The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 7, 1933, Page 3

eS ' Yeaueracy, where he will feel at home. _fnemies is a fitting high point in |_NEWS BRIEFS Mutiny Among Insane. MATTEAWAN, N. Y.—Four inmates of the State Hospital for the Crimi- nally Insane mutinied here today. They beat up guards who attempted to quiet them and barricaded them- selves in a room where they resisted tear-gas attacks for four hours. The leader of the group was shot by a state trooper. eae 100 Dead in Texas Hurricane. EDINBURG, Texas.—One hundred dead and $10,000,000 damage was the first estimate after a survey of the wreckage left by the storm which swept Texas Tuesday. ‘Troops were rushed into the devas- tated area and towns were put under martial law. a aeur. New Warship Launched. PHILADELPHIA.—A new cruiser, the thirteenth of ‘the 18 allowed the United States under the terms of the London naval treaty, was launched yesterday. The new ship, the U. 8. S. Minneapolis, cost $11,000,000 and has a displacement of 10,000 tons. Se Oe Sleeping Sickness Reaches East | PHILADELPHIA.—A © seven-year | old boy died here yesterday, the third victim in the East of the strange malady, sleeping sickness. Two others | died in Stamford, Conn., from the | disease. NEW YORK.—Three new cases of ; sleeping sickness were reported here | yesterday. In St. Louis, the western center of the disease, 74 have died and 546 other cases have been under treztment. Vermont Goes Wet. MONTPELIER, Vt.—Vermont yes- terday became the 23th successive state to vote repeal of the 18th amendment. Voting was in all but two counties almost 2 to 1 wet. Min- nesota will vote today. US. Orders Bombing: Planes With Poison: Gas Equipment Buffalo Curtis Plant Rushed With Many War Orders BUFFALO Sept. 6.—The United States Navy recently ordered 12 fast trench pursuit planes from the Curtis-Wright plant here. } ‘They are Model YA812, two-men capacity. They are specially made for low flying and are equipped with poison gas tanks, bomb car- riers, and with .30 caliber and .500 caliber machine guns. Two .30’s are mounted on the port side; on the starboard side are two .500’s. They have one screw gun in the back. These planes are all metal alumi- hum, the wings being made of seamless steel and the pontoons of stainless steel. They are hooded with covered cockpits, Whitney Wasp type, 550 horsepower with a flying radius of 1,500 miles. An order for the government of Colombia has been completed—14 planes, including spare parts. They are modified Curtiss-Hawks, single- seater pursuit planes. Eighteen planes have been shipped to China, the last part of the consignment going out this week. Each ship cost $35,000. Picket Refuses to Pay Fine; Serves Jail Term in Protest of Arrests RED HILL, Pa., Sept. 6—After serving three hours in the Mont- Somery county jail for “illegal as- semblage” on the sidewalk, 17 strike pickets at the Rosenau shirt factory were released when their fines rare ei Frances ore, union organizer, refused to leave the jail and an- nounced she would serve the ten- day sentence as a protest against arrest of pickets. She said she would fast while in jail. To keep up a six-page “Daily Worker”, the circulation must be doubled. Do your share by getting new subscribers. a Fifteen Thousand Cubans Mass at Fifteen thousand workers took part in the funeral at Guantanamo, Cuba, of August Torre, Young Communist League member, shot by a soldier during a demonstration on the previous When marched in a body to the garrison, and demanded the surrender of the murderer. came out with a detachment of soldiers to meet A Hi he was shot, the demo An officer who | the dem men. mstrators onstration was di He was made to prove that the murdere had not returned to barr strators agreed to go away. hag armed, along w acks before the demon- Arrest Veteran for Taking Food Evicted Men Forced to Live in Hovels DAYTON, O.—Because he ate in the dining room of the Natjonal Military Home after being expelled as a result of Roosevelt's “economy program,” Robert E. Harp, a veteran who served overseas, was arrested and charged with defrauding the government of food. Charges against Harp were made by Captain Salis- bury, who is in charge of, the dining room. Harp was arrested by mili- tary officials and turned over to civil authorities. Armed guards have been Placed at each door of the dining room to keep out starving veterans. Of the six thousand veterans in the home last winter, only 2,800 re- main, Eight hundred of these are employees. Wholesale evictions of disabled veterans were made after doctors declared them 25, 50, 75 per sent or completely restored to health. Most of these veterans are home- less and were forced to construct hovels on the grounds of the home in order to have shelter, They were chased off the grounds and are living in Tin Town, a dump on the edge of the veterans home. Those who still have lodging snd food live in constant