The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 26, 1933, Page 1

j f All Out to the “Daily” Picnic at Pleasant Bay Park on Sunday, July 30! Vol. X, No. 178 dine ‘Dail orker Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist International) Nazi Torture Ba on Page Read First-Hand Account of rracks Today Six THE WEATHER—Todff, probably showers; cooler} fresh, northerly winds. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1933 CITY EDITION “Price 3 Cents ROOSEVELT THREATENS WORKERS IN RADIO SPEECH ? e Who Will Lead These Strikes ‘HERE is a strike ferment throughout the United States, as Shown in Reading, Pennsylvania, where nearly the entire working class of that city took part. We can see it in the repeated textile strikes. Symptoms of it are clearly visible in the action of the steel workers in several plants | rejecting the slave code proposals, and moving to organization of their own. The bosses admit that a period of major strikes are opening up and are preparing to crush them, We know that the A. F. of L., the left reformists and socialists have been active in these strikes in lighter industries, especially in Reading. They have been leading these strikes. The workers remember that the A. F. of L. and left reformists as well as the socialists, led strikes during the crisis aiding the bosses to put over wage cuts. Wherever these ele- ments lead strikes, especially the left reformists, they have opened the way for Miss Perkins’ government conciliators, to end the strikes or the strikes led to diréct wage cuts and the defeat of the workers’ demands. * * * IN the major struggles that are impending, especially in the basic in- dustries, the A. F. of L., sensing the mass discontent, seeing the grow- ing influence of the revolutionary trade unions and the Communist Party, is coming in to win leadership of the strikes in order to behead them. The A. F. of L., with the aid of the left reformists and the socialists want to repeat in the steel industry’ the great betrayal of 1919. At that time, when a general strike was in full swing under the brilliant and heroic leadership of William Z, Foster, the. A. F. of L. knifed the steel workers, acting with the Wilson government to crush the strike and drive the workers back to the steel mills. Wage Cuts, ¢ Cuban MassStrugglesAgainst Starva tion Taxes Only Struggle of Workers Can Force Wage Increases and Jobless Insurance Chichiny Tree Kills Boy in Another Camp Tragedy Drops Talk of “Decent Sta ndard,” and Unem- ployment Insurance In Speech on Blanket Slave Code to Shackle All Workers WASHINGTON, July 25.—Appealing to the bosses’ | “opinion” and “conscience,” P resident Roosevelt in his na- tion-wide radio broadcast last night directed a severe attack against the entire working cla ss, especially against the un- employed, in their demand for unemployment insurance. PARTY AND Y.C.L. MEM-| | BERSHIP MEETING | All Party and Y. C. L.! members are asked to at-| | tend a joint Party and League membership meet-| | ing tonight, 8 p.m. at the! | Roosevelt's speech opened war-time propaganda campa the voluntary acceptance of a blanket code by the employers providing for wages aS low as $10.50 for a 35-hour week, without hearings, in order to prevent the expression of the work- ers’ resentment. Another Desperate Winter He warned the bosses that if they Pp | did not extend the stagger plan to | absorb a few more workers on their | Present payrolls “we will go into an- The A. F. of L. and the left reformists are moving towards the steel mills to repeat history. New Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Avenue. Comrades * THE question arises sharply: Who will lead these strikes in the basic industries? Who will prepare these strike struggles? There is a danger that the American Federation of Labor, now in the precess of an intensive organizational drive to head these struggles in order to behead them, will actually lead the strikes. Here we must take to heart the following expressions of the Open Letter to the members of the Communist Party: “The reformists and especially the Musteites are attempting in the most active manner to paralyze the influence of the Commu- nists by their own activity ... “The clearest expression of the failure to carry out this con- centration (in the basie indlustries) is the fact that during the past year the majority of strikes were led by reformists, while we made no serious attempts to get the leadership of these struggles away from them, thus abandoning the militant workers to the dis- organizing and disrupting activities of the reformists.” * * ET us see some of the facts. Viewing the action of sections of the Michigan and Gary steel workers in rejecting the slave codes, under the leadership of the revolutionary trade unions, the A. F. of L. is quickly moving into the field. In Gary they have established head- quarters right near the Communist Party office. The Chicago Federa- tion of Labor is carrying on a crafty organizational drive in the stock- yards, They hold open air meetings, try to parade under fhe slogan of organization of an “international” union. In many industries the workers have learned of the treachery of the A. F. of L., and have been staying