The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 8, 1933, Page 4

1 by oniprofaily Publishing Uo., Ine,, daily except Sunday, at 50 B. Page Four Lith St., New York City, N. ¥. Telephone ALgonquin 4-7 Cable “DAIWORK.” Address aud mail checks to the Daily Worker, 50 K, 13th St. New York, N, ¥. COMMUNIST INT'L URGES UNITED FRONT ACTION AGAINST FASCISM AND HUNGER Pravda Declares MOSCOW, March 7 entitled “The Onslaught ards of the toiling masses world “Unemployment ing larger numbers organized i trade union of workers action that explodes t embrac- of emphasizes thi Slaught of because soc’ strument in the k ist class, and the Weimar repu way injure the Continuing Prav sism could have Poland, Italy, Hu social-democracy had not talism in 1918. The defea man social-democracy is a d world-historic importance @ompanied by a rise in the of the toiling ma: raising fight for the dictatorship of the ietariat. “The working class. feels acutely the necessity of uniting all force: for the fight against onsla' ef capital and fascism. Mobilize for Struggle. “The Communist Parties gountries have the problem of utiliz- ‘mg all opportunities to mobilize the entire working class and toiling popu Nation for struggle.” “The Commu- nist International Pravda, “much earlier offered to all workers’ yarties the proposals to create joint ghting front against the onslaught of the capitalists. The social-demo- cracy called these offers provocation and under the prefex evil’ social-democracy sumbed to the o yen seven minor ‘independent’ ties in relation to the Communi International appeal, were compel- Jed to acknowledge that the second international fatally discredited it- Self by its policy of class collabora- tion. But even these ‘independent’ parties and, moreover, recently in Norway, Czechoslovakia, Sweden and Denmark, continued this policy of @llaboration with capitalism in spiie of the proposals of the Communists to organize a fighting t of the working class against fascism Sabotaged United Front. “The United Front of the working class to fight fascism was not orga- nized; thanks only to the social-de ocratic parties. Hitlet government started the vilest badgering of Com- struggle the ro= the all “The respons International to the addi second international once an opportunity to the crats to show whe fight fascism or int before Hitler. Definite Pian of Action. “The Communist International is for setting forth direct and compre- hensible claims. It offers to act and not concoct joint declarations. In its appeal, the Comintern deprives the social-democracy of the possih of claiming that the Communis against unity if the question is about unity for struggle. If the social-dem- Ocrats reject this offer for working- class unity of action the whole work- ing class will know that a rebuff to end to capitulate Fascism Could Not Socialist Heads Had Not Saved Capitalism in 1918 fascism and the defense of the work- | ing class is still further hindered only by the social-democracy. “Hitler—Or es “The German social-democrs says Pravda, “is no the question of to an agreement with the Ne with the followers of the Comr Party, and advance the fi the fascist dictatorship. “Neither terror nor provocations ‘will succeed in frightening the work- ing masses of Germar Under leadership of the Communist Pai they will put an end to the regime.” CHEMICAL WORKERS REFUSE WAGE CUT BOONTON, N J—In the Weco- line Products, Inc., chemical plant (oils, soaps and glycerine) a 10 per cent cut was announced recently. ‘The men met and decided to refusi to accept the cut. eluding the engine room men and machinists. It was decided to str in the event of victimization. T was the fifth cut. The conditions in tetrible. The men w to 12 hour shifts (a partment). But two man worked 35 hours st call upon the men at ali ho the night to come to work. Last week, one unit was down; one of the workers der to no to New York for the week-end, He was called upon to come to work Sat- urday at 11. He also worked Sun- day. On Monday the unit shut down. On Wednesday (Washington's birth- day) he and another of the the shifts had to start work taking apart the apparatus. The third fel- low remains home whi they work from 7 a.m, to 8 p.m ti tor supper only. The pay is very lo ‘The place is very dirty, The slippery floor is very dangerous. this plant are A round robin pe- | tition was signed by the majority, in- | two on | ‘The manager | questions t incompetent, and every one fovnd ‘opean C¢ (By Radiogram).