The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 14, 1933, Page 1

Is the Daily Worker on Sale at Your Union Meeting? Your Club Headquarters? Dail \ Vol. X, No. 194 =* Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at ‘New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879, '(Section of the Communist International) orker Pare USA. NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1933 America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents LYNCH TWO NEGROES DEPRIVED OF I. L. D. DEFENSE NEW CUBAN PRESIDENT ACTS TO BREAK STRIKE Down With Imperialist Intervention in workers to the Slave Bill, the NRA, continue to’ mount as reflected in sea incoming cndorsements of the United Action to take place in Cleve- land, Ohio, August 26th and 27th, ers representing thousands of rank and file A. F. of L. millinery workers ‘in New York City, meeting in Bry- vant weok. accorded an enthusiastic recep- Cuba! Support the Revolutionary CubanWorkers and Peasants! (Statement of the Central Committee, Communist Party, J. Ss) UTCHER MACHADO is gone, driven out by the mass revolutionary uprising of the Cuban workers, peasants and toiling population, organized around the general political strike, which was initiated by the Communist Party of Cuba! This is a great victory for the toiling masses of Cuba! It is a serious blow against the bloody regime of American imperialist oppression of Cuba. But this is not the end of the Cuban revolution, it is only the beginning. Roosevelt, chief executive of American imperialism, has his agent Welles on the spot, conspiring to replace Machado with another puppet who will continue the policies of Amer- ican imperialism. The ABC “opposition” parties have already long pledged themselves to loyal support of imperialist in- terests in Cuba which are the source of all the misery and oppression of the Cuban masses. Roosevelt has prepar.d the Navy and Marines for force- ful intervention in Cuba if necessary to place in power one of his lackeys of the ABC groups. This raw imperialis* inter- vention is camouflaged before the masses with hypocritical talk about “rescuing” the Cuban people from “chaos”, about giving them a “new deal”. But his “new deal” for the Cuban masses, like his “new deal” for the workers of the U. S. A., is in reality another vicious attack upon their liberties and their living standards. * * * ee struggle of the Cuban masses is a movement for bread and land. It is a struggle against imperialist domina- tion, and against “he Cuban landlords and bourgeoisie whose parties, all lackeys of Wall Street, have for years ruled by terror and bloody oppression. Only the Communist Party of Cuba, the Young Com- munist League, and the Natior-1 Workers’ Cor“ederation have from the beginning boldly placed themselves at the head of the Cuban masses for the overthrow of Machado, against, American imperialism, against the Welles intervention, for bread and land for the Cuban toiling masses. The present great mass movement is the outgrowth of the great political strikes of March. 20, 1980, and August 4, 19381, called and organized by the Communist Party. The present action already on a much higher political level and involving broader tasses, was begun by the nation-wide demonstration of Au- gust 1st, and the strike of the transport workers, which developed into local armed struggles and the political general strike. This development was achieved over the resistance of the kourgeois-landlord opposition and the ABC parties which pretend to leadership of the revolutionary masses, but which betray them daily. In the next developments in Cuba, the toiling masses will learn through bitter experience the base treachery of the “revolutionists” of the ABC leadership, and will learn that only a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government which smashes all the old machinery of government and sets up a new, a proletarian regime, can win them national and social libera- tion, can bring them bread and land. The Manifesto of the C. P. Cuba of August 8, which lays down such a course for the Cuban revolution, a course which combines the daily struggle for better conditions of life for the masses with the struggle for national liberation, demands the most active support and assistance from the working class of the United States. - * * Ros E COMMUNST PARTY of the U. S. A. calls for an ener- getic campaign to explain the truth of the Cuban strug- gles to the broadest masses, exposing the murderous hypo- crisy of Roosevelt and American imperialism. We call upon the broadest masses to unite around the following demands: 1) Against imperialist intervention in Cuba; against the intervention of the “mediator” Welles; against the threatened dispatch of warships and marines! Support the general strike against the rule of martial law, backed by all the landlord-bourgeois groups in Cuba! For nullification of the Platt Amendment and for evacuation of the Guantanamo naval base! Support the Communist Party of Cuba, which is lead- ing the mass struggle of the Cuban toilers. against American Imperialism and all its native ager’s! Immediate action is needea! Send a flood of telegrams of protest to Roosevelt and the Cuban government! Hold hundreds of open air meetings to organize mass support for these demands! Hold mass demonstrations! Make collec- tions to help financially the Cuban Party! Send resolutions and letters to the press! Workers, ‘show your full solidarity with the revolution- ary Cuban workers and farmers! 