The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 8, 1933, Page 1

/ Subscribers Should Be Visited by Specially Selected Workers to See If Their Service Is Satisfactory ! (Section of the Communist International ) America’s Only Working | Class ‘Daily Newspaper | WEATH ER Eastern New York: Generally fair Friday. > * Vol. X, No. 216 Entered 26 second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 8, 1879, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1933 (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents 30 WARSHIPS TO CUBA; JUNTA TURNS ON WORKERS Intervention---For Whom? guns of Wall Street imperialism are trained on the revolutionary Cuban masses. The bourgeois controlled newspapers are attempting to justify a slaughter of the Cuban people under a cry of protection of American citizens and property. For whom has Roosevelt hurled the armed might of American im- perialism against the Cuban masses? The American government has only one interest in Cuba: the Wall Street investment of nearly a billion and a half, which is used to oppress and exploit the Cuban masses, and the enslavement of Cuba as a strategic point in America’s determination to dominate the Caribbean area, * * * seyyJE will not surrender our right to intervene,” says Roosevelt. What right? The right arrogated by American imperialism, and foisted on Cuba at the point of American guns and bayonets. “Cuba must set up a government of its own choosing,” says Roosevelt. The masses of Cuba are striving to do exactly that, and that is exactly why thirty U. S. warships, bristling with guns and bayonets, are hurled against the Cuban masses. “There will be no armed intervention if Cuba maintains order,” says the mealy-mouthed imperialist in Washington. Machado “maintained order,” by wholesale butchery, with the com- plete approval of Washington. De Cespedes attempted to | maintain order” with blood and iron, and the ginboats were recalled from Havana. The only real order which is possible in Cuba, the order which comes from the satisfaction of the elementary demands of the Cuban masses for the right to life, is precisely the kind of order which Roosevelt wil! attempt to suppress, even if in doing so his marines spill more blood ir a few days than the bloody Machado spilled throughout his long regime of butchery. * * Where do the American workers stand in all this? They too will pay with blood, sweat, and misery, for the crushing of the revolutionary Cuban workers. Workers in uniform will carry out the Wall Street butchery. The crushing of the Cuban workers is the crushing of the Cuban * C.P. Calls on Workers to Protest Intervention | Pa., struck at 5 o’clock this morning} ON STRIKE Close Plant; Demand) Higher Pay, Union Recognition PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 7—Elev- | en hundred foundry workers of the} Walworth Foundry Co, Greensburg, | solidly under the leadership of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial | Union. The whole plant {@it down tight, | with mass picketing 4t all five en- trances. ‘ The strikers are fighting for 21) demands, based on various depart- ments. The main demands are a@ minimum wage of 40 cents an hour; a general increase of 20 per cent; abolition of piece work, and to make 1,100 MEN IN DYE STRIKERS FOUNDRY 60 IN PATERSON LED BY N.T.W. 4,000 Now Out As the) Picket Lines Cover | Dye Shops | PATERSON, N. J., Sept. 7.—The Paterson silk strike entered a new phase today with the National Tex-| tile Workers Union which is leading | the struggle of nearly 4,000 dye work- | ers won a decisive factor in the sit- | uation. As this is being written mass picket lines are marching through- out the working class sections of the | sity under the banner of the Na- tional Textile Workers Union call-| ing workers in all remaining dye| ops still working, into the strike. | e following dye shops are now out | jon strike: the Weidman, Hawthorne, | United Piece Dye Works, Radiance, Imhof-Berg, Expert, Madison, Ham- A company of Washington marines marching to the train which took them to Quantico, where Bayon ee they are ready to be shipped to Cuba, ets at Throat of Cuba | | squadron of planes of the GUNS FACE WORKERS’ BUILDING Communists in Parade in Main Street of Havana QUANTICO, Ya., Sept. Corps has orders to be ready to take off for Cuba at a moment’s not Machine guns were mount- ed is afternoon in twelve obser- vation planes and a number of auxiliary planes. HAVANA, Sept. 7. — An armada of thirty U. S. war. ships is bearing down on Cuba tonight. Four are already in Cuban waters. workers down to coolie wages as a means of smashing down the stand- | the machine Lad work nhs Faia ilton, Victory, Supreme, and ee In addition to the landing ards of living of the American working class. day rates, plus per cent. 40-hour | shops. | t t : oo . ae ‘And to accomplish all this, the “New Deal” government is pouring | Week. Sete ae ed for) all of Paterson's working class an un en. O nson U S a 5) forces on this fleet, which pte out hundreds of thousands of dollars of war funds, while not a cent will CE ee Eananrors Pee ig opts piotion 68 258 | é m pee — oe whole % spend for unemployment insurance for the American toilers. office of the, union are participating | ‘1 peaetig} merican tlantic naval strength, f | to spread the strike. Today a picket | sat ec ¥ i * . in the pickef line. The plant has 950/ line, three blocks long, with about | ives nton an nder ue a © mann © Sneed Set Shuerittee, the American workers fight against U. S. imperialism in Cuba, they are not only fighting in solidarity with their Cuban brothers. They are also defending their own elementary interests at home. It is the duty of all workers, and it is especially the duty of the Communist Party of the United States to fight with the greatest energy against American intervention in Cuba. Hold hundreds of mass meetings... Shower Roosevelt with telegrams. Demand the immediate withdrawal of all U. S. warships from Cuban waters. Demand the immediate cancellation of all Cuban debts to Wall Street. Demand the nullification of the robber Platt amendment. Down with Ameriean imperialism in Cuba! All support and solidarity with the revolutionary Cuban masses! employed workers, and 350 unem-! ployed, former employees of the com- pany. The workers elected .a grievance committee to represent all depart- ments. They met with company rep- resentatives and presented their de- mands in ‘a séven-hour- session with the company on Tuesday. The de- mands were not answered by the company. A mass meeting Tuesday night decided to send the committee back to confer With the company again on Wednesday, giving the company untilnoon as the deadline 400’ workers marched through the | Riverside section to the Commercial | Piece Dyeing Co., broke through the big gate and went right to the work- ers urging them to join the strike. The workers were sympathetic and| are beginning to come out. This) action. occurred in several» other places. | The local newspaper, Paterson) News, forced to admit the strength of the NTWO in the strike, is boost- ing the AFL union, knowing that the silk bosses can expect to get what they want from the Associated 3.000 Hit Murder of Jobless Leader, Police Terror Holds Sway; Search on for | Militant Woricers | ‘Some Forced to Work? Long Hours With | No Extra Pay EWARK, N. J., Sept. 7-——-General Johnson, NRA administrator, is pres- ident, of a company here flying the blue eagle that has slashed wages| and fired workers for belonging to a union, A letter written to General John- son by the Carpet Workers Union de- “NRA Gives Right ‘To Picket”-Thomas Turns Meet of 2,000) Against NRA Into | One For It | NEW YORK, Sept. 7—Norman FORT WORTH, Tex.— Threejclares that the Lea Fabrics, Inc.,' pomas turned what was called as a and H ready to reinforce Cuban Expeditionary Force. the NEW YORK. — Every National city, and local organization, and all workers and intellectuals, are urged to wire immediately to President Roosevelt, making the following de- mands: Hends off Cuba; immediate with- drawal of all warships from Cuban waters; cancellation of all debts ex- tended by Wal! Street banks to Ma- chado; nullification of the Platt amendment; evacuation of the Guantanamo naval base. to answer the demands. officials. The News reports: “Mean- Handing It Over RE is one item in the latest report of the R.F.C. to which every worker in this country, particularly the jobless and hungry workers, ought to give some pretty serious thought. It reveals that during the month of July the R.F.C. handed over to a small group of banks over one hundred million dollars which had been collected from the great masses of people in taxes. Of these banks over 90 per cent are in hopeless bankruptcy. Two banks in Ohio got together over $73,000,000. Now they are bankrupt. But before they went bankrupt, they handed out large loans to the Van Sweringen brothers for railroad operations. And eyeryone knows by this time that the Van Sweringens are only agents for the J. P. Morgans. These actions merely mean that the Government is making good the losses of the bankers with the money taken from the toiling people. And the man who has charge of these operations, Jesse Jones, is a favorite \ppointee of President Roosevelt. So it is clear that this is the settled policy of Roosevelt himself. At the same time the entire country got a little over 40,000,000 for the relief of millions upon millions of starving workers and their families. This is the policy of the Roosevelt government—boundless generosity to the bankers, and granite resistance against real relief and Unemploy- ment Insurance for the workers. But the determined demands of the workers organized into neighbor- hood Unemployed Councils, in the shops, before the relief bureaus, can force the Roosevelt government to turn these enormous funds for Unem- ployment Insurance. Their English Brothers 16s English members of the Labor Party, together with their brothers of the Trade Union Bureaucracy, have just completed a call to the workers of Britain from their Trade Union Congress. This call to the British workers is of equal interest to American workers. For init they will see that the British Socialist and trade union leaders, like the rest of the whole Second International that just met at Paris, is fully determined to follow the same path that led to the treach- erous betrayal of the German Socialist leaders before the onslaughts of Fascism. Speaking at a recent Trade Union Conference, R. J. Davies, Labor ber of Parliament, spoke as follows: q “So long as we have a dictatorship in Russia, Germany, Italy, or ‘elsewhere, the fact that they accept dictatorship brings