The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 25, 1933, Page 1

api nti ROOSEVEL7’S ADMINISTRATION REFUSES UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE, BUT HIS RECONSTRUCTION __ FINANCE CORPORATION GIVES $50,000,000 TO THE WAGE CUTTING RAILROAD OWNERS PRICES OF MOST NECESSARY FOOD: | TUFFS ARE RISING RAPIDLY Meat Companies Send Poisonous Food to the Relief Stations Organize to Struggle Against the Rising Cost of Living! NEW YORK, April 24-—Retail prices are still soaring as a result of inflation. Cream jumped 5 cents a pint in New York City from Saturday evening to Monday morning—from 29 to 34 cents. Milk is up from 2 to 4 cents a quart. Creamery butter advanced from 22 to 26 cents in the same period. Eggs went up from 14 to 19 cents. Cheese is up 3 cents on an average. All kinds of canned fruits, fish and vegetables rose in price from 2 to 6 cents over the week-end. Flour rose from $4.55 a 196 pound sack to $5.05. Domestic potatoes on the wholesale market rose from $1.60 to $1.80 per 150-pound bag, and in retail stores the price rise was much higher. Textile Materials and Products Clothing also is beginning to rise in price, as all textile materials and products rise in price—eaw cotton from 6 to 7 cents a pound, cotton yarn from 13 to 14 cents per pound. Raw silk from Japan increased in price from $1.30 to $1.50. Wool is up from 7 to 9 cents according to grade | Meat Prices Rise Quickly | Ali retail meat stores have increased prices of all meats from 3 to | 16 cents a pound. Beef, fresh steers, have gone up at stock yards in | Chicago from $8.50 to $9.50 a hundred pounds. Pork from $8.00 to $9.00. | Fresh lambs from $11 to $12.50. | Fruit has soared to great heights; apples from $1.75 to $5.00 a barre) Coffee is up from 3 to 6 cents in all retail stores. Rotton Poison Food for Relief ‘The food trust is unloading into the unemployment relief stations spoiled and poisonous food and receiving money from the various reliei funds. The amount of this garbage is being cut down to the unemployed. Deaths of children and serious illness of adults have occurred as a result of this junk that otherwise would be destroyed being handed out to the starving masses. Must Develop Organized Struggle Against this frightful attack on the standards of living of the masses must be developed the most determined organized struggle as a question of life or death for the toiling masses. Roosevelt's hunger drive is assum- ing a malignancy that can only be stopped by furious mass action. In all shops, factories, mines, mills and on the railroad and trans- port systems, land and water, this issue must be used to rally for resist- | ance to the Wall Street program, being carried to monstrous extremes. Meetings should be held and committees of action set up to mobilize the workers. At every relief station there should be organization and action for continued and increased relief. Under the following slogans the struggle can be organized to smash this latest and fiercest attack of the hunger government: 1, For increased relief and wages to meet inflation prices! 2. Pight for immediate relief and unemployment insurance! 3. Against relief cuts! Against wage cuts! A . Against forced labor! 5. A public works program to tear down the slums, to build sanitary houses and hospitals for workers. Unemployed workers employed on public svorks to be paid regular trade union wages. . The use of all war funds for relief and unemployment insurance. . Housewives organize and fight against soaring prices. Nonian Thoin Sumpaiiizes with. British Spies At a time when the imperialist war-mongers let loose a new cam- paign of slander in pursuit of their attempts to solve their own sharpen- ing conflicts by war and intervention against the Soviet Union, the whole crew of Socialist leaders and renegades from Communism join the pack. Norman Thomas, erstwhile socialist candidate for pré-“Uent, again proves to the ruling class that he can be depended upon to echo their vilest vituperations of the defensive measures of the Soviet government JUDGE BARS Entered as second-ciass matier at the Post Office at under the Act of March 8, 1879. MOONEY FROM. PRELIMINARY HEARING; | | will start in San Francisco, ,| decision, which automatically postpones the trial until Thurs- jonstration planned for Wed-@-—-————__ |nesday morning, when thou- | sands of workers were prepared | against the sabotagers and wreckers in the service of British imperialism. In commenting upon the Moscow trial of Thornton, Monkhouse, Mac- Donald, Gusev & Co., this “socialist” in the April 22nd issue of the “New Leader” traduces the Soviet Government Political Administration by as- sailing the “ruthless political police and an open identification of her courts with her political government.” When Thomas characterizes the actions of the Soviet “political police” as ruthless, he repeats what the British government, in defense of its spies | ling Mooney and wreckers said about “third-degree” and all similar lying