The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 5, 1933, Page 1

Is the Daily Worker on Sale at Your Union Meeting? Your Club Headquarters? (Section of the Communist International ) Vol. X,No.218 <= Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1933 The Clank of Arms 1 ea Capitalist powers today give forth a chorus of snarls, behind which, louder every day, can be heard the clanking of arms, At this moment Hitler is drumming up the war spirit in Germany with unprecedented fury, and threatening Austria. Only a few weeks ago his government offered a memorandum to the powers at the London Economic Conference publicly inviting them to join in dividing up the western section of the Soviet Union. ‘The great powers of the capitalist world are threatening each other more openly than ever before in history, and building armaments more furiously than ever before. The United States has taken the lead in the world race to become the most formidably armed power of all. IN the midst of these seething coriflicts, only the Soviet Union carries on a calm, alert, unshakable policy of peace, while with a heroism un- equalled in history it is building a new society, a socialist society. In the thieves’ kitchen of capitalist nations, the Soviet Union takes no sides. But as an expression of its invincible will to peace it is sealing pacts of non-aggression with every capitalist power that will accept such a pact. Such treaties, which do not guarantee peace, but make its breach | at least more difficult for the capitalist bandits, exist now between the | Soviet Union and most of its neighbors. One has also been signed with France, and now another is signed with Italy. The Soviet Union expresses no love for the capitalist powers when it signs these treaties. It does express its readiness to declare its peaceful aims in the most public manner, which a capitalist world allows. As “Izvestia,” official organ of the Soviet Government, declares: “The U.S.S.R. wishes peace with all, making no distinction whether ® power is pursuing its capitalist policy under the banner of bourgeois democracy or Fascism.” Whether it is Pilsudski or Roosevelt, MacDonald or Mussolini, the leaders of the capitalist countries reveal one policy, and that is the policy of war. The Soviet Union will do everything in is power to make it more difficult for all of them to make war. In so doing the Soviet Union expresses in a powerful way its solidarity with the workers of all capitalist countries, whose rulers are feverishly preparing to drive them to battle and slaughter. We must respond by building the United States Congress Against War, which will be held Sept. 29 to Oct. 1 in New York, with hundreds of worker delegates from the trade unions and especially from the basic industries, to make the Congress too a powerful expression of working class struggle against war, Bullets Come First the Roosevelt public works program, bullets come first. Thus far, out of the only one and half billion that have been spent the lions share has gone to the Army and Navy—$238,000,000 to the Navy and at Teast $10,000,000 to the Army. To conceal the bayonets and bullets that pierce through the fraudulent public works program, Administrator of the Public Works Funds, Ickes, yesterday announced that the Government has finally gotten around to the thought of real public works—slum clearance. But examination discloses that this is just d@mother one of Ickes’ periodic speeches to conceal the increasingly obvious fact that the Reose- velt public works program is a war building program. The whole plan is a a fraud. But the true value of Ickes’ promises to turn over a new leaf in the administration of the public works funds can be gauged by the discreet announcement printed yesterday morning that Secretary of War Dern, has requested $140,000,000 from the Public ‘Works Fund. And expects to get it quickly. For the Roosevelt government, bullets come first. The Charter of the Open Shop \N Labor Day, while William Green was rallying the workers to embrace the chains that are drawn about them under the NRA, Henry I. Har- riman, president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, issued the war cry of the employers, with the NRA as a main weapon, for the open shop. On Sept. 2, fittingly enough, both Green and Harriman simultaneously issued statements praising the NRA. The Herald Tribune reported the event as follows: : “Both William Green, president of the A. F. of L., and