The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 13, 1933, Page 1

| The Meaning of the Prosperity Reports Accompanying new attacks upon the standards of life of the workers and farmers through the legislation being adopted py the Roosevelt ad- ministration is a nation-wide campaign of talk about job increases and pay raises. The capitalist press publishes greatly magnified tales about every slight seasonal advance in the remotest parts of the country. A | Sopical example of this is the report from Philadelphia that employees {of a small handbag manufacturing concern, Ingber & Co., have received )a 5 per cent wage increase. The news dispatch does not state that wages of girls employed by this concern averaged 75 cents a day and that they will ‘now get 78 cents if reports of the increase are true. From Albany, New York, comes reports that some unnamed factory reopened. The same dispatch states that there has been a@ decline in city welfare lists. This shows that announcement that factories are re- opening are made to furnish an excuse to cut down relief lists on the pretext that starving workers can find work. ‘Not only are there no substantial wage increases taking place but all the machinery of the government is in operation to further beat down wages. The inflation and so-called farm relief bill has just been signed by Roosevelt which, with the provisions of the Emergency Banking Act, gives him authority to carry out unlimited inflation. Already the prices | of all commodities have risen from 10 to 15 per cent, hence there would have to be money-wage increases of that amount to maintain the real Wage existing before inflation began. continue. All this talk about wage increases is to try to defeat the strug- gle for wage increases to meet inflation. ‘Then, also, there is incorporated in Roosevelt’s “industry bill,” which is now before congress, all the worst features of the discarded Black Bill, which proposed a 30-hour week which would further cut down the in- comes of those workers still employed. In that bill, which the administra- tion hypocritically claims will aid the unemployed there is not one word about the fundamental demand of the more than 17 million jobless work- ers for immediate relief and unemployment insurance. All Roosevelt’s Apre-election talk to the effect that he favored “a system of unemploy- ment insurance” is conveniently forgotten. The “New Deal” in action savagely attacks the poor and helps the rich, Never have the toiling masses in industry and on the land in this country faced such a savage drive against living standards. Each day sees new attacks launched by the executive committee of the capitalist class at Washington. These attacks can and must be stopped. That can be accomplished only through the most determined united action on the basis of the ele- mentary demands of the toiling masses. It must be accomplished through setting up united front movements embracing the largest possible num- bers. To depend upon the leadership of the American Federation of La- bor is only to play into the hands of the hunger government. Green and ‘company, who were continually conferring with Miss Perkins and pre- tending to be in opposition have approved every anti-working class act of the Roosevelt administration. * When the representatives of the Trade Union Unity League appeared before the secretary of labor they demanded the adoption of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill which provides for unemployment insur- ance at not less than $10 weekly for adult workers and $3 a week for each * * f} dependent for the entire time of unemployment and an. immediate ap- | propriation for relief pending the enactment of the bill, The statement of the Trade Union Unity League, appearing as a special supplement in Monday’s issue of the Dally Worker is a comprehen- sive statement of the problem and the manner in which the fight against hunger must be ‘carried on. Every worker should read, study and act upon it. We Can Defeat Them Aroused by a bitterness accumulated after a long period of privation, New York workers demonstrated before seven offices of the Home Relief Bureau yesterday. They gave warning that “we will camp here until the Home Relief Bureau pays our rent.” Cen we allow Tammany’s edict to evict us, while its own commis- clone: Charles F. Kerrigan, admits that 201,406 apartments are vacant? Cen New York workers stand idly by when a woman tries to commit sui¢ide, while the-husband asks relief from the Bronx. Home Helief Bu- vreau? ~The answer today was a definite “NO!” But Tammany unleashed its