The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 9, 1934, Page 1

i Vol. XI, No. 8” Ready for Write Us What You Think of the Anniversary Issue! ‘Rutered as second-class matter at the Daily <QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) Post Office at Mew York, M. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879 C.W.A. T0 SHUT DOWN MAY 1, HOPKINS ANNOUNCES NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1934 { LaGuardia, Lehman Te. Fare, Wage Cut Agreement a ¢ Dispute on City Jobs Patronage Does Not Touch Bank Loans NEW YORK, Jan. 8.—The Morgan-Rockefeller banks will have their City loans and in- vestments carefully protected ‘by both Governor Lehman and Mayor LaGuardia, all the latest indications im the present political debate re- veal. LaGuardia is ready to “get together with Governor Lehman anywhere, any time” to provide for plans to meet the City’s payments to the bankers. These payments amount to 136,000,000 every year. Last night LaGuardia said that Lehman would agree with him that “we've got to do more than balance the budget. Any banker can see that —i you get what I mean.” These developments augur well for the bankers—but contain definite threats of wage cuts, increased sub- way fares, and curtailed relief and welfare work for the City’s popula- tion and Civil Service employees. Dispute Over Power With all the preliminary heat of party wrangling swiftly subsiding, in which Lehman refused to agree to give LaGuardia the sweeping. power he asked for, it became clear that the only point of dispute between the Mayor and the Governor is the pre- eise amount of power that LaGuar- dia should have to cut into the power of the Democratic Tammany machine which still has strong roots in the City apparatus. Lehman feared that LaGuardia was trying to build up his own Fusion party at the expense of the Tammany stalwarts upon whose approval Leh- Man’s power finally rests. Agree on Bank Loans On the major question of concern to the City’s population, they both agree that the Untermyer Tax agree- ment that places all the City’s. reve- nues in hock to the Morgan-Rocke- feller clique that controls the City’s loans, should be carried out. In his reply to Lehman today, La- Guardia pointed out that it was none other than Governor Lehman him- self who arranged for the signing of the present bankers agreement which now necessitates the slashing of City employees wages, the increasing of the subway fare, etc. 7-Cent Fare That Governor Lehman has no real objection to the LaGuardia pro- (Continued on Page 2) Troops Held Ready as Spain Charges a Plot For Another Uprising, MADRID, Spain, Jan. 8,—Alleging discovery of a plot by anarchists and syndicalists for a new uprising, the government today ordered all troops held in readiness. Manuel Azana, former premier of the defeated “left republican” gov- ernment, met yesterday with former members of his Cabinet, including the three former Socialist Ministers, with @ view of reviving the “leftist” alli- ance. At a mass meeting in Barcelona, Azana, who, with the Socialist lead- ers paved the way for the recent elec- toral victory of the reactionary coal- ition, bitterly attacked the present government in which he had accepted 8 Cabinet post. Grover Whate: Whaten Whalen Quits NRA Post for Job as Booze Trust Head Gov. Lehman’s Family Controls Big Liquor Corporation NEW YORK.—Grover A. Whalen, ex-police chief, former head floor- walker for Wanamakers, and di- rector of the N.R.A. in New York, has resigned all his lucrative jobs for the more bountiful one as chair- man ofthe big booze trust, the Schenley Affiliated Corporations, a group of distilleries, wineries and | other liquor organizations. Whalen brings to the liquor phn many valuable experiences gained from his asociation Mies gangsters, strike-breakers and boo leggers while head of the New York police department. The New York booze trust whic! Whalen now heads is owned by the Lehman Brothers, investment bank- | ers, the firm of Governor Lehman of New York, which has a con-_ trolling interest. With this powerful political line- up, and Whalen’s close association with the New York strike-breaking crews, he should be a profitable as- set to Governor Lehman’s booze concern. In order not to deprive the N.R.A. completely of his valuable strike- breaking ability, Whalen has con- descended to remain as chairman of the New York Retail Code Author- ity, More than 60,000 merchants are supposed to be under this code. In| this