The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 7, 1933, Page 1

As Get A Regular Subscription from Every Member of Your Organization Dail ‘Central Or (Section of the Communist International) Is the Daily Worker on Sale at Your Union Meeting? Your Club Headquarters? THE WEATHER—Today fair; somewhat warmer. Vol. X, No. 188 _— Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1873, NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 1933. (Four Pages) CITY EDITION Price 3 Centg _ MINERS REJECT LEWIS SELL OUT, CONTINUE STRIKE; ROOSEVELT, A.F.OFL. HEADS ORDER END OF ALL STRIKES The Strike-Breaking “Deal” T the command of the most powerful scab corporations Roosevelt has issued a no-strike edict. The new deal is revealed in all its vicious nakedness by the recent statement of Roosevelt announcing the cre- ation of a national “arbitration” board to break strikes. With the support of the treacherous and betraying scoundrels of the A. F. of L. leadership, Roosevelt calls for “industrial peace” at the precise moment that he puts over a blanket starvation code, and when the work- ers are moving to struggle for higher pay and improved working condi- tions. * . Why does this drastic move come at this time? Over 60,000 coal miners in Pennsylvania are striking for the right to organize. For what purpoce do they want organization? In order to improve their condi- tions. The miners haye been driven to a coolie level of living. ‘or four years of crisis the bosses have been hacking away at their wages, speed- ing them up, firing tens of thousands. Against the orders of the U.M. W.A. officials, the miners continue striking. Miners, says Roosevelt, you cannot strike! ye “New Deal” promised collective bargaining and the right to or- ganize But when the workers, of their of their conditions througin the Roosevelt hats own will, faced with the worsening New Deal”, by inflation by food. prices, by lewer wages, organize and strike to obtain better tions, the Roosevelt government steps in and tries to call a halt. "Why do they dread strikes so much? It is precisely this weapon which is ‘the most powerful means the workers haye of forcing the bosses to grant higher pay and better conditions, It is this weapon which unatés the workers in struggle, brings out and fires the determ#nation of the ers to win. It is this weapon which stirs the whole working class into action against the bosses. It is through this weapon that the workers have won higher wages and better conditions. The bosses tremble for their profits when the workers strike. They know that strikes are tearing away the Roosevelt promises, covering the atiack against the workers. \OOSEVELT iakes the national strikebreaking step in the name or pa- triotism, calling up the shades of Samuel Gcmpers who supported Wall Street in dragooning the workers against strikes during the last war. He enlists the full support of the strikebreaking officials of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor. If you want to know what the recovery act is, you have it now. It means ng,strikes..while the bosses perfect their starvation codes and put them into action. It means that a national arbitration beard is set up to smash the effectiveness of workers’ organizations. At the behest of the biggest trusts, the steel and coal trusts, the auto trust, the railroad trusts, a board is set up consisting of the leading exploiters themselves and the very labor leaders who throughout the course of the crisis helped them | put over wage cuts. The great fraud of Section 7 of the Industrial Recovery Act now | stands out in all its brutality. Instead of the right to organize unions of their own choosing, the Roosevelt new deal orders “class peace” on the part of the workers, while the bosses carry on their class war against the workers through the instrumentality of the slave codes and the force of the Wall Street government. Ns HE right to organize without the right to strike is the greatest fakery. Roosevelt, availing himself of the long strike-breaking and wage- cutting service of Green and company, is repeating the great betrayal perpetrated under the Hoover regime on Nov. 21, 1929, at the very outset of the crisis. At that time the very same bosses and @e self same labor’ leaders signed a statement against strikes on the promise by the bosses there would be “no wage cuts.” The A. F. of L. leaders faithfully lived up to their agreement, ser- vilely aided the bosses in slashing wages of the entire working class by 50 per cent. : But their present action is more drastic, more far-reaching, fraught with greater perils and danger to the workers. ee ee) UT the miners, the first to be affected by the new mc-2 cfé the New Deal, have already shown that they will not surrender so easily. The miners are continuing their fight. The government wl ply them with all the treacheries of the labor officials, trying to break their ranks, trying to split the miners in the U. M. W. A. from the unorganized miners who are fighting side by side with those in the U. M. W. A. More than ever the miners need such militant leadership as that ‘given by the National Miners’ Union, which, despite all the efforts of ‘the U. M. W. A: officials, is taking part in the strike, urging the miners to keep their ranks united, to defeat (he latest strike-breaking move of Lewis and company. ® * . IN this situation, every worker must ask himself: How can we surrender the greatest weapon we have for improving our economic conditions without the bitterest fight? What will be our lot if the New Deal swindle and strike-breaking goes into effect? Here is whete militant leadership is necessary. The outcome depends fifst of all on the vanguard of the Attic class, the Communist Party. On our action in the basic industries, in penetrating the ranks of the millions of workers stirring into struggie,)will depend the outcome of the Roosevelt edict of no strikes, and all that it means to the working _ Class. We can convince the workers that they can defeat this new move of the Roosevelt regime, the bosses and the A. F. of L. betrayers. We can show how to defeat the bosses by the greatest earnestness, firmness and determination in struggle and in leading the resistance to the bosses’ program. We can do this by the most thorough exposure of the real meaning of this latest step, by the best orgariization, by the most effective and real strike strategy, by gdrawing the whole energy of the Party into the basic industries where the struggles are the sharpest. In this situation our Party is faced with its greatest test. We must really get into the shops and mines and explain to the workers, without @ moment's delay, the full meaning 6f this great” betrayal. Every unit of the Party must get out among the masses and arouse them to the consciousness of struggle against the Roosevelt program, and especially arouse them to the immediate necessity of building their own committees in every factory to press and fight for their demands. Every Party member must respond to this threat by increased activity in the shops. We must with the greatest speed build up and strengthen the opposition groups in the A. F. of L., with the greatest energy, extend the militant trade unions affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League, and build committees of struggle. The whale Party must be keyed up to the’ main task of developing struggles of the workers for higher wages, better conditions, unemploy- ent insurance, against the latest agreement of the bosses and the A. F. f L. leadership, The only way we can develop and lead these struggles is by con- vineing the workers of the real significance of this move, patiently ex- FORD, GENT MOTORS FIRE 3,200 MEN | Auto Workers Reveal! Mass Lay-Offs Con- tinue Despite NIRA FRIGIDAIRE FIRES 8000 | Increa se Production With Less Men By Terrific Speed-up NEW YORK.—On the very eve of | the application of the Roosevelt in-| | dustry cedes which, according to the| |promises of Roosevelt, are designed | to bring more jobs, comes the news directly from the workers in the |auto factories of the firing of 5,200 jworkers by the General Motors | Corp. and the Ford Motor Co., and the intense speeding up of the re- maining workers. The letters printed below were sent to the “Daily Worker” by auto; correspondents, They give the true picture of what is now going on in the factories of the two largest auto producers—a picture of mass lay-offs and nerve-racking speed-up. The letters follow: reer tay a (By a Worker Corresnondent) DAYTON. Ohio, — The Genéral Motors closed their Marine City plant+in Ohio, laying off 5,000 work- jers. At the Delco plant here in Day- ton hundreds of workers were laid joff till Tuesday, Aug. 1, but the workers are looking towards a long- er lay-off. The T. U. U. L. organi- gers are on the job organizing the workers to fight against Roosevelt's Slavery Act and his demagogic ‘speeches over the radio. The lay-offs of the General Mo- tors was immediately after the Fri- gidaire lay-offs. The boss press does |not publish these lay-offs. 8 (By a Worker Correspondent) IRON MOUNTAIN, Mich, — The} Ford Motor Company laid off 200 men in the last week in July as his} part in putting through Roosevelt's | Industrial Recovery (slavery) Act. As a result many reduction lines were forced to go on a temporary 12-hour day basis. This is the second lay-off in five menths. In March, 2,000 were laid off. Today 800 men must do as much, and more on a five-day basis, than 3,000 men did on a two-day basis. The terrible increase in speed-up can be realized from the fact that!, while the total number of working hours has decreased by one-third, there has been a slight increase in production. (By a Worker Correspondent) DAYTON, Ohio—The Frigidaire Plants Nos. 1 and 2 laid off 8,000 workers July 26, 1933, The Gov- ernment sterped the manufacturing of the Frigidaires on the basis of over-production and stopped the shipping of said materials to ware- houses in. Detroit, Michigan. The Delco plant has laid off 300 women workers and more arg to follow. These plants belong tothe General Motors. White Motor Co. Men at Meeting Vote for Auto Workers Union CLEVELAND, O.