The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 8, 1933, Page 1

enh Get A Regular Subscription from Every Member of Your Organization Daily Central ‘(Section of the Communist International) orker ist Party U.S.A. Is the Daily Worker on Sale at Your Union Meeting? Your Club Headquarters? THE WEATHER—Today perature; showers; moderate tem- light southerly winds, Vol. X, No. 189 paarati Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of Mareh 8, 1878, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1933 (Four Pages) CITY EDITION Price 3 = MINERS JEER ROOSEVELT-LEWIS PACT: STRIKE SPREADS The U. S. Anti-War Congress F IS just like the months before the war all over again,” a British gov- ernment official is quoted as saying. Never since the Armistice in November, 1918, has there been so much war news as there is now in the press. Almost literally, all of the news is war news, In many parts of the world the fuses are burning to the bombshell of the next World War. Here in America the Roosevelt policies are shaping each day more clearly along the lines of preparation for the next World War. Through the NRA, and in all its other actions, Washington is whip- ping up again the feverish war spirit of 1917. DER these conditions, the coming U. S. Congress Against War, Sep- tember 2, 3 and 4 in New York, has a grave significance. It must be the broadest possible Congress of all who honestly in- tend to oppose the outbreak of the second World War. The Communist Party, which is doing its utmost to push forward this Congress as a real struggle against war, is anxious that every sincere opponent of war, no matter what difference there may be between his program and ours, shall take part in it. Especially, all workers’ organi- zations, all trade unions, and all possible organizations of the Socialist Party must be rallied to its support. IS to be expected that tie American bourgeoisie will exert all its forces of church, press, school, radio, against this Congress. Every possible disruptive effort will be mobilized to weaken and discredit it. There is one force with which the bourgeoisie hoves to weaken this Congress. That force is the leadership of the Socialist Party. That leadership has now done its bit for the Roosevelt war pro- gram. Pan at aeieg, T= National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party has osten- tatiously withdrawn from the arrangements committee of the U. s. Congress Against War. This National Executive Committee entered the united front for this congress, but it never intended to keep the united front. On July 22, in a letter not intended for publication, the leading So- cialist Party Local New York, addressing its NEC., makes this damningly clear. It says: “We are opposed to participating in the proposed conference, even if the conditions laid down by the N.E.C. were strictly lived up to.” oie ke honest opponents of imperialist war have only one course in the face of this chronic role of treachery of the Socialist leaders. We must and will work now as never before for the United States Congress Against War. And this is also the task of all honest opponents of imperialist war in the ranks of the Socialist Party! Open Letter and Recruiting LETTER full of political significance for every member of the Commun- ist Party, written by W. F. Donlon, a seaman, and former member of the Socialist Party, was published in yesterday's issue of the Daily. Worker. Comrade Donlon, after reading the Open Letter of the Communist Party, wrote, “Reading the Open Letter brings me into the Communist ranks.” He tells why: “Any Party, which could so honestly review its own tactical history, recounting its own shortcomings and omissions, must indeed be the one party, the most valuable to the workingclass.” Donlon’s letter contains much more of vital. interest to every Party member. He points out that his first contact with the Party was in the struggle around concrete issues on the waterfront, where he realized that the Party was actually leading the struggles of masses and winning .telief for them, . . . Be in spite of the mass activity carried on by the Party, there is hesitation in recruiting new members for the Party, Mass work, con- centration in the basic industries, must go hand in hand with recruiting for the Party—this is the meaning of the Open Letter where it speaks of building a mass revolutionary party, rooted in the basic industries. . . . entering the struggles of the miners, steel workers, auto workers, car- rying out the Open Letter, the question of immediate recruiting into the Party should not be lost sight of. Through its struggles, the Party must grow. It must grow to de- velop wider struggles, to lead greater masses of workers, This means day to day recruiting, making the broadest appeal to the workers to join the Party. . * . make the full use of this recruiting