The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 1, 1934, Page 1

| \ § =aIeauN="KkKiHHHuuaN=N“”«”«u~x=S== HELP FIGHT FASCISM By Getting Subs for “Daily” ————— ol, XI, No. 28 =>. Rntered as second-class ma! Kew York, N. ¥., under thi Daily <QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. ( ter at the Post Office as e Act of March 8, 1879. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY *, SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) Locals, Represented In Jobless Meeting St. Nicholas Arena Send- Off Tonight in New York OPENING SATURDAY Delegates on Way From All Sections NEW YORK. — Additional credentials arriving at the Na- tional Office of the Unem- ployed Council, 80 East 11th St. show that practically every im- portant industry and every section of. the country will be represented when the National Convention Against Unemployment opens in| Washington on Fel ‘Three of the six new Orleans dele- | gates represent the Relief Workers Protective Union, two the Unem- ployed Council and one the Marine Workers Industrial Union. Two of the delegates are Negroes, Four are seamen, one a mechanic and one a machinist. Besides these delegates one is coming from the Independent Motion Picture Operators’ Union in} New Orleans. Progressive Miners Delegation The Hillsboro and Nakomis locals of the Progressive Miners of America are each sending a delegate. The A. F. of L. Carpenters Locol 1050 in (Continued on Page 2) Grafters Rob the Relief, CWA Men, | In Fort Scott, Kan. Workers Denied Relief Forced to Work at 25 Cents an Hour FORT SCOTT, Kan., Feb. 1.—The Unemployed Council, with the mass| support of the farmers and jobless here, is fighting the graft and favor- itism of the relief authorities and the local C. W. A. administration. Destitute workers are permitted to starve, coal, sent for the use of the unemployed is not distributed, friends and relatives of the officials ,are given first preference on C. W. A. jobs, and a systematic plan of discrimination against the jcbless is carried out by the relief officials. At a mass meeting of 800 unem- ployed workers and poor farmers, held last week, the Poor Commis- sioners were invited to defend their position. demands of the unemployed work- ers that they be prosont, were un- able to answer the charges of the workers that those working on re- lief projects are paid as low as 25 cents an hour. Evidence was given that although local jobless workers are in need of relief jobs, the son- in-law of Curt Deering, one of the County Commissioners, was brought from Colorado and given a C. W. A. job. Mabel Parker. wife of a deceased veteran, with three children, has been denied relief, when, after’ the relief commissioners tried to force her 15 year old son to enter a C. ©. ©. forced labor camp, he was given a relief job at 25 cents an hour for an 18 hour week . . . $4.50 weekly for a family of four. Some years ago the voters by a referendum vote gave 2 life pension of $30 a month to Frank Johnson, 66 year old cripple who had lost both arms. Twenty-two months ago the county commissioners took this pension away from Johnson, and to date he has not received this money. In the Daily Worker Today Page 2 “Sports,” by Jerry — Perkins Aids Lewis in U.M.W.A. Convention Furniture Workers Convention bods Establish Strong Industrial Unemployed at 17 Millon, Labor a “Dr. Luttinger Advises” “In the Home” Page 5 “Change the World,” by Michael Gold Porto Rico—Island of Hunger International Song Book Page 6 Editorials: The Discussion Opens; Answer Lewis’ Red-Baiting; His Love for Children; Roosevelt A Three, who answered the | Send-off Mass Meeting Tonight for Delegates || To Jobless Convention NEW YORK.—Tonight, at St. Nicholas Arena, 69 W. 66 St., New York workers will greet the New England delegates to the National Convention Against Unemployment, and give a send-off to the New York workers’ delegates. Every worker, every sympathizer, and every student and intellectual is urged to be present to show his solidarity with the workers’ deel- gates. I. Amter, secretary of the Unem- ployed Council, U. S. A., will be the main speaker. Spokesmen of the New England delegation will greet the New York workers present. 250 Brooklyn C.W.A. Workers Call Strike Picket Lines Broken by the Police NEW YORK.