The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 25, 1933, Page 1

% + Read Michael Gold’s First Poem | in Several Years, ‘Living Party’ in Tomorrow's 8-Page ‘Daily’ Daih ‘(Section of the Communist International) orker Party U.S.A. r | America’s Only Working | | Class Daily Newspaper | | WEATHER Eastern New York—Fair and warmer Friday. Vol. X. No. 204 =” Mntered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1933 (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents Why Whalen Sees Red 'X-POLICE COMMISSIONER WHALEN responds very quickly te the * appeal of the shoe bosses, who don’t want to be forced to pay higher uiges, by a tirade against Communist strike leaders. | Who is this Whalen and why does he become so enraged at strikes i by Communists or militant trade unions? Whalen was the chief striké- eaker for the New York bosses in the government of grafting Mayor Walker. His cops murdered Steve Katovis, in 1930, on the picket lines, and were cited by him for it. He personally led the clubbing of the unem- ployed on March 6, 1930, under Hoover’s regime. Whalen, under the NRA, with the help of Mathew Woll, and other A. F. of L. strikebreakers, set up a mediation board to prevent strikes. The Socialis; Norman Thomas lent Whalen a hand by declaring: “Now is not the time to strike.” But a sweeping strike wave is on in New York, and only the Communists give militant strike leadership, fighting in the front Yanks for higher wages and against the slavery codes of the NRA. Whalen knows from first hand experience that strikes for higher wages, for improved conditions, for union recognition could be smashed More easily if the Communist vanguard could be destroyed. * * * THE most powerful stumbling block to the bosses’ program under the NRA is the Communist Party and the trade unions affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League. Whalen has just begun. No trickery, no crime will be too low for him to stoop in his drive on the Communists. He never stopped at murder, | forgery, frame-ups before. Under the NRA, with the working class being aroused to strike struggles, Whalen knows there is even more at stake for the bosses, and he will snap out like a mad dog. The answer to Whalen should be more determined strike leadership, ¢loser ranks of all workers, increased activity of all Communists to expose ‘Whalen’s NRA tactics. A new wave of more militant strike struggles to win improved condi- tions ‘and to defeat the NRA should be the answer of every worker who fan see through the ex-cossack’s ballyhoo. are How Poison Is Brewed LATANTLY on its front page yesterday the New York Times reveals th’ methods by which the capitalist press forges lies about the Soviet Union. Its dispatch from Walter Duranty, in Moscow, begins with these words: “The excellent harvest about to be gathered shows that any re- port of a famine in Russia is today an exaggeration or malignant prop- aganda.” But how does the Times head this article? It heads it: “FAMINE TOLL HEAVY IN SOUTHERN RUSSIA”! . * . UT Duranty himself is not unwilling to “protect” his bosses, who have bern printing long stories of Soviet famine, inspired by the German Fascists and the Vienna “prince” of the Catholic church. Admitting that it is “pure guesswork,” and “lacking official figures,” he nevertheless goes on to “suppose” that the death rate in the Ukraine, North Caucasus and Lower Volga was “at least trebled last year.” On what does he base this sweeping, poisonous guesswork? On one plant, supporting a population of 12,000 where, he says, the death rate rose to nearly four times the normal last winter. That is all. And even here, he goes on to explain® that these supposed deaths were not due to starvation, but to “lowered resistance and general disease.” “Lowered resistance” among workers who, he says, were tegularly re- ceiving not less than one and three-quarter pounds of bread a day, in addition to all other food. Is that starvation? * wes Duranty has facts, he cannot play his subtly poisonous game, and in the same article he writes on the basis of real figures that: “Even if the new crop is not fully reaped there will be more-than suf- ficient to cover the nation’s food supply for the coming year, and to justify the Kremlin’s policy of collectivization.” The Daily Werker’s own cable reports, another of which is pub- lished today, show that not only are the collective farmers reaping a rich profit now, after all the needs of the cities have been supplied, but