The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 31, 1933, Page 1

eR NA ae oe — iy apy | } 1 i See on Page 4 Third Article on Morgan by Anna Rochester THE WEATHER—Today: westerly winds. Fair; warmer; fresh, Dail Central Or Vol. X. No. 130 Batered us sovend-clnes maiter at the Pest Office at GBG New Vert, 5. ¥., under the Act of March 5, 1879, Worker nist Party U.S.A. (Section of the Commenwist International ) NEW YORK, As the Workers See It Letters from workers on page one of today’s “Daily” provide striking vestimony that the wage cutting campaign, by direct and indirect methods has not slackened one iota with the advent of the Roosevelt “new deal.” Whole sections of the toiling population, the coal miners, the textile workers, the sweatshop workers in thousands of industries must turn to relief agencies to supplement their wages. In the face of rising prices, the level of wages sinks even Icwer. The blessings of the new deal have not been disguised by pay in- creases or so-called re-employment. Even with slight increases, for the most part forced upon the bosses by the workers through their heroic and stubborn struggle, the majority of the working class now exists on coolie wages and works under the most wretched sweatshop conditions. Here is the testimony of ‘a worker who is employed in the Norwalk Tire and Rubber Co. in answer to our call for the truth about the Roose- velt ballyhoo: He writes: “They claim they have raised the wages 5 per cent. But the workers get this 5 per cent only if they make under $15 a week...With this bonus one worker who works piece work made $6 in four days.” Is this the heralded new “prosperity” for the working class? ‘Wage increases so far gained constitute only a small portion of the huge slices carved out of the wages of the workers during the crisis. The workers of the Amoskeag, after a militant strike forced the bosses to grant a 15 per cent increase in wages, but were robbed of 42 per cent of their wages since last January. Their income is still one-third less than it was last year. ‘The Roosevelt ballyhoo campaign now stresses “re-employment” a6 the latest result of the administration policies. A Pittsburgh paper announces the return of 1,000 miners to work when “mining took an unexpected spurt.” The mines listed are the Penobscot Coal Co. at Avella and the Aurora mine of the Duquesne Coal Co. where our correspondent writes the workers have been on strike for the past two months. Is this the loudly heralded opening of new jobs for thousands of unemployed? No. The coal operators are forcing the miners back to their former jobs at the point of guns and on the threat of starvation after having broken their strike. Furthermore, whatever re-employment is occurring is the result of the introduction of the stagger plan, in which larger masses of workers are sharing their wages and jobs, while at the same time their standards of living are being reduced to a relief dole basis. A Pittsburgh newspaper declares that 50,000 more persons are on the payrolls in Alleghany county than six months ago. But 35,000 more per- sons have been added to the relief lists by their own admission, doubling the number on the relief lists in the last year. In one week 1,000 families were eliminated by the Alleghany County relief rolls and 1,800 were added. ‘Wage increases are being wrested from the bosses by the strikes which are growing in numbers and intensity. Wage cutting is being stopped by the militant strike action of the workers, The bosses in anticipation of a developing strike movement against inflation prices are attempting to choke off the militancy of the workers and in many instances are forced to grant slight wage increases. The Roosevelt baflyhoo will not stave off the workers’ struggles. The letters in today’s “Daily” showed the mood of the workers—the need for organization and leadership for the growing strike movement. The Trade Union Unity League statement in the Daily Worker of Monday, May 20, points the way to action for the working class. By in- tensive organization in the shops, by strikes for decent wages, hours and ‘working conditions the workers, will smash through the fraudulent schemes of the Roosevelt. government to drive down the workers standards. Using “Foresters” to Train Soldiers To the regular army, National Guards, various unofficial military or- ganizations, Roosevelt is quietly, without loud announcement, adding an additional large military force. The first contingent of this army will con- sist of 300,000 young unemployed workers now scattered in military camps and forests throughout the United States. Ostensibly these camps were es- tablished as an aid to the unemployed. Young boys were to be torn away from their families, sent to work in forests at $1 a day. This money to be used for