accusations. No more infamous charge can be made than to compare the G.P.U., the revolutionary shield of the workers’ state, with the forces of organ- ized scoundrellism that comprise the police forces of capitalist nations. Then, to further attempt to sow doubts in the minds of the workers who defend the Soviet Union, Norman Thomas repeats the propaganda of the London Times and the Daily Mail, with the conclusion: “All of which proves that Soviet justice in the case of political prisoners is not above reproach.” * At this moment, joining hands with the imperialist bandits, and the social-fascist slanderers, is a group of renegades and adventurers who set up a specia! organization, the career of which is dedicated to calumniat- ing the Soviet Union. This gang calls itself the American Committee to Help Imprisoned and Deported Bolsheviks (left opposition). This is the American branch of an international organization headed by Trotsky who in all his actions lives up to the characterization of Comrade Stalin as the leader of the advance-guard of counter-revolution. Among those whose names are prominently mentioned on the com- mittee to forward the propaganda for war and intervention against the Soviet Union are such people as Max Eastman (expelled long ago from the Communist Party), V. F. Calverton (notorious plagiarist and enemy of Leninism), and Diego Rivera (expelled from the Communist Party of Mexico). The treasurer of the committee to whom all funds are to be sent is the notorious falsifier of Marxism and avowed anti-Leninist, Sydney Hook. ‘This double dealer, who has of late been hailed by the capitalist press for his efforts to inject the bourgeois philosophy of John Dewey into the working class movement, now comes forth in his true colors. This per- son who for a time pretended to support the Communist Party as a means of smuggling anti-Marxism into our ranks, now draws the inevitable po- litical conclusions. Hook's actions today completely vindicate everything that was said in our Communist publications about him and the direction in which he was travelling and should completely awaken those who were misled by his phrase-mongering. That he is now openly in the camp of the counter-revolution with the Trotskyites, with the social-fescists, is an object lesson to all those honest friends of the revolutionary movement. who have held doubts and vacillated in the struggle against the philoso- phic distortions of Marxism-Leninism by Hook. It led him straight into the. camp of counter-revolution where he blossomed forth as one of the most inane of all Trotskyist. worshipers. In the Saturday Review of Literature, this same Hook, in reviewing ‘Trotsky’s distorted “History of the. Russian Revolution,” says: “Trotsky is indisputably the most brilliant Marxist i the world today—a Marxist in blood, temperament and concrete logic.” This sort of thing is not directed so much in praise of Trotsky as in belittlement of Comrade Stalin, the foremost living Marxist-Leninist, who is the leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in carrying torward the victorious revolution. In his “Theoretical” way Hook is ren- dering precisely the same kind of service to capitalism as that of the most rabid imperialist interventionists. . * * « This united front of the renegades and social-fascist leaders should spur on the rank and file of the Socialist Party membership to relentless struggle against all attempts to weaken and to split the growing unity of the working class on every burning issue facing us today—against the increased hunger drive being carried further by the inflation policy of the government, against lynch terror, for unemployment and social in- -urance, for freedom of Tom Mooney and the Scottsboro boys, against im- perialist war, in defense of the Soviet Unfon. Tt is this united front that can sweep aside those who offer them- selves to the enemy class and can a@vance to decisive working class strug- gle against the hunger and war progtem of the onpitaiieh ness, TRIAL BEGINS THURSDAY District Attorney Claims All Records of Case! "4 Have Been Destroyed NEW YORK—Thousands of Negro and white workers will attend the | | Mass Scottsboro-Mooney Meeting in the Bronx Coliseum this Thursday | | ‘night at 8 p. m, While at the same time the new triale for Tom Mooney | | | Speakers at the Coliseum meet will include Harry F, Ward of the | | Union Theological Seminary and the American Civil Liberties nen | | ¥illiam Patterson, National secretary of the international Labor De- | |fense; Heywood Broun, columnist and socialist; Reverend Powel, Negro | | | | minister; Clarence Hathaway, District Organizer of the Communist | | Party and A. J. Muste of the Conference for Progressive Labor Actiov, | ~ (Special Daily Worker Correspondent) SAN FRANCISCO April 24.—Judge Louis H. Ward to-| | day refused to permit Tom Mooney to be brought here Wed-| nesday for the preliminary hearing on the new trial. This | day, is an obvious maneuver to frustrate the huge mass dem-| Nolan. These subpoenas were denied | by Judge Ward last Friday. 