The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 16, 1933, Page 1

| SILK STRIKERS VOTE TO REJECT AFL. SELL-OUT “TRUCE” > « q ue e » i <7 rd Get Your Unit, Union Local, | Branch or Club to Challenge | Another Group in Raising Subs | for the Daily Worker ! | i Vol. X, No. 223 New York, Wntered as second-class matt , N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879, at the Post Office at remember that Roosevelt posed as saint of peace in his famous May 15th message to the fifty-four nations of the world demanding that, they “send no armed force of any nature whatsoever across their boun- daries except to punish violations of the disarmament treaty.” Still posing as a saintly character of peace, he said “the way to disarm is to disarm.” That was three months ago. Today the guns of a mighty American fleet point at the city of Havana, ready to spit flame and bullets at the Cuban workers who are trying to throw off the yoke of the American sugar robbers. Today, Roosevelt/s secretaries of the Navy and Interior are spending hundreds of million$ on the greatest fleet of bombing planes the world has ever known. Grim and frenzied preparation for war—that is what we see in the Roosevelt program now. Workers of America! All who hate imperialist war! Young workers who are being groomed for slaughter in the next imperialist war! Raise your voices against the sinister imperialist intervention in Guba! Join in support of tho united front Anti-War Congress to be | held in New York City beginning Sept. 29th! Coal Miners Fight Again @IXTEEN miners were riddled with bullets fired by gunmen of the H. C. Frick Coke Co., a subsidiary of the U. S. Steel Corporation on Thursday. These men had joined the new strike of 40,000 other miners against the failure of Roosevelt to carry out his promises. On August 6, over 70,000 striking miners were driven back to work with threats and promises. Roosevelt told the miners their grievances would be “considered.” “Go back to work,” pleaded Lewis. It was only after the NRA officials definitely promised that the demands of union vecognition and higher wages would be taken up “in a few days,” specifi- celly on August 9th, that the miners finally returned. At that Time, the Daily Worker pointed out: “One skirmish is over but the battle con- tinues.” The miners went back undefeated, with fight deeply ingrained in them. OOSEVELT’S coal code farce in Washington did not fool the miners. ‘They knew they could gain their demands only by strike. ‘A few days ago the miners began to strike again. The. strike spread to dozens of mines. in Pennsylvania, it began to spread to Kentucky, Iowa, West Virginia. 4 Consternation gripped the UMWA officials. ‘They went from mining camp to mining camp, pleading with the men to stay at work. They told the men Roosevelt would act soon. The more the UMWA officials spoke the faster the strike spread. The UMWA officials tried another trick. They didn’t want the new strike wave, more determined than the previous one, to appear for what it was—a fight against Rodsevelt’s fake promises. “This is not a strike,” they said. “It is a holiday.” “Don’t picket,” they told the men. But again the miners acted. They began to picket at the-Frick mines. To help the UMWA officials, the Frick gunmen tried to give the miners a long “holiday” in the graveyard or in the hospital. ‘ In Washington, Roosevelt knew that the miners no longer believed hi: fake promises, He got the operators and UMWA officials to rush through a starvation code, patched up as best they could do it. With this code they will now again try to break the sirike and defeat the demands of the miners, * . . "HE lessons of the past month have shown the miners that the UMWA 1 officials like John L. Lewis are inseparably tied up with the coal oper- ators. They are learning that the NRA, promises are lies, used to keep the miners at work while the operators maneuver to smash their union through terror and murder. The miners are learning that only when they strike, when they defy their officials, do they get action. What is necessary now? Roosevelt will rush through some sort of {ake code, behind which the operators will continue their old policies. John L. Lewis, who has kept silent for the past few days, will come out again to attempt to blind the miners into an acceptance of the coal operators’ code, It is clear now that the code will not wipe out starvation, will not meet the miners’ demands. Above all, it is necessary to build a powerful opposition among the rank and file against Lewis and the other UMWA officials whose treachery is worse than ever. Lewis, who is responsible for the terror, for the lying promises, for strikebreaking, should