The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 10, 1933, Page 1

| BREAD PRICE “UP ALL OVER Give a Fellow-Worker Your Copy of the ‘Daily’ When You Are Thru With it. Discuss the News With Him! Daily Central Or (Section of the Communsst International ) orker ist Party U.S.A. Vol. X, No. 164 Buterod as sovemd-class matter at the Post Offies at New York, N. Y., wrder the Act of March 3, 2078. > NEW YORK, MONDAY, JULY 10, 1933 Is the Daily Worker on Sale at Your Union M eeting? Your Club Headquarters ? THE WEATHER—Fair and west winds. CITY EDITION moderate west and north Price 3 Cen TAMMANY HALL STOPS JOBLESS RELIEF FOR U.S. TODAY Roosevelt Letter Shows He Will Profit from Bread Rises BAKERS CUT LOAF SIZE Increase Will Continue Use Tax As Excuse NEW YORK. — Today throughout | the whole country the price of bread | rises from 1 to 3 cents a loaf as a result: of the inauguration of the pro- | eessing tax on wheat to support Roos- | velt’s agrarian program of cotton and wheat destruction. In some cities not only does the price of bread rise, but the size of the loaves will be cut. ‘The first rise was announced in fowa, California and Illinois. Along | with the rise in bread prices will go | a rise in the cost of all other cereals such as barley, oats, etc., as well as breakfast foods, macaroni and the like. The processing tax places a levy of $1.38 on each barrel of flour manu- factured. The millions to be col-| lected in this way are to be used to/| pay the rich cotton planters for des- | troying cotton acreage. Immediately as the tax went into effect the boss bakers slapped a 20 to | 30 per cent rise on bread which not, only covers thetax but gives them an) extra profit, using the tax as an ex-| cuse for the rise. In this way, the workers are made to pay tribute to the rich cotton | ~ Flanters’so-that they catr raise “the ? ] ‘I | MILLINERY: SHOPS, price of cotton. The day before the bread price rise took place, Roosevelt sent Secretary of | Agriculture Wallace the following, letter in which he admits he him- | self will personally profit by the rise in cotton prices and indirectly in the bounties paid for cutting cotton acreage: “My Dear Secretary, “J want you to make it very clear | that I attach the greatest possible | importance to the cotton adjust- ment campaign. It is our first major attack on the agricultural depression. “I know that for the past two weeks the representatives of the farm adjustment administration have been presenting to the 2,000,- 000 producers of cotton the hard facts of supply and demand, but the real question is, are the cotton growers ready to recognize these facts and seize their opportunity. “I myself am one of those who | as a planter of cotton has suffered from the absurdly low prices of the past few years. What I am con- cerned about, and what every other cotton grower ought to think about, is the price of cotton next year if cotton acreage is not reduced. “There are two reasons why every cotton grower should go along with the government’s national respon- sibility. The first is the patriotic — duty of making the plan a success for the benefit of the whole coun- try; and tbe second is the personal advantage to every cotton grower in helping as an individual to re- duce an oversupply of cotton and thereby obtaining a better price for what he grows. t “The responsibility rests on the individual grower, and I believe that. we can get substantial unity among our more than 2,000,000 cotton pro- ducers for this program of a planned and orderly harvest. “Very sincerely yours, “FRANKLIN, D. ROOSEVELT.” BARE SWEATSHOP SLAVERY IN CAL. * NORRISTOWN: July 9.—Investiga- tions of sweatshop conditions here revealed the fact that one of the lead- ing exploiters of labor called to testify as. a sweatshop owner is Joseph R. Grundy, Republican lobbyist and former senator. He is the owner of the W. R. Grundy Co. of Bristol, Pa. Sworn statements submitted by the workers employed in his establish- ent declare that wages are $9 and 10 for 66 hours of work a week, that 0 one is permitted to sit down while t work and that the bosses use ‘abusive language to the workers. For many a decade past the his- tory of industry and commerce is hot. the history of the revolt of For the Personal Advantage of President Roosevelt EDITORIAL “1 myself am one of those who as a planter of cotton has suffered from the absurdly low prices of the past few years. What I am concerned about, and what every other cotton grower ought to think about, is the price of cotton next year if cotton acre- age is not reduced.”