The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 30, 1934, Page 1

4 * Jobless Demonstrate | ————_—_—_——_=SSAP ASK YOUR FRIENDS Te Subseribe for the “Daily” Yo. XI, No. 26 Feb. 5, In For Social Insurance y SEATS Miuneapolis, Detroit, Cleveland, Make Preparations Cleveland Demonstration CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 29.—Un- employed and C.W.A. workers here ‘will demonstrate on Feb. 5 for the continuance and enlargement of the C.W.A., against lay-offs and wage cuts, and for the endorsement of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. All delegates to the National Con- vention Against Unemployment to be held on Feb. 5 will meet on Jan. 30 tor final instructions. A mass send- off meeting for the delegates will be held on Feb. 1. | TOLEDO, Ohio.—C.W.A, and un- employed workers will demonstrate at the local Court House Monument where resolutions wll be adopted and torwarded to Congressmen, Senators, and to the President, demanding that they receive the workers delegates from the National Convention Against Unemployment, and demand- ing the passage of the Workers Un- employment Insurance Bill, and its endorsement by the local government. A send-off mass meeting for the delegates to the National Convention | will be held on Thursday, Feb. 1, Pe ar Raise Funds BRIDGEPORT, Conn.—An intense drive is being carried on here to raise funds with which to send delegates to the National Unemployed Conven- tion. Jessie Amdrozewich, of the Russian Mutual Aid Society, was) able to collect $7 in a few hours, | setting an example to members of) the Unemployed Council. ne Tae Send-Off in Detroit | DETROIT, Mich.—A send-off mass meeting will be held here Jan. 31, at) 7:30 p.m. at the Workers Home, 1343 E. Ferry St. The Michigan delegates to the National Convention Against Unemployment will leave for Wash- ington on Feb. 1, at 1 p.m., from 1343 E. Ferry St. ? NEW YORK.—The unemployed or- ganizations, C.W.A, workers unions and A. F. of L. and T.U.ULL. local * * ‘Fire 9,000 Detroit CWA Workers, Cut Relief List in Half Strikes, Unions, Protests, Workers’ Answers to Roosevelt DETROIT, Mich., Jan. 30.—Nine thousand C.W.A. workers were fired here last week following the an- nouncement of Roosevelt’s abandon- ment of the C.W.A. program. Twen- ty-five thousand others received pay cuts of 20 per cent, reducing their weekly wage from $15 to $12. Together with this latest Roose- velt attack upon the workers comes @ general relief cut for Detroit's jobless. The relief lists, numbering 46,000 three weeks ago, have been eut to 29,000 at the present time. ‘The Relief Workers Protective As- sociation and the Unemployed Councils have issued a general call to all C.W.A. workers to organize and prepare for a mass march to the city C.W.A. headquarters to pro- test the mass lay-offs and wage cuts. Stop All C.W.A. in Superior SUPERIOR, Wis.— All C.W.A. work here was stopped at the close of the work week on Jan. 2%, throw- ing several hundred workers out of employment. Many of the workers transferred from the relief rolls had only been on C.W.A. work for a day or two. By this maneuver hundreds of families are being cut off relief lists. aK, Hold Mass Meet in Emaus, Pa. The Unemployed Council of Emaus, Pa., has issued a call for a mass meeting of all C.W.A. workers to plan a struggle against wage cuts (Continued on Page 2) the Daily Worker Today Page 2 Sports, by Jerry Arnold. Page 3 Communist Party Resolution on Te ‘extile. The Hard Coal Strike, by Carl Reeve, Page 4 Lellors from Readers, Doctor Luttinger Advises. Party Life. Page 5 Change the World, by Mike Gold. Tuning In. “The Scoop,” by James T. Farrell. Page 6 Editorials: Comrade Stalin's Per Cent Wage Cnt. Foreign News. 2>* Wow York, N. ¥., ander the Act All Cities, Veteran leader of the miners, a battler against the strikebreaking Lewis machine, 4 City: Counce OE Illinois Endorse Jobless Insurance| Unemployed Councils Force Action in Cook County CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 29—The city| council and mayor of Berwyn, Ill. have just indorsed the Workers Un- employmnt Insurance Bill and sent! signed copies of their resolution to the Unemployed Councils of Cook County. A similar resolution was adopted by the village administration of the village of Robbins, Il., and Stickney, Mil, The village of Robbins has a large Negro population, and a fight-} ing Unemployed Council. A citywide demonstration in sup- port of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill is being organized by the Cook County Committee of the Unemployed Councils for Feb. 5th at 10 a. m. This demonstration which starts at Union Park will proceed to the loop and city hall and will de- mand the endorsement by the county officials of the Workers’ Unemploy- ment Bill. This demonstration will also demand the granting of jobs or cash relief to all unemployed. The Unemployed Councils ask all workers, employed or unemployed, to join the demonstration and force the county officials to take action on the Workers Soical Insurance Bill. Potash Bares Plot Of NRA, Fur Bosses And AFL Officials Panken, Socialist Lawyer, Proposes Fascism, Says Senator Wagner (Daily Worker. Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—Irving Potash, New York Secretary of the fur department of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, today charged before a National Labor Board conference on the fur indus- try that Edward McGrady, Assistant Secretary of Labor and A. F. of L. representative on the Labor Advisory Board, informed fur manufacturers that they would not be able to get an N.R.A. fur code unless they signed up with the A. F. of L. “Nobody, as yet, has denied that,” Potash added. Senator Wagner, chairman of the National Labor Board called today's meeting to discuss existing contracts in the industry and the threat of a strike. Potash also produced documentary evidence showing that the New York Joint Council (A. F. of L.) is fin- ancially maintained by the manufac- turers, and that nearly all of the workers are members of the N. T. Judge ‘Panken, Socialist leader, ap- | for their chance to say who should Daily ,.QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Entered ss second-class matter at the Post Office st of March &, 1879. First Defeat | In Many Years Miners at Convention Fight Appointive Power of Lewis BULLETIN INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Jan. 29.— William Green continued Lewis’ sale of the N. BR. A. to the 33rd Convention of the U.M.W.A., when the President of the A. F. of L. spoke at the opening of the second week of the Convention here today. Immediately before Green spoke, resolutions calling for the freeing of Mooney, Billings and the Scotts- boro boys were carefully emaseu - lated by the U.M.W.A. offteialdom. By F. BORICH INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 28.— “First opposition against the reign of Mr. Lewis came yesterday in a floor offensive on the appointive Powers of the international presi- dent. | “Administration forces were | saved from defeat by abatement of | the resolution temporarily referring | it to the committee on constitu- | tional amendments.” — The In- dianapolis Times, Jan. 26. ‘This particular resolution did not raise the whole question of the ap- pointive power. It simply referred to the officials who are defeated in the elections, demanding their return to the mines for at least a year before they could hold any office in the union. Another resolution dealing with the appointive power as a whole will be considered at the time of constitutional amendments. As soon as the resolution was read hundreds of hands of the rank and file went up demanding the floor. These hands, preponderantly of the calloused type, indicating that they are working in the mines with pick and shovel, went up time and again (Continued on Page 2) 5,000 Toledo CWA Men Protest Mass Layoffs, WageCuts 1,000 March Under Ban- ner of Unemployed Councils TOLEDO, Ohio. Jan. 20.— Nearly 5,000 C. W. A. workers here paraded through the city in protest against the curtailment of C. W. A. work. Although the American Legion and the Polish Falcons, who organized the demonstration, refused to invite | the Unemployed Council and the C. W. A. workers’ union, 1,000 of the workers who marched paraded under | bi banner of the Unemployed Coun- cils, Preceded by a band, the workers marched through the city, calling upon the onlookers to join their ranks, more than doubling their ranks from the starting point. Many of the workers carried shovels. oes 500 Demonstrated _ SEATTLE, Wash.