The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 30, 1933, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1933 (Chats With a Few Who Helped Draw Up Plan of Fight Against NRA at Cleveland Conference By MORRIS KAMMAN { “Bast November Anton Becker, seaman was a) ee sar | rested with a batch of marine workers in Baltimore, Gat een nee ae aly Pap care ed they went to demand unemployed relief. In jail | than 600 delegates present at the ‘Trade Union Con-|the other seamen told him about the Marine Work: | |ference for United Action. For the delegates, repre- (sedge tease SUE. cea Ponrieinter ite add cher bes tarrata rises ai pabeday | ference the marine workers of Baltimore. “Jail made | They are disillusioned with the corrupt labor lead-|me a revolutionist,” he says with a happy grin. Anton ers who are supporting Roosevelt. | was at one time a railroad fireman. He was born in ! | ‘They feel deeply the need of all American workers | Phelps, Wis. | uniting under militant leadership for a gigantic battle | S hs * to crush the NRA and the capitalist class. | “How many of us are you going to sell out thir They came to the Conference to help work out aj time?” program for welding the entire American workingclass | his was into a united force against Roosevelt, against the Blue | | Glassport, Pa., asked an A. F. of L. organizer who came! Buzzard, against every betrayer of the workers, for | to Ambridge, Pa., to organize the steel workers. liberation from hunger, from homelessness, and wage | “So the organizer tells me he ain't gonna sell us| | slavery. | out,” Heinzl says. “So I says to him, you son of a Take for instance William Gonzales: Age, 23 years,| bitch, didn’t you tell the steel workers who went out | Re vegas ees miner in the hard coal fields around Gallup, jOn strike in Lectsdale, Pa., a while ago to go back to} New Mexico. Two months before he came to the Con-| work because the NRA is gonna protect them. And | ference he joined the National Miners Union. didn’t they go back, you bastard? And what did they Page Three N.Y. Seamen Pickél | “Diamond Cement” ‘To Remove Scabs Better Conditions On Furniture Strikers Rebuff Conciliator |) OFNRA, Mr. Woods | Mayor Takes Hand in NEWS BRIEFS Police Shoot One. ORANGE, N. J.—Police shot Jo- seph Cerbone through the stomach | yhen he and a companion resisted | arrest yesterday. Police pursued their car, ng it when it collided with a pole end the police machine | G Ship Won Thru Strike crashed into the rear of their car. They are held on charges of pos- CR RATS ~ | sessing dangerous weapons, NEW YORK CITY.—A cordon of Ps 4 . | police were thrown about the dock when the Diamond Cement, manned by a scab crew, arrived in New York. A number of detectives circulated on the dock and 5 Holmes detectives 4 guarded the ship. \ Despite this police protection ship and her scab crew learned the seamen of New York were reac to carry on the strike which bega in Baltimore. As the ship was sailin, from Erie Basin the crew of an- other ship in Erie Basin manned the rail, denounced the scab crew and showered the decks with rivet heads, As the ship passed through the en- trance to the basin a large number of seamen who had been picketing the ship gave her another barrage Effort to Force End of Strike BOSTON, Mass., Aug. 29.—Twenty shops striking under the leadership of the Furniture Workers Industrial Union voted last week to exclude con- ciliator Woods. A conference was called yesterday by Mayor Curley at the instigation of the New England Upholstered } ‘Furniture Manufacturers and resulted 4 in the proposal by the mayor of an i 85 cent minimum with arbitration. “T will give you any judge you want,” “s|” he said. He had a copy of Wood’s report calling the Furniture Workers Industrial Union a bunch of bol- sheviks, Hollywood Gangster Shooting. | | HOLLYWOOD, Calif—A woman, Sonia, Dresnick, was questioned yes- terday by police in connection with | the shooting of Harry Macklay of| y York and F, Keller of St. Louis, were murdered Monday night in exclusive Bella Napoli Cafe by three well-dressed gangst | Gambling warfare or gangland retribution were the two possibl of the shooting, police said. Swims Channel. LONDON.