The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 2, 1934, Page 1

SPEED A All Orders and 26 Page, Jan. T ONCE Greetings For 6th “Daily” L “Wol. XI, No. 2 * Bayonets for CWA Workers of Detroit Demanding Pay Relief Expenditures To Be Cut In Half In January DETROIT, Mich., Jan. 1— Bayonets and sawed-off shot guns in the hands of National Guardsmen was Detroit’s New| Years greetings to C.W.A. workers. Guards, police and special deputies were stationed outside and inside the Kerr Building, Saturday, where hun- dreds of C.W.A. workers waited in Une all day clamoring vainly for their pay. ‘The workers were in an angry mood | because they had been sent from one to another time after time for at the Kerr Building for his pay i received only one week's pay of One C.W.A. worker who waited all ld that since Dec. 12, when he to work on a C.W.A. job, he $15. “They keen sending us from one Place to another. We spend hours Waliking our feet off, but get no pay,” | ‘Days After Verdict’ * “ect at Joseph Campau and Davison } Aves., tore up the street car tracks, liyg said. “On Dec. 23, when no pay shame, the workers on the C.W.A. proj- and tipped over a street car.” ‘The police were called to subdue the workers. All news of new C.W.A. strikes is very carefully suppressed by the capitalist press. At the same time, Detroit’s 300,000 unemployed were given another New ‘Year’s greeting with the announce- ment that relief expenditures for ‘Wayne County during January are to be ,cut to less than one-half of the November figure. Wayne County embraces Detroit, arborn, Hamtramck, Lincoln Park, i other towns. Instead of $2,670,000 ich was spent in November, only 175,000 has been appropriated for nuary. This huge relief cut is being put rough at the orders of the Federal ate Emergency Relief Administra- m. tO investigate all families on unty relief lists and to drop the ~called “borderland and 3e8. - Those remaining on the ef lists are to have their relief} udgets cut. ‘The cost of Federal surplus hereto- we issuet pplementary to the re- ef checks are now to be deducted. Tedical sid will aiso be cut. This ew attack in the face of mounting nemployment, with automobile pro- Uction at about half of what it was ast year. ‘The Unemployed Councils the workers for the fight cuts, and are organizing the yorkers on the relicf job into the Relief Workers’ Protective Union. are ral- fraud” | Payrolls, Jobs, Show Decline, Latest Data Of Industrial Board NEW YORK, Jan. 1.—The latest available figures on the trend of business and employment covering the months of November, reveal steadily declining tendencies, ac- cording to a report of the National Industrial Board, an employers economic research agency. Actual employment fell off by 10.7 per cent during November, while payrolls declined by 10 per cent. ‘The average weekly pay envelope fell from $19.46 a week to $18.51 a week, Nazi Jailers Hold 4 Communists Ten Protest Actions Grow Throughout The United States NEW YORK.—Protest actions were reported from many cities yesterday as the workers renewed their de- mands for the safe and immediate release of the four Communist de- fendants in the Reichstag frame-up trial. Although it is now ten days since! the international protest wrested ad- mission of their innocence from the Nazi Supreme Court, the four de- fendants are still held in the Nazi dungeons, where they are not even permitted to speak to each other. Latest reports from Germany in- dicate that the four Communist leaders will be forced to face new charges of high treason in an at- tempt by the Nazi chieftains to carry | through the murders of the four rev- olutionary leaders. In the meantime, their lives are in constant danger, as the Nazis are not above carrying out their murders by “other means,” as countless cases of political prisoners “shot while at- | tempting to escape” attest. There must be no let-up in the | protest actions, but rather a tre- |mendous increase of protest demon- strations before the German Con- sulates in every city, and of protest Army Officers Lead Argentina Rebels Fievce’Fighting In Corrientes Prov. MONTEVIDEO, Jan. 1—~The Ar gentine Government tightened censorship on news from that coun- try today as the armed uprising led by the Irgoyen wing of the Radical Party gained headway throughout northwest Argentine, with the rebels still maintaining control of Entre Yos Province. The revolt is reported 45 the most serious of six attempts ‘against the present government since the overthrow of the Irigoyen gov- ernment. At Santo Tome, in Corrientes Prov- ince, large bands of rebels are re- ported fighting Federal cavalry. The government is rushing reinforcements from Corrientes City. Many retired army officers and non-commissioned officers are the rebel forces. ‘Thousands impoverished farmers are no doubt among the rebel forces. Martial law continues throughout the country, with mass arrests in = Ayres, Rosario and other Daily Worker Today In the Metal Industry. the Home,” by Helen Luke. ‘ Page 5 .. “What a World!” by Michael Gold Stage and Screen, Music, Tuning In, What's On. i (Continued on Page 2) Morgenthau Made ‘New Treasury Sec’y /As Woodin Resigns Morgan Favorite Gets High Praise From Roosevelt WASHINGTON, Jan. 1—Following the resignation of William H. Woodin as Secretary of the Treasury, to take effect today, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., was sworn in as the new Secretary of the 4 Woodin received high praise from Roosevelt in a letter which he re- ceived from the President, which stated, in part: “Remember | | | that when that day comes you are wanted and needed in the service of the country: Your calm, practical and courageous ac- tion in the difficult days of last spring and summer will always be remembered. “All of us miss you greatly and all of us send you our devoted re- i Woodin was shown during the Senate investigations of J. P. Mor- | investors and corporations, the Roose~ | discussed, it is said. Daily, ‘(Section of the Covnswesemisi International ) orker Party U.S.A. ‘oe | America’s Only Working | Class Daily Newspaper WEATHER: Cloudy. Rich Relieved Of $140,000,000 Tax | Bill by Roosevelt | Permits Dividend And Excess Profits Tax To Expire WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.—As a New Year present to a handful of wealthy velt government today formally let the taxes on dividends and corpora- tion capitalization expire. The taxes on dividends, required & 5 per cent to be paid by all investors receiving dividends on their total, dividend income, The amount col- lected in this way amounted to about $60,000,000. The termination of this tax by the Roosevelt government is, therefore, in the nature of a 1934 gift to dividend collectors equal to this amount, On July 1, the 5 per cent tax on the excess profits of all corporations will also be permitted by the Roose- velt government to expire. This will saye rich corporations another $80,- 000,000 a year in taxes. The Roosevelt government has ex- tended the Hoover excise taxes on cigarettes, radios, amusements, medi- cines, etc. for the next year. They were due to expire this year. They cost the small consumer $600,000,000 a@ year, Inflation, Taxes To, Be Main Subjects Of Congressional Fight Budget Crisis Brings New Taxes On Masses WASHINGTON, Jan. 1. — When Congress opens its sessions on Wed- nesday at noon, the subjects of in- flation and further subsidies to bank- rupt industry and banks will be among the leading subjects of dis- cussion. New taxes, the budget crisis, and the failure of the Roosevelt farm pro- gram to stop the growing rebellion among the small, impoverished farm- ers, will also be among the subjects A decided fight for outright cur- rency inflation waged by certain Sen- ators from the West is also expected. The enormous increase in the Gov- ernment debt to $22,000,000,000 and the increasing budget deficit due to the enormous war expenditures and susidies amounting to $11,000,000,000 to the Wall Street banks and rail- roads, makes certain the introduction of proposals for new taxes on the population. France in Trade Reprisals on Nazis New Quotas to Favor NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1934 (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents American leisure class, Moscow factory workers enjoying one of the outdoor sporis of the | At Lake Placid? — No! Workers in Moscow Sovphoto By VERN SMITH Daily Worker Moscow Correspondent MOSCOW, Jan. 1 (By Radio)—The Council of the Union and the Council of Nationalities met in separate sec- tions of Sverdlov Hall Friday to dis- cuss the 1934 national economic plan presented to the fourth session of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union by Viacheslav Molotov, chairman of the Counoil of Peoples Commissars, and V. Mezhlauk, vice- chairman of the State Planning Com- mission, The Council of the Union and the Council of . Nationalities form the Central Executive Committee of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. The Council of the Union is elected by the Congress of Soviets of the US.S.R. from representatives of the united republics in proportion to the population of each; in all 371 mem- bers are elected. The Council of Nationalities is formed of representatives of Allied and Autonomous Socialist Soviet Re- publics, five delegates from each of the former and one delegate each from the latter. French Allies PARIS, Jan. 1—Sharp trade re- prisals against Nazi Germany, with important concessions to France’s allies, were being considered by the French Government today with the double aim of penalizing Germany and strengthening the war alignment being rapidly organized by French imperialism. France was Germany’s Unlike the American Congressional Scuitet Facer, Farm: Tolle’s Shape Second Five Year Plan Delegates From National Minorities Discuss | »onds. ‘The LaGuardia plan for the | Report To USSR Central Executive Body As New City Mayor; 7 Cent Fare Looms Ic. P. Calls For Fight : : + Against High Fare, * x Relief Slash NEW YORK, Jan. 1 brary of the millionaire L attorney, Samuel Seabv elect La Guardia today of office and of New York City. One of the first official act: administration