The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 23, 1933, Page 3

International Notes By ROBERT HAMILTON RED GAINS IN BERLIN CABLE PLANT. BERLIN, Jan. 5 (By mail).—In the shop council elections held yes- terday in the Siemens Cable Plant in |Berlin the revolutionary trade union opposition was the only or- ganization to gain, its percentage of the total vote cast rising to 38.4 per cent, compared with 28.3 per cent in the last election in 1930. The re- formists’ vote dropped to half their former total, and now the Communist vote exceeds the Socialist total by 200 votes. te SOCIALIST JUSTICE IN SWEDEN. STOCKHOLM, Jan. 3 (By mail). —The district court in Skellefteo has sentenced 18 working men and wo- men to jail and fines for demon- strations against scabbing last Spring, which resulted in clashes with the police. A mother of 9 child- ren was sentenced to 3 months at . a Socialist governm: and the Swedish Socialists won the last election largely on the campaign platform of a political amnesty. The usual contradiction between Social- ist words and deeds, eee CHINESE UNION LEADER ARRESTED. SHANGHAI, Jan. 5 (By mail).— Huang Ping, chairman of the All- China Trade Union Federation, who is also a member of the Executive Committee of the League against Im- perlalism, has been arrested in Peip- ing (Peking). He was detained in the Chen-suen-yan prison, where he is subjected to inhuman torture and then shipped in irons to Nanking. He is in danger of immediate exe- cution by Chang Kai-Shek or of be- ing shipped to Canton, where an execution warrant is waiting for him. A world-wide protest is urgently necessary—AT ONCE—if the life of Huang-Ping is to be saved. BERLIN WORKERS BATTLE FASCISTS Repel Nazis, Defend Party Building BULLETIN (Cable By Inprecorr.) BERLIN, Jan. 22.—Police report that by 4 o’clock today there had been 68 arrests in the fight be- tween workers and the fascists. There were 21 attacks on the fas- cist columns. The police made 19 baton charges, resulting in injuries to 22 persons, including three police and 16 fascists, Germanstrasse police fired into workers, killing one and wounding another. The streets are full of hos- tile workers, with continual colli- sions of workers with the police and fascists in the working-class quar- ters north and east. BERLIN, Jan. 22 (By Radio).— ‘The Buelow Platz, where about 12,000 fascists held a provocative demons- tration today in front of the Karl Liebknecht House, Headquarters of the Communist Party of Germany, is now black with workers, staging, despite police orders, a counter- demonstration against the fascists. The air is filled with shouts of “Down with the Schleicher government” and other slogans. Fighting is going on in the Buelow Platz section and big demonstrations are being held in the workers’ neighborhoods, with the police attacking. Numerous clashes are reported in various parts of the town, The workers in the Temperhof section overpowered the fascists, stripped off their uniforms and shoes and left them in their underelothing in the snow. In Wedding and Fried- richshain the fascist columns were broken despite the police guards. Serious clashes took place on the Rosenthaler Platz, the police shoot- ing three workers in the stomach and chest. In the Neukoelln section the police dispersed workers’ demonstrations at the point of revolvers. At 2 o'clock the fascist columns began arriving, under heavy police guard, a the Buelow Platz. They were stimated at about 12,000, with numerous detachments brought into Berlin from outlying districts. The demonstration was held contrary to reports published in yesterday eve- ning’s bourgeois press that Chancellor von Schleicher intended to close the Buelow Platz to all comers, including the fascists, and to direct the latter into other streets. This morning, however, it became clear that Schleicher had confirmed the police permisison for the demons- tration and that the bourgeois press had merely been trying to soothe the enraged workers and put them off their guard, The Socialist Party and the mis- leaders of the reformist trade unions had issued strict orders to their mem- bers under no circumstances to join the Communist counter-demonstra- tions. At the same time the Reichs- banner, dominated by the “socialists,” had withdrawn its detachments from boleh abandoning the streets to the 74 P.C. Photoengravers Are Jobless, Volz Says NEW YORK.