The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 12, 1933, Page 1

E \ The Growing Nazi Terrorism * ° DEMONSTRATE AGAINST FASCISM TODAY, 10 A. M L . AT SOUTH ST. Beginning Monday, August 14, the Daily Worker Will Have 6 Pages Daily, 8 on Saturday! Vol. X, No. 193 na Tt Jawless terrorism of, Adolf Hitler’s murder bands is supplemented now with the cold, judicial terrorism of the murder courts. Every form of opposition to Fascism is legally punishable with death. ‘And the form in which the penalty is exacted is itself a gruesome method of special terrorism—the execution is carried out with mediaeval bar- barity, by a headsman with an axe. Five Communists have already suffered this judicial murder, in addition to the hundreds who have been murdered out of hand in the streets, in the jails and prisons. * * wet is the significance of wholesale murder and torture, which be- comes more ferocious week by week? It is the program of a regime facing a powerful, undaunted and growing revolutionary opposition led by the Communist Party—and also losing a great part of its own mass support. The millions of ruined middle class people who helped Hitler to power are less and less ready to continue as his voluntary supporters. Hitler, the ruthless defender of desperate capitalism, threw overboard the last vestige of the social program by which he won them. That part of the German masses which hoped he would help them out of their misery see clearly now his bald, grim program of violent support of the biggest capitalists, and of no one else. . . . bigs does not mean that Hitler is ready to go under. It means on the contrary that he will seek to resort to more and more desperate meth- ods of terrorism. But it also means that the soil is steadily being prepared for the eventual decisive action of the revolutionary workers of Germany, led by the strongly organized Communist Party. It means that the heroic struggle of the Communist Party, carried out on a mass scale at frightful cost, is slowly beginning to bear its fruits. * * * MERICAN workers have a tremendous opportunity and an urgent duty to throw their forces into the balance. The mass actions of the American workers play a powerful part in giving renewed courage to our German comrades, and in hastening the inner breakdown of the Nazi forces. The international working class can save Thaelmann, Torgler, and the other Communists who are now in the shadow of death, as the Rus- sian workers saved the life of Tom Mooney, and the German workers played their part in saving the Scottsboro -boys from the chair. Build the anti-Fascist united front in every city. Make the anti- Fascist weeks throughout the country a powerful aid and a thunderous protest! Pour out in mass at 10 a.m. today for the anti-Fascist demonstration at South and Whitehall Streets! { orke mist Party U.S.A. ‘(Section of the Communist International) Read Bill Dunne’ Mine Strike On s Article On Page Three EEN THE WEATHER — Today, warmer. probably showers; NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1933 (Six Pages) CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents MILITARY DICTATOR; PLANS EXPECT U. 8S. ARMED INTERVENTION MOMENTARILY HAVANA, Aug. 11.—An official of the Cuban Army declared this afternoon that army units stationed in the Cas- tillo de la Fuerza and at Cabana Fortress, near Havana, had revolted and taken over the two fortifications. This official, who said he was with the revolting troops, reported also the insurgents were in possession of the De- partment of Agriculture. HAVANA, Aug. 11.—General Alberto Herrera, Cuban Secretary of War, became military dictator of the island re- public today, taking over control of the Government by a military coup, permitting President Machado to remain no- minal head of the Government. y General Herrera will remain as military dictator for 72 hours, during which he will attempt to break the general strike paralyzing the country, according to a captain on his staff. . . . . HYDE PARK, N. Y., Aug. 11.—Immediate armed in- tervention in: Cuba is expected to be ordered by President Roosevelt today. . * . HAVANA, Aug. 11—Bloody Machado, with the help of U. S. Ambas- sader Welles, is now proposing to put in the presidency of Cuba General Alberto Herrera. This would be a continuation of the murderous rule of Navy Yard Workers Strike A WAVE of workers’ protest against the yoke of the NRA codes is sweeping over the big shipbuilding and Navy Yards of the East. In the last five days, practically all the time in which the code has been in operation, strikes and protest meetings have broken out in five separ- ate yards. Seven thousand shipyard workers have risen against the code: The latest news is from the famous Naval Torpedo Yard at New- port, Rhode Island, where 1,000 workers marched through the streets against the 16 per cent wage cut which the application of the Roosevelt code would inflict upon them, These workers have recently suffered at Roosevelt's hands a 15 per cent “economy” cut. The workers are feeling the iron teeth that are concealed within the