The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 9, 1933, Page 1

— A Denial Which Is An Admission Mi Vite owns of the DAILY WORKER on page 4 is published the main ‘resckgiton of the Free Tom Mooney Congress, held at Chicage, April to May 3. This is 2 call to action. Every worker must read and act pon it immediately. Mass action can and must free the courageous ‘working class leader who has suffered 17 years in prison, net alone be- cpuse the jaifers have stood firm, but also because our class, Tum Mooney’s Giaes, has heen divided and weakened to the attacks of capital. * . * D kaa question of the division of the ranks of the working class 1s parti- ally, if unintentionally, clarified by efforts of Clarence Senior, Na- tonal Secretary of the Socialist Party, to explain away his speech at the Socialist Party convention of Ohio to prevent’ the acceptance of Tom Mooney’s appeal for united working class action. Carl Haessler, of the Federated Press, in writing of Senior's “categorical and emphatic denial” that he made the statement that Tom Mooney was expelled from the Socialist Party because of his “use of dynamite”, declares in a Federated Prese article: “Questioned by Federated Press before either charges, denials or counter-charges were published, Senior stated that he had tokd a private session of the Ohio socialist convention, in answer to question, that Mooney had heen expelled from the Socialist Party “tor his advocacy of direct action and that Mooney if freed would probably spend part of his time attacking the Socialist Party, but that nevertheless he was in favor of helping to free him because he had been unjustly convicted on the charge of setting the Prepar- edness Day bomb.” This is not 2 denial, but an admission. In “denying” that he ever accused Toma Mooney of “use of dyna- mite”, Mr. Senior makes much of the fact that. at any rate, whatever hhe said about Tom Mooney was said in a private session of the Socialist Party Convention. “Private” session? Why? The use of such an excuse is not a defense but a confession. Whispering behind closed doors was one of the main instruments with which Tom Mooney was put on the gallows in the first place, and is one of the main instruments by which he is being kept in prison for life. We must remember that there was not one but two frame-ups—or two sides to the same frame-up: one by the District Attorney and corporation detectives, and the other by certain “labor” and “socialist” leaders. In defending what he said by declaring that. he said it in @ closed meeting, not open to the public, Mr. Senior is pleading guilty te the same crime against Mooney which Mooney so mercilessly exposes in his pamphlet “Labor Leaders Betray Tom Mooney”. Michael Casey, Paul Scherenburg and the ten-thousand-dollar bribe- taker, P. H. McCarthy, have placed Mooney where he is by whispering their contribution to the frame-up throughout the labor movement. In order to convince the Socialist Party State Convention to refuse Mooney’s request for a united front, Mr. Senior admits that what he said «according to Haessler’s published version of their conversation) is an afftmation of “his advocacy of direct action”. Regardless of what mean- ing might be given to this terra, it has been understood during the entire case, and especially in the Prosecutor's speech asking the jury to hang ‘Mooney, that the term “direct action” signified individual acts of terror such as the setting of a bomb. In short, in trying to explain away his | treasonable language as it was understood and reported by responsible men ,at the Socialist Party Convention, Mr. Senior seeks to make a distinction between saying that Mooney used dynamite and saying that Mooney advocated the use of dynamite in such actions of bloody violence ms the setting of the Preparedness day bomb. * Then, assuring the Socialist Party Convention that “Mooney it freed would probably spend partiof his time attacking the Socialist Party”, ‘Mr. Senior closed ‘Hils Uttle act of persuading the Socialist Party Conven- tion to help to free Mooney by proposing that mo action for Mooney be taken. * . * LL of this goes te clarify the position taken by the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party in doing all in its power to prevent the formation of a united front of struggle to liberate Tom Mooney. But the members of the Socislist Party, or at least the working class mem- bers, are im faver of » united struggie to liberate Tom Mooney. * The tep of the Party, headed by Hillquit and speaking sometimes very indiscretly through Clarence Senior, takes 2 position reminiscent of the former Nistries Attorney, Oharles M. Fickert, and the “labor” leaders, ‘Michagd Casey, P. H. MoCarthy, etc., who framed up Mooney. But the bottoms of the Sovialist Party—the rank and file members—can be made— to understand this in order to repudiate it with rage and honest prole- tarian fiermmess. teak tinet is set by the main resolution of the Pree Tom Mooney ~ Congress is a huge task—the job of « determined advance of the revo- lutionary workers of this country—forming a solid united front in spite of all Seniors, Hillquits, Caseys and McCarthys, Greens and Wolls—and coupling up the demand for Tom Mooney’'s release with every struggle Of the working class today, ; Socialist workers! Despite ali efforts to prevent you—come together im every locality, in local conferences to form local Tom Mooney Councils Action! ‘ree Tom Mieoney! Talk of “Upturn” Covers New Relief Cuts _ Bach time Hoover made an attack on the workers, he first announced hat “prosperity is around the corner.” Roosevelt, follows closely this Blan of Hoover's. Before each attack on the unemployed, a new “up- turn” is announeed. 