The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 5, 1933, Page 1

SER Red Pvess Bazaar Opens at Madison Sq. Garden Tomorrow Night; Tom Mann to Speak at 8 P.M, Get Your Unit, Union Local, America’s Only Working Branch or Club to Challenge Another Group in Raising Subs for the Daily Worker! Class Daily Newspaper | WEATHER Eastern New York—Partly cloudy; probably local showers Thursday. (Six Pages) | DEPUTY SHERIFFS OPEN FIRE ON AMBRIDGE, PA., STEEL PICKETS | Delegate ( Challenges Burocracy at A. F of L. Convention Tom Mann Is Not A: "sleet. 2. STRIKERS WOUNDED BY “Tired Radical” =e DUMDUM BULLETS; 17,000 Pees. Sees. MINERS WALK OUT IN W.VA. NAVAL DRILL GROUNDS, off As far back of 1889, he led the English dock workers on strike that tied | (Section of the Communist International) ™ Price 3 Cents Watered as second-class matter at the Post Office ot New York, N. Y., under the Aet of March 8, 1378, ae, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1933 | DENY RANK AND FILE DiLEGATES ADMISSION TO FEDERATION MEET Barbusse, Tom Mann,| Hathaway, Speak at Phila. Meet Friday PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Oct. 4.—Henri Barbusse, noted French Communist writer and world leader in the fight against im- perialist war; Tom Mann, veteran militant laborite of England, and Clarence Hathaway will speak at a meeting Friday evening Southern California—War man- euvers were “played” today in the Pacific. Most of the Nation’s sea de- fense units—120 war vessels and 250 fighting aircraft—were en- gaged in the Pacific beyond San Clemente and Catalina Islands. 5 u rts all over th Id. Twenty years he toured the United States 8 : : }| That Big Insurgent Movement Is Spreading illadelghin,gelogetaa to tha e0 io rouse the American Workers aginst the oppress. | ojqntyefce®. Bete aie nt | | Will Not Go Back Until Frick Men Win; i Thr ouUg nout Country Is Shown in Remarks; cent U. S. Congress Against War. Only recently at 77 years of age, he led a hunger march in London | powerful fleet from across the Pa- £ . 4 z Weinstock Ejected from Hotel Other speakers will be David | 2nd was jailed by the British imperialists. cific, and the other a defense Murray’s Treacherous Efforts Fail : tsi Nt eae H. H, Felix of the Socialist Par- : : : Sry he ec ccnta a Miserably; All Miners Stand Solid i ee ty, Rabbi H. Fineshriber, as well HO could blame Tom Mann if he were to say, “Comrades, I am old, I | 4, 90a) ie maneuvers were prec EE SENN ; From Our Special Correspondent as a number of rank and file am tired, let me rest!” meal Aa ait oy BULLETIN. WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.—Louis Weinstock, Secretary of the A. F. of L., | Rank and File Committee for Unemployment Insurance, and the rank and file delegation, elected by the conference, were refused the right to appear and present their program to the Feceration Convention this morning. They delegates to the Congress. The meeting is being held at Turnegemeinde Hall, Broad and Columbia Avenue. | Many who have done much less than he have said this. Many have said and have written, “I am a tired radical,” as an excuse for inactivity | in the class struggle. GREENBURG, Pa., Oct. 4—Five locals of the United Mine Workers of America joined with the Walworth Foundry strikers today swelling picket lines to 4,000. State troopers opened way for the office force. Torgler Proves He _ SRE PEELE LER IE ELIT IS ay | ~ | | Were greeted by William Murphy of the Washington Crime Prevention | — 2 | HEN Tom Mann was told about the Red Press Bazaar opening this W ie R 2 h By HARRY GANNES. Bureau, acting as Sergeant of arms@————— See Will Pl J bl SS. Friday in Madison Square Garden; when he was told-how badly money | asn Ih elc Ss ag (Special to the Daily Worker.) for this “Farllament of Labor.” Fascist. Trend ino 3 ace JODIE: was needed for the DAILY WORKER; when he was told that the Bazaar | ° | AMBRIDGE, Pa., Oct. 4.