smiling mouth of “NIRA.” 3 At the Sun Shipbuilding Company, the workers have struck against the unbearable speed-up by which the company expects to make up for the shortening of the work-week. ‘At New York Yards, and the Bethlehem Yards, the workers have re- fused to accept the 15 per cent wage cut provided by the Code under the guise of a “shorter work week.” ieee Seer AX what really lies behind the glowing promises of Roosevelt about new jobs, can be seen in the statement of the Secretary of the Navy, Swanson, who has just announced that the hated codes will not apply to the Government yards—at least for a while. The reason for this statement is that at the Government yards at Charlestown the workers have shown their anger at the codes, which cut the wages of the privately employed workers by 6 per cent, and the government workers by 16 per cent. Swanson is negotiating to make the cut a “just” one—he will make it 16 per cent for both classes of workers. ~ ‘The shipyard workers, highly skilled and essential for the gigantic war preparations that are going on, are rising against the intensified» exploitation that lies behind the elaborate fraud of the NRA codes. ‘What the shipyard workers and the workers in the Navy Yards have quickly found out, the workers all over the country are finding out for themselves. They are discovering that Roosevelt's NRA codes are a mask for wage-cuts, speed-up, and lay-offs, a mask for increasing the profits of the capitalist class. Whalen and Woll Qualify [agente iter ee eee ee should warn and arouse every worker. The main spoke in the NRA wheel is none other than Grover ‘Whalen, manager of Wanamakers Department Store, but better: known tor his personal direction of the slugging of unemployed in the Union Square, Marchi 6, 1930 unemployment demonstration, when over 100,000 workers, at the very beginning of the crisis, demanded relief. Whalen organized stool pigeons against striking workers in New York: factories. He is associated with the Czarist scum in NeW York. He is against unions and strikes. He issued for the Fish Committee forged documents against the Soviet Union. He is for strong arm, strike breaking tactics in all labor struggles such as he used when com- missioner of police. * * s SSOCIATED with Whalen, and his king pin, is the infamous Matthew ‘Woll. So open and rotten has Woll’s labor record been, that he wasn't even drawn into the federal arbitration board, though he has been groomed as Green’s first assistant. Woll is an officer of the Civic Federation. A roster of the member- ship of the Civic Federation includes the leading scab bosses. Woll was officer of the Federation Bank in New York that crashed, wiping out savings of thousands of workers. Whalen’s first task as NRA general in New York was to “investi- gate” Communist strike leadership in shops where workers were fighting against wage cuts received under the NRA. . 28 8 UBBER Whalen is well fitted by experience to shoot and club unem- ployed who demand unemployment relief. Matthew Woll is a first class scab herder. Here you have the certificates of character needed for leadership of the NRA. Roosevelt’s New Deal is to be administered by those experienced {n the old methods of strikebreaking and brutality against the workers, employed and unemployed, \ Machado and Wall Street under the mask of a change of individuals. Her- HERRERA, SEC’Y OF WAR, TO BREAK GENERAL STRIKE Demonstration Today Against Fascist Terror Meet at 10 a.m., Corner Whitehall and South St. NEW YORK.— Workers of New York will mass at the corner of South and Whitehall Streets at 10 a. m. today to demonstrate-against the bloody terror of Fascism in Germany and in Finland. Revolutionary workers are murder- ed every day in Germany; thou- sands are tortured in the prison camps; Ernst Thaelmann, Ernst Torgler, George Dimitroff, Vassil Taneff and Blagoi Popoff, Commun- ist leaders, are soon to go on trial for their life, and meanwhile are tortured daily in an effort to drive them to suicide. The National Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism issued @ special appeal yesterday to all its adherents to take part in this de- monstration. The demonstration will be espe- cially against the judicial murder of Communists in Germany, against Fascism in Finland, where 400 Com- munists are carrying on a hunger strike in prison against intolerable conditions, and where six of them have already been killed; and for re- lief of Finnish seamen in New York. The demonstrators will march to the German and Finnish consulates to present the workers’ demands. CUBAN ARMY REVOLTS; CAPTURES 2 FORTS Coal Operators of ‘South Hit $5 Wage | At Code Hearings iLewis Gets Excited As| His Tactics Are Exposed WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—Most of | the hearing today on the coal code | was consumed by Southern coal oper-}| ators, who said they wouldn't even| pay the starvation wage of $5 a day.| The National Miners’ Union dele- gates have not yet been given the floor, but are repeatedly assured they will be allowed to speak. In his speech yesterday John L.