—Edward J. Volz, president of the International Photo- beats aed sen ceo te No. 1 al annual meet ie Brook- lyn Elks Club House that 74 per cent of the 8,640 union members are either unemployed or working part-time, Matthew Woll, vice-president of the A. F. of L., and professional Red baiter, in an address at the same meeting, called for what really amounted to an extension of the “stagger system”; thus increasing the number of part-time employéd. Woll predicted the 30-hour week and pointed out the “necessity” of it, but f¢ to mention that his plan also. called for wage reductions in necordance, |Mrs. MONTGOMERY HITS CHAIN GANG Herndon Verdict Hits! at Negro People | BULLETIN. MONTGOMERY, Ala. Jan. 22. | Hearing will take place today on the writ of habeas corpus taken out by the International Labor Defense attorneys in the fight to effect the release of Roy Wright, one of the Scottsboro boys, who has been held in jail for the past 18 months with- out @ conviction. ATLANTA, Ga., Jan, 22. — Mrs. Montgomery, mother of Olin Montgomery, one of the 9 innocent Scottsboro Negro lads facing legal lynching in Ala-| bama, joined with hundreds of white and Negru workers to- day in denouncing the vicious | class verdict of the Fulton County | Superior Court sentencing Angelo | Herndon, 19-year old Negro organizer of the unemployed, to 18 to 20 years on Georgia’s chain gangs. | Mrs. Montgomery was among the hundreds of white and Negro worker: who packed the court house during the three days of the dramatic tria! in militant solidarity with the young working class leader. Commenting | on Judge Wyatt's open collusion with the prosecution in converting the | trial of Herndon into an attack on | the Communist Party and its fight | for full equality for the Negro people and self-determination fot the “Black | Belt”, Mrs. Montgomery declared on | the second day of the trial: “A capitalist judge could be de- pended on to do just what Wyatt | has done in lying to the defense attorneys. Yesterday he promised that no argument on Communism would be admitted as evidence. To- day he encourages every ¢ txek on the Communist Party.” Prepare Drive and Appeal. The Southern District of the In- | ternational Labor Defense announced today that it will conduct a vigorous mass and legal fight against the chain gang verdict, which is practi- cally a death sentence for the young Negro revolutionary leader and a move to crush the rising struggles of the unemployed white and Negro workers and to illegalize the Com- munist Party in Georgia. The bril- liant defense conducted by the de- fense counsel, Ben Davis, Jr. and John H. Gear, prominent Negro at- torneys of Atlanta, engaged by the I. L. D., has laid the basis for an ap- peal to the U. S. Supreme Court, the two defense attorneys forcing Fulton County officials to admit that Ne- groes haye been systematically ex- cluded from Petit and Grand Juries during the past 30 years. Already, as a result of the vigorous fight con- ducted by the I. L. D. and its at- torneys, two Negroes were called for jury duty several weeks ago. Atlanta Six Next. Attorneys Davis and Gear will also defend the Atlanta Six who will be tried shortly under the same 1861 slave code dug up by the State of Georgia for its savage offensive against the working class and the growing unity of Negro and white workers and poor farmers in the fight against starvation and for self- determination in the “Black Belt” with confiscation of the land of the rich white landowners for the Negro and white toilers who work the land. The Atlanta Six includes two white men, two Negro men and two white girls arrested for the “crime” of orga- nizing white and Negro workers to- gether for joint struggle against their oppressors. Letters Show Support. NEW YORK.—An indication of the immediate response of the workers of the country to the vicious chain gang sentence against Angelo Hern- don is contained in a letter received by the International Labor Defense on Saturday from a sympathizer. Herndon-Scottsboro defense commit- tees are being organized now in At- Janta. Negro intellectuals are com- ing forward in support of the de- fense and have pledged themselves to raise any necessary amount of bail to effect Herndon’s release pending the appeal. VA. STUDENTS DEFEND NEGROES Protest Ala. Terror; Socialists Opposed CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Jan. 20. —Over-riding the opposition of “soci- | alist” students, the Liberal Discus-| sion Group of the University of vir-| | ginia, adopted a resolution protest- ing against the landlord-police ter- ror against the Negro croppers and exploited farmers of Tallapoosa County, Ala. j The resolution was introduced by the president of the group and de- fended by a Southern-born student in a militant speech, against the op- position of the “socialists” students. ‘The speaker described conditions in South Carolina, and agreed with the president that the landlord-terror was directed against the entire work- ing-class by seeking to crush the struggles of one of its sections. He declared that as students interested in social problems they should have the courage of their convictions, Socialist Students In Fear. The “Socialist” students expressed fear that the group would be brand- ed as Communistic if it supported the struggles of the Negro le. ‘The president answered that if the students took any part in the class- Loni struggle, he would expect them to be branded as a Communistic group, brie he hoped they would merit the The resolution was offered follow- ing an address by John Rogers, artist and writer, on “The Significance of the Hunger March.” Several students volunteered to make an investigation of conditions in the mill-districts and slums of arlottesville. HOSPIT? L KICKS OU | CONVALESCENT WORKERS NEW YORK.