—Y esterday’s Prayda carried a significant editorial Against Capitalism and Fascism”. the Executive Committee of the Communist International, munist Party of the Soviet Union said: Have N BUCHWALD Daily By spondent, the “The onslaught of capi! and the growth of unemployment continues International Notes By ROBERT SOCIALISTS REJECT COM- MUNIST OFFER OF UNITED FRONT ) ist Reichstag | declaration to although it | | d so as not | rty leaders it. ration fT rended as follows: ist class comrades! Com- of the Reichsbanner and the Front! The Hitler-Papen- Hugenberg government is estab- lishing open Fascism in Germany, The entire labor movement is to be | supp. so that capitalism may | er ees is at stake for the | We can everything s and weeks, but we | also lose very much indeed ‘hat is why we must immediately ted front for the The freedom of wages and bread, a Oxi Worker) Commenting upon an appeal of | { this united front of all the toilers. It ted in Germany If official organ of the Com- tal against the living stand- in the capitali HAMILTON H it for the sake of the joint “During the past few weeks it has repeatedly appealed to the So- cialist Party, the Free and Chr tian trade unions to join in calling upon the working class to oppos' Fascism and the employ hour of the greatest peril the Communist Party again calls upon the workers organized in the Socialist Party, the Free and Christian trade unions, at once to join us in beginning the fight against Fascism in town and coun- | try, in the factories and at the | unemployment exchanges. “Call joint meetings at once for the formation of fighting organs in every factory, at every umemploy- ment exchange, in all residential districts. Reinforce mass self- defense against Fascist terrorism! ‘There isn’t a single day, a single hour to be lost! “Class comrades, Fellow-workers! Grasp the hands stretched out to you by us Communists for com- mon struggle! We will win this fight, if we fight united and with determination. “Long live the revolutionary uni ted front of all those who toil!” Berlin-Brandenburg District -Exe- cutive of the a doce unist Part wants Letters from Our||M Readers THE DAILY WORKER | AGAINST HUNGER | Editor of Daily Worker, Dear ade At our last meeting of the 38rd Block Committee of the Un- employed Council of Brooklyn, we discussed the national demands that the Unemployed Council wiil place before the new president. We adopted these as the expression of our needs, aims, demands. We also adopted a resolution that since the Daily Worker is the only newspaper = printed this news, and expres- ally its wholehearted struggles that we are putting up against d wage cuts, we there- imously support the We enclose one dol- pledge to help raise the y funds to save our Daily workers. hunger an fore Daily W orker. lar and Fraternally ORGANIZER. PROFESSIONAL CH: AIR WARMERS ARE FOR THE T BALLYHOO Bronx, N. ¥. Worker, Editor of Daily Dear Sir:— Out of curiosity I looked up the word dictionary “proletarian” in Webster's compiled by editorial contributors suai as Robert Arrow- smith, Professor in Teachers’ Col- lege, Harry Thurston Peck, Ph. D., LL.D. and a few more degrees, Frederic Taber Cooper, also an LL.B., Ph. D. late professor in the New York University, and to my | amazement I found the following definition: pertaining to the com- mon people—low—vulgar. Is it any > little pro- when our tem is lorded over these would-be intellectuals, will not give the proper an- » pupils so that they will g of the word is a wage-la- 1s of pro- is reduced to t power in order to that he should be who duction of h selling 1 low--common—vulgar t the proletar- and wipe out » that they will have Iture and edu- cation open up for them and then there will be no nedessity for old Noah Webster to give his bourgeois definition of a proletarian. Sincerely yours, —D. P. Cen- ns €x- ubly on ” At id America a the joining And—oh, of lad to answer course was so all questions! The first question ance we that Party has the w observe its politi abroad? At once our angry. He cried What assur- the Socialist out, when we record here and fri be- that nd” came mat And th was quite 1g to one not n avoiding carried or nd surpr Comradely, H. By | each, another | ployed Councils were received and 50 | workers