The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 19, 1933, Page 1

Get Your Unit, Union Local, Branch or Club to Challenge Another Group in Raising Subs for the Daily Worker ! Daily Central Or orker nist Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist International ) Vol. X, No. 146 <> Watered as secced-thees matter at the Post Offtec at New York, M. ¥., under the Ast of Masch 3, 127 NEW YORK, MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1933 “The Urgent Need of All Workers” ‘The statement of the Central Committee of ithe Communist Party, (printed in the Daily Worker last Saturday, places as the most urgent meed of all workers—Unemployment, Social Insurance. The mobiliza- tion of organized and unorganized workers, as well as other sections of ‘the impoverished population, in the struggle for Social Insurance there- tore becomes a central task. The statement points out that: “The coming months will bring a farther sharpening of all capital- ist antagonisms and a further deepening of the crisis. Roosevelt's pro- ram is a war program, a program designed to find a violent solution the crisis through new and fiercer attacks on the workers and ‘farmers and through a new robber war against America’s imperialist rivals and against the Soviet Union.” This perspective of further attacks upon the toiling population must therefore be answered with a united counter-attack around the demand for Social Insurance. The campaign for Social Insurance can only be developed to the ex- tent that in cities, towns and local communities united struggles against the further attacks on the living conditions of the workers is carried through by co-ordinating these local struggles with a national campaign for Social Insurance. ‘The stetement sets down a definite program of work. For this pur- pose: “It urges the carrying through of hundreds of protest meetings and demonstrations throughout the country to force the granting of immediate and adequate relief and with the demand for full Social Insurance and a special session of Congress as the central demand everywhere. It urges the adoption of resolutions in all workers’ organ- izations and a launching of a petition campaign with the objective of securing millions of signatures for these demands. A special session of \Congress to adopt the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill should pseme the universal unifying issue before the masses.” ‘ This campaign must b2 initiated by the local Party organizations everywhere. It should be taken up immediately by the District Com- mittees end Section Committees to work out their programs, It should be discussed without delay in every Party Unit. The campaign for Social Insweance should be taken up in all trade ‘unions, Unemployed Councils, as well as all unemployed organizations and fraternal bodies. Not only among the organized workers, but our task +s g0 reach the millions of unorganized workers. As a result of this discussion, a definite program of work should be prepared for the trade unions, unemployed organizations, workers’ fra- ternal organizations—and mainly among the millions of unorganized ‘workers. Heretofore, our campaigns were carried on sporadically, the con- Mnuity necessary in mobilizing the masses was lacking. It is necessary to regularly check-up on oir work from the lowest unit to the highest committee that the Program as outlined is carried through. Morgan Untouched ‘With the closing of the Congressional sessions the investigation into affairs of the Morgans comes to an end. The supposed assault on. the power of the Wall Street “money changers,” hailed as the blow which was to end the monopoly domination of Wall Street finance capital, ends with the power of this most powerfal section of the capitalist class absolutely untouched by the “investigation.” At the very moment when the investigation was beginning to lead to the exposure of how the power of the Morgans penetrates into every nook and cranny of the political and economic life of the country, it came suddenly to an cnd. Amidst ali the hollow talk of fight against the “money changers,” what stands out glaringly as the investigation is ended is the fact that absolutely nothing has been done by the Roosevelt government and , Congress to lessen the monopoly grip of the Morgans. On the contrary, the entire efforts of the Roosevelt government and Congress have been made with the purpose of strengthening the power of the Morgans. The Industry Control Bill, which gives direct assistance to monopoly capital, which is an atiack on the whole working class, is in the interests of the Morgans. The Railroad Co-ordinétor Bill, the military “public works” program, the Roosevelt tax program, are all in the direct interest of the Morgans. It is of the greatest significance that a Congress which launched one of the most comprehensive and ruthless attacks against the working class, which rejected all aid and Unemployment Insurance to the starving ‘masses—this Congress, in the face of the Morgan disclosures, made not ‘one proposal to curb or lessen the monopolist grip of the Morgans. No me spoke against the Morgans. 