The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 29, 1933, Page 1

a | EDITORIALS “No Difference Between Old and New Administrations” Reluctantly some of the newspapers, especially those who cloak their service to imperialism with a veneer of liberalism, are forced to admit that the Roosevelt “new dee!” is nothing other than a continuation and intensification, under condi- tions of the deepening crisis of the same old policies, that they so indignantly berated when Hooyer was carrying them out. The New York World-Telegram of Monday prints an ar- ticle by one of its chief feature writers, Dr. H. Parker Willis, former secretary of the Federal Reserve Board, which points out that the enthusiasm for Roosevelt ballyhoo, which was quite pronounced the first two weeks of the new administra- tion, is rapidly giving way to “some of the same old spirit of doubt and discouragement.” Continuing he cautiously states: “Indeed, these are not Iacking who inclinc to the view that fundamentally after all there is no great difference between the philosophy of the new and the former administrations as to ‘relief’, however much comtrast there may be in the forms underlying ideas maay take.” The above is a clear admission of the correctness of what the Daily Worker time and again said about Roosevelt's demagogy being merely a cloak to cover the same funda- mental policies that Hoover carried out. Such an admission condemns, by the same measure, the World-Telegram and the whole liberal crew who flocked onto the Roosevelt band- wagon and helped to sow illusions that the democratic presi- dential candidate and platform were fundamentally different trom the republican administration that had carried forward an increasing offensive against the standards of life of the workers and farmers and other impoverished sections of the population. Such confessions, however, do not indicate that the lib- erals have in any way abandoned their deceptive role. The eminent doctor, Mr. Willis, in the same article in which he records this “rather sudden change of heart” of large sec- tions of the population in regard to the Roosevelt administra- tion, tries to further deceive his readers by pretending to be- lieve that Roosevelt may yet do something to vindicate his promises now already recognized as broken. Roosevelt, nor no other capitalist executive, will do any- thing to relieve the suffering of the masses, unless they are compelled to:do so by the most widespread and implacable struggle; a struggle that decisively puts before them the alternative of coming through with emergency relief and unemployment insurance or facing worse consequences. The growing distrust of the Roosevelt administration also emphasises the Communist declarations that every at- tempt of the capitalists to overcome their crisis orly deepens it and makes clear, to ever larger numbers, that there is no purely economic way out of the crisis for the capitalist class. This realization, as it penetrates the masses, advances fur- ther the struggle for the working class way out of the erisis—the revolutionary way out. Lehman Wage Law Legalizes Sweat Shop Conditions minimum wage law sponsored by Governor Lehman and approved by Republican and Democratic politicians will soon be passed by the New York State Legislature at Albany. Representatives of capitalism are vieing with each other to appear before the masses as the benefactors of the toiling women and children. Officials of the A. F. of L., the Wo- men’s Trade Union League, reformist organizations as well as many employers give the minimum wage proposals their loud blessings. The bill most likely to pass, the Wald bill, which has the approval of the Governor, does not really establish a minimum wage for the working women and children. It merely provides for a state “fair-wage” board authorized to investigate the conditions in each industry and to recom- mend the lowest wage level that the employers may adopt. The state board will be composed of employers and their friends among the labor misleaders, who will determine the minimum wage not on the basis of a decent living wage for every woman and child worker, but on a wage that will be pared down to the lowest level to permit the highest profits. * * * In presenting the proposal of a minimum wage law ina message to the legislature, Governor Lehman, who is the strongest advocate of the Wald measure, stated: “I am confident I voice the needs of industry in urging the neces- sity of assuring a bottom level of wages.” A bottom level of wages means the lowest level of wages! The forces now lined up at Albany for this law, have, turing the four years of crisis, worked in closest coopera- tion with the bosses in their merciless wage slashing cam- | Fight Against Nazi Terror! A contribution to the “Daily” which leads the struggles of the workers on all fronts, is an impor- tant way of fighting against the Hitler ter- ror against the Ger- man working class! Entered a1 | Wel X,:No. Tagqecren Dail — (Section of the Communist International) econd- 3 matter at the Post Office at N. ¥., onder the Act of Marck 3, 1870. EW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 193 NegroWitnesses Prove LL.D. Charge on Exclusion COUNSEL IN CLASH Slanderous Pamphlet BULLETIN DECATUR, Ala., Mar 28.