The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 22, 1933, Page 1

Is the Daily Worker on Sale at Your Union Meeting? Your Club Headquarters? all ‘(Section of the Communist International) orker ist Party U.S.A. WEATHER America’s Only Working | Class Daily Newspaper : Eastern New York—Rain Tuesday Vol. X, No. 201 <™ Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1933 (Six Pages) ‘Price 3 Cents , Boston--Chicago-- Buffalo HOY long must we wait for the splendid new enthusiasm for the Daily Worker, which expresses itself in many hundreds of letters from work- ts, (0 penetrate the terrible inner-office routine characteristic of many tict offices of the Communist Party? We will here deal with facts ‘eraining to three such district offices. wee le ’ JOSTON: A comrade just returned from week’s stay here. “The rank and file comrades”, he says, “are greatly stirred by the changes made in the “Daily”, This is the subject of their conversation. They anxi- ously look forward to the paper’s arrival. But the district office remains entirely indifferent. The deadly routine of the office keeps them from seeing any change. No enthusiasm is to be noted. Circulation has so far received no really serious attention.” . - * . (ese: Yesterday we published a letter of a comrade who had just returned from Chicago. She returned “to get a ‘Daily’.” “My biggest shock came”, she says, “when I went to the headquarters of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union and the Party offices .. . No one with ‘Dailies’ at either place.” * * * UFFALO: Today we received a letter from Bill Dunne, who has been covering the strike struggles in and around Buffalo for our paper. “I have been at two strike meetings, three union meetings, one picnic, one big parade and a demonstration here”, he says, “and I have never seen | a copy of the ‘Daily’. 'HAT do these incidents show? Clearly that the Daily Worker is not being brought to the factories, into the trade unions, and into the present strike struggles in accordance with the directions of the Open Letter adopted at the recent extra-ordinary Party conference. It means that the policy of concentration at the factories, with the Daily Worker as a principle weapon, has not yet been seriously undertaken. We expect this situation to be changed, and quickly. We expect the Boston, Chicago and Buffalo districts to lead the way in a drive to bring the “Daily” to the workers, and in the first place to those in the factories. Let us hear what these districts propose to do? Six Years After IX YEARS AGO, on midnight of August 22, 1927, two innocent Italian workers—Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti—were burned to death in the elegtric chair of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and their charred bodies laid out on green marble slabs in the yard of Charleston Prison, Boston. Today in hundreds of cities throughout the world—under the direc- tion of the International Red Aid of which the International Labor De- fense is the U. S. section—workers will commemorate the death of these two workers. During the six years since the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti the trame-up crew of American capitalism has not been idle, and millions of workers have had their illusions about “justice” and “impartiality” dashed on the rocks of a clearer understanding that the frame-up workers is an organic part of the system by which the working class is kept in oppres- sion. Elsewhere on this page we print three letters from Vanzetti—never before published—in which this Italian immigrant worker shows how clearly he understood thet. the-persecution of himself and Sacco were not mere “miscarriages of justice” but were, on the contrary, an expres- sion of the normal functioning of a capitalist society. The workers have learned much from their experience in the fight to save Sacco and Vanzetti from the electric chair. The defense of these two innocent workers having been weakened by an anarchist committee which fought every move to broaden and extend the mass fight for Sacco and Vanzetti, it was not until a year before their execution that millions of workers throughout the world could be rallied in their behalf. : I dislike writing for a vacuum”. frame-up is an integral part of a capitalist “democracy”, and the history of militant labor in the United States reveals vividly the fact that the capitalist “justice” and the frame-up are inter-changeable terms. | The Molly Maguires, the Haymarket, the Moyer-Haywood-Pettibone | trame-up, Joe Hill, Mooney and Billings, Greco and Carillo, the Scotts- bore case—all these monstrous crimes against the working class prove that the frame-up technique is part and parcel of