The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 5, 1933, Page 1

| | * ‘ | RUBY BATES, EDITORIAL The Meaning of Roosevelt’s National Planning Roosevelt last night placed before the United States Chamber of Com- merce what is described as a “planned national economy,” for government eontrol of business, industry and agriculture. ~ Like all the other high-sounding phraseology of the Wall Street hun- ger president this latest proposal is one more step in the steallily advance the attack on the standards of life, on working hours and conditions of the toiling masses. It follows closely the bill drawn ap by the Tammany Senator, Robert F, Wagner, of New York, which sets aside all pretense to: enforcing anti-trust laws and gives finance capital a free hand in eovspiracies td “regulate production” and prices. This means that the full power of the government is brought into play to crush small coricerns, bo control sources of supplies of raw material. While endeavoring to establish and maintain monopoly prices for industrial products, the plan also calls for the creation of a national Board to approve or veto agreements between industry and labor on hours @f labor, wage scales and prices. No more dastardly proposal against the working class and the impoverished farmers of this country ever came out of Washington. It means the federal government will use its police, its courts and, if necessary, its army, to crush attempts of the workers of any given industry to increase wages or shorten hours that conflict with what the government of the Wall Street gang decrees as the pre- vailing rates. What the administration regards as a sufficient wage is aeen in the observation of Roosevelt, who stated some time ago that he ‘Was “not impressed” with arguments against forced labor in military camps at a wage of one dollar a day. To try to conceal the apalling viciousness of the bill the capitalist press reports that it recognizes the “collective bargaining rights of labor,” where,all industry will be under government policy. The Roosevelt, proposal is not and cannot Be “planned economy.” Such & thing can never, under any circumstances, be achieved under capital- ism, whose very existence is based upon anarchy and planlessness in pro- duction. Capitalist economists and politicians more frequently refer to their schemes as planned economy, because it is plain that the only place in the world where economic life rapidly advances and where the stand- ards of life constantly increase is in the country where planned economy is in effect—the Soviet Union. But planned economy is possible there only because the state power of the capitalist class was torn to pieces by the proletarian revolution and the working qlass state—the dictatorship mf the proietariat—established. It is only where capitalism has been erushed that planned economy is possible. The only planning Roosevelt has ever engaged in is planned attacks against the standards of life of the toiling masses. His Chamber of Com- merce speech shows that Wall Street demands of its government still more drastic attacks against the toiling masses, already existing in a condi- ton of maas destitution. This is a further challenge to the toiling masses to raise still higher and more defiantly the banner of struggle against hunger—for immediate relief and unemployment and social insurance at the expense of the gov- ‘enment and the employers; organize and fight against wege cuts and for imereased wages to meet the soaring cost of living due to inflation; stop evictions; force cancellation of all debts. Only ever-growing mass struggles, involving enormous masses of the eppressed and destitute workers and impoverished farmers, can stop the eepitalist hunger offensive. Only mass struggle will enable the toiling masses to turn the tide ‘at struggle and advance toward the one way out for the workers and farmers—the revolutionary way.out of the crisis. Increases for Armaments, Wage Cut for Enlisted Men While building new cruisers, and appropriating hundreds of millions for war purposes, the Roosevelt; government practiced “economy” by siash- ing wages of all federal wage workers. The 15 per cent cut in wages of all government employees inetudes the enlisted men in the army, the navy, the marine corps and the air forces. Thus, not only ave the witerans of previous wars victims of the Roo- sevelt “economy” axe, but those who are im service now and likely to be called at any moment to defend with their lives Yankee imperialist banditry, are victimized. Men in the armed ferces who, under orders of Hoover, heiped drive with fire and the bonus marchers from Anacostia field, are them- selves under by the Roosevelt administration, which is carrying