— Just before court adjourned today, the prosecution arraigned Haywood Patterson on the indictment charging “rape” of Ruby Bates, and announced that it would arraign the remaining six together under the indictment charging attack on Victoria Price. Eugene Williams and Roy Wright were excluded from the arraignment ground that the State wants time had the indictment against Pat- terson been read than defense law- yers filed notice that they will move to quash indiéiment on the ground that no Negroes were in the jury box from which Judge Horton has picked 160 prospective jurors. Arguments on the defense mo- tion will begin Thursday, when the selection of the jury of 12 will be- gin. There will be no session of court tomorrow. The question of separate or mass trials is still to be settled. DECATUR, Ala., March 28. Without granting an opportu- nity for argument, Judge Hor- isa prsict* et the second trial of the Scowsbor0 woys, at the opening of the sftefnoon "session téday, sum- marily denied the defense motion to quash the indictment against the de- fendants. The motion was based on the de- fense contention—supported by a number of Negro witnesses—that Ne- groes are systematically excluded from jury service in Alabama and that not a single Negro was allowed on the grand jury which indicted the innocent Scottsboro boys. The prosecution contended Negroes are noo barred from jury duty in Alabama, but that none ever qual- ified. In the midst of arguments Judge Horton announced he had reached a decision. “The motion is denied,” he said. Leibowiiz, defense counsel head, declared he believed the court “has committed a reversible error.” appeal to the State Supreme Court probably will be taken, he said. In the meantime, while the pros- ecution sought to prove that no dis- crimination exists against Negroes in relation to jury service, the courtroom itself presented living evidence of the whole system of white ruling class oppression, Like yesterday, scores of Negroes filled the courtroom, but they were (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) GOV'T STANDARD IS $1 A DAY PAY Has Precedence Over All Relief Bills WASHINGTON, March 28.—The COURT DENIES DEMAND CASE BE QUASHED Defense Stops Sale of! on the | to investigate their ages. No sooner | Anj Scottsboro Defense Presses Fig ® FORCEL f (By National Committee of Unem- ployed Councils) The National Committee of the Unemployed Councils of the U. S. Genounces the new hunger and forced labor measures proposed by the Roosevelt administration. This is a monstrous attack on the employed and unemployed workers by cutting relief and instituting a dollar a day basic wage rate for the working masses. We call upon every worker tn the United States to rally as never be- fore in a determined struggle to de- feat this plan. We call upon the Unemployed Councils everywhere to lead in the most bitter struggle to put a stop to forced labor. We propose the fol- lowing action as a basis for united struggle by all workers regardless of their affiliations: 1. Organize demonstrations in front of the homes of Congressmen and Senators in your state and dis- trict. Demand that these shall vote against this bill and introduce the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. 2. Intensify and spread the strug- gle against all forced labor projects in your communities. Organize strikes CUT WAGES OF " FED'L WORKERS 115 Per Cent Slash Is Ordered by President the unemployed, | ® Unemployed Councils Issue Call for Defense Against Roosevelt Attack on Living Standards of the Masses Organize Strikes on Forced Labor Jehs, Demonstrate, Build United Fighting Front Against the Dollar A Day Wage Standard on all forced labor jobs. 5. Build a united fighting front 3. Develop struggles in every loc- | agaist every attempt to cut relief; ality for immediate, concrete pro-|to make further cuts in the already grams of public works that will be of | miserable wage-rates, and against benefit