The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 5, 1932, Page 1

VOTE COMMUNIST FOR VOTE COMMUNIST FOR Norker 1. Unemployment and Social Insurance at the ex- ; 4. Equal rights for the Negroes and self-determ- pense of the state and employers. ination for the Black Belt. 2. ‘Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. b ; < ee a aa! ane _ 5. Against capitalist terror; against all for of . mergency relief for the poor farmers withou' 3 Ss. SU fa f th litical rights of workers iit a suppression 0} e political rights of wo restrictions by the government and banks; ex- Central peOnrg er Party U. emption of poor farmers from taxes, and no a bh Gb) 5. Against imperialist war; for the defense of forced collection of rent or debts. (Section of the Communist International) the Chinese people and of the Soviet 1 Price 3 Cents NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1932 the Post Office at New York, N. ¥,, under the act of March 3, 1879. Entered as second-class matter at Mol. EX, No. 212 CITY EDITION WARREN STEEL STRIKE WON; WAGE CUT IS SMASHED WORKERS! TAKE OVER \Can the “Daily” Appear Tomorrow? VICTORY ESTABLISHES LABOR DAY! MAKE IT Va Dae MILITANT STEEL UNION CLASS STRUGGLE DAY! IN MAHONING VALLEY | Amalgamated Officials Furious; Demand ae of Militancy: segs | lence Against Member Meetings Banned READERS:— Only through the greatest efforts and the greatest sacrifice have we been able to get out your paper today. As this issue goes to press we are faced with the appalling ques- tion of whether we will be able to print i paper at all tomorrow—even a DAILY WORKER much reduced in size. Demand Jobless Insurance! Demand War On i i = ~ ag strial Uni Wage Cuts! Urge All to Vote Communist The suspension of the DAILY WORKER than ever. But to be forced to suspend at such | Steel and Metal “Workers Industrial : nion ve es Ps would be a terrible blow to the working class that a critical time as this because of | of funds | Calls for Organization to Win More Today is Labor Day, the A. F. of L. of%jciais’ and also the capitalist | is showing an increased determination to fight would be a terrible blow, that would require long | E aoa Poy government's labor day. The workers’ day is May 1. But millions of | back against the capitalist hunger and war drive. and hard work to overcome. | WARREN, O., Sept. [ss of the Republic Steel Eat | A $ i u Co. workers is won. The mill employed 5,300 on st sys- Great Program at Labor Day Picnic in | iB MNORENE nen noses: Of Yon sere, eke. 3m Friday and Saturday the DAILY |tem. The company officially called off the wage cut, after a WORKER appealed for $5,000 over the week end as the minimum that would see us through the next days. Saturday's total income was slightly over $300, pitifully below the $1,500 minimum. al] mass meet- | action and other masses ready to go the Daily seeee ee ace Seay aie aL | series of vicious attacks on the picket line, after faces the worst crisis we have ever known. Pleasant Bay Park Today Al NEW YORK.Workers from all parts of New York will gather at | Pleasant Bay Park today for the annual picine of the Trade Union| Unity Council and for a Communist election rally. Ben Gold, general secretary of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union and Ear! | Browder, Communist candidate for Congress in the 20th district, will | We are’doing everything within our power to avert this disaster. We are determined that nothing shall be left undone to prevent the capi- ‘(STEEL WORKERS’ PROGRAM OF ACTK( WARREN, 0., Sept. 4.—The Rank and File Strike reuncing the victory over the wage cut in the Republic Com speak. march, led by the Red Front Band. | Reed Club artists, the Labor Sports | Take subway to E. 177th St., There will be a tourch light parade symbolizing the six main de- | mands of the Communist election platform. The militant unions will | Bronx. The New Dancers League, John | Union will perform. | workers are still trapped in the’ sell A. F. of L. and the capitali: teday. The capitalist agents will celebrate it with speeches praising peace in in- custry, they will try to gloss over the | fact that they are helping to put over the vicious wage cuts and stag- ger system and wholesale discharge ef. workers, which has cut wages 50/ per cent in last three years and h filled the cities with 15,000,000 job- | leas. Make It Day of Class Struggle The Communist Party and the) militant trade union center, the+ Trade Union Unity League, calls on all workers to go into these Labor} Day meetings and picnics, and