capitalist “justice”. More and more workers are learning this sober fact. And they are learning that workers can never be saved from the clutches of a frame- up by a mere legal defense. In the Scottsboro fight, for example, the In- ternational Labor Defense and the Communist Party has shown that only through the widest possible mobilization of mass protest coupled with the most skilled courtroom defense have the nine innocent Negro boys kept from the same fate as Sacco and Vanzetti. * * . DAY let us commemorate the death of Sacco and Vanzetti and in- crease our fight for the immediate and safe release of the innocent Scottsboro boys. Let us honor the memory of these brave martyrs of the working class by broadening the fight for the release of Tom Mooney, Warren K. Billings and all class-war prisoners. Today—six years after the class murder of Sacco and Vanzetti—let, us pay homage to these heroic fighters against capitalism by a solemn determination to destroy capitalism and its Vicious hand-maiden, the frame-up system! Behind Sweet Words capitalist papers are featuring a signed article by the Japanese T militarist, General Araki, behind whose oily phrases lurks grim and deadly preparation for war. ‘The Japanese genera] is a master of all the stale, familiar phrases of capitalist, imperialist diplomacy. The savage rape of Manchuria was in “self-defense”, says the general. ‘The bombing of Chapei and Shanghai was “provoked by the unceas- ing efforts of China to nullify Japan’s legitimately acquired rights and interests”, says the Japanese imperialist general. “ states, “the world Will be convinced of our disinteres! * * * is familiar talk. American and Japanese wo ‘In the long run”, he tedness”, rkers heard it during the last imperialist world slaughter. And from both the Japaniese and ican admirals they are hearing it again. Behind the polite words and diplomatic phrases of the Japanese general is a warning to American imperialism that Japan {s preparing to defend its power and military program in the Far East against the Amer- ican aggression which steadily advances in China and the Orient. The Roosevelt government is openly the biggest “Big Navy” govern- ment the country has ever seen. Roosevelt’s Secretary of the Navy, Swanson, rushes the building of battleships and destroyers with feverish spéed. And the entire Roosevelt administration, from the open militarists to the “liberals”, give him full support and encouragement. In the “public works” program the Navy 1s first. And the Army is second. At Hawaii, the U. S. naval fleet maneuvers ceaselessly, perfecting the launching of bombing planes. To strike at whom? Japan is not far! ‘The Japanese fleet has just completed a period of intensive war maneuvers in the Pacific under the personal direction of the Japanese 7 . . tT is what goes on behind the ever-louder talk and Japanese militarists about “honor” and “sacred traditions”. among the American The constant shouting of these hypocritical slogans about “honor” means that the stage is being set for the next imperialist world slaughter. Every worker should see what goes on behind the sweet words of the American and Japanese militarists about “honor” and “safety” Dress Strik ‘Buffalo Steel Men Win Raise in Pay ‘by Threat to Strike | Doner Plant Dep’t Is | Organized in Steel, Metal Union BUFFALO, N. Y., Aug. 21—Five- ‘cents an hour increase was won by |determined action in the chipping department of the Donner Plant of | the Republic Steel Co. here. This affects from 500 to 700 men. This raise is supposed to make pos- sible earnings of 5544 cents an hour on tonnage payment, with a guaran- teed minimum of 45 cents on the basis of the day scale. ‘The department committee ‘had demanded 6244 cents an hour, and |gave the company until four o'clock Monday to answer. The settlement |.was speeded up by a walkout of 200 chippers of the day turn on Friday. The department is 85 per cent or- ganized in the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union. This first victory in years was the result of organization, and has made} a great impression in all Donner| plant departments with their 2,800 workers. ; It will doubtless have a big effect jin spreading organization throughout | the district. There will be a big mass meeting |of union members of the Donner plant next Sunday to hear reports of ae cominittee. Admission is by ecard. only. |Blue Eagle Lays Off Entire Shift in the Highland Steel Plant (By a Steel Worker Correspondent) TERRE HAUTE, Ind—The Blue eagle sounded its defiant note of warning to depression today at the mill of the Highland Iron and Steel Co. here, a subsidiary of the Amer- ican Chain and Steel Corporation. Between 80 and 90 steel workers | were informed that one entire shift |had been eliminated with adoption of the steel code and that their jobs were abolished. ‘These workers have been employed on two alternating twelve hour turns |at backbreaking labor and starvation wages. The remaining force was granted a five percent increase with reduced time and a boosted speed-up system.