The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 4, 1933, Page 1

A Special Page on the Fight for Social Insurance in Saturday’s ‘Daily’ Daily (Section of the Communist International) rker “The New Moses,” a Satire Will Be Among the Features in Saturday’s ‘Daily’ THE WEATHER—Probably showers; cooler with fresh northeast winds. Vol. X, No. 186 -_ Hnbered ns second-class matter at the Post Office st New York, N. ¥., umder the Act of March 8 279, ~NEW YORK, , FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1933 Four Pages) - CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents cf nila in New York. It is the business of every catega’y of workers. Especially the marine ‘workers of this, the biggest seaport of the world, the metal workers and the transportation workers must make use of this election campaign for the strengthening of their organizations, pushing forward their econ- omic demands, and making themselves a powerful force in the political life’in New York. More than that: The Communist Party, which is the only party that fights for the equal rights of Negro workers, is also the only party that fights for the rights of the Negro masses as a people, It is, there- fore, the business of every militant Negro in New York, especially the Yorking class members of this persecuted people to make himself or herself a belligerant fighter for the party which has, especially through the bold defense of the Scottsboro case, raised the banner of liberation of the whole Negro people. . : ba Communist election campaign will be organically connected with the whole struggle and all of the struggles of the working class— and those of the white collar and intellectual workers, teachers, etc., who are foreed now to fight for the very right to live. - * . " 'T.1IS absolutely necessary to force through in this campaign, by mass pressure at the relief stations and on the streets, the granting of the tens and hundreds of millions of dollars which are imperatively needed to Prevent the starvation and actual death of thousands of workers and their children. This will be the very heart of the election struggle of the Communist Party. ‘The Communist Party is the revolutionary party, not an opportunistic seeker of political offices at the sacrifice of the interests of the work- ing class. We seek office only as the agents of the revolutionary work- ing class, directing our efforts not to conserve the interests of the capi- talist state and system, but to fight for the interests of the working class in the immediate present and for the destruction of the capitalist system. Every struggle for wages and conditions of labor—every struggle against Roosevelt's slave Codes—the ghastly reality of which is now beginning to be clear to the New York workers—must be a part of the Communist election campaign. * * * '¥Y member of the Communist Party, bearing in mind the recent Open Letter to the Party from the Extraordinary Party Conference, must throw himself into this election campaign determined to reflize in the campaign the full and fundamental change for the improvement of our Party work that is called for by the Open Letter. But the campaign is not to be only a campaign engaged in by Com- muynist Party members. The Communist Party election campaign belongs to every worker in New York; Non-Party workers, members of trade unions and other mass organizations—and especially we will emphasize, honest working class members of the Socialist Party—should be drawn into an enthusiastic and stubborn struggle for those crying needs of our class which must be forced from the hands of the Wall Street rulers during these terrible months of suffering. The three candidates already nominated, Robert Minor, Ben Gold and Williana Burroughs are themselves as veteran leaders of the class struggles, representative of the needs of the New York toiling popula- tion. It must be a campaign of the revolutionary Communist Party in every sense of the word—and therefore the campaign of the working class itself against the Wall Street bandits who rule this city. The Strike-Breaking General ‘ENERAL JOHNSON took a flying trip to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, i ‘Thursday, for the sole purpose of breaking the strike of 50,000 coal miners who are fighting for higher wages, better conditions and union recognition. ‘As soon as Johnson arrived in Washington after his visit to Harris- burg, he closeted himself in his office in a secret meeting with Thomas Moses, president of the H. C. Frick Coke Company, a subsidiary of the United States Steel, and John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine | Workers of America, and Edward F. McGrady, associate recovery ad- | ministrator. The purpose of this meeting was to report on the initial failure of Johnson to end the