The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 1, 1933, Page 1

~~ . Is the Daily Worker on Sale at | Your Union Meeting? Your Club Headquarters ? (Section of the Communist International) America’s Only Working | | Class Daily Newspaper | WEATHER Eastern New York—Partly cloudy, Slowly Rising Temperature Friday. Vol. X, No. 210 = Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, Y., under the Act of March 8, 1879, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1933 _ (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents ww 'HE blood of two murdered Philadelphia hosiery strikers drips from the sharp beak of the Blue Eagle. High over the crags of Spring Canyon, Utah, the Blue Eagle is perched for another deadly assault, this time against thousands of striking miners led by the National Miners Union. One woman picket is already in the hospital, near death after being beaten to a pulp on the picket lines. In the Utah strike, which has already spread to New Mexico and is fast spreading to Colorado, over 10,000 miners are. involved. Governor Seligman declared martial law, and sent troops in to smash the strike. Gover@er Blood, whose name is a symbol of what the miners on strike now face, has shipped truckloads of machine guns, bayonets, tear gas bombs, and other deadly weapons to be used against the strikers. Terror, strikebreaking, arrests, attacks on pickets and picketing have become the outstanding feature of the NRA. All talk about workers’ rights, the right to join unions of their own choosing, have become mock- ery and irony in the face of what is actually happening. they voluntarily chose to do so. They signed an agreement with the oper- ators. ‘The coal operators, inspired by the NRA, smashed the agreement. The men struck to enforce the signed agreement, and were supported by 10,000 coal miners. * . . . r is here that the NRA steps in. Acting with NRA officials, coal oper- rators, state officials seek to drive the miners out of the union they have chosen to belong to; smash their right of striking and picketing. ‘The NRA in Utah is preparing another Ludlow massacre. This is what Roosevelt, Green and General Johnson mean when they call for “class peace.” They mean that under the NRA the whole machin- ery of the capitalist dictatorship will be used to smash the rights of the workers to strike for higher wages and improved conditions. “Woe to the workers who do not accept the starvation codes we write for them!” is the gist of all of Roosevelt’s speeches. Pare through the mass of lying, smooth, sweet phrases of Roosevelt and you will find the iron hand of the most ruthless capitalist attack on all workers. Grover Whalen, in his arrest of the six New York shoe pickets, expert in leading brutal attacks, correctly read the real intent of the NRA when he declared picketing (and therewith striking) illegal. The Cleveland United Action Congress at that time pointed out that ~ the attack on the shoe workers was but the opening wedge for an attack on the entire working class. On the day the Daily Worker printed the resolution, making it public for the first time, Judge Stone of New York declared picketing by 2,000 A. F. of L. New York bakers “a nuisance,” and against the NRA. rN ‘HE Blue Eagle has already tasted blood, and is arching for a new dart. What has happened is just the beginning. When the codes go into effect in auto, steel, coal, lumber, oil, the examples of terror, murder and outlewing of the workers’ rights such as we see now.in Utah, New York and Philadelphia; Will” Become petty by comparison, Only the mass resistance of the workers now can ward off a rapid movo ds open fascist attacks. Every battle lost now will count sinst the workers. A united front, to defend the workers’ rights, to fight for the right to strike and picket, against murder and terrer, is the most outstanding need of the whole American working class. ‘THE CLEVELAND CONFERENCE HAS LED THE WAY. Blue Eagles flood the country and are becoming to the American workers what the swastika is to the German workers. Smash their beaks and clip their claws: & The 19th Year ] 'N 1915, amid the roar of the cannon of the fierce imperialist struggle tn | the last World War, the voice of the working class youth was raised | in the mighty ery of “Down with Imperialist War! Long Live the Intér- || national Unity of the Working Class Youth.” In open break with the war-supporting leadership of the Second (Socialist) International, various young Socialist organizations hurled this | defiant challenge to the capitalist