torward under still more vicious forms the hunger and war drive in be- half of the Wall Street government. This 15 per cent wage cut, imposed upon the service men, who have always been miserably underpaid, is the Roosevelt “new deal” extended to'them. Yet, it is these same men and boys in the armed forces who are held in readiness for further attacks upon the veterans of other wars. This wage cut should show these enlisted men, most of whom were driven into recruiting stations by the pangs of hunger, the identity of their interests with the toiling masses and with the war veterans. Workers in the navy yards, enlisted men on board ship, in the army posts should petition congress, protest to Roosevelt, to set aside the wage . cut and for the re-establishment of the re-enlistment bonus, which is also being taken away. In this struggle, the enlisted men should be supported by workers in industry, in the unions, in the unemployed organizations. United action on such an issue will not only help défeat the wage cuts imposed upon ail federal employees, but it will mark the beginning of unity of action between workers, soldiers and sailors that will make more difficult the earrying further of the Wall Street hunger and war drive against the toiling masses. . CONGRESS GIVES ROOSEVELT FULL ~ POWER TO RAISE COST OF LIVING - WASHINGTON, May 4.—The Thomas inflation amendment, passed by the House and Senate, is now ready for Roosevelt’s signature. It gives him snlimited powers to inflate the currency. . _ Attempting to conceal the lengths of inflation to which it will be neces- aary to go in his price-raising program, Roosevelt is planning to speak before the Chamber of Commerce of the¢- Dail Central Organs : Eniered as second-class matter at the Post Office Vol. X, No. 108 GB MNew York, N. ¥., under the Act of hm 8, 1 at — CARTER, CHAMLEE AT SCOTTSBORO MARCH SEND-OFF TONIGHT, ST. NICHOLAS ARENA Hereafter the Saturday “Daily” will —3 or er appear in6 PAGES. Special articles, fea- tpynist Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist International ) NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1933 tures and exposures reviewing present struggles in every Saturday issue! CITY EDITION Price 3 Cen ts N.Y. SCOTTSBORO MARCH GOES SATURDAY FREE MOONEY CONGRESS “S22. Mooney Drive Cheered at Stadium; National Secretary of Y.P.S.L. Scores S. P. Leaders Aim of Councils Is the “Fight for Workers’ Rights and Rights of Negro Masses” CHICAGO, May 4.—The formation of state and local committees under the name of “The National Free Tom Mooney Council of Action”—groups | to wage a fight for workers’ rights and for the rights of the Negro masses, | was recommended in a report of the Resolutions Committee at the “Free | Tom Mooney Congress.” The report, which was made on the eve of the adjournment of the Congress which opened ‘April 30, was¢—--——__-_—_—____— jenthusiastically greeted by the gath- | speak; Bill Gebert, of Chicago, Com- | ering and adopted by the more than! munist district organizer who intro- 1,200 delegates present, with only 62) duced Lucy Parsons, widow of Albert voting in opposition. Those voting |R. Parsons and Nina Spies, widow of against the proposal recommended | August Spies, both of whom were |among the Proletarian Party and the |LW.w. Wild cheering and the singing of “Solidarity” and the “Internationale” | featured the, closing session of the |Mooney Congress which elected a National Council of 43 members, May |21 was set aside as a National | Mooney Teg Day, Big Stadium Meet Free Tom. Mooney Congress. included Robert Minor, | Member of | | |came largely from renegade elements | | OHICAGO (By Mail).—Determina- | tion not to slacken for one moment | the fight to liberate Tom Mooney | characterized the huge mass meeting in the Chicago Stadium on May Day night which .was organized by ine} the Central Committee of | the Communist Party, who received | ® stirring ovation when he arose to; | hanged in 1887, martyrs in the 8- |hour-day struggle. The unity of |the fight for the freedom of Tom | Mooney and the Scottsboro boys was shown in the demonstration for Mrs, Janie Patterson, mother of Haywood | Patterson, sentenced to the electric |chair on a frame-up charge. ¥.P.S.L. Head Raps §.P_ Chief | George Smerkin, National Secretary |of the Young Peoples for working class unity and con- demned the leadership of the Social- working class unity and hindering the struggle to save Tom Mooney; William Patterson, representing the National Executive Committee of the |International Labor Defense, called |for the struggle for all class-war of the Socialist Party of New York also spoke. | ES 22,000 Strike in ew six of the workers are arrested Orleans Against Wage. | carter | Cut on Relief Work pe MBG ERROR NCA NEW ORLEANS, La., May 4.