bulldogs against the defenseless men, wo- men and children. Many workers deprived of sufficient relief were given 2 diet of clubs at yesterday's demonstrations. But the men and women fought back when attacked. The demonstration organized by the Downtown Unemployed Council sueczeded in getting food, gas and electric light for 50 families. In the Byonx Home Relief Bureau, following the demonstration, the supervisor instructed all investigators to report all cases in urgent need of rent. But this is insufficient. Thousands of additional families are in need of re- lief and rent. The increased relief following some of the demonstrations show that through siruggle the unemployed can compel Tammany to grant their demands. Today's Emergency Conference in Irving Plaza should develop a pro- gram of drawing in the largest number of unemployed workers into the struggle, of developing the most intense activity for demonstrations in every borough against the relief cuts and evictions. We are determined to destroy the decision of Tammany and the bank- ers, to evict the jobless and cut the relief. "By united action we can defeat them. _ Thriving Under Roosevelt dignation seem to be doing very nicely under the blessings of the New Deal. What has become of the promised crusade against the Wall Street money masters? ‘The monarch of America’s fortress of finance capital, J. P. Morgan, has already given his benediction to Roosevelt's financial program, in his famous statement approving Roosevelt's inflation policy. And when Mor- gan speaks, it is the official and sacred voice of Wall Street talking. The Roosevelt government has done nothing about the foul scandals of the Insull bankruptcy. The Roosevelt government has done nothing about the financial scandals now being unearthed by the Federal Trade Commission in the affairs of the Cities Service Company. It is very significant that Roose- velt is drastically reducing the expenditures of this commission. The Roosevelt government has done nothing about the $100,000,000 Mellon tax scandal which is now awaiting action in the courts of the istrict of Columbia. The Roosevelt administration has done nothing about the scandals that. are open gossip with regard to the income tax refunds in the In- ternal Revenue department, '.. The Roosevelt government makes a gesture of prosecuting the fi- nancial swindler Mitchell, ex-President of the National City Bank, by trying him, not for his real crimes, the loss of millions of small depositors money, but for the minor offense of income tax evasion, for which he ean easily escape punishment. The Roosevelt government has permit- ted the whole National City gang to go unpunished. : * - a _ Under Roosevelt, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation continues undiminished the government bounties to the big banks and railroads, _ Only yesterday, the R.F.C, loaned $23,000,000 to the Southern Pacifie Reil- road, of which $22,000,000 will go to the bondholders, _ Only a few weeks ago, the S.F.C. loaned $3,000,000 to the Missouri Pacific Railroad after the road had declared itself on the verge of bank- ~ .It is an open secret that there are conditions in the Ship Subsidies di‘ision of the government that rival the Teapot Dome Scandal. _ But Roosevelt is indifferent {o these matter. His attack on the money changers was merely a shrewd gesture to give the enraged people thi dilusion that those who looted the banks were to be punished, Roose- t's verbal assault on the money changers. was, in actuality, a protec- ‘tive covering for the bankers. But at the same time wage cuts | Central Dai (Section of the Communist International ) rker ist Party U.S.A. L Ao REE MTT REO I RECHT T. U. U. L. Statement Presented to Secretary of Labor will appear in Monday’s issue of the Daily. Vol. X, No. 115 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at “GE MNew York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1878, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1933 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents To Issue Orders I N.Y. JOBLESS DEMONSTRATE AGAINST EVICTIONS AND FOR IMMEDIATE RELIEF | Militant Struggles Compel Bureau Officials FIGHT OFF POLICE THROUGHOUT CITY ncreasing Relief Roosevelt's Offer to the — is sae, | AGE CUTS IN TEXTILE, ; RAEN ELECTRIC AND TOBACCO CONTRADICT ROOSEVELT Department Store Sales Fall Off; Building Drops 25 Per Cent; Rail Production Down to 1866 Levels; Farmers Bankrupt | NEW YOKK.