The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 7, 1933, Page 1

Hi Get Your Unit, ion Local, Branch or Club te Challenge Another Group in Raising Subs for the Daily Worker ! Whom to Tax Tammany Hall, the corrupt and brutal New York section of Roose- velt’s Democratic Pariy, has slashed all relief payments. Over 60,000 families face immediate eviction because the Tammany welfare agencies have stopped all relief rent payments, At the same time, the capitalist, City Government announces a $30,000,- 000 tax program which will be paid in higher rents, auto taxes, license fees and bridge tolls by the workers and small-salary sections of the people The budget must be balanced, says the Tammany Mayor. What does he mean? He means that the delegation of Wall Street bankers headed by a Rockefeller agent, Winthrop Aldrich, and a Morgan agent, Frank Polk, must get their pound of flesh, The $268,000,000 loan and erest, payments to the Wall Street bankers which fall due on June 10, will be guaranteed by Tammany at the expense of the starving workers, ai the expense of the suffering and misery of the whole toiling city po- pulation. The capitalist City Government, fat with graft and corruption, as tax collector for the Wall Street banke Tha Tammany Mayor O’Brien claims that there is no money for re- He lies. There is money. Plenty of it. Where is it? How can we get it? If the city declares an immediate moratorium on all debts and paymenis to the Wall Strect. bankers, this will release $300,000,000 at once for im- mediate ‘relief, The workers demand such an immediate moratorium on al! city debts to the bankers If a capital levy of 10 per cent were immediately declared on the wealth of the Morgans, Rockefellers and millionaire corporations pos: img wealth ov property within New York City, the city would at once have at its disposal hundreds of millions of dollars for relief. The work- ers demand ihe immediate imposition of a 10 per cent capital levy on all property er wealth over $1,000,000 in New York City. Millions of dollars of proverty and securities are tax-exempt under the present laws. Those laws must be repéaled. This will net the City at least $25,000,000 at the present tax rate on property. No city official must be permitted to get a salary of more than $10,006 ® year. Scores of Tammany officials are getting over $20,000 a year from the City. Their salaries must be c! per cent or more. This will releace millions of dollars for immediate relief. There must be no wage-cuts for any city employes getting less than $6,000 a year: There must be no wage-cuts for civil service employes like firemen, school teach etc. There must be no reductions in appropriations for the schools, or for libraries or any welfare agency of the City. Taxes on the property and incomes of the rich residents of New ‘k City must be neavily increased. The city miust ley special in- ance taxes and taxes on real estate transfers. All workers and small home owners who have incomes or property of less than $5,000 a year must be completely exempt from all taxa- tion. The heaviest tax burdens must fall upon the large property owners and the rich. To destroy acts rs. lief. the infamous graft and corruption which exists in the * bureos, the warkers demand that all relief funds be ey a celtraliges iief commission to be elected by the and employed workers themselves, This will eliminate millions udverdivad costs and in-favored grants to private charities. ‘This is the program of taxation which the unemployed workers of New York City presented today at the City Hall. Their suffering, and the suffering of their wives ari children demands it. ‘The Tammany City Government protects the bankers by reducing re- , cutting wages, and levying taxes on the poor. To the Federal and ‘tate taxes it is planning to add water taxes, sales taxes, and auto taxes. The workers Unemployed Councils demand that the City increase relief, maintain salaries of civil service City employees by laying heavy 2ves on the rich, income taxes, capital levy, inheritance taxes, by stop- ng peyments to the bankers. Norman Thomas Glorifies the League of Nations Norman Thomas in the June 3rd issue of the social-fascist sheet, the New Leader, continues his services to the imperialist war-mongers, pasifist slogans. Writing under>the heading “Preventing Wars,” cer of the Socialist Party bureaucracy, glorifies tne League of Na- that international organization