The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 8, 1933, Page 1

| \ | Give a Fellow-Worker Your Copy of the ‘Daily’ When You Are Thru With it. Discuss the News With Him! ? \ oosevelt Promised Unemployment Insurance NSTEAD, HE HAS SPENT, SINCE HE CAME INTO OFFICE, NEARLY A BILLION- 5 DOLLARS ($938,447,000) FOR THE ARMY AND NAVY Daily Central Or (Section of the Communist International) Workers ! e Demand All War Funds BE USED FOR UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE! DEMONSTRATE ON AUGUST 1, AGAINST ROOSEVELT’S HUNGER AND WAR PROGRAM! orker ist Party U.S.A. See Page 5 for Browder’s article on “Roosevelt's ‘New Deal’ and Fascism” ‘Vol. X, No. 163 hes | t | : > War Bud, (, The ‘New Deal’ War get we expenditures under the Roosevelt regime rapidly approach the huge sums spent by the Wall Street government in 1917, 1918 and 1919 dur- ing the last world war and immediately after. The fund of $3,300,000,000 put over under the guise of public works now stands out more clearly as a deep reservoir for armaments expenditures for the new imperialist war that the Roosevelt regime is rapidly advancing towards. There is less and less talk about public construction and more and more talk about building the United States navy “second to none.” What has become of the “slum-clearing” sections of the public works act? That has gone the way of the Roosevelt promise of unemployment in- surance. President Roosevelt's new deal, in the sphere of war and im- perialist antagonisms, means a new deal for colonial plunder. * . . . | Ba us glance at the millions that the Roosevelt government is shovel- ling into the lap of the arms manufacturers. ‘The 1933 budget for the navy originally provided $353,628,362, of which $32,000,000 was for the building of new war vessels. Instead of providing relief for the jobless, the new deal provides an additional $352,000,000 for navy expenditures, making a total of $586,447,000. As soon as the indus- trial recovery act was passed, $238,000,000 was handed over to the navy for distribution to the arms makers. Later Secretary of the Navy Swan- son asked for $114,000,000 to “modernize” oid war vessels so that they could deliver a “terrific pounding.” The total war budget of the Roosevelt regime at present thus stands as follows: Fer the army $352,000,000, with new millions coming from the public works budget; for the navy, $586,447,000—a grand total of $938,447,- 000. Before they are through with it the Roosevelt regime will spend * over one billion dollars for war preparations! { ; This is the new deal for war! This is the new deal for the rich war ‘nhustries owners who are still wallowing in the billions they coined out [8 | the blood and toil of the workers in the lest world war. i od Not one cent for unemployment insurance, and a slash of over $500,- 90,000 in payments to the war vets, the victims of the last imperialist wrar. * UGUST 1 will be International Day in the struggle against imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet, Union. How must the struggle against war be conducted? How shall we rally the workers against the intensive war preparations, for monster demonstrations on August 1, and after that to extend the fighting front against imperialist war? The Twelfth Plenum resolution made it clear: “It is only by waging bolshevik struggle, from day to day, against all concrete measures of war policy by the imperialist bourgeoisie and its agents, in every country, that we can guarantee that, in the event of an imperialist war and intervention against the Soviet Union, we may not only put forward the slogan of turning the war into a civil wat, but also be in a position really to turn the imperialist war into a civil war.” Demand that the billions being shoveled out for armament building go to the unemployed! No funds for war! Demand all war funds go for unemployment insurance! Struggle against the attack on the workers’ living standard! . Make August 1 a mighty rallying point to spread the struggle against the new danger of an imperialist war, and for the Defense of the Soviet Who Said It? IORMAN THOMAS and the Socialist Party are bending all their energy to spreading the broadest, lurid and lying illusions about the bene- fits the workers can derive from Roosevelt's industrial slavery act. The latest from the pen of Norman Thomas is the following: “To my mind the textile industry and the needle trades are the particular industries which best lend themselves to real improvement under the industrial control act.” . In the face of what actually happened in Washington around the cotton textile code, with starvation wages of $12-$13 fastened on the cotton mill