The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 30, 1933, Page 1

Give a Fellow-Worker Your Copy of the ‘Daily’ When You Are Thru With it. Discuss the News With Him! _ Vol. X, No. 208 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, M. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879, Dail (Section of the Communist International ) America’s Only Working | Class Daily Newspaper WEATHER Eastern New York: Wednesday Fair. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30 1933 (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents A Friend Advises Whalen eas THOMAS who advised the workers not to strike against the Blue Eagle, now tells ex-police chief Grover Whalen how to handle the case against the strike pickets. The socialist leader’s advice to the clubber of unemployed takes the form of a friendly letter. Whalen had sent an appeal to the political parties he recognized as supporting the fundamental princtples of the NRA, and, of course, the Socialist Party was included. Norman Thomas, to begin with, praises Whalen’s alliance with Du- binsky in “settling” the dressmakers’ strike. That satisfied Mr. Thomas. Next he tells the ex-police thug that his letter, a copy of which was received by Mr. McCooey of Tammany Hall, and by the Republican head- quarters, would be “considered” by the socialist executive. United fronts with NRA heads, with forgers, with strike-breakers, with those who con- sider that the NRA outlaws picketing and striking, become a point on the agenda of the socialist executive. Thomas gives Whalen a piece of brotherly advice on how not to i WORKERS’ PROTESTS FORCE WHALEN RETREAT; THREAT TO BREAK STRIKES REMAINS Shoe Strike Pickets Arrested ee? City Goes to Wall Street for Another $34,000,000 Loan Rockefeller Banks Get $35,000,000 from City This Friday NEW YORK, Aug. 29.—With the tribute to the bankers growing an ever greater part of the Citys finan- cial load, the City government today approached @ group of Wall Street bankers for another loan of $34,-} 000,000. Negro Farmer in | Burgaw, N. (. | Negro Wounds Sheriff’ In Defending Self Against Arrest | BURGAW, N. C—A Negro farmer | identified as “Doc” Rogers was lynched at Willard, ten miles north | of here, Sunday by a posse of lant lords and deputy sheriffs. His body was dumped from a truck by an or-| ganized gang as it was being brought } Landlords Livich | Attacks on Strike Woman Picket Dangerously Beaten; Jailed Miners Held on $2,000 Bonds Each; Make Appeal for Funds Immediately for Defense BULLETI SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 29.—Paul Crouch and wife were arrested today when 300 deputies, armed with’ rifles, tear gas and machine guns smashed the picket lines of min- ers on strike in the Spring Canyon district. Sixty pickets 3 WAIL 400 STRIKING MINERS IN UTAH TERROR REIGN | GovernorUpholds \ \ The latest reports are that the |i and riddled with bullets. | banks have refused to consider the| s was charged with firing aj loan unless even further reductions | tifle and wounding Mrs. Tom Piner, | are made in relief payments and an-| 60, in the shoulder, while he was in} expose the real purposes of the NRA. “There is no better way conceivable for proving the extreme Com- are held incommunicado on a rioting charge and Charles Guynn, union organizer is being hunted by police. All munist case against the NRA,” Thomas preaches to Whalen, “than to act as if the NRA was already (our emphasis) an agency of Mussolini’s or Hitler’s state, where labor unions have been reduced to absolute sub- jection to the government.” ‘The word “already” in the above statement is the crux of the soci- alist’s advice. Wait, Mr. Whalen, learn from us, the socialists. Use demagogy, lies, promises. Your deeds are all right, but they try to speed up history like a movie reel. The time is not already here. It will come. Heve patience Mr. Whalen. Didn’t our brothers in Germany Herr Wels and Leipart, prepare the road for Hitler? ITHOUT going into a detailed discussion, what does Mr. Thomas mean by the “extreme Communist case against the NRA?” He means that the Communists are the only ones exposing the NRA as a slave instru- ment to drive down the workers’ standard of living and to smash their unions. Proof of this piles up daily, and Thomas pleads with the ex- police chief not to throw more fuel on the fire, but to wait, until there is no other recourse. Then Thomas, with a Christ-like gesture, in the spirit of “aren't we all brothers after all”, says to Whalen, the experienced smasher of picket lines, the general of the enemies front ranks in every strike: “You know that over a considerable period of time it is what the workers can get for themselves, and