The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 9, 1933, Page 1

Get A Regular Subscription from Every Member of Your Organization Central O (Section of the Communist International) of the “Daily” moderate temperat HarryGannes Reviews ‘Mellons Millions’ On the Feature Page This Saturday THE WEATHER — Partly cloudy; ture. Vol. X, No. 190 _— Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Aet of March 8, 1979, * NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1933 (Four Pages) CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents WALL ST., MACHADO ACT TO PREVENT REVOLUTION “Nira” Shows Her Teeth ‘By EARL BROWDER 6SAJIRA” was introduced as a beautiful young goddess, a sort of younger sister of “Liberty” and a daughter of “Justice.” The older divinities, being somewhat shopworn and discredited, gave way to “Nira,” who is expected to revive the drooping faith of the American masses. When we Communists declared, as soon as we saw the face of this new jade, that behind her painted lips were the wolf-fangs of a vicious anti-strike, anti-labor offensive, when we declared that her name should be “Nisa” instead of “Nira,” we were denounced again as “slanderers.” But the rouged lips of “Nira” have been forced to open. The teeth are exposed for the entire world to see. Already the capitalist press is whipping up a war spirit against the striking miners, and preparing for new attacks against the Communist Party because it is staunchly defending the workers’ right to strike. Our “slanders” of a few weeks past are already the commonplace truth of the day. The National Industrial Recovery Act is openly estab- lished as the Slavery Act, as the law which is designed to take away from the working class all rights of independent organization or action. * 66NJIRA” has been given several high priests, by appoint- ment of Roosevelt, who will distribute her “beneficence” to the workers. Three of them “represent” the workers, according to the cynical ritual of “Nira”; they are William Green, notorious for his previous “bargain” with Hoover in 1929 which put across the great wage-cutting campaign; John L. Lewis, the criminal wrecker of the formerly-great United Mine Workers Union; and George Berry, fascist head of the Printing Pressmen’s Union, for years a leading strike- breaker in the printing trades. These men represent the workers no more than the open capitalists under whom they serve on the new “War Labor Board.” * * Already the new strike-breaking machinery is at work, trying to force back to work the 60,000 striking miners in Pennsylvania, the 17,000 shoe workers in Massachusetts, and to choke off the whoie great movement of millions of wor' ers who are trying to force a small beginning of improv ment in wages, hours, and working conditions. e t * * FLOOD of evidence is rolling in to show that the “codes” of Nira, and the whole “New Deal,” are dealing smas' ing blows against the conditions of the workers. In the Tennessee Coal and Iron Co., rollers have had their name changed to “finishers,” with the result that where formerly they received $1.08 per thousand pounds, they now get 27 cents. Textile mills, north and south, are replacing experi- enced workers with “beginners,” who do not come under the “code.” Negro workers.are being paid half the starva- tion wages paid to white workers. The Bethlehem Ship- building Corporation, which has just finished » 10,000 ton cruiser, get a contract for a new one at a 40 per cent ad- vance in cost to the government, but with a wage cut to the individual workers of 17 per cemt below that paid on the former one. The heralded “minimum” wage is already showing its teeth as the maximum. * HE miners of Pennsylvania, by repudiating the sell-out of the “truce” contracted in their name by John L. Lewis, have already demonstrated that the discredited lead- ers of the A. F. of L. cannot so easily put across {' present betrayal as they did that of 1929. The workers are already in revolt. * But already Roosevelt is calling in his “second line” of helpers among the workers. Norman Thomas has en‘cr- ed the breach to “do his part” for Nira. Speaking at the N. Y. University, Mr. Thomas, in the name of “Socialism,” issued the slogans of Nira: “America has found a new faith and a new hope since the Roosevelt Administration”; “The President has worked wonders”; “We must wait and see”; “Strikes are inadvisable at present.” Let no worker be fooled by the fact that Thomas puts forth these slogans under a mask of “opposition” to the anti-strike measures. That is precisely his service