The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 14, 1933, Page 1

Watch for Robert Hamilton’s Review of the “Brown Book” in Saturday’s “Daily” Dail ‘(Section of the Communist International) 4 | America’s Only Working | | Class Daily Newspaper | WEATHER: Kastern New York: Cloudy, probably showers Thursday. ‘Watered a6 Hew York, Vol. X, No, 221 aa second-class matter at the Post Office at XN. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1933 (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents A Test for the Party ‘HE Wall Street government’s armed intervention in Cuba is a test for all the forces of the Communist Party of the United States. A few days ago the Daily Worker declared that this armed intimida- tion of the Cuban people is war. This war has a special significance for the American working class, for it is the war of Wall Street imperialism against the most rapidly growing revolutionary mass movement in the Americas. It is the crushing hand of Wall Street seeking to protect one of its main bulwarks of imperialism. But the full significance of this fact has not yet penetrated the ranks of the Communist Party. To an immediate test of its resolve to fight against war, the Party has been lagging. . . 'HERE is no easy way around the Party’s urgent, imperative task of rousing the whole American working class to vehement protest against Roosevelt's intervention. The Party must take the lead in organizing mass meetings, street meetings, in turning every workers’ meeting into a protest against inter- vention in Cuba. It is particularly the task of the Party and of the revolutionary unions to rouse the membership of all unions, to raise the question of Cuba at every union meeting, and especially at A. F. of L. meetings. America's armed intervention In Cuba is the most urgent immediate concern of the United States Congress Against War, to open in New York City on September 29th. Many elements besides the revolutionary workers will be represented in this congress. It is the task of the Party, of the revolutionary trade unions, and of the opposition groups in the reformist unions to see to it that there is a, strong working class representation, as the only guarantee that the congress will put forward and carry out a program of real, concrete, effective struggle against war. Wagner vs. Lodi gate WAGNER, who very mysteriously now takes the place formerly filled by Leo Wollman, as chairman of the Labor Advisory Board, comes out with a statement that under the NRA workers have a right to choose any representatives to speak for them, whether employed in a particular shop or not. This is the sheerest propaganda, attempting to put a little sugar coating on the terrific blows suffered by the workers such as the open shop clause in the auto code, the no-strike edict, the flood of anti-picket- ing injunctions. On the very day this statement was issued by Wagner it was given the lie in Paterson, New Jersey, by action of NRA officials. Over 8,000 dye house workers, striking under the leadership of the National Textile Workers Union, as admitted by every capitalist newspaper reporting the event, were refused the right to have their representatives present their demands at a meeting of the bosses and Mr. John A. Moffit, acting for the NRA. Hundreds of police massed at the Hamilton Hotel to keep the com- mittee elected by the workers from coming to the conference, . . . . IN UTAH and New Mexico, where Mr. Grubbs, NRA official admits the National. Miners Union represents the strikers, the bosses refuse to recognize the union leaders as the spokesmen of the strikers. The latest statement of Senator Wagner has as much force as the { Promise of Roosevelt to employ 6,000,000 workers by Labor Day. Senator Wagner, very close to Mr. Green, has been notified that the workers throughout the country are beginning to see through the fine phrases about the NRA. What meaning does Wagner’s phrases have in the face of NRA officials in the field using police to keep away the rep- resentatives chosen by thousands of strikers? What force can Wagner's propaganda have in the auto industry, for 2nee, where Green’s open shop clause permits the bosses to fife even , who work in the plant if they dare to speak for the workers? Green and Mr. Wagner, your latest trick will not be half r enough to cover up the open shop, scab, strikebreaking policy of the NRA. If t representatives are met by the bosses, it will be through iorce of mass struggles of