The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 22, 1934, Page 1

R to them. This brutal, inhu man treatment of the jobless, is all that is left of the rosy promises that Roosevelt made to the 17,000,000 unemployed. What is the excuse Ask Your Fellow Workers to Subscribe to the “Daily” for all this? Rooseveit says he cannot get appropriations to continue and increase the C.W.A. jobs. This is a gross lie! Roosevelt has just appropriated $2,000,000.000 to guarantee mortgage investments. The R.F.C. has handed over two and a half billions to the banks and railroads. The Army and Navy have received more then one billion dollars. Roosevelt cares nothing for the fate of the job- less and their families! He leaves them to starve! We must act! The whole working class must answer this murderous treatment of the jobless! The broadest United Front of all workers must be immediately set into motion! The National Convention Against Unemploy- ment, to be held at Washington February 3 to 5, must become the nation’s rallying point for the immediate struggle against these Roosevelt attacks on the jobless! The workers in the A. F. of unions, in all working cla reached for struggle against L. locals, in revolutionary 8s organizations, must be this Roosevelt brutality, for Daily QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Vol. XI,.No. 19 <&™* Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1934. WEATHER: ROOSEVELT ASSAULT ON CWA MEN MUST BE MET BY WHOLE WORKING CLASS! OOSEVELT decreed that beginning February 15, the C.W.A. jobs will be abolished. Wages will be merci- lessly slashed. The hundreds of thousands who registered for C.W.A. jobs are ignored. The jobless who were given C.W.A, jobs were taken off the relief rolls. Now that they are fired from the C.W.A., the relief lists are closed the sending of delegates to the Washington Convention, The Unemployed Councils mu this work. The mobilization of the entire working class against this action of Roosev esery unit of the Communist Party. Not one worker to .! Registered workers to get be fired from the C.W.. jobs! Discharged workers to Increased appropriations for C.W.A. jobs! For Federal Social Insurance! Support Unemployment Convention! st play a leading role in elt must be taken up by ed on relief lists! be plac AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING Fair (Six Pages) CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER —s Price 3 Cents JOBLESS MEET WILL FIGHT ROOSEVELT FIRING CWA MEN Drive for Program Begun by US Commerce Big industrialist Groups Call for Secret var Orders WANT BIGGER NAVY To Defend Wail Street {nvestments in the Far East (Bally Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Jan. 21—} Inder the outworn pretext of “adequate defense as the best guarantor of peace,” the highly organized reactionary Chamber of Commerce of the United States to- morrow will begin to line up its thou- sands of member bodies in support of President Roosevelt's colossal war program. “A series of committee recommen- dations for adequate national defense for the United States, will be sub- mitted to member organizations of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States for a referehdum vote,” the latter organization, which is the national legislative and publicity or- gan of big business, announced today. Big Industrialists This War Committee, which con- sists of bankers, industrialists and ship owners, includes such well-anown. imperialists as James A. Farrell, for- mer president of the brutal United States Steel Corporation, Robert H. Patchin, vice president of the anti- Jabor W. R. Grace & Co, shipping line, and Robert V. Fleming, president of the Riggs National Bank, the most powerful bank in Washington, D. C. The report, with its recommenda- tions, will be sent to the Chamber's’ membership in the immediate future, with 45 days allowed for voting in favor or in opposition to the pro- posals. Little or no “opposition” may be expected. Want More War Building In addition to recommending “a navy built to Treaty (London) pro- portions,” that is, what is generally understood to be the American im- perialist slogan of “a navy second to None,” the Chamber of Commerce War Committee. calls for increased navy personnel, further army modern- ization, the amendment of the Na- tional Defense Act “to permit edu- cational orders for equipment, muni- tions and accessories,” and “the up- building and maintenance of ...a merchant marine, particularly along lines recommended by the Navy De- partment.” Reviewing “the historic position of the United States for peace,” the war committee declares: “As the World War, in point of time, has become farther removed from the present, the (Continued on Page 2) ———————————e————— In the Daily Worker Today dustry. Graft in Brownsville, Pa, C.W.A. Painters’ Local Exposes A. F. of L, Support of Scab “Social Se- curity Bill.” “Renegades Distort Lenin’s Trade Union Policy,” by Jack Stachel. Page 4 Letters from Workers in Food Industries. “Party “Dr. Luttinger Advises.” “In the Home,” by Helen Luke, Shop Paper Review. Page 5 “Change the World,” by Michael “The World of the Theatre,” by Harold Edgar. “International Lietrature,” by Philip Rahv. “To Lenin,” Poem by A.B. Magill. Tuning In, What’s On, Stage and Screen. Page 6. Rditorials: Fight Ac- Roosevelt's tion Abolishing C. W. A. Jobs; the Drive Is On. Huge War Chamber Racketeering in Sheet Metal Union Exposed NEW YORK.