not what they have handed to them, that counts. There are enough dangérs of fascism in America (without emulating Mussolini or Hitler at this point.” (Our emphasis.) And how well, Whalen knows it. That’s why he arrests strike pickets. But remarkable indeed is Thomas's studied and repeated insistence that such measures are inopportune’ “at this point”, or “already”. Thomas appeals to Whalen, that is, to the representative of the ex- ploiters. But does he appeal to the workers to fight the arrests? Does he call for mass picketing, increased strike struggles to smash the bosses open offensive, smacking of fascism, as he admits? Of course, not. It was the tremendous and immediate nation-wide response on the part of the workers that made Mr. Whalen take a step backward, Hunger and Air Bombers 'HE lean-faced Secretary of the Navy, Swanson, has just put in another application for $30,000,000 for the express purpose of building a new fleet of air bombers, flying boats and aircraft cruisers. Roosevelt is weighing the request. This is not the fir'st time Roosevelt has had to weigh similar requests from his friend Swanson. Roosevelt and his “public works” Administrator, Ickes, have already granted the enormous subsidy of $284,000,000 to the Navy from the so- called public works fund. Ickes has just repeated one of his periodic calls for more speed in public works. But, thus far, he himself has permitted only half of the $3,000,000,000 set aside for public works to be spent. And the lion's share has gone to the Army and Navy for the building of the latest machines of war destruction. These developments are a far cry from the six billion dollar public works building program promised by Roosevelt before his election. The workers of this country demand that these enormous loans to the militarist Naval machine be cancelled. They demand a real, imme- diate program of public works—the building of free hospitals, the clear- ing of slums, the construction of schools and modern dwellings for the workers and their families. “No money . . . budget crisis . . . etc.,” shouts Roosevelt as he slashes relief payments, government salaries, and veterans’ compensation. Well, here are hundreds of millions going to the Army and Navy . ‘The workers of America want these millions for immediate relief and Unemployment Insurance. They demand it for the simple reason that it belongs to them. , Another Wall Street Visit Coe delegation of capitalist Tammany politicians visited the Rockefeller-Morgan banks down at Wall Street yesterday. ‘They want to borrow $30,000,000 so that they can meet expenses after they pay the bankers $35,000,000 in interest payments on Friday. They want to borrow from the bankers to pay the bankers. On December 11, the city will have to cough up another $200,000,000 to meet short-term loans—to the Rockefeller-Morgan banks. A letter which Mayor O’Brien wrote to the banks on the 7 cent fare has never been made public.. What it promises no one knows—except Tammany and the bankers. Armed with the blanket authority to increase the Sales Tax, the capitalist city government is planning to make good the pledge to bank- ers to raise $35,000,000 of new revenue before December 11. Tammany is slashing relief, planning more _wage cuts for school teach- ers, ete—to guarantee the bankers their golden profits. In the coming city elections the question will be—will we permit capitalist mayors, of any party, to levy sales taxes, cut wages.and re- lief, to pay the bankers, or will we fight for an immediate cutting of the bonds by which the banks strangle all relief payments? . . . . the vaults of the banks, insurance companies, and rich corporations are hundreds of millions of dollars. The capitalist city government considers these sacred. The Communist Party demands that a heavy capital levy be imposed so that these funds will immediately be avail- able to the starving millions for relief. ‘The Communist Party alone in this city demands that all payments to the bankers be immediately stopped, that an indefinite moratorium on these payments be immediately declared. ‘The Communist Party alone demands that these mountains of money going to the bankers be turned over to workers for relief against hunger. Only under the leadership of the Communist Party can the workers break the parasitic grip of the Wall Street bankers and their Tammany hirelings. The six whom Grover Whalen ordered seized by the police in Left men his efforts to stop the workers’ right to picket under the NRA. to right (seated), Leo Meola, Austhel Lotterman, Pasquale Muscaria, (standing), William Migliora, Herman Merson and Tony Capanio. More Shops Join Strike, 42 Shop Settlements Negotiated; Strikers Not Intimidated By Whalen’s Ballyhoo NEW YORK.