volunteered the use of their March Fourth Jobless Flashes 500 DEMONSTRATE IN “ LINCOLN, NEB. | LINCOLN, Neb. — Five hundred workers gathered at the City Hall at the call of the Workers Unemployed Council and drew up resolutionss de- | manding unemployment insurance, and immediate cash relief from the federal government. These resolu- tions were passed unanimously and sent to President Roosevelt. The Workers Unemployed Coun- cil’s candidate for mayor was intro-} duced and was received with a tre- mendous ovation. The candidate, D. Robert Burleigh, laid before the as-| | sembly his working class program. es 8 FARMERS AT HUNTINGTON, MEETING HUNTINGTON, L. I—A very suc- cessful demonstration was held at- tracting many of the Negro and 7] impoverished farmers, March A A Ww 4th. a ce 2,000 IN GLENCOYE, L .1. | GLENCOVE, L. i--The second] outdoor demonstration was held here March 4th with 2,000 workers in at- tendance. The police attempted to interfere, but seeing the defiiance of the toilers quickly withdrew. Pe ae” 4,000 IN BALTIMORE | BALTIMORE, Md.—Preceeded by| two hunger marqh columns of 1,000 2,000 workers marched to the City Plaza March 4th in the Unemployment Insurance and Relief demonstration. About 800 applica- tions for membership in the Unem- homes for meetings of the Unem- | ployed Council. A unanimous vote | was recorded for another demonstra~ tion for relief on March 18th. Resolutions were passed demand- ing locgl relief as well, expressing jidarity with the German workers against Hitler's Fascism and freedom for the nine Scottsboro Boys and Euel Lee. Speakers were, Bruce Parker, of the Unemployed Council, | Lannon, Marine Workers Industrial Union, Carl Bradley, Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, Paul Cline | and Ellen Lund, | ee WASHINGTON MEET BROKEN 0. WASHINGTON, D. C.—The police | broke up the March 4th demonstra- | tion and arrested 30 workers. All| demands for relief were refused. A telegram was sent to President Roo- sevelt protesting against his answer | to the unemployed on his inaugura- tion day. ee ee ENDORSE CONN. HUNGER MARCH WATERBURY, Conn.—Over 1,000 workers of the city of Waterbury as- sembied at the Soldiers and Sailors | Monument in protest against the 3 1-3 per cent cut in the miserable charity relief handed out by the city | fathers. A resolution of protest against the murderous attack on the working class of Germany was adopted. An- other resolution endorsed the State Hunger Mardh to be held in Cons | necticut March 21st. At an organizational meeting in Bank St. Hall the workers laid plans for further Et dct demonstra- tion, ae RE 15,000 IN DETROIT DETROIT, Mich,—Fifteen thous- nd workers of Detroit, in the dem- tration at Grand Circus Park on March 4, adopted a resolution that Roosevelt’ keep his promise of relief to the unemployed, and that all war funds be, used Zor xeliess j| CLOTHING Daily.<Norker STYLE - 1933 ROOS EVELT MODEL! By B. BAKER LOODY MONDAY, March 7, 1932, marks a glowing n on the road of worke: against hunger bread and Ford ger March and the storm evenis following it for a memorable week unleashed the potential fight- ing forces of the proletariat into a firm united front that stayed the bloody hands of Ford and Mayor Murphy from outlawing the revo- lutionary movement in the auto indust The one workers on the d for streets of Detroit hundred fifty thousand Ford Massacre Anniversary Finds | Workers Stronger |\Union Grows As | | | | | | Answer to Boss Terror doned police clubs. The Hunger March reached its destination intact, determined and aroused. Its spokesmen proceeded to the main gates to present the demands, Streams of icy water and cracks of rifle and revolver shots met the marchers’ commit- tee. The assembled masses surged WORKING CLASS MARTYRS York, Bussel, by Ford's gunmen, De Blasio and Lenz, workingelass martyrs murdered funeral, the Com-~ Auto Work~- an ominous class, of the x on the day under the le: hip o! munist Party and the ers Union was indeed event to the rulin shadowing visions of the that pe their hearts and wills with fears and uncertainty, THE MASSACRE AT RIVER ROUGE For three years, the crisis lashed the stricken families in Detroit’s proletarian neighborhoods. workers’ children paled d as lack of milk were be- nd dem- hunger battles, onstratior f hands of Ford and Murphy. On that cold bitter afternoon of March 7, 5,000 Ford’s