— Racketeering by the officials of the Sheet Metal Workers Union of New York is ex- posed on page 3 of today’s Daily Worker by a member of the union who has fought against the rack- eteers for many years. In future series the Daily Worker will deal with racketeering in the painters and electricians locals. Besides, letters from every part of the United States telling of wholesale graft and racketeer- ing will be published. We urge a!l |] Workers to send in more letters »telling of the grafting officials in !| their locals of the A. F, of L, Japan Warns lts U.S. Rivals for China Loot Will Not Permit U. S. To/ “Upset Japan’s Deci- sions in Far East” TOKYO, Jan, 21—Wall Street's Policy of the “Open Door” in China was sharply challenged yesterday by a spokesman of the Japanese Foreign Office. Extraordinary significance was given to the challenge by the| fact that it was made in a carefully ; drawn up statement released to the Japanese press by Eiiji Amau, foreign office spokesman, The statement bitterly denounces U. 8. interference with Japan’s drive for leadership over China, in rivalry with the U. S, and specifically the Washington government’s refusal to recognize the “legality” of Japan's coup in Manchuria, where Japanese bayonets have set up the state of Manchukuo, from which they have Squeezed out U. 8. and British trade. The Foreign Office’s statement} came in answer to a speech in Wash- ington last Thursday by Stanley K. Hornbeck, chief of the Far Eastern Division of the U. S. State Depart- ment, in which he reaffirmed the Kellogg doctrine of non-recognition for the loot secured by Japanese im- Perialism, at the expense of its rivals, in Manchuria. The Foreign Office spokesman de- clared that the U. S. policy of non- recognition would not be permitted to “upset Japan’s decisions in the Far East.” He compared Japan’s (Continued on Page 2) Many Organizations Support January 29 Anti-War Delegates ‘Y.—Additional mass organizations have joined in support of the Jan. 29 anti-war action instituted by the American League Against War and Fascism, it was announced yesterday. Among them the Brewers’ Local No. 2 (A. F, of L.), of Newark, N.J., Workers Industrial Union, Eden Seminary LID. of Webster Groves, Mo,, Flatbush Long Island Citizens, Discussion Groups of Coo- per Union Institute and Branch 4 of the International Workers Order. the League going to Washington on Jan. 29 to present demands against war appropriations, for giving all House Passes Gold Measure, | By Big Vote Will Begin Financial War With Britain, Congress Admits WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—With al- most solid support from both Demo- cratic and Republican machines, the Roosevelt dollar-devaluation bill set- ting up a_ gigantic $2,000,000,000 | Equalization Fund was passed by the | House by a voie of 360 to 40. It was approved by 287 Democrats, 68 Republicans, and 5 Farmer-Labor members. Two Democrats and 38 Republicans opposed it. The bill gives Roosevelt the right | § to establish formal devaluation of the dollar at between 60 and 50 cents, and tt gives the Secretary of the Treasury the right to manipulate the huge Equalization Fund secretly on the foreign exchanges in the fight}, to keep the dollar below the British pound. Fully admitting the imperialist purpose of the Equalization Fund, the minority report of the Coinage Committee declared: “The stabilization fund in opera- tion will be a gigantic struggle he~ tween the British and the Amer- ican Fund.” Representative Andrew L. Somers of New York also declared that the bill is not “only a monetary measure, but a political measure,” an admis- sion that the fund is intended for financial battles with Britain. It is generally admitted that the bill gives Roosevelt extraordinary in- flationary powers, which will cut deeply into the buying power of the American masses, as Wall Street drives outward in aggressive attack on British markets. PM A Officials Burn jaan the Machado butcher regime, Near Gillespie, Ill. Legionnaires Terrorize Fighters Against P.M.A. Sellouts STAUNTON, Ill, Jan. 21. — The home of Jim Crorkin and his wife, Rowina, who is head of the local In- ternational Defense, and their two children, was pillaged and burned to the ground here Friday nicht by Legionaires. This is part of the ter- ror instigated by Progressive Miners Association offic'a!ls against workers resisting P. M. A. sellouts. This town is a few miles from Gil- lespie, stronghold of the P. M. A., The mayor, deputy, and American Legion have threateneq the workers continually since last September when George Smerkin, Y. C. L. organizer and Tom McKenna of the Chicago Civil Liberties Union, and several workers were beaten and arrested at a meeting called to nre- nare for the 16th anniversary celebra- burned down ILD Leader’s Heme! tion of the Russian revolution. Crorkin is now homeless. Cuban President CARLOS Mi DIETA Newly named President of Cuba whose promise of terror against the Cuban masses has gratified Wall Street. Cuba Doctors’ Strike Leader Is Asasssinated Mendieta Police Order Is Responsible for Murderous Attack (Special to the Daily Worker) HAVANA, Cuba, Jan, 21.