The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 16, 1933, Page 1

te Get A Regular Subscription from Every Member of Your Organization Dail Central Or (Section of the Communist es Vol. X, No. 144 = Entered ae sscond-clnes matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., wader the Act of March 8, 187%. eee |i inunist Party U.S.A. See Articles Tomorrow on the Struggle for -Unemployment Insurance in Six Page Special Edition of the Daily Worker THE WEATHER Today—Fair and warmer; southwest winds. _NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1933 ‘New Deal’ in Action Against Railway Workers An additional drastic wage cut for the railroad workers is an example of exactly what the Roosevelt “new deal” means in practice. At one stroke. .this action exposes again all the deceptive talk about increases in wages and therefore increasing purchasing power for the masses. For weeks we have been told in the columns of the press that wages were rising in industries throughout the country. If a small garment shop employing a few score girls at 75 cents a day increased wages a few pennies the kept | press headlined it as indicative of returning prosperity under the new deal. But here is a wage cut totalling 2214 per cent imposed upon one million railway workers * In addition to this savage attack against the standards of life of the yailroad workers there is proceeding consolidation and scrapping of lines under another of the Roosevelt “recovery” measures—the railway co- ordination act. It is an undeniable fact that the application of this act will throw not less than 200,000 railroad workers into the ranks of the { totally unemployed, ‘To carry forward this program of spreading mass hunger the Roose- velt “industrial recovery act” provides for “united action of labor and management under adequate governmental sanctions and supervision.” Under that bill strikes are outlawed, arbitration is compulsory; the presi-. dent makes decisions, from which there is no appeal, on wages, hours and other conditions of labor. When this latest wage slash against the railroad workers was an- nounced A. F. Whitney, chairman of the Railway Labor Executives’ Asso- ciation, said “we have just decided not to take a cut.” But, as in the past, Whitney, who is president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, was also careful to explain that the way was left open for negotiations. Every railroad worker has felt the effect of such negotiations in the past. The first general wage cut announcement was made by the rail- way executives on December 15, 1931. Then the railway workers were urged by the officials of their unions not to strike but to rely upon the negotiatiing powers of Mr. Whitney and his associates. The result was the 10 per cent reduction for one year. This was extended to October 31, this year, with the brotherhood and railway crafts officials solemnly prom- ising the restoration of the cut. Instead of its restoration the railway workers now face an additional 124, per cent cut, making a total reduc- tion of 22). per cent. How muc confidence the workers can place in such officials can be gauged by their past actions and by the fact that today, instead of call- ing for action to compel the railway executives to restore the 10 per cent cut, they now again ask the workers to remain silent while they bargain over the table with the executives who are only concerned about gouging out dividends for J. P. Morgan end other finance capitalists who own the railroads. Instead of calling upon the railroad workers to challenge this vicious attack against them by decisive action Mr. Whitney Pane shows where he and his associates stand when he says: “We are going along with the Roosevelt program, but a lot of ob- structionists evidently want to continue the depression another couple of years. No fouler piece of deception and treachery was ever uttered! Whitney would haye the railway workers believe that the man who stands at the head of the Wall Street government and who gave the signal for exactly this weve cut is opposed to the action of the railway executives. ‘The real character ot the “new deal’ of Roosevelt will be further revealed when the railway co-ordination act, and the industrial “re- covery” act and other “emergency” legislation is invoked for strike- breaking purposes. When the fraud. of arbitration is rejected all strike action will be declared outlaw and the full force of the government will be used to try to crush the strike. It is possible clearly to see the whole