The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 11, 1933, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1933 Labor’s “Own” Bank Sends Message to A. F. L. Convention Outstanding Heads of Open Shop Corporations Hold Membership on Board of Directors; Labor Traitors Bound to Wall Street By B. . D. WASHINGTON.—The little folder entitled “A Message to Organized Labor,” distributed to delegates of the A. F. of L. convention by the Federa- tion Bank and Trust Company of Ne' some very interesting information kind! w York, “the Labor Bank,” contains ily furnished by Jeremiah S. Maguire, president. Out of a total of 14 directors of this “labor” institution we select ‘he following list of outstanding? labor leaders: Joseph B. Ennis, Vice-President of the American Locomotive Co.3 Charles J. Hardy, President of the n Car and Foundry Co.; J. Platten, Westinghouse Elec- tric and Manufacturing Co.; Philip D. Reed, General Electric Co.; All- ston gent, President of the Camp- bell Metal Window Co.; Louis A. Zi n, Treasurer of the General Feods Corp.; Richard E. Dwight, of the law firm of Hughes, Schurman bt Dwight, and Frank X. Sullivan, The “labor” representation is| strengthened further by the inclu- sion of William Green as chairman of. the board; Edward Canavan,| Combined Amusement Crafts of Greater New York; John Sullivan, President of the New York State Federation of Labor; J. J. Mulhol- jand,, Vice-President of the Central Trades and Labor Council of New York and vicinity; Louis Gebhardt, Building Trades Council of Greater New York, etc. Mr. Maguire obligingly furnishes} the theory: which accounts for this dominance of Wall Street capitalists on the board of directors of a “Jabor” {iiSfitution. He writes, opposite the; financial statement in the little folder (a statement in which by Some truly amazing acrobatic ac- counting, resources and liabilities are miade to balance): “Due to the indomitable leadership of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, William Green and other leaders of Capital and Labor, we can now Vis- ualize a new understanding bene- ficial to all under the National Re- covery Act.” The ties of the A. F. of L. leader- ship with the Roosevelt administra- tion and with finance-capital as represented by Wall Street are many. The Federation Bank and Trust Co. OUT OF TOWN AFFAIRS FOR THE il Da Ones amist Party USA Pittsburgh OCT. 14: Dance given by the Fifth Ward Daily Worker Committee at Elks Rest, 2315 Wylie Ave. Refreshments. Admis- sion 15c. Gary, Ind. OCT. 14: Vetcherinka given’ by the Working Women's Progressive Organization and all Russian Branches at 224 W. 15th Ave. Los Angeles Section ‘The great Soviet Film “TEN DAYS ‘THAT SHOOK THE WORLD” and “BREAD” will be shown in the fol- lowing cities on the dates listed be~ low for the benefit of the DAILY WORKER: Oct. 14—Pasadena Oct. 15—San Bernadino | Oct. 16—Alhambra Oct. 17—San Diego Oct. 18—Long Beach Oct. 2i—Santa Barbara Oct. 22 to 26 inclusive— Monterey, Santa Cruz and Watsonville Oct. 27—Carmel ly YOU want a clear, concise document- ary proof of what is going on in Nazi Germany - - Read The Brown Book r of the HITLER TERROR Published by ALFRED A. KNOPF. $2.50 i a Organizations Get This Book at the District Literature Dep't 35 EAST 12th STREET NEW YORK CITY_ a ‘| of this great “Jabor” institution. | must js one of them. It is an organic connection. The composition of its board of directors shows it. One little skilled in the art of making liabilities appear as assets and deficits as surpluses should hesi~ tate before questioning such noble efforts in this directiontas are €X~ pressed in the financial Sener L abe required the complete “subordination of all selfish desires on the part of both Capital and La- bor,” as represented in. the beard of directors, to agree to such a state- ment. But the will to co-operate was there and agreement was reached around the conference table. “When leaders of labor and capital sit down around the table, etc.” | ‘The Federation Bank of New York | was in the first group of banks to close their doors. It has been “re- organized.” Its total “resources” are listed as $7,462,916.74. It has depos- its of $5,825,491.94. This looks pretty good. But—the big item under “resources” is called “Special Investment.” It consists of “Senior interest in the assets of the old institutions,” and is made up of “stocks and bonds, loans—secured and unsecured—bonds and mortgages and real estate.” Worth “Not Much” One guess is as good as another as to what this “Special Investment” is worth in cold cash. Our own for- mulation would be “not much.” Cer~- tainly