unemployed marched on his great River Rouge plant demanding Work or Bread. A cowardly tear gas attack upon their columns roused the anger of the hungry rs and their sol- idly organized, defense corps, backed up. by ined marchers routed the 1 odd police of the bare fists The tra marchers, armed and stones, dispersed the uniformed attack into an inglorious retreat along the mile-long highway lit- fered with police caps.and. aban 1 forward to avenge this insolent murderous answer of Ford. ‘The leaders stepped forward and urged an organized retreat in face of the murderous odds while the wounded were picked.up and taken to the rear. The raging hatred of the masses was transformed into fum determination to go back and organize and return again, stronger and mightier. Under Ford’s fiendish machine fire the marchers displayed their solidarity and heroism by picking up their dead and wounded unmindful of the dangers. In this explosive situation it was only the zm leadership and organized dis- cipline that, prevented a heroic but suicidal storming of the entrenched murderers. MACHINE GUNS CLEAR CLASS LINES ‘The Ford-Murphy machine guns on Bloody Monday not only tore out the lives of four young working class fighters, maiming and pierc- ing the Lodies of over forty work- ers, ‘lhe machine guns tore aside the veil of hypocrisy from the greedy arch exploiter and labor hater, Henry Ford and all that he symbolizes. that bloody after- oon the working class caught a ar glimpse of the -murderous character of the ruling class and their readiness to drown in blood all serious efforts to challenge their blood-stained. riches and power. x M4 simone merging of the private armed forces of industry with the city and state armed apparatus. The work- ers’ blood staining the hands of Ford at the scene of the massacre was found on the hands of Mayor Murphy in the city hall. THE machine gun massacre was { followed by a hysterical cry for the lives of the working-class lead~ ers, for the destruction of the Com- munist Party, the Auto Workers Union and the Unemployed Coun- cils. Ford’s bloody “victory” at River Rouge was to be followed by a reign of terror and destruction of the revolutionary movement in the auto industry. The reformist trade union leeders, the Socialist Party and the “Pro- letarian” Party fell over each other in horror-stricken fear lest they be linked up with the Communists, and joined their traitorous voices in denouncing the leaders and or- ganizers of the Hunger March. All open and hidden supporters of cap- italism, obedient to their master’s harsh, machine-gun voice, mobilized to follow up the River Rouge at- tack with the smashing destruction of the revolutionary labor move- ment. The daily press screamed, walrants were issued, murder charges laid. homes searched, offices raided, cells prepared and the whole stage set. MASSES SURGE FORWARD For a day proletarian Detroit was stunned by the deadly blow and their heavy losses. But soon the ringing call to action resounded throughout the city. The DAILY WORKER appeared on the scene as the voice and organizer of the Party. The thin trickle of leaflets from scores of revolutionary sources Swelled in volume, until a million copies flooded the shops and neigh- borhoods. Hundreds of small or- ganized and spontaneous protest meetings were cementing the iar- fiung united front. Ten thousand workers jammed every inch of space in and around the great Arena Gardens roaring a mighty pledge to avenge the fallen martyrs, to set up a lasting and in- destructible monument to their memory, a monument with its foun- dation in the automobile factories, @ monument in the form of the Auto Workers Union with which to carry on the fight for the Hunger March demands. The outlawed leaders appeared and spoke at this decisive meeting, while powerful proletarian defense corps stood by and in no uncertain terms warned the police to keep their slimy hands off. The tide had turned. THE HISTORIC FUNERAL MARCH ‘While tens of thousands of pro- letarians, Negro and white, with clenched fists and tear-filmed eyes, filed by the biers of the fallen dead. to pay their last silent tribute, the workers’ committee, ignoring the gy police and their traffic regu- Jations, set the day, time and the route of the march for the mighty funeral procession through the heart of the city. Detroit was to remember the Ford