relief for their families, thereby taking away the responsibil- ity from the capitalist government. However, the mobilization of 300,000 youth is definitely to establish a military corps for imperialist war, also to serve as a military nucleus to fight against “the enemy within’—the toiling masses. Much ado is made about the cut in army expenses. Jingoists shout that the government is economizing by cutting army appropriations. The truth is that instead of removing 3,000 army officers, twice that number (6,000) will be used in the forced labor camps. Surely these military men are not sent to the forests to climb trees or clear brush. They are sent defi- nitely to train these young fellows to become fit graduates as cannon fodder for American imperialism. With the usual Roosevelt phrases, the president spoke about the homely atmosphere and good surroundings in which the youth would live. But from every camp come reports of revolting conditions. In yester- day’s “Daily”, a letter was printed from a camp near Rhinelander, Wis- consin, where a young worker died because of overwork and hunger. From Kenton, Michigan, a recruit complains that “for 20 hours we lived on two sandwiches and a cup of so-called coffee”. The capitalist press admits wholesale “desertions” in every camp. To carry through its program, however, the government is determined fo ship these youth to such places where it will be hardly possible for them to quit and leave for home. Jobless from New York are rot sent to forests in New York State, but to Idaho and Montana. No doubt, Western recruits will be shipped East. ‘The struggle against this measure has so far been sporadic. It has not taken on an organized, determined opposition against forced labor and militarization of the unemployed. This is a primary task for the Unem- ployed Councils and the Young Communist League. It is necessary within the camps to organize the youth around the slogans: For regular wages; families to receive support from regular relief funds while their sons are in camp; against military discipline or train- ing; remove all military authorities; the right to organize committees and their recognition by the camp administration; against segregation and dis- crimination of Negroes in the camps, The Unemployed Councils should develop a campaign against the threats of cutting relief on refusal of the youth to go to these camps. In all United Front movements, in Hunger Marches and other activities, to raise this issue of uniting the workers to defeat this program. 2 YOUNGEST SCOTTSBORO BOYS AT DECATUR HEARING TOMORROW NEW YORK, May 30.—Mass protest by workers against the Scotts- boro verdicts and a demand for the safety of Roy Wright and Eugene Williams when they are brought to Decatur on Thursday, will alone save them from the danger of mob violence, William L Patterson, national sec- tetary of the International Labor Defense said today. At the same time, he urged that mass meetings of protest be held and that workers telegraph their demand for the freeing of all the boys at the hearing on the motion for a new trial for Haywood Patterson, set by Judge James E. Horton at Decatur for June 22. Osmond K. Fraenkel, prominent constitutional lawyer, has been re- tained by the I. L. D. to argue for the release of the two youngest Scotts- boro boys on writs of habeas corpus on the ground that they were illegally tried, since both were juveniles. Fraenkel will join Gen. George W. Chamlee, chief Scotteboro defense counsel, in the hearing before Judge Horton on Thursday WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1933 USE GAS, GUNS, AGAINST NATIONAL YOUTH DAY MEET IN NEW JERSEY 5 in Hospital, 15 Arrested in Perth Amboy, Center of War Industry BULLETIN. Five young workers were so badly injured that they were taken to the hospital. They are held incommunicado. Fifteen were arrested. PERTH AMBOY.—Tear gas bombs, guns firing blank cartridges, mo- torcycle cops running into the crowd and squads of cops using their clubs were used to break up the National Youth Day anti-war demonstration of 1,500 young workers here yesterday. Many were injured and dozens were arrested. The number has not —-—yet been determined. The youth were 5500 MARCH THRU &. sec" ators. me RAIN ON YOUTH DAY, NEW YORK Although given a permit, attempts to break up the young workers was NEW YORK.