—C. | aisles saw to it that the International | officials’ policy of jamming the strike ers to Stay Out Until Prices Are Fixed Strikers Approve Price Committees to Establish Rates at Needle Union Meetings; Big Delegation Sent to Code Hearings NEW YORK. — While announce- Worker Likes Steel Strip; Four Others Read His One ‘Daily’ “The history strip in the Daily Worker on the Steel Strike of 1919 is being watched with great in- terest,” writes Ed Witt, of Johns- town, Pa., “and my one ‘Daily’ is being read by four workers. These four will start taking the ‘Daily’ when they draw their first pay for three years. This pay will come ments of a strike settlement were | made and a so-called vote was taken | yesterday at the Armory and Webster | Hall, thousands of dress strikers led by the Neeedle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union approved a decision of the general strike committee to re- main in their strike halls elect their | | price committees and refuse to go: back to work unless prices are estab- | lished according to the demands! placed by the price committees. That more thousands of dress | strikers will follow this example is| evident from the announcement that a huge meeting will be held at Cooper Union called by tHe rank and file op- position in the ILGWU at 3 p. m. to- day to prepare to enforce the de- mands for which they struck. | Their strike hall flanked with po- lice, IGWU officials hustled their re- ports through on the strike “settle- ment” yesterday at big meetings at/| the Armory and Webster Hall with-| ou permitting any expression of rank and file opinion. It is known that these large halls were obtained to pre- vent the possibility of questioning by the dress strikers. When the workers rose to demand the floor for a dis- cussion of the terms of settlement, they- were forced to sit down and guerillas posted at intervals in the settlement down the workers’ throats would be carried out. Dubinsky, president of the Inter- national in his address to the workers made the Needle Trades Workers’ In- dustrial Union the chief target of attack and hailed his alliance with Whalen and the bosses. When an- nouncement was made that Grover Whalen clubber of the unemployed was to speeak, strikers rose from their Seats. and started a movement to- wards the doors. The chairman then ordered the police to bar the doors to prevent anyone from leaving the hall. Grover Whalen in his speech to the strikers praised the ILGW officials as good leaders. Coming from this labor hater such a recommendation made little impression on the workers. In- ternational officials declared the agreement would wipe out sweatshops just as they hailed the “scientific scale” in 1932 although the “scientific scale” resulted in wage cuts and sweatshop conditions for the dress- makers, When the vote on the terms of settlement was finally taken one half of the strikers are reported to have refused to rise. Police protected the ILGW officials but dispersed an open air meeting! called by the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union outside the hall. Big Delegation at Code Hearings A big representative delegation of strikers will go to Washington today to attend the hearings on the dress code. In addition to the demands! | veteran next week.” In addition to the Steel Strike) strip, page 4 today is devoted to lively correspondence from the| | steel mills. Don’t miss it! Visa for Tom Mann Put Up to Perkins Anti-War Group Put Off by State Dept. WASHINGTON, | "Aug. 21.—The | decision whether, or not the U. S. government will allow Tom Mann, British working class leader, to attend the United States Congress Against War was put up to Frances Perkins, secretary of labor today. A delegation called today on Under-Secretary of State Philips, to demand a visa, and was told the State Department acts only on the advice of the Department of La- bor in the case of alien Commu- nists. The delegation, repesenting the arrangements committee for the Congress, left to call on ec Perkins. Baltimore Seamen's. 9 | m. Strike on ‘Cornore BALTIMORE, Aug. 21. — The spectacular strike of the entire crew of the S. S: Diamond Cement in Baltimore last Friday has been followed by another strike of the crew of the S. S. Cornore, also of Baltimore. The mén demand a $5 increase in wages, a bucket for ev- ery man, no “work-aways,” and full overtime pay. A delegation