to broaden our mass work, it means more. We must draw these new members into our mass work immediately, training them, raising their political level. It is by this means that the Party grows and develops its forces for the extension of its mass work, rooting itself in the basic industries, and becomes a “mass revolutionary party of the proletariat.” (Open Letter). ; Miss Perkins and Bullets Army, in the person of General Douglas McArthur, was wor- ried. Only $225,000,000 had been appropriated by the Roosevelt gov- ernment for the Army. And to the dismay of the General, after the appropriations had been made for the building of tanks, cannon, rifles, gas masks, and bay- onets, there was very little left of the $225,000,000 for the purchase of bullets. Two hundred and twenty-five million—and no money for bul- lets! The General was worried. McArthur, you will remember, commanded the government troops on the “bloody Thursday” massacre of the bonus marchers last year. He also went abroad last year on a delicate military mission to examine the armies and war equipment of all the countries around the western borders of the Soviet Union, Roumania and Poland. McArthur got a bright idea to remedy the shortage of bullets. He went to see the great “liberal” Secretary of Labor, Perkins, And the gentle lady was won over. She decided to come to the rescue of the poverty-stricken Army. She pleaded with the Administrator of the Public Works Fund, Ickes. Ickes has charge of the “public works” money, So far he hasn’t handed out a cent of real money for public works, like hospitals, schools, houses, etc. The Army and the Navy seem to be what Roosevelt means by “public works,” Well, the “liberal” Perkins pleaded with Ickes for the Army, She explained to the Public Works Administrator that a really good Army can’t be expected to buy bullets with only $225,000,000. And, she brightly ake ed Secretary of Public Works, what is an Army without enough bullet So the Administrator of Public Works, Ickes, gave the worried Gen- eral McArthur another $6,000,000 for bullets, . ° . W the hard-faced militarist, General McArthur, has the greatest respect for the pacifist “liberal” Perkins who is so energetic in fight= ing for more bullets for the Army. And the General now appreciates much more the uses of “liberalism” as the fig-leaf of imperialist war CUBAN ARMY KILES FIFTEEN IN HAVANA 50 Wounded As Caval- ry Fires at Crowds in Streets SOLDIERS OCCUPY Threat of Immediate Intervention by United States HAVANA, er 7.—At least fifteen persons were killed and more than fifty wounded late today when soldiers turned machine guns on a crowd of 5,000 marching from the cap- itol to the Presidential Palace demanding that President Ma- chado resign. Troops occupy the city. Cuban cavalry also rode down the boulevard, Havana’s main street, firing at the crowds which filled the street. Police cars ran over the marchers. Hundreds stood their ground and defied the troops. A virtual announcement of U. S. armed intervention was made today in what is considered an ultimatum to Cuba to “settle its menacing strike rebellion by Congressional action within twenty-four hours.” The note was served’ on the government by Sumner Welles, Wall Street Ambas- sador to Cuba, who also “suggested” ways in which the Machado regime could smash the workers’ general strike. Welles made it very clear that “the United States would not stand idly by” while the strike takes the road toward the revolutionary overthrow of the bloody Machado regime. Machado has called his rump Con- gress together to pass martial law, and to begin a reign of terror in an effort to crush the strike. Shootings of strikers is increasing every moment. Not only are the Ma- chado armed forces participating in shooting down, demonstrators, but plain clothes thugs in the pay of Machado are rushing through the streets in automobiles, with sub- machine guns, shooting into groups of workers, Food is growing scarce, railroads have stopped running, no mail is be- ing delivered, and no newspapers, ex- cept the illegal revolutionary press, gotten out by the Communist. Par- ty, is circulated. The ABC, oppo- sition group of the landlord-capital- ist group opnosed to Machado, have set up a secret radio and are try- ing to direct the strike to prevent it from becoming a revolutionary up- rising of the toiling masses. Guards Shoot Mine Pickets in Clinton; Wound’ Bystander CITY CLINTON, Ind., Aug. 7.—Guards attacked union pickets outside the Bunsen mine, shooting Sam White, a business man, in the arms and body. This shooting is part of a con- tinuous attack to kill off struggles of miners in the Central West that have been going on for more than a year. White was watching the pickets. arn Communist Wins Seat in British Election LONDON, Aug. 7.