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

Dange Danger! r Faces Our Daily Worker, Dollars Will Save It! Send Yours in Today! Vol. X, No. 248 = Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office » Under the Act of March 8, 1879, New York, N. ‘(Section of the Communist International) NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1933 aWorker | Party U.S.A. America’s On ly Working Class Daily Newspaper THE WEA’ THER WEATHER:—EASTERN NEW YORK—FAIR _(Six Pages) _ MONDAY Price 3 Cents ‘WORLD SLAUGHTER LOOMS AS IMPERIALISTS CLASH 3,000. Paterson Dye ye Strikers Vote Down A. F. of L. Sell-Out Force UTW Leads Off Platfo for Unity with NTW Misleaders Workers Are Firm Ag: Would Tie Hands for Year By MARTIN RUSSAK. | J., Oct. 15—Over 3,000 dye workers, members of the PATERSON, N, Bring Police into Meeting, But rm, Move ainst Contract Which ready to explode, ference with the demand of Fascist other step closer to imperialist warl toiling masses of the world, fighting Soviet Union. dynamite of another imperialist. world. war is The breakdown of the Geneva Disarmament Con- army equal to its rivals, means only one thing—an- There is only one thing that can stop the flame that hisses along the fuse leading to the powder barrel. That is the aroused, organized opposition of the Fascist Germany, faced with economic collapse, drives toward war, toward intervention against the France is ready to march into the Rhineland, to protect the investments of French imperialism in the government! Germany for an Roosevelt takes of inland Chinese Around Hawaii against war. ING WAR. Act to Stop War! | DOLLARS FOR WAR—more than any other President in the history of the country except the Wilson war pains to talk against the imperialism of other countries—the rivals of Wall Street. | | But at this very moment the American fleet is | | anchored in the Havana harbor, with guns unmuzzled, ready for instant action! | American gunboats are anchored now in the waters | rivers. and the Philippines, the Pacific Fleet maneuvers ceaselessly, girded for instant action! Rooseveit’s peace speeches coming at this moment ARE THE MORAL PREPARATION FOR THE COM- into coal and iron mines of the Ruhr and Saar valleys. ‘That is why he is pouring hundreds of milticns A. F. of L. Dyers’ Local 1733 of the United Textile Union, have rejected the _setilement terms worked out secretly by their A. F. of L. officials and the Britain puts its gigantic naval and air fleets into war efficiency, ready for instant action! the cauldron of war preparations. employers, and in a furious outburst of anger drove their officials from the The U. T. W, settlement for the dye strike, involving 15,000 work- / platform. fers, would recognize only the A. F. fof L., compel all workers to belong | jto the A. F. of L., and outlaw the Na- Htional Textile Workers Union, which jinitiated and leads the dye strike a thousands of members, | §Which has particularly in the big plants such as| | Weidmann’s, the Lodi United Piece Dye Works, the Textile and the Blue-| }vird, and others. | Wonld Hamstring Struggle | i The wage rate proposed was 5742 cents an hour for men, 40 cents an | our for women, and 20 per cent less} young workers under 18. Before | ke men were getting 45 cents| hd women 35 cents an hour; in the} textile Dye Works men were getti ing | 55 cents and women 45 cents. The Pyroposed A. F. of L. settlement also calls for a one year contract on these | Betas to be signed with the employ- | ers. This would prevent any strike | action for higher wages or better con- ditions fg one year. | The meeting was held in Turn Hall, | famous for helf a century as strike headquarters in the many struggles of Paterson's militant textile workers. | Bill Haywood spoke here daily in the | great 1913 strike, in which two wor! ers of the Weidmann dye plant ¥ murdered by company gun-thugs. The A. F. of L. membership meet- ing lasted only about 15 minutes, As soon as Yanerelli, the A. F. of L. or- ganizer, began to read the proposed rms of settlem he was cut short y a terrific storm of booing. The orkers would not let him proceed ind he was forced to leave the plat- form, the meeting ending at this point. Unity On the Way The A. F. of L, officials and the local press immediately came out with a flood of propaganda to the effect that N.T.W.U. workers had broken up the meeting. Another membership meeting of the A. F. of L. dyers was called. In the second