—Though drizzling here all day, all Harlem, turned out made from the beginning. When the youth arrived at city field after 500 yesterday to take part in, to watch, to cheer the National Youth Day had marched through the city, police barred their way. Determined to hold anti-war parade and demonstration of 5,500 young workers, students and the demonstration, the workers adults from dozens of organizations. Just as the march began from 128th St. and Lenox Ave., heading north a “jingo” Memorial Day parade approached. The Red Front Band leading the workers broke out with the “Internationale,” the workers taking it up, while the thousands on the sidewalks and crowding every window with as many heads as could get in, cheered. There was a noticeable coldness to the “jingo pa- rade.” From 128th St. the march went to 140th St. then west to Seventh Ave., down Seventh Ave. to 116th St. c Fifth Ave., down to 110th St. for the | main demonstration. A huge red flag led the workers, while behind came dozens of organ- igations giving color with their ban- ners and placards carryink the slo- gans of the day. From the beginning to the end, a continuous shout was kept up of “Down with Bosses’ War.” “The Scottsboro Boys Shall Noi Die,” “Free Tom Mooney.” These slogans were taken up by many on the side- walks and in the windows. The Young Communist League of Brooklyn was the first organization in line with a placard “Stop Ship- ment of Munitions to Japan,” and “12,000,000 deaths, 20,000,000 crippled in the World War.” Chairman of the meeting which opened at 4 p.m., was Winston of the Harlem Section, Young Communist League. Speakers included Harvey Spencer, Section Organizer of the Youth in Harlem; Irving Brown, rep- resenting the Young People’s Social- ist League; Irving Leuchter of the Young Circle League; Steve Kings- ton, Section Organizer of the Com- munist Party; Sam Pevzner, National Committee, International Workers Order Youth, The meeting was opened with the “Internationale.” The stand was flanked by large red banners of the Storm Troop, Red Front, Spanish Workers, Marine Workers, Unem- ployed Council, Section I and 2, Com- munist Party, and a number of others, is Brown of the Young Peoples So- cialist League said: “Let this day be the first step in welding all work- ers together in the fight against im- perialist war.” Some of the placards used were “Down with Machado, Murderer of ‘Young Workers,” “Support the Strug- gle of Young Workers and Students Against War,” “Support the Struggle of Cuban Workers.” Hundreds of Negroes Following them were a section of Pioneers in uniform, the Youthful Guardsmen, Communist Pariy, Un- employed Council, Council of Work- ing Class Women. An impressive sec- tion was the Haywood Patterson Branch of the International Labor Defense with several hundred Ne- groes, A vivid proof that the rank and file members of the Socialist Party and affiliated organizations are deter- mined to take part in united actions despite the obstructions of their leaders was the presence in line of the Upton Sinclair Branch of the Young Circle, a Socialist organiza~ tion, Organization after organization came swinging in, adding their num- bers. The Marine Workers Industrial Union, Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union, Prospect Workers Club led by a band, Mid-Bronx, Downtown, East Side Workers Clubs, the Labor Sports Union in sport uni- forms, Students March The National Student League marched with a huge red flag on which was inscribed “Fight Against Imperialist War.” In this section was the City College Evening Group, Cooper Union Students, C.O.N.Y. The students shouted: “Abolish the R.O. T.C.! Fight Against the C.M.T.C.!” A worker dressed as Hitler behind whom followed workers in chains aroused a buzz of comment and in- terest. A solid line of workers two and three deep greeted the marchers as they went down Seventh Ave. marched to a private sports field, where they started meeting despite police provocation. Just as the speak- ers ended with their calls to fight against imperialist war, the police swooped down, spreading a barrage of tear gas, firing guns and swinging clubs, Among the speakers were White, of the Young Communist League, Goldberg, of the Pioneers, Rebecca Grecht, district organizer of the Communist Party in New Jersey. White was badly hurt. The young workers gathered their forces together after the attack and held a meeting in a hall. Arsenal Producing | Armored Cars to_Use Against the Workers (From a Worker Correspondent.) DES MOINES, Ia.—At the Rock Island Arsenal they are manufac- turing armored cars. The cars were demonstrated on the streets of Davenport. These are to be used against demonstrators of any kind, or hunger marchers and strikers. —BOB NORRIS. FUR MEET TONITE: IN COOPER UNION Defy Boss Attack: | Will Mobilize Support | for Shop Strikes | NEW YORK.—Tonight immediate- | | ly after work, fur workers of New York will turn out by thousands to| the biggest demonstration ever staged | ;in order to mobilize their strength| | to defeat the attacks of the fur "boss- | |es and the A. F. of L. The demon- | stration will rally the fur workers in | support of the strike struggles which are growing daily against forced reg- istration in,the A. F. of L., for in-| creased wages and for a minimum) wage scale. The strike committee extended an invitation to William Green and M.