The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 6, 1933, Page 1

4 y Give a Fellow-Worker Your Copy of the ‘Daily’ When You Are Thru With it. Discuss the News With Him! Entered as seeond. New York, N. Po X No 161. ayn Dail Central Or clans matter at the Post Office at Y., under the Act of March 8, 1878. An Inspiring Example VERY Communist, evezy class conscious worker, should turn his at- tention to the accomplishments of the Communist Party unit in Monroe, Mich.; in order to learn how to penetrate the basic industries, how’ to inspire, organize and lead a strike struggle to victory. In this period of wholesale attacks by the bosses on the workers in the basic industries with their slavery codes, the victorious strike of 1,000 steel workers in the Newton Steel Co. is a shining example. Instead of talking about a general strike in the steel industry or wishing for mass organization, the Communist Party unit in Monroe, Mich., devoted day to day work against a 20 per cent wage cut in the Newton Steel Co. They distributed leaflets at the plant exposing the wage cut, telling the workers concretely how to organize their rank and file “ shop and strike committees to lead the strike. They organized among these workers and convinced them of the proper methods of struggle. HAT was the result? The workers went out on strike, under rank and file leadership. They forced the restoration of the 20 per cent wage cut. They won a5 to 10 per cent increase in wages. ‘This victory did not lead ‘to a slackening of the work of the Monroe Communist Party unit. They continued their activity, together with the ‘Trade Union Unity League, working for the consolidation of the strike vic- tory. They pointed out the lessons of the strike to the workers, urging them to ozganize a democratically elecied shop committee to consoli- date the gains they made from the strike. VERY steel worker, every Party and T.U.U.L. organization in the steel territories should spread the news of the victory of the Newton Steel Co. workers, gained through struggle, through rank and file organiza- tion in the shop. This is 2 victory of the workers themselves. It is a victory of revo- lutionary trade union leadership. It is a victory of the detailed, unswerv- ing day to day application to agitation, mobilization and organization among the steel workers. ’ SPECIALLY now, with the “recovery” act centering so much attention ‘on the basic industries, the importance of the Newton Steel Co. strike | aiands out. The A. F. of L. and socialists, realizing that the workers in the steel mills are restive and stirring to struggles, are entering the field to defeat the workers in their efforts to develop rank and file organiza- tion. The steel companies speed up the building of company unions in the steel mills for the same purpose. All these forces want to kill the initietive of the workers, they want to break and smash these strike struggles in the bud. By taking the initiative, the Communist Party unit in Tanroe, Mich., showed how to defeat these efforts. In this way we penetrate the basic industries, win the workers for the policy of struggle to protect their living standards, and build up the forces in action to defeat the hunger program of the bosses. “Smothering in Its Own Superfluity” —Engels LOW is printed a news item that is typical of capitalism—and one that recurs with increasing frequency under our present “new deal” conditions, “The Department of Agriculture hopes to persuade a large ma- jority of cotton planters in the South to accept the acreage plan. It cails for the destruction of part of the growing crop. In return the De- pariment offers compensation. It will pay each farmer a bounty of $7 to $20 an acre fer cotton actually plowed under.” The spring sowing of American capitalism is getting under way. When millions of workers have insufficient clothes, American capitalism has evolved a “Cotton Plan” which calls—for les§ clothes. After the labor of men in the fields, after the lang begins to give fruit, the Roosovelt government of hunger and want offers a “bounty” to those who will plow the crop under. “Capitalism,” as Engels finely said, is “smothering in ils own superfluity.” While the workers and farmers suffer increasing poverty, capitalism moves through inereasing destruction to increasing profits. The physical annihilation of stocks of commodities, even of crops growing in the soil, in order to bring back prosperity to the rich farmers, to the grain specu- lators, and to the rest of the brood of exploiters and parasites, at the expense of making the poor farmers poorer and plunging the workers into deeper want—tifat is the policy of the Roosevelt government. OW different is the picture in the Soviet Union. From