3 Friday, Roosevelt, speaking before his masters, the U. S. Chamber Commerce, said, “During the last few weeks, we have witnessed a Phi but definite upturn in most industries.” * Immediately all capitalist sheets wrote, now relief can-be cut, there wa new “upturn.” ‘The “New York Times” wrote yesterday, there is ® “slight decrease ‘m applications” for relief. But unhappily there is no unanimity in eapitalist reports. ‘For’ the same day the “Herald Tribune,” quoting Prank G. Taylor, Commissioner of Public Welfare, states, “. . . 123,000 families now receiving home relief, 30,000 more cases in the process of Investigation and an estimated 40,000 new applications to be made this Here is the appaling condition. Each day brings additional tens of thousands to the brink of starvation. What does Roosevelt offer these families? their food rations. Less bread for nation wide cut in relief means. In New York the Emergency Work and Relief Administration is sopping the payment of rent this month. A city wide sweep of. evic- tions will foow. Thousands of families are to be thrown on the streets. What are they to do? Build “Rooseveltyilles’? Break up their homes, and live in the “shelters” set up by relief agencies? - The Chambers of Commerce, the manufacturers associations, backed by the government stand united to further reduce the miserable living wandards of the unemployed. This vulture can only be stopped by the united front of all workers. Workers! ‘They are determined to further cut down our relief. They have decided to throw us out of our homes. Bs He offers to cut down the unemployed—this 1s what the Organize © united front of all workers to resist this attack. We shall not starve. Trade unions, Unemployed Councils, Unemployed Leagues, fraternal organizations, unorganized, workers; all united to stop the nation wide cuts'in relief, All united to stop evictions. | / Every one Of these relief cuts brings cl sser the realization of the meed. for unemployment insurance. The assurance that the basic needs | the unemployed will be taken care of, Build 2 nationwide united front we Central Or (Section of the Communist International) nist Party Vol. X, No. 111 Entered as second-c New York, N. ¥., under tier at the Fost Office at @ Act of March 8, 1879, orker U.S.A. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1933 ' ee a ae Adopted by See on Page 4 the Main Resolution the “Free-Tom- Mooney Congress” are EDITION Price 3 Cents 9,000 SCOTTSBORO MARCHERS PRESENT DEMANDS TO GOVERNMENT; ROOSEVELT BARS COMMITTEE , THE ROOSEVELT PARTNERSHIP PLAN --By_Burek. PARADE ~ PRESENT CIVIL RIGHTS THRU STREETS; BILL; DEMAND ACTION ‘Reads in Papers Bankers Suffer,’ Is Howe’s Reply to W. L. Patterson’s Statement That Negroes Greatest Victims Rainey Garner DePriest Hedge; Delegates Report at Meeting Following Parade WASHINGTON, D. C., } ay 8.—Coming to the national NEW_YORK STATE.MILK STRIKE | IS SCHEDULED TO BEGIN FRIDAY, Vt. Governor Aids Bosses to Smash the Quarry Strike BARRE, Vt. May 8.—Governor | 69,273 VOTES FOR. . GALLAGHER IN | Roosevelt, Vice-president Gar-¢ capital from scores of centers—mostly from cities on the East- ern Seaboard—5,000 Scottsboro Marchers, two-thirds of them Negroes, paraded through the streets of Washington today in a demonstration for the Scottsboro boys and for the enforce- ment of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the U. S. con- stitution. Committees elected by the marchers called upon President * ism: “I thought the bankers were ner, Speaker Rainey and Con-| the ones ‘he were suffering. I read gressman De Priest, Negro'rep-| it in the papers.” resentative from Chicago demanding} PATTERSON: “We represent the that -these politicians support the | most forgotten men, the Negro people fight for the release of the Scottsboro | and yet the president won't see us.” boys and for the enactment into law} Mrs. Janie Patterson, mother of of the Bill of Civil Rights. | Haywood Patterson, began to weep The Scottsboro marchers to Wash- | and asked Howe to tell the president ington e in 37 buses, 22 trucks! to “givé me back my child” utomobiles, besides a large On Patterson's demand, Howe call- number who came on freights and| ed President Roosevelt on the phone, as hitch-hikers } asking him if he would see the de- Roosevelt refused to see the Scotts- | legation. . Roosevelt's loud and res- boro delegation. Louis M. Howe, his] ounding “NO!” could be heard