The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 20, 1933, Page 1

Visit Friends and Sympathizers for Subscriptions for the Daily Worker! ally Central Or (Section of the Comneunist International) orker ist Party U.S.A. Use Workers Correspondence to Boost Factory Sales! - See “Day by Day” Column on | Page Two! ~- } aha, THE WEATHER Today—Fair and warmes, Volo %; No. 178 aes NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1933 One Day’s War News Ce a single day’s batch of news of the preparations for war which dominate today the activities of every imperialist country of the world. In today’s Daily Worker, among other war news we find the fol- lowing: The Washington government, with the largest army and navy bud- gets in its history, is rushing through the slavery codes for the basic war industries—steel, coal, textiles—ahead of all others. ‘The Japanese army, using General Feng Yu Hsian’s “rebellion” as & pretext, is moving toward Outer Mongolia, Soviet territory allied to the Soviet Union. 4 ‘Tokio emphasizes this provocation by accusing the Soviet Union of nstigating General Feng’s “rebellion”, despite the well-known fact that he is notoriously anti-Communist, and has faken part with Chiang Kai Shek in military expeditions against the Chinese Soviets. 'HE Seattle marine workers, whose work among the seamen of Japanese ships in port was so effcctive that the Jepanese Embassy protested to Washington, give a stirring example of concrete working class struggle against the imminent war danger. In every part of the world, workers are rising to sharper and more effective struggles against imperialist war. In every part of the capital- ist world the headlong rush toward war is accelerated every day. Let the international demonstration of the workers against war on August Ist be the mightiest expression of the workers’ will for the revo- lutionary way—the only way—against war. Do Figures Lie? 1168 FRANCIS PERKINS, the syrupy social worker, who graces Roose- velt’s cabinet in the position of secretary of labor, has issued a re- port on employment for June. The capitalist press seized on this report to tell the workers that 500,000 got jobs in June. It matters little to them, or to Miss Perkins, that'the labor department report says nothing of the kind, contenting itself with percentages for a limited number of plants. It matters not at all to the capitalist press that just two days before Miss Perkins made her statement thousands of Southern cotton mill workers were fired when the cotton textile code went into action. Asked why the workers were fired, the bosses replied: “Code or no code, our labor costs will remain the same, We discharge workers to even up our pay- roll and get the same production out of the rest.” * * . * ‘HIS throws a lot of light on Miss Perkin’s statement about June em- ployment. . Miss Perkins said that though production was growing—in fact, was at a dangerous speculative and overproduced level—the employment of workers did not keep pace. Miss Perkins admitted further: Employment now is 27 per cent below 1926. Payrolls are 50 per cent below 1926. 4 “For every $10 paid out in weekly wages in 1926 by the plants sur- Yeyed, only $4.31 was paid in June, 1933”, admits Miss Perkins. Thirty-two industries showed a decrease in employment. Despite whatever employment there was due to the speculative, in- flation-inspired. rise in production, Miss Perkins admitted that “par- chasing power had shranken”. » What is the most outstanding fact then in Miss Perkins report? It is the growing divergence between production and employment. It is the giaring signs of the growth of a permanent army of unemployed, the fact that capitalism and the crisis has rendered superfluous, regardless of upspurts in output, at least an army of 15,000,000 jobless. Cass meer T= rise in production hardly disturbed the huge ranks of the unem- ployed, \ No report of the labor department, therefor, or its skillful twisting to suit the needs of Roosevelt’s propaganda can do away with the strug- gle and need for unemployment insurance to be paid by the bosses and the federal government. om Every new report emphasizes the need for social insurance, precise- ly It the face of rising production. Roosevelt’s $3,300,000,000 fund to provide millions of jobs didn’t pan out—except for the army and mary war preparations. Relief is being slashed right and left. Only a sharper, firmer, better organized struggle of the unemployed, in unity with the employed, can keep the unemployed millions from starving by demanding and fighting for unemployment insurance. “A Delicate Position” @/iTH more than a million in New York City facing starvation, the Tam- many government is in what the press calls “a delicate