in its train the other things that are happening in Germany and Austria. I would not endure, if I could prevent it, the dictatorship of the proletariat any more ffian the dictatorship of the capitalist class.” And it 4s of more than passing significance that these same people hailed with joy the blessings of the NRA; these people found much cause for hope in the Roosevelt program. In the most ruthless dictatorship of the American finance masters of Wall Street they see no dictatorship. Here they see democracy, already tinged with “Socialism.” But the rule of the workers, the dictatorship of the proletariat, they will resist and crush if they can—this they solemnly promise to their ruling ¢lass masters. o Sigh Se 18 ironical that an outspoken reactionary New York paper, in a frank moment, should give the true meaning of that promise. Says the Evening Post of September 5: “British trade unionism is firmly against dictatorship from the Left no less than the Right. ... This is the policy which the German So- cialists fo'lowed when they faced the Hitler movement, and the result *has been that they have been eliminated as a political factor from the ! Reich ... they were swept aside in the victorious advance of Fascism.” So the brave words of the British labor leaders and the Socialist parliamentarians need no interpretation for the capitalists. They know exactly what it means. They can see that the whole Second Socialist International is busily going about its main task of disarming the workers in the fight against developing Fascism by the old phrases that served the purpose so well in Germany. ‘The committee went, but the com- pany stalled. Another mass meeting was called Wednesday night and the workers voted unanimously for strike at 5:00 A.M. Thursday. The meeting at which the strike vote was taken was addressed by John Meldon, secretary of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, and Pat Cush, national chairman. 2 Tennessee Negroes Die in Electric Chair NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 7—Two Negroes, Andrew J. Wilcoxson, 26, and Oscar Bevin, 25, were today executed in the electric chair in the State Prison here following a typical Southern “trial” on charges that they attacked a white woman. MINOR AT ELECTION MEETS Released on parole for hearing September 15, after his arrest Wednesday for leading pickets against an injunction, Robert Minor, Communist candidate for mayor, will be the main speaker at an election banquet tendered him tomorrow, Sat- urday night, at Ambassador Hall, ‘Third Avenue and Claremont Pkwy., Bronx. In the afternoon of the same day, at 1 o'clock, the Bronx United Front | Election Rally and Conference wiil be held in the same hall with Mrs. W. Burroughs, Communist candidate | for comptroller, as speaker. Minor also speaks tonight at the Brownsville Youth Center, 105 That- ford Avenue, Brooklyn. led by a surprising number in the while the strike call of the National) Textile Workers Union is being heed- industry here.” It was this response which will result in the issuance of | a strike call (in the dye section of the industry), by the AFL union. Eli Keller, renegade, expelled as a| disrupter of the National Textile) Workers Union and now organizer of the Associated Silk Workers, telling the workers that the Asso- ciated is leading the dye strike, at- tempted to split the ranks of the workers on the picket line at the Weidmann shop on Wednesday when he sent A. F. of L. organizers to the gates to address the workers. The Weidman shop is 100 per cent or- ganized under the National Textile Workers Union, The A, F. of L, is trying to “muscle in” on the dye shops and organize the dye workers. But the speakers sent by Keller made little headway with the Weid- mann strikers who drove them away, and their disruptive effort fail miserably. A charge of disorderly conduct was lodged against Abe Harrison and Meyer Lax who were arrested but later released. Following the example of the dye strikers the silk workers are forming mass picket lines regardless of the policy of the Associated leaders. The silk strike spread to Allentown today where many shops came out on strike against the attempt to in- clude in the silk code the provisions of a minimum wage of $13 a week now in the cotton code, and against the lower scale for Southern work- ers. Approximately 40,000 are out in the Eastern silk centers. thousand workers demonstrated here | manufacturers of automobile carpets,’ protest meeting on Union Sq. yester- Wednesday in protest against the brutal police murder of T. E. Bar- low, district organizer of the Com- munist Party. Despite the terror- ization of the county and city po- lice, who attempted to smash the meeting with tear-gas bombs, the workers defended the speakers and refused to disperse. D. Lacey of the Unemployed Councils, Alice Wilson of the In- ternational Labor Defense and Ben Lauderdale of the Communist Party addressed the crowd, The meeting demanded that the body of Barlow be held for a com- plete investigation and accused the police of murder. The death pen- alty for all police involved in the case was demanded. The local papers state that 5,000 workers have visited the funeral pd | parlor to view the body. Police are conducting a savage hunt for the leading members of the Communist Party and_ other workers’ organization. Workers