the Baltic to the Black Sea, from the Pacific to the Polish border, the land of tri- umphant Socialism is fighting on a thousand fronts the battle of the spying sowing to grow more wheat, more cotton, more of every com- modity that grows, to feed and clothe and minister to the rising de- mands of 160,000,000 people. Great irrigation schemes, the construction of new railways like the Turksib, the building up of stocks of seed, the establishment of hundreds of tractor stations, the latest scientific agri- cultural methods, are pressed into use’to raise continually the stan- dards of consumption and the conditions of life of the Soviet workers and farmers. of the Soviet Union took the revolutionary way out of their crisis. They overthrew Russian capitalism, set up their own government, began to plan the economic life of their country in the interests,of the whole of the people. Their Socialist program has been crowned with magnificent success. The American workers and farmers have this example before them, They have also before them the capitalist “way out.” Decrease acreages. Destroy stocks. Pile up profits for the few. Instensify the worsening of the conditfons of the masses. Eliminating the surplus unemployed by war, There can be no question as to the choice, The workers of the United States have one path, and one path only, before them. Under the leader- ship of the proletarian vanguard, the Communist Party, they will march in united ranks toward the revolutionary solution of the crisis of capitalism. No Time to Be Lost Nearly a month elapsed since we printed the resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party on “Developing a United Mass Strug- gie for Secial Insurance.” Since that time numerous reports have come to the Daily Worker of further slashes in relief. Every man, woman and child dependent on relief face with uncertainty and fear that it may be stopped al, any time. While literally tens of thousands of families can- not even got any relief. i “There is no time to be lost” is the main emphasis in the resolution for developing this movement. “All workers—Communist, Socialist, A. F. of L., unorganized workers, unite now in every locality, in every factory, mill or mine, at the relief bureaus. Fight for full social, unemployment insurance, the most urgent need of the mgsses,” is the call of the Com- munist Party. The Ohio convent.2n of tha Unemployed Leagues endorsed the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, In Iowa the Unemployed Councils and Unemployed Leagues jointly presented the Workers’ Un- empleyment Insurance Bill before the State Federation Conyention and received its endorsement. In Rockford, Ill., a conference representing 8,000 workers endorsed federal unemployment insurance. But these are sporadic events. They are not yet part of a nation-wide movement to struggle for unemployment insurance, ‘Tue resolution of the Central Committee addressed to all workers, assigned a special task to the members of the Communist Party “‘to take the initiative in the factories, in the mass organizations, in your neigh- porhoods, to rally the masses, to set up the united front directly with the masses. We urge you to build the Pariy, to recruit new members, so that the Communist Pariy may better organize and lead the struggle for Sociel Insurance.” District ana section committees have been slow in putting this reso- lution into life, Working out specific programs for their territories by “teking initiative to rally the magses in united front struggles” which will compel Roosevelt to call a special session of Congress to adopt un- employment insurance. : There is no time to be lost. Urgent action is needed: Communist Party members must be the first to take up the call for this action, The contradiction of two worlds is inescapably before us. The workers | USSR TERMS EXTRA!Miners Forced to Pa REFUSED BY ~ MANCRUKUO Negotiations Blocked in Chinese Eastern Railroad Sale NEW _ PROVOCATIONS ‘Japanese “Seize Two Soviet Ships | aie TOKIO, July 5.—Negotiations be- |tween the Soviet Union and the Jap- lanese puphfet-state of Manchukuo lover the sale of the Chinese Eastern Railway reveal the provocatory at- | titude of Japanese imperialism toward |the U.S.S.R. The Manchukuo dele- |gation not only refused the Soviet government's offer to sell the rail- | way for 250,000,000 gold rubles, but jmade the impudent counter-offer of | 50,000,000 paper yen, which at present | depreciated rates. amounts to about one eighth of the sum demanded. | This counter-offer was accom- |panied by a document in which it |was charged that the ‘Soviet Union habitually acts only to suit its own convenience,” and which describes as | “unprincipled” |Soviet Union in its foreign