The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 21, 1933, Page 1

| | STIRRING GREETINGS | By World Workingclass Lead- aWorker — | America’s Only Working | Class Daily Newspaper 1 ers in Jan. 6th “Daily”! | ? WEATHER: Probably rain; slightly warmer, are Come Pere © Vol. X, No. 305 ie re ae aa pegcemtanleg NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1933 oe (Six Pages) pare Price 3 Cents . WORLD’S WIR ESS OPERATORS SUPPORT SHIPS’ STRIKERS Cleveland Police Bar Delegations To Nazi Consulate Suprise Demonstration Against Nazis Held in Philadelphia ‘Leo Gallagher, I. L. D. Attorney, Hailed at Trish Meet CLEVELAND, Dec. 20. Thousands of people passing |- the Public Square, the busiest spot in Cleveland, yesterday eiternoon saw two flags flying with the insci(ption “Ston* Hitler Murder” and “Free Torgler and Dimitroff.” One of the flags was hoisted upon ® 25-foot flagoole and the other on « 12-foot fiagpole. Because the rope fad been cut, police and firemen struggle for hours to remove the flags, but they continued fiying until 8:3 in the evening. Just before police succeeded in hauling down the fiags, Frank Rogers was arrested. At that moment, thou- yands of cards signed Communist Party fluttered down. upon the crowd passing through the Public Square. Earlier in the day—despite the fact yreat the German consulate was | heavily guarded—two delegations, one ‘representing workers’ organizations dnd the other’ representing profes- tions, went to the consulate to pre- tent demands for the release of Tor- gler, Dimitroff and the other Com- | muhist defendants. ‘The delegations were surrounded by police armed with clubs and tear gas bombs. Only after a long strug- gie did the cops succeed in forcing the delegations from the consulate. baler anager’ g Newark Protest Saturday NEWARK, N. J., Dec, 20.—A dem- | onstration to demand the release | of the four Communist defendants. | im the Reichstag fire trial’ is being | called at- Military Park, this Satur- day aiternoon, Pes, 23, at 1 p.m., DUBLIN, | Gallaghe:, sf i Labor Defense attorney who attended the sessions of the Reichstag fire trial until he was deporied by the Nazi government, was one of the speakers at a meeting which welcomed Sean Murray, a leader of the Irish Com- munist Party, who had just been re- leased from fast Prison. Murray had beon a d at a Belfast mass meeting, aft police had dispersed the crowd. Gallagher, the. Ame made 2 scathing exposure of the Nazi methods in the Leipzig™ trial. ‘The mention of Dimitroff’s name brought rounds of applau The meeting adopted a vigorous Tesolution demanding the immediate release of the four Communist de~ fendants in the Leipzig trial. can. attorney, | ‘Besides Gallagher and Murray, oth- | er speakers were Barney Conway, Mrs. Skiffington, Miss Jacob, Jack Carney and Mrs. Despard. Kenosha Protests KENOSHA, Wis., Dec. 20.—More than 1,000 workers in Butterfly Thea- tre at a showing of the film, “So- viets on Parade,” added their voices to the.mighty voice of protest against the Reichstag fire trial frame-up. A wire demanding the release of the de- Tendants was sent to the German Em- bassy in Washington. . 8 2,000 in Boston BOSTON, Dec. 20.—Despite repeat- ed attempts of the police to break up the line of march, 2,000 demonstrated in the Boston Common on behalf of the Reichstag fire defendants. Earlier dispatches. incorrectly estimated the at 1,000. Many organizations represented in the demonstra- ion. Thirty-seven protest cablegrams sent to the Nazi Supreme Court during the past few days by various ‘Boston zations. % | | _| Finnish workers at 2409 N. Halsted 4 es reset 0 Seid 8 wie, of rectal B {Continued on on Page 2) British Control of Tibet Threatened PEIPING, Dec. 20.—Britain’s veiled control of Tibet was threatened today with the death of the Dalai Lama, British tool and spiritual and tem- poral ruler of Tibet. ‘The Lama's death is likely to be followed by a collense of the Tibe invasion of Zechwan Province, Chins at the instigation of his British mas: ters. It will also probabiy affect the British. struggle with rival Japaneso imperialists for control of Sinkiang Proyinces. whose frontiers border the Soviet Union for hundreds of miles. British agents in Tibet claim that the Lama was pe!caned by local po.'