there | there to raise the demands of tn. | employment insurance and struggle against wage cuts. Demand no im- perialist war, an§ defense of the Soviet Union, the land of wage in- creases and no unemployment. Re- fuse to listen to the Republican, De- mocratic and Socialist politicians who speak in those meetings for the capi- talist system of exploitation, and urge all workers to vote for the Com- | munist candidates in this election. Today is the 39th celebration of Labor Day on the First Monday in September. This date was established as a national holiday hy the con- gress in 1894, just after the militant workers of America had begun to celebrate International Labor Day ; on the First of May in commemora- | tion of the historic strike on May 1,; 1886, to shorten the work day to eight hours. FORD URGES AID 10 FARM STRIKE, €alls On “Farmers to Lead Own Struggle MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Sept. 4—A call to the striking farmers to take their struggle into their own hands and carry it on to a victory, was given 700 who gathered here Friday in Yeoman’s Hall to hear James W. Ford,' candidate of the Communist Party for Vive-President of the United States. Ford urged the farmers to broaden their action to include a tax strike and mass resistance to foreclosures gud evictions for non-payment of taxes or on mortgages, Ford pointed to the Communist Party’s platform demand for “emer- gency relief for the poor farmers, without restrictions by . government and banks; exemption of poor farm- ers from taxes, and no forced collec- tion of rent or debts.” He called on the farm strikers to fight for this proposal and to vote Communist in this election to show they were for it. Ford assailed the Farmer-Labor Party betrayals of workers and farm- ers in Minnesota, and called for mili- tant mass struggle for unemployment insurance and against wage cuts. He hailed the successes of the spokesmen, and will celebrate Labor Day "SS ea ‘ROOSEVELT BOWS | | Tells Starving Work-, | administration showed that clearly. | At the same time he avoided specific | l-out, w-® cutting, policies of the | 70 TAMMANYITES; “AID BR. BOSSES” ers to Go Back to the Farms ' Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Tam-{ many..Governor. of New York and | democrat Presidential candidate, who aas been trying to} use the Walker| case to pose as an} opponent of Tam-j many graft and corruption, paid} tribute to Al! Smith at Sche-| nectady Saturday. Smith, who like Rooseve tl was a Tammany Gover- nor, put through state reorganiza- m a Gov. Roosevelt tion schemes that concentrated more power in the hands of the Governor | by increasing appointive powers so the Tammany henchmen could divide | more fat jobs among themselves. It was this action of Smith that Roose- velt praised. Not Fighting Tammany Roosevelt took special pains to 2 as- | {sure his hearers at Schenectady, the | majority of them hard-bitten Tam-| manyites, that he wanted harmony and that he was in no way an enemy} of Tammany. His praise of Smith's mention of Tammany because it would not accord with the attempt to win votes outside New York on the pretense that he is against Tammany. Take Tax Off Railroads Speaking the same day at Bridge- port, Conn., the democrat candidate shed tears over the fact that rail- roads are subjected to local taxes and urged that this burden be lifted to help both the railroads and the in- surance companies that have hun- dreds of millions invested in rail- roads. “ Starving Back to Farms For the starving workers Roosevelt had nothing better to offer than they go back to the land, advice that was applauded by the bosses and politi- cians and police, who are continually fighting against demands of workers for unemployment relief, Roosevelt was careful not to mention the fact that on the land the farmers are starving the same as workers in the city. Compare these proposals with the clear-cut Communist Party demands for unemployment and social insur- ance at the expense of the govern- ment and the employers, the fight against wage cuts, immediate relief for the farmers and the local de- mands put forward to compel the State and city administrations to talists winning such an easy victory as the sus- pension of the Central Organ of our Party at a time when it is needed more than ever; at a time when the workers in the Ohio steel mills have won the first victory in that industry against wage cuts, at a time when the Illinois miners are fighting against wage cuts and hunger, at a time when the Anthracite mi other