by secretary, met -the group and told | te entire committee. them: | Cycle Fumes Choke Marchers “The president is busy now. He is} previowsly Patterson denounced seeing that the people's rights are | veit's earlier refusal to see the not -taken~away. from them, He is| Committee ag “a complete exprestion at the present moment busy with|of his contempt for the colored the diplomatic representatives of | people.” Italy and Germany.” | Patterson declared that “our dele- William L. Patterson, national sec-| gation will report to the 5,000 who LOS. ANGELES Communist Vote Gains’ + in Spite of Red | | Squad Terror | LOS ANGELES, May 8 (By Mail). ;—Lawrence Ross, Communist can- didate for mayor in the primaries on |May 2, received 2,311 votes, a gain | of over 600 votes over Comrade San-| quarry centers of New England in| dler, who ran last year in the run-} | off election for mayor. | Mooney and lawyer for the Intezna- | tional Labor Defense received 69,273 |votes. He was running against | Thurmond Clarke, for judge of Muni- {cipal Court No. 10. Clarke is an ap-| | pointee of Governor Rolph, who has) meted out ourtageous sentences to workers appearing in his court re-| ceived 167,230 votes. He was elected. Ethel Dell, one of the six “Free Tom Mooney Funners,” who is at Present serving a six months jail sentence “for disturbing the peace” at the Olympic Stadium received 9,019 votes for the Board of Educa- tion. Virgil Rhetta, a young Negro worker received 4,464 votes for the Board of Education. Ezra F, Chase, Communist candid- ate for councilman in the 8th Dis- of National Guardsmen to the Barre Wilson today ordered two companies | Prices Paid Farmers Below Pre-War Level | granite region to assist the operators here to patrol seven sheds on strike since April 1st. The operators are attempting to run the sheds with strikebreakers, The order for the National Guards- men is another desperate attempt of the bosses to break the strike in- volving several thousand workers which has spread throughout the protest against a wage cut. Strikers | have thus far put up a militant re-| Leo Gallagher, attorney for Tom sistance in protection of their jobs| | against strike breakers. Demand Electric Rate Cut in Phoenix, Ariz. PHOENIX, Ariz. — A fight has begun to force reductions of the rates charged consumers by the Central Arizona Light & Power Co. Although originating with small merchants, this moye is being supported by large numbers of farmers and work- ‘ers, both employed and unemployed. According to a survey recently persons something like $8 per month. This compares with the cost of about $6.50 to $7, charged during 1928-29. made here, it costs a family of five | _ While Retail Prices Are Higher Than Before. | NEW YORK, May 8.—Dairy farm- It is estimated that more than | ers of New York state are going ahead | 35,000 of the approximately 80,000 | with preparations for a milk strike | milk producers of the state will go! Friday and are ignoring the pleas of |.on strike. Meanwhile at Albany the the state and federal authorities | State Milk Control Board is trying that they ought,to wait until there |to head off the movement and try- | is- sufficient of a general price-rise | ing.to set a minimum price to farm- to “warrant” their receiving higher ers to force them to sell their pro-| | prices, duce’ at a low price. Hearings are | This argument is scorned by the| being conducted by this Tammany dairy farmers who point to the fact | committee and efforts are being made | that they get less than two cents | to split the ranks of the farmers by ;quatt for milk at the dairies and / telling them that they should wait | that the cheapest grade of such milk | until the board reached a “decision” | sells retail for 8 cente. Previous experience shows that the | Consumer Prices Still Rising. _| job of such boards is to help the milk Prices for milk to the consumer | trust and defeat the farmers’ de- haye soared from 2 to.7 cents during | mands. | | the past. three weeks, but the prices | | the farmers receive remain the same. . ° | ‘The increase to the consumer and Mine Strikers Fight the decrease to the farmer is strik-| | ingly “revealed by comparison with | | pre-war, figures. In January, 1933, the price received by fe.gners in the New York milk shed wus 41 per cent below the pre-war price, while the | retail price in New York City was 22 cents above that price. This effectively gives the lie to the | claim of the milk trust that if farm- Scabs, State Police, | SCRANTON, Pa., May 8.