- tital opponents. Stalin Spends 54th Birthday at Work MOSCOW, Dec. 20.—Joseph Stalin, Secretary of the Russian Communist Party, observed his 54th birthday to- day by putting in a full day at his offices, while thousands of congratu- latory telegrams poured in from fac- tories and collective farms in all parts of the Soviet Union. Reichstag Fired By Nazis, London Inquiry Declares /Publishes Finding | After . Careful Investigation LONDON, Dec. 20.—Responsibility for the Reichstag arson, for which four CommurNt leaders are now fac- ing death at the hands of the Nazi executioners, is placed ¢ rectly on the Nazi chiefs, in a report ‘issued here today by the Legal Commission of Inquiry Into the Burning of the Reichstag. ‘The commission, composed of in- ternationally famous lawyers, has con- period, and has taken testimony from scores of witnesses barred by the Nazi regime from entering Germany to testify at the farcical trial at Leipzig. ‘The. commission declares that the mass, of testimony clearly shows that the Nazi chiefs themselves, or through others, burned the Reichstag building. Passed in France Senate Under Heavy Police Guard PARIS, Dec. 20.—Under protection of a heavy police guard around the building, the French Senate yester- day endorsed the proposals’ of the Chautemps Ministry for a cut in the wages of the lower paid categories of civil employees. The wage cut measure was passed by the Chamber of Deputies a week ago, with the Socialist deputies re- fraining from voting, in a tréacher- ous agreement with the government's attempts to balance the budget at the expense of the toiling masses. The measure has evoked a furious storm of protest from the civil em~- ployes, thousands of whom are pre- paring to go on strike against the cuts. On the preceding day several thousand workers. demonstrated in front of the Senate. Nesin Named for Senator in Bronx Workers’ Candidate at Mass Meet Dec. 28. NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—Sam Nesin, general organizer of the Trade Union Unity Council and. charter; member of the Communist Party, is a can- didate for the office of Senator in the special election ‘to take. place. Dec, 28, in the 2ist Senatorial District, Bronx. The special tion is due to the fact that the present incumb- ent was appointed to the Bench.» Ail who registered for tHe last’ election are qualified to vote in this election. Nesin will speak at a meeting er- ranged by the Laundry Workers In- dustrial» Uniori,. Saturday evening, Dec. 23, at Ambassador Hall, 3rd: Ave. and ‘Claremont ‘Parkway. if ducted its investigation over a long | Wage Cut Measure, , Since last year. | 18,000 Storm Los Angeles C.W.A. Offices for Civil Works Jobs After the announcement by the Los Angeles CivilWorks Administration that 16,000 would be given jobs on C. W. A. projects, over 18,000 stormed the offices in one day. 4AmbridgeWorkers ‘Sentenced to Long Terms inWorkhouse Judge Had Railroaded Woodlawn Defendants in 1928 PITTSBURGH, Pa. ; Ambridge workers were long prison terms by Jud: nell here today | The workers—John Kapusto, Emm: Breltic, Danny Benning and R. Verko- | vich—were convicted of “rioting “assault and battery” in connection | with the recent Ambridge strike of steel workers in which one acter | was killed and 50 wounded following an attack by armed deputies and gun- men, Breltic and Benning were given) maximum sentences of two years in the Allegheny County workhouse and fined $500 each; Kapusto was sen- | tenced to serve one year in the work- | house and pay a $100 fine, and Verko~- vich was fined costs and put under ja three-year parole on a charge of |“assault and battery.’” Judge McConnell, |the workers, is the {Laughlin Steel Com | judge who in 1927 sentenced Muselin, | Zima and Reseter, the Woodlawn de- fendants, to fi ar terms, Muzelin }and Zima served their terms, and | Resetar died in prison of tuberculosis, |after all attempts to force his release jhad failed. ho sentenced e Jones and y controlled | } Cutting Down Food Sales, Report Shows Curtailed Purchases in Big Groceries (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.