The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 26, 1933, Page 3

FISHERY UNION TO HOLD CONVENTION IN SEATTLE, WASH. To Consolidate Gains Of Union at Meet Nov. 11-12 of the union, and to all boat owners’ associations, A. F. of L. and inde- pendent locals. “The Fishermen and Cannery Workers Industrial Union has in the short time of its existence penetrated broad and deep into the fishing in- dustry of the U. 8..” says the call. “Our delegates in Alaska report of good organizational progress. The Puget Sound Purse Seiners who took part in the formation of our Union, have joined in mass, and as a result of the militant organ- ization, have gained sever™ price increases for themselves. A. ¥F. of Ll, LEADERS “The Columbia River Fishermen and Cannery Workers, who were the main factors in winning the Sreat united front strike this spring, have been betrayed by the leaders of the A. F. of L. Columbia River Fisher- men’s Protective Union, who, to- gether with the packers, forced the workers to join the union by forc- ibly collecting initimion and dues out of the wages of the workers from the company offices. “Our membership in California is increasing. Powerful locals have been built at every important fishing port. Delegate councils are being estab- lished on the southern fishing banks, all the way down to Panama. “We are making contact with the Eastern fishermen, so as to launch our union. on the Atlantic Coast and the Gulf of Mexico, thus forming a national union for the workers in the fishing industry. Need for Militant Union The attacks upon our living stand- ards and ‘the victories and achieve- ments that we have gained and ac- complished during the last few onths proves conclusively the ecessity of an organization with a ilitant, unified program of struggle. ... The N.R.A. has raised the cost of living to such an extent and is rapidly increasing that our season’s earnings, in spite of the increases, are totally insufficient and inade- quate to take us and our families through the ensuing winter and long period of unemployment. Unemployment “The Convention must also lay the plans whereby we can cooperate with cther workers’ organizations in the fight for unemployment and so- cial insurance at the expense of the employers and the government. “The bosses with ‘their N.R.A. and Blue “It is with these facts and objec- N. R. A. Official Sets Marine Code Hearings In Capital for Nov. 9 NEW YORK.—William Davis, dep- uty N.R.A, administrator, in charge of the marine industry, announced yesterday that hearings on the gen- eral code for the marine industry will be held in Washington, D. ©, on Noy. 9. Davis yesterday conferred with scow and lighterage owners in the first of a series of preliminary hearings on the marine industry in this city. Cap- tain William Maher, head of the As- sociated Marine Workers, attended | the session and later went with Davis to the New York Athletic Club, where Mr. Brown, mediator of the N.R.A. labor board lives. Maher, who handed the fate of the tugboat workers over to the NRA. was addressed familiarly by the boss- es present at the hearing and as- sured them that “we can get together on this thing.” Syracuse Worker Framed Up For Army ‘Desertion’ Arrested For Fighting Against Relief Cut SYRACUSE, N. Y.—Arrested on an open charge when police found leaflets upon them exposing the brutality of Mayor Marvin and Deputy Chief of Police Peacock in relief matters, the triai of Richard Brown, Negro worker, and Paul Winkelman, white worker, was re- opened in police court this morning after one postponement, and was again postponed. Winkelman is be- ing held in Oswego now on a charge of desertion from the army and his case will be transferred to military courts. Observers believe the coming city clection may be one of the reasons for these postponements, as the regime up for re-election want to invite no row over the possible re- sults of the trial. Brown and Winkelman, leaders in the local Unemployed Council, were arrested on the streets and later released on $500 bail each, charged with disturbing the peace. Two days later two more were arrested for distributing leaflets, and then discharged in a campaign that has continued since to make the workers afraid to distribute handbills. It is perfectly in line with the campaign now in progress against Negro workers that Brown was not discharged, too. Although the army officials knew all along that Winkelman did not accident in which one of his arms an ear, they made no move to ar- rest him before this. He is being charged with leadership of the Syracuse Communist Party by army officials, although he is not a mem- ber of the party. Recently 