shy of them, seeking independent forms of organization. There is a spontaneous move to organization, with some resistance to the betrayals of the A. F. of L. It is in these situations that the left reformists step in to cover the open strike- breaking face of the A. F. of L. This is especially true in the basic in- dustries, and it is here where the greatest danger lies and where the Open Letter has the deepest significance in calling for concentration on the basic shops and for the establishment of united front struggles to lead the workers into action on their day to day demands and away from the withering grasp of A. F. of L. and left reformist leadership. . S our activities in the basic industries increase we have the danger- ous situation of the A. F. of L., the socialists and left reformists hover- ing about the basic plants, in order to defeat the aims of the workers. But it is not such a simple matter to convince the workers of this by words alone. We must increase our activity a hundred fold to advance the in- it’al stages to higher and wider forms of struggling, to defeat the pur- poses of the A. F. of L., the Musteites and Socialists. ~ We must raise the loudest alarm in the ranks of the Party and the revolutionary trade unions, stressing the burning point in the Open Let- * * ter—centering our greatest energy, our strongest organizational forces, | our constant activity in the basic industries. We must sink our roots deeper among the workers in the basic industries, by day to day ac- tivity and organization, defeating the attempts of the socialists to repeat the betrayals of the past year on a larger scale. The answer to the question: “Who shall lead the strikes?” will be given by the activity of the Communist Party now in the critical period of the preliminary stages of the strike struggles, when the workers have not yet formed their ranks, when they have not yet allowed the A. F. of 1. to fasten its hooks on them. It will be answered by the intensity, by the understanding, the painstaking persistent day to day work of eur concentration of the basic industries. No Timé to Be Lost ‘HE further deepening of the most devastating economic crisis in history ‘which reflected itself in the most spectacular Wall Street crash since 1929, has spurred the big capitalist nations to speed up their drive toward imperialist war. The race for armaments has reached a frenzied stage during the past few weeks. Every day sees more ambitious flights to test the speed and flying range of air forces, In the United States the open glorification of Balbo, one of the chief assassins of the working class in Mussolinj’s fascist regime, takes place at the time of an intensified offensive against the standards of life of the toiling masses, which is also part of the war preparations. This threat to the workers of the whole world, this conspiracy to blast to pieces millions of the flower of the youth and young manhood of the working class and the poor farmers in behalf of imperialist plunder, must be met with the sternest resistance on the part of the toiling masses. * * * 'UCH a situation, wherein war is on the order of the day, imposes the heaviest responsibility upon the Communist Party as the revolution- ary vanguard of the working class, It is particularly essential that there be carried on the strongest resistance to any tendency to minimize the danger of imperialist war breaking out at any moment, August First, International Fighting Day Against Imperialist. War, can and must register a new high point in mass mobilization against the war-mongers. Days ago we pointed to the inadequacy of preparation for making this ‘a landmark in working class Struggles, Since then it must be frankly admitted that there has been no perceptible improvement. 4 government were also carried, | Jailed Demonstrating for Back Pay HAVANA, July 25.—Fearing mass indignation, the Cuban government has released the 15 public school | teachers thrown into Principe Fort- |ress following a demonstration of | teachers in front of the Department. |of Public Instruction. Many were | severely clubbed by the police. | The teachers have not been paid |for 11 months. They demanded a moratorium on the payment of for- eign debts, the budgeting of the | school payroll, and the release of Pro- | fessor Felipe Donate, who was sen- | tenced to prison for distributing lit- erature. The 15 teachers were arrested in the office of “El Pais,” a newspaper, where they had gone to report on the police attack on the demonstra- tion, After nearly a year of working without salaries, these Havana teachers paraded through the streets demanding their pay. Banners demanding the release of Professor Felipe Donate, imprisoned by the ‘Havana Teachers ‘Are’ Mass Protest Delays New Machado Tax Program | HAVANA, July 25.