The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 21, 1933, Page 1

How YOU Can Help to Boost the Daily Worker! Read ‘Day by Day’ Column on Page Two! Daily _~ “Vol. X, No. 148 NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1933. orke unist Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist International ) See on Page 4 L Clara Zetkin. On Prayda’s Answe THE southwest winds. berg’s Proposal to Colonize the Soviet Union WEATHER, — Todey ife History of Page 4, Also, r to Hugen- fale; wermer; Nght, * CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents ROOSEVELT’S INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY LAW ENACTED TO Rose Pastor Stokes The workers of the United States and their revolutionary Party have lost a heroic comrade and fellow soldier of the class struggle. Rose Pastor Stokes is dead. She died yesterday, after a long and painful iliness, as the direct result of a blow of a policeman’s club re- ceived three year® ago in a demonstration against the American im- perialist invasion of Haiti. This was a woman of the revolution, In the story of her life is mirrored much of the history of the modern labor movement of this country and of the formation and growth of that American revolution- ary Party of the working class which is destined to overthrow American capitalism. After the formation of the left wing section of the Socialist Party, Rose Stokes was inevitably drawn into it and became a member of its executive committee, participating actively in the struggle to win the rank and file of the Socialist Party for affiliation with the Communist International, In the organization of the Communist Party in Septem- ber 1919, she became a member of the Central Committee of one of the factions of the then divided party. The prosecutions by the Federal Government, by which was attempted the destruction of the revolu- tionary Party, involved her, and she was the first American indicted under the war-time sedition laws. She was convicted at Kansas City in 1918 and sentefhced to ten years in Federal prison, a sentence which was never served She was indicted again for participating in the form- ation of the Communist Party in 1919, and once more as a participant in the convention of the Communist Party in Michigan in 1922. During the period when the Communist Party was outlawed as an illegal or- ganization, Rose Pastor Stokes functioned practically without intermis- sion as @ member of the Central Committee. From her earliest days in the revolutionary movement, Rese Pastor Stokes was a persistent and belligerent fighter for the bringing of the Negro masses into the revolu- tionary movement and for a struggle against the persecution of the Ne- 9 people, In the Communist Party she, in 1921, undertook this as her special work. * * . The revolutionary working class of America and its Communist Par- ty honor the memory of our Comrade Rose Pastor Stokes. The history ot the American revolution will give a splendid page to her. But the lesson of Rose Pastor Stokes’ life and death is a lesson of action, not of mourning. Let us not forget the way she died—victim of the murderous violence of the capitalist police of the metropolis of Amer- ican imperialism! The lesson we learn from this revolutionary comrade is the lesson of courageous, persistent, unrelenting class struggle against that olass which she hated and which the American masses will overthrow. On with the fight! Honor to owr fallen comrade! Yes, Raises, But for Whom? It is only by accident often that the truth comes to light about how “wage raising” schemes will really work under the industrial recovery act. ‘The New York Edison Company on May first actually raised wages— or rather salaries of its executives 40 per cent. But in order to keep the correct balance, envisaged by the Roosevelt scheme of things, the wages of the workers were slashed 8 1-3 per cent. To keep matters even still further within the Roosevelt “plan” of high prices, (and higher profits for the bosses) telephone rates today re- main on a higher level than they were during the very hey-day of the so-called Hoover “prosperity” period. The facts about this wage rise (for the fai-salaried executives) and the wage slash (for the workers) were not broadcast in the ballyhoo statements of General Hugh 8, Johnson, chief director of the Industrial Advisory Board under the Industry Recovery Act. It is ohly indirectly that such things are made public. In this instance they were brought out through a petition presented to the New York Public Service Com- mission by ihe Retail Dry Goods Association asking for lower electric rates. The New York Edison Co. is one of the J. P. Morgan-Owen D. Young corporations, and we know that