The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 6, 1933, Page 1

: | Tool Strikers Ranks a eime ale treatment accorded | tJ it, General — Detroit Rushed $130 Saturday | to Help Save Daily Worker; | | Where Is Cleveland? | | Dail Central O (Section of the Communist International) “Vol. X, No. 266 > * Entered az second-class matter at the Post Office st New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 8, 1879, NEW YORK, , MONDAY, NOV EMBER 6, 1933 orker — | Class Daily Newspaper unist Party U.S.A. | (Six Pages) America’s Only Working _ Price 3 Cents RELIEF FOR HUNGRY CHIEF CAMPAIGN ISSUE, SAYS MINOR Lose Faith in NRA;” Men Reply: ‘Strike? Lewis; UMW Officials | Tell Men to Remain | at Work and Scab | | WILKES BARRE, Pa., Nov. 5.—Rejecting all appeals to| wait for the N.R.A. to “me- diate,” 500 delegates of the/ United Anthracite Miners’ Union here at their convention, acting for 40,000, yesterday voted to issue a strike call for Mon- | day to all anthracite workers in Luzerne and Lackawanna Counties. The strike is called for higher wages, lower hours and recognition of the newly formed union. Father J. J. Curran tried to stem the tide with an impassioned plea that the miners are losing faith in the N. R. A. He was constantly in- [terruptea by cries of “Strike! Strike!” qUhe strike vote was unanimous. ) - Father Curran appealed to the | miners to wait to hear Joseph H. Wil- jets, dean of the University of Penn- sylvania and representative of the Labor Board of the N. R. A. The miners refused to wait, but Tepeatedly called for a strike vote. John L. Lewis and other U.M.W.A. vificials, from whom the miners have split off and formed an indepandent union, issued an appeal to the miners to ignore the strike call and to scab. Around 60,000 miners work in Dis- trict 1, for which the call for a gen- eral strike was issued for Monday. Hecently the N. R, A. adopted a | code for anthracite miners which | Save the bosses the right to continue ; the present wage and hour condi- ii in the mines. ns ea 1} Roosevelt Sends Strikebreakers to Anthracite Fields (Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.—The send- ing of a National Labor Board rep- Tesentative to abort “threats of strikes” in the Wilkes Barre, Penn- Sylvania, coal region marks the first | step by the Roosevelt Administration toward realizing an open fascist la- bor program. In addition, it fore- shadows an edict absolutely prohibit- ing strikes, the attainment of which N.R.A. Administrator Johnson con- fessed to be one of the ultimate aims of the “recovery” program. It means that the Blue Eagle soon will spit steel at those who insist on | the right of the strike and reject compulsory arbitration. Heretofore, the National Labor Board waited until the outbreak of _ a strike to “settle” (break) it either ‘| by exhausting the financial and phy- | sical resources of the workers by sum- moning them to fruitless meetings from which the manufacturers ab- sented themselves or by decreeing “elections” months later, a tactic ad- mirably suited to give employers Plenty of time to root out the strik- ers’ leaders before the “election” and hence break the backbone of the workers’ front. Now, however, the National Labor Board will strike sooner and openly. “Investigators” will leave Washington regularly to throttle even “threats rikes.” Johnson, and d (Continued on Page 2) Leaders Split Die, »| Manufacturing Company settled yes- . The strike misleaders, with- consulting the men, ditched the for @ dollar per, hour miai- | ae 8 85 cents and lower pya for ai tices. Culver, tasnager of Detroit Employers Asso. issued a jubilant statement. ‘The Griffen-Smith clique is ignoring | New Mexico, and Gov. Hockenhull at ‘Euel Lee Memorial the demand MINE WOMEN SLASHED BY N.M. MILITIA Break Up Protest Against Arrest of Benjamin GALLUP, New Mexico, Nov. 5.— At least six were arrested and many injured, including women, when na- tional guardsmen made a bayonet and sabre attack against a demon- | stration which was protesting agaiust | the arrest of Herbert Benjamin, un- employed leader. The guardsmen threw tear gas and brutally beat and stabbed the workers present. They were seen slashing old women and mutilating others. Those arrested in- cluded Martha Roberts, wife of the strike leader, Bob Roberts, member of the National Miners Union, who is in prison for his strike activities; John) Demurtes and his wife, and several others. The demonstration was protesting the sentence of Herbert Benjamin by @ military court to one year in prison. Benjamin was on a national speak- ing tour for the Unemployed Coun- cils, speaking for the passage of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, and was speaking in Gallup to the striking miners when arrested. After escaping from a military stock- ade, where he