The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 15, 1933, Page 1

| scesemnaecsecemmatant > nth SB 4 Vol. X, No. 143 Capitalists Plot War at the London Conference; Soviet Union Only Country That Has a Policy of Peace; It “Does Not Want a Single Foot ot Foreign Territory, But Will Not Give Up a Single Inch of Its Own Territory, Either’’,--Stalin. Workers! Defend the Soviet Union, the Country Which Builds Socialism! Get Your Unit, Union Local, Branch or Club to Challenge Another Group in Raising Subs for the Daily Worker! _ Daily,< Central (Section of the Communist International) orker taynist Party U.S.A. See on Page 4 A nswer to At- tacks on the ‘German Com- munist Party which were pub- lished in the Socialist Paper, “The New Leader.” THE WEATHER Today—Fair; slightly warmer; winds. moderate northerly Batered ac sevend-clsvs matter st the Post Office at New York, NW. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 187%, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1933 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents LITVINOFF STATES SOVIET PROPOSAL TO WORLD CONFERENCE The Thieves’ Kitchen At London Sixty-six governments are at London for the World Economic Con- ference which was heralded with so much fanfare of trumpets’ as the capitalist Planning Commission to end the crisis, bring order out of chaos, bring stability to the fluctuating currencies of the world, and usher in the reign of economic peace in place of economic war. But immediately, the conference became the stage on which the drama of Anglo-American economic struggle is being played. The conference, far from stabilizing anything, has only prought the maze of imperialist contradictions out in clearer relief. Capitalist rivalries have cut brutally through even the usual diplomatic niceties of the first days of the conference, giving strik- ing confirmation to the analysis of the Twelfth Plenum of the Commu- nist International that stated in September of last year that “the end of the relative stabilization of capitalism has set in”, and that what is now taking place is a “transition to a new phase of great collisions be- tween classes and states, to a new cycle of revolutions and wars.” While King George was speaking into the gold microphone and hoping that “common endeavor” would lead to “beneficial results”, the English and American bankers, in secret conference at the Treasury building, were already battling each other in the struggle to depress their currency values. And immediately after the King had finished speaking, Ramsay MacDonald, the English Prime Minister, threw the “excluded” debt question into the conference arena. The conference Hieets in conditions of the deepest world crisis, with ‘war uppermost in the minds of these leaders—as the capitalist solution of the crisis, Overpfoduction and the huge accumulation of stocks, gi- gantic unemployment; almost universal abandonment of the gold stand- ard, catastrophic deétine in international trade, in domestic manufactures, in national incomes, increasing government debts and unbalanced bud- gets, and everywhere intensified preparations for war—these are some * of the signs that accOmpany the calling of the conference. The peace speeches of Roosevelt, MacDonald's talk of “harmony”, can not mask the reality of bitter struggle between the United States and England. The fight between these two imperialist powers along the whole economic front is the basic conflict at London. America’s de- parture from the gold standard was one stroke in Roosevelt’s vicious of- fensive on behalf of American capitalism against its economic rivals. ‘The artificial depression of the dollar through heavy Federal Reserve selline, the $50,000,000 loan to the Chinese Nanking government, the at- ‘tack on foreign tariffs, the aggressive use of America’s war debt creditor Position, the determined attack on the armament levels of America’s enemies at Geneva—these were other strokes in the Roosevelt campaign to hack a way out of the crisis for American capitalism by the method of new wars. England versus America is the main—though not the only—line of battle drawn at the London Economic War Conference. The United States stands opposed to Japan in the Pacific. Italy and France clash oyer domination of the Meditterranean. England and Japan clash in the Indian markets and China. The wheat exporting nations of the world are disputing shrinking markets. France and Poland are fighting to maintain their gains trom the Versailles Treaty against the attack of the powers clamoring for revision. * * . Only one country is represented at London which knows no crisis. Only one nation is there whose policy is, and has been from the day of its existence, peace. ‘This country is the Soviet Union. This fortress of the international working class is the home of Socialist construction, of economic planning that leads to rising produc- tion and ever rising standards of life for the workers and peasants. While economic production in the capitalist world has roughly halved in the last five years, economic production in the Soviet Union in the last five years has more than doubled. The capitalists are arming themselves every day for the new plunge into war—war of the bandits against the U.S.S.R.