The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 17, 1933, Page 1

F885 hacemne America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper See Death Threat Letter Sent by Nazis Here, On Page Two! i WEATHER Eastern New York and New Jersey: Inereasing Cloldiness, Probably Bain. Colder Tuesday. ‘(Section of the Communist International) NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1933 _& x Pages) Price 3 Cents Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March & 1879, Vol. X. No. 249 @ * “SOVIET PEACE POLICY UNCHANGED,” SAYS MOLOTOV Jobless Aid Is in Speech ANSWER ‘BUCK PASSING’ mes reel BY INTENSE DRIVE FOR | Pe << - Ff JOBLESS INSURANCE . Admits That “Great Many People” Are Starv- ing In Opening National Charity Drive WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—For the third time in as many weeks, Presi- dent Roosevelt repeated in a national radio broadcast that the problem of winter relief facing seventeen million people is the first concern of “pri- vate charity” and not the government. , Opening the four weeks national drive of the community chests, the President minced no words in an-@——————. Private Matter, R Preparing to Follow His Patron Saint oosevelt Reiterates By Burek Soviet Union for Full Disarmament, Reply to Lord Cecil “While Pursuing Independent Policy, the Soviet Government Supports All Proposals Aim- ing at Effective Disarmament” From the Moscow Correspondent of the Daily Worker MOSCOW, Oct. 16.—Not all of the Soviet Union's neighbors are pur suing a peaceful policy, Vyacheslav Molotoff, Chairman of the Counell of People’s Commissars of the Soviet Union, declared last night in reply to a wite request from Viscount Cecil, British disarmament leader, for the nouncing that a “great many peo- plé” will need relief this winter. However, he assures the unemployed no comfort, but instead repeats the worn-out promises of his lieutenants “that government must not let any one starve this winter.” Task for “Individual” “It is true that I have declared that government must not let any one starve this winter,” Roosevelt asserted, “but at the same time this| policy is predicated on the assump- tion that the individual American citizen will continue to do his and “her part, even more unselfishly than in the past.” What every “American citizen” will be compelled to do is experienced each year by thousands of underpaid | workers. A majority of factories force their employees to contribute under pain of losing their jobs. Roosevelt indignantly denounces | the “buck passers” who refuse to drop. a coin in the “charity” box, yet. he is the biggest. buck passer of all. He .promised unemployment insur-} ance in his speeches during the elec-| tion campaign and has since passed the buck. Every effort to get relief) from the Federal government is answered by Roosevelt's passing of the buck. The White House chief confides at “people haye written to me to express the thought that all relief jwork should be taken over by the government.” ‘The cynical disregard for the mil- Hons of unemployed observed in} i |Sell-out Brings United | Unity With A. F. L. Dyers Local Is Won In Paterson Strike NTWU Policy Against Front of Workers By MARTIN RUSSAK PATERSON, N. J., Oct. 16—Mass unity between the American Federa- tion of Labor workers and National Textile Workers Union has been fully won today in the great strike of 15,000 dye workers of Paterson and vicinity. This morning a committee of the A, F. of L., including Charles Vigorito, President of the A. F. of L. Dyers Local, Pirolo, picket captains and other rank and filers met with the N. T. W. U. at the N. T. W. U. headquarters. It was decided to have a joint confeernce this afternoon of the committee elected by the N. T. W. U. and the committee elected by the A. F. of L. Shop Delegates Body to organize complete unity, including one strike committee, one set of de- mands and joint strikers’ mass meetings. Mass meetings of the N. T. W.U. and A, F. of L. Dye strikers will be} held this evening to receive the re- ports of all decisions. Moe Brown | | Strikes Outlawed Without Gov't OK, Declares NRA Head N.R.A. to Act Says <A. F. L. Lackey McGrady, Strikebreaker Ar | Free to Ar GENEVA, Oct. 16—The Disarma' ms Parley Adjourns; | U.S. Jockeys for Lead Uses Fascist Germany as Club to Force Britain, France, to Disarm, Leaving America Cy we Aas as + ¥ p i cre 1 Cl hok sourt m for War ment Conference adjourned today to, Soviet government's views on the pre: German Exit From League Shows Clash of Imperialisms |“Pravda” Scores Nazi |Moveas Trick to Evade | Home Problems | (Special to the Daily Worker.) | MOSCOW, Oct. 16—Germany’s exit from the League of Nations and |the Disarmament Conference indi- cates that the capitalist powers’ “ef- forts” for “peace and disarmament” have landed in a blind alley, “Pravda,” tral’ organ of the Communist |Party cf the Soviet Union, stated | editorially today. | The editorial continues: “This with- | drawal has disclosed with extreme obviousness the force and the acute- ness of the