position”. But Tammany’s embarrassment does not arise out of any inability to feed the hungry. Tammany’s concern is not to feed, but to prevent the feeding of the hungry. The main concern of the Tammany gang today is to prevent the paying out of hundreds of millions of dollars which are available in the treasuries of New York’s multimillionaires, which can bs secured by taxation and which are needed for the payment of ef- fective unemployment relief. At the present time a whole array of legal talent is feady to prove that these funds cannot be legally taken. But these legal geniuses for protecting the treasures of the rich would quickly change their tune— and will do so—when hundreds of thousands of New York workers be- gin to demonstrate with sufficient militancy their unwillingness to starve. Until then, the Tammany leaders and the State Legislature, both of whom are mere cat's paws for the Wall Street bankers, will refuse to tax the only sources from which sufficient funds can be raised, ‘These multimillionaires, each with incomes of millions of dollars per -year, have all stopped paying any income tax since 1929, Through their puppet, Mayor O’Brien, they have decreed the reduction of the relief payments to the. starvation minimum and the introduction within the city of the principle of Roosevelt’s forced labor policy. * * . - aged to the leadership of the Communist Party (and everybody * knows that it is due to. this leadership!), the masses are stirring and expressing their determination not to submit to this starvation. Because of this pressure, Tammany is now “in a delicate situation”. O'Brien has made some promises to the unemployed. Every promise has been broken. Every gesture, every pretense of doing anything for _the unemployed is intended solely for the purpose of keeping them quiet and persuading them to continue their-starvation. Every promise that is made is made under the influence of the election campaign which will shortly open! ~ ; Every promise is a lie—intended to relieve the pressure against the ‘city hall. But the city hall is only the kennel of the watchdogs of the banks, To pass the responsibility on to the State Legislature, as O’Brien at- ‘tempts to do, is not intended to secure anything for the umemj¥oyed; or ‘at most it can only be a device to compel the working class to bear the burden of any further expense, through a heavier sales tax on food and clothing and raised transit fares, ‘ « ‘HE workers of New York must not for one minute be deceived! It * is true that the State of New York is equally responsible for the un- employed. In fact, we do not forget that the objective of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill is a Federal system of social insurance, But this does not alter the fact that the city is now responsible and must be compelled immediately to bear the burden of the present stary- ation of the workers within its borders. More pressure is needed against the Tammany government of graft, loot and starvation! CY ae - TALK UNION, 24 FIRED IN WAR PLANT Met to Discuss Wages in Martin Co. Under Slavery Act FEAR MORE LAY-OFFS Company Has Fat Gov’t Contract for Bombers BALTIMORE, Md., July 19. The Glenn L. Martin Co., im- portant manufacturing plant here, today showed its appreci- ation of a fat government con- tract for bombing planes by firing all the 24 workers in the tool room. More lay-offs are threatened, These workers, the majority of them with wives and children, had been unemployed for a year or more. They were put to work within the last few weeks at 10 cents an hour lower than depression wages as a re- sult of President Roosevelt awarding the Glenn Martin Co. a contract for the manufacture of 49 monstrous army and navy planes, each costing $750,000, paid out of Roosevelt's Public Works Fund for unemploy- ment relief. Each one is capable of wiping out a town of men, women and children. Trying to exercise the right sup- trial Recovery (Slavery) Act to or- ganize, these 24 workers met on Fri- day night to discuss demands for a fair living wage. The next day they were discharged from their jobs be- cause, as the foreman said, “they had jused company time to. talk about wages.” This, the workers knew, was of course, merely a trumped up ex- cuse. The Glen Martin Co. has indicated that any workers who attempt to or- ganize will be fired. This has con- siderably added to the tension ex- j isting here ever since work was be- gun on the bombing planes, A regular war-time atmosphere has prevailed here. There are secret service agents prowling about, armed guards at the gates and many men working in the plants are well-known labor spies. Against the background of snow- white walls, as white as the feathers of the dove of