that their needs were cared for throughout the year, which is further demon- airated by the fact that they have no debts. A Historic Task must never forget that in the fight to establish the political rule of the working class in the Soviet Union, the Bolshevik Party led by Lenin wsed revolutionary newspapers as one of its most effective weapons. Nothing could better state the nature of our task in spreading the “Daily” among the masses than these following words of Lenin, written fn 1912 on the founding of the “Pravda”: “The Petrograd (now Leningrad) workers in establishing a Daily Paper, have carried out, without exaggeration, a great historical task. . . T¢ is well known how working class Papers are persecuted. In face of this . .. the establishment of the ‘Pravda’ is a clear expression of the consegqusness, energy and solidarity of the Russian working class.” @omrades and readers of the “Daily”! These words of our great leader should rouse us to give all our revolutionary energy in building the “Daily.” Homes in Heaven Fr the last four years of crisis, the banks have ripped away hundreds of thousands of “little homes” from many better-paid workers and small business men. Incidentally, they mopped up their life savings. | In this situation you would think that every honest person who | hated this legalized capitalist robbery, and particularly those who claimed \to be “Soclalists” would send their hate against the capitalist robbers, would organize these defrauded home owners into mighty protests against he banker vultures. But the only Socialist daily newspaper in this country, the Milwaukee Leader, in a city where a Socialist administration has ruled for the last seventeen years, does not condeive of its duty in this way. In one of its Jatest editorials it tries to drug the bitter hatred of the plundererd home owners with one of the most disgusting exhibitions of pious optimism and resignation ever flung into the faces of exploited workers by even ae bh 5] a pt. priesthood. 4 “On account of joblessness there have been hundreds of foreclos- ures of small homes in Milwaukee,” declares the Milwaukee Leader. . Ts question immediately arises in one’s mind, what did the “Socialist” Milwaukee administration do to protect these workers from losing their _|homes? Why did not the Socialist administration declare a moratorium on all foreclosures? Why did not Milwaukee prohibit any bank from taking ‘workers homes away? Why does Milwaukee protect the bankers in exactly ithe same way as the most corrupt capitalist city governments? And the Milwaukee Leader gives us the answer. “Socialists want a just system where all will be enabled to own beautiful homes.” Not here land now, but in the distant future—no immediate struggle and defense of lworkers homes against the bankers! ‘This is the practical result of the melancholy sighing of the Milwaukee vader. In this living example we can judge the value of that fraudulent claim hat the “Socialists” are indifferent to the-proletarian revolution, only use they are so busy defending the immediate “practical” needs of the ‘kers. But it is the Communists alone in Milwaukee, who, just because they » fieve in and prepare for the proletarian have organized and + § the fight of the workers against foreclosures by the mortgage sharks the banks. Beautiful homes for workers—but only in the mythical Socialist aven of the Milwaukee leader’s dreams. In this world let the bankers rob Ine workers, says the Milwaukee “Socialist” government. That is why jorkers are losing their homes in Milwaukee ‘ Thousands Are Homeless, 40 Die, in Violent Storm Desolating East Coast Damage in Millions, River Sections of Many Cities Flood Out Poor Families NEW YORK.—Thousands of workers today found themselves hungry and homeless as an aftermath of the violent storm whirl for two days lashed the Eastern seabord from the Carolinas to Cape Cod leaving in its © wake 40 dead and countless wounded. 4D ead, 13 Injured | rates Spee te es of dollars was done. | ‘ Scenes of desolation marked the In Train Wreck near Washington Bridge. Cars Thrown* Into) Swollen Anacostia River WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 24.