The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 16, 1934, Page 1

—l——_—_——SX—_ Rush Orders for January 20th Special Lenin Issue Vol. XI, No. 14 <<” / Pittsburgh Union Men Force ROOSE ‘Entered as second-class matter at the Daily .<QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Post Office New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879 VELT GOLD LA CWA Officials Aid AFL Heads in Hu ‘_ To Hand Over Half of CWA Pay $100 “Initiation” Fee Is Wrung from Jobless by A.F.L, Bureaucrats CWA HEADS CONDONE | Roosevelt Gives Money for Andrew Mellon “Cathedral” By HARRY GANNES ° Mellon’s “‘Cathedral’’ of Graft NEW YORK—On the An-} drew W. Mellon “Cathedral of | Learning” building project now in the hands of the C.W.A., in| Pittsburgh, graft, corruption, racket- | eering is rampant, just as it was in| th’) Rockefeller Center in New York. fhe Roosevelt regime, especially through its Civil Works Administra- tion, is involved in this graft and racketeering scandal up to its neck. “Liberal” Gov. Pinchot of Penn- sylvania, and his political machine, the same outfit that helned break the Andrew Mellon laid the cornerstone of the “Cathedral of Learning” of Pittsburgh University, now in the course of construction with C.W.A. money. On this job C.W.A. officials aid A. F. of L. leaders graft thousands from unemployed building trades workers. soft coal miners’ strikes, and is at present engaged in attempting to smash the anthracite miners strike, is exposed as using the C.W.A. to reward, its hangers-on. Starving unemployed building | trades workers, pleading with the C.W.A. for jobs on the Mellon job, } Anthracite were forced to pay hundreds of dol- Jars in graft to union officials before they could get work. Starving Forced to Pay Today in Pittsburgh thousands of workers who have not had jobs for months, in some instances for years, have to shell out half of their pay in order to swell the graft fund of the carpenters union officialdom. All this was known to James L. Stewart, C.W.A. administrator in Al- legheny County, the industrial king- dom of the billionaire Andrew W. Mellon. Eric Biddle, state admin- istrator of the C.W.A., admitted that he knew of the fact that workers whose families were starving, who couldn’t pay their rent, whose fam- ilies were in rags, had to contribute half of the money they received from the C.W.A. job every week to help pay the fat salaries of American Federa- tion of Labor bureaucrats. “I won't say I haven’t heard com- plain‘s of this situstion in my office,” was Biddle’s reply when the facts were brought out to him. ‘That the whole N.R.A. project at the Mellon “institute of learning” was B swindle and graft, providing polit- ical boodle for the Pinchot machine, | | was brewzht out by workers who were | mulcted on the juv. The Repubiican organization (Mel- lon-controlled), along with the Pin- chot leaders, through Biddle and Stewart, had control of C.W.A. and used them to employ their henchmen pe to build up their political ma- chine. In order to get the political sup- (Continued on Page 3) C. W. A. Union Elects Delegates to National Jobless Convention NEW YORK—Two delegates and two alternates to the National Con- vention Against Hunger were elected at the regular meeting of the Man- hattan local of the Relief Workers’ Protective League. A job committtee has been set up at the city offices of the C.W.A. and plans were laid for the setting up of a regular shop bulletin to be circulated among the workers. In the Daily Worker Today Page 2 Sports, by Si Gerson. Page 3 Unemployed News. Page 4 Letters From Steel and Auto Workers, “Party Life” “Dr. Luttinger Advises” “In the hoe i by Helen Luke. 5 age “What a World!” by Michael Gold. “The Labor Press,” by A. Hayes. “A Program for Proletarian Com- ‘posers. Tuning In; What’s On. Page 6. Editorials: The National Unem- ployed Convention; Andrew Mellon and C. W. A. Racke- teering; What Experience Proved. Lenin on the Murder of Lieb- knecht and Luxemburg. Foreign News, BULLETIN WILKESBARRE, Pa., Jan. 15— Late today Judge Newcomb of the Lackawanna County Court at Scranton granted a sweeping pre- liminary injunction against the United Anthracite Miners Union, its officials and all its striking members. The injunction on the basis of restraining the new union “from interfering in any way with the employees of the Pennsylvania Anthracite Colliery Company” out- Jaws all picketing and activities of | the strikers. The press in Scranton earlier in the day declared the | strike illegal and outlawed. | . Three miners were arrested in the courtroom, fined 510 each for con- tompt of court and put in jail when they cheered the representatives of the strikezs. Five were arrested earlier in the day on picket lines, . * . By CARL REEVE WILKES BARRE, Pa., Jan. 15.