The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 31, 1933, Page 1

Airmail Funds to the “Daily” to Help it Fight Fascism and Lynch-Law! Dail (Section of the Communist International) Vol. X, No. 261 > Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 8, 1879, COMMUNIST PARTY ALONE — FIGHTS FOR RELIEF OF JOBLESS, MINOR DECLARES Unemployment Insurance ‘Can, Must Be Won, Says Red Candidate for Mayor of N. Y. Ghastly Collapse of N.R.A. Shown as Hunger Maryland Lynchers Wire New Threats to Ades WESTERN BRKZG 15 XC2SALISBURY MD 26 113P BERNARD ADES=. * 1521 WEST BALTIMORE STs SL LAGAN ene Grips Millions of Jobless By CARL REEVE _ NEW YORK.—All parties and all candidates in the present election campaign, with the exception of the Communist Party, are committed to a platform which opposes raising the ap- propriations for unemployment relief, Robert Minor, Com- munist Party candidate for mayor of New York declared today. eo “Every capitalist party,” Minor said, “under cover of advocat- ing ‘economy’ which means eave the one mil- Mon starving un- employed workers and their families to their fate. Only the Commmnist Party, the work- ers party, de- mands adequate employment re- lief and social in- of Federal Relief Director Harry L. Hopkins yesterday that “we are go- ing to start the winter with a mil- lion more families on relief than a year ago,” is the newest proof of the complete collapse of the N.R.A., Minor declared. “The fiction of reduced unemploy- ment cannot longer be maintained. , One of the major objectives of the Roosevelt Recovery program (N.R.A.) has been to prevent the institution of social insurance by the federal government, using for this purpose the fiction of a reduction in unem- ployment,” said Minor. “The N.R.A. has reduced wages of the workers. It’s raising prices on necessities, remov- ing them another mile out of the reach of the workers pocketbooks.” “In the last 35 meetings at which I spoke, I have asked the question of how many workers received a cut in pay and how many received a raise, under the N.R.A.”, the Com-~- munist mayoralty candidate conti- NEW YORK—The Communist Party Election Campaign Commit- tee today issued a call to local symposium, under the aus- the Citizens Budget Com- will start at 8 pm. The symposium will be broadcast the facilities of WJZ. speech will be on the air 8:23 to 8:39 p.m. Admittance “The answers show that in meetings anywhere from ten to one hundred received a cut since N. R.A. for every worker which received At every meeting I have also called for 8 show of hands as to how (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Shoe Union Plans March on Capital Want Men to Go Back and Vote After- wards on Union NEW YORK. — Aiming to have thousands of shoe workers participate in the march to Wi , the committee of the Shoe and Leather rorkers’ Industrial Union are mak- intensive preparations for the Arab Anti-British Upsurge Spreads; Death Toll Now 30 Call General Strike as} British Plan Blood Bath JERUSALEM, Oct. 30.—More than 30 Arabs have died, and over 200 are wounded as the British continued today their determination to drown in blood the upsurge of the Arab masses of Palestine against. imperial- ist oppression. Arab demonstrators were killed in this city, in Haifa, and Jaffa. em~= onstrations of Arabs are being held in all nearby centers, including Da- mascus, in Syria, and in the cities of Transjordania. The Arab workers are carrying on an effective genegal strike here and in other, centers. British troops weer reported held in readiness in Egypt to be rushed to Palestine if the armed and dep- utized Britons in Palestine, assisting the police and aided by two squadrons of British war planes, are not suffi- cient to smash the resistance of the Arab masses to the British-led scheme to drive them off the land they have tilled for years, and out of their employment in the cities and towns. Fearing anti-imperialist demon- strations, the public ceremonies at the opening today of the naval port of Haifa have been cancelled. This port has been developed in order to make it available for the British navy in operations against the revolution- ary masses in the Near East, and for an attack on the Soviet Union from the British bases in Iraq, Persia, and Northwest India. NRA Will Keep Jobless Under Yoke of Charity, Mrs. Ro osevelt Says CHICAGO, IL, Oct. 30.