—-Recently while a patient at Bellevue Hospital I had a chance to gef, some first-hand ob- servation of the workings of the new “economy plan” put through by the city. The first to get it in the neck, of course, were the workers. All of the foreign-born were laid off without any replacements. This means that many of the others get a shift from 12 to 15 hours a day. Because of the short help, patients are forced to make their own beds and do other little jobs, A runner in the admission department told me that their num- | ber had been cut from eight to four, while their wages had been sliced from $50 to $30 a month. I had to wait there three hours before I was taken in, DAILY WORKE! WORKER CORRESPONDENCE Page ‘Three | I was discharged on New Year's} Day with several other men. Some of them were homeless, unemployed workers, who were thin and pale and looked very shaky. Because of the large number of patients waiting to| get in these men had been kicked out | before they were fully well. On week} days there is a social service that usually sees that these workers have | ® place to sleep for a few days until they are stronger. This being a holiday, however, the place was closed, | Nevertheless they were thrown out by the hospital authorities and told to go to the Salvation Army or to| the Municipal Lodging House. Things} like this happen constantly while! city hospitals stand empty and boarded up in order.to keep the rich from being forced to pay higher taxes. Wb | (New York Worcor Group) | According to Capitalist Law! “ORDER Below is a list of all money received up to Friday, inclusive, from all dis- tricts. Districts 2 (New York), 3 (Phila- delphia), 6 (Cleveland), 7 (Detroit) and 8 (Chicago), having the largest quotas, have sent in $895.20 for the first five days of the drive. But New York sent, out of this sum, $719.87! All the other four districts combined contributed only $75.33! Chicago, with a quota of $4,000, sent in only $2! Where is Chicago? What happened to the brilliant plans submitted by the campaign commit- tee? Detroit has sent in $135.50, despite the fact that it has been hit harder by unemployment than any large American city. Detroit is well on the way to beat Chicago, and has already left it far behind. The cam- paign needs pepping up all along the line. Get busy, workers; your paper is in danger. Reeord of District 1 _ Distriet 2 District 3 District 4 District 5 District € District District District District District District District District District District District 17 - Districs 18 Total received Frid Districts as of Jan yr Total previously recorded — TOTAL TO DATE DISTRICT 0) S. G. Pavlo, Walden, 1. Kyvast, Randi Anderson, Dorel TOTAL $58.50 Christ Yioris 1.00 DISTRICT 2 Harry Gelber 05 J Likas Max Bloom Bid M Xypteras W Greenberg = 25 © Cavadias H Coip 210 A Raiz M Runko 35 A Kurnella P Market “10 Dengele M Glavan 20 George F Brusella 08 N Demitriade J Boopatz 33 AGM J Feraguna Nikitas M. Scopatr. J Greogory A Ercoreca 8 Soocher S Lusticn © Rosenfeld 5| Louis Dunke Anna S Pasteich Selma F Smaita F Goldbarb J Udavich R Markowitz A Delach A Catono T Dekansky ® Levine N Margtich Anonymous G Anonymous Gus Eliadis P Athona 0 DEMONSTRATION FOLTIS’ OFFICE Demand to Reinstate Fired Workers, Withdraw Cut NEW YORK—A committee com- posed of representatives of the Food Workers Industrial Union and of layed-off workers from the Foltis- Fischer cafeteria chain will appear before Mr. Foltis, owner, at his office at 530 W. 27th Street, Thursday at 12 o'clock noon sharp. This committee will demand: 1—The immediate reinstatement of all workers laid off by the Foltis- Fischer company. 2—No discrimination againstmem- bers of the union working for the company, 3—The withdrawal of the recent wage cut. . This cut has been instituted in an indirect way. Workers getting $15 and $18 in a certain cafeteria, are shifted to another store ofthe chain where they must work for $10 and $12 at longer hours or else quit, 2,000 Will Demonstrate. At the same time that the commit- tee goes into Foltis’ office, a mass de- monstration in support of the com- mittee and the demands will take place outside. This demonstration has been organized by the Food Workers Industrial Union as the first step in «the struggle against the lay-offs, dis- ONLY $2 FROM CHICAGO OTHER DISTRICTS SLOW 2| J Mefanis THURS. BEFORE. Anonymous Bella Sieget Anonymous Bella Cahn B Sorenko T Pappas 1 Kossman