the writing off of something like one-third from the original “pook value” of these assets does not in any way coincide with the depre- ciation during the crisis of mort- gages and real estate—to mention only two of the “assets.” But President Maguire is nothing if not an optimist and after all, it will not be the members of tthe board of directors who will suffer if there has to be another holiday. He says: “We can do bigger things with our bank in the way of increased business through deposits. May I, therefore, urge the officers of labor organiza- tions and the members of the labor movement to give their patronage and support. to their bank, that it may become one of the outstanding and influential banks in the'country?” It seems to us that Mr. Maguire has made a slight mistake and sent his appeal to the wrong address. Per- haps it is just a clerical error. This appeal, on the of the record and the financial statement of this “labor” institution, should have been addressed to the inmates of Matte- wan and other asylums for the in- sane, Even here some selection would hhave been necessary to get the ap- peal in the hands of those who are crazy enough to give their money away to people who already have too much of it. Boston, Mass. 14TH ANNUAL Four Day Bazaar New International Hall 42 Wenonah Street, Roxbury Oct. 11: Women’s Night 12: I. W..0. Night 13: John Reed Club & Freiheit Gesangs Verein Night 14: Communist Party Night. Admission Free Auspices: Workmen’s Educational Institute. (Classified) e Mie, downtown. Wits Dard ove. Daily GIRL comrade wants medium sized reomt, tarnished er unfurnished, Private en- trance. town, New $12 to $16 & mon@, Write te 0.5. Daily Worker. SEVERAL GOOD APARTMENTS GRA G! PARNE’S DAIRY RESTAURANT 830 BROADWAY Between 12th and 13th Streets Workers Served with Healthy Foods at Low Popular Prices © Workers Cooperative Colony ‘2700-2800 BRONX PARK EAST has now REDUCED THE RENT ON THE APARTMENTS AND SINGLE ROOMS NO INVESTMENTS REQUIRED . When Textile Led by in Burlak, ag: tary of the National Textile Workers’ Union, 250 striking silk workers from Paterson, N, J., Allentown, Pa., Easton, Pa., and other cities marched on the U. S. partment building in Washington on Monday, Workers Invaded Slav: e ee: a ” te PERE oe Sie STRIO gressive secre. shortly before make our code Commerce De-, ing. Code Hearing & ; BE os where they paraded the revised cotton textile code. in the Capital | % ¥ into the auditorium the opening of the hearing on “We will on the picket line,” Ann Burlak told the textile bosses assembled at the hear- Leather Workers in Gloversville Tie Up Industry Closed Shop “Opposed to Code,”:Says NRA Officials GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y. Oct. 10— ; The leather industry is completely tied up. as a result of the strike here. Out of a population of 23,000 almost ten thousand workers are effected by the leather strike and it will affect production in the whole glove in- dustry. A half-page advertisement in “The Leader Republican” that factories will resume work and calling the stri- kers to return without negotiation of their demands failed. The workers are termined to win and maintain pick- et lines to keep out scabs. 2,500 men, women and children are participat- ing in picketing. Intervention of the to break the strike has met without success. NRA officials in Washington have expressed themselves that the closed shop is “definitely in opposition to the code for the leather industry.” The Fulton County Tanners’ Council backed by- this assurance of the gov- ernment is determined to defeat the organization of workers in their shops. Meeting of the strikers are being held daily. The workers have sent protests to General Hugh Johnson, Govenor Lehman and local adminis- trator Williams protesting the deci- sion of the open shop/which is sup- ported by the government. ARRANGE YOUR DANCES, LECTURES, 3 saber oars aaa NEW ESTONIAN WORKERS’ HOME 27-29 West 115th Street New York City RESTAURANT and BEER GARDEN STATIONERY and MIMEOGRAPH SUPPLIES At Spectal Prices for Organizations Lerman Bros. Inc. Phone ALgonquin 4-3356 — 9643 29 Bast lth St. N.Y.C. & SINGLE ROOMS AVAILABLE Alabama Lynch Court Delays Trial of 2 Negto Croppers DADEVILLE, Ala., Oct. 10.