The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 17, 1933, Page 1

\ Is the Daily Worker on Sale at Your Union Meeting? Your Club Headquarters ? Vel. © No, 10 (Section of the Communist International) NEW YORK, MONDAY, JULY 17, 1933 _ Give a Fellow- Copy of the ‘Da Are Thru With it. Discuss the News With Him! Worker Your ily’ When You 2 WEATHER: Fair and Warmes, CITY EDITION e : pataahe MORGAN & CO. DRAFTS STEEL PLANTS’ SLAVE CODE ‘Into Action Against War THERE is a serious lag in mobilization for international fighting day “against imperialist war, August Ist. Not a day passes without a major war move by the Roosevelt regime. The first act of Roosevelt under the public works section of the in- dustrial slavery act was to hand over $238,000,000 for warship building. The entire $3,300,000,000 so-called public-works fund turns out to be the’ biggest single donation yet made by the Wall Street government since the last World War towards its present active war plans. Never before has the ai‘ack against the entire working class, in the form of slave codes, cutting off of relief, raising food prices, been so closely linked with the actual war plans of the imperialists as it is under the industrial recovery (slavery) act. The capitalist press fairly oozes with the news of war maneuvres, sharpening conflicts for world markets, struggles for new colonies, the onrushing war in the Pacific, the threats of invasion of the Soviet Union. . * . ye" despite this situation the struggle against war is only creeping along. The mobilization for August Ist, to make it an effective rally- ing point for the struggle against imperialist war) and for the defense of the Soviet Union, cannot take place one week before the actual cail- ing of the demonstrations. The struggle against war is linked up with the smallest questions in the lives of the workers today. Every slave code under the indus- trial recovery act is not only a smashing down of the stancard of liv- ing of the workers, but is a war mobilization, a regimenting of the workers in accordance with Roosevelt's war plans. The cutting of re- Nef and the denial of unemployment insurance, as well as the slashing ef the veterans allowances are also done to provide funds for the pre- paration of a new world slaughter. ROUSING of the consciousness of the workers to the tremendous danger of imperialist war, rallying them for a struggle against war must be done now. The preparations for the August Ist demonstra- tions are not isolated actions sgainst war, centering around this one day, Failure to see this accounts for the failure to push the prepara- tions for August ist. War is an immediate, urgent question. Rally the workers to fight against the monster war preparations. Speed the preparations for August Ist. Make this August Ist what it should be—the: mightiest anti-war demonstration ever organized by the American workingclass. “Pleased by the Honor” ee THOMAS was deeply grieved a few weeks back because other jobless politicians in New York City were trying to rig up a fusion ticket against Tammany without giving due consideration to his own political ambitions. $ In declaring then that™he would not be a candidate, he spitefully “If the fusionists méant business, why didn’t they take up fusion with the Socialists instead of the Republicans.” ‘This was clearly a bid for consideration as we . * * ‘HE bid was not wasted. According to the Evening Post, “a group of influential citizens met and urged Norman Thomas to accept the Fusion nomination for Mayor.” Among the “influential citizens,’ says the Post, were ‘men of the type of Marshall Field (of the famous de- partment store family) and George W. Wickersham (close associate of Hoover).” Very good company, we should say, for Norman Thomas! But let’s go further. Says the Post: “Of course the reason why so many business men favor Mr. Thomas for Mayor is because they know he is honest. Then, too, they would feel ‘safe’ with Mr. Thomas.” So the “influential citizens”—by which is meant the big bourgeoisie —would feel safe with Mr. Thomas, with the man who parades as a “Socialist” desiring to destroy capitalism. This surely should be in- teresting news to the workers and poor farmers. * * stated then. . ‘ UT what attitude does Mr. Thomas take to this offer, our readers will ask? Did he indignantly reject it, and declare that he served only the toilers? Not Mr. Thomas! “Mr. Thomas,” according to the POST, “was sympathetic to the plea and duly pleased by