wage cut to which ners are faced with: an- they will certainly reply by strike action, at a time when the farmers of the Middle West are fighting against the bankers. and railroad magnates who try to inflict hunger upon them, at a time when the frenzied drive to- ward imperialist war is meeting with increasing resistance—at such a time, of all times, this paper is needed to help give guidance and to di- rect into effective channels the growing move- ment against hunger and war. If our paper were forced by the state power of capitalism to suspend we would go down. with our colors flying. Such a suspension would be no disgrace, but an episode in the revolutionary struggle. We would fight to come back stronger Our paper appedred then largely through the help of the Slovak Workers’ Club of Newark, N. J., which floated a loan of $200 to enable us to pay pressing last minute expenses. Only the self-sacrifice of these workers made it possible for us to survive Saturday. Readers! Every penny counts. The next two days means life or death to our paper. We cannot appear té- morrow if you do not rush funds TODAY. Only your immediate help will save the Daily. Speed all funds teday to 35 East 12th Street, fifth floo This is not an appeal only. It is a warning and a call to action. -EDITORIAL AND MANAGEME COMMITTEE OF THE DAILY WORKER N" IN MILWAUKEE JOBLESS DEMAND AN END TO FORCED LABOR SOCIALISTS BACK SLAVE PROGRAM Cops ‘Attack Jobless Demanding Relief MILWAUKEE, Wis., Sept. 4. — While the socialist and Non-Partisan politicians on the County Board here were pushing through the “economy” program, which means forced labor for unemployed workers, more than 3,000 workers under the leader- ship of the Unemployed Council demonstrated in front of the Court House against forced labor and for 60 cents an hour for all jobless work- ers who were working for the county. Cash relief of $12 a week for all workers was also demanded by the workers. When a committee of fifteen that had been elected to present the de- mands to the County Board were refused adrhittance, hundreds of workers jammed into the corridors of the Court House in spite of the ef- forts of hundreds of policemen and detectives to hold them back, Demonstrate in West Allis A demonstration of 700 workers in West Allis on Friday followed the; demonstration on Wednesday before the Relief Bureaw there in a demand for immediate relief for Chick Borden. After the demonstration at) the Bureau, the workers marched to the. office of the socialist supervisor, Buech, in a police station and pre- sented to him thei rdemand that Borden be given immediate relief and that the police terror against the unemployed be stopped. The police attacked the demonstra- tion, but the workers fought back militantly, four being arrested and Forced Labor for the Jobless Palo Alto, Cal., makes the joven turn cobblers before they get food and shelter. ‘STARVATION PAY ON GOV'T WORK 96 to $13 a Week for Skilled Workers By LEO GRULIOW | WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept Skilled workers employed under {ernment contract are being |near-starvation wages ranging | $3.96 to $13 a week. Weekly pay slips listing such pay- ments, gathered from employees of the plant of Sigmund Fisner at Red Bank, N. J., are on the desk of Assis- tant Secretary of War Payne, |$2. gov- paid from ington Daily News, one of the Scripps-Howard liberal newspapers, {in an attempt to boost slumping summer circulation and to show how |friendly the Scripps-Howard papers jare to labor. How friendly they are |to labor may be judged by the fact district, have been leading the dem- onstrations. Bassett will speak over Station WLDL, the Wisconsin agricultural station, on Wednesday from 3 to 4 p.m. Nehmer, Communist candidate for Secretary of State, will leave soon : that the United Press, owned by the for a tour of the farming district. | same people as the Scripps-Howard The Racine Memorial Hall, con-| papers, has just, cut wages of all) trolled by the city, has been denied employes 10 10 per cent. cent. 8.) forte came JAN 21 IN STRIKE. N. Y. Vets Active for Cleveland Bonus Parley 2 of the Workers Ex-servicemen’s League, for its special member- ship meeting tonight at 127 West 125th St Post AT ART KNITTING the yaunigien Park open air thea-| tre, which seats many thousands. Demonstrate. i in Mass | Picketing Tomorrow NEW YORK.