— Total grocery sales for the first eleven months of 1933 were seven and one- half per cent below the correspond- ing périod of 1932, the Department of Commerce announced’ yesterday. “The dollar volume of grocery sales in November through a selected sample of ¢hain units, was about one per cent higher than last year, ac- cording to preliminary estimates.” This means a very substantial factual! or real decrease in unit sales in view) of the great increase in food prices In other words, is ers were able to buy less food durin; this eleven months’ period than A year ago. A corresponding group of chain or- ganizations, representing stores con- tinuously in operation since. 1929, fur- nished the Commerce Department its figures, the report states. These re~- porting firms operate over 70 per cent. of the chain grocery units in the United States, 1,000 Engineers Get Pay Reduction When NEW YORK—One thousand technicians and engineers, who had been receiving $4.80 a day for work done under the Temporary Emergency Work Relief, received @ cut to $4 8 day when they were recently transferred to Civil Works payroll, ‘The Federation of Architects, ®mgineers, Chemists and Techni- cians, 232 Seventh Ave., sent a committee to Travis H.. Whitney, city executive director of the C. W.'A., to demand that an adjust- ment be made to at least the wages provided for under the Civil Works’ Service. - Mr, Whitney not only categor- ically refused’ to take steps to bring their wages to a par with all other C. W. A. service Jobs, but also said that C. W. A. wages were altogether too high. Rising Prices Forces Transferred to CWA, Less Buying Power’ | | 500,000 Seek CWA | Jobs in N. Y. State; 160,000 Get Them NEW YORK—Five hundred thousand applications have been received throughout this state, ac- cording to a statement issued by Frederick I. Daniels, state.C. W. A. Executive Director, and only 160,- 000 have ben given. jobs, and these 130,000 men have been transferred from relief jobs to C.W.A, projects. New York City is represented in thts. total with 126,000 jobs and are men who have been transferred from former emergency work to the C. W. A. The sum total of available C. W. A. jobs in the state is. 240,000. Needle Workers to}: will join with the workers at another | Protest Arrest of UnionLeadersToday ' Postpone “Trial of 28 on Frame Up Charges to Friday NEW YORK.—The trial of the 28 leaders and members of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union on framed up federal charges in con- nection with the Union's, expose of | racketeering in the fur industry was postponed at the Federal District Court today. The case will be heard at the same court on Friday at 10:30 a. m, Among those who will be tried are Ben Gold, Louis Hyman, Irv- ing Potash, Jack Schneider, .J. Winogradsky, 8. Burt and others. The action of the federal courts against those who haye been in the forefront in expov'ny the racket- ecering practices of the fur bosses and the A. F. of L. union is aimed to paralyze the struggles of the needle workers for better conditions | and is part: of a planned attack! to weaken the Union and enable the bosses to smash “working stand- ards. Needle workers will mobilize their forces at a mass meeting at 5th Ayenue Theatre, Broadway and 28th St. today ‘right after work to force the release of the militant fighters of the Industrial Union. ‘Bast Side Workers For Jobs or Relief Mass Meetin gs Will End in March on Relief Bureau NEW YORK. ear " demonstrati on of all unemployed wor! of the lower East Side will be held today at the Home Reef Bureau at Spring and | Elizabeth St meeting at will ch to Rutgers Square where they mass meeting there, and march to the | Home Relief Bureau. The demonstration is being called jointly by the Neighborhcod Commit- | ee of Action of 173 Second St. the Tenth St. iteighborhood Cot mittee, the 13th Si. Block Commi tee of 624 F. 13th St., and the Work~- ers’ locals 2 and 3 SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 20.