1 And it is obvious why nothing would be done. The reason is simply iat the Recosevelt government, like every capitalist government, is nothing but the agent, the tool of the capitalist class. The Roosevelt yoyernment stands out as a government in the service of the capitalist class. All the Morgan agents in the Roosevelt government remain: Secre- tary of the Treasury Woodin, Senator McAdoo, Ambassador Davis, U. S. Supreme Court Judge Roberts, all these are still part of the Roosevelt yovernment. Roosevelt has never opened his mouth against them or the Morgans. ‘The Senate investigation, brief and superficial, hastily brought to an end, revealed how the Wall Street finance masters are indeed the real government, the real power which rules the workers. And the Senate investigation revealed how absolutely the capitalist State, however “democratic,” is the special instrument of the capitalist class. at was not only the Morgans who were exposed. It was bourgeois. democracy which was exposed. And this explains why the exposure was 80 quickly brought to an end. Meaning of the Industrial Recovery Bill ‘What is tle meaning of the Incustrial Recovery Bill? How will it effect the workers? How will it function? What is the whole purpose of the capitalist class in passing this bill, and how will it effect the course of the, economic crisis, the further trustification of ee the struggle for world markets, war preparations? ‘These and a number of other questions on the working of the bill will be dealt with in a series of articles by Harry Gannes, beginning Saturday in the Daily Worker. The attitude of the various sections of the capitalists, as well as the yarious social reformists, the socialists, the A. F. of L. leaders on the In- dustrial Recovery Act will be taken up and exposed. How the Indus- trial Recovery Act is being forged as one of the most powerful weapons to attack the workers will be discussed. ‘Gannes has written on financial and economical problems ‘for the “Daily” and :s now returning as a member of the staff. - Bundle orders of the “Daily” containing these articles should be or- dered immediately. Make thee articles popular in your local unions, un- employed organizations and wherever workers moth. HEADS PAVE WAY FOR CUT Tell Men Not to Fight 22 | Per Cent Pay Slash | But “Rely on Gov't” |PRAISE ROOSEVELT |President’s Program Is to Fire 200,000 CHICAGO, June 18.—Under the, | pretext of opposing the announce- | ment of the railway executives that they would put into effect next Oc- tober a 22% per cent wage cut the Railway Labor Executives Associa-} tion is trying to fool the railway workers into believing that the gov- ernment will prevent the cut. | A. F. Whitney, chairman of the Railway Labor Executives Associa- tion, instead of calling upon the | railway workers to fight against | the cut, issued a statement saying | that “every other industry is re-| sponding to the effort of the govern- | ment to bring about increased em- ployment, shorter hours and in- creased wages.” Preparing Greatest Betrayal Whitney, and other railway labor officials, who have helped the rail- roads impose wage cuts and worse conditions upon the workers, are not | only trying again to paralyze action | against this attack, but are helping the government carry through the worst attack yet made upon the railway workers. The “railway co-| ordination” program of the Roose- yelt administration will result in the closing of operations on a large number of railway lines, and it is certain that not less than 200,000 workers will be thrown out of jobs. No-—demands aré* put -forward-for these weskers by the Railway Labor Executives. Instead, they praise Roosevelt's attack on them as a piece of “constructive legislation.” | Workers Talking Strike Action _ While the union officials are issu- ing deceptive statements and formu- lating a reply to the invitation