The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 31, 1933, Page 1

Tomorrow's ‘Daily’ Will Feature “Moscow and Me”, an Article By Langston Hughes eo (Section of the Communist International) on eit r ie America’s Only Working | Class Daily Newspaper | WEATHER EASTERN NEW YORK: Fair Thursday Entered ne second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, W. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879, Vol. X, No. 209 Steps Toward the United Front NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1933 (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents HE Cleveland Conference for United Action is over. Its decisions are ayailable for workers to study. It becomes clear at once that in Cleveland serious progress was made in broadening the front of workers’ struggle against NRA, and deepening this struggle, consolidat- ing it-on clear policy. Some current reports which con- centrated attention on smaller aspects should not mis- lead any worker into neglect of the important achieve- ments of Cleveland. The Cleveland Manifesto, published in this issue, is the first document adopted by a broad mass representation out- lining a clear program of working class struggle against the “New Deal”. Over 600 delegates came together unanimously in support of this Manifesto, coming from the entire coun- try, from A. F. of L. unions, from independent unions, and from unions affiliated with the TUUL, as well as from Un- employed Councils and Unemployed Leagues. Before the Conference ended, these delegates were enthusiastically united behind the clear political andaysis of NIRA contained in the Manifesto. Further, this common policy was concretely expressed in the organization of a united action in protest against the Whalen attack in New York upon the shoe strikers, and the issuance of a clarion call for bold defiance of the Whalens of the NIRA who are trying to smash the militant trade unions. Another important step forward was the unanimous resolution on the struggle for unemployment relief and in- surance, and for unity of unemployed organizations. The two biggest and most active groups of unemployed, the Un- employed Councils and Leagues, brought unanimous agree- nient to the main conference on: (1) united support of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, as worked out by the A. F. of L. Committee for Unemployment Insurance in its Cincinnati meeting last year; (2)°a common’ campaign for this bill, and united actions in the struggle for relief, against evictions, etc.; (3) immediate setting up of federations in each neighborhood, city and state, to plan united work and prepare for and carry through complete unification into one single organization of the unemployed. N addition to these great achievements in Cleveland, there Loading as many as 12,000 grain cars are loaded in a day and 15,000 could be loaded if the cars were available. All engineers have been taken out duty at division points to take care of the traffic. Continued favorable reports on the harvesting are,coming in. The whole Ukraine and central black soil region have over-fulfilled their deliveries by 164.6 per cent of the August reauire- ments. The income of the Dniepetrovsk collective farms, after delivery of grain to the state, is not only double the amount of ‘grain of last year, but also includes a 40 per cent higher cash return, “Pravda,” organ of the Communist Party, states that four times as much grain had been deliy- August 20 as on the same date last year. By August 25, Dniepetroysk had delivered over 61 per cent of the an- nual requirement. “Prayda” gives the credit for the from a formerly backward district to this year’s splendid success to the political departments of the tractor stations, which broke through the old routine, fought bureaucracy, reconstructed the Party life in the villages, and achieved the leadership of the masses of collective farmers, placing the emphasis on discipline, exactness, and a decisive fight against theft and loafing. A new technique is being developed for the next crop. The first electric of the central offices and put on| ered to the state in Dniepetrovsk on. Soviet Rail Wages Raised 50 Percent; at Record Collective Farmers’ Grain and Cash Income Nearly Doubled; Plan Electrical Plowing, and Semi-Tropical Agriculture By VERN SMITH. (Daily Worker Moscow Correspondent) MOSCOW, Aus. 30 (By Cable).