—The federal government’s relief pro- gram “will not reduce the normal load of charity,” one hundred dele- gates to the “human needs” con- ference of women members of the Crusade Committee were told by Mrs, F. D. Roosevelt today. The conference, of which Mrs. Roose- velt is “crusade director,” made it plain that the unemployed work- ers are expected to continue to be dependent on charity under the N. LR. A., and that the Roosevelt government will continue to oppose federal insurance, which would make this charity un- necessary. “The more relief burden you put on the government, the more taxes go up,” said Mrs. Roosevelt, FRAUD IN R.F.C. OFFICE WILLIAMSON, W. Va., Oct. 30.— ONE,JUST AS GOOD ANSWERS LYNCH COMMITTEE, to Bernard Ades, International Labor Two More Armwood Lynchers Exposed Trade Union Group Demands Roosevelt Act WASHINGTON, Oct. 30,— Addi- tional evidence on the identity of the lynchers of George Armwood, Ne- gro worker, was handed President Roosevelt's secretary by a trade union delegation which demanded a federal investigation of the lynching and the arrest and punishment of the officials and civilians named in Capt. Spen- cer’s affidavit as the leaders of the b which lynched Armwood in incess Anne, Eastern Shore, Mary- land, on October 18. the known lynchers the names of John Aimes, a relative of Mrs- Den- nison, the white woman whose arm Armwood was accused of grabbing on the street, and a niece of the woman who, the delegation states, was in Princess Anne the day of the lynch- ing, frantically inciting the mob. Aimes, a police officer in a town near Princess Anne, is said to have re- turned to his post boasting of his participation in the lynching. The Trade Union delegation is Wholesale padding and forging of R.F.C. checks was unearthed here. It is said that the sums involved amount to several thousand dollars. Two men are under arrest. composed of elected representatives of the Needle Trades Industrial Un- ion, Food Workers, Shoe Workers and other militant unions. ‘Munaires’ Crew Demand Back IF UNABLE OBTAIN YOUR PALS BODY WE WILL GLADLY FURNISH Lynch Wife Sent to LL.D. Attorney A drawing of Euel Lee as he lay in » Baltimore funeral establishment. Lynchers “Promise to Supply Another Body” in Brutal Sneer at Lee’s Death ‘The Daily Worker publishes above a photostat a by Eastern Shore, Maryland, lynchers of George ee. Noe eke, ing part in the two-year battle to save Euel Lee, legally murdered last Friday morning by the State of Maryland, and members of the United Front delegation which filed protests with Gov. Ritchie against the lynching of a eR RI LE | following additional telegram: The delegation added to the list of | legal (Baltimore John Reed Ctub). Defense attorney, who played 2 lead- Armwood. A few minutes after the receipt of the above telegram, Ades received the “Salisbury, Md., Oct. 28. Bernard Ades, 1521 West Baltimore St. We note from press that you and Baltimore authorities are having con- siderable trouble in making the proper delivery of Lee's body and that you want same for New York demonstration. If Baltimore author- ities will not turn it over to you of which you are entitled, advise us. Think we can furnish another body as substitute. la. Farmers Dump: Scabs; Prepare for Chicago Conference test demonstration before NRA eadquarters—here and before the White House. All workers having trucks and cars available for use for this purpose are urged to register them at the headquarters of the Union, 77 Fifth Ave, After considerable difficulty, the strikers’ delegation headed by Fred Biedenkapp, secretary of the Indus- trial Union, finally interviewed a member of the National Labor Board in Washington to protest the strike- breaking measures used by the NRA in prolonging decisions on the strike issues. The Board member declared that the manufacturers are raising the ery that “violence” has been used in the strike and proposed that a committee of the Board investigate these charges and that the Union agreed to expel from its ranks all those who might be found guilty. | This proposal was rejected by the delegation. The delegation, however, { declared that it had no objection to a committee to investigate the strike situation as 8 whole. The conference continued as the Daily Worker went : to press. A few of the independent shoe manufacturers are now calling for a settlement of the strike and negoti- ations are pending, se ,—— a | , Pay; Skipper Dies of Shock (By a Seaman) BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. 