—One scab is dying, two pickets were wounded, t griet % i i i | will raise funds for the revolutionary press, what did Mann say? That | one with his side torn open by dum-dum bullets fired by Deputy Sheriffs © visitors.and at the rear entrance : 11 | b y “Charly the Greek” and Postello of |. Speech of Perkins || jy New Yor ity he had to rest before rushing to Washington to speak there on the same | at the Spang-Chalfant Mill here this morning when an attempt was made the “Red Squed” were posted to rere! / Weleomed by Green night? by scabs to run 200 into the mill. Spang-Chalfant workers joined the strike anyone who looked like a worker. An assorted collection of detectives and Department .of Justice Operatives were located at strategic points in the grand ballroom and in and around the Willard Hotel. Weinstock was roughly handled and pushed back into the elevator, the stetement of the conference of the A. F. of L. Committee for Unem- ployment Insurance was thrown to a number of spectators and grabbed up eagerly. Many visitors in the lobby congratulated and shook hands with him. Delegate Walks Out. Reuben Suny, official delegate to the A. F. of L. Convention in the Willard ; Hotel, strodé out of the méetirig from which the rank and file representa- tives were excluded ‘and indignantly announced that hé will make a fight for them on the floor. “The program which those brothers tried to present today will come be- fore the entire A. F. of L. Conven- tion,” Suny asserted. “TH take it there and fight for it—and I expect a lot of support from other dele- | gates.” A. Strike Leader. Suny represented the Cleaners, Dy- ers, Spotters and Pressers’ Union No. 18233, of Philadelphia. Youthful and | militant, he led his fellow workers, last August, in a strike which com- pletely shut down the Philadelphia Pressing Shops and won all demands by the 1,800 workers, including full recognition of their union. ‘He protested against bureaucratic tactics of A. F. of-L. leaders, asserted thyt their system of apportioning Yelies in conventions is unjust to the | Yank and file delegations. He said that he will speak on resolutions em- bjdying the rank and file program when the official conventions’ reso- - Sations committee reports next week. : He has introduced these resolutions Olready. “Are in Good Standing.” “Those excluded brothers were A. F. of L. members in good standing, representing more than 1,200 local unions with about 200,000 members,” Buny continued, “They were pre- vented from even entering the con- vention hall—and by police and thugs acting on behalf of A. F. of L, lead- (Continued on Page Two) McAdoo Wants U. 8. to Recognize the Soviet Union Now “Everybody _ Naturally ez Job in Moscow,” Says Senator - PARIS, Oct. _ 4—Senator William @. McAdoo of California has been strengthened in his conviction that the United States should recognize! the Soviet Union by his visit to Mos- cow, according to an interview print- ed in a Paris newspaper, “Moscow is the busiest place I have seen in a long while,” said the Sen-, ator. “The streets are full of people, all occupied and apparently happy. Everybody, naturally, has a job.” Neve that they run their own coun- try, that they are protected against impoverished old age, and that their ite is better than it was under the. but | | WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 4.— ‘The clearest formulation yet of the fascist tendencies inherent in the N. R. A. was made by Frances Perkins, the Secretary of Labor jin Roosevelt's Cabinet, speaking to the American Federation of La- bor Convention now in session here. She said: | Opportunity lies in the integration | of labor with the modern state.” | President Green of the A. F. of | L. gave another clear statement etapa iad Melba alr egg saying, reply: “Together we | Wil eSdeaver tp taake tN. R.A. | a full and complete success.” TUUL Urges Unity to AFL. Convention in Miners’ Strike _ JointSupport WillForce Operators to Yield to Demands NEW YORK.—The National Board of the Trade Union Unity League ad- dressed a telegram to the 53rd Annual Convention of the A. F. of L. calling for a united front in defense of the miners and steel w»kers’ strikes. The message is “lo addressed to a number of naticaral labor organi- zations. The futl’ text of the tele- gram Is: To the fifty-third annual con- vention of the American Federation of Labor. Copy to the A.F.L. Rank and File Committee for Unemployment In- surance. / Copy to the striking miners of Pennsylvania, care of Ryan, Union- Copy to the Union. The Trade Union Unity League greets the striking miners of Penn- sylvania in their determined fight for the right of the miners to organize National Miners , and