—Comrade Raparport, organizer of the Knit goods depart- They were put there by the Wash-| “The present strike is over, prepare for those that are coming! “Organize and strike against wage cuts and speed up! “Demand recognition of the elected Rank and File Mill Committees “Fight against discrimination against Negro workers and igainst blacklist! “Demand Reinstatement of all workers discharged inion activities! “Fight for immediate relief and unemployment insurance » oxpense of the bosses and the government! : | “Build the united front of all workers! “Smash the starvation-war program of the employers! “Build the Steel and Mcial Workers Industrial Union!” | for strike and ings were prohibited by police, after arrests and brutal club- bing of numerous strike leaders. This is the first large scale steel strike since 1919. It is the first time a wage cut has been defeated in a whole mill bs the steel workers since the?—————— World War. It is the first large | scale struggle led by the new | Steel and Metal Workers In- \ dustrial Union. In the opinion | \of all this yietory establishes the S. M, W. I. U. firmly in the Mahoning | Valley. The main demand of the strikers was for withdrawal of the wage cut. Other demands were for recognition | of the Steel and Metal Workers In- dustrial Union, and reinstatement of lall men recently discharged. The | strike committee, uniting all depart- | ments, representing S. M. W. I. |membership and the striking rank and file of the Amalgamated Asso- ciation of Iron, Steel and Tin Work-| ers (A. F. of L.), and representing also the unemployed, met Friday and voted ‘that inasmuch as the main de- mand had, been conceded by the company, and a victory won, the strike should be officially ended, with a call to all workers in the mill to continue organizing to resist future | wage cuts. | ‘The strike was prepared for by or- ganization of groups in all depart- ments during the last several weeks in the Trumbull plant of the Repub- lic Steel. It was precipitated by an official statement of the mill manage- ment that on Sept. 1 a wage. cut of 6 per cent would go into effect, under | the sliding scale contract the Amal- gamated has with the company. The} strike vote was taken at a mass | }meeting of 3,000 steel workers in} Warren, Wednesday. The meeting} was called by the S. M. W. I. U.,| whose officials addréssed it. Picketing | started Wednesday night and con- tinued on all shifts. Amalgamated Strike Breaking The Amalgamated officials pub- lished statements in the local press ordering all their men back to work, | and declaring that they would have | \full “protection” of the police, city _—_— and company. The Amalgamated) DES MOINES officials also co-operated in bringing | Carloads of strikii scabs from as far away as Wilming-| here from Sious ton, Del., and aided the company in| Bluffs areas to he: attacks against the striking rank and ter, Communist candidate for. bs) Re of the Amalgamated. dent of the United States, speak on Fight On Picket Line | strike tactics and the for truggle on the part of the fa: Thursday night the company thug: Foster speaks here in East | city, county and state “peace officers’ High School, with a seating capa |ahd hired gangsters attacked the | o¢ 1,200, and located in the prolet pickets, slugging many and severely | pian’ section. He speaks Wednesds injuring, among others, Carl Porter, Sept. 7, at 7:30 p.m \ the secretary of the S. M. W. I. U.| ‘local, who was leading the pickets.| A series of Communist election cam~ At midnight and up to 5 a.m. Friday | paign meetings to prepare this Fe there was more severe fighting on| ter meeting, is being held in various |the picket line. Joe Dallett, Tom sections of Des Moines \Johnson, Jack Williams, A. Lewis ee tn ‘al Jana others were jailed, All are, out! rogaine’ for more experienced’ and |militant leadership and eagerly fol- | Friday the stdike ended with a vie-| iow every word the Communists have See Illinois Mine Conference ing” Printed on P. 4 BURN TO DEATH n 'IN TENEMENT FIRE age ag | Tenants Trapped On Fire Escape: Four tenants were burned @eath in a fire that broke ov yesterday morning in the fiv tenement at 53 East 104th Street Tenants were trapped by the fire, unable to escape by m I balcony type fire esc: spread swiftly throu dwelling, and the ad building was saved only aft battle by the men were injured. The dead included Murtha, of George Brac 13-year old danghter, U-year old son, Taylor, a 12-year burned to death. these four burned recognition. FARM STRIKE to the Lillia The bodice almost | Speaks Wednesday In Iowa Des Moines, » is inviting members of other ;ment of the Needle Trades Work- tory for the main demand of the to say. The