—After over a month of organizational work in the White Motor Co, by the Auto Work- ers Union, the A. F. of L. has started its disruptive work and is confusing the workers, In order to clear up all issues and the differences between the A. F, of L. and the Auto Work- ers Union the men in the White Mo- tor decided to call a general meet- ing of all workers and invite the representatives of both unions to speak, A telegram was dispatched to Phil Raymond, secretary of De- troit Auto Workers Union, and a registered letter to the Cleveland Federation of Labor inviting them to be represented. Raymond came from Detroit but the burocrats failed to show up at the meeting. The majority of the workers present, through secret balloting, voted for the Auto Workers Union. 'But since the meeting was not rep- resentative of all departments in the White Motor Co. the ballots will be circulated in the plant to posing the “New Deal” and what it means to the workers; sinking our, {S¢t, the seutiment of all workers. roots in the basic industries, by organizing theso workers for struggle and playing ee basin Bender Body has already been or~ ganized py the Union ® ‘Lewis Wires Men to Return to Pits; Let Strikers Decide, Says N. M. U. BOARD SET UP TO’ SMASH STRIKES BY ARBITRATION Labor Misleaders On| Advisory Board OK Agreement HYDE PARK, N. Y., Aug. 6. | On Saturday, President Roose- velt issued a statement order- ing an end to all strikes. This followed his approval of the plan worked out by the United States Steel Corporation, John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America and William Green, president of the A. F. of L., to end the coal strike. The coal miners. were ordered back to work | out. union recognition, while an} abritration board “considers” their grievances. Roosevelt's declaration said that he earnestly commended the creation of a national arbitration board com- posed of Senator Robert F. Wagner, William Green, John L. Lewis, Leo Wolman, of the Labor Advisory Committee, and Walter C. . Teagle chairman of Standard Oil, and Louis E. Kirstein, Boston capitalist. The purpose of this board would | be “to avoid “strikes, lockouts or any aggressive action during the recovery program.” The statement issued in Washing- ton by General Johnson and signed by the Labor Board of the N. I. R. A, announcing the formation of this board says: “We urge that all causes of ir- ritation and industrial discontent be removed as far as possible - + - avoid aggressive action which tends to provoke industrial discord, and strive earnestly and zealously to preserve industrial peace pending the construction and adoption of the industrial codes applicable to all business, large and smzall.” This clearly wipes out the promises of the Industrial Recovery Act about the right of the workers to organize and join unions of their own choos- ing, setting up in its stead a strike-/ breaking body to prevent the workers from struggling for increased pay while the slave codes are drawn up and put into effect. “This board will consider, ad- just and settle differences and con- troversies that may arise throuzh differing interpretations of the President’s re-employment agree- ment, and will act with all pos- sible dispatch in making known their findings, “In return, employers and em- ployes are asked to take no dis- turbing action pending hearings and final decision.” While directed to both employers and workers, the board and its aims are meant solely for the workers, as is shown by Roosevelt's radio speech just before the blanket codes went into effect. At that time, Roosevelt told the workers to remain quiet, obedient and’ patient, without re- course to aggression, while the bosses put over ae cin ib oe to eee FIVE MORE SHOPS IN DRESS STRIKE she NEW ‘YORK.—Five more shops were stopped last Friday by the Dress Department of the Needle Trades | Workers’ Industrial Union, including tha Lomas DBrers Shop, 463 Sevyonth Ave., where 30 cutters joined the strike. Meanwhile the proposal for one united general strike in the industry, approved at the general membership mecting last Thursday, is being discussed by members of the Inter- national Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union as well as the Industrial. In addition, all active union mem- bers are called upon to picket these important shops: The Lomas dress, 463 7th Ave.; Kohn and Klausner, 1400 Broadway; K & L., 141 W. 24th St. K & Z, 151 W. 26th St.; Ranol, 118 W. 27th St.; Three Jay-Fischer Dress, 254 Vv. 35th St.; Louis Kollica, 463 7th Ave.; Al Jean-Ben Fingeret, 237 W. 35th St.; Julian, 370 W. 35th St.; Creole, 226 W. 37th St.; Gold- sheer, 341 W. 38th St.; Weinberg & Rothenberg, 500 7th Ave.; Cohen & Siegel, 151 W. 26th St.; D & W, 27 ‘Frock, 463 7ih Ava, : | War in the | on strike for a living wage. Mine Fields Pennsylvania National) Guardsmen in a machine gun nest near Brownsyille, Pa., in the. soft coal fields where nearly 70,000 miners are CHICAGO HUNGER MARCH FORCES Restoration of 20 P.C. Cut Won By July 26 Demonstration CHICAGO, Tl, Aug. 6—Unem- |Ployed in Cook County have re- ceived a 20 per cent increase in their grocery and meat orders. This is a restoration of the % per cent cut and comes as a result of a city wide march