from the ship has left for Philadelphia to picket the Diamond Cement and to prevent the shipping of scabs. already formulated by the Union the delegation will center its fight against the re-classification of the cutters and the differences in the out-of- town scales of Wages which will result in a drift of the shops out of the city to out of town shops. The delegation will fight for the right to join a union of their own choice. They will point out that the NRA is supposed to grant that right. This will be the only guarantee against the ILGW officials’ attempt} to drive out the militant union from the dress field and a guarantee for maintaining and winning better con- ditions for the dress strikers. ‘Miners, Steel Men | Support Cleveland | Union Conference’ (Attendance. of 800 t 1,000 Expected on Aug. 26-27 | CLEVELAND, Ohio. — Delegates arriving in Cleveland for fie Trade Union Conference before Saturday should report to 1237 Payne Ave., 2nd floor. All those arriving Sat- urday and Sunday should report at the Brotherhood Engineers Au- ditorium, Ontario St., and St, Claire Ave., where the Conference will be held Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 26th and 27th NEW YORE, Aug. 21—A check of $100, as a contribution towards meet- | ing the expenses of the Trade Union | Conference for United Action which opens in Cleveland, Ohio, this Sat- turday, August 26th, was received to- A send-off mass meeting to the New York delegates to the Cleve- land Conference will be held this Wednesday, Aug. 23rd, 8 p. m., at Irving Plaza, 15th St., and Irving Place. Speakers will include Earl Browder, A. J. Muste, Jack Stachel and F. E. Brown, of Typographical Union No. 6, Ben Gold, James W. Ford. All New York delegates must be on the platform at Irving Plaza on Wednesday night, when announce- ment will be made of final arrange- nenis for the delezates’ departure to Cleveland. The public is invited to the send-off meeting. Miners of America, of East St. Louis, The same union, with a member- ship of 650 coal miners, elected Rus-| | sell Smith and Hy Baumgartner as its delegates to the Conference. H. Hailey, a Negro iron worker, was Workers, of Bridgeport, Conn., a@ ‘Its representative to the Conference. Two delegates to the Cleveland | ing by Local No. 52, Housesmith’s Union, of the International Associa tion of Bridge, Structural and Or- namental Iron Workers of America. This union is in New York City. torious after a strike under the lead- ership of the Shoe and Leather Wor! ers Industrial Union, in Philadelphia, Union Conference in Cleveland, and elected representatives to it. Credentials of delegates and reports of delegates still to be elected sent to the Provisional Committee in New York City point to an attendance of at the Conference. Despite opposition from reaction- | ary labor leaders, indications are that more A. F. of L. and independent | unions will have representatives at | the Cleveland Conference than at any other similar Conference in re- cent history. day by the Arrangements Committee | from Local Union No. 8, Progressive} elected by the Gray Iron Foundayt meeting were elected at its last meet- | More than 600 shoe workers, vic-| Pa., endorsed the call for the Trade} between 800 and 1,000 labor delegates) Bumper Soviet Crop, “Pravda” Reports Soviet Loans Help Farmers to Get Cows al ial: Conditinns of Collec” tive Farmers—More Cars and Tractors for Villages—Farm Enthusiasm High °| Increase Seen in Intec! By N, BUCHWALD. MOSCOW, Aug. 21 (By Cable)—‘Pravda”, the organ of | the Communist Party of the So | reports of a bumper crop in the | of socialist organization on the ||100,000 Children Organize to Help | in Soviet Harvest | MOSCOW, Aug. 21—One hun- | | dred thousand children, Pioneers} | and Young Communists, have or-) ganised themselves into ae cayalry detachments” to guard the crops and glean the fields of North | | Caucasus, Ukraine and the Middle | | Volga regions, as the harvesting | goes on. || The younger children do the | gleaning, the older ones have or-| | ganized themselves to wateh | | | | against depredations by kulaks| | | | amd other grain thieves and) wreckers. | Thousands of them have built themselves huts in the fields, where they will live for the period | of the harvest. They are taken | care of by the government. Johnson Rushing Ceal Slave Code, Similar to Steel /16 Operators Groups to Get Plenty of Leeway on Unions | —— | | WASHINGTON, Aug. 21—Gen- | eral Johnson is meeting with 16} different groups of coal operators in an effort to rush through a code | for the soft coal industry within the next three days. This action follows the adoption of the steel, oil and lumber codes, and it is the view here that the | coal code will