The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 30, 1933, Page 1

| All Out to Red Press Carnival at Starlight Park, Bronx, Saturday, July Ist! >_> : Vol ; No. 156 Daily Central Or Basered ‘os veswed-otene: matter. a6 the Pest Obttes Mew York, N. ¥., wmder the Act of March 3, 1878. | | Workers, Support Your Press! All Out tc Red Press Carnival, Starlight Park, East 177 St. and Tremo orker unist Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist International) _NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1933 nt Ave., Tomorrow! Be Sure to Read Michael Gold’s Short Story, “Free!” in the Saturday Feature Page Tomorrow! THE WEATHER—Today local showers; moderate temperature. CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents GEN. JOHNSON BARS TEXTILE WORKERS SPEAKING AT HEARING ‘Empty ty Phrases Will Not io A REPORT on the Ohio hunger march received today refers to an ac- tion that must be lifted out of the relative obscurity of the news columns for editorial comment. We refer to the reported refusal of the Jeaders of the Ohio Unemployed Citizens League (the supporters of A. J, -Muste) to participate in the demonstration at the state Capitol and to “send representatives of their organization with the committee which pre- “sented the demands of the unemployed to the state officials. | Wie must this action be particularly noted? In the first place, be- cause the refusal to join in such an action weakened most seriously the effectiveness of the fight of the Ohio workers for immediate relief ap- propriations and for Federal social insurance. i But even more is at stake. There is the unification of the unem- ployed movement for the struggles which must now be waged to avoid the greater misery in store for the masses through the operation of the “New Deal’—the dirty deal. IE leaders of Ohio Citizens Leagues, under the circumstances of grow- ing mass pressure for unity, agreed to united action. ‘They agreed to support: the hunger march. They agreed to take steps at their state convention which opens in Columbus this coming Saturday, in co-oper- ation with the Unemployed Councils, to achieve united action now, with the objective of one unified unemployed movement before this year is over. “Their present action, therefore, must be viewed in the light of their ‘agreements to aid in solidifying the ranks of the workers for more effec- tive struggle. They broke thefr agreement! Here we must emphatically state: unity in conferences and conven- “tions means nothing to the workers—absolutely nothing!—unless such ‘conferences and gatherings lead to an actual unity of the workers in the struggle for immediate relief, for social insurance, and for their demands generally, If conferences.do not lead to united struggle, then they serve only to conceal the sabotage of 2 real fighting unity behind empty phrases about unity. a . * * report of the hunger march also states that the workers of the Cit- _izens Leagues loyally and actively participated in the march and in the presentation of the demands at the capitol, This shows that unity is possible; it shows the determination of the workers to achieve unity. ‘These workers will never accept unity phrases as a substitute for real unity in action. = They want Federal social insurance and adequate ‘relief; they are against forced labor and evictions. We believe they will insist that these issues, particularly unemployment insurance as the central issue, be placer an the center of x progrant of struggle al the Columbtis conven-~ ) tion. We believe also that they will reject decisively all empty lip-ser- vice to unity and will insist on a course which will lead immediately to united struggle for their every need, and soon to one unified unem- ployed movement. “Brain Trust” Raw Material ‘HE Rockefellers, Morgans, and the other bankers who finance the big American colleges and universities get what they pay for. If they called the great bulk of the college instructors into their offices for weekly con- ferences on how to befuddle their students about the real issues of capi- talism tHey couldn’t do a better job then the natural process of the great American institutions, What sort of brain-work goes on in the heads of the American col- lege instructors? As the result of detailed questionaires sent out to 551 professors, teachers and instruclots in the 25 leading colleges and univer- sities in the United States, Dr. Francis E. Peterson, of the Teachers Col- lege, Columbia, concludes some nasty things about the mental processes of raw material for presidential “brain trusts.” These