—Ernest Coote, Communist candidate for Urban District Council in Risca, in the Eastern part of Wales, was elected with a large majority over the La- bor Party candidate and two other reformist union men running as in- dependents. run. He won only 95 votes the first time. He was elected in a district where there have been many mili- tant strikes recently. PERKINS’ AIDE QUITS BECAUSE OF NO-STRIKE EDICT NEW YORK, Aug. 7.—Because she regarded the Roosevelt no-strike edict as definite support to the big open shop trusts, Miss Mary Van Kleek, member of the Federal Advisory Council of the United States Employ- ment. Service, resigned yesterday. Miss Van Kleek, director of indus- trial study for the Russell Sage ‘Foundation, a social worker of Miss Perkins’ type, a liberal and a sup- porter of the Roosevelt administra- tion, considered too raw the oper attempt of the government to smash the strike struggles of the workers. In a letter directed to Miss Perkins, Roosevelt's secretary of labor, she said that this would intensify strug- gles and defeat the “recovery” pro- gram, | “The (arbitration) board’s em- ployer members are all officers of corporations having company| unions,” she said. She pointed out that the National Recovery Adminis- }-tration..was helping the steel trust maintain its company unions, though she slurred over the support of the A. F. of L. leaders for the same end. Several years ago Miss Van Kleek, together with Hapgood, formed a company union for the Colcrado Puel and Iron. She said despite the fact that the words “open shop” were withdrawn from the steel coae, “former Secre- tary of Commerce Lamont declared on the stand that the policy re- mained though the words were with- drawn.” This, she charged, meant the gov- ernment was supporting the open shop policy in the biggest trusts. She said that the big corporations were allowed an “unjustified rise in prices while labor unions are weak- ened in their efforts to raise wages.” ALLIES MAY LET AUSTRIA REARM TO BALK NAZIS NEW YORK, Aug. 7.—Dispatches from Rome ;today indicated that England, France and Italy are con- sidering allowing Austria to rearm beyond treaty strength. ‘The purpose of this is said to be to strengthen Austria as part of the measures to resist Nazi demands for political union of Austria and Ger- many. At the same time dispatches from Vienna reported the killing of an Austrian auxiliary policeman, Mich- ael Schwaninger, by ambushed men wearing the Nazi uniform as he pa- trolled the Austro-Bavarian border near Kufstein. He was shot and mortally wounded. A companion returned the shots, The Austrian minister at Berlin was instructed to make 1 protest to the German government. This is the fourth time Coote has | Considers Edict Too! Raw to Be Supported! o 70,000 miners, “ Mass Picketing i in the Coal Mine Strike Region Fifteen hundred miners gathered autslds the Leith Mine of the H. C. Uniontown, Pa., in the effort to pull out the miners there to join the strike which already involves nearly | Frick Coke Company, near NEW YORK.—One of the main ‘SCAB SHOPS PRINT ‘NRA LABELS WITH U.SAPPROVAL: Ever Ready Concern Pays $18 a Week NEW YORK —With government approval, scab printing shops} throughout the country are ry ing | ‘labels and other N. R. A. insignia,/ while the A. F. of L. officials direct and support the drive to put ovei blanket codes under the “recovery act. In New York, the Ever Ready La- bel Corporation, a scab printing house, is printing the official N.R. A. labels by the millions, selling them to the bosses under the N. R. A. The workers in the Ever Ready Label Corporation are paid as low as $18 a week, though the printers’ union minimum is $55 a week. They work 48 hours a week. Major George L. Berry, one of the strike-breaking arbitrators appointed | by President Roosevelt, is president of the Pressmen's Union. Berry and other high officials in the Typographical Union, affiliated to the A. F. of L., who support Roose- velt’s slave code drive, keep silent while the government approves the printing of N. R. A, labels by scab shops. Cleveland Fonference. Will (SHERIFF ASKS FOR Plan Fight on No-Strike Edict tasks of the ay ol ths trade union conference | to be held in Cleveland on August 26-27, called to fight against the Roose- yelt slavery code program, will be to develop the widest resistance and mob- ilization against the no-strike edict of Roosevelt. The action of Roosevelt, the heads of the General Motors and Standard | he would pl 7 oil, together with the A. F.-of L.