— City-wide unemployed actions took place yesterday when 9 Unemployed Councils in Manhattan, Bronx and Brooklyn rallied jobless workers and their families to mass at Home Relief Bureaus to de- | mand rent checks and no cuts in relief, An immediate partial victory was scored by the Downtown Unemployed Council when in a United Front ac- tion with two locals of the Worker @- Committee on Unemployment, a picket line of 100 workers was thrown around the Home Relief Bureau at Spring and Elizabeth Streets, while hundreds more crowded the bureau and sidewalks. Food checks, gas and electricity checks was given to 50 families whose names were presented to the bureau by a delegation as out- side the picket line shouted, “We de- mand rent!” “We demand relief!” Starting at 11 in the morning, the line of workers from various neigh- borhoods, men and women, marching two abreast, some wheeling baby car- riages or holding a child by the hand, circled the bureau hour after hour, waving dispossess notices and shout- ing slogans for relief. | Heading the picketers were workers | with signs, “The Home Relief Bureau must not break up our homes,” “The| Unemployed Demand Payment of} Rent.” At 12:30 sandwiches and milk were served them by a committee, who col-| lected the food from small shopkeep- | ers. More workers coming out of the} bureau, where they had gone alone} and had been refused rent, joined the) line, taking up the cry, ready to fight) for the right to shelter and food. | An open-air meeting was held near | the bureau, and leaflets distributed | rallying the workers to return Mon- day and “camp at the Bureau until rent is paid.” 500 Battle Cops In Brownsville over 500 workers, |men and women, put up such battle when police attacked them at the Home Relief Bureau, Belmont and Christopher Street, that. the» police sent in a frantic call for reserves. In the fight that followed workers used any weapon they could lay their hands on to fight off the cops’ clubs and blackjacks. Over 50 workers outside the Home Relief Bureau at 149th St. near Third Avenue, faced police and detectives there in orders to present their demands for relief and did not disperse until they had given them a stiff battle. The work- ers militantly stood their ground, Shouting, “We want rent! We want relief!” A respirator had to be used to re- vive one woman knocked unconscious | by an officer. The Daily Worker is informed that immediately after the demon- stration all investigators were told to turn in all cases to the supervisor where dispossesses had been served and rent is urgent, A delegation of 20 workers from} the Unemployed Council with dispos-| sess notices with them were denied/| admission to the Harlem Home Relief | Bureau at 125th Street when they! came to demand rents for all families | threatened with eviction, They left shouting, “We will be back with enough workers to force you to hear us!” Picket In East Side A picket line of 10 workers set up yesterday by the East Side Unem- ployed Council continued today un- molested. Each worker carried a sign with demands for rent, against relief cuts, aid for single workers, and un- employment insurance. Ten workers were arrested this morning when a group of unemployed, led by the Borough Park Unemployed Council, demanded relief at the Home Relief Bureau. Five hundred workers, men and women, fotight cops and detectives who attacked them while they were demanding relief at the Tome Relief Bureau, 69 Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn, Thursday, | Prosperity Yarns in Capitalist Press Meant to | Paralyze Struggle; Organize and Fight for More Wages, Relief and Insurance NEW YORK.—The much boosted White House ballyhoo | of wage-rises is being exposed every day in the actual wage | cutting which is under way. Here are a few instances: New | York electrical workers have been betrayed by their A. F. of L. | leaders who have agreed to $1 a day wage cut for the new scale. The John Wanamaker store,¢ |one of the nation’s largest depart- {ment stores cut wages 10 per cent on May ist and dismissed 300 work- ers. New Bedford Mass. workers have Iron and Steel Institute reports. Steel rst rolled in 1866. Production of steel rails during 1932 was 402,566 tons, a drop of over 65 had wage cuts imposed in the last | Per cent from 1931. When the popu~ week in four major mills ranging lation of the country today com= from 5 to 12 and a half per cent. The | Pared with the population in 1866, the cuts were given in the Fisk Rubber|ecline in production is even more Co, the Devan, Gosnold and Fire. |Catastrophic than the figures indicate. (Quer * VETS REJECT FORCED LABOR CAMPS: “LIKE BRING SOLD INTO SLAVERY” WASHINGTON, May 12.