dealings. |The Manchukuoan statement also jattempted to inject into the nego- tiations the question of the Tsarist | debts to Japan, and obligations in | Manchuria, which after the revolu- tion were very properly repudiated by the Soviet government, That the Manchukuo ‘statement refers specifi- cally to alleged Japanese losses of “independence” of the Manchukuo {delegates from their Japanese “ad- visers.” | These negotiations |show how the peace policy of the jin the Chinese Eastern Railway so | conflict, is greeted by the imperialist Japanese Wwar-mongers government. |. Japan took another action of ex- |treme provocation against the Soviet Union in seizing two Soviet ships, lone a 4,000 ton steamship, and the |other a smaller coastguard vessel. A |special detachment of armed. police were despatched to effect the arrests, ‘on charges of espionage. The Soviet | vessels were actually on their way to jassist a Soviet ice-breaker in diffi- | culties near Makanrushiru, one of |the northern islands on the Kurile |chain. The commander of the Jap- |anese police detachment has been in- \structed to bring the two ships to |Nemuro, where their captains will be \examined on the charge of “spying” and “invading Japanese territorial waters.” The former charge certainly isuggests that the Japanese have something to hide in the way of new war preparations in these northerly | waters—preparations which could jonly conceivably be of use against ‘the Soviet Union. “STUDY RUSSIA” ENVOY IS TOLD WASHINGTON, July 5:—Presi- the attitude of the | 300,000,000 yen is proof enough of the | sufficiently | U.S.S.R. in offering to sell its share | as to avoid all possible pretexts of | (Section of the Communist International) ~NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1933 Report Proves Nazi Set Reichstag Fire, Says London Herald , AlbertEinstein Headed Investigation LONDON, July 5.—The categori- cal charge that Captain Herman Goering, Minister of the Interior of Prussia and right-hand man of Hitler, engineered the burning of the German Reichstag last Febru- ary 27, is made in today's issue of | the London “Daily Herald.” Complete evidence supporting this charge was obtained by an investigation committee headed by Albert Einstein, famous scien- tist, who renounced German citi- zenship after the Nazis assumed power, According to the “Herald,” a Nazi storm trooper, who was among the 30 brownshirts who set the fire, escaped from Germany and gave the committee part of its evidence. The Manchester Guardian corre- | spondent in Berlin, as well as other capitalist press reporters, on the yery day of the fire, let it be known that all indications showed the hand of the Nari in the Reichstag | fire. Using this provocation as a pre- text, the Nazis arrested four Com- munist leaders, Ernst Torgler, George Dimitrov, Blagoi Popoff and Vassil Taney, who are soon to face trial on this frame-up. Torgler other three are leading Bulgarian revolutionaries who were exiles in Germany. . Workers of the United States: This latest information from London confirms once again the charge that Torgler, Thaelmann | and the other revolutionary lead- ers are the victims of a murder- ous frame-up. Help build a mass protest meeting to save them. CITY ORDERS JINCROWLAW FOR HARLEM All Negro and White Workers Mingling To Be Arrested WORKERS TO DEFY EDICT Ruling Used To Arrest ‘Cyril Briggs Who WAS of other leading exploiters, purpose- | Released Today NEW YORK.—Establishing a jim- crow law in New York the city has ordered police to arrest all Negro and white workers who walk to- gether on the streets of Harlem and | dent Roosevelt has instructed Law- | other parts of the city it was re- orker the-Cominynist Party U.S.A. THE WEA Today—PFair. CITY EDITION See C. A. Hathaway’s article on the Ohio Unemployed Con- vention on Page 2 today THER slightly warmer, Price 3 ( Jents y More for Bread After Wage Cuts; Cost of All Food to Shoot Up, Grocer Says | Green’s Eloquence Fails to Disturb Gen. Johnson’s Deep Sleep | | Photo shows William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, presenting the slant of the A. F. of L. bureaucrats on the Tex ROOSEVELT GETS SLAVE CODE POR OK; STEEL NEXT Boss Sheet Says Green | Talks 30-Hours Just to Fool Workers | WASHINGTON, July 5—General Johngon, administrator of the indus- trial “recovery” act, is now making up his report to President Roosevelt. on the “ode for the cotton textile industry, providing a $12-$13 scale ‘and a 40-hour week tor the textile | workers. The textile bosses are pre- |paring to put the code into action jon July 17. | Roosevelt's decision on the textile | code will set a precedent for all other industries, and General Johnson's {report will undoubtedly point out this