line of attack with the government acting to unify the action of the cailway executives and the labor betrayers against the workers. Such an attack should meet with the most determined resistance by the railway workers. In every yard, on every section, in every railway shop, there should be set up democratically elected committees of action that will prepare for strike action not merely against the wage cut now announced, but for the immediate restoration of the 10 per cent general wage cut that was imposed in 1931. The railway workers themselves must unite for struggle independently of their treacherous officials to defeat the attacks being made against their standards of life and against the very existence of tens of thousands of them, Fraternal Orders in Struggle for Social Insurance ‘The International Workers Order assembles this Saturday in Chicago for its second convention. In this convention the Order will have a chance to review its work, to evaluate its experiences and to consider its future policies. In these considerations of the International Workers Order, its role in the struggle for Social Insurance in America is the most’ important. The fraternal mutual benefit organizations in America have in the past supplied an excuse to the American bourgeoisie to deny the workers social insurance. They were always a poor excuse, But under the condi- tions of the crisis they lose all chance to serve as any kind of an excuse. On the contrary; under existing conditions these excuses of the capital- ists for the absence of social insurance, the mutual benefit societies must themselves arise as accusers against the capitalists, The existing crisis disables the workers from maintaining their mem- bership, Bank crashes, deflation of real estate values and a general de- figtion of investments caused.a shrinkage of the funds of many of these orgenizations. Therefore, at a time, when the needs of the workers de- mand greater protection at lower_cost, the fraternal organizations, as a rule, increas? their dues and lower their protection. At this moment, therefore, the International Workers Order musi come forward as the champion for social insurance, It must justify its name by not only having workers in its ranks, but especially by taking ‘the defense of the interests of the workers. This requires that the .O. not only organize mutual help among its members but also fight for more effective social help for she working class. . . ’ ‘The problems which demand such a policy, unemployment and low ‘wages, resulting in a growing inability of the workers to maintain their membership in a fraternal order, lowered living standards resulting in more sickness and greater burdens on the funds of the fraternal orders, all these problems exist for the workers in all fraternal orders. These uniform problems will enable the I.W.O. to initiate, organize and lead a uniform action for social insurance among the masses of worker mem- bers of the fraternal movement in America. ° * The organization of such a uniform action, of such a united front must be made the chief problem of the convention of the Order, In the effort to build this united front, the IW.O. will distinguish itself as a workers’ order different from all other fraternal organizations. In the effort to build this united front, the I.W.O, will contribute to the unifi- cation of the American working class. In the effort to build this united front the LW.0, will build itself into a proletarian mass organization, In the effort to build this united front the I.W.O. will place itself in the category of a workers’ organization for which the class struggle ia not merely a recognieed theory but a problem to be soived in action. Trish Telsante ‘Ataoks ANGLO-AMERICAN FIGHT OVER CURRENCY LEVELS — INTENSIFIES AT LONDON French Rumors of Stabilization Agreement! Denied by An Ameri ican Delegation | Trade War Policies of | _Gr eat Britain LONDON, June “16 —The sharp iieceaves between Amer- | | three days of negotiations that have taken place. Stabilization, | insistently demanded by France, has made no headway, in Bite | | ica and England as to the levels at which their currencies are, to be maintained have been in no way softened by the past | of French “reports” and “ru-*; mors” that were circulating to- day. These reports themselves were an index of the depth of the Anglo-American clash of interests on | this matter, as even they did not sug- gest more than an agreement “in principle,” and only “for the duration ‘ of the Conference.” That the