was held by the na- tional guard in defiance of all his civil rights, Benjamin was recaptured and. sentenced by court martial. The protest demonstration, which was broken up by the police sabres, was also demanding the release of Bob Roberts and George Kaplan, who were sentenced together with Ben- jamin. * * Miners Send Protest NEW YORK. — The Unemp'oyed Council of Shenandoah, Pa., has sent wires to General Wood at Gallup, Santa Fe, New Mexico, demanding the immediate release of Herbert Benjamin and the strike leaders held with him, arrested while addressing @ mass*meeting. The national office of the Unemployed Council urges all workers to send protests to Wood and Hockenhull, in Harlen: Tonight Minor, Patterson Talk at Demonstration NEW YORK.—Harlem workers, in- dignant over the rapidly. mounting lists of lynchings and legal murders, will hold a memorial meeting for Euel Lee and a demonstration against fascism tonight at Lenox Ave. and 131st St. After the street demonstra- tion, an indoor meeting will be held in the International Workers Order hall, on the same corner. The meeting will be addressed by Robert Minor, Communist candidate for Mayor, William L. Patterson, Na- tional Secretary of the International Labor Defense, Herman McKawain, of the National Council of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, and John Spivack, author of “Georgia Nigger,” who re-ently exposed tae lynchers of George Armwood for the “Daily Worker”, will be one of the oa speakers, Unmasked AT THE GERMAN FRONTIER, arson trinl, Gen. Herman Wilhelm Premier, angered and confused by the questions of Georgl Dimitroff, one of the four Communists on trial for of how the trial may end,” fascism will wreak its bloody vengeance on the four Communist leaders. When Dimitroff, Bulgarian Com- munist leader, protested that the Nazi police had done nothing to trace real perpetrators other than the four Communist leaders framed up by the Nazis, Goering shouted: “I order you not to put such in- solent questions. You have reason enough to be afraid when you leave GEORGE DIMITROFF by Dimitroff Nov. 5.—Testifying at the Reichstag Goering, fascist leader and Prussian Saal lives, declared that “irrespective “the custody of this court.” ‘The lynch threat had no effect on) Dimitroff, who continued to rip to pieces the statements of Goering. Goering began his speech in a} roaring voice, declaring he had no intention of defending himself against | the “Brown Book lies,” referring to the evidence in the Brown Book of Hitler Terror that Goering himself had arranged for the firing of the Reichstag. He appeared, he stated, as an important witness, being the first on the spot after th fire. He op- posed the “Brown Book” as Prussian Minister in Germany's interest. | Goering stated that the accusation that he initiated the fire to furnish | a pretext for action against the Com- munist Party was senseless, as he in- tended in any event to prohibit the ; Communist Party, He described his activities from January and especially his anti-Communist fight. He boasted that he had infused new spirit into the police, inspiring the police with the belief that it was their duty to kill Communists, since the Home Ministry had assumed the responsi- | bility for such murders, | While declaring that Communism had been defeated, he stated the fight for the complete annihilation of Com- | munism will be continued and in this fight the living necessities of the nation .stand far above any legal (Continued on Page 6) Benjamin, Military Prisoner, Sends $1 to (Herbert Benjamin, jobless leader, was railroaded to a year in prison by a military court martial for helping the striking New Mexico miners. His letter follows) C. A. Hathaway, Editor, Daily Worker, New York City. Dear Comrade Hathaway: In a few hours I am due to be handcuffed and taken to the State It will not be possible to write more than five letters Prison in Santa Fe. a month from that place. I am taki for the support of the Daily Worker. For eight days the military officers at the McKinley jail withheld the Daily Worker from us. We went on a hunger strike. Worker was withheld from us we were in good spirits. Miners in this town stand on tne “Daily” McKinley Jail, Gallup, New Mexico, October 31, 1933. ing this opportunity to send my dollar Until the*Daily | the sidewalk and eagerly await the “| is sabotag’ Daily Worker agent to bring the “Daily” from the railroad station. The Daily Worker stiffened the ranks of the striking miners while their lead- SWEEPS ALL OVER WEST Farmers ‘Prepare for| National Conference | at Chicago | MILWAUKEE, Wis., Nov. 5.