fact. The first thing Roosevelt will take |up when he returns to Washington,! —~ which will be in a few days, will be the textile code. |; General Johnson, together with the textile bosses and with the agreement (ly picked this lowest paying industry jin order to set a low level to be fol- lowed by ‘the other industries. William F Green and other A. F of L. leaders have stopped talking about the low wages and are concen- | trating their record speeches and |statements on the 40-hour schedule, ng | asking for a 30-hour weex. | will note Brigadier General-Hugh S. Johnson, administrator of th very Act (le veloped i ie the. chairman tot the G Ge | Ge s vdministra tor of the Recovery Ac’ (left), enveloped in gentle sleep. | deputies of the Reichstag, and the | le Code of the National Recovery (Slavery) Act. The obvervant reader | Fight for Increased Wages- Relief-To Meet Higher Prices Every worker should agitate and organize against the steep and con- tinuing rise in bread and other food prices. In the shops, factories, among the unemployed, the workers should | expose the meaning of the rice in food prices in lower wages and less | unemployment relief, In the factories, the workers should put forward the demand of higher wages to meet the rapidly infiated prices of food. As the prices go up, the demand for a simultaneous increase in wages should be put. To put through the demand, the workers should set up their factory committees and organizations to rally all the workers behind the demand. Factory gate meetings should be organized to mobilire the workers against the rise in food prices. Organizations. in the workers’ neighborhoods to protest and fight against the higher bread prices should be the immodiate response to the first announcement of the rise in bread pzices. Demand prices go down not up! Support the struggles of the workers in the shops for higher | wages. unemployed worker should mobilize behind the Unemployed is to demand an immediate increase in cash relief to pay for the in food prices. Organize against Reoseyelt’s policy of higher living costs! 6,000 CONTINUE ASKS $77,000,000 . READING STRIKE MORE TO PREPARE INFLATION CAUSES JUMP IN PRICES OF ALL GOODS Wallace At Same Time to DumpWheatAt Low Prices Elsewnere is bread prices have already riser nning today the price of la 12- loaf of bread in Spri field ville, Carlinville, Tar- | lorville ile. and Tine"?> where the miners have had their x¢—will go up 114 cent and f will go up one cent. Bre Ir an- effective throu; f bread | | ngton, prints an inter with a tvpical American grocer. This jodge, said prices of re rising F in marking up th |g \- he had difficulty ' “Never Like This” “tn all my experience” he said “Vve never seen anything like this. Fiour's gone up more than a dolla? a barrel in less than a month, There are new quotations nearly every day. And in four days it will go up about $1.50 a barrel more because of this wheat processing tax. That means I'm going to have to raise my flour prices about 2 cents a pound all told. “Bread hasn't gone up yet, but if will before the week is over. So will reakfast foods, macaroni and all cereal food, including pretzels.” Groceryman Dodge said that he was afraid his trade would fall off be: ;prices were rising so rapidly customers’ wages would not rice. | And every day the value of the Inflation: once it hits f Every rise in goes f food prices (and t. happens ev day) means a wave cut ta the wot It means a cut in relief to the v employed, if they are lnicky enov to get a few cents in cash reliof. In the grocery store and in the vay check is where the workers will feel the Roosevelt “new deal,” not in radio speeches of General John: or the sweet statements of President Roosevelt. |rence Steinhardt, American Minister to Sweden, to study the “Russian situation,” from the closer observa- tion point in his post in Sweden._ Ambassador Steinhardt was sent by Roosevelt to the London Economic Conference to carry his latest in- structions to the delegates now at | London, One news agency hera publishes | the report that: “From his post in Sweden, he may later make a per- | sonal study of possibilities of Amer- ‘ican relations with the Soviet Union.” 6,000 On Strike at Rochester Relief Job) that they are united in the struggle | be ROCHESTER, N. Y., July 5.—Six thousand out of a total of 8,000 are on strike against an announced wage cut of 45 to 35 cents an hour on city and county jo The strike, which started in the early part of the week, will in another day, according to the vealed yesterday. The order, already put into action | with the arrest of Cyril Briggs, Ne- | Correspondent gro editor of the Harlem Liberator, | P@Per: who was mistaken for a white man| “Although Mr. Green is insisting while walking with a Negro woman | on the thirty-hour week, t! isa Sunday night, is directed against the |; strong impression here that this is increasing unity of Negro and white being done with an eye on the fu- ' workers. | ture and for the sake of satisfying here wired to his As the New York Herald Tribune) eae After Four Years of Misery READING, Pa., July 5.