The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 5, 1933, Page 1

iT he ‘New Deal’ Is a War Deal “= Read On Page Three Earl Browder’s Article On the United Front Dail orker Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist International) See Page 4 for Articles On the Struggle for Social Insurance THE WEATHER—Fair and Warmer Vol. X, No. 187 _* New York, N. Butered as second-class matier at the Post Office at Y., under the Act of March 8, 1578, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1933 (Six Pages) CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents Roosevelt Directs Efforts to Break Coal Cazy sharply through the fog of Roosevelt ballyhoo about new jobs and good wages are the actual facts of the biggest single “pub- lic works” enterprise of the Washington government—the $238,000,000 battleship program. The first act of Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson, in al- lotting 16 warships to the Navy yards, was to slash the pay of all navy yard workers by one-sixth. His second act was to announce that if the present 40-hour week is cut to 32, no more workers will be hired. ‘The government which inaugurated the industrial codes, saying they were intended to raise wages and make new jobs, reveals by its own first actions under the code that they are in fact wage-cutting, speed-up codes. While loudly urging employers not to cut wages, Roosevelt shows them how. “ Once again, with unparalleled insolence, Roosevelt kicks the work- ers in the face in the very moment when in his sweetest tones he is whooping up the great “benefits” his New Deal confers. * . T New Deal neither creates jobs nor even protects the present pay of the workers. What is the New Deal record to date: Half a billion cut from the Veterans fund. Sharp slashes in the pay of Federal employees. Now wage-cuts and speed-up in the navy yards. ‘The New Deel is a War Deal. With the same gesture, the Roose- velt government makes one more slash in the workers’ standards of living, giving the lead to every other boss in America, and gets a navy “second to none” to fight the battles of American capital in the coming war. cl ‘The workers of America must expose the N.R.A., and fight against all attacks on their living standards. They must broaden the struggle against war, and elect delegates to the U. 8. Congress Against War, September 2, 3 and 4. Demand that all war funds be used for Unem- ployment, Insurance. With Zeal for the “Daily” OON the “Daily” launches its program of a six page weekly issue and an eight page Saturday issue—August 14, to be exact. The reason for this momentous step is that the time has come when the “Daily” must sweep over the ,country, reaching out among the op- pressed and exploited workers of the land, to prepare these toilers for the enormous class struggles which are now developing throughout the country. * = . launching of a six page “Daily” will strain the resources of the “Daily” to the utmost. But the “Daily” must take this step at once in order to spread its influence with the greatest speed among the basic sections of the American working class where it has not yet penetrated. - On all sides can be heard the rumbles of approaching explosions on the field of the class struggle. * ‘A huge strike wave is galing irresistable momentum every day. The workers everywhere are preparing themselves for struggle against their capitalist exploiters. The “Daily” alone mercilessly rips away the coverings from the colossal swindle of the New Deal. The “Daily” must find its way into the large, basic factories, bur- rowing deep among the workers in heavy industry, digging its roots there. The other day, Comrade William Z. Foster, one of our great revo- lutionary leaders wrote in the “Daily”: “The appeal for the “Daily” is now being made in a different situation, at a time when the Party is penetrating the basic in- dustries, is entering into preparation for leadership of the gigantic strike struggles in the fortresses of the mightiest corporations . . . The only guarantee that this will have its effect in the present bitter class struggle and in the more intensive struggles to come, is that which the readers of the “Daily” can give in spreading the Daily Worker as they never have before.” These words of Comrade Foster express the situation fully. The fires of revolutionary energy and devotion alone can conquer the ob- stacles which lie in the way to making the “Daily” the mass paper of the American working class. Upon the Communist Party, upon every one of its members, rests the responsibility of carrying the “Daily” to those sections of the Ameri- can working class where it has not yet taken hold. Every activity of the Party members must be fired with zeal to get the “Daily” to the workers. In ov: meetings with the workers, in our day by day contacts with them, in our struggles with them against capitalist oppression and misery, the “Daily” must be one of our most prominent weapons. To the workers we must say, “Here is your paper, the paper that expresses your interests, and your problems.” ‘The letters from the workers