—war of the bandits each against the other. Pravda has given timely warning to the im- perialists to think twice before trying to rejuvenate capitalism with the life-blood of the Soviet Union. The peace policy of the Soviet Union, as Comrade Stalin said, covets not a foot of foreign territory. But neither will the Soviet Union surrender an inch of Soviet soil. ‘The disastrous decline and desolation of the capitalist world con- trasts in dark relief with the stormy growth of the socialist world. The predatory war policies of the imperialists contrast with the determined peace policy of the Soviet Union. The working class of the capitalist countries has been shown the way by the workers of the Soviet Republics. Peace, bread and work, in the Soviet Union today are the results and fruit of the Red October of 1917 and of fifteen years of workers’ rule under the leadership of the Communist Party. The workers who today live under capitalism will not free themselves from hunger, unemployment and the constant menace of war except by taking the path of revolutionary proletarian dictator- ship. The Thieves’ Kitchen of the capitalists, the London Conference, offers nothing to the workers except wage-cutting, lowering standards, more unemployment, and a chance to die for the profitmakers who rule “their” country, on the new battlefields that are now being prepared, This conference is a warning signal to workers that war is more and more on the order of the day. It must arouse to action decisive sections of the toiling masses to defeat the war policies and military preparations of the capitalist class. Here in the United States there should be organized definite action against the war-mongers. The shipments of arms, munitions and other wat materials should be stopped by the action of the longshoremen and seamen. Vast masses should be rallied in support of the American Congress Against War which is to be held in New York City on September 2, 3 and 4, Let the Wall Street imperialists know that their attempts to drag the masses into a new war will meet with implacable resistance, The “Daily” and the Struggle for Social Insurance The campaign for unemployment insurance has lagged considerably. In most of the struggles of the unemployed for increased relief, in fights against evictions, little attention was given to make popular the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. To show the masses that we can and must wrest trom the capitalist class through united activity an assurance of the means to live. An assurance that the jobless shall not get hunger doles, but receive unemployment insurance based on “the average wages in the respective industries.” An intensive campsign for unemployment insurance is now being developed. In ‘this campaign the Daily Worker will play an important part. This Saturday's Dafly will feature many important articles in con- nection with unemployment insurance | ‘ . 2,000 Strike for 30 Per Cent Raise on Relief Jobs Providence Relief Workers Come Out Against | Pay Cut, Win, and Continue Strike for a Raise PROVIDENCE, R.L, June 14.. fa naeeinatee 2,000 work- ers went on strike against a pay cut on a relief job. The cut has already been defeated. The workers voted to continue the strike for a 30 per cent relief increase. This is the first step towards realizing the demand o% $10 a week for a family of two with an} additional $1 for each dependent. The strikers do not want grocery slips but cash relief. No| discrimination against any worker and recognition of their | | elected committees. Socialists, Cops Invade Fur Shops, Kidnap Men Two Scabs Identified as Y.P.S.L. Leaders; Thousands Demonstrate in Market NEW YORK.—M. Eisenberg and “Tootsy’ Weinberg, members of the City Committee of the Young People’s Socialist League and belonging to. the Executive Committee of Circle 8 of the Sixth A. D. of the League, were | identified as scab pickets in the fur market yesterday. Thse two scabs re- ceive $15 a day for carrying “picket” signs of the A. F. of L. for a few | hours, under heavy police guard. The @ signs deny that the workers of struck shops are on strike. Sixty dollars is spent daily for the four pickets. The money comes from the $1,000 weekly allotted to the Socialist-A. F. of L. leaders of the defunct International Fur Workers Union. The Socialist Jewish daily, the “Forward,” also contributes to the fund for smashing the union of the furriers, the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union. At the recent Bakers’ United Front Conference, Weinberg stated, “The YPSLs will support the Communists only over my dead body.” The fur- riers are demanding to know what Norman Thomas has to say about their action. Thousands of furriers and workers of other trades jammed the fur mar- ket for over two hours yesterday in a demonstration against the police provocations of the socialist-A. F. of L. leaders and the fur bosses; a) pas J the brutal attack of Tues- lay. Workers Repudiate A. F. of L. A committee from the Interna- tional and dicks of the newly formed “labor squad” invaded the I. S. & S. shop, 312 Seventh Ave. and stopped the workers. They forced them to go to the International headquarters on 31st St. Negro Worker Defies Dicks Here one of the dicks made a speech, telling the workers they would have to join the union of the bosses. He was followed by Schliesl, socialist leader of the International, who also told the workers they would have to join. A Negro worker spoke up and stated: “I belonged to this