The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 28, 1933, Page 1

AUTO WORKERS SPEAK At the Detroit A ference last Sunday, a resolution was adopted to “boycott capitalist papers as they boycott us in our struggles, and to support the Daily Worker and Michigan Worker as the only two English papers supporting us in the present strike.” The “Daily” not only supports the uto Workers’ Con- workers, but guides them in their strug- gles. Save the Daily Worker! Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N.¥., under the Act of March %, 157%, Vol. X, No. 24 <q: Dail Central Org. 4 at NOD (Section of the Communist International) Worker Porty U.S.A A GREAT WRITER SPEAKS “Tt (the Daily Worker) is a singular and most needed force, and I would consider its possible suspension an ex- treme danger, Its suspension would prove an irreparable loss to the thous- ands of workers whose rights and inter- ests it represents.” —THEODORE DREISER Save the fighting weapon of the woking class. ° NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1933 IN TWO SECTIONS—SECTION I NATIONAL EDITION Price 3 Cents TOM MOONEY ISSUES CALL FOR CHICAGO CONGRESS 150,000 Ford Workers Thrown: Out of Jobs in Move to Break Brig BIG STRUGGLE SPREADS AS MURRAY WOR KERS STRIKE ‘Auto Bosses, Mayor Murphy, A. F. L. Leaders Join. in Effort to Crush Walkout Mass Picketing Continues Strong; Union Seeks | to Rally Ford Men i n Support: of Strike DETROIT, Mich., Jan. 27.—While the great strike of more than'10,000 Briggs Body workers spread today to the Murray Body plant, about 150,000 workers in plants of the Ford Motor Company throughout the country, were thrown out of work in a move to break the Briggs strike and prevent it from NEW CLASH NEAR IN SO. AMERICA Wall’ St. Blesses Its - Colombian Puppets Behind the pacifist. screen thrown out by the Wall Street Government and the League of Nations, the Col- ombian puppets of Wall Street pre- pared ystrday to resume the unde- clared war with Peru. * Colombian warships and troop transports have arrived at Leticia and ate preparing to disembark troops. South American dispatches admit that a clash is expected any moment. Most of the Colombian warships are commanded by Americans. Several, including the former U. S. freighter “Bridgetown” were purchased in the . §. with the knowledge and con- sent of the State Department. Re- ting. for the Colombian armed. Aig —alsa—be-ng—~permiteed “in ™any Américan cities, U. &. muni- tion and airplane makers have made large sales to the Colombian Gov- ernment. The preparations at the Colombian Government for an immediate at- tack at Leticia follows directly on the dispatch by the U.S. of a sharp note to. Peru, in which Washington sup- ports its Colombian puppets in the struggle with Peru. The two undeclared wars in South America’ (Colotabia vs. Peru; Para- guay vs. Bolivia) reflect the increas- ing bitter rivalry between U. S. and British imperialism for control of markéts and raw resources in South America. The Standard Oil Com- pany is giving financial and other aid to the Bolivian government in its war with Paraguay. The wars also reflect the desperation of the local “national” bourgeoisie in their hunt for a capitalist “way out” of the cri- sis, at the expense of the toiling mass- es, The toilers of South America are answering the war mongers with in- creasing strike struggles, agitation in the armed forces, farmers strikes, and preperations for the South Amerinan anti-War Congress at Montevideo, ‘Uruguay, Feb. 28. The workers of the U.S. must support these anti- war. struggles, against the war insti- gators at Washington, and London, against the capitalist war-mongers, Resumption of the conflict between Colombia and Peru is expected to in- volve six South American countries. The governments of Brazil and Ecu- ador are continuing to concentrate troops and warships on the borders of Peru. Even Venezuela, separated by: Colombia from the scene of the conflict, is .being. mobilized by the Wall Street imperialists for the war asa member of the U.S. bloc of pup- <9 spreading to Ford’s and other plants. This move was part of organized efforts to crush the strikes that have been started, with the auto bosses working hand in hand with Mayor Murphy, darling of the “socialists” and liberals, and the leaders of the International Associ- ation of Machinists, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. At the same time the Briggs Body company, in an effort to