1 Judge Ward also refused to re-| to greet him before the Civil Courts | Serve twenty-five seats in the court! building. “ |for the labor jury which has been Meanwhile, dispatches indicate that | elected by the workers of California the Free Tom Mooney Congress to be | t0_ hear the trial. _He announced held in Chicago Apri] 30 to May 2 | only seven seats will be reserved will be attended by at least 3,000|8nd these will be for Mooney’s delegates representing hundreds of | family. | thousands of workers. who in elect-| A demand that the trial be moved ing them have expressed the demand | to the Civic auditorium since Judge that Mooney shall be freed. | Ward offered the excuse that his Another revelation of the state’s|court-room was too small, was also determination to prevent all ex-/ denied. posure of the Mooney frame-up in| The obvious intention of Judge the new trial today was the an- | Ward is to jam the small court with nouncement by District Attorney | stool-pigeons and detectives before Matt Brady that no Mooney file ex-| it is opened, to keep workers away ists in his office, and that the| and prevent them hearing evidence original state’s exhibits in the ori-|of the frame-up, or to view the ginal frame-up are non-existent. |manoeuvers with which he and This was taken as an indication | District orney Brady intend to that they have been destroyed, prob- prevent ably by Charles M. Fickert prose-! The Dis’ cutor at the original trial, Leo Gal-| indicated lagher, the International Labor De-| fense attorney who has been hand- defense and Frank P. Walsh, will demand a court order for their production, Wednesday, On the same day they will repeat | their demand that Judge Ward sign | ————————— subpoenas for twenty-five out-of-| “The Chicago Mooney Congress,| town witnesses, including Warren K.| April 30 to May 2, will be a big step Billings, Samuel Weinberg, and Ed! toward my freedom.”—Tom Moon ict attorney's office has it will not present any witnesses, but will move to quash the indictment. Gallagher will de- | mand that the’ original witnesses or their testimony in the original trial | be introduced by the state so the frame-up can be exposed, | WOMEN'S WEAR DAILY NEW YORK, TUE SDAY, APRIL : rker Nihie-C3 inynist Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist International) The special May Day edition of the Datty Worker will contain articles on many of the prob- lems facing the workers today An eight-page tabloid sixe supplement will be included besides the regular four pages A short time is left, Rush orders immediately to Daily Worker, Business Office, 50 East 13th St., New York, N. ¥. CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents THUGS SHOOT UP NEEDLE UNION CENTER ONE DEAD; MANY WOUNDED; AL FOE LTO ENTER WORKERS REPEL FUR BOSS LA roy PHOTOSTAT OF BOSSES’ PAPER, WHICH FORETOLD THUGS NEW YORK, N. ¥., Apr’ Young. People’s Sociali branches are joining for a May Day demonstration. Sentiment jamong the membership is high for a united May Day, In Boro Park, a delegation of the United May Day committee was barr- jed at the door and asked to show c: dentials and show union affiliations But the workers inside the meeting forced the door open to allow the committee in. The committee pre- sented a program inviting them join in the demonstration. Expressi from members was favorable, some saying that the branch should parti- (cipate even if it is unofficia The jleaders and chairman we: 2uto- cratic that five members tore up their Socialist Party cards and left the | branch. In Sunnyside, Long Island, the del- egates of the Young People’s Socialist League were told that if they part- icipate in united front actions they +| will be expelled from the branch. But the membership upholds the delegates NEW ORGANIZATIONS JOIN FOR UNITED. in their activities. for the May Day parade and demon- R SITUATION Final preparations are in full swing | YESTERDAY ATTACK ON Ss “WOMENS WEAR,” tar ha oe Ra 0 MANY SOCIALIST BRANCHES FAVOR UNITED MAY DAY IN NEW YORK | the dead man is a gangster. GANG IN TERRIFIC FIGHT Attack Organized by Law Preservation Com- mittee; Beckerman, Kaufman Responsible! ‘Cops Arrest Industrial Union Members; Press Tries to Whitewash Manufacturers BULLETIN. NEW YORK.—Forty workers, inclnding Ben Gold, Irving Potash and others are held as material witnesses, in the 20th St. police station. The five gangsters are all under arrest. Police state their belief that NEW YORK.