workers, Norman Thomas tells these wage slaves of the blessings they may expect from the Roosevelt new deal. He says nothing about what the bosses are planning, as shown in codes and in the open admissions by the Annalist, a bankers’ and exploiters’ journal. This bosses’ organ says that at the 40-hour scale with the starvation wages production will be speeded-up and each worker will be made to produce more at less cost. i ; * * * * UT the most significant reason for Norman Thomas picking precisely these two industries, needle and textile, for the best field of action for Roosevelt's slavery bill is because it is in needle and cotton textile that the workers are struggling the hardest against their miserable con- ditions. It is in these industries that the workers are on the picket lines. Norman Thomas and the socialists, in harmony with the Roosevelt program, pick out these two industries where the workers are building militant trade unions to struggle for wage increases and the improve- ment in their conditions and counter-pose the bosses’ program of forced collaboration with the exploiters in the interest of saving capitalism at the expense of intensifying the starvation of the masses, Register for City Elections c is already time for all workers to give serious thought to the ap- $ proaching election campaign in New York City. The reactionary forces, with Tammany in the lead, are right now energetically at work. From the present time until November their every act will be conditioned by their desire to corral the votes of the masses. It is time for the workers, with the Communist Party at their head, to begin work with equal and even greater energy. One of the central tasks for the Communist Party this year is the registration of its voters. A signature campaign, as in past elections, is no longer necessary. But registration becomes ten times more important because the workers must be taught to register as Communists. This change arises from the big gains registered by the Party in last year's elections, when for the first time the Communist Party gained the status of @ legal Party. Now workers should register not merely as qualified voters, but as voters for the Communist candidates. * * . } 4 i Jf * A REGISTRATION slip will be given to each voter when he comes to register containing the names of the five parties ha’ legal stat New York State—the Communist, Republican Dito Bectalieh and Law Enforcemént (Prohibition) parties. In the past the workers were urged by us not to register as adherents of any party. The Communist Party was then not on the list and all other parties were against the workers’ interests. This year the Communist Party is on the list. Now the workers should readily grasp the need of registering as Communists, Registrations are already possible, and if there is the slighest possi- bility that one will be out of the city when registration begins in the voting precincts on October 9th, he should register now at the Board of t aber) offices in his respective borough, These offices are located as lows MANHATTAN, Municipal Bulding, Room 1835. BROOKLYN, Municipal Building, Room 600. ~ BRONX, 442 East 149th St. QUEENS, 89-31 161st St., Jamaica. RICHMOND, Borough Hall, New Brighton, . . . . WE urge workers to go to the office in their borough and register. Get your shopmates, neighbors and friends to do likewise. wince them of the need for as Communists, ere Butered 2c ssvend-cines motter a¢ the Post Office at ew Youk, M. ¥., under ttm Act of March 3, 1079. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1933 NATIONAL EDITION Price 3 Cents CUT RELIEF AS LIVING COST RISES Demand forJobless In- surance Must Grow Stronger Now! FOOD UP 20 P. C. IN WEEK Federal Relief Cut to Aid Strikebreaking But Living Costs for Workers’ Goes Up WASHINGTON, July 7—Confiden- | tial information to the bosses con- tained in the Whaley-Eaton Service | No. 774 says: “The government is | greatly concerned over possible labor | troubles due to the advancing cost | of living. A study is being made now | to determine if localities are entitled to federal relief funds if the distress is due to strikes.” This information coming from an employers’ service with close connec- tions in high goverment bureaus in- dicates that the Roosevelt regime ex- | pects growing demands for unemploy- | ment relief and unemployment in- | surance. It also stresses the fact that | under the new deal the use of federal | relief funds will he devoted to the | Before He Was Lost graph book at Moscow last month round-the-world air trip. American Aviator in MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., July Jimmy Mattern, rescued yesterday, snapped as he signed an auto- ‘WORLD FLIER MATTERN IS SAFE IN SIBERIA June 14; Failed to Achieve New Record breaking of strikes. Where strikes break out against starvation wages, due to rising living costs, the relief will be withdrawn from unemployed workers in an effort to force the un- employed to scab. Each week brings new reports of | round-the-world flier missing s: | Mattern himself, which read: | “Safe at Anadir Chutkota, Siberia. JIMMY MATTERN.” | This was learned today when a telegram was received from | in the Siberian Wastes ry when he had completed part of his So Siberia; Missing Since 7.