The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 13, 1933, Page 1

- WEIRTON STEEL HEAD DECLARES NRA INSURES OPEN SHOP | | | | | | | Turn to Page Three and Read | Hathaway’s Article on the | Communis t Party & Da Central ist Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist International) ily ~cWorker WEATHER: Warmer, probi bly al Vol. X, No. 298 = ™ Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, W. Y., under the Act of Merch 8, 1879, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1933 8 Phila. AF COPS ATTACK 500 PUPILS IN WALKOUT | | | | 2000 Workers Involved | in Mass Strike for | Negro Boys PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. | 12.—Forty-eight cleaners’ and dyers’ shops, involving more than 2,000 Philadelphia work- ers, struck for one-half hour yesterday as a protest against | the frame-up convictions of Heywood Patterson and Clarence Norris, two of the Scottsboro boys sentenced to | die on Feb, 2. | At the same time 500 of the 1,000) children at the Reynolds and Jef- | ferson schools came out in a one-day strike today also as a protest against | ¥ the Decatur verdicts. “The principal | locked the doors of the school and | refused to permit the children who | remained to leave the building. | Negro and white children picketed | the two schools and fought police with §nowballs, The strike was supported by the parents, two of whom, Brew- ington and Wilson, were beaten and arrested by ‘the police, The strike was sponsored and pre- pared by the Philadelphia Interna- tional Labor Defense and the Young Pioneers. A large number of the ehildrén joined the Young Pioneers during the day. The pupils are plan- | ning further protest actions, includ- ing the election of a delegation to} file protests with Principal Brooks | who calied out the police. ! The entire neighborhood of the} schools showed great sympathy with | the strike and cheered the strikers. A delegation went to the principal) who said that he was forced to lo the remaining children in the build-'! ing this morning in orde: to prevent | the children from demonstrating. The | children who were out marched) eround the building several times| shouting slogans demanding the free- | dom of the Scottsboro boys. The streets around the school were painted with the slogan, “School Strike.” A majority of a commititce met imme- diately following this and decided on} the following program: 1 To call a whole series of such} sehiol strikes. %. To send a deiegation to the Ne-| gro Chamber of Commerce in- Phila-| A@phia, with a proposal to have a) one-hour protest strike to close down Sues in the business section as a Merttsboro protect. Utilize this attack on the children for a big protest movement in the ueighborhood. 3. To organize a central demon- stration and march through the cen- ter of the city on December 23 at 1 p.m. at Rayburn Plaza. N. Y. City to Get PWA Subway Loan —If It Cuts Wages LaGuardia Will Cut City Pay for Loan; Wall St. Protected NEW YORK, Dec. 12—If the La- administration is ready to luce the budget by $24,000,000 it borrow $23,000,000 from the Pub- the budget. He can cut down on the appointed City offi- the Board of Alder- he can slash the wages of city civil service employees, cur- further the school appro hospital expenditures, etc. This latest announcement of Ickes, coming after a Conference: of La- Guardia with Ickes, clearly means the incoming administration is L Cleaners, Dye Shop world protest. And then the Fascist axe will strike! Then the Fascist murderers wiil execute our he itroff, Torgler, Popoff and Taneff! The complete exposure of their offensive of Dimitroff has not lessened the danger of their execution. It has roused the Goerings, the Hitlers, the Fascist judges to a frenzy of hate and brutal fury. They itch for at the head of the world fight again: On December 19, the w strength to give warning to the Fa: idly by while their Comrades are in danger of murd On December 19, the workers of factory, mine, in every street and ne voice of the world proletariat against the murder of Din and their Comrades! The United Front of the working cla onstrations before every German Fascist Consulate office—everywher Protest meetings, telegrams, mass delegations to the sulates in every city, demanding the release of our t fighters ageinst Fascism! Organize mass actions! Mass itroff, Torgler, Popoft and Taneff! terribly short! Dec.19--International Day of Struggle For Freedom of Dimitroff, Torgler E German Fascist butchers in the Reichstag trial are waiting. They are waiting for but the slightest slackening in the st the Fascist curse ng cli C.W.A. HIRED rising wall of Comrades, Dim- MORE ADDED hideous frame-up by the irresistible the lives of our Comrades, who stand Go on Strike NEW YORK.