The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 4, 1933, Page 1

| | Your $1 to the Daily Worker | Helps it Fight for the Soviet Union! Dail ‘(Section of the Communist Soe Vol. X, No. 265 Watered as second-class matter at the Post Offies at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879, NEW YORK, “SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1933 taunist Party U.S.A. Hail the 16th Victorious Year of the Soviet Unions me orker | America’s Only Working | Class Daily Newspaper € ight. Pages eS Price 3 Cents ¢ (FORWARD TO WORKING-CLASS POWER BY THE BOLSHEVIK ROAD NRA OUTLAWS SILK STRIKE: LEADERS OF UNITED TEXTILE UNION OK SELL OUT ORDER Decision Bases Minimum Wage on Vague Promises; Includes Only Weavers | Carry Out Threat of Johnson, Following Swope | Plan; All Workers Concerned WASHINGTON, D. C., ~ 3- first decision of the national N. R. strike. decision, crassly revealing the strikebreaking role of the N.R.A., | follows close on the heels of the Swope-Johnson plan of placing the N.R.A, in the exclusive hands of a board of the biggest manufacturers. The decision of the Roosevelt gov- ernment against the silk strikers is the carrying out in practice of the pan to strengthen the attack of the ig bosses against the workers. The decision outlawing the silk strike . will be applied to all other indus- j tries as the brutal answer of Roose- ly velt. to the wave of strikes of the \ workers and farmers against starv- ation. The Friday edition of the Pater- zon Call, in eight-column headlines, announces “Silk Strike Outlawed By Labor Board Edict.” The Friday Paterson News, also reflecting the government policv of openly declar- ing strikes illegal, states, “Senator ane Orders Silk Strike Called The leaders of the United Tex- tile Workers Union have already accepted the demand that the strike end, and’ Fronk Schweitzer, secre- tary of the U.T.W. in Paterson, has issued a statement urging the strik- ers to return to work on Monday. The decision calls for an “average wage of $25 for 40 hours work” for {the weavers. No minimum wage is } definitely set for other crafts. With regard to the weavers, the minimum wage is not guarantced. The Pater- son manufacturers state that they will accept “providing the same scale is applied to the entire in- dustry.” General Johnson has announced that he will “make a survey” of the industry nationally to see what steps can be taken to “eliminate unfair competition.” The decison thus means that the strikers are instructed to return to the mills, without auy written agreement guaranteeing a minimum wage and with only vague promises. The wording of the decision, if ac- cepted by the workers, enables the employers to find many loopholes to cut wages later. The decision is ac- companied by a warning from Sen- ator Waener against future strikes, stating “Any dispute arising out of the application of this decision shall be submitted to the National Labor Board.” The threat means that the whole force of the Roosevelt government is to be brought against the silk strikers, in case they do not return to work, and a repetiton of the ter- ror of Ambridge against the steel workers, following similar govern- Japan Moves Troops Toward Soviet Line PEIPING, Nov. ‘3.—Japan has reversed previous stand and permitted "Guinees forces with ar- tillery and machine guns to po- lice the “demilitarized” area be- tween China and Manchukuo, thi tion or sparetionsogstent, te ‘ations a; e ar jor oper: ts rig Bg it was rev has suddenly withdrawn ates from “the “demili- area, so they can be las against the Soviet Union at = notice, This new policy auereeh i collaboration of Leet HEL bar a with let anti-Soviet plans. ft ABs ‘Hathaway way to Spe Speak at Washington Meet On N.R.A. Tonight es D. C.—Clarence editor of the Daily Worker tel be the main speaker at he age fod Jerusalem Hall, pl feet St. * 8 o’clock this He will on the HE wich which’ che Dai Worker has carrying on consistent attacks me reat inh! being ae anees by RELIEF DROPS " MONTPELIER, Nov. 3. — Only 3,098 families in Vermont received ployment relief in September, — number since April, JOB. he National Labor Board gave out ® decision late yesterday ‘outlawing the naticnal silk strike. This is the A, apparatus openly outlawing a The board, through its chairman, Senator Robert F. ‘Wagner, or- ders the strikers back to work. The? Stay Asked for in Scottsboro Appeal To Supreme Court [LD Demands Ala. Pay Cost of First Appeal Before New Trial WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 3.