the workers forcing them to wage increases, improved conditions are being won against 2A and through mass strikes—a bitter fact being learned now by ihe reinors throughout the country—so workers’ representatives will be me force of action by the workers’ themselves. More Promises--Not Jobs * [Us Gr. workers, asking for bread, for relief, for unemployment in- "2 are being fed liberal doses of lying figures by General John- Senator Wagner. dust yesterday, Senator Wagner, chairman of the Labor Advisory Bvaré, of the NRA, without the slightest foundation in fact, declares 3,000,009 workers got jobs since the New Deal went into effect. ‘The day before at Madison Square Garden in Nev! York General #ohnson said the crisis had been liquidated by 25 percent. This is real teamwork in a deliberate attempt to answer the demands for food coming from the throats of millions of unemployed with figures based on pure imagination, ‘the millions of unemployed in the country who have seen promise after promise of jobs follow the old route of Hoover’s promises of pros- perity are beginning to think of a bitter winter ahead, without food, clothing or shelter, the + * * Pm comands for relief are growing greater as the Jobs these worthies of the NRA come out fake the starving along a little more, to do not come. * country has been going downward since July 15 at a faster pace than they went up under the hypodermic of inflation. ing out, and the NRA is not putting contrary, more men are losing their jobs, and this be thrown on the breadlines. ‘The Roosevelt regime does not want to provide any employment relief. Hundreds of millions are available for war prepara- tions, but not one cent is available to carry out Roosevelt’s pre-election promise of unemployment insurance. Now, the unemployed, together with the employed, must organize for the struggle to force unemployment insurance. Roosevelt has plenty of ’ money on hand. He has billions ready for the bankers whenever they want it. He has unlimited sums for war. But neither he, nor the bosses, ‘will provide one cent of relief, unless forced to do #0. i By JOHN L. Prison Official Tries STRIKES ON to Attack Witness of Welfare Isle Murder District Attorney Grills Mark Shahian in Vain Attempt to Discredit His Story CO. GUNMEN INCREASE TAKE THEM IN CUBA Danger of Blood Bath|Kewanee Plant Is a by U. S. Forces Branch of Struck FOR A RIDE 2 Steel Union Organizers Kidnapped, Flogged Coal Strike in Day; 30,000 Now Out UMWA Officials Can’t Keep Men in When Code Promises Flop; Big Trusts Preparing for Major Battles, Layoffs PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 13.—Although United Mine Workers officials | NEW YORK.—A brazen attempt to attack Mark Shahian, | eyewitness to the brutal murder on Welfare Island of James | Matthews, a North Carolina Negro, was made in the district |attorney’s office yesterday by Dr. Max Goodman, the dentist, | whom Shahian identified as the one, who told him not to say a ;a guard had knocked his teeth | out with a blackjack. Shahian had been called to | testify to the details of the Mat- thews murder after the Daily Worker forced the district attorney’s office to open an investigation into the district attorney officials, Welfare Island wardens and heavily armed guards whose pistols bulged at their | hips, | Assistant District Attorney Saul | Prise, in charge of the investigation, man, the Harts Island dentist whom the witness had just identified, to calm himself and sit down. Dr. Goodman, Shahian testified, first examined him when a keeper had struck him with a biackjack. Upon informing the dentist how he SPIVAK Is High Plant in Pa. Author of “Georgia Nigger.” (oc | i i CHICAGO, Ill, Sept. 13.—Tw |Anti-Intervention organizers of the Steel aa Metal || Flag Worries Cops| | Workers Industrial Union _ here, charges. The attempted assault on the eye- witness was made in a roomful of Whalen, Johnson, Try | jumped up when Shahian placed his | j r-T 7 hands on the back of a chair to de- to Whip Up W ar Time fend himself and ordered Dr. Good- Hysteria “March or Be Fired” | bic Employers Say By a Worker Correspondent | NEW YORK, N. Y.