The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 3, 1933, Page 1

EDITORIALS | A Secret Conjerence On the behest of President Roosevelt, a conference of national trade union officials was called last Friday by Secre- tary of Labor Frances Perkins. This secret conclave was attended by William Green and approx'mately 75 other trade union officials. bodies of the Unemployed Requests by the national 1 oe de Union Unity League to Councils of the U. S. A. and the Tre attend this conference were denie 1, with the “promise” that they would’be called separat ely at a later date. Why the refusal to the Unemployed Councils, which are recognized by tens of thousands of employed anc unemployed workers as their leader in the struggle against hunger? Why the refusal to the Trade Union Unity League and its affil- lated revolutionary industrial unions fighting for the daily needs of the workers? Why at this time, when the workers everywhere are seeking measures of relief—the calling of a secret conference? Why not openly take up the problems facing the vast majority of the people in this country—the employed and unemployed? The answer is given in their own capitalist press report- Ing the conference. ‘ : Congress this week passed the first bills presented by Roosevelt in his “economy” program. A program which economizes by cutting allowances to the veterans; wage slashes to federal employees, and on, the basis of further cutting away the mea; allowances of the unemployed workers and their families. Secondly, the “reforestation” bill now established as law, which means, as already mentioned oftentimes in the col- umns of the Daily Worker, that the unemployed will be con- centrated in forced labor camps. It means that a dollar a day wage becomes the officially sanctioned and authorized stan- dard set by the federal government. Now the bosses in the mining, railroad, steel, building trades and all industries can follow suit. The conference called by Frances Perkins was therefore 3th one intention—to form a united action with these offi- cials in carrying out Roosevelt's attack on the American working clas We must smash apart these doors, behind which our lives are being bartered away. Instead of a secret confer- ence, an open meeting with representatives of the employed and unemployed to take up the carrying through of the demands presented by the 3,000 delegates to Congress, repre- senting the millions of unemployed at the National Hunger March last December. Two Mass Meets in Madison Square Garden The Jewish masses in America last Monday forced the bourgeois leaders of American Jews to call the mass meeting in Madison Square Garden, in spite of their prolonged fight against any form of mass action whatever. On February 3 the American Hebrew editorially pleaded “that there be no mass meeting, no protest,” while Rabbi Stephen S. Wise only-a few days before the mass meeting prevented even the use of the word “atrocity” in a protest resolution. Wise, Deutsch and the other bourgeois Jewish leaders only came to the mass meeting in order to make sure that the Jewish workers of America be kept from developing this mass protest against Fascist terror in Germany into a huge nation-wide movement. At the Madison Square mass meeting, Rabbi Wise repu- diated any action against the bloody Fascist regime itself, saying: “This protest is not against the political program of Germany, for Germany is master within her own household, but solely against the present anti-Jewish policy of the Nazi Government.” Not a word of protest against the German Fascist Gov- ernment’s destruction of all labor organizations, its murder of workingclass leaders and its suppression of the proletarian press. On Wednesday, April 5th, there will be another and different mass meeting in Madison Square Garden, a mass meeting in which the workers of New York, Jewish and Gentile, Negro and white, will rally to the call of the Commu- nist Party in a mighty protest demonstration against every- thing that German Fascism stands for. Next Wednesday’s mass meeting will voice a giant protest against outrages ‘@ the Nazi brown shirts. It is the German working class Saat has borne the brunt of the bloody Fascist attack. The evolutionary workers of Germany have been for years the moet powerful obstacle to the Nazi campaign of anti-Semitism ‘im Germany. +t is our solemn duty as American workers to rally to the support of the working class of Germany in this hour nf battle against Fascism and its offspring anti-semitism. The protest of tens of thousands of New York workers ‘on Wednesday night will be a declaration to the workers of Germany that they have the support of their American class comrades in their bitter fight to smash Hitler and Hitler’s Fascist regime. Propose United Action in Your Organizations ‘The Daily Worker of March 30 published the letter of the Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party offering a United Front to working class organizations, This United Front call contained the following proposals for immediate United Front actions: 1) Against Roosevelt’s hunger and war program; against forced labor; against wage cuts; for increased wages to meet rising prices; for adequate relief far 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. 