The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 16, 1933, Page 1

Is the Daily Worker on Sale at | Your Union Meeting? Your | Club Headquarters? | Dail . ‘(Section of the Communist International) orker ist Party U.S.A. —o America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper Nastern New York WEATHER : Fair Wednesday Vol. X, No. 196 =* Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879, N NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1933 (Six Pages) i "Price 3 Cents GENERAL STRIKE OF DRESSMAKERS CALLED FOR TODAY The N. Y. Dress Strike eae of dressmakers will pour out of the shops in a general strike today in the conviction that only through a real struggle will it be possible to compel the dress manufacturers, jobbers and contractors to grant decent wages and working conditions and wipe out the sweat shops. It is this conviction and the bitter discontent of the dressmakers that has made it impossible for the officials of the I.L.G.W.U., the bosses and the recovery administration to stop the strike movement, through sugar-coated promises of an NRA code. Dressmakers still remember vividly the strikes of 1929 and 1932, led by the LL.G.W.U, officials, which resulted in imposing the present sweat- shop conditions. These same officials who have praised the recovery act and hold out false hopes to the workers that the government will eliminate sweatshops through the code for the dress industry, will at- tempt to sidetrack the present militant struggle. That the L.L.G.W.U. officials’ policy in the dress strike has the sup- port of the notorious Whalen and Woll and the police department was revealed today in the statement that the NRA of New York will not in- tervene in the dress strike and that the police department will co-operate with the union officials, The workers are already given an advance warn- ing. * * * NLY through unity on the picket line and through a broad rank and file control of the strike as proposed by the Neédle Trades Workers Industrial Union will any attempts to shake the will and determination of the workers to win better conditions be defeated. The vigilance of a united mass strike and a rank and file controlled strike committee can prevent the sell-out deals which will be made by the I.L.G.W.U. officials behind closed doors with the recovery administration officials and the bosses to send the dressmakers back to the sweatshops. The ranks of the workers must stand united against any mediation plan. Unity and determined struggle under the leadership of the mil- itant Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union will win real gains for the - workers and will.assure victory in the struggle to abolish sweatshops. Tall Maneuvering on N.R.A. sone pretty tall maneuvering had to be done at the 48th state con- vention of the Massachusetts Federation of Labor, just closed, to keep back a struggle of many delegates against the NRA. The delegates from the local unions, close to the rank and file, can- not escape the growing complaints against the NRA codes that are driving down the standard of living of the workers. _ . Massachusetts is the state that felt the first blow of the NRA. Most of the time of the convention was taken up with reports from local dele- gates on new swindles, lower wages, higher hours, speed-up, stretch-out, and every device known to the bosses to skin a few more pennies from the hides of the workers—all under the name of the NRA. * * * WaEen is looked like some action would be demanded, James T. Moriarty, president of the state federation, stalled the workers off. He tried to tell them that the NRA is alright, but the bosses aren’t living up to it, and the administration of it was bad. He did all he could to keep the struggle within the confines of support for the NRA, to suit the bosses. He appealed for a “recess”. Indignation was so high, the sentiment for strike so great among the rank and file, that the convention did not adjourn, but merely recessed, with the way open ‘for its re-convening when it suits the needs of the A. F. of L. leaders to prevent struggles, or to head them in order to betray them. _ Moriarty presented an ambiguous resolution, a sort of lightning rod, to catch the rising fury of the workers, saying that he favored action “in the event that conditions in connection with the administration of the NRA causing complaints from unions as a result of viola- tions of wages and labor provisions contained in industrial codes or blanket agreements or in the event of conditions arising in con- nection with the general administration of the NRA.” ‘The Boston “Globe” said the sentiment was for a general strike, and added that tt meant “a