—I work in | | |Blein's Dept. Store on Union | | Square. We had to take part in| | the N.R.A. parade. If you don’t, | you lose your job. So the store | with the lowest minimum will be | most represented. The minimum in | Klein’s is $12. We have to wear just a. certain kind of clothes=# black or navy blue dress and cer- | tain kind of shoes. He pays you | $12 a week and expects you to! buy a costume for the parade. We) |are to wear red, white and blue) berets. None of the girls are BO | ing with a willing spirit. The girls | have said they would much rather | | work that half-day than hike. Klein’s is the most notorious ex- ploiter in the city. Everybody knows that. man, according to Shahian’s testi- mony, told him not to say that “be- cause it would go hard with him,” and advised him to say that he had tripped on the stairs and struck his jaw. The district attorney’s office was like a stage set yesterday morning When Shahian, accompanied by” Ed- ward Kuntz and Abraham Dranow, International Labor Defense At- torneys appeared at the hour set for Shahian to give his testimony. The three wardens of Harts Island, the | penitentiary and Correction Hospitai were already there besides two uni- dentified officials and a stenographer. (Continued on Page Three) $450,000,000 Rise in Gasoline Costs Caused | by NR. Leading Oil Companies Raise Retail Prices WASHINGTON, September 13.—As @ result of the Roosevelt, program of severe restriction in oil production, and the raising of the price of crude oil under the NRA codes, gasoline prices are being advanced all over By MILTON HOWARD. NEW YORK, Sept. 13.—It was with a grim array of naked, fixed bayonets that the NRA parade began yester- day at 1:30 p.m. It was the uni- formed regiments of state troops, po- lice, and National Guard that first came into view. At first all you could see. was bayonets and police clubs, ‘Then, a roar was heard, and every- body looking up to see the 46 mili- tary bombing planes sweep by in at- tacking formation. Those planes could have dropped high explosives that would have made a_ bloody shambles of that place. And every- body looking up got the idea. The brutal, armed force of the NEW YORK.—A large red | flag bearing the words “Hands | Off Cuba!” flew from the Lib- erty flagpole in City Hall Park for hours early today. The repe was cut. | It took policemen two hours | to get it down after it had flown unnoticed by them since | some time during the night, | | Ingar Johnson and Otto Keller, were kidnapped when they were distributing leaflets and organiz- ing workers at the Walworth Co., at Kewanee, Ill. This in Greensburg, is a branch of the plant Pa., where over 1,000 work are striking under the leadership of the Steel and Metal Workers Union. The two union organizers were | had received his injuries, Dr. Good-| |when it was run up. | blindfolded, taken for a ride and ec eeee | brutally flogged and then thrown |into a riv | Kewanee | conscious. Two local workers, Williams and Popejoy also taken for a ride. McNaught was beaten at the gate UBS" f of the Walworth plant. | Cuban masses, is high tonight,| Hoodlums armed with shotguns jas the Grau San Martin regime | pistols, rope, etc. in ten autos, jis showing itself increasingly | monies 8 the i i te, | unable to head off the workers’ mil- |COmPosed of company foremen di jthe kidnapping and flogging. | itaney. | Many new strikes, and increasing) The gunmen demanded to know {where Joe Weber, union organizer militancy among the striking work- ers, were reported from all parts of | was. This shows the connection the island. | between the company gunmen and Thirty U.S. warships, including one | the Chicago police department. battleship, capable of firing shells 13/ ‘The names of some of the hood- mileg, surround the island, awaiting lums are Harwood Miller, Nass | word to land troops under a barrage | G 1 As d Tr s Ww. ee | of shells. They are in ‘constant com- | “8"'@n¢ and frenary Wagner. | munication with Ambassador Sumner Welles, | HAVANA, Sept. 13.—Danger \of a blood bath by American | troops, to drown the still ris- \ing wave of strikes and anti- |imperialist struggles of the here they were left un- Army Base Preparin | Three thousand stutlents have or- y paring, | ganined themselves into —a fascist fOr Cuban Occupation militia to support the new govern- | a ment, which is increasingly using | the troops which last week overthrew Fue, Ueswotes against the striking | of mine who works in the Brook- workers lly " While the pressure of the ‘Amer | wep) aie ne eld gehen iean ring of steel around the island Hants, ti “4 se aga ne Sop aouen made itself increasingly felt, and the |'niervention taking place there, likelihood of bloody warfare by Amer-| Last week, searchlights mounted ican troops was greater than it has|0n trucks were shipped. A car been since the