The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 1, 1933, Page 1

“the Soviet Union and to China. ———————————————— TH EWEATHER—Today fair; moderately cools fresh west winds. Org munist (Section of the Communist International ) Vol. X, No .131 NEW YORK, THUR Where Japan and the U. S. Find Common Ground President Roosevelt has recently been staging a series of love-feasts with the representatives of the foreign powers, a list that includes the bitterest enemies of American imperialism. It vegan with Roosevelt and MacDonald's mutual and public embraces. It has just ended with the friendly and heart to heart talks between Roosevelt and Viscount Ishii of Japan. The antagonisms between American and Japanese caplialisms, be- tween the schemes for trade expansion of these two imperialist robber powers, will be in no way “solved” by the hypocritical exchange of sen- tentious phrases by these two astute statesmen. America will continue to fortify naval stations in che Pacific, will continue to oppose Japan's demand for a navy as large as her own; will continue her economic pe- netration of China. Japan likewise will not halt her bloody conquest of Northern China, and will continue to slam the door, wherever she Is able, fm the face of American trade in the Far East. But Ishii, who was so “profoundiy impressed by the candor, the sin- eerity and generosity” of the President, and Roosevelt, who has so well learnt. how to “suile and smile and be a villain,” really did have certain matters to talk over together. Ishii let the cat out of the bag in his farewell broadcast. He asked the American people to remember that Japan “is contiguous to a vast country whose aim is to subvert and destroy the ideas and in- stitutions which most of the civilized world considers essential and even sacred.” He asked them to remember also “that these regions are also contiguous to another vast country where chaos reigns supreme, where lawlessness is the law and misrule is the rule.” The representative of Japanese imperial banditry was referring to Japanese provocations of the Soviet Union, on the question of the Chinese Eastern Railway, made through her vassal state Manchukuo, nave in the last weeks reached new levels of insolence. In China, the Japanese have already penetrated to the walls of Peiping, and are now endeavoring in concert with the Kuomin- tang Party and such double-turn coats as the scoundrel Feng Yu Siang, to carry through vigorously the imperialist partition of China and the physical destruction of the Chinese Soviet Republics. The misrule in Northern China is the rule of the Japanese. What is noteworthy in Ishii’s statement is that, in spite of the great and growing antagonism between his country and the United States, he yet finds it possible to issue this call for help against the common enemy, the Soviet governments of China and the U.S.S.R. America and Japan can meet on the ground of the overthrow of the Chinese Soviet regime, which would mean the consequent setting free of 60 million Chinese to be the subjects of American and Japanese commercia! exploitation. They ean meet 6n the ground of interventionist attack on the Soviet Union. Great as are the antagonisms between American and Japanese finance capital, they do not weigh in the balance against the hate which the imperialists share in common for the word “Soviet” and the organized workers’ power of which it is the symbol. Viscount Ishii’s brazen statement once again makes ciear to the whole working class the urgent necessity of redoubling the struggle against eapitalist intervention in the lands of the Soviets. The workers of Amer- dea and Japan and of all capitalist countries must maintain unceasing ‘vigilance and ‘show "AH 6Véh Breater” déternination than before that the forces of imperialism shall not be allowed to be set in motion against the Soviets—citadels of working class power. A Strike Ag Against Sweatshop | Conditions An outstanding victory has just been won by more than 1,000 women nutpickers in St. Louis who struck under the leadership of the Trade Union Unity League and gained substantial improvements in their con- ditions. ‘There are many significant aspecta to this strike which offer im- portant lessons to the workers. It was above all a strike to smash sweat- shop conditions and revealed the depth of starvation and misery among the masses. A host of capitalist reformers are claiming credit for “fighting” sweatshop conditions. Mrs. Pinchot, wife of the strike-breaking governor of Pennsylvania, marched on the picket line of the child-strikers in Allentown. More recently, Mrs. Nicholas Roosevelt, a cousin of the Presi-~ dent, appeared on ihe picket iine of the girl strikers and offered to in- terview the management on their behalf. Mrs. Roosevelt, the Presidents