2) Me 4) A. F. of L. Members Endorse Cleveland Conference NEW YORK. — R sistance by the Conference and elected to the Cleveland Meet. é Trade Union Conference fo: One Hundred fifty Millinery work- Hall towards the end of last tee for Unemployment ale, 70,000 Miners Look Stetiff Hands Over to CapitalAsN.M.U. Presents Demands Blasts Bosses Wage Scales; Show Rising Living| Costs; Demand Unemployment Insurance for 275,000 Miners Who Can’t Get Jobs WASHINGTON.—With 70,000 Pennsylvania coal miners | back in the pits, their eyes are turned on Washington where the hearings on the coal code velt promised them everything could expect great things from Cappelini, N. R. A. Supporter, Held by U. S. As Forger, Says He Is “Innocent” But Has a Long Crime Record WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Aug. 13. —Charged with forging and pass- ing fake $10 notes, Rinaldo Cappe- lini, president of the newly formed tri-district anthracite miners union, and supporter of the Roosevelt pro- gram, was arrested here yesterday by federal authorities. The order was signed by Roscoe B. Smith, United States Commissioner, at the request of Captain W. C. Schroeder of the U. S. Secret Service. t the. convention just closed, Cappelini attacked the rank and file delegates for their opposition +o Roosevelt’s slave program, calling on the miners to “back up the pres- ident.” Although Cappelini claims he is “innocent,” he has a long crooked record, This is not Cappelini’s first crim- inal venture. In 1922, he robbed the miners of $10,000—by emptying the local union treasuries to force the miners to buy him a car and a house. Cappelini, not satisfied with this, burned his house down to get the insurance. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary—a very mild sentence under the Pennsylvania laws. No sooner is he set at liberty than he proceeds to try to put over Roosevelt’s program on the anthra- cite miners, under the camouflage of attacking John L. Lewis, and setting up a new union outside of the U.M.W.A. & Cappelini is the tool of anthracite coal operators in the Wilkes-Barre region, Jobs; Give 27,000 WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.—After talking about 6,000,000 being put back to work by September through the NRA and the $3,300,000,000 public works program, it is revealed here by a report of Administrator of Pub- lic Works Ickes that only 27,000 men got work on public construction. ‘These men were put to work, Ickes said, on 300 public roads projects. The major part of the $3.30;000, actually spent goes to warship manu- facturers, The small number of those put to work confirms the state- ment of Walter Runcimann, British Trade Board head, who said in Britain, only 4,000 men were put to Work with an expenditure of $500,- 000,000 for public works, is going on. Lewis and Roose- would be alright, and that they the NRA coal code. -® Presehting its code, the Na- tional Miners Union, is expos- ing the operators code and its starvation wage rates. The Daily Worker has received from Washington the arguments of \the National Miners Union in favor of its code and against the bosses code, supported by John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Work- ers of America, Basic Scale A $6 a day minimum wage based on six hours work per day is the very least that the miners can ac- cept. Only a year ago when the cost, of living was much lower than today the miners of Ilinois were re- ceiving $6.10 per day. Even this wage scale especially in the face of the prevalence of part time work was not sufficient to meet the needs of the miners. At present it will be even more difficult to meet the needs of the miners even with this wage. We present here some figures from A. & P. stores in Pittsburgh to illustrate the difficulties of the miners at present. At the end of June a peck of potatoes was priced at 27c and at present at 68c; one pound of lard at 5¢ and now_at 10c; one quart of second grade milk at 7c and now at 9c; one pound of pork chops 10c and now 16c. From this it can be seen how the actual wages of the miners have dropped Increases as high as 100 per cent and more on the most vital ngc- essities for the miners and their families. To this we must add that the prices'in the company stores are at least 30 per cent higher than in the privately owned stores. _The prices continue to rise. . All (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) “ARREST SIX IN STRIKE MEETING Police Break Up Rally of 1,500 Striking Cigar Workers TAMPA, Fla., Aug. 13.