—At most 12,000 un- | employed have been put to work at ss of the world will gather in its { t that the workers will not stand America must gather in every shop, ighborhood to join its voice with the | CTS! from Work Relief it was t, Torgler | yesterday. The program called for 56,000 at work by this time. An in- —in every union, in mass di ner fight of the Tammany controlled |Board and the C.W.A. officials an Fascist Con- croie international | Administrator Whitney and Martin | Winter, deputy, C.W.A. administrator, 5 that the whole C.W.A. program which release of Dim~- | was promised has not and will not be The time is | carried ont. | | “New projects cannot be expedited ‘in December,” a letter of C.W.A. Ad- actions! For th Comrades, workers! Many Organizations Join in Protests Against Nazi Trial Names Real Killer to have 56,000 men at work, Rally for Nationwide Demonstration on December 19 BULLETIN PARIS, Dec. 12—At a meeting attended by 7,000 Paris transport | workers, a delegation was elected to xo to Germany, in order to visit Ernst Thaelmann and to study the | situation of the German transport workers. The three elected dele- gates have already applied to the Nazi Embassy for visas. See ee NEW YORK.—A call to all dis- tricts, sections, branches, members and affiliates of the International Labor Defense to rally to the defense of the Reichstag fire trial defendants, to organize mass meetings and dem- | onstrations, in prep: ration for and for participation in the international day of protest, Dec. 19, against the Leipzig frame-up, was sent out to- day by William L. Patterson, national I. L, D. secretary. Organization of independent meet- ings, actions before German consu!- ates in every city, and the flooding of the German embassy at Washing- ton with protests against the mur- derous frame-up from hranches, meetings, individuals, and every working class and intellectal organ- ization that can be reached, was called for in the I. L. D. appeal. o 8 6 Boston, Mass., Meet BOSTON, Mass., Dec. 12.—Final arrangements for a mass meeting on Friday, Dec. 15, have been made here. Professor Alice Hamilton, author of the book, “Hitler”; Arthur Garfield Hayes, and Anna Schulz will speak. i Needle Workers to Protest NEW YORK.—The Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union will hold @ mass meeting to protest the Nazis’ attempt to murder the four Reichstaz trial defendants, Torgler, Dimitroff, Taneff and Popoff, on Wednesday, Dec, 13, at 2 p.m. at 131 W. 28th St. eee er Call to Scandinavian Workers NEW YORK.—The Scandinavian Workers’ League of the U. S, A. has issued an appeal to all Scandinavian workers and organizations to protest the threatened murder of the Reich- Stag fire trial defendants. “Ve call upon the Scandinavian workers,” says their appeal, “to take part in the nation-wide demonstrations to be held Dee. 19 to demand the uncon- ditional safe release of Dimitroff, Torgler, Taneff and Popoff.” ILD Wins Stay for Negro About to Die LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Dec. 12—A last minute 30-day reprieve was won today by mass pressure and the In- ternational Labor Defense for Luther Jean Jackson, Negro youth sentenced to burn in the electric chair. Jack- son was defended by F. W. A. Eire- man, local I. L. D. attorney. Jackson was sentenced for the kill- ing of Philip Windecker of this city although he was never identified as dg man alleged to have fired the | ménis‘rator Whitney to the board ‘admitted. Whitney and Winter re- quested the board of estimate to pur- chase one million dollars worth of equipment instead of two million, two © hundred thousand dollars worth, be- 3 cause they might not see use for some time, if at all. The C.W.A. by this time promised above Former Khaki Shir Clears Terzani | Former Quartermaster | sh et atk |New York CWA Men. 1 | Owed Back Pay; 200 |March, Demand Work ” | brought the admission from C.W.A.! ONLY 12,000 THIS MONTH Chicago Jobless Will for 300,000 | | CHICAGO, IIL, Dec, 12—Thousands | of Chicago workers will march upon Civil Works jobs, above those trans- | 2 | quarters here on Dec. 15, demanding | r in the Board of Estimate | jobs or relief for all unemployed. A!