The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 10, 1933, Page 1

7 | ROOSEVELT'S NATIONAL RECOVERY BILL AIMED TO OUTLAW STRIKES BY COMPULSORY ARBITRATION AND TO SMASH FIGHTING UNIONS! WORKERS: | ORGANIZE TO FIGHT FOR T HE RIGHT TO STRIKE, FOR THE RIGHT TO JOIN THE UNIONS.OF YOUR OWN CHOICE! ; see Turn to Pages 3 and 5 for Spe- Get A Regular Subecription al or ef cial Saturday Feature Articles frem Every Member of Your = Organization Central Or ist Party U.S.A. Se (Section of the Communist International) crane Vol. X, No. 139 pot aes ae ee NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1933 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents Struggles Will Defeat the BANKERS EXTEND LOANS -|T**4°T0® warewnsx = GENATE ADOPTS INDUSTRY Sweatshop Conditi ac canst ee er| AOC EITY GUAR ANTERS : CONTROL SECTION OF THE gation of sweatshop conditions in Ohio and other states. State minimum ‘outa Sa gn sneer me ce ess) $30,000,000 NEW TAXES NATIONAL RECOVERY BIE! osevelt administration creating illusions that by the adoption of laws Cee ee ke Workers in these shops will be abolished. | the exploitation of hundreds of thousands of youth, women and Negro 20 e But what have these sweatshop investigation commissions and minimum wage commissions done? They have not taken a single step towards rem- edying the conditions of the exploited sweatshop workers. The Federal investigation is rather a cover to whitewash the guilt and criminal action of sWeatshop bosses. More than this, the government itself is responsible for the employment of workers under the most intense sweatshop conditions. Army contracts for clothing for the reforestation camp workers are being placed daily in shops where women and child workers toil 80 hours a week for no more than $3 a week. Ward bosses of the Democratic Party are even recruiting their henchmen to act as scabs to break the strikes which the sweatshop workers are waging to improve their standards. Yet they have the brazen audacity to declare that they are going to remedy sweatshop conditions! ee Whatever improvements have been won have been the result of the heroic strike struggles of the workers in needle and textile sweatshops and not through the action of these political machines. But these struggles haye not yet developed to the degree that a smashing atack has been made on the existence of sweatshops. It is the task of our Party and militant trade unions to undertake the sharpest struggle to defend the interest of the women, Negro and child workers, the most exploited sections of the toiling masses, by systematic preparation in the shops for strike struggle. To smash the illusions which the capitalist politicians are attempting to create in their demagogie “investigations,” we should prepare immedi- ately to hold open hearings in every city to enable the sweatshop workers to come and testify. These hearings will expose the working conditions, wages, hours and the effect of rising prices on the masses. Let the govern- ment officials be calied to state why they have permitted such criminal conditions to exist. Out of these hearings we will formulate the demands for the workers. * 8 6 At the same time, ak every government “investigation” and minimum wage commission hearing, delegations of workers should attend to present the demands for a minimum wage, for decent working conditions and shorter hours without cuts in pay. Every government investigation must be the means of calling thousands of sweatshop workers into united action against their bosses and the government. f On, the basis of these exposures ahd tides actions, strike struggles can develop to smash the starvation wages in the sweatshops and to defeat the hunger program of the Roosevelt administration. | A Socialist Justification of Police Terror The New York Committee of the Socialist Party on the occasion of May Day congratulated the newly appointed capitalist Police Chief, Bolan, on his elevation to new honors, “We wish you success in your new office,” the Socialist leaders said. Some of the meaning of that welcome becomes apparent now in the light of what the writer “Autolycus” says in this week’s New Leader about the brutal, savage attack of Bolan’s police on the workers who demon- strated recently against the arrival of Hitler’s agent, Weidemann. Before Weidemann arrived here, the New Leader declared, “Any rep- resentative of this barbaric regime should and will be met with execration and loathing.” SO peers But when workers of all creeds and convictions unite to demonstrate against Weidemann’s arrival at the piers, and when this Anti-Fascist dem- onstration is smashed by a pack of police brutes under the direction of that very Bolan for whom the Socialists desire such “success,” what does the New Leader say? “Baiting the police in the streets on every occasion, inviting them to club you, are playboy stunts, not intelligent Socialist action... . Jabbing a hatpin in the fianks of a cop’s horse is reviving the street tactics of the revolutions of 1848, . Without even using these weapons (tear gas, etc.) a hundred cops scattered a thousand Communists last week at an anti-Hitler demonstration.” Such