—Sunny Lowry the English Channel yester the question William Heinz], born int week, The mayor urged a quick set- The union is demanding a dollar! minimum, no arbitration, 40 hour tlement on the basis that “there are no real differences”, and that he was afraid the shops would move else- where. “Why did you join the NMU, fellow-worker Gon- zales? | “I wouldn't join any other union, comrade,” he | get, except a kick in the pants? now you're tryin’ to sell us out.” Yeu sold 'em out and “That's the way we all feel,” Heinz] says, “and The union leaders were served with Subpoenas of an injunction at the end of the conference. The strikers are fighting the previ- ous injunction of the Paramount Bedding Co. with mass picketing. Twenty-one were arrested yesterday. A rank and file defense committee was elected to participate with the International Labor Defense. Pittsburgh Jobless Council Meets and Endorses CP. Slate Candidates’ Names Re- ceive’ Ovation from 250 Delegates PITTSBURGH, Pa—After thor- oughly discussing local party plat- forms and candidates, 250 delegates representing 40 block committees. of | the Unemployed Council unanimously | endorsed the Communist Party plat- | form and candidates. Phil Frankfeld, city secretary of | the Councils, spoke on the work of | James M. Eagen, Communist can- | didate for mayor. Eagen is an ac- | tive leader in the werk of the Un-| employed Councils and a former | president of the Plasterers Union of | the A. F. L. All of the candidates | received an ovation. WILLIAM HEINZL replies. Three months ago the word comrade was alien to him. He continues: “1,000 miners in Gallup had a meeting about organizing. Somebody wanted us to join the United Mine Workers of America. Everybody howled, “Hell, no! They sold us out before.” The same howl went up when somebody menticned | the A. F. of L. A few said, let's join the LW.W. But the NMU organizer talked to us. His talk sounded | miners in Gallup joined the NMU. And do you know what happened? By just organizing in the NMU, we won the right to have our own checkweighman. Now the trucks we load with coal weigh 3,500 pounds and even more. Before, the boss gave us credit | | for only 2,200 pounds, We get 68 cents a ton for pick- {mined coal. Figure out for yourself what we've al- | ready gained. The NRA? The hell with it! We're NMU men, end we'll fight for our rights.” At the Conference Gonzales is elected to the presdium. ‘Everybody, the | | leaders, too, are workers like myself, I like it,” he says. | Frank Kotzman, a fellow-delegate of Gonzales feels the same way. He joined the NMU two weeks before he came to the conference. . . . Here are two Negro workers from Birmingham, | Alabama. Lee Jackson, 24, iron molder, James Cooper, 25, mechanic. Lee’s shoes are badly torn, his toes | stick out, his overalls are ripped. No wonder. The rank | and file of his A. F. of L. union had no money to pay his fare. Jackson came to the Cleveland Conference hoboeing on freight trains all the way. James Cooper came with him. Both speak of the growing revolu- tionary | ntiment among Negro workers in Alabama. Jackson vells of what the NRA did. Day laborers in his shop, the Unit Stove and Furnace Company, receive $1.15 a day, skilled molders, $1.50 to $2.25. “What do the workers in your shop think of the blue eagle, Lee?” “We call it the Blue Buzzard and hate the sight of it,” he says. “Look at the wages we get after the | alright, so 1,000 of us, and that’s 98 per cent of the} that’s why the workers joined the SMWIU and elected |me to represent them at the conference,” | . . * Sam Sponseller, a locomotive engineer, is a member | cf Local 493, of the Brotherho: of Locomotive En- | | gineers and Firemen, He represents at the Conference | the Unemployed Leagues of Toledo, Ohio. “We who are delegates to the Con: find ways of making contact with all w | pealing to them on an economic class, “Locomotive workers,” he says, “are crying for a mass workers organization, and they know that their |teaders won't do anything to bring this about. It’s up to us to appeal to the rank and file, to bring them inic| | unttea action with all workers against the bosses.” While claiming that the Unemployed Councils in Toledo, Ohio, were partly responsible for a disrup- tion of a united front with the Unemployed Leagues, | Sponseller admits that the Unemployed Leagues mede| serious mistakes. “All struggles by the workers to be really effective,” and file workers through united acticn.” . . . Meet Walter Morris. Born in Montealm County, Michigan, auto-body builder by trade, works in the Hayes Body shop in Grand Rapids, Mich., is a mem- ber of