— Four persons met their death and at least 13 others were injured today when the Crescent Limited, a South- ern Railroad train, carrying about 40 passengers, went through a bridge over a branch of the Anacostia river, | just outside of Washington at 3:45 a.m. Two of those killed were the en-| gineeer and fireman. The wreckage was believed to have | been caused by weakened piles in the bridge which were strained by the terrific storm of the past two days. Officials reported that one of the piers of the bridge was out of line. The structure as.a whole did not collapse. A harbor rescue boat and a re- scue ship from the navy yard were hastily dispatched to the scene as well as a rescue train from Union Station here. When the train hit the weakened bridge, the engine hurtled off into the river, burving the cab in the mud. A mail car and the following coach were hurled over the gap onto the farther bank, a deadhead coach was completely submerged in the stream and five other cars were practically submerged. The last car remained standing on the’ track. All the cars were badly damaged. indicating the force with which the flyer hit the bridge. Passengers at- tributed the small loss of life to the steel construction of the cars and to the fact that the couplings held preventing more cars from falling in the river. The derailment happened along a stretch of double track where water flows along koth sides of the road- bed. Ordinarily there is only a few feet of. water in ‘this branch of the Anacostia but last night the river was flowing’ rapidly and at an unusul depth. The uninjured, guided by track which hung suspended from the bridge, helped to care for the in- jured. Dr. Martin J. Keane who took charge of the rescue work, reported that he kicked in a window of the | mail coach to rescue the clerks and |found them still sorting mail al- though badly shaken by the wreck. A wrecking train dispatched to |the scene was afraid to raise the cars lest more of the track slide into the water. Welles to Return to U. S. Sept. 15 _ WASHINGTON, Aus. 24—Hay- ing finished his main job of leading the counter-revolution against the Cuban workers and organizing the new government to protect Wall Street’s interests, Sumner Welles will leave his job as ambassador to Cuba on Sept. 15. take charge of the Latin-American Department of the State Depart- ment. He will control from there the negotiations of the U. S. govern- ment for commercial and fitancial domination of Cuba. He will be succeeded in Cuba by Jefferson Caffery, who has been filling his post as Assistant Sec- retary of State. Caffery is also ex- perienced in inning South Amer- ican governments, having served as He will return to Washington to path of the furious storm. In Wasnh- ington and New York, the river dis- tricts where the poor are congregated to a large extent, were inundated, and this was true of many other cities in the East. Shipping along the coast and at sea was crippled, several liners being reported in distress. At Ocean City, Md., an island resort, 4,000 inhabit- ants were marooned, the light, gas and telephone service wrecked by the raging wind and rain. Cities were strewn with wreckage as overflowing rivers and bursting dikes inundated towns and cities. The liners Madison and City of Norfolk were found safe after being more than twenty-four hours over- due. The length of the Atlantic Coast, was searched frantically for numerous small craft, while the Coast Guard, which was deluged with requests for help, instituted a vir- tual blockade against the smaller craft attempting to venture into the storm. In Philadelphia a bursting dike flooded wide areas, driving over 4,000 from their homes. Airports and shipping centers can- celled their scheduled trips. With telegraphic and telephonic lines destroyed in many communities, and deaths mounting hourly, it is im- possible to determine the exact. num- ber of dead and injured and the ex- tent of damage. _. Unemployed workers, who had been Sleeping in city parks, were especially hard hit by the storm as they were compelled to seek refuge in cellars and hallways and subways. In the suburban rural sections, such as the mining town areas, work- ers found themselves without shelter when the rains and mounting water flooded the flimsy shacks built by the exploiter-bosses. 300 On St. Louis Barge Levees Out for Higher Wages ST. LOUIS, Mo., Aug. 24.