The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 7, 1933, Page 1

| | i ‘ i we | ReadAlanCalmer’s Short Story, “Snapshots of Mike,” in the “Daily” Tomorrow (Section of the Communist International) America’s On ly Working | Class Daily Newspaper WEATHER Eastern New Yor! Thursday. k: Showers on "Vol. X,No.215 New York, ¥. ¥., Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at under the Act of March 8, 1879, NEW YORK, THURSDAY’ SEPTEMBER 7, 1933 (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents ARMED INTERVENTION IN CUBA; RUSH MORE WARSHIPS Hands Off Cuba! Cespedes Government has fallen, A new Revolutionary Junta has been established, backed by large sections of the ABC, by the OCRR (secret society in the villages), the professors and students, and the lower ranks of the army and navy. The Cespedes Government was overthrown, because it failed to carry through a cleansing of the Machado followers in the government, army and navy; because it was consolidating itself as a new bourgeois-landlord | dictatorship; because it failed to satisfy the needs of the workers and Peasants. The new Government was brought into existence because of the continued rising mass movement of workers, peasants and toiling population of the cities and towns demanding and fighting for improve- ment of their miserable conditions. This mass movement is directed primarily against American sugar plantation corporations and against American utility companies. This mass movement has as its kernel the fight for bread and land. Sugar workers have made demands on many American sugar com- panies, threatening, if these demands were not met, to take over the plantations. These toiling masses are fighting ever more strongly for their demands. The Communist Party of Cuba, organizing independent siruggles of the toiling masses, is steadily increasing its influence over larger sections of the workers, peasants, students and petty bourgeoisie. This growing influence of the Communist Party of Cuba has been ad- mitted by the New York Times and other capitalist newspapers. The masses are protesting against the heavy taxation from which they suffer. - It is this growing wave of workers’ strikes, and peasants’ movements against conditions which the Cespedes Government, by its program and activities, did not solve, that brought into existence the Revolutionary Junta. But this Revolutionary Junta neither in personnel nor program corresponds te the mass movement that caused it to be born. The Revolutionary Junta has had to issue in its program some “rad- ical” phrases about “economic reconstruction of the nation” and “creation of a new Cuba.” Any group that wishes to retain power in Cuba even for a short period must put forward a “radical” program, This is evidence of the deep-seated revolutionary changes going on among the toiling masses of Cuba, : las present movement indicates deep changes in the army, that the rank and file, including lower officers, are united with the workers in sweeping out the followers of Machado, It is a real people's movement, which has drawn in the army and navy, and thrown out the officials. ‘The army is “demoralized,” according to the capitalist press, which means that it has refused to fire on the people; the rank and file soldiers have instead fraternized with the people. HO are opposed to the movement of the workers and peasants for bet- terment of their conditions? First and foremost, American Imperialism, acting by diplomatic intervention of Welles, and by sending cruisers and er THE DISPATCH OF CRUISERS AND DESTROYERS TO CUBA IS INTERVENTION. AMERICAN MARINES ARE READY TO LAND ON CUBAN SOIL, TO SHOOT CUBAN WORKERS AND PEASANTS. This is a blow aimed primarily at the workers, peasants and other i ig masses ,who are struggling for the national independence of Cuba. rican marines would protect American property, the property Am of the sugar barons who called for troops to protect them from their workers who threatened to take over the plantations if their demands for increased wages and shorter hours were not complied with. American marines would protect the gasoline of the Standard Oil Co., which many Cuban peasants were taking. American marines would try to insure payment of blood money on loans Wall Street gave to the Machado reeime. American marines would try to insure the profits of the American bankers and American sugar companies. American marines would complete Welles’ job of trying to put over Roosevelt’s “New Deal” in Cuba. The United States treats Cuba as Japan treats Manchuria. We workers in the United States should now raise a mighty protest against the sending of these warships to Cuba, RAISE THE DEMAND: HANDS OFF CUBA. DEMAND THE IMMEDIATE WITHDRAWAL OF ‘THESE WARSHIPS, DEMAND THE EVACUATION OF THE GUAN- T¢NAMO NAVAL BASE. DEMAND THE IMMEDIATE ABROGATION CF THE PLATT AMENDMENT. DEMAND THE CANCELLATION OF CUBAN DEBTS TO WALL STREET BANKS! These demands should rain dovn on Washington from all parts of the country. A flood of tele- grams, teday, now, to President Roosevelt from every organization, from every individual who is opposed to American intervention in Cuba. Let organization speak out. Arrange open-air