The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 30, 1933, Page 1

haar eae ‘ % & Ki EDITORIALS A Coolie Wag eee While the capitalist press tries to maintain the Roose- velt deception by referring to it as a “relief measure” for aid to the unemployed, the confidential advisers of the bankers and industrialists, openly praise it for what it the most drastic move yet made in smashing down wages, hours and conditions of labor. | That is why the notorious Whaley-Katon service of {| Washington, in its confidential American business letter for March 25, states in this cold-blooded fashion to its clients: | “Nothing could be more significant than the President's plan to pay a dollar a day only to men employed in the reforestation program. It kicks over the whole practice of wage-maintenance, as applied to relief work. This tends to make a Relief scheme practicable, not only from the viewpoint of cost, but also in regard to drawing men from other {| work into government employ. It is one of the most important decisions the government has yet made.” The Roosevelt administration sets a standard for wage cutting—beat down wagas everywhere to a dollar a day. Al- ready it starts in on the federal employees by a 15 per cent | wage slash on top of the direct wage cuts in money wages and the indirect cuts through the stagger system introduced by Hoover. This is the standard that Roosevelt sets for railroad workers, steel workers, waterside workers, shop and mill and mine workers—it certainly does kick over, at govern- ment instigation, the whole practice of wage maintenance! From every part of the United States an avalanche of protests should thunder down upon the acministration at Washington. Every senator, every congressman should be told by workers and farmers from his home district in no | uncertain terms that to vote for that bill is to be pilloried forever as the agent of slave-drivers who are using the power of a slave-drivers’ government to treat as convicts workers out of jobs through no fault of their own. Great mass in- | dignation meetings should be held everywhere. The real | facts about this infamous attempt should be shouted from every house-top. | There should be built up the most widespread organi- zation, uniting workers of all shades of political opinion, Ne- gro and white, native-born and foreign-born, organized and unorganized, unemployed and employed, against this atro- cious attempt. ° . . Anti-Soviet Lies In the last week the capitalist pap increasing prominence to all the stale ploded anti-Soviet falsehoods. The New York Evening Post, a Morgan sheet of upper | s snobbery, features the “disclosures” of Gareth Jones, 1 Affairs Secretary to former Prime Minister Lloyd “Famine Grins Russia, Millions Dying, Idle’on the | Such are the headlines in this Morgan paper. It is ebvious to workers that these headlines apply with the great- ast truth, not to the Soviet Union, but to the United States. The World-Telegram is carrying stories by its profes- sional “expert” on morals reviving the cheap lies about the “destruction of the family” in the Soviet Union. This in the ‘ace of the widespread break-up of hundreds of thousands of American workers’ families as a result of the crisis, a situ- ation which finds. official approval in the recent statement of Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor, who remarked about the plan for labor camps that “it might be the best thing that could happen in some cases to separate a man from his family for a year.” What is behind all this rise in Anti-Sovie: ies? The answer is given by the British imperialist agent whose “dis- closures” are being so zealously peddled by the Post. He writes: ‘the arrest of the British engineers ‘is a sym- bol of the panic... it is an attempt to check popular wrath at the famine...” Now we know where the shoe pinches. ‘hese crude and hysterical alarms spring directly from the fear which is haunting Britain about the coming trial of the engineers. Three British engineers are arrested and given a public open trial in order to “check the wrath” of over 165 million Russian people “suffering from famine’. Such is the stupid and laughable theory of the Foreign Secretary to a former British Prime Minister, which the capitalist world is dissemi- nating. British and American imperialism, the most ruthless exploiters of the working class and the colonies, the mur- derers of starving workers demonstrating for relief, suddenly shedding tears over “famine” in the Soviet Union! This hypocrisy is too obviously connected with the coming trial. There is something very black here that is giving the British nightmares, have been giving