The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 10, 1933, Page 1

PO aA Pages Daily, 8 on Saturday! ally, aN Central Or (Section of the Communist International) unist Party U.S.A. THE ature; northerly winds. WEATHER—Today, | Vol. X, No. 191 > aateret us we New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1878, class matter at the Post Office at cw YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1933 (Four Pages) CITY EDITION HarryGannes Reviews ‘Mellons Millions’ On the Feature Page of the “Daily” This Saturday fair; moderate temper- Price 3 Cents | Revolution Rises in Cuba IN Cuba, the working class, supported by the poor peasants, the colonos, serfs of the American sugar barons, through a mass political strike, have taken the lead in fighting against the bloody regime of dictator Machado. \ Cuba, pearl of the Antilles, is the main jewel in the crown of Wall | Street. American bankers, railroads, sugar mills practically own the | Beginning Monday, August 14, | the Daily Worker Will Have 6 whole island. Dictator Machado has been the faithful tool of Amer- | {can imperialism, shooting, torturing, jailing the toiling masses who ; fought against his tyranny. During the crisis, Machado, to pay the in- terest on American loans, to insure the super-profits of the Wall Street bankers, put a crushing load on the toiling masses. He drove them to the deepest depths of poverty. * IN order now to prevent a fight-to-the-finish agaust all the native puppets of imperialism, the native bourgeois opposition seeks to take the leadership, to direct the mass discontent and struggle into harm- less channels. Wall Street, sensing the rumblings of the oncoming revolution, sent the experienced Mr. Welles as Ambassador to Cuba to work out a com- promise between Machado and the landlord-bourgeois opposition. But the masses moved into action faster than the opposition or Welles wanted them to. The proleta took the lead by a complete general strike, a political action against, not only Machado, but the whole crushing yoke of yankee imperialism. With the support of Welles, Machado let loose the forces of counter-revolution. He ordered whole- sale slaughter. * . . ACHADO felt confident that with his well equipped army, aid of his paid traitors in the yellow fear of the opposition, of a real people’s revolution, he could wipe out in blood the workers’ attempt to lead the anti-imperialist and agrarian revolution. with the When yankee imperialism saw the workingclass taking the lead of the revolutionary struggle against Machado and the imperialist forces behind him, it sought to get Machado to withdraw. They groomed other landlord-capitalist representatives like Cepedos and Mendieta to take his place. For six months now, Washington dispatches reveal, marines and gunboats in readiness to rush to Cuba. that there has been a heavy concentration of the U tanamo naval station, a U. S. base in Cuba. . IF Mechado cannot succeed in crushing the general strike in a sea of blood, if negotiations fail, and the toiling masses surge on to revolu- tion. Wall Street will step in with armed intervention. The struggle of the Cuban toiling masses is the struggle of the American workers, against the same forces that are starving 17,000,000 in this country, and crushing the standard of living of the employed. A defeat of the Cuban masses will strengthen Wall Street. A victory of the Cuban revolution would increase the power of the American workers in their fight against the exploiters. Our task now is to fight against every move of Wall Street to armed intervention. Stop the shiyment of marines to Cuba! Demand the withdrawal of Mr. Welles! Support the general sirik> of the Cuban masses! Dewn with the bloody regime of Machado! Protest against the murder of Cuban workers, engineered by Mr. Welles and Machado! Support the Communist Party of Cuba, the real leader of the anti- imperialist agrarian. revolution! Support the Cuban workers, leader of the struggle against Machado and Wall Street imperialism! he has had e cen be sure S. navy at Gun- Decisions to Be Carried Out IN the face of the huge strike wave, sweeping over the country, signal- ized particularly by the miners strike, it ig important to recall some | outstanding points in the Open Letter. “Eyery Party member must now understand,” said the Open Letter, “that it depends on correct policy and above all, the ex- ecution of the correct policy whether we will be able to mobilize the masses of workers for struggle and whether our Party, in this historically favorable situation wili become a decisive mass Party of the American proletariat, 6r whether the bourgeoisie with the help of its social-fascist and fascist agents will succeed in disor- ganizing the mass movement and keeping t% Gow...” We see now the efforts of the A. F. of ZL. leadership to crush the strikes. We witness Norman Thomas and the socialist leaders telling the workers “it is inadvisable to strike now.” In this actual, living situation of rising struggles, we