is the comment of the Socialist New Leader on the clubbing of hundreds of workers, men, women and youths who dared to greet Weide- mann with banners demanding the release of the working class victims of fascism. - ee ee The writer in the New Leader has not one word of fury at the Tammany Police attacking a workers’ demonstration! The clubbing of workers by capitalist police does not arouse the Socialist journalist hero, The New Leader has only amused contempt for the workers who defi- antly faced the police terrorism to give voice to their “execration and loathing” of Hitler’s fascist agent. Did not the workers “bait the police”? Did they not “invite clubbing”? The workers who demonstrated against the arrival of Hitler’s fascist agent deserved to be clubbed! This is the unmistakably implicit conclusion of the leading Socialist paper, the New Leader. To resist capitalist oppression is “not intelligent Socialist action.” To demonstrate against the arrival of a bloody fascist agent “is not intelligent Socialist action.” : ele eke J But to brag with a great show of indignation that you will greet the |prrival of the fascist agent with “execration and loathing,” and then to sneer with amused superiority at those workers who feel the fists and clubs of the capitalist Tammany police, as they actually in deeds attempt to show their “execration and loathing”—this is “intelligent Socialist action” in the manner of New Leader editors. Such intelligent Socialist action deserves the “execration and loathing’ of the entire working class, Where workers gather to demonstrate their hatred of Fascism the cloistered editors of the New Leader will not be found. Their bold “fight” against fascism is confined to loud and empty words, It is only with easy and cheap words that the editors of the New Leader propose to fight against fascist terror and oppression. In action the Socialist editors of the New Leader attempt, vainly, to infect the workers with their own cowardice, - City Pays Bankers $84,000,000 in Cash; Preparing Wage Cuts and More Relief Cuts as Opposition to Auto Taxes Grows NEW YORK, June 9.—A delegation of Wall Street bankers co-operated today with the Tammany City government to avoid any serious upset in the coming elections in November by ex- tending the loans which are ® = 5c due tomorrow to December 11, 2 0 0 0 STRIKE Pd when they will again fall due. The bankers, headed by Win- throp Aldrich, a Rockefeller financial agent from the Chase National Bank, NoTICe Ta empLovees } NO STRIKES’ | Capitalist Politicians Agree to Drive Down the | Living Standards of the Working Class A. F, of L. Officials Endorse Bill and Start Campaign for Bosses’ Program WASHINGTON, D. C., June 9.—The National Recovery | Act seemed certain of adoption this week, following the action | of the Senate yesterday in voting to retain the licensing feat- ures of the bill. This phase of the bill gives the President sweeping power to. withhold licensing those industries which | do not fall into line on the de-® and Frank Polk, insist, however, that the city must guarantee to raise $30,000,000 in new taxes, or cut ex- penditures by that amount. Give Bankers Huge Cash Payment The extension of the loans by the bankers for six months will cost the city over $6,000,000 in interest. The City is paying the bankers 5%4 per cent. The rate for money loans to- day in the outside money markets is about 2 per cent. The City Con- troller, Berry, announced today that the city will sometime this week pay the bankers $34,000,000 in cash as part payment on bank loans. The proposed city taxes on auto- mobiles and bridges, which were in- tended to raise $30,000,000 to meet part of the $236,000,000 due to Wall Street bankers this month, are meet- ing with such opposition that the city government is beginning to cast about for other ways to guarantee the loans and interest payments to the bankers, From scores of automobile asso- ciations and realty interests who fear that the proposed taxes will hurt their business, vigorous protests have been pouring in, Mayor O’Brien has been forced to declare an open hearing on the taxes to be held this Monday. The Board of Aldermen has al- ready approved the city’s $30,000,000 tax plan, which will fall heaviest on the small income families of the Population. It remains to be ap- proved by the Board of Estimate. Preparing Wage Cuts If the proposed taxes on autog is declared illegal, or meets with too much opposition, the city will be forced to levy tolls on all city bridges to raise the subway fare, and cut the wages of school teachers, etc. These developments are being more openly predicted every day by city officials. Many of them, led by Borough President Harvey, are demanding the imposition of a sales tax. The cry for “retrenchment” from powerful realty and auto interests is growing louder every day. In addi- tion, the present tax plans are so unpopular that the way to further wage cuts in the city schools, etc., is being clearly prepared. Tammany officials of the Board of Education have made no secret of the fact that teachers’ salaries may have to be cut to meet “the crisis,” that is, the payments to the bankers. The crisis in city finances will be much greater, rather than dimin- ished, on December 11, when the next delegation of bankers will visit City Hall. For on that day loans of $231,- 000,000 fall due, in addition to the $202,000,000 which were renewed to- day. The city government will be again faced by demands from the bankers for more revenue, or further cuts in relief and wages. To meet the loans to the bankers, the city hasbeen drastically cutting all relief expenditures. The Mayor has admitted that a large part of the $30,000,000 to be raised by the new taxes will be for payments to the bankers, GIRL STRIKERS WIN 12 P.C. WAGE INCREASE GREENSBURGH, Pa.