great educational leaders, Dr. Peterson finds, are “superficial,” inclined to “confused thinking,” are addicted to slogans and stereotyped phraseology. The slogans and stereotyped phraseology, of course, are the “slogans and phrases of those who foot the bill to grind out these in- tellectual marvels. ROM the study it would seem,” adds the Doctor, “that many teachers have acquired the vocabulary of various trends and movements in education, but have failed to gain a deeper understanding of philosophy whieh underlies them.” Shallow, empty pedagogues, repeating the phrases of the capitalist newspapers, trying to content their students with the superficial ideas of @ Hoover or Roosevelt, ready to react to any “new deal” 7 “war for de- _ Moeracy” slogan. 7 «. What more could the gabe ape eines rulers of America wan® \) y ‘a Tip for “New | aie NEW. YORK’'S Tammany mayor pounded his heavy hand on the table and demanded that the budget examiners “hunt for new revenues.” We can give the mayor and the city government some excellent tips on where he can get a tremendous amount of new revenues, “The June 3 delegation of unemployed workers presented to the mayor ne -proposal that the city immediately impose a capital levy of 10 per on all large fortunes in the city—let the city immediately collect, cent of the wealth of all the millionaires. This would immedi- bring in millions of dollars. It would take money from those who “plenty of it. How about it, Mr. Capitalist Mayor? a ae x Properties of the Rockefellers, etc. It has been estimated that this would bring in $25,000,000 every year. They proposed the reduction of the $15,000-$40,000 salaries of the , —_ city Officials to the average wage of the Civil Service em- They proposed heavier taxes for the rich, and lighter taxes for small home owners, “But the City has turned a degf ear to all these proposals which would in literally hundreds of millions ‘In new revenue every year. s pee proposed that the city remove all the exemptions from the tax- exempt , the mayor urges the budget” examiners to “hant for new yenue”. What does this mean? “Tt means that the city government is fully determined to fulfill its , to the Wall Street bankers delegation headed by Rockefeller’s financial agent, Winthrop Aldrich of the Chase National Bank, Ii means that by new taxes on necessities, to be levied on the work- #5, by wage cuts among the Civil Service employees, especially the school U by increased subway fare, and by further ruthless slashes in all payments, the city will duly present to the bankers on December 11, ‘extra $30,000,000 which they pledged. ainst this, the workers’ ¢emand—make the wealthy pey! off relief! Heavy taxes for the rich! Not a Iepree sy NO INCOME TAX PAID BY. “Sold” Stock to His, Daughters to Evade MakingAny _ Payments) Davis, Kahn’s ‘Agent,| Still Roosevelt’s Trusted Agent WASHINGTON, June 29. — Otto Kahn, senior partner of the Wall Street banking house of Kuhn, Loeb and Company, testified today that he Managed to evade paying income taxes by “selling” stocks to his daugh- | ter, thereby, establishing a legal} “loss” of $117,000, During the years when he was suc- | cessful in evading tax payments here, he paid taxes in England. His last payment in Englarid was $4,480. Otto Kahn's fortune is computed at over $100,000,000. Established Stock “Losses” After protesting that his “memory on these matters is poor” Kahn recol- lected that his sales of stock to his daughter were protested by an agent | of the Revenue Department. The agent’s objections were not sutained by the Revenue Department, and Kahn's income tax return was ac- cepted as he filed it. Kahn thought that it was a very good thing for the “little men of the country” to be able to invest their money with the banks in stock ‘securi- ties. He did not mention that this is [jast-the-way that “use” the money of the “little men” for their own prrposes. ‘The Senate investigation is moving along in a very desultory manner. The Committee hopes to adjourn until |\ October. ‘Thus far, the Senate Committee has not inquired into the lists of favored customers which the firm of Kuhn, Loeb is supposed to have, in some- what the same way as the Morgans. During the Morgan inquiries, it was reported by the Federated Press that rumors were circulating that Presi- dent Roosevelt had been on one of the inside stock lists of Kuhn, Loeb, and | that this would be brought out at the investigations. But the Senate Committee has not seen fit to in- quire into this phase of their busi- ness. Earlier in the investigations. it was shown that