meeting police Hall to examine membership books and make sure that only A. F. of L. members get in. About 2,000 were in attendance, and the wo’ ‘S$ once (more unanimously rejected the set- tlement. The dye workers not only refuse to were stationed at the doors of Turn} Miners “Requested” at Point of Guns to Return to Work |State T roop ers Visit Workers’ Homes; Ryan Supports Sell-Out PITTSBURGH, Pa. Oct. 15— | Striking Pennsylvania miners who are preparing for mass picketing Mon- day to pull out those who have re- turned to work were served with an order to end the strike literally at) the point of guns. State troopers, at the behest of Governor Pinchot, have been tour- ing the strike fields handing local leaders a message from Governor Pinchot “requesting” the miners to yeturn to work on Monday. Brandishing their clubs in a pro- vocative manner, the state troopers told the miners, “He means this!” Pinchot particularly attacked mass picketing from mine to mine and around the steel mills, Pinchot told the miners that the scab agreement of the Frick Coke Co. and other captive mines owned by the large steel trusts were a great gain, and that the men should return to work immediately. That the state troopers will be ordered to drive the miners back to} work through bloodshed is shown by the comments made by the Associated Press on the distribution of Pinchot’s| order to the miners. “The troopers mien suggested,” said the Associated Press here, “that | they were prepared to enforce the | ‘request’ if the strikers should elect to disregard it.” It is now apparent that Martin) Ryan, so-called insurgent leader of} the militant Fayette County miners, | the backbone of the strike, is work-| ing with Governor Pinchot and is accept this settlement. The over- whelming mass of the A. P. settlement be made without by the N.T.W.U. The strike-breaking U.T.W. and A. F. of L. officials, Kel- Jer, Rubinstein, Yanerelli, Pirolo, now stand completely discredited in Pat- erson. Victorious mass unity of all workers in the great dye strike is like- ly to be won within the next day or two. Mass Picket Lines That the rejected settlement was a plot to break the dye strike and at- tempt crushing the N.T.W.U, is now proved by facts that have just come to light. On Friday afternoon, right after the secret conference of the traitorous officials with the emnloy- wired Washington that the dye strike was ended. At the same time the United Piece Dye Works, the largest silk dye company, phoned offices of tye big silk firms in New York that A. F. of L. officials had guaran- d to end the strike and that the houses would re-open on Monday silk cloth should be shipped at once for dyeing. The A. F. of L. officials are still working to jam through the “settle- ment.” They are calling separate shop meetings for a new vote by shops on the same “settlement” terms. The N.T.W.U, has called all strik- ers out for the largest mass picket lines on Monday morning. A mass united demonstration of all strikers has-been called by the N.T.W.U. at Sandy Hill Park on Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock. ‘The silk strike is still spr Rhode Island. Matial Law Rules | Mine Strike Area ding in SULLIVAN, [nd., Oct. 15-—Mar. tial Jaw, which has followed major strike in recent months. now heen declared in all of Sulli- van County. Meetin nd picketing is barred by the militia and a strict | curfew is ordered, of L.} members are now demanding that no} the | N.T.W.U., and upon terms agreed to| ers, John Moffit, federal conciliator, | making overtures to the Lewis strike-| | breaking machine. Ryan is supporting Pinchot’s re-/ | quest to break down mass picketing | and to keep the miners away from | the steel mills. Lewis and Murray | of the U. M. W. A. officialdom hope | by this means to send back all the miners not working in capitive mines, splitting the miners ranks, and mak- ing if easier to stab the strike in the back. | At a meeting of District 4, Satur- day, Ryan presented a motion for a vote of confidence in William Feeney, president of the district and flagrant, | open strikebreaker. Ryan's efforts to split the strikers is shown in his speech wherein he | declared: “The mines where the N. R. A. and union agreements are adopted will not be picketed, I feel, unless it is by their own men who are strik- ing in sympathy with the ‘captive’ mine workers, “It looks as though from. now on the picketing will be directed entirely against the captive mines which are Seeking a way to evade President Roosevelt's wishes.” Despite the new strikebreaking ef- given to it by Ryan's latest speech, the miners have succeeded in’ clos- ing down some of the re-opened mines. Gloversville Strikers | Protest to NRA on Opening of Hearings WASHINGTON, Oct. 15,.