—From President Roosevelt's letter to Secretary Wallace made public yesterday. HE President of the United States, proclaiming himself one of the arch profiteers from high cotton prices, writes a letter to his secretary of agriculture, Wallace, declaring it a “patriotic duty” to proceed more drastically to plow under growing cotton crops. Roosevelt, himself a rich cotton planter, speaks to the Southern, rich feudal cotton planters. Tht “New Deal” is revealing more deeply and clearly its full significance, not only to the starving share croppers and tenants of the South but to the whole toiling popuation. “Do you know, workers, you are now paying higher bread prices to give Roosevelt and the other rich cot- ton planters a bounty of $100,000,000 for destroying cotton so you can pay still higher prices on cotton tex- tiles—shirts, underwear, and the like? “TATRIOTIC DUTY!” To plow under cotton for higher «prices for the rich planters and to make the workers pay for it by snatching bread away from them! Patriotism, in- deed, as Dr. Johnson said so long ago, is the last refuge of a scoundrel. It was patriotism to go to France and die for Morgan’s profits. It is now patriotism to take bread from your children to feed profits to Roosevelt and the other rich cotton planters. Cotton is not being destroyed fast enough and Roose- velt becomes alarmed over the agrarian crisis as he is over the impending deeper crisis in industry and finance. He wrote the letter to Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, but really it is directed to the farmers of the South. In this letter Roosevelt tells the cotton planters “for patriotic” reasons and to gain higher prices for themselves, to destroy more cotton crops. “T myself am one of those who as a planter of cotton has suffered from the absurdly low prices of the past few years,” announces Roosevelt. Roosevelt tells the rich farmers that he is a cotton planter interested in higher prices and higher profits for himself! Despite the destruction of cotton that has been going on, the cotton crop at this moment is 11.6 per cent greater than it was last year. But the startling announcement that Roosevelt per- sonally is interested in making money out of the destruction of cotton (paying for it by raising bread prices) crops is the most astounding revelation of the New Deal. Remember, workers and poor farmers, that Roosevelt is giving the rich cotton planters a bounty of $100,000,000 for destroying cotton. Roosevelt himself will profit personally by this $100,000,000. Where doef this money come from and who gets it? The $100,000,000 that will go to the Southern cotton bankers and feudal, bourbon landowners, the lynchers of the Negro share croppers, comes from the povkets of the starving, toiling masses of the whole country. Why does Roosevelt’s letter appear just the day before the announcement is made that the price of bread will rise throughout the nation? The processing tax on flour goes into effect, and it is out of this tax that the $100,000,000 will be paid. It is the workers who today begin paying this tax by higher bread prices. . . . . ee $100,000,000 is heing paid today directly and specifi- cally by every worker in higher bread prices. The fund for subsidizing the destruction of cotton comes out of the processing tax on flour. Roosevelt has slapped a tax of $1.38 on every barrel of flour. But the flour mills do not pay it. You, workers, pay it. Today in every city in the United States bakers are raising their bread prices. They will con- tinue to raise them further. The toll for the processing tax is passed,on directly to the worker. It is taken out of his hide. Roosevelt cuts and smashes down the living standards of the workers immediately by a rise in bread prices to col- leet a fund of $100,000,000—out of which he personally will make money. This is the “New Deal” for Roosevelt and the rich cot- ton planters of the South. The share croppers, tenants, poor farmers of the South, tied up by a thousand bonds through mortgages, contracts, crushing debts, can no more cut theif meagre crops than they can their jugular vein. They face starvation either ‘way ... And with a cut in cotton crops their miserable lot becomes intolerable. Wallace certainly had in mind the sharecroppers and poor farmers when he said: “But if a grower refuses to face those facts or to seize the opportu- nity, then it seems to me that is his funeral.” modern productive forces against modern conditions of production, against the property relations that are the conditions for the existence of the bourgeoisie and of its rele.—Communist Manifesto, 5 i po ad ARP ARMM AO Ee CO OO on or i i Only the rich cotton planters (among whom Roosevelt openly places himself) can profit by plowing under cotton. They receive the tidy sum of $100,000,000 for this patriotic i planter to another, tells the agricultural exploiters of the South: “What I am concerned about (as a planter of cot- ton) and what every other cotton grower ought to think about, is the price of cotton next year if cotton acreage is not reduced.” To emphasize his point he speaks of “the personal advantage (to Roosevelt and the Southern exploiters) to every cotton grower help- ing as an individual to reduce an oversupply of cotton and thereby obtaining a better price for what he grows.” * * * IHE full blow of the destruction of cotton is contained not alone in rising bread prices, in the plowing under of the cotton of the Southern share croppers and poor farmers, and the actual destruction of these farmers themselves, but as well in the fact that the price of cotton goods will be raised further for the