—More than 500 jobless workers, who demonstrated here before the C. W. A. offices, forced the city to grant immediate relief to ell C. W. A. workers who were formerly on relief and had been fired from C. W. A. jobs. The dem- onstration was called by the Relief Workers’ Protective Association, Un- employed Citizens’ League, Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League and the NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1934 Lewis Meets | Anti-War Delegates Met | With Blunt War Talk | Browder’s Report to 18th Meeting of C.C. in Wed. Daily W orker ‘Tomorrow a special eight-page issue of the Daily Worker will carry the full text of Comrade Browder’s report to the 18th meet- ing of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, U.S.A. Workers are urged to reserve their copies of the Daily to assure getting this important speech. Planes O0.K.d To Build Biggest Air Force in World By SEYMOUR WALDMAN House Naval Affairs Committee today unanimously recommended to give President Roosevelt “blanket author- ity” to procure “the additional air- planes necessary to bring the Navy to treaty (London) strength.” Naval Operations, this morning esti- A large number of the contemplated planes will be built for long distance operations—in other words, for ser- vice in the Far East. When the new fighting contingent will be ready for action the Navy Department will have 2,184 war planes ready for im- mediate service, New Deal and War Today's announcement closely upon the heels of Saturday’s War Department declaration of its adoption of a new five-year construc- tion program for the Air Corps which, in addition to adding 1,000 long dis- tance Army planes for service ip the Far East, would give the United States imperialism the greatest united aerial combat force in the world, It is significant to note that there wasn’t the slightest murmur of oppo- sition to the proposal, and that Carl (Continued on Page 2) ‘Millinery Workers Strike for Wage Increase in Conn. (Special to the Daily Worker) BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Jan. 29.— All 40 millinery workers of the Klein Bros. shop walked out on strike to- day under the leadership of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union. The workers are demanding a 20 per cent increase in pay and re nition of the union, The local police, at the behest of rorizing the pickets, chasing them out ef doorways into the bitter cold. All the strikers show a militant spirit and pledge to resist all attempts of the socialist leaders to break the State Committee of Action. strike. By Roosevelt Officials 1,184 New War By Committee : Gives Roosevelt Power | (Daily Worker, Washington Bureau) | WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. — The) Ad-| miral William H. Standley, Chief of} mated that this new program means) the construction of 1,184 war planes | at a total cost of $95,000,000. follows | the Socialist administration, are ter-} | Roosevelt Spokesmen Ad- | mit Huge War Drive; Predict War Soon | By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daity Worker Washington Bureau) | WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—Muiltipie Signs’ that the whole Roosevelt regime is centered around a drive | toward war, and that its attention | is riveted on immediate preparations | for it, greeted the anti-war delega- | tion of the American League Against | War and Fascism today at the White House, the Capitol and at the head- | quarters of the Civilian Conservation | Corps today. Preparations for war and militant statements in defense of them domi- inated the atmosphere of conferences between Roosevelt offi- cials and about twenty leaders of | he United Anti-War forces of the! country, | Sees War in Spring | Henry T- Rainey, Speaker of the | House of Representatives, repeated to the delegation, “I think there will be war in the Spring.” And, to demands that the C. C. C. be removed from militaristic afmy | control, Rainey responded only with | a complaint that the delegation would | “turn them over to ministers.” Marvin H. McIntyre, Secretary to | President Roosevelt, when asked | whether Rainey spoke for the Ad- | ministration, hedged, “Did he say he} spoke for the President?” “No,” one of the anti-war delega- | tion said, “and we want to know what can you say about it.” | McIntyre then explained that he couldn’t speak for the President. Robert C. Fechner, director of the C. C. C., declined even to soften high army officials’ repeated boasts that the organization is under permanent Army control and is to be used as a recruiting station for the next war. In response the delegates’ protest (Continued on Page 2) Maryland Lynch Gangs Gather as Negro Is Arrested’ Magee Framed By Cops! on Charge of “At- tempted” Assault CENTREEVILLE, Md., Jan. 29.