—Flat rejection of the proposal of Roosevelt to herd the war veterans now in Washington into forced labor camps. came from the veterans today. “None of the men are going to do any work like that for a dolar a day, sald one of the group leaders, Maurice Miller, of Chicago, when interviewed about the proposal at Fort Hunt, Va. One of the members, Joseph Bosc, a Chicago clerk, said he would have nothing to do with such a proposition.©—————— “It’s like being sold into slavery”, he | Chief of police here, and the man said. | who put Waters, in command of the Everyorie- who ‘discussed Roosevelt’s | 1932 Bonus Azmy, spoke to a group proposal.ac-the camp sald Jt was only | of veterans at the camp in Ft, Hunter & move to try to’get rid of the march- | yesterday... Glassford, who posed as ers to get them into the prison camps where the administration is trying to herd 250,000 unemployed young them into the trap of Bloody Thurs- day, stated “you men are ill-advised the “friend” of the veterans and led | stone mills. The Metropolitan Tobacco Co. in | N.Y.C. cut the wages of the workers 10 per cent beginning May Ist. The N. Y. Bible Society on Astor Place cut the wages of its printers 10 per cent on May Ist. | ie ae | BUS DRIVERS STRIKE NEW YORK.—Eighty two bus driv- ers of the Bee Bus Lines, running from the Jamaica station of the Long Island Railroad, struck last night and tied up 41 of the company's 71 buses. The strikers demand the re-| instatement of 12 workers, dismissed for organizing the men against a | threatened wage-cut, ae * | Dep't. Store Sales Lower | Department store sales for the first | four months of the year were 22 per | cent lower than for a similar period |last year, according to the reports of the Federal Reserve Board pub-| lished today. The sales for April | were 9 per cent lower than April last |year. The Board pointed out that | the comparison” fayors’* this year's figure, since the Easter buying sea-| son occurred this year during April} while last year it occurred during| | March. i INDUSTRY BILL MEANS SALES TAX AND WAGE CUTS Pile Up Taxes and Beat Down Living Standards WASHINGTON, May 12.—Out of the |so-called industrial control and pub- lic works bill there emerges a general sales tax as the latest attack of the Roosevelt administration on the Standards of life of the toiling mas~ ses of the United States. It is now certain that there is gen< eral agreement in administration cir~ cles upon a general sales tax of about 1 1-2 per cent. This is in addition to the numerous state sales taxes Doretta Tarmon, 974 46th Street, a The Money Changers Are ‘The money changers who aroused Roosevelt to such hypocritical in- | were injured and two cops were hurt. | Many more cops bore marks of the workers’ wrath in being attacked.) Four workers were arrested after a fierce struggle to free them, The attack came after the workers | had formed a picket line around the bureau and a delegation of 25 with dispossess cases were refused admit- tance into the bureau. “We won't leave until our rent is paid,” shouted | the workers. | Two hunded massed inside and Nationa | BULLI strike is to go forward in spite of Strikers Defy mY. Milk Control Board; Meetings Going on ALBANY, May 12.—The attempi of the Milk Control Board to avert the milk strike in New York State has failed. The farmers are repudiating the attempt of Lehman's board to arouse the customers of the cities against them by boosting retail prices for the cheapest milk one cent a quart, ‘They point out that this price boost Was unnecessary and demand that the miik trust pay them five cents a quart for milk, instead of the Board's price of 3.75 cents a quart for Grade “A” milk, At a big meeting in Her- |kimer last night this rate was de- ‘ciared to be “completely unacceptable” to the dairy farmers. Prefer Death to Starvation In a speech to the mass meeting of farmers, Stanley A. Piseck of New- |port, said: “In this price-seiting the Milk Control Board acted like deal- ers’ hirelings. This is a ridiculous price structure. The dairy farmers prefer death to slow starvation, The dairymen want no more backscratch- ing and it is up to us to let them know it in no fine language.” At Norwich 700 farmers met and voted to go on strike this morning. Today, this evening and tomorrow there are to be hundreds of meetings of farmers to consolidate the ranks lL Farm Strike to Start This Morning COUNCIL BLUFFS, Towa, May 12.