The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 23, 1933, Page 1

GALLUP STRIKE W 3 FIGHTING DAYS! The Daily Worker Tag Days Friday, Saturday and Sunday ‘(Section of the Communist International) Vol. X, No. 281 > * Bntered as second-class matter at the Post Office st New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879, | | America’s Only Working | Class Daily Newspaper | { \ WEATHER—Fair and colder NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1933 DOLLAR Benjamin Will Be Freed; 8 Demands Won from Operators National Miners Union Forces Recognition of | Pit Committees; Checkweighman, No Discrimination GALLUP, New Mexico, Nov. 22.—The striking Gallup coal miners, have brought their struggle under the leadership of the National Miners’ Union to a victorious conclusion, forcing the coal operators to grant eight of the eleven strike demands and including the release of all Benjamin, sentenced to a year®—— a in prison when he spoke in| Freedom Promised E a f Gallup during a national sneaking tour against unemployment; Kaplan, Roberts and all other imprisoned Strike leaders now in the state peni- tentiary and the military stockade, are to be released. The coal operators were forced to agree to recognition of the pit com- mittees, installation of checkweigh- men, no discrimination and no black- + listing of sny workers. The victorious conclusion of the | Gallup strike is a significant victory ¢ for the National Miners’ Union, which now controls the Gallup field. The victory was won in the face of fierce terror and stringent martial law. During the course of the strike the | militia arrested many workers, putting | them in the military stockade on a diet of bread and water, attacked demonstrations and meetings of the strikers and the unemployed, bayo- netting and sabring as well as club- bing the workers. The striking min- | ers fought against the strike-breaking activities of the U.M.W.A. leaders, headed by Frank Hefferly and of the N.R.A., represented by Major John Moore. Women were clubbed and ar- rested as well as men. Martha Rob- erts being held incommunicado in the Gallup City jail. The rank and file of the strikers will vote today on the proposed settle- * ment of the strike. "Packing Strikers Reform Ranks, Vote Solid to Stay Out 13 Arrested; A. F. of L. Strikebreaking Answered PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 22.—To- day 13 packing house workers were arrested for strike activities. Glar- ing headlines in the boss press com- | plain of many militant actions on the part of the strikers. Herds of cattle were stampeded, they claim, in many parts of Pittsburgh, while| dozens of stores dealing with scab| meat were wrecked. The strike, in its second week, is now in a crucial stage, due to the strike-breaking activities of the of- ficials of the American Federation of Labor and the officials of the N. R.A. Night Shift Out ‘The Pittsburgh Provision Co. suc- ceeded in getting a group of drivers drunk and back on the job and stam- peded part of the shop back to work. The night shift still remains out. Working through some disruptive forces, they have partially succeeded in weakening the ranks of the strik- ers. In spite of this, the biggest ma- jority of the large shops remain solid at this time. ‘The workers in Oswald-Hess (over )), in spite of all the maneuvers the bosses, voted unanimously to on strike. The same took place in Zolers, Fried and Reineman, North Side Packing, and other shops, In some of these shops, still on strike, the workers have’ revised their de- mands and are presenting them to the company. In spite of all this, the spirit among the strikers remains high, especially for the fighting union of the packing house workers, The strike committee has suc- ceeded in exposing the fact that some disruptive forces have been attempt- ing to utilize the “red” issue. To- night the General Strike Committee meets on the question of reforming ranks and taking up immediate prob- Jems that face the whole strike. Injunction hearings are still pro-j ceeding. In spite of a vicious drive to break the strike, the largest ma- | jority of ths strikers still remain out. | TWO-MILE FIRE CONTROLLED PASADENA, Cal.