strike by his bully-ragging speech, and to plan further and more drastic steps to smash the strike. Why did General Johnson take a direct hand in the sharpest labor struggle to spring up since the Roosevelt slavery plan was inaugurated? On July 14) the Annalist, organ of the big bosses, wrote that the fate | of the National Industrial Recovery Act would be decided in the coal | flelds. It now turns out that strike-breaking becomes the chief role of the National Recovery Administration. In a speech at Harrisburg before the State Chamber of Commerce, the State Manufacturers Association and the leaders of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor, Johnson showed his callous brutality. In the speech he revealed the determination of the Roosevelt administration to end the strike by any means, using the most drastic force of the federal govern- ment, if the maneuvers of John L. Lewis, and other U.M.W.A. officials fail. * * * H a 50,000 miners are striking against starvation. But General Jolm- son says: “I am indifferent to the causes of the strie. The strike must end!” General Johnson’s strike-breaking trip to Pennsylvanfa is not an isolated act in the Roosevelt program. At the very same time, the United Press reported that a National Board had been set up in Washington to “deal” with sueh strikes, or to prevent the workers from striking for higher wages. * * * reason thas Johnson rushes to the coal fields to break the strike of the 50,000 miners is because this strike gives added force’ to the | rising strike spirtt of the entire working class, and especially because it | so intimately affects the steel workers who are moving towards struggle. | It is for the same reason that a victory of the coal miners is of the greatest importance to every worker in the country. Every worker must ‘} Come to the support of the miners. Every worker must fight against ve and expose the role of the government and the A. F. of L. Not For Sale @| letter has been received from the Workmen's Sick and Death Benefit Fund inquiring whether the opinion of THE DAILY WORKER is “That the W. 8. & D. B. F. should continue to advertise in your ~~ publication if same is continually attacked as a reactionary or- ganization in the columns of the DAILY WORKER, to which no | Feyolutionary worker should belong.” The letter refers to facts printed in our paper regarding the evictions of families from homes owned by that organization. By its own admis- sion through its official organ, “Solidarity”, we have statements that two workers were evited at 556 Fox Street and a third eviction will take place. The excuse given is that the tenants were undesirable. Such an “explanation” will satisfy no worker. » However, the National Secretary of the Workmen’s Sick and Death ‘Benefit Fund is wrong when he tries to imply that there has been or will be any attack on workers who are members of that organization. In fact, we appeal to the workers who are members to act to stop such vic- timization practices. As to the question of advertising in our columns it ought to be plain to everyone that a working cless paper cannot, under any circum- stances, much as we suffer from lack of funds, permit any consideration | ot whether or not advertisements are run in our columns to determine our editorial policy. Purchase of advertising space in THE DAILY never has and never will give any organization or any firm | dai from exposure for anti-working class acts q The N.Y. Election Campaign PAY (UT AS Johnson and Lewis Meet in iE Communist Party election carMpaign is the business of every worker | NAVY STARTS BIG PROGRAM | Roosevelt Orders Work Rushed on 31 | Warships WAGE SLASHED 16 P. Cc. | Swanson Says No More Workers Will Be Hired Aug. 3. —| WASHINGTON, | The Navy Department started | the greatest naval building | program in history today with | a 16 per cent wage cut in all navy yards and naval stations, | totake effect next Sunday. | By order of Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson, all navy yard and station workers will go on a 40- hour, five-day week at five-day pay | beginning August 6. They have} hitherto been working five and a half | days, at six-day pay. He said this cut would continue until an “adjustment” had been made of navy yard work to the ship build- ing code, thus admitting that the ship building code is a wage-cutting code. At the same time Secretary Swan- son announced that even if a 32-hour week is established, as provided in the code, no additional workers would be hired. “We must stay within the budget,” he said. Under special instructions from President Roosevelt to speed up the work as fast as possible, the navy today awarded contracts for 21 ships to be built in private yards, and al-| lotted construction of ten more in government ships, much earlier than was