The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 3, 1933, Page 1

* NEW BEDFORD AND SALEM TEXTILE W Get from Every Member of Your Organization A Regular Subscription Daily Central Or Vol. X, No. 158. Entered se second-clsos matier at the Pest Office at Mew York, M. ¥., under the Act of Marek 3, 1872. (Section of the Communist International) NEW YORK, MONDAY, JULY 3, 1933 \ Blazing A Hunger Trail E haye had plenty of word-pictures from Rooe and Bill Green, telling the workers what the Indus' (slavery) act would look like in practice C But now It, General Johnson, ial Recovery we have flesh an blood on this Roosevelt skeleton in the form of the code for the cotton textile industry. very worker should remember that. the textile code with its starva~ tion leve! of %13 for the North and $12 for the South does not concern the textile workers alone. passage of the code and its transmission to Roosevelt for his OK, declares The New York Times commenting on the “Of much greater moment to the recovery administration is the fact that this code has blazed a tral! in a way for the 7,000 other trades and industries in the country which will come under the terms of the industrial recovery act.” Millions of workers in 7,000 other trades can look at the textile code and see in it the refiection of their future w: standards, The Ameri- can Federation of Lebor, cooperating with the exploiters in the cotton mills, have blazed a trail, and this trail will be strewn with the starved bodies of millions of workers. | aes that the first, gigantic step was taken under the slavery act, the been given for a yeeding up of the process. » Dozens of the basic industries have been fashioning their bludgeons against the work: The big steel bo: depariment store cwien —7,000 in all—hi , the automobile and coal exploiters, the ye been quietly watching the Washington textile proceedings and are now well satisfied. The %13- $12 scale will be the central weapon to lower ihe standard of living of all the workers to this level. T° t stave off the onrush of these codes and their wage-cutting results the workers should organize the widest discussion, agitation and pro- st. Every shop, mill.and factory should see the organization of a committee of the workers to draw up their own demands, to discuss griev- ane s, to demand low of the bosses and the A . organizations + hours, with wage increases. Against the attempts F. of L. leaders to force the codes through, xers should set up their own fighting apparatus, their own fac- demanding the right to democratically elect their own representatives to present the workers’ demands in opposition to the bosses’ slave codes. Wall St. Fait h in the Mayor HE announcement of Mayor O’Brien that he will run again has been greeted in Wall Street by a spectacular rise in the price of the City’s bonds—in some cases as high as 14 points. This can have only one meaning—the Wall Street bankers are con- fident that: the Mayor and City government will fully protect their loans and investments. Says the Sunday issue of the New York Enquirer, semi-official organ | ~ of Tammany Hall: “Tbe faith“ of ‘thé investment public in Mayor O'Brien and his economy program has surprised the bankers, who have not been slow to interpret its meaning.” What is this “meaning” for the workers of New York? It means that the pledge that the Mayor and the capitalist city government has made to the bankers to guarantee them $30,000,000 be- fore December 11 will be fulfilled. And it will be fulfilled out of the hunger and suffering of the work- ers and the broad masses of the people. It means that the Mayor and the City government have given the bankers definite assurance that the relief upon which the starving work- 4 ers and their families depend for life will be even more savagely cut than in the past. It means that the bankers have been assured of new tax revenues to be ground out of the workers through some form of Sales tex. It means more wage cuts for the school teachers and other Civil Service employ- ees Tt means the probability of increased subway fares. HE WALL STREET bond market pays a tribute of confidence to Mayor O’Brien, This bodes ill for the workers. The workers and the broad masses of the people of New York must, prepare to meet the present and coming attacks of the capitalist City government. More relief for the jobless! Heavy taxes on the rich bankers pay—this is the demand of the workers. A Task for Trade Unions HE BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS at its conyen- tion in Cleveland last week endorsed a resolution for “non-contributory unemployment