for the recognition of the union | Of their choice, in this case, the ; United Mine Workers of. America. All labor is heartened by the heroic and militant struggle of the miners who are holding steadfast despite the provocations of the powerful operators ; and steel trust, the strikebreaking ef- j forts of the NRA officials and the open alliance of the Lewis, Murray, Fagan, Feeny leadership of the UMWA with the tors and the government in an effort.to break the miners’ strike. ‘The miners in their fight are blazing the road. for all labor and déserve the utmost support of all organized ard unorganized workers throughout the Cease The Trade Union Unity League is giv- (Continued on on Bae 2) Barbusse’s Appeal for “Daily” Stirs Workers NEW YORK.—Martha and John Aswelt, of this city, re- ponded among the first to the appeal by Henri Barbusse for support of the Daily Worker. They sent in $5, with the fol- “I went to the opera and was am- at the audience. ley were the ag yet all were decently ‘I Or tatieves® McAdoo added, “that hit with the Soviet Union. T skh we oa) to withhold recognition. It: enable us to extend credits which promote our business there.” lai lowing letter: “In answer to belover and re- spected Comrade Barbusse’s ap- sped pies find ars dollars en- clos ‘or our splendid “Daily Worker.” The contribution Was sent on the same day, Barbusse’s appeal appeared in the "Daily." yester- BY, . “The greatest. | “| tinguish @ blaze in the canyon. on Basket Rations “Such Diet Will Cause Seurvy,” Packinghouse Worker Writes NEW YORK.—Food basket rations as relief to the unemployed, which is proposed in the Roosevelt program, will be carried into effect here this winter, according to the announce- ment of Mayor O'Brien. Families who had to get along on the miser- able Home Relief Bureau “grocery order” will now have to forego even the right of selecting their food, and live on regimented rations decided on by welfare officials. This plan has been used for a con- siderable time in Pennsylvania. Tre- mendous oppositfon was developed against it by the unemployed. Fam- ilies of various nationalities who are used to certain foods were compelled to live on diets which are totally un- palatable to them. Besides, the food is usually of the lowest quality and totally inadequate to satisfy the needs of the unemployed. The quality of the food which will be distributed by the federal g¢vern- ment for use here is described by a packing-house worker in a letter to the Daily Worker. He says: “The meat saved is not being cured in the regu- lar fashion employed by the packers for light sides of pork, which is a pickle cure. Instead it is being given a dry salt cure, that is, the salt is rubbed into the meat before being put into a pile. As the sides are thin they soon become so thoroughly saturated with the salt that nobody will care to eat it.” Causes Blood Disease He then adds: “In fact, a continued diet of such meat would probably cause scurvy, a dangerous blood dis- ease.” This is the sort of food which the unemployed are to be treated to this winter. While promising food distribution, the mayor kept totally silent as to the plight of the thousands of families who face eviction this winter. The Home Relief Bureau has practically stopped distributing rent checks. The Unemployed Councils con- demned “the food basket rations which aim to still further lower the standards of the workers.” The Council continues to mobilize the masses to struggle for the Work- ers’ Relief Ordinance and for unem~- ployment insurance. The ordinance would provide a minimum of “$7 weekly in cash” to every unemployed person and “$5 per week for each de- pendent.” The relief ordinance is en- dorsed by the Communist Party in its municipal election program. bere MANN has joined - with another veteran revolutionary, Henri Both of them are fighters. | DONATED? HAVE YOU ASKED. Do this today. Use the coupon Wednesday's receipts. Previous Total TOTAL TO DATE .. ‘Tom Mann immediately offered to come to the Bazaar, to speak in the Garden at 8 p. m. Immediately after his speech he will have to hasten to the station to catch the train for Washington. Barbusse, to help keep the “Daily” on its feét, so that it can continue mobilizing, organizing the American workers against their oppressors. Both of these aged veterans have become shock brigadiers in the $40,000 | drive to keep the DAILY WORKER ALIVE. THEY ARE NOT “TIRED RADICALS.” ‘We ask you to support the efforts of these valiant champions of the working class). HAVE YOU DONATED? HAS YOUR ORGANIZATION XOUR FRIENDS, YOUR FELLOW | WORKERS IN THE SHOP TO: DONATE?” below. Editor, Daily Worker, City and State Amount $......... 