to Roose- velt and Nira, to secure for them the support of even the workers who realize the treachery of Green, Lewis, and Berry, but whose eyes are not yet open to the fact that Tho- mas stands for exactly the same essential program. Roosevelt needs Norman Thomas more than ever now, and will doubt- less bring him forward into a more active role. Thomas only apologizes for the vulgar display of +he long teeth of Nira, but agrees to help Roosevelt accomplish the same end for which the teeth were fashioned. ab: * (OW more than ever becomes clear the tremendous im- portance of the Trade Union Conference for United Ac- tion called for Cleveland, Ohio, for August 26-27, to work out a program of struggle to protect the. workers from the attacks now being made upon their living standards. This united front of struggle against the attacks of the “New Deal” has been called by a preliminary committee of 80 leaders of all mass organizations of the unemployed, by a whole series of trade unions of the A. F. of L., independent unions, and the militant unions of the T.U.U.L. Every fighting economic organization of the workers, no matter what its affiliation, must at all costs be repre- sented in. Cleveland on August 26-27. There will be worked out a united program of struggle, a single workers’ answer to the attacks of Nira and the “New Deal.” Nira has shown her teeth. The workers must also dem- a pd Poor are not without weapons. that the workers \ rm * PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 8.—In Men Determined to Stay By BILL M cGrady Continues AFL Effort to Break Strike Out to Gain Demands; DUNNE view of the increasing emphasis on “red activities” in the coal fields, especially in the coke region where not a single mine has resumed work, the dispatch of Edward McGrady, special “red expert” on the basis of his strike-breaking work in the needle trades, j hes special significance. McGrady as the representative of Gen. Johnson spoke today at a meet- ing in Uniontown of secretaries and | presidents of local unions and other | district officials. He attacked Martin | Ryan, local leader of the opposition to calling off the strike, as a “red.” Despite Ryan’s opposition, the meet- | ing voted to return to work. As yet the effect of this decision among the miners in the field is unknown. The | miners in the coke field are showing | unexampled determination in face of all efforts of the officials to split their ranks, Hundreds of miners on the streets and on the picket lines say openly | “let them send all the telegrams they want to, we will stay out on strike until we gain the demands which we struck for.” The most successful kidding of business men, union officials, federal concil rs, Pinchot agents, forth, in all history, is ca: by the miners on their own initiative as follows: Miners question the au- thenticity of the telegrams calling on them to return to work. They claim they were not sent by Roosevelt or Pinchot. Miners committees come’ to Uniontown from all parts of the field, solemnly examine the original wire on file in the telegmph officc, go back to the miners meetings, and | report the whole thing as cooked up | by the coal operators. The support of the. coke men by miners in other fields is shown typ- ically in the instance of the Library section yesterday. Twelve thousand miners are striking in this section. The district president, Pat Fagan, sent a letter to all locals ordering them back to work under penalty of losing the charter of their local. At huge mass meetings miner after | Miner, rose and literally said “lets | tell Fagan to take the charter and use it for toilet paper.” One miner received great applause when he said “Let him take the charter. We'll get | better charter from the National | Miners Union.” In the coke region there is talk of the need for a “new union.” The re- sult is that the continuation of the strike against the orders of John L. Lewis, federal conciliator, Pinchot agents and so forth has already forced the Pittsburgh Coal Company to | agree to the election of /checkweigh- men. The National Miners Union delega- CALL FOR FUNDS ' ‘10 HELPSTRIKERS | Sherwood Anderson Heads Committee NEW YORK—A National Miners Aid Committee of which Sherwood Anderson, the noted author, is chairman, has been organized in New York to solicit aid for the min- ers and to conduct the activity of the National Miners Union against the betrayal of the miners’ strike. News from the mine strike fields carried in the capitalist press does not tell of the misery and starva- tion being suffered by the 170,000 now in progress is being fought against big odds. Miners need food, clothing and shoes in order’ to win attempts to force them back to work and misery, and funds must be raised to permit the National Min- ers Union to successfully combat these strikebreaking attempts. Send packages of food, clothing and shoes to the Miners Relief Committee, 149 Washington Place, Pittsburgh, Pa. and mail money contributions to Barbara Hirsch, Secretary-Treasurer of the National Miners Aid Committee, 445 W. 21st Street, New York. Help the miners win their strug- gle. By PASCUAL NEW YORK.—Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, stopped in his editorial duties yesterday to tell a group of pioneers visiting him that when the 6-page Daily comes out “we are going to have not one but two comic strips for the pioneers.” The youngsters, 11 of them from Troop 18 J in New York, ranged from 6 to 13 years of age. Tiey smilingly crowded around Hathaway's desk as he explained the way in which the paper goes from one machine to an- other machine until it comes out in the form’ of the Daily Worker. “And do you read the Daily,” Hath- away asked little Shirley Littman, 6 striking miners, nor that the strike | against the Lewis-Johnson-Roosevelt | tion to the coal code hearings is leaving for Washington tonight. The offices of the National Miners Union and the Steel and Metal Work- ers Union were infested, with federal dicks and immigration agents today. The atmosphere was one of prepara- tions for a general raid on the revolu: tionary unions to thwart the move- ment of organizing workers in these two basic industries. The federal an investigation of red activities in the coal ‘industry is under way. This is without doubt an attempt from Washington to demoralize the ranks of the miners and defeat their mili- tancy at least for the time being. The miners are working practically without leadership except that which has been developed locally in the course of the strike. They have, ir- respective of the immediate results of the strike action, struck the most damaging blow yet to the Roosevelt slave pact. LL.D. FIGHT FREES NEGRO BOY HELD ON ‘RAPE’ CHARGE Labor Def. Smashes Frame-Up Against Russell Gordon, 13 NORFOLK, Va., Aug. 8.—Framed charges of rape against Russel Gordon, 13-year-old Negro boy, were dismissed in court today, as a re- sult of the mass campaign and brilliant legal defense put up by the International Labor Defense The issue of exclusion of Ne- groes from grand and petit juries, raised in court by Ernest Merril, I. L. D. attorney, created a sgnsa- tion, and finally decided the Judge and court officials to dismiss the framed case rather’ than have a Scottsboro case, Gordon was charged with “rape” of a woman of 33, more than twice his size, who had been looking for an excuse to force her husband to move away from the farm where he lived and worked. The whole police and judicial machine was set to work to complete the frame-up, police even claiming falsely they had tracked Gordon by his foot- steps through a grassy pasture from the home of Mrs, Pauline Hartman to his own home. A judge was called in when the boy was ar- rested, to urge him to confess with threats of death if he refused. The ILD swung into action, and aroused’ the Negro and white work- ing population of Norfolk and Vir- ginia into protest Britain Appoints New Soviet Envoy LONDON, Aug. 8—Great Britain will be represented by an ambas- sador in Moscow in September for the first time since March 30, when Viscount. Chilston takes up his du- ties there. He will succeed Sir Esmond Ovey, who was called to London in March to make a report on the case of the Metropolitan-Vickers engineers who were tried in Moscow for espionage and wrecking. ARREST 4 LAUNDRY STRIKERS NEW YORK.—Four more strikers of the Bond Laundry, 435 E. 175th St., were arrested yesterday. They were distributing leaflets from a years old, the youngest in the troop, truck, urging housewives not to pa- tronize the laundry. Pioneers See Hathaway; Will Write Him on 6-Page “Daily” “Yes,” she answered smiling shyly, “I read it.” “And are you going to read the funnies in the 6-page Daily and all the rest of the paper when it comes out next week?” “Sure,” the children “we're going to do that.” “Well then,” continued Hathaway, “I want all of you pioneers to send me a letter telling me what you think of the 6-pege Daily when it comes out and then we'll print all of them in the paper, Will you do that?” And they all promised to write. Even little Shirley is going to send Hathaway a letter. And then they all shook hands and the editor went back to his work, chorused, district attorney openly stated that! ‘Plan Fake Court Martial for Guardsman Who Left Strike Area PITTSBURGH, Pa.