The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 21, 1933, Page 1

a { i { NYGARD AND MINOR AMONG SPEAKERS AT ROCKLAND PALACE MEETING SUNDAY AT 3 O’CLOCK The Bosses Raise Food Prices; Fight the Bosses With Dollars to the “Daily” | | ® Daily Central Or orker unist Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist International) ee ee | | America’s Only Working | Class Daily Newspaper WEATHER Eastern New York, partly cloudy, warmer Saturday, ‘Vol, X, No. 253 * * Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1679, (Eight Pages) Price 3 Cents NEW YORK, SATURDAY. OCTOBER 21, 1933 SOVIET FOREIGN MINISTER TO VISIT U.S. ON RECOGNITION Cops Shoot 3 Paterson Wounded Dying; Cops Who Opened Attack Arrest 13) ‘Arrested Refused Release on Bail as “News” Admits Plot Brewing for Frame-Up of Arrested Silk Strikers By CARL REEVE PATERSON, N. J., Oct. 20.—Three striking dye workers are dying today in the General Hospital and at least 10 are seriously wounded hospital cases, following strikers before the National Silk Dy: cluded both members of the N.T.W. Local of the U.T.W. @ \4,000 Southern Cotton The police are already trying to frame-up those 13 workers arrest- ed and the injured in the hospital on serious charges. The late edition of the Paterson News shows that definite steps for ame-up are taking place. “In view of the fact,” it says, “that a} fatality may result from the fra-} cas, arrests were most important. Police charged the N.T.W.U. mem- bers, radical strikers, with starting the bloody battle.” The jail warden who declared the strikers are held on $2,500 bond on a disorderly conduct charge, said they would not be released on bail, which intimates other charges are being framed. Not. single policeman. was in) ~ Say Silk Strikers} jured by, gunfire, making ridicu- ‘ous the charge of the frame-up. The International Labor Defense and the National Textile Workers Union are holding a big protest meeting at Sandy Hill Park tomor- row morning at 10 am. and are inviting all A. F. of L. workers to attend. “Strong Counsel” The responsibility for the mur- dered assault on the strikers’ pick- et line must be borne not oniv by | the Roosevelt government, which, | through Senator Wagner, had stat- ed only a few days ago that the| strikers “would be given strong sel.” The responsibility also s on the shoulders of the lead-| ers of the 7., who even today | are sitting eret_ conferences in| Weshington and manufacturers. Those injured include: John Bartolozzi, 27, shot in_ the | lung; at the General Hospital in a| rious condition; expected to die. | in the General | i t wound, and is| y badly beaten on the head | and expected to die. Nick Fawa's head is lacerated and he was shot under the arm; in a critical condition. | One of the leading picket cap-| s of the N.T.W.U. picket lines ed: 5 -.m. this morning] from 612 River St. about 200) trikers marched down the River Rd. as far as the bridge, which is) near the National Silk Plant, and where at 7 a.m. 58 deputies, many police officers and two dozen devu- ties were inside the mill. The pick- et line was parading in front of the sate for about one-half hour, on the side of the street toward the gate. The captain of the police de- mended that the line move across the street. The picket cantain obeyed this request. and moved the line to the opposite side of the street after passing the first en- trance to the mill to the Boulevard. The line then turned back and forth on the other side of the street and we waited for the A. F. of L. icket line that agreed to join us. The deputies came up to the strik- ers and began talking to them. They made an attack with tear gas bombs and the strikers defended themselves militantly. The deputies retreated towards the fence. They had their guns out. They then threw tear gas. I heard four shots, The strikers threw back the tear gas bombs before they exploded and forced the deputies to retreat again. I saw one man running, full of blood, with a large cut in his head.” At the General Hospital, Carl Bartolozzi, brother of John, and the father, were permitted t> soe John and reported to the Daily Worker representative that he is dying and in a very weakened con- dition. John stated to them that he was standing across the street near the lunch room on the opno~ site side of the street from the mill gates when the shot was! fired. The doctor who treated the strikers said “it was like a hase! hospital during the world war. They had very ugly wounds.” N.R.A. officials 5 tai aed | your support can heln the y Worker continue, Yen Ike the entarged and improved “> ‘ly,” Support it with your dollars, Rush | St. and 1 unprovoked and bloody at‘.ck by ‘he police on a picket line of Workers at East Paterson, which in- and members of the A-F.L. Dyers’ Textile Workers Strike AUGUSTA, Ga., Oct. 20.