— When | the National Labor Board started its session to consider the tanners’ strike | in Gloversville, N. ¥., it was con- fronted by a protest telegram from she 2,000 strikers, Tannery workers in Gloversville have tied up the industry in the whole town, which is an important glove manufacturing center. The bosses ; | are supported by the NRA, which | has miled favorably towards the open | shop, The strikers have as one of leap. Austria is erecting barbed wire her borders. turn their greedy eyes. mainly directed. Roosevelt talks of peace. ist governments. or imperialist designs. He wa Japanese imperialism moves steadily toward the borders of the Soviet Union, ready like a tiger for the | Italy builds bombing planes. Only the Soviet Union stands unshakably for peace, it alone is not an imperialist’ power. the Workers’ Fatherland that the imperialist wolves It is against the war preparations of our own im- | perialist power that the fight against war must be He disclaims any war intentions, Roosevelt talks now in exactly the same way that ‘Woodrow Wilson spoke in 1917, just before he plunged the American people into the holocaust of imperial- ist war in defense of Wall Street profits. Roosevelt has spent in six months ONE BILLION 'T IS NOT war that we want. It is peace, work, bread, security! In every shop, factory, mine and mill the workers must gather at once to form Committees of Action against war! The shipments of munitions must be stopped at the docks. The railroad carriers of munitions must be stopped. Into the ranks of the armed forces, the fight against imperialist war must be carried. ‘To every corner of the country we must go reveal- ing the grim war preparations that lie behind the false pacifist words of Roosevelt! From American ports steel semap is leaving every day for Japan—to be made into shrapnel! The air is loaded with the tenseness of unexploded dynamite. ‘THERE IS NOT A MOMENT TO LOSE! Imper- jalist war moves closer! We must act! Our homes, our lives are in danger! Rally Against War! barricades along It is toward ms the imperial- JAILED FOR SCORING BAR Ford Strikers Set Up Rank and File Group ‘churia, authoritative GERMANY WITHDRAWS FROM LEAGUE ~ AND DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE IN WAR MOVE; JAPAN, AUSTRIA MASS TROOPS JAPAN SENDS BIG ARMY TO MANCHURIA | NewWarRailway Open | from Seacoast to the Soviet Border | TOKYO, Oct. _ 15.—Japanese | wre being concentrated at Muk- | den, Changchun’ and Harbin, | strategic key cities in Man-} military | officials admitted today, after deny- ing the reports for the past week. The military spokesmen cloaked the | war move under preparations for a new anti-bandit drive, but the extent | of the troop movements and the key rail points at which army units are being assembled disprove this pretext and make it apparent that the troop concentrations are aimed at the So-| viet border, |. Rapid military transport to the! > |heart of Manchuria was assured to- day with the passage of the first | through train direct from Changchun, | | Manchurian capital, to Seishin, on| the shores of the Sea of Japan, | decided to withdraw from the League | but the 40 U. S. warships in Cuban Lloyd’s Bets 2 tol That War Breaks Out LONDON, Oct. 15.—Lloyd’s, world insurance brokers, announced yes- terday that it was offering odds of 2 2 tal ist au pac ia ds ‘ybcbece that war breal Sithin ee mast 18 Tesathe ‘Hull “Regrets” the GermanWithdrawal; Plans to Mediate Says No Word of U.S Arms Construction |; in Pious Speech | WASHINGTON, ¢ Oct. 15.