The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 30, 1933, Page 1

1 | { | i i 513 é ¥ Fe | j Roosevelt Sees Nothing Wrong See on Page 4 Third Article on Morgan by Anna Rochester Dail Central Org Vol. X, No. 129 Mtered ax vesomd-chnss maiter at the Post Office at Mew York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 3, Today Is National Youth Day! Demonstrate Against Imperialist War! Worker nist Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist International ) 1378, Memorial Day and National Youth Day Today is Memoriai Day. "Today the owners of this country, Mor- gan, Rockefeller, Ford, and their millionaire brethren, will parade their army, while their paid politicians, the Roosevelts, Woodins, and the hired tribe of Congressional mountebanks, together with the paid generals like Pershing, will make hypocritical speeches to commemorate the ten mil- lion young men who died to make the world safe for the profits of mo- nopoly capitalism all over the world. Their sanctimonious memorial observances will be accompanied this year by even greater displays of military force. In the pauses between the peace speeches, they will be sighing for the old days of huge war profits, and planning a new holocaust. In the memorial ceremonies that they will stage today, decked out with the trappings of war and with the flags patriotically waving, they will try again to whip up the spirit of nationalistic jingoism, and pre- pare the minds of the youth for the new wars they are planning behind the cover of their noisy peace talk. Today, in a world shaken by crisis, with the profit system at stake, the capitalists will be thinking of new wars. Today, too, millions of hungry workers, Negro and white, will re- member past wars. Gold Star mothers will weep for the sons they gave to maintain in plenty a*class that keeps mothers in hunger and want. ‘The wives and children will remember that the government for which their husbands and fathers fought in 1917 gives them now—bayonets | and tear gas to the vetcrans at Washington last July, forced labor camps for the rising generation of “cannon fodder” this year, as part of the “New Deal” that comes now from the White House. But today is also the Third National Youth Day. sr ee National Youth Day was first organized under the leadership of the Young Communist League, to call the youth to the fight against the im- perialist war-mongers, and to combat the Memorial Day propaganda of the capitalists. Such a call, such @ fight, was never more needed than today, when | the arch-der-ugogue Reosevelt, mouthing the phrases of peace, is pre- | paring for war with every move that he makes. The Forestation Camps, | manned by officers of the regular army drawn even from the military training academies and from the reserve, will soon have enguifed 300,000 young Americans. ‘There, doing forced labor under military discipline, the attempt will be made to raise another crop of a “‘well-drilled” army | of the master class, ready at the command, to give their blood on another | battlefield for the ‘Morgan millions | This is why we must make National Youth Day a day of struggle against the militarization of the youth. This is why we must fight | against Roosevelt’s war plans. Youth! Demonstrate against imperialist war! For the Defense of the Soviet Union! For cash relief—not forced labor. OOSEVELT has just finished a little fishing trip with Woodin, during which Woodin offered to resign, since it really did look pretty bad to have him as Secretary of the Treasury. But Roosevelt has refused to accept the resignation of Morgan’s Washington agent in the Treasury. Could one ask for more convincing proof that the Roosevelt govern- ment is at the service of the capitalist money masters? Roosevelt, whose tender moral sensibilities were so pained by the wickedness of the money changers, sees nothing wrong in his leading cabinet member taking indirect bribes from Morgan. Roosevelt, who has been observing the starvation of the 17,000,000 unemployed workers with such calm, is reported as being “irritated” at the attacks on his friend, Woodin. It has been shown that Secretary of the Treasury Woodin has been getting easy, fat profits on inside stock tips from the Wall Street finance master, J. P. Morgan. As Secretary of the Treasury, Woodin is in a position to dictate Federal Reserve Bank policy in such a way that the Morgans can cash in on heavy profits. As Secretary of the Treasury, Woodin can do the Morgans many a sweet favor when it comes to income tax payments. As Secretary of the Treasury, Woodin