The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 18, 1933, Page 1

Don’t Miss the First Issue of the Eight-Page Saturday Daily,’ Out Tomorrow! Dail ‘(Section of the Communist International) orker Party U.S.A. America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper WEATHER Eastern New York: Showers Friday. Vol. X, No. 198 =” Push Forward! Om readers enthusiastically greet the new six-page “Daily.” This is clear from the more than a hundred letters received during the past two days. Every letter voices the opinion that we are at last on the road toward becoming a popular mass paper. We, of the “Daily” editorial staff, of course, are pleased by this first | reception. We thank our readers for their many letters of helpful criticism which alone made it possible for us to begin our efforts to produce a bet- ter paper. But we are not yet satisfied. We are not “dizzy with success.” We must still further improve our paper, making it a better newspaper, a more popular paper, a better organizer, a better fighter for the toilers. We are convinced that it can be done with the help of our readers. To do this we want, first, more criticism. Every item in the paper which is incorrect, which you think could be prepared better, which you think could have a broader appeal, should cause you to write to the Above all, we want more workers’ correspondence from the factories, more reports on live, interesting news from all parts of the country, more articles on the vital needs and interests of the workers, ‘We may not be able, comrades, to print every item we receive, but such contributions will help us to edit a better paper; they will bring us closer to our readers. And now, we need a real organized campaign involving thousands of workers and workers’ organizations to secure tens of thousands of new readers. In this the Communist Party units, sections and districts must take the lead. A sustaining fund, with weekly contributions from our readers, is needed to guarantee the continued appearance of the six-page paper. In short, comrades, now is the time for a big push forward. Collec- tive effort by the editorial staff and our readers can quickly transform the “Daily” into the paper of the masses of the working people. What Now in Cuba? Baars is gone. But the landlord-capitalists of Cuba, the Wall Street imperialists who own nearly $2,000,000,000 of Cuban economy—those who insure the maintenance of a regime favorable to American imperial- ism and oppressing the masses—still remain. Under the leadership of the Communist Party of Cuba, the dock work- ers of Havana, remain out on strike. In other parts of Cuba the workers are still fighting for their demands, not satisfied with the change in figures that grace the government. Cespedes, President of Cuba by the grace of Wall Street, says he fears a new general strike. Cespedes, U. 8. Ambassador Welles, and their class brothers know that a new general strike will lead to a revolutionary overthrow of the present landlord- bourgeois grip on Cuba. What is necessary to prevent Welles from riveting a new Machado on the Cuban people? The widening of the present strike, and struggle for other economic demands of the workers, farmers, soldiers and petty- bourgeoisie of the towns is the immediate task. Roosevelt talks about sending the hungry peasants back to the land, but the real problem of the peasants is the ownership of huge tracts of land by big American and Cuban landowners, Peasants committees to mobilize for the seizure of the land, especially the estates owned by the big sugar trusts, owned. by Wall Street banks, should be set up. The agrarian revolution in Cuba can be carried through only by turning the land over to the working peasants and agricultural laborers, and the task of the Communist Party is to agitate and orsanize the peasants for this end. E ‘ Cespedes and Welles are trying to throw a hallo of “liberality” and of change over the present government of Cuba, ‘They know that the masses are stirred to the depths in the struggle against Machado’s tyranny and want a complete revolutionary change. * * * payee Communist must tear the mask from the Cespedes government. The Cespedes government, with its A.B.C. trimmings, must be branded and exposed for what it really is, a new government of the landlord- Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879, Auto Workers on Way to Capital Code Hearings Auto Workers Union to Present Demands Voted for by Thousands in Various Plants; Special Demands for Ford Workers DETROIT, Mich., Aug. 17.—A delegation of auto workers left today for Washington to appear at the hearings on the automobile code, which are scheduled to open tomorrow. Phil Raymond, David Jones, president of the Dearborn local of the Auto Workers Union, and candidate for Mayor on the United Working 200 Illinois Coal Hayes Body Plant =n Workers Win 20 p..c. Increase by Strike Led by Auto Workers Union; Expose Co. Union in Plant GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Aug. 17—The strike of the workers in the Hayes Body plant, led by the Auto Workers Union, has won a 20 per cent increase and recognition of the shop committee.