The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 20, 1933, Page 1

“ Use Workers Correspondence to Boost Factory Sales! See “Day by Day” Coiumn on Page Two! | Dail Central Or __ (Sesion of the Communist International) Vol. X, No. 147 >_> Batered an sseund-slaes sisiter. a6 the Pest Office af Mew York, M. ¥., wmder the Act of March 3, 187%, “Recovery” Ballyhoo T the very same time that Roosevelt signs the “Industrial Recovery Bill”, the capitalist press launches another of the innumerable “pros- perity” ballyhoo campaigns. There is real significance for the workers in this coupling of the In- dustrial Recovery Bill with a deliberate ballyhoo of returning prosperity. Jt can only mean that the Roosevelt government is attempting to mask the attack which the Industrial Bill contains against. the workers behind the fanfare and camouflage of another “prosperity” ballyhoo campaign. It can only mean that as the capitalist class puts the machinery into mo- tion to grind the working class still deeper into misery, Roosevelt will dangle before the workers illusory mirages of returning “prosperity” in an effort to keep them from resisting starvation. Is “prosperity” returning? The very figures pumped by the Roose- velt press-agents reveal what a fraud is at the bottom of the present prosperity campaign. With a great show of jubilation, every capitalist newspaper in the country, supplied with inspired news from the well-organized. high- powered propaganda machine at Washington, is featuring a supposed 128 per cent increase in building activity for May as compared with April. UT the very same report of the United States Department of Com- _ Merce, upon which the newspaper reports are based, reveal what a fraed and a deception this “prosperity” ta)k is. The U. S. Department of Commerce cannot hide the fact that build- ing construction is now practically at the lowest. point in the history of the country, running 50 per cent behind the same period last year, and more than 80 per cent behind the so-called “normal period” preceding the crisis. But the full fraud of the current “prosperity” ballyhoo is exposed by the fact that the 128 per cent increase is not an actual increase in build- ing, but an fincrease in the estimated cost of building. That is to say, the Roosevelt government’s irflationary program has caused a sharp rise im the cost of certain building materials. Then, the increased cost of butiding is hailed as an increase in actual building itself! On top of this, the much-touted 128 per cent figure not only repre- genis inflated costs, but includes alterations and repairs. The 128 per cent figure in no sense represents any real construction of new buildings. Compared with May, 1932, the number of permits for new residential buildings declined 12 per cent, while building of commercial buildings de- elimed 16 per cent. ® for the “boom” in the steel industry even the Wall St. Journal, quot- ing the “Iron Age”, cannot its skepticism of the current steel boom. I says, “It is possible tonnage of steel now being taken against second-qearter contra present needs.” And this organ of the 1 that there is absolutely.no gion. Tt states, “Although: for any revival in heavy steel produc- | legislation may have speeded up buy- img, demand remains unbalanced, with little support coming from the radiroads, construction or the oil industry...” Thes, the three heayy conéumers of steel, railroad, building and oil, without whose buying it is i temporary, hallow “boom” in” img to crisis levels. to have anything but an extremely el production, are restricting their buy- is thus a deliberately inspired and controlled and operated from the ‘The Industrial Control Bil], with its attack on the organization of the workers, with its mobilization of the Federal Government against strikes, with its openly avowed purpose of raising prices and decreasing the costs of production in order to make profits for the capitalist class, is the reality which lies behind the Roosevelt prosperity ballyhoo. * The City Protects the Bankers The City has ammownced thai it will abandon the proposed taxes on autos and bridges. Insiead, % will levy some form of sales tax in addi- tion to other taxes and wage cuts. This action confirms the predictions of the “Daily Worker,” which has for more than two weeks been pointing out that the strategy of the | City government lay definitely in @he direction of placing the heaviest tax burdens directly upon the consuming masses. The Committee appointed by the Tammany Mayor of New York City to devise ways and means of raising enough money to fulfill the guarantees to Wall Street bankers has been disbanded, But it is a dead eertainty that its final proposals will include