which are coming into the “Daily” give evidence of the greatest devotion and the most resolute willingness te work for it. ‘This widespread feeling must be given effective expression by the by giving it organization. Only this can guarantee that the “Daily” will succeed in reaching new readers among the workers. And it is only the reaching of new readers that will permit the “Daily” to continue as a six page paper, Is This the Time?. ROOSEVELT, with the advice of Wall Street in the person of Bernard Baruch, Wall Street, financier and gambler, deliberately chose General Johnson, a military strategist with experience in “hand- lgbor in the scab Moline Plow Co., to administer the industrial act. Now the general.tells us why. an interview with Russell Owen of the New York Times, the said: “There is no place in this program, either, for labor to act THIS IS NO TIME FOR STRIKES BECAUSE DIFFICULTIES. If labor is having trouble in some here and have the inequalities fought out in Fe program, , Says Johnson. It is selfishness of 17,000,000 un- for something to eat, for unemploymént insurance. of the workers increase, the administration, of the act keeps pushing aside its mask and reveals behind “recovery” it the “united action” of the bosses, the A. F. of L. and government in | this confidential letter which reveals the real) inner motives of their strikebreaking, in attempting to keep the workers from acting in the most effective way against the Roosevelt program of starvation v EXTRA! CUBA GENERAL STRIKE SHAKES MACHADO RULE R. R., Street-Car, and Other Workers Back Bus Men, as Walkout Takes Political Turn; Workers Lead Attack on Wall St. Rule | HAVANA, Aug. 4—A general strike of all workers in Cuba Savina here today, as railway, streetcar, taxi, and others, began to join the strike | of the bus workers who are fighting against a tax imposed by the Machado government. The general strike is assuming the proportions of a political strike | The general strike is assuming the proportions of a political strike | against the bloody rule of Machado and the efforts of Wall Street Am- | bassador Sumner Welles to increase | the hold of American imperialism by | KANE, Pa. — Officers armed with machine guns and tear gas| bombs, quelled a riot of Negro forced laborers in the Straights Camp here. The boys had been dismissed from the camp for refusing to work. They |refused to leave causing the camp officers to send in a riot call. Two state troopers, officers from three western Pennsylvania cities, deputy sheriffs and a number of highway patrolmen, answered The seven boys were then forced to board a train and were shipped on to their Philadelphia homes. One of the officers sent in a call for a |doctor. There are 200 Negroes in | the camp. COUNCILS FORCE PROBE IN MURDER OF YANCOVITCH Protest Telegrams On Deaths In Labor Camps Win. In- vestigation WASHINGTON.—As a result of the protest telegrams sent to Pres- ident Roosevelt and Robert Pechner by the National Committee of Un- employed Councils, demanding an investigation of the recent deaths in the labor camps, the administra- tion will investigate the death of Abraham Yancovitch. Yancovitch was clubbed to death without provocation by a sergeant July 13 in a West Yellowstone Park Camp. This killing was followed by the deaths of Benjamin De Noia, killed a falling tree, and Harold Riley blown to bits by explosives in a Phoenix, Arizona camp. These deaths called forth the telegrams from the Unemployed Councils, protesting, “the brutal treatment, criminal neg- ligence and indeschibable hardships . « worse than a chain gang,” that are thrust on the boys in the camps. The West Yellowstone Camp au- ¢thorities are now using another alibi. They now say Yancovitch did not die as a result of a fist fight, but that he was in ill health. When he left home he was a strapping six-foot boy. N.Y. Stock Exchange Gamblers Smoked Out by Tear Gas Bombs NEW YORK, Aug. 4.—The slick traders and financiers of the New York Stock Exchange got a taste today of what it means to come face to face with tear gas fumes. Somebody planted some bombs in the ventilator system, driving the aperaetote into the street. The Ex- change suspended trading Who planted the bombs remained smoothening out differences between Machado and the opposition group | of other native landlords and ex-j} ploiters, | Almost the whole economic life of Havana is tied up, and the strike is spreading so rapidly that the entire | island is expected to be in its throes. | Workers are stopping work every-| where. Small shop keepers, in sym- | pathy with the political aims of the | strike, are closing up, and despite | police efforts to force them to stay open, they are expressing their sym- | pathy with the strikers. | Workers in Mariano lugged bricks | from a construction job and built a threge-foot barricade ‘across the main street. The police attacked them, | and destroyed the barricade. Two hundred and fifty railroad workers of the United Railroads broke with the leaders of the Na- tional Railway Brotherhood who are in the pay of Machado, and called for a general