—Introduc- tion of the stretch-out which resulted in laying off a whole shift of workers caused a strike of 4,000 cotton textile workers here. The Sibley and Enter- prise mills here and the Loring, Bath and several other mills in the vicinity of Aiken, South Carolina are involved, “Murder Will Not Drive Us to Work,” Burlale Makes Protest in WashingtonAgainst Shootings i By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Washington Bureau.) WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 20. — Into the already supercharged atmos- vhere of a National Labor Board hearing on the strike of 65,000 textile workers, dramatic protests were hurled today against the critical wounding of one and the serious in- | jury by two other strikers today at Paterson, New Jersey. Ann Burlak, leading a delegation of National Textile Workers Union members here to register militant sentiment against any “settlement” except through negotiations following a manufacturers’ guarantee of a $27- a@ week basic wage, fought against constant interruptions to tell Chair- man Wagner and other members of the National Labor Board. “All members of the N.R.A. and other officials must take cognizance of this Paterson situation.” Burlak spoke after Judge Harry Joelson, Recorder of the town of Paterson, read the board a telegram from a local United Textile Workers’ Union. ‘The telegram declared: “We, 65,000 workers, will not be driven back to the mills by the killing of our leaders in_cold blood.” News of the shooting of workers at Paterson by armed deputies came into the big hearing room just after Wagner had arranged an hour's re- cess to allow manufacturers to con- (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Meetings to Hear Communist Mayor Nyga rd to Speak at Meeting Tonight NEW YORK.—Two overflow meet~- ings, 1,500 in Webster Hall and 1,500 in Hunts Point Palace, Bronx, ‘Thursday, were thrilled by Emih Nygard, Communist Mayor of Crosby, Minnesota who told of the way in which a Communist Mayor leads workers in struggle for their needs. _ Nygard will speak at the follow- ing me@tings in New York before he leaves. Today 1 P. M.—Cooper Union Hall, 6th St. and Third Ave., arranged by fur section of Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union. 8:30 P. M.—-Coney Island Work- te Club, 2877 W. 25th St., Brook- lyn. 9:30 P. M.—Open-air rally, 10th St. and Second Ave. Auspices Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League and Section 1, Communist Party. Sunday 11 A. M.—Bronx Cooperative, 2700 Bronx Park East, arranged by ICOR. 3 P. M.-Rockland Palace, 155th FARMS RISE IN STRIKE AGAINST NRA Thousands Prepare to Demand Cancellation at Chicago Convention ST. PAUL, Oct. 20.—Unable any longer to restrain their followers from actions of fierce resentment against the whole Roosevelt agricultural pro- gram and the way the N.R.A. has af- fected them, the leaders of the Na- tional Farm Holiday Association were forced today to declare for a nation- wide sirike to begin this Saturday afternoon at 12. Over 2,000,000 members of the as- sociation are affected. ‘The increasing resentment among the farmers at the sweeping rise in the costs of manufactured goods, the failure of Roosevelt to relieve their intolerable mortgage burdens, had risen to such a degree that Governor Bryan in a communication to Pres- ident Roosevelt warns thatthe farm- ers are now “a seething mass.” Government officials are unable to conceal their alarm at the unusual depth and prevalence of the farmers’ bitterness against the Roosevelt re- gime. é rae a2 Nr RS ‘The leaders of the’ present strike, Milo Reno and his associates, are the same people who called off the farm strike last year on the excuse that Roosevelt “ought to have a chance.” Many of the leaders are trying to break the present strike by the same ery. The four point program of the As- sociation leaders does not include the demand for cancellation of debts, a demand to which the farmers are giving increasing support. ‘The Association leaders merely call for a stopping of purchases by the farmers, and a stop to the selling of farm goods. They also urge the non- payment of interest “until the cost of production can be obtained by the farmers.” The working of this de- mand is a concession to the furiously Tebellious moods of the farmers, but it is obvious that it does not call for cancellation in principle, but merely sets a condition for the further pay- ments of mortgage debts. The National Farmers Committee of Action, comprising thousands of militant farmers all over the country is calling for a huge national con- vention to meet at Chicago on Nov. 15-18, This Congress will demand the immediate cancellation of all mort- gage debts, it has been announced. The United Farm League, another militant farm group with many branches in the farm states, is sup- porting this convention. Within the last few weeks many foreclosures and evictions were prevented by farm groups organized by the U.F.L. Soviet-French Trade Pact Near PARIS, Oct.20.