reports | represent what France would like to, see rather than what is actually tak- ing place is born out by Cordell Hull’s comments, who would only go so far | Say that “progress is being made in| clearing away the underbrush.” He pointed out that even if the experts find a satisfactory -basis of agree- ment, it will still be necessary for the | various governments to act formaliy! ! on it. The fight that has been proceeding | over the question of who would hold | the key position of Chairman of the | Monetary committee of the confer- | ence was won by the American dele- | ‘gation, after the French. had been; compelled to withdraw their opposi- tion to the U. S. nominee, ex-Gov- ernor Cox of Ohio. | Connolly Attacks English Embargo | The representative of the Trish Free State at the London Confer- ence, J. Connolly, made an attack on England’s trade war policy against, Treland in his speech this morning. Where “might or force are employed in military or economic warfare,” he| said, “the results are fear and hatred. Consequently international co-opera- tion suffers.” | The War of All Against All Continues | The game of threat and counter- | threat, attack and counter-attack, 1s/ | developing apace at London. Amer-| ica holding the debt settlement over | the head of the conference, France| with her quota import laws and new tariff powers, England manipulating the foreign exchanzes against Amer-| ican dollar selling, Germany with the moratorium going into operation on the first of July. i { . *. | } WASHINGTON, June 15, clash of Anglo-American interests | over tariffs was strikingly brought | out today in-an article by Senator Borah, who writes—“Some time ago our government proposed a tariff TRIALS OF MICH. FARMERS CALLED FOR THIS MONDAY) WHITE CLOUD, Mich., June 15.— ; The prosecution in the case of the four farmers arrested last March un- der the criminal syndicalism law sud- denly announced trials of the men, all active in organizing the farmers, will start June 19. The farmers are Clyde Smith and/ | John Casper, accused under te vici-! ous criminal syndicatism law, John Rose, charged with assault and bat- tery, and John Casper, accused of resisting an officer. The charges grew out of a mass} demonstration by farmers at the court house to protest against farm mortgage foreclosures and evictions. | The International Labor Defense ine) ~ | clusions truce. Gr Great Britain | accepted ‘the| truce, with reservations, however, treaties with a number of impor- tant countries.” Thus after the Otta- wa Conference, “at which there was established a tariff system favor- able to Great Britain,, she accepted ence with a pre“~am to adjust tar- is” iff policy adopted at the British Em- pire Senator Borah pointed out that— “the wheat importations of England | in the first quarter of 1933 com- pared with other years showed that while wheat imports from Canada into England were larger by 7,300,000 cwt, than in the corresponding per- jod in 1931, and from Australia larg- er by 2,410,000 cwt, importations from the United States into England | hed fallen from 4,150,000 cwt to a} per 5,000 cwt.” the truce and gow to the Confer-| Referring to the English tar-| conference held at Ottawa,| “DON’T MOVE UNTIL | which allowed her to complete tarift | as WE NEGOTIATE War Debt “I do not characterize the resultant situation as default.” The statement also points out that the “token” pay- ment does not “in any sense preju- |dice the freedom of either govern- ment in any subsequent discussion of the entire debt question which ‘will take account of this and other debt payments.” Referring to his talks with Ramsay MacDonald, Roosevelt, says that “time and circumstances would not permit any definite con- in these discussions be- cause af the present moment both | governments were vitally concerned in making preparations for the World Monetary and Economic Conference at London.” Here ts the clearest ad- mission that the Anglo-American fight on monetary devaluation and the maneuvers of these two rival im- perialist governments were the real- Mattern Overdue on Siberia - Alaska Hop; Faces Stormy Weather NOME, Alaska.—Jimmie Mattern, round the world flier, long overdue on the 2,500 mile ocean lap from Khabarovsk to Alaska, is being an- xiously awaited here. The weather bureau reports that severe storms are raging in the Beh- ring Sea, across which the aviator must fly. He was seheduled to ar- rive here at 8:30 a.m. New York time. j has called for a mass protest through telegrams and letiers to Judge Pugs-| | ley. Post and Gatty made the same Jap in 16% hours, ‘One Cent a Day ‘Legal’ Wage on Rockefeller Tank Ship Line Letter from Official of | Standard Vacuum Transportation Co. Exposes “New Deal” NEW YORK.