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

( : DEMONSTRATE TODAY, 8 A.M. AGAINST WIEDEMANN, NAZI ENVOY A Call to All Workers to Defend Their Unions (Statement of the Trade Union Unity League) To All Workers of the T.U.U.L. To All Workers in the A.F.L. Unions Unions To All Organized and Unorganized Workers! A new attack is being made on your organizations especially the trade unions. The capitalists want to destroy and weaken the trade unions for the purpose of carrying through new attacks on your living standards. This attack which is part of a program of the Rooseyelt government in behalf of the U, S. Chamber of Commerce and Manufacturers’ Associ- ation, is being carried through with the direct support of the leaders oi the American Federation of Labor and the leaders of the Socialist Party. Among the first organizations to face this attack are the Fur Work Section of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union and the militant independent union of the Doll Workers in Trenton, N. J. Through this attack, the enemies hope to extend their line of battle to other militant organizations of the workers, to other trade unions, affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League, and finally against all militant organizations and militant elements that are organized within the American Federation of Labor. The attack on the independent Progretsive Miners in Illinois which, though led by labor leaders among whom there are many of the John L. Lewis stripe, is also part of this campaign. The aim of the gov- ernment and the capitalisis is to destroy all militant labor unions, de- stroy all militant oppositions within the A. F. L. and to convert the AFL. organizations inio adjuncts for carrying through a joint program of the employers, Roosevelt-Green for a new smashing attack on the conditions of the workers and to mobilize the country for another im- perialist war. This is the meaning of the present attack. The main fight is to be made for the present against the militant fur workers. They have driven the labor bureaucrats out of their ranks and through militant struggle have even in the present period of sharp proven that the workers can win and maintain improved conditions. stence of this organization is a challenge to the reformist labor leaders in the needle trades, and all other industries. It is a living ex- ample to the whole working class that only by breaking with the policies and leadership of the Greens, Wolls, Dubinskys, Hillmans and Kaufmans can they successfully resist the attacks of the bosses. The Fur Workers Section of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union has through a militant program and poiicy of the united front succecded in uniting all the workers of the industry into one industrial mnien in the industry, All aitempts on the part of the bosses and the right wing Jabor leaders to smash this united organization of the workers has led. Ti then r d fo worse terror in the attempt to smash the union. yv sent th orld hirelings to raid the headquarters of the un red the militant leader of the Union, Langer. in breaking the ranks of the workers who an- a by rallying even more solidly behind the union. Even the remain- 13 of the LF.W.U. (A.F.L.) decided to join the Fur Workers Sec- . in united action against the bosses. Now the only was open police and government terror to back up the united bosses, the underworld, the A.F.L, and the Socialist Party drive against the union. i of the THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ENTERS. orces have now come out in the ppen, ppointed the infamous A. F. L. representative McGrady led to smash the union, as assistant in the Labor De- ugh this office the Federal Government has entered the market. The Federal Government is also “investigating They can not believe that the ¢ union leaders received starvation pay the same as the fur workers € y the part-time and unemployed. They are taking, no action egainst the gangsters who were caught-red-handed in the raid on the nion heedquarters. Instead they turn the investigation against the-union Ieade} To cover up the murderous attack of the underworid which could teke place only with some tacit understanding with the police, they are now raising the cry of the “terror of the reds” in the fur market. The Federal gov- ment who tried and Throt fork fur the income tax paid by.the union leaders”. mil SOCIALISTS BACK DRIVE. ne Secialist New Leader comes out with praise and greeting for this new drive to force the workers back into the A.t.L. which has lost its entire membership. The A. F. 1. through its direct representative in New York js working hand in glove with the manufacturers in an effort to force the workers back to the A.F.L. organization, Wednesday (May 24th) was chosen as the day for the big drive. After the A.F.L. and socialist press carry on Vicious attacks on the union, the A.F.L. with the aid of a big detachment of police was to have distributed leaflets in the market slandering the militant Fur Workers Union and asking the workers to register to the A.F.L. union. At the same time the bosses in many shops tried to force the workers into the A.F.L. union, But the masses gathered in thousands