—Several| hundred miners on strike here at a Kehoe Berg mine against a wage cut were attacked by Pinchot state) Police ordered to the scene to smash the strike. The strikers are fighting militantly against scabs who are be-| retary of the International Labor De- fense, and spokesman for the com- mittee, replied, declaring: * “You tell us that the president is busy with representatives of these im- perialist countries, whereas we who represent Negro and white citizens of this country in protest against in- justice cannot be seen by the presi- dent. Howe “Read It In the Papers.” HOWE: “He is too busy getting us out of the depression.” PATTERSON: “We are the worst sufferers from the depression. More- over, we are the victims of an un-/ abated lynch terror, and yet the pres- ident won't see us.” To this statement of Patterson, | are waiting outside and to those who |elected us to come here, that the | president refused to see the repre- | sentatives of the Negro and white | workers.” | Squads of police. and on foot flank as they paraded dov Avenue. The motorcycles of the poli fed a barrage of smoke, cho! marchers, but this failed to } steady chant as they moved slo over the capital's rain-swept stre |Past the White House. “Scottsboro boys must not die! Scottsboro hoys | must be saved!” | Later the delegation went on mot to see Howe replied with shameless cynic- | (cormnved ON PAGE THREE Hillman, Sloan, Both 30 HOUR BILL TO BE REDRAFTED ‘Bill Will Be Shelved in Present Congress} for Stagger Measure WASHINGTON, D. C., May 8,—Heartrigs before the House Labor Com- mittee on the 30-hour stagger bill ended today. bill will be shelved in this session of Reports indicate that the congress as a result of the developing opposition of many employers against any form of legal regulation of hours of work, trict received 516 votes. | ers receive higher prices the city con- | ing recruited by the operators to take | Connery, chairman of the House Labor Committee announced today he The election campaign was marked with brutal suppression of the rights of workers to speak and assemble. Lawrence Ross was arrested twice for | Speaking. He is now out on bail for speaking at Fifth and Towne on May |Day. He is charged with speaking | without a permit and inciting a riot. ; Workers were arrested for distribut- |ing campaign literature, meetings for | the workers candidates were broken | up by the red squad and legionnaires. | ‘The campaign rally of the Com- munist endorsed candidates was, threatened by the legionnaires and| the red squad, although an injunc- tion was gotten in the superior court against Hynes. Shapiro, the Socialist candidate for mayor, who ran on a platform “of cultural and moral benefits” to the unemployed workers, received around 4,000 votes. Shaw and Porter, the brazen. en- emies of the working class will fight it out in the general election:in June. Japanese With Tanks and Artillery Move Toward Tientsin SHANGHAI, May 8.—Japanese and Manchukuoan troops, armored eight miles south of Peitaiho, coastal town. The Chinese troops are in full flight to Changli before the renewed Japanese attack, and it was expected that the invading forces may con- tinue all the way to Tientsin, North And power rates are not the only outrageously heavy charges. City of Phoenix charges $3 per month |sumer must pay more, The milk The j trust can easily afford to pay the their jobs. for water on a flat rate, compared with $1.75 in 1927-30. farmer a much higher price and at) suBscRIBE yourself ané get your | the same time reduce the price to tellow workers |to read the Daily | the city consumer. Worker, | that the 30-hour bill to legalize the | share the work movement will prob- j ably be redrafted and a new measure will be submitted to the House La- bor Committee for &pproval. The By J. STACHEL called Continental Congress spon- sored by the Socialist Party which thet in Washington, D. C., on May 6th and 7th, adjourned Sunday at 5 pm. with the adoption of a “New Declaration of Independence” of high-sounding phrases. By a mere resolution this Congress declared the masses of this country to be “inde- pendent of ignorance of poverty.” But did not say how this is to’ be |achieved. ‘They feared even to. ut-) ganizations. ter the word “revolution.” The so- ‘cialist leaders who ran the Congress) the majority of them labor officials | wanted to give the impression that)/of the Jewish — socialist-controlled | they were emulating the Continental Congress of 1776, which declared the thirteen colonies independent of Great Britain. The difference, how- ever, was quite obvious and well re- called the words of Marx that his- tory repeats itself first as a tragedy and then as a farce. The people who met in the Continental Congress of 1776 were courageous and revolu- tionary representatives of the prop- ertied classes who were willing to carry through the declaration into life through revolutionary actions. ‘The ruling clique of this second Con- gress consisted of socialist middle class officials, labor bureaucrats, Chinese seaport metropolis, from which they are now only. 100. miles tg 4 small business men and profession- |and picked delegation to ihsure abso- The Continental Congress pressed it the “doctors of capitalism”|F. of L. unions, who were suspected | | Composition. | Party, .were carefully scrutinized and | | ‘The composition of the conference | barred from the Congress, Notwith- was. overwhelmingly. direct represen-| standing this, however, there was a tatives of the Socialist Party | substantial number of Communists branches. At least two-thirds of the| and a larger number. of Communist | delegates belonged. to this category.