toiling masses. Roosevelt forces up the price of food to pay for the cut in cotton acreage. Later he will force up the price of textiles to give greater profits to the cotton growers—the “New Deal’ President! This is the “New Deal” in all its stark nakedness. Every move, every action of the Roosevelt regime strengthens the powerful lever of the exploiters crushing the masses to the ground. The destruction of cotton, the hundred million dol- lar bounty, the rise in food prices, the cotton textile code providing starvation wages for the textile workers and higher textile prices, the crushing of the poor farmers—means higher profits for the bosses, rags and starvation for the toiling population. No wonder, the capitalist press forgets to underline the fact that in calling for the “patriotic” destruction of cotton for the profit ofthe rich cotton planters, Rooseyelt an- nounces himself as a cotton planter who will personally gain through the further impoverishment of the entire working population of the United States. Roosevelt by no means forgets himself; he is not the forgotten man, this rich cotton planter who will pocket some of the pennies the starving unemployed and the miserably paid textile workers will have to pay for bread. Roosevelt did not forget himself when handing out a $100,000,000 bounty to cotton planters. There is no forgotten man in the White House! * BR" this is but one side of the “New Deal”. Roosevelt, the rich cotton planter, who promised the unemployed unemployment insurance now cuts federal relief. The city governments follow his cut, and, as in New York, cut off completely the hundreds of thousands of starving unemployed from any relief. * * Roosevelt, the bourbon, who profiteers out of the rags of the toilers, provides a war fund of $938,447,000 to speed war preparations to feed the maw of the munition makers, to prepare new slaughters of the working masses for markets and colonies for Wall Street. Roosevelt, who hopes to gain from the higher cotton prices, slashes the veterans’ payments by $500,000,000. Roosevelt, who promised higher wages to raise the con- sumption of the masses, slashes the jay of the civil service workers 60 per cent with the lying declaration that the cost of living is going down. Perhaps Roosevelt can also tell us what his share was in the $4,000,000,000 stock market increase that resulted for the parasites from inflation, from gambling and speculation on higher prices? This is the “New Deal” in practice. Greater profits for the bosses, for the rich cotton planters; higher food prices for the workers, lower wages, slave codes, war expenditures and slashed unemployment relief payments. Remember, workers, the hypocritical threats of Secre- tary of Agriculture Wallace to the boss bakers of Towa against the rise in bread prices. But today you are paying from 1 to 3 cents more for a loaf of bread—if you have the price to buy any bread at all. Not only that, but the loaf of bread for which you are paying higher prices will be cut one to two ounces. This is actually taking bread out of the mouths of the workers and their families. The threat of prosecution for higher prices is like the threat of imprisonment for the rich gold hoardors, like the threat.of jailing Charles E. Mitchell, National City Bank swindler; like the threat against J. P. Morgan. \ The burdens on.the backs of the workers flowing from the “New Deal’ pile up to the breaking point. Only action by the workers can stave off new burdens, can throw off the crushing weight now. Mobilize your forces against the lowering of your stand- ard of living; demand and organize for higher wages! De- feat the Roosevelt policy of starvation at a high cost! Fight against ihe high cost of living! Demand lower bread prices! Demand unemployment relief! Rally and intensify the strug- gle for unemployment insurance! Down with the war policy of the Roosevelt regime! Down with the profitesrs and their bloodsucking at- sacrifice. Not only that, Roosevelt as one bourbon cotton | tack ageinst the toilers! , o | CAMP AS NEGROES ARE JIM CROWED |Remove Negro Clerks, Put on Whites Who Are in Minority NORWICH, N. Y., July 9.—A | bellion broke out in the Civilian Con | servation Camp at Preston, New ¥ when Major Roland P. Shur; | placed two Negro cle i |tecruits. This action {though Negroes outnumber whites in the camp by two to one. There are “144 Negroes and 22 whites who re- mained at work under guard of a military detachment As a result of event last Fri- day six were sentenced to 5 days each in jail and 34 returned home. The whole policy of giving Negroes the worst jobs, of removing them from clerical work is an outgrowth of the policy laid down by the federal gov- |ernment. When the camps were first | established Negroes were immediately | jim-crowed into separate groups. The | most menial tasks were given them |The action here last Friday shows that Negroes together with the white | youth will break down the jim-crow | barrier officially set up by the goy- | ernment. taken al- od, Poe | Tell Us the Facts | We invite all boys who have re- turned from the camp to visit | the Daily Worker office and tell | personally all facts of this event. | Any one acquainted with the hap- | penings is urged to communicate | with the Daity.