Henry I. Har- riman, president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, in statements prefacing the advent of Labor Day, hailed the NRA program today as yielding signs of real progress out of the depression.” Green and Lewis worked with the auto bosses in preparing the open shop drive of the scab bosses, They gave it their approval. They knew it would mean making the NRA the charter of the open shop. A FEW facts. Originally the auto code clause on the open shop read: “Under the foregoing provisions any employer in the industry may operate under an OPEN SHOP policy, which is hereby defined to mean the selection, retention and advancement of employees on the basis of individual merit...” ‘ This was too much of a give-away for Green. He was willing to give the auto bosses the open shop. So the first part about the open shop was struck out. The second part Green OK’d—and OK’ing the open shop for the auto industry he knowingly, wilfully, agreed to it for every basic industry in the country. Lest Green, in the rising anger of the workers, tries to swallow his approval, we record here some evidence of his connivance with the scab bosses to give the NRA its penetrating edge of the open shop. On Aug. 28, every capitalist newspaper in the country published a statement by Donald Richberg, counsel for the NRA, reading: “The Labor Advisory Board (headed by Green and Lewis) approved the code (auto code) as signed by the President.” _ Along with this approval, Green and Lewis signed another statement. ‘The erassness of this statement is contained in the fact that % showed @reen and Lewis recognized that the auto code would be used as a preeedent for the open shop for all industries. Ne See teh stasement said they approved the open shop for the auto industry with the understanding that it “does not establish a precedent to be followed in any other code.” It has become more than a precedent. It has become a weapon to the open shop with the support of the NRA. What did Green and have in mind when they wrote it could not become a precedent? knew it would become a precedent, beeause the very “impartiality” that Green stressed in the NRA would make it imperative that a weapon handed to one boss should be available to all to attack the workers. ‘The open shop now bears the dual label of the A. F. of L. leadership and the NRA. For Workers’ Rights T the Cleveland United Action Conference, a committee was elected to ' organize a united front to fight for the preservation of the workers’ tights in the face of the attacks under the NRA, ‘The main imcident which inspired this move was Whalen’s order to merest striking pickets, as a test to outlaw picketing under the NRA. As Whe Cleveland Conference pointed out, this would be followed by an attack all workers’ righta, 4 Slums can wait, There soon followed the injunction against the 2,000 striking A. F. L. bakers, the murderous assault on the Philadelphia strikers, arid virtual civil war mobilization of the National Guard and company gun thugs against the New Mexico and Utah strikers. Wednesday, at 2 P.M., at 4 West 12th Street, a conference of repre- sentatives of trade unions and other @ nationwide united front struggle for organizations will be held to plan workers’ rights. struggle 5,000 S teel Wo Son of Roosevelt Calls for Training 50,000 War Pilots NEW YORK, Sept. 4.—Elliott Roosevelt, son of President Roose= velt, demands that the govern- ment train 50,000 air pilots for use in war, in a copyright article published today in all the Hearst papers. “There are 15,000 pilots in this country and 700 of them have jobs'” he writes, and declares that the government should “abolish the organized labor in the pilot profession,” put all civilian pilots on the officers’ reserve list, pay their wages, and train them and many more for war. CITY PLANS INCREASED WATER RATES Other Levies on Gas, Electricity, Will Fall Heaviest on Workers NEW YORK, Sept. 4.