this policy will not be restricted to the electric company workers in New York ‘The same bosses who thought up this balanced scheme of raising wages control the leading steel in- dustries, oil corporations, have huge interests on the railroads. Their ramifications go on down into a large slice of other American industries, New York Edison made $5,000,000 clear profit out of this wage slash. In every industry, every shop, especially ‘in the basic industries where schemes like this will dominate, under the guise of “raises” only vigilance, organization and resistance of the workers can stop them. The Staff for the Industrial Control Act ‘Under the provisions of the Roosevelt “industrial recovery” bill there has been selected a board that includes the recognized outstanding labor exploiters of the country, General Hugh S, Johnson, administrator of the act, is an army man, a former chief of the notorious labor hating Moline Plow concern. His chief advisers are people like himself. Among them are Alfred P. Sloan Jr., head of the General Motors Corporation, director of the DuPont Powder concern, the Pullman company, the Chase National Bank; Walter C. Teagle, head of Rockefeller’s Standard Oil of New Jersey, one of those on Morgan's “favored list”; Gerard Swope, president of Morgan's General Electric company, director of the Radio Corporation of America; William J. Vereen, former president of the Amer- dean Cotton Manufacturers’ Association, and president of a cotton. mill slave pen at Poulan, Georgia. Each of these names and the concerns they represent conjure up pictures of ruthless use of police and gunmen against the workers, Com- pany unions, spies and provocateurs, and the frame-up are some of the ‘weapons they have all used and use today to try to crush every vestige of organization of workers to struggle against low wages, long hours, the speed-up. There is not any semblance of real labor organization Permitted to exist in any concern any one of them have ever had any- thing to do with, Also on the “labor” advisory board to enforce the industrial slave bill of Roosevelt are such people as William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, who has used his position to fight on the side of the ruling class against all attempts of the workers to resist the hunger drive of the capitalist class and its government; Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, who has for years been known for his class-collaborationist policies against the workers of the men’s clothing industry. All the others of the “labor” section of the board are of a similar calibre. It would be ridiculous to imagine that these “labor leaders” will at- tempt to persuade the employer representatives of the most powerful finance capitalists in America. to abandon their traditional policy of hos- tility to labor. On ‘he contrary, their whole past’is the guarantee to the employers that they will be loyal servants of the bosses and the goy- ernment i cAuTying abacks againat the workers to mom vicious stagie \ U.S: INSISTENCE ON CHEAP | DOLLAR THREATENS SMASH OF LONDON CONFERENCE France Meets Challenge of U. S. With Threat LONDON, June 20.—The of Quick Adjournment; U.S. S. R. Proposes Economic Non-Aggression BULLETIN. Soviet delegation presented to the World Economic Conference today the draft of an econo- | | mic nonaggression pact. It proposed that all nations pledge | BANGKOK SEIZED | 20.—A| headed} BANGKOK, Siam, June group of high army officers, by Col, Phya Bahol Bolabayuha, who | Was forced to resign as army com- mander-in-chief yesterday, staged a coup d’etat here today, seizing the government buildings and palaces and posting patrols in the streets. The same elements active in last June’s coup are at the head of the/ present revolt. | ‘The President of the State Coun- cil the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Defense Minister were ar- ; rested. and detained in Peruskawan | Palace. The entire State Council was forced to resign. No shots were fired in the sudden coup, which took place while King Prajadhipok was at his summer palace. Col. Baho! is temporary chief executive until a new State Council is appointed. ICKES TO DISPENSE FUND. | WASHINGTON, June 20.