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. Against fascist terror and anti-Semitism in Germany; for the release of Thaelmann and of all imprisoned anti-fascist forces; for material support to the revolutionary movement of Germany. Tor the immediate withdrawal of the Japanese forces from China, for the defense of the Chinese people, for the stopping of muni- tion shipments to Japan; against the imperialist war policy of Wall Street particularly now in the Far East, and in Latin America. For the recognition of the Soviet Union by the United States; against imperialist attacks on the Soviet Union. ‘We request the workers to raise in their organizations these proposals for immediate United Front actions. We invite members of the”Socialist, Party and other organizations to 6) send in to the “Daily” their opinions and criticisms which they may have, and raise questions in connection with the whole problem of the United Front There Must Be o Slackening! | Raising the last | $10,000 is the crucial | lask of the “Daily” drive. There must be no slackening now! svhaeen Dail orker Central OrganSpf “the-Cominynist Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist International) —~JF Vol. BS a N econd-elass matter at the Post Office at N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. 2W YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 3, JOIN GARDEN MEET AGAINST NAZI TERROR’ -TOM MOONEY o> Calls Workers of N.Y.) and World to Build One Fighting Front GROUPS TO COME IN BODY Robert Minor Rushing | from Coast to Speak Wednesday SAN FRANCISCO, April 1. —A call to the workers of “New York and of the whole world to unite,” to build around \the anti-fascist meeting called |by the Communist Party for |Madison Square Garden, 49th Street and Eighth Avenue, | Wednesday, April 5, at 7 p.m., | ‘one unshakable fighting front’ was sent out todav by Tom | Mooney. The complete telegraphed statement follows: “The murderous pogroms of the | mad dogs of fascism in Germany are | a sign of the beginning of the end of | the decadent, dying capitalist system YA GOTTA HELP { ’ in Europe and throughout the world. Capitalism in its death throes lashes jout blindly and desperately in an (orgy of unrestrained savagery and | bestial terror. The present campaign of organized murder in Germany can only be withstood and finally shat- | tered by the organized might of the German and world working-class united solidly, irrespective of political or religious differences on a common platform of militant resistance to the fascist terror and the capitalist of- fensive on the conditions of the) workers, | “That all sections of the working-) class can unite on a common plat- form of struggle and that the mass action of the workers alone can beat back the attacks of our enemies and | force concessions from the ruling class (has just been graphically illustrated in my own case by the victory of our class in securing a new trial for me {on April 26. “T call on the workers of New York and of the whole world and on all | sincere sympathizers with the cause |of labor to unite their ranks In one |unshakable fighting front against German fascism and ruling class ter- ror throughout the world. Demand | the immediate release of Thaelmann. Torgler and all other victims of Nazi | terror! Long live the heroic struggle lof the German working-class!” .... Among the speakers at the Garden meeting, a full list of which will ap- pear in tomorrow's Daily Worker, will |be Robert Minor, who will bear an additional message from ‘Thomas Mooney. The general admission on Wednes- day night will be 10 cents. Seats in the orchestra will be sold at 25c. All tickets at the door. eve. Le Calls of mass organizations to their members for the meeting on page 2 [of today’s Daily Worker. News _ Flash 300,000 MINERS TO STRIKE | THROUGHOUT FRANCE PARIS, April 2—A nation-wide walkout which will involve more than 300,000 coal miners and slate quarry workers, will be called tomorrow. The workers demand a higher retirement. CALL NATIONAL CONVENTION OF THE T.U. CITY EDITION Send in Your Half-Dollar! A half-dolier eook from 20,000 workers will save the “Daily.” Send yours in fodau? Price 3 Cents U.L. T. 0, U1 Badics and All Unaffiliated MOB DANGER GROWING IN Militant Labor Organizations Are | ‘ Invited to Send Their Delegates DECATUR; WHITE RULERS (By National Executive Board of The Trade Union Unity League) Comrades, Workingmen and Work- ingwomen:—The National Executive} Board of the Trade Union Unity League in accordance with the pro- visions granted to it by the Constiu- tion of the organization has decided to convene the next national conven- tion of the Trade Union Unity League in the city of Detroit, Michigan, on September Ist to 5th inclusive. The National Executive Board of the Trade Union Unity League yes- | terday issued, over the signature of William Z. Foster, General Sec- | retary of the T. U. U. L., a call for | a national convention of the T. U. | U, L, to be held in Detroit Sept 1. to 5 inclusive, The call is ad- dressed. | To all Local and National Unions | and Leagues, Central Bodies Affi- | liated to the TUUL. We stand for the policy of working with the mas- |ses of AFL unions for the purpose of winning the organizations for the ; AFL or other unions. RESENT “NEGRO ISSUE” rank and file, for united struggle|_ | 2 oie Sia! against the exploiters. We stand for, Pick All-White