peace, one may see army and navy officers watching the workers laboring over bombing planes which may some day. deal death to workers in other countries or even in our own. The workers have become terror- ized, and sentiment for a union of their own is growing. Word was sent out today among the workers that a large number of workers in the sheet metal department were to be thrown out of work on Monday. The average wage is 32 cents an hour. Some of the workers have to spend 60 cents a day car fare. Other workers have felt some qualms about working on instruments of war and yet their wives and children need food. Relief agencies in this city have proved terribly inadequate. “The workers” as one class-con- scious worker put it, “want and need to earn more money. Sentiment in fa- vor of organization is strong (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) POST FLIES ON AHEAD OF TIME IRKUTSK, Siberia, July 19—After a delay of fifteen hours and twenty- five minutes because of bad weather here, Wiley Post, American round- the-world flyer, continued his effort to better the record he and Harold Gatty made two years ago in their flight, In spite of the delay, Post was still three hours and twenty minutes ahead of his former record. He decided to attempt to make Bla- goveschensk, 1,020 miles eastward. He will then make a short hop to Khabarovsk, 300 miles further, and then start his flight to Fairbanks, Alaska, which is 3,000 miles further. From there he will halt only at Ed- monton, Alberta, Canada, before starting on the last lap to the Floyd Bennett airport in New York. Post announced that he was feel- ing fine and his plane was in first- class condition. . . Mattern To Fly to Alaska MOSCOW, July 19—The Soviet aviator, Levanevsky, and his crew of four, in the rescue plane sent to aid James Mattern, landed at Anadir yesterday morning, it was officially announced here, and will take off with Mattern at daybreak tomorrow for Alaska, posedly pledged them in the Indus-! | | | i CITY EDITION s Priee 3 Cents of New War Grows Mobilize the August lst Demonstrations Against the Imperialist | | War Preparations and for the Defense of the U.S. S. R. ‘ANTI-WAR SESSION FEATURES NAT’L ‘MARINE MEETING Delegates Discuss | Tasks in Struggle | Against War NEW YORK.—Marine worker del- egates at the sessions of the Mar- {ine Workers Industrial Union con- vention at 140 Broad St., Tuesday night grappled with the important tasks involved in waging an effec- tive struggle against the coming im- perialist war and against the pre- sent Japanese war to partition China. Reminding the delegates that it was the Seattle longshoremen who prevented shipments of munitions to Koichak during the.Bolshevik revo- \lution and prevented support for) the counter revoluionary forces, Rae mentioned some of the concrete ac- tions in the struggle against war which can be taken by the seamen eat dock workess in every port. { Seattle Workers Active, Seattle marine workers, by plac- ling literature in Japanese ships when they reached the Pacific ports, reached hundreds of seamen who in turn distributed this literature to the workers in the factories in» Japan calling for a struggle against the | rape of China and against Japan's; imperialist aims against the Soviet | Union, Rae told the delegates. | The Baltimore delegate told how he obtained the cooperation of a member of the Japanese crew in arousing the crew against the trans- port. of scrap iron for Japan and instrumental in organizing demon- Strations against the shipment of war materials. Stop Munition Shipments. Many delegates spoke of the con- tinued shipments of scrap iron, pig iron, copper and other materials destined to Japan and to the Eu- ropean countries and how the marine workers must organize to uncover this, to prevent its being! hauled on the ships and even to prevent the ships from carrying the | munitions out of the Amefican ports. Along with this must go the agitation among the Japanese seamen and seamen of all other countries to carry the struggle against the imperialist war to the working class in every country. The convention went on record to endorse the revolutionary strug- gle of the workers and peasants of Cuba against the bloody Machado and pledged its support to the work~ ers nd peasants in their struggle. For An 8 Hour Day. Wednesday's session was devoted to a discussion of wage scaies and the necessity for fighting for the demand for an eight-hour day. Earl Browder of the Communist Party adressed the convention and received a big ovation. Govert Schouten, memper of the Union who has been in jail for several months in connection with his militant activity for the unem- ployed marine workers walked into the hall today having just been released from jail, He was greeted, with tremendous enthusiasm by the delegates. The convention contin- ues on Thursday. NAVY, ARMY GET FIRST GRAB OF $3,000,000,00 FUND \Iekes Puts Tight Hold) On Rest; Job Talk | Grows Weaker WASHINGTON, July 19.