was to giv of office to his appoint Police, General John F. O'R; will assume office at once. 7-Cent Fare The entrance of LaGuard fice was marked by thi a sharp statement by the Committee of the Communist P: sounding a warning that Guardia program mea diate possibility of slas relief, wage cuts for Civ’ employes and tt subware fare to 7 ci “LaGuardia assum Communist Part declared, “as the z Ready To Operate ef the most powerful group of Wall Street bankers, Chase National Bank, the traction interests, etc. One of the first acts of Mayor LaGuardia will be io carry out the dictates of his election bosses and backers, by PLUNDERING THE WORKING POPULATION THROUGH AN I CREASE IN THE SUBWAY FAR LaGuardia has already pledge to the bankers by “REGARD- ING THE TAMMANY AGRE! MENT WITH THE WALL STREET BANKS AS SACRED.” Previous to his official entrance into office today, LaGuardia has been holding conferences with the repre- sentatives of the Wall Street b: and bondholders who hold the ma- jority of the traction and subway subways is some form of “unifica- tion” with a guaranteed “adequate fare” that will meet with the ap- announced | his intention of fulfilling his election | ie 5 A photo of MayorLa Guardia, who stated the day before he took office today that “the budget must be balanced and it may require a major operation to do it.” The same day LaGuardia asked the State Legislature to give him power to duce jobs. ‘HeLevy, §.P. Mayor, Refuses To Help i Jailed Strikers Bridgeport Cops Act body, the delegates of both Councils | Proval of the bondholders. This is Kor Ship Owners To are responsible for the carrying out of the Council's decisions in their homeland. The delegates are also different in both tone and character, being elected directiy from shop, mine or farm. The delegates consist mostly of workers who bring the experiences of their own mine or mill and discuss the plan in the light of this first- hand knowledge, making demands for (Continued on Page 3) USSR Foreign Policy Address by Litvinoff Continued on Page 3 The continuation of the sharp and brilliant analysis by Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs, before the Cen- tral Executive Committee of the Soviet Union, of the present for- eign policy of the U. S. S. R. in relation to the capitalist powers of the world will be found on page 3 of today’s Daily Worker. Jobless Councils Request Funds For Feb. 3, Convention best customer during the past year. Under a new schedule of import quotas, applicable early this year, the bulk of German exports to France would be barred. The quotas will distribute the former German trade among Belgium, Poland and the Little Entente, France's allies. Part of the import quotas would also be distrib- uted among England, Italy, Portugal and Greece in exchange for tariff concessions and with the aim of fur- ther isolating Germany. The new quotas and bargaining Policy will also hit drastically many American products, including auto- mobiles, tractors, tires and tubes. The French Government faces the new year with a constantly diminish- Unemployed Women Delegates to Visit Mayor L LaGuardia NEW YORK.—At a meeting on Friday, December 29th of the un- employed women’s delegates who went to the C. W. A. office on 28th St., it was unanimously de- delegation fet Jem. 280 45 Manes lelegation for Jan. to Gas ee ie women who participated in the first delegation as vat as all other women should meet on Tuccday, Jan. 2nd at at'20" Hast 20th St. ing of its revenues, which dropped to 3,276,000,000 francs for November, representing a decrease of 36,000,000 francs as compared with the same month of 1932. Unemployment is showing a rapid increase, A. F. of L. Workers Force Minn. Legislators To Present Bill TACOMA, Wash., Jan. 1—The car- penters local and the brewery work- ers local of' the American Federation of Labor of Tacoma have both en- dorsed the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill, On Jan. 5, the county unemploy- ment conference wil be held here to ‘k out a program of immediate de- for the unemployed workers to take up preparations for an of delegates to the national it Convention to be held beginning Feb, 3, NEW YORK. — The national committee of the Unemployed Council, through its secretary, I. Amter, declared yesterday that funds are urgently heeded for housing, feeding and meeting place for the delegates to the national Unemployment Convention, to take place in Washington, D. C., Feb. 3, 4 and 5. The districts and sections are urged to carry out tag days, arrange affairs, ete., in order to achieve the three thousand dol- lar fund needed to carry through the national convention: Funds should be rushed to the National Committee, Unemployed Councils, U. S. A., 9 E, llth St., New York City, ST. PAUL, Minn., Dec. 31.