—Dr. Jose Elias Borge, leader of the Medcal Workers National strike, and mem- ber of the Communist Party, was killed by a scab druggist. yesterday. Dr. Borge for many years was expelled from Cuba for his fight Angry masses’ of young workers the pharmacy and nearly killed the scab who assas- sinated Dr. Borge. ‘The whole city is indignant against this brutal murder. Over 10,000 per- sons filed past the body lying in state in the National Medical Fed- eration. The university students at a meeting yesterday voted a 48-hour protest strike and condemn their mis- leaders who kept them from striking before. Today over 20,000 are expected to participate in the funeral of Dr, Borge, Call for Resistance The Communist Party has issued an appeal for struggle against the system of murder by scabs, calling on the workers to mobilize their (Continued on Page 2) JOBLESS MAN COMMITS SUICIDE; GAS KILLS ANOTHER NEW YORK, Jan. 21. — Carmello Petrolla, 50, jobless for three years and with no prospe7t for getting work beenuse of his age, committed suicide by gas in his room today. in Brooklyn. The gos, seeping into the next room, killed Nunzio Puglia, 45, and over- came three others, who were rsusei- tated later by the pulmotor squad which arrived, Speed the Election o f Delegates to Feb. 3 National Jobless Convention New York Council Calls for Action in Demand for Jobs Negroes, Veterans, In Demand for C.W.A. Jobs or Relief NEW YORK.—All working-class or- ganizations of New York City were urged today by Richard Sullivan, New York secretary of the Unem- ployed Councils, to take immediate action in protest against the cutting off cf the C.W.A. workers from their jobs within the next few weeks by the Roosevelt government. “The citywide Feb. 5. demonstration at City Hall, held in conjunction with the National Convention Against Unemployment,” Sullivan said, “Will be directed against the taking of C. W. A. workers from their jobs. But the neighborhood councils, C. W. A. relief groups and unions, and all workers organizations should act at once. There are at least 400,000 registered in New York City for C. W. A. jobs and only a little over 100,- 000 have been given jobs. We must demand from the city as well as the national government at once, C. W. A. jobs or immediate relief for all New York City unemployed.” In preparation for the city-wide demonstration at the city hall, Feb. 5, trade unions and workers’ mass or- ganizations are urged to mobilize their entire membership, formulate their demands, and elect delegates to present these demands to LaGuardia. The delegates will meet at 29 E. 20th St., ab 10 a, m., on Feb, 5th. Veterans To March Today Ex-servicemen will assemble at Union Square at 10 a. m. today and march to the city hall to demand that Mayor LaGuardia take im- meciate steps to protect unemployed veterans and their dependents. At the same time, elected dele- gates from all New York state posts of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League will be in Albany to fight against the Citizens Budget Com- mission, organized to destroy exist- ing veterans welfare legislation now on the New York State Statute Books. Negroes Demand ©. W. A. Jobs A committee of Negro and white workers, representing branches of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and workers’ organizations of Harlem, called upon Col. De Lamater, Cc. W. A. head, demanding an end to discrimination against Negzoes, that all workers now registered be given C. W. A. jcbs, and all future registrants be employed by the C. W. A. A meeting {s being called by the 1, §. N. R. tonight at 8 p. m,, at 415 Lenox Ave., corner 13Ict St. wh-r- a full revort will be given by the committee. The Unemployed Teachers Associa- to 50 Per cent The Roosevelt government hes fol- lowed up its announcement vf the firing of a million C.W.A. workers on Feb. 15, and the firing of all C.W.A. workers within a few weeks, by issu- ing orders thru Federal Relief Direc- tor Hopkins, that no more C.W.A. workers are to be hired, starting im- mediately, and by cutting wages on C.W.A, jobs from 20 to 50 per cent. Wages were cut by means of intro- ducing the stagger system and reduc- ing hours of work with corresponding reductions in pay. Roosevelt and Hopkins announced Friday that, beginning Feb. 15, a mil- lion workers will be fired every two | wea from the C.W.A. Hopkins said *“THe ‘show is over.” Hesaid he didn’t know what would become of those fired from C.W.A. jobs. They were taken off relief rolls, and will now ave to fight to get back on the relief sts. Millions