— Conservative estimates show that a minimum of 17,000 anthracite miners struck this morning. Company sources admit that at least 13,000 have walked out. Thomas Maloney, official of-the Unite¢ Anthracite Miners Union, claims 45,900 out. The strike is most effective in the decisive Glen Alden Company, The effectiveness of the strike is a re- markable demonstration of the mili- tancy of the miners, considering the fact that the Maloney-Cappelini ma- chine is leaving the strike so far nearly leaderless and sending very few pickets out this morning, and considering the fact that the rank and file have no crystallized strike leadership. The Glen Alden Company | By ALEXANDER WRIGHT NORFOLK, W. Va., Jan. 15—The old Dominion dock, Local 1223, IL.A., went on strike here today. The strike was spontaneous and took the bosses by surprise. The men struck against speed-up and abuse by the boss stevedore, Bouser. The men walked out and refused to return to work until he was removed. Threats of sending scabs from the C.W.A. was circulated around by a few stool pigeons. But this did not dent the men’s determination and the company was compelled to remove him temporarily so that the com- pany will have time to give a final decision. At the same time the men are preparing a set of final demands to present when the time comes to settle. The men are back but they are letting it be known that they are not nailed there. This is the second strike on this dock in less than a year. They took matters in their own hands and went ‘over the heads of the LL.A, officials Few Pickets Out; Officials Leave Strike Leaderless; Big Concentration of Police I njunction Granted As Strike Ties | admits that 11,000 of its men are out. | The collieries of Hallstead, Avon- dale, Bliss, Lance and Maxwell, all jof the Glen Alden, are shut tight. | Less than one-quarter are working at Woodward, Nottingham and Button- wood. Many other collieries are ing. Mass picketing occurred only in the Manticoke area, where masses of miners won the right to picket the highways. Sheriff Kniffen of Luzerne County jissued a statement criticizing the (Continued on Page 2) | 34 Workers Die in the Minneapolis Shelters MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—The “New Deal” for the Minneapolis unemploy- ed single workers was exposed in a leaflet issued by the Minneapolis Un- employed Council, which charges that 34 single uncmployed workers living in the Mission and Salvation Army flophouses have died between De- cember Ist and January 10th. The responsibility for these deaths jis placed squarely on the shoulders of the city administration, which has repeatedly refused to grant the de- mands of the unemployed for the improvement of the unbearable con- ditions of starvation and misery under which the single men have to exist in the flophouses. The Unem- ployed Council calls for a struggle against, these conditions, and for the immediate enactment of the Work- ers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill. Norfolk Longshoremen Strike,| Disregard A. F. of L. Officials Strike Forces Company to Remove Abusive Fore- man; Workers Demand End of Speed-Up both times and refused to take any orders from Millner and Co. This shows what can be done by organiza- tion and action. This dock should set an example for all other locals in Hampton Roads. These coastwise dock men are fed up on the lies of Milner and are beginning to take steps to better their own conditions. This was shown when a coastwise local of the IL.A. made Millner re- turn their money, which he got from them to present a code at the code hearing on November 9th, and did not do so. This local has paid their dues as LLA., but only got 40c an hour. They too have gone over the head of Mill- ner and set up their own rank and file committee to make a contract, with the shipowners independently. And one company has signed to pay 75e per hour and give the local con- trol of the dock. Millner sees his doom in this local and he is trying to work in one of his tools by the name of Anderson, who was se rotten that he was kicked out of local 1248. | | | | ; Loomis, South Wilkesbarre, Wanamie, | either closed or only partially work- | NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1934 AW, DRIVE 10 —— ee AMERICA’S O. Y WORKING CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER WEATHER: Cloudy (Six Pages) U.S. Warships Rush to Cuba As Grau Quits Caffery Engineers Coup to Strengthen Rule of Reactionaries BULLETIN HAVANA, Cuba, Jan. 15.