thoroughly ex- Bankers’ Looting HE gutter press announces that the secret service has re- ceived an “underworld tip” that Communists have set on foot a nation-wide bombing plot against banks, This announcement in yesterday’s “Daily News,” oc- curs at the same time Weodin issues a statement empha- sizing Roosevelt’s war emergency bank holiday proclama- tion. This is an unmistakable signal from Washington that the attempts of the Roosevelt administration to meet the chaos of the bank crash has failed and that a further down- ward plunge is at hand. It will be remembered that lies were spread throughout the country that Communists in Michigan were plotting runs on banks —that the Reds were undermining ‘“‘con- fidence.’ At that time the DAILY WORKER pointed out that such stories were merely alibis for the bankers them- selves who had wrecked the banks by pillaging tle deposits they were entrusted with. Following events proved that we were right in our estimation of the motive behind the pro- vocative stories. The finance capitalists, in their desperation to cover up their own policy of looting, are capable of any infamy. It is by no means beyond the realm of possibility that they may decide to bomb some of their own banks to cover up their thievery and to furnish an excuse for provocative at- tacks against the working class and its revolutionary van- guard, the Communist Party. Everyone who knows anything about our revolutionary Party knows that acts of individual terror, “bomb plots” and other provocations are not weapons of the working class and that within our ranks we never tolerate anyone who ad- vocates such acts. Such acts belong to the arsenal of the capitalist class FIRST OF FRAMED) SCOTTSBORO BOYS | |\SEEK SEPARATE TRIALS | ‘Southern Press Forced nine Scottsboro boys begins tomorrow “We Went After It and Got It!” From the Unem- ployed Council, In- terbay, Seattle: “Here is $3. Our branch is small and all mem- bers are unemployed, still we went after the money and got a Dail Central Orga ge) (Section of the Communist International) | Vol. X, No. 76 marr oe Nem emda At wren a ww NEW YORK, THURSDAY MARCH 30, 1933 Norker ON TRIAL TODAY No Negroes in Venire, Defense to Demand | Its Dismissal to Alter Tone (By Our Correspondent.) DECATUR, Ala a .—Follow- ing a day’s recess y the de- fense for the purpose of investigation in preparation for the motion to miss the panel of 100 prospectiv jurors, the trial of the first of the Tom Mooney runners, of Los Angeles, taken at a farewell party be- fore they went to serve six months for running with signs calling for the release of Tom Mooney at the tims of the Olympic games. WASHINGTON, March 29.—B; ployes and the compensation for disabled veterans. The defense demand that the ven- ire be dismissed will be based on the ground that not a single Negro ic included in the 100 prospective jur, men Called, For Separate Trials. At the same time lawyers for the ILD, indicated that they would make a finish-fight for separate trials for each of. the boys. ‘The prosecution has selected. Hay- wood Patterson, 19-year-old Negro (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ‘Simons in Court Today for Anti- Imperialist Talk| NEW YORK, March 29.—The continued detention in jail of Wil- liam Simons, National Secretary of the Anti-Imperialist League of dustrial Union. Socialists at Mooney Meet in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, March 29.—A Provisional United Front Committee to prepare for the Chicago “Free Tom Mooney Congress” was formed here Monday evening when delegates elected by the local Socialist Party met with rep- resentatives from the International Labor Defense, Interna- tional Molders’ Union, Local 15, Carpenters’ Local, A. F. of L. No. 1051, Painters’ and Paperhangers’ Union, the Unem- ployed Citizens’ League, and the Needle Trades Workers’ In- The committe will meet every Saturday at 2 o’clock at 1206 Walnut St., th’rd floor. One of the first moves of the Provisional Committee is (CONTINUED OM PAGE THREE) today = program for the control of pi usually printed in stock circulars, such as yoting rights, dividends, amount of paid-up capital, names of issuing syndicate. The amount of commissions will also be required. Means Greater Centralization.. The program has as its objective the concentration in the hands of the biggest bankers, in collaboration with the government, the issuing of stocks and bonds. It will prohibit U. S. for speaking at the meeting against Japan’s robber war in China, last Friday on the occasion of the arrival of Matsuoka, Jap- anese imperialist agent, has aroused intense indignation. Many organizations have sent protest let- ters and telegrams to Mayor O'Brien and Chief of Police Mul- rooney, demanding the right of free speech and assemblage and| | demanding the immediate release of Simons. Simons’ case comes up for the second time in Jefferson Market, Court, Sixth “Ave. and Tenth §8t., today at 10 a.m. Aroused work- ers and others are expected to jam the court room. Telegrams of protest were also sent from the Pan-Pacific Con- ference meeting held last night in support of the Pan-Pacific Con- ference held in Japan this month at the call of the Anti-Imperialist League of that country, system. 