irreconcilable antagonisms oat are rending the conflicting im- lalist groups. erman Fascism, ever since it ‘ed power, has never stopped of- ering its sword to the imperialists, ticularly to Great Britain. It in- ntly referred to its ‘historical ” as a staunch guard of the s of canitalism, and as a strong- the proletarian reyolu- sent status of disarmament. ~® Lord Cecil’s appeal was addressed | to the governments of a number of | powers, including the USSR., re- questing an expression of opinion on | the subject in connection with the sessions of the “International Group” | discussing disarmament problem: General Disarmament Urged Molotov wired Cecil: “For the past ten years the Soviet government has never ceased—consistently and quite irrespective of the rapidly changing international situation—to propose general disarmament as an effective guarantee of peace. “Now, when all countries are acutely aware of the menace to peace, the Soviet government is more than ever convinced of the necessity for complete disarmament —or at least the utmee% possible disarmament — in the aversion or mitigation of this danger. It feels sure that this neces- | sity must be obyious to the peoples | of other countries as well. | Supports All Effective Disarmament “While pursuing an absolutely in- dependent policy, the Soviet govern- ment supports all proposals aiming at effective disarmament. It does 80 all the more since such proposals are covered by the disarmament projects which it has advanced it- self, including the abolition of the most aggressive forms of air, sea and land armament, the reduction of armies, and strict effective arma- ment control. “Although not all the neighbors of the Soviet Union are pursuing 4& | | and Ann Burlak have been invited to| FLINT, Mich., Oct. 16—To head Roosevelt's buck passing speeches, | October 26 after voiing approval of a note to Germany refusing to accept clearly indicates the insecurity of the| unemployed. It is becoming clearer} that no amount of assurance can be} gained from “charity” or from the pittance handed out by government relief agencies. What is needed in its place is a sys- | tem of insurance as proposed in the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance. The unemployed would thereby be guaranteed their minimum needs of “not less than $10 weekly for adult workers and $3 for each dependent” every week. Roosevelt has steadfastly main-| tained that the government cannot) provide unemployment insurance as its resources are inadequate. Appro- priations for war construction, both army and navy, has surpassed the billion dollar mark. Tens of millions of dollars are given to bankers and railroad concerns in the form of! RF.C. loans. The campaign for unemployment insurance must force the government to divert these funds for the un- employed. Nygard, Red Mayor, At New Star Casino Banquet Tomorrow NEW YORK.—Emil Nygard, Com- unist Mayor of Crosby, Minn., and . first Communist Mayor to be ted in the United States, will be chief speaker at several meet- ‘ings in New York and vicinity dur- the coming week. His first appearance in New York will be at the Election Campaign Banquet in New Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave., tomorrow night. On Thursday night, Oct. 19, Ny- gard will speak in two places: Web- ster Hall, 119 E. 11th St., under the auspices of the Unemployed Council, and in Hunts Point Palace, 163rd St. and Southern Blyd., Bronx. At the Bronx meeting, Earl Browder and Carl Brodsky will also speak. Daily Worker yesterday erroneously announced that Nygard would speak in the Bronx on the 20th.) A with Nygard at the Webster Hall meeting will be Ben secretary of the Necdle Trades ers’ Industrial Union and Com- | ae candidate for President of ¢ Board of Alderman in the prese ‘ent election. Louis Weinstock, secre~ tary of the A. F. of L. Committee on Unemployment Insurance, will be chairman. On Friday night Nygard will speak at a strikers’ meeting in Carpenters’ Hall. Paterson, N. J., and will leter be the guest af a banquet in his / ‘for! speak at the A. F. of L. meeting, and/ off a movement for strike of all auto-| A. F. of L. representatives will speak | mobile workers to join the movement ; at the N. T. W. U, meeting. | of the 15,000 diemakers now out, As- ithe | Following the preliminary confer- | ence this morning, Martin Rusak and | two Dye workers of the N. T. W. u.| spoke in Turn Hall to 2,000 members of the A. F. of L, and were received with great ovation. They were the| only speakers. Jack Rubenstein,| Lovestoneite renegade and other dis-} credited officials of the A. F. of L.