Jury for Haywood Patterson the policy of united 4 the A 4 1 7 A. F. of L. and TUUL for a com Trial; Scottsboro Lynch Gang Formed program in the interests of th = ses, especially of ganizations in the |the same time we are of the opinion that many of the unaffiliated organ- the nective or-| ~ ; eS 3 ve ‘ at Decatur Police Arrest 5 for Aiding Defense; This convention will take piace at! To all Rank and File Oppositions the most critical time in the history | of labor. Sixteen millions of workers are unemployed. The wages of the employed who are mainly part time workers has been greatly reduced. The total wages paid out in 1932 if only a third of what it was in 1929. The unemployed are denied adequate relief. Millions of workers and their families are at the point of starvation. This is the lot not alone of the un- employed but also of the so-called employed. Miners receive no cash pay after working for two weeks. Textile workers and other workers especially women workers are em- ployed for as low as five cents per hour. Not a single group of workers has been exempt from the bosses’ attacks. The organized railroad workers, the skilled printers, the building trades workers, as well as the workers in the mining, textile, steel, auto and all other industries have had their wages cut and their earnings further reduced through part time work. Even the government employes have had their small earnings cut down. Worsening of Conditions Side by side with the direct attack on the wages of the workers the bosses have carried through a wors- ening of the conditions of labor through speed up and other devices. Special attacks have been directed against the Negro workers and the | foreign born both with regard to lay-offs, wage cuts and the handing out of relief, Today this attack is being further intensified through the initiative’ cf the Roosevelt administration. In- stead of adequate relief and federal unemployment insurance it is intro- ducing forced labor camps for some of the unemployed at $1 a day wage. The wages of the government em- ployes are cut 15 per cent thus giving the hint to the capitalists to follow suit in all industries. The small al- lowances of the war veterans are beng cut down or entirely eliminated. Through the banking and inflation legislation the small savings of the masses are wiped out and the stand- ard of living further undermined while workers’ homes and other property is being confiscated. Econ- omy in government is to be achieved solely at the expense of the masses. New burdens to carry through war preparations are placed upon the shoulders of the masses while the big profits and huge wealth of the mil- lionaires remains untouched, Record of Great Struggles ‘The workers have not been silent in the face of these attacks. Gigantic struggles of the unemployed and poor farmers have been and are taking place. The strikes of the workers have increased. The recent strikes of the auto workers indicate the growing | readiness of the workers in the large seale basic industries who are unor- ganized to fight back. The’ miners continue to be in the forefront of the resistance to the bosses’ attacks. Or- ganized workers despite the advice of their leaders have taken up the fight. The workers in all industries are stir- ring. The veterans have given a good account of themselves through the heroic bonus march. The capitalists and their govern- |izations of labor that have sprung| up in the course of the struggles re | cently can be united into the Trade |Union Unity League and thus! strengthen their fighting power. In | order to make it possible to carry | through such affiliations and in gen- | eral, to improve our organization on | the basis of the experiences since the {last convention when the TUUL was} | first organized, the TUUL is organ- | izing its convention on the broadest in the A. F. of L. Railroad Brother- | hoods, ete. | To all Militant Unaffiliated Inde- pendent Unions. To all Workers, Organized and Unorganized, Negro and White, Employed and Unemployed. Pak local, state and national, have ried and are still trying to crush this) possible basis affording adequate dis- resistance through the armed forces! ¢, 8 uestions as pro-| of the government and through a Hees ‘aga SNe Se iui es | courts. Through injunctions, shoot-| forms and methods of organization, | ings, imprisonment, deportations, | international relations with other la- | hho ed a But Lae the td bor organizations thruout the world lenial of le right organize, the| etc, denial of free speech and assemblage, For Unity. the oe Hore, to crush Ge Lene We believe that the various organ- resistance of the masses to the in-| izations, though they have diff creased attacks on their living stand-| ences of opinion on a number of im-| ards, portant questions, can be united on the basis of the struggle for the most One Bond tor Mikes. basic needs of the workers, Such a| ‘There is only one road for the toil-| program must be based on the policy ing masses. This is the road of|o0f the class struggle and the com- struggle for their economic needs and| Plete rejection of the ruinous policy | political rights. Thus far the cap-|0f class collaboration. It must un- italists have been able to put over|dertake to defend all the economic| their attacks because the leadership| 8nd political needs of the masses.