—Grover Whalen’s strikebreaking threat is not stopping the shoe workers from joining the general shoe strike to win better conditiops. ‘The latest shop to join the strike under the banner of the Shoe and Leather Workers’ Industrial Union is the American Shoe Co. of Brooklyn, which came out yesterday. The shoe bosses realizing that Whalen’s anti-labor statements have only served to solidify the ranks of the® shoe strikers and to redouble ‘heir energies to win their strike are now asking the ‘union to negotiate set- tlements with them. The Continen- tal Shoe Co. yielded to the Union's demands yesterday and agreed to a 40-hour week and a 30 per cent in- crease in wages. Negotiations are pending with other shops while 42 shops have already signed up with the union. ‘ Grover Whalen, after keeping the committee of shoe strikers waiting for five hours in a small room at the Hotel Pennsylvania while he was con- ferring with the NRA executive com- mittee on the next steps in his use of the NRA as a strike-breaking weapon finally met with the com- mittee. Surrounded by a corps of dicks, and NRA assistants, Whalen made no apology to the workers for keeping them waiting. When I. Rosenberg, spokesman for the delegation, registered his protest against Whalen’s statements in be- half of the 10,000 shoe strikers, Whalen evaded the issue. Instead he declared that the shoe manufac- turers are willing to accept all the workers’ demands. “They refuse to recognize the union and they say you refuse to allow the workers to return to work,” said Whalen. Rosenberg cited Section 7 of the NRA, as sup- posedly guaranteeing the right of collective bargaining. Whalen, who regarded every worker with suspicion, then said: “That is your interpretation. We mean that the workers have a right to choose @ representative to . negotiate for them, just as Dubinsky bargains with the employers in the dress industry. When Rosenberg pointed out that the Shoe and Leather Workers’ Industrial Union does not approve of mediation but rather that the workers elect their own committees to negotiate directly with the employers, the other strik- ers joined in denouncing the betrayal Policies of the A. F. of L. unions. “We want the Shoe and Leather Work- ers’ Union not the Boot and Shoe Protective which sold out the Brock- ton strike,” declared the strikers, Worker after worker voiced his hatred of the company unions. Rosenberg then pointed out that the dress strikers, although they were said to have won a victory have not returned to their jobs. “They haven't paid up their dues,” Whalen said, admitting the International of- ficials’ racketeering. “We have no check-off system,” declared Rosen- berg. That is one reason why the workers flock to our union. Whalen then proposed mediation of the shoe strike, but Rosenberg dec- lared that it was unnecessary since they could negotiate directly. Whalen then centered his attack on the Communists and tried to divide the workers, But the strik- ers stand solidly together. When Rosenberg continued to press for a statement on Whalen’s strike- breaking policies, Whalen evaded. “Ihave been misquoted in the Press,” he ‘declared. “I read the Daily Worker, but I have been paint- ed much blacker than I am,” he said in a demagogic plea to the Strikers. Finally when he could no jonger evade Rosenberg’s demand, he urged that “bygones be bygones.” A worker from:the Elco shop then told of the sweatshop conditions in the Elco shop where the NRA banner flies and where the 6 pickets were pete in a test case. Whalen was lent. ; result of the workers’ protest showed that he does not intend to abandon his strikebreaking actions.,..He dec- Jared “It is not the function of the City NRA Committee to promote em- ployers which group of workers they should enter into collective agree- ment with or the terms that should apply . . . Unquestionably both em- ployers and workers should be fully protected in their individual and collective rights against the activity of any other individual or group who would transgress upon such relative rights in an illegal manner .. . all such instances . . . will be referred to the police and national admini- stration for consideration and ac- tion.” The threat though veiled re- mains. Delegates of the Shoe Workers’ Union returned from Washington fyesterday after having filed their protest with the NRA administra- tion. They were informed that picketing of shops, if peaceful, will not be interfered with. Strikers, of course know that this does not in any way protect them from police attack. N.Y. Suprenie Court Stops Six Per Cent Cut in Light Rates ALBANY, Aug. 29.