Massacre, Sev- SUBSCRIPTION BATES: By Mail everywhere: One yes Ww By LEON BLUM In the spring of 1931 someone brought to Larry Fay who was bumped off by his $100 a week doorman last year, the proposi- tion of organizing a racket in the| Jaundry industry. The figures were that there are 50,000 workers in the} industry who will pay $2 and over as; initiation fee and: $2 a month dues, besides the unlimited graft and side} money from the bosses. | To put the racket over, about 15 strong arm organizers were put in the field, using two laundry workers, who were once active in the A. F. of L. as the “Greater New York Laun- | dry Workers Gnion, Inc,” Larry Fay also made a deal with several laundry bosses to give them some of the spoils. In the Lux Laundry strike, the only one conducted by the rackeceers, the bulk of the trade taken away from| the Lux went to the Hydrox laundry | where the gang leader Owney Mad-| den had an interest. In return, the owners of the Hydrox, Regent and some others, forced their workers to join the racket. In fact, the bosses paid the initiation and dues for many | drivers, In August, 1931, most workers real- | ized that the only purpose the rack- | eteers had was to get money from both the workers and the bosses. A movement started in the shops to stop dues payments to the racketeers and to build inner groups in every shop to be ready to reorganize the union when the sell out would come. | Open Clash A secret meeting of shop chairmen| and leading workers was held at about the same time. To this meeting @ representative of the T.U.U.L. was invited to outline a program of action ; for the rank and file. While the meeting was in progress, the gang broke in. This brought the issue to an open clash. Workers brought out the treachery and racketeering of the | gangsters and declared their purpose to clear the union from the taint of gangsterism. The secret meeting brought the | fight into the open, and at the next two union meetings there were sharp discussions and bitter criticism. At one meeting the president of the racket made an atiack on several | workers who joined. He said they were Communists who “came to de- Stroy the union.” The attack was an- excepting Borough of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Canada: One year, $9; 6 month: HOW THE LATE LARRY FAY BUILT LAUNDRY RACKET | the | clear the gangsters and their toolg $6; six months, $5.50; 3 months, $2; 1 montn, vem Foreign avd 7 months, $8. Deal Put Over to ‘Smash the Cason for $17,000 Despite Terror, . Industrial Union Broke Up ‘the Racket Sw red by an vpen declaration, ap~ plauded by the rank and file, tha aim of the Communists is te out of the union and to build a rank and file union. At the following meete ing there was sharp criticism of the treachery of the racketeers in al» lowing the Pretty laundry, whose bosg was a leader in the Asssociation, te fire workers indiscriminately. Big Sell Out Finally, in the week of Sept. ¥ 1931, rumors floated down the sh that a deal was put over with the Association to break up the union fo# the sum of $17,000. On Thursday, Sept. 10, workers came to the regular meeting place, but detectives closed the hall on the ground that the chare ter, which was in the hands of the Association, was missing. The offie cials refused to hold a meeting, but a number of workers went to another hall and held a meeting with 45 workers present, Members Take Over At this meeting an organization Committee of 11 was elected and $21 dciected..to start the work of re= organization. The bosses and the | gangsters were wild. Intimidation, the red herring of Communism were used, but to no avail. 'The bosses ree taliated by breaking the head of the chairman of the organization com- mittee, Louis Schribman, a worker of the Active Laundry, and fired him on top of it. This worker was put back to work after the next strike in the Active Laundry, Scores of workers in shops, where only a few were fooled by the racket~ eers into joining them and where the workers did not stick together for protection, were fired. All the application cards and the books were in the hands of the bosse es, But this did not stop the Laundry Workers Industrial League from tak ing its place. In spite of disillusion- ment and intimidation, the struggles carried on by the union against wage cuts and firing brought results. The Laundry Workers Industrial