—Editor. ee et es | | Jobless, ‘Leaps to Death: | || Leaves Wife and 2 Children \| | NEW YORK.—Unemployed, un- able to support his wife and two small children, James Tanello, 42,} | | committed suicide by jumping to | his death from the fifth floor of| | |inis tenement flat at 765 East 183rd | 1] i| | 1] | Hit Discrimination in Meet Tonight for Framed Negro Worker NEW YORK.—A mass meeting to demand the end of race discrimina- \ tion and the release of William Bryan, | Negro worker, arrested during the ction of his family from his Brook- ivn home, will be held by the Brow: ville Section International Labor De- |fense tonight, 8 p.m., at Rockaway Palace, 695 Rockaway, Brocklyn, with prominent speakers to address the | audience. | Negro and white workers are call- ed upon to attend the Brownsy! mass meeting tonight, and to crowd the court Wednesday morning in large numbers to force Bryan's re- lease and to help shatter the entire boss program of oppre: nm of the Negro and white workers. | Look at Mayor and Morkeys All for a Quarter ! —— ATLANTIC CITY, N. July 7. —Atlantic City is making a bid for tourist trade by putting Mayor Bacharach in an amusement park next to the cage of an educated chimpanzee. Twenty-five cents gets the wide- eyed spectator into the amusement pier. Once in he not only can look through the glass window of the mayor's office and see him with | his feet on top of the desk smok- | ing a long cigar, but he can see the | bearded woman, and the man who | swallows a big tin box. | Mayor Bacharach placed a huge sign over the door of his office: | “Mayer” as he explained it, “so that people won't confuse me with my “\eriminal political maneuvers ILLION PEOPLE Workers! Rally today at all relief buros' Resist the closing of relief stations! Fight against the stoppage of relief payments! Strike against cuts in work-relief | wages! Tammany Hall is carrying through at the 210,000 destitute 1,000,000 sons. This is sterday’s statement of sioner Frank J. Tay- of over s made up of over p unemployed meaning of } Welfare Com! lor, agencies this wees, for the million and to cut dr | all workers on Tammany to cut off relief mployed workers, tically the wages of \forcing the people to go hun in order to evade the city government's responsibility for the of the millions of hungry men, women and children. It does this to meet the demands of the banker Tt callously cuts off relief in order to force funds out of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation; in order to blackjack |the employed city’s so-called |der to justify a raise in subway fares |in order to institute a sales tax on |the people's food. The money so raised will be used to pay interest to the bankers and not to provide relief for the city’s poor. Tammany, by! this act, n substance: “Support cur fiscal policies, provide the funds demanded by the bankers, or we will let these unemployed people starve.” The city poor—the lpawn in Tammany racketeerin: banker-dictated policies Tammany Hall and the Wall Street | Bankers must be stopped. A gigantic 'S protest movement can be the! only answer of the people. This das- tardly attack, at the moment directed against the unemployed, is aimed at all workers, employed as well as un- employed, and at the broad masses of |the people of New York City. All | should rally teday, shoulder to shoul-} |der, against Tammany’s scheme. Funds to meet this city ‘available; the unemployed ‘can be cared for—by levying taxes on the rich, on those who alone can afford to pay! Rally today at the relief bureaus, and fight there until immediate re-)| lief is granted. Stop the closing of relief bureaus; demand the immediate payment of relief! | Fight against Tammany’s whole plan to aid the bankers at the ex- pense of the masses! Party member Readers of the Worker: Teke the lead at the bureaus today in organizing the workers for the fight against Tam- many’s policies. See that broad com- mittees of the workers are selected D to present their demands to the Board of Estimate. Let nothing de- lay this fight! 13,900 NOW OUT ON STRIKE IN READING AREA READING; Pa., 000 workers in various industries are now on strike in this vicinity, in the general strike begun by hosiery work- ers for increased wages and better w ing conditions. Workers in sev- eral hat factories. in shoe factories, in two pretzel factories, and at other plants, including the Stunzi Silk plant and the Penn Pants Co. plant ‘in this area, are now on strike. | ‘The bosses, the Government, and |the American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers and Am- jalgamated Clothing Workers officials are making frantic efforts to head off the widening strike movement. | Dr. Squires, on orders of Secretary |of Labor Perkins from Washington, jis expected here Wednesday to try ;again to put over the arbitration agreement which crumbled last week. At the Liebovitz shirt plants, where ty the | threatening to close the