manner, Whalen will be able to help Wanamakers (not without consideration) and at the same time enter new fields of plunder opened | up by a booze trust so closely re- lated to the Governor of New York. |Troyanovsky, USSR ‘Ambassador, To. Hand in Credentials Will Make Formal Visit to Roosevelt at White House In the Daily Worker WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—Alexander Today Troyanovsky, Soviet Ambassador to 2 the United States, today paid a for- Spots, by ecnee: mal visit to William Phillips, act- “LL.G.W.U. Heads Oust Militant | !8 Secretary of State, preparatory to Local 9 Leaders.” Lior his credentials to President Page 3 Hoceey el. Mi ‘Lewi hae At an appointed time, Ambassador held at UMEWAT Convention, |Toyanovsky will go through the cer- . jemonial of handing Roosevelt -his Mints Hndeeds Union En- | credentials at the White House. Oppose Lewis Say 25 UMW Delegates 18 Locals Represented at Opposition Meet in Renton, Pa. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan. 8. —Twenty-five representatives of 18 local unions of the U. M. |W. A. in the Allegheny Valley ‘met in an opposition conference at Renton, Pa., Sunday. These local unions have elected delegates to the Indianapolis Con- vention of the U.M.W.A,, opening Jan. 23, on the basis of opposition to Lewis and his henchmen and to the reac- tionary policies of the International Executive Board. The Conference passed the follow- ng resolutions: Against check-off to district offi- cials; for a national agreement; for the right to strike, against the no-strike clause in agreements; against participation in N.R.A. labor boards; for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys; for the release of Tom Mooney and all political prisoners; for Federal Unemploy- ment Insurance, supporting the Workers Unemployment Insurance (See more news on U.M.W.A. Convention on Page 3.) | Bill; reduction of all salaries of officials of the U.M.W.A. propor- tional to the reductions received by the miners since 1927; re-instate- ment of all blacklisted and expelled members of the U.M.W.A. Besides these resolutions, others were passed dealing with local prob- lems in preparation for the District Convention. The conference recommended that a conference be held in Indianapolis of all delegates supporting the rank and file opposition movement. This conference is one of many taking place in the different mining fields throughout the country, indi- cating the develonment ofthe grow- ing movement against the U.M.W.A. bureaucracy on the part of the rank | and file. * Report 71 Dead at | Farewell to Naval Recruits in Japan 5000 A. F. of L. Union Painters Laid Off Chicago C.W.A. Jobs CHICAGO, Jan. 8.—Five thou- sand union painters of the A. F. of L., after working from three to five weeks on C.W.A. jobs without being paid, were laid off Friday, Jan. 5. Because of graft on the part of the officials in letting out contracts for materials at enor- mous prices, it is claimed that no more money is available for con- tinuing work. Leipzig Four In Grave Danger Committee Urges Giant Protest Demonstration Tomorrow Night NEW YORK. — A warning that the danger to the four Communist Reichstag defend- ants has reached the highest point with their retention in the Nazi dungeons, over two weeks after their acquittal, was sounded yesterday by the National Committee to Aid Vic- tims of German Fascism, which called for the greatest mass support of the protest demonstration tomorrow night at the Central Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave. ‘The Committee repeated its call for mass meetings in every city, and for protest cables to be sent to Minister of Interior Frick, Berlin, Germany. The example set by the New York Committee which is calling a demon- stration in the Central Opera House, Wednesday night, should be followed in every city. . e 6 Workers Force Hauling Down of Nazi Flag NEW YORK.—The Nazi flag on the “Marie Horn,” at Pier 52, foot of Stanton St., East River, was re- moved today following a demonstra- tion at the pier of 250 workers in protest against the Nazi murder re- gime and the propaganda activities of the captain and officers of the ship. The workers marched to the pier, following reports that the ship was carrying and distributing Nazi prop- aganda. Police guards at the pier Official News Service Gives Flukey Reason for Huge Death Toll NEW YORK.