an in- @xcase in all subway fares, sales taxes that will fall heaviest on the poorest sections of the population, and more wage slashes for Civil Ser- viee city employees. The excuse given by the City government for the imposition of these new burdens upon the people is that only in this way can relief payments be continued. But not only has relief been severely curtailed, but the Board of Estimate has refused to guarantee that the new funds will actually go for relief. Actually these funds will go to meet the payments te the bankers. There is a way to pay for relief without levying any new burdens upon the poorest section of the people. ‘This way is to make the bankers pay for the relief. ‘The program presented on June 6 at City Hall by the delegation ef workers representing the Unemployed Councils showed exactly how te raise the money for an adequate relief program. Only the workers have raised the demand to make the bankers pay. Only the delegation of workers representing the Unemployed Councils, which appeared before the City government on June 6, raised the de- mand that relief must not be curtailed, but must be increased, no matter whether the Wall Strect bankers collect their interest or not. This delegation of workers demanded an immediate moratorium on ail payments to the Well Street bankers. This would at once release $300,600,000 im the coming year for relief purpores. They demanded the stopping of the payments to the bankers. The workers demanded that the City impose an imme*‘ate 10 per cent levy on all capital wealth of the multi-milhonaire bankers and corp- owations of the City. This is the way that relief for the starving workers and their families must be financed. The fight against wage cuts for City employees, against reduced relief, against setes taxes, against increased subway fare is a fight against the Wall Street bankers and against the capitaHst City government which ts the agent of these bankers. The Two-Party System Grate Robert R. Robinson of Indiana, is taking advantage of the senate adjournment to build up some of his political fences badly shattered in the Roosevelt landslide of last fall. He is the only repub- lican representing Indiana in Washington and is compelled to run for Te-election next year. He has already begun his campaign, His language against the Roosevelt administration has the same demagogic ring as that of the democrats who last year were berating Hoovar. . In speeches throughout the state the senator announces he will con- tinue his original attack on the Roosevelt administration made at In- dianapolis. There he said the cutting off of compensatten for the war veterans was “cruel, unfair and utterly indefensible’. It was, said Robin- son, a plot of internationel bankers and the rich “to balance the budget with the nickels of the poor.” Tt sounds like one of Roosevelt’s last year’s speeches against Hoover, whom Robinson and the other republican senators defended, Nothing is more hypocritical than the professed concern of Robin- son for the veterans, in view of his support of Hoover, the butcher of Anacostia fieid who drove the first bonus marchers out of Washington with fire and sword leaving dead and maimed in his trail. It is part of the old game of maintaining the two-party system as one of the mainstays of Ameriaan imperialiem—as one of the chief means of decatving the masses and imaged them be the parties of capttaiiwm. | |New Jersey Wor || | | accountant by profession, | NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1933 _ (CITY DROPS AUTO TAX | FOR SALES TAX, WAGE — CUTS, EIGHT CENT FARE |To Guarantee Bankers Loans, Mayors Com-| mittee Proposes to Levy New Burdens NEW YORK; ite: 19.—The Gomnittes appointed by} Mayor O’Brien to dévise ways and means to raise $30,000,000 | pledged to the delegation of Wall Street bankers has defi- nitely abandoned the proposed bridge tolls and the taxes on ~* autos, it was reported today. The final decisions of the 8 | committee have not been made § | |Unemployed, Kill public. But it is widely con-| er ceded: that instead of the auto taxes| 'S elf With Rey | > | the main taxes will be raised by al | PLAINFIELD, N. J. Carlson E.