The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 13, 1934, Page 1

ANSWER GREEN AND THE PROVOCATEUR-RACKETEERING A. F.of L. BUREAUCRATS! ILLIAM GREEN and his fellow A. F. of L. bureau- crats have allied themselves openly with Roose- velt’s strike-breaking N.R.A. Behind closed doors in Washington they scheme with the bosses and their gov- turning loose an unprecedented terror against the work- ers. In the unions, using gangster-racketeering methods in collaboration with the bosses, they have fleeced the workers of every cent they could pry loose. To cap off openly as spies, provocateurs and fascist agents of the bosses. Every honest worker, every member of the A. F. of L. unions, every worker in the factories should see through their labor pretenses, should see their real fas- groups should be set up in every local union. Informa- tion on their betrayals should be sent to the Daily Worker. These leaders must be driven out of the unions. The ernment representatives t standards. o lower the workers’ living In the field, they break strike after strike, collaborating everywhere with the police and gangsters, See Comintern Resolution on Page 6 Today Vol. XI, No. 12 * their past treachery, these bureaucrats now call for a federal anti-labor police; they call for the suppression of the revolutionary workers’ Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. movement. They stand out NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1934 cist character. The fight against the racketeering, the gangsterism, and the provocation of these leaders must become the fight of the entire working class. Opposition Daily ,<QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Weather:—Probably Rain; Warmer unions must be made fighting organs of the workers, able to raise the living standards of the workers. gangsterism and racketeering! fascism! AMERICA’S ONL CLASS DAILY N (Ten Pages) Away with ! Block the moves toward Y WORKING EWSPAPER Price 3 Cents WAR LOOMS, LEAGUE ADMITS, AS TRADE WAR FLARES Union Men Forced oo in| ‘Kick-Back’ $280 and M $100 to Racketeer rel “Daily” How Union | Delegates Help Grafters WORKERS STARVING Hearst Preparing Fascist Union Attack By HARRY GANNES NEW York.—Ajiter reading the first racketeering expose in the Daily Worker, dozens of workers came to the office with tales of huge grafting in building construction, in the painters local, in the garment industry (involving LL.G.W.U. yellow officials), and the particularly vicious racket of the beauticlans and hairdressers schools, “unions,” and employment agencies. “We read the story on graft at Rockefeller center,” said a bricklay- er's helper, “and we got more to tell you on other construction jobs.” At Rockefeller center, the Daily Worker uncovered the fact that not only were millions of dollars being wrung out of the workers through the so-called “kick-back” racket, but that John D. Rockefeller, Jr. was fully apprised of the conditions that existed. The “kick-back” racket is a method of forcing the worker to pay back from 20 to 50 per cent of his daily wage to the foreman or the build- ing contractor. The union leaders knew of this situation. ter to smaller construction jobs, we find this vicious system in practice. Paid Graft, Starving Now “My father today lives in a damp, dark cellar. He is destitute and hungry,” Herbert Bergstrom told the Daily Worker. “He was a bricklayer (Continued on Page 3) In the Daily Worker ; Today = Page 2 Sports, by Si Gerson. Se Page 3 Preparations for National Unem- ployed Convention. Page 4 The C.P. Program of Action for - Marine Work. Unity of Ulinois Miners for Rank and File Union. Page 5 Dimitroff's Speech in the Nazi Court. Page 6. * Thesis of 13th Plenum Com- ‘munist International. Page 7. “Wall Street's Capitol,” by Sey- « mour Waldman. Confidential Letter of Blanshard to LaGuardia. Page 8. Letters from Miners. “|guard the fields. Send Union Racket Repev's to “Daily” Tales of tir and racket- eering 1 to come to the Daily Worker by the dozens. The campaign We urge all York who have |] dence of racketeering and graft- ing in their unions to come to us immediately and report the facts. Workers outside of New York are urged to mail in their stories (including documents and other evidence). Smash the racketeers! Mobil- ize the rank and file for the fight against racketeering, for union democracy, against the corrupt officialdom, for the build- ing and strengthening of the fighting character of the unions as organizations fighting in the interests of the workers and s only begun. against the bosses. Call at the office on the 5th floor, 35 East 12th Street, N. Y. ‘Attacks on Strikers in Imperial Valley Relief Urgent As Strike Lines Hold Intact Despite Arrests BRAWLEY, Cal.