- | Houze to Bellevuc the Civil Works Administration head- Teady three hundred and six thou- and only 49,000 were actually placed on_some. work. Single men and women are denie: | fobs. In the flop houses, where thou- sands of single men and women are forced to live, very few were given any work. On December 15 thousands of single men and women will march. The police have so far refused a permit for the march. They agree only to allow the workers to assemble at Union Park, and let a committee of ten present the demand to the C. W. A. for jobs. One worker was ar- rested Sunday for distributing leaf- iets announcing the demonstration. The Unemployed Council calls upon all workers to support the march of the single men and women for jobs; The Unemployed Councils: urge all working class organizations to send vegolutions and letters to Mayor Kelly demanding the right to march. Creates Sensation at Trial | NEW YORK. — Antonio Fierro, 22- | year-old anti-fascist student, was shot) | in the back and killed by Frank Mof. fer, a member of the Khaki Shir |of which Art J. Smith is self-styled | “commander.” The s ig took | | place at a Khaki Shirt meeting in Columbus Hall, Astoria, last July 14. This direct usation was mad? by Samuel Z. Wein, former quartermas- Roosevelt to Spend | tion, when he took the witness stand 51, ’ a Day to \i e ity Ci Lo S- iene Gay Gana vanes: | DestroyCorn,Wheat Terzani, an anti-fascist is on trial | before Judge Thomas Downs and a | jury charged with the slaying of his| HasAlready Destroyed friend, Fierro. | i | Showing evident admiration tor | 20 Per Cent of Cr OD; i Food Prices Rise the railreading tics of “Speed” | Callahan in the Decatur trials of the Scottsboro boys. Judge Downs | wasHtNGTON, Dec. 12—The Gov- announced a night session yester- | ernment plans for the expenditure of day. j another $360,000,000 for the subsidiz- Wein, who was on the witness stand | ing of the destruction of 20 per cent for nearly four hours and who with-|of next year’s corn crop are rapidly stood a severe—almost abusive —| being completed, Secretary of Agri- cross-examination at the hands of! culture Wallace announced today. Assistant District Attorney, John H. Krogman, testified that he saw Art Smith strike Fierro with a riding (Continued on Page 2) Big RR. Plans REC. $50,000,000 Loan ToPay Bondholders Ney: Central Reports 350 Per Cent Profit Rise; Cuts Wages NEW YORK. «... 12.—In order to meet the $48,000,000 loan to the bond- holders which falls due within the coming months, the New York Cen- trd@ Railroad is now getting ready to borrow $50,000,000 from the RF.C., it was announced here today. The railroad already owes the R.F.C. $94,000,000 in short term loans which fall due on January 1. It is understood that the Roosevelt gov- ernment will not press for payment at this time, and will extend the loan indefintely. The New York Central, which is dominated by Wall Street and big railroad interests, reported that its profits for the month of October rose 350 per cent. The road has announced its plans for the payment of $20,000,000 to the bondholders of its equipment bonds, to be paid during the coming year. These enormous payments to the bondholders, called the roads “fixed charges,” are made at the expense of the railroad workers whose wages have been slashed to starvation levels. The road is now using the part-time method among its workers to beat down the weekly wages of the rail- road workers. It is also laying off thousands of workers in an effort to Teduce expense -_ This means that Roosevelt is set- ting aside $1,000,000 a day for the destruction of corn, a basic food. The Roosevelt government has al- ready spent about $500,000,000 for the destruction of corn, wheat, cotton and hogs. These huge subsidies