The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 3, 1933, Page 1

+ = Is the Daily Worker on Sale at Your Union Meeting? Your Club Headquarters? orker (Section of the Communist International) nist Party U.S.A. Get A Regular Subscription from Every Member of Your Organization WEATHER—Showers today, and cooler; westerly winds. Vol. X, No. 185 _—* Entered a4 second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1873. NEW YORK, THURSD AY, AUGUST 3, 1933 (Four Page s) CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents COMMUNISTS NOMINATE ROBERT MINOR FO Terror and the ee Strike- Breaking in the Coal Fields or miner is dead and 18 were seriously wounded by gun fire and poison gas as a result of the brutal attack of the armed forces against the striking miners. Governor Pinchot is sending more éroops. It has al- ready been clearly demonstrated, as was to be expected, that the National Guard was sent in for the purpose of breaking up the ‘picket lines, while the company thugs and company controlled sheriffs continue to brow- beat and attack the miners, and protect the scabs imported to break the strike. But in spite of this brutal attack the miners are holding fast. They are determined in their struggle. They realize that only through their united struggle can they win improved conditions. As we stated yesterday, the sharpening of the-struggle exposes more and more the role of the various elements in the strike. The bosses, the powerful open shop Frick Coal Company are determined to maintain the conditions of slavery in the coal fields. This subsidiary of the U. S. Steel Corporation and other powerful coal companies do not stop at the murder of the miners in order to maintain their profits sweated out of the miners. The government is at the service of the open shoppers. Now General Johnson is entering the scene and promises the end of the strike immediately following his speech in Harrisburg Wednesday. The miners by now should be well prepared to stop the breaking of their strike by Johnson. UT above all the latest events have exposed the U.M.W.A. officials. Im- mediately following the plea to the miners not to strike made by the local leaders yesterday. John L. Lewis, the arch strikebreaker, took a direct hand in the strike. He had the following to say about the strike: “The U.M.W.A. do not intend to have this guerilla warfare con- tinue indefinitely.” . After characterizing the heroic fight of the miners as guerilla war- fare tt is clear that John L. Lewis makes a peldge to break the strike. He further apologizes for the strike by stating, “Our representatives are | working to get those men Back to work,” referring to the strike of the | Pittsburgh Terminal miners who struck despite the plea of Pat Fagan that they remain on the job. It is clear that against the miners are arrayed not only the operators and the government forces but also the Lewises and Fagans. Only through the united ranks of the miners themselves, fighting on a clear-cut program of economic demands, and through mass action can the miners carry their fight to a successful conclusion.. Any reliance on the U.M.W.A. leaders, on Governor Pinchot, on General Johnson, can only lead to the defeat of the miners. The agreement arrived at the | Pinchot-U.M.W.A. leaders conference to organize 2000 “U.M.W.A. guides” to enforce the limitations on picketing and miners demonstrations is a complete abandonment of mass picketing. It above all shows the U.M.W.A. leaders are organizing bands of their trusted and mislead miners to act as, a force against the militant miners, and against the militant activ- ities of the N, M. U. . As National Miners Union, the organization that since the Lewis be- trayal of 1927-1928, alone has been carrying on the fight in the in- ! terests of the miners is doing everything possible to unite the ranks of | the miners, to expose the misleaders and to carry on an effective struggle of the miners. The N.M.U. appeals to the miners to stand together, to elect their own rank and file mine strike committees and committees for the whole strike. These committees should be elected by all the miners, irrespective of their union affiliation. The miners themselves shall de- | termine which union they wish to join, the U.M.W.A. or the N.M.U. | The miners United Front Conference that will take place in Pitts- burgh on August 12th and 13th must be the gathering of representatives of miners from the locals of the U.M.W.A., N.M.U,, unorganized miners for the purpose of uniting the miners’ ranks in the whole of the Pennsyl- vania soft coal fields for a fight to victory fag @e miners’ demands. The Next Step in Steel HE largest basic industry in the country, steel, involving the living conditions and lives of 500,000 workers, went through its hearings on the steel trusts’ slave code like the whiz of an arrow. Why this haste, and why the mysterious sudden clamping down on the steel hearings, when Roosevelt went to so much pe‘rs to tell the workers that everybody would have a “full and fair hear'ng” before the codes were adopted? Trouble is fast brewing in the steel industry because the workers, wracked With four years of crisis, wage-cuts, speed-up, are stirring into action and are in no mood to accept meekly the new slave code proposed by Morgan & Co. | It was immediately after John Meldon, secretary of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union presented the real demands of the steel workers, exposing the spy system in the mills, that the hearings closed. eg ate whole hearing was a shut and closed proposition, pre-arranged -be- forehand through dozens of secret conferences between Gen. Johnson, Lamont and Taylor, representatives for the steel trust, Miss Perkins and William F. Green, president of the A. F. of L. After the show had been put on as window dressing for the real deeds behind the scene, the hear- | ings were shut tight. 