the honor.” Accepted as “safe” by Wall Street and “duly pleased by the honor” —that is the Norman Thomas whom the workers should know. ‘That is the real Norman Thomas, the man who spouts socialist phrases— but only to conceal his efforts to pave the way for fascism in the United States as did his social-democratic colleagues in Germany. Honest Socialist workers, who really want Socialism, should care- fully weigh this double dealing of the Socialist Party leaders, ‘Why the Fascist Armada ? HE successful flight of the twenty-four Italian seaplanes in forma- tion from Rome to Chicago over: the difficult westward route which hgs cost the livés of so many previous flyers is no insignificant technical achievement. But, this fact. must not cause the workers to loose sight of the really reactionary purposes back of the flight. First of all this was a gigantic war display, carried through to prove Italy's readiness for war and, particularly, its determination to dominate the Mediterranean and to force a revision of the Versailles treaty, Secondly it was an effort to glorify fascism and to divert the at- tention of the Italian masses from the unbelievable economic misery /-nd suffering now universal under the fascist-terror regime. Four mil- | don lire are paid out to cover the cost of this flight at a time when the average Italian worker is given only 8 lire in wages and forced to pay a ijre and a half for a loaf of bread. It is a circus to conceal the growing revolt of the masses against these conditions, which, in Puglia, has already risen to the character of an insurrection. Thirdly it was a great public joining of hands by the Roosevelt and Mussolini goyernments, following upon America’s support of Italy against France and accompanied by Mussolini’s endorsement of Roosevelt's “New Deal.” It is designed to win America also for the fascist slavery system. * ’ . . 7 IDENT ROOSEVELT greets Balbo—the murderer of the Italian ‘* workers; Governor Lehman invites him to New York. While this goes on Antonio Fierro is murdered at a “Khaki Shirt,” an American fascist, rally in Astoria, L. I. The Astoria police arrest not fascists for the murder, but two unarmed, anti-fascists—Athos Terzané and Michel Palumbo—on the framed-up charge of murder. The capitalist press, while praising the bloody-handed Balbo to the skies, instantly seizes upon the murder of Antonio Fierro to whip up another anti-Communist frenzy, even though neither Terzani nor Palumbo is a Communist, and to conceal the trend toward fascism here. } de : Ix the fact of this united front of the American ruling class and the '* Fascists in Italy and here, the American working class must build a more and more powerful international front of solidarity. They must combine the struggle against the Roosevelt “New Deal” with the ‘struggle against Fasgism everpwhere; for tHe release of ‘Ter- tani and Pajumbo here; of Gramsci and Terwacini if, Italy; of 'Thael- mann and Torgler in Germany; and of all the other anti-Fascist jSoviet Spring Sowing | Completed; Socialized \Farms Surpass Quotas | MOSCOW, July 16,—The spring | sowing program was 98 per cent | fulfilled by July 10, an improvement | over last year’s record, it was an- | mounced today. The program in | the socialized sector (state and | collective farms) was over-fulfilled, with 200,000,000 acres sown, but the remaining individual farmers lagged behind. $50,000,000 MORE T0 AD ARMY PLANS i\Is for Mechanization; Comes Out of Public Works Budget $3,300,000 IS WAR FUND Provides No Jobs But Speeds War Plotting ; WASHINGTON, July 16—Another slice of $50,000,000 for war purposes is coming out of the $3,300,000,000 in the so-called public works section of jthe industrial “recovery” act, this time to carry out the plan of the ‘War Department for complete mo- torization of cavalry and the mechan- ization of machine gun units of the | infantry. | The Army and Navy have already | been handed over $493,000,000 from the same fund to get ready for war. In a very short time, the greater part of the public works budget, which was supposed to go to pro- vide employment, will be turned over to the munitions makers and war- ship builders. The $50,000,000 will be used to modernize the cavalry and infantry so that it will fit in with the war i plans of Wall Street. The proposal of the War Depari- ment has met with the approval of President Roosevelt and leading members of the Senate and House | Appropriations Committee. Previously the army was allotted $113,000,000 to speed its war prepa- rations, | 15 NEGRO YOUTHS’ “IN OHIO. FOREST CAMP ARE JAILED. | Protest Meeting Called | | by Communist Youth | Tomorrow Night PORTSMOUTH, O., July 16.