The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 2, 1933, Page 1

To Save the Funds Must | | Daily Worker | Be Rushed Immediately! (Section of the Communist International) Vol. X, No. 263 ->_* Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, Y., under the Act of March 8, 1879, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1933 | America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents ( | 7 BIG TRUSTS OPENLY TAKE OVER NRA FOR FASCIST DRIVE (289 Killed in Youth Forced LaborCamps, Investigation Proves Recruitment to Be Forced by Threat of Relief Cut (Washington Bureau.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.—The Ad- winistration’s plan to drive the homeless unemployed into transient camps, where tney will be forced to work for subsistence, was formally announced today by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration in @ sugar-coated statement omitting the Nazi aspects of the program, As the Daily Worker reported last week, any unemployed person who hasn't lived in one state for a year 4s “eligible” to be sent to these camps by “police, the railroads and sheriffs.” This was not mentioned in the an- nouncement today, but officials again confirmed it. The whole story was told by Harry L. Hopkins, Federal Emergency Re- | lef Administrator, in the presence of a score or more of reporters last week, but the Daily Worker alone published it. As if aware that the capitalist press shied at the ri ness of Hopkins’ story, the Relief Ad- } ministration today carefully empha- | sizes that the “transient centers” (“ot # camps) will be “staffed by trained social workers who will be able to give not only relief in the form of food and shelter, but also help the individuals in working out their per- sonal problems.” An allotment of $100,000 a month 4s ready for use in New ‘York State, fer centers in New York City and Buffalo, First, however, the ernor must request it. One camp al- ready operating in rural Florida is “sheltering” more than 500 unem- ployed. Workers Testify on Gangster Shooting Tell of Bloody Attack on Needle Union NEW YORK. geven gangsters raided the quarters ing two and maim- resumed yesterd ted last was interrupted. wher tified two of the gan: ing been involved in Y which a mistrial was declared, and a new jury chesen, The court day who had ous trie, They repeated the same story of the bloody atisck on the union offices, instigated by the fur manufacturers and the Joint Board yester- t the previ- of the A. of L, Fur Union in the hope of murdering the union lead- ers. S. Applebaum, a union member, testified that he was in the office paying dues at the time of the gang- ster atiack, He identified Louis Katz as having struck him over the bullet. Part of his cheek-bone had disfigured, Applebaum's testimony made a deep impression on the jury- men. I. Hyman, an unemployed worker, who had been permitted to sell candy in the union offices to sup- port himself, identified Louis Katz as his assailant, and Max Goldman or Goldberg, as one who was shoot- ing at the workers. Ruth Miller testified that Goldberg shot into a group of fur workers jand that she saw Harry Gottfried fall, struck by a bullet in his stom’ ach, Gottfried died several months Jater in the hospital. Shirley Korees was at the switch- board when the gangsters entered and asked for Ben Gold, She point- ed out Max Goldberg as having shot at the workers, Peter Antonios, a furrier living in the house adjacent to the union of- fices, testified that he hastened to the office on hearing the shooting and recognized Max Goldberg as the man he had seen rushing out and from the headquarters with a re- volver in his hand. The trial will continue for several days with at least 30 witnesses sched- uled to be heard. WIN FURNITURE STRIK NEW YORK.—After 14 weeks of ) strike, the workers of the Hyman Forin furniture shop fore ployer to come to terms with them. They won all demants including rec- ognition of fhe Furniture Workers Industrial Union, For Unemployment tn uranee. Immediate Cash Relief — Vote Communist! Goy- | trial of the | head after which he was hit by a/ to be removed and his face is now) the em- | Negroes Jim Crowed; Leaders Try to Start Riot (Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Noy. 1.