4 | Here the role of the A. F. of L. leadership showed itself in its true | | strikebreaking fashion. The A. F. of L. accepted Lamont’s statement that the company union clause would be withdrawn as a “victory”, when La- mont himself said this would not budge one inch the traditional company | union policy of the steel trust. Only after John Meldon put forward the stgel werkers’ demands did Green, after the hearings were closed sneak in a request for a 30-hour week at 60 cents an hour. " . * . UT the most important step of the A. F. of L., foreshadowed before the steel hearings in the move to organize company unions with A. | F. of L. labels, was that in which the A. F. of L. leaders connivéd with | the steel bosses to prevent real trade union organization in the steel | mills. The A. F. of B, is being drawn into the maneuvers of the steel trust to act as official strikebreaker whenever that becomes necessary. ‘When the workers enter struggle, the A. F. of L. will be brought in offict- ‘lly to lead, in order to smash the strike. It will be permitted to form its company unions with A. F. of L, labels. In other plants the A. F. of L., still kept out, will put up the bluff of a struggle to get the bosses to accept the A. F. of L. as the most efficient, company union. ‘The steel trust adheres to its policy of company unions. But in fear and great alarm, not only because of the growing strike sentiment in its own industry, but because of the strike in the coal fields which it also controls, it finds it cannot depend only on its company union form to browbeat the workers. It finds it is necessary to dicker with the A. F. of L. to come to its aid. : ‘The steel workers, who by the thousands supported the demands of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, must build their own union to fight for these demands. There is only one code for the steel work- ers. That is the code written by themselves. It was drawn up at many | meetings of the steel workers, called by the Steel and Metal Workers | Industrial Union. There is only one way to obtain it. That is through struggle—struggle in every steel plant, involving all steel workers, build- ing up plant committees, organizing their ranks, defeating the strike- ‘breaking attempts of the A. F. of Ly t ’ | out today. LEWIS CALLS “MEN BACK — TO WORK” AS MORE JOIN 40,000 IN MINE STRIKE | Set Up Machine Guns at Star Junction; Another Miner Expected to Die from Deputies Attack PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 2—Two additional mines were added to the list of those on strike when miners of the Beth-| lehem Mines Corporation at Ellsworth and Bentleyville walked | The Marianna mines of the same company came out yesterday. It is estimated that over 40,000 miners are in- | said it would work under the Roose- ‘MEET OF “DAILY” | night of the Volunteer Builders of | days has been receiving names of ‘ thenselves the task of building the IRON, AUTO MEN STRIKE Falls Rubber Workers Out In Cuyahoga ~ Falls Plant A.F.L. OPPOSES WALKOUT CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 2. Strikes here are spreading to | the auto plants and iron indus- tries. Over 1,500 workers in the |Hupp Motor Car Corporation today went on strike demand- ing higher wages and lower hours. In the Van Dorn Iron Works, 125 workers went out on strike demand- ing higher wages. They came to D. P. McMahon, business representative of the International Association of Machinists, an A. F. of L. organiza- tion asking for leadership. McMahon advised the workers to go back to work and “organize”. The Hupp Motor Car Corporation velt auto code, and is trying to get the workers back to work on this ground, ae ee Rubber Workers Strike. AKRON, Ohio, Aug. 2. — Three hundred workers of the Falls Rubber Co. at Cuyahoga Falls today went on strike, demanding higher wages and better conditions. 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Discussion from the floor will follow the speakers, Agreeing with the need of build- ing the Daily Worker into a mass workers’ paper, I volunteer as a member of this organ’z+tion, Vol- unteer Builders of the Daily Worker: Name ...seeeeeers Address ... Phone Mail or bring this coupon to the district Daily Worker office, 35 E. 12th St. Send your suggestions in regard to building the above or- ganization to Louis Fisher, care Daily Worker, 35 E. 12th St., New York City, M4 men and women marched through Ellsworth in a picket demonstration. The striking mine area gives the appearance of an armed camp. At Colonial No. 3 mine of the Frick Coke company at Star Junction two ma- chine gun companies set up their apparatus in strategic positions | ready for action at a