scab union once. I made $20 a week and since the Industrial Union struck the shop, I get $36. I am going to stay in my union, the Industrial.” The other workers voiced the same sentiments and refused to sign the registration cards of the racketeers, Industrial Organizer Rescues Workers At this point, Jacques Buitenkant, union lawyer, and Schneider, organ- izer, of the Industrial Union, came in and forced the dicks to let the work- ers leave without registering and they returned to the Industrial Union. Another “committee” tried to force the workers of the Lowenthal shon. 245 Seventh Ave. into coming to the A. F. of L. headquarters. This crew of thugs included two prostitutes who were carried along to.trv and look like a squad of workers. The workers resisted and the cops came up and made a pretended arrest of the gangsters. However, the police freed the gangsters on reaching the side- walk, The seven workers arrested Tues- day for shouting “scab” at the YPSL pickets’ were fined $10 or five days in jail. They are serving the sen- tences. Lydia Gropper, mother of three children, is being held until June 17 for “investigation. “She was previously arrested on strike frame- up-charges. Try to Frame 3 Demonstrators William Greenberg, Nathan Lieber- man and Abraham Goldberg, are be- ing held on charges of felonious as- sault, a frame-up charge arising out of the attack by a dick on a picket in front of 233 Seventh Ave., Tues- day. Bail has been set at $2,500 each. They are being defended by the I.L.D. Fur Department Report Below is printed a report of the activities of the Industrial Union from Sept., 1932, to May 6 of this year. Complaints, total handled, 2,179; strikes, 459; settlements, 396; dis- charges reinstated, 313; overtime stopped, 242 shops; contracting com- plaints adjusted, 101; increases got- ten, $3,439.50 (for 622 workers); shop meetings, 2,228; visits, 1,899; total collections, by all organizers $31,- 927.82, wages $5,315.93, to the mini- mum scale $8,233.78, for overtime $11,499.66, for legal holidays $4,651.94, compensation $1,610.59, return of wage cuts $190.92, fines $425. Governor of Wisconsin Evades the Marchers Workers Report, Many Attacks on Way to the Capitol; Defeated Police Provocations MADISON, Wis., June 14.—Governor Schmedeman and Crowley left Madison Sunday for Washington to get “relief” and clear out in face of the marchers, Most columns arrived in Madison by midnight Sunday and are en- camped in the Fair grounds about 5 miles from the city. Other groupe poured in all morning. Division one, Milwaukee were attacked by a high- way patrolman and assistant, sev- eral miles from Madison. The pat- rolman drove his car into the col- umn of marchers. They retaliated after several attacks by shoving the car off the highway, ripping off the hhood of the engine and tearing wires and spark plugs out. Oshkosh, Fond du Lac division re- pee ported that they were met by police chief of Waupun and told they could not pass through town but marchers kept on and were met by deputies who offered to take them through town. They refused this offer. A mass meeting was held in the city in which the speaker attacked the mayor of Waupun, Maxim Litvinoff NATL INDUSTRIAL PASSES IN SENATE) Industry Is in Safe Hands WASHINGTON, D. C., June 14— | By a close vote of 46 to 39, the Senate passed the Industrial Recovery Act yesterday. which had previously been amended in conference between voli- ticians of both houses. The Presi- dent is expected to sign the measure tomorrow. The Borah amendment, which was accepted in the Senate and called for the elimination of price fixing and the prevention of the formation of monopoly combinations under the new law was revised to permit both these practices. The Clark amend- ment to subject tax-exempt securi- ties to full income tax was entirely eliminated, while the La Follette amendment calling for publicity on income taxes was left io the discre- tion of the president. The bill was finally passed with die-hard Repub- lican supporters of the Hoover pro- gram casting their ballots in its favor. Features of Bill. The Recovery Bill carries the fol- lowing main features: 1, prices, pro- duction, wages, hours and working conditions to be regulated through codes drawn up by industry and en- forced by the government through sweeping powers granted the Presi- dent; 2, a $3,300,000,000 program for public works which will be principally devoted to a big naval building pro- gram; 3, increase of 1 per cent in income tax. Following the adoption of the Act, Harriman of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and Lund of the National Association of Manufacturers pledged full support in carrying through the provisions of the Act. Lund, who had pretended opposition to the bill, declared: “I am convinced that the administration of the measure will be in safe hands. ... We have every assurance that the law will not be so administered as to upset existing satisfactory employment relations.” In other words, Lund predicts with certainty that there will be no dan- ger involved to employers’ interests by placing the power in Roosevelt’s hands and that “existing satisfactory employment relations,” meaning the relation of boss to worker and the continuation of the sharp drive on the workers’ wages, will not be upset. Harriman and A. F. of L. for Open Shop. In similat strain, Harriman, re- ferring to the labor provisions in the bill, declares that “The Chamber of Commerce of the U. S. has con- sistently stood for the real open shop and I appeared before the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives to urge that the principal be contained in the bill. I have been assured by those who will administer the act that it is their intention to see that the provisions of the law are fairly and impartially administered both for the interest of labor and industry... .” Harriman has been assured that although the A. F, of L. may be offi- cially recognized by the government, industry will still remain “open shop” with the help of the labor fakers. O’Brier PraisesThomas NEW YORK.