F Kobilka © Furman Abe Onigman M Lederfine 95 Kida ¥ Okate Tora Ito H Hantimitz A Horowitz J Frank Joe Ziser A Kagaukos ‘ J Schn >| J Gregory : Ben Na D Abramowitr 1.00 S Stigiat parrelk = 05 I Greenberg I Katz R Kosefsky F Loenenco I ner J Munter R si J Greenfield E Jalapar P Keib Aho Meyers D Tselepis Eva Sigel S Yooney E Elund Tirkin 5 Hans Wittner E Nelson 1.00 J Pallmer Sec. 11, Unit # 10.00 Wm. 8. Freiheit Gésangs Hh Mocekat | “Verein 21.52 A. Facsster J Newman 15.00 W Porvitr Railroad worker 2.00 5 Levonuk Waldo Frank — 10.00 SMB 1.00 Hinsdale Workers Ctyb 00 J Garwood 00 A Friend 50 S Syhosadzk V Vitkus 00 J Yakunais Anonymous 6.50 N Mechecky Mise. 11.62 A Rerneys Unit 9, See 8 2.00 M Miroekian Stolbers 25 W Zaenob Be 5.00 M Cammarata Siamst 5.00 P Burorisk Jay Richards 5.00 J Miller Amer. Youth Fed 5.00 c kiyn 5.00 B Marcus 00 Unit 9, See 1 5.00 05! Backmeir, LT © 2.50 Worker Printing plant L Demingo S Falberg A Barnett 35.00 49.00 Ht Chandler 51.00] M_ Rubin ¥ Katman 49.00] J Welen G Mason 25.00) A Goldstein T Jennings 10.00/ A Porta H Rabinowitz 5.00/ E Welman J Schoenberger 5.00! J Zeksor DISTRICT 3 AC F, Philadelphia I Faleder, Elizabeth, Pa. 30 TOTAL $1.50 DISTRICT ¢ ‘WIR Branch 32.50 TOTAL $2.50 DISTRICT 6 A Friend 350 Harvey (list) 4.00 C D Sninaster 135 Lettish ILD Branch 5.00 TOTAL $9.55 DISTRICT = P Almstead, Freeland, Mich. $5.00 Fred Daney, Adrian, Mich. 1.00) | TOTAL 36.00 | DISTRICT & | T Osterman, Chicago 2.00 TOTAL 32.00 ARREST THREE TAMPA | WORKERS IN FRESH WAVE OF TERROR TAMPA, Fia., Jan. 20.—In a new wave of terror against the militant workers of Tampa, police yesterday srrested three workers who went to the city jail to visit Homer Burton, sentenced for “being a known Com- munist and found in Tampa,” and \Severly beat up a fourth. They are held on the same charges. The workers arrested are Armando Lopez, Eviqueta Palacios, and Yorkinda Romero. Se crimination and wage cuts. It has al- ready been endored by the Needle Trades Industrial Union, the Food Workers Unemployed Council, the Needle Trades Unemployed Council, the Spartacus Club, the Union branches in the various cafeterias of |the Foltis-Fischer chain, the 6th Ave. Unemployed Council, and various other working class organizations, Over 2,000 workers are expected to participate in the demonstration against the lay-ofs, tion. Discriminat Recently two members of the union were fired from the 104th Street store of the chain on account of their activ- ity for the union. When the represen- tative of the union together with the lad-off workers to see the inspector, the later promised to put the men back to work. However, when the men came the next morning for their jobs, the inspector told them plainly that there are no jobs for members of the Food Workers Industrial Union. This challenge was accepted by the workers in the chain and the union, and they have organized Thursday's demonstration as the first step in the fight against the firing and discrimi- nation and against the wage cut. SOVIET MASSES HONOR V. I. LENIN Prepare for Second Five-Year Plan (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Kalinin. “The best observance of the memory of Lenin,” he said, “is the fulfilment of the Five-Year Plan in four years. The Party succeeded in sweeping aside all obstacles on the path to the fulfilment of the great plan.” Stetsky Makes Address The principal address was made by Stetsky, director of the cultural and propaganda division of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, The speaker dwelt at length on the results of the Five-Year Plan, pointing out the realization of Leninist ideas in the plan, The audience rose and burst into stormy applause when the spea' jer exclaimed: “The country is now | | honoring the heroes of the Five-Year | Pian. We should honor its foremost hero—Comrade Stalin.” A suitable musical program was magnificently rendered on the con- clusion of the formal session. Yesterday the entire Soviet press devoted editorials and articles com- | memorating the ninth year of Lenin's death. Important documents of Lenin were published for the first time, in- cluding the draft thesis written in 1917, prior to the October Revolu- tion, in which Lenin sketched the arguments attacking the position of the mensheviks who favored leaving power in the hands of the bour- | geoisic. Leninism—Sure Guide. The editorial in “Pravda,” central organ of the Communist Party, ana- lyzes the events in the Soviet Union since Lenin’s death, demonstrating by quotations from Lenin that the Party has been conducting a policy strictly in accordance with the prin- ciples of Leninism and that in Lenin’s writings and utterances, the Party found a sure guide to every phase of its policy of industrialization and reconstruction of agriculture along socialist lines. “Tavestia,” organ of the Soviet gov- ernment, likewise reviews the