4 STRIKE A BLOW FOR MOONEY; “It (The Daily Worker) has consistently fought, for my freedom, symbolizing the case of Tom Mooney, cor- rectly tying it up with the whole fabric of the capitalist “I call upon all workers to respond whole-heartedly to the call of the Daily Worker for funds and for gregter circulation, ‘Strengtheit the -yoice of the Daily Worker. i Give it greater power to organize the masses for the de~ fit.’ fense of all labor prisoners and for Tom Mooney, interna~ tional symbol of capitalist ‘justice.’ ” + ° ° These words, written by Tom Mooney and published in the Daily Worker Feb. 4, acquire new meaning now that Mooney has been granted a new trial and the opening day of the great Free Tom Mooney Congress, April 30, draws near. You can strike a blow for Mooney TODAY by sending in your contribution to keep the “Daily” fighting for him, RECEIVED YESTERDAY $224.01. TOTAL TO DATE $35,203.17 the diseounting and sale of issues of concerns that are in competition with those the finance capitalists are interested in. It means further cen- tralization of industry under domi- nation of the banks. Roosevelt insisted that the govern- ment “cannot and should not take any action which might be construed as approving or guaranteeing that newly issued securities are sound in the sense that their value will be maintained or that the properties which’ they represent will earh pro~ AID ‘DAILY’ Roosevelt's statement regarding the tremendous losses suffered by thous- ands of small investors indicates that he is attempting to make it appear as if these losses were caused not by the collapse of the entire credit structure following the catastrophic decline in production, but rather, by the dishonest practices of a few small sharpers. mw" ROOSEVELT DEMANDS CONTROL OF SALES OF STOCKS AND SECURITIES If Proposed Law Is Passed Will Be Able to. Dictate Which Companies Can Be Financed } WASHINGTON, March 29,—President Roosevelt presented to Congress | ublicity on new issues of stocks and bonds. The essential points of the proposed plan are contained in a long series of proposals for the filing of certain information regariing new se-| curity issues with the Federal Trade Commission. A careful examination of the information to be required reveals that it’ does not differ from the information @————— AFL COMMITTEE SCORES CAMPS NEW YORK —Denouncing the Roosevelt plan for forced labor camps for 250,000 unemployed as a scheme for introducing further wage-cuts and lowering the living standards of the workers as well as for develop- ing a corps of potential sirike- breakers, the A. F. of L. Trade Union Committee for Unemployment In- surance and Relief, in a statement yesterday, voiced its protest against this measure: The statement says, in part: “While Mr. Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, pre- tends to oppose the forced labor camp mearfres, he has already backed down to the proposal that, wages to the unemployed be in the form of cash allowances and has paved the wayfors policy which will give Roosevelt the sole power to im- pose even worse conditions than al- ready proposed for the unemployed. Workers in the A. F. of L. demand that your local union go on record against the forced labor camp plan and see that these protest resolutions are sent to the congressmen of your CITY EDITION executive order from the President the 15 per cent cut for federal employes and veterans’ compensation is to go into effect on April Is This slashes off $900,000,000 mostly from the pay envelopes of the lower paid Federal em- While the reason given by is the drop in living costs, his own Labor Department reports a lowering of only six per a Keep It Going! Frank Stevens, of Pittsburgh, Kansas, writes: “We are do- ing our best here for the “Daily.” so for christ’s sake keep it going!” Price 3 Cents ROOSEVELT’S $900,000,000 SLASH FOR VETERANS AND EMPLOYES GIVES LEAD FOR NATION-WIDE WAGE CUTS Officially Announces ‘“Re-Foresta*ion” Workers Will Be Under Army Rule; To Halt Public Work Program in Washington City Roosevelt hington cent in rents in Was