—Work- ers on the Golden Gate auto ferries between San Francisco and Berkeley have voted to strike unless a code is signed which would restore a 10 per cent wage cut that was given in 1932. | George Creel, chairman’ of the | regional labor board and notorious ‘ war monger, has been commissioned | by local’ business leaders and former , trade} union bureaucrat, Michael Casey, to attempt arbitration, ‘Thus far the workers haye re- mained firm and state that the only arbitration they will accept is the | granting of their demands. The ferry strike would tie up all) auto: ferries except the Southern | Pacific line to Oakland. and would inyolve’more than 1,000 workers. The menvoted almost unanimously to walk out, angry because Maggard had falsified his company’s earnings to force the wage cut upon’ them in 1932. The Southern Pacific ferry ate who also received the cut, are not involved since they have agreed to continue acceptance until June. Demonstrate Today. Seventh Committee on Unemployment, | Frisco Ferry Workers. Vote Strike Against a. 10 Per Cent Wage Cut | | Immediately following the handing jdown of the sentences of the Am- | bridge workers, the Inter |bor Défense, Pittsburgh district, |nounced its intention of app at the same time launching a nation wide drive against the ter is increasing daily in Ambridge and Beaver County. Punds should be rushed to the In- Penn ternational Labor Defense, 611 Ave., Room 606, Pittsburgh Pa |telegrams of pro’ demanding the | release of the Ambridge defendants |to- Judge McConnell at the Beaver County Court, Beaver, Pa 500 Elect Committee ‘toDemandCWA Pay | DykerBeachMenStress Need to Organize NEW YORK.—About 500 Dyker Beach C. W. A. worl unpaid for three weeks, held a meeting on the job yester and elected a commit- } tee of six who would speak for them at the C. W. A. headquarters de- | manding their back pay Three hundred of 2 boarded a train and went, together with the elected committee, to back up their demands. Arrived = ters, the committe the company by tt that if th wel Beach y checks trick stat ack to Di find their or them pi The offi- als knew that by the time the men tived at the Beach the office would be closed The meeting that elected the com i mittee was the first of its kind held jon this job, which employs about 3,200 men in two shifts. The men are | openly talking about the need for an | organization to back up their de- | mands for back pay. IN. Y. NRA Board Sends |: Away Metal Strikers | Sent by Conn. NRA NEW YORK.—A committee of five iron workers representing 27 mould- ers on strike at the Krischner’s Mfg. | Co. of New Haven were flatly turned }away by the N. Y. Regional Labor Board yesterday without considera- | tion of their demands after the wor' necticut N.R.A. | .‘The main office and plant of the |Krischner Co. is at 225 Colyer St., Brooklyn, and the workers were told they are under the jurisdiction of the N. ¥. board. ‘The strike, under the leadership of jers had been sent here by the Con-! tof continuing the present starvation Ship Owners Grant No Cargo Checking’ DemandofOperators recaias Asks City for Charity; Sent to Insane Asylum SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 20.—Mrs. Ernesta Cuadra, her 17-year-old son Carlos and 19-months-old baby were sent to the State Home for the Feeble Minded at Eldridge by the San Francisco charity agencies in order to rid themselves of re- sponsibility for their care. Dr. Fred O. Butler, superinten- dent of the State Insane Asylum, tified in court that the woman was sane, after the victimized sister, Mrs. Edward Plum, had carried on a fight for her release. At the insistence of the court, Mrs. Plum agreed to’see that the Cuadra family would no longer be dependent upon city charity. Canadian Strikers Beat Back Scabs in Bloody Battle \Cops Driven Away, Motorcycles Hur' 1 a Into Embankments HESPELER, Ont., Canada, Dec. 20. Forty-five police and a large number of scabs were driyen from the Do~- minion Woolens and Worsteds Com~) plant here today by 500 irate ikers who were on the picket line A pitched battle between the strikers on one side and the police and scabs on the other lasted for nearly hour. rikers struck at police with their fists to prevent police-escorted strikebreakers from reaching the com- pany plant. Police drew their batons t dronped them hastily when stones gan to fly. Mot cle policemen sought to for m @ ine around the scabs and F: the strikers, but they were by the workers. Motorcycles