meetings and mass Arrange demonstrations. Act! ever} meetings. Wie our first and foremost action is a mass campaign in the United States, this should support the real, effective movement of the Cuban workers and peasants against American imperialism and against its native agents in Cuba. We should be clear as to the Revolutionary Junta. Its program, a left-wing bourgeois program, calls for “strict respect of the debts and ob- ligations of the republic”. This means a continuation of the policy of Machado and Cespedes, of heavy taxation on necessities of life, in order to pay interest and principal on Wall Street loans. b bg program announced by the Junta does not solve the fundamenial needs of the toiling masses of Cuba. It does not solve the basic ques- tion in Cuba, the agrarian question. Any solution of the agrarian question must necessarily be at the expense of the large foreign landlords, the ‘Yankee sugar corporations. It does not solve the workers’ problems; it joes not guarantee the 8-hour day; it does not provide for unemployment ind other forms of social insurance. It does not solve the Negro question; it does not guarantee equality for the Negroes; it does not grant self-de- termination for the Negroes in the black belt of Oriente. Negroes are treated in Cuba as all Cubans are treated by the imperialist Americans. ‘The program of the Junta will not and cannot solve the fundamental problems of the Cuban toiling masses. These problems can be solved only by the workers, peasants and soldiers, by setting up their own organs, along the lines of the Joint Committees (Comites Conjunto) ‘already set up by workers and peasants in some towns in Cuba, which show the first beginnings of Soviets. Workers, peasants, students, soldiers: Carry the struggle forward against feudalism, against imperialism. If the present Revolutionary Junta attempts to curb the rising tide of revolutionary struggle, it will be swept aside, even as the Cespedes government was set aside. ‘The future in Cuba belongs to/the exploited masses. TS present situation calls for the widest campaign throughout the United States and the countries of South America and the Caribbean for a campaign against American Intervention in Cuba and against the Pan-American Conference (opening in Montevideo, December 3rd) where \BRoosevelt plans to establish a pro-United States war and trade bloc. _ We call on all workers’ organizations to send greetings to the revolu- tionary workers, peasants and soldiers of Cuba, Send telegrams to the Workers’ Center, Havana, Cuba. Send aj copy to the Daily Worker. The defense of the struggling Cuban workers and peasants is an integral part in our fight against the Roosevelt war and hunger program. / Ae es BANK SIN WEAK STATE, BANKERS SAY Thousands _ Will Not Bear Close Scrutiny, Convention Admits of American banks are in such poor condition that if they are forced |to comply with the provisions of the Banking Act of 1933 they will be ciation of American Bankers con- tended today in a resolution. Meeting in national convention, the bankers asked that the deposit- guarantee provisions of, the act be postponed indefinitely. It has been known for some time that the March bank moratorium |did not solve any of the essential problems of the throughout the country. The state- ‘ment of the Association is public admission of that fact. More than 2,700 banks on a re- stricted basis will have to shut | down, the bankers said, if they are too strictly examined. Roosevelt Sends Message In an attempt to create the im- pression that lack of bank credit is the cause of the crisis, Roosevelt sent a message to the bankers’ con- vention asking for more liberal lend- | ing of bank credit, This proposal of Roosevelt is in contradiction to the obvious and well-known fact that there is a superabundance of bank credit, which the bankers cannot use because there is no market’ for sound and profitable loans. 14 in Wooden Car Killed in Erie R.R. Train Smash-Up BINGHAMTON, Sept. 6—Caught in an old wooden car, 14 persons were crushed to death here when a milk train smashed into the rear cars of jan Erie express train. Thirty other | passengers were seriously injured. The accident took place at 7:30 p. m. yesterday. Pursuing the customary polizy of the railroads in such cases, the blame for the frightful accident is being placed upon the shoulders of the engineer of the milk train, The facts would seem to show that the engineer is blameless. The facts seem to be as follows: The famous express train that makes Chicago- Jersey City run had stopped on the tracks for some switching adjust- ments. Meanwhile, a fast milk train that makes the run from Hornell, N. Y., to Hoboken, was coming on the same track. The railroad contented itself with sending a brakeman ahead to meet the oncoming train with a warning signal. This signal the engineer saw, but too late, for the brakes to have much effect, considering the short distance between him and the stalled train already on the track. Despite the brakes, the milk train crashed into the express. It has been common talk among railroad workers and experts for some time, that in their eagerness to cut operating costs to the bone, the large railroads have been running with dangerously short crews, and with insufficient attention to safety meas- ures, CHICAGO, Sept. 6.