predicted when bids were re- ceived last week, and at prices for the work in private yards which are the result of-secret deals between the biggest bidding firms, according” to accusations made by Chairman Tram~- mel, Florida democrat and chairman of the House Naval Affairs Com- mittee. The Newport News Ship- building Company and the Bethle- hem Shipbuilding Company, both Morgan concerns, got the biggest orders, for two aircraft carriers and two heavy cruisers. RICH BANKS SET $12 WAGE LEVEL | IN SLAVE CODE Get $1, 000,000 000,000 from | Gov't; Pay Workers Starvation Pay WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—Fourteen banks, with $1,000,000,000 offered | them by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, members of the Am- erican Bankers Association, have adopted a code that provides for a minimum wage of $12 a week in small} cities and $15 a week in the larger centres, with a maximum working week of 40 hours. These banks who have been favored at the expense of the small banks | and have reaped fortunes through the | Roosevelt inflation and stock and grain market booming, propose the starvation wage of $12 a week as a decent wage minimum, Over 650,000 bank employees are involved in the ‘bank code, It is expected that the code will be spread to 6.000 other financal institu- tions, including stock brokerage of- fices. Recently a strike took place in Wall Street among brokerage clerks, | and the bank slave code is an answer to efforts being made to organize | these clerks into a union to fight for el | higher wages. ~ RACKETEERS THREATEN Washington to Break Strike LIVES OF NEEDLE UNION Gov: Pinchot's Strikebreakers On the Job National Guardsmen, aeced ee out to the coal strike fields by the “liberal” Gov. Pinchot of Pennsylvania setting up a machine gun outside of Colonial Mine No. 3 of the H. C. Frick Coke Co., near Brownsville. STRIKEBREAKING MACHINE IS PART OF SLAVE CODES Set Up Nat’l Machine to Keep Workers from Strike WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. — Strike- breaking machinery on a _ national scale is being set up by General Johnson to handle all labor disputes, according to Thomas L. Stokes, , United Press correspondent here in a signed article issued yesterday. - The first step in this strikebreaking move of the National Industry Re- covery Administration was General Johnson's trip to the coal fields in an effort to break the strike of 50,000 coal miners. In order to prevent strikes in those industries where the slave codes are operative, a National Arbitration Board is to be set up. This board, to consist of a member of the recovery administration, a member of the advisory board - (an A. F. of L. leader) and a representa- tive of the bosses will first deal with | protests against speed-up and stzctch out in the textile industry where a Slave code is effective, Workers will be forced to stay on| the job while the arbitration board “adjusts” matters, In this manner, a powerful strike- breaking apparatus is being built up| | by President Roosevelt and General} Johnson, USSR CUTS PRICE ON MANCHURIAR TO PRESS PEACE TOKIO, Aug. 3—I 3.—Despite insolent action of the Japanese who threaten war in Manchuria against the Soviet Union, the Soviet delegates here con- tinued to press the peace policy of the U.S. S. R. by reducing the price asked for the Chinese Eastern Rail- way. The railway was orlginally offered to Manchukuo and the Japanese who are the real rulers for $128,750,000. The Japanese refused. After six weeks of waiting, the Soviet repre- sentatives cut their price $25,000,000 to $103,000,000. The Japanese insisted on the price of $14,000,000. Japanese authorities here say they expect to get the rail- way much cheaper as most of it is now in the hands of Japanese troops, NEW YORK.—Workers who have been stirred by the recent Open Let- ter of the Communist Party and the address of William Z. Foster which called for the immediate and active organization for an improved Daily Worker, a six and eight-page “Daily,” are now becoming a group of action known as the “Daily Worker Volun- teer Builders.” Tonight, with Earl Browder Sec- retary of the Communist Party, and Jack Stachel, Acting Secretary of the Trade Unicn Unity League, as the speakers, a meeting will be held at the Workers Center, 50 E. 13th St., second floor at 7:30 with the “Daily Volunteers.” All workers and readers of the Daily are invited. Browder and Stachel will lead the discussion on how best to develop the Daily Worker into a mass paper of the working class, ‘Daily’ Volunteers to Hear Browder, Stachel Tonight Readers Invited To Join Group Building Mass Daily in Spirit of Open I Letter Agreeing with the need of build- ing the Daily Worker into a mass workers’ paper, I volunteer as a member of this organization, Vol- of the unteer Worker: | Name ...... Builders. Daily 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 Lou’s Fisher, care Daily Worker, 35 E, 12th St., New York City. -® (MASS PICKETING CLAMPS LID ON ALL THE MINES Miners Applaud NMU Speakers at Meetings PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 3. |Mass picketing of miners sup-| ported by “their families has} clamped a lid on all the mines. | The Frick Coke company sub- sidiary of the_powerful United States Steel Corporation was forced to bend to the power of mass picketing and close its mines. All newspapers give the impres- sion that “peace reigns” in the strike | area. It is a “peace” of mounted | machine guns on hill tops, of tear gas and night sticks in the hands of National guards and deputies. From the National Guard encampment at |Mount Gretna comes a report that |additional forces are held ready to {Be rushed to-wherever “needed.” Members of the National Miners | | Union are actively participating on |the picket lines. At Montour No. \10 fifteen hundred pickets turned out, among them a large number of N. M. U. members. On instruc- jtions of United Mine Workers. offi- sie, Vincent Kemenovich and Fred | Siders, leaders of the National Miners Union, were pulled out of | the picket line in order to provoke a fight between the miners. But cll ee held their ranks solid. Both are well known, especially among the | miners of Pittsburgh Coal Co, and | pate Terminal, where the place. eae seinen marched through the | |company property led by Agnes | |Snear, district leader of the N. M. U. Women’s Auxiliaries, and Mrs. Byerwell, wife of a local U. M. W. of A. leader. The misleaders, ob- serving the militancy of the women, carried through a motion to keep them off the picket line, claiming that this was a rule in the union constitution. But they have not dared to put this decision into effect. At a meeting of the strikers, at which Agnes Snear and J. Weis- man, organizer of the N. M. U,, spoke, an overwhelming vote was given in support. of the united front of all miners. Phil Frankfeld, Unemployed Coun- cil secretary in western Pennsyl- vania, addressed the miners of Vesta No, 4 and the Crescent mines. He Was received with enthusiastic sup- port by those present. Later he was threatened by thugs sent by union officials, but got away unharmed. National Miners Union organizers in the field are speaking at miners’ meetings calling for: 1, The election of broad rank and file strike committees in each mine. | 2. Setting up of section strike committees and from these a central mae leadership of the rank and le. 3. To act on the miners’ code pro- posed by the National Miners Union and elect delegates to the United Front Conference to be held in Pittsburgh on August 12 and 13. Slavery Eagle of NRA Is the Signal for Strike in Milwaukee, Wisc. MILWAUKEE, Wis, Aug. 3.— Charging that the “benefits” they were promised under the National Recovery (Slavery) Act were largely mythical, the workers of the Gen- eral Store Fixtures Company drop- ped their tools today and walked out on strike. The bosses at once called out the police in an effort to force the men back to work. The strikers declare they have | ators and John L. ‘GENERAL VISITS HARRISBURG AND ISSUES THREATS |Doesn’t Care About the Cause of Strike, But Says It Must Stop WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. — General Johnson, who has just LEADERS; GOLD ANSWERS Criminal Elements ents Propose se Fur Code to NRA; Union Wires Protest; I Demands Open Hearing Sends Letter to » District ; Attorney Crain Expos- ing Murders and Intimidations in Fur Trade NEW YORK.—New threats on the lives of leaders of the Needle Workers Industrial Union by racketeers, which follows after a series of shootings and intimidations in the recent period has been answered by the Industrial Union in a letter returned’ tere) from) a’ trip’ to to District Attorney Crain and to federal, state and local offi- In this letter the union out- | Harrisburg, Penna., where he went for the avowed purpose of ending the strike of 50, PaO miners, is now arranging | meeting between the coal oper- | Lewis, pres- | | | ident of the United Mine Work- | ers of America, to work out jointly | | the strategy of breaking the strike. | Roosevelt and Johnson are alarmed | at the reports that not only is the coal strike spreading, but a number| of strikes in other industries are | Popping up. At Harrisburg, Johnson had very little success, but he left more deter-| mined than © end the stri the shortest p ble time, by @ the miners back to i of promises. The coal code, originally were shoved in order to use this means also to break the} strike. | “I don’t pretend to know the basis| of the trouble in the Pennsylvania| coal fields,” lyingly said Johnson in| his Harrisburg speech before the Chamber of Commerce, the