—In the speech be- fore the Knights of Columbus meet- ing where he threatened relief cuts, Mayor O’Brien paid his respects to Norman Thomas characterizing him as “honest and sincere, but misguid- ed.” The Tammany beater has evidently fre cause SP har the “honesty and sincerity” of an Bocl- alist colleague 3 RECOVERY ACT. Bosses’ Spokesmen Say | | worth of ferrous metals, (CALLS FOR ECONOMIC NON-AGGRESSION PACT; U.S.S.R., BUILDING SOCIALISM, IS OBJECT OF ATTACK BY CAPITALISM Soviet Union Will Be Able to Absorb One Third of World’s Export of Machinery and Entire Output of World’s Shipyards U.S. Secretary of State Hull Bitterly Complains of Rivals’ “Unfair Restrictions on U. S. Exports” and Reprisals Against U.S. Aggression LONDON, June 14.—The London Conference this afternoon listened to Maxim Lit- vinoff, Foreign Commissar of the U.S.S.R., state the position of the Soviet Union on the subject of trade wars. A world pact of economic non-aggression was first proposed by the Soviet Union, said Litvinoff, at the Geneva Conference in 1931, but this proposal “itself was a victim of aggression and was taken betas and ee into a dungeon— into one of the League of Na-® tions commissions.’ Litvinoff continued, saying that “since then, economic warfare has developed in new forms every | day.” The Soviet plan which he Bel again today is very different from | the “tariff truce,” so-called, which | Roosevelt proclaimed in May. “Speak- | ing of a truce acknowledges the ex- istence of a state of war. An armistice means a cessation of all) fighting, not merely abstention from} the beginning of fresh battles, and the same should be true of economic warfare.” Litvinoff accordingly pro- posed an undertaking by the powers for the simultaneous suspension of all legislative measures for economic warfare. Then, referring to the recent English em- bargo on Soviet imports, he said, “there are certain countries which) are reviving barriers which have once already been removed, against economic co-operation with the So- viet Union.” U.S.S.R Building Socialism. Litvinoff declared that the attitude| of the capitalistic world toward a state of 170,000,000 inhabitants which | has adopted the Soviet system, and is building Socialism, with a contrib- uting factor to the political uncer- tainty in the world. The spokesman for the Soviet Union stood before the Conference as} the representative of the only coun- try which was not faced with the problems of “surpluses” and unem- ployment, declining production and mounting deficits. . . . Instead he declared specifically that the Soviet Union in the near future would be able to absorb about $200,000,000/ $100,000,000 worth of raw materials for the tex-| tile, leather and rubber industries, and $400,000,000 worth of machinery, including railway equipment. “The significance of these figures,” Litvi- noff said,, “will be more evident if it) is realized i.-+ they amount to be- tween 25 and ué per cent of the ex- isting world stocks with respect to metals like aluminum, nickel, copper and lead; 100 per cent in the case of some of the consumers’ goods men- tioned; one-third of the annual world export of machinery, and the whole} of last year’s shipbuilding output.” Litvinoff sardonically remarked | that he assumed that most of the countries present were interested in the export of these commodities men- tioned. The previous speaker to Litvinoff had been Hull, leader of the United States delegation. The program of} America, as he put it forward, was very much as expected. As remedies for the present crisis Hull suggested the banishment of “narrow and self- defeating selfishness.” He called for a cessation in the erection of trade barriers, with their “excesses, rank discriminations, and hate-breeding reprisals and retaliations.” The U. S. suffering at the present moment from “reprisals” against its own ex-| ceedingly aggressive policies of trade war on its rivals. Hull asked also for the removal of “unfair” trade meth- ods, and of all “excesses” in the con- struction of trade barriers. Finally, cerhaps with Argentina in mind, he demanded the “adoption of means to remove restrictions from foreign ex- change dealings.” Germany and many of the Central European pow- ers have adopted restrictions on for- eign exchange dealings in the recent past. Committee Set Up for Employment Agency WASHINGTON, June 14.—Secre- tary of Labor Perkins invited Wil- liam Green, president of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor, and Henry Harriman, president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, to serve on the National Advisory Council to and administrative New York Officials Secretly Decide on Wage Cuts Will Institute New Taxes, Salary Cuts and Fare Rise NEW YORK, June 14.