— Maryland lynch gangs were gather- ing here today following the arrest of William Magee, Negro worker, on @ charge of‘ “attempting to assault a white woman,” last Wednesday | night at Easton, Md. | Magee is lodged at the Queen Anne's County jail here, and the authorities are making no attempt to} remove him to Baltimore, despite the threatening attitude of the lynch! gangs. The police have not suc-| ceeded in getting the victim of the alleged attack to identify him, but failing this, have issued a statement that Magee has been identified by “the family” of the woman. This statement, together with their pseudo-secrecy in “secretly” lodging him in jail here, has served to incite a furious lynch sentiment against the Negro worker. The authorities are attempting to rush through the railroading of Magee and have scheduled a hear- ing this week, despite the rabid lynch sentiment. The prosecution has an- nounced that it will oppose any move far a change of venue, pretending as usual that the Negro will get a fair trial in the local lynch courts, | vice in New York three Dou! Weather: Fair [Hotel Strike Spreads; Unity Spirit Grows Hyde Park Hotel Settles With Industrial Union NEW YORK.—The cooks and wait- ers strike spread over the week-end to the Biltmore, Greystone, and New Yorker hotels, thus practically para- lyzing 75 per cent of the dining ser- ge hotels Is are try- While many of el ing to maintain a good appearance with scab staffs, the service generally stands at a zero level. Pickets continue to march up and down in front of the struck hotels in the icy wind, enthusiastic and de- termined to win. Spirit Growing it for unity is growing among the strikers. This was manifested yesterday when two pick- arly an See the editorial on the hotel worxers’ strike on Page 6 of to- day's issue. ets, one a member of the Food Work- ers Industrial Union and from the Amalgamated, shook hands and posed for photographers. Must Spread Strike Commenting on the strike today, Wm. Albertson, Secretary of the Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union, Local 119 (section of the Food Work- ers Industrial Union), said: “The most important thing at the present time is the question of unity in action and spreading the strike further to more hotels. This must be accompanied by mass picketing and militant action around the hotels.” Speaking of the negotiations being carried on by the Amalgamated offi- cials with the N.R.A., Albertson said “Any dependence of the workers on the N.R.A. and the bosses would de- feat the strike. United mass action is the only thing that will make the bosses come to terms,” Albertson de- clared. The Food Workers Industrial Union has urged all restaurant workers to | (Continued on Page 2) Weirton Steel Workers Talk Strike; Protest ! Labor Board Betrayal WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—Steel worker delegates from the Weir- ton Steel Co., whose strike was smashed by the National Labor Board, declared here that steps would be taken for e general strike of steel workers if they were not allowed to choose their own repre- sentatives. ° . General Hugh 8. Johnson, N. R. A. Administrator, today in- formed an A. F. of L. delegation of steel workers here to protest the Dec. 15 Weirton Steel Cor- poration “election,” that “things look favorable for a meeting with the President.” The General, however, didn’t say when. “We're here to insist upon a fair election and to insist upon seeing President Roosevelt, inasmuch as he has seen E. T. Weir, head of the corporation, several times dur- ing the last week,” William J. Long, head of the workers’ dele- zation bearing the protest signa- tures of 3,000 workers, told news- paper men. Mike Tighe, the head of the A. F. of L, Iron, Steel and Tin Work- ers’ Union, who was in Washing- ton for a good part of last week, didn’t even attempt to see Roose- velt. another | ___ 4MERICA’S ONLY WORKING CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER and colder. (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents USSR Party Congress Delegates | Michael Kalinin | Chairman of the Council of Peoples Commissars ‘Party Congress Best Proof of Our Vitality’ Pravda Editorial Says “Congress of Victors | Contrasts 2 Systems” | By VERN SMITH | Moscow Correspondent Daily Worker | MOSCOW, Jan. 29.—It was | “Pravda,” central organ of the Rus- | sian Communist Party, which ke! | noted the 17th Communist Party Congress when on the opening day it devoted the entire front page | to an article with the streame: © ad- | line: “Congress of Victors’"—*Con. | trast between two world systems ap | pears immediately.” The article de- | clared: “The Party Congress is the best | proof of the vitality and advantage: of the new social regime. Wher {Lenin died, the world bourgeoi | thought it was the end of Leninism. | They thought there was nobody to | head the great proletarian army. The New York Times said: ‘Death of | Lenin coincides with the defeat of the Revolution headed by him. Tt is very difficult to imagine how the | Soviet Power can manage to avoid |a period of storms until a second | Lenin appears, if ever.’ | Mass Confidence in Lenin’s Party “History mocks those bourgeois | prophets. “Pravda” points out that the Com- munist Party is recognized even by its enemies as the mains; of the whole machinery of Socialist con- struction and the fight for a class- Party Congress represents the army of the vanguard of the proletariat. Therefore it is an inspiring sight to | see the etnhusiasm, confidence, in- tense interest and determination of the whole Congress as it works out the plan based on the theses of Molotov and Kaganovich to increase production in the next four years by two and a half times and also double or treble real wages, raising tremen- dously the living standard of the making the country invulnerable. Does Not Forget Class Brothers Groaning Under Capitalist Misery The confidence and enthusiasm shown by the Congress and the (Continued on Page 6) Spivak to Special Correspondent to Make Nationwide Investigation What has happened in the United States during the past four years of capitalist crisis? What changes have taken place in the lives of the workers, the farmers, peared as “unofficial” repreesnta- tive of the A. F. of L. Council. “The workers do not have to ratify agree- ments. It is enough when the offi- cials continue the agreements and they can do so in the name of five per cent and compel the other 95 per cent to go their way,” Panken de- clared. “What you are proposing,” sir, is Fascism,” Wagner replied. Panken responded confusedly, obviously taken aback, and left the Toom. Louis Budin, Council for the N. T. W. I. U. workers, charged that the manufacturing associations and the A. F. of L. are considering to force | Workers into the A. F. of L., that the employers are locking out work- ers because they have selected the N.T.M.LU, as their union; and that some N.R.A. officials are encouraging the manufacturers. The meeting will be resumed to- Morrow when it is expected that a full contingent of the labor will be convened, provide its read- ers with the an- swers to these]. questions — in terms of day-to- jj Spivak, Daily John 1. Spivak Worker corres- pondent and investigator, to tour the United States and present his find- ings in the form of a series of ‘| graphic, vividly-written articles, un- der the general title of “A Portrait of America,” Spivak, the author of “Georgia Nigger” and “The Devil's Brigade,” has been a labor reporter for nearly 20 years, and has conducted investi- gations which have created national sensations. Recently, as special cor- respondent for the Daily Worker, Spivak named the lynchers of James Armwood, at Princess Anne, Md. This created such a storm of fury, that it) compelled Gov. Ritchie to go through for the Daily Worker during the, terson and Clarence Norris. the motions of ordering the arrest Scottsboro trial of Haywood Patter- of a number involved in the lynching. | son in Decatur last spring, as well} began the publicetion of a series of Spivak was a special correspondent Describe U.S. Today in Daily Worker Serie as during the recent trials of Pat- On Sept. 11, last, the Daily Worker Map Showing Spivak’s Route “Portrait of Ameri Series Begins In “Daily” Feb. 9 ® 39 ica posed the murder and graft regime in Welfare Island, which the La- Guardia crowd is now pretending to disinfect. These revelations were made in connection with charges by the Daily Worker that James Mat- | thews, a young Negro, had been mur- | dered by prison guards. | In the accompanying map is shown the centers which Spivak will cover in connection with his “Portrait of America series.” It will include the basic industries—coal, steel, oil, etc., farming, etc., and will provide an il- | luminating cross-section of condi- tions in the United States at the present moment, Spivak’s first article entitled, “How Shoe Goes, So Goes Brock- ton,” in which he describes condi- tions among the factory workers of New England, will appear in the Daily Worker on Friday, Feb. 9. The “Portrait of America” series, by Spivak, makes it urgent for the | Party district organizations workers’ groups to get behi Daily Worker drive for 10,000 scribers, in order to make the series available to the largest number of new readers. less society in the Soviet