—Three hundred levee workers at the Federal Barge Line in East St. Louis walked out on strike this morning. ‘They demand a 50 per cent increase in wages, unemployment insurance for all workers laid off, and the re- cognition of the Marine Workers In- dustrial Union. The strike is beginning to spread to St. Louis and along the whole water front. More are expected out later today and tomorrow morning. ‘The employers are trying to break the strike by shipping barges to the other side of the river, and forcing other river men to scab. The work- ers are refusing to handle the barges. The bosses may try to haul the goods by rail in order to break the strike. An appeal is being made for support to the railroad men. Rail- road workers are already refusing to haul from East St. Louis barge levees. One hundred and fifty of the strik- ers joined the union. Kills Self In Fear of Klan In Carolina PINEWOOD, N, C.—Driven mad with fear of the Ku Klux Klan, Leffey Garfield, 19-year-old Negro boy, went out on the porch of his home here and shot himself through the head. A few days before his suicide, the boy had gone to Magistrate George Aycock and begged him for protec- tion from the Klan, which has be- come increasingly active in the South in the last few months. Gar- field said at that time that he Americah diplomat in various South American countries. Women Brutal NEW YORK—The brutal treat- ment by the Brownsville Home Re- Nef Bureau at Christopher and Bel- mont Streets, of workers suspected of having the slightest source of income was revealed yesterday to the Daily Worker. A woman presents a dispossess to the desk and asks her investigator why her food check is cut off. The investigator replies that her case is closed because her husband is sus- pected of peddling and thus bring- ing in an income to the family. ‘The worried women shouts the suspicion is a le, that her husband has not been earning any money for some time, that her family is hun- gry and sick, that she will be evicted in three days. She demands relief; refus' s to leave the office; runs in to confront the head supervisor. The Bureau thugs grab hold of her and despite her screaming protests push \ would rather kill himself than let the Klan get him. ly Treated at Brownsville Relief Bureau her outside to the street. A Negro woman is dragged scream- ing across the entire length of the Bureau when she protests cancella- tion of her food voucher for her large family. Her case is closed because she is suspected of earning 75 cents @ week doing day cleaning. After waiting from early morning for the Relief Bureau doors to open, @ woman is refused admission by the cop outside. She is loudly demanding her starving family be given the omit- ted food ticket. When the cop shoves her away she yells at him, that her husband is dangerously ill in the Kings County hospital. The cop checks up on the story. After hours of waiting the woman is presented to the bureau officials. The cop tells them her husband is not expected to live more than three days. They answer no special con- sideration can be given to this woman, | Socialist Leader Answers Questions | With Musicals NEW YORK. —Dr. Rantisek Soukup, one of the Czecho- slovakian leaders of the Second | Internationale, was asked 20 | many questions he could not answer, at - meeting Tuesday | might in Sokol Hall, that he was Housed te tell is “otchectra, to \strike up a tune. Roosevelt ‘Desires’ No Further Disputes Among RR Workers’ Railroad President Says This Means Free Hand for Roads KANSAS, Mo., Aug. 24.—President Roosevelt expressed the “hope” that there be no further disputes on ques- tions of wages and working condi- tions in the railroad industry, in a letter to the president of the Kansas City Southern Railway made public today. In part, Roosevelt said, “I deem it desirable that in this critical pe- riod no active warfare between in- dustry and labor should arise.” This is taken as meaning that Roosevelt: is opposed to strike action of the railroad workers against any of their grievances. Charles E. Johnson, president of the railroad, said today that he interpreted this as meaning that the roads have a free hand in settling wage and other questions. The Kansas City Southern has been cutting the wages of its men and reducing the number of work- ers ever since the drastic drop in car-loadings began in 1929. * City Given Full Power to Impose New Sales Taxes Plan Js to Pass New Levies After Coming Municipal Elections ALBANY, Aug. 24—The Tammany city government was given free rein to increase any taxes within the city by the action of the legislature last night. This means that the city govern- ment has full power to increase the present State Sales Tax by another 1 per cent, as it recently proposed As a blind, the tax bill also permits the city to tax Stock Exchange transactions. But the bill is so worded that this section is prac- tically worthless, since