—Be- cause of the “widespread notoriety” which Tallapoosa County has achieved in its frame-up of 19 Negro sharecroppers charged with assault | because they defended themselves from a sheriff’s lynch-gang which killed at least four other croppers, Judge Bowling announced that trial of two of them would be “postponed indefinitely.” Five sharecroppers have already been sent up for long chain-gang terms on the framed charges. The International Labor Defense, defending the croppers, is demand- ; ing. the. immediate release of all those. arrested, including those al- ready sentenced. Hold Neighborhood Unemployed March DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 10— From three sections of the Oak- land District, unemployed will gather on Friday to march on the local relief station on Woodward Avenue at Westminster Street to urge the adoption of a program of immediate needs for the unem- ployed this winter. Among the demands to be pre- sented are: a fifty per cent raise in grocery checks to meet the price increase, regular payments of rent, distribution of flour, relief for single men, abolition of diserimina- tory practices towards Negroes and foreign born, applicants for relief to be treated decently and all welfare jobs pay a minimum of 48 cents an hour. The three gathering sections for the march will be Grandy Hall, 5770 Grandy, 1343 East Ferry and. the Oakland Avenue Hall. The march will start» at’ 9 am. Expose AFL Leaders ‘at Buffalo Meeting of Steel Workers Communist Candidate Shows Up Splitting Tactics BUFFALO, N. Y.—More than 350 steel and iron workers of the American Radiator plant sat for one hour listening to John C. Johnson, Secretary of the Central Trades tell stories about his ex- periences in the Tobacco Workers Union and what a “fine” record the A. F. of L. has, cleverly, of course, evading the treacherous role of the A. F. of L. leaders and the numerous betrayals of the steel and metal workers. He lauded the N. R. A. as a “blessing to la- bor.” He wound up by appealing to the workers to join a “federal union” for which they should pay these racketeers a $2.00 initiation fee and $1 a month dues. Johnson was followed by a Mr. Ramon (Communist renegade) a tool of the A. F. of L. leaders against radical workers. There was a clear division of work be- tween Ramon and Johnson. Ramon in his attempt to mislead the radi- cal element contradicted Johnson. He thought that his contradiction would remain unnoticed but he ‘was mistaken. Immediately after he finished, brother Woyzniak asked Ramon why did he state that the “federal union” is an in- dustrial union and that tne A. F. of L, was not going to permit them to be split into crafts, in face of the fact that Johnson stated that the Internationals were suspending jurisdiction “‘temporar- “My Rig PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 10.—The following appeal was made to the strikers in Ambridge, Pa. steel mills by one of their leaders, James Egan, | who is now in jail for his strike ac- tivities. Egan is an organizer of the Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union and Corhmunist candidate for Mayor ig this city. “Tell the workers of Ambridge that as soon as I am, released, I will im- mediately return to town to continue and help strengthen the strike. My greatest desire is to be out just now —not because jail has any effect on me, but because the present strike situation is of such tremendous im- portance to all steel workers through- out the country. My rightful place is in the ranks of the strikers. | “Regardless of whether I am in jail or not, the strike must be con- | tinued until won. In fact, because I} am in jail, the rank and file leader- shin of the strike must remain solid and unbroken. Our ranks must not | be divided, no matter how sharp the | attack is on us. | “Workers of Ambridge! We must realize that the bloody reign of ter- ror unloosened against us by the} thugs and gunmen recruited from the gutters and deputized by the sheriff is the answer of the Steel | Trust to our rightful demands for in- | creased wages, shorter hours, and rec- | ognition of the union of our own) choosing. The steel trust millionaires and billionaires, those who have piled up mountains of wealth at our ex- pense, from exploiting us these many years—they have not spared any money in supplying the gunmen with weapons of all kinds and in buying up this scum to shoot us down. “We have the right to picket. We have the right to strike for higher wages. But these rights the bosses of National Electric, Central Tube, Spang Chalfont, American Bridge, do not recognize. They have ordered their henchmen—Sheriff O’Laughlin, Burgess Caul, to get their deputies and police to shoot and kill. And’ kill they have. One of our brothers was shot down and murdered by these despicable rats. “Workers! Realize the fact that the sympathy of all workers is on our | side. The workers of Jones & Laugh- lin of Aliquippia were ready to join us in