—Fifteen gangsters, sent by the Law Pre- servation Committee of the Fur Manufacturers Association, invaded the headquarters of the Needle Trades Workers Indus- trial Union yesterday morning. They started a fight in which one was killed and a score of union members wounded. The thugs went to Shirley Koretz, switchboard operator and asked “where is Ben®——— Gold?” cake immediately | the s of hundreds of workers ee _Koretz immediately | sone swung lead pipes and black- plugged in for the police and | jacks, wounding fen workers t t 2 Force Retreat the thugs attempted to cut the wires ? hi ase on the board, slashing her arms. mee ne ees avee) Date eae | stayed at her post all during the at-| freed a retreat by the gang. Five of tack. The thugs immediately started | |shooting into the hall, endangering] (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE? ‘MAY DAY DEMONSTRATION, PARADE stration. Trade Unions and fraternal | jorganizations will march under their |banners. Huge floats and effigies will | | | ganizations agreed to hold a joint A joint committee will issue a will carry the complete statement, * tens of thousands into thé streets on America will participate in the May | Day parade. Together with opposition. | groups of other locals they will as- |semble at 40 Street between 5 and 6 Avenues with sbeir own band. 4 inal “irectives Mobilization are: 10 A. M.—mobilize at Bryant Park or Batery Park, 12 noon—Both divi- sions marching as directed. Arrive at Union Square at 2 P. M. End of ‘Union Square mect at 6 P. M. Children at 17th Street Pive thousand workers’ children will mobilize in 17th Street to await the arrival at Union Square of the main bodies of marchers. The children will have their own banners and songs,.and will march under their own leaders as directed by the United May Day Committee. In conjunction with the industrial and revolutionary unions, many lo- cals of the American Federation of Labor and independent unions will be represented in the marches and in the events in Union Square. Local 9 of the I. L. G, W. will march with its own band. Marine Workers Rallies A rally of marine workers in front of the Seamen's Institute at Coenties Slip will be held in the evening of April 29 when speakers will explain the final preparations of the United May Day. Torch parades will be held on the East Side on April 28, on the West Side on April 29, and there also will ce similar parades in Williamsburgh and other sections. The west side sorohlight march. starts from ibe ship to participate in the May Day parade, Final directives for the May Day | NEW YORK.—At a conference with the United May Day Com- mittee yesterday the Communist Party, the Conference for Progressive Labor Action, the Trade Union Unity League, the Anti-Fascist Al- liance, the I.W.W., the Amalgamated Food Workers and other or- May Day demonstration. statement calling on their member- Tomorrow's Daily Worker * . NEW YORK—The murderous campaign of the Fur Manufacturers Asso- j | | ciation against the thousands of fur workers must be answered by the en- |from the United Front May Day Com- | | tire workingclass movement. It cau vest be answered by the outpouring of Mittee to ask for delegates to the May First. Jane Street Mission, | Red Sundays were arranged for Jast week and the coming Sunday, before May Day will be the reddest jof all, with intensive work for rally~ ing all workers in New York under jone united front, Food Workers March The Food Workers will form an important part of the May Day dem- onstrators The Foltis Fischer strikers of course will be represented with a large delegation, and the clerks in the chain restaurants, the Hotel and Restaurant Workers and the Wait- ress Association, Bakers Local 505 | and 507, A. F. of 1. Locals 22 and 164 jot the Amalgamated Food Workers, | Domestic Workers, Truck Drivers, etc. Artists and writers will be at least one thousand strong in the north di- vision of the marchers, carrying their special banners. Cultural organiza- tions will mobilize at Bryant Park. Call for Trucks, Bicycles and Motorcycles An urgent call for trucks for the ‘May Day Demonstration was sent out by the United May Day Committee, 108 East 14th Street. All those avail- able must be registered immediately. They will be used for floats and other special purposes, and their use Will materially help the success of! the preparations for the greatest) United May Day ever held in New York. Call or send word right away. this year again be prominent in the jparade. During the last few days th jwill be torch light parades in the evenings. (By a Worker Correspondent.) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., April 24 The Progressive Workers League, a Farmer-Labor organization, showed \its colors at its last meeting on Thurs- |day, April 20th, at 1417 E. Franklin |Avenue, when « delegation appeared | |May Day Conference. The delegation | ‘Three A. F. L. carpenter locals 1164, 2090 and 2717 of the United Brother- ¥2° denied the floor, and when work- | |hood of Carpenters and Joiners of ©—~ [ers protested against this, they ex- | pelled Raymond Blomquist, a veteran, |from membership in the League. They | tried to do the same to another mem- iber, Axel Madsen, WIN BIG VICTORY IN MINE STRIKE PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 24.