—Seventy-one people are reperted to have been killed in Kyoto, Japan, and fifty-six injured, according to an Associated Press dis- | patch, under very unsual circum- stances. | A Rengo correspondent at Kyoto wired to Tokyo that yesterday on the oceasion of a farewell demonstration |to @ group of recruits for the im- perial Japanese navy, one person fell down and cried out. As a result a present and 71 were killed. Undoubtedly the official Japanese news agency is resorting to flights of imagination to explain the death of so many people at the time of a mili- tary celebration. This story covers many possibilities. There may have been some anti- militarist demonstrations which met with a bloody attack by the police, or there may have been some action by the recruits themselves which met | with some prompt bloody encounter. Whatever the truth, certainly the official explanation of some “crying out” and 71 people being killed is crude. Esthonia Bartering for sarehipe TALLININ, Jan. 7. | for the construction of new*warships is being considered by the Esthonian government. British and Finnish in- terests have been asked to bid on four destroyers and two submarines, and it is proposed to offer the British butter and bacon and to use crude alcohol in a deal with Finland. This is the “rst | of a series oe | articles on the Roosevelt budget, its purposes, etc., and the effect it will have on the lives of the working class, the impoverished farmers. The second will appear tomorrow.—EDITOR’S NOTE. b ° By MILTON HOWARD ‘ALL STREET knows more than one way of plundering the work- ing class. The Roosevelt “national budget” is one of these ways. Page 5 A “What a World!” by Michael Gold “Scottsboro—Act Three.” “The Labor Press” by Malvina Goodman, Tuning In, Stage and Screen, ‘Music, What's On. “Jim Martin” Comic Strip, by Quirt. Page 6 Editorials: Let Us Hear From « You; Norman Thomas and P. W. A.; A. F. of L. Heads Renew N. R.A. “+ Rooseyelt offers in his budget to isaaeek Aboet NADAL? bermarry lay an enormous ten billion dollar ania, Joad on the backs of the workers, Foreign News. and he calls upon them to accept it as a “measure of welfare,” as an aaa |emergency” measure for “recovery.” | He tells the workers that this money must be raised to “run the nation.” Before we ex- amine this ten bil- lion dollar budget which the worker: are called upon to shoulder, we must record a funda~ mental fact which is concealed from the masses as some kind of spe- dal capitalist secret, And that is, with all the } graft, corrup- Milton Howard tion, inefficiency and useless expenditures, the actual panic was aused among the 10, 000 | attempted to break up the meeting, but desisted before the determined | temper of the workers, and looked on while speakers addressed the crowd. Oil Firm Objects to Paying 83e Wage MEXICO CITY, Jan. 7.—Protests again® a minimum wage of 83 cents a day for its workers was filed by the Mexican Eagle Company, a British- Canadian firm in Tampico, with the government yesterday. In the south- ern part of the state a minimum wage of 43 cents for oil field labor- ers is in effect. In Nazi Prison! Hillman Lies to Keep NRA Yoke in Place Wage Rise While Green Is Admitting Drop NEW YORK.—Resorting to deliberate lying about wages man, member of the National Labor Board, and president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, ap- pealed to the workers to wait and take no steps against the N.R.A. Hillman spoke at a meeting of the Russell Sage Foundation yesterday, attended by 100 “labor leaders” under the auspices of the Labor and Pub- Meity Research Bureau. His speech about the N.R.A. raising wages, unfortunately for him, was made on the very day William Green, president of the A. F. of L. issued a statement admitting that the N.R.A. had severely lowered wages for the majority of workers and the stand- ard of living of all workers. Miss Mary Van Kleek of the Rus- sell Sage ‘Foundation, answering Hillman, said that the “N.R.A. has given ‘hopes’ to the workers and power to the corporations.” She said the workers should take the lead in the struggle for power. “Labor must adjust itself to the new situation,” Hillman said, but of- fered no recipes on how stomachs could be shrunm'cen rapidly. After first -ipporting section 7-a of the N.R.A., through which strikes were broken and the company unions increased from a membership of a man abruptly added that “it should be amencled.” Hillman said that the workers should have no fear of “fascism” un- der the N.R.A., thereby deliberately concealing the fascist deeds commit- ted