—A fire that for some time threatened the residential twenty-nine prisoners. Herbert HERBERT BENJAMIN Hold Scabs, Bosses In Tannery, 18 Hrs. Mayor Calls for State Troops to Smash the Gloversville Strike | GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y., Nov. 22— | After 600 men and women strikers | surrounded the Levor mill and held the scabs and bosses prisoners for 18 hours during a 24-hour mass picket- ; demonstration, Mayor G. Greene | wired Governor Lehman for state | troops to smash the tannery strike today. Representatives of the Tanner's Association and of the strikers were scheduled to meet today at 3 p. m. to consider the proposals for a strike settlement made by State Industrial Commissioner Elmer F. Andrews. N.R.A. Mediator Pickard, following the militant picketing demonstration demanded that Solomon, a union leader, withdraw from the pending conference and that all picketing be stopped, These demands come after the bosses and city officials find that injunctions and police terror failed to break the strikers’ lines. The 24 hour mass picketing in which the strikers hurled tear gas bombs back into the faces of the police and could not be dislodged, demonstrated this. Union officials have refused to yield on the question of picketing and de- spite the “red” scare propaganda now being intensified the strikers are de- termined to win their demand for recognition of their Independent union. : The tanners today presented a black list to the NRA mediator, which included the name of Carr, the union’s president, and other union leaders. The strike of the tannery workers here is now in its sixtn week. This is the first time that any struggle has been waged in this company RGANIZED lynch mobs await the signal for pouncing upon the nine Scottsboro boys, Only one American daily newspaper is sounding the clarion call to the American masses to form a solid wall of defense around these Negro youths. This is the Daily Worker. ‘There is only one guarantee that the Daily Worker .can continue in existence and be in a position to lead the working masses against the lynchers. This guarantee is your class conscious support. If you fatl to support the Daily Worker, it can- not continue, iF mie section here was brought under con- trol by an army of volunteer firemen, most of camp. | ica your devotion to the Daily Worker by joining the revolution- them from a nearby ©.C.C.| ary tag day army tomorrow, Satur- day and Sunday. Every cent you|Total to date s.sessesees Leather Pickets ruled region for union organization. |D. ©. Join This Revolutionary Army! WAGES CUT BY FORCED LABOR PLAN Unemployed Forced to! Work at Non-Union Wage Scale NEW YORK, Novy. 22. — Thousands of unemployed workers, removed from the re- lief rolls under Roosevelt’s forced labor program, have already been put to work at starvation wages far below the union wages paid in their trades, and in many instances below the minimum wage rates set by the N.R.A. Those now put on forced labor are being given, not the | usual relief jobs, such as cleaning, | ete, but construction work, building, | and other jobs for which the govern- ment would have to pay union wages were it not for the Roosevelt plan. | Roosevelt’s program is a means for reducing the wages of these workers, many of whom are skilled and semi- skilled workers, such as carpenters, electricians, mechanics and other trades. Over one half million workers have been removed already from relief rolls by the Roosevelt forced labor | Program, government figures reveal. This includes 12,000 in New Jersey, 49,000 in Arkansas, 10,000 n Omaha, 50,000 in Massachusetts, 9,000 in Rhode Island, 2,000 in Vermont, 2,000 in Connecticut, etc. All of these are to be put at work under the non- union, starvation wage scale, thus giving the government a supply of cheap labor. New York State will have | 200,000 off the relief lists by De- |cember Ist, it was announced. As the | Roosevelt plan goes into effect, the blow it deals to the unemployed| workers becomes more clear. Those put at forced labor are told that the relief officials have the right to fire them at will, and they have no appeal and no chance to get back on relief lists, which are being abolished. It is also made clear that the hiring will be done as on any job and those; that the foreman wishes to reject | will be left to starve without relief | or work, Most Get No Relief In Nebraska and Arkansas it was reported that those on forced labor include less than one third of the total unemployed, the remaining two thirds being left to starve without any relief. The Federal government, again re- versing its decision of a few days ago, ominously stated that no figures hereafter will be released as to the amount of money given from the pub- lic works funds of the Federal gov- ernment to states for relief. This will enable the cutting down of the funds given for relief below the amount announced by Roosevelt and will make the injection of graft and political patronage into the public works fund distribution easier. Five Immediate Tasks The unemployed workers are be- ginning to react to the removal from relief by organizing into the Unem- ployed Councils and arranging for protests in a number of cities against Council calls on all workers to: 1) organize on the forced labor jobs and enforce union wages and conditions and against speed-up; 2) Demand that no unemployed worker fired from a forced labor job shall be de- prived of relief. 