—Thousands| forced to shut their doors, the Asso-| weak banks | Mayoralty Nominee Headed Picket Line, Defying Court Ban Arrested i in the Name of the Blue Buzzard (Photo by Daily Worker Staff Photographer) POLICE ARRESTING BOB MINOR Arrested With Group of Workers “In Name of NRA”; All Later Released in Court NEW YORK.—Prompt arrest followed the appearance of Robert Minor, Communist candidate for Mayor, when he led a picket line yesterday before the Progressive Table Company, 95th St. and Ditmas Ave., Brooklyn. Urg- ing the handful of workers remaining on the job to come out and join the strikers, Minor called: The blue buzzard won't do you any good! Come out, fellow-workers{ and join the strike!” Minor’s arrest was based on a police charge that he was violating an ry Both Minor and Jack Rosenberg, a 21-year-old worker who was arrested with him, demanded and forced their release in the 10th Magistrates’ Court, Pennsylvania and Liberty Aves., with- out bail until their case comes up on September 15 in the same court. The International Labor Defense will de. fend them. They are charged with “violating an injunction.” ‘Minor, militantly leading forty workers through a three block area blocked off by police around the Progressive furniture plant as a “no picketing” zone, marched up to the doors of the factory and called on the few workers inside to join him. A mass of police immediately sur- rounded and arrested him, together with five other workers. The other pickets were driven from the street by the police. Four of the six arrested were im- mediately released at the 69th police precinct when the boss of the Pro- gressive seemed afraid to arrest too many. But when told to get out of the police station, the four refused to leave Minor, insisting on being put in the cell with him. They were finally forcibly evicted by the police, As the police led them to the sta- tion house the arrested workers mill- tantly called to the workers in the neighborhood to back the strikers against the blue eagle injunction, injunction issued Tuesday to the company, an NRA firm. o> The sixty workers of the Progres- week of their strike, led by the Fur- niture Workers Industrial Dnion, 818 Broadway. They are waging a struggle against wages which in three instances were as low as $6.90 a week. The strikers demand wages of $1 an hour for skilled workers, 75 cents for semi-skilled and 50 cents an hour for unskilled. One week after the workers struck the boss hung out the Blue Eagle sign and declared the strike “ille- gal.” The NRA furniture code was set by the bosses at 40 cents an hour for skilled workers. Upon his release from jail, Minor went straight to the union hall at the Workers’ Genter near New Lots Ave. The strikers were meeting there and invited Minor to plan further struggles to win the strike. Minor spoke and analyzed the strike situation. A worker spoke up and said that those inside the fac- tory now stated they were in sym- pathy with the strike and ready to come out. Minor pointed out that the boss was trying to use the injunction to frighten the workers. “But that in- junction is only a piece of paper. There is nothing to keep you from sive Table Company are in the fifth) Jobless Negro Worker Kills Baby to Collect Insurance for Family NEW YORK, Sept. 6—Crazed and made desperate by the suffering and starvation of his family, McAllister Holder, unemployed Negro worker, father of five children, killed his three months’ old daughter while she was asleep, in an attempt to collect some insurance money to feed the rest of the family. He carried a 15 cents a week policy. been jobless for a long time. Nearly 10,000 on Strike in Silk, Dye Mills in Paterson Expected Out PATERSON, N. J., Sept. 6—That the general silk strike in Paterson promises to sweep the dye section of the industry was evident today when more shops followed the ex- |ample of the Weidmann Dye shop workers and responded to the strike call of the National Textile Workers’ Union. | On the initiative of the Weidmann |workers, who sent pickets to the shops, the ‘workers of the Phoenix, Supreme, Imhof-Berg dye shops and |Piece Dye Workers joined the walk- out, swelling the ranks of the dye | workers on strike to 2,000. The Na- ‘tional Textile Union anticipates a |complete tie-up of the dye shops in the next few days. A delegation of silk workers from the National Textile Union left for Washington last night to demand the right to representation at all hearings to mediate the silk strike. The union will point out that, con- trary to the claim of Frank Schweit- zer of the Associated that the A. F. of L. is the only union in the field, the National Textile Union and a number of independent unions rep- resent the silk workers and have the | right to be heard. After urging Associated officials to send the silk strikers back to work | until the wage issue was arbitrated by the Board, Senator Robert Wag- ner, head of the National Labor Ad- jvisory Board, called off the media- tion hearings until Friday, when the employers and A. F. of L. officials will reconvene in