—The Soviet-French trade agreement will be initialed soon, it was reported here today. The visit of Air Minister Pierre Cot to Moscow, with several French planes, created a good impression on both Sides, it was said, and the treaty is expected to be inaugurated by Soviet orders for French airplanes, Silk Strikers; Prepare to Soviet Negotiator Maxim Litvinov, Soviet Peoples’ Commissar for Foreign Affairs, who will come to Washington to nezo- tiate with President Roosevelt the terms of U. S. recognition of the Soviet Union. Ambridge Strike Delegation Makes Demands of Pinchot Jovernor Says Steel Sheriff Is Highest Peace Officer AMBRIDGE, Pa., Oct. 20. — A delegation of Ambridge strikers pre-| sented their demands to Governor Pinchot yesterday to intervene and re-establish their rights and to abolish the virtual martial law and to voice his views on the right to or- in the Steel and Metal Work~- ers’ Industrial Union... y The delegation, headed’ by AvtHur Winbur of the Svang Chalfant, re- viewed the situation in Ambridge and put forward the demands of the delegation to Pinchot. Pinchot “agreed” with the delega~ tion that they had the right to or- ganize into the Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union, but re- fused to sign such a statement, claim- ing he had no authority to do so as he did not reoresent the N.R.A., but allowed the delegates to quote him. He was called on to stop the reign of terror and answered that “I can- not overrule Sheriff O‘Laughlin, who is the highest peace officer of the) country, although in a demagogic vosture he did so in the first days of the mine strike in Fayette County against Sheriff Askncoy. ‘The delegation made a stenographic report to his secretary and he prom- ised an investigation, ELAN RS Fred B. Chase, Farm Communist Leader Dies at Age of 52 | HILLSBORO, Oct. 20—Fred 5B. Chase, farmer, and old-time Yankee) fighter against capitalism died here | last night at the age of 52. | Comrade Chase was a charter} member of the Communist Party, 3) leading member of the National) Committee of the Farmers Confer-| ence to be held at Chicago in No-) vember, and a member of the District Committee of the Party. He was a) delegate to the recent Anti-War) Congress. | He was a leading fighter and or- ganizer among tte farmers in the| fight against capitalist oppression. He leaves behind a wife and two sons, all active fighters in the re- volutionary movement. He will be buried Sunday at 2 p. m. in Hillsboro, Frame Others Roosevelt Invites Soviet Envoy; USSR Decides t Workers to Demonstrate Against War Today in N.Y. Mickhail Kalinin, who yesterday announced that Maxim Litvinov would leave for the U, S. to negotiate for U. 8. recognition of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, (left) Secretary of the Commun’st Party of the U. S. 8. R., and V. Molotov, Premier of the Soviet Union, leaders in the Secialist construction in the first workers’. state. Leading Young Fighters Against War to Speak at South and Whitehall Streets at 1 P. M. NEW YORK.—A cali to young workers and students .~ivew York to mass at South and Whitehall Sts., at 1 p. m. today to declare their fighting oppo- sition to imperialist wer is made by the Young Communist Teague. As the war danger becomes daily more acute both in Europe and in the Far East, where Japan is multiplying its provocations in preparation for 10 Anti-War Rallies)::"=<« ¢ jas recent jare callod to inter alled for Monday (“s‘::5 in New York City = Teading Communists! Win to Speak at Simulta- |i, neous Meeting | tiona | del NEW YORK.—Leading members of | the Communist Party will be spe TSlthe ¥. at 10 simultaneous anti-war rallies be the 5 in various sections of New York City Monday evening, all at 7:30 p.m. i ‘The meetings will be made into popular rallies against war and fas- cism, against the N.R.A. and its role in the war preparaticns of the U. S. governirent, against U. 8. intervo: tion in Cuba, for the use of all war funds for the relief of the uncm- ployed and for unemployment insur- ance, and for the defense of the So- viet Union, the main target of im~- perialist war preparations ue, will n Ave. and 110th St., Earl Browder, Lenox Ave. and 131st St., and Charles Krum- st St. and Prospect Ave., ‘d and M. J, Olgin, speakers. and Tremont a and ceaker. st. The complete list of these rallies, Exten= with the names of the printipal fi ady and speak, follows: Williana Burroughs, Downtown.