destroyed the leaflets despite the heavy police guard and demonstrated their loyalty to their union. But this of course does not end the struggle. It is only the begin- ning. The employers aided by the government, supported by the police force, by the girect Tammany representative Dudley Field Malone, by the A.F.L. and the Socialist Party will continue their drive against the workers, They do not intend to stop with the fur workers. Similar at- tacks are already made against the Food Workers Industrial Union and other organizations in New York City and throughoui the country. Only the united resistance of the workers can beat back this attempt on the part of the bosses to destroy the Fur Workers Union and halt their drive to destroy all militant Jabor organizations. L. MUST RALLY AND FIGHT. Workers of the Trade Union Unity League and sympathetic organi- zations: You must throw your whole strength into this fight It con- cerns you most vitally. Rally to the support of the Fur Workers Section of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union. Workers of the A.F.L.: This is your fight. Workers of the I.L.G.W.U., of the A.C.W., workers of all A.P.L. needle trades unions, unite with the workers of the Industrial Union to beat back this atiack. If this attack is successful it means the maintenance of the present and worse conditions for the tailors, the cloakmekers, the dress makers, the millinery workers and not only the fur workers. Workers in the Building Tades Unions and all other A. F. L. unions, this is your fight. Rally to the support of the organization which is the spearhead in the fight to maintain the right of the existence of the militant fighting unions. Raise the question in your organization. Repudiate the collaboration of the A.F.L. with the bosses and the police against your brother organization. Workers of the Socialist Party: See for yourself what are the policies of your leaders. In werds they talk about fighting fascism in Germany and even of the danger in this country. In practice they unite with the bosses, the government, the reactionary A. F. L, officials against the work- ers. Surely this is not what you are fighting for. Repudiate these policies. Join hands with us. We can discuss our differences among ourselves. But we must fight against the use of police to drive the workers back into an organization controiled by the bosses which the workers have repudi- ated. Workers: This fight 1s the most serious we have had to face at any time in this country. The whole force of the federal government, the reactionary labor leaders are backing the capitalists In an attack against us. They want to destroy our fighting organizations. They wish to stifle all opposition. Why? To carry through new attacks against us. We have only one alternative. We must unite our ranks and fight back with mil- itancy and determinaticn. Workers of all organizations: Resist the bosses’ attempts to further lower our Hving standard. Fight for better conditions in the shops. Fight for Unemployment Relief and for real unemployment insurance. Repudiate the actions of the Socialist Party and A.F.L. leaders, Send protest resolutions to the police, Mayor O’Brien and President “eosevelt protesting this attack on labor organizations, Fight for the United Front of all workers, irrespective of wnion or litieal affiliation in common struggte against the attacks of the capital- s and the government. (signed) NAFIONAL BREOUPIVE BOARD, PRADE UNION UNITY LEAGUE. Dail Central Or fo} orker UA A wv unist Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist ae Bntered as second - 125 enter York, N. , Under the Act of Maréh 3, cinss matier at the Post Office at 1878. NEW x ORK, THURSDAY, AY 2 25, Bring the Daily Worker to the Masses, With 20,000 New Readers! THE WEATHER—Today: fresh southerly winds. Local thunder showers; cooler; CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents 1922 MOONEY ACQUITTED; MUZZLED IN COURT Morgan Gave Big Profits To Leading Members of Roosevelt Government | See’ y of Treasury Woodin, U.S. Supreme Court Judge Roberts, Norman H. Davis, Roosevelt Envoy to Europe, and Other Leading Democrats Get Morgan Favors WASHINGTON, May 24.—A selected list of nationally known govern. | | ment officials and politicians such as Secretary of the Treasury Wocdin, | velt's closest financial advisers, was| Senator MacAdoo, General Pershing, Norman H. Davis, Roosevelt's Ambas- sador-at-large to the League of Nations, Charles Francis Adams, Secretary of the Navy under Hoover, Charles Lindbergh and others were eet by J. P. Morgan & Co. to get in one the “ round floor” in the purchase bd Rs before the Stock Exchange! /MILK BOARD NOW crash in 1929, Senator MacAdoo, one of Roose-| | also one of the favorite insiders to be! poration at the “ground floor” price LABOR CAMPS FOR JOBLESS WOMEN | | there is another immediately ahead, ‘permitted a special easy profit. | Another of the favored “inside” cus- tomers of J. P. Morgan was Owen J.! Roberts, who was the government's prosecuting attorney in the Teapot Dome scandals and who is now one of the Judges of the United States re Supreme Court, having been appoint- ed in June, 1930. Roosevelt Advisors Profit Oihers who