—Two hundred and fifty C. W. A. workers struck spon- taneously yesterday at Cooper park, Greenpoint, and throwing down their | shovels, demanded the removal of two new foremen, who had been arbitra- rily placed over them by the C. W. A. administration. The C. W. A. had put these two foremen on over the head of Burke, the previous foreman, whom the men liked. The workers formed a com- | mittee at once, and at noon laid down their tools. A mass picket line was formed, One of the foremen sum- moned the police, and six radio squad cars were sent to terrorize and dis- perse the workers, The police drove the picketers from the park, but the | men formed another line outside the | park. Call To Anti-Injunction Demonstration Today At Blechman Strike | NEW YORK. — The anti-injunc- tion committee recently set up by the New York trade unions for the purpose of organizing mass action to defeat injunctions against strik- ers called upon all trade union members and unemployed workers to join in mass demonstration against a drastic injunction issued against the Blechman Drygoods strikers at 502 Broadway, today at noon, “Only militant mass action will render these strike-breaking wea- pons of the bosses powerless to de- jfeat the workers,” said the Trade Union Unity Council yesterday, in urging all its affiliated unions to participate in the anti-injunction demonstration today. The anti-injunction movement will take on greater momentum at the conference called for Saturday, Feb. 10, at Irving Plaza, at which the trade unions and all sympa- thetic working class organizations will send representatives to map plans for a drive to wipe out the injunction menace, Marine Cut, War cide Marine Delegation of 200 at NRA Hearing on Marine Code WASHINGTON, Jan. 31. — Enthu-, siastic applause from the workers | delegation greeted Hudson's warning to the owners that “regardless of the fact that our demands for substan- | tially improving working conditions have been ignored, we state that the crews, especially those of the Munson Line which receives government sub- sidies and withholds workers’ pay for | two and three weeks, stand behind the M. W. I. U. and are prepared to take militant action by writing their own code through the »- of the strike.” Hudson again drew long and hearty applause when he declared: “The representatives of the seamen are not to be found on the N. R. A, Labor Advisory Board on the docks.” H. Farmer, a member of the M. W. I. U. and of the I. L, A, rank and file action committee endorsed Hudson's; program, “The reason why Boston, New Orleans and other rank and file bodies were forced to come here is/ that the so-called labor representa- | tives in the N. R. A. have never called | local meetings.” “The M. W. I. U., the rank and file | of the I. L. A. and the I. S. V. have gone on record as unalterably opposed to the strike-breaking labor or Na- tional Maritime Board,” said Hudson, Code Forces Pay Cuts In discussing the wage provisions, Hudson charged that “the code is an attempt to enforce a minimum (Continued on Page 2) Amalgam’ted Heads Send Hotel Bosses Secret Agreement No Wage Increases, No | Reduction in Hours Is Sell-Out Offer NEW YOR%.—While thousands of | hotel strikers, in a high spirit of “ilitancy and enthusiasm, are bat- ‘ling police clubs and the icy wind on the. picket line, behind their backs the Trotsky-Lovestone renegade offi- cials of the Amalgamated Hotel and Restaurant Union offered a_ secret sell-out agreement to the hotel own- ers which fails to include a single economic demand for the strikers, it was learned yesterday. Learning of the agreement, indig- nant strikers are organizing their forces to compel the officials to re- pudiate it and instead call for con- crete demands which will result in improving the notoriously bad condi- tions in the New York hotels, The agreement, which was sent to the hotel owners without the knowi- edge or sanction of the shop dele- gates council or any leading body of strikers, makes union recognition the only demand for the settlement of the strike. Article 3 of the agree- ment reads, “There shall be no re- duction in the present scale of wages” and “there shall be no in- crease from the present number of hours.” The renegade leadership, by mak- (Continued on Page 2) Lewis Usurps All Negotiations on, Wages With Bosses and N R A By DAN DAVIS (Special to Daily Worker) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 31, — Part of twenty nine hundred resolu- tions on wage scales presented by locals to the 33rd convention of the U.M.W.A. today were