moment’s no- tice. Besides Louis Padorsky who was killed yesterday, some of the | others are seriously wounded. Ben | Brown, 45, who stood near Padorsky, was shot in the back. At Star Junc- | tion where six were shot, one of them, John Mattey, 44, was seriously wounded and is not expected to live. Mattey was wounded in the abdomen, chest, neck and wrist. At all the picket lines the women have added considerable strength. They stood by with their men folk fighting back the gas attacks laid | by the deputies and National guards- | men, A promise to send in more militia in the strike area was made by Pin- chot yesterday. This decision was reached after conference with officials of the U.M.W.A. The governor and union officials decided in addition to organize “union guides”. This is to consist of a corps of about 2,000: men close to the union bureaucracy and will undoubtedly include many mis- led miners. These “union guides” are to augment the National Guards and deputies in “curbing the activity and number” of pickets. It is clear from this that Lewis wants to use a small section of the miners to directly aid in smashing the strike. The agreement to organize the “union guides” was signed by Gover- nor Pinchot; Philip Murray, interna- tional vice-president of the U.M.W. of A.; James Mark, president of Dis- trict 2; Frank Hughes, of district 3; William Feeney of district 4, and Pat Fagan, district 5. John Lewis is busily engaged in operation to break the strike. Speak- ing about the strike in the Pittsburgh Terminal Mines, Lewis said, representatives are working to get those men back to work. They were caught in the conflagration.” But the miners in the Pittsburgh Terminal are out one hundred per cent in the strike. Pat Fagan, presi- dent of district 5, was forced to sit down by the strikers at number 8 and 9 mines, when he told the men at a meeting to return to work. Social Insurance in The Soviet Union In Saturday’s “Daily” Only two days are left to rush in orders for Saturday's edition of the Daily Worker, which will devote a full page to the Un- employment Insurance cam- | paign. The program outlined by the National Committee of the Unemployed Councils will be printed in full in this issue, An article on Soclal Insurance in the Soviet Union is one of the features for this special page. Rush your order to the Daily Worker, 35 East 12th Street, New York City, a i MAYOR Fight for Relief of Starving J obless by Taxing Rich Is Keynote of Campaign MRS. W. BURROUGHS (Candidate for Comptroller) ROBERT MINOR (Candidate for Mayor) BEN GOLD (Candidate for sident of Board of Aldermen) Gold, Leader of NTWIU, Runs for Aldermanic Head Mrs. Burroughs, Negro "Teacher, Candidate for Comptroller NEW YORK.-—Robert Minor, {member of the Central Com- | mittee of the Communist Party and a fighter for many years |in the ranks of militant labor, |was yesterday selected as the |candidate for Mayor of New | York Gity in the coming. elec- | tion. | The announcement of the nomi- | nation was made by the District INDICT ON 2nd DEGREE MURDER CHARGE: New Defense Commit- tee to Defend Framed ‘Anti-Fascist NEW ¥ORK-—Athos Terzani, framed anti-fascist worker, was in- dicted for second degree murder yes- terday before a special grand jury TERZANI Oiaae Washers Strike Against ‘Recovery’ Act CAMDEN, N. J., August 2—When {the bosses of the Congress Cigar Co., posted up notices in the plant tha the employers had accepted the ; Roosevelt blanket code ising | wages and lowering” hours, 1,200 workers went on strike, recognizing in this fake maneuver .a deficit cut in wages. The strike was against the Roose- ;velt slavé code. Under the code, the sses were able to cui piece rates. in Long Island City, charged. with” rhe workers are striking for $1 per | Committee of the Communist Party |of the New York District, which at CITY SALES TAX | the, seme tine named Ben Gots, | | secretary of the Needle Trades Work- | }ers Industrial Union, as candidate iTO AD T AMM ANY |for President of the Board of Alder- | aietdi at | men, and Mrs. Williana Burroughs, | Tey | Negro teacher and member of the | CITY HALL GANG | executive committee of the Teachers’ | Union, as candidate for Comptroller. ! grey efi Mrs. Burroughs was recently dis- One Cent More Piled | missed frfom the public school sys- | tem by the Tammany Board of, Edu- On Burdens of New |cation for her militancy among the rk? teachers and for her activity on be- York’s Masses | halt of the Scottsboro boys. — A full list of candidates for all mu- ALBANY, August 2. — The state | nicipal offices will be completed for senate yesterday had before it a bill | the election, it is announced, and the approved by Governor Lehman and | most aggressive campaign ever or- Mayor John P. O’Brien to make the | ganized by the Communist Party is toiling masses of New York City bear | now being mapped out with the par- | “our | the shooting and killing of Antonio Fierro, anti-fascist student who was murdered by. Art Smith's Philedel-' . phia Khaki Shirts in Astoria last month. Simultaneously with the indictment friends of Terzani announced the formation of the “Terzani Defense Committee” with headquarters at 94 Fifth Ave. in New York. The witnesses against Terzani yes- terday were Art J. Smith, com- | mander-in-chief of the Khaki Shirts, | and 