| Lewis presented the original notice| of the United States Coal Company of Logan County, West Virgina,| posted at a school house, stating that the school house is private property and no meetings could be held at the! school house. The speakers of the Progressive Miners’ Association, particularly | Keck, on the other hand presented | sworn affidavits that the leaders of the United Mine Workers of America are carrying on the same practices | in Illinois. John L. Lewis got all excited and insisted that Keck should not be per: mitted, to speak any longer. The representative of the Negro} rera is at present Secretary of War, PICK DELEGATES TO CONFERENCE ON CUBA AUG. 16 NEW YORK.—Stirred by the gen- eral strike of the Cuban workers, many organizations have already chosen delegates to the emergency Cuban Conference, called for Wed- nesday, August 16, at 8 p.m., Webster Hall, 11th Street near Fourth Ave. The conference will mobilize ac- tion against the threatening ship- ment of U. S. marines and gunboats to Cuba against the toiling masses, who are fighting the bloody Ma- chado and Wall Street regime. The conference will concern it- self with developing broad action in the United States for the following: 1) Fight against American military intervention in Cuba; 2) Support of the Cuban workers in their struggle to oust bloody Machado; 3) Demand of immediate cessation of Welles mediation. The bourgeois-landlord opposition in Cuba is negotiating American intervention to rule Cuba for American bankers. Expose the bourgeois-landlord opposition and the ABC. 4) Support to the general strike. Against Machado’s declara- tion of martial law; 5) Demand nul- lification of the Platt Amendment and evacuation of the Guantanamo naval base. The Communist Party of the Uni- ted States which is supporting the Conference urges all workers to sup- port the Communist Party of Cuba, leader of the struggle for national liberation of Cuba. The Anti-Imperialist League ap- peals to all organizations holding meetings and affairs tonight and the next few evenings to make collec- tions for the support of the Cuban Strikers’ Fund to be sent to the Anti-Imperialist League, 90 E. 10th St., one flight up. Milk Strike “Head” Plans Sell-Out of NewYork Farmers UTICA, N. Y., Aug. 11.—Now that the milk strike has reached the eleventh day without any weaken- ing on the part of the striking farm- ers, Albert Woodhead, ex-detective and self-styled “leader” of the strike, is beginning to make open efforts to bring confusion into the ranks of the strikers. He announced yesterday that he is considering a plan whereby the strike can be end- ed, @ plan wl ey. the farmers will have to restrict their production or sell their “surplus” at ruinous prices. Woodhead has also urged the farmers to cease picketing the roads, and to stop interfering with the shipment of scab trucks. These activities of Woodhead are evidence that the determined efforts to break the strike are being increased. and one of Machado’s leading hench- ~$men in attempting to crush the gen- eral strike of the Cuban workers. Fearing an armed uprising of the masses, with mutinies in the army, Machado ordered heavy concentra- fion of loyal troops in Havajna. It is reported here that a mutiny of soldiers took place at Cabanas fort- ress, across the narrow channel at the entrance to the harbor of Ha- vana. Another mutiny was reported at Camp Columbia, five miles south of Havana. It was said this mutiny was put down. Columbia is the main center of the 12,000 troops in Cuba’s entire army. Following the reports of mutiny machine gunners were placed around the presidential palace. A squadron of cavalry dismounted there and took up its stand. A cannon was mounted on the roof and pointed toward the| heart of the city. Heavy police patrols were increased in all strate- | gic centers in Havana to head off | a revolutionary uprising. At such places as* Ciego, Holquin, Trinidad and Santa Clara the masses of peasants and workers. were al-| ready beginning revolutionary ac-j| tions. “The plan is to have General Her- rera step in as president, meet with the bourgeois-landlord opposition, and form a cabinet acceptable to them that would continue the Ma- ! chado policy, in the interest of the American bankers. Marines are | being drilled and held in readiness for immediate shipment to Cuba ‘The yellow union leaders, to help Welles and Machado, have called on the bus workers and street car work- ers to return to work. “WE DO OUR PART” NEW YORK.—A worker walked into the city office of the Daily Worker yesterday and said: “We Do Our Part, so here's $1 for the new US Bars Tom Manny, | steer pesned's ere FRANK BORICH (Secretary National Miners’ Union) Painters to Hear NRA Mine Strike Breaker. Zausner Calls in Me- Grady to Put Over Assessment | at pit heads: British Red, from Anti-War Congress 7a TOM MANN Revolutionary Leader NEW YORK, Aug. 11—Tom Mann, veteran British revolutionary fighter, has been refused a visa by the U. S. Consulate General in London, to come to the United States to attend the United States Congress Against War, to be held in New York Sept. 2, 3 and 4. Along with Henri Barbusse, famous French writer, he had been invited to address the Congress. Donald Henderson, secretary of the Congress, announced that protests had been sent to President Roosevelt and to Cordell Hull, Secretary of six-page “Daily.” State, demanding that Tom Mann be allowed to enter the country. | Negroes and for equal wages and) NEW YORK.