—Determined at» all costs to pay the huge loans to Wall Street banks without cut- ting into the enormous plundering of the city treasury by the high of- fice holders, the city Tammany ad- ministration today announced a pro- gram of new taxes to be levied in the immediate future. Will Hit Poor Shrewdly calculated to conceal the fact that the new tax program will ultimately fall heaviest upon the poorest section of the population, the Tammany tax program announced by the famous Tammany Board of Strategy headed now by Samuel Un- termeyer, is tentatively announced as follows: An increase of 50 per cent in water rates. A five cent tax on all taxi rides. A general tax on the gross earnings of the utility companies, A general tax on earnings of brokerage houses. Close examination of the proposed program, which it is said will raise between $50,000,000 and $125,000,000 of new revenue, reveals that the pro- taxes: on the utilities and brokerage houses are beset by legal and practical difficulties, while the taxes on water rates and taxi rides can be easily enforced. The Tammany officials admitted that the water rate increase will in- evitably cause higher rents for all dwellings, particularly tenements. The taxi imposts will fall heaviest i i Picatinny Arsenal To Receive $60,000 for Munitions Production ordered for the Picatinny Arsenal here, for ammunition production purposes. ‘This is in line with in- demands of regular army bes for stocking up on war sup- PI HURRICANE NEARS FLonipa warning against ond thes, New British Navy Budget Reported at $227,000,000 |Dern Asks $140,000,000 for U. S. Army— | France, Germany, Make War Threats—U.S. Anti-War Congress Must Be Answer , | LONDON, Sept. 4. — The London press yesterday reported that the | British government will present a bill calling for 50,000,000 pounds ($227,- | | 000,000 today) for building new warships and increasing the navy enlistment | | by 10,000 men, when Parliament meets this fall. This is to be Great Britain’s response to America’s $238,000,000 and | *Japan’s $160,000,000 naval | retary Dern has asked the Public uu traue PM R, Bambarger, white rs building programs. Anoter report announces that in recent months the airports of Eng- land have been greatly increased, and that there are now 3,000 of them, eo ecee U. S. War Departments Asks $140,000,000 WASHINGTON, Sept. 4—War Sec- Works administration for $140,000,000, for new equipment for the army. Of this sum $40,000,000 is for 500 new airplanes, $60,000,000 to motorize and mechanize the army, and $40,- 000,000 for army housing. oe French Minister Rattles Sabre ‘TREBEURDEN, France, Sept. 4.— While Hitler’s Nazis were roaring their hatred of Marxists, Jews and all foreigners at their Nuremberg congress, Joseph Paul-Boncour, For- eign Minister of France, was rattling the sabre at this seaport of Brittany at the dedication of a monument to Aristide Briand, his predecessor, Declaring that Austria, the target of intense Nazi propaganda, must re- main independent, he declared that | “France is strong enough to resist all attempts at violence.” He called Premier Edouard Dala- dier’s recent inspection of France’s $100,000,080 fortifications along the German ‘border a “fitting response to attitudes that profoundly trouble the atmosphere of peace.” . «8 6 France Tests War Equipment PARIS, Sept. 4—France is testing out for the first time a completely motorized cavalry unit, which is maneuvering in the Champagne dis- trict, at the scene of many battles in the World War. Seventen thousand men are in the field. * Nazis Build War Fever BERLIN, Sept. 4.—Gas mask pa- rades are seen almost every day in every city in Germany. Billboards, trees, even the entrances to apart- ment houses all over Germany are plastered with signs which read “Air defense is self defense.” i Lectures on war are given every | day. The whole population of Ger-| many is bombarded with war prep-| aration propaganda unprecedented | in its intensity. After a recent mock | air raid over Munich, at which planes dropped streamers weighted | with sandbags in place of bombs, a “commission of experts” announced that if the streamers had been bombs the whole old section of the city would have been destroyed, $i) ee NEW YORK.—The United States Congress Against War meets in New York, Sept. 29 to Oct. 1. At this Congress workers elected by trade unions and other working class or- ganizations will declare the unshak- ie opposition of American workers war, America’s Only Working | Class Daily Newspaper | | Gopher |) J WEATHER WEATHER: Eastern New York Fair Tuesday. "Price 3 Cents (Six Pages) p igecears aan STEEL, METAL VOTE DOWN UNION LEADS MELLON'S TJtah Head at THE MARCH CO. UNION: Crack Open Tradi- tional Steel Trust Company Town AMBRIDGE, Pa., Sept. 4.