—The “new deal” is being carried out by the Rockefeller family, in regular and traditional fashion, ‘The system of workaways on ships, a condition peculiar to the American merchant marine, has been explained in the columns of the Daily Worker previously, ‘The Daily is in possession of a let- ter from the office of the Standard Vacuum = Tri tion Company, Rockefeller tank ship line. The text of the letter is as foliows: “Captain Paul Muller “M-s Brilliant “Dear Sir: “The bearer, former utilityman on the Jane lank ety is y Join your vessel te San Fegenge gig “He in to aio. om the etiaben an! awazr . 2nd utilityman at the wages of (1) one cent a month to be paid off at San Pedro, Calif., or other west coast port. He agrees to do rsd work to which you may assign him. “(Signed) | E. W. F., Jr. (official) “(Seaman's jure).” ‘Thus we see the new deal in action. A “legal” wage of one cent a month. The American seamen in their struggle for unemployment insurance have taken steps combat this workaway system. ‘The Marine Workers Industrial Union calls upon seamen to follow the example of the Baltimore seamen England Defaults on 901 Per Cent America Delays Debt evar to Force Casioea sion at London Conference France, Belgium and Poland in Complete De- fault: Italy Makes Token Payment WASHINGTON, June 15—Virtyal default by England on the debt pas- ment of $75,000,000 which became due today is announced in an English | note received here. England will pay $10,000,000 in silver, the whole pay- | IN BORO P ARK ment costing her less than 10 per cent of the sum owed. | FARMER has been accepted by the United States government, and Roosevelt has issued a statement in which he says:¢—— — The payment underlying the “friendly” talks at Washington. ity “harmonious” It was again emphasized that dis- cussion of debts would continue to gation was concerned) at ‘the Lon- don conference, the President's stat ying: “The Economie Con- ference, does not include in its pr consideration of the de! y various governments to ti | United States. The American dele- gates have been instructed not to discuss debts’ with the representatives of any’ of the debtor governments.” No Honor Among Thieves The administration’s view that the English payment of only 10 per cent constituted no default was violently attacked in the Senate yesterday. Senator Reed (R. Pa.) of the Finance Committee declared that the United States was “now engaged in the far- eical performance of writing agree- ments with a collection of govern- ments at the London Con/erence when right before our face les the evidence that they do not regard |their agreements as binding upon '! them. Way should we make new agreements with governments that dishonor their existing promises?” The Italian Ambassador, Rosso, called at the State Depart- ment today to notify the American government that Italy was paying $1,000,000 as a token on the war debt installment which it owes of $15,545,- 000. Italy was expected to follow |Great Britain’s lead on the debt is- |sue, but’ has gone one better than England in paying a good decal less than 10 per cent. These token payments will, in the words of the Italians, “keep the debt subject alive until a final settlement can be made.” The United States, however, will delay the review of the various debt agreements until the economic conference gets into its later stages, so as to force the Eu- |ropean countries to show in advance what concessions they propose to make in return for American conces- sions on debts. France has completely defaulted her war debt payment. The French Ambassador, M. de la Boulaye, de- livered the French note to the State Department. The installment due from France amounted to over $40,- 000,000 interest and principal. France takes the position that economic conditions haye not altered since last January, when she also defaulted Poland and Belgium also made com plete defaults, bringing the total de- faulted payments to over $50,000,000. The administration is reported as being still determined to insist on at least partial payments before any moves will be permitted towards a final settlement. Rumania, Jugo- slavia, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are all reported as prob- able defaultees. pagal ingest ze Bley , and| Debis to Continue Barred At Londen, be barred (as far as the U.S. dele-} Augusto | | | ATTENTION NEEDLE TRé | || WORKERS, MEMBERS OF | | | THE COMMUNIST PARTY | A special and important meet-} | |ing of the General Needle Trades/ | Fraction will take place Saturday,| | | Sune 17, at '2 p.m, at the Workers Center, 35 Bast 12th St., 2nd floor.