relief | unemployed j ® magses—are about to be made the} needs are} July 9—Over 13,-/ neighbors.” While he was out show- (1000 workers are out in a sympath- ing visitors the amusement park, |etic strike, A.C.W. officials, including and all the freaks he has in his (Lee Krzycki, national organizer for municipality, some worker painted | the A.C.W., and Jacob Potofsky, the another sign on the door, “Please | union's assistant secretary, have~ is- Do Not Feed.” sued a statement calling on the work- ers to retyrn to work tomorrow, and promising them that arbitration pro- ceedings at the Hazleton plant would start this week. Hillman, A.C.W. president, and | Judge Rosenman, Supreme Court. | LITVINOV TO RECEIVE NOBEL | ce St a ae eta an PEACE PRIZE | would appoint an arbitrator to decide | LONDON, July 10. — A dispatch fo; them what wages they were to | from Moscow to the local Daily EX-| get, press relates that Maxim Litvinov,|” In this way the Government and News - lash TAYLOR, WELFARE HEAD, THREATENS ~ TO CLOSE RELIEF BUREAUS; CUT RELIEF ——©® ‘NUMBER NEEDING AID INCREASES BY 4000 EACH WEEK |Unemployed Councils Call All to Relief Bureaus Today NEW YORK.—Refusal of the Tammany controlled Board of Estimate to vote relief funds for July has stricken a million people from the city relief lists, The city now gives meagre re- lief to 210,000 families approx- imating over a million pecple. Last Friday the 75,000 on the Work Relief Bureau jobs s/ were not paid although all of them are dependent on the meagre pay for this work in order to live. Frank J. Taylor, commissioner of welfare threatens to close the Home Relief Bureaus and plans to cut wages on work relief jobs for heads of families from $45 to $40 a month. Carl Winter, secretary of Greater New York Unemployed Cou cils answered the threat of Comm sioner Taylor that “the jobless work- ers will not accept Tammany’s edict to death.” He called “on to rally at the Relief Bu- y to fight against closing Call Workers.to Local Un-| _ employed Councils at 9 a.m. NEW YORK.—The N. ¥. Dis- triet of the Communist Party calls | upon all its members who are un-| | employed, and urges all other un-/ employed workers, to report to | their lotal unemployed councils this morning at 9 o'clock | | The International Workers’ Or-| | der members to be at the N. ¥.) | office, 80 Fifth Ave. | them and to demand that rel given immediately and that workers on Work Relief jobs be paid with- out further delay.” Cut Food Packages On top of all this comes the an- nouncement, of the Red Cross that the 42,000 food packages supplied to the Gibson committee for distribution te the unemployed will be cut to 35,000. ;In the near future it probably will be cut again At the same time official seports of the Home Relief Bureau admit that new @ plications for relief come in at the rate of 4,000 a week. Last. month 19,000 families applied for the first time. The bulldozing methods of the Relief Bureaus have without doubt kept away literally thousands ‘who stay on the brink of starvation perore they go to the Home Relief for a As a result of all these events fol- lowing in rapid succession, Prank J. Taylor. Commissioner of Welfare, ex- pressed the fears of the eapitalist gov- ernment that food riots may develop soon and the establishment of mar- a1 Jaw in the city. Bankers Decide Policy Well Street bankers, who have the whole city budget as collateral for their loans, do not want to buy any more of the city relief bonds. They | are more interested in the forced labor public works projects, which | will make it unnecessary to spend money for outright relief without get- \ting work in return. Already half the city budget goes towards paying jinterest on loans or assuring future interest and principle payments. City (Officials are trying to clear them: |selves by blaming relief shortages on the bankers for not buying relief bonds. The Unemployed Councils, in a statement issued yesterday, point out, “New York's million and a half job- Jess constantly having their relief cut, many getting no relief at all, and forced to tighten the belt another notch, are now face to face with # complete cut off in relief. A similar condition to what workers face in every city. “The Board of Estimate must be made to meet Thursday by the force of the workers. On its order of bust<« ness there must be only one point— assurance of immediate relief to every me mployed worker and their fam~ es. | “In every neighborhood meetings | should be held today and committees lelected to go before the Board of Estimate tomorrow to present their cases,” ' The statement concludes, “If the |Home Relief Bureau does not give |you relief today, report immediately ‘to the Unemployed Council.” Sovet, Foreign Comissar will be this | Hillman unite to prevent workers in For the address of the ’s recipient of the Nobel Peace| other industries from uniting in soli- Council in your neighborhood get in Prize. *3\qdarity with the hosiery workers to touch with the city committee of the | This dispatch is termed as infor-|enforce wage increases to meet the | Unemployed Counclis a¢ 10 5. UNG.