— Motion for a stay of all proceedings in the trials of the nine innocent Scottsboro boys until the state of Alabama pays the costs of the appeal to the U, 8, Supremede Court has been filed with that court by Osmond K. Fraenkel, attorney retained by the International Labor Defense, and will be hear Monday, Nov. 13, ‘The motion cites the assignment of $1,452.55 in costs, nearly all of it for printing of the appeal, by the U. S. Supreme Court to the state of Alabama, which was the defendant in the appeal, won by the Interna- tional Labor Defense, in a decision handed down Nov. 7, 1932, granting the boys a new trial, With November 27 set as the date for the opening of the new lynch trial before Ku Klux Klan Judge W. W. Callahan, and with Attorney Gen- eral Thomas E. Knight calling for the nine boys to be brought for ar- raignment to the lynch town of De- catur, November 20, the motion, un- less decided immediately by the Su- preme Court, would have the effect of delaying the trials. No precedent has ever been set for the decision of the court in a so-called criminal case, but the law calls for a stay of all further proceedings by the losing side in all eases coming up to the U. S, Supreme Court until costs are paid up as assessed. TOWARDS AMERICA! Red Parade March in 3 Boros Tonite} NEW YORK. With bands of music, autos, loud-speakers mounted on trucks, red flares, banners and motorcycles, workers of New York will parade through the working- class sections of Manhattan, Brook- lyn, and the Bronx tonight in sup- port of the Communist Party in one of the biggest eleciion parades the city has ever witnessed. The Communist Party issued a statement yesterday calling on all its members to join in the parade. Hundreds of open-air rallies will be held before marching and will join the parades all along the lines of march. The main starting points are as follow: : Manhattan and Bronx: 6 p.m.— Rutgers Sq.; 6:45—Union S p.m.—72d St, and First Ave.; —86th St. and Lexington Ave. —189th St. and Cypress Ave.; 9: 245 —Prospect Ave. and 161st St., Bronx; 10 p.m.—Wilkins and Inter- vale Aves., Bronx; 10 p.m.—Aller- ton Ave, and Bronx Park East. Brooklyn: 5:30 p.m.—Fifth Ave. and 50th St.; 6 p.m.—Tompkins and Hart Sts.; 6:30 p.m.—Cleveland and Blake Aves. 1] TRAPPED IN “TINDER BOX” PERISH All Dead Are’ Negroes; L.S.N.R. to Protest Slum Conditions NEW YORK. — The Brownsville Branch of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights is calling a meet- ing early next week to protest the rotten housing conditions respon- sible for the tragedy at 361 Bristol St., Brooklyn. ae By JEROME ARNOLD NEW YORK. — Kindling wood — 8! that's what the neighbors called the two-story frame house at 361 Bristol St., Brooklyn, where eleven Negroes were burned to death early yesterday morning by a raging fire “of unknown origin.” The origin of the fire may be un- known. But the rapid way in which the ravenous fire ate into the rotten walls and interior is no mystery. The house is made of dry, weather-beaten White House Hints Approval of Swope Fascist. Proposals (Washington Burean) WASHINGTON, D, C., Nov. :3.— The White House today character- ized the Swope plan as very inter- esting and affirmed in response to a question that the time for putting such a project into action is not now opportune. In a discussion of the proposal, significantly, there was no refer- ence to the Swope-Johnson pro- gram’s admitted intention to draw industrial control into a few hands of the nation’s biggest business in- terests and outlaw strikes. It was said at the White House that the eercls temporary mechan- ics of the N.R.A. will ultimately evolve something permanent, that many plans for this will be forth- coming in the next three or four months and undoubtedly something will be evolved to meet the two-fold object of N.R.A. The latter were explained as the prevention of big economic swings such as occurred in the past, and the amelioration of conditions at the bottom of the eco- nomic scale. It was in this connec- tion that the Swope plan was termed very interesting. A SOVIET You can help hasten the day when we shall celebrate a Victorious Workers’ and Farmers’ Soviet Republic in the United States by building strong the Daily Worker, which agitates, organizes and mobilizes the forces for the destruc- tion of capitalism in America. The drastic drop in receipts in the $40,000 Drive this week imperils the life of our Revolu- tionary Organizer, the Daily Worker. Rush funds to it at once! Help it fight for A SOVIET AMERICA! ° . ° Friday’s Receipts Previous Total .. Total to Date ... wood—the kind of tinder you put into @ stove to start fire, The only means of exit from the top floor is an old, rickety staircase which was the first thing to burn. There's a fire-escape but it reaches only to first story nec- essitating a drop of about fifteen feet to the street. The alarm was turned in @ few minutes after the fire had started by Mary Edwards, 14, a Negro girl who saw the smoke from her bed- room across the street at 203 Livonia Ave, But it was almost twenty min- utes before the first engines arrived, and the house was already ablaze from bottom to roof, The trapped Negroes never had a chance. Most of them were children who, finding the only means of exit barred, ran screaming from room to room until