—Over- riding all attempts of the officials of | the Farmers Holiday Association to bar mass picketing on the roads, thousands of farmers in a dozen farm states yesterday swept on to the roads, stopping every vehicle car- rying scab farm produc In many cases the farm | ets | have already had pitched battles with | the deputy sheriffs who have flung | tear gas bombs against the pickets, | armed with guns, clubs and ston Trains are being stopped in many towns. Fifteen cars of livestock were stopped by the picketing farmers at James, Iowa. At Council Bluff, Iowa, the picket- | ing farmer: e cutting down the t egraph poles and are Jaying them across the highways to stop scab | trucks. | The defiance of the striikng farn ers of th Officials’ “no picket” or- der, is c: g the Holiday Associa- tion officials to increase their dema- | gogy. Miles Reno is now talking of urging the farmers to use “violence | if necess: At the same time, he g all efforts to organize mass picketing. Fearful that the strike will get out of his hands, Reno yesterday greeted | (Co nutinued on id on Page: 8) Litvinov Arrives in N. Y. Tomorrow NEW YORK —Maxim Litvinov, | Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs, lands in New York tomorrow, on his} way to Washington to discuss with | President oosevelt the beginning of | diplomatic relations between the United States and the Soviet Union. ‘The Soviet envoy, who is on the| Berengaria, will go straight from the ship to the train which will take him to Washington. He will be met at the boat by a representative of the De- partment of State, and at the station in Washington by Cordell Hull, sec- retary of state, who will bring him directly to the White House to meet President Roosevelt. Street, Nominee 'HE New York mayoralty campaign draws to a close. Tomorrow the workers go to the polls. The outcome of this election is important to every worker. The of bitter strike struggles, and face even greater struggles in the future. They are looking for a way out of their misery. Thousands of civil service employees, teachers, etc., ruined sections of the city’s middle class, home owners, are seething with discontent at the burdens which the capitalist city government heaps upon them. ‘That explains why the real rulers of the city, the handful of Morgan- Rockefeller bankers down on Wall Street, have placed LaGuardia and McKee before the people as pretended saviours from the starvation pro- gram and corruption of the city government. That is why every candidate except the Communist has deliberately dodged the burning issues that face the workers—the issue of relieving the hunger of the jobless workers, the issue of the subway fare and the robberies of the bankers. Behind McKee. stands the Tammany boss Flynn. And behind Flynn stand the Rochefeller banks, the banks which are grinding the city for enormous plunder. The Socialist Solomon makes only the feeblest of criticisms of the capitalist candidates. He approved the Untermyer tax agreement with the bankers. With unashamed frankness, he declared last night that | LaGuardia’s bankers’ program. “is the same as ours. Of all my opponents only Fiorello LaGuardia has pledged the same program.” He has maintained a guilty silence on the Communist pro.{ that he shares in the Tammany corruption in the courts, He has never declared against the bankers’ payments. Robert Minor, the Communist candidate, alone has driven straight to the heart of the city workers’ needs, He alone has torn away the Wall | Street tie that binds every candidate to carry through the Untermyer tax program, which guarantees the end of the five-cent fare and more relief cuts and wage slashes. He alone has declared that the city must stop the huge payments to the bankers at once, that it must levy a 10 per cent capital levy on all the rich. He alone has shown how to feed the starving workers by tak- ing huge slices out of the rich in taxes. A vote for the Communist Party is a vote for a united struggle of the whole working class against the capitalist way out of the crisis; it is a vote for struggle for better living conditions: a vote for the Party which leads the struggle for the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism. Communist candidates can be elected! Vote against Wall Street! Vote against hunger! Vote Communist! S.P. Chiefs Praise Fusion Nominee at Election Rally Workers Shout, “Demand Release. of Commu-} nists in Reichstag Fire Trial,” As Resolution on Germany ] Is S$ Silent on Issue By HARRY GANNES ney high point of the gathering was a slandering of Gene Debs by over- workers of the city are starving. They have gone through a period [ 40, 000 ANTHRACITE MINERS REJECT NRA ‘MEDIATION’: VOTE STRIKE Priest Bellows “You, Firebrand Goering Is _ FARM STRIKE Only Communists Fight Wall Declares ‘The Communist Vote Counts! Boss Parties in 7-Cent Fare Plot; Red Nominee Says | Minor Shows the La Guardia-Wall St. Tie-Up NEW YORK.