of imperialist banditry. If the States really wants peace “it would be better for us to join the ‘ec ue of Nations,” says Thomas. T>omas favors such a course because, says he: “tt is the League, by the way, rather than any Monroe Dostrine or P.n-Amorican Congress, which seems to be bringing peace between Pere and Colombia. And it is the League which finally rendered the moral judgment of mankind in the case of the undeclared war of Japan against China.” Ii would require a genius for distortion in order to crowd into two senvences more pacifist illusions, more downright iies, than are contained in the above. The Monroe Doctrine has long been the cloak for the most pvominable of American imperialist depredations; the Pan-American congress, far from being an instrument of peace, is a “weapon of impe- rialist pillage—a Wall Street puppet show. ‘These, accerding to Thomas, tried to bring peace to Latin America. Where they failed, the League of Nations succeeded. Hence all hail that palladium of peace. Unfortunately fo. Thomas, there ara facts that blagi such illusions. The League intervention in the conflict between Colombia and Peru was an attempt by British imperialism to counteract the aggressiveness of, Amorican imperialist banditry. Its intervention in China, which Thomas describes as an act of rendering “moral judgment,” was one of the foulest acts in all the history of imperialist depravity. Action of the League in the case of China was based upon the Lytton renort, which was a call to the imperialist, bandit powers to divide up China between themselves. It declared proper and necessary the ravaging of Manchuria, the drowning of the people of Shanghai in blood. It called for the suppression of the Chinese revolutionary movement, to smash the anti-Japanese activities of the Manchurian volunteers, which the Lytton report called bandits, to destroy the nation-wide anti-Jap- anese, anti-imperialist and boycott movement. The Lytton report called for the setting up of an autonomous state in Manchuria under an in- ternational police subservient to the bandit powers. This state is to serve as a base from which international imperialism can attack the Soviet Union and try to bring back into the capitalist world that one-sixth of the inhabitable globe now in the hands of the workers’ and peasants’ government. Repeatedly the Sihten report appeals to the bloody Kuomintang government to more ruthlessly drench the soil with workers’ and peas- ants’ blood, to serve the imperialists with greater zeal. Such is the “moral judgment” praised by Thomas. This sort of thing whieh calls for war upon the toiling masses, the “socialist” leader calls ‘preventing wars.” Socialist Party members should denounce this continuous war policy of Thomas in trying to carry into the ranks of the workers every pacifist illusion as a cover to help the imperialists carry out their predatory wars and preparations for a new world war. It is not the League of Nations that will bring peace to the world. The heroic Chinese revolutionaries, the Provisional Central Government of the Soviet Republic of China, is showing the way to peace, That is by raising the banner of revolution, by driving out the imperialists, by tearing to picces amidst the thunderous advance of the Soviet power the Lytton report and all the other weapons of the League of Nations. And here in the United States the fight against the war-mongers im- plies ruthless struggle against all imperialist agents and deceptions) par-~ ticularly the varalyzing pacifist poison of Thomas apd the social-fascists, NEW YORK JOBLESS DEMANDS ' TAMMANY HALL, BANKERS. United Front Representatives Force Mayor to 5,000. D: Demonstrate Outside Divert rt Section « of Jobless to the Battery to Divide Their Ranks NEW YORK.—The Board of Esti representatives, Listen; 5 Misleaders tempts to gag the workers’ jobless of New York, led by the Unit nile 5,000 workers waited outside an evasive answer, given by@ or O'Brien, was that the demands “Would be taken up in executive ses- | sion.” Carl Winter of the Unemployed Councils of Greater New York and Robert Minor of the Communist Par- ty both representing the United Front | Conference Against Evictions and Re- lief cuts, exposed the Tammany- banker line up and placed the fol- jowing demands before the city au- thorities: 1—Stopping of all evictions of unemployed and part-time workers. 2—Rents to ne paid for the job- less by the Home Relief Bureaus. 