13 Issues 50c Street ‘their arrest. ‘Worker, Farmer Delegates Tel Of Masses’ Struggle for Brea Cidledn Romero Co (bert worker) SCOTTSBORO HEARING IS SET FOR OCTOBER 10 Workers Must Build a Tremendous Defense Movement (CONTINUED WRUM PAGER ONE the boys had not received the fair GROUPS OF DELEGA COMMUNIST ELEC Election Platform Discussion on Communist J A large number of delegates participated in a lively discussion on the Platform and other reports of the National Nominating Convention of the Communist Party held in Chicago, May 28 and 29. The Daily Worker publishes below parts of speeches made from the floor by var- ious delegates—thus giving our readers a running account of the opinions of the delegates upon the important question of the Platform adopted. . “ * Delegate of Elkhardt, Indiana At our meeting of the Blkhardt Workers’ Nominating Conference, the comrades there decided that al- though we support the platform as bie we believe it can be improved on. ‘This was advocated by the Elk- Iharat Workers’ Nominating Conven- tion of Sunday, Mayy 22. ‘The Communist Party should rec- ognize the alt important fact, that if we as a Party are to develop into that of a dominating power, we must educate the’ workers, by simple un- derstandable language, the nature of how wealth is created, what the wages really are, and how classes are created. Immediate demands attract atten- tion to our movement, true enough and produce results in arousing in- terest, and action of a militant na- ture in many of the workers, but this alone is not suffici In addition to this kind of work, there must be trials supposedly guaranteed by the |rea) education to keep these workers Constitution. He declared that threats of lynching had followed He charged that the trial judge erred in refusing a change of venue and had forced the boys to trial without giving them an oppor- ; tunity to communicate with their parents or prepare proper defense. He further pointed out that Negroes had been deliberately excluded from the jury. Attorney General Knight, of Ala- bama, who promised the Alabama ruling class to carry thrdugh the le- Gal lynchings on June 24, argued against a review of the lynch ver- dicts. He attempted to evade the issue of the barring of Negroes from the jury with the statement that the fact that no Negroes were drawn for the jury did not prove that no Ne+ groes’ names were in the jury box. This, in the face of the admitted Policy of the lynch courts in exclud- ing Negroes from the jury. Seven Boys Facing Death. ‘The seven boys legal lynching was set for June 24 are: Andy Wright, Roy Patterson, Willie Robertson, Olen Montgomery, Clarence Norris, Charlie ‘Weems and Ozie Powell. Two other boys, Rey Wright and Eugene Wil- liams are awaiting new trials, In the case of Roy Wright, the jury dis- agreed in the original-mock trials at Scottsboro, one or two favoring life imprisonment, the others standing out for electrocution, In the case ot Eugene Williams, the I, L, D. attor~ neys forced the Alabama Supreme Court to admit the “illegality” of his trial. He was remanded for trial in the Juvenile Court. ‘The Negro and white workers must continue the fight for the uncondi- tional release of the Scottsboro boys. The partial victory secured by the mass defense fight must serve to spur us on to the further building up of the mass defense, VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. @ permanent part of our movements. Such demands when backed by the masses, prove that we are aggres- sive and militant, but it cannot be the basis alone upon which to build a substantial Party. * * Bower from Minnesota, a Farmer. I have a message that I wish to deliver to you from my territory, from the farmers up in Oleawter, Minn, ‘I' wish to say that the poor farm- ers up in that territory endorse the immediate demands of the Commun- ist Party platform. The workers that are unemployed in Clearwater Coun- ty need Unemployment Insurance. We are against Hoover's wage cut- ting policy because we know that every cent that is cut off the payroll; of the workers takes that much more buying power from the products that the farmers raise. We need, as the plank fn No. 3 of the Com-) munist Party platform says, relief without restriction by the govern- ment and the bankers. The govern- ment has taken nearly all of the voney that the poor farmers had through putting high taxes on the farmer by putting their tools of the boss class, the game warden, the fire warden and other parasites that feed | on the backs of the poor farmers while the banks through a system of high interest have taken the rest of the money that the farmer has. The poor farmer needs the immediate demand put into practice in the farming country which says “Ex- emption of poor farmers from taxes and no forced collection of debts.” . Pee Frank a Delegate from the Striking Colorado Beet Workers. On February 13 and 14 a confer- ence took piace in Colorado to set! fhe demands of the beet workers to the owners, The beet field owners were’ offering the workers $15 per acre this year, ‘The