overthrow of De Ces-|load of machine guns and auto- pedes, President Grau San Martin} matic rifles are to be shipped out, declared, “I feel happy to say Cuba|or have already been shipped. In * php Hely. badypaed all the na-| addition, several powerful radio | Government Aw Armed Dictatorship| "2™smitting sets have been ship- | Government rmed torship ped. They i | The new government, with the aid Lee bon tae ig bag | of the armed reactionary students, ; and certain sections of the army is, The ships that have already been | feverishly striving to impose an arm-|‘ispatched to Cuba could only | ed dictatorship like Machado’s, in|catry a temporary occupation | order to prove it can smash the re-|force. It is evident from the ma- volutionary movement without help) terial being sent that U. S. troops | from American marines. Former Pres-| may very likely be transported. | esi Mario oe is Nationalist | oo — | Union headed by Carlos Mendieta, | fe jand the ABC capitalist-landiord Funds ” ‘or Drought Area. secret society have refused suppori,!, WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.—Funds | believing the new regime is too weak | t0 relieve areas stricken by drought |to smash the revolution. be Dea phen a scat poiry | American residents and the richest) ies Pooaerett, Jocal capitalists are bombarding Wel-| SU Of $63,000,000 will be used for les with demands that American| ese areas which include North and (By a Worker Correspondent.) BROOKLYN, N.-Y.—A friend * eightee nmlies out of | are working desperately to hold back the strike movement in Western Pennsylvania and issued a special appeal to the miners to remain at work pending the settlement of the coal code, representatives of more than 30,000 coal miners voted to remain out on strike until their union is recog- nized and a bituminous coal code is signed. The vote was taken at a meeting of 300 workers in Hungarian Hall, at Priecdale, Westmoreland County, At a nearby baseball field thousands of miners gathered to hear the decision of their representatives on the strike vote. | WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.—The strike is growing in the soft coal fields against the failure of Roosevelt to deliver on the promises he made to get the 70,000 miners back to work in the previous strike a few weeks ago. Over 30,000 miners are out in Southwestern Penn SS EE ESO i alone, over 15,000 ing Minor Trial Tomorrow joined the ranks of the strik- Test of Picket Right Robert Minor, Commun didate for Mayor, of New York, arrested for picketing “in viola- tion of the NRA” will be Friday at 9 a. m. in the Magi trate’s Court at Pennsylvania | and Liberty Avenues, This is the first test case of the right of workers to picket under the Blue Buzzard codes. All workers are urged by the | International Labor Defense to attend the trial and demand the release of Minor. can- tried Brooklyn. | 3,000 Iowa Miners Defeat UMW Heads’ ‘Move to End Strike Set Up Rank and File | Committee to Lead the Strike | DES MOINES, Ia., Sept. 13.—Ef- forts of Lewis, and Wilson, of the United Mine Worksrs of America to | force the 3,000 striking Iowa miners |back to the pits failed when the | strikers at a meeting Monday voted | to continue to fight against the slav- ery provisions of the NRA, Alarmed at this show of militancy jthe U.M.W.A. officials threatened | disciplinary action. Nevertheless, in spite of this threat, delegates were elected to a confer- ers today. ‘ UM.W.A. officials, working with N. R.A. officials, are trying to cover the fact that the movement is a strike, calling it a “holiday” or pension of work” pending the passage of the coal code A simil; trike is on in Iowa, where flouted their officials on, strike. Five counties in Pennsylvania are | involved in the strike. The miners are demanding recognition of the U. M.W.A., higher wages, lower hours, and improved conditions. The strikers are disregarding the orders of the officials to remain at work until a code is passed here. President Roosevelt himself is tak- | ing the leading part in the prepara- | tion of a code, heping to stop the ad- vance of the strike by rushing | through a fake agreement between | Lewis and the coal operators. Big coal operators, like the Pitts- burgh Coal Co.; H. C. Frick, end other U. S. Steel mines, are stocking up heavily with coal, preparing for a major strike, or to fire men when the code goes into effect Daily Worker Wins the Right to Sell Paper in Harrison HARRISON. N. J., Sept. 13—The | right