past nine years, dwelling at length on the international situation. “Izvesti: then proceeds to point out the fail- ure of the capitalist hopes of sta- bilization, the presence of ever sharper contradictions in the capi- talist countries and the rise of the revolutionary tide as a result of the sharpening class contradictions. Discussing the international posi- tion of the Soviet Union, “Izvestia” writes: “With respect to the U.S.S.R., cap- italism extends now a hand in a vel- vet glove, now a mailed fist. While the statesmen of some of the neigh- | boring countries show an inclination toward peaceful relations, the states- men of other countries declare pub- licly they are ready to live in peace only with bourgeois Russia and are obliged to consider the U.S.S.R. as an enemy.” Comparing the position of the So- viet Union with that of other coun- tries, the editorial continues: Calmly Face Future “In the light of the general chaos, in the light of the whirl of contradic- tions, the Soviet Union, despite the great difficulties it is encountering, is the only indestructible force calmly and with certainty. facing the future. On the basis of the fulfilment of the Five-Year Plan the U.S.S.R. has in- creased its defensive capacity and is now certain no one will catch it un- awares. The Soviet Union will never misuse its power, for this power is guided by the disciples of Lenin who have grown up in the struggle for peace. “Under the leadership of Stalin, our Party and the Soviet government not only took care of the defensive capacity of the Soviet Union, but also did everything possible to prove to all countries our readiness to support peace and has done everything to propose to all our neighbors and the countries connected with them mu- tual guarantees of peace. “The war danger comes not from the side of the Soviet Union, though we have no doubt that if the enemy forces war upon us, it will end in the defeat of the enemy.” New Grain Decree Regarding the new grain tax de- cree, which supplants the present contract system in grain collections, “Pravda” today writes editorially: “From now on the collective farms will know beforehand, prior to sow- ing, how much grain they are to de- liver (ie., sell) to the state. The levies will be computed for the collective and individual farms on the basis of the actual winter sowing and the es- tablished plan for the spring sow- ing. Every collective farm, member of a collective and individual peasant will be interested in fully carrying out the established plan for, the spring sowing, because if less is sown, it will result in a smaller surplus after ful- filling state obligations, while sowing more grain will increase the income of the collective and individual farms.” Protects Collectives The editorial further emphasizes the important provision of the de- cree “categorically forbidding local authorities to allow any kind of counter-plans (i.e, any increase in the levies fixed by the government.— Edit.). This provision protects the collective farms in faithfully carrying out their obligations to the state from the errors of local organizations. + « « The decree therefore emphasizes that “all surplus grain, after the ful- filment of the state obligations, re- main at the complete disposal of the collective farms, their members and the individual peasants.’ ” Executive of U.S.S.R. Meets The editorial points out the neces- sity for inergetic work on the part of the Party organizations to explain and popularize the advantages of the new decree and to utilize it as a stimulus to improve and increase the agricultural output, warning against the reliance on “the natural course of things.” Tomorrow is the opening session of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union. Molotov is scheduled to report on the economic plan for 1933, the first year of the second Five-Year Plan, 5 Going A Milking And this dairymaid won an award of honor in the Dubievsky region of the lower Volga, U.S.S.R., | as a champ, She milked 20 cows when the quota was only 12. COUNCILS FOR A | MARCH 4th DRIVE Force Roosevelt Gov’t to Aid Jobless (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) in an effort to spread confusion among and deceive the masses. The one would if passed, provide relief of about $1 per month. The other aims to legalize the infamous stagger- plan and thus spread poverty. Meantime, the army of unemployed continues to grow and the misery of the masses increases from day to day. Hundreds of thousands are without any relief whatever and those ad- mitted to relief rolls are reduced to ever lower starvation standards. Dis- ease spreads over entire working class sections, with increasing numbers of deaths from “malnutrition” reported everywhere. The day when Roosevelt is inaugu- rated must be made the occasion for powerful mass demonstrations and struggles against the bosses’ hunger