50 E. 13th St., New York City. I ANSWER TOM MANN’S OPPEAL NEW YORK.—The Welfare Island penitentiary, known as “The School for Crime,” lost three of its inmates today when a yet-unidentified trio escaped from the prison through a subway tube. ‘This is the place where James Matthews, young North .Carolina Negro, was wantonly murdered by a guard last fall—as exposed in recent issues of the Daily Worker. “continue the investigation” into the Matthews case, Harlem Responding to an alarm, sent out for the escaped prisoners, scores of policemen rushed into the tunnels in Trio Escape from Welfare Island Via Subway Tunnel Prison Was Scene of James Matthews Murder; | Harlem Workers Plan Mass Trial Oct. 15 the belief that the fugutives were hid- ing somewhere in the Queens branch of the municipal subway. The escaped prisoners made their escape from Welfare Island through one of the many tunnels leading to the subway 100 feet beneath the surface of the East River. ‘When they encountered a subway foreman as they were walking to- ward Manhattan the latter de- manded to know what they were do- ing there. The I. R. T. straw-boss was promptly bowled over by the prisoners, who ran ahead. Mine Picket Killed. SULLIVAN, Ind., Oct. 4.—Frank Stadler, a miner picketing the non- union Starburn Coal Co. mine here, was today killed when he was deliberately run over by an auto- mobile driven by Crede Fitzpatrick, mine superintendent. Van der Lubbe Says He Set Fire Himself AT THE GERMAN FRONTIER, Oct. 4 (via Zutich, Switzerland) —The | Reichstag fire trial re-opened today, after five days’ adjournment, with Ernst Torgler, Communist Reichstag leader, on the stand. Torgler stated that he left the/| | Reichstag building at 8:20 p.m. on February 27, or nearly an hour before the incendiary fire broke out. “Prosecution witnesses say they saw |you’ in the building at 8:40,” said Presiding Judge Buenger, in an effort to bolster the Nazi case, but Torgler maintained that he was eating in a restaurant when the fire broke out. Torgler scotched the Nazi lies that he had been seized by the police, | proving that he went to police head- protest against Nazi charges that the Communists had set the Reichstag on | fire. The police manhandling of George | Dimitroff, Bulgarian Communist de- |fendant, last Friday, was read into| the trial record when Judge Buenger | Gallagher, Chicago attorney, and| several other foreign lawyers, protest- | ing against such police brutality in the courtroom. Buenger declared that “there had been no manhandling” and expressed | “extreme regret” that the protest | telegram had been sent, troff arose and said, “I was knocked | down and removed by force,” when he tried to speak to a Bulgarian law- |yer whom ‘the court had refused to| accept as his trial counsel. Marinus van der Lubbe, half-witted Nazi tool, stubbornly insisted that he had set the Reichstag on fire alone when he resumed the stand. Judge Torgler had helped him, but van der Lubbe said that he hadn’t even seen time previously. Buenger: unknown to you?” ‘Van der Lubbe: “Yes.” Buenger: “Did you set fire to the Reichstag alone, or did anyone help you?” Van der Lubbe: “No.” Buenger urged van der Lubbe “to tell the truth,” adding: “You know the experts say it was impossible for by yourself.” ‘Van der Lubbe, smiling idiotically, answered, “Yes.” but Dimi- | Torgler in the Reichstag, or at any/| “Is Torgler completely | you to have set the Reichstag on fire | yesterday and with Wycoff Hold Conference in Illinois for Jobless Insurance |Police Bar r Delegation | From Legislature SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Oct. 4.