fear of being chased out by the armed guards. The Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League is organizing the men in the home. The league has partici- pated in numerous struggles of the veterans here to win their demands. Scranton Schools Re- main Shut as Teachers Continue Their Strike SCRANTON, Pa., Sept. 6—Schools did not open yesterday as scheduled when 100 teachers of Old Forge Bor- ough voted to strike until the school directors paid their long overdue salaries. Scab Charged With Murder of Pickets| TUULLeadsMolders Pleads “Justifiable Homicide”’ Whole Page Saturday to Expose Coal Code! of Operators and Lewis “In view of the fact that John L. Lewis and the coal operators are about to issue a slave code for the coal industry, a special page will be devoted to coal in Saturday's edition of the Daily Worker, Sre- cial articles have been’ written for this page by Frank Borich, secre- tary of the National Miners Union, Jack Johnstone and others. Conn- siderable workers’ corresponndence has beenn contributed for this page. Order your bundles now. This is- sue should have a wide distribution in all coal fields. Piano Striker Defy Anti-Picket Order CHICAGO, Ill, Sept. 6—Further proof of the anti-labor nature of the NRA was given the 375 strikers of the Kimball Piano Co., when a sweep- ing anti-picketing injunction was is- sued against them by Judge Trude. The injunction, issued without notice, and without hearing the case of the workers, named the T.U.U.L., the Furniture Workers Industrial Union, and, to raise the red scare, the Com- munist Party. The workers met the injunction with a mass picketing demonstration but were dispersed in a brutal attack by the police swinging their clubs. Seven were arrested. When the I. L. D. prepared to supply bond for the men, the bail was raised to $2,000 each, As a result, the strikers were forced to spend the week-end in jail. ‘The workers have planned to con- tinue the picketing in spite of in. junctions and police clubs, Clementson, the scab arrested by the defense: “My wife is going to have a care about being hurt myself, except if I was hurt so bad I couldn't pay | for food and rent. ...” This. last statement was obviously suggested by Lemisch, the Cambria mill’s lawyer who is handling his de- fense, in order to create favorable sentiment for this young thug who gave no thought to the families of the 250 strikers who couldn't pay for “food and rent.” The scabs for many weeks were paid as high as $50 per week for their “food and rent,” although the rent problem for many of them was them up in the plant on army cots. On the day of the-killings many were inside the plant and heavy sash-weights were heaved through the windows at the strikers gathered on the outside, many of whom were seriously injured. The sashweights and a gunnysack full of pistols found in the truck were turned over to police, From conversations your corres- pondent had with a member of the Strike Committee in front of the Cambria Mill last Friday the strikers had visited Acting Superintendent of Police Le Strange some weeks ago and apprised him of the fact that Clementson= was armed. “You strikers are responsible for his carry- ‘ing a gun... you made him... he says you threatened him.” The police condoned “this action. The Philadelphia papers are carry- ing on a campaign of lies against the strikers ever since the shooting. They have said, too, that only one watghman remains in the plant. At least 25 cops were seen leaving at lunch time last Friday. Three cops to be roughly handled. .. . I didn'te————_——___ | Nont so acute when the ccmpany put | | By ROB ROBBINS. | PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 6—After a farcial arraignment at the | Germantown police station on the charge of “justifizble homicide”, George | police of Philadelphia for the murder of the two strike pickets at the Cambria mill last Thursday, declared in his baby and I feared that she was going | | were on guard at the mill gat The Cambria plant has announced | that it will not operate pending the | | “decision of ional Labor | Board after mec both labor | | ang management at Weshington.” | Labor in this strike and at the| | hearings is being “represented” by | | the notorious labor faker, Emil Rieve, | president of the racketeering Full| Fashioned Hosiery Workers Union, | and his able licutenants, Leader and | McKeown, The worke: of the Cambria Mill have been subjecicd to one wage cub | after anoth until now unde: | piece-work system they were being paid at the rate of 43 cents per dozen. .The workers at the Cambria were averaging about $18 for a 60- hour work-week. On Saturday aft- ernoons the knitting machines were cleaned by the operators, for which they received no pay. The. machines are very old and break down con- inually, one mill worker told your correspondent. “You see, then, that |all lost time is not paid for, and under the piece-work and these