workers demand $23 per acre because even at $18 per acre which they were getting last BONUS BALLOT AY MARE AN x” Tam in favor of cash payment of the bonus to all veterans Tam in favor of a veteran’s march to the cepito! at Washington fl . Name Address ONG Cidieccers eda sled sii veveveney What outfit did you serve in? year, they could not make a living and at the end of the season, they} were all in debt. this will be paid. paid in money and not in credit. the Soviet Union, whole world. ee ee gle, bringing problems which confront them. Negro question. I believe it is in- sufficient to . state merely rights for Negroes and self. ation for the Black Belt.” of the campaign. for instance, that we have an clabo- ration apart from the plank which form as a whole. For instance, in the second paragraph it states that 12,000,000 workers are out of work I think it is possible for us to get an estimate of the number of Negro workers unemployed and state 12,- | 000,000 workers, 2 or 3,000,000 of these | are Negro workers, Here we would actually bring into concrete figures the proportion of Negro workers out of work, bring to the realization of the Negro workers the serious prob- lem of unemployment which con- fronts them throughout the United States. Secondly, I think that the platform does not deal very firmly with the position of the Socialist Party toward the Negro question in the U. 5. “I think the platfrom is also in- sufficient on the question of the pol- icy of the Negro misleaders towards the strugglés of the Negro masses in the United States, We have to take into consideration that only @ few months ago Oscar DePriest, the Negro Congressman. held a confer- ence in Washington in which he called upon the Negro people to or- ganize a Negro Party and called | upon all Negroes in the U. 8. to sup- port this so-called Negro Party. Re- cently at the NAACP. Convention there we had a very firm example of the whole line of the Negro mis- leaders, "It is also my opinion that the Platform shal also include some réf~ erences dealing with the Negro poor farmers in the South together of course with the white farmers, “We go from this convention to bring the struggle not only in the street meetings, not only in the halls of our organizations, not only in parades, but our main slogan today must be into the shops and factories. (Discussion To Be Continued State What organization are you in now? Send this to: Workers Ez-:- Servicemen's League, 1 Union Square, Room 715. Tomorrow.) VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: 1. Unemployment and Socie! In- surance at the expense of the: ain Ae meee rere STION CONVENTION Not only are they demanding $23 | per acre, but also a guarantee that | Many of the beet workers could not collect their ‘pay, and there was no legal way to make the owners pay the workers their wages. The workers also want to be} The Colorado delegation urges all the workers of Colorado to. organize into united front for the defense of and against all war preparations. An anti-war vote, a Communist Party vote will be a powerful aid to the proletariat of the Alexander, Negro Delegate, New York “I am surely convinced that here, |we have a program on the basis of which we can really develop a strug- large masses of the American working class, both Negro and white, to a consciousness of the “I think, however, that there are a few additions which we should make, particularly dealing with the In most cases, you will find that this lang- uage is not very clear, is not very plain to many masses of Negro work- ers whom we will reach in the course I would propose, I have read in the body of the plat- | TES AT THE CHICAGO is | | ‘BONUS MARCH SWELLS DESPITE ENEMY ATTACK Thousands Enroute to Demonstrate June 8 in Washington WASHINGTON, D. C., June 1— The first contingent of veterans which arrived here Sunday are now virtual- ly under arrest. ‘The veterans are held in two empty buildings by the Washington police and their self-ap- | pointed fascist leader, W. W. Waters, la west coast businessman and agent of the bonus enemies. ‘The Provisional Bonus March Com- mittee and representatives of the | Workers ExServicemen’s League ex- posed Waters yesterday as a police | tool who with Chief of Police Glass- jford was trying to split the united |front of the vets and thus defeat their demands. The March Commitiee called on the veterans {to elect a rank and file committee to lead them and to oust the police agents from their ranks and join in the united front demonstration here June 8th for immediate cash payment of the | bonus. | In spite of official Washington's repeated attempts to halt the march, veterans’ delegations are now march- ing from all sections of the country under the leadership of the Provi- sional Bonus March Committee. 