insurance,” ! Make the This decision is not a sudden change of heart on the part of Johnston and other railroad chiefs, nor was the resolution sponsored by them. employment insurance among the union membership. Union officials, reformists of all kinds have made suggestions for “unemployment insurance.” It registers the wide support for unem- But at best their proposals make inade- quate provisions for the minimum needs of the jobless and usually are for a maximum of a few months in the year. A federal bill which con- siders all the needs of the workers in the United States is the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill. It calls for provision of unemployment insurance equivalent to “the average wages in the respective industries” ‘and which “shall not be less than $10 weekly for adult workers and $2 for To be provided for the whole period of unemploy- ment. The bill was adopted at the Rank and File A. F. of L. conference held in Cincinnati last November. The campaign conducted by the A. F. of L. Committee for Unemploy- ment Insurance received wide support as observed by the endorsement. each depender given by trade union locals all over the country. It is a true barometer of the support for unemployment insurance by the rank and file mem- bership in the trade unions. ‘HE action of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers in endorsing unemployment insurance is significant as it shows the wide support. among the membership in this important industry. It should serve as an incentive (towards developing the campaign for unemployment in- surance in all A. F. of L.; Railroad unions and other independent unions and among the unorganized wovisers. In this campaign the Trade Union Unily League and its affiliated unions «#4 leagues must take an im- portant part. is therefore necessary as pointed out in the resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party on developing a mass movement for social insurance that “the independent unions, unions of the Trade Union Unity League, local unions of the A. F .of L. join “in united strug- gle against wage cuts, for shorter hours, for the maintenance and im- provement of working conditions and for Social and Unemployment In-» surance.” This can be done by starting referendums in the Internationals on the initiative of local unions. be circularized among other locals in the international. After its adoption by the local it should During the next fom weeks meny State Federations will hold their conventions. Rank and is delegations should ke sent to these conventions demanding that they go on record endorsing the Workers Unemployment Insurances Bill and participate in the campaign to put it into effect, / Noi, only by endorsments but by day to day work in gaining sup- the government to grant Unemployment Ingurance, ioe the widest masses of organizer’ and unorganized workers can we | te BRITISH CANCEL TRADE EMBARGO AGAINST U.S. S. R. 'USSR Executive Gives Clemeney to M’Donald and Thornton (Daily Worker Moscow Correspon- dent). MOSCOW, July 2.—Yesterday af- ternoon the British government, lift- ed the embarge on Soviet imports which was imposed in April. and the Commissariat of Foreign Trade of the USSR. raised the counter- measure of prohibiting all Britist imports into the Soviet Union which had been imposed in response to the embargo. Negotiations for the conciusion of @ trade agreement between the USSR and Great Britain which were broken off in March will be resumed. The same evening, the presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the US.S.R., replying to the ap- plication for amnesty submitted by William MacDonald and Leslie C. Thornton, the convicted employes of |the Metro-Vickers Electric Co., com- |Mmuted their sentences from, impris- jonment to deportation from the |USS.R According to the decision of the presidium of the Central Executive Committee, Thornton and MacDonald were released from confinement in the evening under obligation to de- part abroad. ROB ARSENAL AT MUKDEN OF ARMS JapaneseFunctionaries | Give Them to Anti- ' » Manehukuoans (Daily Workers Moscow Correspon- | dent). MOSCOW, July 2.