—Sheriff Campbell wired Governor Rolph today de- manding that troops be called out to crush the strike of the Imperial Val- Jey agricultural workers. The local press is howling for lynch terror against the strike leaders, and the American Legion has mobilized to But the strikers are militant and fearless. Police shot and wounded a woman striker and jailed two children aged 8 and 10 years respectively. One hundred and eighty strikers are now under arrest with 80 being held in Jail. One thousand workers went to the rescue of the wounded woman striker. All cars entering the strike area are being stopped and police are ar- resting the drivers. Five hundred Picketers were stopped two miles south of Brawley and police attempt- (ed to arrest all of them. | ‘The first truck load of relief ar- rived here today from San Diego Immediate relief is necessary. (For other news of strike see p. 4.) 4 Guards Indicted in Murder of Negro GREENVILLE, S. C., Jan. 11— Four white chain-gang guards were charged with murdering a Negro con- | Vict in indictments returned by the |grand jury today, following wide- | Spread protests by southern workers against the murder of Roy Hudson jat the Tigerville Prison Camp last Oct. 25. Hudson died a few hours after he had been brutally beaten by guards. ove to Stop iners’ Strike @|/ Threaten to Outlaw) Walkout of Miners | Saturday WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 12.— |The National Labor Board, which in- cludes on its membership John L. |Lewis, and William Green, went into |session here today to take steps to {prevent the strike call of the an- thracite miners, scheduled for Sat- urday, Thomas Maloney, president of the junion, has been beseeching the Na- tional Labor Board to act to delay | the strike call, since he himself can- not longer surpass the demand of the rank and file for a strike. Ma- loney has throughout followed the policy of seeking to work together with the Labor Board to kill the threatened strike. for wage increases and better work- ing conditions in the mines. The National Labor Board has indicated that in case of a strike call Satur- day, they will immediately declare the strike outlawee. ‘WagnerPushes Plan Anti-Strike Powers Would Set Up Industrial Courts to Make All Decisions WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 12— A move to strengthen the strike- breaking powers of the government was launched by Senator Wagner of the National Labor Board when Wag- ner announced that he is laying plans for the transformation of the Labor Board into a permanent nationwide system of courts. ‘The courts, according to Wagner's plan, would have power to render de- cisions with full authority of law, thus robbing the workers of their right to strike and organize. The courts would also be given power to subpoena and swear wit- nesses and make investigation. Wag- ner is conferring with officials of the A. F. of L. regarding this plan. War Veterans Win Demands for Relief WESL Committee to Plan Permanent Relief NEW YORK—A delegation of 35 workers, elected at a mass meeting held under the auspices of the Work- ers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League, were yesterday given hotel accommoda- tions and food until Monday when the committee of the W.E.S.L: again calls upon Commissioner Hodson. The delegation, mostly American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars members, went in a body to the Cen- tral Registration Bureau at the Bat- tery, The committee from the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League is to meet with William Hodson, Commissioner of Welfare, to work out a permanent plan along these lines. Police Stop By MARGUERITE YOUNG WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. — The “justice” of the white ruling class took three more lives today. Circle case that stirred revolutionary demonstrations from Coast to Coast were marched to the electric chair and executed in routine style—Pres- ident Roosevelt ruthlessly refusing even to receive a protesting deleza- tion from the International Labor Defense, and police summarily sup- pressing a protest march of several hundred workers. Irving Murray, 26, Joseph H. Jack- son, 20, and Ralph E. Holmes, 25, the young Negroes who were tried and Three defendants in the Logan|Logan 3 Logan Circle Boys Executed; Demonstrations convicted of muréering a policeman, (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) | Milo J. Kennedy, in a free-for-all fight that followed numerous beat- ings by this cop of Negroes who fre- quented the little park known as Circle, died in the electric chair of the District of Columbia jail. ‘The only spectators at the triple execution were newspaper men who had received engraved invitations. Labor paper representatives, needless to report, were not among the chosen. The jailers said afterward that an undertaker came and claimed the bodies. But who he was