can be of the greatest as- sistance to the Morgans when it comes to government loans. As Secretary of the Treasury, Woodin is in a position to earn his keep in the Morgan stable many times over. UT Roosevelt sees nothing wrong in having Woodin as his Treasurer. Woodin is one of Roosevelt’s most intimate friends. Roosevelt, the crusader against the money changers, finds it neces- sary to retain in his cabinet one of Morgan’s most trusted agents. Heavier Tax Burdens At the same moment thas investigation shows that multi-millionaires like the Morgans did not pay one cent of income taxes in the last three years, the House has passed the Roosevelt “industrial control” Bill which places new enormous tax burdens on the workers, and small income part of the population. The Roosevelt administration is going ahead with a tax program which will deprive every worker and his family of part of their daily food, which will make their daily lives more miserable and difficult. A committee of the country’s leading manufacturers and business men, led by the Wall Street banker, Frank Vanderlip, has issued the following statement which speaks volumes of what Roosevelt has in store for the millions of toiling workers, the small shop-keepers, the small farm- ers, the small consumers. The statement is as follows: “Germany has taxed every wage envelope 10 per cent, and has in- stalled a 32.2 per cent turn-over tax (sales tax). We believe that the country will have to accept far more serious tax impositions than have yet been legislatively contemplated, before the budget can be balanced.” The Roosevelt tax program is putting this demand of the capitalist class into effect. Roosevelt's tax program provides for a continuation of the excise taxes which were passed last year under Hoover, These cost the people from $500,000,000 to $600,000,000 every year. The Roosevelt government has not only accepted these Hoover tax plunderings, but has decided to extend them for one year beyond the time provided by the Hoover ad- ministration. Roosevelt's tax program continues the 3 per cent toll which all con- sumers of electricity must give up to the government. The Roosevelt government has so far rejected ali attempts to place this burden upon the public utility magnates, upon the Morgans who control more than half of the public utilities in the country. The gasoline taxes, the increased income taxes for small incomes provided for in the “industrial control” Bill will cost the consumers an- other $138,000,000 every year. Meanwhile, the Roosevelt. government spends hundreds of millions tor the building of bombing planes, battleships, and cannon. The military and naval budgets are greater than ever. ‘The crisis in the budget gets worse, in spite of the $1,000,000,000 slash in the wages and compensation of the Federal employees and veterans. This can only mean that the Roosevelt government has in store greater tax burdens for the masse~ | pelled to walk and beg rides back to "NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1933 Boy Dies of Over- Work and Hunger at Labor Camp Group at Iron River Forced Labor Camp Over- power Officer and Flee from Slavery MILWAUKEE, Wis., May 29.—At Quit Michigan Camps MILITIA IN’ “ALA. FIRES - ON STRIKERS |1,000 Solid in Anniston | | Demand Abolition of | “Stretch-Out” |FIRST STRIKE SINCE 1918 the camp located near Rhinelander,) pgrROIT, Mich., May 29—Two Wis,, where a detachment of Mil-| hundred Detroit boys located at al waukee boys are located, one jobless camp near Iron River, Michigan saw | youth died. The authorities under the| 145 of their group beat ui fi pretext of “not being organized” were | ay eave eercanic, Pee only giving the boys a few sandwiches | a day and this young worker actually | starved to death. After being weak-| ened by lack of food and hard forced } labor, he was overcome with convul- sions. Suffering intense pain he was removed to the hospital in Ashland, Wis., but died enroute. Other boys} have left the camp near Ashland. | On May 17th, forty boys left, on} the following day, 60 more. At other| have been forced to stop the military camps, the conditions are showing the| drili because of the objection of the militancy of the young workers. | jobless youth there. Here the boys A few days ago 38 left the camp|are working in their street clothes. because they were getting insufficient | The lighting (candles) have to be out food. The government refused to pay; by nine each night and 17 boys ran their return fare and they were com-| away in one week from the camp be- cause of the miserable conditions there. The local papers denied this and raised a “red scare” yet the State Po- lice were seen searching the highways for the boys. The food at this camp was so poor that the boys have com- plained consistently and the officers | have promised to improve it. Stop Drills in Soo their homes. DIARY SHOWS FORCED LABOR CAMP GIVES MILITARY DRILL 2 HOURS DAILY FORT SLOCUM, N. ¥.