—-Coal miners of the Republic Mine on strike for more than a week under the lead- ership of the National Miners’ Union returned to work today having won a significant victory inyolving prac- tically a 60 per cent increase in waes and jobs for the workers. The fol!ow- ing demands were won by the miners: no loading of an extra wagon for drivers, no dead work to be done by loaders but only by day men, all sup- plies to delivered to the face of the working place, no blacklisting for strike activity, equal division of work on all off days. News of the victory has stimulated other mines in the Brownsville sec- tion to come out on strike for better conditions Another victory was gained today the operators to grant their demand for a day shift. The National Miners Union again All Labor Sports Union members and members of other sport organi- zations, intending to march in the May Day parade in uniform should assemble at the L. 8. U. office, 813 Broadwag, wt 0:80-% a. on Mar Day, calis attention to the urgent necess- ity for relief to help win added yicto- vies for the miners and asks all work- ers to rush funds to the Miners Re- Hef Committee, 190) th Ane, Pidte- evgh. Pe. f Me when the Bugar Block miners forced | Di ying away wounded thugs from the Needle Workers Industrial in the stretcher is Sam Greene. Union Headquarters, The gangsters | | BULLETIN, in the Scottsboro and other cases, by the International Labor Defense, when Judge James A. Lowell of the Federal Court was forced to grant George Crawford, Negro, on the ground that if exttradited to Virginia on murder charges would be illegal because Nectoes are excluded from Crawford was framed on charges of murdering Mrs. Agnes Boeing Buckner. | PHILADELPHIA, Ps., April 24—A pelled Goodman, a Tyotskyite who imass conference, attended by 475|came to the conference representing workers representing churches, trade| only himself and the New York paper |unions, women’s and fraternal or-| which has been most vicious in its | ganizations, the International Labor | attacks on the Scottsboro defense. Defense, and the Communist Party, tp ue fey |was held here Sunday, to formulate! NEW YORK.—Financial, transpor~ |plans for a wide Scottsboro Defense | tation and registration committees | Campaign, and for participation in| for the Free the Scottsboro Boys |the Free the Scottsboro Boys March) March to Washington, elected by the jto Washington, Mey 8. The meeting) second emergency Scottsboro confer- was held in response to an emergency jcall issued by the Philadelphia dis-|perial Lodge Hall Sunday, were | trict of the T D. | meeting today to complete plans for Recruiting Committees. |the march and signature campaign Many delegates were assigned to|®S outlined at the conference. the task of organizing recruiting com-! A mass meeting will be held Wed- mittees for the march, and to visit | nesday night in Harlem, it was an- churches and other organizations to|nounced, at which report of the con- obtain their support for the cam-| ference will be given by members of paign, and a list of at least 100,000|/the Action Committee. Among the signatures from this city to the peti-| speakers will be William L. Patter- tion to President Roosevelt, which; son, national secretary of the I. L. D. | will be brought to Washington by/|and a member of the National Scotts- | the marchers. | boro Action Committee, and Joseph An action committee of twenty-five Brodsky, chief I. L. D. counsel, one was elected, with instructions. among|of the attorneys who defended the others, to request of Mayor marchers from this city to Washing-|the meeting will be announced to- ton. | morrow Huge mass meetings will be held on! Friday, James A. Ford, who was the day of departure for Washing-|Communist candidate for vice-presi- \"% as send-offs for the marchers. | dent in the last elections, will be one Ths sonferepos songimousiy em! of the mote sonakeem at. Soodeeharn It has been shown that the framing was done for financial reasons. fought on the grotind that it is impossible for Negroes to obtain x fair trial there. . . * ence of 216 delegates held in Im-! core the | Scottsboro boys at Decatur, will be/ |use of city trucks to transport the| among the speakers. The place of | Philadelphia Rallies to March on the Capital for Scottsboro Boys BOSTON, Mass. April %4.—The raising of the issue of illegal exctesion of Negroes from jury service had its repercussion here today a write of habeas corpus freeing as that state had asked, his trial juries there. Tisley and her maid, Mrs. Nina Extradition to Virginia was ; Meeting in Harlem also, called by the | Trade Union Unity Council of New York. The place of this meeting wil) also be announced later. RICHMOND, Va., April 24.—Twe | Scottsboro protest meetings, one uny | der the auspices of the newly-formed } branch of the International Labor | Defense, the other under the auspices | of the Scottsboro Defense Commitiee, will be held here Tuesday, April 25, and Wednesday, April 26. Both will | be addressed by Richard B. Moore, News Flash Conads went off the sold standard yesterday and continwed, along with the other capitalist countries to | ptemee down the financial ladder, CHICAGO—Five large banks were