The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 12, 1933, Page 1

Give a Fellow-Worker Your Copy of the ‘Daily’ When You Are Thru With it. Discuss the News With Him! Vol. X, No. 166 Daily Central orker gnynist Party U.S.A. se of the Coneneunist International) _NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 195 S35: NATIONAL | BBITION How te Fight the “New Deal’, Second Installment of Comrade Brewder’s Article Will Appear in Saturday's Issue of “Daily” DETROIT STEEL WORKERS REJECT COMPANY UNION Stick With de Wakes E is a deepgoing ferment among the unemployed in all cities where relief is being cut off. In New York the anxious unemployed and their families, with starvation ©.:ring them in the face, are daily at the relief bureaus in a fighting mood, demanding the immediate payment of relief. ‘The Daily Worker urges all its readers—all members of the Com- munist Party, of the revolutionary trade unions, the employed and un- employed alike, as well as members of all other workers organizations, to go to the relief bureaus to help these unemployed workers giving them real leadership. * * * UCH work is now being done by many comrades but not with the great- est. effectiveness.» Instead of mingling with the unemployed at the relief bureaus, becoming part of the masses, learning to know their mood and demands our comrades have made speeches from the sidelines. Some good meetings were held, but because the revolutionary workers isolated themselves from the unemployed, did not fuse with them, the police were able to center their attack on the leading forces and thereby quickly isolate them from the masses. This isolation, this separation from the great body of the unem- ployed should be overcome by changing our methods of work. The re- volutionary leading forces should mix freely with the unemployed at the rellef bureaus becoming an inseparable part of them. Our comrades should listen most carefully to their grievances, to their demands. We should aid them in clearly formulating their demands. We should sug- gest the need of electing a committee from among the workers them- selves to present the collective demands of the workers to the relief au- thorities, to the mayor, to the Board of Estimates, etc. We should pa- tiently congince them of the! correctness of our proposals, making sure of course fhat omr proposals are correct. The whole mass should then be organized to stand behind the committee in a militant fight to see that the demands are granted. * ORE than this, we must penetrate the neighborhoods where the un- employed live. We must lay the greatest stress on block committees, on firm organizations of the unemployed in each block, drawing these workers directly affected by the cut in relief into leadership and ac- tivity in the organization. In this way we can fuse the revolutionary leadership with the great mass of starving unemployed, lead their struggle into a definite, or- ganized struggle for relief, into a mighty organized movement that will *force relief from the city grafters and their Wall Street masters. Bread and the Stock Market Tr capitalists know more ways than one to skin a cat. A glance at yesterday's stock market is very instructive, workers, if you feel sore about the rising price of bread. The stock gamblers, the rich para- sites, those famed “money changers” who on Roosevelt’s entry into the White House, wére to be evicted from the temples, are already coining profits on the rise in bread prices. Yesterday there was 2 rise of $1 to $4 in the value of the shares of the following big bakery corposations: Purity, General, Continental and Ward, The total rise in the value of these stocks for one day reaches intd the millions. It's a great game for the expioiters. First you raise bread prices to pay rich wheat and cotton farmers to cut crops. Then the flour mills make a profit by higher flour costs. The master baker gets his mite. ‘ The big bakeries with their efficient methods of price raising get more. Now the stock gamblers, speculating on these higher profits which will be shown in future higher dividends, rake in on the stock rises. . * * pL ne OOSEVELT has another way of skinning a cat. As a cotton planter, Roosevelt himself is not averse to a4 little speculation at the expense of the workers. Prices are low now, he | thinks. So he. writes, a letter to the Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, 4 intended for the rich cotton planters. He tells the boys, I am one of vou, I plant cotton myself (that is parenthetically speaking because j | f i the miserably paid Negro peons do the work). It is a patriotic duty to plow under your crops. Oh, don’t worry about the destruction. We'll collect a fund of $100,000,000 out of cotton processing and flour process- ing to pay you. I, of course, will get my share. Just think of it, next year cotton prices will be higher. We cotton planters all will be happier. ‘We'll serve ourselves and our country. In