| dyers local, were nowhere in sight. | All attempts at individual shop meetings for a separate vote on re- jected A. F. of L. settlement have had to be abandoned by the A. F. of L. officials. Tremendous enthusiasm for unity and the program of the N. T. W. U. is sweeping the ranks of all silk and dye strikers. Over the weekend, hun- dreds more dye workers have ex- changed their A. F. of L. union books for N. T. W. U. union books. There were mass picket lines throughout the strike area this morning. Not one dye house or mill opened up. Efforts of the U, T. W. officials to send Jacquard workers back separately without a definite | pay increase, have only been com- | pletely blocked by the Jacquard and | bréadsilk workers. Intensive pre- parations are being pushed to make the demonstration, called by the N. T. W. U. for Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock at Sandy Hill Park, the largest gathering of the strike. Frank Schweitzer, head official of the Assoviated is still closeted with the NRA in Washington for a truce agreement, the latest reports stating that they have placed the situation entirely in the hands of General Johnson. Strikes Crippling Cuban Interior HAVANA, Oct, 16.—The battleship Wyoming, with a battalion of ma- rines aboard, dropped anchor in Guantanamo Bay yesterday, greatly increasing the American armed forces surrounding Cuba, Strikes throughout the interior of the island are paralyzing efforts of the Grau-Batista government to consolidate its “law and order” re- gime. Striking retail store employees won their strike in Santiago, employers being forced to grant pay increases to workers in grocery stores, cafes, hotels and restaurants, Reports of a growing split be- tween the student and soldier back- ing of the Grau government were stvengthened by the shooting of a soldiey in a Havana street by a band of armed students | sistant Secretary of Labor Edward | McGrady, official strikebreaker | for the NRA declared here today at | the Democratic Club that the work- | ers will not be permitted to strike without the consent of the govern-| ment, | “We are at war,” sald the former | A. F. of L. official, “and no man,) either employer or worker, should take | the law into his own hands.” Whatever slave conditions are {m- posed.on the workers under the NRA} must be accepted ran the tenor of McGrady’s speech. “Under the old system,” he said, -| “labor and capital fought out their| troubles with their own weapons, but today there is a triple partnership,| capital, labor and government, and the government must be consulted in order that all three parts may counsel with each other in finding a solution of any and all problems.” McGrady, however, did not men- tion the government’s support of the steel trust in the battle against the miners and the shooting down of the steel workers. McGrady himself drove the miners back to work with lying promises so that the steel trust could fortify its attack against the coal diggers. McGrady in his speech here threat- ened sharp action aaginst the work- ers who go on strike. He said the NRA Labor Board would try media~ tion, but was prepared, if necessary to make decisions. as justified its reasons for leaving the Norman H. Davis, American Amb: a loophole for further maneuvers by American imperialism in its efforts | to play off Nazi Germany against its| major imperialist rtvals, Great Brit- | ain and France. | The American delegation 1s work- ing for a compromise between the German armament demands and the Anglo-French refusal to allow an- other armed imperialism alongside | their own in Europe. | With Germany out of the Con-| ference and the League, the threat of its rearmament can no longer be used as a club over the heads of British and French imperialism by the United States to force them to reduce their armaments while | America arms to the teeth. The United States—as “not involved in the European imbroglio”"—would be free from the armament shackles imposed on its major rivals. The Soviet, Turkish, Polish and Hungarian delegations voted against the note to Germany as a protest against their exclusion from the se- | cret negotiations between the pow- | ers which preceded the drafting of the missive. Fascist Italy ts trying desperately to wrest the role of mediator be- tween the former Allied Powers and Germany away from the United States, as it sees its Four-Power Pact, directed against the Soviet Union, going by the boavds with the open break by Germany. | | softening the tone of the note sent to Fascist Ge Conference, assador-at-Large, was instrumental in in order to leave Mussolini is exerting the most vig- orous diplomatic pressure on to persuade him to stay wit League, as Italy, which demands greater share of the Versailles hoot: that without German support stence on treaty 1 it will be reduced to diploma’ lation as against the powers porting the status quo. iso- | sup Jersey City Police ‘Arrest Borich and 4 Others;Fake Charge JERSEY CITY, N. J., Oct. Police here arrested Frank Bi |secretary of the National Mi | Union, Tony Minerich and River ;members of the union, and Pete Chapa of the Steel and Metal Work- ers Industrial Union, together with Ben Carruthers, a Negro unemployed worker on their way to Pittsburgh, after attending a trade union con- ference in New York. | They are charged with being “ orderly persons.” All were together | in a car when police stopped and) arrested them. Steps are being taken | by the International Labor Defense to obtain their release. Dimitro!t, w the ¢ 131 Por Torgler, r cution, Seine 8 “Ine le cution, (Continued on Page Two) Take Secret Collections in ‘ROM all parts of the United States, workers are rushing aid to the Daily Worker. The Daily Worker before. DO YOUR SHARE! I am sending $3.50 for the Daily Worker, which we collected secretly | in our shop, The workers are making secret collections in their shops. | We've got to be secret so we won't be fired by the boss. 