19 other members of his “citizen army” from Philadelphia. It was on| Smith’s complaint before Magistrate August Dreyer on July 19 that Ter- Washington to get government co- | Zn! was held for the Grand Jury. Smith accused Terzani of shooting at him and of hitting Fierro by mis- take, Norman Thomas has h<2n invited to be chairman of the Terzani De- fense Committee, and has agreed to serve contingent upon approval by the New York District Sccialis Party’s executive committee. Othe: organizations represented in the de- fense committee are the American Civil Liberties Union, the Interna- tional Labor Defense, the General Defense Committee and the Italian Defense Committee. é Michael Palumbo and Forte Val- lone, Anti-Fascists who were present at the meeting when Fierro was killed, were summoned before the grand jury, but because they refused to waive immunity they were not allowed to testify. Palumbo, who identified the slayer in the presence of several policemén a few minutes after the tragedy, pointed him out again yesterday in the Queens County Court House. But Palumbo's declaration was ig- nored by Lasealzo, the district attor- ney. ‘ The indictment of Terzani, whose case is likened to that of Sacco and Vanzetti, on a second degree mur- der charge, carries with it a life sentence if workers and anti-fascists do not rally to smash the frame-up against him. {thousand cigars, instead of the slave (code rate of 75 cents per thousand, 35-hour week, and a minimum | wage of $14 per week. | COMPANY UNION | METHODS ADDED 10 COTTON CODE WASHINGTON, D. C., August 2. —Using the stretch-out investigation in the cotton mills as an entering wedge, the National Recovery Ad- ministration made a final amend- ment in the cotton textile code for arbitration, by company union meth- ods, of all working conditions in every cotton mill in the country. This machinery set up today is pected to be a model for all recovery (slavery) codes in every industry. According to the cotton textile code amendment, individual factory committees of the management and employes in every mill will take up| all disagreements. Appeals can be made by either side to a state board to be appointed by the Recovery Ad- ministration? and from the State) Board appeals can be made to a National Board of Industrial Rela- tions, the personnel of which is to be named by Gen. Johnson. All decisions of the National Board, it is specifically stated in the code,| administered by the Controller for| Minor became knor1 are to be final. 1,300 Needle Workers Strike In Cleveland CLEVELAND, Aug. 2.—A strike of 1,300 garment workers is on in this city and is spreading to the Bloomfield Company at Canton and Minerva, Ohio. In the same city other important strikes broke out in auto and iron plants. A.F.L., Gov’t, Steel Trust, Seek to Fore By JOHN MELDON (Secretary Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union and leader of the steel workeee’ delegation to Wash- ington) WASHINGTON, Aug. 1—The state- ment of Robert P. Lamont, head of the Morgan-controlled Steel and Tron Institute, at the hearings on the steel code that “We still believe in the employees’ representative plan,” means that the steel trust intends to maneuver on two fronts against the workers’ right to organize militant unions, through the company union, on the one hand, and the American Federation of Labor, cn the other. The A. F. of L. is being pushed to the front by the steel trust and the goveryment in an attempt to stem the rising tide of struggle in the steel industry and the extreme «dis- content, leading to the growth of the Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union in many centers, Pre-Arranged Hearing Ths whole hearing obviously is a!’ John Meldon, Secretary of Metal Union, Sums Up Steel Hearing and Role of A. F. of L.; Workers Organizing, He Says set-up and was pre-arranged. We can expect a tremendous drive on the part of the A. F. of L., sup-) ported by the capitalist press, ‘the steel companies and the government to begin immediately. ‘The steel trust intends to main- tain the company union system, but under the A. F. of L. label. A. F. of L. Leaders Agree William Green’s canned speech, kowtowing to Lamont, was followed by the entire list of A. F. of L.! speakers declining the floor, present-' ing instead briefs and statements ap- proving Green’s speech. This shows the line-up of the A. F. of L. behind the steel trust. The government and the steel trust expect big struggles scon in steel, as le evident do theis apecches ab ihe Rearing. The effect on our union campaign, especially against the steel barons’ slave code, is felt in Washington. Frances Perkins, secretary of labor, in the press conference again read and analyzed our code, stating that it was “reasonable but debatable in parts.” Reads Workers’ Codes Reading our code to the national press conference, demonstrates that the government is aware of the ef- fects of the code and the growing influence of the Steel and Metal Workers’ Indusirial Union. The hearings adjourned abruptly to prevent the opposition element, the small steel producers, from up- setting the hearing, and especially to bloas the workers from exposing the stall o— the burden of an additional one per | cent sales tax. The bankrupt con-| dition to which Tammany