and where The miners are presenting demands | CallTroops,Sharpen t Strengthen NRA’ Next Saturday’s ‘Daily’ to Be Lenin Memorial Issue The Lenin 10th Anniversary edition of the Daily Worker next Saturday, January 20 will con- tain articles written by the great leader of the world proletaria The Lenin Anniversary edition will be an issue that every worker will find of historical value. A special feature will be an article on the application of Len- in’s teachings to the United States. Do not miss this issue. Sp; it to workers and farmers every where, Order by bundle now, Caffery Orders Blood Bath for Cuban Worker TUUL Calls for Protests | By American Workers and Intellectuals son Cafferey, Wall Street Representa- tive in Cuba, has ordered a massacre of Cuban trade unionsts and has instructed Col. Juan Batista, head of the Cuban army, to suppress the Congress of the Cuban Confedera- tion of Labor, the trade unior, cen- ter of the revolutionary Cuban work- ers, now in session here. The Congress today voted to send the following appeal to the American workers: “U.S. Representative Cafferey asked Batista-Grau regime to at- tack the Congress of the National Federation of Labor. You must raise protest immediately in order to prevent repetition of massacre of Sept. 29,” ce NEW YORK —The Trade Union Unity League issued an appeal yes- terday to the American worker: farmers and intellectuals, to the rey- clutionary trade unions and all or- ganizations and to rank and file A. ¥. of L. members to organize protest actions immediately against the mur- derous plans of Wall Street and its puppet Batista-~Grau regime. Protests should be sent at once to President Roosevelt and to Grau San Martin, President of Cuba, st Havana, de- (Continued on Page 2) Roosevelt Regime Drops Pretenses i Wierton Steel Case Men Betrayed Back to Work and Now Matter Is Being Killed (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.— Unoffi- cial reports that the Roosevelt Gov- ermmment has about decided to stop all pretense of attempting to force the Weirton Steel Company to allow its workers to elect their own repre- sentatives for collective bargaining were given additional significance to- day when the White House let it be known that Presiden Roosevelt had talked over the matter with Chair- man Wagner of the Natonal Labor Board and had nothing to say. General Hugh S. Johnson, N. R. A. Administrator, earlier saiq that the case of Weirton’s open refusal to permit an election would be turned over to the compliance division of the N. R. A. for action. Just a Football Thus it became the more obvious that the Government is merely toss- ing the case like a football from one of the maze of N. R. A. agencies to another. It has been said here that the De- partment of Justice has practically concluded that “lack of evidence” would doom to-failure any effort to pany interference with an election. It was the election promise that was} used to drive the striking Weirton secure an injuncton to prevent com- workers back to work last October. It | was an injunction, Wagner promised ; weeks ago, that would finally make} good the promise. The Justice De-| partment is understood to have sent out agents to sound out Federal Judges n the Weirton Company's territory. They returned, it is said, reporting he went the authorities refused to|that the Judges unanimously indi- {Continued on Pages 3) cated they would nof grant such an HAVANA, Cuba, Jan. 12.—Jeffer-| | Bomb Carrier—U. S. to Hawai iin 24 Hours nes Which Ong 6: ine vosbix buitding new war planes, Army in Fukien. spanned ¢he Pacific from the United States (6 Hawaii this week.’ Roosevelt's new budget gives millions towards This piane is of the same type sold to the Nan- | king government byithe United States, used to bomb the Chinese Red | IU. “Enemy” C HONOLULU, Hawaii, Jan, | Arrival here of six U. S. Naval planes | lyesterday after a \flight from San Francisco was hailed | |by U.S. aerial e s in this island | joutpost of U. S. imperialism as a }demonstration of the possibility of| fiying any number of squadrons fron |San Francisco to Honolulu “in a tim jof national emergenc, | Commander McGinnis, leader of; |the flight and one of the experts] hailing its military value declined to} q d direttiy, preferring to refer} I the qu: ‘commanding officer, Rear Admiral W. E. Johnson, he declared. Commander McGinnis stressed the fact that the) nlanes had plenty of fuel left after| being sold by U. S. concerns to the|on Jan. 29, will be addressed by ;making the long flight to Honolulu.