The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 2, 1933, Page 1

ss et: i = - Get Your Unit, Union Local, Branch or Club to Challenge Another Group in Raising Subs | for the Daily Worker! | (Section of the Communist International) America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper FAIR WEATHER EASTERN NEW YORK MONDAY Vol. X, No. 236 > * Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at ‘New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 8, 1879, NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1933 (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents 2,616 DELEGATES FROM 35 STATES PLEDGE UNITY IN 15,000 VOTE TO CONTINUE MINE STRIKE Will Call Tri-District Convention To Elect New Leadership PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 1.—Bif-| teen thousand miners voted unani- | mously to continue the strike ‘until! the Frick Coal Co. recognizes the United Mine Workers Union. The; mecting was held yesterday at Cen- | terville, Pa. | The men voted to spread the strike and issued a call for a corivention of Districts 3, 4 and 5 of the U. M. W. A. to replace the old leaders who have betrayed the miners in the present strike and on numerous previous occasions. | All U. M. W. A. leaders were ab-| sent from the meeting, which was run by Ryan. Many rank and file members spoke. Bill Hines and Scotty O'Hara, both tools of the U. M. W. A, officials, spoke in-a mili- tant tone in order to gain the con- fidence of the men. A tremendous resentment was ob- served when one speaker praised John Lewis and Pat Fagan, national and district presidents, respectively. He was forced off the platform. A leaflet distributed by the Na- tional Miners’ Union before and at the meeting exposed thé confusion and lack of consciousness in? not formulating adequate economic de- mands. The present leadership ex- presses weak organization and polit- ical unelarity, which is creating a danger to the strike. The whole movement is swinging, under the pressure of the rank and! file, which is expressing a higher stage of militancy. Demonstrators at Anti-Nazi Meet in| Phila. Battle Cops PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Oct. 1— The Communist Party called a dem- onstration for the release of Dimi- troff, Torgler, Taneff and Popoff for Friday at 12 o'clock in front of the German Consulate. About 1,000 workers gathered at 12:15, when from the window of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, across the street from the German Consulate, Comrade Norris Woods showered down about 3,000 leaflets, demanding the release of our comrades in Germany and pro- | testing against bloody Fascism. , | At 12:16 he put out a 25-foot red) flag with the hammer and sickle on it, with the demands on the flag, which included: Down with bloody Fascism; de- | mand the release of Torgler, Dimi- troff, Taneff and others; against the intervention in Cuba and for support of the Anti-War Congress. He started to speak at 12:17 p. m. and continued for 20 minutes, until the police broke into the room, which was barricaded from the inside, and was arrested. %% ‘The crowd militantly answered his questions and expressed a readiness inf the struggle against Fascism. The police immediately interfered and started to club the workers. } As soon as this phase of the 4 demonstration was over, Comrade Mary Brooks, a member of the ke C. L., was chained down to the le in front of the Bellvue Strat- ford Hotel, a few houses away from ithe scene of the first demonstra~ tion. She spoke there for 20 min- utes until the police succeeded in breaking the chains and arrested her. Thousands or workers gath- ered around and blocked traffic for an hour. The police were help- less, ‘These two comrades were arrested. Mary Brooks got five days and Norris Woods is held in $500 ball on a charge of inciting to riot. The demonstration made a tre- mendous impression on the workers of Philadelphia. It was one of the most splendid demonstrations ever yee Soviet Correspondents Expelled from Leipzig Trial, Leave Germany \BERLIN, Oct. 1—Two correspond- ents for the Soviet press aah Mindioend yesterday, recalled by the let Gov- Enment after the Nazis had refused allow them to report to Leipzig | fought consistently. |Hoover for Roosevelt | NRA Slavery Program | OMAHA, Neb., Oct, 1—Herbert Hoover, former President of the United States, has joined the capi- | talist chorus of those who are sup- | porting the Roosevelt N. R. A. | slavery and starvation program. ; A statement quoting Hoover's sup- | port of the N. R. A. was given out after an informal! conference with Republican leaders here, showing | that Republican politicians recog- | nize that Roosevelt is faithfully | carrying on the old Hoover hunger Policy against the working class. AF of L. Session Opens with Strikes Opposed by Leaders Rank and File Holds National Conference At the Same Time _ WASHINGTON.