lure its men back to work, announced 10 to 20 per- cent increases in the wage scales, but only for productive labor, while the old rates remain for non-productive jJabor. This is a move to split the +enks of the strikers who are de- manding not only wage increases, but shorter hours, the abolition of the bonus, piece work and group system, as well as of the bosses’. group insur- ance. Ford Hits at Strike. The Ford company gave as its reason for closing down that it could hot continue operating without the bodies that Briggs manufactures. Actually, this {s'an-ef to forestall a walkout at Ford “plants, where strike sentiment is spreading as a result of the activity of the Auto Workers Union, and. to” crush’ the Briggs strike by rallying the Ford workers against the Briggs men. The Ford company is telling its workers that the Briggs walkout has deprived them of jobs and is urging them to go among the Briggs men and win them away from the strike. To counteract strike sentiment a trans-atlantic telephone interview was arranged today between Henry Ford and the London Evening Standard, in which Ford said, “As for my own employees, there is not a man among them who would strike. The fact that they are not working does not mean they are on strike.” The Murray Body men, who joined the struggle today, have converted the lockout declared against them in- to a strike and have started active | picketing. Like the Briggs strikers, they are following the leadership of the militant Auto Workers Union. Raise Red Scare, The bosses, the A. F. of L. leaders end the city government are also raising the Red scare in an attempt to crush the strike. Despite this, mass picketing continued today with increased militancy. Mass meetings are being arranged all over the city in support of the Briggs and Mur- ray Body strikes, with special em- phasis to be laid on getting the Ford workers together in support of the strike and against the strike-break- ing tactics of Ford, Murphy and the A. F. of L. misleaders. The Auto Workers Union is is- suing a statement exposing these strikebreaking moves and calling on the auto workers throughout the city to unite in common struggle against wage-cuts and speed-up, and for in- pet states being lined up against those nations influenced by Britain. creased wages, unemployment relief and insurance, Comments On Herdon Verdict _ to Conceal Boss Justice WEW YORK—The World-Tele- gram of the “liberal” Scripps-How- ard newspaper chain published an editorial on Thursday on the Hern- don Case. The editorial merely re- cites fact that Herndon was con- victed T a musty statute. It at- tempts to differentiate between cap- italist. justice and Georgia justice in an effort to-cover the class nature of the verdict. Nevertheless, the very publication of this editorial empha- siges the extent to which the mass indignation of white and Negro workers and intellectuals is breaking through the conspiracy of silence usually maintained by the capitalist press in ‘conéction with the savage persecution and national oppression of the Negro people. The editorial follows: i ‘ Justice.” “Georgia thinks it has sayed its in- stitutions from revolution by sending to prisen black Angelo Hernon, a nineteen years old Communist organ- iver. He was tried and convicted under a statute passed sixty years ment. -“The Negro youth might have been sentenced to death under the stat- ute. Clement Judge Lee Wyatt, of Atlanta, gave him a sentence of from ¢ighteen to twenty years. The Communist Party is legal in the United States. Georgia’s State motto is: ‘Wisdom, Justice, Modera- tion’.” The statute under which Herndon was sentenced, and under which the Atlanta Six are likewise to be tried, was originally passed in 1861 in an effort to suppress the insurrections of the Negro slaves. It was amended in 1866 during the Reconstruction period. PROCEEDS TO “DAILY” DRIVE ‘The proceeds of three days, today, tomorrow and Sunday, will be do- nated to the Daily Worker fund by the Vegetarian Workers Club, which conducts a restaurant at 2,8 East 14th Street, New York City. Rush funds to save the “Daily.” You can’t do without it ago.to prevent carpet-baggers from upsetting the reconstruction govern- These organs of the bosses hid these mighty struggles from the workers in other cities because they feared that the revolt against wage-cuts might spread! ONLY THE DAILY WORKER HAS FROM THE BEGINNING PRINTED THE NEWS OF THE AU- THEM AND GIVEN THEM LEAD- TO STRIKES, HAS