has} |brought the city administration is | |thus to be overcome by taking fooc | | out of the mouths of workers, large | |numbers of whom are already exist- | | ing on hunger rations. | Result of Conspiracy | For weeks there was some dis: agreement among the Tammany cit; administration and the state ad- ministration as to whether an addi- | tional tax should be imposed upon all the state to meet the demands of the Wall Street bankers for money on their inyestments in New York City bonds. The Lehman ad- ministration was afraid such a tax| would meet with too much opposi- | tion from up-state and endanger | their hold on the state. The bill introduced yesterday was the result of a pact entered into by Governor Lehman and ‘Corporation | Counsel Hilly of New York City, to enable the city, through action of its municipal assembly, to levy a city retail sales tax. Unemployment Fund Swindle At the same time this conspiracy is put over Tammany tries to pave | the way for its election campaign | by lyingly stating that the sales tax | \is to raise-funds for unemployment jTelief. The bill contanis a “joker” | which reads that “the proceeds from |any levies imposed by the city must. be set aside in a special fund to be} |unemployment relief payments, or | jfor the retirement of securities is- | | sued to provide funds for that pur- | | pose.” The latter part of the clause | | means the fund can be used to re-| | tire avy securities, because they can | | all be interpreted as having “aided” | the jobless by furnishing jobs even | |for a handful of Tammany hangers- | jon. | It is estimated that from $18,000,- | 000 to $20,000,000 will be gouged out | {of New York consumers by such a ‘tax. Steel Strike | steel trust's slave code. The government was afraid of our delegation in the audience, represent- ing thousands of steel workers. Our offer to produce documentary evidence in the hearing providing that the spy system of the steel trust is in| operation compromised Perkins, and | a continuation of the hearing would mean they would have to listen to/| this evidence. A Hasty Conference The Steel Institute officials con- ferred hastily with the National Re- covery Administration officials after | the spy statement exposure and the | hearing was adjourned soon after- wards. The Steel and Métal Workers’ In- dustrial Union will conduct an inten- | sified campaign of organization and struggle immediately, exposing the hearing and the maneuvers of the steel trust, the A. F. of L. and the government, and organizing the workers to win their demands against the Roosevelt starvation program. | approximate! ticipation of representatives of trade unions, unemployed councils and other workers’ organizations. Relief Is Keynote The fight for immediate relief and Unemployment Insurance for the | starving millions of New York City and a vigorous drive against the en- slavement of the workers through the slave codes under the National “Recovery” Act, will be the mainsprings of the Communist mayoralty campaign, was ale nounced. In demanding that the city's une employed and their dependenis be fed and housed through taxation of the rich, a sharply graduated income tax and a capital levy, the District Committee charges that “with a rev~ enue of $1,200,000,000 per year, and with a‘millidén working people starv- ing, the city government pays out y $300,000,000 to bankers and bondho! in‘the form of in- terest, amortization, ete, while spending only about $1,500,000 per month for relief of the unemployed it |from the city. More money is stolen in graft by Tammany politicians then is used out of the city treasury to relieve mass starvation Militant Leader In selecting Minor to be its stan- dard bearer in the mayoralty cam- paign the Communist Party has put forward a workingclass leader who has participated in scores of militant actions of labor. As far back as 1916 to millions throughout the Un’ cd States as the organizer of tho rst Tom Mooney Defense Committee, and during re- cent years has been clubbed and arrested for his activity on behalf of thé starving unemployed. In 1930 Minor, together with William Z. Foster, I. Amter and Harry Raymond served six months in prison for lead- ing the unemployed to the City Hall, following a demonstration at Union Square in which more than 100,000 | workers participated. His imprison- ment and persecution in Welfare Island and Rikers Island nearly re- sulted in Minor’s death. A Vigorous statement outlining the issues of the coming mayoralty cam- paign accompanied the anngunce- ment of the nomination of Minor, Gold and Mrs. Burroughs, Mass Starvation “With more than a million mem- bers of workingclass families of New York being submerged in starvation, and evictions being ordered by the city government at the rate of 20,000 per month,” the statement said, “it is necessary for the workers of New York to use their ballots in this elec- tion as a form of pressure for con- cessions to meet their most urgent (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) No Playgrounds, 3-Yr. Old Killed on Street NEW YORK.—Danny Kline, three- | year-old son of a worker, forced to play in the streets because of the absence of playgrounds, was struck © by a truck Tuesday morning at the corner of Fackman Street and Sutter Avenue and killed. j