The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 14, 1933, Page 1

deo .,time during the last year he was Is the Daily Worker on Sale at Your Union Meeting? Your Club Headquarters? Dat Central Or i ly, Worker ‘(Section of the Commeunist International) <> Entered as rovemd-elass matter at the Post Office at - T., under the Act of March 197. Beware of “Friends” ‘ACED with a growing sentiment for Federal, Unemployment Insurance all enemies opposing such a measure are mobilizing their forces inten ‘n forestalling this movement. It is for this reason that the “Libere! Miss Frances Perkins ably assisted by Thomas Kennedy, secretary of th United Mine workers of America made speeches before the Institute o Public Affairs at the University of West Virginia. What is the plan of this “friend of the workers,” Miss Perkins? In her own words, “although no one has yet found a cure for unemployment, we are experimenting in that direction under the Recovery Act.” In other words it is a part of the Recovery (Slavery) Plan, The whole plan presented by the lady cabinet member is definitely | aimed against Federal Unemployment Insurance at the expense of those who possess the riches of the couniry. Her proposal is that unemployment insurance be established in a | group of Eastern states. But how about the workers in the rest of the country. What should the miners in Kentucky do who are without jobs or relief? Wait for “your experiment,” Miss Perkins? How about the steel workers in Gary, the lumberjacks in the West, the textile workers in New England and the South, should they be excluded from unem- | ployment insurance? Yes, says, the cabinet lady. Bt contrast her proposal with that of the Workers’ Unemployment In- surance Bill which states, “A system of Federal Unemployment In- surance be immediately established.” In other words, the workers of the whole cowntry; and not merely of a fewBastern states,” are to be in- cluded. The central point in any Unemployment Insurance Bill must be: whe shall pay? Says this liberal lady: “The money is to be raised wholely by the employers,” but she retracts this immediately, and continues, “or by the employer and employee contributing, or by government participa- tion where States desire.” The good lady wants funds to be raised by money taken out of the wage envelope from that worker who still has a Job, thereby cutting down the wages of the workers. This is not what the workers need. All money for unemployment insurance must be raised “‘at the expense of the employers and the goy- ermment—That the full funds for unemployment insurance shall be raised by the government from funds now set aside for war prepara- tions and by taxation upon incomes over $5,000 a year. In no instance. shall there be any contributions levied upon the workers—in any form whatsoever for this insurance.” This is the proposal of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. How much are the workers to get? Miss Perkins finds it unneces- sary to mention. Any meager pitiance will do as far as she is concerned What does the Workers’ Bill say? “Unemployment Insurance guar- anteeing the average wages in all industries and shall not be less than | Not BOSSES ASK QUICK SLAVE CODE ACTION Want Blanket Code for Whole Industry At Starvation Pay FEAR STRIKE STRUGGLES Morgan Electric Head to Pass on New Code WASHINGTON, July 13.— Roosevelt is moving to quicker |and more drastic action under the industrial recovery act. satisfied with the slow pace in slave code-making, Roosevelt yesterday declared he would issue a blanket order | ! Dean Howard after it had been dis- for all industries. This would | fasten a low wage level on the entire | working population without even the pretense at hearings. The proposed blanket code idea, | previously announced by Gen. John- }Son, would set a minimum wage of $14.00 a ‘week for all “unskilled” workers and a maximum week of 40 hours, The present average weekly wage rate, as reported by the Depart- ment of Commerce in all factories, ; where most of the workers are un- | skilled, is $16.71. The minimum blan- ket wage, because of the great num- ber of exceptions it makes who would |get less than the $14.00, would ac- tually act as a wage cut bringing |down the average from $16.71 to $10 weekly for adult workers and $3 for each dependent. j around $14.00. ‘ * H IS clear that these people who represent the interests of the capi- talist class, are not interested in genuine Workers’ Unemployment In- surance. The speech of Miss Perkins must serve as a sharp warning that with the growing movement for Unemployment Insurance, all sorts of sham propositions will be made by