—Two hun- dred eighty-nine deaths and 20,379 injuries, many serious—this is the staggering toll of death and disaster for the Civilian Conservation Corps’ first six months in the forests. The figures on casualties among the approximately 300,000 youths, most of whom were taken from un- employment relief rolls to be marched into the woods to face the innumer- | able hazards of dynamite-blastins, | fire-fighting and tenderfooting in |the wilds, were obtained by the Daily Worker today from an official at the C.C.C. headquarters here. Eighty-nine of the young victims died from diseases—tuberculosis, ty- phoid fever, diptheria, gastric ulcer, etc. The others were killed “acci- dentally”—electrocuted by lightning, plunged off cliffs, crushed in auto j and truck coilissions, etc. The in- jured were cut by axes in inexperi- | enced comrades’ hands, or had their | bones crushed by falling logs, or were burned by forest fire, etc. Dropped “Safety” Campaign Despite rapidly increasing acci- dents, Col. Robert Fechner, director | of the C.C.C., scrapped a safety-first | campaign six weeks ago, and, after dawdling for weeks, finally sent out | a letter which recognized the seri- | ousness of the situation thus: “The | mounting illnesses, injuries and deaths from various causes indicate | a distinct need for greater. vigilance. . . The number of casualties can nd should be materially lowered.” | The frequency of deaths in the |C.C.C. was about six times as high |as the rate computed by the De- | partment of Labor last April as the | average in all industrial accidents. The number of accidents was about | five times the average in all in- | dustries. | Fechner himself summoned rep- resentatives of the National Safety- First Council, weeks ago, to talk over accident problem. But it was xplained today that the complete |plans outlined by that organization | seemed too elaborate to Fechner. He | decided they could get along with- out a letter. A prominent research engineer | studied the statistics and exclaimed: | “My estimate is that deaths and | serious accidents could have heen | halved by a thoroughgoing accident campaign! “At least one hundred more lives y- | will be wasted in the next six months |if Feehner’s doesn’t do more than | write letters.” | The boys who were mustered into | the Roosevelt forest army—one of (Continued on Page 2) Wagner Gags When} ||\Confronted by Need of Saying “Worker” (Washington Bureau.) | | WASHINGTON, D. C,, Nov. 1— | |ohairman Wagner of the Na- | | tional Labor Board, shown a copy | |of the Daily Worker's exposure of @ letter to General Hugh 8. John- son from Ralph Easley of the Na- | | tional Civic Federation, demand- ing that Johnson “squelch” the “Worker” and referring to a simi- lar letter to Wagner, remarked with mild interest, today, “I raven’t seen it.” “And if or when you do see it, will you fall for such stuff?” Wag- her was asked. “Oh,” he responded with a slight indulgent smile, “I'm for the free- dom of.the press!” “And that of course includes as?” “Yes, that includes even the—” lof George Meadows the Senator's voice trailed off. Workers’ Nominee WILLIANA BURROUGHS Burroughs Tells of War OnLynchers By CARL REEVE NEW YORK.—‘The ‘New Deal’ for the Negroes of the United States has meant an increase in lynching of Ne- groes to 36 so far this year, an in- crease in the number of legal lynch- ings, a cutting of wa: and firing of Negroes under the R. A., and Jim Crow and discrimination against unemployed Negroes,” said Williana J. Burroughs, Communist candidate for Comptroller of New York City, teday. “Not only has the brutal terror against the Negroes incveased along with lynchings, but the legal lynch- ing by the government bodies and courts has increased. “This increase in terrorization of the Negro workers is an attempt through bloody suppression to force the Negro workers to accept the ex- tremely bad conditions imposed on them by the N. R. A. without a struggle,” Burorughs charged. “Not only does the N. R. A. dis- criminate against Negroes by setting differential wages for North and South, but the Negroes are given the starvation minimum wages in the cedes, those more skilled are being fired and replaced by white workers. The Conservation Camps, President Roosevelt's personal pet, segregate and Jim Crow the Negro unemployed youth. The increase in terror un- der the N. R. A. is seen again in the legal lynching of Euel Lee, the attempt now to legally lyne: Craw- ford in Virginia, the legal lynching in Alabama, Grady Brooks and George