30—The ship, ered when the ship's committee pre- sented the demands of the striking crew and worked himself up to a good heart attack and then gracefully left command of the ship to the first mate—said attack ending fatally. The old man was overcome when the crew struck for back pay. Their mates on other Munson Line ships have struck over 20 times in the past year for the same reason. It is as hard for a sailor to collect‘wages on the Munson Line as it 4s for the editorial staff of the Daily Worker (Note—D, W. Drive publicity). The mates came around and told the crew, “You've killed the old man,” and were met by the sorrowful crew, who then insisted they would simply have to be paid in order to properly observe the occasion. All else failing the company had to give in and the men received a $20 draw with promise of full settle- ment in their next port and nobody fined or fired. Two seamen were jailed for picketing. The strike was { led by the Marine Workers Industrial Union. . stated that he would fine each man four days pay for each day on strike. But a picket line organized by the Marine Workers Industrial Union forced the captain to change his mind and nobody was fined, including those who paid off in full. The crew struck Friday in Pough- keepsie and refused to let go lines, or to do any work on the at all. The officers were forced bring her down to New York. tional see . Four members of the Internat Seamen’s Union were sent to scab by their official. They refused to go and file members present promised to see that no one was sent to scab and endorsed the strike » What part of the city do you live in? North...South...East... West... Get your friends to send im accommodations also, da tives of their employees selected as NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1933 t ) America’s Only Working OF Class Daily Newspaper | » Partly clowdy and warmen (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents ROOSEVELT |New Mexico ROOSEVELT LAUNCHES VIOLENT CURRENCY WAR ACTS TO KILL MINE STRIKE Officials Want Men to| Return at Once (Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. —} President Roosevelt, General | Johnson and the steel corpora-| tion owners of the “captive” mines, and the U.M.W.A., reached a substantial agreement to send’ the captive mine workers back to work without granting their main demand of union recognition. The agreement would march the miners back to their | pits on the promise of holding elec- | tions some time in the future, and | thereby determining the union to which they will belong. It was by | the same means Senator Wagner broke the Weirton Steel Co. strike and victimized the strikers, A day-long conference *was held at the White House with Roosevelt, Johnson, Donald R. Richberg, NRA Strike Gains) 2 Victories| GALLUP, N. M., Oct. 30.—Martial | law which sent Herbert Benjamin, | national organizer of the Unemployed | Councils, to the pententiary for one | year, has failed to break the strike | of the New Mexico coal miners now entering its eleventh week. Soon after Benjamin was court- martialed and sent to prison the strikers, led by the National’ Miners Union, were able to force the Allison mine of the Diamond Coal Company to grant 13 or 15 strike deqmands. This makes two strike victories which the miners have gained, de- spite the presence of militiamen who rule with an iron hand. Out of five mines struck, two, the Southeastern and the Allison, have settled. The miners who returned to work turned over 25 per cent of their first pay to the strikers for relief. Two other mines are expected to settle, and the last is expected to negotiate with the strikers. Around 700 miners are still out. ‘Three hundred and fifty are work- counsel, Joseph B. Eastman, Railroad Coordinator, W. A. Irvin, president of the U. S. Steel Corporation, Thos. Moses, president H, C. Frick Coal Co. (a U. 8. Steel subsidiary), Edgar Grace, Bethlehem Miners Corpora- tion, T. M. Gerdler, chairman Re- public Steel; H. G. Dalton, chairman Youngstown Sheet and Tube; Myron C. Taylor, Nathan L, Miller, Paul D. Cravath, H. A. Moore and W. W. Holloway, president Wheeling Steel Corporation. (John L. Lewis, U. M. ‘W. A. president), was not at the con- ference, but afterwards Donald Rich- berg said Lewis O.K.ed the agree- ment.) A formal announcement from the White House said: “A substantial agreement was reached today between the President, Gen. Hugh L. Johnson and the cap- tive mine owners on the snehand, and by the