State Manufacturers Association, and the officials of the State A. F.of L. He knows the miners are fighting against the company right to organize. wages. Besides, Joh didn't. care about.. the differences. The strike must stop. He shouted |and threatened. Banging the table he ‘said that Roosevelt's program| | Would be carried out “and God help the man or group of men who stand in the way of the drive.” | Johnson didn’t care about the star-| vaticn of the miners or their fight for better conditions. He was only in- terested in “harmony” he said, so| that the Roosevelt program could go} through. “I don’t see why blood should flow, and people refuse to talk to each other at a time when the whole coun- | try is looking to early recovery. It’s like turning on a fire siren in the midst of a symphony recital. I am not familiar with the cause of the| fight, but I do know it ought to stop.” Huhdreds of thousands of starving z | miners are a symphony recital to} Johnson, which he doesn’t want| spoiled, regardless of the cause. | In Washington Johnson reported on the militancy of the miners, and| began to oil, up the government | | strikebreaking ‘machinery. | John L. Lewis stalked quietly into! Johnson's office but as Thomas} Moses of the Frick Coal Co., a sub-|} | sidiary of the United Sta Steel, | against whom the strike is mainly| directed, had not arrived, Lewis, as| the capitalist reporters here put it| “quietly slipped out again.” Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania 1s on the scene, working with Gen- eral Johnson and John L, Lewis. One Hurt, 32 Jailed As Argentina Workers | Protest Nazi Visit) BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 3—One | Person was wounded and 32 arrested when striking workers were attacked by Fascists on the arrival here of a party of German veterans in Nazi uniforms, sent here for propaganda purposes. The port workers and taxicab drivers declared a one-day strike, | and demonstrated at the dock. Local | Fascists fired shots at the demon- stration. and foot and mounted po- lice broke it up. | ten.t. \Mussolini Makes His |given by Refused Graft to I. L.A.| | Officizls —One Killed, |One Badly Wounded NEW YORK.—One man was Shot to de: sed and an- longshore- | | 4 sedan drove up to 36 Manhasset Place, a grocery in the Red Hook | section of Brooklyn. Two thugs alighted. As they reached a side | door in the hallway of the store, | one of them fired thru an open docr. He emptied his revoly Joseph Santora, y years old, of 191 Hamilton Ave., Brooklyn, was killed. Joseph Vonsenzo, his friend, address unknown, was cri- tically wounded. They had re- fused to pay graft to the ILA officials for the privilege of wor ing on the Brooklyn waterfront. did not stop until he | 100.000 JOBLESS ON R. R. PROTEST; UNION ASKS CODE = Whitney, “for Code In| Reply to Demands | of Unemployed | CLEVELAND, © Ohio, », Aug. 3.—Com- | plaints from a large number of the} 700,00) unemployed railroad workers as well as from thousands of em- ployed who are losing their jobs as a result of Roosevelt's co-ordination scheme, has led the Railway Labor Executives Association to put up the appearance for action by arranging) to meet here today to ask for a code | for the railway industry. | The meeting was called by A. F. Whitney, president of the Brother| hood. of Railway Trainmen, one of| the twenty-one railfoad labor organi- | zations in the United States. Whitney said that railroad men all) over the country have been writing | to him that they»do not see any re-| employment growing out of Roose- | velt’s schemes. In fact, most of them} write that more railway workers are | losing their jobs. Whitney said he did not know eet the railway bosses would take to a| code, but he would approach them nevertheless. The railroad workers got an exten- sion of a 15 per cent cut a little over one month ago through the action of Eastman, federal railway coordinator and there has been growing discon- The Railway Labor Executive Asso- ciation is meeting to find means of | allaying the discontent by code/ maneuvres. Son-in‘Law Chief ROME, Aug. 3.—The job of chief | Fascist propaganda has been | Mussollini to his son-in-| law, Count Galeazzo Ciano. | One of his main tasks is the con- trol of Fascist propaganda abroad. | Two troops of Balilla and Avan-| guardista (young Fascists) are on) propaganda tours in Europe of fights with the police. the police got wild and worked with» clubs right and left. | Members of the family of Cohen, | a tailor who lives at the corner of | Louden and Moscher streets, got hurt by the cops. Rebecca Cohen, 14 years old, was beaten across the head and arms by a mounted policeman. | She and her brother Joseph were arrested for protesting. TAT The Eagle Screams The strikers were angered, particu- larly when they saw, right after the | police beat up the strikers, the boss putting out in the window the NRA Eagle with big letters, “We Do Our Part.” Then, as reported in the been working 10 to 12 hrs a day, ——— Daily Worker, the strikers broke “We Do Our Part”, Screams Eagle, While Cops Hit Strikers PHILADELPHIA, Pa., August 3.