to the rich farmers for the reduction of their acreage and the plowing under of their crops, is paid for by the city consumers in the form of higher prices arising frcm the baa dig processing tax levied on ese » Actually, the Roosevelt processing taxes are an indirect Sales This program of wheat and com destruction, together with the p.o- cessing tax, has laready raised the cost of food 18 per cent since Roosevelt took office, the price of bread having risen from 1 to 2.5 cents @ pound. Retail Food Prices 18 Per Cent Higher Than 6 Months Ago Eggs, Lard, Cornmeal Show Sharp Rise Under Roosevelt WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.-—Retail Prices of the most necessary foods are now 18 per cent higher than when Roosevelt took office in March, it was revealed today in a report of the U. 8. Commission of Labor Statistics today. During the last two weeks, the index of retail food rose agin, so that now the index is practically at the highest point reached last September. C. W. A. Recruits Slave Labor for Peonage Camps Forces’ Workers List to Work at 24 Cents an Hour By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Dec. 12. — The | Civil Works Administration has be- |come a recruiting station for slave | labor for private industry. | Administrators of the C.W.A. are | cooperating to prevent escape from the peonage camps of the southern lumber industry. They are sending C.W.A. applicants to contractors in the District of Columbia to work for wages less than those provided on C.W.A. projects. C.W.A. at Disposal of Lumber Barons A letter sent out today by the Southern Pine Association tells the story. It quoted a letter from H. J. Early, Federel C.W.A. Administrator for Louisiana, saying that if any em- ployer informs local C.W-A. author- ities that he is willing to take on workers at “steady”—not permanent, not for a stipulated living wage—the local C.W.A. administrator “is not only authorized, but directed, to in- form ;such persons of the employ~ ment and to accordingly drop their ar from Civil Works employment rolls,” “A portion of a (C.W.A.) job, or the entire project,” Early’s letter adds, “may be shut down to make labor available for regular employ- ment or even temporary employ- ment.” ‘This is obviously a maneuver by the (Continued on Page 2) NRA. Price-Raising Aids Big Companies; Drives Out Smaller Small Merchants Show That Code Prices Aid Monopolies WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—Arguing that the N, R. A. price fixing code for their industry is driving them out of business in favor of the large dyeing and cleaning companies, hun- dreds of small merchants beseiged the N. R. A. hearin7s at Washincton. ask- ing that they be permitted to lower their prices, As in many other industries, the ‘The reports were based on reports from retailers in 51 cities. The sharpest advances occurred in the prices of eggs, lard, cornmeal, and cabbage, N. R. A. codes in the dyeing industry have sent prices upward so high that oe ic re bus'ness. is. po-mitting only ‘IArgest” companies to sta |S. NEW WORKERS IN CITY; NO Deatlsand sand workers have registered for jobs | Off; tarvation N | Stahl, 25, who to 2 iS gel from the Jome Relief Bureau, died yesterday a undernourishment. The mother could not believe her | Suicides ret d | app bed! | | emoved from the from undernourishir A dentist, ted suicide by ractice was dwindlil A violinist, who | with the Phila: com- use his n | formerly elphia Symphony Or- | chestra, Josef Waldman, 40, leaned to} |his death from the fifth floor of | home at 505 W. 164th Street. He w | despondent over failure to make both jends meet. | ‘STRIKES SPREAD IN SPAIN AS MASSES REBEL | Social 'st Party Joins | in. Govt Attacks | on Insurgents MADRID, Dec. 12.