Program. On this day we must force Roosevelt to realize that, unemploy- ment insurance and relief is the prin- cipal issue before the country today. We must demonstrate that the “for- gotten man” will not allow Roose- velt to forget that millions are suf- fering hunger and want. We must de- clare in emphatic terms that we are concerned not with what man is in- augurated president, but what policy of relief is inaugurated. We must de- mand inauguration of a policy of ad- equate relief at the expense of the bosses and government. The National Committee of the Un- employed Councils therefore, calls upon all workers and their organiza- tions to make March 4 a day of strug- gle for unemployment insurance and relief, We propose that, on this day, mili- tant mass demonstrations shall take place in every city and town in the United States. These demonstrations to be arranged if at all possible at the city halls, county court houses, and state capitols, and raise the fol- lowing demands: 1—Immediate calling of Extra Ses- sion of Congress to Adopt Measures for Adequate Relief to the Unem- ployed. 2—Immediate enactment of the de- mands of the National Hunger March; (a) Fifty Dollars Winter Re- lief (b) Unemployment Insurance at the Expense of the Employers and government, 3—Endorsement of these demands by Mayoz, City Council or other leg- islative bodies, 4—Most urgent local demand or demands, Meeting of National Committee and Program in Washington In order to plan our further work and struggle and to raise the de- mands of the unemployed in Wash- ington at the time of the inaugura- tion, an enlarged meeting of the Na- tional Committee will be held on March 4 in Washington, D, C. Following this meeting a confer- ence will be held on March 5, to which all local unemployed organiza- tions, including such organizations as the Unemployed Citizens Leagues, etc, will be invited. The purpose of this conference will be to discuss and plan joint, united actions and strug- gles and to involve additional sup- port for the demands to be presented to Roosevelt. These demands will be presented by a representative delegation that will visit Roosvelt at the White House on March 6. Representatives of unions, lodges, veterans and other mass organiza- tions which are in agreement with our program, will also be invited to attend both the enlarged meeting and the Joint Conference. Objects of the Campaign The chief object of our March 4 Campaign shall be: 1—To increase and stimulate in the course of preparation, the local strug- gles around the most immediate, ur- gent needs and demands of the un- employed, part time and employed workers, 2—To involve in the struggle and draw into our organization hundreds of thousands of workers not hitherto involved, building organization in those sections and towns where none existed, 3—To systematically develop the movement for unity in struggle and for One United Unemployed Move- ment. This to be effected by organiz- ing joint actions with the workers in unemployed organizations that exist parallel to or in opposition to the Un- employed Councils. 4—To establish contact and form committees in shops and unions as a means of uniting the struggle of the employed and unemployed. 5—To improve the work and inner life of the Unemployed Councils and their basic units. While united front conferences are desirable, these shall be called only in the event of an issue of urgent character arising in the given lo- NO PAY CUTS WAS WEINSTOCK CALL That’s Why Green) Demands Expulsion | | The suspension of nine delegates to| the Painters District Council No. 9, / on charges of having “slandered offi- cials of the Brotherhood of Painters. Paperhangers and Decorators, and President William Green of the} American Federation of Labor, among the nine being Louis Wein-| stock, national secretary of the Rank and File Committee for Unemploy- ment Insurance and Relief, which oc- curred last Thursday, makes of ceeding importance the testimony livered before the Senate committer on the Black 30-hour week bill, en- | dorsed without reservation by Green and the Executive Council of the A F. of L., but which is merely the legal expression of the Standard Oil Com- pany’s “share the work” plan. We publish herewith stenographic extracts from the statement of Louis Weinstock to the Senate sub-com- mittee, made in the name of the | Rank and File A. F. of L. Committee whose program has been endorsed by | more than 1,000 local unions affli- ated to various national and inter- national organizations of the A, F.