The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 29, 1933, Page 1

Get Your Unit, Union Local, Branch or Club to Challenge Another Group in Raising Subs America’s Only Working | Class Daily Newspaper for the Daily Worker ! WEATHER Eastern New York: Increasing (Section of the Communist International) cloudiness, showers Friday. Vol. X, No. 234 no ee ee eee NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1933 (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents ARCH OF 1,200 FORD WORKERS SPREADS STRIKE TO EDGEWATER United States Anti-War Congress Opens St. Nicholas Arena, Reichstag Trial Halted! Special Cable to the Daily Worker LEIPZIG, Sept. 28.—Using as a pretext the opening of the German Judicial Congress in Leipzig, the Nazi court which is trying Ernst Torgler and the three Bulgarian Communists, to- day adjourned its sessions “for several days.” The announcement of the adjournment of the court fol- lowed the appearance of 13 witnesses who testified in connec- tion with the three fires in Berlin which Van der Lubbe, the Dutch provocateur and Nazi tool, confessed to having set. There is no doubt that the Nazi officials will seek to utilize the Judicial Congress to justify, indirectly, the frame-up trial against the Communists. ‘ sions from him. Despite the fact that the presiding judge tried to muzzle Dimitroff on the ground that his questions were “irrelevant,” the Nazi court today permitted detailed, trivial testimony by numerous witnesses for the prosecution. The NRA--Gangster |. beigeeaned threats and gangster slugging have become one of the means of putting through N.R.A. “settlements.” Considering the fact that the ex-Cossack Grover Whalen heads the local N-R.A., this is not hard to grasp. Whalen is enlisting all of the dreggs of the underworld as N.R.A. assistants, hoping by this means to stem the tide of growing strikes for higher pay. e Unemployment a Gift From God to Do Men Good, Pope Declares Mellon Aladin Trust Asks \Cut of 5 Cents an Hour in Code Mecca Temple for Opening Meetings 115 National Organizations With 800,000 Members Back Congress, Delegation to Welcome Barbusse NEW YORK, Sept. 28.—A large delegation of representa- tives of working class organizations, outstanding American novelists, poets, literary critics, dramatists and editors will greet Henri Barbusse, world-famous French author, when he awives here today at 1 p. m. on the Berengaria, docking at the foot of West 14th Street. Barbi is to address the opening public mass session tonight of the United States Congress Against War, in Mecca Temple, 133 West 55th Street, and St. Nicholas Arena, West 66th Street and Columbus Avenue, New York City. The principal speakers at the open- ing session will include, besides Bare busse, Devere Allen, of the War Ree sisters League; Earl Browder, Gene eral Secretary, Communist Party; VATICAN CITY, Sept. 28.—With outspread smooth hands, the Pope today addressed a group of 450 job- less workers who came to him for guidance for 2 way out of their sufferings. “If divine providence caused you to be deprived of work,” said the Pope, whose vestments littered with jewels, “he did it for your own good. Being without work, you are all the more appreciative of work when it returns. The fact that you are lacking material work does not prevent you from doing spiritual work.” Then piously raising his hands upward in prayer, the Pope slowly turned back into the rich silence of his Iuxurious quarters, leaving the workers outside—to starve. Lindbergh Lauds USSR Achievements to Return in 2 Years Sen. McAdoo ‘Amazed | WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.—A wage cut of 5 cents an hour was openly proposed by the most pow- erful monopoly in the United States, the Aluminum Company of America, owned by Andrew W. Mellon, at hearings here on the code for the aluminum industry. The Mellon corporation presented @ code calling for a minimum of 25 cents an hour for a 40-hour week, The present wage in the aluminum corporation under the Blue Eagle is 30 cents an hour. The wages proposed are the low- est yet written into codes presented to NRA officials. Strike of 13,000 Closes Huge Steel Mill In \ West Va. Two Other Plants Are Shut as Men Fight For More Pay WEIRTON, W. Va., Sept. 28— More than 13,000 workers are now} on strike in three plants of the Weir- | ton Steel Co. For the first time in| 20 years this huge steel mill is closed All Soft Coal Pits Virtually Closed Operators Admit Gov’nor Orders Militia Against Indiana Mine Strike PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 28— Capitalist newspapers here admitted that soft coal production was at a virtual standstill today, as the coal, strike beginning in Fayette County spread rapidly to the proportions of in NewYork Tonight ¢ | 66 Close All Ford Plants In Country,” Urged at Meeting ChesterStrikersMingle With Edgewater Men and Pull Strike EDGEWATER, N. J., Sept. 28.