—Confirming the analysis which the “Dally Worker” has been making of the strategy of the city government in its new tax program, the threat of more wage cuts for civil service city employees for the first time came into the open >- | today. for city employees, the brunt to be jsum alloted for relief. | NewsFlash carry out the Employment act. Chair- man of the council will be Robert M.|cision at a later date.” The date Hutchina, Vas not announced, | It was confidentially reported that @ conference of city officials with leading Tammany bosses had re- sulted in the following three-point program to raise enough city rev- enue to guarantee the Wall Tetreet| bankers their interest payments and loans. First, the city will levy special taxes | to provide enough revenue to carry | the budget along until after election | day. Second, pen, ee will be a new Db Pee Dee PO cut | ‘MAYOR HINTS OF FURTHER CUTS IN JOBLESS RELIEF NEW YORK. — Mayor O’Brien threatened to again cut relief of the | unemployed in a speech made before the Knights of Columbus at their headquarters, 1 Prospect Park, Brook- lyn, The mayor used as an excuse the fact that the city cannot meet the heavy burden of city finances as a result of unemployment relief. He did not mention the squandering of millions of dollars in payment to bankers nor the heavy burden ex- torted by the high’ salaries of Tam- many politicians. ‘The New York Telegram gives the figure that from the beginning of 1930 until the end of April 1933 the city spent for unemployment relief only $68,924,649. In the same period | of time the bankers were given in| | principle and interest on debts near- | jly three quarters of a billion dollars | (the exact sum is $724,521,357). The | mayor did not mention these pay- ments to the bankers which over- shadow many times the insignificant Postpone Decision at Trial of 2 Teachers | on Dismissal Charges | NEW YORK, June 14—Mrs. Willi- ana Burroughs, a school teacher at} P. 8. 48, Queens, who has been ac- tive in the Scottsboro struggle, today reaffirmed her stand that parents and teachers have a right, as citi- zens, to be present at hearings of the Board of Education. She made this statement in the course of her testimony at her trial before the law committee of the board. She and Isidore Begun, whose hearing was held yesterday, face dis- missal from the public schools for their defense of Isidore Blumberg, a dismissed colleague. Testimony of all witnesses during the proceedings revealed that over twenty policemen and detectives had been present at the board meeting on May 24, out of which arose the suspension, without salary, of Mrs. Burroughs and Isidore Begun. Dr. Ryan, presiding at the trial, announced after Attorney Fraenkel’s final remarks in defense of Mrs. Bur- Troughs, that “the board would con- sider the evidence and render its de- id borne by the school teachers. Third, there will be an increase in all subway and elevator fares, prob- ably to 8 cents. The city will harp on the “tempo- rary” nature of these arrangements. In this way, the Tammany city ad- ministration hopes to pay the bank- ers, preserve its own fat pickings off the city’s revenues, and win the next election. As was predicted by the “Daily Worker,” the strategy to be used will | be to tell the city employees that since the auto taxes cannot be ac- cepted, and since the bankers have been guaranteed their payments, the only way left “to keep the city run- ning” will be for them to take an- other wage cut. As was the case | with the first cuts, they will be prom- ised that the cut will be “temporary.” Collecting for the Bankers The entire tax program of the city government is directed to making the civil service employees and the working class sections pay for the loans to the bankers. The city has just received an ex- tension of $230,000,000 loans until Dec. 11. On that day over $436,000,- 000 will fall due. The city is paying an exorbitantly high interest rate on these loans, more than 3 per cent above the prevailing 2 per cent. This costs the city over $1,000,000 extra every month. Cutting Relief To make good the pledge which it has given the Wall Street bankers, the city has cut all relief activities to the bone. In addition, the Board of Estimate has openly contradicted Mayor O'Brien, who attempted to defend the new taxes by claiming that they would be used for relief. The Board of Estimate has openly refused to allocate any fixed part of the new funds for relief purposes, NEW YORK.—Justice Car- rol has signed a stay of execu. tion in. the Euel Lee case, to be effective until the Supreme Court meets in October. News to this effect reached the In- ternational Labor Defense here yesterday afternoon, Euel Lee was to have been put to death on June 16. He was framed and convicted on a charge of kill ing a farmer and his family, ee ig CHICAGO STOCKYARDS STRIKE CHICAGO, June 14.—Fifty work- ers, half of them Negroes, at the Oppenheim Casing Company, an in- dependent packing house in the stockyards of Chicago, struck this morning for fifty cents an hour, for a minimum of 40 hours of work per week, for no discrimination against strikers and for recognition of the strike committee. The strike may spread, since the Oppenheim Co. has two additional plants at 36th and Morgan, where picketing is hi sk FM of dn