—The wages of all Soviet railway work- | ers have been increased on an average of 50 percent, as all the resources of the attack on the Chinese Soviets the Soviet railway systems were called into play to take care of the increased today by dispatching a gunboat to | traffic caused by the transportation of, the record new hdtvest. The daily average grain car loadings is 9,000 cars, as compared with 4,000 at this time last year. Occasionally. i Foe of | wrasemy | i Blood nt ee Prof. Alfonse Goldschmidt, noted German author and econo- | mist, who has arrived in New York to lecture under the pices of the National, Con tee to Aid the Victims of Ger- man Fascism and other anti- | Nazi organizations. WALL STREET | ported ready U.S. GUNBOAT SENT AGAINST CHINESE REDS Chinese Soviet Forces Lay Siege to Coal Fields; New Mexico Miners Out Big City WASHINGTON, Aug. 30—The| Wire Protests for the American government joined in| Workers’ Rights Foochow, at the mouth of the Min to Picket River, against the advancing Red) e Es at Army in northern Fukien province., GALLUP, New Mexico, Aug. Noe ae Poe ed ae ca |30.—Thousands of miners here to proceed up the| Struck, closing tightly the Al- Min River toward Yenping, which | lison, Gamerco, Mentmore, Soviet baal of the Chinese’ Southwestern and Mutual * * * |Mines, when the companies FOOCHOW, Aug. 30.—In a/rejected the demands of the| broad circling movement, the) National Miners Union pre-| Chinese Red army moved north of| fe sat * |Yenping, 90° miles northwest of | Sented simultaneously with 24 {here, which it captured two days| hours notice. ago, and laid siege to Kienning, | a city of 150,000, 20 miles to the north, The government military aythor- ities have called on the América: and Japanese consulates for as sistance, declaring their forces were not sufficient to protect Foo-| chow, an important seaport about midway between Shanghai and The mines are heavily picketed ne the 24-hour basi heriff Rob- jerts has called for troops, and Gov-| | ernor Seligman has ordered the mo- | bilization of two cavairy and one! hine gun regiment to be ready | 0 go within six hours. Brigadier General | Wood, head of the Na jand Ralph Davey, Labor Commis- | pa joner, have t hed to th By a brilliant maneuver, the Red Meike Gen sepsis (eae. aie | jarmy has divided the government|~ ,,, forces and consolidated itself in| The governor reputedly in-| the Yenping region. It started an|censed at the alleged NMU snub- | action in Swatow, far to the south| bing of the mediation efforts of of Fukien®* province, and after @’} Wood and Davy, because the NMU | quick march through | vrovince it invaded northern Fu-| kien, and captured two cities, | jof latest developme is absolutely necessary to mobilize a national protest against the threatened massacre and terror in | Utah. Osborne | off the strike. | No news has reached here yet ts in Utah. It CITY CUTS Threat Massarce in Utah HELPER, Utah, . 30.—Coal Kiangsi | demanded -they keep their hands | i were also steps forward made in separate conferences of delegates from the different industries, looking to united ac- tion of trade unions and minority groups upon industrial CASHES IN ON DAY LABOR tractor station in the Ukraine will begin plowing by electric power in the | Autumn. There will also be elu:trifi- cation of ensilage machinery, and ex- | operators, backed by armed United Mine Workers of America thugs, and deputy sheriffs with machine guns, supported by Governor Blood periments in the electro-mechanical milking of cows. “Isvestia,” the newspaper of the Soviet Government, today declares that the rising standards of living of the Soviet workers now make the use of semi-tropical products, includ- ing oranges, lemons, grape-fruit no Jonger a luxury, but a part of the daily life of the masses. ‘Isyestia” announces that the gov- ernment has appointed a commission to stimulate such production, and also |{ndustrial semi-tropical material such as rubber, vegetable oils, cork, and bamboo, which the Soviet Union need not import. “We must create our own Florida and California in -the Soviet Union in a short time,” it says. It points out that the Black Sea shores, the Caucasus, the area around the Cas- pian Sea and Central Asia are suit- able, and that, according to the de- cision of the Sixteenth Communist Party Congress about always growing the most valuable crop in any region, these areas must grow semi-tropical cultures, It point out that the development pt the state collective farms and Soviet-manufactured machinery make large scale semi-tropical agriculture Possible for the first time. Sun Shipyard Strike Ended; $4 Raise Granted to. Workers CHESTER, ‘Pa., Aug. 30.