government officials. ‘Tear away the mask from every one of these plans. Show up the whole crude nature of them and in its place rally masses of workers for the endorsement and support in the struggle for the adoption of the Workers’ Unemployment Instifance BIT” ~~ ~~" Kidnaping and Racketeering 'HE newspapers are filled these days with accounts of kidnapings, which have become daily events. Rich men, and the children of the rich, are held for immense ransoms, under threat of death—threats which are sometimes carried out, when the kidnapers become afraid of dis- covery. This kind of banditry is only one form of the racketeering which has become so much a part of American life that only a particularly atrocious example provokes even a little futile indignation. * * * ACKETEERING is a necessary part of the American financial-political apparatus, Ruthless competition has to use force at home just as much as international competition has to turn periodically into war. American racketeering was developed by the American political ma- chine, and the police are an integral part of the system. The biggest industrialists use thugs in their private wars among each other and against the workers, and use the politicians, the police, and the courts as special branches of their general staffs. It is not surprising that the professional bandits thus created go into business for themselves, sometimes with and sometimes without the help of the police. They recruit into their ranks thousands of men grown up in the cesspools of civilization, who feel it is useless to work for trades and jobs under capitalism, who from childhood see above everything the pitiless jungle warfare of capitalist society, who learn that the most honored leaders of capitalist society are the most ruthless and successful bandits of finance and industry. Such gangs, built up to the proportions of a monstrous army, be- come the necessary fighting forces of Fascism, a natural development of capitalism in crisis. More and more the criminals become the best friends and supporters of the “legal” bourgeoisie. * * * ANGSTERISM, racketeering, kidnapings, cannot exist in the Soviet Union. The workers’ state deals summarily and ruthlessly with any occasional survivals of criminal capitalist’ ways. But above everything, the socialist life of the Soviet Union, where there is no unemployment, where the toiling population is fully pro- tected by social insurance, where all workers are drawn into the great task of socialist, construction, makes gangsterism socially unnecessary and unattractive. One of the most significant examples of this great truth is what happened to the wreckers, criminals, and kulaks who were sent to the north, to work as free socialist worlgrs in the construction of the great Raltic-White Sea canal. Thousands of them, the great majority, were ‘transformed from anti-social elements into shock-brigaders and enthu- siastic builders by the great task they were set, and by the intelligent, humtin methods of the G.P.U. Bank Wrecker Unbalanced for Years, Say His Friends NEW YORK, July 13.—Joseph W.)Other times he was addicted to Harrimah’s attorney, Colonel Wil-|d0pe, according to testimony of Ev- Hughes, former private secre~ liam J, Donovan, former republican|92S 4 candidate for governor, is trying to Bee the Liege Hughes said prove that the banker was unbal- ceareentais! phar ct glabae Roped anced and in a daze most of the moved “as though he were ins trance.” He began to notice this in say Sane nicer: 1931 at about the time money be- ng falsified books to the extent of 82" to disappear from deposits into than $1,000,000. Federal Judge|!@ttiman’s pocket, which resulted totes as Selin closing of his bank—the Harri- Wrances G. Onfley. is conducting) a.n National last March. Bernas ro eeide, Whether eMi i: aay" thoes who iteatitied. to -try/ to: tape aie panes CUOURL HO: ADRWOAle eva. Haxchaan®, inkene: 7 retained ature of the accusations against roth inate anit Pomnainf pons tie Map actions and never questioned his Donovan produced associates of ability to head the bank. It is ‘orriman as witnesses who saidjonly when he is facing trial that the ; the banker was drunk from farce of his insanity is brought up worning till night most every day to give the capitalist courts an op- Have 60 or 70 Codes General Johnson, administrator of the act, said he has on hand around 60 or 70 codes, and that dozens more | are in the making. But they are most codes in smaller or secondary indus- \ tries, while the big five (steel, coal, auto, oil, building) which employ the | great majority of the workers in the | United States have not turned -o¥er- their codes. As it would take months to hold Man, 74 and Jobless, Spurns Rescue Rope, After Leap Off Boat NEW YORK, July 13.