D.C. That this gives sanction to a nation wide move against existing relief measures is born out by pro~ posals of budget director, Douglass He proposes an $11,000,000 cut for 1934 in the budget for the Dis- trict of Columbia This is to be made on the basi ing public works by hund sands of dollars, 15 per ce funds for schools. tion which promis is less than a month in office, already it proposes to eliminate this measure. The effect of an official announce- ment cutting pay of federal em~- ployees will no doubt be taken up by the bosses throughout the coun- try, as it is clei meant to be. It means the beginning of a new nation-wide wage cutting campaign on top of the others which the work- ers have experienced during the pasi few years. Together with this attack on the employees, congress is passing the “Reforestation Bill.” It is expected that within three weeks after the adoption of the bill, 250,000 men will be put to work on forced labor pro- jects. The recruiting of the men, which will break up many families, will be done under the direction of the Interior and War Departments. The fact that the War Department is given supervision over the unem- ployed shows clearly that this is # part of the war preparations of the government. That William Green and the s0- calied labor leaders are préssed by the rank and file membership to fight against this bill is seen by the con- fusion they find themselves in. Only a few days ago Green gave his ap- proval of the bill, while today he does not favor it, and has ordered his spokesman in Congress to so state. Regardless what action is taken by Congress and the labor fakers sup- porting them, mass resistance must district. develop in all sections of the country ‘The Communist Party of the U.S.A. fully agrees with the proposals of the Communist International for a renewed effort to forge the uxity of the workers in a united struggle for the maintenance of their living stand- ards, against Hitler's bloody fascist regime in Germany and against im- perialist war. The need for working class unity was never before more urgent than | at the present time. Only through a solid, fighting unity of the masses | can the living standards of the toilers be maintained, can the attempts to lower these standards be defeated, and the mass resistance to fascism and the increasing war danger be developed. The economic crisis in the United States is deepening. Hunger stalks the richest country in the world. Over sixteen million workers are un- employed. Millions of farmers are impoverished. ROOSEVELT ACTS FOR BANKERS. of the bankers and big industrialists and against the interests of the toiling masses. The dictatorial powers taken by Koosevelt—already a | step toward fazcisation—are being used against the ‘oilers. The mili- tarization of labor, the economy program at the expense of the masses, banking measures which wipe out the savings of millions of small de- positors, the inflation of the dollar which reduces the purchasing power of the toilers, and increased military and naval expenditures in prepara- tion for a new war in which the masses: will be called upon to be the cannon fodder—this is the anti-working class program of Roosevelt. The war policies of American imperialism are also being pursued by the other imperialist powers wii qual energy, indicating that the capi- | talist world, unable to solve the crisis by economic measures, is prepar- ing for war in a desperate effort to find a way out. The same trend toward a forceful solution of the crisis is shown in the growing resort to fascist terror, particularly by the bloody Hitler regime in Germany, also in Austria and other European nations, and even by the beginnings of the fascization of the state apparatus in the United States. UNITED FRONT ABSOLUTELY VITAL. Under such circumstances it is a life and death question for the | toiling masses to form a united front of struggle against the capitalist attack on their living standards, against the growing bloody fascist ter- ror, and against the acute danger of war. A united working class aided by the toiling farmers and the oppressed Negro people could effectively resist these hunger and war plans of the bosses. It !s an imperative necessity that all workers’ organizations—the American Federation of Labor, the Socialist Party and the Communist Party particularly—should join in a united effort to weld together a solid fighting front: of all the toilers, . Such a united effort in order to be beneficial to the workers must necessarily be made on the basis of active mass struggle for such clear- cut working class demands as the following: 1) Ageinst Roosevelt's hunger and war program; against forced Jabor; against wage-cuts; for increased wages to meet rising prices; for adequate relief for the unemployed without discrimination against Negro. or foreign-born; for shorter hours without reduction in pay; and for relief for the small farmers, 2) For federal unemployment insurance; against the proposed unem- ployment “reserves” bills. 