Kuhn, Loeb, like the Na- tional City Bank had sold $70,000,000 of Chilean securities without any ade- quate examination of the soundness of the Chile bonds, The bankers made a profit on this deal which has cost the thowsands of small investors who bought the bonds. losses almost equalling the total investment, $70,- 000,000. Rooseyvelt’s Norman H. Davis, whose name ap- peared on Morgan stock lists it was shown received large fees from Kuhn, Loeb for acting as a business getter for the firm. Secretary of the Treas- ury Woodin, also appeared on Mor- gan's lists. Woodin is stu secretary of the Treasury, and Davis was ‘sent today by Roosevelt to the London Economic Conference. Carnera Knocks Out Sharky in Sixth NEW YORK. — ¢ - Carnera knocked Sharkey out in the sixth round of their fight last night at the Madison Square Garden Bowl in Long Island City, Sharkey lie flat on his face after receiving a right uppercut to the head. OTTO KAHN In this way, he establishd al private Ambassador, | |dress by Jim Garland from Pineville Children “Td Rather Have Silent dustrial Recovery Act. His four year old daughter, Mary, | eat. Vd rather see my children dead, when he was arrested. Ingram is now in the town jail. interview him. It’s a “big story”. important. But Ingram is silent. fixed ‘on some far-away object. One tiny children, so “ragged and dirty”, now matters to him. Nobody knows | America.” Father Kifls His Under ‘New Deal’ “They Were Hungry and. Ragged,” He Said— “In my inaugural address I laid down the simple proposi- tion that nobody is going to starve in this countr: ment of President Franklin D. Roosevelt while signing the In- | | TRY 10 SPLIT LAUNDRY STRIKERS Bosses Attempting to Confer With Se- parate Groups Starving | Them Dead’—ls in Jail y.”—State- | f Workers Are Warned, Against Company | SERK TO WEAKEN FIGHT | SEEKS T0 KEEP NATIONAL TEXTILE UNION FROw ~ PRESENTING DEMANDS All Trade Unions and Other | Workers’ Organi- zations Should Wire Protests Immediately WASHINGTON, June 29.—General Hugh S. Johnson, administrator of the industrial recovery (slavery) act is maneuvering to prevent the National Textile Workers Union, and rank and file delegates from the sweated tex- tile milis from protesting against the slave code proposed by the textile | basses at the hearitigs now roing on. In a personal interview today with June Croll,-who heads the union det MUSKOGEE, Oklahoma, June 29.—Clutching an old pistol in his hand, | Jap Ingram, unemployed worker of this town, led his two small children to a farm house wall and shot them down, Lo His two-year old son, Donald, died instantly—shot through the heart. | “They were dirty and ragged,” he said. Everybody is excited. The sheriff feels Staring out of the jail window, his eyes are Maybe, he is thinking of those words of the president, of Roosevelt's words so smoothly uttered at the richly magnificent inaugural, heard by the assembled generals, politicians and judges. lingered a few bours, and then died “I knew they had nothing to than starving.” ‘. Newspaper men are swarming in to thought beats in his mind—his two are no longer hungry. Nothing else what he is thinking. “Nobody will starve in ‘KENTUCKY MINERS: | ELECTIONTICKET Hold Conference for| First Time Without | Any Intereference (By a Worker Correspondent) MIDDLESBORO, Ky—On June 25, the first open Communist Conven- tion ever held in the coal-fields of| | Kentucky was carried to a successful conclusion and candidates for county officers nominated on the Communist | ticket. ! The following nominations were | made: S, Burton for sheriff; Tilman} Cadle, county judge; Nenver Moore, jailer, and George Gormany, con-) stable. While heretofore the leaders of the National Miners’ Union have been jailed or brutally beaten by the capitalistic guardians of the coal barons, they confined themselves in this instance to efforts to sabotage the convention. All those. present accepted the) Communist platform and agreed to work for election of candidates nom- inated. After listening to an ad- a discussion took place. A former Kentucky miner exposed the Roose- velt New Deal The arch enemy of the Bell County miners, Walter B. Smith, county at- torney, who is a candidate for re- election, stated in the columns of the Middlesboro Daily News that in event of such meeting he would likely be present and speak at same. However, his conscience must have revolted, as he did not show up even though cordially inyited. Perhaps} after recurring in thought to atroci- ties imposed upon the miners and) their friends in the past, through au- thority of his office, he could not muster the courage to face his former victims at a peaceful workers’ meeting. lief and for unemployment insurance. |Labor who was present heiped to OHIO GOVERNOR OF UNEMPLOYED | Legislative Body Is} Silent or Needs of Ohio Workers | COLUMBUS, O., June 29.