the Auto Workers Union. When the Auto Workers Union had to work un- derground in his territory, Walter to build the union despite the obstacles. but the steel-keen glance in his eyes, the determined firmness of his lips tell of experience and bravery in working class struggle. “Today our union dcecn’t have to work under- ground,” he says. “Do you know why? Because the workers are with us, and the bosses are afraid of us. How did we grow strong? * By uniting with other work- ers. Here’s what we did. The workers who load scrap ference must getting $6 a week. We body builders in the union rs by ap- he says, “must be carried on by rank | Morris worked hard | He is young, | metal in the Hayes plant for shipment in cars were | ANNA LA ROCCA ing the trip from Cape Gris Nez, France, to Margaret’s Bay, in 15 hours and 39 minutes. 1 hour and 31 record made by | 1926. "Three aspirants were in the water to mcke the swim the other e dangerous because of ad-| s. One of the contestants lis Charles Zibelman, legless Ameri- | can endurance swimmer. This is minutes behind th Gertrude Ederle \Lumber B Bosses Fail ‘To Rout Industrial, Union Organizers |Lumberjacks Give Aid | Against Boss Threats COEUR DAL ENE, Idaho, Aug. 29. -Lumber jacks of Camp 44 of the enhandle Lumber Co., 14 miles out cf Spirit Lake here, came to the sup- port of two organizers of the National} Lumber Work: Union, C. P. Joh } son and Joe Winis, | the foreman of the camp a ae to drive them out with an axe. ‘Tt union delegetes have been einige in this locality and drove ne ae 44 late in the afternoon. berjacks gathered in their aehouns immediately after supper to weak the report on the code hearings in Wash- ington at which Alex Noral — the! Union ete the lumber workers’ own The pisces who was the meeting ordered the de- legates to leave. When the de! hayates cited Section 7 of the NRA es sup-| England, | last week when | | of stones that drove the scab crew off the deck and into safe shelter. A committee of pickets, including Kelly, the chairman of the strike committee, managed to get aboard | and reported the following: 1. The present crew are incorrigible scabs | that should be treated as such by the seamen and longshoremen in every port. 2. As a result of the rike, wages have been increased $15 ‘hich is $5 more than the original demand. 2. Both foc’sles and the mess room have been painted and liy- ing querters generaiiy improved since the strike. 3. Some improvement in the food 1s to be noted. Thus the main demands put forward have been won through strike action and now | the struggle must go forward for the removal of the scab crew. Fur- ther action will be carried through by the MWIU in every port the ship touches, | At one of the largest meetings held in New York the unemployed seamen and members of v<1\.us ships in port pledged to continue the struggle of the Diamond Cement. In support of the strike the largest collection ever taken on the New York water- | front was made. AFL Betr ays ays Strike of Girl Toilers in San “Antonio Cigar Shop | Forces Mediation By Mayor and City | Council Landlord Kills One, Unit Stove adopted the NRA!” Both, Jackson and | “idn’t stick up our schnozzles because the other fel- posedly granting the right to organ-| SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Aug. 20— 5 ‘ l comm borers. W. ize, the foreman went for on axe. American Federation of Labor eae drat a re irre Woremn Terusiog $008, of ite aeths tabard ftetatance iia pam But the delegates continued thetr| played its usual game of settling out ounds t ers IM Negro workers going out on strike in some shops which | the name of the union exposing what small pay they | meeting and the foremon fina'ly| cirikes, when it induced the gir | have cut wages under the NRA. Both are mentally | Were getting, and called on every worker in the veo | with nz that he would be| 8 of the Fincke Cigar Co. to An Eviction Effort Were Celebrating Re-| turn of Father from Hospital alert, answering questions quickly, Yet, Jackson had only 2 months of public schooling. “I réad a lot,” he explains, “and for a year I’ve been reading stuff put out by the Unemployed Councils and the Communist | Party. It opened my mind, I tell you.” . . . Anna LaRocca was born in Westerly, She is about 24, Connecticut. She represents 800 textile workers to help them win higher wages. got afraid of a strike. cent. Workers Union. They wouldn’t even