Union. The| masses, finally abolishing classes and | articles written by Spivak, which ex- | All Hail Party Line Triumph |Lenin’s Widow Greets | Stalin as Lenin’s Successor 11th Congres: Party of the ‘emarked that the Revolu- gave the workers the feeling of mastery of the country, while the Five Year Plans haye convinced them that they can master Nature and create their own conditions. A Gigantic Historical Epoch Postieshey was greeted with stormy applause and ovation as he ascended the tribune to deliver his brilliant speech, to which the audience listened with close attention. He spoke of the ten years since Comrade Lenin's death as a gigantic historical epoch, of colossal Party victories achieved since the 16th Congress. He analyzed in detail the condi- tions which brought victory, showing by the example of Soviet Ukraine the great strength of Leninist leadership of the Central Committee, headed by Comrade Stalin. He described the profound changes wrought by So- cialist transformation of Ukrainian agriculture. Summing up, Postieshev spoke of the Bolshevik struggle in Soviet Ukraine against counter-revolution- ary groups of Nationalist deviators who worked in contact with the in- terventionists. Krupskaya Hails Stalin as Worthy | Successor | The Congr greeted with partict- lar warmth and applause Comrade Krupskaya, widow and life compan- ion of Lenin, The entire couniry and the whole working class and col- lective farmers, Comrade Krupskaye declared, had looked forward to the 17th Party Congress and Comrade | Stalin's report, realizing that Stalin’s | report would sum up the struggle for fulfillment of Lenin’s behests. “Much has transpired since Lenin’s death,” said Krupskaya, recalling the internal Party struggles following | Lenin’s death. “But | greatr today The Daily Worker will carry full reports of the 17th Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union through Vern Smith, Moscow correspondent. tinued, “greater than any Party in the world. Great work has been ac- complished, the foundation of So- cialism has been ‘built, decisive vic- | tories have been achieved. The warm ovation given to Comrade Stalin ex- pressed the feeling of realization of these facts by the Congress,” she stated. Comrade Krupskaya devoted the | concluding part of her address, re- | ceived with deep interest by the au- | dience, io the problems of universal education. Tells of Victories in Soviet Ukraine Following Krupskaya, Comrade | Khatayevich, of the Soviet Ukre ~c, | spoke of the period since the 1 .h | Congress, which required colossal | concentration of Bolshevik energy {and will, He spoke of Comrade | Stalin's extraordinary role in carry- | ing through the Leninist Party line | and the general Socialist offensive. | The speaker pointed out Stalin’s great | j (Continued on Page 6) | meres Legislature Awaits ‘Mayor’s “Economy” ‘Wage-Slashing Bill | ALBANY, N. Y., Jan, 29. — The State Legislature here was today |awaiting the presentation of the La Guardia Emergency and Economy , which would vest complete au- y for the cutting of city em- ployees’ wages, and th curtailment of city workers’ pensions in the hands |of the Board of Estimate. The LaGuardia Fusion administra- | tion is pushing this wage-cutting bill as, part of its entire program to bale {ance the city budget without en- |croaching on the power and control | of Wall Street finance capital. | Contrary to his pre-election prome | ses, LaGuardia is standing firmly be- {hind this measure, which would use jan enforced furlough for all city |employees to achieve a drastic salary cut. It is significant that none of |the highly-paid departmental heads |face salary cuts, nor ang of their | political henchmen “secretaries.” In considering the bill, the Legisla- ture, controlled by the Democrats, will consider several slight amend- ments—none of which, however, will change the basi¢ wage-slashing nat- jure of the proposed measure. The jamendments are being proposed by | Doliticans who have axes of their own id, and who are attempting to \eurry favor with the great majority of the city employees whose living standards would be hit by the pass- age of the bill, The sponsors of these amendments have virtually been forced to their jaction by the tremendous protest ‘demonstration of over 1,000 repre- tatives of New York City workers | Bi the present city Mayor La- the excuse to will reveal that out of the city’s budget of almost $700,000,000, videspread wage-cutga~ | deficit is about $35,000,000—or about flve per cent of the gross budget.