it will be a very easy matter to evade this tax by sending in orders through out-of- town offices—even if the Stock Er- change tax is ever imposed, which is not considered likely. The Legislature also raised the fees in the Municipal Courts, the so- called “poor man’s” courts. Bills to examine the profits of the big electric companies were defeated. It seems that Tammany will post- pone increasing taxes until after the elections in November, when it will proceed to raise the $35,000,000 in new revenue promised to the Wall Street bankers who own the city loans. This is proved by the fact that the proposal to force the city to show its tax plans within six weeks was de- feated. ‘Secret” Testimony On Rackets Seized by Tammany Office NEW YORK, Aug. 24.—Despite the fact that he was barred from the testimony given at the Grand Jury regarding laxity in his office in prose- cuting racketeers in this city, Dis- trict Attorney Crain today got pos- session of a copy of the testimony, it was revealed. The official stenographer of the Grand Jury turned the testimony, over “voluntarily,” the Tammany officials of Crain’s office said. Office Worker Shocks Retail Store Bosses Demanding Pay of $40 WASHINGTON, D. C. Aug. 24. —A demand for a $40 minimum wage for salesclerks in department stores, was made today by Ann Powell of the department store sec- tion of the Office Workers’ Union at the hearing on the retail code now going on in Washington. Ann Powell cited definite cases where employes were fined for union activity. Shé gave examples of how S. Klein intimidated the girls who worked in his store. She cited her own case- She had worked for five years at Macy’s and when the firm found she had engaged in union activity she was fired for Big Profits from Crop OPEN SHOP for Collective Farmers DRIVE AIDED Debt-Free Farmers of Ukraine Get Large! Excess of Cash and Grain, Plan New Clubs, | Schools, Nurseries, Gardens | By NATHANIEL BUCHWALD KHARKOV, U.S.S.R., Aug. 24 (by cable).—The collective farms in the | Ukraine have this year given an example of, high organization and labor | discipline in the struggle for high crop yields. The leading collective farms have already completed the harvest and fulfilled their obligations to the State in stocked seeds, etc. They have begun distributing revenues among the members. The show the powerful development and®— sonsolidation of collective’ farming— results | BY JOHNSON Juggle Phrase About “Open Shop” and “Closed Shop” WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.—For the benefit of the big scab corporations in the steel, oil, coal, lumber and | auto industries, General Johnson and “inefficienqy.” Department store owners were shocked by the wage demands after their own proposals of $10, $12 and $14 for retail store clerks. wu. high revenues, improvement in the material conditions of the collective farmers. Here are some examples in a number of collective farms: Collective Farm Profits Dniepropetrovsk Region—Collective farmers get 9:5 kilos (about 19 lbs.) of grain per labor day. The aver- age family of an honest collective farm worker gets 300 to 350 poods of grain besides other farming pro- duce and cash from collective farm revenues (a pood weighs 35.11 pounds). All that grain is for the collective farmers’ personal use, arid for sale on the collective farm market. Grain delivery to the State, payment for agricultural machinery, tractor stations service, payment of loans re- ceived and cost of stocking seeds, and forage for the whole year have al- ready been deducted. In some of the collective farms of the Dnieprope- trovsk region, the results of the farm- ing year greatly exceed the estimated average. In “Chérvonny Gay” collective farm the wide use of the best farming methods, deep ploughing and careful weeding gave a crop yield of 15.6 centners a hectare instead of 113 provided for in the plan (a centner is 220.46 pounds, a hectare is 2.47 acres). While in 1932, Chervonny Gay paid 1.4 kilos per labor day, in 1933 it pays 16.5, meaning over one pood per labor day! Cash Revenue High The cash revenue of that collective farm has also greatly risen: Each family getting 2,574 roubles, about double that of 1932 The cash revenue per labor day is 4 roubles, besides Joseph Stalin Nazis Make Plans for Lynching Plot Against Torgler To Bring Communists to Reichstag for Mob - to Seize BERLIN, Aug. 24.