lifted from the ground and wn down an embankment. Roosevelt Extends Starvation Wage Code for Workers Reduces Wages As Living Costs Advance WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—The N. .R. A. blanket codes have been ex~- tended for four months beyond the original expiring date, January 1, it was announced today by President Roosevelt, This agreement establishes a fixed ‘minimum” of $13 a week, in the face | of steadily rising prices of daily neces- sitie: The agreement fixes a “min- imum” of $12 for the Southern states. |But even the so-called minimums are {not observed, since employers are rivileged to reduce it by spreading werk among their employees. Roose: velt’s order thus reveals his intention wage level, while he raises the cost of living through monopoly prices and inflation, the face of attacks in the New Haven press, for nine weeks. The mayor of the city 1s a member of the A. F. of the Steel and Metal Workers’ Indus-, under a terrific speed-up. L., State Federation of Labor. The moulders demand $6.80 for an eight-hour day. They were receiving $14 for a 40-hour week and working It is a ‘trial Union, has been carried on in’ highly skilled trade. “(Communist ‘Party C Conference Prepares to » Achieve Greater Unity of Miners ACTIVE ORGANIZERS IN MINES FORMULATE LINE OF ACTION FOR COMING STRUGGLES AGAINST BOSSES, MISLEADERS By J. STAC STACHEL i A very important conference took place in the city of Pittsburgh last Saturday and Sunday. It was a conference of the most active forces of the Party in the ‘fel There were 47 comrades in attend- ance, including Tistrict Organizers from the mining districts, 7 section organizers from the main mining fields, two representatives from the Central Committe> National ‘Office, Of the remaining 34 comrades, 17 were comrades now working. in the crfnes, and #2 oqual umber of un- employed miners and comrades ac- tive among the miners Also, among -the comrades present there were those active in the Na- tional Miners Union, the United Mine Workers of America (the largest number), the ive Miners Ids. | (Tilinois), the Anthracite Mine Work- ers Union. The comrades came from the coal fields ‘of Illinois, Pennsyl- vania ‘(hard and soft coal), Indiana, Ohio, and the western fields (Utah, New Mexico and Colorado). There were 8 yolng Miners, two women active in ‘the Women’s Auxiliaries and 3 Negro comrades. This small representatives of Negro miners, which reflects the weakness of our work among the Negro miners, was lanham needa subjected to sharp criticism at the conference. New Problems This was the first Party conference of miners from all parts of the coun- try for a long time and it had to solve many questions arising out of the recent development among the miners, In the first place the con- ference reviewed the recent militant struggles of the miners. Then there is the problem arising out of the ex- istence of the many unions in the field. ‘The role of the National Miners Union in the changed situation (growth of the U. M. W. A.) was carefully analyzed, The coming con- vention of the U. M. W. A, the code hearings in Washington (January 5th) and the expiration of the agree- ments the coming April Ist were central’ questions in the. discussion. Aside from this, the conference laid down the methods of work of the Party Mining Fraction, the coordina- tion of the work in the various miners organization. The strengthen- ing of the Party base among the miners and the role of the Daily Worker in the development of the work among the ndners received con~ siderable attention in the discussion. All these questions will be dealt with extensively in (the resolution | single that. was adopted and which will be printed in the Saturday edition of the Daily Worker. Here we wish merely to record some of the out- standing decisions, Coming Struggles of the Miners ‘The conference after a thorough discussion of the recent miners strikes, and the operation of the codes, came to the conclusion that the partial strikes and struggles now teking place in the mines are the first signs of the coming big struggles that will again take place very soon. ‘The N. R. A. codes, forced upon the miners, did not solve a single problem for