President, Johnson and the United Mine Workers on the other hand. “This agreement provides a basis for the immediate re-employment of thousands of coal miners (he for- gets to add, under scab conditions), who are now idle if the following measures are put into effect: “Every mine which has an outlet for its product should be re-opened and employees working when the mine last operated put back to work without any discrimination as to membership in any labor organiza- tion, “The check-off is conceded. A man may assign a deduction from his pay to whomever he desires. (This is the coal operators original jproposal). “The existing Appalachian arvee- ment between the Commercial Mine Operators and the United Mine Workers will fix the hours, wages and working conditions under which the men will go back to work, and this will be possible at every mine. “A formal agreement which shall contain terms and conditions at least as far as the Appalachian agreement will be made between the captive mine operators and the representa- follows: “When after the opening of any mine, in the opinion of the National Labor Board, orderly condition has been restored and the protection of men working is assured, the elections will be held at the exclusive regula- tion and direction of the National Labor Board and representatives will then be chosen for collective bargain- ing. “Such representatives may or may not be members of any labor organi- ing under contract with the operators. |'They are all dues-paying members |of the National Miners Union, and | have job control. Their pit commit- | tees are recognized. | Go 250 Miles | A group of pickets has gone to the | Madrid Mine, 250 miles from the strike area in Gallup, in an effort to pull this mine out on strike. Commenting on the militant de- fense made by Benjamin, surrounded as he was by militia officers who tried and sentenced him, the Gallup Inde- pendent declared: “Herbert Benjamin defied the +National Guard and its regulations in testimony given from the wit- | ness stand before the general court martial trying him on charges of obstructing enforcement of martial law.” Robert Roberts, leader of the Na- tional Miners Union, who was given a six-month penitentiary sentence by the military rulers of Gallup, was tried by a “special court martial.” ‘The same military group tried George Kaplan, International Labor Defense organizer, and gave him a six-month term. The general court martial that tried Benjamin in a higher military | court that has greater power of pun- | ishment. Benjamin was arrested for | making a speech from a porch near} the picket lines. He brought greet- ings to the strikers from the Un- employed Councils throughout the country and the members of the | Trade Union Unity League. He was arrested and placed in the military stockade. He escapetl from the stock- ade but was later recaptured and immediately placed on trial and sen- | (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Cuban Workers Ready For General Strike to) Begin This Morning | HAVANA, Oct. 30.—Despite the ar- rest of more workers’ leaders yes~ terday and today, the general po-| litical strike of the Cuban workers | and peasants against the Grau San Martin terror will be in full force at midnight tonight. Bombs were reported to have ex- ploded under two street cars in Luy- ana, a suburb of Havana, and at the printing plant of Rambla and Sousa, wheer Senor Sousa, a large stock- owner of the Diario de la Marina, a daily newspaper, is acting as foreman in an effort to get the paper out (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) while the mechanical staff is on strike. Paper. It's members are opposed to the recognition of the Soviet Union, They Get This, Easley! Chicago A. F. of L. Bakers Aid “Daily” X ke friends of the Daily Worker cannot stand idly by while Grover Whalen, “Ham’ ” Fish and Ralph Easley plot its suppression. This gang has its own good reasons for wanting to sink our fighting mant it’s destruction. They are champions of the N.R.A. which is the spearhead for fascism in America. Easley, Fish, and Whalen are the allies, the co-workers of Hitler. They are spreading literature aimed at inciting hatred against the workers and the Jews, and for organizing fascist terror against the entire American working class, especially its revolutionary vanguard, including the red trade unions. They have admitted that they fear the effects of the attack by the Communist Party on their