—Arthur Alexander, a jobless salesman of 74, tried to commit suitide night by jumping from a ferryboet in New York Harbor. Mea aboard a passing tug threw him a rope. but he refused to take it. They tricd to lasso him, but he ducked away. He was sinking when two deckhands reached him in a skiff. The old man begged them not to rescue him. Carried aboard he tried to grab the pistol of a police- man, but did not succeed last | He is | recovering in Staten Island Hos- — pital, The name of the ferryboat “President Roosevelt.” was NEEDLE UNION SUBMITS CODE FOR FURRIERS NEW YORK.—The Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union yesterday submitted its code for the fur workers to the Recovery Administrator Earl cussed and adonted by the members of the union. The code includes the comands of the fur workers for wages, hours and working conditions. Point- ing out that the Needle Trades Union represents 11,000 workers in the four departments of the fur industry and speaks for 85 per cent of the workers in the industry, the Union declares that the code has been formulated in consideration of the highly sea- sonal nature of the fur industry which allows not more than 15 weeks ot work a year and of the fact that in the height of the season about 40 per cent of the workers are unem-~- ployed. Wages to Go Up With Prices The Union, in its contractual rela- tions with about 95 per cent of the fur establishments in the industry has in- cluded in its agreement the condition that wages shall go up with the rising cost of living. Not offly is the present fur workers income as low as $700 a year but, the | Union points out, this income is spent to a considerable extent on the health needs of the workers as a result of the effect of their dangerous working “tonditions.~ ~ The code therefore calls for no more than a 7 hour day and a 5 day hearings on these codes in order to| week in busy season and no more keep up the pretense of considering the workers’ views the plan of the Roosevelt administration is first to rush through the blanket code to do away with “discussion.” The bosses ‘CONTINUED ON PAGE 1HREE: 15 Workers Arrested at Home Relief Buro NEW YORK. — Fifteen workers were arrested at a demonstration | yesterday at the Westchester Square jhome relief bureau, Bronx, charged with disorderly conduct. | The New York District Interna: _tional Labor Defense forced their |temporary release without bail, in | custody of the LL.D. attorney. Their trial is.set for Wednesday, July 19, in the 8th District court, 181 Street, | Bronx. The N. Y. District LL.D. will defend them. 31 Cents a Piece for Wet Vote; No Funds for Jobless New YORK.—While city officials claim that there are no funds for immediate relief to the unemploy- ed, it spent $341,996.50 for the spe- cial election where delegates were. elected to the state convention’ 18th amendment. | For every vote cas: in the special} election the city paid 31 cents. 7 nA the | cluded. ; which ratifid the repeal of the! | Needle Trades Workers’ Indus- | trial Union demands the right to pre- than a 30 hour week in slack periods. According to the code the fur in- dustry is to pay fixed weekly minimum wages now included in the collective agreements of $50 for cutters, $41.80 for operators, $39.60 for nailers, $38.50 for finishers, $20 for floor boys and shipping clerks. In seasonal months these wages shall be increased 20 per cent in line with the customary prac- tice. The minimum wage ‘scales shall be regularly adjusted as the cost of living rises For the Unemployed The fur manufacturers are to as- and | Sume responsibility for payment of an unemployment insurance fund of 2 per cent of the total payroll, an in- crease of 1 per cent over the present fund. The practice of contracting and subcontracting shall be abolished. Only two employers of the firm Shall be permitted to work as crafts- |men at the same number of hours applying to the workers. Work shall be divided equally among all workers. All other provisions of the agreement shall remain operative. The code de- mands that the workers have the right to belong to the union of their own choice and be represented by their duly elected and authorized of- ficers. A demand for the immediate elimination of gangster and racket- | eoring practices in the industry is in- The ~NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 14,1933, i | 1 i Not satisfied with the city’s promise th the million needy New Yorkers demanding free milk ins awhile—to show the t kes the fuiure boat they get once i