wife, declares herself against sweatshop conditions by buying only union- label clothing. These demagogic stunts are paralleled by the whole crew of labor officials who deplore the miserable sweatshop conditions of the workers which they have helped to bring about through the support of the bos- ses’ wage-cutting campaigns. ‘The labor fakers find their only solution to the elimination of sweat- shops to be in the adoption of minimum-wage laws. They hope thereby to blind the workers to their betrayals and treachery. They support mini- mum wage laws which do not raise the workers’ standards but bring them down to the lowest levels prevailing in the industry. That sweatshop conditions can be abolished only through the mili- tant struggles of the workers was clearly proven in the St. Louis strike. The workers won increases in wages up to 80 per cent and they laid Me basis for further improving their working conditions and raising their living standards. ‘The St. Louis strike resulted in the building of a union in a hitherto unorganized industry. Recognition of the union was a basic demand which was won by the strikers. Outstanding among the gains of the struggles, was the welding to- gether of the Negro and white workers in a solid front of unity. Negro and white women fought side by side and no attempts on the part ot the bosses could split this solidarity. Equal pay for Negro and white wo- men was a basic demand of the strikers which was won as a result of the struggle. It must finally be stressed that the strike victory was made possible only because of the proper basic shop preparations: careful preliminary 5 work in making contacts, in building shop committees, in preparation for the struggle. It was a victory for the correct application of strike Three Months To Go! ‘Today marks the end of the first month of the Daily Workers’ drive for 20,000 new readers. Because of late starts in all but three districts, there is little to show for the month. New subs have come in—but sporadically, not with the steady flow that indicates well-organized effort. Expirations have not been followed up systematically, with the result that expired subs hhave destroyed much of the gain that might otherwise have been made. Workers and individual readers have been active here and there, but not in sufficient numbers to show results, not with enough energy and enthusiasm to win the many new readers in whose lives the intro- duction of the “Daily” would mark a new milestone of working class activity. The absence of the co-ordinating influence of well-planned district supervision is mainly responsible for this situation. These faults must be overcome without delay, in every district in the country. The months of June, July and August are still before us— three months during which we can make up for lost time, Three months during which every worker, every reader of the “Daily”, and every member of the Communist Party, by doing all in their power to spread the circulation and influence of the “Daily” must add thou- sands of new workers to our ranks in the class struggle, - But, in order to succeed, we must begin today! VETS FACING DISABILITY CUTS JULY 1 ‘Nearly 1,000,000 Will | Be Hit by Wall St. ‘Economy’ Plan | VETS’ DEMANDS PRESSED “Fear Constituents,” Politicians Admit | “The fear of facing their cont j ents.” This, according to dispatches from Washington is the chief basis for the drive io “modify” the drastic veterans’ disability cuts ordered by | | the Roosevelt administration in the interests of “economy”. With a cut of $460,000,000 having been ordered, both Republican and | Democratic politicians, “fearing to | face their constituents”, are advo- | cating the retention of at least $100, | 000,000 to cover the disability cuts. | Thousands of protests flooding | Washington indicate the storm of | | anger among veterans. One letter, it is reported, told of men wounded lin battle who are slated to have their. present allowance amounting to $90 a month under the old regu- lations, reduced to $8 a month un- |der the new. | The present, discussion in Congress and the maneuvers of the politicians who “fear to face their constituents” is a smoke screen to hide the cuts At that time at least 800,000 vet- |erans will be deprived of their chief | | means of existence. All service-con- | nected disabled veterans, over 300,000, | will receive a cut of over fifty per- |cent; over 400,000 disabled veterans | who could not prove that their in- | juries are a direct result -of the war, because the government medical rec- | lords are at fault, will lose 100 per- | |cent of their allowances. Practically | (ee of the Spanish war veterans will | be deprived of their pensions. while | the widows and dependants will be} left without means of support. Thou- | sands of