our strike. The workers of Amer- ican Bridge were ready to come out | on strike. The steel trust, fearing the spread of this strike to. many other plants, decided to crush us in blood. “Yesterday's funeral, where over ily.” Manning Johnson, Communist Candidate for. Supervisor of the 5th ward and active organizer. of the Steel and Metal Workers In- dustrial Union’ spoke. He made a sharp attack on the A. F. of L. leaders and its affiliate the Amal- gamated: Association of Iron and Steel and Tin Workers pointing out the long record of betrayals. He also exposed the role of the treacherous leaders in the Labor Advisory Board, the N. R. A. as an Industrial Slavery Act, the fake “federal union” scheme and an- swered, in the sharpest terms Johnson and Ramon on the ques- tion of “Reds.” Johnson wound up his speech with a fervent ap- peal to the workers to join the Steel. and Metal Workers Union. Albeady the Committee of the s. M. W. I. U. was busy passing out leaflets advertising the meeting of tlie Steel and Metal Workers In- dustrial Union, All the efforts of htful Place in Ranks of the Steel Workers”---Egan Because of Terror; 10,000 were out on the streets and thousands of coal miners, steel work- | ers, and unemployed were kept out, | shows that the terror against us has evoked the greatest indignation and bitterness. “We charge the steel companies with directing and instigating these | murders. We cha iff O’Laugh- lin, Burgess Call, Dis Castriques with acty murderous gai of the steel tm and particinating in the actual bloody assault. We demand these murder guilty in the eyes of the who be charged with and held for their crimes against workers of Ambridge. “Fellow workers! ttorney de Our rank: remain unbroken. We our union at all cost. We mu tinue the strike! Through organization mass si we will be able to rror against ory!” Boston Workers to Protest Deportation Drive Wednesday Nite BOSTON, Oct. 10—Boston workers will meet this Wedndésday night, Oct |11, at 93 Stanford St., to protest de- | portation proceedings by the federal government against militant work- ing class leaders. . Todar Antonoff, Detroit worker facing deportation to Bulgaria; Bar- ney Creegan, Worcester, Mass., un- employed leader facing deportation to Scotland, and Howard Carter, member of the delegation which was in Washington last Tuesday to file protests with Commissioner of Im- migration MacCormack, will be the main speakers, The International Labor Defense, under whose auspices the meeting will be held, also announces that a personal message from Sam Paul, Greek worker who has been held five months in Howard, R. I., jail because he refuses to sign a state- ment drawn up by immigration offi- cla]s, will be brought to the meeting. Delegates will be elected for the mass delegation to Washington, Oct. |25, to protest the deportation drive with which the U. S. government is trying to crush the foreign-born workers into abject submission to the N.R.A. hunger policies. Phila. Office W to Hold Mass Meeting on NRA Thursday Nite PHILADELPHIA, Pa,—The Of- fice Workers Union will begin a broad organization drive beginning with a mass meeting, to discuss the N.R.A. and its effects on the white collar worker. The meeting will be addressed by well known speakers. The Office Workers Union is the only active organization of its kind in this city. An organization drive will be started at a mass meeting tomorrow, 8 p. m. at Whittier Hall, 140 N. 15th St. All white collar workers are invited to attend. The meeting should especially interest the sales clerks and office workers in the department stores newspaper and printing establish- ments, as well as the mail-order houses, where conditions have the labor fakers to stop the pas- sing out of leaflets was, in vain. reached the actual starvation level. By JOHN SCHMIES ‘The striking tool and die makers in Detroit, Pontiac and Flint are out on strike and are holding their position in spite of all the maneu- vers of the auto companies, espe- program advanced by the company, then the strike will be settled at the expense of the strikers, A strike by the workers and the program of the auto company code gives the company the power to fire workers, to victimize them, to lay them off by the thousands, and to prevent tMie workers from organizing their own union—that is the N. R. A. in the auto industry. The auto strikers are confronted with a real test case and that is to fight the code of the auto companies and to fight for a code of the auto workers. The N. R. A. upholds the code of the auto company and was signed by the President. The strikers and the auto