be on the order of the steel trust code. Some of the coal operators are in favor of recognizing the UMWA, while others are for the open shop or company unions. The Roose- velt regime will draw a code that | will permit the operators to do as | they please on company unions or | the UMWA, and give them plenty lot leeway to hold wages down. | Taha Long “Active in Fight to Save Workers By CARL REEVE CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 21. —An interview with Prof. "Henry Wads- worth Longfellow Dana who took an active part in the international cam- | paign to prevent the judicial murder | of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Van- zetti brought to light a number of significant letters from Vanzetti. These letters, Dana believes, have never before been published. intimate aspects of the Sacco-Van- zetti frame-up and was a close friend of both workers and their families. A short time after Sacco and Van- zetti were murdered in the electric chair in Charlestown Prison, Dana paid a visit to Vanzetti’s aged pa- rents in Villafalletta, Italy. The first letter was written in Italian by Vanzetti 18 days before he and Sacco were executed. From its contents, it appears to have been BARTOLOMEO VANZEFTI Prof. Dana Reveals Vanzetti’s Intimate Correspondence — written just before Sacco and Van- zetti received a two weeks’ stay of execution and when Vanzetti felt he was entering his last hours. Van- zetti’s family gave a copy to Professor Dana who translated it. The second letter sent to Prof. Dana four months before the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti was written just before Prof. Dana visited Italy to see | Vanzetti’s family at Villafalletta. Again Vanzetti shows his under- The 3 Unpublished Letters from Vanzetti Dana was familiar with all the], (Following are the three significant, hitherto-un- published letters written by Bartolomeo Vanzetti and now made available for the first time thru Prof, H. W. L. Dana, a close friend of Vanzetti) : 8 August 4, 1927. My dear family, I am calm and prepared for all events. I swear my complete innocence of this crime and of any crime. You need never be ashamed of me. A day will come when my life will be known such as it really was and then whosoever bears the name of Vanzetti will be happy and proud of his name. Already all those who know me are fond of me and have respect for me. I have inscribed upon my tombstone twenty years of a life consecrated to justice and to freedom for all. If I must die on account of the greatest injustice of men and circumstances, I shall be able to stand secure that no one of my enemies shall be mourned as I shall be mourned. I shall ‘struggle until the last moment to conquer. Therefore keep up your courage. Yours for the new era, BARTOLOMEO. ine ee April 17, 1927. Dear Comrade Dana, ~ I have been very glad to see you and I wish to thank you for your visit. My family will be happy for your visit, and so much more because you can parlare Ita- liano.,. I repeat it, you will be most welcome by them and if it happen that you would need rest and care, my home is most fitted for it and I most pray you to avail of it just as if it were your home. I and my fam- ily would be sorry if you do not. I don’t have to say what you will have to say to my dear ones, for I know that you know it better than I @o myself, Encourage and salute them for me, but Please don’t display them too much of optimism, for I fear it may be worse for them if we may be executed, as I expect. Tell all the comrades not to be illustoned by any apparent good will of the Massachuetts author- ities, They did so all the time only to stab us at the last minute. Give my regards to all our friends and comrades who you will meet in Europe. To the Italians in Paris, you Please tell to all the friends and comrades in Europe that to them and to the European people we owe these last seven years of our life. Tell them that we carry them all in our hearts. Goodby, with great heart, Yours, BARTOLOMEO V, . May 22, 1927. Dedham Jail, Mass, Dear Comrade Dana. Your good letter of May 4 was received at due time, and it helped. So I am now about to send you an heartful salute and a strong greeting to you. I hope and wish that you will receive this message in good health and morale, that your trip and contact in this old world and its best men will help you and encourage you. And I like to feel positive that you will see the fire under the ashes and the life under, beyond and above death itself—so that the truth plercing sight will invigorate in you the spark of life. Here about the case, it seems to me that Fuller is just behaving after the way of Thayer and of the supreme (court—Ed.) justices—just to do what they