—Huge thefts of guns and ammunition from the Muk- den arsenal for sale to anti-Manchu- kuo and anti-Japanese forces is re- vealed in a telegram from Khaba- rovsk quoting Harbin newspapers which publish the disclosures of the Japanese news agency Kokutsiu. Six Japanese, under the direction of a 8 Japanese arsenal functionary, were involved in the thefts. It was ascertained that five machine guns, 50,000 cartridges were stolen, and the | aim of those involved was to steal hundreds of thousands of cartridges }and several machine guns more. | | The Kokutsiu agency reported that the stolen arms were sold to anti- | | Manchurian mutineers. The same Harbin newspaper re- | ports the decisions of the authorities |to effecting the purging of the state |institutions with the end of driving |out bribers and other unsuitable ele- | ments. | The Tsitsihar governor has already been discharged for bribery and sev- ‘eral Japanese occupying important posts in the police department have been discharged as accomplices, Disclosure of big thefts from the , custom house is also reported to have been committed by three Japanese functionaries. Jailed Leader of German Communist Party "ire Saami. | Ernst Thaelmann, imprisoned with thousands of other workers by the fascist regime headed by Hitler. Ernst Torgler, chairman of the Communist deputies in the Reichstag and close ascociate of Thacimann, is facing “trial” with three others soon on framed-up charges in con- nection with the Reichstag fire on Feb. 27. Call Upon Workers to Save Thaelmann, Others ‘Masses in U. S. Must Join Fight to Prevent Murder of Framed Communist Leaders The Daily Worker on Friday reported the deeth in Moscow of Ljuba Dimitrova, wife of George Dimitrov. Her death was the direct result of a nervous breakdown caused by worry over the fate of her husband soon to face trial on frame-up charges that he, together with Ernst Torgler, Blagoi Popov and Vassil Tanev, were responsible for the burning of the Reichstag building on Feburary 27. The following article is a stirring call to the workers of the entire world to rescue these brave working-class fighters from the bloody hangmen of the Hitler regime which itself caused the Reichstag fire in the hope of dis- crediting the Communist Party of Germany. The workers of the United States must respond at once lo this appeal to save these proletarian leaders from death.—Editorial Note. * * . By PHILIPP DENGEL APITALISM is writhing in a terrible crisis. Tens of thousands of fac- tories and mining works are lying idle. More than forty million work- crs in the capitalist world have no work, are without bread, starving. At the same time the crisis is raging like a plague among the millions of toiling peasants, who are victims of exiortionate taxes, of finance and bank capital: hundreds of thousands are ®—-————~~—— ws es TY ER driven from house and home, jJapacese imperialism is conquering | North Chin: y me S Capitalism is incapable—of taking orth China by means of tanks and a single step in the direction of over- coming the crisis. For years the capitalist governments have been | - conferring with each other regarding } | methods of “reviving industyy.” One | conference is followed by another. | | 1A dozen times the end of the crisis has been announced. But each time | these announcemerts have been fol- | lowed by a further decline in pro- ‘duction, increased unemployment, | fresh bankruptcies, fresh hunger and misery for the toiling masses. War Industry Alone Flourishes While the capitalist governments |~ san DIEGO, Calif—Judge Dean are conferring their antagonisms are sherry bound over for jury trial rowing; while they are talking of Goldman who was arrested on Na- ‘disarmament they are increasing | tional Youth Day on a charge of as- maments. Only one industry is! sauit with a deadly weapon. fourishing-—the war industry. Bee Fight witnesses for the prosecution capitalists are heading at a terrific|and forty for the defense have testi- speed for fresh imperialist wars. In| fied already. Leo Gallagher of ti the Far East an imperialist robber | International Labor. Defense iwar is already raging. Predatory handling the cases. (CONTE ED ON PAGE FOUR) SOCIALIST EXPOSURE STORY APPEARS IN “DAILY” | TOMORROW The publication of the article on | | the activities of the latest Com-| mittee formed by Morris Hillquit and other leaders of the American | Socialist Party .has been post- poned for one day until TOMOR-| | | ROW, Tuesday, July 4, instead of | | today, as planned. Bread Prices Already Up 60 P.C! And Are Still Skyrocketing! | DemandWage Increase: ‘bread prices! . Relief Rise to j _ Meet Prices 1 IE price of the | That is the first actual result of Roosevelt's industrial’ slavery act. ‘Towa and California bakers, through | | their bosses’ associations, announce that the five-cent loaf of bread will ‘now cost the workers eight cents. | That is just the beginning. In a go up still highcr. The Iowa Bakers) | this was just the first rise because: “When the American Bakers As- | sociation adopts its fair practice code (under the recovery