SUPPORTED ERSHIP. The “Daily's” struggles, printed column, shows this. And even when the Times does say something about the strike, it lies and suppresses. Instead of more than 10,000 on strike, yesterday’s Times gives the figure as 6,000; in- stead of 450 striking at the Hayes Body in Grand Rapids, the Times says only 100 are out. It deliberately conceals the fact that Murray Body was forced to close because of fear that the strike would spread and that the Murray Body men have also joined the struggle. It suppresses the in an adjoining 'HE capitalist press has at last “discovered” the auto strike. Factory Strike Closes Ford Plants; 100,000 Made Idle as All Production Halts.” For more than two weeks the auto workers in Detroit, under the leadership of the Auto Workers Union, have been waging a sple ndid against wage-cuts and for higher wages in a number of plants. But the capitalist press outside the strike area has deliberately suppressed th: record in the auto Boss Press “Discovers” Auto Strike; Answer Its Lies by Aiding “Daily”! Yesterday’s New York Times carried a headline on the front page: “Briggs Body fight Record of Daily Worker in Present Struggles of Detroit Auto Workers Jan. 12.—Daily Worker carries news of strike of 500 workers at Briggs Vernor Highway plant, Detroit, against 20 percent wage cut. Jan. 14.—Further news of strike. Jan, 16.—An 8-column headline telling of victory of strikers. wage-cut. Jan. 21—An 8-column headline telling workers in Motor Products Corporation, Detroit, against 15 percent of new strike of over 1,000 Jan. 23—News of smashing yictory of Motor Products strikers. News of historic Auto Workers Conference in Detroit, attended by 560 delegates from many plants. Jan. 24.—News of two more strikes, one in Briggs Highland Park plant, Detroit, the other in Hayes Body plant, Grand Rapids. Jan. 25—Headline: “8,000 Workers Out as Detroit Auto Strike Spreads to Another Plant” (Briggs Mack Avenue unit). Efforts to spread strike to Ford’s, Murray Body and other plants. Jan. 26.—Headline: “Iwo More Briggs Plants Join Detroit Auto Strike; 10,000 Workers Now Out”. Also, further news of Grand Rapids strike. Jan, 27.—News that Motor Products workers, who won their own strike, refuse to work on material for Briggs plants. Seven hundred Motor Products workers join Auto Workers Union. POLICE CLUB AND CHOP DOWN DOORS 500 Fight to Resist NEW YORK. — One person was knocked unconscious, three were ar- rested, and more than a score were beaten up in the course of several evictions yesterday at Paradise Alley, Avenue A and East 10th Street, More than a hundred policemen brandished fire axes, guns, and blackjacks in breaking through the apartments and beating up the tenants. ‘The police smashed in the door of Stanley Bright’s apartment at 503 E. llth Street, arrested Bright, hurled the furniture out the window, and left his sick wife lying on a bare cot. the apartment. This is a vicious lie. Bright had refused entrance to the police because of his wife’s illness. He did not threaten to shoot. He did not have a-pistol. The police invented this lie for the capitalist press so that they could justify their acts. The police hacked through the roof of Billy Dronsick’s apartment at 176 who was taking care of the apart- ment during Dronsick’s absence. Dronsick, an ex-war veteran is now in the Naval Hospital. When Clarence Roth, leader of the strikers, called upon the tenants to resist the evictions he was slugged and put under arrest. Frank Bard was knocked unconscious by the police and his body left lying on the sidewalk. Workers rescued Bard and gave him first aid. An ambulance surgeon later refused to state how serious his con- dition was. Revolutionary writers, poets and artists were among those evicted. They were Dorothy Bendon, poet; David Rosenberg, artist; <orris Mam~- man, writer, Hirsch Margulies, artist, and Mary Wilson office worker. More than 500 workers who came to the rescue of the evicted were slugged with blackjacks by the police in atempting to disperse them, With- in a few minutes the police had in- cited a riot from curb to curb at Avenue A and East llth Street. Mounted policeman forced their way into the crowd their horses trampling over the workers. Three additional police emergency squads and several police radio cars packed with cops ar- rived shortly. The cops leaped out of their cars and began to beat up all the workers standing around. Stanley Bright's invalid wife was