—Preparations to carry out a lynch plot against the four Communist defendants in_ the Reict- ag fire trial, which the Daily Worker revealed some weeks ago, grain and other farming produce ang} Were officially announced by the the iricome of the collective farmers from their own livestock and vege~ table gardens. There are collective farms like those of Dneipropetrovsk in not a few other regions of Soviet Ukrania, Odessa Villages Celebrate The Odessa region informs us that the villages acquire a festive ap- pearance on the days of the distribu- tion of revenues on the collective farms. The collective farmers reckon the results of their work at solemn meetings and outline plans for fur- ther development and consolidation of the collective farms, allotting part of the revenues of the indivisible general collective farm fund for fur- ther economic, cultural and construc- tion development’ of the collective farm, etc. Farmers Build Clubs and Schools The members of the Budenny Col- lective Farm in the Kherson District are using this fund to purchase 10 horses and 15 pedigreed sows, is build- ing an improved stable holding 60 horses, is opening the best kinder- garten and day nursery in the. dis- trict. Fifty hectares of vegetable gar- den will be planted in the spring, construction of a barn which will hold, 15,000 poods of grain is being completed. New sehools and clubs are being constructed on. many collective farms. Particular care is being given to the development of the collective farms. ‘These are the.results of honest col- lective farm labor which are the best answer to all the odious lies and slander which a certain section of the bourgeois press, following the ex- ample of the German Fascists, are spreading about the Soviet collective farming districts, particularly in the Ukraine. (Guard Is Discharged As Angry Prisoners Threaten to Strike McALESTER, Okla. Aug. 24.—A threat of the Oklahoma State Peni- tentiary prisoners to strike forced Warden Sam Brown to capitulate to their demand that R. J. Ritchie, guard, be discharged for the brutal murder of a fellow-prisoner, Rufus, Ridling. Warden Brown sought to pacify the prisoners by ordering a band concert and athletic gamés. Ridling. Warden Brown contended, was killed “accidentally” when the guard attempted to eniorce a com- mand. Reichs Attorney General yesterday. Before the Leipsig. trial opens late in September, @ special hearing will be held in the Reichstag, at the scene of the fire. This is to be the signal for a “pop- ular demonstration” of Storm Troop- ers,, who are to “overcome” the guards and lynch the prisoners ‘on the spot. Bringing the prisoners to the scene of the fire is the Nazi’s scheme to place the responsibility for the mur- der of the Communists against whom they have no evidence on the “popu- lar anger” at the burning of the Reichstag—which has been proved in many ways to have been the work of the Nazis, under the personal direc- tion of Herman Goering, now pre- mier of Prussia. Further facts about the prepara- tions for the trial will be found on page 6, Drouth Ruins Crops in Texas; 1 1-4 Million on Relief Lists in State AUSTIN, Texas-—Drouth and winds have killed all crop prospects in the Panhandle section of the sued by the Texas Rehabilitation and Relief Commission. All along the Ro Grande and the south. and northeastern counties of the state great distress is reported. More than a million and a quar- ter unemployed Texan workers have been forced by the crisis to accept relief. O'Duffy Defies Ban on Fascists of Ireland DUBLIN, Aug. 24.—Owen O'Duffy, leader of the Irish Fascist “National Guard,” which was made illegal by President de Valera Tuesday, defied the ban yesterday by addressing 3 rally of his followers in Cootehill Town Hall. Despite the government ban, which is supposed to bring all uniformed Fascists before a military tribunal the headquarters of the National Guard were open as uusal today, with uniformed Blue Shirts going about their business. To keep up a six-page “Daily Work- er,” the circulation must be doubled. Do your share by getting new sub- seribers. Who Broke G eneral’s Nose? Soldiers Puzzled at Camp Dix SEA GIRT, Aug. 24—Brigadier General Cornelius Vanderbilt, who went through the World War with- out receiving a scratch, today re- ported the first injury of his long and brilliant military career. The Brigadier General busted nose. An official statement claims that during the severe storm of yester- day, the terrific gale that swept across Camp Dix, where the 192nd has a Cavalry and 119th Medical Regiment, as well as 2,000 troops are in train- ing, slammed