—Aithor N A Vy y FOR WA R This acute rise In the cost: of livin, Emil Rieve, president of the Amer comes at a period when t ie can Federation Full Fashioned working clnsx han’ béer eet Be Hostery Workers, had, berind the WASHING Taly. Sto: back tone: yours "ot taleeey und uttering backs of the 6,000 striking hosiery, up Wall S ele for world ro raise the profits of the bosres f here, agreed to tho sell-cut| markets, De GHB AMY Visccavel a ochion est Chie Tae Tee ration piot to break the strike, Swanson is asking for an additional ‘crushing burdens on wir Mir the agreement came to naught when the manufacturers insisted the union | 'esaders were to be left out in the cold and would not be recognized as the official representatives of the work- ers. The hosiery strike continued today. The arbitration agreement had {been proposed by the Fed: media- tor Squires, sent by Labor Secretary sum of $77,000,000 from the public works fund to build “a fleet of bat tieships equal to those of any na’ The new sum besides the $360,000,- 000 alrea provided for the building of 34 new battleships is arked for “modernization” of old war vessels. The Roosevelt regime is modernizing and building up the navy in prepa- ration for a new war. | Negro and white workers, men and | his followers, rather than with any | women, residing in and out of Har- | \lem declared yesterday that they ab- | |solutely disobey the jim-crow law | which Tammany iries to impose, and | will, regardless of the police, smash this jim-crowing by openly showing | NEW YORK.—Cyril Briggs, Negro editor of the Harlem Liberator, Ne- ro revolutionary weekly, was released | Yesterday morning in the 170 East’ | 121st Street court after the disorderly ‘conduct charge against him was dis- | missed. expectation. that the thirty-hour week is to be put into effect in the industrial ‘codes.” The Iron and Steel Instituie, the leading organization of the big stecl the is trusts, controlled mainly by United States Steel Corporation, ‘awing up its code, and on the i | structions of General Johnson has conveniently forgotten all reference jin the act to “collective bargaining.” Dozens of other codes, such as those of the big department stores, oil, automobiles, lumber, are ready. °'THey are waiting only for the presidential | Frances Perkins to .“settle” the strike. The agreement had provided that an arbitrator would haye final author- ity to settle all disputes. More Join Walkout Workers of more mills in the vici- the attempted treachery of the A. F. of L, bureaucracy to sell the right to strike for recognition of the union orkers are being urged by this rank and file movement to work out their nity of Reading joined the strike to- |day. At the Berkshire, the largest non-union hosiery mill, workers also answered the strike call. The Socialist Party was a partner tO the arbitration agreement plot to send the workers back under the old conditions. Steps are being taken by rank and sanclion on the starvation wages in file workers to expose to all workers demands for increases in wages and a reduction of hours, and for an_.end to secret negotiations between Rieve and the manufacturers. Also workers are being urged to demand that they have a voice in working out a code for the industry, and that an agree- ment won in the strike be the basis for a code: masses. It is tvpical of the “now deal that bread prices should be the first to rise, that the workers should get the first kick in their stomach. In order to get around a general sales tax, Roosevelt slaps a tax on bread He gives the fiour mills, the bess bakers an opportunity to tell the workers to pay more or eat Jess bread The Rocseyelt processing tax on flour, which is sunposed to add millions to mortgage payments. is a t?x plated on the workers so that they have ta va” ft before they can take one bite of bread. All the history of price rises proves that, regardless of all other circum- stances, the rise in the price of bread is followed by a Similar rine in all other food pric Too Much Wheat Roosevelt's policy of making the starving workers pay more for their food is nowhere more glaringly shown Strike Committee, involve all the re- lief workers. |mational Labor Defense. Veterans Stop Forced Labor \Picket Red Cross Offices in Portland League to make plans for resisting it. The committee decided on a name—‘“Indigent Soldiers and Sail- PORTLAND, Oregon.