—An un- employed meeting attended by 1,500 workers was attacked by drunken police. The attack was instigated by the cigar manufacturers against the unemployed as well as the many thousands of workers now on strike. The meeting was composed of La- tin, Negro and white workers, Six were arrested including Paul Bland, a world war veteran and president of the Association of Un- employed Workers. The Interna- tional Labor Defense here calls for wide protests to save the lives of these workers from the Ku Klux Klan and to break the terror of the cigar manufacturers in Tampa. * Editor Again Dear Comrade Reader: ATTACK ON TAMPA Boys to Armed Mob ‘in Tuscaloosa, Ala. |Bodies Found Riddled With Bullets; One Still Missing TUSCALOOSA, Ala., Aug. 13.—Two young Negroes whom attorneys for the International Labor Defense were prevented by the court from defending at their trial recently, were lynched today. shot to death. A third boy, Elmore Clark, 18, seized when an armed ‘gang took all three from the willing hands of three under- sheriffs, could not be found. It is believed that he had been lynched also. The bodies of Dan Pippin, Jr., 18, and A. T. Hardin, 16, were found near Woodstock, half way between here and Birmingham, about two hotrs after the three \boys had been seized. All three boys were facing trial on trumped-up charges of killing an 18-year-old girl, Vaudine Mad- dox, on May 31. PE. ee Irving Schwab, Allen Prank B. Irwin, attorneys for the Internationa] Labor Defense, on August 1 prevented from de- fending Pipin, Hardin and Clark, although they had been retained by the boys’ relatives. then taken out of town by National Guardsmen, 65 of whom had been called out. On the way to Birmingham ized by Tuscaloosa county authori- ties, which threatened to lynch the three, Following the action of the judge in barring the I. L. D. attorneys, the case was adjourned and the boys taken back to jail. Previous to the ‘trial Schwab, ed from seeing the boys in jail, on the ground that the defense needed more time for preparations. ‘Fascists Mobbed as Army Patrols Dublin Streets Military Court With Death Power Is Set Up DUBLIN, Aug. 13.—With the death penalty in force for all acts against the government, and with armored cars carrying machine guns patrol- ling the streets, eight Fascist “blue shirts” who -ventured orfthe streets Of Dublin were mobbed and injured. Despite the decision of General Owen O'Duffy to call off his parade of blue-shirted “National Guards,” of which at least 2,000 were already con- centrated in the city, the government invoked the public safety act, and filled the city with police and army patrols. ‘Two fascists who ventured out on O'Connell St., the main street of Dublin, were badly mauled until they were rescued by police. They had been | Taub and! were | They were , the train on which they were riding | was halted by a mob of 100 organ- Taub and Irwin had been prevent- | mand a postponement of the trial | and they had come to court to de- | Killer of Mella | Beaten to Death _ by Cuban Workers | Meet Working Class Justice HAVANA, Aug. 13.—Julio Mella’s murderer, Jose Magrinat, was killed by a group of workers and students here yesterday. Mella, one of the found- ers of the Com- munist Party of Cuba, was shot te death by Ma- F grinat. Magrinat was sent to Mex- ico City by Bloody Machado, in an effort to crush the revolution- ary movement led by Mella against Machado’s rule. JULIO MELLA A group of workers went to the Pasaje Hotel here where Magrinat lived. They dragged him out to the streets where he was beaten to death with bats and clubs. The police stood by and did not dare to interfere. Another murderer of Communists and militant trade unionists, the in- famous Balmesda, was likewise meted out working class justice. Balmesda personally directed the torture and murder of hundreds of Cuban re- yolutionists. His favorite stunt was to handcuff workers and slip them out of Morro Castle into the shark infested bay. Mella Pioneer Revolutionist Julio Mella, the most popular re- volutionary leader among the Cuban students, was one of the pioneer fighters against Bloody Machado’s rule. He was expelled from the Uni- versity of Havana in 1925 at the or- der of Machado. During his impri- sonment he began a hunger strike, and through the mass pressure of the | Cuban workers and students, and as a result of world wide demonstra- tions organized by the Communist Parties in all countries, Mella was re- leased. To escape assassination in Cuba, he fled to Mexico City, where he helped direct and organize the revolutionary struggles against Ma- chado. He was one of the leading members of the Amnti-Imperialist } League, rallying the Latin American | workers and peasants in their strug- gle against Yankee imperialism. So effective were Mella’s activities, that Machado onally directed the plot for his sination. He sent two assassins to Mexico City, headed by Jose Ma t, who shot to death Mella on a dark street. Other hangmen and assassins of Machado are mecting the fate of Magrinat and Balmaseda at the hands of the enraged workers, Welsh Coal Miners Strike for More Pay CARDIFF, Wales, Aug. \13.