—Swinging in- | to the last lap of his fighting | campaign, Robert Minor, Com- | munist candidate for Mayor, |yesterday launched a scathing | attack on the programs of LaGuardia McKee, O’Brien and Solomon, with : specific reference to the program for unemployment relief and the five- cent subway fare. Commenting on LaGuardia’s eleven- point election program presented last night at a Fusion rally in Brooklyn, {Minor declared: | “La Guardia fs the arch-dema~ gogue of the Wall Street bankers. He was actually selected by them te carry throuzth their program from the point where Tammany. may have to leave off. The fact that the chairman of LaGuardia’s opening campaign meeting was Malcolm D. Simpson, member of the | firm of J. P. Morgan, tells every- thing about LaGuardia. Examine his program, and in every detail you will find the poiicy of the Wall Street bankers headed by the Mor- gan-Rockefeller banks.” Continuing his attack on La- Guardia, Minor said: “From the very first, LaGuardia has made it clear that he intends to carry out the wishes of the bankers. He has deliberately de- clared that he will not increase the present Tammany starvation relief. payments by one cent. He has even intimated that by ‘scien- | tific management’ he will reduce the relief payments to every starving worker's family. Gn the ques- tion of relief, he will carry through the program of his Wall Street masters,” Minor said. | “Behind all of LaGuardia’s talk of the city’s credit and ‘unification,’ | looms the approach of the seven-cent | fare. It is to carry out the abolition of the five-cent fare that the bank- |ers have chosen LaGuardia—not that the other candidates would not do the same thing. The Morgan-Rocke- |feller banks are planning to trade their vast holdings of city traction | bonds for new city bonds in a gigan- ers were in the military stockade, We feel alarmed by the slowness concerned by the failure of the comrades to Tespond to its appeals. We add our voices to the urgent plea for quick help in the Drive that must succeed to SAVE OUR D, With Revolutionary Greetings, COMRADES! 'VERY clacs-conscicus worker must be alarmed by the slowness of the Drive. To gamble with the life the struggles of te striking proletariat. It amounts to betrayal of our comrades who brave machine-gun fire, bayonets, gas; who give up their freedom in order to lead us towards liberation from capitalism. Upon the success of the $40,000 Worker. Contribute. RAISE FUNDS. Rush them by airmail or spe- clal delivery to 50 E. 13th St, New York City, Saturday’s receipts . Previous total .. TOTAL TO DATE .......0000+ of the $40,000 Drive. We are greatly /1500 Negro Vets to Vote Communist NEW YORK.—Post No. 2, Negro branch of the National War Vet- erans, with 1,500 members, voted to support Robert Minor, Communist candidate, for mayor. The post voted at a branch meeting in their head~ quarters, 1888 Fulton St., Brooklyn, last Thursday. ‘The vets had heard representatives of all the parties before voting. I. Amter, Manhattan Borough President candidate, and Merle C. Work, can- didate for Assembly in the 17th Dis- trict, Brooklyn, spoke for the Com munist Party. AILY WORKER, HERBERT BENJAMIN. . . of our Daily Worker is to endanger Drive depends the life of our Daily $557.78 18,761.90 eeeeeerceecvecessesenss $19,319.68 NEW YORK.—“Of all my opponents only Fiorella LaGuardia has pledged the same program,” declared the So- cialist candidate for Mayor, the in- junction-lawyer, Charles Solomon, in his speech at Madison Square Gar- den yesterday to a listless crowd of 15,000, in the final Socialist election rally. As nearly all the other speakers de~ clared LaGuardia’s program was in- distinguishable from that of Tam- many and the Recovery Parties, the link of all the parties supporting Wall Street and opposing revolution was complete. The only difference between the Socialist municipal program and La- Guardia’s, declared Solomon, the So~ cialist standard-bearer, was that La- Guardia cannot be trusted to carry out his promises. That can best be left to a lawyer famous for obtain- ing injunctions against striking workers, towering and comparing him with] tic steal disguised as ‘unification’ of the vicious enemy of the Soviet Union, lawyer for the czarist oil bar- ons, the late Morris Hillquit. Norman Thomas devoted much praise to LaGuardia, es 3 lost So- cialist soul, who had fallen among disreputable characters. To Thomas, LaGuardia was fully acceptable, but | because he has been politically mated with Cunningham, Thomas was forced to disown one he tried to save for the Socialist method of deceiving | the workers. occasion was Martin Pletl, President of the German Clothing Workers, who for his services in preventing workers from striking, was released by the Nazis and permitted to go his way. “Why don’t you demand the release of Dimitroff, Torgler, Popoff, Taneff (Continued on Page 6) 2,000 