—Carlos | Hevia, Secretary of Agriculture, was | named President of Cuba today to succeed Grau San Martin, follow- ing a secret mecting last night of | the Batista-Grau junta with re- | | presentatives of the reactionary A. | B.C, group. Hevia is a graduate of Annapolis and has close contacts | with U, S. imperialists, H pn ese NEW YORK.—The Roose-| velt government rushed two additional warships to Cuban! waters today in a new threat} against the revolutionary Cuban} masses, who are fiercely resisting the | plans of the reactionary ABC group; for a coup d'etat to return the most reactionary elements to power. The ABC plans are supported by | Col. Batista, Chief of Staff of the Cuban Army, under an agreement with Jefferson Caffery, personal re- presentative of Roosevelt. Key West, Fla., to augment the ring of U. 9. warships around Cuba, = eee sae (Special to the Daily Worker) HAVANA, Cuba, Jan. 15.— Under pressure of Jefferson Caffery and the ABC, President San Martin was re-| jported to have resigned last night. The U. S. Government has opposed | the Grau San Martin regime as not | strong enough to deal effectively with | |the revolutionary ‘situation. Soldiers, Officers Discontented by Sell-Out Faced by the sell-out betrayal of Grau San Martin and the Chief of ; Staff, thousands of students and sol- diers demonstrated at the presidential | palace today, marching through the |rooms and shouting protests against, } (Continued on Page 6) | Brooklyn Youths Force CWA to Give Immediate Relief Youn Workers to Go to Relief Bureaus Today for Promised Relief BROOKLYN, N. Y.— Thirty-five delegates from the Committee of Registered C.W.A. Workers, elected at | a mass meeting held before the C.W.A. offices at 214 Duffield St., | Brooklyn, yesterday forced the New) | York C.W.A. to grant immediate re-| lef to the 300 young workers whom! they represented. The mass meeting was held at the Brooklyn offices of the C.W.A. after Administrator Madden bad last week) refused them jobs and had referred) them to the New York offices. After the meeting the entire group went to the Boro Hall office of the Unem- ployed Council at 132 Myrtle Ave., to await the return of their delega- tion. At the New York office the dele- gates were at first refused admit- tance, but at the insistance of the delegation were interviewed by Mr. Healy, secretary to the C.W.A. ad- ministrator. Healy tried by every means to split the unity of the delegation and by offering bribes in the form of jobs to individuals. He was finally forced to promise immediate relief to all young workers whom the delegation represented, and instructed them to apply at their respective Home Relief stations, and that plans would be worked out to provide projects for young workers. { ‘The delegation demanded jobs or relief for all young workers without discrimination; no discrimination against Negroes; union wages for all skilled workers; the right of workers to organize on the job; and payment of wages when due. ‘When the delegation reported back to the workers assembled at the Un- employed Counzil at 132 Myrtle Ave., the entire group of workers voted to appear at their respective Home Re- lief Bureaus today to demand the re- lef promised. The majority of the workers will meet at the Home Relief Bureau at 120 Schermerhorn St., at 12 noon today. All young workers are urged to be present to back up the demands for relief. Haye you sent your contribution to the fund to finance the National Convention Against Unemployment to the National Committee, Un- The U. S. destroyers Dupont and) Claxton were ordered to proceed from! | Were rushed out to all districts and | New Navy Maneuvers Show War Is Close SAN PEDRO, Cal. Jan. 15.— Clearing the decks for war with a vengeance, plans for sea maneu- vers of the American Navy were announced today by Admiral Da- vid F. Dellers. April 19 will see a series of war games, submarines from Panama attacking the fleet. The giant dirigible Macon will take part in these maneuvers. The fleet will then cruise in the Caribbean from May 5 to 10, with a mimic sea battle at Guantanamo scheduled for the llth and 12th. A New York review of the entire fleet by President Roosevelt, after which the entire armada will drop an- chor in the Hudson, will be the high point of the maneuvers. | | | | | ra Of ‘4’ in Dange Renewed Protests Urged to Save Heroic Commu-! nist Defendants NEW YCRK.