war-mongers at the Berne Youth Con- gress and established International Youth Day as a day of world-wide | unity of the toiling youth in the struggle against war. | Today, throughout the entire world, great masses of working class youth will demonstrate against the new imperialist war which is being | propared, and for the defense of the Soviet Union in the nineteenth | obccrvance of International Youth Day. | ‘Today i is the Young Communist International which rallies the | youth in carrying on the heroic traditions of the Berne Congress. And teday throughout the United States thousands of youth will demonstrate | against the hunger and war program of the “New Deal’ Roosevelt gov- | ernment under the leadership of the Young Communist League, U.S, A. | Hundreds of these mass meetings will mark the determined struggle | against the reforestation (war training) camps, military training in the | | LS schools and all the other schemes of the government to ensnare the young workers in the imperialist war machine. International Youth Day will mobilize the masses of youth in support | of the World Youth Congress Against War which will. be held in Paris | on September 22. This significant congress will be the first international youth congress against war since the Berne Congress. Hail 19th International Youth Day! For the International Solidarity of Ail Young Workers Under the Red Banner of the Young Communist International! Demonstrate Today Against Imperialist War and for the Defense of the Soviet Union! Silence and Massacre ILENCE has been clamped down on news of the Utah-New Mexico coal strike of 10,000 miners as effectively as if Roosevelt had ordered national censorship. One of the most stirring battles of American labor history is grip- ping those states, and only the Daily Worker has reported the news. * Utah is an armed camp. Cavalry, artillery and machine gun outfits are moving in for an attack against the New Mexico miners. All in the era of the NRA. Not since the Ludlow massacres in Colo- rado in 1912, when the gunmen of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company swept the tent camp with their deadly machine gun fire has the situa- tion been so tense in a strike struggle. Yet not a peep is uttered in the capitalist press. ‘Telegraphic reports of this struggle which pour into the newspaper offices are thrown in the waste basket. Roosevelt's drive against the workers under the NRA must be blanketed with the appearance of “peace,” even if if be the peace of the graveyard. . Unless there are immediate protests from all workers’ organizations to Governor Blood of Utah, Governor Seligman of New Mexico and Presi- ent Roosevelt, many miners will be murdered. - . * | QMASH through the stone wall of silence set up by the capitalist press! a’ Rush funds for relief and defense, Let every worker know what is happening in Utah and New Mexico. ‘Those regions are now the main battle front of every worker feeling the smashing attack of the NRA, Fascist terror rules there, and if mass resistance from all parts of the country is not directed against it, it will spread like a cancer to all paris of the country. Symptoms of it are already appearing everywhere. Send your protests now! i Ne The Utah miners joined the National Miners Union. By thousands | WALL STREET ASKING NEW CITY TAXES oe =] ae n es a pa a ae en | S 3 5 i) f=} Sq Keep. Promise of New Revenue NEW YORK, Aug. 31—In a sharp note to the city administra- tion, the Rockefeller and Morgan bankers who hold the city’s loans, | today demanded the fulfillment of \the Tammany promise that in- creased revenues would be raised through new taxes. | The banks have refused to lend the $74,000,000 asked by the city officials until the promised taxes are levied. It is expected that the city administratiog will comply in |the near future, using; in all prob- ability the power to increase the Sales Tax just granted it by the State Legislature. | Having paid out August payrolls, the City is now faced with the alternative of stopping salary pay- |ments September 15, or meeting | the $8,467,000 in interest payments to the bankers. The city wants to borrow $10,- 000,000 from the bankers immedi- ately, in order to pay off the in- terest due on Friday. Hunger March Meet Held in Front of the Chicago World Fair 10,000 March for 25% Relief Raise CHICAGO, Il, Aug. 30—A Hunger March of 10,000 Negro and white workers to City Hall ending with a demonstration in front of the Century of Progress, took place jhere today. Six weeks ago a simi- ‘lar demonstration