— Seventeen thousand coal miners in South Wales will walk out tomorrow, in a demand for higher wages, The workers in other mines have given two weeks’ notice of strike unless their demands are met mean- while. If they walk out, the strike will inyolve 23,000 men, p ‘Other Machado Killers| Cuban Conference . in Webster Hall Wednesday Night | | NEW YORK —The present || Stormy events in Cuba and the \‘| ways and means of supporting the struggle of the Cuban masses against American imperialism and the native landlord-capitalists, will be discussed at a Cuban Confer- llth St. and Third Ave., this Wed- nesday evening. The success of the mass meet- | | ing held Friday night in Park Pal- | | | ace indicates an eager response on | ||the part of Spanish-speaking workers to the forthcoming con- | ference. ID Asks Support of Branches for ‘Many Organizations | to Join in Meeting Wednesday through William L. Patterson, Na- | tional Secretary, yesterday called on all branches of the ILD in and near New York City to send dele- | gates to the Cuban Conference, to |be held at Webster Hall, New York | City, on Wednesday, August 16th, under the auspices of the Anti-Im- perialist League. Word has been received from many organizations of American as well as Spanish speaking workers that they would send delegates. Among them are branches of the Women’s Council, the City Commit- tee of the International Workers Order, the Mella Club. “Machado is out,” said William Simons, National Secretary of the Anti-Imperialist League, “but Am- erican imperialism remains in Cuba. Cespedes, the Provisional President, is another agent of Wall Street. Support to the Cuban workers, on trike for better living conditions, is now more important than before. Support to the anti-imperialist or- ganizations in Cuba who are fight- ing against the Welles intervention jis needed more than before. Now |more than ever we must fight against the ‘New Deal’ which Roosevelt is trying to force on the Cuban people.” Five delegates are requested from all branches of organizations, and individuals are invited. ’ | Hundreds of Jewish |Refugees from Nazis Maimed, Says Report NEW YORK, Aug. 13.—Out of a total of 2,500 Jewish refugees from the Nazis in Holland, more than half are maimed, sorse of them for life, Samuel A. Frommer, Indian- apolis advertising man, said yester- day on his return after a month’s tour of Europe. The port authorities of Algiers, in North Africa, refused to allow a large German liner carrying 500 tourists to dock, he said, on the |ground that it flew the Nazi swas- tika flag, which the Algiers author- ities refused to recognize, he de- clared, ence to be held-in Webster Hall, | | Cuban Conference, The International Labor Defense, | Calls Out Army | for Wall Street Against Workers | Workers “Hunt Out Enemies, Press Demands | | HAVANA, Aug. 13.— A delegation of the Confeder- | acion Nacional Obrera (the revolutionary workers’ trade union federation) saw Pres- ident Cespedes today and declared the striking Cuban workers would refuse to go back to work until all their demands were granted. «opie HAVANA, Aug. 13.—Sur- rounded by Machado’s former henchmen and members of the landlord-capitalist opposition, Dr. Carlos Manuel de Cespedes was sworn in as president of Cuba to fill the place left vacant when Bloody Machado fled the wrath of the Cuban people. Meanwhile, the enraged armed workers and students were sweeping | through the streets searching for | Machado’s murderer gangs organ- | ized in the infamous Porra, a secret | police responsible for the torture, im- prisonment and slaughter of hun- | dreds of revolutionists, particularly members of the Communist Party, and of the militant trade unions. Even before he was officially de- signated as president, Cespedes is- sued a decree ordering martial law in an effort to break the general strike and send the workers back to their jobs so that the new ruling clique could prevent the masses from | carrying through the anti-imperialist and agrarian revolution. To “Save Gountry” From Strike In his first statement issued to the public, Cespedes said: “T have assumed the supreme office of the nation by the will of all those who desire justice, peace and good- will for Cuba. I take over this office because it is my duty to lend my most effective aid in these difficult moments to the work of saving the country which is endangered.” Cespedes was referring to the strik- ing workers who came out for the overthrow of the Machado regime and for the improvement of their conditions, demanding more wages, lower hours, unemployment insur- ance, and against the demand of the poor peasants for the splitting up of the big estates and turning the land over to them. Bloody Machado fled by airplane to Nassau, Bahamas, a British col- ony, when his armed forces began t¢ revolt. His last act, before fleeing was to rush to the Columbia bar- racks and order the execution of 7 soldiers who favored the overthrow of Machado. Ferrara Flees Amid Shots At the same time, Dr. Orestes Fer- rara, former Secretary of State rushed to the airdrome and boarded a plane. Machado took off in a hurry when he learned a mass of workers and students was rushing to the airplane field. When Ferrara was seated in the plane, waiting for others to get in with him, more than 