dragged out of her apartment after her husband was’ placed under her arreste and the furniture removed. She was left lying on an old mat- tress in the middle of the sidewalk. Only a threadbare coat covered her sick body. Steel Companies Cut Wages Again Workers ‘in the U. S. Steel and Bethlehem Steel Company fabricat- ing plants had their wages reduced again yesterday, for the third time since the beginning of the crisis. Workers in the American Bridge Company, a subsidiary of U. 8. Steel, were cut 25 per cent, and workers in the McLintoc-Marshall Company, a subsidiary of the Bethlehem Steel Company, had their pay slashed Rent Strike Eviction |/¥ Yesterday World-Telegram declared | that Bright had threatened to shoot | jf the police if they dared break into |j Avenue A and evicted Edward Nash, |} | strike pickets. Scene af 11th St. and Avenue “A”, New York, when police attacked Copyright N. Y. World-Telegram Japanese War There was a further sharpening yesterday of the tense situation be- tween the U. S. and Japan over the latter's threat to Wall Street’s con~ cessions and spheres of influence in China, as the U. S. Ambassador in Peiping sharply protested against a proposed military manouver by Jap- anese troops in that city. Japanese troops in the Shanhaikwan area eva~ cuated property of missionary agents of U. S. imperialism after a protest by the American Legation. In connection with the increasingly bitter rivalry between the two ban- dit powers for mastery of the Pacific, Japanese War Minister Araki yester- day told the Japanese House of Peers that “Japan’s national defense has been strengthened to meet any emer- gency.” The open admission of the frantic war preparations of the past few months came on the heels of Araki’s statement that Japan» must compete against the Soviet Union in the air.. Araki thus gave notice that while Japan’s war preparations are mainly directed against the Soviet Union. they are also intended to strengthen Japan’s military position in the developing war situation. be- tween Japan and the U. S. in their rivalry for mastery of the Pacific and control over China. On its part, the Wall Street, Gov- ernment is frantically pushing. war preparations. The War Department from 20 to 25 per cent. \ yesterday @ contract for Minister Boasts of Armed Power Araki Tells House of Peers Japanese Militar- ists “Are Ready” 174 planes and equipment. Thirty- eight of the planes are of a new type, described as: “the most powerful weapon produced by any nation since the World War.” The actual per: formance of these formidable bombing planes is shrouded with secrecy by the War Department. It. developed yesterday that the U.S. Army already has 10,000 troops in Hawaii, with heavy artillery, tractors and tanks. The dispatch of the troops to Hawaii was carried out under the pretext of “defending” the islands in the forth- coming manouvers of the U. S. Battle Fleet in the Pacific. The entire U. S. Battle Fleet has been concentrated in the Pacific’ sincé February, 1932. ‘The manouvers aré scheduled to begin early next month. While the two imperialist powers are preparing for an armed conflict, the U, S. is still shipping nitrates and huge supplies of munitions to Japan in the ‘hope that. its efforts of divert- ing Japan away from U. S. spheres of influence and for war against the Soviet Union will be succegsful, Washington dispatches to the New York World Telegram reveals large shipments of nitrates from Hopewell. Va. According to these dispatches such shipments amounted to 14,617 tons in 1932. In that same year, the U. 8. also shipped 2,400,000 bales of cotton to Japan, as against 1,744,000 the year before, Cotton is used in munition production. - 4 news of the two vict gained and says not! role of the Auto Wor! s Auto Strike ® ‘APPEALS FOR UNITED ACTION IN DECISIVE MASS FIGHT TO FORCE IMMEDIATE FREEDOM Preparations Now Under Way for Lining Up Millions of Workers Behind Congress Must Wage Struggle to Defeat Bosses’ Drive this the aper | all prove that the Daily Worker i Fellow-workers, doesn’t to Beat Down Toiling Masses Below Chattel Slave Standard only English language daily that prints the truth, that fi the workers and poor the against the bosses on every The Daily Worker leads and organizes str field? now in the grip of a financial c: that th ens it with suspension. The sum of $35,000 must be raised in the next few weeks if the “Daily” is to live. which started 1 down bad- ised. Show yeur solida: with the splen did struggle of the Detroit auto work- ers, answer the suppression and lies of the capitalist press—HELP SAV. THE DAILY WORKER BY RUSH- ING FUNDS TODAY TO 50. E. 13th Street, New York City. POLICE TERROR INN. Y. EVICTION FIGHT | gn FARMERS IN OHIO HALT SALE General Farm Strike in Argentine BOWLING GREEN, O., Jan. 27. — Taking a cue from the increasingly militant tactics of the farmers in the West, 800 determined Wood County of a finance company to rob Wal- Jace Kramp of his farm. Serving no- tice on the representative of the company that it would be ‘u I for him to bid on the pr farmers offered ant rty, the paid $14 and his own. A spring harrow brought fifteen cents, horses a dime a piece and plows for a nickel. ear Organize U. F. L. Branch. NAMPA, Idaho, Jan. 2’ hundred farmers at a meeting hi which organized @ branch United Farmers League che demand made by one of the ers, W. A. Frost, that the Leg law to stop all foreclosures. The prevention of all foreclosures on farms is one of the chief aims of the organization which, according to. Frost. will “use direct mass action whenever necessary.” S. Dakota Governor Scared. DES MOINES, Ia., _ Frightened by the continued halting of forced sales by determined far who are organizing to protect, th homes and farms from the ba: and insurance companies, Goy. Tom Berry of ‘So. Dakota today mortgage holders “to refrain from foreclosure wherever possible”. Halt Foreclosure LE MARS, Ia., Jan. 27—Plymouth among County farmers, who were | the first here to organize | foreclosure sales, today foreclosure of the home of D: Cunningham. Farmers decia many of them owed dental bills to Dr. Cunningham. Push Phoney Farm Bill. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. Hearings before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee on the pro- posed $1,500,000,000 “emergency farm credit” bill will begin soon in Wa ington, it was announced here t The bill is being sponsored by Sen ator Joe Robinson, of Arkansas democratic leeder. That the measure has the support of President-elect Franklin D. Roose- velt—there is not the slightest doubt since it is known that Henry Morgen- thau, Jr., Roosevelt's “agrariat’ ad- visor” had a hand in the shaping of the bill. The “emergency farm credit”. bil resembles strikingly the propo: which gave birth to the Reconstruc- tion: Finance Co=poratior. By the terms of the farm bill, amounts up to $10,000 would be lent to indi farm owners on first and mortgage security, thus automati! barring the thousands of ruined i 1 farmers today thwarted the attempt | then told Kramp the farm remained | ture be compelled at once to enact a | urged | SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 27.—In a vibrant appeal written in his cell at San Quentin Prison, and addressed to “every | worker with a drop of red blood flowing in his veins.” Tom Mooney has issued a call for the FREE TOM MOONEY CON GRESS to take place in Chicago beginning April 30th and asting, in a three day session, through the traditional work- ingclass holiday—the First of | Vital Steps for «| Mooney Freedom om Mooney is in the hands of the | The call states that. the. fate nee 1. Immediately ’send’ resolutions, addressed to Judge Ward, Superior Court, Hall of Justice, San Fran- ciso, with copies to Matthew Bra- dy, Dist. Atty., 333 Kearny St, San Francisco, and James Rolph, dr., Governor, Sacramento, Calif. demanding a new trial for Tom Mooney, and that Tom Mooney be brought to court personally to ar- gue the motion for a new trial at the hearing, before Judge Ward, February 11th. 2. Endorse and support the Tom Mooney Congress to be held’ ip Cliesgo, April 30th to May 2nd, 1933, by.dmeuring the representa- tion of your organization at every preliminary conference for the Congress and at the Congress it- self. MILITARISM HIT BY STUDENTS Detroit Youth Demand Relief, No Training ng labor and farmer ) this coun’ Although the entire issue of tt vicious frame-up of Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings will be raised anew through the hear- ing set for February lith in Supe- rior Court where the motion for a new trial for Tom Mooney will be argued, Mooney realizes that chief ‘ ce must be placed upon the ‘king cless forces which can be| rallied at the Congress. The outcome of the hearing will depend largely on the mass support | which will develop between now and the time of the hesring, behind: the } | demand for the new trial and the | | efforts