workers generally, there- fore, must decide ‘whether to accept: . Auto Strikers Must Task of Rank and File Is to Organize Tool and| Dies Makers at Ford Plant this auto company slave-code or Briggs whether to organize and to build a Qa 2 5 : i g E Es i E 4 A s 4-4 aRee & 3 [ Larned, chairman A., too, says that the sti N. R. A. are all unite workers, That gives us a con- crete picture of the A. F. of L. lead- ership. Now how about the others? The I. W. W. leadership is active among Murray Body workers. The whole strategy that is being carried out by the I. W. W. leaders looks very much like a gentleman’s agreement between them and the Murray Body Co. Such a policy ts not surprising to anyone who remembers the meth- ods used by Ziederwald and other leaders of the L W. W. during the 4 strike, when they had a policy of unity with the police department, gangsters and agents of the Briggs Co. Leadership of M. E. 8. In the main, the leadership of the Mechanics Education Society is com- posed of Jay J. Griffin and his Clique, as it is called by many of He has rejected every offer for united action of all organized rank and file forces in the auto industry, He is fighting every move to orgahize the production masses into this strike. He is against building up a move- ment of the Ford tool and die mak- ers in order to extend the strike. He) is raising the “red” issue among the | strikers in order to stop the militant! elements from mobilizing the masses | of strikers for rank and file leader- ship to win the strike. In other words, his methods are ‘practically the same as those as the misleaders of the A. F. of L. Smith, on the other hand, while using radical phrases and progres- sive slogans has not yet disassociated himself with the strikebreaking pol- icy of Griffin. Mr, Smith will stand exposed before the strikers and the| * Fight Bosses and Misleaders auto workers as the same misleader unless he stops giving lip-service to the program advanced by the mili- tant elements who are composed of workers from the Auto Workers’ Union, rank and file members from the A. F. of L. and-I. W. W. Mr. Smith must show in action whether he means what he says. Rank and file strikers must demand that Mr. Smith shows his color—if he is in favor of the program advanced by the rank and file, then he must fight for such a program. Up to this time, Mr, Smith has failed to lead the battle for united action against the enemies of the strikers. The Fisher Body strike committee meeting has adopted a militant pro- m that will Body strikers shops, are fighting for the program advocated by the A. W. U., which is the only program that calls for unity of action of all auto workers—em- ployed and unemployed, skilled and unskilled Only such a program and such a policy will bring victory to the striking tool and die makers and will give organizational leadership to the auto workers for higher wages and better working conditions. Organize Ford's The rank and file strikers must fight for victory not only against the auto companies and their code, but also against the misleaders within their ranks. The striking tool and die makers must urge and organize the production workers in the shops for the auto workers’ code. The striking tool and die makers must or- gapize the tool and die makers in the Ford plant. The rank and file strikers and other workers organized in the shop must rally to the call of the A. W. U. in building up a strike movement of all auto workers and concentrate especially in giving help and guidance to the many thou- sands of unorganized Ford workers, We must build a union that will fight for a program of the auto \t orkers| and the white collar slaves in the) Page Three Steel Workers Entrench for Greater Mass Struggles Forced to Retreat Remain Undaunted At Union Headquarters Plans for Future Are Being Made By HARRY GANNES. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 10.—Fas- ist terror, in which the forces of the NRA, state police and American Legion acted under common leadet- ship of the steel trust's gunmen, for he time being has been able to stem rising tide of steel strikes. A. F. of L. leaders who stabbed the trike in the back, trying to prevent the miners from forming a common front with the steel workers, who gh the A.A. leadership prevented i spread of the strike and a ront of all steel workers, gave | val e aid and comfort to the most | powerful enemies of the American | weenie the U. S. Steel Corporation, and the other powerful steel output. The Ambridge massacre, directed against the growing leadership of the |Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial | Union, and the heroic example. of r picketing, marching on mills in all ection to pull them out, has not crushed the militancy of the workers. The workers return to the Ambridge steel mills with every inch of. their fibre boiling with mer anger, undaunted, but rec rig that for the moment it is impossible to continue the strike in the face of ‘a Fascist army with orders to kill. | Plan Further Fight. | Like the miners who returned at |the time of the first strike, the steel {workers go back, biding their time \for a greater and more determined struggle. They go back with a new | knowledge of the capitalist state, of the Roosevelt and Pinchot regime. The U.M.W.A. officials have suc~ |ceeded in withdrawing the bulk of | the striking miners from picketing the | Carnegie Steel plant in Clairton, Pa. In Weirton, West Va., Clarksburg, and | Steubenville, Ohio, the 14,000 steel | workers have flounted the A. A. of- \ficials and are resorting to militant |mass picketing. But the Pinchot regime has brought in state troopers, preparing a bloodbath for the Weir- ton steel workers. In Greensburgh, Pa. the N.RA., | state troopers, are attempting to drive the workers back into the Wal- worth Foundry Co., opening up @ |lying and vicious campaign against the Steel and Metal Workers’ In- dustrial Union. | The steel workers have not been terrorized by this viclous assault. on |the Ambridge strike. Bullets have not stemmed the growing strike | preparations in all of the mills. The, | steel workers are strengthening their forces, scaling down their illusions about the N.R.A., facing soberly and grimly the new Fascist forces they have to face in their struggles Sweating over the molten metal, standing at the pounding powerful hammers, during working hours and at night, on street corners, in restau- rants, at meetings, in the head- quarters of the Steel and Metal Werk- ers’ Industrial Union, the workers-are planning their next step. Workers Strong for Union. The Steel and Metal Workers’ In- dustrial Union has gone through the fire of one of the most brutal and, vicious attacks in American labor his- tory. Its leaders in Ambridge are in prison. But the union has endeared itself to the Ambridge workers. The steel workers have seen the strikebreaking tactics of the A. A. leadership, and are learning the strategy of the Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union, with its rank and file control, its determined policy of struggle, its mass picketing instilled fear into the hearts of the steel barons. The steel workers are beginning to see that the very vicious- ness and brutality of the Ambridge massacre was the only answer .the bosses had against the growing \- darity of the steel workers under itant leadership. Where the steel workers have been driven back to work at the point of machine guns, they have the con- stant reminders of the real meaning of the N-R.A. in the person of the armed guards surrounding the plants. Organization Goes On. Where strikes have not yet been called, organization is going on rap- idly, learning from the Ambridge strike. Even in the very town where ~ the steel trusts Fascist gang was or- ganized, Alliquipa, at the Jones and Laughlin feudal fortress, organization is going on, Q At the Carnegie rd Corporation plant in Duquesne, ‘the Steel and Metal Workers’ Union is making headway, preparing for struggle. At Clairton, the workers in the Carnegie Steel Corporation have learned the role of the A. A. In the Jones and Laughlin plant in Pittsburgh, the steel workers are strengthening their organization, planning strike. ‘The steel trust has drawn the sword and thrown the scabbard away. It knows the strike was broken by ma- chine guns, but the spirit and mil- itancy of the workers was not broken. Every large steel mill in the Pitts- burgh area is arming for the Class war, a war they know is growing in magnitude and militancy. Beds, food, machine guns and ammunition have now become part of the equipment for the manufacture of steel. The | if | workers know these facts. But also know that organization of workers can defeat the steel Most important of all, workers are leatning the Roosevelt regime and the N, right to join a union of choosing,” has been turned and corpses. Union organization has sunk the blood of the steel workers, into the mills with the members the Steel and Metal Workers’ Indi at the point of a gun. It seethes in every still mill in the Pittsburgh area. Terror has won the first eg [ef ‘Hagel see & 38 a workers as against the code of the (N.R.A.) auto companies, but the steel workers are learning to overcome it, S45 ih