| sales fax, an increase in ny | Wolfe, of 39 Willow Ave., North| | fares, and more peel cuts. | Plainfield, despondent becanse he} ia ‘The $15,000,000 of had been unable to get a job, shot | | 0M various city carta oscil |and killed himself in his home| | licensing, etc., will, in all probability, | yesterday. Wolfe, age 44, was an| | be retained. ‘The city must raise $30,000,000 be- | aise Dec. 11, the day when the next yyments to the bankers fall due.) Chinese Refugees Fleeing from Invading , Japanese Imperialist Army D TRAIN SERVICE Street finance capital is forced to admit | WORKERS’ COMM. WINS WAGE RISE (AT SIMMONS BED 15 Percent Inerease in | Price Rates; Company Fears Union | KENOSHA, Wis. Juhe 19—After an elected committee of the workers had presented their demands, the superintendent of the rolling mill of the Simmons Bed Coj, conceded a 15 per cent raise in piéce work rates |for the 32 men employed here. The company, which granted the de- mands of the closers in the mattress department following {a walk out some weeks ago, fears of the militant Furniture dustrial Union. ‘The le spre’ 7 an increase from 40 cents to 65 and 70 cents an hour. The workers in th@ rolling mill were organized during the 1919 steel strike by the A. F. of L. The com- pany was able to break the unioo in | 1923 after a shutdown of six months and because of the failure of the union to organize the entire plant.; In 1924 when the men spontaneously | walked out against wage cuts the company hastily granted their de-} | mands fearing the return of the| |union which would demand higher} wages and less hours. | Company Spreads False Rumors | The company i6 deliberately spreading a rumor of a general wage |inerease of 15 per cent on July 1st |to prevent the men from organizing to demand wage increases and} shorter hours. At the same time the spring temperers were given a |cut of 4 cents per hundred on their wage rate two weeks ago. Repair men on the kilns recently won a raise from 40 cents to 60 cents after refusing to work at the pre- vious low rate, The Simmons workers are begin- ning to recognize that the victory of the closers and the rolling mill work- ers came through organization and that they should organize militant grievance committees to demand bet- ter conditions. ‘MEXICAN CONSUL _ BREAKS STRIKE Scabs, Race Issue De- | feat Agricultural \ Workers ELMONTE, Calif., June 10.—The ;$ame Mexican consul who helped | \smash the Imperial Valley strike is) trying to break a strike of 500 berry | pickers. The workers demanded 25c an one and 65c a basket instead of the 12c| to 15c an hour and the 40c a basket | rate they had been receiving. The strikers include Mexican, Japanese and Filipino workers. After the strikers refused an offer of 2c an hour and 50c a basket, scabs were imported. The next step was the appearance of the Mexican consul, who told the Mexican work- ers to throw out the Japanese and Filipinos and make it a purely Mex- ican union. The next day police raided the strikers’ camp and arrested four white organizers and a Mexican lead- er. The Mexican consul was with the police. Mattern Still Lost; - Fog Blocks Search + by Alaskan Airmen ’ NOME, Alaska, June 19.—Fog con- tinued to block the attempts of flyers today to set off in search for James Mattern, lost somewhere in the Ber- ing Sea area. A dozen flyers were waiting for clear skies, to enable them to take off for the search. gy [This gives the city government the! men working on the*hot rolls means | 8S | Opportunity to withhold its maa lows against the masses until ai te elections. This was ariel | with the bankers, Te Repeat Chicago Plan The indications of further cuts for Civil Service employees are growing. Today, Comptroller Berry announced that he thought that a good place to sell the city’s bonds which he) plans to issue would be at ‘teachers’ associations. It will be remembered that the teachers of Chicago, who have been deprived of pay for over years, were also told that the tinuation of their salaries would be dependent upon their buying of city bonds. Cut All Relief. To guarantee the interest pay- ments to the bankers, the city has cut all relief payments. Thousands of workers’ families face immediate eyiction because relief rent pay- ments have been stopped. The of Estimate, in flat contradic- the statements of the Mayor, lared that the new funds to be raised will not be allocated for relief purposes. Meanwhile, the city is paying $1,000,000 a month in extra interest payments to the bankers for the privilege of having the $225,000,000 loan, which fell due on June 10, re- newed to December 11. 3 SHOPS OUT IN LEATHER STRIKE GLOVERSVILLE. — Workers three firms here and in Johnstown are out on strike for a 15 per cent pay increase, which was taken from them last year. These three firms comprise practically the whole leather industry in Fulton County. About 130 men have been on strike since last Monday, following the re- fusal to grant the wage demands of the workers. At a meeting where a strike vote was taken, despite the attempts of a Slovak priest, Zadzora, to. disrupt the meeting, the workers voted unanimously for the strike. The bosses are anxious to settle the strike, for thousands of dollars of furs are left in the liming process, and they are afraid that they will rot if the strike is prolonged. At a meeting held last Saturday, a peor, strike committee was set up, and demands were made that no one be discriminated against after the strike. It is expected that strong shop committees snd a rank-and-file controlied leather workers’ union will be built up. in 1 IN MANCHURIA \British- Supported Tibetan Troops Invade; | West China | TIENTSIN, China, June 19.