—At the demand of the Unemployed Councils, the Workers Unemployment Insur- ance Bill was introduced into the State Legislature on Wednesday by Representatives Bennett and Young- dahl. The introduction of this Bill is & result of the mass pressure of the unemployed for jobless insurance at the expense of the state and the em- ployers, Gov. Floyd B. Olson of the Farmer Labor Party failed to even mention unem| insurance in his mes- sage to the Legislature. The Farmer Labor representatives felt it net ary to introduce the Bill due to force the is Bill now before them. The Mit State Committee of the Unemployer Rumania Acts To Disarm All Workers Uses Present Tension To Strike At Toilers BUCHAREST, Jan. 1.— A govern- mental ‘decree ordering all civilians Possessing weapons to surrender them by Tuesday, shows that the Rumanian government intends using the tension following the assassination of Premier Duca by fascist Iron Guard members to further disarms the toiling masses. Heavy penalties are threatened for failure to surrender weapons. All public meetings, parades and demonstrations have been prohibited under the terms of the drastic mar- tial law and press censorship clamped down by the government throughout the country. Bucharest is heavily patrolled and has the appearance of 2 city under siege. Despite many ar- rests of Iron Guard members, the real leaders of the party are still at liberty. Councils urges all workers organiza- tions, employed and unemployed, to immediately send resolutions to the Speaker @f the State House of Rep- resentatives, and to the legislators of their own. districts, demanding im- mediate action on the Workers Un- employment Insurance Bill before the Legislature sdjourns. 5 . Convention te Take Up Bill. NEW YORK CITY. — The nation - wide campaign for the Workers Unem| it, Insurance Bill will be the central demand of the national convention against Unem- ployment to be held in Washington, -|D. C., Feb. 3, 4 and 5. The Bill, first proposed by the Communist Party and the Unemployed Councils, is the only proposal for social insurance seen a6 a definite move toward the abolition of the 5-cent fare. Wage Cuis LaGuardia has also asked the State Legislature for the power to arbitrar- ily slash Civil Service wages and jobs, now protected by law. This ap- Plies particularly to such employes @s school teachers, engineers, etc. Referring to this action of the Mayor, the C. P. statement declared: “To carry through the plundering of the working population, in par- ticular the million and a half un- employed, the masses of employed workers and civil servants, La- Guardia, as the tool of finance capital, is preparing to cut s>lar- ies ruthlessly, to fire 10,000 city (Continued on Page 2) (Canada Orders Cacic Deported Canadian Workers in Furious Protests TORONTO, Canada, Dec. 31.— Tom Cacio, Canadian revolution- ary leader, who has been held in prison several weeks after his term expired, was smuggled out of Kingston Penitentiary last Fri- deportation to fascist Jugo-slavia, where death or imp await him for his working-class activities. f Cacic is one of eight leaders of the Canadian Communist Party who were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment. The Canadian Labor Defense League, upon learning of this ac- tion by the government, im- mediately wired a protest to W- A. Gordon, Minister of Immigra- tion, demanding that time be per- mitted to file a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, or that Cacic be permitted to go to the Soviet Union. Canadian workers, who have vigorously protested the imprison- | ment of the eight working-class leaders, are in furious protest against this attempt, the order of deportation to Jugo-slavia, which is equivalent to a death sentence for Cacic, : Locals Indorse Social Insurance Bill bg National Convention To Take Up Jobless Insurance worker to receive insurance, regard- less of how long he has been out of work, and without any qualification or restriction, The Workers Unemployment Insur- ance Bill calls for the payment to all unemployed of a minimum of ten dol- lars weekly and three dollars addi- tional for each dependent. The funds are to be obtained from the govern- ment war funds, and from taxation on all incomes over 5,000 dollars, and the funds are to be administered by the workers organizations. Many thousands of workers have already in- day and rushed to St. John for' Drive Men To Work BRIDGEPORT, Jan. 1. — Socialist Mayor Jasper McLevy of this city re- fuses to take any action to effect the) release of five strikers of the Greek! ship S. S. Kalypsis Vergotti tied up in the harbor here. The five strikers were arrested by the Bridgeport city police, at orders jot the captain of the ship and the | Greek Consul, because they are strik- ing for back pay, better conditions and union recognition. The crew is | breach to break the strike. The city police, under supervision of the Socialist administration, acted as agents of the ship owners. A government cutter was sent to Bridgeport on Saturday to quell the “mutiny.” In the first strike to occur under the Socialist Mayor’s administration, the police are used in an effort to word of protest from the Socialist Mayor or other Socailist officials, The local police refused to let the representative of the Marine Work- ers Industrial Union and the Interna- tional Labor Defense see the arrested seamen on Sunday morning. An attempt is being made to ter- (Note: Through error the Daily Worker on Saturday stated 29 striking amen were arrested. Only 5 were jailed by ‘the Socialist-controlied city police.) NRA Hands Pay Cuts Whalen Lets Stores Lengthen Hours NEW YORK.