lack of confidence on the part of organized labor in the success of the NRA, as it is now operating.” s * . Es the game of the state A. F’. of L. leaders, was a resolution sub- mitted by Thomas M. Nolan, of Boston Typographical Union No. 13. ‘The resolution strove to hold the workers’ confidence in the Roosevelt slave program saying “the Massachusetts State Federation of Labor, ex- tends to President Roosevelt appreciation for his determination to lead us into a land of promise and prevent a situation that would leave no other alternative but a violent revolution.” In the face of Roosevelt’s action in driving 170,000 Pennsylvania miners back into the coal pits of Mellon and Rockefeller without win- ning any of their demands, this is outright support to the bosses’ na- tional program of strike-breaking.” But the most outstanding note of the Massachusetts state conven- tion was the growing discontent with the NRA in practice, and the in- creasing demand among the A. F. of L. rank and file for struggle. Our task is to expose the tactics of the A. F. of L. leaders. We should use the experience of the coal strike, of the betrayals of the shoe workers and textile workers in Massachusetts to win leadership of the rank and file of the A. F. of L. ‘moving to struggle against the NRA. ‘The demand for struggle should break down the bounds set by the A. F. of L. leaders. ‘We should urge the rank and file to prepare now for strike struggles and not wait for the convenience of the A. F. of L. state leaders, working together with the bosses, and their superiors in Washington who are re- sponsible for the slave codes now smashing down the living standards of the workers, " Scottsboro and Tuscaloosa | HAT the lynchers could not do at Scottsboro—they did the other day at Tuscaloosa. 3 ‘What the Alabama Judge Foster and his white landlord masters had in mind when they drove the I. L. D. lawyers out of Tuscaloosa is now all too ghastly evident. “We must not let this case become another Scottsboro case,” said Judge Foster at that time. And in the bullet-riddled bodies of the three Negro boys, the workers of this country haye proof of what that means, It was only by making Tuscaloosa another Scottsboro that the three Negro lads could have been snatched from the hands of the lynchers, sp * * J : presence of the I. L. D, made the lynching more difficult. There was danger of world protest, danger of that the I. L. D. lawyers would ‘tear away the cloak from the Jimcrow foulness of the Alabama courts. "There was danger in the fearful words of the frightened Judge of “another Scottsboro case.” Nf ‘That is why the Sheriff and the white landlord masters had to or- ganize lynch gang to drive the ILD, away. Then the Tuscaloosa lynchings could go ahead without fear of interruption. ‘Tuscaloosa. shows what would have quickly happened in Scottsboro U.S. Helps Cespedes Against Cuban Masses More Warships Stand Ready As Welles Announces Full Support of Wall Street Government for New Capitalist Regime HAVANA, Aug. 15.—The fullest support of. the Roosevelt government to crush the revolutionary upheaval of the Cuban workers and peasants was promised President de Cespedes today, as U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles announced U. S. recognition of the new regime, and urged the Cuban representatives of the other powers to do the same. -® While the Havana transport work- Special Conference on Cuba for Tonight The Emergency Conference on Cuba takegpplace tonight at 8 p.m. in Webster Hall, 119 E. 11th St, New York City. Mass delegations from American and Colonial or- ganizations have been elected to attend this conference, .The Anti- Imperialist League urges all in- dividuals who are interested in Cuba to come and hear the reports on the latest developments in Cuba. Robert Dunn, National Chairman of the Anti-Imperialist League will preside at the con- ference and William Simons, Na- tional Secretary of the Anti-Im- perialist League will give the re- port. 1 Lynch Victim Still Lives; Is Seriously Hurt Doctor Turns Negro _ Boy. Over to Jail in Tuscaloosa TUSCALOOSA, Ala. Aug. 15.