- The strike started in the assem- bly room, after a meeting where the workers approved the Auto Workers Union code. It spread to other departments. The company union at first got control of the strike committee, but the Auto Workers Union succeeded in ex- posing the company agents and leading the workers to victory. Many joined the Auto Workers Union. | Miners Out; More | Favor a Walkout Strike Sentiment Is Growing in Whole Illinois Field * SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Aug. 17—Two hundred miners, members of the Progressive Miners of America, at Hillsboro, Illinois, struck yesterday, demanding revision of the contract. Grievances center around the im- proper division of work dut to re- cent installation of new machinery. | capitalists of Cuba, closely linked to Wall Street, riding into power on the wave of mass revolutionary discontent, but keeping intact all of the class forces of the Machado regime. Out of the present revolutionary situation in Cuba, the Communist Party arose as a powerful factor, in the forefront of the struggles of the workingclass. The workingclass began the movement that led to Ma- chado’s overthrow by its heroic and militant general political strike. The Commuftiist Party was the chief organizer of the general strike, which put the workers in the van of revolutionary struggles. The A.B.C. and the “national opposition,” now backing the Cespedes regime, will use all their force against the real revolutionary leader of the Cuban toiling masses, the Communist Party. In this situation, it is imperative that all workers support and rally behind the fight for the open existence of the Communist Party of Cuba. Against the maneuvers of President Cespedes and Welles, and their new allies, Menocal and Mendieta, supported by the A.B.C. and the opposition, in the forefront of the political demands, must be the maximum widen- ing of “democratic freedom”—the right of full and free organization of_| the workers, right of assembly, right of free speech and free press, the right to bear arms. bes Communist Party of Cuba, to strengthen its leadership of the toiling » Should continue its policy of absolute independence, forming no bloc whatsoever with the A.B.C. or the “national opposition.” To win the masses now following these misleaders, it must carry on the sharpest struggle against the “left” demagogy, the revolutionary sounding phrases, by means of which’ the opposition seeks to maintain the confidence of the workers and peasants in the new Wall Street regime. The Communist Party of Cuba, vanguard of the revolutionary strug- gles, in leading the strikes and other struggles, fighting for the economic demands of the workers, is putting forward the main political slogan of a “Workers and Peasants Government.” Already it is necessary to develop widespread propaganda for Soviets of workers, peasants and soldiers, arousing the masses against Cespedes, against Yankee imperialism and for a Soviet Government. The call of the actual organization of the Soviets, however, should actually be issued only in case of a great intensification of the mass movement of the toilers taking on the character of civil war. A new stage of the revolution in Cuba is opening up, and the Com- munist Party of Cuba has before it the historical task of winning the toiling masses, giving the greatest attention to their day-to-day needs, for a real end to imperialist domination and capitalist-landlord rule in Cuba, * * * Miners at Nigger Halla mine, Belle-; | ville, also threaten to strike if a six- | hour day is not adopted by code, There is a growing sentiment for | strike throughout the field. Officials | | are telling the miners to await the adoption of the coal code. At the same time, there is an increase of terror against militant elements in | the P, M. A. territory. ‘Win Higher Pay and UnionRecognitionin Market Forge Co. Workers Join Steel, Metal Workers In- dustrial Union EVERETT, Mass., Aug. 17.