—Jimmie Mattern, American | ince June 14, is alive and safe. rising living cost... The latest is from | A k L. TEAMSTERS’ Dun & Bradstreets, a business statis- | Mell’ ele tical organization, which indicates | that for the past week the rise in ¢ ANG ATT ACKS food-costs was 4 per cent. In the previous week it was 2 per cent. Each week the cost of living rises at an ad- vancing rate. While cutting down relief at a/ time when costs are going up, the) CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 7—More Roosevelt government spends more for | than 50 gangsters, led by fascist ele- war. The expenditures for the navy | ments in the A. F. of L. Teamsters’ have been increased from $352,000,000 | Union, launched a murderous attack to over $550,000,000. The total war ex-|0n dairy workers meeting in the penditures have already reached near | Trade Union Unity League center the billion mark. \here. The gangsters were armed | with shotguns, clubs and tear gas. _ WORKERS’ MEET The rise in the cost of living has | already cut the meagre amount of | relief received by the unemployed. The They met with courageous resistance from the workers, but they succeeded in disarming the guards at the cen- ® Anadir is a trading post on the | | Anadir River, in the far northeast- ern Siberia, a desolate region just undef the Arctic Circle.>."THere is no means of communication, and it is considered quite possible that | Mattern could have been there more |than three weeks without being able to get word out. men, he took off for Khabarovsk, Siberia, June 14. Upon his depar- mechanics for repairing his ship, jand expressed a desire to return to |the Soviet Union for a more leis- jurely visit some time in the future. He left Khabarovsk, and took off on the dangerous flight across the Ber- |ing Straight to Nome, Alaska, after | having been forced back by ice-| coated wings on the previous day.| After being feted by Moscow air- ture he thanked Soviet airmen and| sna sent to a hospital where a | Farmer Prefers A Fighting ‘Daily’ To Prancing Steed | | BROOKLYN, N. ¥.—The other day I happened to be out in the country and came upon the fol-| | lowing incident: One farmer was laboring his | way up a difficult hill and an- | other, riding on a beautiful steed, f was coming down the hill. When) | they came to the crossing point of one another, the farmer on the horse, seeing the other farmer was all out of breath, exclaimed play- fully, “How'd you like to buy my horse!” “O.K.,” the other an- swered, smiling. “How much do) you want?” “Three cents!” “Oh,| no.” There was a glint of fire in| | the mountless farmer’s eyes. “For | three cents,” he said, “I'd sooner buy a Daily Worker!” And both laughed understandingly. | POLICE ATTACK — STRIKE MEET | ROCHESTER, N. Y. Politicians Ask Help of Governor Lehman to Breek Strike ROCHESTER N. Y., July 7.—Police attacked relief workers who are strik- ing against a wage cut when they tried to march on city hall to hold a demonstration. Tear gas bombs and clubs were used against the jobless workers. Two were seriously hurt and taken to the hospital and four were arrested. Police pushed a gun in the stomach of Frank Costa, 60-year- old father of the Unemployed Council organizer. Costa was beaten council committee to see him was refused admittance. Women and children were at the head of the march attacked by the police, The strikers have tied up all work in city and county projects with most of the 8,000 worker striking. The ‘MILLINERY CODE |reported to be $35 for trimmers, $55/8TOW. At a late night session of the daily rise In food costs will cut this ter, slugging the workers and throw- relief still further. ling the tear gas, Before leaving they The Roosevelt government knows | issued a warning that they would re- that there will be struggles of the un- turn and their next visit would re- employed for increased relief and is | sult in murders. taking measures now to defeat them! The Cleveland workers responded to or to stave them off. The unemployed | the appeal for defense, but it came workers must organize and develop/too late. Police dispersed the large immediate struggles for relief on the | crowd which gathered outside. As a basis of the rapidly rising food costs. | result of this gangster attack, the They must struggle along with the | militant workers meeting in the T. U.