—For refus- ing to do strike breaking duty in the soft coal region, Harvard | | H. Graul, member of the Na- | tional Guard will be tried before |a court martial. Graul is a mem-| |ber of Company I, 111th Infan- |try and was stationed near Mt. |Gretna, from where he left for aed | It is reported that a call was | |issued for 1,700 volunteers to go | |to the strike area, but only 325 | men responded. Among the Na- | jtional Guardsmen are many| workers. They find themselves | j}ordered to fight against fellow | | workers who are on strike to bet- | | ter their conditions. | Call Masses in the U.S.to Aid Fight Against | Machade Demonstrate Against Wall St. Marines Going to Cuba NEW YORK.—Calling on all work- ers and fighters against Wall Street imperialism to protest and resist the Machado regime, the Communist Party of the United States and the Anti-Imperialist League urges all workers organizations to arrange rule. In New York a series of mass dem- onstrations in support of the anti- Machado general strike have already Harlem there will be a series of open air’ meetings, culminating in a mons- at 114th Street and Lenox Ave., where thousands of workers are expected to take part. On Friday night, the Cuban Julio Mella Club will hold a mass meeting ‘Change After Cuba Shooting Terror in Santa Clara a IN CUBA 1,400 ON STRIKE AT MURRAY OHIO ‘METAL FACTORY |Reject Bosses’ Offer | of Pay Increase for | Part of Workers CLEVELAND, 0. Aug 8.— Four- teen hundred metal workers at the Murray Ohio Co., Cleveland, went sending of American maraues to crush | the general strike against ite bloody) demonstrations and meetings in sup-/| port of the Cuban masses in their) fight against Machado’s Wall Street been arranged. Beginning today in| ter outdoor rally on Saturday night) 4 Me As part of the general terror campaign of Machado’s gangsters ali over Cuba, police and soldiers recently clubbed and smashed a demonstration of women teachers in Santa Clara, The teachers de- manded payment of their back salaries and the establishment of liv- ing wages for them. | Machado Says He Was Acting to Preserve Wall St. Property and to Keep Workers, Peasants from Taking Control in Cuba HAVANA, Aug. S~—After the brutal, murderous attack on 5,000 demonstrators here, Machado is closeted with Wall Street ambassador Welles, seeking means of preventing the mass political strike from becoming a revolutionary uprising with anti-imperialist and revolutionary agrarian aims. Welles is proposing the withdrawal temporarily of Mach- ado through a leave of absence, putting in his place another representative of American imperialism and the native ex- = “ ploiters, pearance of a change. This would leave the way open for a return of TALK OF TAKING another government little different in order to give the ap- Machado, or the establishment of MARINES OUT OF HAITI IN OCT. 1934 at Park Palace, 110th St. and Fifth | Ave., to plan active support in this country to the mass political strike in Cuba. | from Machado’s dictatorship. Bloody Machado today, in an of- ficial declaration, said he ordered his | machine gunners to fire into the de- out on strike under the leadership }of the Joint Council of Industrial Unions. The mass picketing of 1,000 workers yesterday closed the entire plant. — | A committee of 15 workers, toge- \ther with Frank Rogors, a represen= | tative of the Joint Council, negotiated | with the company management. The }company offered to recognize the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial | Union and to grant an increase in wages for skilled labor, but the work- | ers demanded greater wage increases, land the increases to apply to all | Workers. | The majority of workers at this : | plant are youth, with an average age of 20 years. The plant makes auto parts and metal toys. | Sympathy Strike | Yesterday workers in two depart- |ments of the Hupmobile Motor Co. | walked out in sympathy with the Murray strikers. Following are mands: Guarantee basic rate of 40 cents per hour for all unskilled labor; 50 cents per hour for all skilled labor; guarantee weekly wage of $16 for unskilled and $20 for skilled work- ers; clean toilets and windows, clean drinking water, hot water for wash- ing and lockers in all departments; stock shall be supplied and taken away for all operators, Five day week,eight hour day; men black- listed and fired to get their jobs