the stockmarket they gambled on higher bregsi prices, in the Southern banks and the White House on higher cotiom prices. And the workers pay the bill, the unemployed get it taken out of their miserable relief. Defend Our Class Heroes! HE Communist Party of Germany is heroically fighting! The raging terror mhleashed by the wolves of Fascism cannot destroy a party rooted so deeply in the masses. Despite the yelps of all the anti-proletarian pack, Nazis, Social De- mocrats, Trotskyites, prematurely celebrating the “death of the party,” the news of struggles of the German workers multiplies day by day. The Anti-Fascist Front, with the Communist Party in the lead, is constantly broadening, winning new victories, giving the German work- ers new courage. ‘The struggles of workers under the lash of hunger, misery, and ter- ror, cannot be stilled—and only the Communist Party dares come for- ward as their leader. But for this very reason, the terror against the workers rages un- abated. The threat of death still hangs over the heroic leaders of the reyolutionary workers. They are still in jail. The very existence of ‘Thaelmann, Torgler, and the other imprisoned leaders of the Commun- ist Party, stands as an unbearable threat to the Fascist murderers. Along with them, tens of thousands of workers, Communists and non-Communists, remain behind the Nazi bars. * * * first task of the international proletariat is to ehéw in the most concrete terms its solidarity with its brother-workers who are in the _ forefront of the struggle. | The imprisoned workers must be defended. Their families, and ‘the families of the thousands of destitute victims of the terror, must be given aid. a The week of July 27 to August 3 has been set aside in the United \ Siates for an intensified drive, a Defense and Relief Week for the vic- tims of German Fascism. | Let every ciass-conscious worker, every intellectual, every enemy of Fascism take an energetic part in broadening and strengthening the anti-Fascist front, in raising an ample fund for the relio’ and defense | Of the viotims of Fascism! Even Price of Stale and Rotten Bread Increased NEW YORK.—BEvery neigh- borhood today is plastered with signs on bakery and | grocery stores announcing higher prices of bread. Later additional signs will appear announ- cing further rises. The Roosevelt regime which en- gineered the bread price rise and through a statement of secretary of agriculture Wallace gave the bakers the right to raise bread prices at least 1-1/3 cents a loaf, now talks of “prosecution” if prices go higher. The boss bakers know that this pro- secution talk means nothing to them, as it is just maneuvering of Roose- velt to get out from under the odium ; of the shock of the rise. Other Food Prices Up of increase in bread prices, the fact is obscured that all other RRR | prices are going up. Not only are the boss bakers pro- fiting from the higher prices, but the stock market gamblers are making | profits out of the stocks of the big | bakime corporations. The stocks of | such baking companies as General, Continental, and Ward went up $1 | to $4 a share in the stock market | yesterday. By this means the big | | stock gamblers and coupon-clipping | parasites get their share out of the | vise in bread prices being paid by the | starving workers. Stale Bread Going Up A sidelight on how | prices are hitting the workers is | shown by the followng: | Morris Malek of Avenue B, baker, |sad today that he expects hs stale | bread business to increase now that | bread has gone higher. | “These merchants who are rais- | ing their prices,” he said, “are only | doing it to make money as quick | as they can. | “J haven't raised my prices and don't. feel it is necessary at this time. No doubt,” he added, “I will have an increase in my stale bread business. At the present time I get calls almost more than my fresh bread trade for stale bread at half price.” More workers will have to eat | stale and rotten bread and have to pay higher prices for it. Meat, Butter Higher Grocers in every city, when in- | terviewed by the press, admitted that | they have been increasing food | prices for the past weeks. ‘They said | that the rise in bread prices only | emphasizes the increasing cost in| food. In the overshadowing importance | high bread | Tammany Pledge No, ‘Good; Mass ‘Action ‘Will Win Demands. Report All Workers in Need of Relief to Un-) employed Councils | As big crowds congregated | ali day yesterday around the | Home Relief Bureaus in New| York, a delegation from the| Unemployed Councils headed by Robert Minor of the Com- | munist Party and Richard Sul- livan, organizer of the Unem- | ployed Councils of Greater | New York, called at the City | Hall to present the demand | that the Mayor’s plan to cut! off unemployment relief be | abandoned. | Another demand was that | ithe city government obligate | ‘itself immediately to continue | the unemployed payments in| | the form of home