—El- ‘more Clarke, Negro victim of a gang which Sunday lynched Dan Pippen, | Jr., and A. T. Harden, was found late last night still alive, in a shanty close to Woodstock, where Pippen and Harden’s bodies were found. He was in a serious condition, with two bul- let wounds in his body. ‘He was immediately take to Tus- caloosa County Jail. National Guards- men were thrown around the jail as rumors were spread by officials of a “mob” being formed to lynch him. Barbed wire entanglements were thrown across the streets near the courthouse and jail. The guardsmen were drawn from Tuscaloosa County. Clarke, wounded in the thigh and arm, told how when the gang of lynchers opened fire on him he pulled the dead bodies of Pippen and Harden over his own body, and was left for dead. Later, according to the version of his story given by Sheriff Shamblin, he broke his hand- cuffs with a brick and crawled to the home of a Negro. A Negro doctor, called to attend him from Vance, Ala., turned him over to Sheriff Shamblin. The name of the doctor is being withheld by the authorities. A special Tuscaloosa County Grand Jury was called here today by Judge Foster to “investigate” the lynching. Attorney General Thomas E. Knight was in charge, ‘The Negro murdered in Tusca- loosa Sunday, it was learned, was Jim Pruitt. He was killed when he had an argument with his landlord by Deputies Murray Pate and H. W. Holeman, who, ers returned to work today, the har- bor workers, organized in the revolu- tionary National Confederation of Labor, showed their opinion of the new president’s promises by remain- ing out solidly and keeping the ship- ment of goods from the harbor para- lyzed. U. S. Warships Still Ready One U. S. destroyer remained in Havana harbor and another left Havana and went to the naval base at Guantanamo, Cuba, while a num- ber of other U. S. warships were or- dered to stand ready in nearby waters for the command to inter- vene. Marines are in readiness in Panama, Haiti, Key West, the Phila- delphia Navy Yard, and Quantico Marine Base. ‘The U. 8S. cruiser Indianapolis, with six planes on board, left Hampton Roads, Va., today. It was reported it had orders to make for Cuba. In Washington, President -Roose- velt was working on a plan to reduce the Cuban sugar acreage, the only important Cuban crop, in order to raise the price of sugar. This would make worse the condition of the Cu- ban peasants. President de Cespedes ordered the army out, with instructions to shoot all looters, as the revolutionary Cu- ban workers continued to hunt down Machado’s murder bands, and to smash up their houses. In his first address after being sworn in, de Cespedes demanded the breaking of the strike and heading off the workers’ demands to carry through the agrarian and anti-im- perialist revolution, under threat of U. S. intervention. “Bitter passions must be put aside so as to leave no doubt of our capa~ city for self-government,” he said. Machado Took $2,000,000 The only form of Cuban “‘self-gov- ernment” under Wall Street rule is the enforcement of crushing taxes and starvation wages in order to pay Cuba’s immense debts to Wall Street, and to make profits on the gigantic American investments in Cuba. Although he fled so fast he brought no clothes with him, Ger- ardo Machado took away $2,000,000 in U. S. Currency on his flight from Cuba, which he deposited in the Nassau Branch of the Royal Bank of Canada. He carried the money packed in four suitcases. Six gunmen are still Ris constant companions, and he barred all win- dows of his hotel before going to bed last night. Ambassador Welles personally su- pervised the flight of General Al- berto Herrera, Machado’s chief of staff, while workers and students were hunting him to avenge the many deaths for which he was re- sponsible. * oe NEW YORK.—The Trade Union Unity Council sent wires to Pres- ident Roosevelt and the Cuban gov- ernment protesting against the in- tervention of Sumner Welles, de- manding nullification of the Platt amendment, the abolition of the Guatanamo naval base, the imme- diate ending of martial law, and the right of workers to organize and strike. DETROIT MEET MOBILIZES FOR T. U. CONFERENCE Support ClevelandAug. 26-27 Conference; MapStateStruggles | DETROIT, Aug. 14.— To mobilize support in trade unions in this ci for the national trade union confer-| ence to be held in Cleveland, August 26-27, as well as to organize a broad| statewide struggle against the NRA, the state sales and head tax, and for unemployment insurance, a united front conference was held here with 105 delegates from 76 Detroit work- ers’ organizations. The conference held here Friday, | was called by the Auto Workers Un- ion, the American Federation of La- bor Insurance, the Carpenters and Join- ers Unity League and the Unemploy- ed Councils. Map Struggle On NRA The Cleveland trade union confer- ence is called to forge a broad uni- ted front of all workers to map out a struggle against the Roosevelt “New| Deal” attack, and particularly against the wage smashing and strike-break-! ing drive going on under the NRA. At the preliminary Detroit united front conference, the main report was made by Earl Reno, secretary of the Unemployed Councils, who showed the effects of the NIRA on the conditions of