New York City. Hearing on the silk code, which) proposes an $18 minimum wage for skilled silk workers, are scheduled for Sept. 12. In the meantime the silk industry has been operating un- der the cotton textile code, with a $13 weekly minimum wage. | ‘The silk strike is spreading rapidly |in Paterson, as an estimated 3,000 silk |throwers joined the strike today. About 10,000 workers are striking. It lis anticipated that the silk workers in. Allentown will join the struggle, a strike order having been issued for today. If effective for all the mills more than 6,000 workers will be in- volved. A meeting of 400 Lodi workers, held last night, registered strong sentiment for a strike. More inten- sive preparations are being made to call these workers out to join the struggle of the silk workers, which is gaining greater strenth through- out the country. \ Close Down Textile Mill. GREENVILLE, S. C., Sept. 6.— Lack of orders forced the Calhoun Mills, employing 500 workers, (Continued on page 2) to close down last Friday. The firm manufactures printcloth. Holder is 22 years old and has| Allentown Workers} |the Hawthorne Branch of the United) AS MARINES Head Off Rush Protest Wires to| Roosevelt; Greetings to Workers of Cuba NEW YORK.—Every National, city, and local organization, and all workers and intellectuals, are urged to wire immediately to Pres- ident Roosevelt, making the fol” lowing demands: Hands off Cuba; immediate withdrawal of all warships from Cuban waters; cancellation of all debts extended by Wall Street banks to Machado; nullification of the Platt amendment; evacuation of the Guatanamo naval base. They are also urged to wire greetings to the workers, peasants, soldiers - and sailors of Cuba, to the Workers Center, Havana, Cuba, Southern Jobless Face Starvation, Admits Relief Head WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.—Follow- revolutionary | Arvest Robert Minor, Communist Candidate WORKERS CALLED TO WIRE PROTESTS TO ROOSEVELT REACH CUBA Swanson, Navy Secretary, Leaves on Warship for Havana—Junta Strives to Revolution HAVANA, Sept. 6.—The mailed fist of Wall Street imper- ialism is prepared tonight to crush the revolutionary upheaval of ‘Cuban workers, peasants, and soldiers, which has brought a demagogic junta to provisional power. Claude A. Swanson, American Secretary of the Navy, ts *on his way to Cuba on board the cruiser Indianapolis, after jeonferring with President Roosevelt. Almost all the At- lantic naval forces are converg- ing on the island. | Twelve hundred marines are | concentrated at Quantico, Va., 1,900 jat Haiti and warships in Cuban | Waters or on the way carry 745 more, | The destroyer McFarland is in | Havana harbor, the destroyer Sturte~ ‘vant is at Santiago harbor, the de~ | stroyer Bainbridge is due in Cubaq waters at noon and the cruiser Rich~ mond at 8 p.m. tomorrow. | ‘The battleship Mississippi and the | destroyer J. Fred Talbot are on their way. Marines Ready to Go All last night, U. S. marines were converging on Quantico from New York, | Philadelphia, | Washington, Portsmouth, Norfolk, Parris Island: | Admiral Standley, in command, said they could reach Cuba in six hours by air, or in twenty-four hours by | water. The transport Henderson is ready at Quantico. This was President Roosevelt's an- swer to the mass demand of the Cuban workers and peasants for re- lief from the crushing oppression of ing an aeroplane trip through the South, Harry L. Hopkins, Federal) Relief Administrator, stated that the the capitalists and landlords, which the De Cespedes regime supported, under orders of U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles. |“South has a serious relief problem |this winter,” unless the price of cot- |ton rises. The administrator admit- ted “inadequate relief” for the un- employed and their families, Hopkins made the usual adminis- tration predictions that the N. R, A. is increasing jobs, but immediately contradicted himself by saying that unemployment in the South will rise when thousands of cotton pickers | will be jobless after their work is accomplished. Special C. P. ‘Anniversary Issue of Daily, Sept. 23) | || NEW. YORK—On_ September | 23, the issue of the Daily Worker | will devote a special page to deal | with the 14th anniversary of the | Communist Party of the US.A.| ‘The Daily Worker will publish on that day special articles by Party leaders reviewing the outstanding phases in the life of our Party | Wing in the Socialist Party during | the world war. All Party organizations are urged to send in orders for the special edition. Greetings for this special edition should be collected and sent to the Business Office of the Daily Worker not later than Sept. 20. For the first time in its nine years’ existence, the Daily Worker, official organ of ,the Communist Party of the United States, soon will have a Washington bureau with staff corre- Marguerite Young and Seymour Waldman to Be in Charge; World- Telegram Staff Writer Resigns to Come to the “Daily” spondents reporting events in the nation’s capital. will be opened early in October, The bureau will be in charge of Marguerite Young and Seymour Waldman, Miss Young, who has been staff writer for the New