—After two hours of mass picketing at the local Briggs was defended by the Inter-' the ‘textile industry before rushing to General Johnson with their codes for steam-roller passage in order to j ward off discussion in the shops. are being kept a secret. The exploit- ers in these industries a¥e maneuver- ing all around to make sure oncé their codes are announced that they port of the A. F. of L. leaders (no matter what these leaders may say for publication). The codes in the leading industries, will receive the active and real sup-| Burn | Raise Demand for MUSKEGON HEIGHTS, Mich.— ‘More than 800 working men and wom- Jen assembled before City Hall and| burned their slave contracts which) the welfare agency tried to enforce. | ‘The assembled workers forced Mayor “Slave Contracts Red Cross by unemployed veterans who have been getting relief grocery orders from there and the program of forced labor was defeated. The fight started when unem- ployed veterans in Portland regis- tered for relief at the Red Cross received a letter signed by Miss Jane Doyle, Executive Secretary, inform- ing them that starting June 15 they would have to work two days per week before they would get their grocery orders, which amount $1.35 per wk. for single vets, married men in proportion. A conference was called by the local Post No. 45 Jof the Workers Ex-Servicemen's to. ors Relief Committee.” At a mass meeting on june 25 another com- mittee was elected to go before the Red Cross and demand that ‘there be no forced labor. A proposal to Picket the Red Cross was adopted and picketing started.on Wednesday, | June 28th, | Late on Wesdnesday afternoon, a |veteran reported there is now a sign in the Red Cross office to the effect: “No work is required except for wood”! Thus ended the first jround of struggle in Portland against the forced labor program “New of the Red Cross and the Deal” administration, yn, Florida Prisoners in | ra’ yosenzo and the city council to! by the fact that there are 360,000,000 bushels of wheat rotting in the ware- | houses. Bread prices should go down. , There is more wheat than Secretary of Agriculture Wallace can find places } be aap ae ene millions of | bushels of wheat China—to help Jobless Insurance | Chiang Kai Shek in_his war against | the Soviet districts. Chiang Kai Shek sist an effort on the part of the Wel-| does not give the wheat to the Chi- fare Department to deny relief to any | nese masses. He sells it for cash to one refusing to sign the slave con-|Japan. Secretary of Agriculture Wal- tract. |lace will dump wheat on the world Not only are new slave forms dis-| market in order to give the grain covered against those getting relief |speculators, the boss bakers. an oppor- but in this instance an attempt is) tunity to raise profits by raising bread made that a worker can later be Prices. The working class, for whom Revolt;Burn Sweatbox BROOKSVILLE, Fla~—The sixty prisoners in the chain-gang p.ison camp at Tooke Lake, 12 miles from | promise that steps would be taken to, \eliminate these outrageous contracts. Previously at the meeting of the jcity council on June 19 workers | crowded the council chamber to over-| flowing to protest against this action. | forced to work for the city to pay back for the relief. | It brings out once again the need/ that the federal government provide} a sufficient income to jobless workers | everywhere. Federal Unemployment} bread is the chief every-day necessity, will be made to pay. Double-Edged Sword Such is the cost to the workers of Roosevelt's inflation policy. Now we The slave contract authorizes offi- eials to scarch homes of workers, get- ting relief. Besides the contract pro- Armed prison guards quelled them. | yides that at any time a person re- Five convicts escaped. \ceiving relief finds a job the city is A detachment of National Guards-/to get 15 per cent of the wages in men’ was sent from Tampa to pre- excess of the amount received for- vent further rebellion against the merly on relief. intolerable conditions, ‘The assembled workers voted to re- | here, rebelled, broke up the sweat- box and tore down the solitary con- ‘inement cells and set fire to them, Insurance as proposed in the Workers | can see the powerful weapon in the Unemployment Insurance Bill makes industrial slavery act to keep wages these very provisions in its clauses.|at a “minimum” while prices go up In the fight against the slave con-| without any hindrance. It is symbolic tract in Muskegon Heights the work- | that Roosevelt’s double-edged sword ers will demand that the city council! against the workers should first slice endorse federal unemployment insur- off the amount of bread the worker ance. {will be permitted to eat. a Al EROS i Co