—The local company of National | Guard received orders from the state capitol at Des Moines today to report tomorrow in readiness for duty in the farm strike area. urging the postponement of the strike exposed himself as an agent of the Roosevelt hunger administration, . mother of two children was arrested. Her case comes up Wednesday, May 17, 9 am., at the Central Court, All councils are intensifying their activity in the neighborhoods among the workers seething with anger over the Tammany “no rent,” cut relief order; and plan further actions be- ginning Monday, keeping up the picket lines until “rent is paid,” or- ganizing in the neighborhoods to resist evictions. ETD The the treachery of Milo Reno, who in | 7: Middle West to Start \National Tie-Up at _ Once; Reno Hindering | ST. PAUL, May 12—Farmers all jover the Middle West are ‘waiting to act in the National Farm Strike that starts tomorrow morning. In many parts of three states—Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin—meetings are going | on and final preparations are being made, A the same ime Milo Reno of Des} Moines, head of the National» Farmn- ers’ Holiday Association; ‘Walter | Singler of Milwaukee, head of the | Wisconsin Milk Pool, and so-called farm leaders from North and South Dakota are in St. Paul trying des- perately to weaken the strike that the ‘mass pressure of the farmers has com- pelled them to endorse in words. | action and to join in the National Farm Strike, ! Acting Governor Threatens Force Meanwhile from the capital her: Acting Governor M, William Bray announced that he was “prepared to ‘use every force at the command of the state” to prevent “Violence” on the part of the milk strikers, He said that there should be no toleration of ‘“im- patience” on the part of the farmers and that the Board would take many months to arrive at final conclusions. ‘The farmers recognize this as only a repetition of the same old trickery to try to paralyze action against the for the strike against the Milk Board | \ -rotest Thug Attacks v “” milk trust. workers at less than a dollar a day. In that way the president hoped to defeat the demands of the marchers. Will Carry on Fight for Demands. The leaders of the march state that | the men will not be swerved from their demands, which are: 1. Immediate payment of the bal- ance due on adjusted service certifi- cates. 2. Immediate. restoration of all} rights wiped away by the economy act. 3. Remedial and adequate relief for the unemployed and farmers. Major-General Glassford, former in your present action”. Henry B. Foulkrod, who the admin- | istration is trying to push into the leadership of the veterans with Glass- ford did not succeed in fooling the men. He is using the same tactics that he and Waters used last year; raising the “red” cry. He demands that Emanuel Levin of the Veterans’ National Liaison Committee, ousted. The V.N.L.C. is in charge of the veterans’ march and the govern- ment has had to concede to its de- mands so far but is trying to oust it He has at present only about 100 men under him ROOSEVELT HUNGER REHIEP BILL. SIGNED; FUNDS CUT T0 HALF eh ow . jranging from 1 cent in New York and be | Building Drops 35 Per Cent | CHICAGO, IlJ.—Building construc- tion for the first months of this year | were lower than they have been for many decades, showing a drop of 35 per cent from the same period last} year, according to the reports of the |Indiana Limestone Co. issued today. Building construction has failed to show even the usual seasonal im- provement recorded during the spring |months. The steel industry depends} on building activity for a large part of its orders. | Electric Current Index Scrapes | Bottom The capitalist. press is jubilant et the fact that for the first time in} three years the index for electric con- sumption did not drop lower than) the previous year's figure. Examina-} tion discloses that the current~ used this week was only one-half of one other states to 3 cents in North Car- olina. There is also proposed a spe- cial tea and coffee tax above that of the general federal tax rate. Anti-Trust Laws Abolished. This bill puts aside the anti-trust laws, giving the big industries a free hand and guaranteeing aid of the government to eliminate competition, Such concerns will be aided by bil< lions gouged out of the taxpayers. Thus the whole power of government is mobilized to enable these concerns to pay dividends to the finance capi- talists who hold the stock in them. A special “czar” on wages, hours and conditions will have authority to dictate everything pertaining to wages and conditions of labor, which makes the government directly re- sponsible for keeping wages down to the lowest possible level. \ suffering R.FC. Which Has Given Millions of Dollars to Bankers Put in Charge of “Relief Funds” WASHINGTON, May 12.