—The prediction that the recent 6 per cent cut in utility rates would be stayed by court order was borne out today when the State Supreme Court issued a stay of the recent Public Service Com- mission order. Supreme Court Judge granted the stay on the grounds that the claim of the big utility companies that the NRA codes make it impos- sible to reduce rates must be further looked into. JOBLESS, KILLS SON, SELF CHARLOTTE, N. C. — After killing his 6-year-old son and wounding his wife, R. C. Myers killed himself yesterday. He was despondent over long unemploy- ment neighbors said. The boy died instantly, as did Myers. His wife, however, re- ceived only slight wounds and was released from the hospital after haying them dressed. other wage cut is instituted for civil service employes. Pay Rockefeller Of the funds in the City Treasury at present, $35,000,000 is going tothe bankers as interest and loan pay- ments. The bankers’ group is headed by the Chase National Bank, controlled by the Rockefeller family. Plan Wage and Relief Cuts In June the bankers granted the City a temporary extension of time on the $200,000,000 short term loans until Dec, 11. In return for this, the City government guaranteed that $35,000,000 of new revenue would be raised, either by wage slashes or tax levies. As all these enormous payments to the bankers are soon falling due, the Tammany City government is preparing to levy new taxes and slash wages and relief. Since June, when Mayor O’Brien refused to make public a certain let- ter which he wrote to the bankers, it has been widely rumored that the City has a secret agreement with) the bankers on increasing the sub- way fare to 7 cents. ‘Untermieyer Serves Tammany The “economy” Committee, headed by Samuel Untermeyer, has already issued hints of impending wage cuts in the city payrolls, especially among the lower civil service employees. Untermeyer is also serving Tam- many on its famous “board of strategy,” which is planning the ways and means to protect the cor- rupt machine from the resentment of the city’s population. Thus far, the City has extended} all its efforts in the direction of guaranteeing the enormous pay- ments to the Wall Street bankers, and to protecting the fat graft in the higher payroll brackets. Pact Leaves Wheat Problem’ Unsolved; WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. — De- spite the tentative agreement signed at London the other day by the United States and some of the leading wheat producing countries, it is widely admitted here that the wheat problem is far from solution as ever. Although the Department of Ag- riculture is pressing its program of 15 per cent reduction in wheat ac age, the latest reports indicate an enormous exportable surplus in the wheat country of the Pacific North- west and the Southwest. Meanwhile, for lack of foreign markets and high tariff walls abroad, the export of wheat is a trickle compared with former years. The July carryover from last year is estimated at 386,000,000 bushels. Bread Prices ‘Rising At London, Secretary of Agricul- ture Wallace agreed to limit wheat exports this year to 40,000,000 bu- shels. Obviously, the problem of “surplus” is greater than ever. Meanwhile, Western farmers are intensifying their cultivation in or- der to cash in on the expected high- er prices. The situation is further compli- cated by the fact that one of the largest wheat producers, Argentina, has not yet signed the London wheat pact. the Piner home. Defending himself | against murder by Deputy Sheriff R. T. Murray, Jr. who went gunning for him, he shot and _ seriously wounded his assailant. A gang was organized which cor- | nered him in his home and killed | him. | In this section of the cotton =| the Ku Klux Klan has heen especi- ally active, under the name of “Cot- ton K.K.K.” in terrorizing the Negro farmers, croppers and renters to force | ; them to plow under their cotton for \ the landlord’s benefit, in the Roose- | velt plow-under program. | Se | Trial for Negro Who | | DECATUR, Ala., Aug. 29.—Trial | of Thomas Brown, Negro framed on a charge of rape here, and three | 4’ | times nearly lynched by armed gangs, was set for September 4, to- | day, when he pleaded not guilty. An| indictment was handed down yester- day by the special grand jury called by Judge James E. Horton, who pre- sided over the -lynch-triat of Hey- | wood Patterson, Scottsboro boy, here | jast April. The court-house was surrounded by National Guardsmen while Brown was being arraigned. He is charged | Dugger with “rapin, | thirty in the morning, August 21, on a public ‘highway. No indictments weré handed down by the Grand Jury against the lynch- \ers of James Royall, Negro boy who was murdered by the gangsters here Aug. 21 when they failed in: their purpose of lynching Brown. Two Army Planes Crash in Texas AMARILLO, Tex., Aug. 29.