York World- Telegram of the Scripps-Howard syndicate, has just resigned her posi- tion to come to the Daily Worker. Waldman, who was on the staff of the New York World in 1929, is the author of “Death and Profits,” an expose of the U, S. War Policies Commission, The book was published by Brewer, Warren and Putnam in 1932 and received widespread pub- lieity in reviews and comments, Waldman will make special polit- ical investigations similar to that which resulted in his War Policies day-to-day It expose. * Offices Secured With an office in the National Press Building, and with credentiais to the press galleries of the U. S. Senate and the House of Represen- tatives, the Washington bureau will provide readers of the Daily Worker with daily reports from the capital. In addition to regular wire dis- patches from Congress, the “Daily” bureau will provide analytical ar- ticles on the Roosevent New Deal legislation as well as “behind-the- scene” feature stories. Daily Worker readers will thus get first-hand re- ports of the various anti-working class legislation being introduced in Washington, as well as a closer in- sight into the workings of the NRA administration and the war-machine | set-up. A deepening conviction of the fu- tility of attempting to further the real interests of the working class in capitalist — particularly “liberal'* — journalism has brought both Mar- guerite Young and Seymour Wald- man ever closer to the revolutionary convinced them that only a news- paper like the Daily Worker will pub- lish the facts about contemporary life as they affect the millions of workers of the United States, “Covered” Washington As a reporter for the Associated Press in Washington, Marguerite Young covered such seamy aspects of capitalist civilization as the Depart- ment of Justice investiation of the Massie trial—which followed the lynching of an Hawaiian in Hono- Ywu; the Al Capone arrest; Couzen’s Senate “investigation” of the Fed- eral Power Commission, During her four years’ work in Washington, Miss Young covered every important government department, was assigned to the House and Senate, respec- tively, during successive sessions, and was one of the special staff which covered the Republican and Demo- cratic conventions in Chicago in 1932. She saw at first-hand the close movement. Their experiences have connection betwen gangsterism *"~ Daily Worker to Open Washington Bureau in October the federal government when she covered the trial of Gaston B, Means, | (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) since the formation of the Left | | The “revolutionary” junta, which was placed in power by the revolt of the enlisted men and non-com- missioned officers of the Cuban army and navy, is no threat to Wall Street imperialism. In one of his first statements, Sergio Carbo, spokesman for the junta of five, acting as secretary of the interior, war, and communica- tions, announced tha% his first prob- lem was to restore order. ‘The mass pressure to which |coup d’etat was a response, however. continues to manifest itself in mass demonstrations throughout the island, and may be beyond the ability of the new leaders to head off. Groups of workers in many centers have broken into stores and seized arms. In Cienfeugos and Cruces, where |Joint Committees of Action have |taken over virtual municipal powers, | workers and peasants have organized jrelief for the storm victims, and are | enforcing their demands for wage in- |creases and the payment of back pay to the sugar plantation workers, While striving to please Ambassa~ \dor Welles, and having promised to |pay all debts to Wall Street, the new junta issued a demagogic proclama~ tion declaring that it wished to rep- resent all elements in the island, The capitalist-landlord ABC party, which was the most powerful ele- ment in the De Cespedes regime, has declared itself “‘vigilantly neutral.” The new junta has promised to call an early constituent assembly to draft a new constitution for the {s- land. This will bring to the fore again the question of recognizing the Platt amendment, under which Cuba recognizes the right of the U. S. government to control its foreign borrowings, and to intervene as. id sees fit in its domestic affairs. The junta has divided the admin- the jistrative functions among its mem- bers as follows: War, interior, communications, Sergio Carbo; secretary of state and of justice, Guillermo Portela; finance, Porfirio Franca, banker; public works and agriculture, Jose Irisarri; public instruction and sanitation, Ramon Grau San Martin. Although they declared thomselves sharply opposed to the landing of American armed forces, it was made clear that this opposition would not take any form of genuine resistance, ‘There were many indications, how= ever, that certain sections of the rank and file of the army, and of the armed workers, particularly in the interior, were determined to meet American armed forces with armed resistance. gh Sas ot EDITOR'S NOTE: Through an accident one word was dropped from a headline in yesterday's Daily Worker, so that the state- ment “De Cespedes Out; Junta ‘Takes Power”, was made to read, incorrectly, “De Cespedes Junta Takes Power.” i —_