—Secre- tary of the Interior Ickes will head the Special Board for Public Works | and will allocate the public highway and naval construction fund which involves an immediate expenditure of | $40,000,000. rs THE CLASS FORCES BEHIND THE INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY ACT Beginning Saturday, the Daily Worker will run the first of a se- ries of articles which will expose the real meaning of the Indus-| | trial Recovery Act. These articles,| | || by Harry Gannes, a member of/ | |the Daily Worker staff, will not only show the class forces behind | the bill, how the mill will be used to attack the workers, to smash their unions, divide Negro and} white, skilled and unskilled, but} will take up the imperialist. policy nationally and internationally be- hind the Roosevelt program. Do not miss these’ articles, as they will be a thorough analysis of the bill itself and will show how it will work in the various in- dustries. The articles will likewise discuss methods of resistance to | the vast wage-cutting and profit- | raising scheme of Roosevelt. Order your bundles of the Daily Worker now! tal criminatory customs duties against any single nation or to carry out any kind of boy- any one country. LONDON, June 20.—The unrelent- |ing insistence of the American dele-| FOR THURS. gates on a cheapened dollar, with rising prices at home, and its ad- vantage in the international mar- kets, is rapidly bringing the atmos- phere of the World Economic Con- ference to the explosion point. Leading French posal to adjourn the Conference if the United States persists in its fight} agai persists | in its efforts to crush its rivals with | against pegging the dollar. the weapon of a debased currency. The United States is moving with the greatest aggressiveness against its rivals, and it doggedly refuses to yield them one inch of the adyan- tage which an unstabilized, cheap- ening dollar gives them in the world fight for markets. . es ee LONDON, June 20.—There will be no stabilization of currencies. That fact was made quite definite today by news from Washington that the United States government would not consider such a thing and by the statement here of James P. Warburg, financial expert and House of Mor- gan man, that there was no possi- bility of the United States returning soon to the gold. standard. There is a disposition on the part of most of the delegates to regard Moley as the chief spokesman of the administration at Washington and it was felt there was little use of pro- ceeding with any discussions involv-| ing the United States until his ar- rival. See New U. S. Aggression. It is felt that the United States delegation now here has not proved to be capable of carrying out the aggressive policies that determine the line of the Roosevelt administra- tion, The announcement that Moley and Herbert Bayard Swope, former editor of the New York World, are to go to London is re- garded as proof that the United States is going to utilize the confer- ence to try to weaken the position of Britain in Latin-America, and to align European states behind its policy of imperialist banditry in the Pacific. i | Protests Force Prison Guards to Cease | Abusing Boys | officials quite! jopenly stated that they are deter-| |mined to bring in at once a pro-! FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT —? themselves not to establish dis; | ——--—— IN SIAM REVOL | cott in relation to the trade of! HEARING Sit BIRMINGHAM, Ala., June 20.— Faced with a tremendous mass pro- |test of Negro and white workers of all sections of the country, officials of the Birmingham City Prison have been compelled to stop their abusive boro boys who are confined there. George W. Chamlee, thief of the’ International Labor Defense legal |half of the organization went to the jail and demanded the right to see the boys who for some time had been held in isolation and talked to them He took up their complaints with the authorities and compelled im- mediate remedying of the situation. | Although worn out from their mor than two years life in prison cells, Chamlee found the boys. spirits, Chamlee will appear before Judge James E. Horton at Athens, Ala., 12 miles from Decatur, Thursday, to argue the motion for a new trial for Haywood Patterson, first of the nine boys to be retried recently who was convicted and again sentenced to death after a lynch-trial. The hearings in juvenile court of in good the two youngest of the innocent Scottsboro boys, is scheduled for Fri- day in Decatur before Judge B. L. Malone. FUNDS URGENT FOR { DEFENSE NEW YORK.—An_ emergency appeal for funds needed immedi- ately to carry on the fight for the release of the nine innocent Scottsboro boys was issued today by the International Labor Defense. Money is urgently needed to defray the large expenses involved Rush funds to ILD headquar- ters, 80 E. 11th St., New York. treatment of the nine Negro Scoits- | corps in the Scottsboro case, on be-/| | | | North | Roy Wright and. Bugene Williams,| Cost of living in Southern towns is i BOSSES’ CODE FOR COTTON TEXTILE INDUSTRY LEGATIZES WAGE CUTS, ESTABLISHES § “Exemption of Minimum Wage to Learners Provides Loopholes to Exploit Negro Workers at Lower Wages; Widespread Share-the- Work System Will Follow the 40-Hour Plan WASHINGTON, D. C., June 20.