2,000 workers have been cut from the relief list in Syra- cuse, and now 2,000 more are to be cut shortly. These facts have been confirmed by Welfare Commissioner Boyle in articles appearing in the Syracuse Journal. No action has been taken by the welfare depart- ment on account of elections com- ing up, but there is no doubt the plans of Commissionc$ Boyle will be fully carried out right after the elections. The arrests occurred be- cause those now on charges were fighting for more unemployment re- tives in view that the Fishermen’s|jic¢ “All delegates must be duly cre- dentialed by the send- ing them. Meetings and affairs should be held by locals to prepare for the convention and to help financially. “Forward to a broad convention and the unity of the workers in the fishing industry!” 614 First Ave., Seattle, Wish. Lynch Rule Victims Total 33 This Year L L. D. Reports Most of Criminals Known ported for the year to 38, the Interna- tional Labor Defense has an- nounced. Of these 18, Alabama’s white rul- ing class contributed 5, Louisiana 2, and Arkansas, North Carolina one each. Six lynchings were re- pram in August, five in Septem- r, and two in the first eleven of October. lve been five Urashings from Alabama, and Louisiana; four each from Tennes- see, Florida, and South Carolina; three from Mississippi; two from Arkansas, and one from North bere the lynch: neary every case, the lynch- ers were known to police officials, or were police officials, and in 16 their names were made public. In no case were any of the lynchers punished. A Bill of Civil Rights for Negro People, drawn uv by the League of Si le for Negro Rights, en- dorsed the International Labor Defense, and containing a clause making lynching a federal offense punishable by death, was presented ‘to the president and to congress iby the Free the Scottsboro Boys last May. Neither president nor ahy member of con- | ed took any action whatsoever ward havin? it enacted into law. A major slovan of the Internas|terrib! tional Labor Defense ix the de- pny for the death penalty for all E ince the first of January, there | reported Syracuse is the city which has Bained a wide reputation for its 9c a day diet invented by Mayor Mar- vin, the present mayor. return to the service because of an’ was crippled and he lost the use of | sires Merging of Trade Unions With Gov't M Trade Union Theories Of Perkins, Johnson, Just Like Hitler’s This is the second of a series of articles on the development of the Roosevelt government tow:rd Fas- cism as the failure of the N. R. A. to solve the crisis becomes more apparent. Subsequent articles will discuss the fight of the workers against the growing Roosevelt re- action, inflation and the war pro- gram. bia By MILTON HOWARD #¢ Roosevelt government, behind all its smooth hypocrisy, movas grimly forward to the naked, mili- tary dictatorship of the capitalist class, It is out of the increasing recog- nition that the N. R. A, economic program is being swept into discard by the onrush of the crisis, out of the recognition that the coming winter, as @ result, will witness im- mense, widespread, workingclass re- sistance to the wage slavery and ex- ploitation that Roosevelt prepares for open class warfare. But the development of the Roose- velt government along the road to Fascism does not mean that Roose- velt will drop his promises, or dimin- ish his demagogy. It is altogether certain, and we are witnessing some of it right now, that Roosevelt will increase the sub- tlety of his promises, will begin to issue all sorts of new, twisting, smooth, talk to the workers. Tt is & dead certainty that in Roosevelt's speeches from now on we will hear more of those notes of war to patriotism, faith, pride in “our institutions,” etc., which were so de- liberately softened in his earlier speeches when he was still parading as a “liberal.” ge Government Control of Unions Eee recent speeches of the Govern- ment on the right to strike are particularly sympethetic of the di- rection toward which the Roosevelt government is steadily moving. It does not alter the essence of the matter one bit that Roosevelt is seeking to destroy the indepen- dent struggles of the workers behind phrases of “collective bargaining.” The fact remains that Roosevelt, like Hitler or Mussolini, has already made it abundantly clear that he conceives of strikes as violating not only the wishes and interests of the employers, but also the express de- and purposes of the State! It is certainly of more than passing interest that Roosevelt has already tried to break strikes in the name of that very same “netional unity” which Hitler invoked to crush the