the miners, On the contrary, for the majority of the miners the codes represent a low~ ering of their living standards. In this connection it was decided that rank and file delegates be sent to the code hearings in Washington January 5th and there place before the N. R. A. the grievances of the miner The preparation for this hearing and the hearing itself is to be utilized as a means of stimulating and developing the struggles of the miners in the various mines and mine fields. Already, as the reports from Central Pennsylvania showed, the (Continued om Page 2) But Strike . Against 25 Per cent Wage Cut Continues Solid Operators Picket N. Y. Offices of American Merchant Line NEW YORK. — While dis- patches of the strike of wire- less operators of the American Merchant Lines are being flashed from ship to ship all over the world to other oper- ators, the first concessions to the strikers have been conceded. Officials of the American Merchant Lines, owned by Kermit Roosevelt and J. P. Morgan, announced that wireless men would not longer have to check cargo or do any other work aboard the ship except that pertain- ing to the wireless shack. This is a victory for the strikers who are are demanding abolition of extra duties for wireless operators for which they are paid nothing. The strike of the wireless operators is called against a 25 per cent wage cut. ‘The strike is steadily gathering momentum. Picket lines of operators are being maintained in front of the company’s main offices at 1 Broadway and also at the docks. Mass picket- ing is planned for sailing days and leaflets will be given to all Panera embarking. The overaters of the 8. 5. “amer- ican Farmer” left the vessel as soon as it docked Tuesday and the-ship ts now unmanned by competent radio operators. The | ey ‘American Banker” sailed several days ago with scab operators. Dispatches are being flashed from ship to ship by the operators so that every wireless operator and in fact the entire crews of ships in’ every part of the world are becoming cog~- nizant of the strike. Messages of support and encouragement are com- ing in to the militant marine oper- ators’ organizations, the American Radio ‘Telegraphists’ Assn. which called the strike. Telegrams pledging support have been received from Marine Industrial Workers Tnion locals at Boston, Bal-~ timore, Philadelphia, and New Or- leans. Cables have also been received from the International Association of Radio Telegraphers headquarters “at London, representing wireless men of Great Briain, Belgium, Canada, Den- mark, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. This cable reads: “Your cable rela- tive Bowles and Cartwright on Steamer American Banker received. We will take action. I. F. R., Lone don.” The United Licensed Officers’ Ass sociation have now come oe pledging full support of the ope: against the American Merchants’ pie and negotiations are pending with other harbor workers’ organizations | for support of the strike. Emergency committees of AR. T. A. (the operators associa tion), also made renewed efforts get at least the lip service of International Seamen's Union (A. of L.). At a meeting of the Atl district of the I. S. U. at 70 8 St., Wednesday, the request for least “official” support was made at first it was granted, but was h blocked by one of the burea in the meeting. Nothing came. this effort to get the Internatio Seamen's Union to declare for su port of the strike. C.W.A. Worker For Distributing ‘Daily’ to Job Seeke NEW YORK. — Franklin who had just returned from O University where he was studying der a Rhodes scholarship, was fired from a Civil Works j terday for distributing the Worker to unemployed applican Cc. W. A. jobs, Folsom, who was employed interviewer of applicants for 0, jobs, had been distributing Workers to the men outside the mory at Jefferson and Sumner Brooklyn. A Mr,’ Remington, in registration at the armory, was to admit before the staff that som’s work was satisfactory, the only reason for dis was his “radical activities.” Folsom was being paid $25 fo hour week, slightly more th wage scale for unskilled For the $40, 000 Wed.’s recsiptas ae Previous total ... 86, | Total to date . .$37,2 iwe wr oe dle wt a nt