of | | the railway executives to meet on |July 12 to discuss the wage cut, there is developing considerable sen- timent among the workers for a definite show-down, to stop the gen- jeval attacks that have been carried out for more than a year and al half. In the shops, roundhouses, in | all division points and on the sec-} | tions the workers are talking strike | | action against this cut. | ELYRIA WORKERS GREET MARCHERS i | | | Hold a Meeting at County | Court House ELYRIA, Ohio, June 18,—Oyer 500 turned out_to greet the Cleveland west side contingent of the Ohio Peoples Relief march at the Court House here. The marchers slept at the county fair grounds provided by the city government. Along the route mass support is aroused wherever the marchers pass. The demands of the Ohio relief march include: Double the relief rate; Federal unemploy- ment insurance at the expense of the bosses and state; not a cent for forced labor camps and armaments; all funds for relief; against forced labor, relief for jobless youth; public works to be used for construction of workers homes, hospitals, etc. at | ade union rates of pay; stopping of (Persecution and discrimination of Negro and foreign born workers; a moratorium on debts and taxes for |small farm and home owners; defeat jof the sales tax, The committee reports that it ts in urgent need of funds. All funds can be sent to: State Action Com- mittee, 1237 Payne Ave., Cleveland or beat North Sixth Street, Columbus, 0. 500 in Lincoln, Neb. Unite in Fight on Forced Labor LINCOLN, Neb.—At a recent meet- ing of 500 workers in Antelope Park sponsored by three organizations, the Workers Unemployed Council, the Unemployed League incorpor- ated, and the Original Unemployed League, as a result of a call issued by the Unemployed Council, it was decided to strike until the demand for cash wages was fulfilled. It was also decided that workers were to picket the relief station and all city! Jobs. Two picketers were arrested for carrying place cards bearing de- mands for the stoppage of forced labor and thrown in jail. But the workers are carrying their fight against forced labor. | shop committee, and signed up with | opinion, but most of the members R. R. LABOR THE ROOSEVELT CURE PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT: “History probably will record the national industrial re- covery act as the most important and far-reaching legislation ever enacted by the Amer- ican Congress.”—-From the President’s state ment on signing the bill. —By BURCK 160 FURNITURE STRIKERS WIN A WAGE RAISE Workers in Jamestown, N. J., Out 3 Days JAMESTOWN, N. Y., June 18.— Following a militant three-day strike, 160 workers employed in the Gnien and National Furniture Com- panies won a 10 per cent increase in wages, and an adjustment in the piece work scale whereby workers shall receive the same pay as for rate work. The bosses further agreed to no discrimination against strikers and to recognize the shop committees. All the strikers returned to work in an organized manner with an elected the Furniture Workers Industrial Union. The strike was conducted under the leadership of a strike committee elected by the workers. \Iron Production Hits New Record In Soviet Union | MOSCOW, June “TROTSKY NOT 10 RETURN 10 USSR 18.— soviet | | iron production reached a Acad ‘ateg' 1 , Tass | record with 22.2 thousand tons| ‘i ategor ical Denial by Ta pee on June 13. Since t or Kumors beginning of the month daily pi iron output has been above the 20 thousand tons level, with 3 steady upward trend. | MOSCOW, June 18—The Berlin | Vossische Zeitung and other news-| | papers report that Trotsky will be permitted to return to the USSR, and the Vossische Zeitung even quotes a personal statement by 30 Per Cent Growth. | troisiy to the representative of the * . . i | Turkish press. The Tass agency is in Minneapolis Red | authorized to declare that Trotsky’s Vote for Alderman: ‘atement corresponds in no way Seas vith the facts. It is evidently caused |to an agreement between the | since America has the greater power |ther raise domestic prices and thus} |turther cut wages through inflation. |its sharp rejection of a “truce” in ‘Correspondence Articles and ‘Special on Transportation Workers’ Struggles, Printed on Page 3. EDITION US. REFUSAL OF MONEY TRUCE FOLLOWED BY WAR a So ON TARIFFS OF RIVALS S. Will Further Cheapen on Dollar | fm Attack on Competitors’ Trade French Refuse Tariff or Currencies Are Quota Reductions Unies Stabilized First LONDON, June 18.