—The na- tion-wide resistance of the | Spanish masses to the drive of che left-Republican government | for a Fascist dictatorship on the basis | of the recent elections for the Cortes, | continued today with renewed vigor | publican government of “complete anti-fascist struggle in blood. The extent of the upsurge is shown in the powerful strikes now under way in the cities of Madrid, Barcelona, Saragossa, Granada, Ferrol, Oviedo, Coruna, Legrono, San Sebastian, Santander, Algeciras, Cadiz, Terue! [and Huesca. The striking worke have rejected a call by the Socialist |Party ordering them to return to work and discontinue their struggles against the government, in which the Socialists have three ministers. The government is censoring re- ports on the number of dead and wounded as casualties mounted throughout the country today. Ac- had been killed and several hundreds wounded. In several sections of the country, rank and file soldiers joined the ranks of the armed workers and peasants. ‘The uprising began last Friday and quickly spread all over Central and Northeastern Spain. reports show that it has spread to Western and Southern Spain, as well. Starting in Barcelona under the leadership of the Anarchists and Syn- dicalist National Confederation of Labor, it was quickly joined by Com- munist and Socialist workers, despite the attacks on the uprising by the Socialist leadership. All rightist and Centrist organiza- tions, including the Socia‘ist Party, Fascists and Monarchists, are sup- porting the government ‘Dollar Rises to 64 ‘Cents; Prices Sag Under Heavy Supply NEW YORK, Dec. 12.—In its effort ; to quiet growing fears regarding its budget condition and the danger of further inflationary measures, the Roosevelt government continued to maintain its gold price at $34.01 an ounce. As a result, the dollar rose on for- eign exchanges to about. 64 cents in terms of the British sterling. all the efforts of the Roosevelt gov- ernment to send prices back to the 1926 level have so far not been suc- cessful, due to the enormous stock of unused goods on hand. ‘The financial circles talk of some form of stabilization agreement be- trvfen Roosevelt, Britain and France. Such an. agreement cannot be main- tained in the face of the deepening antagonisms between these govern- ments in their imperialist fight for foreign: markets. NOP se played | despite claims of the present Re-| cording to yesterday's report over 100 | Today’s strike | Commodity prices are sagging, since! (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents s in Scottsboro Protest Strike FEARS 14,000 WORKERS WILL OPPOSE OPEN SHOP AFTER NRA. BROKE STRIKE UMWA Leader Uses ‘Threats to Force Strikers to Work Calls Strike Off As {He Threatens Men With $1 a Day Fine By TOM MY CENTRAL CITY, Pa., Dec. Striking miners of Central ; Somerset Coun Pa., got ew les- ‘son in_strikeb: ng Sunday when Dave Watkins, M.W.A. organizer in |this field arrived at called strike meeting in company with jthe police to order the strike called ‘off, As soon as this union faker who is known too well in his own Ohio district to be permitted to work there) began to speak, he repeated the threat of fines of $1 a day per RSCOUGH 12 man for each day on strike, as he} had done through the local press on | the first day of the strike. The men pt out a howl and threats were made |egainst Watkins. This, however, was jon by his @olice protection.” | _A vote to return to work was forced | through, although many of the men | will be unable to work because lack | Of necessary rails, posts, other sup- | plies, etc., necessary to the mining of | coal, the cause of the strike, are still | unavailable. With the vote to return, | however, was & threat to return on Monday. When Watkins was through speak- success” for its attempt to drown the | !ng, the miners were kept inside the | |hall for fully 15 minutes to permit | the U.M.W.A. faker that much head- | Way in getting out of town and thus | escape the wrath of the miners. ‘Court Orders Death for 17-Year Negro Girl SON, Miss., Dec, 12.—The Supreme Court .today JAC | Mississippi | ordered the hanging of a 17-year- | | old Negro girl and fixed Jan. 17 as | the execution date. | The chifd, Annie May Harmon, | ‘s accused of kiiling her husband in a fit of jealous rage. The lynch court nsed this as a pretext for ordering the execution of the child- wife. Significantly, the court has never returned a death verdict against a white woman. Help Dig A Pit For Capitalism! IN the press room of the’ Daily Worker revolutionary workers have already dug the pit for the foun- dation for our new, modern press. Mounds of earth are being carted aawy from the basement press room. On the foundation in this excava- tion, five