were privileged to get in on the quick, easy profits provided by the Morgans were: Silas Strawn, former President of the United States | Chamber of Commerce and a political advisor of Rooseyelt’s; Young, Read of the General Blectric Company and one of Roosevelt's sup- porters during the election; Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War under Wilson and one of the political leaders of the Democratic Party; and John W. Da- vis, Morgan’s lawyer, and Democratic candidate for President in 1924. J. P. Morgan himself took 175,000 Shares of the stock of Allegheny Cor-| ‘CONTINUED ON PAGE IHREE) Owen D.! | sey farme' | the city consume: j and paying ‘nore. for +t, wre the ones ‘FOR NEW JERSEY As in N. Y., Will Hit ‘Farmers and Workers TRENTON, N. J. Barry Moore the Newcomb Bill v Mi ned y Gich seis up a | Milk Control Board in this state sim- ilar to that already in existence in New ¥ . The Board will have pow- ers to regulate production and dis- tributen, and set p.oducers prices, . Experience in New » shown that Compulsory res . production invariably go with ca talist “regulation.” Act: will furth: their iefurns per unif be on a greatly redux schemes are the i The farmer, getting | to suffer, MRS. ROOSEVELT ASKS FOR FORCED ‘To Recruit Women As “Farmerettes” As in the Last Imperialist War velt’s contrast, that the young womeno— | could serve as “farmerettes” as was} done in the last imperialist war. This plan, according to her, has the ap- proval of the president and is now in the hands of secretary of labor) Perkins. The “first lady” who is busy hop- ping around the country in aero- planes, also expressed pity for the Jobless women. This was in connec-| tion with the “rest rooms” estabish- | ed only in those places. She is not so much worried about funds for food | and rent for these places, but makes | the mair item of expense for super- | visors. So that these leading officials cat. cash in by getting big salaries. IL R. 1. BROOKLYN CRASH CAUSED BY ABSENCE OF SAFETY DEVICE “Daily” Inquiry Reveals Responsibility of Own- | ers “Economy” Program (By Daily Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—Investigation by the Daily Worker of the I.R.T. crash at the Brooklyn Museum subway station yesterday in which 28 were injured revealed that there was no automatic cident, The absence of this yital device necessary for the safety of thous- ands of passengers is part of the “economy” policy of the company. When the receivers took over the I. R.T. they began a series of ‘layoffs and stopped all further construction of automatic signals which would have prevented the crash. Over 100 men working on this signal construc- tion work were fired. Responsibility of the LR.T, owners for the crash was reflected in the tight lipped attitude of the officials. No one would talk. When Reynolds, the motorman, who was imprisoned in the caboose by the crash, was finally released and reporters and po- lice tried to question him, LR.T. of- ficials hustled him away to prepare the right story “for the public.” The official excuse is that Reynolds “misjudged the distance between the trains.” Whether this is true or not, the tripper, a safety device which automatically stops a train wheh if the lives of the passengers had not began made secondary to the LR. “economy” program, . safety tripper at the point of the ac- & stopped the train, The Daily Worker two months ago Pointed out that serious “accidents” such as yesterdays’, would be the re- sult of the speed up, and lay-off: by the LR.T. Ao 250 KENTUCKY MINERS STRIKE HAZARD, Ky y) May 24.250 coal miners of the Harveyton Mine struck here against wage cuts, intolerable working conditions and petty graft- ing of company officials. Solidarity between Negro and white miners is strong. Nearly 600 unemployed and striking miners attended an open air meeting on May 20 at Court House Square in support of the strike. The strikers have the support of, the townspeople, the railroaders and many others who are providing relief. There is considerable strike talk in the entire Hazard feld as a result of 4. —Gov- erday | siehe raise in of milk will d guantity sold. | WASHINGTON, May 24.—At her weekly "conference with newspuper | women Mrs. Roosevelt indicated the desire to start forced labor camps for. women. These are to be similar to the camps where young men are now | given military training besides laboring in the forests for a dollar a day, | | eighty per cent of which is taken off for relief of dependents. That this is a measure for war preparations was hinted in Mrs. Roose- Dex, iy, ee %,. “The Court Is Ready to Hear Your Case, Mr. ps Mooney! BI92Zi “SAN QUENT Ig By eee k. | ‘To the Dee. of the Shion Workers! This morning at 8 am States. vicious fascist regime’ in Germany. working class. , the liner Brooklyn, bringing Hans Wiedemann, special Nazi emissary, to the United Wiedemann’s vast. record, and what is more, “Columbus” docks at 58th Street, the record of the are not unknown to the American In demonstrating against the arrival of Hitler's agent. in the United States, the workers of New York today signify their solidarity with the heroic struggle of the German workers against Hitler under the leader- ship of the indomitable