a screen door right into the Brigadier General's) nose. But the soldiers, engaged in heavy rehabilitation work after the storm's damage to the camp, are wondering whether Vanderbilt's broken nose was really an “act of God.” The question uppermost minds of the soldiers is: “Who actually busted him in the echnozzle?! > in the state, according to a statement is-| | NRA Counsel Donald Richberg yes- terday issued a joint statement “in- terpreting” Section 7 (a) of the NRA, dealing with unions, They advise the bosses that they can organize company unions. “The law does not prohibit the existence of a local labor organization which may be called company union i is composed only of the emplo: one company,” says the most ficant section of the statement. All of the employers in the basic industries, in reproducing section 7 (a) of the NRA in their codes, fought for some qualification permitting the open shop and company unions. Af- ter secret agreements with Green and General Johnson, these provisions were withdrawn. Now the interpretation of the labor sections of the NRA, together with the setting up of a national arbitra- tion board to break strikes, the labor sections are being whipped more into instruments to smash down struggles and organization of the workers. “The words ‘open shop’ and ‘closed shop’ are not used in the law,” says the joint statement, “and cannot be written into the law. These words have no agreed meaning and will be wiped from the dictionary of the NRA.” ‘This coupled with the free hand to organize company unions, gives the bosses a powerful weapon not only to fight against the recognition of union or closed shops, but to smash organization in those shops in which the workers have already won union recognition. In case of any dispute about who is to represent the workers, the state- ment says, “the NRA will offer its services to conduct an impartial in- vestigation and, if necessary, a secret hallot to settle the question.” The reason given for the issuing of the interpretation is the circulation of leaflets by the A. F. of L. telling the workers that the NRA requires trade union organization, and appeal- ing to the workers to join A. F. of L. unions. Many of the workers going beyond the wishes of the A. F. of L. leaders were organizing and striking to force recognition of their unions. Stall 3,000 Navy Yard Men Wanting to Protest Pay Cut NEW YORK.—Every effort is be- ing made to prevent 3,000 Brooklyn Navy Yard workers from meeting and protesting against a 17 per cent wage cut, action of the yards officials showed yesterday. The pay cut was ordered by Secretary of the Navy Swanson and approved by President Roosevelt After repeatedly promising the workers that a mass meeting would be held in the Navy Yards, Thomas Mahony, representative of the A. F. of L. Metal Trades in the Navy Yards, deliberately helped the navy yards officers prevent the meeting. An announcement was published in the capitalist press throughout New York Wednesday, that 3,000 Brooklyn Navy Yards men would be permitted ing. No meeting was held. This is the second time this trick was pulled, and it was engineered by Mahony, with the help of John P. Frey. s6@- retary treasurer of the Metal Trades Division of the A. F. of L. Frey rushed down from Washing- ton to head the meeting off. The strategy of the A. F. of L. officials, working with navy officers and the commandant of the yard, is to keep dragging on the date of the meeting, in the hope of wearing the men out. In this way they hope to prevent any action against the wage slash. The movement for a protest. meet- ing and a parade against the pay slash began about two weeks ago, as soon as the wage cut was announced: Under orders from the Roosevelt gov- ernment, the hours were cut to 40 and 8 hours pay was slashed off. ‘The workers in the yard put for- ward the demand for a protest meet- ing. Money was collected among the navy yard workers for the meeting. Mahony promised he would -call it. The meeting was not called, thought meny promises were made. £4,000000 Works Project to Aid Only 500 Houston Jobless HOUSTON, Texas.—Only 500 un- employed men would receive be- nefit from a $4,000,000 Houston construction project, said H. Win-. kler, president of the Houston Labor and Trades Council in filing , a protest with the Mayor. There. a 50,000 workers on the relief list, Te - to meet Thursday night in the yards, The men were net notified of a meet- cer esvee- emigre seine we a om n ® cane eee | A | 9