at the same place was broken up by the police, ‘The marchers eected a broad dele- gation of several organizations headed by Karl Lockner, leader of the Unemployed Council, to present the demands of the Hunger March ‘\to the city officials. Lockner later | teported to the demonstration that | Corporation Counsel Secton, who met the delegation, agreed to a |meeting Friday at the Illinois | Emergency Relief Commission, 10 | La Salle St. This meeting is to give | practical realization of Secton’s | promises to improve some of the | conditions of the unemployed. Demands of the marchers were! Immediate 25 per cent increase in relief; adoption of the Workers’ City Relief Ordinance; betterment of flophouse conditions and en- dorsement of the Workers Unem- | ployment Insurance Bill. Liberty Square, which directly fronts the Centuury of Progress, was massed with workers. Speakers addressing them had splendid op- portunity to point to the Century of Progress which under NIRA re- duces the workers to the lowest levels of starvation and misery. The speakers included, David Poindexter, Negro leader of the Unemployed Council; Sullivan of the Workers Unemployed League; Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker; Bill Gebert of the Communist Party, and Nina Spies, aged widow of one of the Haymar- ket riot victims. The Federation of the Unem- | ployed addressed a letter to the Chicago Workers Committee on Unemployment’ proposing a joint delegation to present the demands at the Relief Commission meeting on Friday. A large number of work- ers from the Borders Committee participated in the march, although S His Trial Sept. 21 Ernst Torgler Counsel from Saar To Attempt To Act in Torgler Defense 500 in Jail for Saying Communist Leaders Are Innocent . 31.—Dr. SAARBRUCK, _ Aug. Sender and Dr. Lehman, lawyers | of Saarbruck, have left -for Leip- sig to attempt to act as defense attorneys at the Reichstag fire trial which opens three weeks from today. The Nazi court cannot reject them as “foreigners,”. since Ger- many claims the Saar region, which is under control of the League of Nations until 1935, nor can they be made subject to Nazi terrorism without raising a for- mal protest by the other powers interested in supporting the Ver- sailles treaty which makes the Saar international territory. All non-German lawyers have been forbidden to act as defense counsel for Ernst Torgler, George Dimitroff, Blagoi Popoff, Vassil Taneff, and probably other Com- munist defendants at the framed- up trial for the fire by which the Nazis themselves burned down the Reichstag on February 27. More than 5C0 Germans are in prison on the sole charge of ex- pressing the opinion that the Communists were not guilty of the Reichstag fire. The date of the trial of Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the German Communist Party is charged with “high treason,” has not yet been set. He is kept in prison where the Nazis are se¢king by torture to break him down men- tally and physically. Jailed ‘Daily’ Seller in Lynn Found Guilty by Court; Fined $20 LYNN, Mass., Aug. 31—Thomas Torigian, Daily Worker seller, who was brutally attacked and beaten by police here yesterday when he re- fused to “move ce,” was found guilty on charges of “refusing to move” and “assaulting an officer” in court today. Torigian was fined $20. ‘The local International Labor De- fense, which is handling Torigian’s defense, has appealed the case and announced that a mass protest is under way. New War Minister To Discipline Cuban Army HAVANA, Aug. 31.—In an effort to stiffen discipline in the Cuban_army, which has been deeply influenced by the revolutionary workers and pea- sants, D. C. Pockorny was replaced as Minister of War and the Navy by Colonel Horacio Ferrer, who held that post under Presidents Zayas and Menocal, officially Borders refused to par- ticipate. Fired After 17 NEW YORK.—Lou Burnstein, em- ployed for 17 years as a bookkeeper at the Colonial Dye Works, 501 E. 22nd St., just off the East River, yes- terday leaped to his death under, the wheels of a Lexington Ave, subway express train at 125th St. Burnstein was fired recently after his wages had been repeatedly cut. 8 8 PHILADELPHIA, Pa—A_ striker was shot when the police, whose brutality to workers is well known, Pockorny was made Minister of Agriculture, Commerce, and Labor. Years, Worker Leaps to Death in Subway fired’ into the picket line in front of the Howard Cleaning Oo. at Lansdowne. The bloody police meth- ods will not crush the strikers’ spirit to fight on until they gain their de- mands, * * * HARTFORD, Conn.