3) To hold local united front conferences for adequate relief and demand the enactment of the Workers’ Unemployment Insur- ance Bill. 4) Elect delegates to the Jan. 13 National Unemployed Con- vention, to be held in Washington, / collect from your fellow workers in the factories, shops, streets, in work- ers’ homes will help give the Daily Worker the financial sinews for striking powerful blows against the lynchers, for bursting the prison bars that confine the innocent Negro boys. The Daily Worker Tag Day Army calls you for three days of revolu- tionary service. Will you be at your revctutionary post in the battle to save our Daily Worker? Itake sure that you will, JOIN THE DAILY | WORKER TAG DAY ARMY THIS | FRIDAY, SATURDAY AND SUN-| DAY! Wednesday's receipts Previous total ..... $ 316.50 ‘+ 26,322.20 $26,638.70 BEING SLICED IN HALF BY ROOSEVELT Old Press Delays “Daily” NEW YORK.—The Daily Worker has been from three to four hours late for severat days. Many mail trains have been missed. Many workers have not found their "Daily” at the usual time and place. Each day the Daily Worker’s 35-year old press has broken down. Each day the Daily Worker had to not equipped to do this work speedil Despite the grave financial situation of the “Daily,” there is no other way left but to buy a new press. I be printed in another plant which is ly. it wiil take two months before it can be installed. Meanwhile, comrades are asked to be patient if the “Daily” does not reach them on time. Scottsboro Trials Will Be Rushed in Death Verdict Plot Arraign Charlie Weems Tomorrow--Take Ruby Bates’ Testimony In New York Because of Lynch Threats By JOHN L. SPIVAK (Special Correspondent of the Daily Worker.) DECATUR, Ala., Nov. 22.—The State of Alabama Is de- without waiting for a decision terson is convicted. on any appeal if Heywood Pat- Leviner in! Washington | (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) | | WASHINGTON, Nov. 22. — The historic Soviet-American recognition conversations were | concluded today and M Litvinoff will leave for New York early tomorrow, probably by auto- | mobile. Litvinoff and American offi- | \cials, prevented from reaching final | |conclusions by the complexity of | debts, claims and credit questions, | exchanged wariii official farewells. Acting Secretary of State William |Phillips issued a brief statement that the discussions are not concluded and that they “will be actively con- | jtinued by officials of both Govern- | |ments.” tf was said in official Amer- ican circles that Boris E. Skvirsk; new Soviet Charge d’Affaires, will | |continue the talks. The explanation | was given, also, that the delay in| |reaching a final agreement was a| |simple matter of having tried to do | \three months work in four days and | |having found it impossible. | | Phillips’ statement said that fur- |ther discussions had taken place be- |tween Litvinoff and the State and | termined to rush the trials of the rest of the Scottsboro boys | Treasury Departments and that “due | |to the intricacy of the questions, it has explored, it has been impossible | |to reach definite conclusions before | This news came late this afternoon when Circuit Judge |the departure of Mr. Litvinoff.” | W. W. Callahan of Morgan County, in a surprise moye, served notice upon Joseph Brodsky, International Labor Defense Attor- ney, that he would have Charlie Weems attaigned tomorrow and set the date for his trial a week from November 27, This Monday, immediately before the Jury will be chosen to try Hey- wood Patterson, Judge Callahan plans to arraign two more defendants. He has not yet announced their names. No reason for this unexpected move 4s given by the state, Normally when several defendants are accused at the same time, sepa- rate trials are asked for each and an appeal is taken on one convic- tion. The state saves time and money by postponing the other cases until @ decision has been granted in an appeal. Despite the fact that it will cost the state more money and take up more time, Alabama is, neverthe- less, determined to rush the cases through indifferent to planned ap- peals. . Need DECATUR, Ala., Nov. 22.