—Alarming| news that Georgi Dimitroff is} seriously ill in the Nazi prison} where he and the three other Communist defendants have se | held sin-g ther he Pan zig court, was received by the “Daily | | | ; Worker” yesterday in a cable from} Paris. | all four defendants are in great) danger and urges an intensification of. the .world-wide, protest campaign which wrested the verdict of not; guilty from the Nazi court and which | alone can force their safe release and | departure from Germany. eo 8 fe NEW YORK.—Airmail instructions for an intensification of the campaign for the freedom of the four Com- munist Reichstag trial defendants | | | i | unattached sections and branches of the International Labor Defense Sat- urday night, following receipt of a cablegram from the L.L.D.’s European connections stating that Dimitroff is, seriously ill, that all four are still held despite their acquittal, and that} the dancer of new trials against them | is growing. The letter called the attention of local bodies sharply to previous direc- tives for carrying on of a campzign of mass pressure on behalf of the German end Brivarian ecmrades of constantly increasing scope, * 8 Swedish Workers and Farmers Protest STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Jan. 15.— | Metal workers, chemical workers, farmers in Surahammer, Dalla-Ja- erna, Vaeja, Nora, Karlstad, Omots- fors, Bloerneborg, Boxholm, Alstermo, Huhultslaette, Anskede, Eldfersen, Haellfors, Varberg, Motala, | Graengsberg, Gaevle, Koeping, Gad- deros, Umeo, Kiruna, Eskilstuna, have joined in the mighty world-wide movement for immediate freedom and safe conduct for the defendants. (Continued on Page 6) Lubbe Buried at Leipzig; Nazis Refuse Family’s Request for His Body LEIPZIG, Jan. 15—The body of Marinus van der Lubbe, who was se- cretly beheaded by the Nazis last week, was buried here after the Nazi regime refused a request by his fam- ily to permit removal of the body to Holland. The Nazi press, which was barred from reporting the execution, was again instructed not to comment on the burial. Plan Large Lenin Issue of Saturday’s “Daily” Commemorating the death of the greatest leader of the world’s working class, V. I. Lenin, the Daily Worker will issue a special enlarged issue this Saturday. Many articles dealing with Lenin and the teaching of Lenin on war, the trade unions, and other ques- tions, will feature this issue. arrangements have been Special made to have the paper go to press an hour earlier than usual, in order that the workers of the West may receive their copies on the day of publication. Special orders should be mailed or wired immediately. Zoe tenth anniversary edition was sold out completely. Don’t be caught short on the Lenin Memorial issue. employed Council, 80 East 11th St., New York City* Rush your orders at once! Nazi Jail; Lives : Stockholm, | Price 3 Cents INFLATION, WAR ce Graft on Mellon Job U.S. Marines Calls for U.S. Gold Land in China To Aid Nanking Control to Speed Eco 8 Washington Painters Win Strike Against U.S. Daily Worker Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—The 300 rank and file American F eration of Labor painters ‘ivil War of Generals | Spread in North China SHANGHAI, Jan. 15.—The J. S. government landed ma zines in Foochow Province yes terday in a move to crush the imperia Nanking mass ge following the collapse of thc | ‘ukien generals’ rebellion against the | Nanking regime, as 's and rank | struck against the orders of their || ond file soldiers united to resist the || St sapecee | entry of Nanking troops into the city. || OWR officials for the maintenance |} The US, n landed on || of the wage scale set by the De- |} Dimitroff Ill i eel ceo 1 Aacticon (| Partment of Labor have won out. || iImiro in BS , desvite the hat the 144 All the boss contractors have || agreed to pay the Labor Depart- ment rate of $1.37 an hour. Only two contractors refused to pay up the back pay due the men. | Foochow were eks ago to fac: bing of the nes furnished itate Nanking native popu by the U.S flyers trained ines’ were al: U.S. experts. Mar- landed from British Sng wepniiees w Ips in the harbor. eye j Nanking arm/2s, soldiers of the 19th Rouce Army joined with workers yes- terday in a fierce engagement with Nanking marines. Two of