be driven out of the UMWA, * * * NLY by waging a determined struggle can the miners win their de- mands. But with ra operator’s agents in their ranks, the strug- ‘Migle isebetrayed from the Imside. ‘To make the fight count, to keep their ranks from being broken every time they are on the verge of real victory, it is necessary to build a well-organized opposition in the U.M.W.A. The National Miners’ Union from the start has warned ihe miners’ of Lewis’ betrayals. They supported the opposition movemént in the UMWA. The National Miners’ Union, which is building its ranks for united struggle with the miners in the UMWA, will act in ,unity with this opposition, will help to build it, so that the common demands of the es for higher pay, for better conditions, for unemployment insurance can be won. Hitler-Roosevelt Charity 'THIN the last week two capitalist rulers publicly faced the problem of the starvation of the millions of jobless workers, One was the president of the democratic republic, Roosevelt, The other was the brutal Fascist Dictator of Germany, Hitler. Nothing could more reveal the fundamental kinship of these two rulers than the fact that when faced by the mass hunger of the workers they take the same action, Let the starving feed one another—this is the program of the “demo- cratic” Roosevelt as well as the Fascist Hitler. To the starving German workers, Hitler preaches “mutual, sacrifice.” To the starving American workers, Roosevelt preaches reliance on charity and the “welfare groups of the community.” In his present drive to hypnotize the German workers into forgetting their hunger, Hitler pays Roosevelt the crowning compliment of imita- tion—all stores in Germany will carry imitation NRA Blue Eagles! . And Roosevelt has already expressed his admiration of the Fascist Dictatorship by declaring that Hitler is engaged in a “heroic effort” to overcome the crisis, The mutual exchange of compliments between two fellow servants of capitalism is complete. “The fierce and relentless drive of the workers for Unemployment In< surance to be paid by the government anil the employers alone can force relief against hunger from these two fellow admirers.) cee © Trampling on Peace Promises R h | poe. Roosevelt promise has turned to ashes. Every worker will | US LEWIS AIDS IN: DRIVING MENTO PITS |Object of Code Will) Be to Keep Miners | | Starving WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.— | | With over 40,000 coal miners in Pennsylvania on strike, and the possibility of the strike be- | coming general throughout the entire soft coal fields of the) country, coal operators and UMWA| officials are feverishly working on a code for signature by President Roose- velt. ‘The code that will continue star- | vation conditions in the coal indus- try is expected to be ready by 10 p.m, tonight. No indication has been given about | what the code will contain, but the} coal operators seem to be satisfied with their work. John L. Lewis, UMWA secretary, arrived at the Com-_ merce Building for a “cdénference” | with the operators. Happily puffing | |a cigar, Lewis said to reporters: “We | are almost ready.” | Roosevelt is very much worried | about the growing coal strike, be- | cause it is exposing his fake promises. |Furthermore, the bosses fear it may spread to the steel industry where the workers are resentful of the wage cuts under the steel code. Roosevelt in an authorized state- ment said he would forego a yacht trip until the coal code is passed. IfAt is not passed soon, he said he would write one himself. The oper- ators and John L. Lewis, however, ate in rd on almost every point. | Only the finishing touches are left, according to reports from the con- ference room, The miners may expect the same results from the present proposed code as they experienced from Roosevelt's promises when the miners were driven | back to work in August. At that time, Roosevelt promised the right to) elect checkweighmen. But in the leading mines, the men were refused this right, with many miners vic- timized for their strike activity. Governor Pinchot, who ordered 650 national guards into the strike area. rescinded his order. Instead he sent a number of state police to terrorize the miners, In spite of his promises of “a quick report” on the shooting of the 16 miners in Fayette County by Frick "Co. gunmen, no report has been made here. Roosevelt expeeis to cover everything up with some sort of fake code, ® Roosevelt to Raise Prices by Inflation, REC. Head Admits WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.