} employed against lowering living | U. L. center must rally all their standard for the entire working class. forces to organize a strong defense No further word was heard from |General Welfare Committee of 8” at him, and it was feared he had been |its meeting in Hotel Rochester, Thurs- Against the war expenditures the slogan of all war funds for unem- ployment insurance should wring out. ‘There must be firmer organization of the unemployed, increased activities of the Unemployed councils for more relief and for unemployment insur- ance. Tear Gas and Riot Guns in Readiness to Subdue Protesting Prisoners LORTON, Va., July 7—Inmates of the Reformatory here, who have been carrying on a fight against the vile food and other abuses, were placed today under a strong patrol of police carrying tear gas bombs and riot guns. It was the spirited protest of the 1,100 prisoners in the dining hall last Saturday that decided M. M: Bar- | nard, general superintendent, upon calling in outside force. A. C. Tawse, reformatory superintendent, threat- ened to resign unless he had full authority to handle the situation. Barnard accepted this as a resigna- tion: ‘The police are stationed outside the prison building, ready for imme- | diate action. | to protect themselves against further ; attacks from boss-inspired gangster | raids, HARRIMAN SAYS HE'S INSANE AND WANTS NO TRIAL NEW YORK.—After making mil- lions in the banking business and swindling a few more millions by falsifying the books of the Harriman National Bank, the lawyers for Jo- seph W. Harriman, now under in- their client is actually crazy, and should have his sanity tested in or- der to avoid trial. Harriman’s counsel say that he is unable to assist them in his own de- fense, and for this reason he should be considered berserk. The herding of a battery of alien- ists and psychologists into court to prevent the trial of a rich grafter is a stunt as old as the use of the in- junction against strikers. During the Harding oil scandal and after, William B. Fall, Secretary of the Interior, avoided going .to jail dictment, bring a plea to court that | lost. no clue, The Soviet Air Ministry, upon hearing that Mattern was safe, at |once issued instructions to the chief of the northern aviation service to contact Mattern and forward de- tails of his situation. of the Soviet air service had pre- | viously been instructed to keep close watch. Air officials expressed sur- prise that Mattern by himself had} been able to obtain his own means | of informing Moscow of his where- abouts, cant Genet WASHINGTON, July 7—U. S.| |coast guard officials today instructed |the cutter, the Northland, which is 300 miles off the coast of Siberia, | |to cooperate with Soviet authori- | ties in bringing back Jimmy Mat- | tern, world flier. | The Northland cannot go into Soviet waters without. permission and at present is communicating by wireless with Soviet officials in Siberia. for many years by the assistance of | physicians who ceciared his health was too precarious. | Workers spitting their lungs out, many having’ to. be carried on} stretchers are shoved into filthy cells | to serve long terms. In many labor | cases, defendants had. been tortured | into insanity and were forced to g9/ to trial. nevertheless. | But bankers like Harriman who | |can hire physicians to make affi- | davits containing claims of fancy medical and psychotherapic afflic- | tions always find some means of get- | An extensive search revealed day night recommended a wage rate of 40 cents an hour. The officials al- ready agree to five cents more an hour, when originally they proposed 35 cents. The strikers demand 50 cents an hour on all labor jobs and, recognition of committees elected by This branch | the workers. Politicians Disrupt Democratic politicians supported by other misleaders are trying to break the strike by bringing division among the workers. A committee of 3 headed by the democratic council- man Charles Stanton appealed di- rectly to Governor Lehman to nego- tiate a settlement in which the work- ers will get part of the wage cut. The committee was well satisfied after its private meeting with Lehman and intend to go ahead with these disrup- tive tactics. The Strike Committee authorized to speak in the name of the strikers was elected by the workers at a meeting in Washington Square Park in the early period of the strike. The strikers hold their ranks solid and will not allow any attempts to bring detmoralization. All negotiations will be carried on by the elected strike committee recognized by the workers and final approval will only be de- cided by a vote of ail workers, {talian Air Fleet Ready for Labrador REYKJAVIK, Iceland, July 7—The Italian armada of twenty-four sea- planes, detained here by adver: weather reports, is held in readiness | ting the capitalist courts to saye them |the trouble of cither going to trial! or serving jatl terms, Cost to Workers of Meat, BULLETIN ALBANY, July 7.