act), embodying possible new working hours and wages it may be necessary to further increase the retail price of bread.” Wages have not gone up at all. But bread prices have already gone up. The bakers’ association says when they “consider” wages, prices given for the rise are (1) wheat ‘staff of life’—_ bread—has shot up 60 per cent; very short while prices of bread will) Association, when raising prices, said) classic fashion of Marie Antoinette ¢ that they should eat cake, 6r in the _JOWA and California are just be- language of Jimmy Walker, that they ginning the movement. The price should eat ice cream. The cost of of bread is going up—possibly 100 per) all food prices are going up even ceni—in every city in the United!higher than bread. The Daily tates. | Worker has already published the Roosevelt, will not be able to ad- fact that even before General John- vise the workers, when they com-| son was considering the textile star- plain about bread prices, in the! vation wage rates all food prices went is | rker unist Party U.S.A. NATIONAL EDITION Read Jack Stachel’s Article on the Recovery Act on Page 3 Price 3 Cents QORKERS OUT ON STRIKE 'BATTY, A.F.L. LEADER RUSHES FROM ‘CAPITAL TO BREAK STRIKE; MEETS ‘BOSSES, ANNOUNCES SETTLEMENT FIGHT FOR MORE is PAY, LESS LOOMS IN NEW BEDFORD Nat’! Textile Workers | Union Urges United | Front Struggle BULLETIN. NEW BEDFORD, Mass., July 2. William F. G. Batty, end Abraham Binns, officials of the New Bed- ford Textile Council have just an- nounced thai they had reached a settlement of the strike at a con- ference with the New Bedford Cot- | ton Manufacturers on behalf of the | strikers at the Potomska, Butler, Hathaway and Gonsold mills. Ac- cording to this “settlement” the strikers are to return to work under certain wage and loom adjustments pending the institution of the Na- tional recovery (slavery) act on July NEW BEDFORD, July 2.—A strike wave inyolving 6,000 cotton mill work- ers here with every symptom of spreading to other mills caused W. E. G. Batty, president of the New Bedford Council of the United Tex- tile Workers Union to rush from the Washington code hearings to the strike front in order to attempt to stave off the mass discontent of the workers against the industrial re- covery (slavery) act. “This situation has come suddeniy upon us,” Batty explained to capi- talist newspapermen, “and it will have to be handied carefully. There is a strong spirit of resentment over the present wage situatiom although we have held this resentment down preity well up to tonight.” The strike which includes 2,500 weavers and 3.500 other textile work- ers involves the Potomshka, Hatha- way, Butler and Gonsold mills. The strike began as a spontaneous move- ment of the workers against the wishes of the U.T.W. leaders. The textile workers are fighting against the stretch-out em, demanding a reduction of the number of looms tended by each worker, and demand- ing at the same time, an increase in wages hg iNational Textile Workers Union has been carrying on agitation among these workers to fight for more es and better working conditions. The N.T.W.U. has urged the workers to form united front committees to lead the struggles, warning them against Batty and Binns and their efforts to sell-out the strikers Plant in Hammond HAMMOND, Ind.—Workers at the ~ | Glcbe Rendering Co., a disposal plant |for animals, are out on strike against the company’s attempt to cut the wage scale from 18 to 16 1-2 cents an hour. | When Harry Robinson, foreman, ; who had worked for the company 32 years, objected to the cut he was fired.’ ‘The strike followed. City officials have established a po- lice guard around the plant. +the hours are 25 per cent more. | Risi ng Strike Tide Is Reply toTextileCode A rising tide of strikes against the starvation wages in the textile industry is the workers’ answer to Cotton Textile Institute's code which is now going to President Roosevelt for his signature. The A. F. of L. and United Textile Workers’ Union have been trying to keep the workers from strug- gling in order to make it easier for the mill owners to fasten their starvation plans on the workers. But in New Beiford a strike of 6.000 textile workers is spreading. In Salem, Mass. strikers in the Pequot Company voted te reject the plan of “co-operation” of the bosses in the spirit of the indus trial slavery act. The National Textile Workers’ Union was the oniy organization at the hearings to expos> the real meaning of the slavery act, and to call on the workers to organize to struggle for increased wages and lower hours. GROCERY CODE IS MODELED ON LOW