—Com- menting on the Roosevelt plan of forcing credit expansion through the banks by heavy government loans and subsidies, Jesse Jones, Roosevelt. appointed chairman of the R.F.C. to- day admitted that the government has e) ked oh a program of in- flation. : 4 Jones bee fi "This is inflation. Credit infla- tion is the best form of inflation Mthere ia” yr ’s plan of forcing another ‘(Section of the Communist It:ternational NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1933 The $40,000 Drive Is Lagging; Qe ‘WEEK. has passed in the campaign of the Daily Worker for the $40,000 urgently needed to guarantee its very existence. What have been the results to date? Only $805.29. Comrades—to speak plainly—if the results of the first week are to | be repeated in succeeding weeks, only disaster would face the Daily | Worker. | This first week’s income was less than the week’s deficit. Every single | week it costs us $1500 more to publish the Daily Worker than we receive from circulation and advertising. Plus this, we have heavy financial ob- ligations which have piled up over the past six months. All this literally strangles the paper and endangers its very existence. * . . iS the Daily Worker going under? We don’t think so, because we believe | that our readers will loyally rally to our support now as they have in the past. But we must emphasize that without the $40,000, which we have asked for, we could not live. | No daily paper, fighting against the NRA, against war, and uncom- | promisingly for the workers, the poor farmers and the Negro people, as lave Code As 40,000 M America’s On ue ly Working | Class Daily Newspaper _ WEATHER: Eastern New York: Ratn Saturday, (TE PAGES) Send Funds! | ais peer eae | | the Daily Worker fights, can live without special contributions from its readers, This, we believe, every reader will clearly understand. But, comrades, quick action is necessary. We are being pressed from all sides by bill collectors, by people who have waited for weeks and even months to collect their bills. Now that the campaign for funds is under way, they come to get their money. The slow returns in the drive to date undermines their confidence in our ability to meet our obligations. It causes them to become still more insistant. H Pa ‘ THEREFORE, comrades, while we have confidence that in the long run ; the campaign will be successful, we must emphasize the time element. We need not only the $40,000, but we need a substantial amount every day. We need a minimum, from now on, of $1,000 daily. Comrades, readers of the Daily Worker, we ask you to send your coniribution NOW! Without delay put a dollar, a half dollar, a quarter, or even a dime—as much as you can afford—in an envelope and rush it to us. Workers’ organizations, speed up your contributions and the special affairs for the “Daily.” Begin this week a real drive for your paper. iners + Negro Woman, Man Attacked As Press Whips Up Hysteria 17-Year-Old Mother Is Insulted, Slugged On “L” Train NEW YORK.—Two more Negroes, one @ man and the other a woman, have been attacked in this city— direct results of the mob hysteria be- ing whipped up by the New York police against Negroes. In this the police are getting the active co-oper-jiagainst U. S. intervention in ‘Cuba ation of the press. J. C. Gaston, a Negro janitor, was assaulted in Orchard St., on the East Side, after a pedestrian accidentally tipped over a pushcart. Gaston was blamed for the incident and was vi- ciously slugged by a policeman and a detective, who, it later developed in court, is a son of the pushcart ped- dier, Gaston was so badly beaten that he is in danger of losing the sight of his right eye. Fanny Horowitz, of the International Labor Defense, defended -him in Essex Market Court, and the Negro was released. The same day, Mrs. Thelma Brown, of 844 Dawson St., Bronx, a 17-year- old factory worker and mother, was beaten up while riding in the Sixth Ave, “L.” She and a woman friend got on the “L” at 14th St., going up- town, There was a place for both her and her friend to sit down, but after her friend had taken a seat, the man sitting next to her refused to move over in order to make place for Mrs. Brown. When the latter at- tempted to sit down, the man poked her with his elbow and forced her up, declaring that he doesn’t “move for any nigger bastards.” Whereupon Mrs. Brown “smacked him in the face,” she told the Daily Worker, Girl Is Beaten The man as well as a number of others in the train then began pum- meling the Negro girl, throwing her to the floor of the car several times. Defending herself, she grabbed one man’s hand as it was about to strike her, and bit the fingers. The conduc- tor then held her forcibly until the train reached the 53d St, station, and @ policeman put her under arrest. Brought to the 54th St. police sta- tion, Mrs. Brown was tricked it pleading guilty when she frankly au- mitted that she bit the man’s finger in self-defense, ‘When her case came up in court Friday morning, Fanny Horowitz, rs into the hands of the L increase the cost of living through inflationary pressure on re- tail prices, NEW YORK.