—Secretary of State Cordell Hull officially ex- pressed “regret” that Germany had of Nations and from the Disarma-| ment Conference in an interview with correspondents yesterday. Remaining tactfully silent regard- \ing the $300,000,000, American naval building program projected under the guise of “public works” and “unem- ployment relief,” Hull claimed that the United States “would continue its efforts to obtain disarmament.” He did not say whose disarmament, | Meeting Addressed by ON DIMITROFF Reilly Brings Police, But Men Refuse to Leave and Adopt Fighting Program Auto Workers Union, | waters, the 300,000 young men receiv~ ing military training in the regiments f the so-called “reforestation camps,” d the millions appropriated for New Strategic Rail Line The new line gives Japan a sub-| 1 marine-proof strategic railroad direct | © from - Japanese ports to the Soviet | an forts of Pinchot, and the support | |Court O beys Order; of Nazi Paper to Deport Attorneys AT GERMAN FRONTIER, Oct. 15 (Via Zurich, Switzer- land.) — Four noted foreign lawyers attending the Reichs- tag fire trial as observers for the International Commission of In- quiry were arrested and jailed in | Berlin today by the German Secret Police after Chief Justice Wilhelm Buenger had expelled them from the courtroom for “slandering German authorities.” Yesterday “Der Angriff,” chief Nazi newspaper in Berlin, demanded the expulsion of the foreign law- yers, and today the “independent” court obeyed the order, The arrested lawyers are Leo Gal- lagher .of Chicago, attorney for the International Labor Defense and ccunsel for Tom Mooney in his re- cent re-trial, Marcel Villars of France, and MM. Detcheff and} Grigoroff of Bulgaria. Gallagher was. released after three hours in police custody, but the other three attorneys are still in jail at Berlin Police Head- quarters and are to be deported from | Germany “for Commumist sympa- | thies.” (Continued on Page Two) EDGEWATER, N. J., Oct. 15.—Aroused by the sell-out policy of Hugh Reilly and the other A. F. of L. organizers, the rank and file strikers have sent a delegation to the Ford strikers in Chester, and over the heads of | Reilly are beginning to take the strike into their own hands. On their own initiative, fifteen strikers came into the Workers’ bones at 185 Jersey The “crime” of these foreign law-| | Avenue, Cliffside, which Reilly ae denounced as a “red” hall. Reilly Brings Police A meeting was then held with the organizers of the Auto Workers Industrial Union, S. Larks and Sam Reed. These fifteen then went out and brought into the Workers Cen- ter the entire picket line, which then numbered about 100, A broad rank and file strike committee was then elected to go to Chester, and a rank | and file program worked out. The | A. F. of L, organizers came in with) | police, but were unable to break up | the meeting and lef with only about | ten workers. With the advice and co-operation of the militant Auto Workers Indus- trial Union, the strikers are begin-| ning to take things into their own| | hands, The militant action of the | rank and file came after Reilly had | refused on Friday to hold the-regular strike meeting. He gave no explana~ tion for calling off the strike meet- ing. The strikers were disgusted with Reilly's dictatorship, and with his calling off of the march to Detroit and his limiting of the picket line to ‘from 100 to 200. Sam Reed, organizer of the Auto (Continued on page 2) | started over a month: ago. Benjamin Arrested by Militia; Mounty Hits Strikers Child WINGATE, N. M., Oct. 15.—Herbert Benjamin, secretary of the Unem- ployed Councils, now on a national tour, was arrested by the militia to-| day when he attempted to address ‘a picket line of striking miners, Attempts are being made to secure |his release so that he may speak at} meetings scheduled for him here. A seven year old girl was run over by one of the mounted guardsmen who patrol the territory. She was severely injured. Military officers carrying out the brutal terror re- fused the father permission to ac- company the child to the hospital. Pickets are chased all over the town and arrests continue unabated. Those arrested are kept in stockades guard- ed by militiamen. Martial law has} border, as the line links up at Chang- | chun with the northbound rails of |the Chinese Eastern. | | Japanese military officials are | pressing for capture of Vladivostok, | Soviet Pacific port, which they assert | could be captured with ease at the start of any offen: , claiming that Soviet: planes could bomb al centers in Japan before Japanese forces would be able to seize the So- viet base. . Japan Sniffs Powder TOKYO, Oct. 15.