—Mass protest | against a new series of taxes which will increase the cost of living un- | bearably has forced the Cuban Con- gress to postpone consideration of the new tax program, Thousands demonstrated, and all stores were closed for six hours on the day when the tax proposals worked out by Premier Machado for approval by his puppet Congress came up. The Senate has already passed most of them. As a result the Congress did not mee}. The reason given was that a quorum was lacking. The Machado program includes a sharp increase in the sales tax on necessities, and in customs duties on many essential articles of consump- tion, | Japanese Bare Plot to! ‘Bomb Charlie Chaplin TOKIO, July 25—A plot to kill Charlie Chaplin, in the hope of precipitating a war between Japan and America, was revealed by Lieut. Koga, a witn here today at the trial of 10 naval of- ficers for the assassination of Premier Inukai in May 15, 1932. The plotters intended to bomb the residence of Premier Inukei during a r tion for Chapli: ing Japan at that time. The plan was abandoned when the reception was called offs | General Motors Corp. Squeezes $41,189,169 as Provocation to War! Profits from Workers NEW YORK.— Earnings of the General Motors Corporation rose ti $41,189,169 for the second quarter of 1933, or an increase of 800 per cent over the same quarter of last year, The increase in automobile pro- (duction stimulated by inflation did ‘not absorb many automobile work- } :, vers, and in many plants of General | Motors increased production was lobtained with a decrease in the number of workers employed. BERLIN, July 25.—The_ great growth of revolutionary action by the Communist Party of Germany has so alarmed the Hitler.govern- ment that every train was halted and every motor road closed throughout Germany at noon today, in a search for Communists. Many afrests were made, but the actual number was not given out. Police and Storm Troopers went through every train in Germany, and searched every car on the high- ways. . G Nazis Steal Church Votes BERLIN, July 25.—Wholesale ille- yal registration was charged against the Nazis today when it developed that the number of votes cast in Sunday's church elections was two So four times as great as the total wt the previous elections. Padded ists and terrorization explain the 5 per cent average vote cast for the 1 ‘Hitler Stops All Traffic to Halt Communist Activity who won the election. Oi Cw Foreign Papers Barred BERLIN, July 25—The German government has barred 254 foreign newspapers from admittance into Germany. They are from Europe, North and South America. Nine American papers are on the list, 66 from Czechoslovakia, 26 from Switzerland, 24 from Poland, 37 from Austria, 31 from France, 9 from the Soviet Union, and smaller numbers from other countries. Spanien Bosses Urged to Demonstrate BERLIN, July 25—In order to carry out the fiction of unity be- tween empléyers and workers in tree in a labor camp. The boy was a they are attempting to minimize the RELIEF BUREAUS CUT AID; START FIRST IN HARLEM ‘Unemployed | Councils Committee Is In | Albany Today NEW YORK.—While the special] session of the legislature convenes | today and city officials try to out- | | wardly give the appearance that re- lief is being distributed, the Home Relief Bureaus throughout the city started to eliminate families from getting relief. “The main center | chosen for relief cuts was Harlem,” | an investigator reported, where Ne- | gro families are first to feel the ef-!| fects of this attack. Each precinct was allotted a sum) of money far below the actual needs | for its cases. In instances where an | |investigator received money for 25) families, now enough is given for! only five. At least half of the active | cases are skipped. in some precincts | investigators are entirely removed. Investigators. were instructed by their superiors not to notify any family that relief will be cut. { When the boys went to the re- forestation camps their families were promised that the son’s income could |be used for rent. Instructions have now been issued that where rent is less than $25, the balance must be ‘used for food, | Committee in Albany Richard Sullivan, organizer of the | Unemployed Councils and Emanuel | Levin from the Workers Ex-service- | men’s League are now in Albany ar- | ranging for.the appearance of a mass | delegation before the state legislature. | They will make. every effort to draw | in all other unemployed organiza- | tions to present a united front for | the demand of a hearing before the legislature, and a program for | The scene at the funeral of Benjamin De Nois, killed by a falling death by having a company of soldiers at the funeral, | 115th St. (Daily Worker Staff Photo) member of the National Guard, and | government’s responsibility for the Grief Stricken Mother | Blames ‘Bad Times’ | for Death | By PASCUAL NEW YORK.—Another victim has been. claimed by the forced Jabor camps. = The funeral of Benjamin De Noia, killed by a falling tree in Camp 22,! near Peekskill, took place yesterday| morning from his late home, 413 E| Over and over again the mother of eight children repeated: “I brought him up 23 years; now be- cause we got no money, he has to go there and be killed.” | A dispossess proceeding had forced | the young worker to make desperate} efforts to get into the camp. The| family of ten and two destitute | cousins, compelled to live with them, had been cut off from the relief! eleven months ago. The investiga- | Earl Browder, Krumbein| | and Ford will lead a discus- sion on the open letter. All other meetings must be can- j celled. COAL MINERS ON STRIKE TO FORCE UNION PAY SCALE Relief Raised’ to $5 Weekly After Coal | Miners’. March WILKESBARRE, Pa. July 25.