| | leaders, io in s arbitra will be one} on the agenda of | of the main the confer jme of its issue a ing the present aci and the need fo: : ae “For the pre: ervation covery of worker right to strike, ion of the work rs own ¢ emi re- r the 27 Cl united front to ust 26 a le Union Conf jop the all trade a national 2 tion board in an effort to ke strikes. Belgium Reported . Near Recognition of Soviet Union BRUSSELS, Aug. 6—Belgium is near recognition of the Soviet Union, it was reported here, in consequence of the recent visit of the Soviet Am- bassador to Trance, aimed to} / loadec they failed ‘TROOPS TO CRUSH) . Y. MILK STRIKE ROCHESTER, N. N, ¥., Aug. ‘1. — In response to th atement that e the National Guard it the disposal of the big milk com- tate Milk Board ak the strike Sheriff Warren ca County today of+ d Governor Lehman to into the strike area. The fact that the fierce ag t the farmers h the milk strike, calling for more more s s. In a state- sued from the executive of , Lehman said yesterday: to the directing deputies life and just and In spite of t lice attacks | intimid nting 1a citizens of marketing and ¢ | Dw the well- ing the day Sunday a under the and who have er with Bordens, She and other units of the d to try to the small cer off the tried to rush through trucks with milk. In most all cases The only report of suc- y of milk is when one y concerns used an air- cessful del: of the dat {plane to get mi During Sun: day. the strike spread and now there are 32 counties in- volved, with approximately 32,000 farmers in action demanding that | dents; they receive 45 per cent of the re- tail price of the milk they produce. Miners’ Local Committees Lead Strike; N. M. U. Urges Spreading Walk-Out 10 SEND MINERS’ DELEGATION TO_ CODE HEARING | aeleal of Fayeti County Men Guardel.! Against by Miners By BILL DUNNE PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 7. —The striking miners of West- ern Pennsylvania in Fayette, Washington, Westmoreland, and Alleghany Counties have |correctly estimated the strike- | breaking character of the truce | agreed to by’ John L. Lewis, | Fagan and Feeney, District Presi- General Johnson, Governor Pinchot and President Roosevelt. They have not gone back td work, jbut have extended the strike and | closed down practically every mine in the aforementioned counties. There are also strikers in Cam- bria and Indiana Counties, of Cen~ tral Pennsylvania, Bethlehem Steel Ccmpany territory. The “honor” pledged by John L. Lewis to Roosevelt in ordering miners back to work has been given its exact value by the strikers. No pawn- broker in a mining district in West- ern Pennsylvania would lend a dime on the henor of John L. Lewis. Strike In Miners’ Hands The strike is in the hands of the miners’ committees. elected at mine meetings and local union meetings. These committees are rank and file committees, but in them are included a number of local union officials, more or less cogs in the Lewis-Fagan- Feeney machine. This is the weak- ness of these committees. but so far the unexampled militancy and de- termination of the mass of the miners has provented actual betrayal. There is a real, growing rank and file authority as against that of the union officials. Even at meetings where there has been a forma)? majority vote to re- turn to work under the truce, miners { have not gone back to work. In- stead, they have as a rule presented demands for elected checkweighmen and recognition of mine committees. This second demand is entirely in conflict with the United Mine Work- ers of America policy and represents the influence of the National Miners’ Union and the tremendous initiative of the miners themselves. For instance, the meeting of fif- teen hundred miners at Montour Mine, No. 10, of the Pittsburgh Coal Company lasted from 2 o'clock until 7 and a resolution demanding elected checkweighmen and recognition of mine committees was passed. The mine committee presented these des mands to the Superintendent; he rée fused, thus breaking the Roosev pact agreement on checkweighmy and the miners continued on strike. Such instances are occurring throughout the coal field, There {s the greatest determination among the mass of miners in other fields that the miners of, the Fayette County coke region (the H. C. Frick Coke Co,, a subsidiary of the United States Steel Co.) shall not be tricked or be- trayed and that every precaution shall be taken to see that the strike in other coal counties is not called off before the Frick men have reached their own decision. A typical example expressing this Continued on Page Three Cuban Communist Party Plays Big Role in General Political Strike (Special to the ne Daily Worker) HAVANA, Cuba, August 7—The strike is still extending and has be- come a general strike. The only industries still out in the city are the telephone, public employees, water and electric light. The rail- road workers’ unions of Santa Clara have struck. The reformist leaders of Havana R. R. unions have so far been able to prevent their workers from striking, but it is definitely known that these will strike tonight. All stores are closed, police patrols are going from store to store, try- ing to force the. storekeepers to keep them open. In lower Havana and in some suburbs workers have