to distribute Daily Workers in the streets of Harrison, N. J., was won yesterday through « legal fight put up by the International Labor | Defense. | Marion Laughlin man, who was arr ago for distributing Daily before the Crucible Steel Co: Harrison, was acquitted by the right to sell the Daily ¥ was established by the court young state—that was the first impact of the country, The increase in the troops be landed. | South Dakota, the Panhandle Sec- total gasoline bill of the country will be at least $450,000,000 a year, Sec- retary of the Interior Ickes, announc- ed today. Leading oil companies yesterday advanced all oil priées from one to two cents a gallon. A price of %4 cents a gallon will soon prevail, oil officials declared. The Roosevelt program in the oil industry, thus, has the same effect as @ sales tax on gasoline purchases. Jobless Father a Suicide NEW YORK—John Kovel, 40, the parade arranged by the New York NRA administration in closest co-operation with the police, army and navy. They wanted the thou- sands of workers who lined the side- walks to get a good view of that gleaming steel. Then the military bands began to sound, And it was war songs that they poured ‘into the ears of the marchers—“Over There” . . . “Keep the Home Fires Burning” . . . etc. Everywhere leather-faced, evil-eyed Lieutenants were swinging their arms stiffly in salute. It was like 1917. The reviewing stand in front of the | tion of Texas, the Rio Grande Val- |. This is the response to an ever! higher wave of anti-imperialist feel- | | ing among the Cuban masses, and! agers of other plants who settled with a constantly sharper demand ‘for a the strikers declared they would re- | living wage on the part of indus-| fuse to pay the higher rates later on | trial and plantation workers, expres-| Coffee pickers in Guantanamo and | sed in a still growing wave of strikes, | Songo are out on strike. The Dai- | and in numerous demonstrations. quiri mines of the Bethlehem Steel Communists Lead Strikes, Corporation, near Santiago, and the The Communist Party and the re-| El Cristo manganese mines, also Am- volutionary National Confederation of, erican owned, are closed by strikes. Labor have taken the lead in many Dock workers at Santiago demanded | of these strikes and demonstrations. _ pay increases within 72 hours. Ban- | Refused their demands, railway , apa workers at Antilla gave the Uni- | workers have gone out on strike again’ ted Fruit Company until Saturday to i y-| _ Over 200 workers mobilized by the Keiatte ey tor chet ta See ane) ath Connelly Breneh of the ILD, tinuance of the strike. A committee| Packed the courtroom, overflowing of progressive miners was also elec-| the Main Hall, and standing outside ‘ted to supervise the building of a 0M the streets, while Solomon Goiat, | strong picket line. Newark attorney, establis the legal right of the Daily Worker to it se fae Bd Aecslscr ocsck ad be sold or distributed on the streets y ee Nf ! of Harrison. | by er peter oe ates = | Half the jury panel was challenged od Bef Miners Union, and) py Attorney Golat, when through ly Worker representatives from} questioning, it was established that the picket line sabotaged the strug- | the jurymen openly stated that thoy gle. This, in spite of vigorous pro-! stood for the suppression of the Com= tests from the rank and file, who are| munists, and were against the dis= sshoratines cians crea tribution of the Daily Worker, library at Fifth Ave. and 42nd St. was packed with Generals, bankers, Government officials, politicians, and ladies in summer furs. Every now and then as one of the ladies waved her hands in gracious Condescension at the marchers a diamond ring would glow in the sun that shone fitfully through the clouds. Whalen Smiles Grover Whalen stood there, flank- ed by General Nolan and General Johnson, the NRA chief. He seemed happy about something. Every now and then one of the marchers called his name. And Grover Whalen smiled. He simply laps up public ap- plause, “Look at him,” one of the press- men said to me, “He thinks he’s President already.” That's not the first time I saw Whalen smile. The last time I saw him was at the March, 1930, dem- onstration of a hundred thousand workers in Union Squacc, when his police lunged forward with smesh- ing clubs, on plunging horses. I saw Whalen bare his teeth in a slow smile as his stool-pigeons and detectives trampled on the faces of stumbling women, beating hundresls yesterday. Seventy-seven rtade