strike on the railways. The railroad workers are breaking | away from their leaders and sweep- | ing into the geenral strike. The greatest significance of the strike is that the workers are tak- ing the lead in the struggle against Machado, and are refusing to re- main quiet. and obedient ‘as~desired by Machado and Mr, Welles. The move for a general strie began when the streetcar motormen and conductors of the Havana Electric Railway Co., an American-owned concern, voted to go out on strike. They were soon followed by workers in many other industries. Interurban cars ceased operating yesterday noon, All railroad work- ers were agitating for joining’ the strike, and it appeared today as if they would come out, Havana merchants are shutting up shop, refusing w deliver food and other supplies. They are vir- tually preparing for a state of siege, | as they fear the general strike might lead to armed struggles, There is some petty bourgeois support to the movement of the workers, shown in the refusal of garages and gasoline stations to sell gas to scab cars. Gas sales have virtually stopped and only a few pri- vate cars are on the streets. Even some-of these have been stopped and overturned. The A. B. C., the nationalist op- position organization to Machado, led by landlords and other exploit- ers, fearful of the strike and its in- terference with the “peace” efforts of Sumner Welles, is blaming Ma- chado for not crushing it more ef- fectively. But Machado, who knows very well that the strike is directed against his bloody rule as well as the efforts of Sumner Welles to put in another Wall Street puppet agreeable to the American bankers and the A. B. C. and other opposi- tion groups, is rushing to Havana from a fishing trip to Varadero Beach. , Already threats of armed inter- vention by the United States are heard in Washington and in Na- tional City Bank of New York cir- cles—the leading Wall Street Bank holding hundreds of millions of dol- For the WORKERS UNEMPLOYMENT | and SOCIAL INSURANCE BILL We the undersigned DEMAND:— ‘That Congress shall immediately enact; That the State Legislature, shall pen That the City Council and County Com @ City Of ~-emeeemeeeees and reese County shall officially call and the State Legislature to enact A BILL TO ESTABLISH A SYSTEM OF UNEMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL INSURANCE upon the following, provisions: — | prevailing in the respective ind $10.00 per week for every adi FOR ALL WORKERS UNEMPLOYED THROUGH NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN without discrimination because of tion, whether they be industrial, all time lost. AT THE EXPENSE OF THE GOVERNMENT AND EMPLOYERS All funds for unemployment insurance to be raised b; pose and by taxing individual and corporation inc’ contributions in any form whatever be levied on TO BE ADMINISTERED BY THE WORKERS nce Com! and controlled by them through Unemploymeit bers of workers’ organizations. OTHER FORMS OF SOCIAL INSURANCE in like amounts and governed by the Joss of wages because of part-time wor sions composed of rank me conditions, shall be pai dent, old. NO WORKER TO BE DISQUALIFIED because of refusal to work in place of strikers; at less than normal or trade union rates: under unsafe or unsanitary conditions. or where hours are longer th lards in the particular | t a Millions of workers will be asked to sign these lists in their shops, neighborhoods. 6 Bethlehem Steel Men Die of Heat, Speed-Up Company Hushes Up Facts So Workers Wont! Be Alarmed; Miss Perkins Visited Sparrows Point Plant and Said “How Splendid!” SPARROWS POINT, Md., Aug. 4—Six steel workers have died on the ydab last week, “as the tiation-wide* heat wave hit the Bethlehem Steel | Plant in Sparrows Point. Deep secrecy surrounds happenings like this | in the plant, because the Company does not want the workers to become | “unduly alarmed” and ‘slacken the terrible speed at which they work. | Two of the men who died were rollers in the tin mill which Miss | ~—____ ~~ --_—-—— Perkins, Secretary of Labor, visited | | last week and of which she re-| KER marked sweetly: “Of course it is| | hot, but the company has provided | | pipes that throw such splendid! KULL OF bess of cold air on the men as they work.” \ Men who worked in the neigh- | ; | borhood of one of the stricken rol- |lers have told us how it happened. | Be Sia - |The temperatures in the mill was | Threaten Nat’l Strike sou 12 degrees é «| All week men had b s If Gov. Lehman Tries | out trom nestecronn’, Posh, passing |hundred and fifty of them walked | |or were carried to the dispensary, and when the dispensary beds were |full, the sick workers were laid |out like cattle on the grass. to Import Milk _ ALBANY, N. Y., Aug. 4.—Strik- ing milk farmers near the village of Fonda today resisted the at- tempts of state troopers and police to break up their picket lines by severely beating three of the State Utica, was sent to the hospital, and police. Harry Fritz of “G” troop, Marten Kerns of “K” troop, West- chester, suffered severe bruises and lacerations. Deputy Sheriff Floyd Newkirk of Fort Hunter, suffered a fractured skull at the hands of the striking farmers, He was attacked by the farmers as he tried to stop them from dumping the milk load of a scab truck. He was taken to the Amsterdam Hospital. Governor Lehman and the New York City authorities have an- WORLD PROTEST FORCES PARTIAL MEERUT VICTORY ALIAHABAD, Aug. 4.