— Sweeping down the streets of Ambridge, notorious town of company unions and _ tradi- tional fortress of the Steel ‘Trust, over five thousand steel work- ers marched today in a parade a mile and half long, the largest dem- onstration of steel workers in the history of the town. Not since the heroic fight during the great steel strike of 1919, has such fighting spirit heen seen here. The parade was organized and led by the Steel and Metal Workers In- dustrial Union. Leading the thou- sands of marching workers were John Meldon, Jimmie Egan, Pat Cammor, William Heinzl, and Charles Young, |Cided for the right to belong to a| all leaders of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union. Carry Banners For two solid hours, the ranks of the steel workers moved through the town, with banners flung high. At the head of the march, a tremendous banner, carried by scores of steel | workers, proclaimed in huge letters the slogan, “Join the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union. Greeted by Applause As the Ambridge Italian Band of twenty sent the sound of revolution- ary music echoing through this steel trust town, the workers who lined the route of march burst into applause. Over five hundred copies the “Daily Worker? were sold-along the line of the parade. The officials of the American Fed- eration of Labor were conspicuous by their abs2nce. Mingled with the marchers were hundreds of women and children, the families of the steel workers. Victorious Strikers Join A particularly inspiring moment came when big truckloads of victori- ous steel strikers from the McKees- port plant turned into the main line of march. Wave upon wave of ova- tion greeted these steel workers who had fought their recent strike to a successful conclusion. Joining in solidarity with the steel marchers, were five union locals; the local of the National Etectric Com- pany, number 102; the Central Tube Local, number 101; the Seamless Tube Local, number 103; McClintic- Marshall Local, number 104; the A. M. Byers Local, number 105. Workers of the J. and L. Alliquippa Company also marched, Significantly, hundreds of steel workers of the “independent union” of the U. S, Steel American Bridge Works—joined the historic march. Strike Developing The parade ended with a big mass meeting, and with dancing and the serving of refreshments at the Union headquarters, Not only Ambridge, but all the sur- rounding steel towns felt the thrill- ing effect of the parade. The fighting spirit of the workers is higher than ever, and a strike situation is rapidly developing. of | Workers Reject Plan of Aluminum Trust by 2,779 to 810 PITTSBURG Pa., Sept. 4.—An- | drew Mellon’s company union plan | proposed to the workers at the New Kensington plant of the Aluminum ; Company of Am a, owned by the | Mellons, was defeated yesterday by | a vote of 2,779 to 810. | The 810 who voted for the company |union comprised foremen, managers, | guards, stool pig The workers | voted almost solidly against the com- | pany union. | For days, the Mellon officials had j tried to terrorize the workers into | accepting the company union plan. | Indirect threats of discharge were jmade. The men were not sure the | ballots were not marked. But in | spite of this they overwhelmingly re- \Sected the company’s union and de- | | | union of their own choosing. ‘Dallas Organizer ‘Tortured and Then | Murdered in Jail Giant Mass Protest M nesday Night DALLAS, ‘Texas.—Crushed eyes !and cheekbones, electricity burn on the body of T. E. Barlow, Communist | Party organizer, prove that he was deliberately murdered after being ar- rested at the relief stoppage demon- stration last Thursday. The demonstration was held the day before the announced relief stop- page affecting more than 6,000 work- ers was to go into effect. Barlow was arrested together with H. W. McComb and E. E. Hardy and rush- ed away to the city jail. From there they were transferred to the county jail and held incommunicado. Com- rades visiting them in the county jail were not allowed to see them. Hundreds of workers are visiting the funeral parlor where the body of the heroic fighter for the working | class lies in state. An honorary guard stands near the body day and night. A giant mass meeting will be held Wednesday night protesting the brutal murdering of this militant | leader. Protest telegrams should be | sent to the Governor and Sheriff | Little of Tarrant County, Texas, |St. Louis Police Attack Pickets | ST. LOUIS, Mo., Sept. 4.