Communist Pariy strate at Pier 4, Foot of 58th Street, Brooklyn, demand for the release of Ernst Thaelmann of Germany. They demon- to emphasize their united Torgler Dimitroff and the tens of thousands of militant Communist and Sociaiist German workers now being tortured in the Nazi concentration camps. They also demonstrate for complete freedom from molestation or terroristic Nazi control of the German trade unions, i! ing organizations of the German working class. mand the unshackling of the revolutionary proleterian press of Germ and the release of all workers’ property seized by the fascist rulers e economic fight- monstrate, to de- | They They | demonstrate in protest against the unending murders of militant Ger- | man workers and fighters against fascism. | In demonstrating against the arrival of Wiedemar , the workers of New York raise their united voice in protest and condemnation of the American State Depariment’s action in allowing this confessed exponent of white terror and medieval barbarism to land on American soil. demonstrate as a pledge of united working class action against the pre- parations being made by Rooscvelt and Hitler for war. The demonstration against the Hitler Lieutenant Wiedemann wil! be a memorable milestone in the workers’ struggle against fascism—the rally- They the coming imperialist ing point for concerted action in defense of the elementary rights of the workers, both in Germany and in the United States. Workers! At 8 a.m. this morning at Pier 4, foot of 58th Street, Brook- lyn, show the Hitler regime in Germany and the capitalist friends of Hit- | Jer in Wall Street and Washington that the workers of America are at one with their German brothers in their common fight against fascism! (To reach Pier 4 take the Sea Beach Express on the B.M.T. Subway to the 59th Street Brooklyn station). Relief In New York Is Cut 20° Per Cent port of the State Temporary Emergency Relief Administration shows a general decrease of 9 per cent in relief distribution. At the same time the number getting re- lief has increased during month. JUDGE CONSPIRES WITH PROSECUTORS TO PREVENT EXPOSE OF OLD FRAME-UP | Judge Orders “Not Guilty” Verdict; Sends Labor Martyr Back to Prison for Life National Mooney Council of Action Starts World-Wide Move to Force Release Every City of U. “S. to to Hold Big Conferences United Front Is Tom Mooney’s Demand SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., May 24.—Tom Mooney was this rected” | evidence. | acqui | prison | not guilty. | the ; afternoon pronounced not guilty by a jury of six men and six women on an old indictment growing out of the original 1916 frame-up, after Superior Judge Louis E. Ward directed the jury to return a verdict of acquittal. The acquittal does not af-® |fect the original frame-up of | Mooney, which has kept him | confined in a cell in San Quentin |prison for the past 17 years. Al- though acquitted by the jury, Moo- ney will now be sent back to the svate penitentiary to spend the rest of his life Mooney abruptly took active charge of his defense in arguing against the motion of the prosecution for a “di- verdict of acquittal judge The ‘action of the venting the introd. evidence is as much a frame-up against Mooney as the original con- viction on pevjured evidence in 1917 in pre- The purpose of the judge's action in in a inst! noting the jur to bring verdict of not guilty was to pr the introduction of Mooney’s evid- ence. Mooney was muzzled. Officials and the ruling bankers and employ- ers of California were ready to do anything to pt i the exposure of the original frame-up. After 17 years of exposure of the frame-up plot and of the perjury of the state’s der any resulted in anything but an acquittal An acquittal was inevitable as as it became neces to bring Mooney into couri. The prosecutor | refused to introduces evidence, in or- der to prevent Mooney’s refuting the The judge conspired with iginal Fick up gang the Mooney could then be sent fae eb on ‘the old framed-up con- viction. Not Guilty—Back to Prison! Mooney was, in other words, swind- led in court, eyen while being found An innocent man is to the state prison to spend rest of his life as a convicted “murderer.” This is the continuation of the “cat and mouse” game against ent back on of defense | witnesses, a new trial un- | conditions, could not have | and the wor! ‘Tom Moon ing Class | which Mooney denounced last year following Gov. Rolph’s al to grant him a pardon after month: delay of Workers Roused to Action The National Tom Mooney ¢ mittee of Action is launching a world- |wide campaign to rally a hundred times as much support to compel the liberation of Mooney. Approaches are being made to every working- class organization, A united front of all organizations of the working- class, despite any and all efforts to prevent it, is the demand of the hour. The working class can get Tom Mooney out of the clutches of the frame-up conspirators AMOSKEAG STRIKE SOLID; POLICE TERROR WORSE MANCHESTER, N. H. All during the night gro’ ers of the Amoskeag Man fac Company were attacked by pol |National guardsmen and ground courageously aga bings and tear gas attack jstrikers were arrested held their Lines of police and guardsmen