—The, increasing activity of Ghinese intsut~| gent troops are disruptjng the Man-| chukuo railway services. A band of insurgents held up a passenger train xear Panshan on the. Kowpangtze-| Newchang Railway in Manchuria near the§Jehol border. | | Two White Russian guards were, | killed, and the insurgents escaped | with one Japanese and‘ four Koreans as prisoners. | The Japanese troops have not cya-| cuated the “demilitarized zone,” | have the so-called \*Manchurian. Ir- regulars” cleared. i Of the” aret The Chinese authi they be disarmed, while propose that they be cot @ police force “for the Protection atl the demilitarized zone.” Large Japanese cavalry detach- ments, together with other arms, continue their advance in Chahar Province. Warfare has broken out again on the China-Tibet frontier. 'The Chinese press declares that the} Tibetan troops are supported by certain power” (Britain) and | lunder the command of officers| trained in India. ILD Asks Election - of Delegates to City Mooney Conference | NEW YORK —Supporting the New| York Tom Mooney Council of Action | which is carrying on a campaign for) the release of Tom Mooney alone | | lines of action laid down at the Chi-| cago Free Tom Mooney Congress, | the New York District’ International} Labor Defense issued a special call today to all its branches to elect del- egates to the New York Free Tom Mooney Conference Sunday, June 25,/ 1_p. m, at Irving Plaza, 15th Street | and Irving Place, At this conference a common plan of activity will be worked out for the struggle for the freedom of Tom! Mooney. The delegates to the con-| ference will constitute the New York| Tom. Mooney Council of Action. All I. L. D. members are also call- ed upon by the District Office to par- ticipate actively in the National Tom Mooney Tag Days, June 19-25, which will be carried on under the aus- pices of the New York Tom Mooney} Council of Action. ' Southern = REBELS DI RUPT ROOS VELT CUTS WAGES OF. POST OFFICE WORKERS Postal Wor' rkers to Lose $9,500,000 Thru Forced Vacations Without Pay! WASHINGTON, June 19.'— Postal wor % will get another wage cut of ,000, Roosevelt's Postmaster ral Farley announced today. He G |hgs ordered that all postal employees must take off nine days without pay. | In the cases where the rural mail in pay without the nine day furlough. they will be forced to take reductions ih pay without the furlough nine day furlough. ‘These orders are part of Roosevelt’s program embodied in tpe Independ- ent Offices Bill to cut the wages of all Federal employees by about $500,- | 980,000. ly It is reported that in Chicago the rom Washington will reduce | ployees in the postal and other Fed- eral departments by 25 per cent Permanent Wage Cut Postmaster Farley, who was one of Roosevelt's leading campaign man- agers. and who is now one of Roose- yelt’s closest advisers. also announced } that if business did not improve by September 1. the forced vacations without pay would be extended inde- finitely. This sharp reduction in the already meagre wages of the Postal employees 5 announced at the same time that yelt’s administrator of. the In- dustrial Control Bill asked employers to increase wages ‘Port Angeles, Wash. Jobless Strike On Forced Labor Job - PORT ANGELES, Wash,—Unem- ployed here are on strike on forced} labor jobs, demanding more relief without having to answer questions} The strikers of the McDonald Bill. are picketing the job. The men have had to answer over 80 questions be- fore getting relief. Many who re- fused were cut off. The strike on the forced labor job hes had its effect on the employed workers in this county. It ported that workers in one logging is re- camp struck last week and another| has gone out on strike. Dissatisfac- tion in two pulp mills will result in a strike of the workers there. YPSL Leaders Continue to Scab As Rank and File Join 2,500 in Fur Picketing Socialist Youth March With Nails Communist League Members; , 2,000 Workers Sind macking Indus trial NEW YORK.