—The strike against a wage cut of 35 per cent on relief jobs here involves over 22,000 workers. Thirty- already. The Welfare Committee Socialist | League, who voiced the great need | ist Party as standing in the way of | prisoners; J. B. Matthews, a member | | Carter, in Interview, Tells of Efforts for Nine; Speaks Tonight --By B | | | | Felt He Was “Accidentally Responsible” For Jailing of Innocent Negro Lads Ruby Bates and Attorney Chamlee to Appear in St. Nicholas Arena. By SENDER GARLIN NEW YORK.—A conscience troubled by the fact that he | | may have been partly responsible for the sentencing to death | of nine innocent Negro boys moved a 20-year-old southern | now and feel that is worth while. It is | Ww. ithrough Harlem | young girls. | Séottsboro boys because this “= MANY CONTINGENTS DUE IN CAPITAL ON MONDAY FOR BIG DEMONSTRATION To Present Civil Rights Bill, Demand for Scottsboro Boys’ Release to Roosevelt Baltimore, Philadelphia and Other Cities Report Preparations for March WASHINGTON, May 4—Major Brown, Police Commissioner of the District of Columbia, today granted « permit for the Scottebore marchers parade on Monday. * . * NEW YORK.—Two days before the historic march on shington finds thousands of Harlem workers jamming in door meetings and standing for hours at open-air rallies. Yesterday all Harlem was electrified by hearing that Ruby ; Bates, the white girl who testified for the Scottsboro defense will speak tonight in St. Nicholas Arena, 66th St. and Columbus Ave. Tens of thousand of leaf-¢ jtribute in their homes and lets were spread throughout | Hundreds have registered for Harlem, announcing this meet-| march in the past few days. ing, just before the marc leave} On Union Square Saturday morn- for Washington, Saturday ‘morning |ing thousands of Negro and white from Union Square at 10 a.’ m. | Workers will gather to send off the On Thursday night, hundreds|™ore than 1,000 greater New York packed the Mt. Zion Church to hear| delegates at 10 a, m, Lester Carter, white southern young id 4 bs , who testified in the trial of To Ask March Permit Haywood Patterson. Carter was given) WASHINGTON, D. C., May 4—A a tremendous ovation when he called| - upon those present to support the delegation of the National Scottsboro Scottsboro March. James W. Ford,| Action Committee will soon call upon shops, the | Joseph Brodsky, I. L. D. attorney and/ the Police Commissioner of Washing~ others spoke, Londspeakers in Harlem truck with loudspeakers went | demonstration. streets all day; The marebers will present a de- today, calling the workers to the St.|mand to Progident Roosevelt for the Nicholas meeting and to join the|immediate and safe release of the Scottsboro March. Baltimore has|Scottsboro boys and present the Teported that thousands will join the) “Civil Rights Bill” aimed to compel New York-Philadelphia column when | the enforcement of the 13th, 14th and it arrives there. | 15th amendments to the U. 8. Con- In the streets, hundreds of workers | stitution. The delegation will also were wearing the Scottsboro buttons, | ask, on the basis of a promise by being sold by the March committee.| Louis Howe, Roosevelt's secretary, for Mrs. Jennie Turner and her five-|a large hall for a mass meeting for year old son, Emmett Durm, signed | Monday. up for the march. A large percent | FS rare Negro women, Teachers Boycott Chicago for Meet Negro women, mothers, wives and Mrs. Turner said: “I am} NEW YORK.—That great ferment | is taking place among as conservative |ton, Major Brown, for a permit for ;May 8 for the Scottsboro March and A marching for the freedom of the is an important part of the fight for the} freedom of my people and all work-/ ers. I have been’ fighting four years! United States. At this speech, which will not be broadcast as the others The price of meats has advanced in the last three weeks from 5 to 25 per cent in all the large cities of the were, Roosevelt will reiterate his pro- country. All canned goods are now mise of “controlled inflation.” Significantly, however, Roosevelt Tefuses absolutely to make any pro- mises whatever that he will not issue chéap paper greenbacks, or that he will not reduce the gold content of thé dollar. It is openly said by Roosevelt's acivisers that he will use all the inflationary powers given him if “he finds it n ” Roosevelt soon be forcetl to issue the 000,000 of greenback currency to 15 per cent higher. higher P At the beginning of the year, cash wheat was selling at 62 cents per bushel. Yesterday it sold at $1.02. Wheat futures also touched new highs for the season, July contracts selling at 3c. has announc: 1 » cut in wages from $2 to $1.50 a day. . . * : NEW ORLEANS, La.