—After a of a few days the workers of the Sun Shipyard returned to work on Tuesday with a $4 a week wage increase, questions and the strike struggle. In all industries the pro- posed “codes” presented by the left wing unions of the TUUL were unanimously approved. In some industrial conferences, organizational questions were successfully dealt with, and steps taken towards uniting various groups and unions. Tn the Steel Conference there occurred the only serious conflict of policy which divided the main conference. Here a ismall group, led by delegate Cope of Pittsburgh and sup- ported by other members of the Conference for Progressive Labor Action, took the position that they could not support the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union because “there {e no guarantee that the steel workers will turn to it.and not te the A. F. of L.” It did not convince Cope that the Steel avid Metal Workers Industrial Union has organized over 7,000 steel workers in the last four weeks and won all the workers’ demands in six strikes—the first serious strikes in the steel industry since 1920. He thinks they must “wait and see” before they commit themselves to any definite actions. Dele- gate Cope represents those elements in the C. P. L. A. who place their own hesitations and indecisiveness as the weak- ness of the. masses instead of themselves, thus holding back. the masses instead of leading them forward. Where this po- sition ends was shown by Ryan, of the C. P. L. A., who signed the call for the Cleveland Conference but even before it was held, found his place among the A. F. of L. leaders who are ballyhooing for the NIRA. This was a serious weakness of ‘one section of the Conference, although the overwhelming majority of the Conference clearly approved the policy of ‘the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union. Hesitation in times like the present, when the workers are asking for a clear lead, is especially disastrous. * J IHE Cleveland Conference has laid a sound political foun- dation for building a fighting united front of the workers against the attacks of NIRA. Now the task is to carry this policy into bold and united action in every shop, in every locality. The workers in the A. F. of L. and the S. P., to- gether with the unorganized, must be rallied in hundreds of thousands behind this program. They must be united in a brotherly fighting united front. They must be mobilized against the misleaders of the A. F. of L. and the Socialist Party, who preach co-operation with the capitalist enemies in their attacks upon the workers’ standards of living. They . must be aroused against any hesitations and weakening in their own ranks, especially among those who assume the heavy responsibilities of leadership. They must be brought into powerful fighting trade unions and unemployed organi- Cleveland Conference \ CLEVELAND, Ohio.—A plan of é zations. poses of the NRA is addressed to all > Forward to th calariy" trade “unions and unem- ‘orward to the carrying into action of the decisions of q the Cleveland Conference! ; ed to a Setar. etaabed All A. F. of L., T.U.U.L., Independertt Unions, and Unorganized on NRA Baruch, Roosevelt’s Adviser, Made Fortune ‘Overnight, Is Rumor NEW YORK, Aug. 30.—The stock market leaped upward yesterday in the half hour during which it be- | came known that Roosevelt had lifted the ban on the export of unrefined | and newly-minted gold. Speculators reaped a golden harvest. Gold mining stocks especially be- | came the rich prizes for which the Wall Street professional traders fought. Homestake, the star pew former among the gold stocks, soared 16 points in 15 minutes, reaching a new high of $31 a share. All the other gold stocks also, Alaska Juneau, closing at 32, a price which is 300 per cent over the low of the year. Companies Get Higher Prices Experts figure that Roosevelt’s ruling will mean increased profits: of at least $25,000,000 a year, since the domestic gold companies can now sell their gold stocks at the world price | which is about $10 higher than the price fixed here by the Treasury. Insiders Profit It is common rumor that Roose- velt’s action has made new fortunes | for some of his elosest friends and advisers. Bernard Baruch, Roosevelt's closest financial adviser, often called the “assistant President of the Uni- ted States,” is reputed to hive made ;@ fortune. The samé is said to be true of former Secretary of the Treas- ury, Ogden Mills, William Randolph Hearst, E. L, Cord, and many other GOLD RULING 15 PER CENT ©: NRA officials, are preparing the |to repeat Ludlow massacre | sate against the thousands of e« | All Men on Day Rates Reduced to Five-Day min- |ers striking here at Spring Canyon |under the leadership of the Na- tional Miners’ Union. * Working Week code was’ adopted: an. Wath pton? at providing that the miners hi ; NEW YORK, Aug. 30.