—Fif- teen Negro youth are in jail as a result of their opposition to the selection of certain new squad lead- ers according to news reports in the capitalist press. They were arrested ‘in a jim crow camp .of the Civilian Conservation forps in Shawnee For- est, Scioto Ceunty. In Camp Preston, New York, five youth served jail sentences for pro- \testing the removal of two of their number and replacing them with whites. Thirty-four others left the camp. | { On a train at Latrobe, Pennsyl- vania, last week a fight started as a result of the segregation of Negro and white youths on the train. ' These incidents are daily occur- | ences in the camps. They grow out of the government's vicious jim-crow policy in the forced labor camps. White youth in the camp should take the lead of smashing down the barriers which government officials jare setting up to divide them from the Negro youth. Together they can fight and defeat the rotten conditions existing in the camps. Negro youth should not permit themselves to be bulldozed. Stick together and with the support of the white youth the government jim-crow policy in the camps can be defeated. . A meeting has been called for to- morrow to protest against the at- tacks on Negro youths in the forced labor camps, The meeting, which will take place at 87 W. 128th St., is called by the Upper Harlem unit of the Young Communist League. Youth and adult workers should attend this meeting and voice their protest, POLICEMAN BEATS VET NEW YORK.—James Horn, a dis- abled war veteran, was brutally beaten hv a policeman, shield num- ber 14930, when he went into a cxfeteria, at 123rd St., and 8th Ave., and asked for something to eat. The N. Y. District International Labor Defensa, preparing to wage a relentless struggle against police ter- est Athos Terzani Slain Anti-Fascist’s Mass Funeral Is Set for Tomorrow Fight to Free Two Others, Framed by Khaki. Shirts, Will Be Led by I. L. D. NEW YORK, July 16.—The mass and legal defense of and. Michel . Palumbo, {Nazis Murder Three {Communist Captives \“Attempting Escape” WOLDENBURG, Germany, July 16.—Three more Communists were murdered by Nazis here today. They were shot by their captors while on the way to the Sonnen- burg concentration camp. Their murderers reported that they had killed them for “attempting to escape.” OPEN SECOND anti-fascist workers 15 P.C. Pay Rise Is Hoax to Cover Up $10-$16 Wage Level Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union Ir framed on charges of homicide and felonious assault, respec- tively, following the murder of Antonio Fierro, 22, student and anti-fascist, will be led by the New York District of the International Labor -Defense,e——— iene annoitteed today. 2 Wee: organizer, George L. Lennie, promi- L iY: nent Negro attorney. vo was fatally shot. Friday Mobilizing Workers to Resist Slave Code and Company Union Plan Delegation of Workers to Go to Washington to Expose Slave Conditions and Put Workers Own Demands MARINEUNION CONVENTION 0 Mass Funeral Tomorrow. night at a meeting of ‘the fas- cist Khaki Shirts of America, Inc., held et Columbus Hall, 31-06 Astoria Ave., Astoria, L. I. Both the arrested and framed workers have asked the I.L.D. to car- ry on their defense. Frank Scheiner and Harry Sacker, I.L.D. attorneys, have been assigned to the case. The murder of Antonio Fierro oc- curred when anti-fascist workers rose in the hall and asked for the right to question Art Smith, main speaker and commander-in-chief of the Khaki Shirt organization. 4 Immediately Khaki Shirt gang- sters who had come to the meeting armed, flashed knives and revolvers. A bullet fired by one of these gang- sters struck Fierro. Three others were seriously injured by knife- stabs. The police present at the meeting did not interfere when the Khaki Shirt gangsters attacked the un- armed workers, who fought the at- tack back with bare fists. When Fi- erro fell dead, the police arrested Terzani, who was pointed out as the “murderer” by Art Smith. Although no weapons were found on Terzani and Palumbo, and the Khaki Shirts flaunted their weapons openly, the police did not even attempt to hold any of the members of the Khaki Shirts. The arrest of the two anti-fascist workers was branded by the N. Y. District IL.D. Secretary, William Lawrence, today as a brazen