} of L.: Excerpt from Louis Weinstock’s Tes- | timony Before the Senate Jud ciary Committee on the Black | Bill—30-Hour Week, January 10. | The hearings are held before the | Judiciary Committee of the Senate | | on Senator Black's bill to make the 5-day week and the 6-hour day man- | on | datory upon industry by means of a | federal statute. According to a statement by the} | American Federation of Labor, this} bill will have the unqualified endorse- | | ment of “organized labor.” William | Green, president of the A. F. of L.,| testified before the Senate Judiciary | Committee on January 5, 1933, and} gave his unqualified endorsement to} Senator Black's bill. He went so far| as to threaten a general strike if the 30-hour week is not accepted by in- | dustry. He had no criticism whatso- | ever of the bill itself. | Rank and File Opposed. The rank and file of the A. F. of L.| is in absolute disagreement with Mr. | Green. Up to the present time, Mr. } Green and the Executive Council of the A. F, of L. supported every action of the bankers and owners of indus- try in their schemes to put the bur- den of the crisis upon the shoulders of the workers. No Wage Cuts—A Minimum Wage. The A. F. of L. Trade Union Com- mittee for Unemployment Insurance | and Relief which is carrying on a} fight for Compulsory Federal Unem- ployment Insurance to be paid by the government and the employers, and has the full support of 100,000 mem- bets of the A. F. of L. and Railroad | Brotherhoods, will support any move-| ment by organized labor or any bill} before the Senate or Congress for| | the shortening of working hours as long as the bill provides that with the enactment of the bill no wage) cuts in any form shall be imposed upon the workers, and furthermore, in the very same bill to include the establishment of a minimum wage seale. Just Another Share-Poverty Plan Without these important points, | namely, no reduction in pay and the establishment of a minimum wage scale, the bill is nothing more than the legalization of the Hoover Stag- ger Plan and the W. C. Teagle “share- the-work” plan (commonly known as the “share-the-poverty” plan) which has the endorsement of William Green and probably some of. the other leaders of the Executive Coun- cil, but not of the membership of the American Federation of Labor. Green Endorsed Stagger Plan It is no accident that William Green gives his unqualified endorse- ment to the bill. It is consistent with his previous policies. In the Sept. 3, 1932, issue of the AFL. Weekly News Service, the official organ of the A. F. of L., the following statement by Wil- liam Green was printed: “Green En- | dorses the Action of Hoover's Business Conference to Cut Hours, The A. F. of L. President says the work sharing principle to provide jobs accepted by the conference was adopted by or- ganized labor many months ago. In) my judgment the unemployment sit- uation was considered in a definite | and practical way by those in at-| | tendance at the conference of /busi- | | ness, industrial and banking repre- | sentatives called by the President. An | | equitable distribution of the amount | | of work available, so long advocated | by Labor was approved by the con- | | ference as a partial remedy for un-_ employment.” i} Mr. W. C. Teagle, who has the full support of William Green for his | | “share-the-work” plan, had an article | in the A. F. of L. Weekly News Ser- | | vice on Sept. 24, 1932. In the: article | | he tries to convince organized labor | | that if the “share-the-work” plan is| adopted the employed workers would | have a drastic cut in earnings im- poséd upon them, while the employers would contribute nothing. help prepare for the March 4 demon- strations. Where state conferences and state hunger marches have already taken place, demonstrations at the state capitols shall serve to raise the de- mand for action on the proposals of the Hunger March, | Where state conferences and! marches are in preparation, March 4} | shall serve as part of such prepara- tions. Demands should be made far in advance and constantly pressed that the mayor or city council as a whole shall be present at the city hall to receive a delegation on March 4. published later.) The sale of Penny Contribution tickets at factory gates, unions, lodges and from house to hovse should be made an important part of the prepa- rations and a means of helping to} finance the campaign. In connection with our work among the employed, we must develop struggles against mass dismissals; for full wages to part time workers; against overtime and speed up and for direct relief from the bosses. We must also help build the A. F. of L. committees for Unemployment In- cality, Then these conferences can surance and Relief. ) Would Lower Wages Still More At the present time, when there are 13,000,000 unemployed workers, ac- cording to the estimate of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, the true figures being above 15,000,000, and when 60 per cent of the employed workers are put on the stagger plan and working even less than 30 hours a week, with earnings cut below the | minimum to buy the bare necessities of everyday life, to support a bill like Senator Black's means