—| Two hundred. coal. miners, members of Local Union 1707 of the United Mine Workers, employed at the Riverside Colliery in Archbald, de- | cided to go on strike here to en-| force the colliery wage rate sheet agreed to by the operators and the | union. Miners are in revolt against the widespread practice of the coal operators to ignore the rates estab- | lished in the ‘union agreement. U.M. W.A. officials have assisted the coal operators in this game of fleecing the miners by refusing to conduct | any struggles against them. | The miners in Archbald are also | | | | relief case into the camp. His first| | camp check paid the rent of their! the miners turned out solidly on the | | slipped, gashed his head and the tree| tor made him change his name tO! striking for a limit of two cars per | Armano to have him accepted as a) man per shift for loading. A large | strike committee was elected and | present home near the East River.| picket line on the-first day-of the | Benjamin was on his way to the/ strike. Elected committees of min- | assigned post in the woods with two| ers are seeing workers in other col- | other recruits last Thursday, when|lieries of the same company to/| they suddenly heard a tree crashing) spread the strike. The strike is be- | downward directly in their path.| ing led by a rank and file opposi- | They turned and ran back. Ben| tion. | Unemployed Force Relief came smashing down, fracturing his! ‘The Lackawanna County miners skull and breaking his jaw. | who marched on the U.M.W.A. Dis- | The state forester had been called) trict convention and to the County | away from this tree by the superin-| court house for relief forced the re- tendent while he was sawing it down,! lief authorities to raise the amount | and the De Nois family gave this as| of relief for the whole county from the direct cause of the boy's death. $10 to $15 a month to $5 a week. Just as in the case of the boy mur-| Marches are being prepared by the | dered in the Yellowstone Park camp| Unemployed Councils on’ the relief | by a petty officer, the authorities are| boards throughout the county to, “still investigating” the death, at-|make demands ofr shoes, clothing, tempting at the same time to white-| Tent, gas and water bills to be paid wash the camp from any. blame. by the state relief board. | Without giving the boy much first! ae aid treatment he was rushed nine! camp and couldn’t go any place. miles in an army truck over the ter-| “But he was willing to stick it out,” rible mountain road to a hospital in| Cold Springs. The truck was splashed | with blood after they got there. He died three days later, scarcely re-| gaining consciousness. | Benjamin had been in the, camp) immediate relief and unemployment six weeks and constantly wrote back Ansurance. | to his mother that the food was ter-| The Unemployed Councils in a rible, that he wanted to come home,| statement point out that “the work- that they were kept confined to the ers’ delegation Will ask of the state | legislature that they demand of the! ——-- Federal government the enactment | of the Workers’: Unemployment In-| R ed Ban surance Bill.” i PERKINS’ REQUEST RED BANK, N. J., July 25.—Work- jers of the Sigmund Eisner Co. em- ‘ | ployed at making army and police NEW YORK. — David Dubinsky, | uniforms on government contract, president of the International La- | who struck yesterday against sweat- |dies’ Garment Workers’ Union to-' shop conditions were on the picket day complied with the request of|line this morning. They refuse to Frances Perkins, U. S. Secretary of|accept the terms of the Roosevelt labor and agreed to postpone the | blanket code as a basis for the set- strike of the garment workers | tlement of the On the pick- against the piece-work system. This ot line they face:! a cordon of police is a tactic of the officials to force | ang provocation of scabs in the the workers to accept the piece-|niant but their lines remained in- work system to which the officials eee Dut ctrike, k Strikers STRIKE AT to Accept Slave Code Terms jing to organize the plant. He was said his brother Joe, “and he didn’t know a thing about chopping down trees. And now they killed him.” But it was the pale-lipped, tear- exhausted mother who gave the real | explanation of her son’s death. “I loso my boy on account of bad times,” she said, “if not bad times, | my son no have to go away, and he be here with me now.” Refuse wages. The. working week is sup- | posed to be 47 hours here but the strikers work from 57-60 hours. The company has been firing older work- ers who could not make the grade. Alice Bennet, 63, worked at the plant for 20 years and was fired when che could not earn $10 a week on piece work. Frank Ingrassio worked at the plant for 25 years and was fired when it was found that he was try- earning about $7°_ week. Germany, employers are urged to take part in the forced parades which are organized by the hun- | dreds throughout Germany to “dem- onstrate” the enthusiasm of the German masses for Fascism. Work- |ers who do not join the parades By Dubinsky’s own admission, the