—The complete disavowal of currency stabilization by the Economic Conference, but tions into open head-on struggle Roosevelt and Woodin has not only deadlocked has brought the opposing fac- . “Any stabilization now would have a very bad effect”, said Ralph W. Morrison, one of the American delegates. zation would, in fact, amount | powers not to use the weapon of | j cheap money against each other in | the field of international trade, and to depress the value of its currency, this would indeed be a “very bad” | thing for the United States to agree to. Pegging the dollar against the pound would also limit the power of | the Roosevelt administration to fur-| U. S. Demands Cuts in Trade Barriers of Rival States The U. S. delegation followed up} the currency war by presenting its} program at the Cenference for the economic disarmament of its imperi- alist rivals. This was’ given in the American tariff plan, which calls for ()) a 10 per cent reduction in tariffs} generally, including surtaxes and| preferences. The inclusion of sur- taxes aims specially at France, which only a week ago placed a special 15], | per cent surtax on all American im-| | ports. The reference hits at the | British Empire system of, inter-im- perial preferences established at the Ottawa conference. (2) The Amer- ican scheme demands the “equitable” operation of import quota laws. This) again has France in view, and also Italy, Germany and other countries that have virtual embargo restric- commodities. For example, the quotas for foreign wheat in France, MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., June 16,— | by an adventurist desire to mislead Unofficial returns show that Harry] 7¢ade!s. Trotsky was a long time Mayville, Communist candidate for| #60, according to law. expelled from Alderman in the 6th Ward, received the Soviet Union as a coun revo- 1,522 votes, or 30 per cent of the| lutionist. This law remains, and total, against the Farmer-Labor Al-| ¥il! remain, in force derman John Peterson who has been | in office for 24 years. Peterson got| his heaviest vote from the bourgeoisie | in the downtown hotels, while in the| working-class areas of the ward the vote was very close. | EDITOR'S from our refers to NOTE.—This dispatch Moscow correspondent d answers articles in the European press about “Trots- ky’s return” which seems to ibe Salem Strikers Reject “Raise”; “Recovery Act” ‘Used by Bosses in A in Attempt to Trick | Workers Back Into Mills SALEM, Mass., June 18—The Strike Committee leading the fight of the | ya textile workers here have turned a cold shoulder to the “suggestion” of ‘Thomas F. McMahon, president of the United Textile Workers Union that | they accept the company proposal of a 20 percent increase in pay with an | ing. increase in work. The strikers have of the mill bosses by mass picketing.¢—— McMahon had sent a telegram to J. P, O'Connell, business agent of the local textile union which said: “Salem workers can return to work upon a 40-hour basis as outlined by the Industrial Recovery Act, with the agreement entered into as stated by me, with immediate increase of 20 per cent in wages. This will go into effect if employees work on Monday next.” “Some Good News.” Immediately upon the receipt of the wire by O'Connell, Mayor Bates of Salem got in touch with the Strike Committee and called them into a conference, stating that he “had some good news for them.” Vice-President Gorman had in the meantime arrived in Salem. At the conference between the Mayor, the Strikc Committee, the local Execu- tive Board, and later Gorman, the Mayor tried his best to get the Com- mittee to accept this offer. He questioned each member on the Strike Committee for an individual refused to answer on their position. He tried to convince them that they were getting “a wonderful offer” by the company. But what the offer really means, 1s that the Company is attempting to introduce a great increase in work in every depart- ment. It would take away the sen- jority rights of the workers, which means giving the company the right to fire any one they ‘please. In the Jong run the company would in- crease the work to such an extent that the workers would be doing double the work they were doing before with only a 20 per cent in- crease in wages. Many of the work- ers would be Iaid-off. And this comes under the catching slogan of “We'll give you 48 hours pay for only 40 hours of work.” Silk aera In Two Fall River Mills; Call Others Out | FALL RIVER, Mass., June 16.