—The capitalist press is burying the fact in back pages that the steel industry, the hope of the Roosevelt “revival” program, is tum- bling downward with sickening speed, Steel operations are now at close to 30 per cent of capacity, compared to 60 per cent six weeks ago, The drop continues, So few orders are now left on the steel company books that the winter will probably see a new record low of steel production. This means wide- sweeping lay-offs of steel workers, a movement which hes already begun, Despite the fact that some prices are beginning to weaken in the ab- sence of any improvement in retail consumer demand, food prices ad- vanced ee the month of Au- who had defended Gaston, sought to have the “guilty” plea changed to not guilty. The case was adjourned until next Tuesday, : Business Conditions Worse; Workers Buying Less Food gust, the Department of Labor re- vealed, & Carloadings are turning downward, now that the usual seasonal move- ments are at an end. Significantly, they are dropping faster than the usual seasonal rate, indicating fur- ther economic collapse, : ‘The whole picture is summed up by the business index of the Wall Street “Annalist,” which dropped steadily throughout August, reaching 84, a one-month drop of 17 per cent, which has completely erased the “boom” advance since June. The pene of intensifying crisis and suffering is completed by the information just made public by the leading organ of the grocery indus- try, ge 2 per cent less food was boug! ‘rom groceries during this oni Demonstrations Today | in Philadelphia and New York NEW YORK.—Led by the National Student” League, a demonstration will be held at 12 noon today at South and Whitehall Sts. The line of march will be past the Sub-Trea- sury building on Wall St., symbol of U. S. imperialism. The National Student League calls on all students, workers and intellectuals to take part, NEW YORK, Sept. 15..— As the Havana anti-intervention conference convened today, messages of greeting and pledges of solidarity were wired to the revolutionary Confederacion Nacional Obrera de Cuba by the Cen- tral Committtee of the Communist Party, U. S. A. and the National Executive Committee of the Young PHILADELPHIA. — Workers will rally here under the leadership of the Communist Party at Reyburn Plaza opposite the City Hall, at 12 noon today to register their protest against American intervention in Cuba, William Simons of the Anti- Imperialist League will be the main speaker, Communist League, the Women’s Sec- tion of the Julio Mella Club, the Na- tional Student League, many other organizations. ‘The messages of the Communist Party and the Young Communist League said: “Greet your Congress. Intensify struggle against Yankee imperiel- ism. We pledge further mobiliza- (Continued on Page 10) Tammany Takes a Cut, Prepares Wage ~ of $20,000,000 NEW YORK, Sept. 15—To prepare the way for the jamming through of the $20,000,000 slash in the salaries of the lower-bracket Civil Service em- ployees, which has already been pre- pared by the Untermyer - Peter Grimm Committee for Economy, Tammany Hall launched a tremen- dous publicity campaign with regard to action of the Board of Estimate which cut its high salaries by $213,- 000 yesterday. In response to the request of Sam- uel Untermyer, Mayor O’Brien re- duced his salary to $25,000 a year from $29,000. The Board of Alder- men refused to adopt the suggestion made by Untermyer that they pledge to reduce their salaries in the 1934 budget, Reduction Slight ‘The cuts in the Board of Aldermen, are not at actuality, as the press is attempting’ ‘o imply, but are only sug- gestions fd; the 1934 budget, dnd would amount, at most to $341,000. ‘The cuts are being played up in the press as being a $2,225,000 slash. In reality, $1,600,000 of the total amount will come from lower salaried engineers, etc, After the Untermyer reductions, the following salaries wil continue to be paid. Mayor, $25,000; Comptroller, $25,000; Aldermanic President, $15,- Cuban Strikes Used As Call for Landing of American Troops 000; the five Borough Presidents, $15,- 000. In addition, many Tammany Judges Bosses Cry “Danger” as Strike Wave Increases HAVANA, Sept. 15.