| All comrades are urged not to undertake other activities and to} attend this meeting. \| DISTRICT SECRETARIAT. | ‘FIGHT COPS TO STOP EVICTION | | |Arrest Four; Police in NEW arrested, tically YORK.—iour peo the eviction of Otto Ostman 6 43rd St. | ee Ostman, who owed a little more/ than a month's rer ected, scores of wol lat the scene, indignantiy discussing the matier p.m. whea al worker shou! is put him} hack.” An omers' squad arrived | as the worker began to move the fur- niture and plied their clubs on them. Although unsuccessful in’ restoring | the furniture the workers refused to disperse. Start Meeting A meeting was started with striking bakers, members of the Young Com-) munist League and Unemployed} Council speaking to the crowd on| “Roosevelt's New Deal.” At 10 p.m.j police’ broke up the meeting, but again tbe workers refused to dis- perse and a member of the Unem- | ployed Council began speaking from ja fire-escape. Martial Law. The police became wild, an emer- squad and other reinforce-| and the cops began | gency | ments arrived | driving everyone into their house: Jout of the neighborhood. To vent mectings in the houses, no one| was permitted to enter them unless | identified by the superintender The roofs were searched for speak-| ers, passersby were cursed and abused by the police rowdies. Entrances to| |night to keep workers inside. | ‘Polos aC CITY EDITION Cents EXECUTIVES TO SLASH PAY OF RAIL WORKERS — Plot to Chop $350 A Fier Aone Off Wages of One Million Workers CHICAGO, June 15 “ithe conference cormmities ‘of railway shanagyne have proposed to the railway union heads that they open discussions on the wege-cut in the Palmer House here on July 12. Official notice of the cut was served on all ihe brotherhoods and shop crafts today CHICAGO, June —An average of 0 a year is to be slashed off the wages of the railroad workers of the United States, if the plans of the railway executives are carried out. The Association of Railway Executives meets here tomor- 15.—. row prepared to demand a 22%, wage schedule. The a reduction of approximately ill mean®—— per cent cut in the basic union cut The game of the n officials is un Section to Midnite |; |map workers, |The police stood by , effort to apprehend the gangsters. the houses were guarded until 12 mid- |» ),000,000 from the normal |to try to fool the 's into be- wages of the more than 1,000,000 | lieving that such cuts may be stopped { ers Thus they hope to Continue Deception attempt of the work- machinery t the att > executives of the r ring to impose th to date, , under the lead of David B. Robertson, chairman of the railway bor executiv are for arguments fi dent nk and p indepe by Rank ad. File Anger Stops YPSL Leaders’ Fur Scabbing Attempt to Recruit Seal Fret A. F. of L. Pressmen’s Union |] Proves Futile Workers Stand Solid in “Resistance to Thugs und Police Poured Into Market NEW YORK.--The anger of the rank and file of the Socialist Party « | and Young People’s Socialist League forced the A. F. of L.-Socialist Jeader- ship of the defunct fur union to look elsewhere for scab pickets in the fur market. The exposed YPSL leaders did not dare to come to the market yester- day after being exposed in the Daily Worker of Thursday. A. F. of L. Recruits Strikebreakers ials of the Joint Board, backed McGrady cf the U. S. Depart- t of Labor and A. F. of L. offi- went to the members of Lo¢al sistant Pressmen’s Union and hired twenty of them to “picket” at , Strikers would not testify their attorney. The case was journed to June 19. without ad- Three workers on assault charges whose bail had been raised from | $1,000 to $2,500, had their bail re- duced to $1,000 today by the Supreme Court after habeas corpus proceed- 5a day |ings had been taken ay Pressmen Refw e to Scab | The workers on trial were Row, Ep- Yesterday when the pressmen en- | stein, Meyerowitz, Birenbaum, Bog- tered the fur market, they realized |dansky, Zipkin and Warshafsky. what the officiels meant by “picket- ’ Most of them refused to do| ab work and several reported to | adquerters of the Needle Trades Industrial Union. They were indignant at the deception of offi Today at 2 pm. there will be 4 meeting of all strikers, in the head- quarters of the union. All furriers vho have not yet signed