have done, what I think Fuller was pre-determined to do long ago, before his trip in Europe and his “Why I Believe in the Death Punishment” published in the “Success” magazine of last December. Please when you will be at home with my family do consider to be at home and what I wish and pray you of. I know that Nick (Sacco—Ed.) is also writing to you. Salute all for me and be well. Yours with great heart, BARTOLOMEO %& | Vanzetti Knew Nature! of Capitalist “Justice” standing of the fate that Massachu- setts bosses “justice” held out to them and his strong feeling of the interna- tional solidarity of the workers. The last letter, written in English, was composed exactly three months before Sacco and Vanzetti were ex- ecuted. It too has never before been published. It is noteworthy that here Vanzetti shows that not for a mo- ment was he taken in by the illusion that the ruling bodies of Massachu- setts would give him justice. Gov. Fuller wrote, as Vanzetti remarks in this letter, an article in favor of the death penalty in the “Success” mag- azine the previous December, and Vanzetti felt that Fuller had the | Sacco-Vanzetti case in mind. The | letter was written while Prof. Dana was touring Europe on their behalf. It was received by him in Paris. viet Union, today confirms the Soviet Union, and the triumph collective farms. Simultaneously, a regulation signed by Premier Molotov for the Council of People’s Commis- sars, and Joseph Stalin for the Cen- tral Committee of the Communist Party, enables a million more mem- bers of collective farms to each ob- | tain a cow for personal use. The government is buying a mil- |lion calves, which will be supplied Jona year’s credit to collective farm- ers who still have no cows of their | own. These cows are supplied irrespec- tive of the fact that most collective farms already have collective dairies attached to them, since much of the | products of these dairies are sold to | the cities. Collective Farms Grow in Strength “What is the picture today in our collective farms?” writes Pravda. “They grow and strengthen year by year, month by month. Millions of collective farmers are already mus- tered for the new form, and by new collective methods of socialist pro- duction, they have learned to dis- tinguish the enemies of collective farms and struggle against them, cleaning the ranks of hostile ele- ments, improving discipline, under- taking to introduce order into the collective farms, more strictly | watching the quality of work, and in one or two years, the results were evident. “This year the collective farms obtained a big harvest. Grain de- liveries to the state are going well. The income of the collective farm- ers has been considerably increased. Socialist industry is preparing more and more goods. “The number of tractors, com- bines, automobiles and agricultural machines in the villages is increas- ing every day. It follows from this that next year the collective farms can obtain still higher harvests than this year. “Still clearer burns the flame of labor enthusiasm, competition and shock work. The collective farms will undertake still more energetic. ally to obtain big harvests and the |increase in socialist stock is rising | The banner of struggle for the Bol- shevik_ collective farms and for the well-to-do collective farm life wi! wave still higher.” 2,000 Striking in Bathrobe Shops NEW YORK.—In spite of the at. tempt of Professor Howard an¢ the NRA Administration to prevent it the representatives of 2,000 strik: ing bathrobe workers under the leadership of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union were able to present the code of the Bath. robe Workers Union at the NRA hearing in Washington on Aug. 17, according to a report given by the committee, consisting of Oswaldo, Nontel and Stallman, at an enthus- iastic meeting of 500 bathrobe workers which was held on Friday night in the auditorium of the union. A resolution was adopted at this meeting and forwarded to Profes- sor Howard demanding represente- tion for the Bathrobe Workers Un- ion on the NRA commission for the bathrobe industry. 45-50 Per Cent Rise in Clothing Costs Due in the Spring CHICAGO, Aug. 21—Retail prices of clothes will be 45-50 per cent higher in the Spring than at pres- ent, seonp ¥ cee. merchants announs lay, according to the Wall Street Journal. These sharp advances in price are made necesasry, the merchants said, by the increase caused in the com- modity markets by the Roosevelt price-raising program. Lost in Woods for Week, Labor Camp Boy Found Delirious LEWISTON, “Taaho, Aug. 21.—A New York forced labor camp boy, Leopold Thomas, was found today delirious from exposure and hunger after being lost in the woods here inane SS # ,