by the government under the guise of “emergency” acts to achieve recovery He said not a word about the war and inflation program. He ended his speech es he began, plead- ing with the workers to wear the slave chains of the N.R.A. codes pa- tdently and wait until such time as they are riveted firmly before they complain. Boston Cops Prevent Public Trial Against Hitler Fascist Terror BOSTON, Jan. 8—An anti-fas- cist mass meeting in the form of a public trial against fascism was prevented from taking place here yesterday when police stopped those seeking entrance at Dorchester Manor. A large crowd was turned back. The meeting was called against Hitler and his associates in Boston, including the local Consul, Kurt Von Fippelskirch, and Rabbi Harry Levy. The latter was charged with aiding Nazi propaganda in Boston. one, Organizations Urged To Worker, next Saturday, Jan. 13. page of the paper. Dimitroff Speech, Comintern Resolution, in Saturday Issue Rush Their Orders for Special 10-Page Edition ‘The dramatic, defiant speech which George Dimitroff, Bulgarian Communist leader, made before the Nazi court in Leipzig at the con- clusion of the Reichstag fire trial, will be published in full in the Daily The speech will take up one full The same issue of the “Daily,” which will appear in ten pages— Tells Taner i Leaders’ of | under the N.R.A., Sidney Hill-| little over 1,500,000 to 5,000,000, Hill- | |—A barter plan! two more than the usual Saturday edition—will contain another extremely ‘important document: the Resolution adopted by the 13th Plenum of the © Executive Committee of the Communist International in Moscow, en- titled, “Fascism, the Danger of War and the Tasks of the Communist Parties.” Both the speech by Dimitroff and the Comintern resolution will be illustrated with photographs. All organizations and Party units are urged to make plans for dis- posing of a maximum number of copies of Saturday's “Daily,” and send in their orders at once. ® WEATHER: Cloudy, cokder. AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER —— (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents Begin Cutting Off Jobs Feb. 15; Can Reduce Wages at Will: great bulk of which cor roads and new grants for for “relief,” with an additional $348 camps, much of this will also go to t of the unemployed must be consid it is a question of adv: g fu Roosevelt does not he: The National 3, 4 and 5 will bri class organiz ance. The unemployed will demand discrimination, or adequate relief, Unemployment Insurance Bill. Three weeks are left before the The National Commitie ployed Councils, Room 437, 80 East Government. Jobless, Answer Boss Budget AN EDITORIAL RoccEvas: has proposed a budget. of $10,000,000,000 to Congress, the ists of new subsidies to the banks and rail- ar purposes. he bankers and for war. ered in terms of “economy,” but when ds to bankers and corporations, then ate to talk in terms of billions. employed Convention in Washington on February ther masses of delegates from all working e up the fight against unemployment. will demand that all war funds and subsidies to bankers in the ten- billion-dollar budget be turned over Only $50,000,000 is proposed 000,000 for the milstary reforestation he welfare We for unemployment relief and insur- decent jobs for every worker without and the enactment of the Workers convention. llth Street, New York. These addi- jonal funds are needed to make arrangements in Washington since the government has refused to assist in any way possible the unemployed, who will formulate their demands and present them to the U. 8S. C.W.A. Is Assailed By Roosevelt Aide LOS ANGELES, Jan. 8.—Declar- ing that the “Civil Works Admin- istration here was nothing less than a public scandal,” J. B. El- Mott, vice-chairman of the Demo- cratic Central Commitice and for- mer campaign manager for Roose- velt, declared his intention of put- ting the entire matter before a Federal Grand Jury, He also charged that political favoritism wes being used in giv- ing out jcbs, and that the work- ers have t been paid for weeks of work al: ly done. Elliott given no official C. W. A. position when these jobs were passed out. ie Unemnolyed Councils and the Relief Workers’ Protective Union is continuing to organize C. W. A. workers on the job for better conditions. Cops Bar 5,000 Nesro, White from Ala. Jobless Meet Five Carloads of Cops, Dicks Keep Delegates Out of Church BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jan. 8.