—Second Ave. and 10th) speaker. St., Charles Krumbein, speaker. Brownsville — Pitkin and Hopkinson Midtown—Columbus Circle, Bill] Aves., Ben Gold, speaker, hth Ave., Harlem. 6 P. M.—Scandinavian Workers them Club, 5111 Wifth Ave., Brooklyn Banquet and entertainmgr+ We Put This Question to You! WHAT IS YOUR ANSWER? r LAST Saturday's Dally Worker, Comrade Hathawey, editor-in-chief, gave some rock-bottom facts on the danger facing our “Daily.” He itemized the bills that had to be met between October 15th and 25th, bills that must be paid by that date if the Daily Worker is to be.as- sured of its immediate existence, $2,000 to cover notes between October 15th and 25th; $5,500 to our print shop on an old bill within two weeks; $6,100 for paper on October 20th, . . . f= week has gone by. What has been done? Here are the figures. Saturday, October 16th, $411.25; Monday’s receipts, $458.10; Tuesday's, | $618.92; Wednesday's, $1,077.84; ‘Thursday's, $595.65; yesterday’s receipts amounted to only $342.06, In short, Comrades, while you should have sent in last week at least $6,800, only $3,503.82 came in, not even enough to meet the paper bill due yesterday. The “Daily” must receive a minimum ne $1,000 a day to carry on, Only on Wednesday did such an amount come in, om District did give this support? District 1 (Boston), which on October 9th had raised only 23.06 per cent, increased it yesterday to 54.81 per cent, the first District to raise more than half of its quota. Workers in that District are as poverty stricken as in other parts of the country, The New England textile workers are fighting for their lives. | BUT THEY RALLIED TO THE DEFENSE OF OUR DAILY WORKER, \ ‘This was not accidental. Hard work by the comrades in that District gave these results. They contributed, they collected, they held affairs for the Daily Worker, they visited shops and press organizations. In some textile mills, workers contributed to the “Daily” at the risk of losing their jobs. . * . F' THE readers and friends of the “Daily” in oiher Districts put in the same efforts as the comrades in District 1, our Drive would surge towards success. But due to laxity in other territories, only 26.67 per cent of the $40,000 has been raised, with the DRIVE MORE THAN HALF OVER. A minimum of $10,096.18 has to come in next week, Comrades. Your answer to this pressing need of our Daily Worker will be your answer as to whether you want the “Daily” to continue its fight against fascism, against the murder of striking steel workers, against the Nazi frame-up, against the new slaughter of workers imperialists are hatching. If i want our Daily Worker to live, speed funds to it to 50 13th St., New York City. THE DAILY WORKER WANTS YOUR ANSWER Friday's receipts ..."...... .§ 342.06 Previous Total (corrected) oe 11,869.71 ss $18 0,77 TOTAL TO DATE . . Soviet President | Yj over Jehol, o Send Litvinov |News Received With Enthusiasm in Moscow; Negotiations, However, Do Not Guarantee Recognition MOSCOW, Oct. 20.—President Roosevelt’s step toward recognition of the Soviet Union was received enthusiastically here, as the Soviet Government issued a statement reporting the exchange of messages between Roosevelt and Mikhail Kalinin. By SEYMOUR WALDMAN (Washington Bureau, Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—Maxim Litvinov, People’s Com- missar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Government, will | shortly arrive in this country to discuss the “difficulties” under- | lying the beginning of formal relations between the United | States and the Soviet Union. | The announcement was made this afternoon by President | Roosevelt at his regular press conference, after he had read jan exchange of communications between himself and Mikhali | Kalinin, President of the All Union Central Executive Commit- {tee. The initiative in the correspondence was taken by Roose- | Dad! Pains were taken at the White House to make it clear that Roosevelt’s invitation for a |personal discussion does not mean ) Virtual recognition nor a forerun~ |ner of recognition. In White House ‘of Soviet Actions _asWarProvocations <=, tects See | both sides can s€ttle certain great a > problems when seated together at Capitalist Press Used; . iter tion in such # discussi . “Participation in such a ssion to Spread Lies