-—Edward McGrady, other conditions for Negro miners. chief Roosevelt. agent in the break- | Twenty-five Illinois miners arrived| ing of the strike of 60,000 Pennsyl- | here by truck with the intention of| vania coal miners, will be one of the seeing Miss Frances Perkins and de-| main speakers at a special meeting manding their constitutional rights| called by the infamous crook, Philip to belong to the union of their own! Zausner, president and former secre- choosing. Although Miss Perkins was tary of the New York Painters, | seen today twice, they were told she| at a mass meeting on Sat- was out of town and they would not| urday, noon, Aug. 12, at Mecca be able to see her. | Temple. Frank Borich is expected to appear| Zausner has called this special] | meeting, enlisting besides McGrady, the fusionist candidate for mayor, | LaGuardia, to get the painters to | support the N. R. A., and to put over} | a 50-cent daily assessment to go into} | the pocket of Zausner and his gang-| at the hearing tomorrow. 4500 Walk Out As Visa Denied Veteran) General Strike in| Shoe Trade Grows NEW YORK —A general strike of | shoe workers, under the leadership | of the Shoe and Leather Workers’ Industria! Union, is drawing in every} department in the industry. Accord- ing to reports from Fred Biedenkamp, secretary of the union, 27 shoe shops | employing approximately 2,100 work-| ers have joined the walk-out. Seven) of these shops are controlled by the Board of Trac, | The “Forward,” a Jewish socialist | | sheet, reported that the B. and 8.) Shoe Company strike is led by the) A. F. of L. Boot and Shoe Union. This is untrue, as this shop has | joined the general strike with all) | other workers. The demands of the strikers ere: 40-hour week, 30 to 40 per cent in-| crease in wages, and recognition of | the union. A meeting to organize the shoe re- pair workers in the trade is called! for tomorrow at 10 a.m. at Irving) Plaza Hall, Irving Place and 15th St.| Preparations to strike the repair! shops in September, when the busy} season begins, will be discussed at) the meeting. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Aug. 11.— Local 706, of the American Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers Union elected at its last meeting Edward Ryan, Jr, a member of the National Committee of the American Full Fashioned Hosiery ‘Workers, to re- present it at the Trade Union Con- ference for United Action to be held in Cleveland, Ohio, August 26 and 27. Local 706 is credited with a membership of 10,000 hosiery work- ers. ‘Endorsement of the Cleveland Conference by this large hosiery union is a direct slap at reactionary trade union officials who are sup- porting the NRA slave code for workers. The Cleveland Conference is pledged to arouse the broad masses of American workers to a nation-wide opposition to Roosevelt’s National Intdustrial Recovery Act. The call for the Cleveland Con- ference which was read before Local Philadelphia Full Fashioned Hosiery Local Elects Delegate to Trade Union Conference 706 and approved, states in part: “The new deal of Roosevelt, includ- ing the so-called Industrial Recov- ery Act, which should be properly called the ‘Industrial Slavery Act’, is from beginning to end an enorm- ous looting of the government treas- ury, a further robbery of the work- ers and toilers generally for the benefit of monopoly capital, for the benefit of Wall Street” The same call, which is gaining increased approval from workers of various trades throughout the coun- try, further states: “In the langu- age of the Industrial Recovery Act, shorter hours mean less wages; liv- ing wages mean starvation wages; the right to organize means com- pany unions; collective bargaining means compulsory arbitration. It means outlawing strikes for higher wages and better conditions.” Especially significant is the en- dorsement of the Conference by Local 706, as it comes on top of the betr: of the Pennsylvania coal miners who were told recently by Jolin L. Lewis, arch labor-be- trayer, to go back to work under the old conditions, pending “arbitra- tion,” when they struck for the right to organize their own unions and for better conditions. Aside from Local 706 Hosiery Workers, other A. F. of L. unions as well as independent unions in Philadelphia are being approached by representatives of the Provi- sional Committee of the Cleveland Conference, and many of them are expected to send aueates to the Conference. A send-off for the delegates to » Conference from Philadelphia will be held in the form of a huge picnic on Sunday, August 20, at Burholme Park, under the auspices of the Trade Union Unity League of Philadelphia. sters. There is a revolt among the men} in the local unions against this as- sessment, which is to be collected by} the bosses on the check-off system) (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) (Miner Risks Job; .