voters. City Ignores Jobless; No Aid for a Week Shifts Blame to State; Plans to Put Over Seles Tax; Minor Says NEW YORK Holding ) Today completes a Frank J. Taylor announced the have been taken to provide relief million men, women and children f without a prospect that a forthcoming. The announcement that the State Emergency Relief Ad- ministratién can supply $2,00/ cash in one hour to the ceived the prompt reply uty Controlier Frank J. Pria! the money from the state is a’r- spent even before it clear from this that city officials are Getermined not to take steps to give immediate relief. Yesterday the Board of Estimate held vangther special meeting and voted to ask Governor Lehman to call a special session of the Legisla- ture. to enact emergency Jaws -to meet - the present conditions. The “emergency laws” ficials is an additional 2 per cent sales tax. .Such tax will yield the state $60,000,000. which will come mainly from food and other workers’ needs, id is ayer O’Brien to his prov take immediate action en all ca him by the Unemployed Councils,_a. Sullivan, went to see him yesterday, was already away on his week-end va week desired by the of-| sto “oT? t’s Wage Cut” W ieee pe d to S need v ¢ ion Jed by Richa Wel opping of reli sinee in this emergency, Gver a the second week-end then declared to the Board of Alder- men, reminding them, ie Sales tax amounts to every worke: a cut in The cases b: st and the appalling conditions in thi s the case of I. Gerber, alk, who filed ar the Home Relief B 11 application px and has no results yet liam, 443 W. 15Ist. St for relief last February, but has not re- ceived it as yet Single men and women especially suffer because relief is denied them. A Negro worker, Jack Feiner, 234 El- dridge St., is out of work since 1929. He is sick and paralyzed, but forcod to live on food from the garbage can The Unemployed Councils, in a statement issued yesterd repeat \“the promises of Mayor’ O’Brien and | were or At the board meeting yesterday} all city officials are cheap gestures. | Norman Thomas, leader of the So-/ Their actions in starving the unem-| cialist. Party, and Paul Blanshard) ployed is convincing proof that they spoke. They were well recsived will not act unless forced by the| When Thomas and Blanshard pressure of the worker: “Go to} finished, Robert Minor of the Com-| the Home Relief Bureaus, refuse to} munist Party asked ‘again for the} leave until relief is given,” it con- right “to speak, but ‘was refused.| tinues. “We must and can force the Read “The American Road to Fascism” by Walter Bell in Tomorrow’s Daily Worker! THE WEATRER—Fair and warmer. CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents Threats of Strike -Compel Steel Cos. To Raise Wages Plant Give Increases Workers Holding Meeting: Steel and Metal Industriz Pittsburgh Steel Foundry, Bethlehem Steel of 20 to 30 Percent in Strike Mood; 1 Union. Active GLASSPORT, Pa., July 13.—Officials of the Pittsburgh Steel Foundry here were forced to promise a 20 per cent in- crease in pay on Monday when nizing a mass meetin to vote on demands for a 35 per cent incre DELEGATES FROM thoy learned that the workers gx right on compa ’y property, and to discuss ke. plans for a st Workers had thei in this plant have cut as much Al T AREAS OF UJ Q as 70 per cent since the cris AREils PRBLELERA «Me and are in a fighting mood. Reccatly the conipany estab- AT M ARINE MEET lished a company union wnder Wes! ast Seamen to: which s created great re Convention sentment among the workers BRE The Steel and Metal Workers’ Arriving Industrial Union which is car- RD igo 1 rying on organiz t n work Bi st Saturday to," *. ie is RE é a ty PGas : 0 here is urging the workers to Precede Gathei Ing form their own fighting or- 53 a z ation controlled by hon- NEW YORK.—Delegates from the S Paein We. the two € re rank and file work- € es and Ray, e vived y the convention of th vs’ Industria ch sections novrow. Union, ai rep- with ell Union Unity at the banquet in Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth Si 3 pm., which are expected to uppert of the Marine ers’ Industrial Union. at { for struggle of the McClintic . idiary of the Indus- | Bethlehem Steel Co., rei Stach’ peedy action by the comps 5 nounced a 32 per cent week. An organizing mmittee of members of the Steel orkers Industrial Union is mill is active among co which has The threat of strikes forced these two big steel companies Taubate Crew Greets Convent on to tak e immediate steps tc pre- NEW YORK.—The crew of vent organization and strikes indicate 8. 