3.—Relief to be increased to meet ing cost of living. 4.—All relief work to be paid for at trade union wages. i: workers fnilt relief at home. 6.—Withdrawal of all police from | relief bureaus and stopping police | attacks, 1.—Control of retief administra- | tioh by workers’ committees elected | in the neighborhoods and workers’ organizations. 8.—Endersement of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill and memorializing of Congress for the | passage of such legislation to guar- antee work or benefits equal to av- | erage wages to all unemployed thru no fault of their own. Winter and Minor demanded that the above be enected immediately. Fail to Split Workers. Thousands of workers outside 6f to be given Cuts presented by a delegation at City Hall yesterday afternoon, | tempt of the leaders of the three or- | Unemployment, | ner. | sure of the (Section of the Communist International ) Turn to Page 2 for First In- staliment Today of “ ew York —Metropolis of Hunger” | NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1933 the bes 94) vat dk ee imate were forced to listen, after at- fo the relief demands of the ed Conference Agaénst Evictions and id 1,000 waited at Battery Park. The “City Hall and at the Battery cheered these demands to the echo. The at- Workers Committee on the Workers Unem- ployed League and the Association of Unemployed, to divide the ranks of the workers by changing their mobil- ization point from City Hail to Hous- ton Street and failing to stop at City Hall but continuing to Battery Park, failed. The parade as it passed city hall was greeted with cheers by the workers under the United Front ban- The cheers were returned A sign carried by the marchers on the way to the Battery> “Divided we starve, united we eat,” showed the general sentiment of the jobless. Fearful of the merging of the work- ers and the growth of the united front sentiment the Socialist - Party leaders abandoned City Hall, the seat | of the city power at which the’ pres- workers’ demands was | ganizations, directed, “Faith in the Thonsands. Winter in his opening remarks | stated: “You Fire the Reichstag, and We'll Execute: the Reds for Jeb)” Workers Preparing for National Anti-Fascist “We have placed our faith in the! thousands of workers outside and} throughout the city not in Tammany | Hall or the bankers .. . . We are not} fooled by the sham campaign to thrust the burden of the responsibility | | of Tammany corruption on the Relief | Bureau investigators by such means} | as fingerprinting.” ; > “We come here to condemn the it (Continued on Page 2) Workers Demonstrating for Relief at City Hall Yesterday Day, June 24, in U.S. NEW YORK, June » 6—Final plans for the National Anti-Fascist Day, June 24, will be made at a conference of all central anti-Fascist organiza- tions, called at the initiative of the German Anti-Fascist Action and to be held Thursday, June 8, at 8 p.m. at the German Labor Temple, 243 East 84th Street, New York City. Local demonstrations and parades ‘Rgainist Fascism are to be heid in-eit~ ies throughout tlie United States be- fore June 24, and on that day bis) united anti-Fascist demonstrations will take place at central points i every big city of the country. The Jnijernational Labor has issued a manifesto endorsing Ne- tional Anti-Fascist Day and calling “upon ail organizations, committees | and groups who sincerely desire to! fight against terror to unite for struggle against Hitler Fascism and for aid to German emigres, prisoners, etc.” Language Groups. Workers and Peoples Commiitee Against Fascism and Po- groms in Germany, in association with four other language anti-Fascist groups, has written to the reformist labor organizations, pointing out the lack of a united anti-Fascist front of the Jewish labor organizations and proposing of a united front of mili- tant anti-Pascist action. The Col mittee. writes of a united anti-Fasc: The Defense "vith Communists, Socialists, Syndi- calists,. union locals, and Muste- groups united on a militant fighting basis, while no such united front has beer. established among the Jewish} workers’ organizations in America as et. Demonstration June 24. Plans for the New York City dem- onstration on June 24 provide that all organizations pariicipating rally at certain set points in the city and| _ march in organized bodies, under their own banners, to Union Square, where the central demonstration will | take place. On the eve of National Anti-Fascist Day, rellies and torch- light parades will be held by the German organizations in Yorkville and by the local organizations in the Brown: eediniitas section of Brooklyn. PROTEST CABLE IS SENT TO GOERING CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents HUNGER MARCHERS DEFEAT BLOODY PROVOCATION OF FORD AND HIS One Department in Another the Power, Plant GOVERNMENT Stops Conveyor, in Solidarity With the Unemployed; Some Win Pay Raise All Armed Force Prepa DETROIT, Mich., Jane 6.