must ask our- selves how are we executing our policy of penetrating the masses in the basic industries? Are we doing everything to win leadership in the strike struggles, to prevent the A. F. of L. leaders and the socialists from “disorganizing the mass movement and keeping it down?” ‘HE answer depends on how well the party membership is penetrating the decisive shops, reaching the masses of worke:®, understanding | their moods, their demands, their struggles. | Following the adoption of the Open Letter, many district and sec- tion. conferences were held. Control plans were adopted for carrying out the tasks of the open letter, for concentration on basic industries, for specific work in individual shops. Now in the rising wave of struggles we must ask sharply: Are these going to remain on paper, or are they going to be carried out? The point underlined by the open letter, the execution of our cor- rect policies, becomes all-decisive. The Fraud of “New Jobs” 'T WAS the leaders of the A. F. of L. who joined rapturously with Roose- velt in hailing the Recovery (Slavery) Act as one that would give in- “creased production and give more jobs. But the harsh and ruthless exploitation that is masked by the NRA codes is accidentally exposed by the statistics published by the American Federation of Labor itself in the current issue of the “Federationist.” These figures show that since the March benk crisis when Roose- velt took office the following increases in jobs occurred: 0.5 per cent for i 0.3 per cent for May, 1.3 per cent for June, and 0.7 per cent for july. The workers would have to look with a microscope to find these pin- point “increases.” out. _In the important industries like building, metal, printing, etc. there has actually been an increase—not in jobs—but in unemployment, during these months. And even the “Federationist” is forced to admit that un- employment is still grow'ng in these trades. The columns in the “Feder- .ationist” prove this. SIDE from the fact that the recent increase in production has been devoted mainly to preparations for war or speculative production in- spired by fears of inflation, the significant fact that stands out for the workers is that the recent spurt in production has taken place without any real increase in the number of jobs! Every agency of ruling class propaganda has been working overtime, dangling the 50 per cent rise in production of steel before the workers as the forerunner of new jobs. From Roosevelt down to Norman Thomas they have been dinning into the ears of the workers that at last the crisis with its curse of unemployment was to pass away. And now the inescapable facts! Fifty per cent—against the miserable “increase” of 1 per cent or less in jobs! More work—done by practically the same number of workers! Here is the kernel, the heart of the Roosevelt industrial program, and the NRA codes. Here the A. F. of L. labor lieutenants of the capitalist class themselves cannot conceal the fact that the yery basic purpose of the NRA codes is to intensify the exploitation of the workers by ever greater speed-up. The promised jobs are only a myth to conceal this fact. trade unions, with the stark | Thousands of Miners Still Out Despite Pact | Others Return witht Closed Ranks Determined | to Gain Demands; U.M.W.A. Officials Try | to Eliminate Militant Workers a -4 : : ° (Special to the Daily Worker) | Solidarity With PITTSBURGH, Penn. Aug. 9.+ Miners Shown by Thousands of miners still out today New York Workers despite the fact that this is the third day after the so-called tri NEW YORK.—The appeal of | 85 to have begun with miners re- the National M'ners Aid Com- turning to work and the very day mittee was answered by the | when hearings began in Washing- workers in a local shop in a ton. Miners have thus demonstrated telegram to the striking miners that despite all edicts against strikes and a contribution by the work- they are determined to exercise this ers, | tight and also their distrust of the | Lewis leadership as well as begin- jnings of disillusionment with Roose- } velt. | | | The telegram is addressed to the National Miners Union in Pittsburgh and is signed by the shop committee. It states: “We workers of the.....shop hail your heroic militant strike against misery and betrayal by | However, after three days of pro- mises and demagogy as well as ter- roristic metiiods and threats, Roo- sevelt through his personal repre- sentative McGrady, succeeded John L. Lewis and Company. We | jricking the miners of the Frick sent $8.75 towards additional | mines to go back, thus practically leafiets and material for the | ending the strike. mine area. We are organizing McGrady promised that Roosevelt will abolish company unions, and will give all rights to miners. The } | miners went back organized with ie ranks disciplined and are watching ‘AT COAL HEARING)" ox ‘TO PRESENT CODE Lewis and Feeney did not dare to take a ballot among the miners, but only a vote of local officials using | eae é |Bosses Want Lewis