Steel Workers Laid Off by Illinois Steel Co., Badges Taken from Them, Equivalent to Shine! Fired; Told to “Come Back Next April” So. CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 5. —Two thousand steel workers were laid off here Thursday by the llinois Steel Co., a sub- sidiary of the United States Steel. Their badges were taken away from them, which is equivalent to being fired. They were told, ‘Things will pick up around April. Come back then.” On Wednesday, November 1st, hundreds were similarly laid off, These workers have getting only two to three days work a week since the N.R.A. Stee Oa ee estea sult that they are now desti- tute. Showing their solicitude for the workers, the steel com- panies, before the lay-offs, let the: landlords know of the plans, so that when the dis- charged workers came to draw their checks, they found the little money they had com- ing seized by the landlords on garnishment proceedings, Workers Bitter The temper of the workers is running high. They milled about the gates. shouting: Tout ote eect, ih we] "Tala dee hat damn: poe) saan For Jobless Insurance! ‘The lay-off of more than two thousand workers by the Illinois Steel Company plant in South Chicago, subsidiary of the United States Steel Corporation, is part of a nation-wide lay-off drive. The millions of un- employed and part time workers face a winter of hunger. Thousands of workers dre being fired in all basic industries and are added to the ranks of the 17,000,000 unemployed. ‘The lay-offs in the steel industry, as seen in South Chicago, one of the most important steel centers in the country, are an accompaniment of the sharp decline in industrial production since June. The drop in production is becoming sharper and sharper, the crisis broadening and deepening. The unemployed face evictions, cutting down of relief, in- creased use of terror against them, a foodiess and in many cases a homeless winter. ‘The workers must answer these mass lay-offs, part time work, speed-up, evictions, cutting down of relief, and increased hunger, by a nation-wide struggle of the employed and unemployed against the sharpened at- tacks of the Roosevelt government. The employed and unemployed, in a united struggle against hunger, can win unemployment relief and unem- ployment insurance. Demand Adequate Unemployment Relief! Demand the Passage of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill! VMK“ # ° , Build the ‘Unemployed Councils| eagle! The lousy bird is no good!” The Polish workers, many of whom formerly sup- ported the N.R.A., now say those letters stand for “No more work in America (“Nie- ma Roboty W Americe”) in their language. Some workers, questioned about what would happen to them, replied: “The Reds will take care of things; they won't let the bosses get away with this.” The Steel and Metal Work- ers’ Industrial Union is rush- aia Subsidiary of U. S. Steel =, fake Down That Damn Blue Eagle!” Shout Workers, Bitter Against the N. R. A. employed Branch and held a mass meeting Friday night. On Monday three mass meetings will be held and com- mittees will be sent to the mill bosses to demand re-employ- ment or relief for these men. These committees will also contain representatives of those who are still left in the mills, demanding a guaran- teed minimum of work and pay. It is also planned to hold a huge open hearing to expose & huge open hearing soon, to expose the N.R.A, One of the touted “heroes” of the|e« |the city's transit lines,” Commenting on the other candi- dates, Minor said: “Despite their ap- parent differences, they all are pawns (Continued on Page 2) Soviet Anniversary Meetings Arranged in Scores of Cities Celebrations Lin ked With Elections and Local Struggles Continuing throughout the present week, scores of meetines and demon- strations celebrating the 16th anni-+ versary of the Russian Revolution will be held in all parts of the coun- A partial list of the scheduled meetings follows: ae, re. STATEN ISLAND, N. Y.—A com- bined election campaign and Soviet anniversary banquet will be held Tuesday evening, Nov. 7, 8 p. m. at 789 Post Ave., West New Brighton. Williana Burroughs, Communist can- didate for Comoutroller, will be the main speaker. An excellent musical program has been prepared. onan tier CHICAGO, Ill,—Tuesday, Nov. 7, at the Coliseum. The speakers will include Earl Browder, general sec- retary of the Communist Party of the United States, as the main speaker, and representatives from the Young Communist League and Trade Union Unity League. i ae PHILADELPHIA, Pa, — Tuesday, Nov. 7 at 8 p. m. at Broadway Arena, Broad and Christian St. Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Work- er, will be the main speaker, i NEWARK.—Nov. 8, y p.m. at the Norn ij Y. M-Y. W. H. A. and W. bionigeat ho oC. \ (lonsinued on Page 2), at