—The following is from a diary kept by a youth in the forced labor camp here: Monday, May 15.—At mess at supper time a fight started with a lieutenant, mess captain, guards, and C.C.C. men. Physical injuries re- sulted. The reason for the fight is unknown (probably over food). Wednesday, May 17.—-Three C..C. C. men were arrested when they protested against rotten food. At# mess the boys were given terrible food. Immediately a protest came about by some militant fellows. The lieutenant, threatened them and called the guards. ‘The guards, who are army sildiers, had bayonets set in guns. They ar- rested three young fellows. Imme- diately, in protest all the fellows walked out of the mess hall. They started to shout and make a lot of noise protesting against the bad food and the arrests. All the soldiers were called out with loaded guns and bayonets and rushed into the boys, bayonets first. The boys stood their ground and forced the officers to release the arrested ones. The Officers claim that food was being thrown by the boys. This is a lie. Friday, May 19.—As a customary pass time, three fellows went fishing. Their lines got caught. Unable to untangle them, the three ooys jumped into the water. Some soldiers (guards) saw the boys in the water and told the officer. When the fel- lows got out, they were arrested for swimming in the nude which is against the rules. Some boys who saw everything tried to explain. Explanation was useless. But when the other fellows were told about it, a militant protest march started behind the guards who were arresting the boys. Others joined the lines as the protest march pas- sed their barracks. Armed guards were called out. The three boys were released with the statement, “Don’t let it happen again.” Now all the tables are guarded at mess, and good food is gotten by all. ture they may have to salute their superior officers. Some barracks get 242 hours extra drilling. “It may come in use later”, the officers say. “More soldiers dre be- | ing sent to this fort. KENOSHA, Wis., May 29. — Forty closers in the mattress department of the Simmons Bed Co. here won their demands for a 55-hour week with no reduction in pay, no work on Satur- day afternoons and Sundays, and no discrimination against active workers after a two-day strike. The strike started last Saturday noon when the strikers were expected to work thru- out the day. On Monday morning, the company granted their demands. The successful termination of the strike has stimulated the workers in other departments of the plant to or- ganize to demand better conditions. Grievance committees are being or- ganized in all departments of the plant. JOBLESS MINER, SUICIDE BY DYNAMITE SHENANDOAH, Pa. — Herman Quinch, 36-years old, a miner and hero of the World War, blew himself up with dynamite. He was out of work a long time, and this drove him to suicide. He was living at 1208 Call Street. At Soo, Michigan, the authorities | WIN DEPT STRIKE |of the soldiers are openly sympa-| al __AT SIMMONS BED Military training is given for two hours daily. Strict army discipline is maintained by all. Everyone must salute the flag and in the near fu- F or Unemployment Insurance! Demonstrate National Youth Day, May 30! FRAENKEL LEAVES FOR DECATUR FOR HEARING ON TWO SCOTTSBORO BOYS Lawyer Engaged by I. L. D. to Demand Horton Free Roy Wright and Eugene Williams NEW YORK.—Osmond K. Fraenkel, prominent New York constitu- tional lawyer retained by the International Labor Defense to argue the writs of habeas corpus demanded for the two youngest Scottsboro boys, Ro¥ Wright and Eugene Williams, will leave here today for Alabama to appear at the hearing before Judge James E. Horton in Decatur on June 1. —® Meeting George W. Chamlee, chief of the LL.D. Scottsboro legal corps, Wednesday in Chattanooga, Fraenckel will confer with him regarding the moves to be made in connection with the fight to free the boys. “We will demand that the two boys, Roy Wright and Eugene Wil- liams, be liberated from jail‘on the grounds that they have been improp- erly held there, in violation of Ala. and Federal laws guaranteeing them a fair and speedy trial,” said Fraenk- el yesterday, also, that the circuit court held them illegally since as juveniles they should have been turned over to the juvenile court for prosecution.” Should the release of the boys be denied by Judge Horton, a vigorous fight will be made by the defense to have Roy and Eugene turned over to the juvenile court. Fraenkel is the author of a book entitled “The Sacco-Vanzetti Case,” published in 1934 ee————————E A. F. of L. Prepares to Sell Out Strikers | By Special Das'y Worker Reporter | ANNISTON, Ala., May 29.