hear of it be- fore this. Now we are forming a united front with | the unemployed workers, too. Our union is popular. | We are working right in the open now.” ‘They raised the pay 100 per “After we issued this leaflet, the Hayes Company | £very worker began talking about the Auto! Afier for the meals w the National Lumber Workers’ Union program. In this camp the men earn abo) to go cn the soupiine all , & lumber jack came | men exoressed their supvort of} ccept the mediation of Mayor C. K. Quinn end the City Council. The city authorities had previously mpted to break the strike by sup- plying police protection to scabs, hut were unsuccessful in the face ‘of trong pictet opposition. The bosses of the cigar company » work from ave already signed up with NRA. ' YAKI | Wash. oe i tgeiipling 26 from the Kahn and Feldman shop in Brooklyn, N. Y., 4 2 by oe oe ere if evict. the Alva: Gunkle family pees | where a strike is now going on against piece work and | The Daily Worker selis like hot cakes. As soon Dho 2cist U: jon their ranch near here, Jim Parker, | | wages of $13 weekly for women and $16 for men. as the delegates came to the auditorium th asked )* Tern n the landlord, killed their young son, A week ago she joined the Needle Trades Workers |for the “Daily.” Practically evory delegate has one bie des vadwenaee es aehee as Wins Strike; Makes wounded the. mother and child and| | Industrial Union. | in his hands. Speakers who meniion the “Daily” are) a = re A . was himself shot in the leg. “Why did you join it?” cheered, When the delegates talk about the “Daily,” | logs which are not moving out of Demands At Hearing The family was celebrating the re- turn of Mr. Gunkle from the hos- pital where he had been confined af- ter a logging accident, when the land- lord was seen approaching the house with a shot gun, She started running with the baby to warn the others as Parker fired. wounding both of them, Then just as their son Louis, 19, approached the door, Parker, who was near the house opened fire again, catching the boy in the forehead. He died soon after- ward. His brother Clarence following him to the door grabbed up the family rifle shooting Parker in the leg so that it will probably have to be am- putated above the knee. He is 60 years old. While Parker was supporting bins] self on the fence and Louis lay dy- ing on the front porch, the wounded mother . was frantically around looking for help. Clarence phoned for an ambulance and the sheriff. The family was planning-to move to Yakima in a day or two accord- ing to a letter received by a friend. Movie Technicians’ Strike Broken By AFL and Blue Eagle Jobs of Strikers Now Held By Company Scabs HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Aug. 29—The Blue Eagle with the able assistance of the A, F. of L. leadership has broken the strike of the movie tech- nicians and sound engineers which started some 6 weeks ago. The NRA decision handed down from Wash- ington this week amounts not only to a virtual lockout of union mem- bers but to a considerable wage cut. Most of the strikers have not been’ une! i | 8s] d. Speakers will be reemployed, their jobs being held by} NEW ihe 1H: one sentence, Mountain Workers League marched b Det it P Li Counce! ‘Baw. YORK.—A petition to ex-|2#sked to atten munist Party, U. 8. A, will be cele- scabs; ugh rood: te ny iy i -|Ann Burlak, secretary of the Na- i sabe; and the company hes made|Misa Helen Erekine, head of Bar-| ‘rough the woods and stopped all y TOW FOUCE! rs the rolls of the Public Wel-|Ann Burlak, secretary of, the Na-| trated in Milwoukes, at «mh break the strike. This union, which 5 - the 8-<h 2 Hall, West | is virtually a company union, has| Vocational Guidance Director, that |W00d work until thelr demands for! prTROTT.—A iass funeral was |! te Uneraplayed Coun Mele pat from seliet funds, was tae ee gticsal cid South @h Street. supplied strikebreakers for the studios.