—Amidst .the spa- cious surroundings of the scab Willard Hotel, in an atmosphere totally for- eign to those they claim to represent, labor “leaders” will meet in the 53rd annual convention of the American Federation of Labor. At- the same time scores of delegates elected by the membership of their local unions will meet at a national conference in the Carpenters Hall which is owned by the American Federation of Labor Union. Fifteen delegates left from New York City alone. The A. F. of L. convention opens in the midst of one of the greatest strike ‘waves witnessed in this country. Yet the whole period prior to the con- vention was used by the officials to stifle this strike movement, but with- out success. With the great surge for organization, the labor fakers are torn by jurisdiction ‘strife, to collect. dues. The atempts of the professional labor traitors to parade the NRA ‘as a boon to the workers has met with failure. < The rank and file conference, which will be attended by men and’ women fresh from their participation in strike struggles, will discuss ways and means of furthering. a movement, to’ fight against the new attacks on the workers. Membership Dropped For weeks in advance, Green-and his cohorts advertised the tremendous growth of the federation membership. It will undoubtedly come as a’ sur- prise to many that there has been a slump in membership of 405,000 since August last year. According to Sec- retary Frank Morrison the member- ship on August 31, this year was 2,126,796 as compared with 2,532,361 in the previous yéar and 4,078,730 during its peak of 1920. The rank and file conference will raise sharply the demand for unem- ployment insurance, for ‘whieh it has It will expose the treacherous action of last ‘year’s A. F. of L. convention, which went on record for unemployment insur- ance, only to betray it.. The con- ference will ‘be ‘a’ means of greater solidification of the opposition in the A. F. of L., which has grown con- siderably in the past year. ~ Faced with a growing revolt against its treachery, William. Green’ coun- sels workers on the eye of the con- vention not to strike. Carrying out the desires of his masters, and, speak- ing for the reactionary crew which dominates the leadership, Green wants to stop the surging movement, which in the mining fields alone ex- 60,000 AT MELLA RITES IN HAVANA Hundreds Killed and Wounded as Soldiers Fire on Workers (Special Cable to the Daily Worker.) HAVANA, Cuba, Oct. 1. — Sixty thousand workers demonstrating Fri- day at the funeral of Julio Antonio Mella, Cuban Communist student, leader, were dispersed by the brutal attack of the army and the armed students of the directorate. Machine guns and rifle fire pured lead into dozens of workers’ bodies. All hospitals and the city morgue are filled with the dead and wotnded. Soldiers have seized, robbed and sacked all workers’ centers, including the headquarters of the Communist Party, the Cuban Confederation of Labor and the International Labor Defense. Firing continued throughout. the night in all the streets of the city, with ambulances rushing about filled with the victims of the raging sol- diery. The National Confederation of La~ bor has called for a country-wide stoppage today in protest against the murderous attack of the army upon the workers of Havana. Dozens are dead and hundreds wounded. Among the dead are pio- neer women of the labor movement, soldiers and an army captain. Rumors are flying-about the city saying that U. §. marines are about to land and occupy the city, * * SANTIAGO, Cuba, Oct. 1. — In response to the call of the National Confederation of Labor, a general strike tied up the whole city here today. Raid Communists in Sioux City, Towa Result of Militant Jobless Meeting SIOUX CITY, Ia., Oct. 1—A raid was made on a meeting of Communist Party members here and 12 were ar- rested, charged with criminal syndi- calism. Following the raid on the house of a member, the police ar- rested ‘Young Communist League members. The 12 Party members are held on $6,500 bail each. One of the arrested, Hazelrigg, is held in special confine- ment. The raid followed as a result of a demonstration last Monday of un- employed. me pr olees meeting will be held on esday. e