—Fiye hundred Negro and white workers, delegates to the Alabama Conference Against Unemployment, were barred from the conference here today by five carloads of police, motorcycle police, and plain clothesmen. The delegates were prevented by the heavy concentration of police from entering the Thirgood Memorial Church, the meeting place of the con- | ference. ‘The Ku Klux Klan visited the min- ister of the church last night and threatened to force him to close his doors if he did not prevent the con- ference. The workers pledged themselves to carry on a free speech fight and to hold meetings in the neighborhoods against the proposed sales tax, for more unemployed relief and for the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. Delegates will be elected to the Washington Conyention against Un- employment on Feb, 3, in spite of the Police and K.K-K. terrorization, Fire Workers Fim ‘Detroit C.W.A. Jobs As Relief Is Cut Give “Inefficiency” as Reason; Union To Demand Jobs By A. B. MAGIL DETROIT, Mith., Jan. 8—The fir- jing of workers on C.W.A, jobs in De- jtroit has begun. Saturday night about seventy were laid off from the pick and shovel job at Belle Isle Park. Two of the fired C.W.A. workers, in- terviewed by the Daily Worker, said that about a dozen were laid off in jtheir ganz and han‘ed slins by the (foreman sivine “inefficiency” as the reason. Three workers said they have had no previous complaint of “inef- ficiency.” They had worked six weeks at $15 a week on the thirty hour week basis. |The C.W.A. still owes them a week's wages. More lay-offs are expected. With velief appropriations at the demand of the federal and state relief agencies to half the November figure, there is no chance for a CWA worker who has heen fired to get back on the relief lists. The Unemployed Councils and the newly organized Relief Workers Pro- tective Assoviation are starting a strugele against layoffs and demand C.W.A. jobs or relief for all unem- ployed workers. Held on Ellis Isle, Balks Ship Scabbing NEW YORK.—An attempt to hire ‘scabs at Ellis Island to break the strike on the Greek freighter Kalypso j Vergotti which came to New York from Bridgeport last week was balked by a marine worker being held on the, island for deportation, it was learned yesterday. ‘The worker took a copy of the Jan. 1 issue of the Daily Worker which carried the story of the Bridgeport strike and showed it to all the sea- men on the Island, There was an unanimous decision not to accept the captain’s offer. “THE contclgmer + CLASS ALWAYS FINDS A WAY OF MAKING THE WORKERS 1 PAY FOR ITS GOVERNME © \oospeeli 10 Billion Budget Is A Weapon for for Plunder, Hunger and War .”—KARL MARX cost of running the ordinary Civil ; ways of making the workers pa departments of the government, for the expenses of their capitalist State, Commerce, Interior, Justice, | government.” etc., amounts to only one-eighth of - ena the total “ordinary budget!” The BRIEF glance at the ordinary rest is not to pay the expenses of budget (routine expenditures) of “governing,” but for direct benefits {the 1933 budget, before we plunge to the Wall Street capitalists, to jinto the new Roosevelt “emergency pay for their Army and Navy, to | budget” for the coring months, con- pay them their bond interest, to | firms this extraordinary fact. refund them their taxes, ete. The total of the ordinary expendi- About 86 per cent of the ordinary | tures for 1933 budget is $3,046,000,000. annual budget could be immediately | This sum is raised in taxes and is erased from the books. And only | distributed as follows: Wall Street would be the loser. Interest to Wall Street That is what Karl Marx, the im-| bondholders and bankers mortal founder of the modern revo-|}who hold short - term lutionary Communist movement|Government loans ...... $742,000,000 meant when he said: and Navy.. ++ 510,000,000 “The bourgeoisie can always find |A.A.A, (to finance the destruction of cotton, wheat, corn, etc.