|‘‘the college woman who succeeds | better conditions and higher wages) ho1q here Sutuiday for James Por- _ j ren by the Supreme Court Sat- | the ° BI om has been at- | As a result of this sell out of the|in business today owes her college | ®* met. ter, Negro svoiker murd by he fi | u ey: * , workingclass play | sire the mood of the workers ts re-| very litle.” sane, membership of the Cumber- Patrolman Bayard Orler. The i Lee tise The petition was presented by Craners Join Welders’) vin’:> p=::cnica by the John Reed - ported as growing more ant , | Jane foun’ forkers League now|neral was held under the auspices sing theyAttorney, Samuel Sterna, aciing | club. E Groups of them are still picketing the maar Arsinttd ges eg eta he is almost 100 and represents most of | of the League of Struggle for Nig j nesses to the shootiny d Por ter | fos 12,000 workers fired ‘by the Strike in Sun Shipyard | companies that have “settled.” low does she explain the fact had struck the poli thes at all, and | Jack Warner, head of the Warner boring community. The league is in-] Negro workers viewed the body as t ‘race, He said that examination of| CHESTER, Pa, Aug. 29, i Brothers Pictures and State Chair- be demanding ‘college gradu-| vestigating working conditions among | it in state in the hoadquarters | Showed any sign of the blow. [they list wold prove that regular | strike of the welders cf ih LLSBURG, N. ¥—“The NRA. man of the NRA control committee, | **¢S the women. The Monteagle Hotel|of tie L.S. N. R. Friday and Sax! ‘The protes: against this murder city” workers were fired, put on|yard was followed 4 | the topie on which Phil ear Bee has revealed his patriotism by firing| Quite right. Department stores | pays five cents an hour for maids| 14 2 Inter. “ent was in Memorial | organized by ‘hat. SN. BR. and the |home relief and then rehired by walkout of the cren: f of the Daily Worker will all his stenographic help and rehiring | are insisting that only those hold-{and other local help. Many of the Cometer,*. Lab * Defence has! tha same dep. arent as “experts.” | are striking for a $5 speak to ight. | The lecture will be them at the new low wage of the, ing college diplomas be hired as| women have lecle femilies to sup- Culer repowe! thet Por uy j Phe Coup ivrent thea presented a| wages. Th rest the plant is ex- | given at the Miegicr Casino. Adimis- “eode” running | 1 | WILLIAM GONZALES “When we went out on strike nobody came to help us but the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union. The NRA is ruining everything.” Questions of a poli- tical character confuse her, But she says. “We've got to take revolutionary action against the NRA.” * * * Carrie Smith, a Negro woman nut-picker from St. Louis, Mo., speaks from the platform, “They can say what they want about the Communist Party, but I know that the Communist Party is heiping us work- ers. I love the Communist Party, Comrades. There ain't no jim-crowing in the Communist Party like in the Socialist Party. | and fight with the Communist Party all my life, Com- | rades. ” The delegates and audience, over a thousand, | ahaa her deafeningly. This Negro woman joined the Communict Party three months ago, at about the iime the nut-pickers | went on strike for better conditions. eo 8 68 Bill Drusky, steel mill worker in Homestead, Pa. The word Home- stead ought to mean a lot and does mean so to workers. Its ground is drenched with the blood of workers murdered fighting the bosses. “Why did I join the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union?” he repeats the question asked him. “Because I remember how the A. F. of L. sold us out in 1919. The Amalgamated Association is trying to organize us. But all we had to be told was that it’s affiliated with the A. F. of L., and we sent it to hell. All the same a lot of work- ers are forced by the bosses to join the Amalgamated, but in their hearts they're afraid of another sell-out. The NRA? What do I think of it? It’s a Blue Buzzard!” Bill has be- come an organizer for the SMWIU. College Diplomas Useful in Getting Job As As $12 Clerk nard College Alumnaé, answers the accusation of Miss Esther Brooke, that even department stores have {$12 a week sales clerks, Tl love the Communist Party | SAM SPONSELLER one feels that they are talking not about a newspaper, but about some human leader they love and trust. Delegates exchange remarks about the recent improve- meht in the “Daily.” When a delegate is approached and icld, “I am @ reporter,” there is immediate hostility, which changes | | quickly to a comradely handclasp, when the introduc- | tion is completed with, “I report for the Daily Worker.” | I feel that the workers would fight to death to keep the “Daily” alive. . . . Many of the delegates who came ate broke. organizations could not give taem any mo: rades and sympathizers ia Clcveland have op gest and share them with the workers who c he