Zuber in Georgia, and many others.” lists Support Lynchers The Communist candidate for Comptroller showed that the Social~ ist Party has the same policy against the Negro workers as the other old line parties. -The Socialist Party's unemployed committees in Harlem tell the workers not to fight, but to! go home and wait, and they will take up the question. The Socialists’ un- employed work is carried on like a welfare or charity body. The Social- ist Party tells the workers that there are no special demands for the Ne- grees. They tell the Negroes in the South that they must accept the Jim Crow and must not challenge the ruling class of the South,, that they must “use different. methods” in the South and take no action. They do not run Negro candidates in the South, “The Amsterdam News today comes out for the Fusion Party,” stated Williana Burroughs. “This is the paper which in the beginning fa- vored the march to Washington to protest against the Scottsboro frame- up, and then, while the International Labor Defense and other workers’ organizations were leading the march, the Amsterday Nes dropped out. This paper betrayed the Scotts- boro case. They say in yesterday’s issue: ‘The Amsterdam News has not A TAMMANY JUDGE IS RILED BY ‘DAILY’ | NEW YORK.—a Tammany judge who regretted that he could not hand a thirty day jail sentence to a Red Builder brought to trial before him last week for selling the Daily Worker in front of the Carnival Lunch Room, 14th St. near Third Ave., where a strike is going on, found the same Red Builder selling the Daily Worker near him in Carnegie Hal Tuesday night, at a symposium on the election in which Robert Minor was taking part, and was too thun- derstruck to order his arrest, though he had warned him to stop selling the “Worker.” The judge’s wame is Overton Harris. The Red Builder is Morris Greenstein, who prior to the crisis was a steam and electric railway worker, On October. 25th, Judge Harris suspended sentence on Greenstein with the provision that he refrain from spreading the Daily Worker. Greenstein replied: “If I sold the capitalist papers you wouldn't bother with your justice, Judge Harris, who comes from me. If you call this justice, to heil You may send me to jail, or do what you want with me, but you won’t stop me from selling the Daily Wo Kent ed Gr in's re- arrest. “I am sorry,” he said, “that the law prevents me from giving you thirty days in the workhouse.” Judge Harris appeared as prosec his trial on that charge before Ju court. He received a suspended se: Selling the “Worker.” Tuesday night, Greenstein went Carnegie Hall where a large audience liad gathe candidates, including Robert Minor, city’s budget. Greenstein saw Judge Harris in Red Builder tock a position behind the Tamu y ing in a moderately loud voice, “Buy the Daily Worker, newspaper. Buy the Daily Worker.” Judge Harris fidgeted in his seat. the face as he recognized Greenstein. flabbergasted to have Greenstein arrested. He ieft continued his sale of the Daily Worker. Several arrests of Daily Worker agents popula: Builders, some of who: er” among the A Red Builder, attempt to check the gro York workers. But the Re jail, for spreading the “W workers’ fighting daily newspaper. ntence, again with the w ution w ~ Greenstein at ay in the same arning to stop Kers to with a buncle of Daily Worl Communis: ca: the back He turr The recently, took his Daily Workers into the cell with him and found the prisoners eager to buy the papers. ‘ * The courage and determination o: should be equalled by your support of “Worker” is published at a high cost are workers who choose jail rather than stop the life of the Daily Worker is endan; i reatoned more seriously th the Red Builders is th Despite the additional burden pu of our press and in face of the threat by t press it, only $285.73 came in y: The immediate life of erd: he Dail FUNDS AT ONCE. HELP US PUBLISH TE MAKE GOOD THE COURAGEOUS EFFOR1 WIRE OR AIRMAIL ALL YOU POSSIE NEW YORK CITY, TODAY. Jail John Pace, Bonus March Leader, fer 96) Days; Appeal Denied! ANN ARBOR, Mich.—John Pace. one of the Jeaders of the historic 1932 bonus mareh and active in and. worker's’ struggles in Detroit, is now in the county jail here, his ap- peal from a 90-day sentence having | been denied on Monday, Oct. 30. Pace was arrested ral weeks | ago for the crime of trying to feed tt starving unemployed. He was pic! ing apples in an orchard which he thought was abandoned, intending to distribute them among unemployed | workers, when he was arrested. The organization of a mass it by the International Labor Defense is needed to free this militant worke: | whooped it up for the election of Ne- gro candidates this year.’ They make this statement to cover up the fact that the La Guardia Fusion Party, which they support, does not have a single Negro candidate for any im- portant office. The Amsterdam News tries to make out a case for La Guardia, He made a gesture, they say, for Oscar De Priest. | “But Oscar De Priest is a big land-| (Continued on Page 3) f Greenstein and other Red Builders the D 49,000 Drive. The of effort, nd money. There but without funds upon our kdown lalen- er de! on you IE DAILY WORKER. Y¥ CAN TO 50 E. 13th ST, WE NEED YOUR HE. ?! Litvinov Sails on PARIS, Peopie’s ©: fairs of the Cherbourg todz ia, on hi where he will negctiate w dent Roosevelt for establ: diplomatic relations between United States and the Soviet Union. He will arrive Nov. 7, He was accompanied by only two Ivan Divilkoyski, general secre- Jat m tary of the Foreign Office, and Con- stantin Cuma ¥, press director of the Commis: t for Foreign Af- fairs. CIVIL SERVICE AGE BAN WASHINGTON, Noy. 1 storm of protest was raised teday by can- didates for jobs over a Civil Service ban on all new employees over 40 years of age, “If they come our way we are go-! ing to kill them and talk about it/ later!” | That challenge was issued to A. F. of L, gangsters and racketeers by a delegate to the American Federa- tion of Labor 53rd Convention re- cently held in Washington. Though delegate Sumner of the Central Labor Unions of Blue Island, ‘Illinois, made one of the most dra- matic and startling revelations in the whole conyention, the resolution on whieh he spoke has been expunged vom the record. In the proceedings of the 10th day here appears the following notation: “Resolution No, 98." You begin to szarch above and below for Resolution 93 which evoked {a | i i | ort ® ism from a delegate who was not charged with Communist member- such a powerful expose on gangster-! this is one that should have due con- ‘DAILY’ PRINTS A. F. L. GAN Union Made bite F GSTER EXPOSE. GREEN TRIED TO SUPPRESS With Holes for Rifles to Resist AFL Gangsters, Delegat ship. Instead you find the follow- ing:, “The aboye resolution, after the report of the committee had been submitted and a discussion cf te subject matter had occurred, was ordered expunged from the pro- ceedings of the convention.” The resolution, sponsored by Dele- gate Suny of the Philadelphia Clean- ers’ and Dyers’ Union, charged the A. F. of L, bureaucrats with sponsor- ing gangsterism and _ racketeering against the rank and file. “I don’t know who presented the resolution,” said Delegate Summer, “but if there ever was a resolution, a | sideration of every delegate here. “Perhaps the brother does not know what we passed through and are now passing through in the city of Chicago, Let me tell you that the Federation is on trial against these gangsters, ‘and don’t think for a minute we don’t have our troubles. If you think they have not come in on the organizations in Chicago, if you believe they have not. Union a Fort “Go over and see ‘Fort Union.’ We have had to put in bullet-proof glass in the doors, with a shield over them so that we can open them from the inside and peer out. And we haye had to put in gun Ports in the door to protect our- selves against the racketeers that did not only promise to come in, bnt did come in. They told us what we would have to do, when they walked in the next time we would have to run ont. Labor On the Spot “Let me tell you that if labor was ever put on the spot, where it had to fight, it is now. “Maybe you don’t know that there are forty unions in Chicago. Maybe you don’t know that we had to put up a fight there; that I had to travel around in a bullet-proof car with a sawed-off shotgun, a rifle, a heavy powered one, a Luger revolver and two Colt revolyérs. Then it means that we carry hand grenades, too.” Delegate Sumner undoubtedly underestimated the knowledge of t of} the | % ] | | Republic JOHNSON APPROVES PLAN Shuts Blast OF GENERAL ELECTRIC HEAD “ova HO SPEED ATTACK ON LABOR YOUNGSTOWN, 0O., Nov. | Only two w rs and an army of' — ore jbosses are operating the whole| ma 8 A pe [blast furnace department at the, All Strikes to Be Forbidden by Government Republic Steel Co. here. Ten in New Plan, Says Gen. Johnson workers, with ~ battery of bosses, are doing all the work on the 4 | Whole NRA Was Engineered by Big Business, open hearth furnaces which are| : i E in operation. The entire Bessemer | Admits Chief Roosevelt Aid department is down and many ge a RE |workers have been told that it By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Washington Bureau.) WASHINGTON, Noy. 1.