—After a militant struggle lasting a week, 160 girl strikers of the Greensburgh Gar- ment Company won a 12 per cent increase in wages, recognition of the shop committee of 15 elected by the workers, observation of the state law governing sanitary conditions. Hours of work will be from 7 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. | AGAINST PA. SWEATSHOPS Gain Pay Increases in Strikes in Two Shamokin Mills STATE HEARINGS OPEN Needle Trades Union ' Calls Conference PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 9.—A wave of strikes is spreading against sweatshop conditions in Pennsylvania as the state “investigating” commis- sion appointed by Governor Pinchot after the dramatic strike of the Al- lentown child workers opened its public hearings. The workers’ answer to these hearings’ shows clearly that they .expected nothing from. these commissions and will win improve- ments in their conditions only through their own struggles. Two thousand workers in the wash- able suits and pants industries were on strike this week virtually tieing up the industry. The strike was de- clared against intolerable sweatshop conditions. Victory In 2 Mills Strikes in two mills in Shamokin, Pa., of child workers against sweat- shop conditions and starvation pay resulted in victory for the demands of the strikers. A third plant, the Ster- ling-Lark plant is still tied up. Statement Commenting on the state investi- gation, the Needle Trade Industrial Union of Philadelphia in a statement on the sweatshop conditions among the needle trades workers, declares that “It has no confidence in the. State Anti-Sweatshop Investigation Committee set up by the state po- litical machine, The state represen- tatives know the situation. Their ob- ject is to exploit the misery and wretchedness of the toiling masses of the state for their own political end. The toiling masses know too well the strike-breaking role played by state officials in every important strike in the state. (Use of state police against miners, textile workers and the un- employed.) The Needle Trades Workers Indus- trial Union warns all the workers, particularly the Needle Trades Work- ers against having any illusions that this committee will do anything to abolish sweat shop conditions, It urges the workers to force the truth, the real issue into the open. The Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union declares that if any war against sweat shop conditions will be fought, it will not be by any political machine, but by the workers Mass Shop Conference The Needle Trades Workers Indus- trial Union is mobilizing the workers for a war against sweat shop condi- tions, ‘We are ready to unite and work with every labor organization, or with any individual who is sincerely out to fight sweat shops and for the im- provement of working conditions. A mass meeting Thursday has called a mass shop conference for June 16 at 701, Pine St., Philadelphia, 7 pm, MatternLaudsKuznetzMiners’ Quick Aid; Leaves Krasnoyarsk BULLETIN MOSCOW, June 9.—Mattern landed near Irkutsk, Siberia, this morn- ing at 8:45, seven days after his departure frfom New York. Before he left Krasnoyarsk for Irkutsk, Mattern wrote to the Kras- noyarsk newspaper, “The Worker,” thanking the local aviators and tech- nicians for their help in resuming his flight. Having abandoned hope of a record, he hoped nevertheless to be the first man to achieve a solo flight around the world. He left Krasnoyarsk in excellent physical con- dition after a bath and change of clothes and some sleep. oak MOSCOW, June 9—James J. Mattern, flying alone around the world, had coye7ed nearly half the circumference of the globe tonight. He was sighted 300 miles east of Krasnoyarsk at 8 p. m. (Eastern day- -® light time.) By Special Cable to the Daily Worker MOSCOW, June 9.—James J. Mat- tern continued his flight today in the direction of Chita from Krasnoyarsk, where he landed safely four hours after taking off from Bielovo. His plane was thoroughly repaired by workmen in Krasnoyarsk, enabling him to continue his world flight un- der full power. Before leaving Bielovo, which is in the center of the Kuznets Basin, miners, zinc plant workers and local authorities gave Mattern urgently- needed aid, both for himself and for the plane. Mattern was sick after inhaling gas fumes from a broken gas line, which forced his sudden and unexpected landing. As he made ready to take off for Krasnoyarsk, Mattern expressed warm than’s to the Bielovo work- men and au “orities for their quick OF “WORKAWAYS” : id efficient help, without which, he Demand S. S. El Capita raed the voontionuation tty Hie ‘satnt: Hire Full Crew the-world flight would have been completely out of the question. INCREASE DRIVE ON WORKERS AT CONGRESS CLOSE Roosevelt Plot Against Toilers, Farmers, Vets Rushed Through WASHINGTON, June 9.