the workers and ex- posed its strikebreaking role in the coal fields. He called for a fight against the vicious state sales and head taxes and stressed the need for a broad struggle for immediate re- lief and unemployment insurance. Lowered Wages Various delegates took part in the discussion, showing concretely how the living standards of the workers were being lowered. and- emphasizing the necessity for a fight for the everyday needs of both employed and unemployed workers and for building the Auto Workers Union. The conference was also addressed by Mother Ella Reeve Bloor, who af- ter attending the state farmers re- lief conference at Grand Rapids, was on her way to the Pennsylvania coal fields, and by Max Bedacht, national secretary of the International Work- ers Order. A draft program of action was ad- | opted and a committee elected to complete it. It was decided to hold a state-wide conference in Septem- ber in preparation for a march to the capitol at Lansing. » The conference unanimously en- dorsed the Communist candidates in the city elections as representing the platform of the conference. Cloak Makers Prepare To Resist Piece Work Under the Cloak Code NEW YORK. 8,000 cloak makers called By the action com- mittee of the rank and file opposi- tion in the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union assembled at Mecca Temple yesterday to formulate demands against the at- tempt to establish piece work and low price rates under the bosses’, cloak code. The stoppage in the cloak trade called by the ILGWU officials is for the purpose of establishing the prices set by the Cloak and Suit Code Authority on which the work- ers have not been consulted and to establish piece work even in those inside shops where week work now prevails. Strike for Union Conditions Voted at Hippodrome Meet Union in General Dress Strike Immediate substantial increases In wages and guaranteed minimum wage scales. The 35 hour week to provide work for the unemployed. An unemployment insurance fund paid by the bosses. The jobbers and manufacturers shall be responsible for wages and conditions in their contractors’ shops. Abolition of all discriminations against Negro workers and the right | Committee for Unemployment | of Negro dressmakers to work in every craft. Equal pay for equal work—for Negro and white. young and adult, men and women, | Elimination of child labor in all dress shops. All dressmakers working on 40th St., 39th St., 38th St., 37th | St., 36th St. and 35th St, and way, between these streets, march to the Dressmakers Strike Auditor- ium, 559 Sixth Ave., near 16th St. | All Cutters march to the Strike Hall 559 Sixth Ave., near 16th St. All Dressmakers working be~ low 34th St., including 6th Ave., the IRVING PLAZA, 15th St. and Irving Place. | on 7th Ave-, 8th Aye. and Broad- | 7th Ave. and Broadway march to | Where Strikers Meet Today All unemployed Dressmakers march to the YUGOSLAV, CENTER, West 24th St. | All Dressmakers working | the BRONX march to 3882 Third Ave. | All Dressmakers | HARLEM march to | 2242 Second Ave. All Dressmakers working in | WILLIAMSBURG, Brooklyn, march to 691 Broadway. All Dressmakers working in BROWNSVILLE and EAST NEW YORK march to 608 Cleve- land St. All Workers working in BEN- SONHURST should report to The WORKERS CENTER, 87 Bay 25th St. working in 1200 Metal Workers Respond to Call for a General Strike Many Unorgan ized Shops Join Walk-Out NEW YORK.—Twelve hundred metal workers in 28 shops walked out on strike yesterday in response to the general strike call of the Metal Workers Industrial Union and the Metal Spinners Union. While the majority of the striking workers are from organized shops, many unorganized workers are re- sponding to the strike. Workers of the metal fixtures industry walked out on strike and a number of light metal plants including the United Metal Co. of Brooklyn with 110 workers and the Majestic Co. with 350 workers joined the walk-out. Members of the Metal Spinners Union were reported out on strike 100 per cent. The strikers gathered at Manhat- tan Lyceum yesterday morning and set to work to organize and spread the strike. James Tustig, secretary of the Metal Workers’ Industrial Union reported that many shops are calling for committees to assist in bringing the workers out on strike. “We must now get down to the business of mobilizing the workers who have not yet responded to the strike call for the strike,” he de- clared. He proposed the election of a broad strike committee of 75 with 25 additional members from the Metal Spinners Union. The strike committee elected by the workers represents workers from every strik- ing shop, the shop chairmen and members of the