groups of workers. There was something of | that smile in Whalen’s arrogant face | worker from Queens, hung himself on | in Camaguey. H a tree in Flushing Park on Tuesday) More than a quarter of all sugar | night. Kovel, who has a wife and/ plants in Cuba, including the largest, four children, has been out of work | controlling half of Cuba’s sugar pro- for months, duction, are closed by strikes, Man-/| meet their demands. Negroes, discriminated against in the ‘distribution of relief after last week’s storm are militantly protesting at Cardenas. New Mexico strikes. Miners were enraged at the lying stories, in the loeal press, ghat they had returned to work. “Ove unit challenges any unit in our section in Socialist competition to save our six-page, and much better Daily Worker’—so writes the secretary, Comrade Fisher, of Unit Three, Section five of the Communist Party in New York City. Comrade Fisher adds, “Our unit has decided to raise $100.00 for the Daily Worker in its campaign for $40,000. En- closed find $25.00 as our first collection.” That, comrades, is the spirit. And, above all, it’s backed up by im- Mediste cash—$25.00, | Section five of the New York District has 23 Communist units. If | these other units seriously take up the challenge of unit three, and each | raise $100.00 the Daily Worker drive will be given a big push forward, ‘We would be $2,300 nearer our $40,000 goal. And then what should prevent, let us say, section ome or two chal- lenging section five? Or District elght challenging District two? A tre- mendous stimulus would be given to the whole campaign. And such an immediate stimulus is needed. The Campaign is lagging. * * * | ()N Saturdey, the first day of our drive $172.00 was received. Morday returns, boosted by the Sunday New York conference, reached $361.90. But on Tuesday only $72.00 arrived. And yesterday only $61.00. ‘This, comrades, is a danger signal. It indicates that the readers of our paper and the workers’ organizations supporting our paper have not Not been aroused to the seriousness of our need for financial assistance— for 40,000, | Socialist Competitive Spirit Needed in $40,000 Drive ie Ses ‘We have not until now, declared that the Daily Worker would be Compelled to cease publication. We have not resorted to hysterical ap- peals, Why? Because we are confident that the masses will aid us in meeting the pressing financial obligations of the paper. But our readers, nevertheless, should realize that the existence of the Daily Worker—yes, its very Mfe—is bound up with the success of our present drive for funds, The full amount—#*40,000—must be raiseci, and in the shortest possible time. a * * urge our readers to send in contributions at once. We urge work- ers’ organizations to increase their activities—to circulate the col- lection lists, to arrange benefit affairs, to make direct donations from their treasuries. The best method of arousing the initiative of the workers is that adopted by unit three of section five—soclalist competition. By develop- ing a real competitive spirit in the campaign to maintain our paper the drive will quickly meet succe: We urge ell other workers me spirit. And at once! groups to enter into the campaign with Previously Received - - - - $606.26 Yesterday’s Receipts - - + - 61.77 TOTAL - - + + $668.0. We commend unit three for its initiative. | Th’s was only the second ifne that a jury trial was held in the megistrate’s court of Harrison. The only witness put up by the } Harrison authorities was the police- | man who arrested Marion Laughlin, | When asked by Golat if he would . arrest any other newsies in the- for the sale of any other pa-** not, but thet the “Daily Worker was the enly vvver he would stop from being sold.” Marion Laughlin was put on prope+ | tion for the payment of $20 fine for the insertion of leaflets in the Daily | Worker, and $12 court costs. : | The judge said that he would not send her to jail, becaus> that would “cause too much notoriety.” Hov- ever, the International Laka: Devens? soes not intend to pay the court costs or the fine. Issues of the Daily | Worker were given out in the court and sold on the streets of Harrison, while the trial in progress. ‘McAdoo Leaves to Visit Soviet Union > isAcce of Cali’e n-to: Wiliam G ‘a, Seorriary of Tres President Wilsoa, sailed for the Soviet Union yesterday, | for a short visit. While sayirg his visit was unof- ticial, he added that he expected to report to President Roosevelt om his | observations