— Preparations forthe. landing of: Us... _ troops. against the revolutionary Cuban masses are being made tonight, as| more and more provocative reports were circulated declaring that Amer- ican lives are in danger. The only “danger” threatening Americans is the holding of Ameri- can-owned sugar plantations and other properties by striking workers, whose demands for a living wage have been refused. It was revealed tonight that the bomb explosion at the electric light and power plant in downtown Ha- vana a few days ago, which ‘caused no damage but was used as a reason for urging the landing of U. S. troops, was followed by the arrest of a num- ber of men, all of whom were Cuban employees of the Associated Press. | The government and the newspapers | suppressed the news of these arrests. | An uprising of 400 soldiers near | Pinar del Rio; which ended in the} surrender of its leader, Captain Fer- nando Aran, was reported today.} Fighting was reported, but no details | were available. A. U. S. destroyer is being rushed to Santa Cruz del Sur, where nine Americans are employed in two sugar | plants, because a demonstration of workers was announced, Meanwhile the new government Is- sued a series of decrees, the chief of | which declared that all expropriated | property must be returned to the owners. This is the government's for- mal declaration of war on the revo- lutionary workers, The Student Directorate, chief support of the Grau San Martin re- gime, announced that it was arming to attack all revolutionary workers, and organizing armed bands in all parts of the island. Meanwhile the 300 ex-army offi- cers, who had been quartered in the National Hotel under the protection of U. 8. Ambassador Welles until he moved out two days ago, was sur- rounded with an enlarged detail of troops, and all communications cut off. Two pieces of artillery and sey- eral machine guns are trained on the building. ‘A constantly increasing number of strikes and demonstrations are re- ported from all parts of the island, The anti-intervention conference opened in Havana today, sponsored by the Anti-Imperialist League and the Confederacion Nacional Obrera de Cuba. Many organizations are taking part in the conference. Minor Forces Judge To Disqualify Self And Postpone Trial Minor to Speak Today at Two Election Conferences NEW YORK.—Robert Minor, Com- munist candidate for Mayor of New York, defending himself on the charge of picketing in the Brooklyn’ furni- ture workers strike in “violation of an injunction” compelled Tammany Judge Folwell. to disquatify himself. as prejudiced yesterday in the 10th Magistrate Court, Brooklyn, Minor and Jack Rosenberg. of the Young Communist League were up for hear- ing. No sooner was the case called than Folwell said the hearing was post- poned indefinitely for no other rea- son than it pleased him to do so. It was apparent to the 150 workers who braved the rain storm to be at tne hearing, that Tammany had no desire to try the case before election. Minor and Joseph Tauber, Inter- national Labor Defense attorney who was defending Rosenberg, demanded— with constant interruptions by Fol- well—an immediate hearing. The judge granted it. The Judge at one time threatened to jail Minor under $1,000 bail if he “did not keep quiet.” With a dramatic sweep of his hand and a manner implying he would jgive them a hearing not to the de- fendents liking, he shouted: “All right, if you insist on a hear- ing, you'll get one!” A half hour later when the case was again called, Minor demanded |the judge disqualify himself because of the open prejudice he had shown. “I am not prejudiced” the judge hastened to say, but added that if Minor insisted the case would be ad- journed*to Sept. 26. ‘The attorney for the Progressive Table Co, an NRA firm, in front of whose factory Minor was arrested for picketing against the injunction, at- tempted to drag a red herring into the case. He said Communists were causing riots and disturbances against firms under the NRA, Minor immediately pointed out the long hours,low wages, and over- time the workers were receiving in that factory with the blessings of the NRA. During the altercation Minor an- nounced that he would demand a jury trial. “You won't get it.” snapped the judge. Another dispute arose, Minor declaring he and Rosenberg would fight by all means for the right to a jury. This now looms as a feature of the struggle over the issue of in- junctions in labor disputes. Robert Minor will be the main speaker at two borough Commu- nist election campaign conferences | this afternoon, one in Brooklyn at Central Hall, 196 State St., 3 pm., and the other in Manhattan, at Esthenian Hall, 27 W. 115th St. 1 pm Gov't Drowns Thousands of Pigs Promised to Jobless ST. LOUIS, Sept. 15.