to the workers and poor farm- | cuts in the disability allowances of ers, such as clearing slums and build- | local veterans. ing new workers’ homes, playgrounds, ‘There is no time to lose! Imme- etc. Insist that full union wage rates | diate, intensified action and struggle shall be paid on all such work. | is imperative! Let our militant strug- orker Central Ongar Wine O mynist Party U.S.A. ht for Negroes on Jury é How You Can Help Again we must stress the effectives ness of house partied in raising funds for the “Daily”. Arrange ome in your neighbor- hood, or in your club or branch! CITY EDITION 3 TOM MONEY APPEALS TO "SOCIALISTS 10 SUPPORT "UNITED FRONT CONGRESS | A ‘Call Contained in Wire Sent to His Defense Committee in New York City | Meetings and Many Local Conferences Show | Preparations for “Mooney Congress” | SAN FRANCISCO, March 28.—A direct appeal to the | Socialist Party to join in support of the united front “Free | Tom Mooney Congress” is contained in a telegram sent today | by Tom Mooney to the Eastern Office of the Tom Mooney | Molders Defense Committee in New York. Mooney at the | same time calls for the widest participation, on a united front | basis of “all unaffiliated organizations”. Mooney Issued Call. ne _ The Congress, to be held in Chicago April 30-May 2, was | initiated by a call from Mooney himself, issued from his prison | cell on Jan. 26, Mooney’s wire to his committee follows: | .,,.AS RESULT OF MILITANT CAMPAIGN I HAVE WON NEW | TRIAL WHICH IS GREATEST VICTORY IN MY CASE STOP I CALL UPON YOU TO EXERT EVERY EFFORT TO HAVE UNAFFILIATED | ORGANIZATIONS JOIN THE UNITED FRONT CONGRESS WHICH SONVENES DURING MY TRIAL STOP STRONGLY URGE SOCT- PARTY TO JOIN UNITED FRONT BECAUSE AS SOCIALISTS THEY MUST REALIZE THAT ONLY BY STANDING TOGETHE! AT THIS CRITICAL TIME CAN FINAL FREEDOM BE ACHIEVED Soe <== (Signed) TOM MOONEY.” | Mooney’s wire follows up on the victory of his Mefense Committee and the International Labor Defense in forcing a second trial for the famous |labor prisoner on an unused ini ment. The trial is to begin in | Francisco April 26 “Congress” Activity Grows. NEW YORK.—That he “Free Mooney Congress,” to be held in Chi- cago April 30-May 2, will have rep~ resentatives from scores of labor or- ganizations which previously have been yelatively inactive in fight for the freedom of Tom Mooney. indicated by reports received here by |the Eastern Office of the Tom Mooney Molders’ Defense Committee. which is in charge of arrangements for the Congress. A committee is now being formed in Boston on behalf of the Congress while in Schenectady, N. accor ing to word received by the Moc Office, a united front committe be organized this week in the C: tol district and meetings arr soon in various centers in that TOM MOONEY HOLD ARMY FOR | LABOR CAMPS: 4. Call neighborhood meetings; | gle force the defeat or abandonment | cian send committees to unions, lodges and | of the Forced Labor Bill; let this eye tion. other organizations where workers | struggle serve to force the govem-|Prepare for Military Meetings Arrang: ment and bosses to provide unem- A huge Free Mooney belong; adopt and send resolutions to | your Congressman, Senator and to | the White House, ployment insurance to the victims of | the deepening capitalist crisis. UNEMPLOYED GIVE AN ANSWER TO ~ ROOSEVELT: FIGHT, WIN RELIEF Sharp Struggle in All Parts of Country; Get} More Cash in Buffalo Thru March 4 Action | BUFFALO, N. Y., March 28.—As a direct result of the March 4th dem- onstration, the state relief buro has been compelled to raise relief for single unemployed workers to five dollars every two weeks, where formerly it was $1.50 to $2.00 per week. The Unemployed Councils are now pressing for an investigation against discriminatory practices on Negroe®— ee eS workers. Meetings are called around| family in Homestead was frustrated this and other immediate demands of| by the council x! . Batile at Relief Station. Rule Over Jobless | — | ATLANTA, Ga., March 28.—Con- centration and maneuvers of the army have been cancelled as it is expected that the soldiers will be ing is being planned Mily for April 7, the Committee reports while in Philadelphia a conference committee is being formed on a united front basis which will lay the plans for a mass meeting to be held on April 18. in camps” are established upon the | Passing of the Roosevelt forced !2bor | bill. Stopped Eviction | SEATTLE, Wash. Mar. 28—Fitty DILLONVALE, O., Mar. 28.