they fell from the smoke and flames. The dead were: Marjory Singleton, 16, James Singleton, 15. Freddie Singleton, 7. Daisy Harden, 22. June Harden, 6 months. Mrs. Beatrice Lindsay, 35. Robert Lindsay, 42. Robert Lindsay, Jr., 3. Jessie Harris, 40. Mildred Lindsay, 15 and William Harden, 31, died later in the hospital from their burns. Juanita Harden, 5, was severely burnt and is in Beth El Hospital in a critical condition, Thre others, Dan Login, Roland Sur- back, and Charles Smith ‘were burnt, but not seriously. Mrs. Lindsay was an active worker in the Amboy Street strike last spring and was chairman of the recent Con- ference Against the High Cost of Living held in Bronxville. Her hus- band was going to vote Communist for the first time. The only one who escaped un- harmed was W. B. Carter, a Negro preacher, who escaped by crawling through a window in the back of the bottom fioor where he slept. “I was awakened by a crackling sound about 3 in the morning,” he told the Daily Worker reporter. “The kitchen was full of smoke. There was a pet rushing noise. I got up and ran to the door. As I opened it the ceiling in the kitchen fell with a I ran to the back and got out through a window.” A glance upwards from the interior of the hall tells the story of an angry, ecgeee Capital Confab | By SEYMOUR WALDMAN (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) | WASHINGTON, Oct, 3—The cap- | tive miners’ delegation, led by the | United Mine Workers of America to-| day, admitted to the Daily that they did not p: Hugh S. Johnson, N. R. A. pone sal trator, against the P: breaking agreement Lewis and the steel owners. | The delegation was escorted into a | conference with General Johnson by | A. Dennie Lewis, brother of John L. | Lewis. | “We are just going to talk over| the situation with General Johnson,” William Hynes, President of District No. 4, U. M. W. A, and head of the delegation, replied, when asked whether he would demand full union recognition. “We are going to see what the President’s agreement means.” “Are you here to protest against the President’s declaration?” “No, we just want an e-nlanation.” “Hines, are you going to continue picketing until you get full union | recognition?” “I cannot answer that now.” Martin Ryan; so-called insurgent leader, fully supported Hines. “No, we are not here to protest. We are just here to have this agree- ment explained,” he said. ‘The delegation, which answered the Daily Worker Correspondent’s questions, in spite of Lewis’ efforts to prevent their being questioned, consisted of 8 miners, including the leaders. General Johnson, without making any announcement, escorted the delegation to the White House to see President Roosevelt. The statement of Hynes and Ryan are especially significant when con- trasted with their announcements last week in Washington that they were demanding full union recogni- tion before returning to the pitts. The delegation spent most all today visiting Lewis’ brother in his luxuri- ous quarters in the fashionable Carlton Hotel. Even some of the conservative newspapermen here characterized the delegation as just a junket at the expense of the striking miners. Bronx Tenants Win Rent Strike The rent strike which had been going on for two months at 812 Suburban Place, Bronx, has been settled with a victory for the striking tenants, The Charlotte St. Centre of 1447 Charlotte St. with whose help the strike was suc- cessfully carried through, appeals to all the tenants of the neighbor- hood to come to the centre and help organize a block committee. Only through a strong, united or- ganization can tenants fight for and win their demands. Let the unity of the tenants of 812 Su- burban Place be an example for all the tenants of the neighbor- hood. Come to the Charlotte St. Centre and help build a strong organization. Sere rence ONCE Ee on eet MAXIM LITVINOV Lityinov, Fighter for Peace, Is Staunch Bolshevik By MILTON HOWARD It is a veteran Bolshevik fighter, a seasoned and trusted representa. tive of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union who will land in this country when M. Litvinoy, So- viet envoy to the ited States, steps off the Berengaria this Tues- day and immediately takes the train for Washington. Lityinov_ comes to discuss with President Roosevelt the possibility of establishing complete diplomatic relations between the United States and the Soviet Union. His invitation by the United States Government is a tribute to »the extraordinary victories of the Soviet Union in the field of indus- trial development sna diplomacy. Once Snubbed In Europe Fifteen years ago, as the repre- i s s sentative of the new Soviet Govern. ‘in this work he was seized by the ment, born out of the fires of pro- letarian revolution, Litvinoy was the } most snubbed diplomat in Europe. ‘oday he no longer has to wait in_ante-rooms or face the haughty, cold stares of the Foreign Agents of | the European