frame- up. “The man who was killed,” the I. LD. points out, “was an anti-fascist and the workers arrested are anti- fascists. Terzani was pointed out to the police by Art Smith, leader of the fascist Khaki Shirts, as the one who had fired the bullet. It is ab- surd to think that the fascist leader would point to any but an anti-fas- cist, “The purpose behind this frame- up is to terrorize the workers in an effort to check the growing move- ment against fascism in general and the development of fascist tendencies in America.” The capitalist press, while playing up favorably the arrival of the Ital- ian fascist air-armada under Balbo, Mussolini's henchman, distorted the facts of the killing, trying to make it appear that “Communists” went to the meeting to break it up and used violence. This is branded by the I. L.D. as a lie.* Neither of the ar- rested workers is connected with the Communist Party. Both are openly anti-fascist. “The capitalist press,” the LL.D. stated, “is attempting to whip up lynch-hysteria against the two framed anti-fascist workers. At ‘the Scottsboro mass demon- stration which the N. Y. District I. IL: D. will hold in Union Square this Friday, July 21, 5 p. m., tens of thou- sands of workers are expected. They will be informed about the real facts of the killing and will be called upon to rally to the mass defense of the framed anti-fascists. Speakers at the demonstration. will include Ada Wright, mother of. two of the Scottsboro ~boys, Ruby Bates, heroic Scottsboro defense witn William L. Patterson, National Sec- retary International Labor Defense, Robert Minor, Commynist Party, Roger Baldwin, American Civil Lib- erties Union, Ben Gold, Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, William Fitzgerald, Harlem I. L. D. Found Work First Time in Many Months Only to Drop to His Death NEW YORK.—Without.work for a long time, Raymond Hitchcock, 35, of 526 Ninth Ave., found a job putting in new bulbs in the’ electric sign on the Hotel Flanders Building and was killed when a rope snapped. ' Hitch- cock was 8 bricklayer, inexperienced in this work and was glad to get work as a helper to James Brennan, who is a steeplejack. They were working on. the fifth floor, Hitchcock hanging on a sling, while Brennan was on the sign. His et i cae oa 4 - ropes A mags funeral for Antonio Fierro | will be held at 1p. m: tomorrow from/Segamen, , Longshore- | the home of the murdered worker, 2238 Adams Place, the Bronx. To get there take the 3rd Avenue “L” and get off at 183rd St. station. The anti-fascist united front, the International Labor Defense and the Communist Party, among other workers’ organizations, call upon all workers to attend this funeral, and to rally to the defense of Terzani and Palumbo. On the following day, Wednesday, a hearing will be held in the Long Island city court, on Terzani,who is being held without bail and on Palumbo, held in bail of $10,000. Workers are urged to attend. Mayor, Governor Stall on Jobless Aid Over Weekend Winters Calls Workers opened at 10:45, with 98 delegates—| to Mass at Relief Bureaus Today NEW YORK.—Neither Governor Lehman ngr aa O'Brien has given any indication so far that they intend to act on assuring relief for | over a million people who are wait- ing already for the second week since the announcement that no funds are on hand for July relief. Governor Lehman busied himself over the week end by attending the dedication of the Grand Central and Northern Parkways at Kew Garden and by inviting the fascist Italo Balbo to come to New York. He indicated that probably today on his return to Albany consideration for a special session of the state legislature will be gone into. Mayor O’Brien has been unable to consider the relief problem facing a large section of the city’s population as he was spending his time at the home of a friend at Warrensburg, near Lake George. Unemployed on work relief will be paid today ac- cording to the announcement on Friday by Acting Comptroller Frank J. Prial. . Carl Winters, secretary of the Un- employed Councils denounced the re- fusal on the part of city and state officials to take steps to give imme- diate relief to the unemployed. Cal- ling on the jobless to mass at the Home Relief Bureaus today, Winters declared, all workers and their families who are on relief should jam every Home and Work Relief Bureau in the city today. Re- fuse to leave until relief, gas and rent checks are forthcoming. All those on work relief demand that your psy check be given you. “Elect committees at the Home Re- lief Bureaus and demand that the supervisor act on your demands im- |men | Sections of U.S. | \ 98 DELEGATES PRES ENT |Session Starts After| |Browder, Stachel, Ford ‘Greet Delegates | NEW YORK.