—The armed force Workers red Age zinst of the capitalist govern ment was mobilized behind Henry Ford to keep the unemployed Ford work- ers from presenting their demands for Dearborn, when 15,000 of the jobless marched yesterday police from Dearborn, of the Amer n Legion, Ford¢ g men guarded Dear- born from the Ford jobless workers many of whom live there. They were equipped with the most modern implements of warfare. night sticks to motor boats and planes. They were all ready to use any means at their command to shoo! and kill any of the tho hunger marchers tin Ford's contrelled ci enterec of Dearborn Waited Til) Midnight The marchers remained at the limits of Detroit until midnight Many women and children camped in the open space in the evening cold They refused to be provoked into a bloody clash Employed Show Unity | Inside the plant the employed | workers defied Ford's servicemen (thugs) and were showing their solid- arity with the unemployed. In one department the workers power and in another they stopped the conveyor a few minutes as solidarity | hunger march. | To the call of the Auto Workers Union and the Unemployed Councils to bring relief to the marchers who camped outside hundreds of auto | workers responded. Food and’ water | Was brought to the marchers. Hun- dreds of workers in automobiles tried to battle their way to where the | marchers were in order to show their | solidarity. | Retum Organized stopped the department At midnight the marchers decided to return home in an orderly and or-| ganized fashion. The spirits among the workers and their families was high. The leadership showed how) state police, county deputy sheriffs, | to relief or jobs to his company in Foot and mounted National Guard, Ford’s Chief | Threatens Jews as Hitler Does (From Michigan Worker.) DEARBORN, Michigan.—-Three young workers were 2 for distrivuting Young Ford Workers| at the gates of the Ford plant. Chief of Police spied a Jewish face among the three boys and said: “If I see you here again, TH let you taste what Hitler is feeding the Jews in Germany! Brooks At this point he brought out several of his third degree imple ments such as black-jacks and guns. a dec e mov rovocation: ranks of Ford allow the bloody break their It, the prestige id. the grown tremer Make Gains relief for “the unemp! ers. Inside the plant ing down of the spec! @ general promise of In some department have already been received. Hundreds of workers have joined the Auto Workers Union. The Ford hunger march ended with the determination to keep up the fight for jobs or relief from Ford. Vote in Secret Session to End Morgan Tax Quiz Show Enormous Pr ofits Through Inter-Lock- ing Rail Road Companies WASHINGTON, June Meeting in secret session, the Senate Commit- front joint action on National Anti- Fascist Day, June 24. The Commit- tee points out that the Italian and Hungarian anti-Fascist organizations already have a real united front basis, | | NEW YORK.—Immediate, uncondi- tional release of the four Communists LU.D.Demands Release of German Communists , tee carrying on the Morgan investigations, decided by a vote of 10 to 2 that no further revelations of the Morgan income 4ax payments shall be made, ARRANGE QUESTIONS WITH MORGAN LAWYER. | It was reported that the Senate Committee would not permit its attor- | ney to ask the Morgans any further questions without entering into a “stipu- lation with the Morgan lawyer. This@¢—————— means that the Senate Committée | NEGRO IS PUT ON N. é City to Cut Wages; ® TENNESSEE JURY; FIRST SINCE "10'S Follows I. L, D. Fight in Scottsboro Case CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., June 6.