—All day Tuesday the 3,000 workers on strike at the Cambria Silk Hosiery Co, mill at 176 West Louden St. had About 300 police on horse and on motorcycles pa- trolled the area around the factory, and led scabs to and from work. When a truck with scabs started from the factory guarded by the arena through the police lines, and broke the windows in the plant, together with the NRA Eagle. And again the police clubbed the workers. Wednesday morning, about 2,500 strikers got around the Cambria plant, The police are now out in even greater force. No automobiles and no people are allowed to get Mrs. Pinchot, always so rady to speak to strikers and show her sym- pathy after the strikers get beaten up, was invited to come out and see the strike situation. She answered she would be to see the Governor before she con” we | standing atrocious junless he com) | was killed by a bomb | ago. |slugged by Edgar Beaver, ® cials. makes known “several and notifies these of “the union has decla red) war upon these racketeers and will continue an endle ruggle” to jeliminate them. For this it will mobilize all the workers in the im dustry. Last Tuesday, Irving Potash, Diss trict secretai of the Industrial Union was called on the telephone and informed that the same will as to Morris Langer s with the wishes Morris Langer few months Similar threats were made to Ben Gold, secreta of the Union and Communist candidate for Presi- dent of the Board of Aldermen and Burt, m er of the fur departm f the union. rom leaders ed Protective Rabbit Association and the Fur Inc., whose manager A, man has been indicted by the of the 3rand Jury In threatening the union officials oe gang demanded that the Union n climinating certain fur dress- ing firms-from business tribute -into-.their-coffers. it has been made known that the ing with, these racketeers are h conferences Ww’ tional Recovery Treperine a code for the fur indus- The code which they are pro- ety has been drafted by none other than the socialist leader Morris Hillquit aceagding to a statement of one of the “ur bosses. This is re- | ported in tha Mount Vernon “Daily | Argus” of Tu@eday which prints the record of a trial of the Competent Fur Dressing shop where the boss was charged with working his em- ployees on Sundays. The boss sta |ed in court that code for the indus |try is being prepared by Hillquit Protesting against thia action the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union has sent telegrams to Dr. Earl Dean Howard and Dr. Lindsay Rog- ers, Deputy Administrators of the NRA. stating that “we protest against the hearings with such in- dividuals and groups which will serve to encourage the continuance jof their criminal practices.” The | Union “requests open hearings and to be informed of the time and | Place.” Similar telegrams were for- warded to President Roosevelt, At- torney General Cummings and Sen- ator Copeland The full letter of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union ad- dressed to District Attorney Crain charging the racketeering gang who are working in collusion with the International Fur Workers Union af- filiated with the A. F. of L. follows: Hon. Thomas C. T. Crain, 137 Center Street, New York City, Rear Sir: A conspiracy of racketeering sub- versive to safety and conductive to and affectuating terror and de- struction prevails in the fur in- dustry in and about the City of New York. These nefarious acts are also committed beyond the barder of this State, This state of terror and crime has already been called to your atten- tion. Several complaints have come to vou in regards to the operation of the Fur Factors, Inc., and the Protective Rabbit Dressers Associa~ tion. Abraham Beckerman, an of ficial of the former association, has already been indicted by the grand jury of this County for racketeering together with other officials of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Washington Veteran Slugged for Anti-War Work Reported Dying WASHINGTON, | Aug. 3.—Michael Hockstra, ex-serviceman who was a guard at Arlington Cemetery, while he was distributing leaflets for the August 1st demonstration, is in a dying cons dition in the hospital here, The cemetery and hospital offle ;cials are doing everything they can to cover up the facts. The Internae tional Labor Defense has taken charge of the case, and is conduct- ing a full investigation. Hockstra was a member of the Socialist Party. The Socialist-led local committee of the Continental Congress oe a to take part in demonstration -