—The demonstration on May>First involving about 10,000 workers was originally called by a self- styled leader by the name of Poursine. This he announced at a meeting on April 28th. But on the day of the demonstration ‘New Orleans welfare workers storm the city hall. of 10,000 on May Day. Part of the crowd he was not to be found with the workers. The officials with whom he is working stated that Poursine left for Baton Rouge to confer with the Governor, © white boy to hitch-hike from|_ je ae way toe Scottshoro, Ala. to Albany, N. Y. to see the then Gov. Roosevelt in an effort to set before him the facts of the Scottsboro frame-up. This is what Lester Carter, son of a phosphate mine worker in Texas, tonight with Ruby Bates and LL.D. Attorney Chamlee at St. Nicholas Arena, 66th St. and Columbus Ave. at a mass send-off for the Scotts- boro Marchers to Washington. Both of them Southern white workers, Ruby Bates and Lester Carter will tell. the story .of the Scottsboro frame-up and of the things which recently moved them to come boldly to the aid of the innocent Negro boys. Refused admittance to Goy. Roose- | Velt’s office by one of the governor's flunkeys, he then made his way to Washington in a vain effort to see President Hoover. En route he joined a@ contingent of ex-servicemen on their way to,the national capital | to demand the bonus. Carter explained that he sought to call upon Goy. Roosevelt because he “thought that the case had made bad |and the folks in Alabama.” He said | that “some fellow with a derby on at the Capitol told me I should get, ac- told the writer today. Carter speaks | | feeling between the yankee governor * ° { jj fight together. LESTER CARTER vagrancy? Why They March | Harry Tolbert, Negro fireman, job-| less for three years gave his reason for marching. “I came into the labor |fight in 1930 when the Trade Union| | Unity League started organizing us} on the Reading railroad. Since then} |I have been doing everything I could) || to build the fight of Negro and white| workers against our enemies. I am | going to march because this is a big! step in our fight.” | | Ocie Rose, jobless Negro laborer,| said: “This is the first time I ever knew my people and whites could My wife and child) and I have to live apart because of | the hard times, I haven't a penny | but this Scottsboro March is im-| portant for those who are hun-| gry suffering and is the greatest thing for people of my color that has ever happened.” Thousands keep filing by the of- stop in and ask for leaflets to dis- Expect Big Send-off \| collection @ group of teachers as those repree sented in the National Education Association is indicated In the general boycott movement against Chicago as the next convention city of the Association. Teachers are refusing to attend the convention in that city as a protest against the failure of the Chicago city administration to pay its school teachers. Teachers in N. Y. and other states have already gone on record to boycott Chicago, | COMMUNIST PARTY URGES! | WORKERS TO SCOTTBORO | | TAG DAYS | The N. Y. District of the Com- munist Party urges every worker who postibly can, to volunteer at once far this Saturday's dtreet by reporting to the | LL.D. district office, Room 338, 799 fices of the National Scottsboro Ac-| | Broadway, any time Friday or tion Committee, 119 West 135th St..! | saturday. The LL.D. office will to read the latest bulletins. Many ' | be open st 8 am. Saturday. ITALIAN UNEMPLOYED DEMONSTRATE quainted with some of the lawyers | in the case, or go to the President.” | Carter determined to see President | A.—I was picked up in Alabama a couple of years ago for vagrancy. —_ AGAINST FASCIST HUNGER POLICY ‘Storm Barns Full of Food; Continue Fight Higher Retail Prices Retail prices of everyday necessities have been advancing for weeks, and are now at the year’s highs. Butter, milk, cream and vegetables have gone up in price. Rents are reported rising in many Further increases are eeoly predicted by leading Real Es- large cities. Retail shoe prices are already be- $3,000, provided for in the Thomas amend- ment. Cost of Living Rises As Roosevelt has reduced purchasing wer of the masses drastically th wage cuts, reduction in vet- program has already further burdens to the living costs of Med masses through a rapid rise | ginning to move upward in many Li aati ilarge cities. The president of the The United Press commodity index tmternational Shoe Company, manu- for 50 cash food prices has reached | facturers @f low-priced shoes, has a new high for the year, haying risen; announced that higher prices for more than 10 per cent in the last! shoes will soon be ordered. New York month to 83.8 manufacturers have posted advarices The prices of shoes. 