feet deep, thirty nine feet Jong, a powerful. machine will in a few weeks whirl off 36,000 Daily ‘Workers per hour. ECAUSE of your splendid support, we are able to build this founda- )tion for our new press Which will make our Daily Worker a still more powerful weapon in our struggles. All of us who are helping the Daily Worker are helping to dig a pit for the capitalist system. only because a group of prefes- sional workers sent in over $250, Chicago $91, Jewish Worker Clubs, $68, Seattle, $38. Contributions from individual workers and most organi- zations were extremely low. We are still waiting to hear from the: various districts how soon they can raise their quotas, more they will voluntarily raise to make sure that we can retain the new press. Do not delay, comrades. Your nickels, dimes, dollars mean life and revolutionary strength to our fight- ing “Daily.” Rush your contribu- tion today. Ask your fellow work- ers to contribute. Tuesday's receipts . $521.78 Previous etal ......sseee++. 34,419.92 rike if demands are not met by| 0° receipts yesterday were fair | ~~ | t how much AFL Leaders Helped NRA, Bosses to Betray Men Strikers Were Told They Could Choose Representatives PITTSBURGH, Dec. 12. — Fourteen thousand steel work- ers of the Weirton Steel Co. in | West Virginia and Ohio were all the promises made to them by the N. R. A. to end their strike on Oct. 16 are not worth the paper they are written on Ernest told yesterday that T. Weir, chairman of the company, announced that the prom-~- ise’ to hold elections and give the to elect thelr own ould rejected He decl the R. A. guarantees the open shop and compapy union. In the latter part of September, for the first time in 20 years, 14,000 steel workers of the Weirton Steel | Co. went on ke demanding union | Tecognition and higher wages. The men put: up a militant strike and were in a position to win. The strike was led by the Amalgamated | Association of , Tin and Wire | Workers, affiliated to the A. F. of L The strike leaders urged the men to refrain from picketing, and finally after negotiations with President Weir, Senator. Wagner, villiam | Green and other N. R. A. oftcials ordered the men to return to work, with the promise that the N. R. A would grant them the right to hold elections in the second week in Dg | cember. Strikebreaking Agreement | The terms of the agreement through which the men were driven back to work when victory was in their grasp was signed, by Mr. Weir, Senator Wagner and William J, Long of the A, A. | The steel company officials. and |the N, R. A, administrators knew | that this was a trick to break the | strike, and would be followed by pre- | cisely just such action as is now | taking place. | A.A. officials, iMkewise, knew that | they were betraying the strike. As a result of the breaking of the strike, 2,500 of the most active strike militants lost their jobs. The rest are now being forced into a coms pany union. 3 In Washington, the N. R. A. offi- cials are seeking to cover their slimy methods of breaking the strike threatening court action against Ws to force an election. But the steel bosses smile confidently, knowing that this is so much hog wash for public consumption and to keep other workers from realizing the: methods of N. R. A. strikebreaking. (See edie torial on editorial page.) Muneric Strikers Aided by Dock Men LL.A. Sends Seabs To Break Strike | PHILADELPHTA, Dec. 12. — The | Steamship Muneric strike is holding | cut solid, with longshoremen rei ~” | to work. yesterday when the crew ff steam. I. L. A. officials tried to send men to work and threatened | delegates of the Marine Workers In- dustrial Union, oy The captain is attempting to the ranks by paying three individuals | part of the five months salary owed hem, and serving better food. The result of this move is that the feel- jing of solidarity among the crew and | the determination to win all demands jhas been strengthened. | The captain threatened to deport | 41) foreignezs and threw an M.W.LU, |delegate off the ship. The ship crew has elected a committee of four to stop, deportation of any of the | strikers. Shipping agencies have their win- jows covered with wire and are ttempting to ship any scabs to | strike. < oN