powers. Today, Litvinov, as the represent- ative of the Soviet Union, the only country in the world that has es- caped the devastating effects of the world crisis, walks boldly into the conferences of European diplomacy and takes his place at the forefront. Outstanding Diplomatic Triumphs Eyen the most practiced of capi talist_ diplomats grudgingly adm that his is the most outstanding ree. ord of diplomatic triumphs in the world today, triumnhs all dedicated | the umphant building of the Socialist Power. to the unshakable peace policy of Soviet Union and to the tri- _ And this is all the more astound- ing when one remembers that Lit- vinov, who has so triumphantly crossed swords and vanquished the most astute and wily capitalist dip- lomats of Europe, has never had one day of formal training as a dip- lomat, The greater part of his life has been spent as a trusted representa- tive of the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party of Russia, led by Lenin. Worked In the Factories Born in 1876, he began his politi- cal career in 1898 as a revolution- ary propagandist pmoge the factory workers of Russia. ile engaged Czarist police and impmsoned. While in prison he met some of the Bol- sheviks of the revolutionary news- paper, Iskra. He joined this group. Soon after he was deported to East~ ern Siberia by the Czarist secret service police. However, his ingenuity was a match for the Russian police and he escaped from Siberia and fled to Switzerland. Not long after, at the calling of the historic Second Cof- gress of the Russian Social Demo- eratic Party where, led by Lenin, the Bolsheviks broke away from the oppo! it wing of the Russian So- cialist Party, Litvinov became a (Continued on Page 3) SOVIET WAY IS U. S. WORKERS’ WAY OUT OF CRISIS, SAYS ROBERT MINOR Betihiene Revolution in Russia Had Deep Effect ¢ on 1 American Workers in Spite of Position of American Imperialism By ROBERT | MINOR (Communist Candidate for Mayor of New York) THOUSAND incidents of class struggle from the California cotton-fields through the coal mines and steel mills of Pennsylvania, to the silk mills of New Jersey and the| jon shoe factories of New York, reveal the Communist Party more and more as the native revolutionary Party of American working class. the And precisely. because it is the native growth of movement historically due—precisely pace mar arg eat cee Ae fluenced by the Russian Revolution. Rain does not stimulate-a seed to growth, except when the seed is ground is rich. Up to 1917 the revolut move- pe in the United States was in primitive state that might almost seem incredible if its histori causes highest wages, the trade union move- ment, through its official leadership, Vcr overlooked. In this country of Charles H. Vail, . . INTEMPT for theory was the ‘fitst. precept of “Theory” in this kaleidoscope of “Marxism.” “Practi- ”. “American” “horse-sense” was set up alongside of a dry, bookish, -| puritan shunning of any practice, shunning of American life and its struggles, shunning of any kind of sense, horse or otherwise. ‘The Soci- alist Labor Party, before the death of DeLeon in 1914, had a certain respect for Marxian theory, but was 80 deeply stricken with sectarianism as to be utterly unable to respond to any of the phenomena of life during the greatest revolutionary period, otherwise than by sinking into the ditch of anti-revolutionary and then counter-revolutionary social democ- racy, after DeLeon’s death. Even before DeLeon died, the S. L. P. had @ complete lack of sense of the real, living theory-inseparable-from-prac- tice which Marx had given us. A reaction (and at times a healthy reaction of unripe proletarian rev- olutionists) against the non-Marxian “sky-pilot” opportunism of the S. P. and against the dead pseudo-Marx- ian sectarianism of the S. L, P., was the great wave of anarcho-syndical- ism after 1907 when the I. W. W. broke from DeLeon. Up to the very moment of the October 1917 Revolu- tion in Russia, the I. W. W. repre- sented a still vital reality as an or- ganization of the unskilled masses, and momentarily presented a magni- ficent heroism and martyrdom in the struggle against war. Being non- Marxian and never having risen above the theoretical level of petty- bourgeois anarchist syndicalism, the I, W. W. then rapidly sank to its present state of decay. And all of the parts of this kaleido- scope were in fact—really an adap- tation to American capitalist life and to the imperialist system. Each school was, in its own unconscious way, conforming to the American imperialist system. Each was an un- conscious product of the relatively- high standard of living of this Cuba~ looting imperialism and its chauvi- nist ideology, or (in the case of some sections of the I. W. W.) a product of blind reaction against it on the part of the unskilled proletarian sec~ tions, chiefly of the West. It was inevitable that in this country of strong