As |Company Union Head) | for Separate Mines tremendous pressure of Government WASHINGTON, ‘Aug 9, —, Nine on them at clpsed meeting. Gelegates of the National Miners At Colonial No. 4, a Frick mine, the company officials refused to re- Union appeared here at the hearing on the coal code which began to- cognize the miners checkweighman or their committee. The miners re- fused to return to work and stood at the mine mouth. The miners then dispatched a telegram to McGrady. |day. Two of the delegates are wives of miners, and two are Negro min- ers. While twenty-five codes of the various groups of coal. operators In it they said: were being presented to the Na- “We the miners of the H. ©. Frick Company's Colonial No. 4, tional Recovery Administration, hearings, were going on before Ger- Grindstone, presented our check- weighman to Mr, Smith, the offi- cial representative of the company this morning and were flatly refused ard Swope, president of General ¢ Co., with a view of crush- es “once and for all” in the | coal fields. recognition, “He also stated he would not re- The miners were sent back to work pending the coal code hearings. cognize our mine committee, that the company has its own commit- The largest group of coal oper- ators presenting one code was the tee. The men are waiting at the mine pending telegraphic word from |Northern Cooperative Association | with the Smokeless Ap+ you.” | jointly These ee to visit more shops te: to get similar action.” But Mr. McGrady, one of the chief |palachian Coal Association. A. F. of L. strikebreakers who yes- terday told the miners, “I pledge you |two associations represent about 70 | per cent of the coal production. that any agreements which may be made between now and the time the coal code is approved by the Presi- | Every other existent coal operators’ association, no matter how small, dent will be carried out,” could not be found in Washington. He had | presented its own code. The only | difference in the codes is the wage carried out the betrayal as personal representative of Roosevelt and his job is now finished. Pittsburgh Terminal miners who showed wonderful solidarity only to- day voted to go back to work, thus fulfilling their promise to Frick | scales, each new code offered hay-| miners that’ they will stand by them | ing a lower wage rate. so long as they strike. The Renton | No worker has yet been allowed to | ™ine is still out. speak to present the workers’ de- United Mine Workers of America | mands. Officials are discriminating against | ONeill, chief spokesmen for the| Miners, refusing to go back on} in | test: leading operators said that the coal operators insist on the open shop, but that they would deal with Lewis representing individual mines, in a company union form, but not with jobs, because of suspected loyalty to} the N. M. U. or opposition to the| treachery of the United Mine Workers of America. They also theraten the withdrawal of charters from locals which do not go back to work. Miner Harmanville was given ten days for distributing N.M.U. leaflets. U. M. W, A. officials continue at- tacks on the N.M.U, because they fear the growing spirit among the miners for the N. M. U. policies, which the rank and file are trying to bring into U. M. W. A. locals, U. M. W. A. officials are organ- izing to drive out miners and local unions which are suspected of former affiliation with the N. M. U. While the miners were tricked into return- ing to work, their spirit and deter- mination is great and we can expect an intensification of the fight, which is by no means oyer, unless operators make some concessions, Lewis representing all the miners or- ganized in a union, 800 N. ¥. SLIPPER WORKERS STRIKE NEW YORK.—Eight hundred slip- per workers of nineteen shops went on strike here yesterday in response to the call by the slipper section of |; the Shoe and Leather Workers In- | dustrial Union. The strike is spread- Pe ‘wo of the largest shops in the city, the Vincent Horowitz, 64 West 23rd Street, and the Lucille, 406 West 31st Street, ote struck with two hundred and fifty workers out. The strikers’ demands are for union recognition, a ®)-hour week and twenty-five per cent wage in- creases, The strike committee will report tonight in Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East, Fourth Street, Clubber Whalen Will Use NRA Against the Communists, He Says NEW YORK.