hearing will take place on October 4th. bs All Reading Unions to Keep Out of N. R. A. Parade READING, Pa, Oct. 1—All unions here decided not to partici- pate in the N.R.A. parade next Tuesday. The decision involves shoe, hosiery, cotton and all other industries and was reached by the ater HENRI BARBUSSE Ford Detroit Plant Lays Off 19,000; Strikers Solid Opposition Growing to Secret Negotiations of M: E. S. DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 1—Fearing the spread of the strike movement in the auto industry to its River Rouge plant, the Ford Motor.Co. has laid off 19,000 workers. The first lay-off of 6,000 men took place Wednesday. The next day, following the distribution of a leaflet of the Dearborn Local of the Auto Workers’ Union, calling on the Ford tool and die-makers to strike and on the production men to pre- pare for strike action, 13,000 ad- ditional men were laid off. “There are now~only about 13,000 workers in the plant. The Auto Workers Union is ac- tively organizing the Ford workers for strike action. The tool and die- makers’ strike, embracing more than 13,000 workers in Detroit. Flint and Pontiac, and the strikes in the Ford plants at Chester, Pa., and Edgewater, N. J., have created a strong strike sentiment among the men at the cen- tral Ford plant. At a meeting in Dearborn Friday night, called by the Auto Workers Union, 500 Ford work- ers voiced their determination to fight for higher wages, the inhuman speed-up and the whole vicious Ford system. The Auto Workers Union is holding a series of meetings of Ford workers throuhout this week. The much-ballyhooed hiring of 5,000 veterans by the Ford company is being revealed as a shameless swindle. Only about 600 to 700 vets have actually been given jobs, dis- placing other workers, some of whom are also veterans. Meanwhile a growing rank and file opposition movement is beginning to seriously embarrass the leaders of the Mechanics Educational Society, who are conducting secret, negotiations with the NRA Board in an effort.to end the tool and diemakers’ strike as speedily as possible without substan- tial gains for the workers. ‘The original’ demand of $1.50 an hour minimum wage has been scaled down by the leaders to $1 an hour and 90 cents for helpers. Instead of the 30-hour week, which the men had voted for before going out on strike, the Smith-Griffen clique at the head of the M. E. S. has put.over a de- mand for a 40-hour week. At many of the shop meetings the strikers are beginning to come out more and more openly in criticism of the leadership. The program of the rank and file opposition, calling for the wage and hours demands origin- ally adopted, for the election of broad, GREATEST ANTI-WAR CONGRESS IN COUNTRY’S HISTORY -¢@ Resolve Unyielding Struggle Against War, Fascism and For Defense of Soviet Union 10,000 at Opening Sessions of the | | i Anti-War Congress Barbusse, Browder and Other Speakers Pledge Unity Against War NEW YORK.—The United States Congress Against War opened Friday night with more than 10,000 jammed into two big auditoriums, 3,500 in Meca Temple in West 55th» St., and more than 7,000 in the St. Nicholas | Arena, on West 66th St. Hundreds more were turned away at each hall, unable to get into the) packed audiences who had come to hear Henri Barbusse, famous French author and Communist, and other noted speakers pillory imperialist war and call for united action to or- ganize the fight against war. Comrade Barbusse’s speech, printed in another column, brought the crowd to its feet singing the Internationale. The speakers, all of whom spoke frof thhe platform in each hall, rep- resented different points of view, bs all were united in their sincere desire to organize a nation-wide front against the menace of war. ‘The Congress. was opened by Don- ald Henderson, Secretary of the Anti- ‘War Congress, who turned the meet- ing in Mecca Temple over to J. B. Matthews as chairman, while Prof. Reinhold Niebuhr presided at St. | Nicholas Arena. “Non-Com” in Calls Workers to Fight War NEW YORK. — A Lvelherreirndl | what neglected by organized move- sioned officer of the United States| ments of this sort, are waking up to Army appeared in full uniform at] their position in society. We no long- er look forward to war with the ad- venturous, active interest of the sol- diers of yesterday—we know that war means death and suffering for most of us, as well as for millions of this morning's session at the anti- war Congress and addressed dele- gates and audience. He said: “As an enlisted soldier in the Unit- | ed States Army