back. | Recognition of the Union chosen by the workers themselves. The Joint Council has set up strike headquarters at 807 East 152nd Street. | the workers’ de | | NAVY YARD CUTS WAGES, FIRES 300 The Anti-Imperialist League has sent the following telegram to Pres- ident Roosevelt: “Lay bloodthirsty career of Ma- chado as further exemplified in yes- terday'’s slaughter directly at the door of United States imperialism and its spokesman the American State Department which have supported Machado since his election in 1925. The Anti-Imperialist League of the United States demands your inter- vention in Cuba through Ambassador Welles cease immediately. We declare our opposition to any military in- tervention on your part. We again demand abolition of the Platt Amend- ment withdrawal of American naval base from Guantanamo. We strongly condemn the collusion of your am- bassabor with Machado in calling out | Cuban federal troops to break the general strike in Cuba and expose it as an attempt of American imperial- ism to crush mass upsurge and main- tain its virtually complete domination of the island through its faithful puppet Machado or the other repre- sentatives of capitalist landlord groups. “William Simons, “National Secretary.” MALLEABLE IRON STRIKE IS WON IN BRIDGEPORT BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Aug. 8.— The 250 strikers at «the Malleable Iron Co. won their demands 100 per cent today, under the leader- ship of tae Trade Union Unity League. Ths demands were a 40- conditions in the shop. The strikers voted unanimously to support the shop committee and gave a vote of thanks to Sam Krieger, organizer of the T.U.UL. for his assistance in leading the strike. The strike, which began last week, was against the low pay and mis- erable conditions existing in the shop. Experienced moulders were being paid sweatshop wages in the factory, with long hours, and badly lit, unsanitary surroundings. Now the minimum wage for moulders is $24 a week, John Egan, labor faker of the American Federation of Labor, at- tempted to offer his “services” to the strikers but the strikers flatly refused his offer. The strikers have emerged victor- fous and are now prepering a banquet in honor of the T. U. U. L. organizer and of their victory. The Daily Worker, containing stories of the strike, was soid on the scene of the strike and did hour week, $5.50 a day, and sanitary | Sen sa But Prepare to Marines to C Right Now | WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.— On the day that President Roosevelt was |preparing to send marines to Cuba | against the ‘general strike and to | Protect Wall Street’s rule against the |revolutionary masses, an official | statement is made here that marines will be withdrawn from Haiti on October 1, 1934. Officials in the state department announced that a document was signed at Port-au-Prince, capital of Haiti, yesterday providing for marine withdrawal. |. The rushing through of this move jis timed to draw the atiention of |the American masses away from Wall Street’s maneuvers in Cuba. The marines are not scheduled to |hence. There will not be complete Jevacuation of Wall Street's armed forces. Some marines will undoubt- edly stay. It was also admitted here that this move was taken to placate anti-Wall Street sentiment throughout Latin- America, and to favor America’s at- tempts to win Latin-American mark~ ets, The American authorities had in view the Pan-American confer- ence called for Montevideo in De- cember. Aide of Kurt Eisner . Is Murdered by Nazis BERLIN, Au. 8. — Felix Fechen- bach, former secretary to Kurt Eis- ner, murdered premier of Bavaria, was killed today “while attempting to escape,” on the way to a con- centration camp. | preserve the interest of Wall Street Men Get 16 Per Cent and the native capitalists. leave Haiti until more than a year) | Ambassador Welles is fully respon-| Cut; Protest At the | sible with Machado for the machine gun slaughter of the Cuban masses. He called op} ition leaders into con. ference after he had conversed with Machado. Welles told the opposition that Machado would resign. The op- position immediately broadcast this news over the radio. In response, the masses gathered at the national palace. was happening, was fully prepared, having concealed machine gunners in strategic positions. Meanwhile, Welles and the oppo- ition attempt to work out a com- comise with Machado to keep back nary struggles, and especially and agrarian ry to a finish, by wiping out do and his imperialist and ex- g class basis. They are grooming either Carlos