—With the initiative and precision which marked their close down of Ford’s Chester plant last Tuesday, twelve hundred strikers moving in 250 auto~ mobiles invaded the Ford plant here to call on their fellow brothers to join them. At six in the morning, when workers began to arrive at the Ford gates, they found the Chester strikers picketing the plant and urg- ing them to join with them. About 600 have already joined the strike. It is expected that all of the 2,500 men employed in the as- sembly plant here will join by to- morrow. Thomas J. Dunphy, one of the strike leaders, addressing a large meéting today said that the “only way to bring Ford to terms was to close every Ford plant in the coun- The latest gangster attack on painters at Mecca Temple Tuesday and |p, alfons Goldschmidt, exiled Ger. : 3 | down. oe bel is A ot i i : : sg | eral-soft coal strike in the state|try.” Plans are being discussed o! the threatened murder of Louis Weinstock, secretary of the A. F. e 2 man professor; William Pickens, byPhenomenalStrides : The strike started, Bt es oar ied i |e Joint march of workers, fram the Committee for Unemployment Insurance should sound a warning al Field Secretary, Nat. Ass’n. for the of Soviet Union seen eiWed. THe peat en ir 9 Nobhia: ot Chester and Edgewater plants to the workers and arouse them to active organization and resistance. These painters came to Mecca Temple to protest the intended “settle- ment” of the strike of 15,000 New York painters. The “settlement” had been engineered in the N.R.A. offices. Even before the meeting started two workers were battered so they had to be taken to the hospital. Weinstock was ordered out of the hall at the point of guhs, and told he would be “put on the spot.” These gangster, murderous assaults were employed time and again against the Needle. Trades Industrial Union, and they cost the lives of several union members. The same underworld gang now threatens the murder of Weinstock. + * Ps (EADING the Painters’ District Council is the criminal Philip Zausner, neck deep in the cesspool of New York gangsterdom. Allied with him are rats like Harry Rosen, “Mike the Bum,” and “Happy” Cohen. The N’R.A. has declared a “free field day” for these gangsters when they attack workers criticizing strike sell-outs. They are valuable tools for fascist attacks. The greatest alarm should be aroused among all workers, especially among A. F. of L. rank and filers against these fascist assaults, as they will increase. In Greensburgh, Pa, the 1,000 strikers at the Walworth Foundry Co. set an example of how best to fight against such attacks. When thugs were brought in from Pittsburgh, a rallying cry was issued for mass mobiliza- tion. Workers streamed in, some U.M.W.A. miners coming from the sur- rounding coal fields, ready to give these gangsters a reception these rats never expected. They fled as rapidly as they came, In New York, the gangsters are blood and sinew of the Tammany officialdom, and can be fought only by united action of all workers. The needle trades workers, the miners and other workers have shown what can be accomplished through energetic mass self-defense activity. The workers should now-set up their own organized defense groups in these gangster-infested local unions. Answer these fascist onslaughts by a greater mobilization for struggle for higher wages, for the rights of rank and file members, for real trade union democracy, for the re-instatement of expelled members. United action of all workers will end this new piague of gangsterism bred by the festering carcass of the N.R.A. ‘ Advancement of the Colored People; Prof. Reinhold Niebuhr, and others. The same speakers will speak at both opening meetings. 