—An at- tempt to open the Utica Knitting Mills with fifteen scabs and the opening of rifle fire by National | Guardsmen when the strikers at- tempted to speak to the scabs mark the end of the first week of the strike of 1,000 mill workers here. The work- ers are striking against the institu- tion of the stretch-out system which slashed wages to from $1 to $3 a week for 55 hours. The rifle fire of the National Guardsmen was directed at an auto- mobile containing textile strikers just as the strikers tried to talk with the scabs who were being escorted from | the mill. Seven bullets lodged in the | strikers’ auto. No one was hit. | The strike is the first of any in this city since 1918 and the first to occur in the textile industry in the city’s history. Mill Owners “Divide and Rule” The mill owners here provided a | classic example of the customary | Southern strategy of pitting Negro against white workers by announcing yesterday that if strikers, all of whom are white, do not return to work im- mediately, they will employ only Ne- gro workers. The strikers, however, are deter- mined not to return to work until their demands are won. The entire city with the exception of a handful of mill bosses and Chamber of Com- merce members is supporting the | strike. Not a single resident of An- | niston answered the sheriff's call | for deputies to break the strike. Many thetic to the strikers. Yesterday | private mill guard from Gadsden tore off his uniform and declared his sup- port of the strikers. Googe, A. F. of L. representative who has just sold out the Mobile strike, arrived in Anniston Thurs- day to perform the same job here. Three thousand <‘rikers attended a meeting at which he spoke. demagogically playing to the mili- to stay out until their demands are won, he met secretly with a commit- groundwork for a sell-out. The strik- ers are hungry for any kind of union and are supporting Googe’s Pposals. Solidarity of Georgia Workers U. S. Department of Labor Con- ciliator Richardson left town yester- day after several unsuccessful at- tempts to betray the strike. The workers of Rome, Ga., on hearing of Richardson’s presence in Anniston, untarily sent several carloads of | workers to warn the strikers against him. The strike was declared here when an aged woman worker informed the superinténdent that she would not be able to do the work required under the new stretch-out plan. The entire mill walked out with her. Under the new system, the mill workers are ex- pected to sew 19 dozen men’s heavy underwear suits for $1.80 a day. If the workers sew less they are docked. If machines break down in the knit- ting rooms the girls must stand by without pay until they are repaired. Wage computations are so intricate that the workers never know how much they will get. Only 10 per cent work fast enough to earn $1.80 daily, | the remainder average $1 to $3 week-~ ly. Night workers get the same pay for 12 hours’ work as day workers get for ten. Before the stretchout system was installed the workers tended six knit- ting machines. Now they tend 16. A man and wife working in the same mill scarcely earn enough to buy food. Laborers get 10 cents an hour. The strikers demand abolition of the stretchout and their old scales which would bring them $15 weekly. | Penn. RR ‘Borrows’| Millions from RFC; Declares Dividend The Pennsylvania Railrcad has just declared a dividend of 50 cents a share on its tommon stock. This means a dividend disbursement of over $6,000,000 to its Wall Street stockholders. At the same time, the Pennsyl- vania has been granted loans of $27,500,000 from the Re- construction Finance Corporation. ‘Thus, the money collected by the government from the people in taxes goes through the R.F.C. to! Wall Street stockholders as divi- dend profits. Mass Here Today oe) YOUTHMARCH IN HARLEM While | tancy of the strikers and urging them| tee of five yesterday to lay the| pro- | in wonderful spirit of solidarity, vol-| AGAINST WAR Start at 2 P.M. From 128th St. and Lenox Ave. NEW YORK.