—Or- ganized in the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, the workers in the Market Forge Co., after a short strike and negotia- tions with the boss, Mr. Bercowitz, won decreased hours, without reduc- tion in pay and recognition of the union, On August 14, the Market Forge workers, staying clear of the A. F. of L. metal local, No. 17, organized into the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, drew up demands, and elected a shop committee. The boss at first refused to treat with the workers, but on August 165, when the men did not get to work until 12, noon, he signed an agree- ment, Originally under the NRA the ~ What Have You Done? jks Open Letter addressed to the members of the Communist Party set down as a main task: “The organization. and mobilization of the millions of unemployed, together with the factory workers, for their most urgent needs, and the organization of the struggle for unemployment insurance as the central immediate struggle of the Party.” Since this letter was printed the Unemployed Councils have outlined @ program of work for “the organization of the struggle for unemployment insurance.” It was printed in the “Daily,” August 5. Yet none of the Districts of the Party have responded with a definite plan of putting this program into effect. Let us consider District No. 8 (Chicago). This District has held a foremost position in mobilizing the unemployed to struggle for increased relief. It developed a united front last year which made it Possible to organize a march of 50,000 in Chicago and defeat the attempts to slash relief. Since then it has a ntimber of splendid actions to its credit. ‘Yet all workers have a right to ask where is the Chicago District in the campaign to mobilize a mass movement which will force the federal government to adopt the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill? The extraordinary conference of our Party demanded a constant + check-up as to how the decisions which we reach are put into effect. ‘We ask the District Committee of Chicago as well as other District Com- mittees, What has been done to develop this “central immediate struggle of the Party'/ boss cut the hours from 50 to 40, but also cut the pay. _ The demands won by the union include: No discrimination; all grievances to be taken up with the shop grievance committee; $18 a week minimum wage ipstead of $10 as before; time and a half for over- time; a 25 per cent increase in piece work rates. Army Officers Get Taste of Tear Gas During Sham Battle CAMP DIX; N. J., Aug. 17.— Reserve officers here from the 77th, 78th and 79th Divisions received a sample of the treatment they are learning to use against striking workers when a cloud of tear gas used in training maneuvers was blown toward officers and specta- tors, Among those fleeing to the near- by. ls for relief was Lieutenant Colonel George U. Harvey, Borough President of Queens, ad workers are in the delegation. The code of the workers in the automobile industry which was amended at mass meetings of the workers of various plants demands 7% cents an hour minimum wage, with a 30 per cent increase for all} now getting 58 cents an hour or) more; a six-hour day, five day week, with a guarantee of 40 weeks work in a year. Other demands are: Workers’ committees to control belt speed; unemployment insurance of $10 weekly, with $3 for dependents; the employment of Negro workers on all jobs and in all departments; aboli- tion of the spy system; the right to belong to unions of the workers own choice; the right to strike. Demands for young workers and women are included in the code to be presented. A special code for the Ford plants has been drawn up and will be pre- | sented by the workers dethanding a $6 a day minimum; a 30 per cent increase for those getting $5, and other special demands, Thousands of auto workers sup- ported the code at meetings. Workers in all auto plants are urged to wire General Johnson de- manding the adoption of the code. Strike in Sweden Fight in Toronto, Over Nazi Emblems _ STOCKHOLM, Aug. 17.—Swed- ish longshoremen went on_ strike here yesterday when a German tanker ran up the Nazis swastika flag. Attempts of the reformist un- ion leaders to persuade the men to go back to work were unavailing. . TORONTO, Canada, Aug. 17.— More than 10,000 persons collected NEW YORK, FRIDAY AUGUST 18, 1933 (Six Pages) Price 3 Cenxs “J Promise to Get 100 Subscriptions Within Sixty Days” “It was a pleasant surprise,” writes James Hurley. “Monday, when I bought my usual paper, I thought I had made a mistake. I looked twice to make sure Gosh, it’s great to find the news of the day, workers’ struggles day by day, and other diversified | | news. I'll make a promise to get 100 subscriptions within 60 days!” 400 on Strike at Eaton Axle Win a. 15 p. c. Pay Rise Recognize Steel and| Metal Workers In- dustrial Union CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 17.— Four hundred Eaton Axle Co. work- ers who were on strike under the! leadership of the Steel and Metal) Workers’ Industrial Union yesterday | won a 15 per cent increase in pay} and the recognition of the Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union. | They returned to work. | Union officials were elected, and! the workers at the meeting were urged by the union to maintain their | victory by consolidating their forces, | and preparing for future actions to/ force pay increases to meet the rising | cost of living. | The workers praised the help and leadership given by the Joint Coun- cil and the industrial union organ- | izers, | Several departments are not satis- | fied with the amount of the raise and | will make a special demand before returning to work. Browder, Minor, Ford to Speak on Cuba at) Mass Meeting Tonight NEW YORK.