115 Organizations Represented More than 115 national organiza- tions, with a combined membership of about 800,000, have endorsed the Congress, including the People’s Lob- by, with John Dewey as president; numerous A. F. of L. unions; four na~ tional Farmers organizations; the League. for Industrial Democracy; the Communist Party, U.S.A.; the Inter- national Labor Defense, and over one hundred additional organizations of nation-wide scope. Donald Henderson, Secretary of the Congress, reported today that a de- lJegation of 30, representing various organizations, had left Cleveland, Ohio, for the Congress. Five delegates have been elected by the Pennsylvania Branch of the Wo- men’s International League for Peace and Freedom, of which Jane Addams is honorary international chairman. The National Textile Trimming Workers Union has unanimously en- dorsed the entire program of the Anti-War Congress. Three delegates were elected to attend the Congress. A a a PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 28—-A mass demonstration against Fascism and War will take place in front of the German Consulate here, Broad and Walnut streets, Friday, September 29, at 12 noon. Philadelphia workers will protest against the Nazi terror in Germany, against intervention in Cuba, and against the war prepara- Henri Barbusse Force Munson Line to Pay Crew Despite Threats of Arrests Try to Throw Delegate Overboard on S. S. Muntropic NEW YORK.—The SS. Muntropic,} of the Munson line, docked here on Sunday. The crew asked for a draw and were refused. Aided by a ships’ delegate of the Marine Workers In- dustrial Union, a committee of the crew went to the captain and de- manded full pay-off on Monday. They were refused and police were called} on board. Four officers were station- ed on thé gangway and the ist as- sistant engineer attempted to throw the delegate overboard, but was de- feated in his purpose. The ship shifted from Brooklyn: to West Street on Tuesday night -and a committee of the union crashed through the main gate to join the crew in their action, but were re- MOSCOW, Sept. 28—Col. Charles|2.990 workers, at Steubenville, Ohio, A. Lindbergh, noted American flyer, paid tribute last night to the ex- perimental aviation work being done in the Soviet Union. “This country is peculiarly fitted for airplane development since if is a land of great distances,” Col. Lind- bergh said at a dinner in his honor last night. “Iam impressed by your technical accomplishments, “Your ‘technical achieyements cannot be doubted after ‘seeing ‘your new construction and experi- mental laboratories. In fact, we are both anxiods to return in two years to see the results of your Present experiments translated into actualities. Mrs, Lindbergh praised the work of Soviet women in aviation, saying “I) am honored to sit at the same table with Soviet women aviators who are participating in the development of this science on equality with men.” United States Senator MacAdoo of California, who was also present at the dinner, said “I am amazed at the phenomenal achievements I have witnessed here.” Child Starvation Grows,Says Perkins Calls Wash’ton Meet of Doctors, Nurses plants of the same company, with {and Clarksburg, West Virginia, | closed down | The strikers are demanding higher wages per hour. They demand the |same weekly wage for the shorter |week that they got for the 48-hour jweek. The men are asking for a $25 minimum for a 40-hour week. A mass meeting of strikers was | held. under the Palisades,-north of | the. "Ford lant: here, ‘to organize picketing. The Amalgamated Association of Tron, Steel and Tin Workers, through its secretary, William J. Long, is tak- ing a hand in the strike aiming to repeat its long history of strike be- trayals. Long is negotiating secretly with the bosses, but is not reporting the result to the men. ‘LaGuardia Election | Invited. Pat the United Mine Workers are ex- pected at the conference tomorrow in Uniontown. A demonstration of 40,000 miners. from Fayette county, in the vicinity of Uniontown, will take place simultaneously. ‘The National Miners Union is ad- dressing an appeal directly to the conference and will send 2 delegation to attend. One of thé local leaders, Johnson, president of dis- trict No. 5 UM.W.A. to conference. Thé press inditates that Fagan will most, likely be “unable” to attend, as he is busy with nego- tiations. The real reason for his ab- sence is his fear to face the wrath | of the rank and file miners. Steel strikers from Greensburg, Pa., together with Pat Cush and Joe Dalet left for Weirton, where 1,000 steel workers are striking. The Steel and Metal Workers In- dustrial Union is calling a conference for Sunday, October 8. It is urging the spreading of the strike to other Luncheon Headed by JPMorgan Partner NEW YORK, Sept. 28—An elec- | tion luncheon to help the LaGuardia | campaign was presided over by, Mal- | colm, D. Simpson of the international |banking house of J. P. Morgan yes- | terday. Also