300 March from Cincinnati | A mass delegation of over 300 un- der the leadership of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League marched from Cincinnati May 30 and are ex- pected to arrive in Washington to- night or tomorrow morning. Delega- tions from Terre Heute, St, Louis, Indianapolis and points west are en route to the capitol. A group from Springfield, Columbus and New Phil- adelphia have defeated attempts of the American Legion leadership to disrupt the march and are now on their way to Washington. Mich. and Western Groups A large group of ex-soldiers left Grand Rapids last night under the leadership of the Provisional Bonus March Committee. \ Another group will leave Grand Rapids tonight. One hundred and fifty ex-service- men broke from the ranks of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Wash,, May 25 for Washington, ‘This delegation is now increased to 200 and are now in Eastern Nevada, N, ¥. Mobilizes Tonight All posts of the Workers Bx-Ser- vicemen’s League will elect delegates tonight in New York City for the March to Washington which will fol- low # demonstration at City Hall on Friday at 2 p.m. The veterans will assemble at Union Square at 11 am. and march to Clty Mall to demand that the Board of Estimates pass a resolution to congress demanding im- mediate payment of the bonus. The New York group will leave Saturday morning and expects to be joined by Pennsylvania, left, Seattle, | ‘Senate Rushed | On Hoover’s Plea; Increased Taxes to Prepare for War Cost of Balancing the Page Three Revenue Bill Budget [s Shifted On the Masses Acting upon Hoover's personal appeal for speedy action to balance the budget and “restore the credit of the United States before the wortdy* | the Senate adopted a revenue bill which calls for new and heavier taxed upon the incomes of the toiling section of the population. After what the capitalist press described as a “troublesome and = less nights,” President Hoover per- Sonally appeared before the Senate to urge that the revenue bill a adopted without further delay wit an extension of the special manu- facturer’ ‘exise taxes ‘An emergency has developed which is my duty to before the Senate,” Hoover declared adding & CHICAGO RELIEF "| STATIONS 10 BE CLOSED JUNE 5 that “The continued downward trend! in the economic life of the country has been particularly Call for More Taxes. The “great engineer” suggested that the budget be balanced through drastic reduction of expenditure and through the adoption of an ade quate revenue bill capable of coping with the “degeneration in the eco nomic life.” In other words he called for new and more drastic taxes. ..If we are to have the absolute assurance of the needed income with breath of base which would make a certainty of the collections, we must face additional taxes to those | now proposed...... Hoover stressed the “necessity of belancing the budget”, he said because of the “exaggerated fears” existing in foreign countries in regard to the eco- nomic “stability” this refernce was his own anxiety, as | chief executive of the American bour- geoisie over the run on the doller which stands at a serious discount in the markets of the world for the first time in half a century,” he said. ‘The “necessity” of balancing the | budget so much emphasized by Hoover appears therefore as being dictated by the imperialist policy of the U. S. bent upon reacting to the blows being de- livered on the dollar by the finance | oligarchy of France in order to un- dermine the position of the U. 8. A. in the international arena. One of the outstanding features of the financial crisis, of which the budget deficit is a result, is the strug- gle of the financial oligarchies of the most powerful nations among themselves. And in the course of this struggle France directs her blows against the U. S. A. especially in view of the impending imperialist war against the Soviet Union, in which the U. 8. A. cannot play a leading part unless she is able to counteract these blows by rendering her economy somewhat invulnerable. Naturally enough the American capitalist olass does not want to bear the cost of this financial battle against its rivals. The American capitalist class wants to assure America a leading part in the prep- aration for war against the Soviet Union through a comparative con- solidation of its financial position— which however does not mean an economic “recovery”, but does not want to make any sacrifice. ‘That's the reason why the balanc- | ing of the budget is being carried out by adopting a revenue bill which implies more drastic taxes on the American masses. The senate re- | jected—it is true—Hoover’s plan to al incorporate in the revenue bill but that does not mean that the-p-n general manufacturers’ exise tax; but that does not mean that the fis- cal measures of the bill as passed by the senate are less heavy. The senate bill calis for a general increase of the taxes already estab- | lished in the house bill—and these | were already much higher than those previously existing. Furthermore it | calls for new exise taxes on commo- dities of general consumption, as a tax of 2 per cent on chewing gum, a tax on gasoline beside the tax of 3 per cent on automobiles and 2 per cent on trucks and automobile ac- cessories, a tax of 3 per cent on dis- | home | stribution of electricity