— Seventy-two weavers at the Kluger Silk Mill located at 207 Pleasant St., struck yesterday after the bosses had fused their demand for more They were joined in a sym- | pathy strike by 46 weavers of the Alex Abosh Mills in the same build-' Mass Picket instead decided to answer this trick | The strikers are now working to} | pull out the weavers of the Donald) | Silk Mill and the Troy Mill. Silk Strikers Solid In Scranton; Protest 20 Percent Pay Cut | was emphatically reject ted. The “Recovery Act” is being play’ ed | up by the local press as being “ | | | means through which the company now finds it possible to make this of- fer. Ann Burlak, secretary of the Na-| tional Textile Workers Union spoke | SCRANTON, Pa. — The strikers{ at this meeting and exposed this new | from the Elite Silk Mill, who have proposition of the company as a/beon out since June 10, held their | scheme to get the workers back to! first meeting with all 200 strikers work on the original proposals of the | present on Saturday. A rumor, cal- company. She pointed out that their | culated to disrupt the strike, had} to planned, The str! voted un work ‘wouki be stretched-out much|been spread that they more than 20 percent, and many | 0 back to work soon. workers laid off. She called for|at the meeting, however, mass picket lines at both the animously to stay out. and the bleachery, as the only A report was given by one of the fective answer of the strikers ers stating that they received a stressed the necessity of br neing cent wage-cut before they re- Pp per cent cut, After families and the children to eived the les picket lines. Burlak was enthi protest, the bosses promise tically received by the strikers who e 20 per cent cu would be gave her a long ovation, and a ris- i n this failed to come | k. The weay- ing vote of thanks. The strike is still 100 percent solid. jers went out ft followed soon after. is cut 100 per cent. Mill have | a week for| ° i partment SALEM, Mass., This 16.—With an | Present the fron determination not to be inti- | midated by the wave of terror ini-| tiated by the police since the pro- | yocative shooting of Fecteau, the U. T. W. local president, the Salem textile strikers have become more solidly welded together and mass on the picket line every day. At the same time, the police have not given up their attempt to pin the shooting of Fecteau on a striker. Local. newspapers, always concerned with the mill’s best interests are car- rying scare headlines, which are known to be lies by the strikers. A slanderous lie just printed was that the strikers raised $800 to “put Fec- teau and O'Connell on the spot.” |of one quarter of a cent piece work) The only funGs that are being | Pay’. raised by the strikers are relief funds | to carry the strike to a successful conclusion, and to insure themselves against hunger. To swell this fund they need the support of every working organization and they been. getting es low as {full time work. Silk Weavers Strike Forces Pay Increase | PORT JERVIS, N. Y., June 16.— 'Seventeen members of the Weavers Union who organized after a strike at the Katterman and Mitchell Silk Mill 11 weeks ago, returned to work today in accordance with a settle~ ment effected Thursday, The company offered an inerease strike, picketing at the mill gate and fighting the recruiting of scabs. Sev- eral were arrested. Town authorities cooperated with the mill and cut off relief from the strikers forcing them to return te work \ the other de-/ At! | The workers were militant in this) per cent respectively. (3) America} | proposes a system of bi-lateral trade | jagreements on an unconditional | |most-favored-nation agreement) |basis. An, nefits in the way of | tariff reductions granted on this) | principle would have to be extended | Stabili-¢ oa ae tions against the entry of particular} Germany and Italy are 1, 3 and 5} quota laws, or any reductions in her customs barriers, until “production (in the exporting countries) is first organized in a rational manner.” The French statement concretely men- tions the wheat industry and says that “exporting countries should limit their production in such ways as to restrict their exports.” This recommendation is especially meant for the United States. ‘JURY OF ’ NEGROES, WHITES FREES A MILITANT SEAMAN Defended Self Against Seamen’s Church Cop PHILADELPHIA.