—One of the first acts of former police-commissioner Grover Whalen, heading the NRA drive in this city, was to enlist the support of the police to put over NRA programs, and to fight against Communists leading a struggle against a Brooklyn sportswear plant that slashes wages and worsens conditions under the NRA agree-| “SS. Utah,” Novel | of .Seamen, Begins In “Daily” on 14th The first installment of “S. S. Utah,” a proletarian novel by Michael Peil, an American sea- man, will appear in the Daily Worker this: Monday, August 14, when the 6-page “Daily” becomes a reality. This remarkable novel, dedicated to the International of Seamen and Harbor Workers, was pub- lished serially in the Rote Fahne, official organ of the Communist Party of Germany, as well as sev- eral other German Communist’ and left-wing publications, “S. S. Utat” will be illustrated by Walter Quirt, well-known revo- lutionary artist, and is only one of ment. the features in the forthcoming Whalen, infamous clubber of the <page “ March 6th, 1930, unemployment kp a en, Bete make the paper a more popular and effective organ of the Amer- ican workers. demonstration, says that 135,000 em- ployers in New York are enlisted under the. NRA FASCISTS BEHEAD ANOTHER WORKER. PROTEST CALLED Mass Demonstration Saturday, 10 A. M., at South St. HAMBURG, Aug. 9—The Nazi axeman yesterday beheaded one more revolutionary worker of. Hamburg. The victim is Wilhelm Volk, a Communist, who was charged with killing a policeman during the anti-Hitler demonstration on Feb- ruary 28, A mass demonstration against | Fascism, and especially against the | beheading of Communist workers, | and the torture of Communists in| Finnish prisons, is called for this | Saturday, at 10 a. m., at the cor- ner of South and Whitehall Streets. After the meeting the demonstra- tors will march to the German and Finnish consulates, and send dele- gates to register the workers’ pro- Se The demonstration will also de- mand relief for ynemployed Finnish seamen in New York. 1500 SPURN N.R. A. CUT IN SHIPYARD; STRIKES STARTED Sun Shipbuilding Co. Workers Walk Out Against Speed-Up CAMDEN, New Jersey, Aug. 9— More than 1500 workers in the plants | of the New York Shipbuilding Com- pany here voted yesterday to refuse to accept the new wage scale. of the NRA codes. The application of the NRA codes would; as proposed by the} company, have resulted in a 15 per} cent wage cut. The latest information is that the | company proposes to enforce the wage | slash as part of its co-operation with | the Roosevelt \ NRA (Slayery) Codes. CHESTER, Pa., Aug. 9.—Following on the news of the protest meeting before the Quincy shipyards of the| Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation where 1000 workers protested against the wage cut resulting from the NRA code, comes the news that the “burn- ers” of another large shipyard have | MARTIAL LAW IS DECLARED IN CUBA Machado Decrees ‘State of War; Pres. Roosevelt PlansU.S. Intervention The Dictator and His Thugs Machado, ruthless dictator of Cuba is shown with his bodyguard, specially picked to defend him as the workers are revolting against his Wall Street directed rule, Anti- Imperialist League Calls Cuban Conference gone on strike against the terrific! | speed-up instituted by the NRA codes. | The news comes to the Daily Worker from a worker correspondent in the yards. His letter follows: Dear Comrade: | These strikers are undef the wrong leadership. They have sent to Washington for | an arbitrator to settle their griev- ances, | 300 WHITEGOODS WORKERS WIN 1 WEEK STRIKE NEW YORK. — Three hundred | workers won their strike Tuesday in the fourth whitegoods shop to settle with the Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union this week. The boss of the J. S. Milberg shop, where the strike was won, was forced to grant twenty to thirty per cent wage increases, a forty-hour week, recognition of the shon and price committees and no discrimina- tion. The strike lasted _one week. oe A mass meeting of all knitgoods workers is scheduled for tonight, im- mediately after working hours, at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th Street and Irving Place, where a full report on the campaign for better conditions will be made, 200 METAL BED STRIKERS WIN NEW YORK.—The strike of 200 metal bed workers, mostly Italian, ended yesterday with the victorious settling of the last twelve of twen- ty-two shops struck under the leadership of the newly formed Metal Bed Section of the Furni- ture Workers Industrial Union. ‘Wage increases of fifteen to fifty percent were won, shorter hours and recognition of shop committees. There was no union in the trade since 1919. Corsi, Immigration Czar, Quits Office NEW YORK.—Following announce- ment that the Immigration Depart- nent and the Naturalization Bur- 2au would be merged beginning to- day, under a presidential order, Ed- ward Corsi.. Commissioner of Im- migration since 1931, resigned. tervention in Cuba, an emergency Cuban NEW YORK.—To fi inst armed Amer! the Anti-Imperialist Le issued a call fo! conference to be held Wednesd nea> rFourth Ave., at 8:30 P. Mt land mar “We call on all organi ference on Crow. to send a if time does not Committee or the also all individus An authori her with ation We invite opments in Cuba. on in Cuba, to- f the Cuban of upport the question of Cuk Raise funds to p the revoli ugust 16, at Webster Hall, 11th Street | “KILL 4 MACHADO ‘POLICE AS STRIKE KEEPS SPREADING Central Committee Is Formed to Lead the General Strike HYDE PARK, Aug. 9.