| of the American Federation of Labor | It must organize the struggle against and the Railroad Brotherhoods have | Wage cuts, for wage increases; against continued their policy of class colla-| Speed up; for the shorter workday | boration which has been proven | Without reduction in pay; for ade- jusikrupt in this etisis. ‘Their policy| quate relief to the unemployed and of no strikes during the crisis has| ‘or contr’ raping etl ty aq aecoants made it possible for the capitalists to| {0% €ausl Tights for the Negro masses: carry through the worsening of our| 10" \Soonive and stake: against in| conditions; their opposition to federal| jon sais ee Ble creep a unemployment insurance has made it pied Saint ee ge yal et more difficult for the unemployed to) the. jr Prag Re asa | imperialist plans to attack the secure adequate relief and “some se-| soviet Union ‘and against another! curity from hunger. Through their| world imperialist slaughter. | | policy of dropping of hundreds of) ‘The National Executive Board of thousands of unemployed and the ex-| the TUUL is ready to meet in pre- pulsion of militant workers from the | liminary conferences with such inde- unions, they have weakened the or-| pendent workers’ organizations prior | ganizations built by the workers| to the convention, not alone to dis- through years of struggle and sacri-| cuss the questions of affiliation but | fice, first and foremost how to develop} The T.U.UL. has, in the short per- | joint struggles of the TUUL unions, iod of its existence, taken the lead AKL unions and independent unions | in organizing the struggles of the | *8inst nt pepggpceorria ae of Te ee the ie The National Executive Board | calls upon all its affiliated organiza- auto, needle, shoe and numerous) tions t ke th df = other industries, against wage cuts, !ons to make the period from now) ; until the convention one of most in- | and for improved conditions. At the | tence preparatio a satits Ab dime the WUUL hes helvedior= |e ee nou mmeciae ce- ae She of the Art, | Yelopment of the struggle of the em- ganize the rank and file of the API: ployed and unemployed workers, The| es ete ni “er an. developing struggles of the shoe} the bosses’ attacks. It ee consist- | workers, the miners, as well as work- ently carried on a struggle for relief) ers in other industries, must receive | to the unemployed and for federal un- | the full support of all the organiza- employment insurance. It has ¢0-| tions. We must aim to develop the operated with our workers’ organi-| widest united front actions of the| zations in championing the political) workers, Never before was unity of needs of the masses. The TUUL has| the workers so necessary for defense demonstrated in practice that it) or the most vital interests of the stands for the unity of the labor | working masses. movement on the basis of the class! Details regarding the election of struggle against the exploiters. It) delegates, the agenda for the con- has equally been demonstrated that | vention, ‘arrangements, methods of the A. F. of L. leaders are the ones financing, filing of resolutions, dis- who have divided the workers’ ranks | cussion, etc., will be sent to the afil- exposing them to the attacks of the) integ organizations and made public bosses. within a very short time. The N Invitation to Ail Unaffiliated Unions.) E. B. has elected a Convention Sub- The T.U.U.L. invites all genuine| Committee which is now working out | unaffiliated trade union organizations/ all these details. | who wish to carry on a united fight) sede in the interests of the masses, to be, For any information regarding the represented at the convention, thru| convention or the work of the TUUL) fraternal delegates. This invitation| generally, please communicate with | {is also extended to all organizations | National Office of the Trade Union |of the American Federation of Labor.| Unity League, 2 West 15th Street, | !'The TUUL does not im to split the; New York, N. | Polish Textile Strikers Defy ae Police; One Dead, Five Wounded Communist Deputies Call on. 16,000 Lodz Strikers to Continue Strug- gle; Workers Erect Barricades, Ov erturn Street-Cars (By Our Special Correspondent) WARSAW, April 2.—Serious out- breaks took place yesterday in Lodz, big textile center of Poland, which ended in bloody collisions between the workers and the police. A meeting of factory delegates and strike committees was called at a Lodz movie theatre, where trade union bureaucrats headed by Scher- kovsky, a member of the Polish So- clalist Party from Warsaw, were to yeport on the results of negotiations pension, creation of a national coal office, and vacations with pay. Mobile guards have been concentrated in an sttempt to break the strike. with the manufacturers. , Workers Mob’lize, Workers started for the meeting early in the morning from the suburbs and outskirts of the city. Notwithstanding extraordinary mea-; According to the official Polish tele- sures taken by the police, the square| graph news agency, the workers and streets adjacent to the movie| “again manifested firm resistance, | house were blocked by, over 16,000/ and the police fired volleys of shots strikers. The workers carried ban-| into the crowd.” ners proclaiming their slogan as} According to the official police re- “struggle and victory.” | port, five workers were