5 for the year, 25,000| All the Inrge Being 2 Se 2 eer wt posted. sdvanoss ot 5 Poursine With Bosses This action has shown that Poursine is working with the demo- cratic officials and taking orders from the bosses. But in spite of this betrayal the workers were very mili- tant in the demonstration. They marched to City Hall and demanded |to see the Mayor. They were there for four hours until finally dispersed by the police and six arrested. . The International Libor Defense is active in getting the release of all arrested, The workers are beginning to see the role of Poursine and many are | joining the Unemployed Council, «8 | A Se poe pe ae oon t Rana aE Re RAN strikes. The solid ranks of the strikers with a militant leadership can defeat these plans and win the strike. Workers in New Orleans take the, following steps for the success of the strike: - - 1. Elect committees from your own ranks to conduct the strike. 2. Set up a united front with the and other workers’ organizations to fight together against this wage cut. 3. No maneuvers behind closed j doors with officiels. The strikers must decide on al! questions in the | strike. 4. Mass picket lines on all relief projects. A militant str le to de- Rit tee-nter xh ew Orles feat this wage cut which is to starve | enotoned Seemed) Hoover, and in Trenton “joined up with the soldiers hat were marching to Washington for the bonus.” He never saw the president, however, as “the cops were aguardin’ the White House, and they told me to beat it.” Questions asked Carter and the responses received vividly reveal the life of a migratory, young Southern white worker as well as the circum- stances behind the Scottsboro frame- ‘up. Q—Where did your father come from? A.—My father came from Alabama State, where he was born. He left Alabama when he was 19 years old. Q.—How long did you go to school? A.—First year high school in Texas. Q.—When did you leave home? A.—I left home when I was 14 | years old, but I have, been home | several times off and on. | Q—Where did you go after | lett? A.-I went to Gray's Stimmit, Mo. I went up there to work on the rail- road, .Q—How much were you paid? hour por ks p beet saree for \ you Q.—What was the sentence? A—$25 fine or 50 days in the chain gang. This was in Huntsville. I didn’t have any money so I went on the chain gang. I first met Ruby Bates and Victoria Price at this time. | Q—They arrested you at the same time as the two girls at Stevenson? | A—Y¥es. Q,—While you were ip jail did you} know what was happening at the | trial? | “A—No Q.—Did you know that Ruby and Victoria had decided to frame the boys? | A—Not about rape. We knew it was a framed charge, but we didn’t know what it was about, Victoria Price said | we would have to swear to whatever | the sheriff wanted us to swear to.} |The sheriff told them to keep their mouth shut, Ruby Bates, she came to} me cryin’ a few times. But Vicforia! | Price kicked her and made her shut | | up. She said we would all be paid for |it and that they wouldn't lock the two girls up. Q—How long did you stay in jail? After Martial Law Is Declared MILAN, Italy, April 24 (By Mail).—A strong mass movement against the Fascist starvation policy is growing in several agricultural centers of the Po Valley. The movement started in two districts of Venctia Province, where a state of siege has been proclaimed for the past three weeks. Many unemployed demonstrated, demanding “bread and work,” with the Police unable to interfere. fhe Be SIRES Some of the unemployed were ar-) ‘owd then marched to the police ™ |r ce Th rested later, but this only caused the} station and forced the police to re struggle to grow more intense. Twelve| lease the prisoners. barns full of grain were set on fire, ind ther bi stormed +: ? researc Oat ai Perkins Chauffeur Quits; She Worked Him 17 Hours a Day were concentrated in these districts, and Air Minister Balbo turned up) himself, promising to provide jobs. | The situation is still, very grave) Washington; D. C., May 4—The and everyone desiring to enter or) liberal Miss Perkins of the U. 8. De- leave the area must have a special, partment of Labor who is a strong permit from the authorities. No one| advocate of the 30-hour stagger bill is allowed in the streets after 8 is not willing to reduce the working o'clock in the evening. | hours of her chauffeur who recently Similar clashes occurred in Moll-| left his job because of the Jong hours nella. The unemployed also organ-|of work St. George, Miss Perkins’ ised demonstrations in Comacchio.| chauffeur, seid he could not continue were arrested after a severe Mu or his working 37 hows 8 Ser age bean Large detachments of Fascist troops }