Executive Board of the two unions leading the strike. Shoe Bosses Balk at Perkins Sellout | Refuse to Hire Girls on Minimum Wage Schedule BOSTON, Mass., Aug. 15. — The Chelsea Shoe manufacturers refuse to sign even Secretary of Labor Par- kins and the union officials sell-out agreement. Two thousand workers are out, and the shops are being picketted. The manufacturers insist on reservations providing they have a right to hire workers of their own choosing, es- pecially aimed against young girls who they are supposed to pay a min- imum’ wage. Union leader Mananan threatens to appeal to Washington, and simul- taneously, thanks Frances Perkins for aiding to break the Boston and Lynn shoe strikes. Tennessee Prisoners Mutiny; 184 Refuse to Come Out of Mine PETROS, Tenn., Aug. 15.—Pris- oners at Brushy Mountain Peniten- tiary have mutinied, 184 of them re- fused to leave the mine where they are working. .Altogether there are 800 in this prison. Additional guards were sent to the scene. The warden and other officials refused to comment as to reasons of the mutiny. Committees were elected to spread the struggle. The strike is called vo win wage increases for the workers and recog- nition of both unions. Daily Wo NEW YORK.—Daily Worker street sellers have more than tripled their sales since the six- page “Daily” came out on Mon- day. One is selling six and a|: half times as many as before. Seven Red Builders whose previous combined sales were 180 copies yesterday took a total of 570 copies. i z +5 Z g Daily Worker Volunteers to come the district office every day for bundles to sell at all the meetings Strike, Samuel Waitzman, one of. those; h New Six-Page Edition in making the Daily Worker picnic a success, is the outstanding Shock Brigader of the Daily Worker Volun- teers to date. He has brought in 14 new — Volunteers - and 9 subscrip- tions . altogether. Mary Fileish- man, who under- took to organize a Volunteer bri- gade SAM WAITZMAN Department the Needle Work- ers Industrial Union has carried out most active Congratulates New Six Page “Daily” “I congratulate’ the Daily Worker in its effort to secure a six-page newspaper,” writes Jewel Gross, of Brooklyn, N.. ¥. “We readers will try our utmost to contribute to it.” rker Street Sales Tripled Wit her pledge, and has already brought in four Volunteers and one subscrip- tion. ‘William Mandel brought in one sub., and is the first Volunteer to Lettish Workers of Chicago Contribute $50 to Daily Worker NEW YORK.—Résponding to the appeal of the Daily Werke to aid establish a six-page ‘Daily,’ the Lettish Workers Society of Chicago contributed $50 to the Daily Worker. It also made a contribution of $25 to the Work- ers’ Voice, Chicago workers pa- per. A few days ago another donation of $8.50 was received from the Lithuanian Workers Literature Society. Several small- er contributions have come in for the Daily Worker from other Chicago workers’ organizations and supporters. This kind of response should be followed by all organizations. The Daily Worker in its enlarged form is receiving a wpe welcome from the workers of Chicago. { go out selling the Daily Worker on the street. Max Berg has brought in five subs. and Hemerling four. Volunteers Meet Friday Waitzman will report on his work at the next meeting of the Volun- teers, next Friday at 8 p.m. on the second floor of the Workers Center. Sam Don, one of the editors of the Daily Worker, will speak, and a send-off will be given to Sam Sil- verman, the worker who won the free trip to the Soviet Union. Tonight at 7:30 p.m. the Educa- tional sub-committee of the Volun- teers will meet with Sam Don of the Daily Worker to work out a program of collaboration between the Volun- teers and the editorial saff. Brownsvill C. P. Takes Lead ‘The Brownsville section of the Communist Party is the first section to begin the organization of a Daily Worker Volunteer group. Members of the units in this sec- tion, and delegates from mass or- ganizations will rheet tonight at 8 p. m, at 1813 Pitkin Ave., to organize the group. All organizations and in- dividuals interested in taking part are invited to attend. Volunteers Hail Six Page ‘Daily’ NEW YORK.—“The Daily Work- er Volunteers congratulate the Daily Worker on the first issue of the six-page daily,” declared a statement of the Volunteers’ ex- a committee Monday morn- “We look on the quality* of its contents, and the new features, as a very encouraging step which will make our volunteer work of build- ing up the ‘Daily’ more and more effective. We also want to con- gratulate the editorial and tech- nical staffs on their success in get- ting the ‘Daily’ out on the street before 9 p.m, which will greatly help in street sales. “We pledge our full support to increase the circulation, to con- tribute to the improvement of the ecntents by correspondence and criticism, and to build up a large sustaining fund. “We call on all who are willing to help us in our work to join our forces,” | Demands of Needle Trades Workers Industrial Needle Union Calls for One United Picket Line Mobilize All Union Forces to Win Victory | NEW YORK.