| | “Work or No Work, \I Want the ‘Daily’” “T am asking you to send me address of National Min- ers Union, and information on the Party line on the U. M.W.A. I am sure if this ...Coal Company found | out I had been receiving the | Daily Worker, I would be | without work. But I don’t | care sometimes—work or no | work, I like the Daily Work- | er.”—From a Miner in West | Virginia. 2nd Wage Cut for Brooklyn Navy Men NEW YORK—In addition to Roosevelt’s 15 per cent “economy” cut of last April, the Brooklyn Navy Yard workers will get another cut in wages this week when another day is to be taken from their work- week together with another day's wages. The Brooklyn local of the ‘Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Un- jon held a gate meeting Thursday at the Yard, where G, E. Powers, the Brooklyn organizer, spoke. Gate meetings are now schceduled there each Wednesday noon. . 8 The workers at the Robins Dry- dock, Erie Basin, are getting the “new deal” with full force. A week ago, the company put an ad in the Philadelphia papers call- ing for men at lower wages than now paid at Robins. The result was that hundreds of Philadelphia un- employed were added to the hun- dreds of Brooklyn workers who gather in front of Robins in the vain hope of a job, which ere few get due to increasing speed-up. ‘Many Miners Continue Strike, Demand Own Checkweighmen Miners Ridicule Roosevelt As They Gather in Streets Many Come to N.M.U. Office for More Leaflets By BILL DUNNE PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 11.—Re- | ports from various coal fields show that the miners are still fighting a number of rearguard actions, mostly }on the issue of the refusal of the companies to carry out the agree- ment and employ elected check- ' weighmen. Fifteez mines still remain closed in the Pittsburgh and Fayette Coun- ty area, including two mines of the Vesta Coal Co. Eighteen hundred miners are still striking in four mines in Cambria County on account of refusal to accept thelr checkweigh- men. In Fayette County the miners are spreading a new slogan ridiculing the settlement. They say to each other at street corner meetings and “For the sake of the President, give me a cigarette,” or “For the sake of the President I want to come over to your house and eat supper.” It is reported that following the distribution of National Miners Un- ion leaflets in the Uniontown area more than 20 miners came during the evening to the room of the local leader asking for more copies of the leaflet. It becomes clearer every day that the big companies have no intention of abiding by the terms of the formal settlement, but that the whole in- tervention of the government was for the purpose of breaking the strike and leaving the miners to the mercy of the H. C. Frick Coke Co. and other big operators. Hosiery Strikers Get Same Sell-Out Handed to Miners Bosses Helped by Wm. Green and Rieve Against Union WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—William Green, president of the A: F. of L. and the National Labor Board. fresh from breaking the coal strike, stepped into the Reading, Pa., hosiery strike and ordered 14,000 strikers back to work without granting a single one of their demands. The workers were demonstrating mainly for recognition of their union. ry Dr. Leo Wolman, chairman of the arbitration board, led the maneuvers which sent the strikers back. The hosiery bosses and such unién leaders as Emil Rieve, Edward F. Callaghan and William Smith, resentatives of the American Fashioned Hosiery Workers, called in, and in a secret four-day conference agreed to get the workers to return. Explaining the betrayal, Green {s- sued a statement, saying: There will be no discrimination because of par- ticipation in the strike or because of membership in the union. One w from next Saturday an election be held under the supervision of the National Labor Board, at which all employes on the payroll on the last day of work will be eligible to yote by secret ballot to elect representa- tives to negotiate for them with the employers. They will return on the same wage scales as now exist. = “These represeritatives will negoti+ ate on all questions with the em- ployers. Any question not settled by such negotiation will be referred to the National Labor Board, whose de- cision will be regarded as final.” Rieve was so anxious to break the strike that he agreed to the bosses’ company union plan, giving up the demand for recognition of the union. With the pressure of 14,000 strikers relieved by having the workers go back, Green, the officials of the hosiery union and the bosses will ‘meet to work out conditions. In or- der to prevent dissatisfaction from springing up and renewing the strike when the betrayal is clear to the hosiery workers, Green says that the decision of the National Labor Board “will be regarded as final?