I have come here to) Earl Browder, General Secretary of the Communist Party, U. S. A.) greeted by thunderous applause, wel-| comed the delegates of varying shades/ of opinion to the joint struggle against war, which he characterized as “difficult—and costly.” He pointed) out that it is “easy and cheap to) fight war. with words only,” and added that “to fight against war re-| quires that we fight, first of all,| against the war-makers closest to us,| to fight against the war-preparing| government of the United States.” | William Pickens, Field Secretary of | the National Association for the Ad- vancement of the Colored People, stressed the vital interest. of the Ne- gro and all oppressed colonial peoples in the resolute fight against war. He added that “to take the profit motive out of war we must take the class-profit opportunities out of our /economic system.” Professor Alfons Goldschmidt, exiled German economist and execu- tive member of the Amsterdam World Anti-War Congress, indicted the Hitler Fascist regime in Germany| | other workers. We will do all we can greet the Congress Against War. ley ceevene wake “I am here to show you delegates| Henri Barbusse immediately took to this congress that there are eet the floor and said: “The splendid diers in the United States Army who| words which this American soldier know ,and appreciate. what) you aha has just uttered will awake an echo See Se |in the hearts of the soldiers in the “For them I express unity with you| barracks of France, of all Europe. in the fight against war. I, myself, will be proud to be the “I am glad to say that the sol-| bearer of this message from you here diers, in spite of their being some-| to all the soldiers of Europe.” Tom Mann, British Workers’ Leader, Arrives Tomorrow Mass Protest of American Workers Forces the) Immigration Authorities to Revoke the Previous Ban NEW. YORK.—Tom Mann, yeteran British working class leader, will ar- rive in New York tomorrow aboard the Majestic, docking at the foot of W. 18th St. His entry to the United States comes after a long fight dur- ing which the mass protest of workers of the United States forced the immigration authorities to revoke their previous decision barring him from the country. | agree? Yala Sitss antewer| Barbusse Calls for ‘UnitedFrontAgainst Congress, for which he was bound, Tom Mann will speak at a series of meetings against imperialist war. He will be the principal speaker at | . a banquet to be given in honor of I : l t W. Henri Barbusse on Wednesday eve- | mperia 1S ar ning, Oct. 4, at the Paramount Hotel, New York City. . Born in Warwickshire in 1856, Tom | Both War and Pree ism Mann is the oldest living British ] ism ee wait ieade Bis wiinling| Coat b LOL Capita! ‘ was limited to two and a half years,| Says French Author after which he was apprenticed in| Birmingham as an_ engineer. v4 By JOHN ALDEN PAGE later worked for various firms both | i gaw.one of the in England and the United States. | ,pus08Y ,ceon® He first came to the forefront as\to a great man. a leader of unusual organizational! In the heart of New York City, ability in the British dockworkers’) which is known the world over as strike in 1889, of whose union he was) “the city of great ovations”—bally- president from 1890 to 1903. A sum-/hoo, ticker-tape, snow-fall of paper, mary of his subsequent activities re-| yelling mobs drunk with insane veals the prominent part he has! hy; played in the British labor movement. | ciated body stooping forward, walked President, International Ship, Dock | into St. Nicholas Arena, and 7,000 workers, intellectuals and students greatest ovations that was ever given | hysteria—a tall, thin man, his ema-/| and called for union of all sincere) 214 River Workers, 1892—1906; joined war-haters to fight against the Fas") social Democratic’ Federation, 1885; cm ‘war-threats, Prof. Spc q| General Secretary, Independent Lab- said: “We, the workers of hand and oy, party, 1804—1906; member of the brain, must unite throughout the) world to smash German Fascism, to) smash all and any Fascism, and thus make imperialist war impossible.” A. J. Muste, of the Conference for Progressive Labor Action, said that “the masses will effectively combat war only as they belong to an ef- fective revolutionary labor movemeny. Any other kind of a labor movement will fail in a crisis, as past experi- ence has demonstrated.” Annie E. Gray, director of the ‘Women’s Peace Society, asked that the Congress adopt, “a program of Labour Comission, 1901—1903; has lectured on labor subjects in