—After four and a half years of world-wide mass struggle, led by the Interna- tional Red Aid of India and Great Britain, the Court of Appeals has been forced to order the release of nine of the Meerut prisoners, and to reduce the sentences of the 18 Miners’ Strike JOHNSON, TEAGLE OF STANDARD OIL, AND LEWIS PLAN STRATEGY Borich, Sec’y of N.M.U. Exposes Slave Code Move of Operators in Order to Help U.M.W.A. to Keep Miners from Striking for Higher Pay WASHINGTON, Aug. 4—General Johnson is making a fiying trip to Hyde Park, New York, where Roosevelt is staying to map out plans for breaking the strike of the Pennsylvania coal miners. The negotia- tions between the coal operators, the recovery administration and the UMWA officials, has switched to open dealings with the United States Tce tee eee “Steel Corporation, the Morgan con- | While |drum” by Monday morning. nounced that they will attempt to break the strike by importing milk from outside states. The farmers have replied to this by stating that they will organize a nation-wide milk strike in reply. The big dairy companies aaginst whose exploitation the farmers are striking, Borden and Shefficld, are controlled by Wall Street banks, others from 10 to one and two years. Even the one and two-year sen- tences in the malaria-infested re- gions where they will be taken to prison can become death sentences, Arrested for, organizing the toil- ers of India into unions, three En- | glishmen and 24 Indians were held without trial for four years, on the charge of “conspiracy to deprive the Strike-Breaker Major General Shannon, in charge of troops or- dered into the Pennsylvania soft coal area by Governor Pinchot to smash the miners’ strike. Edward R. RANKS OF MINERS FIRM WHILE MORE MINES COME OUT Jeil Miners, But Bail Deputies Held On Murder Charge PITTSBURGH, Pa. Aug. 4.— Roosevelt has personally joined the forces to break the min- ers’ strike in western Pennsylvania, the coal operators expect that all mines will be shut “tight as a This will involye 150,000 miners in the | strike. In Charleroi the miners of the Youghiogheny and Ohio Coal Com- pany joined the strike when pickets called on them to walk out. In Westmoreland county the Hutchin- son mine was closed down by strikers. The mine strike is effecting other industries in nearby towns. In Uniontown 400 women and girls in a | shirt shop went on strike for higher pay, when called on by the miners. Many of them are the wives and daughters of the miners who must work in sweatshops in towns nearby (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | trolled steel trust. Latest unauthorized statements |from the recovery administration | office say that an agreement has been reached for ending the strike, but what the agreement is remains secret. The Associated Press office here claims that John L. Lewis has agreed to the United States Steel Corporation’s terms, saying in its | dispatch on the negotiations: “It appeared certain from the trend of | things at the recovery administration | that the terms accepted by the Frick concern (U. S. Steel subsidiary) | were acceptable to the United Mine | Workers, but neither source would | disclose the arrangement.” Johnson is going to confer with Roosevelt over the best means of getting the miners back to work im- mediately while the U. S. Steel and the UMWA officials work out their | tactics. . . | WASHINGTON, Aug. 4—It was revealed here that President Roose- | velt himself is directing the actions of General Johnson, co-operating with John L. Lewis, and the coal | operators, affiliates of the United States Steel Corporation and Beth- }lehem Steel,-in order to break the strike of the soft coal miners in Pennsylvania, which is rapidly as- suming the proportions of a gen- eral strike, with 150,000 miners ex- pected out by Monday morning. Roosevelt at Hyde Park, New York, on his 1,000 acre farm, is in constant telephone communication with Johnson, discussing ways of ending the coal strike and sending the men back to work while a code |for the coal industry is worked out. Acting on behalf of the coal operators in the National Recovery Administration are General John- son, and Walter Teagle, chairman of the Standard Oil Co. of New | Jersey. Johnson has called in | Thomas Moses, of the H. ©. Frick Coke Co., a subsidiary of the United States Steel Corporation, and Chas. |P. O'Neill of the Central Pennsyl- vania Coal Producers’ Association. A call has been sent out to all other Pennsylvania coal bosses, and they are now flocking into Washington to work out their campaign against the strikers. John Ix Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, is the most pliable tool of Genera) Johnson, straining all his efforts to end the strike, without losing control of the miners. After