—Because Ruby Bates may be lynched if she appeared in Decatur to testify for Haywood Patterson, first of the seven Scottsboro boys to be tried for their lives for the third time this Monday, @ court order to take her testimony in New York was on its way there by air mail this evening. The order directed Julius Apple- baum, 32 Broadway, to have Ruby appear before him for interrogation. With the order went a long series of questions prepared by Joseph Brod- sky, International Labor Defense at- torney and an almost equally long series of questions by Attorney Gen- eral Thomas E, Knight, Jr. Brodsky explained to Circuit Judge W. W. Call#han of Morgan County, presidng at the third of the inter- nationally famous trials, that Ruby Bates refused to go to Decatur be- cause of the open-voiced threats to Kill her, Threatened to Lynch Her Attorney General Knight was not willing to accept the record of her testimony at the Patterson trial this spring. He asked Brodsky to permit the introduction of her testimony at the first Scottsboro trial. Brodsky refused. This is the testimony where she and Victoria Price said the nine Scotsboro boys had “raped” them. Subsequently Ruby recanted her story and confessed that the boys had not touched them. This confession and her dramatic appearance to take the stand for Patterson this spring caused Morgan County whites to turn furiously against her. After her testimony a mob started to march on Cornelian Court. Apartments where she was staying with the avowed purpose of lynching her. + The questions prepared by Brodsky bring out her story from the day she appeared in Chattanooga with Vic- toria Price, the train ride, the ar- rival in Scottsboro, the arrests, the seizing of the boys, the pressure put on her by Jackson County officials to say she had been raped—all these details of the first accusation against the Negro boys. Then follow details of her realizations that she was con- demning inocent boys to their deaths, hey recantation and confes- sion of the whole frame-up. Ruby Bates’ Confession Attorney General Knight's ques- tions are designed to try to get her (Continued on Page 2) Jobless Demand Relief in Michigan State Legislature In Capitol Plans Further Action By A. B. MAGIL Detroit, Dearborn, Hamtramck, Lin- relief and a minimum living wage. adopted at the State Conference held of the Workers Unemployment In- surance Bill; eight dollars weekly for single unemployed workers, $15 to a each dependant; trade union wages for all public works, but not less than 75 cents an hour for a thirty hour week; immediate repeal of the sales and head taxes and other de- mands. For the first time the speaker of the House was forced to receive the workers’ delegation, Earl Reno, Sec- retary of the Unemployed Council and spokesman for the committee, ex- posed the cynical indifference of the legislators to the people's sufferings. Reno asked why did you reduce the taxes on bankers and manufacturers j whie putting over the sales and head taxes on the masses? The Speaker was unable to reply. The Speaker took the copy of the demands to turn over to the Com- mittee on Labor, but refused to allow the delegation to present them on the floor of the Legislature. | The delegation then held a meet- | ing inside the Capital building with |no“police intereference, Reno gave a report and urged the delegates to go back to their localities and build a@ powerful mass movement to force relief from the legislature and pre- pare @ mass march on Lansing. - 8 8 Conference Scores Forced Labor DETROIT, Mich., Nov, 22—Launch- ing the demand for a state initiative referendum for the enactment of | Federal Unemployment Insurance, the Michigan State Conference Against the NRA closed its two day session Sunday on the eve of a Board of Commerce announcement of a 7 point drop in the employment index, Workers and farmers, numbering 175, from all parts of the state at- tended the sessions, Workers at the conference scored Roosevelt’s Forced Labor scheme. The employment index drop prov- ing the urgent necessity of such de- mands, covers the year from Oct. 15, 1932 to Nov. 15, 1933 and dropped from 48.5 to 41.2. The conference endorsed the Na- tional Unemployment Conference to be held in Washington, D. C. on Jan, 13, All Out for Daily Worker Tag Days, Nov 24, 25, 26th! Protest Meeting Held | LANSING, Mich., Novy 22.—Sixty Gelegates of workers’ organizations in however, that his condition is not| Plants of the company including the Newark plant will be shut tight with- |* coln Park, Grand Rapids, Pontiac and : | Berkeley, today presented demands | to a special session of legislature for The delegates presented demands in Detroit last Saturday and Sunday. The demands included indorsement family or two, with $2 additional for | Sees Movie | | Litvinoff took time off today to| |view two American movies—a cellu- }loid version of the American chil-| |dren’s story, “Three Little Pigs,” and “A News Reel” of Litvinoff's mi |sion to the United States and Presi |dent Roosevelts recognition speech | jin Savannah, Ga. He enjoyed the|been shut down tight at South 5th kets, and in or chuckling and ex- | Street, Brooklyn, and at Queen's Vil-| ent artificial inflat: \fable particula: jclaiming often, “Very amusing, very amusing!” (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents INFLATION ON; TERMS INCLUDE RELEASE OF 29 PRISONERS LIVING C OSTS FORCED Farewell to (PWARD AS ROOSEVELT MANIPULATES GOLD PRICE Roosevelt Government Is Heading Fast for Financial and Credit Crisis Only Workers Fight for Higher Wages Can ge-Cut NEW YORK, Nov. 22.—The buying power of the American toiling masses, already drastically reduced by unemployment, parti-time, reduced wages, and rising prices, is immediately threatened with another deep slash by the prospect of a swift approaching inflationary crisis Only a fight for higher 900 Bakery Workers On Strike Against NR. A. Wage Scal 2 Dugan’s Plants Shut Down, Drivers Out In All But 2 Shops | NEW YORK.—Nine hundred bakery workers of the Dugan Baking Co. | walked out on strike this week for | bigher pay. Two plants of the company have |Jage, Long Island. In the Long Is- land Branch 200 workers came out Constantine Umansky, head of the| including the wrappers, maintenance | $6,000,000,000 of ch: | press section of the Soviet Foreign|men and drivers despite pleas of the|which he is empov recognition of their union and for in the Roosev ment, *vages to keep pace with the *Roosevelt ning of the dollar can stop the cown of a deep, uniform se cut for the entire Am: Roosevelt } exhausted all ory powers given him un devalua- tion clause of Thomas amendment to thi gency Act. At yesterday's price of 833.76 ner ounce of gold, Roosevelt has gone more than thi uarters of the way toward a 5 cent de- | valuation of the doll For when | the price of fold reaches $34.41, the American dollar wiil be worth 50 cents. i At the present rate, it is only | @ matter of weeks or days before | the 50 cent dollar will be a fact. In_ order, ti to maintain ;his fight aga: © imperialist ri- vals of Wall Street for fo: n mar- the pres- ices from soon in- to issue the Paper money d to do under st t collapsing, Roo: levitably ‘be for: ed | Office, was still laid up today and| boss to be “loyal to the company.” |the Thomas Amendment, | will be unable to accompany the|The drivers are out in every shop| | Commissar home. Suffering from in- | fluenza and a rheumatic complica- | tion, he is expected to remain here for at least another week. It is said, | alarming. Will Be At New York Banquet Following the discussions on debts and trade, which officials hoped un- | til today would bring definite clear- | ance of the entire debt and claims| questions, Litvinoff and Skvirsky made a formal call at the State De-| partment late today to say good-by | to Secretary Phillips. Earlier Skvir- sky had paid his first official call to Phillips and other officials, including Ambassador designate Wililam C. | Bullitt, as Charge d’Affaires of the fully recognized Soviet Union, he en- | tered the secretarial suite through the diplomatic entrance and was re- ceived with full official ceremonies in the department where for the past 12 years he has visited officials as a private citizen, and quietly talked with the chief of the Eastern Eu- ropean Division. Litvinoff also made a farewell call on the French and Turkish Ambas- sadors. He will attend a dinner in New York on Friday night, as the guest of the American-Russian Cham~ ber of Commerce and the Institute | for Cultural Relations with Russia. | in the city, except two. | So great is the revolt of the workers against the NRA starvation wage scale that it is anticipated that all in the next few days. The strike is being led by the |Amalgamated Food Workers. Thus far, however, no steps have been taken to picket at the Brooklyn plant and the picket line is kept a half block away ffrom the shop in Long Island, A strike meeting is called for today at 10 a. m. at Queens Lycepm, 218 and | 99th Ave., Brooklyn, to plan for the spreading of the strike. iCity College Hires Scab Window Washers | NEW YORK.—The College of the City of New York, a city institution, today hired strikebreakers to clean | its windows. Escorted by police, six members of the Enterprise Window Cleaning Co., at 640 Broadway entered the school, protected by an injunction taken out against the pickets of the Window Claners Protective Union, Local 2, of the A. F. of L. by the Nordham Win- dow Cleaning Co. Count Out Workers’ show a big increase in the Communi: front workers’ ticket exme within 30 Union. The Communist candidate was Lawrence Mower, a member of the union and an outstanding strike leader. The Democratic and Repub- lican parties combined their forces against the workers’ candidate; and then, only through fraud, did they put their candidate into office. The election returns show that through the bitter struggles the work- | ers’ spirit has not dampétied, but) they are in a more class-conscious | fighting mood than ever. | Big Vote In Sacramento SACRAMENTO, Calif. —Commu-| nist candidates running in the city | elections here for the first time re- against 12,039 for the capitalist can- didate who won office, The votes tually he was elected, as there were 100 more votes reported than r voters. In Utah, the city elections followed along a militant struggle car- O. M. W. Spr ried on by the National Miners’s Communist Vote Rises in 3 Cities; Fraud Rampant Candidate in Helper,’ Utah, Came Officially Within 30 Votes of Winning Office NEW YORK.—Scatiered and delayed election returns from several cities ist vote. In Helper, Utah, the united votes officially of being elected, Ac- istered were as follows for the Communist candidates for city council: Wm. McConnell, railroad worker, 1,204; Nora I. Conklin, stnographer, 1,530; Mary Hall, Negro, 1,417; Bebel Alonso, baker, 1,204. oor . Gaine In Hudson, N. Y. HUDSON, N. Y.—Dominick Fliani, Communist candidate for Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals, re- ceived 90 votes in Columbia County, accord to the official canvass. This js an increase of 73 votes in the county over 1932, when Amt Communist gubernatorial candid received 17 votes. Many votes e stolen both years. Some districts in corded the high vote of 1,670 as! which it is certain there were a num-| ber of Communist votes failed to re- port any, OWT, Wall Strect Escap: This explains the p: ness of the bond r bond market sure Today the ain, giving t the Wall Street It is an open sec Wall Street investors ¢ are swiftly out of verting their $3 sterling, to escape the effect coming Roos It in: | ers cannot escape. T of the inflationary ss A Masked Wage Cut | ‘Through infl handed out to the American workers | will be reduced in v ‘ince the dol- ked by gold, and since the credit of the government is weakening. In addition, t crease in currency sends pri everyday necess 5 soaring upward, The approaching Roezevelt paper flood will mean a wholesale robbery of the Ameri: Tt will se the cost of living shootiny sky high. It will catch the workers in a double | scissors and rising prices and cheap- | ening dollars, cheapening even faster than prices will rise. It will result in wholesale expro- | priation of the small savings accounts |in the banks, since this money will be | gradually wiped out as far es buying | Power is concerned. The Roosevelt inflation is a delib- jerate attempt to protect the profits and interests of the capitais: class, driven along intensifying crisis, by | clamping down a nation-wide uniform | wage slash for all wage workers, | through the cheapening of their wages in terms of buying power, | Bank Crisis. Not only does the Reosevelt govern= ment intend to crush the workers in the screws of inflationary prices, but its policy is, at the same time, un- | avoidably driving the banking struc- ture of the country toward another {open crisis, in which hundreds of thousands of small cepositors will again be fleeced of their meagre savings. This was admitied 2, le: lay by Dr. capitalist s he resigned | finance expert, (Continued on Page 2) || Find 40 Per Cent of | Children Suffering | From Malnutrition NEV! YORK, N. Y.—Forty per cent of the 514 school children ex- amined in a survey by the Mitbank Memorial Fund suffering from matnutriti polite name for ste were those whose inc |] person a week or less, Twenty five |] per cent with incomes of $6 per persons were found to be suffering | from mainutrition,