—Military and naval officials here greeted the Ger- man action with undisguised pleas-| ure. One spok predicted more | intense political ae 1 economic com- |} petion between nations, while War) Minister Lieutenant General Araki frankly exclaimed: “Germany’s with- | drawal from the League of Nation: is further evidence of the League's | unworthiness to ex! ER | SINGLE HEAD | PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Oct. 15. —In connection with the inspection | trip of Marshal Weygand, head of the French General Staff, press re- ports state that the Little Entente nations (Czechoslovakia, Roumania | and Jugoslavia) have secretly agreed to place their armies under a joint general staff, with a supreme mili- | e | tary council in charge of all military | affairs. | This unified army would hav 590,000 soldiers and an air force of| ruled this territory since the strike 2,000 planes. Fascist circles =) i ESE TING BAESD is. 8 wonton ee eee of the working class. The Daily Worker is one of the greatest weapons in the hands of the American workers. Roosevelt says: “National unity above all else!* The Daily Worker organ of the Communist Party, says: “The nation is divided into classes; the class of capitalists exploits and oppresses the class of the workers and the poor farmers, and he who preaches national unity preaches submission by the exploited to the exploiters.” The Daily Worker says: “Unity of action of the workers against the bosses and their government must be the spirit of the workers—and this spirit is acquiring fresh vigor among the toiling masses.” Johnson says: “No labor combination must be permitted to paralyze a whole industry.” ‘The Daily Worker says: “Only when the workers are strong enough to paralyze production can they force the bosses to yield concessions, and only. when they are defying boss’ thugs and boss injunc- tions, only when they are driving out from their ranks boss’ propagandists and boss’ lackeys and organize and fight for their class interests can they improve their lives at present and liberate themselves and liberate the world from the miseries it was plunged into by capitalism.” . ° . 'E Daily Worker is a weapon of the working class—explaining, inform- | their main demande, recognition of ' their union ing, organizing, leading. You want a good weapon, a sharp fighting Keep Your Weapon Sharp By MOISSAYE J. OLGIN, Editor-in-Chief, Morning Freiheit We follow with delight the growth of the Daily Worker and the im~- | provement of its contents. The Daily Worker has become indispensable for any worker and any intelligent person generally who wishes to under- stand the world we live in. cellent and inspiring. The workers’ correspondence gives a true and many sided picture of workers’ lives. all the struggles of the working class Soviet Union are timely, vital, and where the free workers build up the blazes a new path in a realm hitherto greatly neglected. Even non-Communist has become vibrant with life. | The reports from the strike front are ex~ | The leading articles give directions for The news from th present a vivid panorama of a world | Socialist system. The literary section The Daily Worker | intelle als have and the farmers. been forced to change their sneering attitude to that of respect. | me . Mk Daily Worker enjoys the unqualified recognition of the staff of its brot ther-in-arms, the Morning Fre! in our own name but also in the name of the thousands of Morning Frei- heit readers when we appeal to the of the Daily Worker, iheit. We are sure we speak not only | workers to contribute to the support The Daily Worker must live—-now more than ever before. Saturday's receipts . Previous Total .. weapon, The Daily Worker is becoming a better weapon every day, ’ TOTAL TO DATE ..,.....6000065 S411.95 » 8,707.74 + $9,118, ” | | ers in preparation for the new world | obtain a war base for intervention | charged by the Moscow press today. mechanizing the United States army belied his protestations of sincere wishes for world peace. Hull’s prepared speech made no reference to the rapid war prepara- tions of American imperialism, nor to the fortification of points such as Sunnyvale, Cal., and the naval base at Pearl Harbor, in the Hawaiian Is- lands. He did say that the United States would endeavor to mediate between Germany and the Anglo-French alignment in Europe; that is, Ameri- can imperialism will attempt to make use ct the new world war crisis in Europe to strengthen its position of hegemony in world capitalism. He was careful to make no refer- ence to the threats of intervention by | Japan in the Far East against the Soviet Union, nor to state what would | be the policy of the United States in| case the world conflagration breaks | out in Europe in the near future, as | many