imperialism, these conditions would produce such re- sults. re a UT other historical conditions in the old Czarist Russia (within the same world complex) produced a “weakest link” of imperialism, and at the same time produced also the strongest revolutionary culture of theory-inseparable-from-practice and the strongest and boldest revolution- ary proletarian party entrenched in the depths of the industrial work- ing class. It was there that the chain broke. But the thing that broke was a chain. It was a chain of world-wide imperialist states, a single world system. The Russian reyolution became the greatest creative even# of ail history — an event after which all things in all countries must change. It was (and is) the mortal blow to an old world, and the birth of a new. ‘ The proletarian reyolution that broke out and triumphed in Russia was and is as “natural” a force in developing the American proletarian revolution as, for instance, the dis- covery of America in 1492 was an inevitable and “natural” force in breaking down feudal restrictions land paving the way for the bour- (Continued. on Page 2) CAPTIVE MINE Workers Throughout America STRIKERS GET Celebrate Red Anniversary! DIRTY DEAL Lewis Kin Helps Keep! Union Demand from | Io Pledge Defense of USS.B.;Support All Red Nominees | | Misetitides Planned in | Hundreds of Cities | NEW YORK.—Workers in | hundreds of cities and towns |of the United States will join tomorrow and Tuesday with | millions of workers throughout {the world in celebrating the jday on which, sixteen years ago, one-sixth of the world was torn from the grip of capitalism. They will greet the workers of the Soviet Union, who in the sixteen years since November 7, 1917, have created achievements unparalleled in the history of the world. In the United States, torn by the final crisis of capitalism, suffering starvation, misery, and the desperate, ruthless efforts of the capitalists to smash their resistance and herd them to war as the capitalist way out, they will celebrate the victorious advances of Socialism, and the end of crises and unemployment in the Soviet Union. At thousands of meetings through- out the land, the American workers will draft and send their greetings to their brothers in the Soviet Union, who have shown them the reyolu- tionary way to final freedom. While hailing the achievements of the workers of the Soviet Union, who seized all the productive powers of their country from the grip of capitalism, and, in 16 years, trans- formed the whole land and them- selves with it, the workers of Amer- ica will look forward with renewed courage to their own Noy. 7, when, in their turn, they will smash the (Continued on Page 2) Mass Anger Forces Talk of Federal Probe of Lynchings By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Nov. 3. — The Department of Justice today in- formed the Daily Worker that fed- eral investigation of the lynching of George Armwood in ‘iaryland and Dan Pippen, Jr., and A. T. Har- den. in Tuscaloosa, ‘Ala. ++ Is now re- ceiving serious consideration in the Department. “We are now studying both of these matters,” an official close to Attorney General Homer S. Cum- mings, said. “If we have authority to investigate, we will use it. Both questions are in the hands of an assistant attorney general.” The demands for investigation of the shameful Princess Anne lynch- ing were transmitted to Attorney General: Cummings by Louis Mac- Henry Howe, secretary to President Roosevelt, who received them from a delegation of white and Negro spokesmen for mass organizations, The group, led by William L. Pat- terson, secretary of the Internation- al Labor Defense, gave Howe evi- dence to show that constitutional rights are being scotched by the failure of Maryland authorities, from Governor Ritchie down, to bring about prosecution of known leaders of the mob who murdered George Armwood, Negro worker. The attorney general personall, received specific demands for f eral prosecution of Sheriff R. Ts Shamblin of Tuscaloosa, Ala., who deliberately delivered Pippen, Har- den and Elmore to a bloodthirsty mob. The gang murdered Pippen and Harden and attacked Clarke and left him, apparently believinj him dead, on a lonely Alabama Toe, The case was presented by spokese men for the I.L.D., the. American Civil Liberties Union, the National Committee for Defense of Political Prisoners and the National Associa= tion for the Advancement of Cole ored People. That was last August. The attore submit a brief. This was done, and tion, two more memorandums were submitted, on Aug. 24 and Oct. 18, Pebve ly, by the International Juridical Association. And in these communications the whole train of the barbaric events that led to the mass murders. is traced for the along with a summa*y of the two other lynchings which followed in Tuscaloosa, ney general asked the delegation to _ weeks having elapsed without ace S| k attorney general, |- iF i AEE