fascist N.R.A. They have admitted in their letters, already published in the “Daily,” that to effectively hit the Communist Party, to effectively sabotage the Soviet Union, it is NECESSARY TO SQUELCH THE DAILY WORKER. They realize that the Daily Worker is the most powerful weapon in the struggle by the American worker for liberation from capitalism. . . . YOU LET THIS GANG SUCCEED IN ITS FASCIST PLOT? Or will you show them that the battalions of revolutionary workers are fighting for the life of our “Daily”? GIVE THEM YOUR REVOLUTIONARY ANSWER BY AIRMAILING FUNDS TO YOUR FIGHTING DAILY WORKER, 50 E. 13th St., New York City. Ram their plot down their throats by helping the “Daily” out of its financial crisis. Members of the Baker's Union, No. 237, A. F. of L., of Chicago, rushed $32 to the “Daily” yesterday. DO YOUR SHARE to raise the total to $25,000 by the end of this week in answer to the Whalen gang. . e Monday’s receipts . + $419.15 Previous total .. + 16,649.91 Total (0 date oo ccsceciseeccceeeeveenecetecessenent ess $17,069.06 IN FIGHT | War Danger Grows as FOR MARKET: U. S. Hammers at Riva! British Imperialism; Franc Shaky Failure of N.R.A.as Cri Street Toward By MILTO} NEW YORK.—Yesterday, flared violently again. The Roosevelt government, sis Solution Forces Wal! More Inflation HOWARD international currency warfar armed with greater dictatoriz powers than any American government has ever had in tim¢ of peace, struck out viciously at its foremost imperialist worl 2.500 Striking Die Makers Storm Scab Shops, Rout Scabs Hundreds of Windows Smashed; Manager Shoots at Men DETROIT, Oct. 30—Over 2,500 tool and diemakers on strike here, mobilized in 300 cars, swooped down on seven’ plants today and burned blue prints, smashed windows, over- turned automobiles to prevent scabs from producing dies for automobile manufacturers. So rapid was the movement of the strikers from factory to factory that though there was a heavy police mobilization the workers were able to evade the police. Six strikers were arrested, At one plant the manager direct- ing the scabs emptied his revolver at the strike pickets, but no one was reported hit. Police Inspector William Black was bruised when some bricks hurled at a factory window struck him. Speeding through the city in auto- mobiles the strikers paid the great- est attention to the scab shops of the Koestlin Tool and Die Corpora- tion, Frederick A. Colman & Sons, the Faigle Tool & Die Co., the F. Joseph Lamb Co., and the East Side Gear and Tool Co. After they stormed the shops, the strikers’ cavalcade, closely followed by massed police, returned to the headquarters of the Mechanics’ Edu- cation Society, which is leading the strike. When they arrived at Schil- ler Hall on the city’s East Side, they disbanded. When the police thought that the picketing was over, they learned that strikers smashed the windows at the Midland Steel Products Co. At the Koestlin factory 134 win- dows were shattered by the strikers. More than 15,000 tool and die makers are on strike in Flint and} Detroit, demanding union recogni- tion in the largest automobile fac- tories in those cities. They also de- mand wage increases. The auto bosses have refused to negotiate with the men, and N. R. A. offictals are urging the men to return to work and negotiate afterwards, hoping to smash the strike by these means. The rank and file tool and die mak~- ers have shown great militancy in the struggle. The Auto Workers’ Union, supporting their strike, has pointed out that the main effort should be made in drawing out all ae men in the auto indus- les, Anti-FascistSeaman Faces Court Nov. 9 McFarland Defense in Need of Funds NEW YORK—The Marine Work- ers Indutrial Union called yester- day for funds to aid in the case of James McFarland, facingt hree years | in the penitentiary on framed-up charges of malicious mischief, arising out of an anti-fascist de- monstration in front of the North German Lloyd steamship company’s offices early this mnoth. Fifteen dollars is needed im- mediately to secure the transcript of the magistrate’s hearing, which is vital to the defense in the trial which wiill start November 9 in| the Special Sessions Court, part 6, Criminal Courts Building, Center st. between White and Franklyn. Workers oorganizations are asked to send protests and to fill the court at the trial. Funds should be sent to the Fund, M. W. 1. U., 140 Broad St., New York. C. P. Election Program Heard for First Time at Staten Island Meet NEW YORK.