—The strike at the Colonial Cleaners’ and Dyers’ shop, which was declared on Tues- day, August 28, has paralyzed all production. Reports come . from =-rtford of a possible preparation for aneral strike. | this morning PHILA. STRIKE Workers Fired Upon from an Overturned | Truck of Scabs | PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Aug. 31— Two pickets were murdered and at last 18 other strikers were wotnded when police opened fire on a picket line of workers of the Cambria Ho- siery mill who have been on strike for. eight weeks. The two slain workers are Clem H. Norwood and/ Frank Milnor. The shooting occurred when the strikers, numbering 2,800, prepared | to prevent any strikebreakers from | taking their jobs, overturned a truck | containing 14 scabs which was be-| ing protected by police. Shots were | fired from under the truck and killed one of the workers instantl; the other died in the hospital later. | Police disclaimed all knowledge of those who did the shooting. The strikers, in a pitched battle | which followed, militantly defended | themselves against police attacks, smashing the hated Blue Eagles fly- ing in the windows of the sweatshop | plant. | Many hosiery and textile mills in the city were forced to close when workers left the mills to join in a |der of the two picketers. The Cam- not try to rédpen the plant? Cleam M. Norwood had been work- ing Mere since he came to this city from North Carolina seven years ago. | Beside his widow, three small children | | survive him. } The occupants of the truck were placed under police guard when it | Was learned Norwood had been Killed, and later they were removed to a police station, ; | Protest meetings are being ar- \ranged in Kensington and tif work- |ers of the entire city are being mob- ilized to participate in the funeral by the Trade Union Unity League and the Communist Party. Mayor’ Sneaks Away | to Avoid Protests of Union Delegation | \Secretary Pleads Ig-| norance of Mayor O’Briens Plans | NEW YORK.—Mayor O’Brien was| seen sneaking out the back door of his office yesterday when the del- egation of 10 workers representing | more than 50,000 came for the sec- ond time to City Hall with the de- mand that the Mayor repudiate} Grover Whalen’s statements. His secretary, Fox, told the dele- | gation the Mayor had just left for lunch. After keeping them waiting for an hour he called in Henry Shep- | hard, chairman of the delegation representing the TUUC, and told him the Mayor had left to go out of town. x Shephard then pointed out to the | secretary that this was a clear cut evasion; that he hadn't said a word about the Mayor's proposed out of town trip when he was phoned early The resolution drawn up by the .delegation of workers from the shoe, metal, furniture, furrier, needle, to- bacco (who have declared a gene“al strike) food and celluloid, industrial unions demanded: that the Mayor and city administration immediately repudiate the statement of Whalen and instructions be given to the po- lice department to stop interfering with any strike pickets; and that the local NRA cease interfering with the right of the workers to choose their own form of organizations, . Browder’s Speech at ClevelandConference on Page Three Today The speech delivered by} Earl Browder, national sec-| retary of the Communist Party of the United States,) at the national trade union conference recently held in Cleveland, is printed in full demonstration in protest at the mur- | | Tria, sill) otizier also. stated be would. 4, | was raised by the judge in his sweep- Drive Against Picket Woll Attack on Shoe TWO KILLED Issues. Sweeping BY POLICE IN Injunction Agains A.F.of L. t Members Began Witi Whalen-| Union in “Red” Cry; Green Says He Is Surprised” | NEW YORK.—Whalen’s arrest of six striking shoe pickets under the NRA has opened @ furious attack on 2,000-striking bakery workers with the icsuance of a sweeping anti-picketing injunction by Supreme Court Justice | Selah B. Strong Wednesday in Brooklyn. 