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Total 10 Gate cssressrereepeerrsureremensereeennrnnny se $9,577,089 ‘| Defense attorney, ‘ caders on Hunger Strike In Jail seders of Coal Strike Held Incommunicado by Soldiers GALLUP, New Mexico, Oct. 16.— Eight leade-s of the coal strike here gone on a hunger strike, de- claring they would rather die »f starvation than be forced to dig latrines for the military who are attempting to crush the strike. | The men are held in prison in- communicado on the charge of “in- terfering with martial law.” Despite the lying statements of General Wood that the imprisoned men receive bread and water daily, it was revealed in an interview with Clarence Lynch, International Labor that they have not been given any food at all, Robert Roberts, organizer for the . lan, district secretary of the I. L. D., Jarry Allander, youth organizer for Ta {the ion, pital suffering from hunger and ex- - | posure. When Pat Toohey and Charlie |Guynn, both national union repres- entatives of the union, and Samuel \D. Menin, I. L. D. attorney from Denver, demanded an interview with the arrested, a date was set, and on that day the prisoners were given | three meals so that they could not report the actual conditions. The fol- lowing morning, they were fed bread Jand water for breakfast and in- formed if they wanted more to eat, |they must dig latrines for the mlli- tary. The workers refusing to do this are again being starved. | ‘The trial of Robert Roberts before | a military court took place Tuesday, October 10th. Although General Wood | previously promised the union’ de- fense committee the right to have as |many witnesses as they could get, | when 200 witnesses appeared at the | trial, one was chosen by the militia to testify, ... the rest were dispersed. Stone Mosley, Head of British Fascists LONDON, Oct. 16—Manchester workers stoned Sir Oswald Mosley, at | the head of 600 London Fascists, as | they left a Fascist mass meeting held | there in support of the Black Shirts movement in Lancsnshire. Several members of Mosley’s bodyguard re- ceived head injw*-~ asi National Miners’ Union, George Kap- | were taken to the hos-| peaceful policy, I am glad to empha- size, on behalf of the Soviet govern- ment, the fact that its attitude to- wards the question of effective dis- armament and the consolidation of general peace remains unchanged, and to express the hope that all ef- forts in this direction may be crowned with success.” : ayes ee" France Ready to Seize Rhineland PARIS, Oct. 16.—If Germany ac- tually re-arms France is ready to invoke the sanctions of the Versailles | Treaty and re-occupy the Rhine- | land, leading military officials stated |today. This “preventive war’ would be supported by Poland, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Roumania and Yugo- slavia, who are bound to France by military alliances, it is asserted here, rar ganas | Britain to Build Biggest Air Fleet | LONDON, Oct. 16—A campaign has been started here for the building of | the biggest air war fleet in the world. | The jingoist advocates of bigger and better. war planes are using the Ger- man withdrawal from the League and | French readiness to start “war of | prevention” as justifications for their armament demands, “Poland Defends Status Quo” WARSAW, Oct. 16—The chapter of peace negotiations that has lasted even since the signing of the Treaty of Versailles has ended, the semi- official “Gazeta Polska” asserted in an editorial last night. It warned | that Germany would proceed o} with armament now, and added that “the forces that maintain the pres- ent status quo are adequate to de- fend the peace.” * Hungary May Quit BUDAPEST, Oct. 16—The Hun: garian cabinet “took decisions” yes+ terday, in connection with Ger- many’s withdrawal from the League of Nations, it was officially an- nounced here. Rumors throughout the city state that Hungary is also leaving the League, though no offi- cial source would comment, oe em Austrian Army at German Frontler VIENNA, Oct. 16.—Over two-thirds of the entire Austrian Army is en- camped or entrenched along the German border, it was learned here today from reliable sources. Dis- patches from the Italian border state that the Itelian troops along the South ‘Tyrol frontier .have been tripled during the past few days, atnd May Portugal Fears Colony Loss‘ LISEON, Portugal, Oct. 16.—Fears that a large portion of the Portu- guese colonial empire, the third largest in the world, may be handed over to Germany by the great pow- ets as a concession are being yojced by the press here \