—Earl Browder, | general secretary of the Commu- nist Party, James W. Ford, Rob- ert Minor, Robert W. Dunn, Wil- liam Simons, and » Cuban speak- er will address a mass meeting | on the Cuban situation tonight at New Star Casino 107th St. and at Willowvale Park when a large swastika was found displayed on the side of the hill. Several per- sons were injured in clashes be- tween Fascist and anti-fascist sym- pathizers, Doesn’t Salute—B’klyn Doctor Beaten by Nazis BERLIN, Aug. 17.—For failure to salute a Nazi parade with the Fascist salute, Dr. Daniel Mulhihill of Brooklyn, N. Y., was assaulted and beaten by Nazi troopers, it was revealed today. This is the thirtieth case of the beating of Americans visiting Ger- manye Bullet Manufacturer Adopts Code; Fires Many and Cut Pay ANOKA, Minn.—Adoption of the NRA code by the Federal Cartridge Corp., one of the biggest labor-hating makers of ammunition in the coun- try, means fewer jobs and less pay for the employes, President Charles L. Horn of the corporation announces, It is said that about 250 girls have been paid 17 cents an hour for the 55-hour week and there is no an- nouncement as to what they will get hereafter. Horn simply says that men in the higher pay brackets will have their wages slashed. “At the present time we are oper- | ating our factory 144 hours a week,” ; Horn said ‘in a letter to employes,! ridiculing the NRA. “We have agreed to reduce our total working hours to 80 a week. This unfortunate situa- tion will mean that in many cases the number of working hours per- mitted will require reduction of one- third in the present crew. “There will be a reduction of earn- ings. Some of the men in the higher pay brackets will be compelled to re- ceive less money a week. We shall do everything possible to be equal and fair, but Washington has given us little encouragement in this matter.” Y. C. L. DISTRICT MEETING An emergency district membership meeting of the Young Communist League will be held Sunday, Aug. Park Ave. The meeting is called by the Communist Party, New York | district. The speakers will ana- lyze the revolutionary situation in Cuba, and define the tasks of the Communist. Party. Negro Worker Is Freed on Framed “Assault” Charge NEW YORK, Hamie Snipes, Negro worker arrested May 19 on a frame- up charge of “assault,” was acquit- ted yesterday in Special Sessions Court. Unemployed workers who came to attend the trial were barred from the courtroom. Witnesses were only admitted one at a time to tes- tify and then barred from the room. Fight unemployed workers were called as witnesses in the case and presented evidence that completely smashed the frame-up. The New York district of the In- ternational Labor Defense which de- fended this worker announced the mass protests the court received were largely responsible for the acyuittal of Snipes. Snipes has been active in the strug- gles of the unemployed as well as the laundry strikers. Sec’y Woodin, Morgan Favorite, LuckyA gain; Inherits $355,000 (Meas BLOOMSBURG, Pa. Aug. 17.— Secretary of the Treasury Woodin, who was revealed as being one of the most favored of the Morgan favorites for inside stock purchases, was the beneficiary of another windfall today, when it was disclosed that his mother had left him $355,000 in her will. Canada Labor Defense to Aid Nazi Victims TORONTO, Can.—A call to action in the defense of the victims of fas- cist terror in Germany has been sent 20, at 12 noon in the District Center. out by the Canadian Labor Defense Dress Strike Gains Strength As 35 More Shops Come Out Dress Strikers Throng Garment District i % é Needle Union to Make Demands at Whalen Hearings Whalen Refuses to Strikers at 37th Street and Sixth Avenue, in the heart of New York's garment section, crowded the streets as the walk-out of dress workers spread, Tammany cops were on hand to drive the workers from place | to place, Armed Thugs Hired by Dress Bosses to Terrorize Strikers NEW YORK.—Armed Thugs have been sent out by the dress bosses into the garment district to mingle with the dress strikers. The Daily Worker received confidential information yester- day that the Val O’Tooie Deiec- tive Agency, of 521 Fifth Avenue, has assigned armed squads Wed- nesday afternoon, to prowl about in the garment area. These “pri- vate detectives” were given per- sonal permits to carry pistols, in violation of the city ordinance which bans such permits except for people like night watchmen. The Washington Detective Bur- eau, 370 Fifth Avenue, the con- fidential information to the Daily Worker also states, has sent armed squads, composed of ex- convicts whose faces grace the Rogues’ Gallery of the police into the area of 19th and 20th Streets, between 5th and 6th Avenues. These armed thugs are now prowling about the garment area for only one purpose. They aim to creat disturbances, and spread terror in the attempt to drive the workers back into the arms of the former police chief Whalen and his NRA strikebreakers. They aim to drive the workers back into the shops with none of their demands granted. The Daily Worker demands, and calls on all workers to de- mand, that the pistol permits be withdrawn from these armed thugs, and that the bosses be forced to withdraw these bullies from the garment area, Soviet Trade Shows | Big Export Surplus) NEW YORK, Aug. 17.