the latter wounded. Retaliationon Cheap US. Dollar Predict Gold Bloc Will Have to Abandox Gold Standard were killed and several Throughout the city anti-i placards, exvressing s Ckinese Soviet Republic, have ap-| peared. It is this development of the | national revolutionary movement that the imperialists are trying to crush. Gen. Tsai Ting-kai, commander of the 18th Route Army and its only officer remaining in Foochow, joined Nanting officials in attempting to! crush the resistance of the workers | regime, denounced as a tool of the imperialists, but with which. he. is now-dickering on the basis of a bribe offered by Chiang ‘~shek, The Generals’ Civil War LONDON, aJn. 15.—A sweeping in- tensification of the fight of U. 8S. and British imperialists for markets | was threatened today by authorities | clese to the Bank of England, follow- jing reports from the U. 8. that Pres-| ident Roosevelt would cheapen the | spread one dollar to between 50 and | yesterday with sharp fichting along Cais | the frontiers of Ningshia province,| The cheap dollar, it is predicted, where the Ningshia and Chinkhaj | Will force the gold standard of na- warlords are resisting a Na: king | tions into the currency depreciation | army of 50,000 which fs trying to |battle, forcing them to abandon the | traverse Ningshia into Chinghai. The | Zold standard and inflate their cur-| rebel generals are aided by Kansu |rencies to meet U. S. and British militarists. competition for markets. {colleague of General Johnson, Arguing before the judge, Elder pointed out that Berry, together with other corrupt officials of this A. F.! of L. union, organized a conspiracy with foremen in metropolitan news- papers where these 32 men worked, and caused all of them to be fired at Head, Charge’ With Thefé of $23, practically the erie They were — then “blackballed” from every plant Accused in Court of Fir- i the city. Berry intended this as a 2 threat and a warhing to other mili- ing 32 Men to Stop _| tant workers in Local 2 if they in- Questions Berry, Press Union |Sisted on local autonomy to investi- |gate the misappropriation charges. | An indication was given in the ar- NEW YORK. — Charging President | guments of opposing counsel that the George L. Berry of the International| case will be long drawn out without Printing Pressmen’s Union with mis-|the court permitting introduction of appropriating $23,000 union funds| the most necessary facts to show up and ordering the discharge of 32!the racketeering officialdom in the workers who demanded an account. | whole International. ing, Attorney Robert Elder handed} A future article in the Daily Work- in his brief against the union officials|er on official graft and corruption yesterday to City Court Judge Keller|in the Pressmen’s Union will appear for consideration. ;as part of the series exposing racket- Berry is an N.R.A, official and a eering in all A. F. of L. unions. Jail 450, Drive 7,000 Imperial Valley Strikers Underground | \I. L. D. Calls for Nation-Wide Protests, Sends Attorneys, Organizers for Defense BULLETIN BRAWLEY, Cal.—Police terror has driven the strike of the 7,000 agricultural workers in the Imperial Valley completely underground, For four days the strikers have been working illegally. All meetings have been banned and relief stopped. Hundreds of police are patrolling the valley. All pickets and any Americans here are arrested on sight. Attorney Johnson was arrested and given the third degree to force him to tell the whereabouts of the strike leaders. He was finally re- leased after the police failed to elicit any information. of the organization, Saturday, The Mexican and Filipino work- “Only organized mass pressure on ers are united and militant. Pick- |a national scale can halt this terror- eting continued strong today, and |ism,” the directives state, calling for the lettuce fields are parzlyzed. ;mass protest to be expressed in meet- Urgent pleas for relief have again | ings, wires, and resolutions to Sherif: been wired by strike leaders of the |Campbell, El Centro, and Governor militant Cannery and Agricultural | Rolph, Sacramento, Cal. Workers Union, Protests should demand the imme- -. diate release of all arrested strikers, BRAWLEY, Cal. Jan. 15.