—When| workers of the Norman St. Commit- | the uhemployed committee went to| tee of Action, demonstrating here at | Miss Dutton demanding flour for aj State Relief Headquarters for relief Negro worker who was discriminated | of about nine families, were brutally |Secret Shipments to used as instructors when the “Jabor | According to word from from the army headquarters Major General Edward L. King states “that while the task contemplated by the legis- lation under consideration can easily be accomplished, it was thought best at the present time to leave all troops at their home stations, fully pre-} pared to offer the most efficient and maximum assistence...”, to the un- employed workers who will be herded into these camps to slave at a dollar a day Japan; War Material? against, she told them, “to jump in the river if they find themselves in this condition.” However this worker| beaten and slugged by police guard- ing the Relief Depot : i This brutality and terrorization will (By a Worker Correspondent) BINGHAMTON, N. Y.—The Endi- | cott Forging Workers, Tocated at En-| Warning against a slacke the fight for Mooney in view victory in winning a second tr Tom Mooney Molders’ De mittee called attention t that acquittal of Moon forthcoming trial will not ically free him, and that only tinued mass activity can ensure b release from San Quentin prison, where he is serving his seventeenth year on framed-up charges. | The Statement of the Cen-| |tral Committee on the ap-} |peal of the Communist In-| ternational for united front | struggles will be published jin tomorrow’s Daily Worker. | The Central Committee) statement will contain a OR PASS ae Tere th bill setting a national wage standard not only received relief, but this wo-| not deter the workers from carrying | qicott, N. %., are turning out steel| | Proposal for united front ac-| WASHINGTON, Mar. 28.—The paigns which have driven wages down to present starvation levels. They have been responsible for the slugging of pickets, the break-up of picket lines and the issuance of in- junctions to stifle every struggle of the workers against the bosses’ attacks on their living standards. Only a few days before his message to the legislature proposing a minimum wage, Governor Lehman publicly stated that he would op- pose any measure of unemployment insurance for the mil- lions of starving unemployed in New York State, on the ground that it would work hardship on the employers. The minimum wage proposal must therefore be viewed as a de- magogic maneouver to cover up the direct brazen reversal of the democratic campaign promises contained in the na- tional platform which promised state unemployment insur- ance. The present legislation does not establish a minimum wage, but merely the machinery for investigating such a minimum, not on the basis of the needs of the workers, but on what the industry will bear. It will not provide a living wage to the miserably exploited women and children. Men, women and children sweatshop workers who are eking out a starvation existence, can only achieve a decent living wage through organization and struggle. It is the zask of our Party and our militant trade unions to organize ond lead these workers in a struggle to put an end to sweat- shop misery. The power of organization and the unity of the working class can put pressure on the state apparatus to force up the legal minimum established by the state and van compel the bosses to enforce | the laws they ha~» written. of a dollar a day and the establish- ment of forced labor camps for the unemployed is being rushed through congress. While even the inadequate $500,000,000 “relief” measure is side- tracked until the forced labor bill is adopted. ‘The opposition to the forced labor measure in some quarters in congress is a division of labor between the president and congress in carrying out the “new deal” of starvation. Just as Willlam Green and other A. F. of L. leaders originally “opposed” the bill, only later to give their full approval, similar steps are also now taken by some congressional leaders. All are unanimous in the nation- wide slashing and relief cutting pro- gram instituted by the Roosevelt ad- ministration. Chicago Forces Recognition. Forced to adopt some emergency measures because of the growing bit- terness and resentment of the unem- ployed throughout the country, an amendment may be adopted author- izing states to loan from the R. F. C. exceeding the $45,000,000 limit for state relief. According to capitalist press reports, this is done primarily to satisfy the needs of Illinois, which is the only state approaching the limit. The reason for this is that in Chicago the unemployed t moye- ment has wrested many concessions from the state. It forced relief for the