other conditions we are not earning very much,” he said. No lunch pericd is provided for, the workers belting the'r sandwiches while attending their machines, According to this worker there is a growing sentiment among the Cam- bria workers for the raising of all the other demands b 3 the* one to merely recognize this Futl Fash- ioned Union which they still dis- tinguish from a company unicn. | “There are some Reds in this unjon. but most of us are conservative,” said this same informant. Strike in Bridgeport Expect Walkout of Entire Force BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Sept. 6. One hundred and fifty workers of Nemco Molding Division of the B: ant Electric Co., a Westinghous concern, under the leadership of the | Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, walked out for higher waves end-recognition of the newly organ. ited shop commi ‘The c approached tie si they fear the through the ec ree of 400 work- ers. Si e sentiment is running high. Over 100 workers of the E. W. Car- penter Machine Co. in Bridze; gained an increase in wages, sh hours, and recognition of tr committee after they held a s meeting. ‘Hartford Cleaners and | Dyers Plan StrikeMove HARTFORD, Conn., |Cleaners. and dyers of Hi Tuesday night to decide upon strike| jection, A ganeral strike had already been pt y. The pur- | pose ct is meeting was to decide jon the time for the walkout. | of shops have a y | walk: out in the fight for highe: | Wages and union recognition, | The Wind and House Clea |Union. of Haztford have arranged |for a victory banquet and dance |Saturdey, Sept. 9. A Young Pie | -FAIRVILE, Pa.—Veronica Rubi ‘an ective mc. crs ef the Young Pio- neers. of the United Farmers Pro- tective Association, died of mushroom poisching. Her parents, who are poor farmers, were unable to get the nec- ecsary medical attention, Sidney Hillman and William Green United Under S Hillman’s Demagogic Radicalism, Once Used Against A. F. of L., Now United in Fight Against Left Wing By CHARLOTTE TODES NEW YORK.—Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers, is coming back to the A. F. of L, fold. The years of rad- by Green anticipating the formal en- trance of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers into the A. F. of L. and the acceptanc eof Sidney in the inner councils of the corrupt bu- Hillman's unity with his erstwhile the career of an opportunist who established his prestige among the radically inclined clothing workers by left while at the same time bartering away their interests like the most open reactionary. The merger with the A. F. of bs. appears @ logical development in the light of Hillman’s history in the Amalga- mated, and the present developments in class movement. convent of the A. F. of L., ser- ving as aid to Hillman in lead- ing the cl workers out of the American Federation of Labor. Having revolutionary tendencies, the New York tailors chose as their not one of their trade, but a s’ | secretary member of the Socialist Labor Party made/and an avowed | t winger, Joseph Schlossberg. Later, when the Amal- gamated Clothing Workers’ Union was organived from the groups which had left the A. F. of L., Hill- man was elected president on the strength of the ‘evolutionary lan- guage he used, which the tailors wer? eager to hear Hillman, his ear to the ground, rec- ognized that he must play to the left sentiment of the membership to establish his power. He was so left in words in the early period that the Hebrew Trades, a Socialist-controlled group, e: the tailors, and Abe Cahan, editor of the Forward, had to be convinced by a lot of maneu- vering behind closed doors to ap- pear at conventions of the union. It was widely advertised that the union was to be organized along industrial lines on a shop basis, with a policy of struggle, and was to oppose the narrow craft ideas spread by the A. F. of L, Hillman retained his left preten- sions even up to 1921, when he capi- talized the sentiment of the workers for the Russian revolution. He formed the Russian American Indus- trial Corporation, which he used to smother a growing revolt among the members. This opposition was cen- tered principally against the intro- duction of “standards of production,” another term for speed-up and effi- elency methods and against piec>- work imposed under the guise of “industrial democracy.” The Amal- gamated Bank was formed to “help” workers transmit funds to Russia, while at the same time Hillman ad- vocated labor banking as an aid to struggle. r It was at this time also that the biggest opposition movement in the union's history was developing amonz the union’s members. In the “period from 1924 to 1928 \Hillman.and his machine entrenched themselyes. With the union mem- bers’ funds they engaged in real estate and banking ventyres. Visualizing the possibility of be- coming a leading figure in the A. F. of L., Hillman made overtures to the Executive Council