—Mass|the right to organize, strike and arrests of striking agricultural work-| picket, withdrawal of armed forces ers here brought the total in jail|from the strike field, the right of i last night to 450, in the attempt of| self-defense against terrorist bands California authorities to break with|of company thugs, no deportation of | terror the struggle being conducted |foreign-born workers, immediate re-| in the Imperial Valley by the Can-|peal of the criminal syndicalism and nery and Agricultural Workers In-| other anti-labor lows, and no molest- dustrial Union. ation of relief trucks or workers en- Rewards of $500 to $1,000 have been tering the valley, {Posted all through the valley for the |Surrender of the strike leaders. Mass deportation of Mexican work- ers are being planned by the author- ities. Among those arrested is an LLD, in Los Angeles, to organize the defense struggles against the police terror, Three I.L.D. attorneys are also in the fleld. * 26 NEW YORK.—Mobilization of every LL.D. district in the country in sup- port of the struggles of the agricul- tural workers of the Imperial Valley of California, is called for in di- rectives airmailed to every district headquarters by the national office Slash Pay, nomic War “Is Just the Beginning” of Direct Inflation, Admits Thomas PRICES TO SHOOT UP |NRA Used to Hold Living Standards at Low Level By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker Washinzton Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. | 15.—Placing direct inflation on | the legis! e books, President Roosevelt today sent to Con- gress proposals for legislation that will bring swift, sharp rises in prices tn the United States, and will enable American finance capital to manipulate the price of gold to meet more quickly other im- is’ maneuvers in the ig fight for world markets. The transformation of this struggle into armed conflict becomes a greater danger. Roosevelt asked Congress for three gs, all of which probably will be | enacted soon: 1—Devaluation of the American dollar at a level of between 50 and 60 per cent, 2—Seizure by the government of all monctary gold in the Federal Reserve. 3—Creation of a $2,000,000,000 fund with which the Secretary of the Treasury shali buy and sell gold at home and ab-oad, with “express power to deal in Foreign Ex- change.” Tremendous Inflation The program so sets the stage for remendcus inflation that it pleased Senator Thomas of Oklahoma, leader of the inflationists in Congress, to the point where Thomas remarked: “We are on our way. Of course, this is not sufficient. This is just the outlinc—but the necessary steps will follow. You know, it wouldn't do to put out everything at onee— it would confuse the public. We're taking ene ston and Ieit’ng that be digested, and then we'll take some more.” Roosevelt expects that an immedi- [ate result of his program will be a jtise in pri this much official spokesmen saicitoday. Neither he or any other administration snokesman, naturally, has said anything about increaring wages to meet these ; Mounting costs of living. The working class, obviously, will bear the brunt. Wail Street Cashes In Many observers forecast a big speculative boom will result, some questioning Roosevelt's ability to stop it even if and when he decides he | would like to. There is in Washféngton, however, considerable confusion as to just how far this may go. Senators and Representatives were | slow to comment at length on the | Program. Both Houses listened to-a |clerk’s reading of the message in silence, and went on to other busi- ness while bills embodying the pro- gram were introduced immediately. (Continued on Page 2) Capitalist Countries ‘Defau'ted Debts To ‘11 Billion Total |War Danger Menace Aggravated by the Debt Question WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—A report of the United States Treasury, giving ithe details of the foreign loan pay- |ments which have defaulted, will soon be presented to Congress. Leading capitalist countries of the world, including Great Retin, {France, Germany, and i> American countries, have @:.s%ced in war debt p->-ents to the tun? -% $11,090.000,009. The Soviet Unton ts the only major power in the world that has an ab- sclutely clean record concerning debt payments, havint osteh"ched @ “ree merkable record for promptness, The United St2tcs Government. !s using the war debt question as a club with which to beat down its im- perialist rivals. Roosevelt has already used the debt question as a weapon in the stru to get Britain, France, Germany and Japan to reduce their fighting forces and permit the United States to increase its strength. The whole tangle about the imperialist war debts is another |factor which is aggravating the dan~ ger of war