relief and| on relief | wages to workers jobs. Mayor O'Brien, who had just re- turned from a week-end. visit to Gov- | ernor Lehman at his summer home’ at Lake George, N. Y., although -un-| | willing to see the entire delegation, | |received two, Minor and Sullivan, | who presented the demands of the! funemployed. The workers’ represen-| tatives insisted that an immediate special meeting of the Board of Esti- mate be called and that the Unem- ployed Councils be permitted to pre- sent their plans publicly. Excess Cash It having been disclosed that $24,000,000 is available in cash in the City Treasury, the delegation de- | manded to know why funds could not be arranged for immediate emergenc purposes pending more permanent allotment. Mayor O’Brien claimed to be uninformed as to what pur- peses the $24,000,000 was ear-marked for, and repeated his proposal for ‘an increase in the Sales Tax on food, ‘clothing and other necessities of life. The delegation protested, and assured |O’Brien that he would encounter an even fiercer mass resistance to this ‘scheme for robbing the pockets of | the low-paid workers than was raised against the; proposal for an autg tax. Minor andj jullivan insisted that be- fore leaving the Mayor's office they |must carry with them definite and | unqualified promises to the many thousands of working class families who are literally starving and can- not wait. | | After an extended discussion, in} which the Mayor made long’ speeches! FOOD COSTS Delegation Forces O’Brien to GO UP WITH Pledge Relief, Halt Evictions BREAD PRICE tammam Relief a Nema ie the U.S. Pte Demonstrations for immediate relief like the one pictured above took place in scores of cities thronghout the United States yesterday. j steps against evictions now going on. i 5. That a special meeting of the | Board of Estimate will be cailed in about two days to consider unem- pleyment relief. That the delega- tion ef Robert Miner, Henry Shep- ard of the Trade Union Unity Couneil and Richard Sullivan of the Unemployed Conncil wilt te altored | to present the demands of the un- | employed at th’s meeting. &. That the commiitee will be permitted to present to the meet- =, Ct obless Workers Present | Demands for Relief to Mayor Relief Head Admits Workers Vote Dewn Mass Action Forces City To Give Aid NEW YORK—A delegation rep- resenting block and house commit- tees were told by Mrs. Buchman, supervisor of the 149th St. Home | Relief Bureau, that the demands they placed before her for retief | could be forced only by mas« dem- onstrations and action at the City Hall “Leave me alone, go to the higher ups,” said Mrs. Buchman after the three of the 15 workers’ delegates admitted to see her had demanded relief be continued. “You get better | results if you go together to the City Hall and the Board of Esti- mate,” she concluded. RELIEF STRIKERS GAIN CONCESSION IN ROCHESTERN.Y. |Workers’ Committee iCalls for Maintenance lof Organization on Job ROCHESTER, N. Y., July Fight thousand workers who striking over a week on city count welfare jobs returned work when the officials agreed to pay 40 cents an hour. Originally the wage cut was from 45 to % cents an hour. Officials agreed to pay the men for th of the strike at the rate of 40 cents on the basis of their budget requirements. Later, however, the money for that week. eae were and The wotkers were atiacked by the | course of the strike. in to create police in the Politicians were brought divisions with the purpose of break- ng the strike. ing of the Board of Estimate the ene tae vi ne "i 5 - rike Committee, proposal that the New York City cis sried ok mueltaas ee government endorse the Workers’ jronded by 5,000 of the men. Yet Unemployment Insurance Bill. they dealt with a self-appointed j Wihe-delegation of the Unemployed ers ies ett oR eoereal ic Salchaahae he Unempiloy ers.” he fact hat nis “Centra HOME ee Council, on its part, undertook the Committee” is connected with the in the effort to avoid definite assur- OPligation to present to the city a/ officia hown in their resolu- ances, the delegation of the Unem-| ist of cases of extreme need of re-'tion where they “thank the politi- ployed Council secured from Mayor|ltef. which the Mayor assured the cal leaders of both major S O'Brien his pledge to the unemployed ion will be immediately cared including Mayor Oviatt workers that certain measures will be ntation by the Unem- |} Briggs, who helped break carried through. They are This requires that\the strike. This committee 1. That money will be found to ter New York, allithe 40 cent an hour scale as ‘ insure the continuance of unem- °° re KM Seusities tip alt,” who are in extreme need shall im-| two militant workers, Rudolph ployment payments, including both home relief and wages to workers on relief work. That this promise will be fulfilled within one or two days. 2. That if the Unemployed Councils will present concrete cases of extreme need, these will be taken care of without a moment's delay on an emergency basis. 