—Both houses of congress were today rap- idly moving toward adjournment as the remaining bills in the Roosevelt attack upon the standards of life of the masses were being rushed through, ‘The only point in the “industrial recovery” bill on which there is like- BALTIMORE, Md. June 9— Twenty-five jobless seamen forced their way aboard the S.S. El Capitan today and demanded that a full crew be hired and all workaways abol- ished. The captain was forced by a joint committee representing the jobless seamen and the crew, who supported their demands. Ashore, unemployed seamen gathered and demonstrated in solidarity with the action on the ship, including longshoremen, who openly expressed their sympathy. Captain Lies. The captain promised to call the Steamboat inspector to act on the demands, but instead called the po- lice, who drove the delegation ashore. A committee was sent to the inspec- tor to demand that the ship not be allowed to sail until a full crew at pay is aboard. ‘The company recently reduced the crew by three wipers and two deck CLEVELAND CITY WORKERS WIN STRIKE CLEVELAND—Unionized city workers have gone back to work after @ month’s strike, as the result of the withdrawal by the city of a 25 per cent wage-cut, Speeding Car of Mayor Injures Boy NEW YORK—The, autocratic rushing up Park Ave. The boy, who habit of city Officials of tearing, had been swimming at Central Park, through crowded city streets preceded | started across at 77th St. and was 47 NEGRO FARM HANDS STRIKE NORFOLK, Va—aA strike by 47 Negro farm hands on a strawberry farm of N. J. Belote in Onancock, occurred two weeks ago when the workers promised 2 cents a quart were given only 1% cents. men and replaced them with worka- ways, ie., men who work for board and passage and no wages, except one cent a month. of Union. Program The action of these seamen is in line with the program of action of the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union to abolish the undermanning of ships’ crews and driving of unem- ployed into taking workaway posts. June 25, in Starlight Stadium, there will be an anti-war festival for the benefit of the second national con- vention of the union, which will be ly to be amendments is in regard to the exact form under which the $220,000,000 additional taxes are to be raised. This entire amount is to go directly to the bankers for fin- ancing the $3,300,000,000 public works bond issue. This bill will probably be passed by the senate this after- noon and then go to the house. Veterans’ Bill Up for Action. The democratic steering commit- tee of the house today unanimously adopted President Roosevelt's veter- ans’ program and will recommend by motorcycle police blowing sirens, disregarding traffic rules and endan- gering pedestrians, almost caused the death of Theodore Frank of 244 E. Tith St. when he was hit by a car bearing Mayor O’Brien to the Baer- Schmeling prize fight Thursday night. car with the Mayor in it came hit by the fender of the onrushing car before he could move out of the way. Two stitches had to be put in the child's head. When he was told that it was the Mayor's car that hit him, it didn’t make him feel any better. He said: “I'd like him a lot better if he didn’t hit me with the auto.” * held. in July .in New York. All sea and harbor and river work- ers are called upon to send delegates to the convention, which will map a campaign for full crews, no wage- cuts, unemployment insurance and full dock gangs to stem the increas- ing tide of destitution among the marine industry workers, its acceptance in its entirety by con- gress, It is announced that this action definitely ends the “dispute” between congress and the white house. The only definite change was to lower the pension age limit for the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) | cisions drawn up in the trade | agreements. Controversy oc- curred on the floor of the Sen- ate against this phase of the bill, which threatened to eliminate the entire industry control section. It is important to note that La Fol- lette and other so-called progressive Republicans who have claimed to champion the interests of the small capitalists are backing the bill and voted to keep the provisions to en- force it. Fixing High Prices Following pressure from Borah, an amendment was adopted declaring that the bill would not permit price fixing and monopoly combinations. Meanwhile the industries are already drawing up codes establishing high price levels. Wagner, government spokesman for the bill accepted the| |amendment without objection indi- | cating that it was merely a gesture. AF.L. Chiefs Endorse A. F. of L. officials endorsed the Industrial Recovery Bill at a recent meeting. At the. same time expecting government aid and recognition in putting over the attacks on the work- ers contained in the provisions of the bill, A. F. of L. officials have started organizing campaigns in mining, tex- tiles and other industries. The cam- |paigns are mainly directed against |smashing the - militant left-wing unions. At the same time the A. F, of L. heads are bidding for a chance to collaborate with the capitalists in} establishing rock bottom wages, the staggering of employment and other phases of the recovery act intended to lower the workers’ standards. | Green has issued an official call for | the campaign. |Pay War Taxes ‘Under | Protest,’ Say Pacifists| HERSHEY, Pa., June 9.