—Soviet for- | eign trade for the first half of 1933 | showed a favorable balance of 33,658,- | 000 rubles, the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce announced yesterday. Total exports amounted to’ 224,572,- 000 rubles, total imports to 190,914,000 rubles. Exports to America were valued at 5,420,000 rubles, and im- ports from America at 5,844,000 rubles. 80 Shops Out in Big Shoe Strike Shoe Workers’ De- mands at NRA Hearings NEW YORK.—With 80 shoe and slipper shops now out on strike, the strike of the shoe workers led by the Shoe and Leather Workers Indus- trial Union continues to grow. The strike movement among the slipper workers is rapidly approaching the proportions of a general strike with 40 shors out and more than 2700 in the ranks of the strikers. Workers of the Progressive Shoe Co., the Seymour and Troy Shoe Companies joined the strike yester-| day. Fred Biedenkapp, secretary of the union will appear in Washington on} Monday to present the shoe workers’ | demands before the NRA hearings | on the bosses’ shoe code. Docker Collapses; 17 Go Out on Strike: |Line, walked out yesterday morning | flesh. League. The call, sent to all work- ers’ organizations, asks that street} protest meetings’ be held and that} collections be made to aid the vic-! tims. . NEW YORK. — Seventeen long- remen, unloading the steamer Pan American” of the Munson in protest against intolerable work- ing conditions. The workers were forced to carry 225 pound coffee bags, which soaked with water, weighed almost twice that, and 200 pound sacks of bleaching bones, which cut brutally into the men’s After one worker had collapsed ced was taken to the Long Island Hospital, a committee of four from gang No. 8 complained to the gang boss and requested trucks. When this request was refused, the en- tire gang of 12, together with five other workers walked out. The ac- tion of the workers, who are un- organized, was purely spontaneous. The Marine Workers Industrial Union has issued a leaflet for a mass meeting at Pier 15 in Brook- lyn, where the strike occurred, at 7 a.m, Friday morning. The workers on the Munson Line have frequently complained that their wages have not been met promptly. It is also well known that racketeers in league with the bosses control the hiring of steve- dores. Arrest 6 Pickets in Pharmacist Strike NEW YORK.—Six picketers were arrested yesterday while picketing a drug store at Brighton Beach Ave.4 and Ocean Parkway and held on charges of assault for trial on Aug. 25. A strike was declared at this store by the Pharmacists’ Union when one of its members was fired. The trial of the picketers will take place at the Coney Island Court. Socialist Co-operative Evicts Woman, 2 Children NEW YORK.—After paying $1,400 for shares in the co-operative apart- ment house at 2922 Barnes Ave., whose policies are dominated by the Socialist leader, Jacob Panken, and carried out by his clique, Mrs, Epner was twice evicted Tuesday with her two small children, The moment her few pieces of fur- niture were put out into the street the Bronx Unemployed Council was called in to fight the eviction. Im- mediately a mass meeting of 200 workers was held outside the build- ing and the furniture carried back into the house. : Danziger, Socialist chairman of the building committee, then called the riot squad and the fire department. The police forced their way into Mrs. Epner’s apartment, and dragged her furniture out onto the sidewalk again. ‘The building committee refused to accept rent money put up by the Jewish National Alliance, of which Mrs. Epner is a member. The Alli- ance pointed out that her husband has been in the hospital for the last six months and that it has been ut- terly impossible for her to pay the rent during this period. But after a telephone conversation, pr ly with the office of the attorneys Panken and Levy, they were told! Mrs. Epner would have to stay out. This is the program set down by Panken, who is now out of town. Meyerovitch, a Jewish writer, speaking on the platform of the mass meeting held last night on Barnes Aye, said that “All honest Social- ists should be ashamed of such ace tions on the part of former judge Jacob Panken and Levy.” Both are “counselors” for the building. Mrs. Epher groped for words to express her hatred of these two mis- leaders. (Both these gentlemen are at the head of the Bronx Tenants’ Emergency League with a platform “against all evictions.”) She said, “I hayen’t enough names I can call such | leaders.” \ The direct cause of Mrs. Epner'’s! eviction was her signature attached to a petition protesting against the eviction of a worker who owned $700 worth of shares in the house, Dan- ziger threatened her with a dispossess if she did not remove her name from the list, She refused to do this, Admit Strike Delegates NEW YORK, N. Y.