—Two army planes and a passenger mail plane were wrecked Tuesday, caus- ing the death of eight persons alto- | gether. At Randolph Field, San Antonio, | two pursuit planes crashed in mid-| air. One flyer “bailed out” in a} parachute and was saved, while two cadets and an instructor fell to their deaths. Randolph Field is called the “West Point of the air,” as army fliers are trained here. The passenger plane fell near) Quay, N. M., with five persons) aboard. No explanation of the cause | of the crash was advanced. | Bg Cope | Seven Dead in Train Wreck in N. Mexico 'TTUCUMCARI, N. M., Aug. 29.—At least seven persons were killed when the east-bound Golden State Limited crashed through a flood-weakened bridge near here. Over forty were injured as coaches were submerged in a mountain stream swollen with flood-waters, The flood washed out three rail- Jengths of track on the eastern ap- proach of the bridge. The locomotive hit the torn-up track and plunged in- to the creek, burying itself in the soft mud as the follgwing coaches piled up in the water. Survivors reported that they saw bodies being washed down the creek in the swiftly flowing waters. Many | USSR Districts Finish Middle Volga, liratie| ons Northern Caucasus, and the and Tartar Harvests Are All In (Special Cable to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Aug. 29.—The Tartar Republic has finished its grain cut- ting seventeen days earlier than last year, although the crop is much larger than last year’s. Tartary has now finished 73 per cent of its winter sowing plan as against nine per cent this time last year, and the sowing is much better this year. In the middle Volga district both collective and individual farmers have finished cutting the grain. Col- lectives in the northern Caucasus In a wordy statement to the press, Whalen, while backing down as the have cut 14,500,000 acres. The cut- ting‘ is practically finished in the collectives there have delivered 56 per cent of the state's share of the grain. State farms are lagging be- hind in these two provinces, and “Pravda” insists on greater activity. The crops in Western Siberia have also been cut. By Aug. 20, over fifty-seven mil- lion acres, or nearly forty per cent of this year’s ail-union plan, were harvested. On Aug. 1, the entire Ukraine had practically finished cut- ting grain and had delivered the state’s share, which was four and a half per cent more than the required quota then. Ninety-five per cent of the winter crops in Moscow Province have been harvested. Harvesting is in progress 4 Harvest |Moscow Province Crop | Is 95 Per Cent Reaped | in all other districts. The Soviet Union, swith its whole press, is urging on laggers and de- mending renewed efforts, proper storage, and speedy transportation. All this is on the basis that this year's harvest is the best since. 1913, and twice as much grain has been distributed to collective farmers, after all deductions were made, as was distributed last year. ‘This information, added to the re- cent cables you have received, answers any rumors to the contrary that the capitalist press may be spreading. roads to the Gordon Creek district have been blocked. Despite terror, the miners are concentrating their forces to resist momentary attack. Their ranks are firm. The National Miners’ Union is calling for a general strike which is meeting tremendous response, to defeat the ter- ror. The governor is calling out troops. All organizations are urged to protest to the governor of Utah against the use of troops, terror and strikebreak- ing. Send funds to the National I. L. D., 799 Broadway, to defend arrested miners. New Mexico miners are expected to strike tomorrow and violent terror is, anticipated. HELPER, Utah, Ang 29.—Four hundred strikers, mem- Escaped Lynching Set | bers of the National Miners Union, have been arrested here in For Sept. 4th in Ala. | an effort to break the coal strike. They are hhid on $2,000 bail each. One woman picket was critically injured when armed thugs ttacked the picket lines. Governor Blood of Utah has upheld the armed terror | against the strikers. “Deep Secret” Says Green About His OK For Auto Open Shop WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.— William Green said he would rather not talk about his part in approving the open shop clause for the auto code in an interview yesterday- Asked why the Labor Advis- ory Board had approved the open shop for the auto industry, Green replied: “Well, that’s a deep se- cret.” After that he shut up like a clam. Green thinks that if he keeps his skullduggery a deep secret the millions of workers hit by his actions might forget about it and not ask him some embarrass- ing questions. Roosevelt Lifts Ban On New Gold; Keeps Hoard Law HYDE PARK, Aug. 29.