referred back to the various districts of the union and the rest to the scale committee for “action” in Washington Feb, 12 at the N. R. A. Coal Code Conference. As a safety valve outlet, a small number of opposition speeches were allowed on the floor by the Lewis machine, which then clamped down the lid and had the report of the scale committee passed. In a one-sided debate that for the most part gave carte blanche to the international scale committee and officers to bargain with N. R. A. offi- cials and overators on hours and wage levels, the scale committee's e- port received the convention’s appro- val. To further appease delegates who demanded rank and file represen- tation at the Washington earings, the scale committee recommended that the delegates at the convention “caucus for the purpose of electing district representatives to assist the executive officers of these districts and the International Union in the Machine Gets Mine Convention to Grant Officials Full Right To Deal With Operators on Coal Code James Jursich, delegate from Dil- lonville, Ohio, demanded an increase of twenty five per cent in wages to meet increased cost of living.” He voiced the sentiment of hundreds of delegates but was soon overridden by the machine speakers who were given the floor. “The committee,” stated James Mark, chairman of the scale com- mittee reading the report, “In con- formity with past policy recommends that all wage resolutions bearing upon district agreements be referred to the various districts.” “The present wage agreement,” th report continued, “in the Ap} fields expires March 31, 1934. A con- ference under the auspices of the Recovery Administration between the bituminous coal operators of the Na- tional and the United Mine Workers of America is to be held at Washing- ton, D. ©. beginning February 12, 1934, It’s our understanding that the Recovery Administration, in accord- ance with the provisions of the Ap- palachian agreement, will submit a report revealing the results of its in- vestigations concerning the prac- ticability of establishing the five day week, six hour day.” The report said that if there should Peeokatione, to be held in Washing- {Continued on Page 2) ‘¢| who are attempting to railroad him | {ndrey Vossenko, engineer and <conavigation expert. Blinding Fog Prevented | Landing; Bodies To Be | Buried in Kremlin | (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., Jan. 31—The three Soviet scientists who yesterday | soared to a height of almost 13 mil into the stratosphere in their cour- ageous search for new scientific data on the upper atmosphere which sur- rounds the earth, were found dead | today amid the wreckage of their| stratostat “Osoviakhim.” | | The three dead men are Com- mander Pavel Fedoseenko, a former ) factory worker who rose to a high post as engineer in the Soviet civic, air fleet; Andrey Vossenko, an en-} gineer and specialist in aerology and aeronavigation; and a young physicist from the Leningrad Academy ef Science and member of the Yount| Communist League, Ilya Ussyskin. | The 17th All-Union Communist! Party Congress today honored the! memory of these three Soviet av: tion heroes by a Congress decision | to immure their remains Kremlin wall on the Red Square. The tragedy, coming so close after | the ascent of the balloon to the great- | est height ever reached by man, spread a great veil of sorrow over the people now celebrating the gigan- tic victories of Soviet construction. Among these victories, the ascent of the ill-fated sttratos‘at was among the most spectacular and thrilling. lith C. P. Congress Grieves The session of the 17th All-Union Congress of the Communist Party dropped all other matters today when Enukidze reported the tragedy to the delegates, gathered from ali corners of the vast Soviet land. “Yesterday, between 15:30 and 17 o'clock [between 3:30 and 5 a. m. our time—Editor],” Enukidze gravely informed the Congress, “the gondola of the stratosphere balloon ‘Osoviak- him,’ torn away from the hydrogen- bag, was found in the Sark District of the Mardov region, near the vil- lage of Potijasky Ostrog, eight kilo- meters south of the Kadoshkino sta- tion of the Moscow-Kazan railroad. The envelope, severed by the shock | when the stratostat hit the ground, was blown away. The dead bodies of our comrades, the brave parti- cipants in this great flight, Fedos- seenko, Vossenko and Ussyskin, were discovered in the