3. Taubate, before sailing y clearly that the fighting spirit of the day, adopted a resolution hailing the | steel wo Ss is taking on real im- MARINE WORKERS’ INDUSTRIAL | petus. Already in Munro and Detroit, UNION ¢ build snvention and pledging to tional solidarity of sea : wages while here and had Mich.; in Ga Ind.; in the Hudson, N. Y. and Ni ampton, Pa. plants of the U. S. rust, the workers have taken a’ inst the com- pany union rejecting it and its twin ed by the captain, who, in’ brother, the A. F. of L. and regi - addition, tried to cut their bonus | ing their sentiment for a real union from $10 to $5. The ship delegate) which fights in their interests agains! of the M. W. I. U. organized the| the bosses. crew for struggle and they won their! The Stec] and Metal Workers In- demand: dustrial Union is active in leading A letter was sent to the Union, the workers to form their own shop Society of Firemen, to which the, committees and to expose the real firemen of the ship belong, at Sanios, informing them of the action American seamen'’s union in with their members. The iged to build a ship’s com- mittee to consolidate their victory. wwe W q NEWS FLASH BELA KUN ARRESTED VIENNA, July 13.—Bela Kun, Hun- garian Communist leader, was ar- vested by Czecho-Slovakian police at the Austrian border, it was learned here today. His whereabouts are un- known. Police are spreading provocative sent the arguments for this code at | Minor insisted, and. was finally al-| city government to stop its starva-| rumors that Bela Kun was trying to the hearings on the employers’ code.' lowed to’ make a “reminder.” He) tion program.” NEW YORK.—One of the mosi important meetings of the National Executive Board of the Trade Union Unity League took place here on July 11. Active workers from the steel, marine, mining, railroad, tex- tile, auto, needle, food, shoe, and practically all other important in- dustries were present. The main point on the agenda was a discus- sion of the Recovery Act, its menace to the masses, and especially how to fight against this attack. Comrade Jack Stachel, acting secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, opened the discussion on this question which was followed by reports by Frank Borich, National Secretary of the National Miners Union, Nat Kaplan, National Organizer of the National Textile Workers Union, John Mel- don, National Secretary of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Un- ion, Sam Nessin, for the Building Trades Workers, a representative of the Railroad Brotherhood Unity Movement and Irving Potash for the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union. June Croll made a special report on the hearings on the Cot- ton Code in Washington, and Ann Burlak gave a special report on the Salem strike which has become not. only a struggle against the A. F. of I. bureaucrats but also against the ned that he “drank gin Uke water,” portunity to let him go Recovery Act. enter Austria Illegally. purposes of the company union thru th struggle for better conditions. Union Active in Ohio Steel Center Tn Youngstown, Ohio, the Steel and Metal Union is holding a series of meetings in the vicinity of all big | mills in the Youngstown district. Headquarters of the Ohio union is at 231 East Federal St., Youngstown, of the Pennsylvania union at 1524 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh. Permission Accorded for Soviet Plane to Carry Mattern to Nome WASHINGTON, D. C., July 13— The Governor of Alaska today gave permission for a Soviet plane to land in Alasta with Jimmie Mattern, round the world aviator who was forced down in Siberia. Because the American government does not recognize the existence of TUUL National Board S tresses Recruiting in Bas Launch Campaign Against ‘Recovery (Slavery) Law and for Soeial | Insurance; Endorses Cleveland United Front Conference | . . ~~ ic Industries > — a —| the Soviet Union, the process of ne= gotiations with the U. S. S, R. are | needlessly complicated. In this case | the Department of the Interior noti~ | fied acting Secretary of State Phil- new wage cut proposed by the Pres ident of the Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers in Philadelphia. In con- reported on the fight for Social and Unemployment Insurance. % Recovery Act Exposed From the reports and discussion in which many of the delegates par- ticipated the vicious anti-working- class character of the National In- dustrial Recovery Law became clear from the attacks already being made by the employers. It was clearly brought out that the minimum wage proposals are not only being used to depress wages down to a com- mon low level but also that the em- ployers are finding plenty of loop- holes to evade even this minimum wage. At