employers in the industry are mak- ing up their fall garments already and will rush to finish their work in order to be better able to hold out against the strike. The action - tact. are committed by secret agreement | “After their first meeting at the TS ee eee oan ursanrers: Town school hell yesterday the |strikers were informed that the au- | ditorium would not be available to |them again. School authorities used j the flimsy excuse that the strikers | Were smoking. The hall is frequent- Other examples of the tyranny of | this company are: described by the workers, John J. Quinn, spokesman for the jcompany and at present Democratic | chairman of Monmouth County, de- clared today that the company was other desperate winter.” The brunt of his attack was contained in the following paragraphs: “While we are making this great common effort there should be no discord and dispute. This is no time to cavil or question the stand- ard set by this universal agreement. It is time for patience and under- standing and co-operation. “The workers of this country have rights under this law which cannot be taken from them, and nobody will be permitted to whittle them away, but on the other hand no aggression is now necessary to attain those rights. “The whole country will be united to get them for you. The principle that applies to the employers ap- Plies to the workers as well, and I ask you workers to co-operate in the same spirit.” ‘These general terms hiding the iron fist behind the demagogic velvet Giove tell the starving millions of unemployed “this is no time to cavil or question the standard” of starva- tion. Do not demand unemployment insurance, says Roosevelt. “It is time for patience and understanding and co-operation.” Empty Rights To the unemployed he says “you have rights.” But do not dare to ex- ercise those rights as we will consider that:as aggression and you will fecl the heavy hand of the strike-break- ing government. Accept the $10.50 starvation standard to feed your family . on. Co-operate with the bosses, Roosevelt tells the workers that Morgan & Co., the General Motors, Sears Roebuck & Co., the coal barons, will unite to get your rights for you. But you remain quiet and obedient while we shackle this new slave law on you. When he first saw the industrial | Tecovery act, Roosevelt spoke about “decent living standards,” and prom- ised “to put millions of men back in their regular jobs this summer.” Vorgets Decent Standards But in his bombastic radio speech he fails to say anything about “de- cent living standards.” He fails to admit the failure to provide jobs for millions in the summertime, but Promises jobs for the winter to keep the unemployed from demanding ré- lief and unemployment insurance, He points to his forced labor camps as an example of helping the unem- ployed. “We appropriated $500,000,000.. to supplement their (the cities’) efforts and in addition, as you know, we have put 300,000 young men into Practical and useful work in our for- ests and to prevent flood and soil erosion. The wages they earn are going in greater part to the support ; of the nearly one million people who constitute their families.” When reading Roosevelt’s “solu- tion” for unemployment every worker should recall the provisions of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill and use it as an answer to Roose~ velt's stagger and starvation schemes. The Workers’ Unemployment In- surance Bill provides that the fed- eral government immediately adopt. unemployment insurance providing Aot less than $10 weekly for adult workers, and $3 for each dependent to all workers wholly unemployed through no fault of their own, with- out discrimination. The insurance to be paid at the expense of the employers and the government, the administration of the bill to be by the workers. Part-time workers ‘CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Fascist Air Fleet Hops Off for Rome NEW YORK, July 25—One of Italo Balbo’s 24 seaplanes was foreed down at Rockland, Me., on the first leg of the Fascist armas — This lagging behind cyents must be overcome by utilizing to. the full the | “azi church ticket. |and demonstrations lose their jobs.|of the board of the cloakmakers’ ly used for social purposes. * backing up the president's recovery remaining days before August First for the most intensive work to bring into action throughout the whole country on that day, the largest num- bers that have ever engaged in mass struggle. Tne of the ten members of the upreme Church Council resigned osterday, refusing to surrender to -he Fascist “German Christians,” | Now to carry the fiction further, the bosses are also urged to take part, by Dr. Ley, chief of the Nazi “La- dor Front.” union in accepting the government | About 350 workers joined the Am- dictate to call off the strike was algamated Clothing Workers Union taken without consulting the work-|'today. They are determined to fight program 100 per cent and is offer- ing a $13 minimum wage and a 40- hour week in accordance with the ers, against the terrific speed-up and low government code, da's return flight to Italy. The fly= ing fleet left Jamaica Bay, New York, at 10 a.m. today, making) for Shediac, New Brunswick, vi