expert observers predict. The net effect of Hull’s entire speech, was to leave the United States | with its hands free to grab whatever | advantage it can out of the rapidly | shifting play of antagonisms and con- flicts between the imperialist big pow- | | conflict. Soviet Press Warns Baltic States of | Nazi Attack Plans MOSCOW, Oct. 15—The German Nazis are supporting Fascist move- ments in all the Baltic countries, | financially and with military aid, to/ the Soviet Union, it was) against HITLER ASKS WAR POWERS; NAZIS ARM |Reichstag - Dissolved; Nation Asked to “Sacrifice” GENEVA, Oct. 15. — The | whole capitalist world was thrown into consternation yesterday when Germany an- nounced its decision to with- draw from the Disarmament Confer- ence and from membership in the League of Nations. In a radio address broadcast to the world, Chancellor Hitler stated that Germany would now have a free hand to re-arm and to seek its destiny alone. The Berlin regime has also dis- solved the Reichstag—which the Nazis had proclaimed would last four years—as well as all State Diets, and will hold a nation-wide “plebiscite” — under Nazi control—to “get the na- tion’s approval.” This move of Nazi Germany is a desperate effort of German imperial- ism to free itself of the Versailles Treaty shackles in order to get a free hand in its plans for expansion to the East—seizing the Soviet Ukraine—for reconquest of the Lorraine iron fields and the Saar Valley, for resuming imperial Germany's pre-war drive to- wards the Balkans, and regaining the colonies snatched from it by the im- perialist victors in the last World War. The principal delegates to the Dis- armament conference openly admit that “disarmament is dead,” and Tecognize the beginning of an even speedier race among the great capi- talist powers for the inevitable armed conflict. French Press Demands Rhine Seizure PARIS, Oct. 15.—Leading papers here openly advocated that the French army seize the Rhineland and march to the Rhine as a “preventive: defensive measure” when news of Germany's withdrawal from the League and from the Disarmament Conference became known, Barbed Wire at Austrian Border VIENNA, Oct, 15,—One immediate \effect of the Hitlerite challenge to the League was the setting up of barbed-wire entanglements blocking all the roads leading into Austria from the German frontier. Guards at the border stripped travelers to the skin in their search for arms and Nazi propaganda. Austrian mountain roads and hill- tops near the frontier swarmed with soldiery, while all automobiles and carts were searched for hidden wea- pons. Diplomats in the capital here frankly admitted “This is June, 1914 (on the eve of the outbreak of the World War) all over again!” Swedish Socialists Ship Munitions to Izvestia, official government or- gan, described the Fascist bid for | power in Esthonia, Latvia and Fin- | land, and asserted that “the | Fascist Germany STOCKHOLM, Oct. | 5. (By Mail) + |Huge Rally to Greet ‘Emil Nygard Planned) \the United States, threads all lead to Berlin.” Tt | ver three thousand cases of ammu~ pointed out that the Soviet Union | pition manufactured by the Swedish cannot be indifferent to the ex- | armament firm, Bofors, left the har- pansion of Nazi influence into | por of Gothenburg last Saturday on regions along the Soviet border, (the vessel “Goeteborg” destined for which are the natural base for an | Hamburg. attack upon the Soviet Union. | When the Hitlerite hordes shoot It warned Esthonia and Latvia t>! @ewn Socialist workers in Germany /take steps “to prevent adventurers pow they will fire the 3,034 cases and their foreign patrons from car-| of ammunition sent them by Swe- | rying out plans which are pregnant | dish Socialists, with grave dangers to the peace and| while the Socialist government of independence of these nations.” Sweden supvlies the sadist murder- KERN ers of the Hitler regime with arms and ammunition, Swedish Socfalist newspapers are proclaiming a boveott of German goods. This boycott 1s intended to lull the Swedish workers in Bronx for Oct. 20th) in:s peering that the ruling Soctal- ists of Sweden are actually fighting . w| Fascism. But arms shipments to York workers will greet Emil | Fascist Germany. such as the one re- gard, first Communist mayor jn! ported here, show the true sincerity on his ‘arrival| of the Socialist “battle against Mest Fascism.” 5 NEW YOR Hundreds of in New York on October 20th,