—paid to big landlords, La tion owners) . Veterans Compe! Governmental Depts. ... Miscellaneous (includes gifts to Wall Street in tax refunds, postal defi- ciency, etc.) 515,000,000 349,000,000 438,000,000 $3,046,000,000 Here is the face of the “national budget,” revealed es nothing but an elaborate machine to provide profits and protection for the Wall Street monopoly capitalist clique. The largest item, more than twice the amount of routine Departmental governing expenses, is the item of 492,000,000 , bond and loan interest payments to the Wall Street banks, and investors who own the government loans. These bonds and loans, and the in- come therefrom, are tax-exempt. They represent capitalist plunder, pure and simple. And they come out of the hides of the workers and small farmers in taxes. ‘The next item is for the Army and Navy, for the machinery of violence to uphold and protect all this plun- der, And then the landlords, big farm- ers, etc., get a fat subsidy through the A. A. A. to destroy crops in or- der to raise prices for the city con- sumers, who pay for the subsidy in (Continued on Page 2) All working class organ- | izations in every part of the country should elect delegates and raise funds to finance the delegates to and from Washington. of the Unemployed Council, in addition, urgently appeals to all organizations, sympathizers of the unemployed movement and liberals to rush funds to the National Committee, Unem- the county relief officials slashing} Workers “Can Go Back to Farm” ? “Ends at Latest May 1,” | Says Hopkins; Ignores Facts on on Jobless |TO STR AND | MILLIONS | lan “Seasonal” Work to Absorb Jobless Daily Worker, Washington Bureau) WASHNGTON, Jan. 8.—A complete shut-down by May 1 |of the Civil Works Administra- |tion, under which supposedly | 4,000,000 are now employed, was forecast today by Harry L. Hopkins, Federal head of the C. W. A. He also losed that C.WA. wages are subject to change without | notice. “If we get $350,000,000 from Con- |sress, the C.W.A. tapering off wéll | begin on Feb. 15 and it will end jat the latest by May 1.” | “Back to Farms” “Where are those men going to be | -bsorbed?” a correspondent asked. “In public works. A great many are farmers who will go back to heir farming. A great many will be absorbed in seasonal industries,” Hopkins evidently conveniently for- yot that poor farmers actually are being forced off the land under the Roosevelt program of cutting pro- ducition to boost prices received by big farmers—and that industrial em= ployment, even according to the American Federation of Labor bu- reaucracy, is decreasing faster pow than at any time since last January, despite public works. Can Reduce Wagég Asked whether C.W.A. wage rates will be reduced when found to be lower than N.R.A. code rates, Hop- kins replied: “C.W.A. rates are where they are. Nothing is being done about them now.” “Then C.W.A. rates are subject to change without notice?” Hopkins promptly answered: “They could be.” Clearance’ Projects Workers Should De- mand Housing for Jobless WASHINGTON, Jan. 8—The use of Public Works funds for slum clear- jance and housing projects has been j2bandoned, it was announced by the P.W.A. yesterday. The plans for slum clearance were a mere gesture, be~ cause they have never been meant as a housing measure for the unem- ployed, and planned for charging high rents. In New York, the only city which actually did get grants from the fed- eral government for the building of new houses, these grants were use¢ to tear down houses and build ex- pensive apartments with funds sup- plied at low rates of interest to the builders. (New York City has 525, “old law” tenements in 67,000 build) ings, although this type of building was condemned in 1901). In one of the buildings torn down the so-called “lung block,” because © jthe great number of tuberculosis case there, only three out of the 386 fam ilies could afford to pay the increase: rentals at the model tenements bein, {built there. In the announcements of the F W. A. it was stated that $148,000,00 had been allocated for slum clear ance. The statement continues Bb stating that actually only $4,680,00 had been allocated. The so-calle slum clearance, only a gesture in th past, has now been abandoned com pletely, it is announced, The Unemployed Councils call upo all workers to demand that free how ing be supplied to all unemploye: that new homes for the unemploye be built in workers’ neighborhoo and that hospitals, playgrounds, an parks be built in workers’ neighbo: hoods from P.W.A. funds, Eastern Shore Sets Stage for Lynchin: BALTIMORE, Jan. 8—The sta was set today for another lynchb on the Eastern Shore of Marylan with the “secret” arrest of Jones, 55-year-old Negro worker, + “suspicion” in connection with t murder of Mrs. Margaret Brumbk 58-year-old farm owner, on Ni Year's Eve. Jones was given a secret heari in Somerset County and then rush) to Baltimore for “safe-keeping.” Tl was the same tactic used in the o of George Armwood, I PWADiscards ‘Slum