—Two| thousand workers together with the hunger marchers sent two commit- tees to meet with the state legislature and the Governor to present the de- mands of the Ohio workers. The main demands were: Doubling of re- A committee of 30 met with the joint committee of the House and Senate while another committee of eight met with Governor White. Although members from the Unem- ployed Citizens League participated in the demonstration, officials of that organization refused to participate in the demonstration and in the com- mittee though they had previously agreed to joint action. The ‘committee meeting with the legislative committee reported that the state representatives were silent to their demnads. They were inform- ed that their silence is interpreted as a continuation of their policy to attack the workers. The state sec- retary of the American Federation of usher the workers’ committee out of the room so he could negotiate pri- vately with the officials. The committee appearing before the Governor cited numerous in- stances of starvation. The Governor agreed with the facts but refused to take any action. Requests for shoes and food for the marchers on their return home and an assurance that there will be no interference by officials in the Union Maneuver NaW YORK.—Cn the fourth day of the strike of the laundry workers for improvements in their working conditions, j play great militancy and determina- He had been ont of work for a long time, His estranged wife was | tion to win their fight for a 20 per | | working in a factory in a nearby town. He was hiking toward that town | cent increase in wages y The faun | bosses, bent on breaking the strik ranks in order more easily to defeat their ‘struggle are working out schemes to divide the workers. They have started the policy of conferring with groups of workers instead of dealing with the strike committee di- rectly. Their object is to break the workers away,from the union and from its leadership and trick them into accepting a settlement without the union. Without a union to see that conditions are enforced, what- ever gains may be won can readily be taken away from the workers by the bosses. Bosses Want A. F. of L. It is evident that thé bossest are “ett to-turt the Laundry: Workers In’ ~ NOMINATE RED SPURNSDEMANDS dustrial Union into a union under A. F. of L. officials with whom they can more easily put over their\pro- gram. This will enable them more easily to dictate the conditions un- der which the laundry workers shall be employed. It actually means forcing a company union upon the workers. The workers are warned to demand the right to belong to a | union of their own choice Laundries On Strike The workers at the following laun- dries are now on strike: Active, 15lst and Wales; Bond, 175th and Webster; Columbus, 180th Street and Prospect Ave.: Concourse, 182nd St. and 3rd Ave.; Exact, 147th St.; Hybridge, Cromwell Ave.; Master Laundry, 136th St. and Brook Ave. Mirrorlike, 167th St. and Washington Ave.: Boulevard, 180th St. and South- ern Blvd.; Port Morris, 138th St. and Southern Blvd.; Superfine, Garrison Ave.; Mott Haven, Concord Ave. and 144th St., and Westboro, 172nd St. and causes: AO Ave. Dr. Michael 1 Mislig Noted Surgeon and Communist Dead NEW YORK. — Stricken with an acute heart-attack Dr. Michael Mis- lig, noted surgeon, and a veteran- member of the Communist Party, died yesterday, at the Park East Hospital, while performing an opera- tion. He was sixty. A Marxist since his young days in Czarist, Russia, Dr. Misly joined the American Socialist Party, upon his errival in the United States. During the split of 1919, the deceased left the S. P., along with the entire left wing, and became a chartered mem- ber of the Communist Party. He re- mained a loyal party member until the very end. Dr, Misly was known as an ac’ participant in the revolutionary labor tive cities along the route was rejected by the Governor. movement. which he had supported Substantially with funds and activity. the laundry workers dis- | EXPOSE McMAHON IN SECRET DEAL Helped Textile Barons to Write Starvation W age Scales WASHINGTON, , dune 29.