Union became an industrial union in fact, organizing the inside workers for the first time in the laundry industry, Recently, the union concluded a suce cessful strike in the Fairway laundry where all the workers, white and Ne gro, drivers and inside workers went on strike to reinstate a Negro girl om the job. enty thousand marched in the silent, grim, disciplined formation behind the four hearses, while scores of thousands lined the side- walks for miles, and other tens of thousands massed in the center of the city and at the cemetery. A moving forest of banners and signs, ominous red, gave the slo- gans, demands ard the purpose of this mighty silent procession. This vast, determined and bitter | body of marchers was more than a funeral; it was a threat and a promise. It was a fleeting glimpse of the not far-distant future. j IGHT miles away the River Rouge plant, hard by the ‘Woodmere cemetery, was an armed fortress. Hidden in the skyscrap- ers, the agents of Ford watched this living answer to their machine | guns and their terror. Next day the tone of the press had changed, murder charges were dropped, warrants cancelled, or perhaps delayed, and the police were recalled from the workers’ headquarters. Their courage and power did not measure up to their plans in the face of this menacing silent voice of the masses. York, Bussell, DeBlasio and Leny were lowered to a brotherly grave in the Woodmere cemetery direct- ly ‘overlooking the Ford River Rouge plant. Six months later, the powerful Ford company and the city authorities prevented the fifth victim of the Ford massacre, Williams, a Negro worker, from being buried side by side with his comrades in the brotherly grave. The power of the Ford millions prevented the Detroit workers from erecti ig @ monument of stone and bronze over the grave of the mar- tyrs. That bare, unmarked grave in the Woodmere cemetery is in itself an eloquent symbol of Ford’s ruthless greed and fear. It is also a challenge and a threat that shall be fulfilled. Ford's refusal to per- mit the erection of the monument | at Woodmere is neither final nor lasting. The masses that smashed his terror program will yet smash this decision and in the not distant, future smash his power. | ANSWER TO MASSACRE TAKES SHAPE At that memorable protest dem- onstration in Arena Gardens the workers, with upraised, clenched fists, pledged a solemn vow to avenge their dead by forging’ a | | | weapon more powerful than ma~ chine guns, by building the Auto Workers Union in Ford’s very shops and in the entire industry, In such cru@al moments, the mas~ ses do not make vain boats and empty threats. Serious practical goals are set and the fighting en- ergy of the masses is directed to attain it. . i Rese solemn prolétarian pledge, made over the biers of our dead, is now being fulfilled. Under the firm guidance of the Communist Party the auto plants are being penetrated and organized. The masses that marched in that great funeral are now being cemented into the Auto Workers Union. & new weapon is being forged iy Detroit. A year ago, under the shock of the Ford Massacre, the factories alowed their tempo and seethed with anger, but there was no protesi) strike, the union wag not in the shops. Much has been learned and se» complished since the Ford Mase sacre. The rapidly growing Auto Workers Union has already orgene iad and led the first wave of strikes and, if only indirectly, closed the great River Rouge plant of Ford’s. The union gave new power to the Detroit auto workers, ‘They struck and won victories. The first wave of strikes is but » beginning, but is a forerunner of greater strikes to come, greater strikes in actual preparation. The police terror in the Ford plants has been challenged. Under the harsh discipline and the keen spy system the union is taking shape. The Ford workers will strike. The first Ford strike will be against the wage cut and the inhuman speed-up, but there will follow strikes that will challenge other and greater powers and crimes of Henry Ford, German Nazis Assault Three Americans In Big Terror Drive NEW YORK.—Phystcal mistreate ment and threats of Hitler's Fascists have driven one American out of Germany and caused two others to complain to the authorities. Nathaniel Wolf, of Rochester, N.Y. told the American Embassy that he had been kidnapped ‘and beaten by, the Nazis for criticizing Hitler, { |