—Bread prices are going up here. The present six-cent loaf will juryo one cent, and the weight of the 10-cent loaf will be cut two ounces. * Repeatedly the Daily Worker has pointed out that one of the first re- sults of Roosevelt's “new deal” through the medium of the “recov- ery” act has been a steep rise in food prices, cutting the wages of the work- ers and the relief of the unemployed. .The latest news on the food price rise is the report of Dun & Brad- streets showing that food prices rose 4 per cent in one week! Now the United Press publishes some details about the rise in food prices. Investigations in sixteen represen- | tative cities showed the following | average: ; Round steak.. | Sirloin steak. | Rib roast. .... Pork chops. Bacon .. about’S cehts -more than 4 cents more than 1 cent more than 2 cents +»-More than 3 cents -more than 5 cents slightly less than 1 cent --more than 5 cents Flour swung consistently upward. Some cities reported gains of almost 50 per cent. Wheat, meanwhile, ad- vanced to $1 per bushel for the first | time in three years. No More 5 Cent Bread ‘in Baltimore; Cut Size 1 BALTIMORE, July 7. — Balti- more baking companies’ officials today met an increase in the price of flour by abolishing the 5-cent loaf of bread and reducing the size of the 7-cent and 10-cent | loaves. Milk, Butter, Flour Rises in to take off tomorrow for Labrador on the fourth leg of its flight from Italy to the Chicago Exposition. Tariffs Climbing In Europe While | Dollar Plunges Anglo-American Currency Fight Intensifies While Gold Standard Powers Prepare to Enter Battle World-Wide Inflation and Price-Raising Threatens New Wars and Marks LONDON, July 7.—The most important event at the World Economic Conference today happened outside the walls of the Conference meeting place. It was the fall of the dollar to a new low of $4.74 to the pound—a drop of 25 cents below even the low figure reached by the dollar on July 4, the day after which the Roosevelt message was received by the Conference. The present value of the dollar is the lowest since Civil War days. That we are now in for more devastating currency competition in de- government, today wrote in an edi- dent. The London Times, which | torial: “It ts of the utmost importance represents the official policy of the|to the world that the policy of Great -| Britain and the Dominions should jbe directed toward the same end |which President Roosevelt is pur- suing.” In other words, London is preparing to meet Washington depre- ciation of the dollar with further de- | Pression of the value of the pound. The workers of both countries will be the ones hit by these inflationary policies through rising prices that will send the cost of living rocketing still higher, thus decreasing the buy power of wages, The gold bloc powers are accumulat- Allows Employers to! ing a huge fund in Paris to support their currencies, menaced by the Evade Own Minimum titanic struggle between the dollar NEW YORK.—A code establishing » working conditions in the millinery|°" Poxad. industry was proposed this week by. The gold bloc countries, all of which the National Millinery Council. The ave had previous experience of in- workers were not consulted in the | flation, are NOt anxious to Tepeat that drafting of the code. Minimum wages | €XPerience. Political upheavals are are established for the skilled work- being talked about as a probable re- ers which slash the union scale by|sult of new inflationary adventures, approximately one half. French government circles especially The minimum wage urged by the “76 Speaking of “revolutionary dan- millinery bosses is a1 ae pel fey gers” that can be expected in the casa $35 for operators and cutters and of another inflation of the franc. $45.75 for blockers. Union scales are| Meanwhile trade war conditioxs major currencies of the world is evi- SLASHES DEEP INTO UNION WAG Seale for Apprentices { for operators and $75 for blockérs,|French Chamber of Deputies the The code proves once again the in-|Daladier government received dic- tention of the bosses to bring down} tatorial powers to make tariff repr'+ |the wage levels of the organized|Sals against foreign powers by ti 3 workers which have been won through | overwhelming vote of 488 to 10. The: many struggles to that of the unor-| powers will in all likelihood be used ganized. in retaliation against the German . 