— Secre- | tary of the Interior Ickes, and Direc- | tor of the Budget Douglas, who su- pervise the expenditure of the 800,000,000 public works funds made it clear today that there will be no| grezt expenditures for public work | outside of war expenditures, “This is not a ‘come-and-get-it? | Proposition,” said Ickes, after | 000,000 had been handed over to the | Inavy. “These dollars are precious | jdollars. .. . Here in Washington we Harry Allan Potamkin Revolutionary Writer, Dead After Long Illness NEW YORK.—Harry Allan Potamkin, revolutionary writer and poet and Executive Sec- retary of the John Reed Club, died yesterday afternoon in Bellevue Hospital after several weeks of illness. JAPAN MOBILIZES TROOPSFOR DRIVE. TOWARDS U.S.S.R. ‘Marine Workers Lead Struggle Cops Shoot 3 When As Menace 8,000 In Cleveland Defy Foreclosure TEAR GAS, RIOT FrenchWorkers Refuse’ |toUnload German Ship DUNKIRK, France, July 19.—The dock workers of Dunkirk refused to unload the German: ship “Anima” GUNS, DISPERSE here today, because it was flying the M ASSED TOULERS Nazi flag. The captain wired for in-| struct’ from Germany. omen Protest Rally Called for Tomorrow on Publie Square CLEVELAND, 0., July 19. | Several hundred police, detec- | tives and firemen attacked 8,- |000 people, shooting three, | when they gathered before the | home of John Sparanga, 11427 | Lardet street, to protest the foreclosure and the removal of the furniture of this worker. LABOR COUNCIL HEAD ON BALBO WELCOME LIS lionaires Greet Fascist Aviators NEW YORK, July 19—When the Italian fascist air squadron of 24 fly- ; how. the Marine Workers Union was | sa! Use Feng As Excuse to Invade Outer Mon- golian Republic NEW YORK.—Shanghai cables tell of heavy concentration of 20,000 Manchukuoan and unspecified num- bers of Japanese troops, ammunition, supplies and military planes to re- take Dolonor from General Feng Yu Hsiang, and to use this as a pretext for the invasion of the People’s Re- public of Outer Mongolia, on the bor- der of the Soviet Union. A dispatch by Victor Keen, Shang- hai correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune, published — today. “Official Soviet sources in Shanghai view the Chahar situa- tion (where the arfanged war play between Feng and the Japanese is now going on) as fraught with se- tious possibilities of a break be- tween Japan and the Soviet Union. They point out that Feng’s recap- ture of Dolonor offers an excuse for a Japanese military invasion of Inner Mongolia, and perhaps also Outer Mongolia, which would re- sult in a clash between Soviet and Japanese interests.” General Feng Yu Hsiang, who is | acting in co-operation with the Jap- anese, was allowed to take Dolornor, to give the Japanese a pretext for heavier troop concentrations in this region, to be followed later by a drive towards the Soviet border. Tokio dispatches further indicate that the Japanese are planning to use the Feng advance as an excuse for an attack on Outer Mongolia and against the Soviet Union. An associ- ated Press story from Tokio says, “Japanese authorities had. declared Soviet assistance was intensifying the menace of the campaign of Ger eral Feng Yu Hsiang against the western frontier of Manchukuo, and that Japanese military leaders were professing anxiety.” The new excuse is to be used not only to take over the province of Chahar, but for the justification of the war drive towards the Soviet bor- der through Outer Mongolia. regard this fund of $3,300,000,000 as a trust fund. We will not authorize the expenditure of a cent of it unless we are convinced that it will con- tribute toward the economic recovery and the social welfare of the coun- try.” These precious dollars with which Roosevelt was going to flood the | ing boats landed at the seaplane base | at Floyd Bennett Airport at 4:10 this | afternoon they were greeted by a The riot act was read in order to disperse the crowd. The po- committee of which Joseph P. Ryan, | lice used tear gas and guns and president of the New York City| in the rush many were tramp- Trades and Labor Council, was one of the members, in spite of-the fact that | |the American Federation of Labor, | under pressure of its membership, has been forced to repudiate Italian fas- | country in order to provide millions | “!S™- | A i Among others who welcomed the | we fat Tonle t6. ci out | ership of the notorious gangster, thug y to either the army ©r/and professional murderer, Italo navy. | Balbo, were City Comptroller Charles The war department