—Thousands of | dressmakers, assembled at a |monster mass meeting at the | Hippodrome last night, ratified |the call of the Needle Trades | Workers’ Industrial Union to come |out in a general strike against mis- erable sweatshop conditions. Today at 10 a. m. workers in union | and open dress shops will down their | tools and leave their shops marching in close ranks directly to the many | strike halls throughout the city. Although the International Ladies’ | Garment Workers officials have re- | jected the demands of the Industrial | Union for one united strike against | the bosses the rank and file dres: | makers are determined to achieve this unity on the picket line and will march solidly together on the picket lines continuing their demand for unity in the fight. Wide publicity is being given the LL.G.W.U. strike call in the capital- ist press. Chief of Police Bolan as- sured Julius Hochman, president of the Joint Board of Dress and Waist Makers’ Union, and David Dubinsky, president of the International, of “full co-operation” at a conference held at N. R. A. headquarters yester- day between Bolan, Inspector Lyons of the radical squad, Grover Whalen and the — Internatic officials. The conference lasted * for two hours and was concerned with “prob- Jems that might arise in the event of a strike.” It is clear that the strike of the LL.G.W.U., while osten- sibly called for the “elimination of the sweatshops,” has the full co-op- eration of the bosses and the police Grover Whalen, who was respon- sible for the jailing of Foster, Minor and Amter, unemployed leaders in the March, 1930, demonstration, when he was chief of police of the City of New York, declared today that he doubted whether the NRA ad- ministration, which he heads, would do anything to stop the impending strike. Whalen’s statement and the police chief's offers of co-operation indi- cate clearly that no real opposition by the government and the bosses will be put up against the LL.G.W.U. officials’ policy on the strike. NRA officials and the manufac: turers recognize that the sentiment among the workers for a strike te improve their conditions cannot be readily curbed. They are looking te the establishment of a code for the dress industry to force the workers to accept their slave standards. ‘The hearings on the code have been set for Aug. 22 in Washington. The price of accepting the code placed by the IL.G.W.U. officials will be rec- ognition of the officials and a chance for these misleaders to gain sole. con- trol over the dress industry. Recog- nition of the officials by the National Dress Manufacturers’ Association Means assurance to the bosses that the workers will be sold out and forced to accept the starvation stand- ards set by the code. Unless dressmakers are on guard, the plans of the ILGWU officials will be to end the strike on the ground that the code for the industry must be accepted. The dressmakers will be forced to accept the mediation of the Woll-Whalen committee or 4@ special Dress Code authority which will be set up and their hopes for winning decent working conditions as a result of the strike will again be destroyed through the treachery of the ILGWU officials. s The dressmakers are urged by thé Industrial Union to demand broad rank and file control of the strike, bearing in mind the experience in the strike of 1932 when the dress- makers were misled by false promises of a “scientific scale” and were forced to accept the present miserable sweatshop conditions in the industry. The Needle Trades Workers In> sued today urges all workers of un= jon and non-union dress shops in all sections of the city to answer the strike call today at 10 a.m. for the demands of the union. The call states: “Dressmakers of all nationaliti right wing, left wing, members ( the Industrial Union, must be united in this strike and on the picket line for the same demands, “Every attempt of the Interna- tional officials and the bosses to split the ranks of the workers must be defeated! All attempts of the In-+ ternational officials to place the fate of the dressmakers in the hands of the government commissions must be rejected? “Only through struggle on the picket line will we win better condi- tions in the shops!” dustrial Union in its strike call ig’ ee