surrounded the and streets leading to the pl prevent picket lines f Those attempting to en were ‘ested At the me time the bosses are arming to the teeth and have ordered another detachment of National guardsmen from Franklin in addition to the roups already there from nouth stand sol- y increase, 5,000 FURRIERS DEMONSTRATE; DEFY view york thw mmr « AF L-BOSSES FRONT AGAINST UNION NEW YORK. — Defying a heavy guard of poice and holding their ranks solid, 5,000 furriers, members of the Needle Trades Workers’ In- the} dustrial Union marched for an hour This is official proof of| in the fur market yesterday and flung ; liet > | the scab leafiets handed out to them the cuts in relief which have taken] tbe seab leaflets handed out to them place. Up state the cuts in relief ex- penditures amounted to 17 per cent, While in New York it is 2 per cent. But in New York the number of families receiving re- lief increased by 21 per cent. This took place at a time when the prices of food have gone up. For instance in March 63.8 cents of the home relief dollar went for food, while in April this rose to 79.9 cents. In March, 29 cents ot each dollar was for rent while the following month it was only 14.7 cents. 450 Textile Workers Strike in Alabama ANNISTON, Ala., workers are on stri can Net and Twine Mills for pay in- | creases, , NEEDLE UNION ENDORSES NATIONAL YOUTH DAY NEW YORK. ers Industrial Union nt its last meet~ ing endorsed National Youth Day and calls upon the needle trades workers to participate in the anti- war demonstra! on -- ‘The Executive | Council of the Needle Trades Work- | | coration | bie Green. president fur bosses back into their faces after tearing them up into scraps. The leaflet distribution is part of the terror campaign instituted by the fur bosses and the officials of the defunct A. F, of L, fur union to smash the left wing union and be- tray the furriers to the A. F. of L.| gangster clique. | The campaign to drive the furriers into the A. F. of L. which was ush- ered in with the murder of Morris Langer, union organizer, and the re- cent murderous attack on the union headquarters, was publicly announced in the capitalist press yesterday af- ter a meeting of the Associated Fur Coat and Trimming Manufacturers’ Association. Police Department Aids A. F. of L. The campaign has the full support of the Police Department, which | agreed aid in the distribution of leaf- lets calling upon the workers to join the A. F. of L. Dudiey Field Malone, retained as lawyer for the gangster union leade: reported at this mece ing on a conference with the police department in which the police agreed “that as long as the Communists have made their fight for the contro! of industry on the fur front, we will fight them on that front.” ! of ay ee printed in the Fur Age, organ of the fur bosses, last Monday, in which he stated “all enlightened elements among the fur manufactur will join our efforts to establish and pro- NOt DiC E TO ALL FUR WORKERS: On and after Thursday, May 25,1933 all Fur Workers working in this factory, must have in their possession and exhibit a Union Book issued by the International Fur Workers Union of the United States and Canada, showing that the Fur Work- er is in good standing in that Union. This is in accordance with the pro- visions of the Collective. Labor Agreement _ between our Association and the Inter- | national Fur Workers Union affiliated with the A. F. of L. executed in March, 1932 and expiring January, 1934 In every shop where the bosses informed the workers through the above notice that they will have to register with the scab union of the A.E.L. the workers came to the In- dustrial Union and dectared them- selves ready to strike not only against registration, but for im- proved conditions on the basis of the demands that the union ad- sos ee of the uesatier paying ba Demonstration Solid Yesterday's demonstration was the answer to the joint attack on the bosses, the A. F. of L. and the police and showed un: akably the loyal! of the workers to the Needle Trades Union. Thirty mounted police, a hundred foot cops, scores of plain-clothes men swarmed into the block on Seventh Ave., between 29th and 30th Sts., to protect the gangsters who are trying to break the militant furriers’ union of the Needle Trades Workers Indus~ trial Union, Prior to the meeting of the fur bosses the Neede Trades Workers’ In« dustrial Union addressed a letter to | the Fur Manufacturers Association | warning the manufacturers that their | open united front with the A. F, of L. | and the racketeers is another move to force the workers back to inhuman speed-up, miserable conditions and | starvation wages which can best be carried through by the A. F. of L. leaders together with the underworld gunmen, This will not deter the In- dustrial Union from its uncompro- mising struggle in the interests of the , fur workers, the letter stated. The N-T.W.1U. furriers’ depart- ment is meeting greater successes daily in organizing the fur workers and a joint council to enforce stricter | union conditions for their benefit has \been established. The furriers will answer any lock-out of the bosses | with a general strike and the efforts jot the A. F. of L, sociatist-police unit-