—Thousands of working-class youth, students and aduks from political or- ganizations, unions, ma or-| ganizations, representi | g vari- | ous political beliefs and affiliations | will join in a united demonstration | starting at 128th St Harlem, at 2 p.m the banners of worki —National Youth Day perialist War. Follcewing the mobilizing point: for the var organizations Group A on 128 Street (all streets corner Lenox Avenue) in- cludes members of the Young Communist League, Young People Socialist League and other youth organizations not listed in follow- ing categories B and C. Group B 129 Street, includes all members of unions. Group C—130 Street, all mem- bers of LW.O. Youth Branches. Young Circle League, National Student League, International Labor Defense and Labor Sports Union, | Group D, North West corners 121 Street, members of organ- izations (not included in A, B and C) located in Brooklyn and Bronxville. Group E, North East corner 131 Street, all Bronx organizations. Group F, North West corner, 132 Street, all downtown organ- ‘zations, Group G, North East corner, 132 Street ,all Harlem organiza- tions. and Lenox Ave., today, and raise | class May 30! Agi m- movement against Japanese rule in| Manchuria is growing active again| with the coming of Spring, according to dispatches to the Moscow press. | Well-armed insurgents, who have} been reinforced by defections from} the regular Manchukuo army are} operating in Kirin Province. Man-| chukuo garrisons have revolted and| gone over to the guerilla troops in Heilungkiang Province. | The Harbin press reports that the garrison revolted in the town of Tun- sinchen, Kirin Province, burned the} town, made 600 prisoners and escaped to the hills. On May 20, part of the Hantachedzi station garrison rebelled | and joined the insurgents near the} station of Sochindzi. After a rebel attack upon the Mak-! i Y Bring the Daily Worker to the Masses with 20,000 New Readers ———— THE WEATHER Probable Showers Price 3 Cents MORGANS MADE BIGGER PROFITS DURING CRISIS THAN BEFORE ’29 CRASH Secret Files Disclose Many Millions in Profits from Stock Deals Made When the Stock Market Was Falling CITY EDITION Woodin’s Name Appears Again on Newly- Discovered Files; 1932 Profits Still Kept Secret WASHINGTON, May 29.—Examination of the evidence produced at the Morgan investigation reveals that the Mor- gans made more profit from their stock selling business dur- ing the ¢ years of 1930 and 1981 than they did during the “prosperit year of 1929 + The total profit of the Mor- gan banking company and its Philadelphia affiliate, from its issuing of stocks during 1930 wa $6,700,000, as compared with a profit of $3,000,000,000 during 1929 This part of the Morgan business. the Morgan partners have testified is only a small fraction of their en- tire transactions, which reach stag- gering totals of many billions, their ales of bonds totalling more than six billion dollars in the last ten years. The profits for 1932 have not been made public by the Senate investigat- ing committee. More Than a Million on One Deal The Senate Committee has not seen fit to tabulate the enormous profits which the Morgans repom:d from their other stock deals. The profit in only one of these deals, a deal in Proctor and Gamble, leading makers of popular brands of soap, was over $1,850,000. In addition to these profits, the secret files of the Morgans disclose |that they made millions from man- aging stock issues; $4,074,000 in 1930. $1,189,000 in 1931. Profits for 1932 were not disclosed. Many more secret profit lists have been discovered on which the name of Secretary Woodin appears again and again. However, on many of these lists the names have been left off WHAT IS GOING ON BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE MORGAN INQUIRY The Daily Worker will run on Saturday, June 3, a remarkable ex- posure of what is going on behind the Morgau investigation, written| by James Cacer. This will be the first public story on the causes and purpose of the present Senate Investigation which has resulted in such startling re- velations. Manchurian Rebels Renew Activity as Revolting Garrisons Join Them rison revolted and retreated with the rebels to the mountains. Some of U.S. AGENT OF REPARATIONS IN PAY OF MORGANS Fought German Social Insurance to Guaran- tee Morgan Bonds A revealing sidalight on the meth- ods of leading capitalist bankers was 1 by the information just made bert, wife o: rican Repa sentative to Germany Gilbert's wife was getting easy Morgan profits at the same time that her husband was in Germany ar- ranging for the issuing of the Young | Pian bonds which