3) For the workers’ rights, for the release of Tom Mooney, the Scotts- boro boys, and all political prisoners; against police terror, against deportations, and against injunctions in labor disputes. 4) Against fascist terror and anti-Semitism in Germany; for the re- lease of Thaelmann and of all imprisoned anti-fascist forces; for material support to the revolutionary movement of Germany. 5) For the immediate withdrawal of the Japanese forces from China, for the defense of the Chinese people, for the stopping of munition shipments to Japan; against the imperialist war policy of Wall Street particularly now in the Far East and in Latin America, 6) For the recognition of the Soviet Union by the United States; against imperialist attacks on the Soviet Union. FIGHT TO WIN BACK YOUR WAGES! The realization of these general demands requires the immediate taking up of a united struggle to restore the wages of the miners, the steel workers, the auto, textile and all other workers. It means to pre- Roosevelt's policies, as 1s already evident, are policies in the interests | Statement of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, U.S. A., Offering United Front on the Basis of the Communist International Appeal To the toiling masses of the United States: To the National Executive Council of the American Fed- eration of Labor: To the National Committee of the Socialist Party: To the National Committee of the Conference for Progres- sive Labor Action: To the National Committee of the Trade Union Unity League: To all other National Trade Unions and Working Class Or- ganizations, National and Local, Negro and White: pare to win back the wage cut put over on the railroad workers. It Means support to all workers now carrying on a fight for improved con- ditions. It necessitates the development of the broadest mass action against the Rooseyelt forced labor and economy measures, for federal aid to the unemployed and for unemployment insurance. This struggle at present means the support and building up of the Mooney Congress to be held in Chicago, the defense of the nine Negro Scottsboro boys, for the release of those now held for deportation and against all de- portation measures. THE COMMUNISTS HAVE CONSISTENTLY ADVOCATED UNITY OF WORKERS. The Communist Party of the United States has consistently advocated the unity of the workers in active struggle for such demands. To an increasing extent, the workers have themselves emphasized their desire for unity. In the demonstration of October 30th in Chicago, in the Na- tional Hunger March, in the numerous state hunger marches, in the nation-wide March 4th demonstration, in innumerable local strikes, dem- onstrations and other actions, socialist and Communist workers, workers of the A. F. of L. and unorganized workers have united in effective ac- tions which won concessions from the bosses and prevented a fursher lowering of the living standards of the masses. ‘These actions, effective as they were, could not accomplish the greatest results because big national workers’ organizations—the A. F. of L., and Soctalist Party particularly—were not ready to give their aid in the setting up of a militant fighting front of the workers. On the contrary, the leaders of these bodies actively prevented the united action of the workers and by their policies during the crisis have been a direct help to tne bourgeoisie in carrying through the attacks on the masses. This policy is still beimg continued. President Green of the A. F. of L. has already abandoned the fight on the Roosevelt forced labor bill which is one of the most threatening acts against labor. The Socialist Party leaders go to Washington to congratulate Roosevelt on his banking acts which have already wiped out the savings of many small depositors. The Socialist Party has so far refused to join in a united conference to free Mooney, has rejected proposals for joint May Day meetings. The Socialist Party is now chief sponsor to a conference in Washington from which really militant labor organizations including the Communists, are barred. The Socialist Party is also silent on or approves the obvious acts of .apitulution to’ Hitler already carried through by some of the socialist leaders in Germany. CANNOT AVOID TALK OF UNITY. Recently, however, due to the sharp