— R. C. Hawkins, a retired mail carrier, was accepted yesterday as a after eleven white selected to hear charges of burglary against a Negro. The defendant was) found guilty. This is the first time that a Negro), | has been placed on a jury since the Reconstruction period following the | Civil War, Because of the Jim-Crow system | prevailing in public places, the jury was not sent out to a restaurant to eat. Instead, meals were brought di- rect to the jury room by court at- tendants, The‘International Labor Defense in the Scottsboro, Euel Lee and Hern- don cases sharply raised the demand for Negroes on the jury. Labor Recruits Used to Build a Lake in Springfield, Illinois SPRINGFIELD, Il., June 6. — The two forced labor projects in this city will be on the Lake Springfield site. Recruits from the Roosevelt forced labor army will be put to work build- ing a city lake according to the fed-| eral government they are supposed to | do “reforestation” work. PAYSER-WAGNER BILL SIGNED. WASHINGTON, June 6—The Pay- ser-Wagner bill calling for the es- tablishment of a United States Em- ployment Service was signed Roosevelt | Taxes Levied on Poor 'Wall Street Bankers Demand Cuts in Relief; Higher Building Fees to Raise Rents and Food Costs NEW YORK, June 6.—Complying with the demands of a group of Mor- the new $20,000,000 auto taxes. The new taxes also provided for taxi ride, higher fees in the build- ing and inspection department To guarantee the payments to the bankers, relief has been cut to the bone. Over 60,000 families face evic- tion because of stoppage of relief rent payments. The Tammany mayor admitted that over 259,000 families are wholly dependent on city relief. Protect Fat Salaries. No reductions have been made in the $40,000 a year salary of the mayor. Hundreds of Tammany officials draw salaries of from $10,000 to $25,000 a year. A recent estimate by city spe- cialists in budgets disclosed that an immediate saving of $200,000,000 could be effected by the removal of all useless and high-salaried Tammany officials from the city payroll. Tt was also shown that millions could be saved by elimination of no- toriously corrupt practices in all the city departments. Higher Rents. The effect of the new Tammany taxes will be to increase the cost of living for the workers and lower sec- tions of the population. The in- crease in building fees, water fees, inspection fees. ete., will inevitably be reflected in higher rents for the workers. The auto texes fall heaviest upon the small egleried strata who, io juror| gan and Rockefeller bankers demanding payment of the interest and loans of men had been $236,900,000 due on June 10, the New York Board of Aldermen today pasred mt tax on eyo *y bridge tolls and a 5- o mbes many cases, will be up their cars into which most of their savings have gone, at sacrifice prices. In addition, the added auio levies, and bridge toll will find reflection in higher food costs, since the food trucking companies will naturally pass the added fees on to the con- sumers forced to give Preparing Wage Cuts. A note which grows more insistent in the discussions of the Board of Estimate, is the demand for wage cuts among the lower city employ- ees. The strategy of the Tammany of- ficials is to make it appear as if wages must be cut, or relief must be reduced, or more taxes must be levied. Thus, the continued relief will de~ pend upon the school teachers and other city workers, taking another wage cut. Another sharp slash in the wages of the city schocl teachers is clear- ly foreshadowed in the speeches rec- ently made by the leading Tammany officials in the Board of Education who have been hinting more and more openly of “sacrifices” that the teachers will have to make. The teachers recently took 96-8 percent OSte. \ sentenced to death and of six others| wants to arrange with the Morgans imprisoned for terms ranging from| just what questions should be asked three and a half to ten years at Al-|and how far the investigation should | tona, ‘Germany, was demanded in @/ go. cable sent yesterday to Prussian Min-| ister of Interior Herman Goering by| the International Labor Defense, 80 The committee went o! | the affairs of the Mieco "cor: | E. 11th St., New York City. The cable, signed by William L.