are stopped and questioned and intimidated continually. A flood of protests has been called for to combat this reign of terror and to demand that the mur- derers of Barlow be punished. * * * Through error, Barlow’s murder was previously reported as oc-| curring in Dallas. As will be seen) from the above story the crime! actually occurred in Fort Worth. of which General Johnson is the fa. lan 4 4 y by the United Hebrew Trades highest official, discharged Herbert | Unions, against the injunction issued Smalley for joining the union. Be-| py Judge Selah B. Strong against the | sides, the Lea Fabrics, Inc., has re-| 9999 bakery strikers, into a demon- |duced hours from 48 to 40, cutting stration for the N-R.A., under which pay proportionately. In many cases| the injunction was issued. Two thou- workers are forced to work more | sanq workers were on the square. hours without increased pay. General Johnson has workers that if their hours are cut |their wages would not be cut. | Eric Ross, secretary of the union, | telegraphed President Roosevelt, General Johnson, secretary of Labor Perkins, and the Labor Advisory Board, saying that the company of which General Johnson is the head, has “violated the code.” Ellery K. Files, vice-president and associate of General Johnson, an- swering the charges of making the workers work longer than the code hours, said: repeatedly told the| “The N.R.A. gives workers the right | to picket . . . abrogates no legal rights +». and the N.R.A. gives workers the right to join their own union,” was the brazen statement of Thomas to| the workers, who were at that very | |moment ordered by an. injunction | fostered by the N.R.A., to stop pick- eting. Thomas himself admitted the fact that the strikes of the Shoe and | Leather Workers Industrial Union, | which he referred to as “a Commu-| nist boot union,” and of the Furni- ture Workers Industrial Union strike at the Progressive Table Co. in) Brooklyn, where Robert Minor, Com- | munist candidate for mayor, was ar- “If you cannot get necessary extra rested Wednesday for picketing, had employes familiar with our process you must work those you have over-|also been interfered with by the time. It has nothing to do with the | N.R.A, normal working week.” _. | ‘The workers cheered the mention As to the firing of Smalley for join- | of Minor. ing the union, he said: “He was fired kecause his work! . We do not} | August Classens, t | was unsatisfactory. . . a and candidate in the coming elec- [encourage Ross's union. T told him s\onction without violating it.” He jwe would prefer to have them join | « Kins . | i » | said: “Just don’t buy bread without a union affiliated with the A. F. of L.”| the: union label.” Ross's telegram to Washington ve ficials read: > “Lea Fabrics, NRA by dismissing Herbert Smalley |from its employ. Smalley’s work has Inc., has violated the | | Smalley, forcing Lea Fabrics to live | up to the letter and spirit of the NRA. | tions, told the workers to “fight the | | ployment by Lea Fabrics of Herbert | socialist official | been satisfactory for four years and| he was dismissed after taking an ac-| tive part in union organization work. | We demand the immediate re-em- ' We also demand weekly wages paid on 48-hour basis, but reduced to 40) hours per week, be restored.” By BILL DUNNE PATERSON, N. J., Sept. 8. — They strike of silk workers is now on 4a national scale with the Paterson Morning Call admitting yesterday that more than 40,000 are striking. This is the center of the silk section of the textile industry, especially be- cause of the dye plants here, to which come 90 per cent of all silk manufactured for the coloring process. Silk workers are out in and around Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, Allen- town and Easton, Pennsylvania. Some 7,000 broad silk workers are on strike here. Warpers, twisters and loom fix- ers, organized in independent craft unions, are on strike here. There are between two and three thousand of these workers. Allentown workers are also organized in an independent union with leanings toward the N.T.W.LU. The dye house workers in Paterson have struck and are following the leadership of the National Textile Workers Union. About 2,500 are out; in the big Weidman plant employing 1,200 men and women workers there 4s a complete tie-up. Four or five smaller dye plants have been closed oa 40,000 Out in Militant Na tionwide Silk Strike for Higher Pay | Main Question of Struggle Now Is Uniting of Workers’ Forces, Establishing Real Rank and File Leadership as Guarantee of Winning Strike by strikes. The broad silk workers are partially organized in the Associated Silk Workers Union, affiliated with the United Textile Workers headed by McMahon. The strike broke out in spite of the efforts of the National Recovery Act administration, the leadership of the American Federa- tion of Labor, that of the Associated Silk Workers, including the Love-| stoneite Eli Keller, and McMahon, to prevent it and lure the silk workers into NRA arbitration, The strike has developed its mili-| tant national character due to the) aggressiveness of the workers, the! starvation conditions aggravated by the enforcement of the $13 per week minimum (maximum) code wage scale in the silk section of the indus- try, and by reason of the work of the National Textile Workers Union