3. That all cases of persons who are not on relief list and who should be on it, which can be presented by the Unemployed Council, will be put on relief. 4, That the Mayor obligates himself at once (yesterday) to take mediately come forward and register their names, addresses and fu'l par- ticulars of their necessities in ‘ll to the Unemployed Council which is lo- cated nearest to their residence. The addresses of the 20 Unemployed Councils in Greater Mew York are ed on this page today. Carl Secretary of the Unemployed declared today that it is Council ne: action immediately to secure all in- formation about the emergency needs of the workers, which must be regis- | contmveD ON PAGE THREE: to get quick and energetic) tered at the local Unemployed Coun- ' s Billings and Loren Laws are still held on $500 bail growing out of the | ruggles. They face trial July 18. Unite Workers A resolution adopted by the work- ers at mass meetings and in neigh~- orhood centers states that the workers are returning to their jobs with united ranks to continue the struggle for increased budgets and for the 50 cents hourly rate.” In this it is necessary to unite all workers, whether they supported the , rike committee or the committee {set up by the politicians, the so- icalled central committee. lletter to the entire membership of the ! |Communist Party to “make a rapid jturn of the Party to revolutionary |mass work among the decisive sec- ‘tions of the American industrial pro- | \letariat an imperative task,” an Ex- |traordinasy National Party Confer- ence held here closed its work on Monday. , Over 200 leaders of the Party from ‘all sections of the country, from the Northern States to the black belt of the South, from the Eastern cotton |mill states to the Pacific Coast states, met here July 7-10 to formulate and ! discuss the open letter, including a large number of Negro workers from the Southern and other states. Over 80 comrades took part in the discus- sions on how best to carry the open letter into action. Special emphasis was placed on drawing the Party ‘closer to the broad masses in the |basic industries, in the trade unions, ‘fighting against sectarianism, and ‘exposing and fighting against the de- magogic maneuvers of the social-fas- cists and other reformists and their his absence amd counsel at the con- jefforts to win over the workers to the) “new deal” program ef Wall | NEW YORK. Directing an peal | Over 200 Party Leaders froin ‘Whole Counter: Adopt Open Letter to Party cman Unae a Sharp Turn to igo Activity | Street “in order to develop the Com- | |munist Party into a real revolutionary jmass Party.” The main report was made by Earl {Browder for the Central Committee | jof the Communist Party of the; | United States. Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, made a report on the Daily Worker in con- nection with the tasks of the open letter. Jack Stachel dealt with trade junion work. A report on the growing |imperialist war danger and the pre- | paration of war against the Soviet Union was made by Robert Minor. Alexander Trachtenberg on the German Situation and the Strug- gle Against Fascism. “Greet Foster” as the foremost leader of the Party and expressing the keen feeling of his absence and counsel at the con- ference. “Why are we holding an extraor- dinary Party conference at this time,” said Comrade Browder in opening his report to the Party gathering. “And, why are we proposing that this con-| erence shall tesue en open letter te! A resolution was passed and sent | | to William Z. Foster greeting him, | j ithe Party? It is not alone because of \the extreme sharpening of the crisis and consequently of the class struggle land of the danger of imperialist war. jAbove all, the reasons for these ex- jtraordinary measures tie in the fact lthat in spite of the serious begin- \nings of revolutionary upsurge among the masses, yet our Party has not ‘developed into a revolutionary mass iparty of the proletariat. “To Rouse All Forces” ©, A, Hathaway Earl Browder ‘Daily’ to Print at ‘| | Letter to Membership Thursday, July 13th| “This extraor“inary conference and the open letter are designed to rouse all of our resources, all of the forces of the Party to change this situation, and to give us guar- antees that the essential change in our work will bo made. The letter | represents the mos‘ serious judge- | ment of the sifuation and tasks of our Party and our leadership.” ‘The open ici |ished in full { in the Daily! ithe Daily Worker, The full text of the Open Yatter | | to the membership of the Com- ‘munist Party, adopted at the/| | Extraordinary National Confer- | } ence, held in New York, July 7—10, will be published Worker Tomorrow. , Order your bundles of the Daily, | Worker now to make sure you re-| jeconomic crisis, and the new severe ; ceive your capy of the paper with | | this important letter. | | Workers and toiling masses, as well | as the feverish preparations of the Communist Party ‘Holds Extraordinary National Conference to Strengthen Work in the Factories and Trade Unions o— imperialists for wars among them- Selves and for intervention against the Soviet Union, to make a rapid jturn of the Party to. revolutionary mass work among the decisive sections of the American industrial proletariat en imperative task Past Failures ‘In many resolutions we already set ourselves the task of developing our Party into a proletarian mass Party. We id this with the greatest thoroug- ness over a year ago at the XIV Ple- unm of the Central Committee. But. most part remained on vaper. The | leading organs of our Party have not succeeded in mobilizing the masses of | members for the systematic and de- termined application of these reso- Nutions or in giving the Party mem- |bership practical assistance in put-| jting these resolutions \ing organs of the Party did not call | | themselves ruthlessly to account for |and shorter hours. We t e of the Party to make any low as 35 cents an hour in the carrying out of this to the change in the ad- ‘ministration the American bourgeoisie {was in a position to spread among “The tremendous sharpening of the broad masses of workers temporary strike, |ithusions of an approaching improve- lattacks of the bourgeoisie on the |ment in their situation. But the depth peen formed is (GONTENKED ON PAGE FaBm) to) they will have to work out | jing the workers to join the | Michigan, all these resolutions have for the/steel workers the way |steel workers of inspiring example to into force. At|hundred and fifty |the XV and XVI Plenums, the lead-|Freihauf Trailer [and 2 reel struggle for better " F. of L. and Form Independent Union \Steel, Metal Unien | Urges Rank, File Con- itrol for Real Struggle DETROIT, Mich., Juty 11—~ | Resentment against the steel | trusts’ attempted introduction of a company union was ex- pressed in action when 1,760 workers of the Michigan Steel Corporation and 2,000 workers ‘of the Great Lakes Steel Com- | pany, both subsidiaries of Na+ |tional Steel Corporation, me- jected the plan proposed. They tore up the company’s | booklets outlining the scheme. | Strong sentiment for a real union and a strike was em. pressed at the mass meetings called by the workers. In or- der to smother the growing mood for strike, a self appoint- ed committee of company agents called in the A. F. of L March and Miller, the. “Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, ap peared at the Sunday meeting of the Michigan Steel Workers. They said nothing about a struggle to win back the cuts in wages, which amounted to 35 to 50 per cent in | three. years. “We don’t want any stttkes,”— deciared™ Martel -at-< thé eeting. Vote Independent Union The vorkers voted to join the A: of L., but when a worker arose und evposed the traitorous role of the A. F. of L. officials they decidég to rescind their vote and to organize an independent union Company men have taken control of the union, however, and permit no dis- cussion. Leaflets issued by a group of members of the Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union were eagerly read despite the red scare which was raised by the chairman, @ company agent organizers of F The union leaflet called upon the workers to strike for a 30 per cent in wages, a $5 minimum wage and a six-hour day with-= . out reduction in pay. The Michigan Steel iocal of the Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrisl Union called a meeting this afternoon to discuss the problems and to prepare to expose company men and for @ gfe struggle to win the demands. Workers of the Great Lakes Steel, Co. also voted against joining bn A. F: of L. The Detroit steel workers’ action is one of a series of actions on the pert of the steel workers, coal miners. and workers in other industries who. are beginning to realize the false” hoods and lying propaganda of : Roosevelt, program under the ery (Slavery) Act. Instead of a of their own choice, the Act \led to company unions on a |scale. A. F. of L. officials who |ported the Recovery (Slavery) . Jare organizing the workers in to prevent strike struggles agai the company union and against # attacks on the workers’ n and in order to carry out the the bosses, Atlas Cement Workers Company Union we s in the Atlas plants of the U. S. Steel tion in Hudson, N. Y¥., hampton, Pa, have ans eel trust by electing th representatives to the comps mittees, and. by proceeding theft own shop commit instruments for carrying 4 struggle for better lit the recent victorious’ § Newton Steel workers the workers ; termined struggle to ‘In defying the streel ing to have a comp DETROIT, Mich., jyesterday demanding hig |workers. Often the ork compelled to work as much hours a week. Collins, National Organizer of the A. F. of L., who was called in by A. F. of L. members to. lead the is preparing a sell-out. A rank and file groups which has urging mass plcl dittoms