— President Roosevelt, in a firm statement today, warn- ed the Cuban Ambassador, Oscar Cintas, to “abandon political warfare.” This is interpreted as a threat of immediate United States armed intervention into the island. HAVANA, Aug. 9.— Mar- tial law and a state of civil war were declared in all Cuba late tonight by the bloody President Machado. His de- eree states that the general strike of the workers, which has tied up practically all the economic life of the capital, has created “a revolutionary state in the country.” In a radio broadcast, the government announced that military troops will occupy the entire city of Havana at 6 o'clock tomorrow (Friday) | morning. Meanwhile, the general strike is spreading every hour. HAVANA, Aug. 9.—Wall Street ambassador Welles, dic- tator Machado and represen- tatives of the landlord-capi- talist opposition are meeting at the presidential palace to work out a compromise agreement in an effort to stem the growing general political strike, aimed at Machado and Wall Street imperialism In retaliation of the murder of | scores of workers at the presidential | palace demonstration on Monday, all meetings. Bring tionary organization: ®) nti-Imperialist League at 90 money to the Conference or East 10th St. “Organizations outside of New Yor! | four of Machedo’s police were shot to death by workers in the streets of Havana. Bloody Machado has issued a. de- 1 it to the Ar urged to ar ferences and mobilize immediate support for the Cuk ONE MORE DIES IN BALBO FLIGHT Three Others Injured| As Plane Capsizes LISBON, Portugal, Aug. 9.—The} Italian air armada, led by the fascist} murderer Italo Balbo, arrived here to-| day with twenty-three of the a1] twenty-five seaplanes. This was one} of the last legs of the flight which demonstrated the feasibility of trans-! Atlantic military expeditions by air. Taking off from the Ponta Delegada | in the Azores, one of the giant ma- chines turned over, killing Lieutenant | Squaglia and injuring Capt. Ranieri, | Sergts. Chemasi and Boveri, who were taken to a hospital. The body {sections of the plane were entirely smashed. This was the second fatality of the voyage. Sergt. Quintabelle died in a smashup while landing at Amster- dam. Assyrian Warfare | in Iraq Forces Americans Out WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—The State Department was informed by the American Legation at Bagdad, Iraq, that arrangements, were being made to | move Afericans from northwestern Iraq because of an outbreak of hos- tilities between a force of Assyrians REPORT MUTINY | IN ITALIAN NAVY Grews of Warships at | Brindisi Jailed MILAN, Aug. 1. 1, (delayed) —A meager report from reliable sources tells of the mutiny of the crews of several Italian warships lying | at anchor at Brindisi. The mutineers hoisted the red flag on the warships. The entire crews were arrested, and such a strict censorship was maintained that the fact of the mutiny has only now leaked out. |Browder Writes on Cc. P. Anniversary In Saturday’s Issue) An article by’ Earl Browder, General Secretary of the Com- manist Party, on the forthcoming anniversary of the Party, will be one of the special featnyes in this Saturday’s issue of @#e Daily Worker. On the weekly literary page, which will appear in the same is- sue, will be published a first-hand | description of the much-ballyhooed “Century of Progress” in Chicago. Harry Gannes will review Har- | vey O'Connor's “Mellon’s Millions,” just published. The Saturday is- sue will also contain an excellent short story, sketches and movie notes. i ieceetidnennenmachanamenememenanemiaieemecanantl claration stating he would maintain power at all costs, and refusing to accept the “vacation” proposed by Ambassador Welles. Previous reports *’ated that Welles insisted Machado take a leave of ab- NEW YORK.—Earl Browder, sec- retary of the Communist Party, will be one of the speakers at a mass meeting in support of the Cuban general strike and_politi- cal struggle against the Wall St.- Machado rule in Cuba to be held Friday at Park Palace Hall, 110th Street and 5th Ave., at 8:30 p. m. The meeting is under the aus- pices of the Cuban Julio Mella Club. Other speakers will be James W. Ford, Leonardo Sanchez, Wil- liam Simons, SSS sence, as the best way of preventing a revolutionary uprising of the Cu- ban toiling masses. Machado an- swered in a strong declaration saying that he would stay in office and would resist any attempts at reyolu~ tion on the part of the workers, The general strike is spreading. All government employees are now out, and doctors said they favored join- ing the strike but would remain on duty to take care of those wounded by Machado’s soldiers and gunmen, A central strike committee has been set up, with representatives from local Food is becomine scarcer each day. All milk and meat supplies have stopped, and very few vegetables are obtainable, Machado's police have tried to force small stores to open by club- © bing the proprietors, but without avail. The stores remain shut, People are lining the sea-wall in Havana expecting the arrival of Am~- erican battleships momentarily. Mad