—General Hugh 5S. Johnson, seorhers© haven't: Jgobienl a «dave | eee Administrator, late today announced himself a co-author \work in the last month and don’t, Of the new Gerard Swope plan proposing that big business— |know when the next one will come.| the top segment of capitalist dictators—openly absorb the won't start up until after the first| of the year. Every department is| | jon reduced operations and many | | The Unemployed E of the| N. R. A, | and Metal Workers Indus-| “The Swope Plan is a thing that he and I have talked over \trial Union has lat a cam-| for years,” Johnson said. “I am in thorough agreement with jpaing for -relief for the part-time | ———______ him. It is almost a joint an- It meets every Wednes-| m. in the union hall | Federal Street. All and t-time steel to attend the | worker nouncement.” The Swope plan, the first of- Miners of 64 Locals Reject Roosevel tion isms! tne’ cumin s strike-breaking at 2:30 p yed are welco’ | meetings. | is . | activities of the ap- | a ES Edict to End Strike paratus. It would subordinate the Pp A gt dase apparatus to a pg ( + ° centralizes ‘s’ group, it would HOsses AIT anged Send Delegation to| nue inaustr var and would | absolutely outlaw strikers. Johnson pointed out that “of H | Capital for. Union Carnegie Meet tet | eke Minor Is Cheered ee SEUL PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 1—Rep- cies resentatives of 64 captive mine locals Fair’ Citizen’s Budget Cemmission Cheats met today at Uniontown, Pa. The meeting was called by Hynes, U. M. Him of Broadcast NEW YORK —To the consternation |W, A. District 4 president, to vote |on Roosevelt's “peace” pact, Hynes {demanded the meeting vote accent- s Budget Commis the ‘her course,” strikes and lock-out would be forbidden under the plan. He added that “for peace equity,” labor yes. to labor, he yes “Does that include the U."S. Steel Corporation?” he was asked. “I am not saying that,” he answered. Johnson teday admitted officially for the first time that N.R.A J as conceived and execut gineered by big b “Industry asks for thi: ance, but speech after speech by the Ts opposed Hyn: proposal. No vote was taken, Hynes realiz- ing it would defeat the demand of | | Roosevelt Instead a delegation of : eight was elected to go to Washing- atest ovation | ton to see Roosevelt and present the @ symipos.um ON) position of the miners and demand in Carnegie Hall, | union recognition: and the is law,” John~ iggested that ying apparen’ objection) sug- | of lay the city Tuesday, ea gested N.R.A. | The four bale | Martin Ryan. so-called insurgent | «pyo¢ everybody for the same | hall and ever der, was elected to heed the Ge8- | thing “Johnson alirt urned | amitied gation, and Hynes, the Provisional | «put'the town was | Guardia, Samuel Untermeyer | President of Dist. 4, was also elect-| almost every industrialist was I = R counsel for} ed to Pea sinays gid tie es t Johnson said that under the Swope cried ae ae S gathered out-| plan,,the group governing admir - to|side the hall where the meeting was apart nodes would gliw. sale A he was on the| held, bitt expressing their re- : sttalives *to" aie oe that got quite a recep-|sentment against the treacherous ata flatly, “ ly, these represen- s “would be without authorit: to vote, but would hold a veto powe: Johnson explained that the Swop: vlan for the culmination of certain big business interests to govern them- selves without ference, as they during the Referring to war time p! he said that this ar- rangeme: h netted a balance | fits to the industrialists, but that later on the ma- Roosevelt “peace” pact. While the decision of the meeting expresses the strong pressure of the ank and file, the proposal for a delegation to Roosevelt states: “That it is to seek amplification of the captive mine eement and assur- e from the President that it means U nr tion.” With such a stand, in face of the combined forces against