—After the opening} of the Second National Convention | j of the Marine Workers’ Industrial | ; Union at Manhattan Lyceum in New} | York Saturday night with a banquet | at which Earl Browder, Secretary of | the Commuhist Party; Jack Stachel, | | Acting Secretary of the Trade Union } | Unity League, and James W. Ford, | Negro member of the T. U. U. L.} Executive, welcomed the delegates, | the convention was officially opened j yesterday morning at the Marine | ‘Union headquarters, 140 Broad St. | Ina hall jammed to the doors with workers the morning session, which seamen, longshoremen and harbor | workers—from New York, San Fran- | cisco, Seattle, Baltimore, New Or- leans, Savannah, Norfolk, Philadel- | phia and ship delegates was opened | at 10:45 { The session was opened by Harry | | Hines of San Francisco, National} | Secretary of the Marine Workers’ In- | dustrial Union. dentials, ways | and means and resolutions commit- | tees were elected during the morn- ing. {| Jackson, a Negro | from Savannah, who, | of the convention for lor joreman upon reading the f time 1 (Continued on Page Three) AFL HEADS BACK COMPANY UNION “IN COTTON MILL MANCHESTER, N. H., July 16.— The company union plan, under which the Amoskeag Manufacturing Co cotton mill had been able to put over wage cuts for several years, and which was finally overthrown by the | overwhelming vote of the Amoskeag i workers, was sneaked back into opera- tion last wi by the A, F, of L. United Textile Workers officials in collaboration with the Amoskeag bosses. | An agreement, under the pretext of carrying out the recovery code, was signed Friday between the U.T.W leaders and Frederic C. Dumaine, treasurer of the Amoskeag company, providing for the same employe rep- resentation plan as was operated under the old company union. Ac- cording to this agreement, represen- tatives of employes and the mill man- agement are to discuss all grievances, and any dispute that cannot be set- tled will be put up to the personnel massed at the Home Relief Bureaus mediately. manager of the mill. ‘The agreement outlaws all sti Mass Protest Obtains Stay for Berkman | “recovery” act. SLAVERY ACT 10 HIT RED UNIONS BOSSES ARE TOLD Podell, Lawyer Says It Will Aid A. F. of L Regain Position NEW YORK e national in | dustrial recovery act is giving labor an opportunity to combat the left- | wing groups that have found a foot- hold in many unions,” stated David )L. Podell, New York lawyer who-as- sisted in writing the-slave act-in @ speech before a group of bosses a |the Rotary Club here last week. Podell said that one of the most important aims of the “recovery” act was to help the A. F. of L. leaders regain their lost position due to the advances made by the revo- lutionary trade unions “This law,” he said, “gives them (A. F. of L.) the opportunity to re- build, just as it gives to industry the opportunity to put its house in order. “The Communist and left wing- ers have eaten right into the heart of different labor organizations.” Evidence that the industrial re covery act attempts to crush actiot by the workers themselves agains! slave codes is seen in the deter- mined effort of the government, the bosses and the A. F. of L. leaders to drive the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union out of the fur indus in New York where it hes organized the workers and led them in successful struggles for improved conditions. The refusal at first to grant a hearing to June Croll of the Na- tional Textile Workers Union when the textile code hearings were on in Washington is further proof that Podell knows what he is talking about Podell’s speech explains the secret conferences of tho bosses and A. F. of L. leaders in drawing up the codes. SNIPES. } EN BY POLICE, TO BE TRIED WEDNESDAY NEW YORK mie Snipes, ar- ested at a H ™m Scottsboro mass meeting on May 19, will come up for rial on a framed-up charge of fel- enious assault in» Special Sessions Yourt, Frankl ipes was brutally tered by rolice during and after his arrest, The N. Y. District Int Tabor Defense which wi!l defend him calls on all Negro and white work- s.'ers to attend the trial and Saves Anna Bloch from Deportation BOSTON, July 16—Mass protest of thousands of workers forced the De-, partment of