—Without leay~ ing the jury box, a jury of five Negroes and seven whites acquitted Frank Cole, member of the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union, on a charge of assault and battery in Superior Court here. Cole was ar- rested for defending himself against Special Officer McNulty, thug of the Seamen’s Church Institute, who at- | tempted to beat him up. The Institute has carried on a reign of terror among seamen for the past few months, throwing out seamen on the slightest charge and beating many up the process. Last year, Harris, organizer of the in | automatically to all other nations. This proposal goes directly counter} {to the course of French and English | | tariff policy, as both these countries} {have been making closed bi-lateral| agreements wherever possible. The American tariff proposals con- stitute an agressive economic offen- ye against the European nations at he London Conference. sive was re-inforeed over the week-| jend by the unexpectedly stiff notes dispatched by the U. S. State De-| partment to the defaulting and semi- | defaulting debtor countries. | | | France Counter-Attack On Tariffs PARIS, June 18.—Immediately fol- lowing the action of America in blocking proposals for currency stabilization, France has replied with | a threat to break up the work of| |the conference. “Economic problems cannot be settled unless currencies | | are stabilized and unless return to| !the gold standard {s accomplished,” | said the French Prime Minister,| Daladier, in a statement issued as | the result of a conversation with the | Ministers of Commerce and Agricul- | ture, “We consider this an indispens- | lable prelim’nary without which all ‘measures of an economic nature! would be absolutely futile.” This im- | portant official statement of French} policy also said that France would not consider any alterations in her I. L.D. Figh |lease, This offen- | se | ternational M. W. I. U. was arrested by Insti- tute police and railroaded to jail under a sentence of one year. Pres- sure from the seamen forced his re- after he had served three months. A short time ago Christen- n, a militant seaman, was taken to the hospital where he lay at the point of death for a long time as the result of a blackjack whipping received at the hands of the Insti- tute police, Cole, when attacked by McNuity, defended himself, although he is a much smaller man. MceNulty’s glasses were broken during the struggle and Cole was ~put under arrest for simple assault. When he announced that he turned his de- fense over to the Union and the In- Labor Defense, the charge was increased to assault and battery and the bail was fixed at $500. When the trial was called, Cole requested a jury trial. Defense attorneys exposed the role of the Institute and told of the brutal attacks made on seamen there. t Compels _ Antonoff Gag Removal 4) Bail for Deportee Lowere: Immigration Ch | ment, | Kellowing powerful mass pressure Commissioner-General D, W. Mac-s Cormack was forced to agree to re- lease Todar Antonoff in $1,000 bail without the conditions originally at- tached that Antonoff cease his ac- tivities on behalf of the workers while the bond was in effect. Frank Spector, assistant national \secretary of the I-L.D., in a telegram to MacCormack demanded this ac- tion last week. A flood of protest telegrams and letters poured in on MacCormack from all sections of the country embodying the same de- | mand. Antonoff, working class leader of Detroit, originally was held in $25,000 bail pending deportation proceedings, the high bail being on MacCormack’s own admission, “prohibitive” merely in an effort to stop his labor activi- ties. ‘The NEW YORK, June 18.—Two more smashing victories were won today | by the International Labor Defense through its campaign of mass protest by Negro and white workers against the autocratic immigration depart- d from $25,000 to $1,000; ief Backs Down demanding such action, Immigration o~- Ma | cooperated in the campaign to “have Antonoff freed on reasonable bat! without “conditions” attached. The other triumph of a mass protest drive came in a letter from MacCormack in which he finally was compelled to acknowledge the full right of the LL.D. lawyers to visit and defend aliens held for de- portation at Ellis Island. The Ellis Island authorities had refused this right to I.L.D, attorneys because “the LL.D. criticizes us too much.” Secretary of Labor Perkins and MacCormack as a result of the cam~ paign of mass pressure launched by the LL.D, were deluged with de~ mands to compel the Ellis Island of- ficials to retreat from their arbitrary stand, and this has now proved ef~ Giri! Liberties! fective, yy 4 ‘ SS ear memtemcetttiontrs: i