the affida- vits as to their union sentiments are called upon to do so. is hastily engaged some} Nathan Lieberman, one of the old men from the Bowery flophouses | three strikers held on the framed to do the dirty work. They succeeded | charge of felonious assault, is seri- in getting Three of these quit during the noon-hour demonstration of the furriers. = Bosses Make Desperate Stand The Industrial Union has issued a call to all workers to join the fur- riers’ picket line at 7 a.m. and the noon demonstrations during the next week. The fur bosses, angered by the mass violation of the injunction they helped the Joint Board procure, to force the workers into the union, are making a last desperate stand. The police, uniformed and plain- clothes are openly aiding the gang- ter squads to invade shops and kid- forcing them to sign stration cards in the A. F. of L. ously ill. He was badly beaten while in police custody and is reported to be lying in a cell without any med- ical aid. Protests to Police Come missioner Bolan, demanding - that Lieberman be given medical aid, are requested by the Union and the In- ternational Labor Defense. 2 HOUR STRIKE WON BY SEAMEN Force Hiring of Mess- man on Sagborack union. The I. S. & S. shop, was again NEW YORK.—The entire crew of jinvaded and the workers resisted,|the S. S. Sagorpack of the Moore and McCormack Line won a two- hour strike yesterday, three hours befcre the ship sailed for Copen< hagen at 5 p.m., forcing the hiring of a messman. A delegate of the driving the gangsters out of the shop. and made no Dicks of the the gangsters. “Jabor squad” were with More Attacks “Planned |Marine Workers’ Industrial Union The Needle Trades Workers In- |Suided the struggle dustrial Union has information to the| A committee of 25. representing the crew of 36, unable to locate the captain of the ship, went to the company’s offices at Pier D, Jersey City, and demanded the mess quar- effect that the bosses, under Mc- Grady's direction, have decided to ke one more effort to smash the In rial Union by flooding the Those arrested are Vaccacio, Mrs.| shops next week with gangster raids. Sadie Wexler, John Larsen and John) The workers in the shops are ready Harko. “This is like Hitler's regime,” many i cal said RELIEF WORKERS WIRE TAYLOR | DEMANDING PAY NEW YORK —Home Relief Bu- reau investigators, who have not been paid their salaries for three weeks sent the following telegram te Commissioner Taylor: “Commissioner Taylor “Department of Public Welfare “50 Lafayette St. “New York City “You are responsible for thousands of Home Relief workers suffering from starvation this week. We insist on being paid on time. (Signed) “Bronx Home Retief Workers The workers contributed one cent pach in order to send this telegram. to defend themselves and will resist this attempt to blackjack and beat them into the A. F. of L. union. Sus Fae NEW YORK. — Gangsters invaded | the shop of Bader and Kaufman yes- terday and threatened violence to the eight fur workers present unless they would go to the office of the A. F. of L, union and register. The workers resisted but recognizing that they were outnymbered by the gangsters agreed to leave the shop with them. However, when they reached the street where they could get some sup- port they gave the gangsters an ex- cellent dose of the medicine which the gangsters had prepared for them and then returned to the shop, Force Adjournment of 7 Cases The cases of 7 fur strikers came up j before Judge Capshaw today, Attor- ney Buitenkant representing the strikers, refused to proceed with the cases charging that the judge in placing exorbitant .bail and severe sentences on other strikers showed ters be cleaned anda messman hired, The officials refused, but after a two-hour strike, from noon until 2 p.m., granted the demand. ‘The ship sailed with the crew, oil- ea firemen and deckmen organ MISSION TO STOP SEAMEN’S MEALS NEW YORK .—Officials of the Jane St. Mission told the seamen that ‘Starting today there will be no more meals given out, Captain Page, former official of the mission, quit yesterday, supposed~ ly because of a “wage-cut.” It is re~ ported that he was short in ‘his ac- counts. He has opened a shipping or “erimp” joint on Broome St. near South, where he intends to squeeze money out of seamen for getting them jobs. The seamen ate aroused and held prejudice. The judge refused to gramt/* meeting in the mission itself on the demand for adjournment but was | Wednesday night, finally forced to do ao whem the, the officials not eh hin nie