on July 26. The Hun- ger March had as ifs main demand the withdrawal of all relief cuts }and for an increase of 25 per cent in relief. Permit for the demonStration called by the Federation of Unem- ployed Organizations of Cook Coun- ty, was refused by the police. But the victory over Mayor Cermak in the splendid united front march on October 31 of last. year when the mayor was forced to withdraw a 50 per cent relief cut, disregarded the police ban. Workers came from all parts of the city carrying placards demand- ing adoption of the Workers Relief Ordinance, and removal of relief cuts. School teachers lined.up with the unemployed and starving work- ers, protesting the recent cut of $5,000.00 from the* school. budget and the dismissal of 1,400 teachers. N. be held Aug. 19 at 10 a.m. at Irving “Evictions of the unemployed an city every day,” says the conference ‘homes each month for inability te pay rent. On every pretext, relief is being reduced or entirely denied to rapidly growing numbers who are in need.” The last unemployed conference, held two months ago, drew up an Ordinance draft embodying demands to meet these conditions. Two hun- dred and ninety-four labor organiza- tions were represented in the con- ference. The following is a brief summaty of the 12 points in the Ordinance: $10 weekly cash relief for each unemployed couple, $3 for each dependent and $7 weekly for single workers; trade union rates and in- jury compensation to prevaft on all work relief jobs; part-time workers Auto Workers! W. 24th St.; Soma Dress and Nova|earning less than the basic unem- ployment xeliet rates to have their RELIEFINCREASE, the workers of Chicago remembering | “MUTUAL MINERS IN UTAH STRIKE LED BY N.M.U. \Federal ‘Gov ernment to Break Strike HELPER, Utah, | tue! mine is complet ‘Aug, 6—The Mu- shut dov participat leadership of into a recom where ent and two imm tried to frighten them with th’ of deportation “leaving their families \here.” They were requested to quit | the strike and return to work, and also told by the immigration officials | that they “should leave the National | Miners’ Union At Castle Gate, largest mine in Carbon County, a united front o the NMW and UMWA locals with preparations for a strike forced the company to give up, at least teme porery jians for a six hour eday with proportionl reduction in pay. Ss Conference Will Draft. Y. Relief Ordinance NEW YORK—The Conference Against Evictions and Wage Cuts, which will make the final draft on the Workers’ Municipal Relief Dsainanrey will | Plaza. id cuts in relief are mounting i this call, “Over 12,000 families lose their | MN intauiee equalized through the relief fund; unemployed and part-time workers shall not be evicted; free hot lunches, books and fare to the chil- dren of the unemployed; medical and dental care for the unemployed by doctors of their own choosing at the expense of the city. Point 7 touches the impoverished small home owner: homes owned by unemployed workers not to be fore- closed. Other points are: relief funds to be administered by committees. directly elected by. the workers for this purpose; relief stations to be established on petition of 350 work- ers in one community. The Ordinance contains the point that it “shall be considered as a temporary relief measure pending the adoption of | refuse to return | eonditions, President of the United Mine Work- | | ers of America, sent a message ‘to the NEAR 70,000 OUT; . PICKETS CLOSE BS ALL FRICK MINES Don’ t Bie Strike Is Not Over,” Miners Assert PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 6. | defiance by. the miners, who under slave John L. Lewis, | striking miners. In it he says: | “This message should be read to | alt the members of your local union | at once.” | Having carried out a secret agree- |} ment with Roosevelt and the coal | operators, Lewis states: “I have pledged the honor of the United Mine Workers of America to the | President of the United States, to 2 assist him in working out these grave questions, and I ask your support to | redeem this pledge.” Their main interest at present ig to break the backbone of the strike | with the promise that the coal code (will make an equitable settlement. The treacherous labor leaders hold Lewis in his message says that: “This agreement provides that the mine workers in Central and Western Pennsylvania shall re- sume their employment at the mines under a temporary agree- ment.” | In the meantime the Coal Code | Hearings will be held after the miners are back in the pits. The UMWA Officials Fail | miners can take their lesson from | nt Steel Code Hearingsavhich | nediately stopped when the k and file attempted to present ide of the story. This treacherous tool of the coal s, John L. Lewis, recognizes is not | | i} s to accept his deci ck into the pits. He, “There will be who will adyoc: policy of your hould be rejected.” But the by their actions over the nd haye shown defiance to y them. The President of the U. M. W. A. s the miners to share the bur- s of the coal oper: He ap- peals that “our nation is going j ronen a period of supreme crisis, | our union and its members must make a