| Woll to speak at the meeting and de-| ing with the bosses against the fur- riers. The Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union is also issuing an open letter to Messrs. William Green and M. Woll to the same effect. Speakers at the meeting include) Ben Gold, Louis Hyman, Irving Pot-| ash, Joe Winogradsky, Apochinsky, vice-chairman of the Trade Board,| j and other fur workers. | | Morning Demonstration Today at 10 am. fur workers of| | every shop on strike will meet at the Union Hi’] and will march to the mar-| ket after their meeting, in another) tremendous demonstration against the scab agents and the bosses. | Despite the holiday another mili- tant demonstration of furriers took| place yesterday when thousands of| workers gathered in the fur merket.| The scabs failed to appear. The mass demonstrations of the furriers occurring almost daily in answer to the new attacks initiated by the bosses together with the A. F. of L. have proven beyond doubt that the furriers are determined to fight to the last for the protection of the elementary right to organize and to belong to a union of their own choice. ‘The tremendous sentiment for struggle among the furriers has al- ready caused consternation in the enemy's ranks. They. are. receiving expected. Strike Against AFL. Registration ‘The shops of Loringer and B. Gel- ler, employing 50 workers each—were counted upon to be the first to reg- ister the workers in the A. F. of L. In one of the shops the boss made out a check covering the initiation fee for all the workers. But in both shops the workers answered the boss- (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3) |FIGHT FOR THESE DEMANDS AT HOME RELIEF RUREAL TODAY | 41. Stopping evictions of unem- | ployed or part time workers un- | lable to pay rent. | 2. Payment of rents for the |unemployed by the Home Relief | Bareau. \ | 3. Increasing rekef | rising cost of living. 4. Ceasing of police and court | |attacks upon jobless who protest \the city’s starvation and eviction | Gee FIGHT FOR RENT, to meet r Roosevelt Expresses His Gr: FOOD, TODAY AT cpresses RELIEF BUREAUS NEW YORK.—A forceful answer to fend their course of action in unit-| Tammany Hall’s “economy” program | ot “no rent—and reduced relief” to unemployed will be given todey when workers and their families in every section of the city will mass at the ;15 Home Relief Bureaus in Manhat- tan, Brooklyn, Bronx and Queens at 10 am., to demand an end to evic- tions and an increase in relief and immediate payment of rents. The Unemployed Councils of | Greater New York, who will be in the forefront of the demonstrations, WHAT IS GOING ON BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE MORGAN INQUIRY The Daily Worker will run on Saturday, June 3. 3 remarkable exposure of what is going on behind the Morgan investigation, written by James Casey This will be the first public story on the canses and purpose of the present Senate Investigation which has resulted in such startling revelation: CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents MILLIONS MORE MORGAN PROFITS DISCLOSED BY FEDERAL TRADE PROBE Separate Investigation by Government Bureau Adds to Large Profit Disclosures of Senate Investigation Now Going On for See- His atitude retary Services As Resignation Is Considered WASHINGTON, May 30.—On top of the revelations that have come to light in the few days of Senate investigation of the Morgans, another investigation which is getting very little | publicity, has exposed further colossal Morgan profits from | stock merger operations. | The Federal Trade Commis-* | sion has just made public that the Morgans made millions of nopoly grip of the p formed in January, 1929, eral smaller utility companies. es, was | dollars in their organization of one| The Morgan securities deposited |of their utility holding companies! with the new company cost them which controls more than half of the | $69,642,000. On the books of the jelectric power production in the| United Corporation, they were val- in a statement yesterday asked that | country. workers come with their dispossess|; The United Corporation, one of the notices and complaints. These are to| main Morge7 instruments in its mo- be gathered together by a delegation of five to be elected at each bureau. | — The delegations from each bureau| will meet at the headquarters of the | ued at $122,840,000, an overnight in- (Continaed on Page Three) Unemployed Council not later than | Allentown Silk Workers 12:30 p.m. from where the combined | delegation each with their list of| cases will go to City Hall and present | blow after blow front places least) the demands for rent and relief. Stay at Bureaus | The workers at