more have registered for C.W.A. jobs and have not even been hired, many having neither reilef nor Jobs. Roosevelt, at the “White House, admitted that he has ho plan for extension of the C.W.A. projects. Roosevelt Ends CWA Hiring; Cuts Pay of Men Still at Work Introduces Stagger System, Cutting Pay From 20 WASHINGTON, D. ©., Jan. a1—) * | 3 “Show Over” | All state C.W.A. administrations | were ordered to stop hiring new work- | ers for C.W.A. jobs and to reduce hours and pay of those now working at once, Hopkins, in his telegram to the| New York state C.W.A, said: “Due! to the fact that average weekly w: for Civil Works is in excess of 0° inal estimated weekly payrolls, it is necessary to reduce the hours wo:k_c | per week.” Hopkins’ statement goes on to say that the average pay of | all laborers will be reduced from $13.50 to $10.80 a week. Laborer’s wages of C.W.A. workers ‘n the South, have been 40 cents per | hour for a 30 hour week. By this hew atrangement, wages of Southern workers will"be reduced to $6 a week and the maximum laborers’ wage: paid to workers in the North will be reduced to $7.50 per week for those living in cities of less than 2,500 population. In the two months of operation, treasury figures releasedtoday show thet the federal C.W.A. had so tar spent only one-half of the author- ‘zed appropriation. This amounted (Continued on Page 2) 2,000 at L.A. Lenin Meet Defend TUUL Hall From Police LOS ANGELES, Jan, 21.—Iwo thousand workers at a Lenin mem- orial meeting here last night marched out of the hall and went to defend the Trade Union Unity League from a police attack last night. The police raid was an attempt to smash the strike of 1,200 dairy farmers, under the leadership of” the Milk Section of the Food Workers Industrial Union, which has brought into its ranks all the former A. F. of L. dairy farmers, tion, whose delegates recently called upon Mayor LaGuardia to demand that all teachers awaiting avpoint- nent be immediately placed on jobs, urges all unemployed teachers and arents of school children to be sent at the meeting of the Board Education at Park Ave. and 59th Wednesday, Jan. 24th, at 4:30 pm W. Z. Foster Visits “Daily” for First Time in 16 Months; Praises Improvement, Hails Drive for 10,000 New Readers of manner, the profound earnestness which has proyoked from workers NEW YORK. — William Z. Foster, outstanding Communist leader, made his first wsit in months to the yesterday, editorial offices of the Daily Worker Foster returned to the United States on Thursday, following a stay in the Soviet Union where he had gone to recuperate from an illness which forced him to give up all activity, When he became ill, Foster, as ‘he candidate for President of the ‘United ‘States on the Communist Party ticket, was in the midst of a campaign which brought the Communist program and its solu- tion for the way out of the crisis to hundreds of thousands of work- ers and farmers throughout the country. war funds to the unemployed and for social insurance to President. Roosevelt and the Secretaries of the Locals Revolt | Xork, and in Newark, N. J., where the delegation from Washington will ae aoe tee with Presi- dent Roosevelt and the Secretaries of The “great Daily Worker” was the first thing which struck Foster’s attention upon his return, he said at the precise, deliberate manner which is known to literally millions of workers in this country, “that one of the most gratifying ad- vances that I have noted since my ~eturn, is the great improvement in. the Daily Worker.” Foster talked in that quiet, as- peculiar) “W. Z. FOSTER YIN OWN, Wnt one. COWES epee, tn. le: almaplisty everywhere the greatest respect and affection. “Of course,” Foster continued, “I haven't had a chance yet to get in touch with all sections of work of the Party, but this one fact sticks out: the need for building the Daily Worker.” Foster enthusiastically hailed the announcement of the Daily Worker circulation drive. He described it as “gratifying,” and said that he was certain that the same spirit and mass enthusiasm which had brought $40,000 to the paper would bring the new 10,000 new readers for the daily edition, and 20,000 new readers for the Saturday edition. He saw the Daily Worker in the Soviet Union too infrequently, | Foster said, because the doctors advised against any seztous political work. The Communist leader, during his stay in the U. 8. 5. R., re- ceived treatments in three famous Soviet sanitarlums: Kislovodsk, in the North Caucasus; Sochi, on the Moscow. Black Sea, and Archangelskoy, near Foster recalled yesterday that he made his last public speech, just before he became ill, in Moline, Ill. “I expected to lay off for three days and then speak at that big meeting in the Coliseum in Chicago, but I couldn’t do it—as you remember—and the speech had to be read.” Two or three days before the conclusion of the presidential cam- paign, at the Communist election rally, which filled every inch in Madi- sgn Square Garden, Foster spoke briefly to the huge throng by means of a telephone-amplifier connection from his sick-bed at his home. Foster looks considerably improved in health, although he is still not sufficiently recovered, from his long and dangerous illness to return to active work, Roosevelt Acts To Stop Anti-Trust MovesAgainst NRA Shunts Small Business Men’s Complaints to Trade Commission WASHINGTON, January 21.