5 | Judge Strong declared picketing illegal under the NRA. $ The 2,000 bakers, members of Lo- | cal 505 and 509 of the Confectionery | Workers Internatienal Union, affil-| iated to the American Federation of | Labor, are fighting against a vicious wage cut, and for the renewal of their wage contract which expired | in May. So vicious was the judge’s attack on the workers, that he cited their lawyer, Matthew M. Li for con- ‘a public nuisance and absolutely | Seka decision granting an the bosses. Following the language used in the automobile code, approved by Wil- liam Green and John L. Lewis of the A. F. of L., Judge Strong said: “It is the privilege of every Amer- ican to work in an unmolested man- ner and for whom and at such times as he may choose.” Judge Strong had been dragging injunction to The vicious injunction against dissenting expression.” That is now happening. Only to smash this injunction, to force can beat back the attack. ' Cleveland Conference Called for United Struggle Against NRA Anti-Picket Action bears out the necessity of all workers uniting to beat back the attack | on workers’ rights which was made in an appeal issued by the | Cleveland United Action Conference, held in Cleveland Aug. 26-27. At the time Whalen ordered the arrest of the six shoe pickets, the | | Cleveland Conference declared: “While on the surface this attack is-ninred’merely against the so-called ‘ted’ unions, experience both in | the U. S. A. and elsewhere has clearly demonstrated that it will swiftly develop into a fascist attack upon all the trade unions and all the 2,000 A. F. of L. bakers fully a united struggle of all workers the right of picketing and strike, tempt of court When he tried to pre- sent the workers’ side of the case. | Not even the shield of Communism | ing order declaring picketing against the law, and particularly against the | NRA, The appeal for an injunction was made by the Specialty Bakery Own- ers of America, owners of 400 bakery shops. Everything the bosses asked for was granted, and all of the 2,000 workers’ Tace arrest if they pitket or carry on a militant strike against wage cuts. he NRA gave+ “an oppor- | tunity to settle their differences un-| der the act. This it seems is im-| possible.” He therefore declared picketing il- legal and threatened imprisonment if the A. F. of L. workers continued to picket. “The placing of pickets is done with an object, namely to annoy and cre- ate a nuisance,” said the judge in his | strikers in front of the Elcoe Shoe the case along, waiting for some hint | on how to act under the NRA. Whal- en left no doubt for him when he| ordered the arrest of the six shoe} Co, The shoe strikers were in the Shoe Workers Industrial Union. At} that time Whalen said that Com- munists were. in the forefront of | picketing, and that under the NRA} all picketing was illegal. After this precedent, Judge Stone made his de- cision against the A. F. of L. bakers. The responsibility for the original | arrests of the shoe pickets for pick- eting under the NRA-~ rests with Whalen and Matthew Woll, vice- president of the A. F. of L, Whalen | did not issue his order for arrests until after he conferred with the A. F. of L. head. In Washington, William Green de- clared that the order of Judge Stone “surprised” him, “I can’# under- stand this decision,” Green said. He said that he assumed the’ La- bor Advisory Board of the NRA “would take it up.” Finger-Printing | of All Workers Is | Copeland Plan WASHINGTON, Aug. 31—A law| ywoviding for nation-wide,universal + finger-printing will be introduced at the next session of Congress, Senator Copeland of New York declared to- day. This is one of the major results of the study. made by the Senate Committee against racketeering. Sup- posedly to be used against criminals of the underworld, many of the speeches of the members of the committee make it clear that this universal espionage is directed against revolutionary workers, Street Buses to Replace Trolley Lines, Board Says NEW YORK, Aug. 31.—Eight years after Mayor Walker made an election promise “to put buses on the streets of Manhattan within sixty days,” the Board of Estimate voted yesterday to replace the trolley lines with buses. ‘Two companies will get all the bus franchises, both controlled by Samuel | Rosoff, subway builder, and Tammany | man, The fare will be five cents, with an extra charge of two cents for trans- fers, ‘The buses must all be on the streets within a yeer and half. WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.