| | The squadron, carrying 24 men and} |six officers made the flight of 2,400 .R.R. Union Heads Tried for Misusing Savings | CLEVELAND, Jan. 12—The trial of three officers of the Standard Trust Bank in this city, two of whom) are leaders of the Brotherhood of) Locomotive Engineers, began here to-| day. Alvanly Johnston, Grand Chief| of the’ Brotherhood and former chair-! man of the bank, is in the dock| along with the secretary-treasurer of the B, of L. E, James H. Cassell. The former president of the bank, C. Sterling Smith, is the third de-/ fendant, | All three are charged with mis- application of $450,000 of the bank's funds. 5,500,000 Children Destitute in Nov., 1933, Survey Shows WASHINGTON, Jan. 12—Five and a half million children under 18 years of age were destitute | | S. Experts Hail Military Value of Pacific Fligh | Stress Possibility of Long Distance Attacks on the, es; Fuel Not Used Up | 12—miles over the Pacific in 24 hours|American League Against War and during November, 1933, according to preliminary data on a nation- wide unemployment relief census subinitied today to. the. Relief Emergency Administration. Corrington Gill, who submitted the report to Administrator Harry || L. Hopkins, admitted that fully |! two-fifths of all people on relief |) lists were children under the age* of 16. Negro families, the report stated, made up fully one fifth of those on the relief lists, and 56 minutes. From Honolulu to} record-breaking | Japan, the distance is about 3,409/¥ill need relief funds for clothes, miles, but U. S. officials are con: dent that the big planes could suc: cessfully negotiate the flight to Jap- an. The planes are capable of car- ng large amounts of bombs. The| istance from the Philippines to lapanese cities is far less, and it ts well known that the U. S. govern-| ment has several air bases in those| islands and is constructing more, both+ in the Philippines and in the Aleu-| ion to the discretion of his|tian Islands, off Alaska, in prepara-| shops instead of making more clothes tion for war with Japan. | ‘he flight from San Francisco was) made by planes of the type that is! Chinese Nanking government, both | for bombing the Chinese Soviet Dis- tricts and by way of preparation for Nanking’s cooperation with the U. S.} in a war with Japan. | 4 | ROME, Jan. 12.—The mass flight | of Fascist Italian planes to the U. 8. Jast summer cost $625,000, it wes re- vealed by Gen. Guiseppe Valle, Un- dersecretary of Air, today. } Roosevelt Names General | as Porto Rico Governor WASHINGTON.—Gen. Blanton Win-| ship, former Judge-Advocate of the/ U. S. Army, and a veteran in im-| perialist suppression of the struggles | of colonial masses, was nominated today by President Roosevelt as Governor of Puerto Rico, succeeding Robert H. Gore, Southern bourbon who resigned this morning. Gen. Winship formerly served with U. S. forces in the Phillipines and Bitter To Armed . S. Gas Bomb Tests | Destroy Water Birds 5 | WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 12. —Poisonous gases used in U air bombs, designed for attacking enemy cities, were directly respon- © destruction of many || iid water fowl, ac- rding to a tement issued by | Paul F. G. Redington, chief of the Bureau of Biological Survey. The bombs were used in tests conducted by the War Department || near Aberdeen Proving Ground, at || the head of Chesa Maryland, ten years ago. a Mass Actions Will Back Demand to Use WarFunds forRelief Jan, 29 Meets To Back Delegation of League Against War NEW YORK.—Anti-war mass dem- | to back up the United Front Com- | mittee which will go to Washington on Jan, 29 to protest against the bil- lion dollar war appropriations will culminate in a giant mass meeting on the samme evening in St. Nicholas Arena, this city. At this meeting the delegation will report on its recep- tion by President Roosevelt and the Secretaries of the Navy and Army. “The unemployed cannot eat bul- lets or live in batt! ips,” said Don- ald Henderson, secretary of the Fascism, in a statement today. “They housing and food. The farmers need | plows, tractors and gasoline; their barns and houses are falling apart— they need these essentials of life, not tanks or chemicals for war purposes. Our children need schools and food teachers need their unpaid salarics, not submarines and battleships. The government is spending millions of dollars to protect Wall Street property fn Cuba, South America and China, turning 17,000 factories into war and food for the workers and farmers.” The meeting at St. Nicholas Arena | J. Be} Matthews, chairman of the American | League; Earl Browder, General Sec- | retary, Communist Party; Leroy| Bowman, member, Executive Board, | A. F. of L. Teacher’s Union and vice- | president, New York Urban League, | | and Harold Hickerson, of the Workers | Ex-Servicemen’s League. Dr. Addi- | son T. Cutler of Columbia University will act as chairmen. Socialist Stewards Stop Berlin Workers from Going on Strike | BERLIN.