—Un- able to ignore the growing protests |from small businessmen that the N. R. A. codes are concentrating mono- Poly control of industry by driving j out the smaller producers, Roosevelt jtoday issued a statement designed to head off further protest against the monopoly character of the codes. He declared that small business men who feel that the larger produc- ers are uniting under the codes to form monopolies, may have recourse to the Federal Trade Commission of the Department of Justice. This is both, an admission of the trustification character of the N. R. A. and an at- tempt to defeat every further move to weaken this character. It is already recognized that these bodies will be unable to act either quickly or in many cases at all in cases of complaint. Postal Employees to March to Capital NEW YORK. — On Wednesday morning at 2 A. M. Post Office substi- tutes, with some regular employees, will march to Washington, D. C. from St. Louis, New York, Baltimore, Chicago, and many other cities to; place the following demands before! the Roosevelt government: 1. Complete restoration of the recent 15 per cent pay cut. 2, Filling of all vacancies. 3. A 30 hour week withont any reduction in weekly pay. The marchers, starting from Wesi 40th St. and Eighth Ave. expect to reach Washington by Wednesday evening. Thousands of Federal employees; are suffering as a result of the $500,- 000,000 slash in salaries instituted by Roosevelt to guarantee the payments of the $742,000,000 annual bond in- terest on the national debt held by the Wall Street banks. | In New York City alone, the low salaried federal employees have lost 25,000,000 already as a result of these jand exp... a Lynn Shoe Locals Send Delegates; Chicago To Demonstrate |ALABAMA ACTIVE Steel Centers and Others Demand C.W.A. Jobs NEW YORK.—The National Convention Against Unem- ployment, taking place in Washington, D: C., on Feb. 3, will take up the program of action against President Roose- velt’s firing of all C. W. A. workers and demanding jobs or relief for all unemployed workers and the immediate enactment of the Workers Un- employment Insurance Bill. Delegates are already being elected hrough-out the country to the Na- onal Unemployed Convention. The central demand will be for the enact- uent-of the Workers Unemployment ‘surance Bill, Many cities have already held zeal conferences and elected dele- gates. The National Committee the Unemployed Councils whit called the convention, calls on all workers organizations to take up the election of delegates to the national convention. The National Commit- tee urges all workers organizations and sympathetic individuals to con- tribute at once to the $3,000 fund for the expense of feeding and housing the national convention delegates, “Now more than ever is it neces- Sary to assure a broad mass con= vention,” says the Unemployed Coun- cils, “in view of the fact that Presi- dent Roosevelt has dropped his promises and now proposes to abandon any pretense of relief for the seventeen million unemployed workers of the United States.” Sar Bear Shoe Workers Elect Delegates LYNN, Mass., Jan. 21—Two local unions of the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union have elected delegates from Lynn, a big shoe cen- ter, to attend the National Conven- tion Against Unemployment to be held Feb. 23 in Washington, D, C. Laster's Local No. 3 at their (Continued on Page 2) Fastman Urges - More Subsidies fo Railroads by U. §. Wants Speeding Up of ‘Monopoly Control by ! Stock Mergers WASHINGTON, Jan. 21—In a re- port, the entire objective of which was to protect the investments of the present Wall Street owners, and is a continuation of the Roosevelt trustification policy, Joseph B, East- man, Federal Co-ordinator of the Railroads, yesterday recommended that the Roosevelt government act along the following lines: 1. A tentative plan for the govern- ment buying the railroads from the present stockholders, though it was insisted that this plan could wait for @ more propitious time, 2, That immediate consideration of radical or major changes be post- poned. 3. That railroads be entirely re- lieved from the operation of the Fed- eral and **-*- --“."T pst laws. . That the government continue, .crat lending policy to the roads. 5. That emphasis be placed on pri« vate initiative. More Subsidies In addition, Eastman recommends that the Roosevelt government not only continue, but expand its present policy of pouring huge subsidies into the roads to help them pay off their loans to the banks and bondholders. The railroads have already received cicse to one billion dollars from the government for such purposes, In addition, Eastman urged the speeding up of stock control. x