mental cases are being dis- missed from veterans’ hospitals and thousands of disabled veterans hava | already been dismissed from these | hospitals and thrown upon the | streets. In all theo cases the Negro | veterans are being still further dis- | criminated against. | } Result of Pressure. The meeting of the Democratic caucus with President Roosevelt and | the statements of the Republican | congressmen comes directly as a re- | | Sult of the mass pressure of the Rank | land File Convention held recently jat Fort Hunt, Virginia. The three | demands of the Convention which | | were submitted to President Roose- velt and to Congress must be met before Congress can adjourn. These are: 1) Immediate cach payment of the adjusted service certificates, cal- led the bonus. Postponement of the enforce- ment of the Economy Bill until the next session of Congress and publication by the veterans’ bu- | reau of the details of veteran _ | 2) cuts, amounts, number of vet- erans and dependants who will be effected. Immediate remedial relief for the unemployed and the and the farmer. | 3) SCHOOL TEACHERS | One Case NEW YORK.—Mrs. Williana Bur- roughs, a Negro teacher at P.S. 48, Queens, and Isidore Begun, a teacher | at PS. 69, singled out and suspended by the Board of Education for protesting | the recent dismissal of Isidore Blum- berg, a teacher at P.S. 23. In the case of Mrs. Burroughs there is no doubt that her activity among the teachers on behalf of the nine Scottsboro boys precipi- tated her suspension from the pub- lic school system. Both were formally .charged with “conduct unbecoming a teacher” by Superintendent of Schools O'Shea, because they took part in a protest against Blumberg’s dismissal, before the meeting of the Board of Educa- tion last Wednesday. June 13 has been set as the day for the “trial” of the two teachers by the Board of Education's com- mittee on law. . The Tammany henchmen who have charge of the city’s vast educational system were particularly incensed be- cause both Begun and Mrs. Bur- roughs denounced them for refusing a public hearing for Blumberg. Begun is also charged with “will- cul disrespect and contempt of the ooard” for saying publicly at the neeting that “autocracy is ruling the soard” and that the board was firing Slumberg without evidence to sus- ain the fake charges of incompe- oney brought against him, Both Mrs. Burroughs and Begun oa Pe uence active in the fight of the against mass | and $ ‘ Leader of the Communist frac- tion in the Reichstag went to Ber- lin police headquarters to protest against Nazi official charge that the Communist Party was responsible for the burning of the Reichstag and was himself arrested. SAVE POPOV AND DIMITROV FROM HITLER =HANGMEN The following radiogram has been received from Mos- cow: Editor, Day Worker, New York City. The Prosecutor-General of the Supreme Court of Germany in Leipzig announces that the judicial examination in the Reichstag fire case will be conciuded on June 3. The trial can occur any day now. We appeal to world opinion to defend owr brother and husband who are victims of this frame-up. Save them from the death by hang- ing threatening them. (signed) Elena Dimitrova, sister of Georg Dimitrov. Rika Petriva Popova, wife of Blagoi Popoy. Moscow, Maroseika Inetroverigski 10, Kyartira 4. . The working class © of America must organize a nation-wide campaign to free Comrades Thaelmann, Di- mitrov, Popov and the hun- dred thousand other political victims of the appalling Nazi terture regime from the fas- cist prisons and concentra- tion camps. Save Dimitrov, Popoy and Thaelmann from impending death! PHILADELPHIA—Two weeks af- | ter their pay had been raised 5 per | cent, 5,000 employes. of a local plush | factory went on strike over new re- gulations the “in- crease.” accompanying orker Party U.S.A. WHAT IS . THE SCE 4 MORGA 4 The Daily Worker w remarkable exposure of Morgan investigation, written by This will be the first GOING ON BEHIND ES AT THE N INQUIRY il run on Saturday, June 3, a what is going on behind the James Casey public story on the causes and purpose of the present Senate Investigation which bas resulted in such startling r§>lations DAY, JUNE 1, 1933 5,000 STRIKE © TO DEFEAT SPEED-UP ‘Strike Is Against Big | Philadelphia Firm LOOMS DOUBLED Pecora to End Giibdinies “By the End of the “Week Got 5 Per Cent Raise Two Weeks Ago PHILADELPHIA, Pa May 31.— Nearly 5,000 workers are reported out on strike against the Collins Aikman Corporation, plush The strikers were given a 5 per cent wage increase two weeks ago, but along with this “increase” came new regulations to speed-up the workers.