Conference. But siill there are not enough beds. | At the eee of the ‘ade Union @ delegates sleep on burlap sp: hey have footed it to Clovetan: rode the freighis. They travelled nights cramped up in buses. Are they downhearted? If you could only listen to thsir cheers in the audi- torium when workors tell of y won under militant leadership; Com- | Couxcil, som2 sf on the floor. the fight to destroy capitalism and to put the workers into power. The Conference throbs wiih emo- tional upsurge. The workers are bit- ter about Roosovelt, bitter about the NRA, more bitter svill against the reens, Lewises, their words, in ¢ i" Do} Ss ‘ platform, in t! 3, as they and in their chears to the spe which s3 ism into oblivion, Thoir | ories | to! their cheers when leaders call for) the complete unity of all workers for | 12 Tennessee Wood Cutters Go On Strike; MONTEAGLE, Tenn. (FP.).— Twelve members of the Cumberland sion of the league to stop all bug- the workers in the town and neigh-| Rights. port, They are organizing him on the side of ‘Hold Mass Funeral am for Negro Killed undreds of white and | | AMES, Wicee—An request naither the cop's head nor Vas cap ‘the he! ant ptosteu.or, U2 order a They | [bill to-the city for lator costs 1% ins artment to look for na: jor yeguiar city workers who are JAMES COOPER mes, Iowa Organizes Refuse to Permit Unemployed Council! Examination of N.Y. Relief List for Grafi Gibeon Committee early this sum- the pond. ion is organizing the workers in this region and expects to win the lumber- jacks to struggle against the present miserable conditions. Nat'l Textile Union Calls For Unity In Sik Strike Mass Meet Tonight to Adopt Demands | PATERSON, | With a general strike of silk work- ers set for Thursday at 10 am. jagainst the low wages fixed by the NRA code, sentiment for the strike jis running high i chy tee workers lin the silk shops. The National Tex- tile Workers’ Union has issued a call for a united strike and for the formation of a united front strike committee immediately after the workers leave the s! 5 The Associated ik Workers’ forced to call this strike as a result of the workers’ resentment against the NRA have drawn up a set of |demands whieh are not real'zable | | with the present state of organiza- | | tion. Only the needs of the weavers |k been consid Textile Workers Uni ing a $25 weekly minimum wage. Although the Associated organ- izer, Eli Keller, talks of unity in the strike to the workers, no call {to other | for a united strike. As part of the strike prepars- |tions a mass a wri is erlled Jor | Wednesday evening, rust 80, at Roseland Hall, 219 Bilicon St. by the National Textile Workers Un- jion. At this meeting a report on |the Cleveland Conference will be |made and a program. of struggle Ik eeisg! will be adopted workers. Members of the | Associated Silk Workers have been N. J., Aug. 29— Muse, chairman of the C.P.L.. The National Lumber Workers’ Un- | ered. The National | is demand- | k unions nes been issued NEW YORK.—Mr. Levitan, pro- prietor of the Levitan Pharmacy came to terms with the Pharmacists’ Union last Friday after a short but spirited strike and reinstated the union phar- macist whose discharge was the cause of the strike. In addition, he increased the pharmacist’s wages by |$7a week, signed up as a union shop — and withdrew the charges against / several pickets. The union was represented at the hearings on the drug code and pre- sented demands for $45 a week for a 40 hour week for registered pharma- cists and $00 a week for junior phage macists. A nationc! organization of em- ployee pharmacists has been formed with national headquarters at the cffice of the New York Union, 617 Third Avenue. NRA Slashes Wages of Phila. Painters; But A. F. of L. Refuses to Act PHILADELPHIA, Pa,, Aug. 20.— The National Slavery Code presented the painters and paperhangers of this city with a large cut in their weekly wage. The working week has been cut to 40 hours and the pay from $30 | to $25. | However. the officials of the Broth- | erhood of Painters and Paperhangers have made no move to develop a struggle for wages and working condi- ions. This struggle has been oon taken by the Painters and | hansers Union (independent), though with some measure of success. National Events Milwaukee Celebration. The 14th Ann‘versary of the Com- ing on S~ tember 10, at 2:30 p.m. at Piil Bart at Fallsburg, pected to v out shortly, ( gion