—That leaders of the A. F. of L. and the United Textile Workers Union, an A. F. of L. organization co-operated with the textile bosses in writing the code providing for the starvation level of wages ($11 for the North and $10 for the South) came out during an unguarded moment in the hear- ings here yesterday before General Johnson administrator of the Indus- trial recovery (slavery) act. Thomas McMahon, representing-the United Textile Workers Union, who appeared here» as a-witness-on tht proposed code, was revealed as hay- ing worked in secret with the textile barons to fasten the starvation level on the textile workers. This fact was brought out when McMahon, arguing against the wage scale as being “too low’, was suddenly inter- rupted by Deputy Administrator Al- len. Allen declared: “I must confess that I am some- what flabbergasted! Perhaps this is not the time to diseuss it. But I feel it is only fair and proper to call attention to the fact that you (MeMahon) have acted as my ad- viser! Today you are calling my attention to the fact to many points which you did not take up with me before.” “No Fight!" Says Green. McMahon, William F. Green, pres- ident of the A. F. of L., and Sidney Hillman of the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers are putting up a sham opposition to the present wage sched- ule in the code because it is-too raw for them to ram down the mouth of ‘the textile workers. At the same time, Green, in open- ing up his statement, assured the bosses that they could count on the closest co-operation and support of the A. F. of L., and the other yellow union leaders. “My statements here are not to be considered a fight on the proposal,” said Greon, “Labor will cooperate in the industrial re- covery bill to the fullest extent.” While carrying on a wordy con- test apparently disagreeing with the wage proposals of the textile bosses, the leading A. F. of L. union eee in the textile industry are secretly meeting with the bosses working out methods of putting whatever code the bosses get President Roosevelt to accept into operation, They are al- ready working out strike-breaking methods, They are already promis- ing the bosses the fullest co-opera- tion. Deputy Administrator Allen, in his precipitous revelaton did not tell all he knows about how far the secret agreement of McMahon and Green went with the textile bosses. Local Unions Join. Struggles to Safe- guard Jobless DAVENPORT, Iowa.—The 40th an- nual state convention of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor adopted a resolution proposed by the Unem- ployed Council “that this body go on record fayoring the Workers’ Unem- ployment’ Insurance Bill.” The convention invited unemployed organizations to send fraternal dele~ gates. Several unemployed leagues and protective associations besides the Unemployed Councils sent ple sentatives, The resolution which was proposed to the convention and adopted states: “Whereas relief in many places is inadequate and miserable and “Whereas forced labor 's the order of the day forced labor recruits demanding more meeting held by the recruits. camp with speakers addressing the started throwing gas bombs. “Be it resolved that all forced labor ibe ‘abolished in the State of Iowa, all relief to be paid in cash at union wages at Lech established rate of pay.) (Pre-crisis level). “Be it further “resolved that this | body go on record fa) we ‘ers Unemployment is the particular showplace of Robert Fechner, Na- tional Director of the Reforestration Camps.+ The bombs were thrown by the town sheriff at the mass The meeting took place on the ball field near the workers, when the sheriff appeared on the scene and The workers refused to disperse, booing and razzing the sheriff until the of- ficers stopped the sheriff and ordered the boys back to the camp. the army officers workers for more food. This camp polled the officers crowd of young lar-a-day wages. “Be it further resolved that this Convention take definite steps to put the program into action, along the united front basis.” It is necessary to put this resolu- tion into effect. Many officials will After the gas attack four of the leaders approached with the demands of th: young food and were ordered to leave the camp. The indignant workers forced the reinstate- ment of all but Weaver, one of the leaders) and com- to promise more food at mealtimes. Fechner is former Vice-President of the Inter- national Association of Machinists and is now high in the circles of the American Federation of Labor. Visitors were daily brought down into the camp to | see the young workers chopping down trees at a dol- should be carried into every local of the A. F. of L. To get these locals to participate in the fight for relief, against forced labor and in the strug- gle for the adoption of unemployment insurance, Iowa A. F. of L. Endorses Workers’ Jobless Insurance Bill Tear Gas Used on Food Mutineers at Camp Roosevelt ‘WASHINGTON.