the miners, inor was robbed of his op- . ak over the railio. Committee, a5 Peter Grim when everybody in the mining field co-operating big business the “peace” pact me duced, and found that some y to the company unit ination” by the government ae sed by & ‘od thing. He explained nly confusion and that the Federal Trade t morale of the ion had not proved a satis- kers can result. method of this government one of the strikers outside the se this commission aGuardia had|hall said: “How can we go bach man and pecchet along with| under such an agreement. We I not co-operate with the bosses and all the company men down on us, and if we were lucky to get a job, it would be the dirtiest in the mines.” Johnson said the war- lacked “planning from Moreover, time s lence of “his’ the The Frick Coal Company has an- inence and control is form vre nounced through posting of notices ng scab trusts, and cat-called and vio! .|at the mines that the mines would|especially their trade associations, Mr. Grimm introduced Mr. Solo-| reopen “when the employees are as-|such as the ile Institute, the mon with the more than just state- of proiection.” American Iron and Steel Institute, e ff Hackney of Fayette Coun-|the National sociation of Manu- vo major parties of today |ty declared’ “That when the govern- | facturers and the National Metal ix lessons from the] ment and the union officials see tho | Trade Association. time has come to open the mines, I| In this way. the huge corporations will see that the men going through | 2nd their banker owners, are drawn into closer control of ment and especially attagks agi the govern- in the N.R.A, ¢ the workers. are protected if I have to deputize half of Fayette County.” In this way they are preparing to HELD WITHOUT PROOF | NEW YORK,.—Although their al- leged hold-up victims failed to iden-| jam the “peace” pact down the| BEAU aPEE Cre | tify them, seven men were held by | throats of the miners by intimidation, * . , | Brooklyn police on charges of rob-| deputized gun thugs and military Coal Boat Ow ners | bery forces if they don’t work. Thugs Wreck Union Hall in Boston, Mass. BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 24 (By Mail). Following up letters to the crews of the coal boats not to have any- thing to do with the Marine Workers Industrial Union, which is winning response from the men, the owners sent paid gangsters*to wreck the union hall. The wree! e Says When Suny Resolution Is Killed of Green and Lewis. They egged How- ard of the Typographical Union to these facts on the part of Green and his associates who direct these ers succeeded in destroy- ug the furniture and fixings before very acts of sm against the | attempt to stop Sumner from spill- of the Port Organizing rank and file and particularly |ing the beans. “I don’t believe) Gommittes rned to the ride They against militant union members. | Brother Sumner understands the] aro warned that precautions to pre= language of this resolution and the “We had to go to the Police De- TREO TRO ke oonE IAT | implications it contains,” blurted out partment,” Sumner continued. “We vent a repetition of the attack have been taken, and will end disastrously had to come to Washington. We had| Delegate Howard. He wanted Sum-| sy them, to elect a states attorney who was| ner to know that the resolution was este . fair to us (he happened to be lined | introduced on behalf of the rank and RISE IN “DAILY” SALES file and against the strikebreaking A. F. of L. officialdom that is the warp and woof of gangsterdom. Right Across the Eyes “I think I do,” retorted Sumner, “And I know the men that are con- nected with these fellows, and don’t think for a minute that labor's skirts NEW YORK—Jane Williams re- ports that D: orker sales on the corner of 42nd ect and 6th Ave. have inevoased from 30 copies a day, three months ago, to 50 in one hour yesterday morning. It should not be long, comrade Williams estimates, be- fore she will be averaging 100 copies up with the gangsters himself—D.W.) against a lousy pup that wes no good and we told the authorities th: they came our way there was to be no question, we ere going to kill them. We stand ready to do it. If they come our way we are going to kill them and talk about it later.” This unpremeditated expose was a daily, All this in a none too pro- too much for some of the sidekicks (Gontinued on Page 2) Jetarian neighborhood. Ms