| its questioning of the most powerful banking house in the world, just as They were forced to run three or four looms instead of the one or two looms previously operated. Even with the small pay increases the additional | work involved would actually mean a pay cut to the workers. More than 90 per cent of the work- ers are reported to be out on strike | Frank Mayer of the Trade Union Unity League is reported to be at the scene. 300 SILK STRIKERS WIN ALL DEMANDS : CATASQUA, Pa., May 30.—Approx- | CITY EDITION ORGAN INVESTIGATION BEING SLOWED UP TO CONCEAL VITAL SECRETS New Evi- dence to Be Sifted Over in Secret S essions Hoover’s Agent on New Morgan List; Secretary Woodin, Ambassa- dor Norman H. Davis, Gen. Pershing, Senator McAdoo Appear Again manufacturers. ' WASHINGTON, May 31. are becoming more audible every day that the Senate Committee will bring was supposed to go deeper below the surface of the Morgan dealings attorney said today that he hoped to complete the Morgan investigation by the week” , and go on to the® que#ioning of other Wall St. banking firms such as Kuhn, Loeb and Company, and Dillon, Read and Co. In confirmation of these rumors that from now on the Senate Committee will “go easy” with the Wall Street bankers, several signifi- cant developments have occurred in the last day or two. To Hold Secret Sess‘ons First In the first place, Senator Glass. leading Democratic Senator from Vir- | ginia, who has fought bitterly against | the progress of the investigation at ery step, has suddenly made peace imately 300 workers in the General) ith Pecora, the committee's attorney Silk Mills here struck for pay in-| also, Pecora has promised that he will) |creases of 20 per cent and won @| not spring any surprises on. the mem-| | complete victory after a five- day | bers of the committee, letting them | | strike, which ended Monday, May 21.) know in advance in sectet sessions Led by a militant rank and file| what evidence he planned to bring | committee the strikers gained the fol- | ¢orth. And Senator Glass, the active ‘owing demands: A general increase| enemy of the exposures has expressed | of 20 per cent for all workers in the| himself as being well satisfied with |weaving department, a min.mum| the arrangement. From now on, all wage of 30 cents an hour for all work- | the evidence will be examined in sec- | ers in the dye house, amounting to a ret sessions before it is made public. | , 40 per cent increase forcome of-the}*tus far there are several matters} workers, a minimum of 17 cents an| which the committee has decided to hour for the stick-up girls, which is) virtually @ 100 per cent increase for the majority, #nd recognition of the shop commitiee ele:ted by the work- ers representing aii departments. Bosses’ Agenis Kept Out Two days after the outbreak of the, strike, a representative of the State) Labor Department, came to the strike meeting, accompanied by a rep-| resentative of the United Textile} Workers Union and offered the as sistance of the State Labor Depart- ment in settling the strike. Knowing of the past seli-out in the shirt mak- ers’ and Allentown, the strikers refused | the offer of the representative of the Stale Depariment—and decided to handle their own strike. On Sunday, May 28h the workers held their meeting to clect the offi-| cial shop committee, sith which the boss will be compelled to deal in the future. Jobless Lay Demands on Tammany Hall’s Tabl Demand Rent, Relief; Tell O’Brien of Confer- ™ SUSPEND TWO N, Y: ence June 3, City Hall Demonstration June 6| BULLETIN. Six unemployed arrested at the Bronx demonstration were deciared guilty by Megistrate Mogolesky. The two women were sentenced to two | days, the men to five. A seventh, Morton, a Negro, who was a spectator Scottsboro Ts Factor in at the demonstration, was singled out for a special frame-up and held for trial tomorrow at 16lct St. and Washington Ave. bert, Bellog, Brown, Brandt, Goldstein and Newhorn. NEW YORK.—"We will be back meets, with tens of thowsands of workers”, Carl Winters, of the Unemployed | the Bronx, have been Council part of delegation of 30 workers told Mayor O'Brien and Commis- sioner Taylor yesterday at the City mands for relief. The delegation was clected by wi Relief Bureaus in Manhattan, Brook-%- lyn, Bronx, and Queens to demand an end to evictions and the cutting of relief resuliing from the City’s “eco- nomy” program. The Tiger Purrs While in City Hall the Tammany officials made pretty speeches to the delegation about their “concern for the unemployed” in Brownsville and Bronx Tammany’s police were break- ing up demonstrations, beating and) arresting workers. Seven workers were arrested in the Bronx when a picket line was thrown around the bureau at 149th Street. Sixteen unemployed were arrested at the same bureau two weeks ago. Woman Faints of Hunger In Brownsville police on horseback, and foot, attacked the workers, injur- ing a number, One woman fainted from