—Twenty-five hundred youth and ‘ad ult worker demonstrated in the morning picketing of the tur market yesterday, Rank and file members of the Young Peoples’ Socialist League marched with members of the Young Com- munist League. The action of these ¢ young workers was in direct contrast to the scab picketing carried on at the same time by leaders of the YP SL's. Five YPSL leaders were carrying signs for the defunct Joint Board of the A. F. of L. The anger. of the fur workers at the socialist mislead- ers was expressed in the market, par- ticularly against the publication in this week's New Leader of a so- called “statement of principle” by the A. F. of L, union. * 8 « In the R. & R. shop, 362 7th Ave., 15 gangsters of the joint board forced the workers to leave with them to go to the right-wing headquarters. When the workers reached the side- walk, they called upon their fellow- workers for assistance and the po- lice were forced to arrest six gang- orderly conduct and freed in court @ few hours later in the custody of their lawyers. The action of the: court in its treatment of the gang- sters differs from its treatment of strikers arrested for calling the strikebreaking pickets, “scabs.” The workers arrested for this offense were given five days in jail. 2,000 Fur Workers Sign Over 2,000 affidavits have been sign- od by furriers, stating that they do not want the defunct A. F. of L, leadership and that they are in the Industrial Union and want to remain in it of their own accord and because it is their only means of protecting themselves against the bosses’ at- tacks, Coos eae MeGrady Pushes Attacks of Mawanl F. Me- of! Lb. offetel and te- t Te Geode, sistant to U. S. Secretary of Labor Perkins in New York is held by the Industrial Union as one of the rea- sons why the defeated fur bosses | have not given in to the strikers’ demands. McGrady has asked that the government be given ancther week to smash the Industrial Union. Yesterday was marked by several un- successful invasions of shops by dicks and gangsters, Alien dicks of the im- migration bureau have flooded the fur market. ¢ fee Fraternal Organization Donates To | Strike The widespread sentiment for the striking furriers was marked yester- day by the receipt of a check for $10 to aid the strikers, ‘®at by the In- dependent Chortiner Benefit Society. This Nigga ee voted to send this amount their meeting, Saturday. Ht is am wmeafiilinted fraternal no- CITY EDITION U.S. DELEGATION URGES | basis See On Page 4 Article Explain- ing How Figures Are Faked In The Roosevelt Prosperity Ballyhoo Today—Fair and warmer; southeast winds, Price 3 Cents MORE INFLATION AT LONDON CONFERENCE Wants Intermational Gold Payments But Not Return of the United States to the Gold Standard Abandoned March 4 French Delegate Assails Inflation Program of Roosevelt Government As Making Things Worse Than Ever LONDON, June 19.—The “United States delegation at the World Economic Conference today, through Senator Key Pitt- man, submitted a resolution urging ‘the re-establishing of an | international monetary standard. He urged that gold should again become the international of exchange. He also® nr owosec L {culated to try to switch the discus- proposed that the SOverUMents | sore from tariffs to money reform, agree to abandon the practice|did not succeed. ‘The Americans of debasing or melting silver coins| are still. trying to explain how it ;and urged the substitution of silver; was possible for Secretary of State coins for money of small denomina-| Cordell Hull to agree to a 10 per he buying power of the Federal em- | tions. No Return to Gold Standard Pittman briefly explained that the United States did not contemplate returning to the gold standard in order to avoid giving the impression that it might do so. He said there must be a distinction between his advocacy of gold as an exchange yardstick in the and the gold standard as it existed! {in the United States before March 4th. He urges that the use of gold be confined to its employment as a! |cover for circulation and as a me-| dium of settling international ba’ ances and payment. “This means said Pittman, coin or bullion, from circulation.” Pittman dealt at considerable length with the question of silver, j urging a dual backing of gold and 8 will be withdrawn \silver for currency issues of central j banks. Sees Old Free Silver THusion The capitalist economists he: sufficiently familiar with such“ ex- periments to recognize this as a sil- | ver plea and urged it as a revival of the old free silver quackery so long| popular in the United States. French Assail Inflation. In the monetary commission’s sub- {committee on immediate measures, Guido Jung of Italy, the inflation policies of the United States came |under sharp attack. Georges Bon- net of France vigorously denounced | what he termed an “artificial sys- tem” of devaluation of currency as @ means of raising price levels. He said that inflation, far from. pro- ducing beneficial results, only made |matters worse by throwing every- thing out of gear, reducing purchas- ing power and generally increasing) |all the evils from which the world| is suffering. Pittman’s Proposals, although cal-| NAACP. MEET IN CHICAGO SOON CHICAGO, June 18.