farmers are left prac- ‘ant relief for the starving masses. Minneapolis workers in fighting evic- gr Ne ea three being held for court trial on| posts to join the discussion in which the Relief March plans will be taken |ers Industrial Union, has been ar- | strikers.. The strike committee called tically leaderless, Milo Reno, presi- and by mass struggle compel- the abolition of forced labor for lief, Ford also pointed out that the united front, rank and file leadership and mass picketing by thousands, had smashed the attempt to cut the union wage scale for building trades work- ers on the postoffice job here. SUPPRESS COMMUNIST DAILIES. (Cable by Imprecorr) y ‘The police suppressed two Com- munist dailies, tthe Volksecho at Brandenburg and the Volkswacht at Pomerania, for 14 days. The reasons are unknown. Alteration Painters Win Wage Increases In Three More Shops NEW YORK.—Williamsburgh Local No. 3 of the Alteration Painters Union has just settled three more shops. In one a gain of 50 per cent in wages made. In another the gain was 40 per cent, and in the third, 35 per cent. The union calls all painters hav- ing gievances and wishing leader- ship in ©: >sle against low wages, etc, to come to the headquarters at 285 Rodney St Sept. 8. A joint demonstration will be held by the Unemployed Council and the International Labor Defense tomor- row at Central Park to protest against the attack. Last week unemployed workers also held demonstrations before the office of the socialist supervisor Tucker and before the office of Supervisor Met- calf, father of the forced labor scheme, At all these demonstrations, th Hunger March to Allis Chalmers on Sept. 26 was brought forward. Com- munist candidates Lester, in the up, together with details of how to approach fraternal organizations, posts of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wat's, and the position ot the Workers _Ex-Servicemen’s toward political parties.” This meeting is also one of many being held throughout the country to rally ex-s:}vicemen for the Na- tional Veterans’ Conference to be held Sept. 23, 24 and 25 in Cleve- land. Coe Ay Revolt Spreading The revolt inside the boss-con- trolled veterans’ organizations against Hoover's murder of the veterans in Washington and for the immediate fourth Congressional district, and Grace Brown in the third Assembly payment of the bonus continues to spread, and the committees running Leagueo— the meetings find it more and more difficult to stem the growing discon- tent of the rank and file. At the national convention of the} Fifth Division held at the Hotel New Yorker Saturday many veterans spoke up against the Washington murder, and the committee just barely managed to close the debate without taking any action. BRIDGEPORT, Conn.—Good pros pects for organizing new posts of the W. E. S. L, in Stamford, Bridgeport, New Haven, New Britain and other) cities in that section are reported, | rested together with 20 more work-|a mass meeting Friday night in Hip- ers on the picket line in front of the | podrome Hall to announce its deci- Art Knitting Mill, 144 W. 27th St.|sion and take a vote on ending the |The workers of this shop have been | strike. Police made many threats. had strike since Wednesday, Aug. 31. | Police armed with riot guns pre- ‘The workers are out 100 per cent |Vented a meeting In Courthouse jand are determined to win their de- Teurticelice eee seve Sahih mands. The majority of the WORKERS | city authorities forbade all. innss in that shop are young girls, the; show great militancy and stick to- | meetings for one week, but rasta ae john 5 ; ts and | 18s the meeting was held. ace che ence ere we | Meldon, secretary of the union, and Pat Cush, of the national board, and Workers of the Knit goods indus-/ local leaders addressed the meeting, | try and all other Needle trades work- | which unanimously declared that the ers are urged to come to the mass | strike was in the main a victory and picketing and demonstration in front | | should be terminated, with prepara- of the shop on Tuesday morning, Sep. | tions continuing for a greater strug- ‘6th, at 7 am ‘gle to come, re tty +h oka dent of ‘the Holiday Association washes his hands of every defens- ive move the farmers make. Progress Upholstery Strike Is Won; Still | Strike at Model Plant NEW YORK. — The strike in the | Progress Upholstery shop at 17 East | Broadway has been won. The boss agrees to $35 a week, 40-hour week and recognition of the union and the ‘shop committee. The strike continues in the Model Bed Spring shop,