the Endicott Johnson shoe shops the bosses are firing all work- ers who can not make $12 per week on the present piece work rates. Thus the minimum wage is used to speed up and to discourage workers. The textile bosses are introducing and extenung the stretch-out sys- tem which represents a further heavy slash on the earnings of the workers and driving out many from the industry. The code presented by the National Textile Workers’ | was exposed. was proven filly justi- fied by the reports. Much of the discussion dealt. with the questions of the right of the workers to organize, the forcing of the workers into company unions by the employers, and the activity of the A. F, of L. unions. Numerous examples of workers being forced to join company unions were given aa well as the ability of the workers to defeat the bosses’ attempts to elect their agents as the workers re- presentatives. In many cases, as in the Atlas cement, in mining towns the workers elected their own lists in opposition to the company. Fur- thermore in some cases the workers defeated completely the attempt of the bosses to drive them into com- pany unions. How far this resist- ance to company unions is develop- ing among the workers is seen from the recent developments in the steel industry where the workers in Mi- chigan and Gary plants defeated the company union. Role of A. F. of L. Lenders In the steel plants the workers Herbert Benjamin, Union in which the Recovery Act’ voted againat the A-F.L. organizing the workers, and are forming their | {own unions which, although not yet | | free from bosses’ agents, neyerthe-| less express the desire of the work-| ers for genuine class struggle un-| ions. It is only the weakness of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union which accounts for the fact that these workers are not yet a! part of the Trade Union Unity} League. ‘The A-F.L. leaders have not yet actually enrolled work- ers in the miners’ unions because | they correctly sensed that the min- ers would not so readily pay initia- tions to the U.M.W.A. They sec-; ured only a pledge to join when called upon in order to be able to secure recognition from the opera- tors in the working out of the codes. But already there have been exam- ples of strikes of the miners despite the promises of the U.M.W.A. offi- | cials that all will be well after the} code is adopted. In some cases op-| position forces were able to gain} leadership over the locals set up by | the U.M.W.A, as at the Renton mine | reformist jin the W. Pa. District. Similarly the opposition wae able te defeat a ttt tl nection with the activity of the A. FL. and the attempt of. the bosses to force the workers into company unions it was stressed that the T.U. U.L. unions are not taking advant- age of the tremendous desire of the workers to organize. Where this was done as among the miners of | Utah some 1,300 miners joined the National Miners Union, Independent unions spring up first because the workers wish to or- ganize and are already clear on the role of the A.F.L. leaders, and sec- ondly because we are isolated from these workers. Often these inde- pendent unions are led by honest workers but do not know how to carry on their work. The union suffers from being isolated from the rest of the labor movement. Such examples we see in Jamestown, where some 500 workers formed an independent union in the Art Metal, also among auto workers in Cleve- land, ete. the case among the Illinois miners, and the New England shoe workers elements succeeded in ‘keeping the workers chained to re- ae But more often as was | | lips that the Soviet plane would be allowed to land. This information was transmitted to the head of a | brewery in Brooklyn, who informed | Boris Skvirsky, Soviet trade repre- sentative, who conveyed the informa- tion to the Foreign Office of the ! U.S.S. R. |Hitler Called Jew; Hot Dispute in Newspapers OverDoubtfulAncestry VIENNA, July 13.—A hot interna- jtional newspaper quarrel has arisen over the publication in a Vienna newspaper of the allegation that Adolf Hitler is of Jewish blood. Pro-Hitler German papers, and anti-Hitler Austrian papers each published long lists of names of Hitler's ancestors. Both lists con- tained a leng series of different spel= lings, such as Hueller, Huedler, |Huettler, Hideler, Hidler, Hittler and Hitler, each twisting the meanings lof these spellings to suit its own case. | The controversy brought out that |Hitler's racial ancestry is very doubtful, as native Catholic aryans, jand immigrant Czechoslovak Jews who embraced Christianity, all fiay- ing very similar names, live around | Hitler's Austrisn birthplace ea on