of “Aggression” ‘Japan Fakes News 1 | would, of course, not commit either | nation to any future course of action.” wrote Roosevelt to Kalinin on Oct, 10, “but would indicate a sincere de- sire to reach a satisfactory solution jof the problems involved.” Kalinin | replied on the seventeenth: “There is no doubt that difficulties, | present or arising, between two ccoun- « ews of Soviet aggressions. | tries, can be solved only when direct On Det 16 the United Press re-|Telations exist between them; and leased a story, which was also used | that, on the other hand, they hava in Chinese and European papers, |0 chance for solution in the absence purporting to quote a “member of of such relations, I shall take the the Russizn Embassy in Peiping” | liberty further to express the opinion as saying that three Soviet planes | that the abnormal situation, to which j you correctly refer in your message, ec i d three hours BRS te cee has an unfavorable effect not only on | | | NEW YORK—Japan’s attempts to provoke an occasion for war on the Soviet Union have reached the stage of using the leading capital- ist news agencies to broadcast Complete dena. poth these stories, calling then provocatory fictions, was made today by Tass, | fal’ Soviet news agency, to ith, Daily Worker corre- spondent in Moscow. | 8 | By VERN SMITH Special to the DAILY WORKER | | MOSCOW, Oct. 20.—Your cor- respondent inquired of Tass re garding statements in some Chi- nese newspapers, republished in the European press, alleging that (Continued on Page 8) 7,000 Pledge Anti-War \F ight at Detroit Meet DETROIT, Oct. 20.—Seven thou- sand workers and other opponents of }war and ccism who packed the Arena Gardens here last night gave a tremendous ovation to Henry Bar- busse and pledged a relentless struggle against war and Fas:zism, and for = + A Spang. | defense of the Soviet Union. Nearly Hepeae rnin pot ne inter: | $200 was contributed bpp iors Hes ;mation was an obvious fiction of a bs bei siadkicrmehipes eter Sig On the preceding night seven hun~- | provoc-tory nature. Kat-3 eas The information that Soviet air-| 9 Fe rs planes were seen above Changte is, 2¢d, Leia! pp mst > vome jalso untrue. The statement of fie oe pBincalep esa os 5 | Peip'ng correspondent of the Lon: | Crab of tiie’ iz 7 eI don Daily Express regarding an al- t. < Sar Tomorrow night (Saturday), Tom e atati |leged statement of a representative Mann Will speak here ee ae Acne: at Brush and Larned Streets. peeve ened cecernnenion an | with that fable is a piece of news Picketing Daal by A.F. of L. in Shipyards Strike | paper fiction, | NEW YORK.—While scabs are be- ing brought to the docks by means Mobilize Militia of tughoats, and A. F. of L. leaders Against Picketing Illinois Coal Miners: | SPRINGFIELD, Il., Oct. 20—As/ | thousands of miners stream out of| | this city after their huge demcn- | stration here to picket mines of the) Peabody Coa] Co., demanding rec-/ ognition of the Progressive Miners sof America and an end of slave con- ditions, Governor Henry Horner has mobilized three companies of militta men to shoot down the strikers, More than 30,000 men are out on strike, and it is now estimated be- tween 15,000 and 18,000 demonstrated in Springfield yesterday. % Donald Richberg, counsel for the NRA sent a scurrilous letter attack- ing the strikers, and countenancing the most bloodthirsty methods to smash the strike. His letter is a virtual declaration of war by the | Roosevelt government against the strikers, and will provoke the most murderous attacks of the Peabody Coal Co. gun thugs and the state militiamen, | Vote Communist—for Minor, Bur- roughs and Gold. . are intimidating the workers at Morse and Fletchers’ dry docks with threats of arrest if they picket, the strike sentiment among the workers of the four shipyards is strong and the men are responding to the militant slogans of the Steel and Metal Work- ers Industrial Union. At Robins’ Drydocks, A. F. of L. officials refuse to call out the ma- sninists who remain at work while their fellow workers, the boiler makers are out on strike. They are not or- ganizing picketing and are trying to prevent any attempt by the work- ers to picket. At Hoboken the workers are pick- eting without signs. The Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union are trying to infuse the strike with great- er militancy. Leaflets distributed are eagerly read by the workers. Group meetings are being held and demands are being raised for the organization of a rank and file strike committee to conduct the strike and spread it, Three thousand workers are now in volved in the strike, 5 ‘ 1 ese em rem irae gpm?