| sympathizers in the Congress, The, ‘The second largest group accounting | Conference for Progressive Labor Ac-| for at least. another 20 per cent of/| tion, which was officially represented | the delegates was composed of rep-|at the Congress and which worked | |resentatives of¢the. Young People’s) closely with the left wing delegates | Socialist Teague and students’or-| throughout. the Congress, also had There were over 100) the support of a substantial number | delegates representing trade unions, | of delegates. Bureaucratic Control. The conference was run in the most | unions in the needJe industry and the bureaucratic fashion, even excelling building trades. There was*a smaller) the A. F. of L. conventions in this representation of farmers and unem- ct. All commitices were origi- ployed: organizations, and a scatter- | ni ‘selected by the National Com- ing of liberal groups of all descrip-| mittee of the Socialist Party. A set| tions. There were, however, among the delegates from the Socialist Party branches, from the. trade unions, from the unemployed and farmers’ delegates. The character of the | organizations quite a number of hon-| whole proceedings can best be under- jest and fighting elements, The com-| stood if we benr in mind that the position of the Congress was in line Credentials Committee never made a ‘vith the splittittg policy ef the So-| report and at no time were perma- cialis} Party, which barrod all’ mili-/ nent officers elected, Further, that tant labor groups from participation the so-called “Continuation Commit- and the result of a carefully selected | tee,” which was to have been elected to carry on the future work of the the delegates, which served to choke | als whose whole record shows them $0 he ae one of thelr Kind gngs qx- be hed 4b sense Saat lute control to the Socialist Party.| Congress, was never elected, but, in-| a united Eien | eee it is to be composed of 26 mem- | 2 Bom-nws hea io ke made ua ae followe—I8! qnouvewvan en ramp of the appointed committee on’ “Con- The two-day session of the so- | but, by no means the grave diggers.| of leanings towards the Communist | tinuation and Organization” the tem- porary chairman and the four tem- porary viee-chairmen and six to be selected by the above twenty. Object of Socialists in Calling Congress. The Socialist Party, which initiated | this Congress, aimed to accomplish the following results: First, to weaken the Mooney Congress, which became the rallying center of all fighting ele- ments in the labor movement; second, to stifle the growing movement of the rank and file of the Socialist Party and the Young Peoples Socialist League for the united front with the Communists; rank and file elements who were pressing for action against the Roose- velt attacks. To give the appearance that the Socialist Party is organizing fourth, to rally around the off any initiative on the part of the| Socialist Party all labor and liberal jelements who are dissatisfied either with the Roosevelt administration or the A. F. of L. leadership; fifth, to try to overcome the division on top between Thomas and Hillquit, which arises not from any differences as to fundamental policy, but exclusively around the question how best to fight against the Communist Party. In short, the aim of the Congress was to third, to “satisfy” the| new bill fill be the result of back- stairs negotiations with the A. F. of L. misleaders who have been put- ting up a sham battle against the | stagger bill The new measure embodies the basic elements of the present revised stagger bill. It is to set up a federal board to consist of three employers, three government representatives and three members chosen by the A. F. | of L. misleaders to regulate hours and wages. By agreement with the misleaders minimum wage boards will be set up only in those industries “less than 50 per cent organized by the A. F. of L.” Since the A. F. of | L. bas not organized any industry | more than 50 per cent it will ac« tually apply to all industries. In its new form the measure will. have ne power of enforcement since all pen- alties for violations have been ree moved from the provisions Fred P. Sloan, President of Gen- eral Motors Co. in a stetement be- fore the last session of the House Lae bor Committee declared’ for the sys- tem of spreading work at the expense of the workers’ wages but admitted that, at present the automobile in- dustry could not even employ its workers 30 hours a week each week @ of arbitrary rules was forced upon the fight against the Roosevelt pro- the proposed “flexible” that is, no legal regulation of hours of work. Sidney Hillman, another speaker, reiterated his faith in the stagger measure and declared it would “meet { the evil at its very source,” because it gives “industry under the guidance and supervision of the government an opportunity to manage itself.” Thus the so-called spokesman for la= bor concerns himself with the inter- ‘est of industry and advocates a fur- | ther reduction ic *h* workers living sem) SE ye ce.