—The so-called five hundred million dollar relief bill was signed by Roosevelt today. Actually the bill only provides for half this sum. This is $250,000,000 relief for the whole country, with over 17 million unemployed, as admitted by the Alexander Hamilton Insti- tute. The other $250,000,000 is kept for an “emergency”, at this time when among unemployed for? want of relief is appalling. ; established The Daily Worker last Wednesday | tor” in charge. has proven by government figure: a 3 that this “relief measure” cannot even| _ TB€ $500,000,000 will be handled by pretend to aid the unemployed. | the Reconstruction Finance Corpora- Creates New Fat Jobs. | tion. ‘The same body which has sup- 3 |} plied 90 million dollars for Dawes’ Boe ediy Hs aiid ene bank and millions for other big bank- ated new fat jobs for politicians to} ers from the government R. F. © feed on, -A new federal bureau will be! funds. NEEDLE DEMONSTRATION TODAY AGAINST BOSSES’ RACKETS AND GANGSTERS Today, thousands of needle workers in every trade will participate in the gigantic mass | demonstration arranged by the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union in Union Square at 1 p.m. to protest against the murderous atiack upon its union headquarters and its mem- | i} Y 4 ——— — bers, engineered by the bosses, attacks by gangsters upon strikers on’ and to mobilize the entire la-| the picket line; the murderous attack bor movement for a determined drive | on Monday, April 24th, on the union against racketeering and gangster) headquarters, as a result of which 16 control of labor unions. innocent workers were wounded. The ‘The Needle Trades Workers Indus-| latest provocation on the part of the trial Union has been the center of a| scab agents of the general council, to- series of attacks by the bosses and/ gether with their lawyer Markowitch, their agents in the past few months. | is that of charging the leaders of the The killing of Natalio Bolero, a strik- | Industrial Union with income tax with a “relief coordina- per cent larger than the same week last. year. | The output of current decreased in the central industrial areas of the | Middle West. Consumption of electric current is running today 20 per cent below 1930; the index today is at 85.9 | compared with 103.5 for 1930 and 89 | for 1932. ELEVEN CHILDREN BURNED TO DEATH MANILA, P. I, May 12. — Eleven children, locked up in a room for punishment, were bruned to death yesterday in a training school main- | tained by American imperialism. The children, all girls, were unable to es= cape when a fire bruned down the structure. IIE RAE To Grab 3,000 Farms | ST. PAUL, Minn.—Over 3,000 farms | will be sold by the State of Minne- sota. These farms reverted to the State because of unpaid taxes, or un- paid mortgages due to the Rural redit Bureau. Speakers To- Anti-fascist Meet Prominent morrow at NEW YORK.—Clarence Hathaway of the Communist Party, Donald Hen- | derson, Professor Frank Boas of Co lumbia_ Univers Michael Gold, writer, Roger Baldwin and J. B. Matthe ws, together with other prom- inent writers, educators and scientists opponents of to attend a mass 2 held tomorrow night, nt Cooper Union The meeting is | Rail Production Drops to 1866 Levels Production of steel rails in the | United States last year reached the lowest point since 1866, the American y, 8 all, Cooper under the a Committee Against War and is con- sidered “as an important step in arousing American toilers to the in- | ternational menace of Fascism.” uban Protest nied cba eae Today at 10 A. M. Industrial ion, the leading force of all needle workers in their struggle for, | NEW YORK.—A mass student | better conditions, | | and workers demonstration will be | Racketeering is the concern of all) | held today at 10:30 am. before ! af | | the Cuban Consulate, 17 Battery | needle workers! The Industrial Union) | Place, in protest against the atroc- {eoeeetee calls upon all workers = ities of the Machado regime. | unite in the struggle for the extermi-| | Workers and students, don’t fail to | nation of racketeering. All needle) attend this demonstration against trades workers, as well as all other| | American imperialism and for the er of J. Hollander; the fatal bombing | the of Morris Langer, the organizer of the | Fur Dressers and Dyers; numerous; evasion. All this proves that bosses are systematically organizing to smash the Needle Trades Workers on Militant Unions a se ate workers are urged to come to this | anti?racketeering demonsiration. | support of the olutionary work- S students of Cuba, t Union Square Today p