—Carl Lockner, state chairman of the Un- employed Council, was arrested here today, while heading a delegation of | fifteen to the state governor and the! | state legislature to present the Work- ers Unemployment Insurance Bill.) The delegation was met at the state house by state police and barred from | entrance, The unemployed conference opened | | | | resenting 38,000 organized workers. There were delegates from local) | unions of the Progressive Miners of | | America, the UMWA, Unemployed | Councils, Unemployed Leagues, Un~- | employed Unions, the Trade Union | Unity League, the Communist. Party, introduced a telegram signed by Leo |the-rank and file-of the Socialist | Party. Lockner made the report deal- | ing with the need for and the prog- ress of the campaign for unemploy- |ment insurance, | The convention unanimously “en- dorsed the Workers. Unemployment Insurance Bill and adopted an or- ganizational plan for the carrying on of the campaign. | passed a resolution greeting vorkers of Cuba and demanding the ithdrawal immediately of all armed |forces of the Es ede 8. from Cuba, ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 4—Ben Davis, Jr., and John Geer, Negro attorneys tional Labor Defense will appear before the Georgia Supreme Court here today to make application for |@ new trial for Angelo Herndon, 20-year-old Negro unemployed or- ganizer who has been sentenced to 18-20 years on the chain gang. Herndon, now confined in the Fulton Towers Prison, one of the oldest and worst prisons in year, pending the fight for a new trial for him, LOS ANGELES, Cal., Oct. Sica ae voluntary suicide!” This is how Fire Chief Ralph Scott characterized the burning to death of between 50 and 75 unemployed workers who were yesterday trapped while carrying out orders, under pro- test, to extinguish a blaze in a box- like canyon in Griffith Park here. Nearly 100 jobless workers were in- eng and many of these may not ive, All the victims of this needless tragedy are martyrs to Pui Pa te individualism” the Roosevelt administration, gg substitutes forced labor for unem- it insurance. ployment ‘Their bodies burned to a crisp— many of them beyond recognition— the workers lost their lives after a foreman.had ordered. them to ex- “It was compelling these men to fcommit suicide,” said the Los An- geles fire chief, “to send them into 'g walled-in canyon whose entrance''the city, hundreds of relatives crowd- ‘| : Unemployed Forced Labor Crew Is Trapped When Ordered, Under Protest, to Extinguish Blaze in Canyon in Griffith Park was blocked by raging flames and | ed about the county morgue andscrambling up the steep sides of the whose only other means of exit was a@ winding cowpath up the wall of the ravine.” Thirty-six charred bodies have been recovered, but there are at least 20 this more still laying in the deep ee county officials said. Although the order to enter the blazing inferno was given by a fore- man—s “straw boss”—responsibility for the wanton murder of these un- employed workers clearly lies with the administrators of the Roosevelt Program, Nearly son jobless men had been engaged in Reconstructi work on the roads of the park, and when news of the fire spread through lon Finance | down. ‘hastily-improvised mortuary. The bodiés of the victims were so badly burned, that not a single vic- age of the fire had been recognized morning. a According to reports of survivors, the men had been ordered to ex- in, Deep in the canyon was burning. There was little or no wind, the flames and smoke from the burning scrub oak shooting straight upward, Suddenly, however, # wind whipped into the canyon, and poe the blaze into a roaring furnace. In a few Pg ypiews the nearly 1,500 men who had entered were frantically |eanyon. “Go down and smack it out with your shovels,” a foreman ordered the men when he saw the fire. Doctors today told hair-raising stories of wild attacks by burned, crazed workers upon would-be res- cuers. “Don’t touch me! Don’t touch me!” shouted a man who was brought in screaming. He seized @ shovel and tried to beat those who were trying to aid him. Another worker told of seeing one of his: companions drop a huge rockon his head, to fall uncon- of DEATH OF 75 JOBLESS WORKERS IN LOS ANGELES FIRE CALLED MURDER tae a result of their experiences, sur- |vivors described the horrors..of the fire. One of them, Wilfred Singleton, told of seeing the ground dotted with bodies and heard the piercing shrieks of men who fell and couldn't get up. “Sometimes I tripped and would put out my hands. to. break- my fall and I would feel the hot clothing of @ dead man,” Noel