—The corpse of German social democracy still is seeking to halt the fight against fascism. Prom- ised a wage rise by the National Socialist functionaries, the workers of the Brass Works in Berlin Ober- schoneweide were in favor of strike when the raise was lated denied. At the last minute the former shop stewards of the Social Democratic Party succeeded in pacifying the mil- itant workers and urged them to Cuba. He is also a Southerner. CCNY Head Says Students Lack Social Prestige” for Medicine NEW YORK.—Two hundred stud-; lents of City College who intended] and social prestige,” he told the Bio- jstudyng medicine, were told Thurs- day by their president, Frederick B. Robinson, wielder of, an umbrella against anti-war student demonstra- tors last year, that as students of his college they were not sufficiently “fortunate in personality and social prestige” to seek admission to Amer- ican medical scfools. “City College is intellectually sup- ertor to other colleges in the wait until spring. but is not fortunate in personality logy club. The students were incensed by the president’s statement. “The medical schools,” Robinson added, “look to see who would be the most gracious practitioner of medi- cine. They idok for affability and appearance. In spite of the increas- trying more and more students. are to get. into medicine.” Scramble For World Marts Leading Conflicts (Int'l. ahor Office Sem Britain, U. S., Japan Rushing to War |FIERCE TRADE WAR Japan Opens New War Drive in China NEW YORK.—Japan’s rapid trade penetration into the mar- kets of its imperialist rivals was interpreted as a direct war threat in a report issued in Geneva on Thursday by the In- |ternational Labor Office, an affili- ate of the League of Nations. The report was printed yesterday by the New York Tribune, under the signifj- cant head: JAPAN’S TRADE DRIVE PICTURED AS WAR THREAT.” ‘The report shows that Japanese trade is expanding at an unprece- dented rate at the expense of the United. Sta Great Britain and her Imperialist rivals.” Japan is U.S. and British trace in India, the Philippines and other Asiatic countries, and in South Amer- ica as well. Japanese exports to South America jonstrations throughout the country | jumped 220 per cent in the first half of 1933, as compared to the same pe- riod in 1931. Japan also increased by 30 per cent its exports to the United States and Europe by means of fi labels and other dis Si tactics, as charged by its im: t rival Through the establishment of ex- port companies in South America and purchase of raw materials for its flourishing war industry, Japan is pushing fierce offensive in the uth American and Caribbean American countries against the United tes and Britain. Japanese imperialists are also competing with their rivals for poktical domination, their tactics of achieving ment overthrows and fighting Y, aS in the case of the ir between Paraguay (Brii- ish) and Bolivia (U. S.). Starvation Pay, Inflation The Japanese trade offensive is strengthened by means of the de- preciated yen, starvation wages (as low as 14% cents a day for skilled Weavers working 10 hours a day), and the fact that Japan, in its pres- ent “state of war,” is the only impe=- rialist country in a position to in- crease its exports from the South ar _*” Caribbean American countries. The Japanese inroads on British trade sroused great resentment from the British imperialists, with the re- sult that the labor-imperialists in the International Labor Office were con sertpted once again in the service of their own imperialisms in struggle against rival imperialists. The re- port of these gentlemen leave no doubt that they will, as in 1914, sup- port the war measures of their ims Perialists. It already characterizes such measures as a “defensive war,” Geclaring: t “Japanese competition might bes come one of the causes of a new world conflict when other powers un+ dertook to defend their industries 4H the fight for markets abroad.” & War on China = PEIPING, Jan. 12.—Japanese troops. and warships were moving against China today in a scissors movement; with Japanese military forces con tinuing to penetrate into Inner es golia and other North China while two Japanese destroyers were. Tushing to Fukien Province Fort to reinforce the Third Japanese Squad- ron at Foochow and Amoy. - Japanese plans for the coronation — of its puppet Manchuquo ruler, - Henry Pu-Yi, as emperor of a Man-— chuquo enlarged at the further ex- pense of China, are continuing to ex-— cte attention in Chinese and foreign Political circles. The coronation is set for March 15, and in the mean- time, the Japanese are pushing theif. Grive in Chahar Province and fo-- menting uprisings in North China ané Sinkiang Province, Northwest China Boe a Soviet borders. rs __ Japanese secret agents are at K in the People’s State of Mongol ote tempting to incite an insurrection by expropriated rich landlords and other Mongolian People's - ernment, i . which is ftiendty te the