Labor to postpone for, one year the deportation of Edith | Berkman, National Textile Union Or- | ganizer, and to reduce her bond from | her health.” Her warrant of deportation which | still holds good under the Department of Labor's ruling is based upon the | presumption that it is illegal for an and Center Streets, 9 $1,000 to $500. At the same time the deportation warrant of Anna Bloch, New England leader of the unem- ployed, was cancelled and her bond dismissed, Both are outstanding victories for the International Labor Defense which fought the cases when Edith Berkman received her stay, a provjso was attached that a further exten- sion will be considered after the lapse of = year if “she is still unable to lalien to struggle against wage cuts, |and the proceedings against her are |in themselves an attempt to illegalize | the National Textile Workers Union. | Ib was announced that the LL.D. | and the Committee for the Protection ‘of the Foreign Born will continue the fight until unconditional dismissal of the case is won. | Anna Bloch is a native-born Amer- ‘ican. She was arrested by deporta- | tion agents last November in an ef- fort to cripple the New England de- tachment of the National Hunger Webingtor . aa s WASHINGTON, July 16.—Written in the office of Mor- Come from All! gan and Co., a slave code for the steel industry has been pre- | sented to General Johnson, administrator of the industrial The code provides for a minimum wage for steel workers #in the South of $10 a week (a 40-hour, week at 25 cents an hour), and a wage of from $15 to $16 a week in other steel sections of the country {a 40- hour week at 37 to 40 cents an hour). To make the bill appear acceptable to the bitterly exploited steel work- ers, the steel bosses declared that a |15 per cent increase in steel wages ;i8 to go into effect immediately |coyering 100,000 steel workers. The is supposed to raise the teel workers’ wages to the $10 and $16 minimum. As a matter of fact, the average wages in the steel in- dustry, as reported by the National | Industrial Council, another bosses’ | outfit, one month before the stee! code was_announced, was $16.81 a eek for a 35 hour week at 48 cents in. hour. The Raise 2 Hoax. The so-called 15 per cent increase jis a hoax, the bosses having taken a |lower level than-was being paid as |the basis for increase. The result | will be a levelling out of wages on |@ lower standard. Organize Against Code. | John Meldon, secretary of the Steel and Metal Workers Industria! | Union in a statement made public |today declared that the union is | Organizing the steel workers to pre | pare for resistance to the slave con- ditions proposed under the code. The union now is organizing a del egation of steel workers to go to the Washington hearings on the code |to expose if and present the de- mands of the steel workers them- | Selves, |. The steel code, say statements here, is aceptable to 80 per cent of ithe steel industry. It was presented by Robert P. Lamont, a partner of the House of Morgan and the ac- tual director of the United States Steel Corporation which dominates |the steel industry. The 80 per cent jot the steel industry mentioned is either directly or indirectly under Morgan's control. | While the. steel code copies word ,for word the so-called labor provi- | sion of the industrial “recovery” act, | Which the A. F. of L. leaders and |Socialists say are such a boon to labor, it at the same time declares that these provisions have always been followed by the. steel compan- lies in their dealing with labor, Company Union. A company union fs provided by jthe steel code. Contrary to the de- \clarations of Roosevelt and John- son not one steel worker had the ;Tight to present the demands of the (Continued on Page Three) BIG WAR CARGO - FOR HONOLULU \Boat Leaves Brooklyn | Today With Guns and Planes : (By a Worker Correspondent) | NEW YORK—The U. S. Army transport “Meigs” will sail today | trom the army base at the foot of | 58th St., Brooklyn, bound for Pan- ama, Honolulu and Manila with # cargo of munitions. | The cargo includes 20,000 rifles | 3,000 tons of ammunition, six new | heavy bombing planes, and a power- | ful 8-inch gun of a new type de- signed to fire shells to a tremendous | distance. | Very little of this cargo is for Pan- ama, and none is for Manila, Al- | most all of it is for Honolulu, ‘The U. S. transport “Republic” is now unloading an even larger cargo of ammunition in Honolulu. This is part of the its chief