smashed the windows of the stores remaining open. The Havana Eco- nomic Association, the Chamber of Commerce organization has decided | to strike together with the workers but have raised as their demand, ‘Out with Machado.” Workers Seize Regla. In Regla, a suburb of Havana, the workers seize@ all control and ef- fectively stopped all industry and commerce, Last night a large force of soldiers attacked them, Rumors e are circulating that over 100 were wounded, many of them soldiers. In Cienfuegos and in Camaguey, cities in the interior, gun fighting is go- {ing on .and houses of rich Machado | supporters have been burned, The Secretary of State has called in the strike committee to ask them what they wanted. Their reply was that they want full victory in all demands of all strikers, withdrawal of armed forces from union halls, no martial law, and the recognition of the Communist Party legality. Strike Committee Growing. The strike committee is growing by leaps and bounds through the addition of new delegations from the newly struck factories. It is constituting a National General Strike Committee. Tomorrow morn- ing the newspaper of the strike committee will appear, There are no other papers. In Cardenas and other Cities, stiiking miners have overturned the autos of the army and rural police, ‘The streets are jammed with peo- ple. Wherever one goes one hears cheeers for the Commi Party and the Confederacion Nacional Ob- rera de Cuba. Thousands of copies of the appeal of the Communist Party of Cuba to the workers for struggle for their demands and towards a real general political strike were distributed to-. the disappearance of the daily press, the bourgeois-landlord —_ opposition | and the ABC are little heard of. The much-heralded manifesto to the | workers to stop their strumg'e Gis not materialize, Through the ‘streets day in Cuba, For the moment, with;one finds signs evidently painted ‘ NEW YORK.—William Z. Foster today sent wires to President Ma- chado of Cuba and President Roose- velt protesting against the slaughter peat eee in the Cuban general strike, The telegram to Machado, address- ed in the name of the Trade Union Unity League, reads: “The Trade Union Unity League, in the name of thousands of Amer- ican workers protests the threaten- martial law and demands tRe Foster Protests Cuban Murder To Roosevelt and Machado the improvement of their miserable conditions. We demand the release of the arrested strikers.” To President Roosevelt, gram reads: “The Trade Union Unity League, in the name of thousands of Amer- ican workers, brands the Welles ne- gotiations as intervention by the Un- ited States in the affairs of Cuba against the toiling masses. We de- mand the end of this intervention and the non-interference in the strike of the Cuban workers against Machado oppression.” the tele- last night and the night before: “Queremos revolucion, no queromos | mediacion, El Ala Izquierda del ABC’”—“We want revolution and no |mediation, Ala Izquierda of the APC, Disgusted With “Opposition.” “ The disgust of the widest masses with the policy of the leaders 0f the bourgeois landlord opposition and with the reformist and anarchist trade union leaders grows. At the moment of writing this, spooting has begun on the streets, carloads of policemen are rushing through the streets firing from ma- chine guns. Throughout the city reigns excite- ment. Mobs are congregated at every corner. In the suburb of Mantilla, the striking bus workers built barricades this morning to im- pede all traffic. Police took them apart. The only cars that are cir- culating are street cars run by po~ licemen and transnorting loads of police from one side of the city to the: other. Certain army cars and trucks are also seen. The Government has declared to- day that if the strike does not stop it shall declare martial law, As ® foretaste of this it has declared war upon all elements “outside the law,” meaning the Communists. Warning has been given that all demonstra- tions will be smashed and if after the second warning the crowds do not disperse that they will be shot upon. * Arrest Strikers. All day yesterday and today the police have been arresting the strike rellef committees. More than one hundred workers were thrown into” prison. This afternoon police and army troops occupied the headquare ters of the general strike committee, News has come from Santiago de Cuba that one more of the demon- strants shot on August first hi died. He was a 14-year old workers* child and a member of the Young Pioneers. The only paper to come out after 12 noon today, has been the Juven- tud Obrera, the organ of the Young Communist League of Cuba, which was issued in a special strike edi- tion. In the early morning hours tens of thousands of manifestos of the district committee of the Coms munist Party of Cuba were buted in spite of police terror. |