—Tear gas bombs were used at Camp Roosevelt on June 26 to smash a mutiny of ‘Two Railroad Local Unions Endorse Bill at Their Meetings | fairness of the Workers Unemploy- ment Insurance bill, to be paid by a steeply graduated tax on the higher incomes, was so apparent to the rail- road firemen of Cleveland, Ohio, that Local No. 183 of the Brotherhood of | Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen | has now added its approval to this | bill which calls for no contributions | from the workers. | DETROIT, Mich—Local No. 1054 |of the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen have endorsed the Workers {Unemployment Insurance bill in spite of the fact that certain union officials have tried to tell the rank and file that the bill is unconstitu- ON SLAVE CODE egation, he told the workers that he would have to study their proposals and see if he “approved of them,” before he could give them a hearing. General Johnson at first denied that he sent a telegram to the Trade Union Unity League promising a ir hearing” to every workers’ or- ganization But when confronted with the actual telegram he changed his mind. He returned to the h ings, sending back one of his ai to teli Croll that she and the dele- gation would get a hearing only if he “approved of the proposals.” All workers’ organizations, trade unions, defense organizations, and others are urged immediately to send telegrams of protest to General Johnson in Washington, stating their opnosition to these steam roller pro- ceedings, and demanding the right of all workers to be heard in the hearings that concern their life and working conditions. Fakers Get Right to Speak Johnson’s action is a virtual de- nial of the right of the rank and file. workers and the revolutionary trade unions to present their opposi- ‘on to the bosses’ slayery codes be- fing drawn up by the textile, coal, steel and other bosses with the sup- port of the A. F. of L. Every yellow union faker in the country, as well Foster Sends Protest on Hearing to Johnson WASHINGTON, June 29.—The following telegram of protest was received by Gen. Johnson, “from jthe Trade Union Unity League, |igainst the refusal to allow the National Textile Union to present its demands: “We protest against your at- tempt to“prevent June Croll, re- | presentative of the National Tex- tile Workers Union from present- ing the position of the mnion and the textile workers on the pro- posed cotton code and the pro- posais of the National Textile Workers Union. This is contrary to the widely-advertised state- ments:of President Roozevelt that all labor groups will be heard. We request. immediately a reply on your action. “National Executive Board, Trade Union Unity League, (Signed) William Z. Foster, General Secretary.” as all the emploiters, are permitted as much time as they require in their efforts to fasten the starvation wage code'on the textile workers. But real representatives of the workers in the industry are denied even the right to present their demands. The Trade Union Unity League ts preparing to send a sharp telegram of protest to General Johnson, ex- posing the gag policy, as one of the methods of Roosevelt under the new deal to force the workers into a new starvation standard of living, using every means of suppression to keep back the voicing of the real demande of the workers concerned. Johnson is attempting to set a precedent to bar from the hearings workers from the shops and the rev- olutionary trade unions. He and the A. P, of L., a5 well as the company unions, feel it will be easier, if no sharp exposures of the bosses’ pro- gram is made, to put over the codes. It is rumored here that General Johnson will adjourn the hearings tomorrow without giving the Na- tional Textile Workers’ Union any opportunity to put its demands. Sais hee (See the National Textile Workers’ Union demands which Johnson re- fused right of presentation on page 3.) Soviet Frontier Ships Scour Siberian Coast in Search for Mattern KHABAROVSK, Siberia, June 29.c (By Cable).—Soviet frontier troops and ships have been ordered to spare no efforts in the search for Jimmie Mattern, round-the world flyer whe has been missing since he took off from here more than two weeks ago. The ships are well-equipped to lend Mattern all possible assistance if they succeed in locating him. Meanwhile, the Great Northern Route stations continue to search the coast for the lost