repeated meetings between the coal operators and the U.M.W. A. officials, O'Neill of the Coal Pro-' ducers’ Association said that the ¢ operators were not to blame for -¢ the. strike. “Oh, yeah”, said Lewis, “You or- ganized company unions and they turned on you.” | He denied the U.M.W.A. officials were responsible for the strike, and said the men went out themselves against the compariy unions. The strategy being worked out by | the Roosevelt administration, the operators, and the U.M.W.A. of- ficials is to set up an arbitra- tion board, order the miners back to work pending the action of the arbitration board, and rushing thru the hearing on the coal code. a mystery. lars in Cuban investments. headed by J. P. Morgan. King Emperor of his Sovereignty.” Socialist Party Leade Declare “We Are Opposed to Participating in Proposed Conference Even If Conditions Laid Down by N. E. C. Were Strictly Lived Up To.” On Thursday night, at the meeting of the Arrangements Commit- tee of the United States Congress Against War, called for New York for September 2, 3 and 4, the representatives of the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party announced their first act since af- filiating to the Committee. This act was to withdraw from the Com- mittee and to attempt to disrupt it. Ostensibly the National*Executive Committee's withdrawal is based upon resentment of Communist oaiticism. In reality, however, their ac- tion expressed a pre-determined opposition to any kind of united front of the workers, and opposition to any struggle against the war. plans of the U, 8. government. This is reyealed in a letter, not intended for publication, which came into the hands of the Communist Party. This letter, dated July 22, is addressed to the National Committee of the Socialist Party by a committee representing Local New York, signed by Algernon Lee, Jack Altman and Bela Low, and is based on an action previously taken which called upon the National Committee to cancel its affiliation to the Antl- War Committee. Workers who follow the S. P., and who may be mis- led by their wails against “Communist slanders,” should study carefully leaders. The letter opens with a statement that the writers have learned of the decision to affillate to the Anti-War Committee by reading the rs Attempt to Disrupt minutes of the National Committee, and then proceeds: “Your action has caused considerable misgivings among the members of Local New York, and at the last meeting of its execu- | tive committee; it was decided to ask the NEC to withdraw from the conference for the reasons stated in this letter. The under- | signed committee was elected for the purpose of communicating our opinion to you.” AGAINST UNITED FKONT | The letter then proceeds to explain that the New York leaders of | the S. P. are opposed to any united front, whatever the conditions. The letter states bluntly that it is a fixed, a “consistent” policy of all Soci- alist parties affiliated to the Labor and Socialist International NOT to join a united front against war, and gives this as the reason for the NEC to try to break up the Anti-War Congress. The letter says: “The NEC has evidently not realized that by the proposed par- ticipation the Socialist Party of America has placed itself at vari- ance with the L.S.I. The Labor and Socialist International and all affiliated parties, have consistently refused to join similar con- ferences, as for instance, those at Amsterdam and Paris . . . Believ- ing as we do, in solidarity with the International, we are opposed to participating in the proposed conference, even if the conditions laid down by the NEC were strictly lived up to.” It was on the basis of this letter that the National Executive Com- mittee of the Socialist Party decided to withdraw from the Anti-War tai A TERT Anti-War Congress Communist Party Appeals To Workers To Join In United Front Struggle Against Imperialist War Congress. But now we must point out that the NEC itself had secretly made its decision to withdraw from the Anti-War Congress, or at least to. withhold any support, about three weeks before this public decision. How was this expressed? It was expressed in the holding back of the call to the Congress, from the branches of the S. P. After accepting several thousand copies of the call, the NEC held these in their office, privately, while in the Arrangements Committee they made ambiguous statements to gfive the impression that the NEC had sent out the call and was engaged in: rallying the whole S. P. to support the Congress and the branches ie WITHOLD CALA elect delegates. When the representatives of the NEC were sharged with this, Ed= ward Levinson answered by admitting the witholdimg ef the call, and attempting to justify this by declaring that the NEC even at that time was not certain to support the Congress at all (several weeks after pub- licly signing the united front agreement). Levinson said: “What of it? We had to wait to see how it turned out.” \ This shows at least that before its withdrawal, the S. P. had demom- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREB)