The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 27, 1933, Page 1

= Gloversville Strike Won! Union Recognized, Wages Increased, Prisoners Released | RUSH TAG DAY FUNDS! Worker Meet Pressing Bills! | | Help the Daily | Wol. X, No. 284 * ail (Section of the Consmuwist International ) orker America’s On ly Working | Class Daily Newspaper | ‘Rotered as eesond-claes matter at the Post Office New York, N. ¥., under the Act of Marsh 8, 16¥8, NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1933 _ (Six (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents UNEMPLOYMENT GROWS; COST OF FOOD RISING STEADILY HEYWOOD PATTERSON GOES ON TRIAL FOR THIRD TIME IN DECATUR, ALA. TODAY Expert’s “Testimony. on Forged Jury Roll. Ruled Out by Judge Prosecution | Plans to, Railroad Negro: in Three Days | + By JOHN L. SPIVAK (Special Correspondent of the Daily Worker.) | DECATUR, Ala., Noy. 26. — With an allowance of only three | days for the trial in which Ala- bama seeks his life, Heywood | Patterson goes on trial tomor- | row in the Morgan County Court- | house for the third time on the charge | | of attacking two white girls in a| freight car. | Three days—Monday, Tuesday and | ‘Wednesday—that is all the time the| State of Alabama and Circuit Judge | ‘W. W. Callahan, who is presidng, will give to a Negro when his life) fs at stake. And while the jury is “deliberat- | ing,” Judge Callahan: will rush Clar- ence Norris, another of the Scottsboro Boys, to trial on Thursday morning. “Too Much Publicity” Alabama does not want to spend anymore ‘time on the’ Scottsboro cases. They have attracted too much attention already, “It has been over- publicized” in the opinion of Judge Callahan, so the jurist intends to “debunk” the internationally famous ; Scottsboro cases. | Judge Callahan is determined to rush these cases through even if he has to continue with the late night sessions which marked the past two Calls for Death to Lynchers! Leonerd Patterson, of the Yeung Communist League, demanding — | ose = | celebrate with Victory March today. Leaders’ Agreement WIN STRIKE IN GLOVERSVILLE; RECOGNIZE UNION) Independ. - Union Gets| Wage Boosts; Frees Arrested Strikers | GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y., Nov. 26.—The militant strike of the tannery workers of Glov- ersville has been won. Under the leadership of the Independent Leather Workers Union, the bos~es were compelled to recognize the union shop committee, to agree to wage in- creases and the release of all arrested workers. ‘The 2,000 enthusiastic strikers will They hail the Needle Trades Union and their militant leader Solomon for aiding them win the seven-week strike. ‘These strikers fought their way through red scares, Burns detectives, a hostile yellow press, NRA arbitra- tion, strike breaking boards, im- prisoning bosses and scabs in the mills, and thus forcing the employers to surrender. Strike leaders throughout all these attempts at intimidation, pointed out that the Communist Party is the only party supporting the strike and that it is the only party which supports all struggles of the workers, Paterson Strike Is Sold Out by U. T. W. Right to Strike; Wage Demands Abandoned jissued yesterday by the in Silk Struggle days of court. It is reported that if | geath for lynchers and lynch-law in his address to thousands of Negro | By CARL REEVE. | he tries to force the International! 44 white workers in the Scottsboro demonstration in Harlem Saturday. PATERSON, N. J., Nov. 26.—The Labor Defense attorneys into night sessions, they will refuse to attend on the grounds that their health is being impaired and that they will not be rushed in a matter where a man’s life is at s/ake. Frame-up Carefully Planned Callahan's plan to “debunk” the Scottsboro cases, from a publicty point of view, is well planned. The Clarence Norris case, scheduled to | start immediately after the Patterson | case, will be a repetition of the evidence taken in the Patterson case. Newspapers throughout the country ‘will give much less space. Immediately after the verdict is brought in the Norris case, probably by next Sunday, Judge Callahan will | adjourn court for one week. the case will have died down, and when more Scottsboro Boys are put on trial for their lives, the repiti- (Continued on Page 2) Dur- | ing that time the news interest in | Decatur iiamediately. | supported. Every dollar counts, | of the Scottsboro boys. tinue the fight for Scotisboro funds. 11th Street, New York City. Scottsboro Defense in Danger The Scottsboro legai defense is in danger unless funds are sett to That was the message received yesterday by the International Labor Defense from Joseph Brodsky, chief counsel of the organization, in Decatur. ‘The rushing through of the trials by Judge Callahan means that all funds must be raised without the slightest delay, the message stated. The International Labor Defense, all its immediate resources drained by the huge expenditures of the Scottsboro defense, must be immediately Every day’s delay endangers the lives Send in every penny you can, raise every dollar, TODAY, and con- Show your working class solidarity. Rush all funds to International Labor Defense, Room 430, 80 East Carolina Supreme Masses i in ‘bala Ruby Bates Rests Court Sets Death Parade,PledgeFight After Operation; Still in Danger Not Yet Able to Make Deposition for the} For Framed Negro L.L.D. Charges Court, Purposely Erred to Quash Appeal CHARLOTTE, N. Carolina state supreme court, delib- erately passing on an incomplete ap- peal to justify its lynch-maneuver, has ruled that John Lewis Edwards, Negro boy framed on a charge of murdering a street car conductor, must die December 8. The International Labor Defense, handling the appeal, have charged that the clerk of the court, and the court itself, deliberately made an error” in passing upon the papers filed in the appeal before they were complete, after notifying the I. L. D. attorneys that the case would not come up until spring. This gave the supreme court an excuse to throw out the appeal on technica 1 grounds, though the evi- dence clearly showed Edwards’ in- nocence. This maneuver, the I. L. D. charges, is evident in the setting of so close a date for the execution— another attempt to prevent action to forestall the legal murder. Stay of execution is being demanded | by the I L. D,, while its lawyers | 1. prepare the necessary papers to com- plete the appeal. The LL.D, has asked that 911 workers and workers’ organi- zations throughotit the country, help stop th!s locel Scottsboro legal lyneh- ing by ms shing protests to Governor Bheringhaus, Raleigh, N. C, 4 C.—The North Minor Urges Solidarity | of Negro and White to Save Boys NEW YORK.—Thousands of New York Negro and white workers marched Saturday in Harlem to pro- test against the massacre of the nine innocent Scottsboro boys by Southern lynch justice. Thousands more cheered from the sidewalks. Massed at six concentration points, the workers marched from 118th St. and Lenox Ave., to 137th St. and 7th Ave., then returning to the meeting place at 131st Street and Lenox Ave. Immediately following the I. W. O. band which led the parade was a line of girls each bearing one letter of the message, “STOP LYNCHING” A float, depicting Gov, Ritchie of Maryland hung in effigy with the inscription, “We derer cf Euel Lee.” ‘There were pla- cards stating “Mass Protest’ Will Save the Ecottsboro Boys,” “Full Social and Political Rights for the Negro.” The crowd were so large that two meetings were necessary to enable all to hear the speakers though they spoke throuh amplifiers. Robert Minor received 2 tremen- dous ovation, redoubled when he de- that “The Scottsboro boys are symbol of Negro oppression,” and nat it was time to “mest the lynch- ers with well organized defence corps.” Charles Krumbein, District Organizer of the Communist Party, declared that “It is the task of the Commu- nist Party to lead in the struggle for for Scottsboro Boys. shall not forget him as the mur- | Scottsboro Boys NEW YORK.- —Ruby Bates, Scotts- boro defense witness, was resting easily in New York Hospital yester- day, after undergoing a major opera~ tion Friday, the International Labor Defense announced, but she is not yet out of danger. It is doubtful whether she will be in a condition for several days, to make a deposition answering the questions drawn up by Attorney- General Thomas E. Knight of Ala~ bama, and Joseph R. Brodsky, I. L. D. lawyer, in regard to her testimony at the trial of Heywood Patterson, last spring, when she recanted her previous forced testimony of “rape” and became the chief defense witness, it was said. Julius Appelbaum, of 32 Broadway, has been commissioned by the Decatur court to take this deposition, Negro liberation.” Among the other speakers present were William Patterson of the Inter- national Labor Defense, Leonard Pat- terson of the Young Communist League, Richard Moore and Fits- gerald of the League of Struggle for pierce Rights and Sam Stein of the Lb. when Robert Minor raised his hand and called for a pledge to fight for the cause of the Scottsboro boys overs hand in the audience flashed up in answer, United Textile Workers’ Union lead- ers, after four days of secret con- ference with the silk manufacturers, have prepared a betrayal agreement which means complete defeat for the 10,000 broad silk strikers. This sell- out agreement, which has not been made public as yet, includes an agreement not to strike again and sets up a compulsory “arbitration | board.” The U. T. W. leaders agree to acceptance of the $2 per 100,000 pick rate, about $18 a week, and even less, but also agree that the wage clause shall only last 60 days, after which wages shall be revised. The| wage rate now accepted by the U. TI W. leaders is the same rate or less| than that which the strikers rejected | | nine weeks ago in the infamous/ “Washington truce” which MacMa-| hon tried to force upon the strikers. Admit Wages Cut ‘The Joint statement of the manu- facturers and the U. T. W. leaders, issued by Abe Greene, city editor of the Paterson News, who sat in the secret conferences as “impartial” chairman, admits that the wage) agreement is unsatisfactory to the. strikers, ‘The statement tries to} | soften the blow by saying “the silk workers of Paterson, as a loyal and faithful people, patriotic and good citizens, are entitled to a higher rate of compensation than circumstances today will permit.” The U. T. W. leaders, to cap the climax of their betrayal, agreed to ? Jobless at 17,000,000 Peak, A. F. of L. Report Shows; 24 Per Cent Food Rise ® NRA SendsPotatoes, Bread, Milk, Soaring High Above ‘32 Level US. Reports Commod- ity Price Now at Pea | | Since March | WASHINGTON, Noy. 26. — As a result of the Roosevelt inflationary price-raising pro- gram and gold price manipula- | tion, the costs of the most} common food necessities are now from 18 to 24 per cent higher than they were six months ago, the Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed today in| its latest retail price report. At the same time, during the week | of November 18, wholesale commodity | prices reached ine peak of the ad- | vance which begen eight months ago, Commissioner of Labor Statistics of the U. S., Isador Lubin announced yesterday. The whole commodity price index is now at a peak of 71.71, | compared with 59.6 in. March Slash in Real Wages. This sweeping advance in the costs | ot daily food necessities has ac- | tually resulted in a deen slash in the | average worker's real income. i ‘This is confirmed by the report | i American Federation of Labor head, William Green, who could not conceal, in his latest report, that the weekly real in- | come of the average worker in this | country, as measured by his ability | to buy daily necessities, has been | driven down below the level of March | when Hoover was in office. | Even Green’s carefully doctored | figures revealed yesterday that the real income of the American workers is now 1.2 per cent below the March level, six months ago. Actually, the decline in real income is far greater, being closer to 10 to 15 per cent. The rise in the costs of food was strongest in bread, eggs, milk, lard, | all cereals (as a result of the Roose- velt grain destruction program), but- ter, rice, canned peas and peaches, (Continued on Page 2) Workers Will Hail Soviet Recognition it SNe Wednesday NEW YORK.—Recognition of the U.S.S.R.—the latest victory of the Soviet Union—will be celebrated Wednesday nighi at the Bronx Coli- thousands of New York workers. Preparations have been made by the Peigeae Oe cho acer Bente | wilt reduce wages and will keep many! pices the affair has been arranged, lest the ICOR, under whose joint aus- for outstanding speakers and per- formers to take part in the celebra- tion. The meeting will begin promp- tly at 8 p.m. An outstanding array of talent | 10 interests of the empl will present a “Recognition Cycle,” te Soviet music, by the New Duncan Dancers, assisted by a group of twenty. Countee Cullen, famous Negro poet, Corliss Lamont, Dr. Harry F. Ward, M. J. Olgin and (Continued on Page 2) ‘Herbert Goldfrank will speak “What Recognition Means.” stum, 177th St. and West Farms by Hae cape to | workers as soon as they learn t at on | The Fight Against Hunger VERY worker will remember the Roosevelt promise of 6,000,000 new jobs by September. Month after month, the Roosevelt publicity agents, from General Johnson to William Green and Secretary of Labor Perkins, ballyhooed and lied about the rise in jobs. But today, even the unprincipled and unscrupulous William | Green can no longer hide in his carefully doctored reports that the | | ocean of mass unemployment is rising steadily, that even the usual seasonal increase in jobs is not materializing. He cannot hide the fact that, after six months of Roosevelt false promises and huge subsidies to Wall Street, the army of 17,000,000 jobless American workers stlil stands! It was the N.R.A. codes, Roosevelt promised the workers, that would raise wages to keep pace with the rise in prices. But even the official re- ports of his own economists glaringly proves that under the N.R.A. wages have been beaten down in the last six months, so that now the REAL wage of the entire American working class is now below the level of March! This was the purpose of the N.R.A. codes—to freeze wages at starvation levels while commodity prices were sent soaring! And the Roosevelt gov: is now launching a bitter fight against the “dole,” against the most vital need of the American masses today— Unemployment Insurance. ent UT it is also this which makes it a burning necessity for the Communist Party and the Unem} ed Councils to organize the fight for Unem- ployed Insurance with the atest revolutionary zeal, with every ounce of en working class f y ry , Against the robber price-raising program, e housewife and wage earner, must mobilize in the neighborhoods before shops, bakeries, groceries, butchers, and dairies, for lower food prices! The fight for Unemployment Insurance, higher wages to meet rising prices, lower food prices—these are now life and death questions for every worker's family in this country as we enter the fifth winter of the crisis! Roosevelt Board Set Up To Outlaw All Strikes On Forced Labor Jobs ‘Workers’ Real Wage Below March, Green ‘Admits in Report (Unable to Hide Decline in Living Standards Under NRA | coatty Worker Washington Barean) WASHINGTON, Nov. 26. — {Unemployment in October in- | creased as against the previous |month, William Green, Presi- | dent of the American Federa- jon of Labor, announced today in | an official statement “based on Trade | Union reports and Government sta- | tistics.” | Green reported that 10,076,000 were out of work in October as com- | pared, with 10,065,000 unemployed ‘in September. In addition, says Green, “reports from trade unions show 21.8 per cent out of work in the first part of No- vember, as compared with 21,7 per cent in October.” | Wages Below March | Green also admits the drop in rea’ wages since the inauguration of the | N.R.A.” ‘The individnal worker's rea | inpome is still below March by 1.1 | per cent.” | Despite the fact that the unem se is higher by hun nds if not millions | because Green is necessarily limiter | to reports of his own A. F. of Ie $radc lunions and the undependable gov- jernment reports, in addition to the millions of workers who report to nc | organization, Green continues t | ballyhoo the N.R.A, The head of the A. F. of L. bureau- | cracy attempted to explain away “thi: slight increase” as “due to the faci that although unemployment gainec \2 little in October the gain was no |enough to absorb those seeking wor} |for the first time.” Government Mov. es to Keep Down Wages and| qeBoth, these records indicate” say G at tl Stop Protest Against Non-Union Conditions |keepine the employment nein on Public Works Jobs —Determined to prevent unionization of workers and to prevent str s on public works, forced labor jobs, the Roosevelt | government has set up a “Board of Laber Review” of three which is to have sole and final sey on all labor disputes on these jobs. The setting | up of this ecgnpalaony board is further evidence that the Roosevelt ad- Labor Board Kills Stockyard Strike Called for Friday = (Daily Worker “Washington Bureau) | WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—A strike | in the stockyards of Chicago, scene ot | the historic struggle of 1921, has been squelched by the National Labor Board at the demand of Union Stock- |yard and Transit Company. Officials NEW YORK, conditions of th in order to labor, nt su ment the Roosevelt smash expecte of the unemp! on that and protests |the forced labor plan of Rooseve! semployed both off relief lists and off forced labor as well ‘The board of three will be under |the direction of Senator Wagner of ‘the Nationel Labor Board who has broken a number of strikes already in Plac- ” funds | will | ing all labor on public work under the direction of Wagner and made their) }was learned today, Labor Board, who complied imme-~- put the government in a position to exercise terror against unemployed aie workers who protest against low | diately. | ta The strike had been called for noon Friday. Seven hundred fifty workers (Continued on Page 2) were directly involved and it was ex- | pected several thotisand others would Litvinoff Warns of War Danger, Points to Soviet Progress, on Eve of Departure | join them, Wagner wired the Amal- gamated Mest Cutters and Butcher stock Handlers Association (a state- chartered, independent union) in- Board could investigate, and also tele~ graphed the regional labor board in Chicago to inquire into the situation A Labor Board official said today both By JOHN MILLER NEW YORK. —Standing under a huge red banner, bearing