wounded and Communist Speakers. |one young woman was killed, several Communist deputies spoke to the| policemen also being wounded. assembled workers, while the police | Barricades. tried to disperse the meeting but, Defending themselves against the were unable to do so. The workers| police attacks, the workers attempted | repulsed the police onslaught, show-| to erect barricades, holding up and) ering them with a rain of stones. overturning street cars, and shower-| ‘The workers reorganized the meet-| ing the police with stones. | ing in an adjacent street, but police) The meeting of factory delegates detechments, armed with all kinds of} rejected the proposal to suspend the| wer ons, again attacked the workers.! strikes. Negroes Support LL.D. Fight (By Special Correspondent ) DECATUR, Ala., April 2.—-The tension which has ex isted during the past week in this little Southern town is gradually breaking through the illusory peaceful exterior which has prevailed here. With a jury picked to try Haywood Patterson, first of the innocent Negro Scottsboro®—-—-——-—___- My ; teri ill be ched a | boys to be tried, the state is ean will cok ah | expected to begin the presen-! All-White Jury tation of its case Monday morning.| Alabama legal procedure resulted The defense, on the other hand, is| in swift “selection” jury, lowing a hast prospective j general “qualif marshaling its -evidence to tear to| hreds the frame-up case which| Prosecutor Knight is building in an ffort to send the Negro boys to the) turned over to the attorneys for the eleciric chai! | state and defense +, the prose~ The super ly easy-going, lan-| cution struck o: then the guid atmosphere which for a time] defense elimin 1 12 were lulled some into a sense of false se-| left. This constitut this method left, of course, portunity for the defense the nature of the jurors. curity is rapidly pa are beginning to which, if it erupts, Rumblings to guage the accumulated passions and pre-| One out of three veniremen on judices engendered by the Southern; examination admitted prejudice white ruling class. and stated a conviction that the Floodlig Over Jail, evidence could not change his On Saturday night five floodlights| opinion, These were dismissed. illuminated the little Decatur jail y 8 . The all-white | with extra guardsmen around it—| pations as foll indicating the growing tension which | Eugene Baile man, of De- has arisen as a result of the bold! catur; John J. Bryant, farmer, of fight being made by the International! Falkville; Eddie Ed hosiery Labor Defense on the question of Ne-| mill worker, of Decatur; William L. groes on jury—an issue which|Grimes, bookkeeper, of Decatur; brought out into the open the whole! Robert L. Lander. employed, of ystem of national oppression of the| Decatur; James F. S Jr., m Negroes in the South. | chant, of Hartselle; rman Wi Offi announce. that when! lace, farmer, of Danville; Irwin Craig, court opens in the morning everyone | barber, of Decatur; 1 By Crawe fford, farmer, of Joppa; John Davis, | bookkeeper, of Decatur; Eugene E NAZIS OFFICIALLY "tase BAN COMMUNISTS 599) MINERS, Party Now legal; STEEL WORKERS Deputies Unseated BERLIN, April 2——The Hitler Cab-| Dd E MO NST R ATE inet yesterday issued a new law (Continued on Page Three) WELS” QUITTING IS AUTHORIZED Justified by German found them gone. Socialist Chiefs |" among the 5 ees iBorich, secretary of BERLIN, April 2—Acording to the | Miners’ Union, and many local speak bourgeois’ Berliner Tageblatt the| Ts. leaders of the German Social Demo-| The miners are preparin: cratic Party discussed the question of | to work tomorrow morning. Otto Wels’ resignation from the Sec- | ° ‘ ond International, This is one of the April 1 actions. In its decision the Central Com-/ leading to and supporting the mass mittee of the Social Democratic Party| April 1 mine strike. The mines do points out that Wels’ action in leaving| not work Saturday and Sunday, in the Second International was abso-| most cases, and the actual strike will lutely justified I develop this morning. under the dictatorship act, officially) ~y aye ser ag legalizing the suppression of the| Greensburg Action Communist Party of Germany. | aac nv All Communist deputies are barred | — to apr i] from all State Diets. The Commu-| irst Strike nist ticket is barred from all elec- irst St : tions. The seat of the Communist oe TRG Pa peme ae deputies already elected to the Reich-| ,, GREENSBURG, Pa, April 2-—tiva pee ae ee ene Diet on March | participated in a county-wide dem- ns : bier jonstration against the Commissary | plan and wage-' , in Greensburg }on April Ist aside by |the miners for great response. It since 1910 that a march took place through the streets here. ©> committee which was elected the County Commissione and will return to to see found them gone sakers WORKERS SACRIFICE; SEND 4 DOLLAR TODAY « | I’ve had in nearly a year. I am not saying this in a spirit of self-sacrifice; it is not a sacrifice, it is a pleasure to send this bit.—A. Moroc, Chicago, Il.” WO letters out of hundreds. They tell the story of workers’ sacrifice — willing sacrifice. Last efforts are needed, last efforts to ‘raise $9,000 to put the Daily Worker on safe ground. If every reader sends a 50-cent piece, this sum will be quickly raised. 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