independent organizations of the German workers, * 2 Outlawing Strikes iene drive to outlaw strikes is gain- ing force. It is a drive which not only derives strength from the ruling class, but has already received the public approval and support of the leading officials of the American Federation of Labor. jingoism, chauvinism, hysterical calls | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1933 Roosevelt N. R. A. Slave Codes Seen As Fascist “THEY WON’T GET AWAY WITH THAT!” —By Burek It is a fact not generally noticed that the position taken by the offi- cialdom of the A. F. of L. at its re- cent convention, together with the Speeches made at that convention by Secretary of Labor Perkins, Senator James J. Davis of Pennsylvania, General Hugh Johnson of the N, R. A,, and the speech of Roosevelt over | the grave of Gompers, constitute in} their entirety a program of class collaboration identical with the Hit- ler and Mussolini fascist theory of the relation of trade unions to the state. It will suffice to quote only a few] excerpts from the official trade union theorists of the Hitler Fascist government to make apparent their identity with the doctrines now be-; ing enunciated by the A. F. of L. leaders and the rulers of the Ameri- can government from Roosevelt down. For example, the foremost Nazi theoretician, Klagges, in his book “National Socialist Letters” (fifth| edition, page 28) states: “Regulation of wages and prices in the Third Empire must always be carried out by a decision of State power.” from the Roosevelt strategy of out- lawing strikes through the compul-| sory arbitration of the N. R, A. Labor Boards? Essentially, does this differ from the recent speech of Assistant Secre- tary of Labor, McGrady, who de- clared before the A. F. of L, Con- vention that: “,... the government must be consulted in all matters (relating to strikes—M. H.)” ee oe NOTHER Nazi trade union official praises the German trade union officials, Leipart and Tarnov, for} their co-operation with the German | capitalist government in “calling off | strikes.” It is certainly significant | that Fascist officials praise their! trade union lackeys for precisely the | same service, i. e., “calling off strikes” that Roosevelt and Johnson praise John L, Lewis, corrupt leader of the United Mine Workers of America. Certainly it is a foreboding of the future course of the A. F. of L. of- ficials that they should call upon the American workers for that very same kind of surrender tc the assault of Essentially, how does this differ the capitalist employers for whichi the Fascists now praise the Social- Democratic traitors of Germany. ’, @ Hitler exe sm, writing in Socialism and pert on trade uni his book, “ the Trade Union: “To the honor of the Trade Unions (led by the very same of- ficials, Leipart and Tarnov, for whom Green recently sorrowed.—M. | H.) it must be said that they im- mediately appreciated the omens of the times and in August, 1914, called a meeting of the Trade Unions and took the side of the government .. . all current strikes were called off ... and of even greater interest is the fact that the Genral Commission of Trade Union leaders expressed its readi- ness to place all the forces of the Trade Unions at the disposal of the government.” Does one have to have a superfine ear to catch in this Fascist phrase of the German Fascist trade union| leaders a remarkable similarity to Rooseve't’s recent praise of the dead A. F. of L, leader, Gompers, for his handing over of the trade unions to} the war machine, and his call to the A. F. of L, officialdom to sup-! | President of the A. F. of L. sound: | desire to avoid stoppages of work | | vention: | achine ‘A. F. of L. Officials Aceept Fascist Plan | To Outlaw Strikes port the no-strike N. R. A name of “national unity?” Or take the words of General Johnson, spoken a few days ago: “No organized group ought to have the power to dictate to the whole nation... .” And now contrast th words with Hitler’s opinion on tl same point, as expressed in his book “My Fight” (p. 40): “Trade unions were the most ter- rible instruments against the safety and independence of the national economy and the freedom of the in the ot the N.R.A. i auto code? Does not Ri through the N.R.A. cod guard the freedom of sevelt opinion of there is no ess the “me! Hi the praise of the fascist for tk ing in our e: ing statem: “We join wholehearted!y in the ... I think we have made it plain that we are secking to curb hasty jud-ment in the matter of s » | and that strikes should be used ently as a weanon of last resort ... We are cren‘ing a real constructive, or- ganized force for the establishment { of real order and co-oneration in American in“ustry under the N.R.A. | codes ” Cr the sneech of Senator James J.! Davis at the same A. F. of L. con-| “Sobor in these days cannot af- ford holidzys or strikes.” And finally the crowning expres- | sion of the Fascist tendency of the | Roosevelt government, s relation to the trade unions, the official state- ment of Roosevelt’s Secretary of La- bor, Perkins, made at the same Con- vention: “Thanks to the vision of and courage of President Roosevelt, labor is now an integral part of the modern State ... the direction of this administration will be in the joint interest of wage earners and industry and the genera! public and not to favor any sroup at the ex- pense of another.” Is there much to choose between this and the program of German end Italian Fascism with regard to the trade unions? The tone for the moment is softer, more ingratiating, more hypocritical. But the meaning is the same—the workers cannot organize to strike against capitalist exploitation and op- pression. They must wait for the decisions of the government, of which they are “now a part.” Relief Voted In Texas Withheld From Unemployed Eviction Stopped In Detroit By Youth Committee Removal of Padlock Is Enforced (By a Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich, Oct. 25—A worker was evicted at 7318 Stahelin, Detroit, Mich., on Oct. 20, but was put back by the Unemployed Youth Couricil and watch Ht Helin . i He 2 é ES ie Se ia 52 8 83 i a i ERs BF Age BEB ii ie a 2 5 2 the letter. I TI munist regardl color. Hard times Communists here. sei 238g fife ilar li le. The cro failure. Things are no mines open enjoy the six-page F a = Ey » : i i State Officials 'Pare Down Amount AUSTIN, Texas.—irhe unemployed of Texas will get little benefit from the $20,000,000 relief bond issue voted the State than $6,000,000 or $8,000,000 worth of the bonds. Before the election, R. F. C. work- ers were practically forced to canvass these so-called “bread bonds.” 38 00 Moulders In New Haven Strike 4 Shops Out; Strike Is Spreading; Demand Higher Pay ass ag : 4 F a ? iyi i i cE Hi i i i [ BR E i i 3 § 5 Hy Ey =f | I r E i "| spoke. This is what the workers Eviction in Rain Is New Deal CHICAGO, Il. (By mail),—Now they throw babies out in the rain! This was the headline of the leaflet flying from hand to hand down 55th St. last week. A committee of women organized to knock on every door of the side-streets and tell the people. Young Pioneers, with red bandannas, raced down the streets to spread the word. This was at 4 o'clock! At 8 o’clock 200 people packed the little hall of the John O'Neill Branch of the International Labor Defense at 834 E. 55th St. Representatives of the Unemployed Council and the ILD. heard: Justo Menza, his wife, and their two babies, one eight months old and the other two years old, living in the flat next door to the hall, had been put out in the rain the previous week. Doctor’s examination showed that for Sick Babes in Chicago. cil for their own protection for the winter, to see that there are no more evictions, and to demand cash relief from the relief stations, China and Glassware Workers Win Strike; More Pay, Less Hours NEW YORK.—After a strike of) two weeks, the newly organized| Glassware and Decorating Industrial | Union was able to register a victory for the strikers in eight shops when it concluded a settlement with the bosses. The strikers won pay in- creases from 15 to 20 per cent, rec~ ognition of their shop committees and union, a 40-hour week and pay for five legal holidays. “Our strike could not have been won had it not been for the able the two-year-old has developed pneu- monia and is in a serious condition. Members of the Unemployed Coun- cil, finding the family in the rain, had put them back in the flat. The following day, the police had arrested Menza and taken him to jail. Thirty minutes after he reached the station, the local representative of the I.L.D. had bailed him out, and he was on his way back to the house. At the meeting Menza and his wife both spoke to their neighbors. They told how they had asked the county Telief to pay their rent and had been refused. Menza had been given city work for ten days. He had finished the work but had to wait 11 days be- fore he could be paid. On the day that Menza was taken to jail, his wife had gone to the relief and asked for help. The furniture was at that time out in the street. The charity worker, Miss Levin, told her that she was old enough to be taking care of her family herself, and said she could not help her, Neighbors at the meeting also spoke. They revealed that the misery in which Menza was living was