—In an in- sanely desperate effort to get rid of the “surplus” of live stock, the Unit- ed States Government is drowning thousands of small pigs in the waters of the, Mississippi, it, was reported to- dey by the officials’ of the United States Agricultural Adjustment Ad- ministration, More than $300,000 worth of small hogs, bought by. the government from farmers under the recent Act of Con- gress have already, been destroyed in this way, it was/teyealed. The gov- this destruction im taxes. ,. Originally, the Roosevelt govern- ment had sought to sooth opposition to its plan for destroying live stock by promising that the slaughtered animals would go to the millions of starving jobless workers, The slaugh- tered animals had been to jobless workers as lard, fertilizers, etc. ‘ So great is the supply of pigs be- ing brought here by farmers who cannot find a market for their stock Strike N.T.W. LEADS UNITED FIGHT ON SELL-OUT Truce Would Force Workers Back on Cotton Code Wages PATERSON, N. J., Sept. 15. Boos and jeers greeted the As- |sociated Silk Workers’ officials | at a stormy strike meeting this morning in Roseland Ballroom when the strikers, aroused to a {high pitch of indignation re- jected the so-called 5-week silk strike truce. ‘That the strikers would not accept the sell-out deal agreed to by Mc- |Mahon of the United Textile Work- \ers and Schweitzer of the Associated Silk Workers was already indicated last night when the strike committee lof the Associated broke up in a ture |moil without any decision being reached on the question of the strike truce. The truce sends the workers back without any gains pending sete | tlement of the silk code. The meaning of the silk truce bee trayal was exposed in a leaflet dise |tributed to all silk strikers at the strike halls today by the National Textile Workers’ Union in which it was pointed out that the prices of $2 per 100,000 “picks accepted by. Schweitzer and McMahon as & “con- cession” would actually mean no more than $20 a week for a good weaver ‘and that all lower paid crafts would | be forced back on the basis of the cotton code of, $13 a week against which the workers have gone out on strike. “The Asseciated Silk Workers’ of- ficials want to send us back to work without any guarantees for wages and conditions,” the leaflet declares in | warning the workers to vote down the rotten sell-out. The National ‘Textile Workers’ Union is calling all silk and dye strikers to be out on the picket line |on Monday and to stay out of the | shops until the demands of the strike | are met. As a first step in defeating the “truce” the National Textile Workers’ Union has announced a mass meeting for Saturday afternoon at 222 Paterson St. to form a united front of all silk strikers regardless of union affilia- tion to continue the strike. One big strike committee of all unions, all crafts and all strikers to take the strike out of the hands of the treach- erous officials of the A. F. of L. and organize it on @ rank and file basis will be an important object of the meeting Saturday. Simultaneously with the rejection of the betrayal truce in Paterson the Allentown Silk Workers’ Union which voted down the terms of the fake settlement Thursday, sent the ‘fol- lowing wire to Senator Wagner: “Mass meeting, Allentown silk strik- ers, Sept. 14, vigorously protest against the attempts of McMahon and the NRA Labor Board to disrupt the national silk strike, The agreement for $2 for 100,000 picks silk, and $2.25 for 100,000 picks rayon will mean @ wage cut in most mills. The silk workers will continue the general strike against all agreements made without our consent, We demand that the delegates representing all inde- pendent unions be not discriminated against in conferences with manu- facturers. McMahon does not speak for the striking silk workers.” Dye strikers registered a victory to~ day when the employers of the In- stitute of Dyers and Printers and U. 8. Conciliator Moffat backed down and agreed to meet the representa- tives of the overwhelming majority of the dye strikers led by the National Textile Workers’ Union. More than 700 silk and dye strik- ers attended the mass meeting called by the Communist Party last night on the issues of the strike, To Protest Fire Trial at Tonight’s Meeting NEW YORK. — A mass protest against the frame-up of the Com- munist leaders of Germany on charges of setting fire to the Reich- stag will be held Saturday, Sept. 16, at the Labor Temple, 243 East 14th St. at 8 p. m L. E. Wins, Vienese journalist, who has just returned from an ex- tended European tour, C. A. Hath~ away, member of the Central Com- that the government yards are| mittee of the Communist Party and to overflo' 5 r pie cyanide to staugh-| G®Pmam speakers wit address the ter a total of 4,000,000 pigs at a. cost meeting. : j of $200,000 Ty Aenean fy i tor va A ia te NN