present was Frank Polk, a territories. More than 100.000 miners are out on strike. U.M.W.A. officials are meeting secretly with coal. operators, i means of sending the men back to work when the coal code goes iu etfect on October 2. Strikers marching from Fayette County, invaded Mercer County, and through picketing closed down all the mines. They are now moving north- ward toward Venango County to call) |Rank and File Demand out all miners there. Six hundred miners at the Sharon Ford plant in Buffalo, N. Y. Ford Wage Cut Giving the reasons for the walk out, strikers said that they were working 5 days a week, 8 hours @ day, at $5 a day, which netted them ;$25 a week. Now a wage rate of 50 cents an hour has been set, with 32 hours a week work. This brings their weekly income to $16. Yesterday. the Edgewater police were caught unaware. Without warning the strikers swooped down on the plant and mingled with the men going to work. Now, chief of police Frank Oref, announces that he will use his whole force of 16 men at the Ford gates and aug- ment them with state troopers. Senator Wagner, head of the Labor Board of the NRA is planning to meet with Ford officials in Detroit in an effort to stem the strike move-~ ment. ‘ American Federation of Labor agents mingled among the strikers advising them to stay home and not to picket. They told them that the NRA and the AFL will negotiate an agreement. Tool, Die Makers’. Strike Leaders Are DickeringWith NRA tions of American militarism. Soe Riek patie snare pulsed at the gangplank by a gang |Morgan agent whose name appeared They Are Worried! IN A MIGE..Y wave of strikes, the coal, steel, textile, workers are rising in struggle against the hated slavery, the starvation wages of the Roose- velt N.R.A. codes. The cunning N.R.A. which was to haye done away with strikes through the treacherous promise of “collective bargaining,” is Itself be- ing engulfed in a wave of strikes. And this is already bringing a cry of anguish from the capitalist employers and their agents, who see their crafty N.R.A. trap beginning to be trampled on by the millions of workers for whom it was intended. Yesterday's issue. of the “liberal” New York World-Telegram bared its teeth in a snarl of anger against the workers who are now facing the bayonets and machine guns of State troops in deflance of the plans of the employers to clamber out of the crisis on their backs. Says the Telegram: = “N.R.A. has let loose a plague of strikes, In most cases the chaos- breeding difficulty seems to come from the attitude of unions, most of which are not connected with the American Federation of Labor. Present strikes and chaos is a sabotage of recovery.” And what is this “recovery” which is being endangered by the mighty strikes of the American workers? Discreetly buried away on the back financial page, the Telegram gives us the answer: ¢ “Wall Street is greatly disturbed over the labor troubles that have sprung up recently...they may cut deeply into profits.” ‘Yes, indeed, this is the capitalist Roosevelt idea of “recovery” — its! The workers strike, and Wall Street is worried. And the World- ‘Telegram is worried. And both are worried about the same thing—‘“cut- ting‘ into profits”! The World-Telegram expresses its “ardent desire for justice for _ But let the workers try to “cut deeply into profits” by striking against starvation wages, and then the World-Telegram’ speaks in words behind which one can hear the rattle of machine guns. ™ It is in defense of the “recovery” of profits that they are prepared to hurl against the striking workers the full military and police force of the State now, with the legal sanction of the N.R.A. codes. . . y . are worried about the “unions not affiliated with the A. F. of L.” And this is because they see the steel, coal, and textile workers break- ing away from the yoke of their reactionary, treacherous, A. F. of L. leaders. They see new, revolutionary unions of the Trade Union Unity League growing in influence over the workers. , And the sight of these key workers breaking away into strikes against | all the treacherous efforts of their leaders to hold them back, strikes j fear into the hearts of the capitalist employers and their press. All the promises of Roosevelt, all the Rooseveltian gilt is fast wear- ing off the N.RA slave codes. The Communist Party and the revolutionary unions take their place at the head of the American working class in the fight to smash the Lat and intensified exploitation that lie imbedded in the N.R.A. slavery | | ‘| The City Committee of the W.E. §.L. requests all members of the W. ES.L. and other World War veterans to assemble at Union Square at 12 sharp today. They will then parade from the square to the Cunard Line pier to welcome Henri Barbusse, World War vet and President of the Ex-Servicemen’s International, to which the W.E.S.L. is affiliated. City Promises More Taxes In Return for Loans In Bank Deal Wage Slash Coming Soon as Lehman Hints New Session. NEW YORK, Sept. 28—The City government and the bankers en- tered into a deal that provides for more taxes and wage cuts by the City in return for a new bank loan et the bankers, it was reported to- lay. Patt of the proposed deal ts a slash in the mandatory “increases in the pay of Civil Service employees, bi as school teachers, engineers, etc. 4 Governor Lehman has already ex- pressed his willingness to call a special session of the legislature if necessary. The City has promised to pay the bankers their $30,000,000 loan pay- ments this week, even at the risk of defaulting on the Oct. 1 payrolls. In view of the coming elections, how- ever, it is expected that the pay- Tolls will be met, but that wage slashes and new taxes will soon be levied. Mayor O’Brien has practically promised to veto the remaining taxes on banks and insurance com- panies in return for the ‘bankers Joan, it was reported. This leaves only the increased water rates and taxi levy left of the original Untermyer tax program. of officers. Nine members of the crew went to the company offices and demanded their pay-off. They won their de-| mand after threats to jail the union representative failed to intimidate them. . This is the 15th struggle on the) Munson line in the past year. Special | police guards are now employed by Munson to keep the union organizers off the ships, but Tuesday’s action testifies to the activity of the MW.LU. Leaflets were issued to the long- shoremen calling for solidarity in case the crew was able to strike. Nazi Minister Wants Freedom to Arm GENEVA, Switzerland, Sept. 28— Nazi Germany demands complete freedom to re-arm and a place of equality in the sun, Dr. Joseph Goeb- bels, Hitler Minister of Propaganda, told 350 newspaper correspondents in an interview here today. WASHINGTON, Sept. 28,—Apply- ing long ‘stretches of adhesive red tape to the hungry bodies of Amer- ica’s undernourished children, Secre- tary of Labor Frances Perkins is call- ing a conference of doctors and so- cial workers to meet here October 6. “In some regions the proportion of below-par children is greater,” says Secretary Perkins, “reaching truly ap- palling figures;,in others, where the effects of unemployment have been more satisfactorily mitigated, the proportion is lower,” The projected conference is mak- ing plans to determine the extent of undernourishment. There will be an organization of state and local agencies for statistical purposes. No mention is made of pians to abolish the unemployment which is at the root of the entire evil. HURLEY FAVORS N.R.A. WASHINGTON, Sept. 28—“I glad- ly give my support to help attain the objextive of the N.R.A.,” said Patrick J. Hurley in a speech yesterday, Hur- ley was Secretary of War in the Hoo- ver cabinet. ; ; | Coal and Limestone Company, work~ |many times on the notorious Morgan ing at, Leesburg Mine No. 2 and No. | “inside stock lists,” made public dur-/5 voted to join the strike this morn- jing the recent Senate investigations. | In answer to a question concern- | jing the 5 cent fare, LaGuardia eva- | |sively talked regarding the “unifi- jeation of the city’s transit” and the ing. OAKLAND CITY, Ind. Sept. 28— Governor McNutt, former head of the Ameri¢an Legion, has ordéred the - #8 city’s credit. The bulk of the City’s| state militia to proceed to the strike loans are held by the kefeller- | area here to terrorize the miners who Morgan clique, who demand increased a> driving out 300 scabs. fares to guarantee their bank loans. Union men have ordéred scab em- viue mines out of town, ‘and whete U.S. Senators Confer | they they ao not go, their homes are broken into and the rats dragged out. With Litvinov, Red Thirty-two of the gcabs left in a Foreign Commissar | hurry. 