for admission dur- ing this period, but Green-and Woll were not yet ready to come to terms with this rival. It was prior to the crisis, when the shekels of the A. F. of L. members were pouring into the officials’ coffers and the machine was in good working order. What- ever rumblings came from below were severely crushed. Even before the advent of the crisis, the bitterness of the member- ship cf the Amalgamated had come to a sharp head. No longer able to bluff the workers with | “left” speeches, Hillman made common cause with gangster and racketocring elements which had entered the union with his knowledge. Te;ror and expulsions were used against those who rebelled against these Policies, Like the A. F. of L. officials, he was concerned principally with gaining the support of sma!l groups of skilled workers in each shop as a Means of maintaining his mazhine, and was completely indifferent to the interests of the majority of the work- ers of the industry. The crisis brought a whole sevies of attacks on the wages and condi- tions of the workers, engineered by Hillman in behalf of tie bosses, fessed. He was among the first to whose f.iondship he now openly pro-| ii ® support the Roosevelt Recove:y pro- gram. He was meeting Wililam Green on common ground. There can hardly be any doubt a: to the reasons for the unity of th officials of the two unions. ‘There exists not a single Gificrence in pol- icy between them. Both are for class ccllaboration and against siruggie. Both officialdoms szek union control for the racket which brings them high salaries, both are asainst the left wing unions, both reatize that a commen front must be maintained against their common enemy, aa aroused and fighting rank and file threatening their power and their jobs, Both feared the growing strength of the ieft-wing unions. The A, F. of L,, shaky, weak, with }@ membership in revoit against its loppressive and tyrannical policies, and against its complet? inditference to their needs, welcomes the chanc2 to bolster up its financial structure and its numerical strength with the swag which the Amalgamaied per cepita dues would yield. The power of Sidney Hillman, which Green formerly feared, will now be an acset. Hillman’s redical phretes, whish now recognize were window ig for the most decentive and atiecks against the work- ers will be put im service to cope trikebreaking Blue Eagle | Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Alliance With United Garment Workers Anticipates Hillman’s Entrance Into AFL Bureaucracy with the increasing militancy of the ‘eikvand file. The objective of the nissdfront of the bureaucracy of beth unions against a militant rank pecially against the new militant industrial iti Communist leadership, lized. Under the Mickert have been a2 we; Surely the alliance of Hillmin-and Pickers was not meant {o bein the intorozts of the workers. In meny United Garment Workers and Amelgemated shops, the work- ers know cf the connection with the union only through the check-off and the» rave visits of a union business agent.’ The unity of the two official- doms can hi oniy greater sell-outs of the we 3 by the more clever and subtle methods of Hillman. The need for real unity below, and strong fighting cnposition groups against the combined A. T. of L. and Amaiga- mated offizicls become more impera- tive. A Vigorous rank and file oppo- sition strongly rooted in both unions and working -in ciase cooperation with the Isft. wing vers in the Needle -Tredss Vor Industrial Union will be a formidable front agains: the latest alliance of these misieaders. iB | break a number of si p 81 | tied uw | concerted efioris of ths | peal to abolisn w ni 1 Bia Be | has cho: ners’ | n| nist Party Member Dies! 2 Blue Eagle, Green, | merger mean for | Page Three _ TOURISTS FOR STRIKERS AND. 2 SHOOT; NU HEAD ARRESTED 1; AFL and Gov't Heads Tell Miners Strike Is Insurrection Against Government Gunmen; Guynn, Wetherbee Arrested HELPER, Utah, Sept. 6.—Unaware of the armed terror of company mine guards here, tourists from Washington returning home on the main high- way in Carbon County, strike center, last night were mei with a fusilade of 30 bullets. A man and his wife were seriously injured. Travelling on the desert near Price, they were ordered to halt at night All St. Louis Police Called for 10 Hour Duty to End Strikes ses United in Move to Crush Worker Unions t for effort es that hav rere. Mi D n, the gar higher facto the millinery trade, fo improved con The ord ase the work- n eight to ten hours followed sh the unionizat It open ha to m (scabs) trying through been sirip| ent th ceo ur naked and of empio: iutery nothing ark 1 Foiloy bosses go on ever, the the 8 that righ me bo: tack with the cry oi tators’; and with a tnrec police are doing their duty 1ace of great didcul who the in Tney know m Manufacturing Co., Sol- T| oman Manufacturing Co., Forest City hop | Manufacturing Co, and Knickerbocker non nd Am Workers Union. © National | Events 14th Anniversary Celebration. Pa. The trict of the Commu- calls upon ail w to attend the 14th Party meeting, to bo held this , at the L : Lyceum, 810 Locust Street. r, Sec- retary of the ‘al Committee of the P., will be t* | operate wit Reed Club in presenta | Program, All organizations are asked not to hold any offairs in conflict. Ca oe Boston Tom Mooney Action. BOSTON, Mass.