—Carl Brodsky, Com- munist campaign manager and can- didate for Assembly in the 3rd Dis- trict, Bronx, electrified a gathering of people in Staten Island, who were hearing of the Communist program for the first time, at Curtis High School McFarland Defense | —* rival, Great Britain. Relentlessly,. it hammere away at the pound and th French franc. It seems inevitable that it will soo drive France off the gold standar: The two imperialist giants of ti world, Great Britain and the Unitr | States, are coming to closer grips i their life and death struggle for th | financial domination of the capitalis world markets. And it is an axiom of history, the financial - economic warfare 800 |reaches a point where it explode into the deadly combat of militar warfare. Drives Dollar Down Dismayed at the failure of all th domestic purchases of gold to pro the topheavy structure of artificial boomed commodity prices, Rooseve smashed his way toward the cripplin of any European domination of th world markets by shooting th United States bid upward to the rec ord price of $31.96 an ounce. This drove the dollar down pre- | cipitately to below 60 cents in valuc It 1s now worth less than 60 cent This means that the Roosevelt in flationary drive is slicing the dollar: of the American workers wages int: pennies. And it is with the advantage of cheapened wages that Ameritian imperialism, with Roosevelt at the head, drives ahead in the snarling fight with its imperialist rivals for foreign markets. Britain Prepares Reply The fight for financial leadership in the imperialist struggle for mar- kets is on. The Roosevelt government is ham- mering at the French franc. Former Premier Tardieu today called for an embargo on all shipments of French gold, in an effort to stem the drain of the. Roosevelt aggressive buying program, This is the first step to- wards leaving the gold standard. In Britain, the leading bankers do not trouble to mince words. They threaten quick reprisals, They have already begun. Yesterday they jacked up the London price to $31.40 an ounce, But this is still 41 cents below the Roosevelt price. British imperialism wiil have to reply again with more aggressive blows. And American imperialism will reply in turn. NRA Has Failed Roosevelt tries to comfort himself | that he will be able to “manage” this inflation. But the very desperateness of his lunges in the direction of the Euro- pean imperialist rivals of the United States belies his hope, Precisely as the Daily Worker has been pointing out ever since March, the attempt to bring life into Amer- ican industry by inflationary shots, must inevitably necessitate not only an increased frequency of the doses, but also a steady increase in their strength. ; It is of the utmost significance, ; and in complete confirmation of the Daily Worker analysis, that the re- cent doses of Roosevelt inflation have not had the same upward response from the commodity markets as the early shots in May and June. It is the failure of all the Rooss- velt inflation up te now to any life into the tottering body American industry, the failure of the NRA to solve the crisis, and the quickly spread awareness that | it has, on the contrary, intensified the crisis, that forces the Amert can capitalist class on the road of wild currency inflation in an effort to get ont of the crists, | The two leading unperialist rivals |of the world—Great Britain and the United States, face inevitable fur- {ther intensification in the crisis of their home economy. | . Im desperation, American capl- talism turns its gaze outward. 1% begins to dream of solving the crisis | by getting its teeth into the mare | kets and colonies of its rivals, American industry, artificially ald- ed by the effect of the cheapened |dollar in the European markets, | presses eagerly and aggressively for- | ward to get its teeth into whatever | drained markets remain after the relentless batterings of four years of world capitalist crisis. Inflation Will Fail But the Roosevelt inflation doomed to failure as an economfe solution of the crisis. Trapped in hopeless capitalist con- tradictions, the Roosvelt government, | through inflation, only succeeds in driving down still further the buying power of the masses, It succeeds only in piling up more “surplus,” It is of the gravest importance to remember that .the inflationary drive of American im iS its last stand In Its efforts the downward rush of the