hunger, cracking her head as she hit the pavement, She was left lying there by the police. Delegate after delegate took the floor at City Hall fearlessly facing the officials and saying, “We do not speak for ourselves alone, we speak for and represent the thousands of families in New York starving and shelterless due to the policy of the city.” “Conference June, 3 A statement, was ‘read’ giving the warning. the. ofty - that. the workers (COMIMD OS. LAGE THEMED Meta’ June 6th, when the Board of Estimate Hall, as the officials evaded their de- nemplored, demonstrating at 15 Home j will ny things in fhieutla own hands if-relief is not forthcoming. The statement told of the United Front Conference Against Evictions and Relief Cuis on June 3 and the pepereden for a demonstration June 6th. The delegation war. received with fear a2 respect, the Tammany offi- cials trembling at the knowledge that masses of workers waited at the bu- reaus for the return of the delega- | tion with their »eport of Tammany’s answer, In addition to the delegates from the Home Relief Bureaus were deleg- ates of the United Front Provisional Committee Against Evictions and Re- lief Cuts. The Committee is com- posed of ten workers organizations, Irving Redler, of the A.F.L. Com- mittee For Unemployment Insurance a member of the Provisional Com- mittee made O’Brien and Taylor aware of the preparations for force- ful actions of the workers for relief when he read a statement which told of a “Conference of labor organiza- tions called by our Committee for Saturday morning, June 3° in Irving Plaza’ where “We shall rally all the | forces of labor for support of this (the a demonstration lemonstration strikes in Northampton County | The workers are Git- | keep secret. In line with these developments, | ‘Senator Couzens, the member of the | Committee who was ‘the most open opponent of the Glass’ sabotaging | tactics, has been appointed by Roose- | velt to go to the World Economic Conference which will soon meet in | London. Couzens at first refused this | appointment on the grounds that he} | wanted to see the investigation thru. But he has changed his mind. He is | leaving for Europe in a few days. | Feel That They Have Gone Too Far | It is now openly reported in the LL. D. WINS STAY _ OF EXECUTION IN ‘UEL LEEFRAME-UP ANNAPOLIS, “Ma, May 31.—Gov. Albert Richie yesterday signed a stey \of execution until June 16 for Euel | Lee (“Orphan Jones”) | Negro worker who had been sen- | tenced to die in the electric chair this | | Friday on a framed-up charge of | murder, ‘The governor's action is a direct | result of the mass campaign carried on for Lee by the International La- bor Defense, which won a new trial As the Morgan investigation press that prominent and influential administration officials have expre: ed their opinion that the inv tion has gone too far for co and that it must be slowed down It would seem that this is just what the Roosevelt administration is doing aside amount fort ‘The appropriations just set to continue the investigatior to $20,000, a sum far too small to permit the investigation to go on much longer with any efficiency. Hint Douglas To Replace Woodin It is said that as soon as Woodin can resign gracefully, in spite of the fact that Roosevelt supported him by refusing to accept his resignation. | Roosevelt will appoint Lewis Douglas present Director of the Budget, as Secretary of the Treasury Douglas is responsible for the ruth- less cutting of the veteran's com- pensations benefits in the recent Budget. bills Douglas's family is intimately con- nected to the large copper mining company of Phelps-Dodge Corpora- tion, which is tied up directly with Morgen mining companies. Hoover In On the Large Profits. Today, another nationally known. name added to the list of Morgan favorites was the name of Hoover’ personal business agent, Edgar Rick- ard. Rickard was described by Sen- ator Costigan, Democrat of Colorado as “the representative of ex-Presi- dent Hoover.” Rickard handles Hoo- ver’s personal investments. He was listed as getting 400 shares of the United Corporation at a special listed price far below the prevailing market Many of the names which have ap- peared on the previous lists, appeared again today on newly published lists of special “insiders” favored by the Morgans. Among the names which hay peared again and again on the M gan lists, and which app on the third list were, the Treasury, Woodin, Senator Mc-| Adoo, one of Roosevelt's close advi-| cers, and a member of the inves | gating co committee, Norman H. Davis egins ifs second week, rumors to a ft close the investigation The committee's t “end of the Democratic candidate fi dent in 1924, John J. b, Chair- man of the Democ: National Commi of Alfred tion at $75, diately sell for $99. In quick profits were handed out by the Morgans to many of Roosevelt's clos- who still nistration machine. 