--The Greater Boston Tom Mooney Council of Ac- tion has arranged for a mass meet- ing this Saturday, Sept. 9, at the Parkman Bandstand, Boston Com- retary of the Mooney Defense, New York City, and other prominent speakers will address this “Free Tom Mooney” meeting. Youngstown ILD Picnic. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio.—The local International Labor Defense group jhere will hold its last picnic of the year at Gurinovitch’s Picni Grounds, at Shirley Road, on Sun- day, Sept. 10. The grounds are within walking distance of the In- dianola Bus Lines. Features at this affair will include a jazz band, games, rossts and entertainments. “| the mon. Frank Palmer, publicity sec-| ‘ic | * by ze force of armed deputies badges or uniforms. Not. or the armed ing the official gunmen were ordinary robbers, they 2 peed if ine q ed The tourist and e in a serious condition, { tall The loval fF S he facts, des “an accide arles Guynn v spoke at a mass en to the c his perhe de c s arrested after meeting. He was ty jail at Price, he s Wetherbee was arrested $ ing on the same charge. d are now hunting} s organizers are in, ger at the hands of their jailors who have threatened “to put ~ them where bonds won't do them € any good.” b The patience of the miners has 4 eached the limit in the face of ex- 4 treme provocation, savage terror, and repeated violence against men, * women and children. 7 Many of the miners have declared 4 ill defend themselves against © of the thugs and in-¥ r force with force. tion is extremely tense.? sheriffs block the roads to mines with machine guns? mounted on trucks. ® rials of the arrested pickets > 1 organizers of the National Miners which is leading the New -Utah strike, will begin Sep-_ ion organizers are, “rioting.” 2 Sylvia Crouch was released ucon-i divionauy without charges following’ a habeas corpus writ. . ‘Tne secretary of the state A. F. of? and the U. S. Re-Employment¢ \ Director for Utah, George A. Yager,® in a Labcr Day speech at Tooele de- clared the Utah mine strike “is en con egal the organized forces of the yovernment, and those wo L, 2 participating ir it are traitors.” The miners went on strike when, he coai operators broke the agree. ment the had signed with the N.M.U.; pread from Helper, Uteh,. v Mexico, where martial law? lared. forces of armed guards with? e guns are covering the hills? lt is urgent that an immediate, nation-wide campsign be carried. on; | to establish the right to picket and; against armed terror in Utah and; New Mexico. The coal operators’ uunmen are anxious to create an use for the messacre of strikers. jes ate threatening to, send I articipating in the; school strike to the reformatory. Organize Defense NEW YORK. — An International Labor Defense lawyer and an organ- izer are on the way from California to give organizational and legal as-- sistance in the defense of Crouch, | Guynn, Huff and Weatherbee, and] | | the hundreds of miners held inj / Helper, Utah, on various charges in connection with the miners’ strike, it was ennounced today by William L. on. national secretary of the ization. Write to the Daily Worker | about every event of inter- kers in your fae- tory, neighborhood or city. BECOME A WORKER COR- RESPONDENT! ETE SAE | | | | | Farewell Party. } SCHENECTADY, N. Y.—A fare- | well picnic will be held for Alex} | Trainor, a General Electric worker | |and active unemployed leader, this | Sunday, at Kutassy Park. Admis- |sion will be 10 cents, Alex Trainor was a delegate from the G. E. plant last year to |the Soviet Union. t | Scottsboro Tour. MILWAUKEE, Wis.—The Milwau- ‘kee district of the International |Labor Defense announces that |Ruby Bates and Alice Burke will | speak at West Allis Saturday, Sept. |9, in Central Park, 70th and West | National Avenue. In case of rain |the meeting will take place in the | Lebor Hall, 64th and National Ave- nve. | On Sunday they will address a ° tock meeting at Turner Hall, }21 South Butler Street. Admission to both affairs will be 10 cents for | emplo and free entrance for jobless, € AMP | |} Spend Indian Summer, the Most Beautiful Scason of tiie Year | Amid the Berkshire Hills | 1 Day - - $2.45 |] Cars trzve 3-6 |] and Saturday 10 | Express. Stop at Aliericn Aven " sites AM. 3 P.M. To Unity COMMUNIST PARTY MONTH @ WINGDALE, N. VACATION RATE: $13.00 Fer \/eck (inel. Tax) | WEEK-END RATES: 2 Days - - $4.C5 (incl. Tax) Round Trip: To Nitgedaigei - - - UNITY Y. Atmosphere, Rowing, Handball, mand Cold Showers $2.00 $3.00