for @ united front of the rank and file | Silk Workers officials are leading one) carried through by elected strike com- | mittees. | The main questions of the struggle) now are the uniting of the forces of the workers, bringing forward a real) working and authoritative rank and| file leadership on the basis of the exposure and defeat of the agents of| the National Recovery slave Act—the| Associated Silk Workers leadership| and that of the U.T.W. When it is sald that the Associated | section of the strike—broad silk—and the N.T.W.LU, ansther—the most de-| cisive section, dye plant workers — this. must not be taken to mean that) either organization actually controls | the striking workers except in a very general way. The outstanding fact is that the great majority of the work- ers haye not get made their decision as to what organization they wll join, what program they will accept, what Jeadership thev will follow. This will! be decided in *.1¢ course of the strug- gle and for the most part this deci- sion depends upon the aggressiveness | | and skill with which the leadership| of the N.T.W.L.U. fights for the united front, exposes the anti-working class character of NIRA and ‘dentifies the formist leadership with it before | the masses of strikers, | The importance of this last point cannot be over-emphasized. Such is the skepticism already among the strikers in regard to the NIRA and in regard to the policy of the U.T.W. and the A. F. of L. lead- ership, that it forces expression in the Paterson’ press. The impact of the strike has cut a wide breach in the| ranks of the manufacturers. | One or two examples will malke this clear: The-Paterson Morning Call said yesterday in its leading editorial: “Efforts are being made to have the | that with a nation-wide strike in prog- | progress, more attention will be paid | members of the recovery adiminis silk strike, which is becoming na-| tional, called off pending the result of a hearing on the permanent silk code. It is doubtful, however, whether the silk workers of the country will heed these attempts, for they feel ress while these hearings are in to their grievances.” This is somewhat in advance of ) McMahon's comment in an Assc- ciated Press dispatch of September 6. He is quoted as “warning of the danger of a national strike” to the NRA. The Call editorial also says, com- menting on the effect of the NRA code: “But even the wage schedule provided is tco low. How could the tion reach the conclusion that a cot ton worker with a family can liy a $13 per week? How could they forin the conclusion that such a wage would increase the purchasing power of the worker so that he could be- come a factor in the plan for increas- ing the consuming power of the | American people?” | Such expressions indicate a grow- (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) \fight against the Cuban wo: Meanwhile the junta thrown into power on the crest of the constantly growing mass revolutionary move- ment of a strove to stave off armed intervention by the U. S. by | carrying out the same mea S which Wall Street would put into effect. Machines guns are mounted in front of the W vana, and in Fraternity Park, where thousands are massing to celebrate International Youth Day. Orders have been issued for the arrest of Communist leaders in Havana. Orders were also issued for the disarming of all civilians. Force Permit for Demonstration The revolutionary youth of Havana won an important victory when they forced the junta to issue a permit for the International Youth Day demonstration. The Young Commu- nist League and the Youth Section of the revolutionary Confederacion Nacional Obrera de Cuba had an- nounced they would demonstrate re- gardless, Communists in a large parade marched through the center of Ha- vana, carrying red flags, late this afternoon. Meanwhile the biggest American and local capitalists and landlords of Cuba, distrusting the ability of the junta to head off the revolutionary workers and soldiers, are exerting every pressure on Ambassador Sum- ner Welles to have U. S. troops land- ed. If U. S. marines land, they will be met with the determined, spon- taneous resistance of thousands of armed soldiers, sailors, and workers, although the present leaders are al- ready preparing to submit to the landing of U. S. troops. Capitalists Want U. S. Troops All the most powerful American capitalist interests in Cuba, and Sumner Welles himself, want Amer- ican guns and bayonets to suppress the Cuban workers, now that the Cu- ban army can no longer be relied on. Matthew V. Molamphy, general agent of the American Fruit Co., barely Center in Ha- j escaped with his life on board the Ward liner Morro Castle. He was one of the most vicicus leaders of the is held responsible for the ito Iglinas, a work found under the stables of fortress. © of four sugar mills by striking kers in Oriente province was being urged as a reason for in- tervention, as three of them are Ameri ed. Si American- were seized by the De Cespedes without Welles mak- ie Dp ional junta issued an or- der for the resto: to authority of the avmy officers disarmed and de- |posed by the soldiers and non-com- missioned officers’ committees. There was a report of fighting at Camp Columbia, in which several soldiers were reported shot in an ate {\ (CONTINUED ON PAGE Twep \ \ eA NARNIA OS SE —