—All city right to join unions of the rtments c + hy cal “ticity ropes. a | were preparing for a bloody attack cutting the work week to five A Akal ; the miners to viet days, it-was learned today. |strike is directed ag This will mean reductions of at|ators for violating the agreement least $5.50 a week for those af-| with the NMU. fected, a cut of abowt 15 per cent.; Thousands of picket This is the first step in thie|on the line day and “economy” program of the City by the most desperate resi which the Tammany. administra- | tion hopes to pay the huge loans| to the bankers, without .at the same time cutting into the fat graft and large salaries of the favored Tammany officials. Other wage cuts among school teachers. engineers, etc. on the city’s pay- roll are openly predicted by city officials. Peter Grimm of the Untermeyer Commission for economy sugges- tions, has already said that no wage cuts will be considered “un- till. other means. have been ex- hausted. Then “we. are ‘sure,” he said, “the city employees will not object.” The present are staying (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) $13,000,000 Tied Up in Three New Bank Failures BRIDGEPORT, Conk: Aug. 30. —At the same time that rumors of increasing bank difficulties are coming into prominence, came today that three banks were before the announcement. The rumor deposits are tied up by the clos- was denied, ing of the banks. closed by the orde of the State} leading politicians and bankers, One| Bank Commission The banks prominent Wall Sirset broker was re-| are the Comm Bank, the} ported to have been in close touc! West Side Bi and the Amei-| with a close friend of Roosevelt, just/can bank. Abowt $18.000,090 in} On the very day that the coal] y, ight making | cials, qui | | | their | unions, be THREATEN MASSACRE OF UTAH COAL STRI LEWIS OK’S BOSSES’ PAY SCALE AND CHECK-0 Salute, NRA Style Fascist Gen. Johnson giving the salute, so Hitler-like which is charac- t ic of the NR. ve Richberg for Class Peace to Preserve Capitalists’ Profits Tells How He and Gen. Johnson Wrote the Labor Clause WASHINGTON, Aug. , 30.—Telling ow he and General Johnson were the chief authors of the labor sec- ve the | tions of the NRA, Donald Richberg, : OWN | chief counsél for the NRA, broad- jchoosing, the coal operators here | casting over a nationwide radio. hook- up last night, explained the pur- | to wipe out the NMU which has led | pose of the act Richberg said that his 30 years t the oper-| experience as a lawyer for manufac- merchants, coal and insur- as well as other and for union offi- turers, ance large Sprinkling his speech liberally with phrases about “freedom” and “duty,” Richberg sought to wipe out the deep impression made on workers by the arrest of ‘strike pickets by ex-Police | Chief Whalen under the NRA. He told the employers to forget “deep-sected” hatred of labor use under the NRA, all civil strikes would be wiped out. The labor organizations, he said, would be made partners .of. the investors, through goyernment supervision. “We are not fighting the battles of capital and labor,” said Richberg. “We are sceking not only to build news/up a machinery of cooperation but which may be more im- d lasting. We are seeking if-interest in cooperation, to demonstrate to employers and em- pleyes altke that they have more to. gain in commen counse) and united action than in contests of brute strength and economic power.” lified him to act as attor- | 5 ance, and| ney for the NRA in its efforts to are in no mood to surrender despite | establish “class peace.” Discuss Codes, N.M.U. Tells Miners; Form Committees Gunmen Hold Utah ‘Check-Off Gives Coal Operators a Knife to Slash Pay NMU Code Shows Up Lewis Treachery | Against Diggers WASHINGTON, Ang. 30. — Details of the coal code pub- lished yesterday, show that John L.Lewis and other UMWA officials completely abandoned their so-called wage demands, fully agreeing to the starva- |tion scale asked for by the coal operators. As against the $5-a-day, Lewis told the miners would be the scale in the coal cede. the code provides for wages as low as $4.20 a day in the South, $4.36 in West Virginia, and $4.60 in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Lewis has agreed to the 48-hour week, and eight-hour day, when he told the miners to expect a 30-hour ; week. | What NMU Demanded The miserable conditions in the | code adopted contrast sharply with the code presented and fought for by | the delegation of the National Min-) ers Union which went to the Wash- ington code hearings on August 9. The outstanding demands of the NMU was: “Basic dayoscale shall be a minimum of $6 for six-hours work | a day, and 5 days a week. A minimum of 40 weeks a year shall be guar- anteed to each miner. Tonnage rates shall be determined by a joint meet- ing of miners’ representatives and employers in each vein of coal.” Wage-cut Check-off At the same time, the code signed by Lewis opens the way for wage cuts through the check-off. The operators and Lewis very cleverly