—ollowing 4 spontaneous picketing demonstration in the garment center early yester- | day morning initiated by the stri |led by the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, dressmakers in 35 |important dress shops joined the ranks of the big general dress strike. | Great enthusiasm prevailed among | the strikers on the picket line as they | joined together to picket the garmen | buildings. Strike halls were crowded | to capacity. Two new halls were hired by the Needle Trades Workezs’ * | Industrial Union to accommodate the | throngs of strikers pouring into the | strike meetings. | A delegation of strikers, headed by | Irving Potash, chairman of the gen- eral strike committee, demanded ad- mission to the conference of dress | manufacturers, contractors and job- |bers and the I.L.G.W.U. officiais, | called together by Grover Whalen, head of the N. R. A. administration in New York at the Hotel Pennsyl- vania yesterday. The delegation had been instructed by decision of the general strike committee to demand that the Industrial Union be recog- nized in any conference with the bosses and be given the right to par-, ticipate. The delegation was also in- structed to demand that any settle- ment made must be based on the demands of the strikers and made only with their consent, and that any temporary settlements pending hearings on the code will be em- OUT TO UNION SQUARE} TODAY All out for the big Dress| Strike Demonstration at) Union Square today at 2) phatically rejected by the strikers. The latter proposal has been made by Whalen and is for the purpose of stifling the struggle as early as pos- sible. Other demands raised by the strike committee were for the right of the workers to belong to a union of their own choice and the right to be represénted at all hearings for a settlement. At the Hotel Pennsylvania yester- day noon only two members of the delegation of ten were permitted to go up to the conference rooms, where they were met by Grover Whalen’s secretary, who informed them that since they had made no appointment in advance they would not be ad- mitted to the conference. Irving Potash, secretary of the Union, then declared that the 15,000 dress: 5 he represented will not accept any settlement made by this conference. Thé delegation was then informed through Whalen’s secretary that the Vnion must address a letter request- ing an appointment. Such a letter has already been sent by the Union together with a protest against not being admitted to the hall and # reminder that the strikers will fight against any settlement atrived at without their participation and the consent of the strikers. , The letter also declares that the | workers will not accept the “victory” on paper, but the same sweatshop conditions by which policy the Tt, G. W. officials betrayed the dress- makers in the strike of 1932. The strikers enthusiastically en dorsed the decisions of the general strike committee at strike meeting» yesterday afternoon, which were packed to the doors. The entire strike machinery was organized yesterday afternoon after a second meeting of the general strike committee with the purpose of mobs izing the strikers against any secret conferences without the participation | of the strikers themselves and against any betrayal which may be arrived at by the I. L. G. W. officials jointly Avith the bosses and the N. R. A. administration. Arrangements have been completed for a big picketing demonstration to} be held today at 7:30 . and for a big demonstration at Union Square at 2pm. today. Two new strike halls opened today are located at 583 Sixth Avenue and on the second floor: of the loft of 16th Street and Avenue. [Worker Sends Dollar to Help Make Bigger and Better “Daily” An anonymous worker yester- doy cembined his admiration for. the six-page ‘Daily’ with a bit of practical support. i “Just finished reading. the first six-page ‘Daily’,” he writes. “It certainly is a great improvement, ard I feel it's coming closer to being a real paper for the worker | A house committee, led by the Un- employed Council, is being formed to get Epner back into the house, with the demand of no further evic- tions and for a new election of house management officers. | sent but am enclosing $1 to help in both home and factory. “I haven't much money at pres | towerds making it a bigger and better paper.” f aa