the same in which all of them had been living, in constant dread of the land- lord. They heard that in the First Municipal District of Chicago, in which they live, there had been over 5,000 evictions a month for every month in 1933, The meeting demand- ed the immediate passage of the ae Unemployment Insurance Students of the University of Chi- cago, hearing of this eviction, are preparing to investigate the eviction Policy of the rich University of Chi- cago, which owns much of the prop- erty in the neighborhood. The people from the neighborhood are preparing to organize block com- mittees led by the Unemployed Coun- assistance of the Trade Union Unity League and the Metal Workers’ In- dustrial Union,” the organizer told the Daily Worker. oo The strike was conducted jointly with an independent union in the trade, and as a result of the splendid conduct of the strike the workers of the independent union are discussing @ merger with the industriel union, A strike is still on at the Eagle Decorating Co., where the boss suc- ceeded in getting a Blue Bagle with- out signing any agreement and while the strike is on, Metal Polishers Strike At National Chrome Co. NEW YORK.—When one of the workers was fired, twenty publishers of the National Chrome Co, 200 Varick St., came out on strike. They are demanding the reinstatement of the discharged worker, $1 an hour for Polishers and recognition of the Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union. Strikers are picketing and planning to spread the strike to other job shops. Browder to Speak in Cleveland Recognition of Soviet Russia will be the subject of a lecture by Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party of the United States, Sunday, Oct. 29, 8 p.m., in the South “B” Hall of the Public Auditorium. Earl Browder has. been to the Soviet Union several times and will discuss the issues involved in rec- ognition in a thorough-going man- ner, The public is invited to the meet- ing. Admission is 10 cents, Geer gia ‘Officers’ Lynch Aged Negro; LL.D. Acts In Case Patterson Demands Arrest of Guilty Parties CLARKS MILL, Ga. (By Mail). — Henry Jordan, 66 years old, Negro farmer and church ler, was lynched here about S: 23, by Ed Streetman, bootlegger and self-styled prohibition agent, and two assistants. The gang came to Jordan's home at three o’clock in the morning and knocked. When he opened the door, a flashlight was thrust in his face and at the same instant he was shot through the throat. The leader of the gang grabbed him while the as- sassin ran around and shot him a second time, in the back. While the murderers stood over him, and his mother, wife and chil- dren watched in helpless horror, Jor- dan, with blood pouring out of his jugular vein, crawled out to the edge of the back porch, tumbled down the steps, and crawled to his well; hoping to stop the flow of blood with water. He died on the way. Investigation proved that Ed Strect- man’s son had been reproved for disturbing a service a Sunday or two before at Jordan's church, the Pine Hill Baptisg, where young Streetman was trying” to sell liquor, Before any charges were placed against them, Streetman and _ his: deputies had hired two lawyers,.one of them the son of ‘the judge of the Superior Court, and had arranged that bond be made for them in a small amount by the lawyer's father. 6 9 eee ee NEW YORK.—Demand for the ar- rest, prosecution, and death penalty for the lynchers of Bennie Thompsoh, in Ninety Six, 8. C., and of Henry Jordan, Negro farther and preacher in the Clarke’s Mill section of At- lanta County, Ga., was made by the International Labor Defe: in let- ters to the governors of the respective atates last week. In the Georgia case, the demand Ws& mace in regard to Ed Streetman, a self-appointed prohibition offirer, and two men who assisted him in the murder of Jordan. In the South Carolina lynching, the ILD. demanded the death penalty for Burley Leppard, who boasted of the lynching, Lefty Mayes, “Toody” Webb, and J. F. Morris, who assisted him, and Chief of Police Rush, who left the jail door open for them on their request. “This terror,” William L. Patter- Wass Fight Wins Stay Of Execution For 3 Logan Circle Negroes WASHINGTON, D. ©., Oct. 25.