unemployed. The recognition that this amendment gives to the Chicago Unemployed Council should spur the unemployed movement all aver the country to greater activity drive started by Roosevelt on the liv- ing standards of the workers on Mar. 4th is to affect the Federal employ- ees by the order of a 15 per cent wage slash to go into effect on April 15. This wage cut which continues the reduction already given the Federal employees during the Hoover regime definitely indicates the support of the Roosevelt administration to a na- tional wage cutting campaign in all industries where wages are already cut to the bone. Especially the new standard of a dollar a day for laborers employed by the government under the “re- forestration bill” established a new low standard which the bosses gen- erally will adopt. man agreed io go with the commit tee to Steubenville to get more Red Cross flour for them. * Fight Discrimination. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Mar. 28.—The Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union is participating actively with the Unemployed Councils in towns in the Monongahela valley. The na-~ tional chairman of the union has spoken to many meetings in recent weeks with an approximate attend- jon the fight against the forced labor, {for more relief and unemployment | insurance Save Vet's Home CHICAGO, Ill, March 28—An un- | employed ex-serviceman, Egan, with a family of 5 was evicted last Fri- day from his home. After unanswered requests to the Relief station and the alderman, he came to Branch 54 of the Unemployed Councils, They together with nearby branches 37 and balls ranging irom the size of a base- | ball to a ball weighing seventy-five pounds, which are being shipped to} | Japan. When the workers inqure what the purpose and use of these balls are, they cannot get any information; it| seems to be a great secret. | —From a Strugging Worker. | tions on the basis of imme-| diate struggle against the) jeapitalist offensive of the) | Roosevelt administration, | | for the struggle against fas- | |cism and war. | ance of 4,500. Despite the fact that these towns as for instance Homestead are the citadel of the steel barons, many evictions were stopped. On March 24 a landlord's attempt to evict a 62 put the furniture back in the house. Following the successful eviction fight the neighborhood was plastered with posters announcing the State Hunger March for April 7th. “Dear Comrades: October 1931 strike. “Beceeea you will find a money order for $25 for the Daily Worker Emergency Fund. We would like to do much for the ‘Daily’— we have not forgotten how it helped us to expose the strike-breaking role of the leaders of the American Federation of Labor in our UNEMPLOYED TEXTILE WORKERS SEND $25 TO ‘DAILY’; RUSH AID NOW! “Lawrence, Maas. unemployed here, we expect to send some more money shortly. “This contribution was raised through # concert arranged under the auspices of the united front committee of delegates from the National Textile Workers U~i->, the Com- munist Party and several fraternal organi~ zations. —“S, MARSHALL.” « | “Although nearly 20,000 workers are now RECEIVED YESTERDAY . . 8229.55 TOTAL TO DATE. , « $24,979.16 PROTEST TO SWEEP U.S. AGAINST FASCISM | NEW YORK, March 28.—A mighty nation-wide movement to protest | | in an unmistakable voice the continued acts of German fascism’s barbaric forces against the revolutionary workingclass and Jewish people of Ger- many has been announced by the Communist Party. New York will be the high central point of this movement with a gigantic mass meeting in Madison Square Garden, Wednesday, April 5, at 7 p.m. Prominent figures, writers, professionals, ineluding Theodore Dreiser, Malcolm Cowley, John Dos Passos, Sherwood Anderson, and prominent Jewish leaders; writers, Rabbis, professionals, etc., have been invited to this great meeting of protest. “The atrocities in Germany continue,” points out the Communist Par~ ty, “Hitler and Hull, U. S. Secretary of State, have joined hands to white~ wash the bloody deeds of fascism. American bankers and big industrial~ ists support Hitler, who they know will safeguard their investments.” | The leaders of the American Jewish Congress and others who have put themselves at the head of the wave of national indignation sweeping | through the masses of people, are soft-pedaling the movement, and bend- | ing their knees to Hitler and U. S. imperialism as revealed in their whining speeches at the Madison Square Garden Monday night. The mighty meeting called by the Communist Party for April 5 wilt Se OCT er ee eee of peri nveorinaewsy ate Be i ee fe