consumption, ete. for CONFIRM REPORT OF BIG SCRAP IRON) BUYING BY JAPAN Further confirmation of Japanese purchases of 100,000 tons of scrap iron in the United States and Can- ada is contained in the Spokane Daily Chronicle of May 23. The Chronicle reports that 50,900 tons of the metal already have been as- sembled at Seattle, ‘This huge purchase of scrap iron is a relatively small part of the big purchases of war materials and mu- nitions in the United States and Europe by the Japanese, Munition factories in this country, France, England, Crechoslovakia, etc, are working overtime turning out huge supplies for the Japanese militarists in their robber war on China and their steaily drive for armed inter- vention against the Soviet Union and ite successful Socialist construc- tion. , A Tokio dispatch by the Universal News Service reports predictions in Japanese circles that “normal gov~ ernment will return te Japan only “after a military brush with the Soviets.” The Diet, the dispatch says, “will take ite orders from the accelerated.” | of America. Behind | Condemn Workers to | Starvation; Flop Houses Closing (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ON) slow death ation. The re~ 1 commission announced that by lief July Ist all flophouses will be elosed. from st land about 16,000 men and women |who are in the flophouses, willbe, |thrown out on the streets, together with over 100,000 families. In Chicago alone there are '750,000. |unemployed workers who have only’ jpartly received relief, up till now, | Under the pressure of the wneme | ployed, led by the Unemployed Counts |cils of Chicago, the State Legislature} appropriated $20,000,000 for unem- |ployment relief on April 6th, The) | state government issued notes for | $18,750,000 payable f-om taxes, The lrelief commission sold notes te the |amount of $12,500,000 of “whic | $12,000,000 have been spent, The |banks refuse to buy any more notes, | although there is on hand $6,250,000 worth of bonds. And the Illinois State Legislature refuses to appropriate an additional $20,000,000 dollars to carry through the relief. “Pocket Money” for Rich While this is taking place, Judge Oscar Caplan fixed the smount of $135,000 a year as “pocket “money” for Mrs. Florence Crane, widow of the millionaire Richard T. Crane, Jr., late head of the Crane Co. Mrs. Crane demanded $250,000 “pockeb money.” Judge Caplan thought that that amount was too much and since “everybody has to economise,” that, Mrs. Crane, too, has to “economize”! and live on $135,000 a year. While thousands and thousands of Crane workers haye been throws ous on the streets and condemned te death through slow starvation, and those who remain at work are te-, ceiving wage cuts and driven to death by speed up, the parasite Mrs, Crane,! receives $135,000 a year pocket money.| The Communist Party election pro- gram has as its first demand: “Unemployment and social insur- ance at the expense of the state and the employers.” It is parasites like Crane, Swift, Cermak, DePriest, | Senator Gleen, Governor Emmerson, |Insull, who are to be taxed for un- ! |employment insurance which is to be paid to the workers. This de- mand must be raised in every work~ ing class neighborhood, in every shop, in every house and put to the fore~ front’as the main demands of the |Chicago working class—unemploy- ment and social insurance at the ex pense of the bosses and their gove ernment. Slow Starvation for Masses, ‘There is too much money, food, | clothing and too many empty epert- }ments in the city of Chicago, But a half million working class popula- tion by the dictum of the bloody cap- italist class, is condemned to slow starvation. he working class must raise a demand to open the ware~ |houses to give food to the unem- |ployed—to open the warehouses and give clothing and shoes to the un- employed and their families—to 6pen |the empty apartment houses and |hotels to house the unemployed and to immediately pay a sufficient. | amount of money to be gotten ‘bord taxing the industrial magnates and, bankers. The working class of Chi«| j}cago has proven already that db. te< fuses to starve—that it will fight the Hoover-Cermak program of hunger} jand war. The workers in the city of Chi jcego and in Cook County must unite, {employed and unemployed, Negro and white, women, young workers and working class children, mighty movement under‘ the of “bread, housing for 750,000 ume — employed workers in the city OF Chicago.” No stoppage of relief? = It is the struggle of thew ployed that forced the bosses to propriate $20,000,000. It is struggle of the masses thab wills the ruling cla; © evtablish & 8 {of social and unemployment jance at the expense of the and their government. ey At every mass meeting, in everiahy) ganization, in local unions of © A. F. of L., workers in shops, i neighborhoods, everywhare — resolutions be adopted and the city council demanding Waaé The working class of G der the pee ot the 0 must cerry on a derugele tor | i diate relief. This is the of carrying on the election ¢ of the Communist Party as it