— been won for the Logan Circle boys, whose appeal to the U. 8S. Supreme Court on a conviction on a murder charge was recently denied, it was announced today, The three Negro boys, Joseph Jack- son, Irvin Murray, Holmes, were charged with the mur- der of Milo Kennedy, a Washing‘on policeman, who was killed when he attacked a group of Negroes listening to a band concert in Logan Circle Park a year ago, The International Labor Defense forced the release of three other Negroes arrested with them, and exposed the frame-up character of the whole case, Michigan Red Flag Defendants Jailed Legion Deputy Sheriff Heads Jury; ‘Impartial’ Court Fines Lawyer | of A stay of execution until Nov. 29 has | and Ralph | Page Three UNITED FRONT OF’ 13 ORGANIZATIONS WON SOME RELIEF Detroit Workers Push “Big Shot” to Wall By a Worker C : Sodin orrespondent Oct. 24—We are ish Chamber of inian Toilers, a church, three Forgotten Men's neny Club, Citizens an appointment ‘tment of De-« grievances of The welfare ng to keep relief s low as ble. Bakon e worker, ned for some of her ac- ated at this meeting welfare worke ifare of the workers wances, The ecting each honors for what of us, This is the get a better poli- r the official ent, the bet~ ie is. We de- ‘are Department ing and shoes so that the youth and people be given $3 per that rents, gas and lights be 1, not some, as they have i the case workers. against the fore, have boys at the camp and receive per mionth, where the budget 2 for about $30, should be given this difference. That the Welfare Department does not send le who are on the wel- fare to ib in the factories that are on e. We had a couple of hundred cases with us so they could not pass the buck that it wasn’t so. Mr. Balanger was “surprised” to hear conditions like this existing. Hell, yes, he didn’t know about this; why in hell is he in the position he’s: in now. It's about time our city gov- ernment finds somebody who knows something about the needs of the people. He tried to tell us that he would investigate the very next morning, but one of the committee got up and said, “I know your way of passing the buck, I've been on these com- mittees before and you used the same language. We don’t take any stock in your words.” He was at the Redford welfare sta- tion the next morning and now the people can see that united we stand, divided we starve. We won some of” our der--nds. The organizations promised .o work together after elec- tion as well as before, but we had two meetings'sinzé and the Forgotten Man’s Club and Citizen’s League have not had representatives at these meet ings. We pointed out in the begin- ning that the leaders of these or- ganizations were in this only for votes and we are convinced now. Now, through the activities of these workers, we have penetrated a new section of the workers. A new Un- employed Council has sprung up and all of our Unemployed Councils have increased in membership, CHICAGO, ILL. Scottsboro Br., LL.D. Invites You To Attend Dance SATURDAY, Oct. 28 || at 6930 N, CLARK STREET | ADMISSION 20 CENTS OUT OF TOWN AFFAIRS FOR THE Daily, Worker | Boston OCT, 28th: District Daily Worker Dance at the National Textile Workers Industrial Union Hall, 10 Beach St. Adm. 28, Philadelphia || OCT. 28th: i Dance and Entertainment given by the Office Workers Union at the Pen and Hammer Club, 138 & 8th St. Adm. 20c. MUNISING, Mich, Oct. 25.—A deputy sheriff in a Legionaire’s cap, | with a “bring back prosperity” neck- | tie, acting as jury foreman, delivered | a@ verdict of guilty on all counts} against Fahle Burman and Unto Im- monen, charged with violation of the Michigan Red Flag Criminal Syndi- calism law. A sentence of four to eight years was handed down ayainst Bur appeal is being taken by th Inter- | ; national Labor Defense, with a view to smashing the Red Flag Law. by the American Legion court around the trial, Attor: Ty Paull of the LL.D, w: for arriving in court 10 A Burman-Immonen Defense Com- mittee has been set up with head- quarters at Unity Co-operative, Eben Junction, Mich. A militant seif-defense by the pris- oners won them the complete sympa- | thy of the spectators at the trial. Every dollar you send to the Daily Worker is a blow in the face of Fascism. wrote in his letter to Governor Eu- gene Talmadge of Georgia, “is the screen behind which the landlords and mill owners are putting over the program of mass starvation and un- employment for white workers, as son, national secretary of the ILL.D., well as Negroes, known as the N.R.A.” Wilmington, Del. id Entertainment given at en's Circle Hall, 223 Bhip- David Levinson, Phila. recently returned from the m and Germany will ‘German Fascism." John lub of Philadelohia will stage “vy play and cheli. talk. Frel- Gesangs Perein will sing, Ad- 25c, al Soviet Un speak on ed, Cleveland OCT. 28th: Dance at the Lithuanian Workers Hall, 920 E. 70th St, at 8 p.m, Gary, Ind, by Unit 3 (Tolleston) 10 Place, at 9 p.m, Very elsborate and dinner will be served Los Angeles "1905" adapt. famous novel own in the fol- ec Gates listed be- e + 2 to 12 inclusive—Les Angeles,