—Sixty thousand re- tail stores in New York will be per- mitted to lengthen hours of work of their clerks by eight hours per week for $1 more in weekly pay, ac- \cording to the new schedules an- ‘nounced by Grover Whalen, chair- {man of the retail code authority. By the decision, stores which are open less than 56 hours a week will hours of work, while stores which have hours between 56 and 63 per week will be cbliged to pay only $14.50 for 44 hours of work and those open- ing for longer than 63 hours may pay $15 for 48 hours a week. By lengthening the hours of work and enabling the retail stores to pay practically the same wages, the code authority of the N.R.A. is actually giving thousands of retail store work- ers @ Wage cut, Harlem Meet Jan. 14 To Boost Daily Sales NEW YORK.— Announcing the date for the Harlem Conference to Increase the Sales of the Daily Worker for Sunday, Jan. 14, in the Finnish Workers Hall at 10:30 | AM., the Volunteer Committee urged all Communist Party unit | members and all sympathizers to canvass organizations to send jtwo slash Civil Service wages and re- | ,framed-up on charges of mutiny and| smash the strike, with no action or}! rorize the seamen back to the ships. | To Retail Clerks pay their workers $14 a week for 40) LaGuardia Sworn In'] 700 JOHNSTOWN MINERS VOTE STRIKE AGAINST NRA COMPANY UNION ELECTION Organize Opposition To Fight Lewis Gang jat UMWA Convention JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Jan. 1.— A unanimous vote to strike was |taken by 1,700 miners of the |Bethlehem Mines Corporations sterday when the Na- tional Labor Board refused to jact in a forced company union elec- n. The miners are demandit nition of their own repre 7 d the rump elec y union. ago, mine : Board Bethiechem them the right of el Tepresentatives. Ser |chairman of the Boa the local’s petition | sidered,” last Dec. 24th. But as usual i National La their union, This strike a, trickery and National Labor Board support of company unionism takes place on the eve of the interna- tional convention of the U.M.W.A., to be held in Indianapolis, Indiana, January 23rd. Despite the fact that the coai code virtually makes strikes illegal, the Johnstown miners unanimonsiy | voted to enforce their demand | through struggies. « | These conditions from which thc miners are suffering were mack possible through the open “ketrar: by_the Lewis. machine. an This strike, as well as the report of election of 12 opposition dele- gates from one U.M.W.A, local in the Danville sub-district, are signs that the miners are in a mood for fight against Lewis's treachery. This fight is spontaneous, uner: ganized. The greatest task facing the class conscious workers is an organization of the fight against the Lewis machine’s brazen betrayal of the miners to the coal operators. Especially in view of the forth- coming convention, the forces of the opposition must be organized, to come into the convention as a solid, organized body to put over @ program of fight against Lewis and in the interest of the miners, Thus far the Daily Worker has received no news whatever from the Communist leaders in this struggle in the Pennsylvania dis~ tricts of the U.M.W.A. There is little time left before the convention. Undoubtedly a great deal of work and organization has been done, but more is necessary, Above all, it is necessary to hear about what is going on in order to inform the miners everywhere, to encourage and to help them in their struggles. Horrible Butchery Of Fukien Masses By U. S. Bombs Thousands Are Made Homeless By Nanking Planes HONGKONG, Jan. 1—Wealthy re- fugees pouring in from the Fukien jcity of Foochow described scenes of horrible suffering resulting from the murderous aerial bombradment of | that city by Nanking planes during the past week. The raids were car- |ried out by planes and bombs fur- |nished by the U.S. The homes of | thousands of workers were destroyed, ‘Tens of thousands of impoverished workers, unable to obtain transporta- tion from the city. were reported crowding into the consular districts, which through an understanding be- tween the Nanking regime and its imperialist: masters, has been spared from the terror of aerial bombard- ments, Heavy fighting continues on thé Fukien-Chekiang front between Nen- king troops and the 19th Route Arm) of the Fukien secessionist regime, ant in Kiangsi Province and northern Fukien between the Chinese Re Army and the Nanking forces, * © NANKING, Jan. 1—The Nankin) government yesterday assured its im perialist masters that not independ ence from the imperialist dismember ing China, but “the extermination jot the emancipated workers al’ peasants in the Soviet districts woul iJbe the major task of the Nankin murder regime in 1934, as in the pas The assurance was given by Nankin Premier Wang Ching-wei in a “Ne ear message.” a t