—President | Roosevelt today signed an executive order permitting the Treasury to buy newly-mined gold and also lifting the ban on the export of newly-mined gold. At the same time the rules against gold hoarding are tightened with re- gistration of all gold supplies made obligatory. Roosevelt's latest action means enormous profits to the mining com- panies and to all those who can get newly-mined gold. It is openly rumored that leading politicians, like Bernard Baruch, Roo- sevelt’s financial adviser, and people like William Randolph Hearst, Ogden Mills, and others are in a position to reap a fortune in speculative pro- fits as a result of Rooseyelt’s ruling. The step is also looked upon as a preliminary to inflationary devalua- tion of the dollar. Swanson Asks for $30,000,000 to Build Bigger Air Fleet WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. —Secre- tary of the Navy, Swanson, has just asked President Roosevelt for an- other $30,000,000 from the public works fund. He has already been granted $284,000,000 by the public works Administrator Ickes. ‘This is in addition to the regular appropriation of about $238,000,000. Swanson wants to build a fleet of 345 bombing planes and aircraft carriers. Tuscaloosa Protest Meeting. PHILADELPHIA. — A Tuscalcosa protest. meeting will be held at the Labor Institute, 810 Locust St., Aug. 31. Allan Taub, International Labor Defense Attorney, who was driven out of Tuscaloosa when he attempted to defend the framed Negro boy will be the main speaker, ® A state-wide coal strike has been called for tomorrow. Three army trucks, loaded with bayonets and munitions were sent into Carbon County last night by state authorities. Hundreds of workers from Salt Lake City are going to Carbon Coun- ty to join the picket lines. The Utah miners are striking to force the bosses to carry out the agreement made with the National Miners Union. Officials of the Uni- ted Mine Workers of America are co- operating with the coal operators in an effort to break the strike. Sheriff Bliss has armed thugs of the UMWA, deputized them. They have already made many savage attacks on the picket lines, but have been unable to smash the solidarity of the strik- ers. Carbon County has been placed un- der an armed terror, intended te smash the National Miners Union. break the strike, and continue miser- able conditions in the mine fields Three hundred men, mostly pickec members of the UMWA, have beer deputized by Sheriff Bliss and armed | with rifles, tear gas and machine guns. All highways are patrolled and in the Gordon Creek section all traffic has been stopped by agents | of Sheriff Bliss. Sylvia Crouch, Women’s Auxiliary organizer, was arrested in her room and the deputies are hunting for other organizers. The operators and their agents evidently hope to jai) the organizers and hold them without bond or even charges against them, while they carry on a vicious cam~ paign of terror in the hope of smash- ing the picket line. Habeas corpus proceedings are being started to force the release of Sylvia Crouch, and Sheriff Bliss and the other agents of the operators will soon learn that they cannot succeed in establishing and ‘continuing a regime of Fascist terror. More deputies are being recruiteé by the operators in Salt Lake City through the Chamber of Commerce and special efforts are being made to send every gangster of Salt Lake City to Carbon County for use against the striking miners, In the face of this vicious terror the ranks of the striking miners re- main firm; and in spite of all pro- vocation and violence on the part of the operators and their tools the miners are determined more than ever to fight forward to complete victory. No amount of terror will drive the miners back into the mines. Throughout Utah the workers and farmers are preparing to come to the aid of the striking miners, who are menaced by all the forces the oper= ators can organize. Two truck loads of food have already been sent by workers and farmers in and around Midvale, Murray and Salt Lake City, The trucks had such slogans as “Re- lief Truck No. 1,” “Food, Not Scabs, for the Strikers.” More relief trucks will soon be sent to Carbon County. Deputies are still hunting for Paul | Crouch and Charles Guynn, union | organic ; The Uiah miners are fighting against bitter odds, but are keeping their ranks firm. Relief and strike funds are badly needed. All workers are urged immediately to send funds to G. Kaplan, International Labor De- fense, Room 209, 1515 Larimer Sty Denver, Colorado, 2