nothing else than further lowering the living standards of the workers. Just one argument for the necessi- ty of establishing a minimum wage scale. We have facts and figures that the workers in the United States are working 50 and 60 hours a week for 10 cents and 25 cents per hour which would give an average of $8 to $10 per week for 60 hours of work. More concretely, we shall quote Mr. H. L. Kerwin, director of the Department of Labor Conciliation Service. The week ending Dec. 31, 1932, on Dis- putes on Government Constructions, a strike had been called on the Cus- tom House in Philadelphia, Pa., where the house wreckers and the building trades workers went on strike against the low wages of 20 cents per hour, The strike was adjusted by the De- partment of Labor and now the | workers are receiving only 25 cents per hour and their weekly earnings are $7.50. The present crisis with so many millions of workers unemployed, ean- not be solved with legislative action to reduce the hours to 30 a week. Even if the proposed amendments are accepted, namely, no further reduc- tion in pay, and the establishment of a minimum wage scale. unemploy- ment insurance to be paid by the fed- eral government and the employers must be provided for the unemployed workers. Only by a militant struggle of organized and unorganized workers for Federal Unemployment Insur- | ance and a stubborn fight against any form of wage cuts and for higher wages, for better conditions, will the workers be able to abolish the Hoo- ver, Teagle, and Green stagger sys- tem, the “share-the-work” plan and establish the 30-hour week and 6- hour day with a decent living wage. 65 Organizations Plan Conference on State Scale (CONTINUED FROM PéGE ONE) Lovestonite delegates, who, while car- rying on joint tactics and following a practically identical line, did not have a single worker representative of organizations outside of them- selves. Characteristic of the delegation was the speech of delegate Horwitz, of Bakers Local 505, who told about the bakers working 16 hours a day in spite of a union agreement for an 8-hour day, ignored by the bosses with the help of the union officials. He emphasized the necessity for the fight against injunctions, which, he said, the A. F. of L. officials helped the bosses to put through in court He calleq for a continued united | front struggle to achieve the aims of the Conference Speaking as the official represen- tative for the Communist Party, Clar- ence .*, Hathaway emphasiged the necessity of mobilizing the workers behind their common and most vital | interests, and pledged the fullest co- operation of the Party in the work of the Conference, and at the same time stressed the necessity for pushing the fight forward after the Albany con- ference takes place. Hathaway warned against the tac- tics of Cannon, Lifshitz, Weisbord, who maneuvered for another city conference prior to the Albany Con- ference. Hathaway characterized this move as calculated to delay prep- arations for the fight to be made in Albany. Hathaway was among the first to pledge a donation of $50 in the name of the Communist Party to carry forward preparations for Albany. Practically every delegate took the floor to pledge financial support in the name of his organization. A more detailed explanation of the decisions and plans of the prelim- inary conference will be published tomorrow. DEPOSITORS SEE BRODERICK, TUES. Bank U.S. Victims Go to Albany Thursday NEW YORK.—All depositors in the Bank of United States are asked to come to the office of the State Banking Department, Tuesday morn- ing at 10:30 at No. 80 Center St. Brooklyn Bridge LR.T. Station. A committee will go. up to see Broderick regarding the two laws to help the depositors that must be passed and an investigation of the liquidation of the Bank of U. 8. This is the last visit to Broderick fore going to Albany. All depos- itors who wish to go to Albany must be Tuesday morning near the Bank- ing Department, so they can regis- ter. ‘The depositors’ delegation will go to Albany by boat on Sunday afternoon, Jan, 29, will meet the Governor Mon- day morning and leave Albany Mon- day night. The round trip will only cost $1.75 each. All depositors who want to go—and hundreds should go, shall leave their names and ad- dresses not later than Tuesday at the following places: East Side—Gooberman, Apartment 21, 145 Second Ave. Harlem—Louis Silverblatt, 25 East 105th St. Bronx—M. D. Litman, 1475 Wyth® Place (by mail only). Brighton—Saul Zitman, 2643 East 6th St. Boro Park, Brooklyn—S. Renick, 1732 53rd St. Brownsville, Brooklyn—I, Harroff, 334 Chester St. Brooklyn—B. Schneiderman, 208 E. 96th St.; Max Sachar, 828 44th St. All the foregoing arrangements. were made by the Committee of 25 of the United Depositors, Bank of U. &., which also, through its vice- chairman, M. D. Litman, calls the meeting for Tuesday.