TEXTILE WAGES 54-HourWeek Will Be- come Minimum;Wages As Low As $9 ATLANTIC CITY, July 2. -— En- joying themselves at the sumptuous hotels. and .basking on. the beaches! here, the members of the National Association of Retail Grocers, rep- resenting mainly the largest chain} store: ' grocery houses, are] drawing up a starvation code of wages for grocery clerks. The first| draft of the code has already been accepted and will go to General! Johnson soon for acceptance. The code provides for a 54 hour “maximum” week. It sets a mini- mum weekly wage of $16 for senior! clerks and $12 a week for junior] clerks. A ten-hour day will be pro- vided for. For women workers the Wages are set much lower. Senior female grocery clerks are supposed to get $11 and junior clerks $9. For Southern workers, the wages are to be reduced one dollar each week below the Northern scale. While the code states that the 54 hour week is to be the maximum, through practice it will become the minimum. At first every boss would require his clerks to work at least 54) hours each week. If they work below this number of hours, of course, the wages would be cut to a total aver- aging from $5 a week up to the high- est for the older male workers of $16. From the 54 hour week, the hours could be shoved up through over- time, (without extra pay), late Sat- urday work, cutting down lunch hours, and so on. It can be seen that the grocery bosses took the textile code as their precedent. Their lowest wage is lower than the textile code, and wh! their highest “minimum” is $16 as| against $11 for the textile industry up 19 per cent. And that was only} Organize inUnions and the merest beginning! Now things; are moving faster. Clothing prices, are going up, and all articles sold in} the department stores, we are told/ ‘by Lew Hahn, president of the Na- \ tional Retail Dry Goods, are going to skyrocket. “Prices inevitably must ‘inerease,” said Mr, Hahn. Workers! Demand These Fun | WASHINGTON, July 2.—The lat | date. est report of the Reconstruction; Mortgage companies, Building Finance Corporation discloses that’ and Loan companies, and Insurance it has granted loans totalling | companies borrowed a total of $325,~ $2,636,046,000. Of this amount, only 350,000. ‘They have repaid only 16 about. ‘ie bet bus relief | per cent. purposes. a ratio of abou one dollar for relief to every nine Most Loans to Pay Interest. for the banks and railroads. This is| “Wy far the greatest portion of the prices are going up, (2) a process tax on flour will be levied on July 8. | Have the farmers gained from the, | higher wheat prices? Not at all. | This has gone to the grain specula- |tors and the mortgage bankers. The) | processing tax will be used by Roose- | | velt. to help contribute more to the | | Mortgage holders, the big insurance jPod netee and banks, And he wants! the workers to pay for this in higher! ‘ernment by the Hoover government. pay off interest on bonds; rents to Despite these colossal loans thru railroad holding companies, etc. the R. F. C., the Roosevelt govern-| Enormous loans have been made ment has porsistently maintained io favored bankers. For example, that there t no money for Unem- former Vice-President Charles ployment of Social Trvurance, Dawes, got an $80,000,000 loan for Banks ;were tho iargest borrow- his Chicago Bank. The present; ers, the banks gziting $1,157,699,200. Chairman of the Board, Jesse H. Jones, appointed by Roosevelt, se- per cent. cured over $70,000,000 for egmman- The railroads borrowed $372,000,- ies and bangs in which he was in- 000, repaying only 20+ per cent to, terested, Of this jthey have repaid only. 35 R.F.C. Gives 21, Billions to Bankers; ds for Relief | ‘The Morgans and Kuhn, Loeb and | ‘Company, got through the Missouri ‘Pacific Railroad, $11,000,000 for the ‘payment of their own loans. Theough the influence of Alfred | . Smith, the Fred French Com-; pany of New York, a real estate | company, got a loan of several mil- lion dollars, with only “frozen” real will go up still higher. The excuses|the same ratio as was maintained vast R. F. C. loans have gone to/estate bonds as security. | This grant of two and a half bil- }lion dollars (0 banks and railroads, proves that there is enough money for immediate Federal relief, for Unemployment and Social Insur- ance. The workers must demand that the Roosevelt government stop all subsidies to the bankers, and turn these billions of dollars over 4o an Unemployment Insurance Fund for workers and their (femilias ‘ Shops, Neighborhoods on Higher Costs T a time when 17,000,000 are un-/ employed and their relief is be-| ing cut