attacks of the bosses on all workers, including the members of the reformist organizations both here and in Germany, these bodies are no longer able to avoid talk of unity. The Communist Party of the U, 8. A. which has consistently stood for militant united action, takes note of this unity talk in the reformist COMMUNIST PARTY PROPOSES UNITED ACTION bodies. We again propose and urge united action of the American Federation of Labor, the Socialist Party, the Conference for Progressive Labor Action, together with the Communist Party in an effort to unite the broad masses of the toilers in one joint struggle for a program of de~ mands such as outlined above. The Communist Party addresses its proposal for unity directly to the leading National Committees of these organizations and proposes a conference with representatives chosen by these bodies to consider these proposals and concrete mass struggles, for the realization of the agreed upon demands, UNITY URGENT CANNOT WAIT OUTCOME OF NEGOTIATIONS. However, the Vommunist Party urges the workers not to wait for the outcome of these negotiations. Unity is an urgent immediate need in every tactory, mill and mine, in every neighborhood, in every city. Daily attacks are being made on the workers’ standards. These attacks must be answered immediately as they are made. This requires unity at once, without delay. The Communist Party urges all workers—Communist, Socialist, A. F. of L. members particularly, to unite in every factory and town. We urge all workers to set up joint committees of action to prepare and carry through joint meetings, demonstrations, parades and strikes to force the granting of the mutually agreed upon local demands, The ntral Committee urges the district and local Communist bodies to immediately take the initiative in making proposals for joint action to corresponding socialist and A. F. of L. bodies in order to achieve the fighting unity of the workers with the least possible delay. OUR ATTITUDE TOWARD SOCIALISTS AND A.F.L. LEADEKS, The socialist and A. F. of L. leaders often concealed their resistance to united action on the grounds of the sharp criticisras made of their policies and actions by the Communists. The Central Committee in line with the proposal of the Communist International, advises all districts, local bodies and the working class generally, that the Communist Party is rec.dy to sincerely agree to withhold all attacks upon socialist, A. F. of L. or other working class bodies which sincerely enter into mutual agree- ments for united struggles around agreed-upon issues and loyally carry through the agreement in practice. This does not of course infringe upon the right of any organization or its representatives to freely make and discuss proposed demands and actions in the course of efforts to reach agreements. At the same time, the Central Committee considers it necessary to emphasize, that in case any organization, or its repre~ sentatives, breaks the agreement made, or fails to carry it out in prac~ tice, the most ruthless fight must be carried on, arousing the masses against those responsible for such betrayals as against scabs and strike- breakers. On the basis of these proposals, the Communist Party pledges itself before the masses to bend every effort to quickly and firmly weld a solid fighting front of the toilers against the capitalist offensive as represented in Roosevelt's policies, against fascism and against war. We particularly urge that a beginning be made in the establishment of such effective united resistance to the bosses’ hunger and war pro- gram by converting the proposed Continental Congress into a broad united front action of all workers’ organizations without exception. We further urge that united support be given by all working class bodies to the Mooney Conference in Chicago which must be made @ central rallying point in the struggle to free all class war prisoners. Finally, the MAY FIRST actions this year in every locality must be united actions; they must see the coming together of ail workers’ bodies in one united struggle for the workers’ demands. Fraternally yours, (Signed) CENTRAL COMMITTEE COMMUNIST PARTY, U.S.A. WORKERS ASKED TO EXPRESS OPINION. The Central Committee invites the readers of the Daily Worker to express their opinions on the proposed united front actions. We will be glad to publish letters from workers and answer any point raised in these letters. Workers can also send in just one or two questions on points which may not be clear to them. We especially appeal to members of the organizations to whom thie letier ls addressed to express their opinions om the United Front proposals, ?