the ham- mer and sickle and the Soviet star, Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Litvinoff warned 1,500 guests assembled in his honor, among them leaders of American finance, politics and culture, of the danger of war which hangs over the world. He also read them a lecture on the achieve- ments of the October Revolution. ception given in his honor ‘at the Waldorf Astoria Friday night, on the eve of his sailing for home after ob- taining the recognition of the Soviet Union by the United States. ‘The affair was under the auspices of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce and the American- Russian Institute. The toastmaster was Col. Hugh b. Cooper, builder of Muscle Shoals, who for a number of years has served as consultant for the Soviet Union on important en- gineering projects, including Dnie- prostroy. The only other speaker out~ Litvinoff spoke at a dinner and re-| side of Commissar Litvinoff and) Colonel Cooper, was Colonel Raymond Robbins, who was sent to Russia in 1917 as a member of the American Red Cross Mission. All three speak~ ers stressed the achievements of the Soviet Union and the importance of Tecognition for world peace. As the guests entered the Waldorf Astoria, ballroom a band struck up the American national anthem. This was immediately followed by the In- 4>rnational, for which all the guests cemained standing. Litvinoff Frank On Live Issues ‘The outstanding characteristic of Commissar Litvinoff’s speech was its frank reference to burning issues of the day. He minced no words either about the war danger or about the revolutionary basis of Soviet society, and took pains to describe those So- viet achievements which, by their striking contrast, bear directly on fundamental problems in American capitalist society. He made clear that in signing the religious clause in the recognition unions telegraphed compliance. This same strikebreaking tactic has been used by the National Labor Board in several other cases. It means see-sawing the workers between agreement, the Sovief Union merely reiterates -its well-known position on religion. Saying humorously that he and| President Roosevelt tried to propa- gandize each other, Commissar Lit-| Washington, which acts directly when vinoff said: | the bosses’ interests are at stake, and “The President submitted me to ajregional headquarters, to whom the kind of religious propaganda, and I | national office passes the buck when in my turn tried to persuade him of | the workers’ interests are pressed the soundness of certain principles be Pts kes expressed in the will of the famous American, Stephen Girard, who thought it best to exclude all ecclesi- astical activities from the college Must Organize to Answer Betrayal The stockyard workers of Chicago, working under the harshest speed-up |and with the nea of wages, have elphi: been betrayed by the officials of the which he founded in Philadelphia.” '| Amalgamated and the Butcher Work- Stresses \Capitalist Crisis jers unions. Now they have the task Nor did Commissar Litvinoff mince | lof answering this treachery, which words regarding the acuteness of the | robs them of their demands, by or- capitalist crisis. ranizing their rank and file opposi- “The upheavals caused by the! tion, great war in the political, economic and social structure of the capitalist | all workers, regardless of what union world,” he said, “not only have not| they belong to, or whether unor- ceased, but are displaying a tendency | ganized, by electing united front shop to extend still further their destruc- | committees to enforce their demands on the ba gay the N.R.A. and their "Continued on Pags © reactionary officials, is jflew to Washington last Friday, it} |plea to Chairman Wagner of the| Workmen (A. F. of L.) and the Live-| structing them to hold off until the! The stockyard workers should unite } {under better control than is usual a | this time of year.” He says nothing | about the millions of workers he anc | gvernment officials announced, woul | be back to work by the fall. Spread-Work Grows How little the Agricultural Adjust | ment Administration program of pay |ing premiums to well-to do farmer: | the farm laborers is shown by Green’: jown figures that “lay-offs affectins | 75,000 on arms, 45,000 in canneries’ were reported for October, | ‘The hundreds of millions pouret into the railroads by the Reconstruc tion Finance Corporation and th: Public Works Administration resulter lay-offs affecting 7,000 workers \¢ (Green 's figures) as far as the labor (Continued on Page 2) Rush Tag Day Funds! H hes Daily Worker is being pub- lished under the most strennons difficulties. 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