every day. the Roosevelt} regime carries out the greatest price | raising scheme (for the profit of the! | bosses) in the history of American | capitalism. } Very soon in all workers’ neigh- | all bakery shops announcing the rise} of bread prices. The boss bakers will | give all sorts of reasons—the return | of prosperity, the necessity of labor } and capital getting behind Roose~ velt, the processing tax (a tax to raise the income of farm mortgage bankers), the rise in the price of wheat (that the grain speculators get). But the fact will remain. Bread prices will go up while the wages of the workers remain at a starvation level. Unless action is taken by the work- ers, the first baloon test of a rise of three cents a loaf will be followed by another rise in the price of bread ae ike NLY organization by the workers | can stop this price-raising and wage-lowering stunt. The action must be twofold, [tf must come from organization tn the shops against the bosses’ wage codes, de- manding increases proportionate to (CONTINUED ON PAGS THRGR | {for a while and enjoy the cool waters PEQUOT STRIKERS REJECT COMPANY WAGE PROPOSALS Workers March, Sing When Ballot Result Is Announced SALEM, Mass. "July 2.—Hundreds of Pequot work gathered on the Common here and in front of the Mill, and then marched in. a body to Union Hall to he Pequot Company's ote against plan of a re- search em to lower wages. The strike) waved their “No” ballots high in the air, The company and city officials, working together with the United Textile Union officials, compelled the strikers to take a se ballot on the 's proposals. However, the extreme vigilance of the strikers ef- fectively smashed this attempt. The strikers placed their own tell at the boxes and guarded them untir- compa: ingly from 10 am. to 8 pm. T workers are demanding increased wages and better conditions, as well as elimination of a so-called search system. Out of 1,279 strikers, 813 voted against accepting the company p: posal and 466 for. Hundreds strikers ima: around the Ur Hall at 3 o'clock to get the retwr of the voting. When they rece: the news of the rejection of company’s proposal the gtrikars br out into loud cheering and cif. Spontaneously over 600 strik massed into parade formation marched through the main stree Salem, singing their strike song chanting “We want no research Before the voting took place, \A Burlak, secretary of the Nations | Textile Workers’ Union, addressed a meeting of over 1,000 sirikers an- sympathizers on Derby Square. She exposed the Pequot plan of “com- pany-worker co-operation.” She pointed out that the company claims it is losing money, but it has raised its dividend payments from 75 cents a@ share to 80 cents a share. The Pequot Company also loaned the city $100,000 and has on hand $3,000,000 in cash. Good Beaches In Evanston Fenced Off From Workers) (By a Negro Worker Correspondent) EVANSTON, Ill.—Evanston is lo- cated on the beautiful shores of Lake Michigan The greatest part of the shoreline is occupied by the large private estates such as that of Charles Dawes, while the workers are crowded together in the west part of the town However, there are six public j bathing beaches where the” toilers could come and forget their troubles of the lake. And they did come, thousands of them and enjoyed themselves. But this was not in harmony with the ideas of the Evanston classes. So now three of Evanston’ bost beaches have been fenced off and a dollar a season is charged any- one who cares to go swimming, The three beaches that are stil! free are full of stones, glass and refuse, and the worst one of them all is set aside for the Negrocs ta use. This jim-crow beach is totally unfit for use. Jailed Unemployed Lead Strike for Better Conditions who has just been released from th New Haven County Jail after servin| a seven weeks term for leading a: eviction demonstration and a subd sequent free-speech fight, told in the Daily Worker office how he and seven other labor prisoners led a struggle for better conditions and against dis- crimination, This resulted in the winning of better conditions in the “cooler” (the solitary confinement dungeon) medi- cal attention for prisoners in “soll- tary” and the promise of an inves- tigatiom of cenditions in the jail. Othe struggles have led to the re- laxing of Jimcrow regulations for both men and women prisoners. Kling and others suspected of be ing the leaders in the strike, were sent to the “cooler” for confinement. They were placed in cold, unven- Ulated cells, with nothing to slep on except the steel floor, They wert fod om bread and-woter fer @ we. -