—What may be expected from the codes to be drawn up under the Industrial Recovery Act is already becoming evident in the first code sub- mitted today by leading cotton textile industr for government approval. The code which is: supr be enforced through the power of the government after publ ington beginning June 27, and,~ 7 ri after its approval by the ad-) the ministrator General Johnson and President Roosevelt ; Bs points in e code deal have se nd i with wages and hours to be it Ser} posed on the workers. It provides The 40-Hour Week. or a minimum to be paid to killed work $10 per week rhe Hing for a tw e Southern t 40 hour w 2 $11 per we d sharing ne North for a cluded from the the cotton goods: industry acc to the government f 40 hours wi -hour shifts per week. than two 4 No Increase stretch-out and will undoubtedly the new code. The minimum wage of $10 in the South and $11 in the North will not raise wages for the textile workers. | In fact it is mer ing into legal form the existing starvation wage ‘Rtording to the Labor Reseqrch. As- sociation, the latest official study accompany In a letter addressed to Johnson, | the administrator, the ti jemployers admit that been improvements in the mechani- 1 devices used in the industry and in the technique for handling these devices which enable an employe to handle an increased number of op- erations "and displace work- ers. They commend aS a means f meeting this “decreasing the of labor with accompanying stments in wages... . ” nines to speed-up the wo ers will mean pay cuts and lay-ot according to the proposed code. made by the U. S. government cover- ing the wages of 77,000 workers in this industry showed the average ac- | for men the and women wages of women| and girls averaging $9.87, and men| $12.91. This indicates that the mini- mum wage proposed will actually in- volve a wage cut for many worke’ n the cotton textile industry. The| ny her minimum wage of $11 for the is based on the assumption that the cost of living for the North- ern textile workers is greater than) for the South, yet cosis were actu- ally found to be higher in the South than in the North, Dunn and Hardy in “Labor and Textiles’ (Interna- tional Publishers) points out that the tua! carnings to: be $11.78, TAMMANY A “Contrary to general opinion, greater than in northern centers. Though rent and sundries are cheap- er in the South, food, clothing and other items are more expensive. Southern workers do not haye a low ‘cost. of living’. They have rather, a low ‘standard of living’.” TAX TO PAY By establishing this wage as a le-/ Drain Poor to Giv gal minimum, the government out-| laws any strikes against it or for} wage increases. The exemption of apprentices, | cleaners and outside workers from! the provisions of the minimum wage | indicates clearly that the mill owners are providing a loop hole for them- selves to enevole them to exploit Ne- rs gro workers at a lower wage as in! many campaign to take ‘Clara Zetkin Was One) of Fourders of the | Communist Int’l (Special’ Cable to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, June 20.—Clara Zetkin, veteran revolutionary, one of the founders of the Communist Party of Germany, and member of the Pres- idium of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, died of heart disease at 2:10 a. m. early to- day in a sanatarium at Arkhangel- skoye, near Moscow, The Moscow press prints the fol- lowing statement: “The Executive Committee of the Communist International deeply re- grets having to announce the death of Clara Zetkin, member of the Presidium of the Executive Commit- tee of the Communist International, Chairman of the International Wom- en’s Secretariat of the Comintern, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Germany, an old fighter for the international proletarian revolution and for the! triumph of Socialism.” CLARA ZETKIN with a flaming two-hour speech stating the case for Communism in Germany. Clara Zetkin was loved by mil- lions of German workers, irrespective of party, while literally hundreds of |Rose Pastor Workers’ Struggles For 30 Years Following an illness of three years, Rose Pastor Stokes, one of the found- ers of the Communist Party of the U. S., and one of the ablest agitators in the American labor movement, died yesterday in a municipal hospital in Frankfort, Germany, where she had been receiving treatments for cancer. She was 54 years old. She is survived by her husband, Com- rade V. J.