Ménuel de Cespedes or Col. Carlos | Mendjeta, both connected with rich |landlords and Cuban capitalists, and lacceptable to Wall Street, as succes- sors to Machado. The main object is to keep Ma- chado from being driven out of power by revolutionary action. Machado, who knew what| Yard at Charlestown Quincy Shipyards BOSTON, Mass., Aug. 8—The gilt is fast wearing off the huge Roose- velt naval construction program, ironically called a “public works” | program. The application of the much-touted industry codes to Navy will result in | net wage cuts of 6 per cent for the workers in the private building yards, jand a 16 2-3 per cent cut for the workers in the government yard, it was revealed today in the protests brought by the Navy Yard workers to officials of the Metal Worker's Union. In one case, the, reduction in wages will be accomplished by reducing the number of days from six to five, eut~ ting the wages by one sixth. And in the second case, where the code has resulted in an increase in the hourly rates, the cut in the work week from 40 hours to 32, will result in a 5 per cent cut on top of all the cuts made since the crisis. | Less Men for Same Work Furthermore, i*> re-hiring of sev- | eral huncred ers which was sup- Welles is| posed to have resulted from the ap- striving to get Machado to accept plication of the code and the new a compromise choice for “vice pres-| construction program, will not ma- ident,” and then resign, leaving power | terialize. On the contrary, the Naval in the hands of the vice-president; | officer in charge announced that from sending the workers back to work, | 300 to 400 men will be laid off on and through a few electoral reforms | trying to satisfy the mass discontent and the great impoverishment of Cuban people. * | The general strike is complete, | with the entire workingclass partici- | pating, and all stores being. tightly | shut. Food is becoming scarce as all means of transportation are stop borne O'Neill, Negro worker mounted the platform at the open air meet- ing called by the Unemployed Coun- cil, and urged the workers to or- ganize, ‘The meeting was held at night on the “Old Hospital Lot” to protest conditions in the “Robinson Opera House” flop joint. Worker followed worker exposing the slop that was dished out to them. ‘Then a weak voice was heard from the audience asking for permission to speak, and O'Neill, who had been living in the flophouse, slowly mounted the platform. His words much to keep up the strikers’ opirite. * Te came in gasps, hardly audible to the workers who kept deathly silent, Starving Negro on Platform Calls for Struggle, Drops Dead CINCINNATI, 0., Aug. 8.—Os-| “Fellow workers,” he said, “I am very happy to see the workers or- ganizing in Cincinnati.”. Then he) |paused holding his side. His lips} |moved to a bitter wan smile, “I'm ) | sick....they refuse to give me med-| lical attention...the kind of medical | | attention I need...their starvation... |is killing me...” Then he roused | himself, breathed deeply’ of the cool |night air, and an electric shiver ran | through the expectant crowd as he shouted: “Next time we go to the ‘City Hall we must have hundreds | more workers—” ~ “Workers... Organize... . Negro and white...” He slumped over the platform railing; hands caught at him as he slumped to the platform, August 25. The commanding officer of the Yard explained that: “The modern practice is to have drafting work for a new vessel done by people who get out the steel That cuts a large number of draftsmen out of department.” In addition, the awarding of the new construction work to the Char- lestown. Yards will do away with all the repair work that used to be done in these yards on overhauled trans- ports. Workers Protest At Fore River Plant of the Bethle- hem Shipbuilding Corporation, over 1,000 steel workers held a protest meeting against the wage schedules instituted under the code. They elected a committee to protest to the company officials. The workers pointed out that the company has just been awarded a $11,720,000 con- tract for the building of a new cruiser, an increase of 40 per cent over the cost for a similar cruiser last. year. At the same time the company has offered to increase the pay of the men by emily 1.1 per cent, bringing the average wages of the highest paid skilled mechanics to $24 a week. The application of the steel code, and the beginning of the huge Naval construction program, therefore, are combining to give the shipbuilding companies new enormous profits, at a) same time that hundreds of ship- il #&-.4.4. 08m ve