of the defense to have Tom Mooney brought to the hearing to | personally argue the motion for the | new trial. Challenging the “labor-hating bankers and industrialists,” who thru “their tool, Governor Rolph decreed that I die ‘in prison,” and calling | upon the workers to relly in his de~ | fense because he fought “with every fiber of his being,” conditions which today shoving labor in the U.S. into a “state of peonage which even | the coolies and ¢ slaves never Tom Mooney invites all labor organizations regardless of race, creed | or color to rally behind the Chicago | Congress. The Congress preparations which will last through the historic dates | of February 24th, the 15th annivers- ary of Mooney’s death sentence, and th of April, the anniversary of the decisive demonstration of Rus- | sian workers in Petrograd, compelling | the commutation of the death verdict | | and saving Mooney’s life,—will devel- op into one of outstandi*, events Masses of DETROIT, Mich., Jan, 27.— Five army officers came into Chadsey High School recently to recruit the High, School boys into the reserve Officers’ training course, but when the Army Officers were through all the students begin to.pour questions —what about Relief instead of Mi- litary Training? The professors of the High School, who are geiting paid by the Motor Barons in .order to develop the students into loyal pat- riots felt very embarrassed before the Army Officers; they did not ex- pect such a reply from the students. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 1HREE: |New York State Asks IRFC for $19,000,000 The High School students have ; : club organized, and are working mi- “Work - Relief” Loan | titanty against this miltary tetning in the ool for they know that it means they are being trained to be slaughtered on the fields for the profit of the auto barons and other bankers in the preparation of the new imperialist ‘war. The Young 27. — N, D. C., Jan. uction Finance Corpo- | received yesterday an official | by the State Emergency Re-| lief Administration of New: York for | | loan of $19,000,000 to be used dur- | Communist League is playing an im- ing the months of February, March| portant role in mobilizing the stu- and April under the “work-relief”| dents against capitalist militarism in plan the schools. Chicago Jobless Battle Cops; Ill. Mine Women Demonstrate SAGO, Jan —Several hun- dr mployed workers, Negro and white, fought militantly against police |who, armed with clubs and black- DENVER, Col., Jan. 27.-Members of the Uneinployed Council here used clubs effectively in beating off an attack on a meeting of the Couneil by | Jacks, attacked a demonstration to- |the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan hooli- day in front of a relief station in| gans came in nine cars ahd tried to |the Negro South Side section. So | force an entrance into the hall, but | staunchly did the unemployed defend selves that they sent seven cors | them to the hospital, while two of the dem they got such a warm reception. that. | they: beat a hasty retreat. One Klans- juen Was injured. In the Klan gr of tt U i Pp ral members dd Citizens League his outfit is cone lists” and liberals and smash the struggles of the joyed that are being led by' the Unemployed Council, t | two women, | Four other demonstrations took jplace at the same time, three on the |South Side and one on the North- west Side, oe Mine Women Demonstrate SPRINGFIELD, Il, Jan. 27.— | Seven thousand women, wives; moth- \ ers, sisters and daughters of souther Iinois coal miners marched, yesterda) through the streets of Springfield in an impressive demonstration for un- Jail Jobless Delegation NSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 27.—Six of an unemployed delega~ elesd by workers from’ three rhoods in this city, were ar- verte: morning while de- and coal from ation, a charity: mem! tion, {employment relief and insurance and T held with~ against the terror raging in the i southern Illinois strike area. March- the city are jing eight abreast and wearing white |i t and protests jand insurance companies, farmers who are already heavily en- | headdress, the women paraded thrwu cumbered and making the benefi-| the downtown streets to the state claries of the bill the banks, railroads | house, where a delegation of 50 went in to see the govern in on the city officials. Protest meetings are being organized: and it is planned to have a bigger committee go back Monday. ( ‘ +