the bureaus will | wait there refusing to leave until joe delegation returns with a re- port from City Hall The demonstrations were called by the United Front Provisional Com- | mittee Against Evictions and Relief. | | The. committee will send a delegation | | of its own to City Hall at the same| time with the delegates from the bu- | Teaus. It has notified Mayor O’Brien | that they will be there at 1 p.m. } |10 PRISONERS KIDNAP WARDEN, | LANSING, Mich. — Kidnapping | Warden Kirk Prather and two prison | guards and wounding another, ten | armed prisoners escaped over the wall of the Kansas Penitentiary here yesterday during a Decoration Day baseball game. The prisoners piled into an auto- | mobile, using the guards as shields | against shots, and drove away. | Strike for Higher Pay Quaker Silk Mill Boss Raise Pay When Wea- vers Walk Out on Call of Strikers ALLENTOWN, Pa., May 30.—Two nundred silk workers walked out on strike on Saturday against the Suntag Silk Mill demanding pay increases and the installation of methods of measuring the amount of silk produced to prevent robbery of their pay envelopes. Following this action a committee of strikers from the Suntag mill sue eran Out the. weavers: of &—@£@<—_—______—____—___-__ the r Silk Co. Fearing a strike t ie in the mill, the boss immediately | Cs amimiccy vont Tank and Mle action granted the weavers a 20 per cent | increase in wages. | Miserably low wages have been The strike started on Friday night | revealed as a result of the strike when the third shift stopped work. | Workers have been getting $10. for The workers then. succeeded in pul- | two weeks’ work. One worker re- ling out the mill 100 per cent on the | ceived as little as a dollar fifty for following day. | 24 hours work on the night shift. The strikers have elected a strike} The action committee is planning committee, have organized mill pick- | the extension of the strike to other eting and have accepted leadership ' mills. Stagger System Spread Out Poverty, Throws More on Relief : Lists; Wage-Cuts Directly Contradict Wage-Raise Propaganda $8 A Week in Norwalk) Tire Co., Including Much-Heralded Raise By a Worker Correspondent SOUTH NORWALK, Conn.—The capitalist papers in Connecticut have been spreading the Roosevelt prop- aganda about prosperity coming back and wages going up. * One place they have been bvuosting is the Norwalk Tire and Rubber Co. They claim they have raised the wages 5 per cent. But they get this five per cent only if they make under $15 a week. The workers in this vicinity know that this place is one of the cheapest in this section, so they were all sur- prised when they heard of this raise. About two months ago this place cut the wages about 22 per cent, so now they are giving back five per cent. With this bonus one worker who works piece work made $8 in four days. All the shops around here just gave their workers another cut. Former Tire Worker. Glass Co. Cuts Oldest Employees the Deepest By a Worker Correspondent VINELAND, N. J.—Conditions here refute the claims of the brazen cap- italistic press. The Illinois Glass Co. has recently started to cut wages. The under bosses are their first vic- tims. At the age of 50, they get 1215 per cent cut. At the age of 40 they get 8% cut, and under that age they get 6% cut; and they are noi put- ting any more men to work. And they are going to make a general cut on all hands soon. > I was formerly employed by this Glass Company. My labor has been exploited by them for 11 years, but having reached an age that-I-may- not-be quite so profitable to them, I have been relegated to the street as a forgotten man. The Illinois Glass Company's fac- tories are full of improved machin- ery, doing the work that formerly was done by hands. And some of their machines are doing the work with 2 or 3 to operate them, the work 40 or 50 men usually did. These men and boys are now on the street starving! CONNEAUT, O.—The rising wages story doés not hold good for this town. Recently the Board of Educa- tion has given the teachers a 10 per cent wage cut. Also they have cut Baas 26H cur : (6K cor 10% Raise worn omar, ® =— PAPERS HAIL END OF STRIKE AS AN INCREASE IN JOBS By a Mine Workér Correspondent employment here. The paper car- ries an article that “One Thousand Miners Going Back to Work Soon.” On April 1 the miné 2 of the Pen- obscot Coal Co. in Avella and the Aurora Mine of the Duquesne Coal Co. were shut down by a strike. Al- though these mines aré now working, it is because of treachery and the reign of terror Ict loose by the Shériff J. A. Seaman, and gangster elements of the United Mine Workérs and American Legion, The article tries to imply that the mines mentioned weré closed by lack of orders, and that the miners who are returning to work have been unemployed for 4 months. One of our local papers heré car- ried an article about an increase in wages of 10 per cent for the workers in the rubbér factory here. I spoke to two workers who work there. One said he did receive an increase, an- other said he didn’t, nor did any- body éise he knew of. Only Picked Workers Get Raise As both these workers were from different departments, we can come to the conclusion that one strategic- ally picked department, or some few strategically pickéd workers in the plant got an increase in wages. Unemployment Increases—Relief Lists Grow Also the Pittsburgh papers triéd to play up the decrease. in unem- ployment. -But the figures show that while theré were more persons on the payrolls than 6 months ago, this was due to the stagger system. Ac- tually there are 35,000 more on re- lief. This méans that more and more the burdens of the crisis are being unloaded.on~ the shoulders -of the workers. JEANETTE, Pa—With regard to| Feel at Home in This | Wage-Cutting Town | By a Worker Correspondent | DENISON, Texas.—If all the capi-| talist press lies of wage increases! and returning prosperity would only | fill empty bellies and put a few more | rags on naked backs, then their vel-| | vet phrases, of good times coming, | would, maybe, fool a few of the starv- ing workers and impoverished farm- jers, but hese are the facts of wage | “increases” around Denison. Cotton chopping (hoeing and thin- ning) has opened up at the same price as last year—T5c to $1 per day and work 11 to 12 hours a day. $1.25 a Day for a Family of Four The pecar pickers received last fall five cents a pound for picking out} pecan meats. This winter they were; jeut to four cents. The cut was! brought about in the usual capitalist under-handed way: The company closed the factory and told the work~- ers that all that cared to do so, could) take pecans home {to pick at four| cents a pound. A family of four or five could only make $1.25 a day. The produce house, last fall paid a starvation price of 2c for picking a| chicken. They cut the price this win- ter to just one cent per chicken. Th place is filthy and wet all the time A Mr. (please put emphasis on the} Mr.) Patterson of Kansas City has bought the old over-ail factory and opened it up. It was a union shop and all werkers belonged to the union, but it surely hasn't opened up at what one could call union wages. Workers are only making about one- quarter of what they did when it closed over a year ago. For bundles which they received $1.04 then, they only receive 27¢ now. This is a hell of an increase in wages. Patterson says that as soon as possible the plant will be running at full capacity, us- ing about 250 workers. At present, 60 are workit:g, and none but old ex- perienced hands are ‘wanted. The mattress factory, which has been closed almost two years, was opened up a few days ago. 'They have @ government order for 3,000 mat- tresses to be delivered July 1st. My opinion is, that they are for Roose- velt’s one dollar per day ‘orced labor army. Prices Go Up Five Weeks Ago Now Flow: 35¢ for 24 Ib, —-50-55e B-100 190) Salt Meat Se per Ib. Orux ¢margerine) 9¢ per Th. | broke out in a mutiny today. Un-jand Pacific Tea wet smnew,, | Wage ‘Increases’ Don’t. Crude Work—Faking the Prosperity News This, Aerial lant ot the Todd Shipsarde Corporation in Rrooklyn fs « Reminder af the Busy Days of Shy a i 2 plats . he Centr Two items, flatly contradicting each other, from the same edition of the New York Times, Sunday, May 28. The picture claiming a big boom in the shipyards was in the “Week End Cables” section, and the news item of the collapse of ship building was in the general news section. “Times” Prosperity Picture a Fraud; Worker Exposed Shipyard Ballyhoo NEW YORK—The picture in the Sunday issue of the Times shower the S.S. Manhattan tied up in the Robbins drydock as proof of prosperity in the shipyards. They took it from the air to conceal the fact that only 57 men were working on her. Hundreds of workers line up daily looking for work in the yard. Forty-five painters put in 64 hours in two days and got paid off $4.85 About 12 iron workers got a similar amount of work and the job was done Did you see the story in the same issue about ship building being at « standstill? That is the true story and the picture is a lie, Part of Roose« velt’s campaign to make us think prosperity is returning. We are still watt. ing for work at the Robbins drydock—Robbins Worker, (By a Worker Correspondent.) MILWAUKEE, Wis.—The Atiantir Co. are cuttins confirmed reports estimate that eight) wages suddenly and drastically, ir escaped taking the warden with them.|face of rising prices. Where is thir ‘The causes for the mutiny. are not|te end? reported. LANSING, Kan., May 30.—Convicts | at the Kansas State Penitentiary) —A Friend of the “Worker” Catia SOT aN