55-hour | Moratorium declared just before thy week and claim thatthe low minic|Z0ndon Conference met, and whic? | mum wage is justified because the | becomes effective July 1. \ union hours are now 40. Instead of| |The French 25 per cent surtax c1 benefiting the workers by the re-|# imports from Portugal which wes duction in hours, the action of the|P@ssed yesterday, was promptly an= bosses reveals that the shorter hour|SWered today by a 20 per cent -4 proposals of the National Recovery| Valorem tariff on French goods i - (Slavery) program are to serve as the| Posed by the Portugese. excuse for a drastic slash in the} A Sub-committee of the Monetacy workers’ wages. Commission of the Conference today accepted a resolution presented by 4 Neville Chamberlain, to discuss all six items on the Conference agenda, namely, credit policy, price levels, scales proposed for the skilled work-| imitation of currency fluctuations, ers, and will eventually seek to set exchange of control indebtedness, and this minimum as the standard for all 7esumption of lending. This move cheveheen: was made against the opposition of ‘ : ,_|the gold standard countries, the vote The militant left wing opposition on the committee being 25 to 15, The in the A. F. of L. millinery union | vote, however, does not mean much, must rally the rank and file to Carry |as individual countries will be allowed on a vigorous fight to ‘eard ON! to make reservations against the dis- the question of what conditions are cussions of certain subjects. ‘This to be established for the millinery ote win be reported to the Steering workers. They must immediately Co. £ “|Committee of the Conference to be draw up a code of their own, estab \confirmed or reversed. enforce their demands. Navy Race Is On; London Treaty Is Scrap of Pape WASHINGTON, July 7.—The end of the London navy treaty, and the Scat | open race for naval war armaments, regularities” on the part of the sixty | which had already proceeded behind prisoners who revolted last Tues-/|the screen of the treaty itself, is ree day, breaking up instruments of | ported by the Hearst news agency, torture. They had burned the sweat- | Universal Service, will place on Dee Bah arid the confinement | C¢™beT 31, 1935. The treaty was sign= i ~-- ed in 1930 by the United States, cells in which many were subjected | Great Britain and Japan. It was an to cruel punishment. }extension of the Washington Con- | ference treaty of 1921. The millinery code provides for a $14 m‘nimum wage for apprentices, by means of which t%ie employers will be able to aveid paying even the low More “Troops Ordered. to Quell Prison Revolt’ BROOKSVILLE, Fla. July 7.—} Additional National Guard troops | were stationed today at the Tooke Prison road camp with orders to sheot at any manifestation of “ solitary The widest advances were: Round steak—Syracuse, 12 c Sirloin steak—Boulder, Col., Rib roast—Syracuse and 8 cents. Pork shops—Charlotte, N.C., 8 Boulder, Bacon—Hendersonville, N.C., 8 Lemb chops—K: City, D: Boulder. San Francisco, Hendi - ville, 10 cents. Butter—Raleigh, N. C., 10 cents. Milk—Kansas City, Cleveland, Chi- cago, San Francisco, Buffalo, Roches- | ter, Syracuse, Pittsburgh all reported 1 cent gain. Price ranges in sixteen cities on commodities show; i mokmenee Many Cit *| (N.Y.City bacon prices declined 8 cis.) The treaty itself was a pacifist shield for the bitter armament strug- | gle that went on all the time between | the leading imperialists. At the pres- ies April 1 July 7 | ent moment, with the bitter struggle cents cents | f0F markets, there is an especially \ “| Sharp, spurt upward in naval build- i Round steak. +15 to 30 22 to 35| ing, both the United States and Ja- i Sirloin steak 20 to 35 20 to 35| pan rushing their naval building in Lamb chops.. 20 to 45 25 to 55) PY ticn for war for Pacific co- 1 ‘ Bacon ... 14 to 28 19 to 20) © ation © time Reosevelt an- orcay the withdrawal, » being” of participa- price farcical and fraudulent increases were imminent. | Geneva “ mament negotiations.” Norman H. Davis, Roosevelt's Am- These prices will go up still fur-| passador-at-large, and J. P. Morgan's ther, as the inflation program and| favored friend, was to have sailed higher prices and profits for the| for Europe yesterday to attend the bosses’ benefit is just beginning. Geneva conference, nc 27 to 31 “Zcr tion in the Butter ++.18 to Several cities reported bread \h iy