France, igium, Germany, Spain, Sweden, forway, Denmark, New Zealand, South Africa, etc. In the course of his activities he was imprisoned many times. He was sentenced to six months in jail for leading the Hunger March on London last year, but was released after a tremendous world- wide protest. rose to their feet as one. From the depths of their beings cam> a salute which was born of one of the deep~ est emotions experienced by man, love and respect for a comrade who is devoting his life to the cause of humanity. A murmur arose over the lower end of the hall. All knew that their great comrade was arriving to greet them. As one man they rose to their feet. Emotion kept their voices low | as surge after surge of greeting came |from them to Henri Barbusse as he strode down the aisle, his arms flung wide to all. His face drawn with | suffering, he mounted the platform emplifies a tremendous challenge. Tt is not the convention ‘of the labor fakers, but the rank and file conference taking place in the same city and the miners conference in Uniontown, .Pa.; which will speak for the workers. - The “Daily” ARE giving you some figures today! 4 Figures that tell the story “Why a Daily Worker Drive?” better than any number of select, words. ‘Three weeks; of the Daily Worker Two-Month Drive have already passed. In those three weeks we should have had $16,000. We actually have received to date only $3,500. ~ We know, by the increase in circulation, and by the increase in bundles and subscriptions, that the working class wants the Daily Worker. ‘We know by the tremendous influx of letters and by the tone of these letters that the’ workers will sactifice for the Daily Worker. : We understand that it is not because of lack of interest, or sincerity in keeping the «Daily Worker: going, that has kept the workers from responding sufficiently to make the $16,000 realizable.- But that it is the lack of organization in pushing the drive. We are, therefore, frankly and simply giving you a picture of what must be done. . ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY WE MUST HAVE $2,000 IN THE OFFICES OF THE DAILY WORKER. . . Federated Trades Council here. . Experiences in recent strikes for higher wages has shown the work- ets the strikebreaking character of the N.R.A. and forced the A. F. of L. to oppose participation in the parade, . : is no aimless wolf ory. We are being as honest with you, as we are in our fight against ous oppressors. We know that when the work-' ‘ action that shall prove effective in stopping another Sar worse hell than the last war ever began to be.” Devere Allen, editor of the “World Tomorrow,” representing the War Registers’ League, said that “ it is the special responsibility of this Con- representative strike and negotiations committees for daily reports regarding all negotiations, for spreading the strike to patternmakers, designers and draftsmen, as well as to the produc- tion workers, is gaining wider and wider support, gress Against War to deal with our | and walked immediately to the front own war-breeders here at home.’ and again threw out his arms to Emil Rieve, president of the Amer-/those on their feet all about him. ican Federation of Full-Fashioned| His deep lined face was alive with| Hosiery Workers, said that “to work | emotion as he looked about. For fif- for peace today is far more impor-|teen minutes the members of the tant than it ever was, perhaps in the history of the civilized world.” (Continued on page 2) ers realize that we need this amount, that they will go out with their lists and collection boxes, on the picket lines, union meetings, club meet- ings, and even at their parties, to raise. the necessary amount for the Daily Worker. J ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY WE MUST PAY THE PAPER AND INK BILLS, WHICH AMOUNT TO $2,900. We ask that you immediately get on the job, and collect these funds so that there will be no monkey wrench in the machinery of turning out the Daily Worker. ‘The paper bill is $2,300. The total of the ink bill 1s $600. ‘The “World-Telegram” of last Thursday speaks in its editorial column of the tremendous strike wave, the answer to the N.R.A. slave codes, as a “plague of strikes.” ‘The liberal “World-Telegram” considers the struggle for decent Itving conditions a plague. . . . UT the D&ily Worker such strikes would be ineffective. The “Daily” is the only paper that calls the workers to organize and | strike for a decent living. ‘The “Daily” is the only volcs by: wich: the workers: cam speek to eacts & $40,000 Drive Must Succeed! other and encourage