has presented | W. Berry; Fiorelio La Guardia, candi- | a plan requiring millions from the | date for mayor of New York City, who fund. Secretary of War Dern, ot | Sere et aay Reece a menting. on these: plans and requests | 156 farcical Senate examination. of | for funds, said: \the House of Morgan; Carnero Pri- | “Comprehensive plans were pre-| mera, now the “champion” heavy- pared under my direction and sub-| weight in the prizefighting racket; mitted to the board of public works | Grover Whalen. the glorified floor- weeks ago. Such allocations to the | Walker of Wanamaker’s who was po- army out of public works funds are| ice commissioner under ihe Walker Ratifial \4 ,| Tammany city administration: i pata Bight emergency |p, Rockefeller Jr.. Cornelius Vander- | ete) bilt and Owen D. Young. All the “There can be no legitimate objec-| officers of the fascist organization | \tion to this class of public expendi- |\known as the Sons of Italy in Amer- | tures except from those who do not| ica were on the committee of welcome. |believe in maintaining an army at| The most elaborate police guard | all.” |ever assembled in one place in this | ‘ city was mobilized to shield Balbo and | The war department’s plans re-|nis cut-throat gang from the hatred | quire over $150,000,000 for comple-|of the New York working ‘ class. tion, besides the regular war budget | eft Chicago Early This Morning for the army of over $350,000,000. Of| The squadron left Chicago _this this “public works” request $50,000,- | morning at 8:42 and made the trip to | 000 is specified for mechanization of |New York in a little less than eight | infantry and machine gun units. hours. When the air fleet approached | ‘A a |New York it was met by the naval | Ickes’ statement against the ex-| qirjgjble, Macon, and a fleet of ac- | penditure of vast sums for public} companying planes. works is an answer to the workers Protest Official City Reception who were told by Roosevelt that the} The National Organizing Commit- $3,300,000,000 would be spent in ajtee of the United States Congress hurry to provide jobs. It now turns | Against War sent a sharp protest to out that very little of it will be spent | Mayor J, P. O'Brien today against in this way, while it will be held the official entertainment of General dedl wat-cHext Balbo's air armada. The protest, ila gyda : sent in the name of 60 national or- | UTH RIV 55 ganizations opposed to war, includ- Geeeeiie any geen bi jing trade unions, the Communist and Tom | | Socialist parties, and many others, he case of Tom Scott, sentenced | i pride two to three years in the | characterized the $3,000,000 flight as harge of “sub-| Nothing more than a gigantic war a. nae Paes Necause he| display, following support of Italy organized the defense of the work-| against France by the United States, | ers arrested in the South River nee-| and Mussolini's endorsement of the | dle trades strike last year, has been | “New Deal.” The protest called the | filed with the New Jersey Supreme | squandering of public money in wel- Court, says the International Labor | coming Balbo and his battle-fleet in- Defense. |sidious propaganda for war. NEW YORK.—Athos Terzani, anti- fascist worker, was held for first degree murder after the frame up| against him was torn to shreds in the hearing before Magistrate August Dryer in the First District Magist- rates Court, 115 Fifth Street, in Long Island City yesterday, An automatic revolver which police charged Terzani had dropped near an inside door of the Columbus Hall where Antonio Fierrg, 22-year-old City College student was shot and killed by Philadelphia Khaki Shirts Friday, was found three minutes, after Terzani had left, inside a piano at another end of the hall. This was' admitted by Art Smith of 4429 Broad Street, Philadelphia, National Com- mander of the Khaki Shirts, who is pressing the murder charge against’ Terzani. Under cross examination by Harry Sacher, International Labor Defense attorney, e All through the hearing, Smith and the Assistant District Attorney, Las- canza, tried desperately to shield the name of the real killer. Magistrate Dryer refused to dis- miss the case and also held Terzant without bail. The hearing of Michael Palumbo framed in the same case on a felo- nious assault charge, was postponed until Friday in the same court be- cause it was claimed the witness against him was recoverihg from stab wounds. A demand by the LL.D. Hearing Exposes Frame-Up; Terzani Held for Murder | Avoiding direct answers and con- veniently not remembering, Smith tried to hide the identity of the fas- cist that committed the murder. As- sistant District Attorney Lescalzo had promised the name and ad- dress of this man. Smith finally described an “invalid in khaki uni- form” who, he said “could not fight if he wanted to.” He had met the man three times but did not know his name nor where he could be found, he continued, Sacher then forced the admission from Smith that after Terzani came back to the hall following the fight, as he was walking behind the police just before the was framed, Ter- zani told the police he knew the one who fired the shot. This one, is the “missing” fascist. The I. L. D. issue d a summons yesterday to the police, after the court had refused it, demanding the immediate arrest of the real murd- erer, © part of the hearing, when the case of Palumbo was post- poned, Tauber said: Regier Teg a Tauber, that tre reduced was denied - don’t want te hear -_ o -_ scxopeny trom to to four years. _ self as an aviator. For the past two, years, he said, he has been the Khaki} Shirts National Commander with a} membership of 10,000,000. He also said thirteen uniformed fascists came | to the meeting in Astoria Friday, front Philadelphia and that “they| carried nothing but swagger sticks.” | The fascist national commander | then asked the I. L. D. attorney to! feel the bumps on his head which! he had received during the Sect bus Hall fight. * Sacher felt his head and said: | “Counsel states he can feel no} bumps.” | A medical examiner testified that) Fierro had a bad scalp wound which he received before he was shot. Hundreds of anti-fascist workers, many Italian were held a block away | from the court at 8:30 in the morn- ing. The court very obviously felt the mass pressure of these workers! even though they were outside. | A writ of habeas corpus by the, I. L. D. demanding the immediate release of Palumbo will be heard at| the Queens Supreme Court, Chamber} of Commerce Building, 161 Street and; 90th Avenue, this thorning. | Deck Hands Fired | NEW YORK.—Workers in the en-| 3 gine department and the deck hands} p 2 of the steamship Pennsylvania were, ATHOS TERZANI and MICH- laid off in the New York port on, AEL PALUMBO, framed anti-fas- On Way to Jail ae | construction led on in an effort to break un he demonstration. Using bricks, pots and any- thing at hand the workers beat back the attack. A cap- tain and a few patrolmen were hurt. Families in the neighborhood wers driven from their homes which were filled by the gas clouds. At midnight workers were still massing undaunt- ed by the police attack, The demonstration against the foreclosure was organized by the Small Home Owners Federation. E. C. Greenfield, president of the Feder- ation, and Louis Cseh, branch secre- tary were arrested. Sparanga’s home had been fore- closed four times previously by the Tatra bank. Each time the Federa- tion mobilized the workers in the neighborhood and put the furniture back, Early Tuesday morning he was evicted again and the furniture re- moved a distance away to a shack. Five thousand workers braving the police forces tried all day to return the furniture to the house. They jammed the streets and held meet- ings calling the whole neighborhood to resist the foreclosure. A huge city wide demonstration willtake place on Public Sq. Friday, one in the afternoon. The Federation sent protests to Governor White and Mayor Miller in the name of its 20,- 000 members demanding that evic- tions be stopped, immediate relief given, all arrested workers released, and an investigation of the police attack. They demand the punishing of the police responsible for the at- tack and paying indemnity for all damages caused by them, ‘ U.S. May Finance New Soviet Cotton Deal WASHINGTON, July 19.—Sale ot one million bales of cotton to the Soviet Union, for about $55,000,000, ’s being considered today by the Re~ Finance Corporation, which would finance the deal. The terms would be for payment in six | years, The R, F. C. recently financed the sale of $5,000,000 worth of cotton to the Soviet Union, and those arrang- ing the deal said at that time they expected a much larger deal to be completed soon. Spain Reported Ready to Recognize U.S.S.R. Spain, July 19.—%# was unofficially announced here today that the Spanish govern- me*t has decided to recognize the Soviet Union. Jobless Insurance? Yes—ButWhatKind? Earl Browder will contrast the’ Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill and the fake schemes offered by the reformists and social fas- cists in his article “What Kind of Unemployment Insurance?” to appear in Saturday's special feat- ure issue of the Daily Worker. This article will be indispensable to all Communist Party members in winning support for the Workers’ Bill among the great masses of! American workers. July 8. All the workers were Fili-| clst workers being led to jail after pinos who had been employed by the| hearing at cyanea &