—The pn conference of the National Associa-| tion for the Advancement of Col-| cred People will be held in this city June 29-July 2. Under pressure of the Negro mas- ses indignant of the policy of the | N.A.A.C.P. officialdom in connection with the Scottsboro case, the ques- | tion of the tactics of the organiza- | tion has been placed on the agenda | for discussion. This will come un- der the head of “Is the N.A.A.C.P. | Line of Attack Meeting the Needs of | the Day? ” Because of the open treachery of | the N.A.AC.P. in the Scottsboro case on the one hand, and the splen-| Gid fight on behalf of the innocent Negro boys by the International| Labor Defense, a sharp fight is an- ticipated on the floor of the confer-| ence over the policy and tacties of | the NAACP. Official releases appearing in the bourgeois Negro press declare that} the discussion at the conference “is designed to chart, if possible, the re- | action of the Negro citizens to recent activities in the field of race rela- tions and to find out what sections of the population are thinking.” Speakers at the conference will in- | clude Walter White, field secretary ton, who is said to be in disagree- | ment with the policies of the organ- | ization, and others. |Minor, Alexander at Anti-Nazi Meet: in Brooklyn Tomorrow NEW YORK—In preparation for the National Anti-Fascist Day, June 24th, a mass meeting with Robert Minor, member of the Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party and and Charles Alexander, N. Y. Dis- trict of the Communist Party as the main speakers, will be held tomor- row night, Wednesday, at the Em- pire Manor, 70 Thatford Avenue in Brooklyn at 8 p. m. part of a series St tal spies arranged by the Brownsville Section of the Comeouniet Boris for this international field | “that gold, either in| gare | which is under the chairmanship of} of the N.A.A.C.P., Charles H. Hous-} This meeting against fascism {s| Daily cent tariff cut yesterday and they ‘have to disown it today. PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAM SEEN AS BIG FRAUD To Spend $ $800, 000,000 And Give Work To Some 38,000 WASHINGTON, June 18.—The | Roosevelt ballyhoo proceeds as usual | even though congress is not now in | session, and Roosevelt is now on his | all-summer vacation. Accompanying the “emergency” legislation that the | administration admits is based upon | war-time precedents is a war-time publicity bureau. The job of the publicity agents of the -administra- tion is to make it appear that re- covery is generally under way. Report Expenditure of $800,000,000 It was reported yesterday that there was to be an expenditure of some $800,000,000 for “public works,” | under the “national recovery act.” |} Of this $75,000,000 is to go for one project in New York City—a new | toll tunnel under the Hudson. This would employ 3,500 men for three years. If workers are employed at such a ratio for the balance of the 800 million, it only means that from | 36,000 to 38,000 will be employed for | the total amount. The rest will go to the contractors, the suppliers of material, etc. | Give Lie to Pubiicity on Jobs The capitalist press reported that the 800 million would give jobs to | 350,000, but the facts furnished by | each city and state named as pro- uate beneficiaries show that mot | much more than one-tenth the num-~ | ber will be employed. | Even if there were 350,000 em- | Ployed at hunger wages on the basis of Roosevelt's “public works” and “teforestration” forced labor schemes | there Would still be more than six teen and a half million unemployed 10 WIEDEMANN _ DEMONSTRATORS | TRIED JUNE 21 NEW YORK.—Ten of the workers arrested for demonstrating at the arrival of Hans Weidemann, Hitler | representative to the Chicago World | Fair, will go on wial this Wednesdey | morning, June 21, on charges of dils~ orderly conduct before Judge Eil- |Perin at the Traffic Court, Bedford and Lafayette Streets, Brooklyn. Their defense will be conducted by the N. Y. District, International La- bor Defense. Trials of these workers were pre- | viously postponed, the courts trying | to gain time so that the indignation against the brutal police attack on | the demonstration might be for- gotten, The N. Y. District International Labor Defense calls upon all workers to attend the trial this Wednesday and through mass pressure their release. i ' CORRECTION Im the Daily Worker of June 7 & news story of an attack on militant Illinois miners, it was correctly reported that Thomas ban, who was shot, From sheriff. -