\ Jerome, who is a mem- ber of the National Agitprop Com- mission of the Communist Party and an instructor in Marxism at the Workers School. The death of Rose Pastor Stokes was a direct. consequence of a police | clubbing which she received at a demonstration in New York in De- cember, 1929, called in Clara Zetkin’s last public appear-' factories in the Soviet Union were) ance in Germany was in August, | named after her by the Soviet work- i | against imperialist rule in Haiti. 1932, when as the oldest Reichstag) ers, who felt that she belonged to, man’s club. The cop struck her on deputy she opened the Reichstag them as well. -|the breast with his ni ightstick, and! Stokes int .: | { | a he eR Clara Zetkin, 76-Year-Old Veteran German Communist Leader; | Rose Pastor Stokes, U. S. Revolutionary Leader, Dead ; distinct shock to thousands of work- jers in the United States, who knew | Rose Pastor “Stokes as the result of |her more than 30 years activity in the revolutionary labor movement. | She was arrested in Kansas City in | 1918 and charged with violation of |the Espionage Act. She was con- | victed and sentenced to serve 10 years in prison, but mass protest forced the setting aside of the ver- dict by a higher court, two years later Her arrest was the basis of the historic speech made by Eugene V. Debs in Canton, Ohio, in 1918, which recited: in chs. «er sentence to the Federal Penitenti- ary for ten years. Quoting her ilery speech in which she exposed the Wall Street character of the imperialist war, Debs said, “If Rose is guilty, then I am guilty”. Debs’ arrest and indictment followed soon after. Figured In Strikes. | Rose Pastor Stokes was an active, | dynamic figure in scores of strikes in jhe East, Herself a worker, a cigar- ‘maker, she led militant. struggles and | ROSE PASTOR STOKES protest | it was neceszary to amputate the of telegraph operators, rent strikers, ‘At | breast the demonstration, she attempted to| this blow which brought on the can-| workers in Patterson, needle trades protect a young boy from a@ police- |e? from which she died. shortly afte rd. It WS! hotel and restaurant waiters, silk é wor Active 30° Years, | The news of her death will be a 1 (CONTIN PAGE FOUR) D ON z e More than $30,000,000 to Millionaire Bankers and Holders of City and Subway Bonds NEW YORK, June 20.—An executive session of the Board | of Estimate today is discussing how. to put into effect the one | per cent sales tax. This is the most recent move in the Tam- money from the poor and give it to ers in New York, etc., from 1907 } will go into effect and to be held in Wash- ges hea 2.000 MINERS STRIKE. AGAINST FIRING OF TWO BURGH, Pe. June 20, of Clyde Mines num 2 of the W. J. two miners were fired. miners had been elected to esent the miners in the com- y union plan of the coal opsra- in line with the Recovery Act. The firing of the miners exposes | the treachery of the whole scheme of the operators and the government. Failing to elect their own tools they e real representatives of the hegstrike shows clearly the | militant mood of the miners which | has not been dampened in any way | by the demagogy of the Recovery Act. Four hundred of the Republic | mine, 300 in the Oliver mine and 70 | of the Melrose Coal Company ail |in Fayette County went on strike | today for better conditions. The | strikers are militant, State troopers have been called in by the operators | with the purpose of breaking the strike. DMINISTRATION JAMMING THROUGH SALES THE BANKERS *the rich bankers who hold city bonds. | It is estimated that this Tammany grab will net more than $30,000,000 a year. Issue Licenses to Stores The general sales tax will be col- lected through the issuance of H- censes, the cost of which would ve based on the volume of business, ané would be parsed or to tiie consumer. It would hit particularly hard ths in the poorest sections of the city ; who would have to pay the one-cent tax on even the smallest order pur- | chased. Further Cut Rellet There was also taken up the ques- tion of cutting off relief in many parts of the city altogether. This was done on the plea that since the federal government was going to ale locate money to the city for “pubite works” people could get jobs that want them. This reference was to the $75,000,000 which will be spent for another tunnel under the Hud- son, Yesterday's announcements dis- closed that even when this work is started it will give jobs to but 3,600 men for a perlod of three years. In view of the fact that there are over a million out of work in New York such claims are ridiculous and shows the cynicism with which Tam- many carried out its hunger cam- paign against the workers. At the same time the plans for in- | creasing fares from 5 cents to 8 cents | to fyrther burden and rob the masses goes on. Always take a. copy (or more) af he Daily Worker with yeu whem yea Ch q BEAT DOWN WORKERS’ STANDARDS, INCREASE LAY-OFFS_ TARVATION LEVELS © &e,