—Fol- lowing a >rutal police attack against pickeis who attempted to | prevent scabs from entering the Angelica Jacket Co. at 16th and Olive St., in the big dress strike here, 16 strikers were arrested. The strike has spread to 71 shops and about 6,000 workers are in- volved. eet to Be Held Wed-| the soles of his feet, bruises all over | rkers March in Ambridge, Pa. | | Fear to Jail NYU Coal Output Zero; Scabs Armed With Rifles; Picket Lines Re-established As Miners Face Terror With Determination to Win HELPER, Utah, Sept. 4—Armed deputies here y day were prevented from arresting Charles Guynn w hen he spoke at a mass meeting of 1,500 workers in Helper Public Park on the strike led by the National Miners on. The deputies did not dare to make an arrest, though warrants are out for Guynn, rles | Whetherbee and Paul Crouch on the charge of criminal tyndicalism Coal production here is practically zero despite the fact that sczbs are imported and go to work armed with rifles and wearing deputy sheriff's badges. Picket lines were established Mon- d morning, and the miners are preparing for a determined and miii- | tant resistance to the attacks of the armed guards Several members of the U.M.W.A were fired for refusal to become armed mine guards. The general strike call and leaflets and the “Carbon County Miner,” of- ficial organ of the N.M.U. here, were printed and effectively distributed in every mining camp despite the efforts of armed deputies to stop their cir- culation The strikers’ ranks are unbroken. Mathho Soldo, secretary of the) wholesale evictions of miners is go- Wom-n's Auxiliary of the N.M.U. in) ing on without even the usual lezal Coverdale, Pa, sent a message of} formalities. P protest. Local 126 of the NMU.| ‘There is an urgent need of tents through its secretary, John Hartus, and funds for food and defen also sent a protest. |. The National Guard is now. camped On Wednesday, at 2 P.M, there | within five miles of Carbon County, will be a united front conference at, the storm center of the strike. 4 West 12th St., to plan a nation-| There is a countywide school strike wide protest against the terror in the) #gainst the use of teachers as erme | Utah and New Mexico mine strike | thugs, also demanding free tuition and | as well as to organize united front| books. i action of all workers to preserve the| Around 10,000 miners are striking workers’ rights against the offensive) in Utah and New Mexico, Martial of the bosses under the NRA. | law has been declared in the New | Mexico coal fields. The strike bogan Protests Pour Ih! on Utah Officials from Penna. Miners. iCall United Front Meet Today in N. Y. for Workers’ Rights | rate | NEW YORK —Protests from the| Pennsylvania coal fields are pouring in on Sheriff Bliss of Helper, Utah, | and on Governor Seligman of New| Mexico, and Governor Blood of Utah} against the armed attacks on strik-| ing miners, led by the N.M.U. ‘Farmers Must Pay | ‘More for Supplies; ‘BuyingPower Drops |Mail Order House Prices Rise 10 to 20 Per Cent | | NEW YORK, Sept. 3.—The retail | \prices on all farm implements were | | increased from 10 to 30 per cent. by| the Sears, Roebuck Co., it was an-| ndunced today. Items affected in-| | clude tractor discs, harrows and cul-| tivators. This news comes after the an-| nouncement made the other day by) he Department of Agriculture of the ‘point drop in the purchasing power | of the farmers. ILD Files Murder Charges Against Five Tuscaloosa Officials NEW YORK.—Direct charges of murder against five Tuscaloosa Coun- ty officials have been filed by the piiatebrgs ita ste Defense with the gral jury meeting there to- day after a long recess, to “inves- tigate” the lynching of Dan Pippen, Jr, and A. T. Hardem, on Aug. 12, i was revealed by ILD. officials. The ILL.D. charges, laid against Deputy Sherifis Harley W. Holeman and Murray Pete and Private Detec- tive W. I. Huff, who are accused of murdering the two Negro boys with their own hands while they were in their custody, and against Judge Henry B, Foster and Sheriff R. L. | Shamblin, charged with directing and plotting the murder, were made in the form of a letter filed with the Grand Jury. Specific evidence point- ing to their guilt is cited. ‘The LL.D. points out in its letter demanding the removal, arrest, in- dictment and death penalty for the officials named, that the very com- position of the Grand Jury—a lily- white jury of business men and landlords, in charge of Foster him- self and of Attorney General Thomas E. Knight, Jr., of Alabama—proves its intended whitewashing role, and the demand is raised of an investiga- tion by a jury containing Negroes and white sympethizers to the libera~ tion struggles of the Negro people. 