—The an- nual conference of the Church of the Brethren here will qebate a resolu- tion urging members to “pay military taxes under protest.” This is a typi- cally futile pacifist gesture to screen the intensive war preparations of United States imperialism. MORGAN GOT MILLIONS FROM R. F.C. {Road Now Bankrupt Got $22,000,000 to Pay Off Bank Loans WASHINGTON, June 9.—How the Morgans used the millions of the Re- construction Finance Corporation, collected from the people in taxes, was revealed today by the investi- gations of the Senate Committee conducting the inquiry into the prac- tices of private bankers, O, M. Van Sweringen, one of the two brothers who seized control of a vast railroad empire for the Mor- gans, mostly with other people’s money, testified today that he had been urged by J. P. Morgan to bor- row over $22,000,000 from the R.F.C. in order to pay off loans to the house of Morgan. The R. F. C. granted the loans, The road is now in bank- ruptcy. The interesting fact is that the Chairman of the RF.C. during this time was none other than Charles Dawes, whose name appeared several times on Morgan’s inside stock lists. Dawes, himself, got an $80,000,000 loan from the R.F.C. a few days be- fore he resigned from the R.F.C. Evade Taxes. It was shown how the Van Swer- ingens avoided the payment of mil- lions of dollars of income taxes by the simple expedient of forming an elaborate system of interlocking hold- ing companies. Van Sweringen tried to deny that the Morgans did not control the vast railroad empire of the Alleghany Corporation. He was unable, how- ever, to show one case where the “advice” of the bankers was not fol< lowed. Anti- Fascist Demonstration Today at Italian Consulate (The U. S. Section of the Italia Anti-Fascist Demonstration. the United Front Anti-Fascist® Action Committee. The work- ers, under the banners of many organizations in the united front will assemble at East 79th St., between | First and York Aves., at 11 a.m. “Gramsci’s life is in danger,” Dr. Umberto Arcangeli of the Hospital| of Rome writes. “He,” the doctor| states further, “cannot live longer in the present conditions. His trans- fer from Turi Dungeon to a hos- pital is urgent.” Leader in Italian Communist Party) Gramsci is a leader of the Italian) Communist Party and has been in Mussolini’s jail since 1926. It is also to demand Gramsci’s release and safety, the release of Pertini, So- cialist, also dying in a fascist jail, and other class war prisoners for which today’s demonstration is be- ing held, Protest Hitler The workers will protest against the intensified persecukion at the hands of Mussolini’s blackshirts of Velia Matteotti and .her two chil- dren held as virtual hostages in Rome; of Gino Lucetti, anarchist; of Vodisca, republican; of all po- itical prisoners; to fight against Mussolini's war plotting as well to demand the release of Torgler and Thaelmann from bloody Hitler. . » Today's demonstration is the first step toward the huge demonstration of June 24, International Anti-fascist Day. Socialist Party Not in United Front Virtually all working class organ- izations in New York City with the exception of the Socialist Party and the Young Peoples Soctalist League have endorsed the protest, in Socialist Party has joined today’s See article on page 6.) NEW YORK.—Today at 11 a.m., an anti-fascist parade and demonstration will take place before the Italian Consulate at 70th Street and Lexington Avenue, under the leadership of The order of the march is ag fol- lows: West on 79th St. to Madison Ave.; south to 70th St.; east to York Ave.; north to 79th St., where a huge open air meeting will be held with speakers from the Italian United Front, of the Intemational Labor Defense, the American Civil Liber- ties Union and others, NEWS FLASHES 5,000 UNPAID TEACHERS PARADE THROUGH CHICAGO LOOP CHICAGO.—Five thousand unpaid teachers crashed through traffic here yesterday carrying banners and de- manding their back pay. They were accompanied by several school bands, 13,000 Tons of War Material Sent to Japan from 1 Port BALTIMORE, June. 9—Ship- ments to Japan of scrap steel, tin- plate waste, copper and tubes—be- yond question intended for use in manufacturing munitions of war— increased here last month when thirteen vessels, ten of them bound for Far Eastern ports and five of them flying the Japanese flag, loaded cargoes totaling 26,234,586 pounds. The “Kofuku Maru” alone steamed from the harbor with 7,000 tons of scrap steel. Many other vessels, according to Mari- time Exchange records, are bound for Baltimore to cargoes. + Y entero Ly j [