2 ‘The 300 scabs were imported into MOSCOW, Sept. 28—Senator Mc- Oakland City from Kentucky and Il- Adoo of California and Senator Rey- linois to operate the mines, displac- nolds of North Carolina had a pro-|ing union miners fighting for higher longed conference with Foreign Com- | wages. missar Litvinov today, lending weight | When local authorities tried to: stop |to rumors current of the impending the cleaning out of the scabs, they | recognition of the Soviet Union by; were jeered down. When the strikers the United States. Reynolds is leav- heard of the order for troop ship- jing Moscow today, and McAdoo|ments and ‘the possible déclaration leaves the Soviet Union by airplane| of martial law, they cried: “Bring on tomorrow, your troops.” EXAMPLES OF CLASS DEVOTION f the fight to make the Daily Drive From a worker in Pennsylvania comes the following “Enclosed you will find donation of 20 cents to the ‘Daily. gladly give more if I could, but I haven't done a day’s work for about two months, and don’t know when I'll start again.” From a working class housewife money order of $6.00, my contribution ®€6 the ‘Daily’ Drive. I am a house- wife, no longer working outside of my home, but I saved up this amount from our household expenses.” ONE, thing is certain, comrades, it is the unshakable knowledge that increasing numbers of workers throughout the country consider the “Daily’ as their paper—the paper which alone voices their struggles against exploitation and capitalist oppression. “And they are ready to endure rea] hardship for it to keep it alive, to make it grow. And this is the guarantee that the Daily Worker Drive can be made EVERY corner of the country the working class is rising up in a ries of strikes against starvation wages. The workers are everywhere giving heroic examples of solidarity, devotion and courage. And this heroism finds its expression in the $40,000 Daily Worker rive. For the workers know that part of their fight against starvation victorious. i letter: Would in Chicago: “Please find enclosed to succeed. But it is also true that the Party districts, the Patty organizations have been inexcusably slow in going out into the masses of American workers who are devoted to the “Daily.” The Party districts have been inexcusably slow in organizing this profound devotion for the “Daily” into concrete active assistance for the paper. a . . . bier we must go into the shops to the workers at the machines, into the mines, mills, factories where the workers feel the lash of capitalist exploitation. We must go into the neighborhoods whére the housewives of the working class feel the whip of rising food prices. We must go everywhere carrying the message of the Daily Worker $40,000 Drive. ‘ The workers are ready for our léadership. It is up to us to go out to meet them With new enthusiasm for the Daily Worker Drive, * * . Comrades! Yesterday's receipts . Previous Total TOTAL ployes of the Francisco and Somer- | Broad Strike, Nego- tiation Committee DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 28. —Nine thousand tool and die makers are how out in Detroit, 2,000 in Flint and | 600 in Pontiac. The leaders of the Mechanics Edu- cational Society, heading the strike, are moving to break the strike thru negotiations with the N.R.A. Board. At the shop stewards’ meeting last night Griffin, strike chief, answered the demand for a broad rank and file strike and negotiations’ committee by saying that no matter what com- mittees are elected he and his hench- men would negotiate. Mathew Smith, leader of the Flint strike, who adopted an ultra-radical pose, is now working hand in hand with Griffin. Smith was appointed spokesman in the NRA dickerings. Smith and Griffin yesterday issued a joint state- ment saying they want no aid fronr the militant Auto Workers Union. Contrary to the decision of the shop stewards, Griffin is refusing to raise the wage increases demands. More shops, including Murray Body, Briggs, Packard and Ternstead, a General Motors subsidiary, joined the strike. The misleaders were forced to ¢all @ meeting at the Arena Gardens for tonight, where the rank and file opposition is going to raise the de- mand of a broad elected strike and negotiations committee, and to put concrete wage increase demands. The Detroit Welfare Department fa recruiting scabs. The Flint and Pon- tiac strikes are going strong. In Flint, the A. F. of L. leaders are supplying scabs, i The Mechanics Educational Society Jeaders in Pontiac called a meeting last night with the police chief as a speaker. The Ford local of the Auto Work- ers Union issued leaflets today call- ing for the tool and die makers’ strike and production men to organ- ize committees for strike action to prevent the duplication of the Chés- ter situation. The Ford River Rouge plant re- sumed the five-day wéek, but laid off 20 per cent of the workers, a,