Gregg, another survivor, said that he saw three men on the ground, | their heads down. The flames were getting them. My tongue began to swell and I thought my eyes would pep out of my head. I heard a ter- rible scream and I fainted.” The men dropped one by one, W. R. Woods said. “They would crawl a little way and then lie still. Then the fire would catch ap with them.” The inevitable whitewashing of re- sponsible high officials and the se- lection of a few minor ‘goats’ loom rawn Steel Company on strike today, —® strikers ranks have been swelled to This convention | the | Herndon New Trial Buenger tried to get him to say that | ‘Appeal Is Up Today of Atlanta, representing the Interna- | the South, has already served nearly a| as the only consequences of this | the close to 5,000. Jimmie Eagan, strike leader, presi- | dent of the sub-district, Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, | whom scabs attacked early this | morning precipitating the battle, told his story to the Daily Worker: “Seven o'clock this morning, these lows who were going to bust the iine, mobilized across the street from the plant. I went across to speak | to them to stay out...They were very | ugly, moving to gang me. They made @ rush for-me, Picket line came run- ning up-armed with clubs and sticks. The leader of the scabs took a punch at me. At that time there were more scabs than pickets, as they chose the weak spot in the line. But the picket |lime answered the attack and drove into them. “At the plant, deputy sheriffs were standing with their rifies ready, hold- ing their fire, waiting to see the out- come of the melee. When they saw quarters the very next morning to | this morning with 136 delegates rep-| the scabs driven back, they started shooting first thei hot lead.” Luke Starchenko, member of Un- | employed Council of McKees Rocks, | who was on the picket line, fell to | the sidewalk with a dum-dum bullet in his side. When scabs ran back, Alton Curry, one of their group, was left on the ground with severe, pos- sibly head wounds. A son of one of the pickets was slightly wounded by gunfire. After fighting, picket lines tightened up, refusing to leave the mill gates even for a moment to par- ticipate in a meeting, Use Dum-Dum Bullets Sheriff Charles L. O'Loughlin, Beaver County, admitted that bullets | fired—and the only ones came from | the mill guards—were dum-dum, hol- lowed at one end, calculated to spread and mangle the victim. “I don't know who fired shots,” he said. “Don’t put me on the , Spot be- cause I’m looking for them.” Justifying the murderous attack, Barton, vice-president of the com- | pany, said: “Protection of our prop- erty is in the hands of deputy sher- iffs. Any shooting that was done, was done by deputies.” John L. Meldon, Secretary of the Steel and Metel Workers Industrial Union, who visited Ambridge, imme- diately after the shooting with the correspondent of the Daily Worker, declared: Barton Responsible “We charge Barton with respon- | sibility for this murderous assault. Picketing was peaceful, and this at- | tack was made deliberately to run in scabs and keep strike from spreading to other mills. Men are fighting for their jobs. Picketing will be increased and more mills will be pulled out to win demands.” There is every likelihood now that the largest mill in Beaver Valley, American Bidge Co., U. 8. Steel sube sidiary, will be pulled out on strike within the next few days. Plans ate |being worked out fo strike Jones and Laughlin plant in Alequippa, which ts a virtual feudal castle, surrounded by a moat and reached by only one nar- row bridge, now guarded at every vantage point by machine gunners. Five hundred members of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union in Carnegie Steel Corporation plant, Duquesne, Pa., employing 8,000 men, voted to call a strike by Monday. This | key plant, and together with Clairton | plant will lead to a virtual shutdown of the entire steel industry in Beaver Valley. Two thousand workem& at the Alu- minum Co. of America at New Ken- sington, members of an A. F. of I, Federal Union, are planning a strike against the Mellen controlled corpor- ation, tear gas, PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 4--Min< ers following the lead of Fayette (Continued on page M >|