gondola.” According to eye-witnesses, the fol- lowing description of the disaster was established. During the fall of the stratosphere balloon, which had hovered at a great height over the earth when blinding fog and mist made safe descent im- possible, the envelope had been torn away. At the same time two ex- plosions were heard. At the spot where the craft fell, the three bodies were discovered lying in the gondola, one mutilated beyond recognition. All instruments and other objects contained in the gondola were de- stroyed. A special inquiry commission left Moscow today for the spot of the disaster. ANARCHIST LEADER JAILED IN SPAIN BARCELONA, Jan. 31. — Juan/ Figueras Soler, Catalan Anarchist | leader, was arrested today by police,} to jail in connection with the recent armed struggles of Communist, Anar- chist and Socialist workers against the reactionary Lerroux regime, The} struggles were sabotaged by Socialist leaders. A vote of confidence in the govern- ment was given today by the reac-| tionary majority in the Cortes. ARMY AND NAVY IN SECRET TESTS HONOLULU, Jan. 31,—The largest United States air force ever to op- erate out of Pearl Harbor left this morning under secret orders for ten days, The maneuvers are being par- Three Killed in Crash of Soviet Balloon;Had Risen toRecordHeight in the|. ticipated in by both the army and the navy 1 savel weuc:cenxo, commander of the stratostat “Osoviakhim,” Roosevelt Sets Up 2 Billion Fund for Use in Trade Fight Inflation Grows; Will) Slash Buying Power of Pay Envelope BULLETIN WASHINGTON.—Roosevelt has just proclaimed a hew value for the dollar by stating that the official price of gold is now $35 an ounce, making the dollar worth about 59 cents, The new valuation repre- sents a sharp increase over the last price of $34.65, and an increase of over 40 per cent over the old legal price ef °20.67. It is a further drive against the British pound. WASHINGTON, Jan. 31—Having ed the gold bill yesterday, Roose- velt is now taking steps to set up the $2,000,000,000 equalization fund for the purpose of keeping the dollar be- low the 60-cent level on the foreign exchanges, The Roosevelt government now has the country’s entire gold stock under its control, except those rich in- vestors who have been able to send their gold holdings abroad. By de- valuating the dollar at 60 cents, the Roosevelt government will automat- ically receive a profit of $2,636,000,000, two billions of which go to the immediate use of the equalizat‘on fund in the struggle against the British equalization fund. The objective of the Roosevelt de- valuation of the dollar to below 60 cents, is to send prices up in this country, and to permit American monopoly producers to undersell for- eign imperialist rivals, through giv- ing the foreign buyers more dollars for their own currency. Already, the rumors of a currency war between Britain and the United States are growing, despite all official | denials. R. E. Beckett of the Westminster Bark, London, has a'ready stated that “In the event it is proved that the 60-cont dollar is haviny a det- rimental influence on our trade the clash of the trade interest of the two countries mitht result in a currency tug-of-war.” The trend of the Roosevelt gov- ernment toward inflation is greatly intensified by this latest step, as it involves the steady depreciation of the dollar in a fight for world trade. This will mean a deep slash in the purchasing power of the workers’ pay envelope and savings, since each dollar will now be able to buy less and less as prices rise, Delegates to Feb. 3 Convention to Report At Masonic Temple NEW YORK, Jan, 31—The Ma- sonic Temple at 10th and U streets, Wachingten, D. C., has been sec- ured for the National Convention Against Unemployment, which opens Saturday morning, Feb. 3, the National Committee of tin Unemployed Councils announces. Delegates arriving in Washington on Friday night and Saturday morning are asked to report im- mediately to this hail. All sessions of the convention will be held there and all meals served in the ban- quet hell of the same building. All New York delegates to the convention must register imme- diately with the Greater New York Unemployed Council, 29 E. 29th St. The office will be oven all day for registration. Buses for resistered delegates will leave the 29 E. 20th St. address at 7 a.m, morning, Feb, 3. 