each other to maintain solidarity on the picket line. Now the “Daily” is approaching .a serious situation. Unless money comes, unless the workers send relief in sharply increased funds in the next few days, we may find ourselves in very great difficulties, ‘We count on workers to understand that the life of the “Daily” de- pends, not on capitalist advertising, but on donations from the workers themselves. We count on workers to understand that we would not ask them to contribute unless the situation was serious. Many workers did understand this, and have rushed in their contributions. We now ask all other workers to come forward to help in the $40,000 Drive and to help their paper. We ask all workers to send in their contributions now. Rush your funds. . Received Friday .. Received Saturday ... 3 220.72 211.70 Previously Received . ‘ Dotel to Date i015, Ad gens aeSipssassmosaca Full Uniform|Hail Henri Barbusse as Fighter In World ‘Anti-War Movement |Greetings from Cuban, German Delegates Wildly Cheered NEW YORK, Oct. 1—Swept jup into an electric storm of jemotion, that broke into a | thunderous roar of singing, |cheering, and the wildest jubi- lation, almost 3,000 delegates from | Practically every part of the country rose yesterday to greet Henri Bar- busse, world-famous French writer at the United States Congress | Against War, which ended last night at St. Nicholas Arena, New York City, after a two-day session. Packed to the doors with delegates, and visitors in the gallery, the Con- | gress met to deliberate on the present danger of imperialist war that hangs | sinisterly over every capitalist coun- try in the world, on the danger -of | intervention against the Soviet Union, and against present intervention in Cuba, And these thousands of dele- gates, representing practi@lly every shade of political and religious opin- ion, met particularly to agree’ on immediate concrete, practical ways and means of organizing to meet the oncoming catastrophe of imperialist war. From the farm states of Idaho, Texas, and Iowa, farmer delegates came; from the Black Belt where slavery and Jim-Crow oppression still reign, came Negro delegates; from Arkansas, North Dakota, Oregon, Tennessee, and Wyoming, as well as from the factory towns of the East, of Pennsylvania and New England, they came to join together in the fight against the slaughter now being | prepared by the imperialist rulers of the world. There was a delegate from an American Legion Post, there was a representative of a unit of the Na- tional Guard, there were 264 repre- sentatives of educational and cul- tural bodies. There were 370 repre- sentatives from fraternal organiza- tions, 450 delegates from trade union and factory groups, 135 from bodies of unemployed workers, 106 from women’s organizations, and 178 dele- gates from various peace organiza~ tions, making a grand total of 2,616 delegates. There were Communists, pacifists, Democrats, Republicans, soldiers, teachers, workers, . professional men and women —all gathered to fight their one com~ | Mon enemy—war. if And the figure of Barbusse, tall, gaunt, veteran and hero of the 1914 | imperialist slaughter, was to them the | rallying point of their hatred of war. The Saturday morning session was gpened by Donald Henderson of the | Executive Committee of the Ameri- | can Congress Against War, who made his organizational report. The chair- man for the session was J. B, Mat thews. The major part of the morning was devoted to the speech of Henri Bar- busse, guest of honor of the Con- gress, who came as a representative of the world movement against war, and as chairman of the World Com- mittee of the Struggle Against War and Fascism. Tall, gaunt, and with a passionate face ravaged by sufferings endured in the 1914 slaughter where he won three medals for bravery, Barbusse launched into a wonderfully eloquent and detailed denunciation of the ime perjalist war preparations now gb- ing on all over the world. “Our struggle,” he said, leaning forward toward the thousands of delegates whog leaned forward to grasp his every word, “is against German and French Fascism and im- perialism, by the German and French People, those natural allies.” t “Fascism today,” he continued to (Continued on Page Two) Lindbergh Refuses to Speak for N. R. AL OSLO, Norway, Oct. 1. Charles A. Lindbergh has re; an appeal from General Hugh Johnson, National Recoyery Admin« istrator, to make a translatlantic radio broadcast supporting the N.R. A, The airman made this known on his arrival here at 4:30 after’ flying with his wife from Est rom |