con ution towards the task of maintaining qur institutions and rationalizing our economic processes.” |The minezs of Western Pennsylva- nia, who have ben forced to live on relief while they worked in the mines, by Lewis to make a fur- ontribution” by accepting still worse conditions than they already have. He makes the same appeal Continued on Page Three NEW YORK—Roepresentatives from 25 shops at a meeting called by the Shoe and Leather Workers’ In- | dustrial Union decided to strike un- | less the bosses concede té their de- | mands by noon today. Negotiations | have been going on for some time to | get a 30 per cent increase in pay and | recognition of the union. Fred Bie- denkapp, general secretary of the union, reported to the shop represen- tatives. All shoe workers are called to a meeting at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., this afternoon at 3 p.m. Over 500 are already involyed in strikes for increased pay and union recognition. These include the Chat- ham, Artistic, Astor and Bergman shoe shops. It is expected that the Artistic will probably concede to the demands today, The stitch down workers will dis- cuss strike preparations at a meeting tomorrow night at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place. ment Insurance” and that the city government shall call upon congress to adopt the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bull . Tricked, | sil | out the code hearing as a promise. ~ PREPARE STRIKES IN SHOE INDUSTRY. MACHADO IS SHOOTING | STRIKERS Cuba Strike Spreads Over Whole Island; R.R. Men Out IS POLITICAL STRUGGLE |Wall. St. Threatens | Armed Intervention | HAVA? , Aug. 6.—Nearly | —Caught by a wave of masS|the entire working class of Cuba is participating in the | general strike against the Ma- chado bloody Wall Street regime. Late today the railroad workers began walking out, against the orders of the railroad brother- hood. Government workers are com- ing out on strike, with a large group of telegraph operators already out. Machado is arresting hundreds and has ordered the shooting of demon- Strators. The whole economic life of the is- land is being tied up, and is expected to be at a complete standstill by to- night. The strike, no longer a sym- pathy drive in favor of the bus workers who were struggling against ja tax imposed by the Machado gov- ernment,.has developed into a strike against the tyranny of Wall Street- Machado rule. The A.B, terrorist group, and others who are co-operating with |v. S. Ambassador Welles, are urging | Machado to resign to keep the gen- eral strike from moving towards a revolutionary overthrow of the land- lord and native-bourgeois rule, with the working class taking the lead in the uprising. There is even talk of inviting U. S. armed intervention to keep the toiling masses from vio- lent struggle against the Machado dictatorship. Machado’s police are already be- ginning to shoot down workers and | attempting to smash demonstrations. |An unidentified Negro worker was |shot dead yesterday in Havana, | Other workers were reported wound- }ed in similar police shootings at San | Rafael Monte and Galiano Sts., and |Factoria Aguila and Neptuno Sts. At Regla, across the bay from Havana, eight, strikers and sympathizers and me women, were injured in a nt with strikebreakers who were armed by the Machado police. Machado’s agents are arresting strike leaders and members of the |Communist Party in an effort to smat the str: |fygm entering lutionary _stri 4 | Rafael Lau president of the « Telegraphers’ Union was arrested on 4 the charge of ordering government } operators on strike. More than 100 other labor leaders are in Machado's torture chambers. Hundreds of stu- dents likewise are being arrested for their support to the strike, The strikers are being supported by the poor peasar’s and agricul- tural workers in every town in Cuba. Riots have taken place in many of these towns, with the police shooting at the demonstrators. The details are not obtainable due to the shutting down of communica- tions by the strike and because of the rigid censorship of the Macha- do regime. ’ Information from Pinar Del Rio Province, on the extreme western end of the island, stated that riot- ing and demonstrating continued in | all small towns and that traffic and commerce were completely para- lyzed. Ambassador Welles is meeting se- cretly with Machado planning the moves of crushing the strike and preventing it from entering the Stage of a revolutionary uprising. and to keep it age of active revo- Pennsylvania Labor Dep’t Says 100,000 on Strike In State HARRISBURG, Pa., Aug. 4— —Over 100,000 workers are now still out on strike in more than 163 strikes which began after July 1st, according to statisticians of the Department of Labor and Industry of the State of Penn- sylvania. e The Depsstment of Labor and Industry obtained data showii that 81,916 workers struck in 8: of these places, In addition to this number tens of thousands are involved in 81 strikes on which the authorities do not have tab- ulated information. It lists only those me went on. strike ve July Gas till out in A TRev TE 1 Rk OEterearemoaoe