18, are pax of $7,000,000 rants which them further profit of $46,000,000 was avail hem if they sold News Flash was jammed the the rain storm last r sper Union to rafters seated and hundreds u room when New Yor gathered to voice t against the boss-AFI attempt to smash the Needle ies Workers Indu Union Uniot Speakers in cluded me Union Joi all of whom der “This is my right wing union,” Brave, a signatory to agreement Hundreds of strikers FL decree. were present Big Youth Day Meets in 64-year-old | Socialist Youth in Chicago Participate, |for him on the ground that Negrocs [Leaders ee Meet | were excluded fom the jury which | tried him. De-yite indisputable evid- pedee. of innecence, Lee was convicted [at the second trial also. Plan March for Lee BALTIMORE, May 31.—Baltimore workers are planning a march on the city Hall Plaza this Saturday to de- | the release of Fuel Lee. The paras will commence at Madison Souare and Lafey~tte Square. Monday 1,000 I*egro and vhite workers attended a benefit for the | Scottsboro defense at the New Albert | | Auditorium. Frank Spector, assist- ant secretary of the LL.D. was the | principal speaker. | boro March to Washington, it was, announced, and 300 new have been enrolled. into the LL.D. Calls for Wires to Ritchie NEW YORK.—The national office of the LL.D., announcing that Gov. Ritchie had granted a stay of ex- ecution for Euel Lee until June 8, called upon all its district organiza- tions and workers everywhere to wire the governor in Annapolis demand- ing the immediate release of the framed Negro. Chinese Friends Call Anti-Imperialist Meet | A protest mass meeting against the Japanese imperialist invasion of China will be held Thursday, June 1, | at 8 p. m,, at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place, under the auspices of the Friends of the Chinese Peo- ple. Among the prominent speakers | will be J. B. Matthews, William Si- {mons of the Anti-Imperialist League, | winifred Chappell, La Wei,.and ©, A. WAY. Seven new LL.D. branches have | been formed here since the Scotts- | CHICAGO, Ill, May 31—A colorfu parade involving 100 mostly yout paraded through Chicago's south side on National Youth Day. At the meet- ing following the parade 2,500 were present. Young workers from South Bend, Ind., and Gillespie, Til. were there. Among the spe e. a striker from the nut factors St. Lo’ Jack Kling, District Organizer of the League and George Smerkin from the Young cialist League Despite the instructions of the Party and YPSL leader: members of the Socialist youth or ganization participated in this youth demonstration against imperialisi: war Peoples [and for defense of the Soviet Union. members | | More National Youth Day reports | from other cities on page 3. (See more National Youth Day news on Page 3.) 8 Students Suspended for City College Anti- War Demonstration NEW YORK. — Eight City College Students have been suspended for! participating in the Anti-War demon-| The | stration last Monday. suspensions are evidently the first| step in the suppression campaign to| be instituted by the administration. Marx Esnier, chairman of the Board of Higher Education, stated yesterday | that the students participating in the demonstration would probably be ex- pelled. At present two hundred students have already signed a statement to the effect that they too participated in the demonstration. A protest meet- ing at City College has been called for today at 12 noon, The present are an-attemnt to throt~ mA i Hy eae and Chicago 4,000 Give Support to Ford Hunger March for Monday, Nesta oot ration in Grand © in the heart of the d Parades starting f Park, area. tions hip in the demonstra ‘ation. Resolutions were adopted calling for defense of the Soviet Union, for release of the Scottsboro boys and | demanding that Hitler's bloody repre~ | sentative Hans Weidemann be ousted | from this country. | The workers gave their support to the Ford Hunger March which takes place on June 5th. Auto workers from all parts of the city will march on the Ford River Rouge plant. tle the rising anti-war sentiment of | the students. At the recent student elections, candidates running on @ ticket calling for the abolition of the Reserve Officers’ Training Camps were elected by a two to one ma-~ jority. The National Student League issued @ statement last night calling on all students to answer the reign of ter- ror instituted by the City College ad- | ministration through protest meet- | ings on their own campus and send- ing telegrams to Dr. Frederick B. Robinson and Mark Fisner demand- ing the immediate reinstatement of the suspended students. They also pointed out that Dr. Robinson was the one who attacked the students .