8 of the charges have been sent to President Roosevelt, U.S. At- torney General Homer Cummings, Governor Miller and Attorney Gen- Alabama, , the weather bureau an-| eral Knight of Also included im the alc d From left to right, Deputy Sheriffs Murray Pate and Harley W. LL.D. Charges Them With Murder I. Huff, all of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, of shooting with their own. hands, murdering, and lynching, Dan_Pip- pen, Jr. and A. T. Harden, Negro boys, on the night of Aug. 12, 1933, while these boys were in their cus- tod: We accuse them of shooting, at- tempting to murder, and wounding, Elmore Clarke, a Negro, who was also in their custody, on the same night. | “We accuse Judge Henry B. Foster | and Sheriff R. L. Shamblin of Tus- caloosa, Alabama, of helping to direct | this lynching, and with being the direct accomplices of the three of- ficers named above, in this murder. “We accuse Harley W. Holeman and Murray Pate of shooting and murdering James Pruitt, Negro of Tuscaloosa, on Aug. 13, while he lay across the bed in his own hut, and we accuse H. R. Bambarger, whose tenant Pruitt was, of aiding and} abetting and being a direct accom- plice in this murder... “We charge that the very accounts given by these officials themselves of their actions in connection with the | lynching of Pippen and Harden, in- dict them of first degree murder ... “The officers stated, and there has been no contradiction, that they left here when the operators broke the agreement they had originally signed with the N.M.U. Vote to Continue Strike GALLUP, New Mexico, Sept. 4. — One thousand miners voted to con- tinue their strike despite martial law which has been declared in Gallup. General Wood, National Guard head, told the miners at a meeting with a committee of the strikers that they would be permitted to picket. All meetings, however, are prohib- ited, as the decree says not more than three people can congregate at a time. In groups of three, six hundred pickets marched past the Gamerco Mine, the largest in New Mexico. Early Thursday morning they were driven away at the point of bayonets on the order of General Wood. When the miners demanded to see him they were told “he is not at home.” A mass meeting of miners was heid across the state line from Gallup, 21 miles away. Relief committees are being smashed by the National Guard in an effort to drive the men back into the mines. Local NRA officials have canyassed the town and told business men not to donate food or supplies to the strikers because they are striking “against the spirit of the NRA.” Anna Starkovsk, chairman of the relief committee, reports strikers’ families totally without food. Unless relief is rushed immediately some of the miners face starvation. Funds should be sent for relief immediately to Box 218, Gallup, New Mexico. Food should be sent directly to Relief Headquarters, 523 Princeton, Gallup, New Mexico. Gas Used by Sheriff to Arrest. Strikers 2SACRAMENTO, Cal., Aug. 31-— Police used tear gas bombs to dis- Perse a group of pickets from the Harvey Blodgett hop ranch, and to arrest nine workers who were sus- pected of organizing the strike on the ranch. One of the strikers er- rested was a Mexican, witha family of ten. The workers who raised a fund for his family were deeply roused, and more trouble is threat- ened. The men were demanding « wage increase from $1 to 50c for a hundred pounds of hops. The ILD is preparing the defense of the arrested workers, who haye Holeman, and Private Detective W. I. Huff, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., who are accused by the LL.D. of murdering Dan Pippen, Jr. and A, T. Harden, Negro boys, on the night of August 12. re landlord, who is charged along with |the Grand Jury, read in part: Holeman and Pate of the murder of | “The International Labor Defense not yet been brought to trial, Tuscaloo:a with their prisoners at tcc 9:30 in the evening, and that the “kidnapping” which they charge oc- curred, took place at 12:00 midnight, | two and a half hours Iater. ore | than 40 miles 2 of departure, x should take as long a time as this in Write to the Daily Worker abcut every event of inter. ezt to workers in your face tory, neighborhood or city. That James Pruitt, Negro tenant of Bam- | accuses Deputy Sherifis Murray Pate barger, on Ayg. 13. ley W. The L L. D, charges, os Aled waits Sok, Seted eee wail driving forty miles, on good roads,| BECOME A WORKER COR- RESPONDENT!)