| Patterson, national secretary of the! ILD, vigorously protested against con- | tinuation of the Fascist “terrorization of German workers.” The full text of the cabie follows “The International Labor De- fense, a non-partisan workers de- fense organization, with a direct and affiliated membership of 160,000 Amer'can workers, protesis against the newest manifestation of terror- ization of German workers revealed in the proposed execution sentence against four Altona Communist leaders and the imprisonment of six others. The International Labor | Defense demands the unconditional, immediate release of these men on behalf of the international working class.” The Altona trial resulted from a provocative National Socialist parade through the workers’ quarters last | July. Nearly a score of persons, most jly Communists were killed and more than 60 injured in street fighting. The four Communists condemned to death are named Luetgens, Tesch, Wolff and Moeller. “The ten Communists who received death or prison sentences at Altona are being made victims of German Fascism because they dared defend themselves when 5,000 armed Nazis invaded the proletarian quarters of the city and precipitated a bloody massacre,” Patterson said in a state- ment. “We are demanding their release from this vicious frame-up and call upon the international working class movement to make a world-wide mass protest against both these sentences and persecutions of all militant work- ers in Germany. Have the DAILY WORKER at ev- ery meeting of your unit, branch, | mio, of kab “ | poration, the Morgan-controlled | |road holding company. It was shown that this holding company a shown ja vast net-work of roads through | | less than 15 per cent ownership in| jane roads. It was brought out that | | the Van Sweringen, the two broth- ers who are Morgan agents in the | | Allegheny Corporation, got control of the New York, Chicago and St. | Louis railroad, without actually mak- ling any investment in the road, but |through using the savings of thou- sands of small investors | How tremendous profits are made }and how “expenses” are run up| | which must be met by wage cuts and increased rates, was shown by the |inquiry into the workings of the) | corporation. Tt was revealed that the Morgan4| | controlled railroads bought $25, 000,- | 000 of equipment from a number of companies, the majority of which are controlled by the Morgans. It made large purchases from the American Car and Foundry Corporation, of which Secretary of the Treasury Woodin was the president. Woodin was one of Morgans special stock favorites, it was shown during the early part of the investigation. In this way, the Morgans made profits from every phase of the rail- road industry, from the manufacture of equipment, such as locomotives, rails, cars, to the renting of Pullmans and the carrying of freight. Quieting the Investigation, Following upon the secret decision to postpone further investigation in~ to the Morgan tax affairs, it was more openly expressed that the senate in- vestigation of the Morgans is being smothered by “higher-ups”, Senator Robinson, Republican of Indiana, de- clared in the Senate today that the inquiry was being muzzled by ‘“thase in high places”. The appropriation | clerk. |ers for the committee has been reduced from $76,000 to 920,008 ‘omms. Alttis, 500 UNEMPLOYED | MARCH IN NASSAU HOME OF MORGAN Thousands Destitute in Millionaire Center I1— MINEOLA, 1. ming from all home of J, other multi-milli- ployed w parts of Nassau County, and P,. Morgan onaires, 500 farmers and 1 hom resenting th is of pleted a hunger march here Monday } for relief. They demanded relief or work, no evictions, free gas and electricity to the unemployed, no foreclosures on poor farmers and small home own- Although the estates of some of the richest capitalists in the country are in this county, all relief has prac- tically been stopped leaving thousands of unemployed destitute. 25,000 un- employed om relief jobs have been laid off. Millionaires Deny Funds, While Morgan alone controls bil- lions of dollars the county officials say they are unable to raise funds. A bond issue of $5,000,000 floated by the county for relief, was abandoned when the rich parasites refused to subscribe to it. Charles McLaughlin, an unemployed Spanish Ameican war veteran living in Glen Cove, not far from Morgans colossal estate spoke at the demon~ stration, He said that while he is starving Morgan does not even pay income taxes on his billions. He also exposed that Morgan closed a public bathing beact on Hast Island, the site of his home, when he moved there many years ago. A mother of four children also contrasted Morgan's riches and‘her inability to feed her children, A delegation presented the demands bef the hunger marchers to the ber Another demonstration will held Priday when Ge board aS 9eee Fors onset,