were soid in this country by the house of Morgan. Gilbert's main purpose in Germany was to get the German government to reduce all the social service payments which the German capitalist class has been forced to grant to the work- ers in order to avert the collapse of German capitalism Gilbert wanted all unemployment relief payments, sick benefits, social insurance, etc. to be drastically re- duced so that the interest payments S. Parkes Gil- ions Repre- on the Morgan Young Plan Bonds be endangered a tions Repre vas really nothing but an agent of the Morgans to pro- tect their profits and investments in Germany Demonstrate against imperialist war! All out National Youth Day, ‘May 30! 200 Political Prisoners Escape from Changchun, Manchuria, Jail MOSCOW, May 29.—The insurgent, ershan station, the Manchukuo gar-, from Peiping southeast to Tientsifi | itself. | The Japanese South Manchurian these attacks on stations along the| Railway is paying the interest claims Chinese Eastern Railway are appar-| of British and American bondholders ently inspired by the Japanese with| of the Peiping-Mukden line on that a view to crippling the line, but the| section extending from Mukden to revolts in Kirin and Heilungkiang| Shanhaikwan, at the Great Wall, and provinces are obviously aimed at Jap-| it now announces that it will assume anese control of Manchuria Japan Seizes Peiping-Mukden Line. SHANGHAI, May 29.—The Japan- ese puppet state of Manchukuo is for- melly taking over that part of the prosperous Peiping-Mukden railway now behind the Japanese lines. By now the Chinese control only 35 miles of the 800 mile-long line, the short | section from Tientsin north to Lutai, not counting the hundred-odd miles Win Immediate Return 15 per cent restoration of their wage ity accepted the company’s offer. ® ‘The strike settlement grants tie de-| mands for which the workers struck, that is immediate payment of 15 per cent of their wage cut instead of a. “promise” to be carried out next July. The concession which the workers forced from the company is he result of the militant struggle vhich the workers waged with all the The Morgans have large invest- ments in the Pennsylvania Rall- ee pie armed forces of the state and city lined up against them. During the strike, it was made pub- lic-thas. the treasurer of the amos--/of thg sem, AMOSKEAG STRIKERS VOTE 10 ACCEPT 15 PER CENT INCREASE of Part of Wages Cut Off Since January First MANCHESTER, N.H., May 29—Approximately 5,000 of the 7,800 work- of the shadiest ers on strike against the Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. participated in the Chinese history. Among the members balloting Saturday which determined whether the workers would accept the | °! te proposed Council are the lead- uts conceded by the company or con- tinue the strike. Over 1,100 workers voted to continue the strike; the major- keag Manufacturing Co. Frank C. Dumaine, was a favorite of Morgan and had made millions through spec- ulative activity assisted by Morgan’s tips on the profits extorted from the labor of the workers, who were at the same time receiving wage cut upon wage cut. Many of the stzike were determined to continue the | the claims for payment on the sec- | tion south at least as far as Tiang- | shan 200 Political Prisoners Break Jail. TOKYO, May 29.—A dispatch from Changchun, capit of Manchukuo. | tes that political prisoners es- caped yesterday from the Changchun jail. They over-powered their guards | and smashed the doors to make their y. Two of the prisoners were lain and 45 recaptured, while | one prison guard was slain in the out- | break. Reactionaries in North Political Council. SHANGHAI, May 29.—The North- ern Political Council now being formed by the Japanese with the aid |of North China militarists to take | over the government of North China is reliably reported to include many elements in recent } rs of the notorious reactionary Anfu clique, including Tuan-Chi-Jui, who | has been in Shanghai for the past few months negotiating with the Jap- anese command here. Fighting is now going on at Kuyuan in Chahar Province, between Kalgan and Dolon Nor, between Feng-Yu- Hsiang’s forces and the army of Tang-Yu-Lin, ousted Governor of | Jehol Province. The role of the Jap- | anese in this clash is very obscure, | as they have enough troops concen- strike to force the return of their full | trated near Dolon Nor to crush either pay cut up to 42 per cent imposed | of the two rival Generals, or both of by the company since the beginning | them, 2 do. with ease, should they want ca a Ca ee)