—Just as the government pays for the de- sixuction of cotton, wheat, and hogs, so it should pay for the shoot- ing of milk cows, Mrs. Cornelia Bryce Pinchot declared to the Ag- ricultural Adjustment Administra tion yesterday. Mrs. Pinchot, wife of the rich “liberal” Pennsylvania governor, asserted that the situation of the Pennsylvania farmers was “criti- cal” and that destruction of the “surplus” of cows was imperative on page 8 today. to keep the farmers from losing their farms baad Shooting of Milk Cows Suggested by Mrs. Pinchot The effect of this proposal, if addpted, will be to raise even fur- ther the already advancing costs of milk in the cities. Mrs.” Pinchot made no attack} aBainst the extortionate profits | made by the Milk Trusts at the ex- pense of both the farmers and the city consumers of milk. The $8,000 a year leader of the Interstate Milk Producers Assn. in Pennsylvania has also proposed the killing of one-third of the milk JUDGE USES NRA TO FORBID PICKETING OF 2,000 BAKERS Blood on the Blue Eagle’s Beak| Martial Law Rules in N ew Mexico Coal Strike ® ‘Send Troops When ‘Strike Closes Down | Mine DespiteGuards {Utah Miners Firm in Face of Threats of Massacre GALLUP, N. M., Aug. 31.— Despite the most vicious terroi’ and the arrests of leaders sf the N.M.U., the strike of tiw coal miners begun at Helper, Utah, is rapidly spreading through- out Utah and New Mexico with all of the Colorado coal miners in ¢ ferment, ready to join the str Governor Seligman of New Mex> ico yesterday declared martial law in McKinley County where thou- sands of miners, under the leader- ship of the NMU, are striking for union recognition and a series of demands for improvement of their conditions. The governor sent two artillery, two cavalry and one machine gun | outfit to the strike area at 6 o’clock yesterday. Utah is already an arm- |ed camp with hundreds of miners in jail, and repeated bloody attacks on the picket lines. The reasons given by Governor Seligman for sending troops is that |property was threatened, and the water and light supply systems were threatened because of lack of coal. The governor is inquiring of | |General Johnson whaf the National Miners Union is. Gallup officials declared the sit- uation is beyond their control, when a thousand miners broke through the terror and closed the Gamerco mine, despite the presence of 50 armed deputies guarding the mine. The Gamerco mine is the largest and most powerful mine in this sec- tion. Four hundred members of the NMU local attended the meeting and voted for the strike call which closed the mine down 100 per cent. The governors of Utah, New Mexico and Colorado, together with the NRA officials in Washington are co-operating in an effort to smash the strike, and all have mo- bilized armed forces against the miners. In Helper, Utah, hundreds of miners are in jail) Many leaders of the NMU have been arrested. Utah is like an armed camp with the well-armed gunmen spoiling for a massacre attack on the picket lines. Charles Guynn, and Charles Wetherbee district secretary of the NMU who were arrested by the armed thugs and are in danger of their lives, are held under $5,000 bonds, on the charge of rioting: Over 10,000 miners are involved |in the strike, and more than 4,000 carry NMU cards. It is for this rea- son that the attacks on the -picket |}ines have been so vicious. The op- jerators originally had an agree- |ment with the NMU. The strike started when the bosses broke the agreement. Mass picketing, including women, is going on at the mines beginning at 5:30 in the morning; and in some instances picketing goes on all night. The entire Utah and New Mexico coal fields are joining the strike, and the strike now threatens to tie up the Colorado coal fields where the miners are aroused by the Utah and New Mexico strike. The Colorado State Industrial Commission is rushing commission- ers into the northern and southern coal fields in an effort to head off {the strike. They are using the same tactics used by. the NRA and John L. Lewis in the Pennsylvania strike. The strike area covers a tre- mendous distance, and with the ex- treme terror and the wholesale ar- rests of leaders, as well as ship* (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO). Wire Protests Now ~ to Utah, N. Mexico Telegrams of protest against troops and armed attacks on the miners should be sent immediately to Governor Blood of Utah, Gov- ernor Seligman of New Mexico, and Pres'dent Roosevelt, demanding the right to strike for the miners, and the right to join unions of their own choosing. The miners are desperately tn need of relief and funds for defense. The capitalist papers have been _ censoring news from the Utah and New Mexico coal fields. Unless de- fense funds are sent in immediately, the strike will be greatly hampered. All workers are urged immediately to rush funds by wire to G. Kaplan, International Labor’ Defense, Room. 209, 1515 Larimer St., Denver, Colo, The money will be immediately cows. The smaller farmers would suffer losses under these proposals. transmitted to the strike front. —oooOoOoo Ais 4 yr