connected the check-off for UMWA dues with deductions for rent, light, powder, supplies “and other items.” In return for the right to deduct a rake-off for the UMWA officials, Lewis agreed to permit the coal oper- ators to take off of the miners pay any amount they could and cover it up by rent, and other means. By raising rent, and the cost of other supplies, the operators are given an effective means of reducing even the low wages agreed to in the code, It is distinctly provided that there | can be no check-off of dues, with- out other deductions. Against this the National Miners Union at the hearing demanded: “No check-off from the miner? pay to be made for rent, company insurance, or doctor, accumulated debts, ‘union’ dues, or anything else. The miners shall receive the'r full earnings and shall be paid every two weeks in U. S. Currency only.” ‘The National Miners Union foresaw that Lewis and the coal operators would permit the check-off in order to lower wages and warned the min= | ers against it, as well as called on the miners to fight it. The NMU now points out to the m' that the coal operators, work- ing with The UMWA machine, won this point. At the same time, the NMU points out that several of its demands, un- der pressure of the miner's strike, as well as the fear of the pending strike in the coalfields, were granted. They are: The miners shall have the right to a checkweighman of their own choos- ing, to inspect the weighing of coal, and the payment every two weeks in U. S. currency, though the opera~ tors are given the. right to pay in | { (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) 600 at Cleveland Meet Issues Manifesto to and unorganized. The Manifesto in full reads as follows: “To all American Federation of La- bor Unions; Railroad Brother- hood Lodges, Trade Union Unity Leagues Unions, Independent Unions and Unemployed Organi- zations; to the workers of the United States, organized and un- organized! “The over 600 representatives of trade unions—A. F. of L's, TUUL, in- dependent and of unemployed or- ganizations gathered in the confer- ence for United Action at Cleveland, are moved by the conviction that | being be r: etusly low these extraordinary times create an | standard o! .: i by emergency for the trade unions and/|the cedes ers are thus helped to smash the remnants of the |old wage standards. Hours of labor are not reduced to such a point that any substantial percentage of em- ployed can be given jobs. Stagger plan spreading work thinly than ever is being eniorced. “Where codes have bozn adopted, simployers are gu of 1 vio- cutting w c for the entire working class which demands ihe most earnest efforts to break down all barriers to a united struggle of the broadest masses in order to protect themselves from hunger and betrayal. “As the program of the New Deal unfolds, it becomes clearer each day that it brings no reiief, but rather incroasing misery for the workers. “Unemployment continues cn a vast scale. A nation-wide drive to cut down relief is on. The relof wages of the unemployed on public works are viciously reduced. Evic- tions and foreclosures multiply. “Under the codes enacted by the reovery administration, the nominal wages of a few workers in tne most sweated industries may, for the time “The small percentage’ of workers ‘who have been called back to jobs receive miserable wages and are subjected to a merciless speed-up. They slave mucli harder in order to if they were on relief. Adopt Plan ‘of United Struggle Against N. R. A. Present Plan of Action to Preserve Workers’ Rights, to Mobilize Unions for Struggles | Actually a | necessaries are forced upward by th more | government through inflation, price fixin ties | ‘ons of r for Higher Wages he g and destruction of commod so that real wages are heavily lown and st s in the fa “At the fert is b: 2 to take ell = out of the of the working class. A bitter of extermination against genuine fighting unions is being launched, un- der cover of the very act which sup- r | of th 'to use the NRA to enslave the work- | ers still further, to intensify their ex- | ploitation, and to withdraw from the | posedly guarantees the right to or- | workers all their democratic rights. While on the surface this attack is get but a pittance more in cash than | ganize and bargain collectively. “This was dramatically illustrated “Meantime prices of food and other | by the report from New York eo! (CONTINUED vation stares the |< ne time a’ gigansic c’- | , Better Conditions ceived in the very midst of our con= ference, stating that Grover Whalgn, |announced that NRA forbids strikes even “picketing in an orderly employers who have "0° Grover Whalen, of the true intention ot rulers of the U. S. A. ON PAGE THREE)