100 shots were fired at the plane, (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Asks Readers’ Co-operation in Efforts to Improve and Build “DAILY” OM this brief resume, comratics , you can see that we are. seriously By all of us putting our shoulder to the wheel, as is now being done tion*to representatives of the Pro- visional Committee arranging for lelegates < Rank and file groups of the Broth- erhood of Painters, District Council 9, representing 11 A. F. of L. locals in New York City announced today the election of Max Boardman as their delegate to the Conference. Boardman is the New York City chairman of the A. F. of L. Commit- DAY, as promised, the Daily Worker has six pages. The Saturday edition henceforth will have eight pages. The decisidn to make this change has been warmly greeted by our readers. Hundreds of letters suggesting improvements came to our office and are still coming. Many of these have already been published. Others will be. Still others, equally helpful, cannot be published for lack of space, But every letter has been carefully studied by the editorial staff. ' The many suggestions made for the improvement of the “Daily” are the basis for the changes which are inaugurated with today’s edition, The two additional pages added to the paper, in line with the almost unanimous request of our readers, are taken up in the main with new popular features, * * * serial story, “S. S. Utah” starts on page 5 today. ‘We begin today a sports section giving the essentials on professional sports (baseball results, etc.) and which will grow, we hope, to fully cover all workers’ sports activities. Dr. Paul Luttinger begins today on page 4 a column which will be devoted to workers’ health problems, ’ A column on page 4, “In the Home” will be built up to interest the women folk—particularly the housewives. - A pictorial strip appears today on page 4, and the comic strip, today on page 5, will soon be a daily feature. The space devoted to the workers’ cultural interests and activities has been greatly increased | trying to make the Daily Worker a more popular paper in line with your proposals. We will continue in our efforts tg make the paper more interesting, particularly for our newer readers, by shortening our articles, eliminating stereotyped phrases, simplifying our ianguage, etc. At the same time we will publish much more workers’ correspondence, more let- ters from our readers, and give more attention to answering the ques- tions raised by our readers. We are deeply gratified by the response of the workers to our re- quests for suggestions. We ask you for further criticism and proposals. Particularly we want your opinions of today’s paper, In this way a greatly improved Daily Worker will quickly result, . * * * AND IN HAND with these joint efforts of our readers and the editorial staff to improve the paper should go the drive to increase its circu- lation and to guarantee the continued existence of the six and eight page “Daily”. ® Greatly increased circulation is the best guarantee for the main- tenance of the paper in its new form, This can only come through in- creased efforts by every reader, by every Party unit, by the trade unions and the mass organizations to secure new readers. The Daily Worker should be brought into the faciory where you work, into the trade unions, and to the workers in your neigiiborhood. Sales should be systemetized so that every day the same workers re- ceive the paper. Carrier routes where possible should be built up. Sub- seriptions should be secured, Street sales and daily factory sales should be developed. Bite - see by the Daily Worker Volunteers in New York City, the circulation cap quickly be doubled, . . . NOTHER way to insure the six-eight page “Daily” is through building up a permanent sustaining fund for the paper. As all our readers know the Daily Worker is published at a heavy loss. Our deficit of $1400 a week in the past will now be considerably in= (photographs, drawings, strips, etc.) all add to our deficit. But we believe these changes will result in many, many more readers and more interest in the paper. We believe our readers, desiring to see the Daily Worker grow, will gladly aid us raising the necessary funds, ‘We suggest weekly contributions into a sustaining fund for the paper, You could agree to send $10 a week if you have it, or twenty-five cents a week if that is all you can afford. But from all our readers it should not be difficult to secure regular contributions totalling our deficit of about $1,800 a week. Such a plan would guarantee the continuance of the new Daily Worker. Such a plan would enable us to go forward with further improvement, and to a paper read by the great mass of the workers, . . . . E, comrades, are our requests: criticisms and suggestions to {me prove the paper, energetic efforts to increase the circulation, and regue lar weekly contributions toward a sustaining fund to maintain the paper. ‘We urge our readers to aid us in our efforts, Comradely, ©. A. HATHAWAY, . Bates 48 creased. Not only the increased size, but the use of more feature material © ul 9