1934 WEATHER: | By SEYMOUR WALDMAN (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—} | Without a record vote, and without opposition, the House | j of Representatives last night | | passed. the Vinson 5-year Naval Con-| | struction Bill authorizing President | | Roosevelt to bring up the U. S. Navy to London Treaty strength. | This program, which has the strong} | indorsement of Roosevelt, means the| | construction of 65 destroyers, 29 sub-| marines and one plane carrier at al | cost of $475,000,000, «nd the pur chase | | of 1.184 war planes at a cost of $95, -| 200,000. | “This bill has the unqualified en-, | dorsement of the Administration,” said Chairman Vinson, of the House Naval Affairs Committee, and author |of the war measure. | “We ought to begin building right) away,” Vinson advised his colleagues. | | | | For Power in East 14 Representative Carl Vinson, Dem-| | ocrat of Georgia, admitted that the! | bill is designed to strengthen Amer- | | ican imperialism in its contest against | Japanese imperialism for markets in| | the Far East. | | “Without doubt our influence in the | Far East has been greatly lessened | with the decrease of the strength of our navy as compared with that of | Japan. The national situation today |is far from reassuring. The future |is far from bright. We stand prac-j} | tically alone and friendiess ‘in this) [turbulent world and must depend) (Continued on Page 2) Press Guild Protests. Pulitzer NRAChoice Roosevelt Confirms Him | and Acknowledges | Protest Later (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) | WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—A pro- j test by the New York Nowsva™: ; Guild against the selection of Ralnh} Pulitzer, publisher, as N. R. A. Deputy Administrator in charge of the Newspaper Code, was acknow- jtedged by President Roosevelt today . in his regular press conference. | The protest was substituted by the membership of the New York Guild for a vote of congratulations first proposed by Heywood Broun, Presi- dent of the American Newspaper Guild. Broun pronosed to avpland Pulitzer, although it was Pulitzer who ‘ticked him off the late New York World at the time when the then militant Broun was supporting the Sacco and Vanzetti defense. | The Guild protest was sent before | Pulitzer was formally appointed. The Roosevelt Administration carried through the appointment, the Presi- dent acknowledging the protest only afterward. Warmer, probable rain. | Navy To Get 1,184 Warplanes; Army Asks More; “Aimed at East” AMERICA’S CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER | House Passes Bill for 100 More | Warships, to Cost Half Billion Sen. Senne Hayashi New Japanese Minister of War, who is pushing the ambitious plars of Japanese imperialists to attock the Soviet Union. ‘Japan Aims To Beat US. Sea Power, Says . Navy Chief to Diet :: U.S. Holds Secret Navy, | 2 Army Maneuvers in Hawaiian Islands TOKIO, Jen. 31.—Japan’s fleet will | outstrin that of its U. S. imperialist | rivals by 1936, Admiral Mi Osumi, Minister of the Navy, s! boasted before the Diet yesterday. The Admiral's statement was in re- sponse to pe! ou by memb2rs of the Dict on naval strength of . 8. e reiative The figures assumed the compie- tion of the present Japanese naval Program, as well as the huge U. 8. naval construction, exclusive of the new construction called for by the Vinson Bill. Japanese government leaders are secretly considering a new naval apovropriation to match the U. S. in the frantic naval race be- tween the imperialist powers. Meanwhile, there is increasing talk among Tokio naval circles of an “im- minent crisis” in the Pacific, reflect- ing the knowledge that Japan can- not keep pace with the U, S. on naval} Sapenditires, ere Uv. 8. fi Secret Maneuvers HONOLULU, Jan. 31.—A secret test of the defense and offense pos-| the Hawaiian Islands, | ibilities of acific outpost of U. S. imperialism, (Continued on Page 2) LaGuardia Pushes Campaign | For His Wage-Cutting Bil ALBANY, N. Y¥., Jan. 31—With Mayor LaGuardia’s Economy Bill, which would give the Board of Esti- | mate drastic salary-cutting and city | bureau-reorganization powers, de- feated in the State Legislature by a 61 to 81 vote, LaGuardia today bean | mustering all the forces of the Fu- sion administration to have the bill reconsidered. In a new outburst of demagogy, La- Guardia announced that he would “appeal to the people” to help him “balance the city’s budget.” For this purpose he began to make arrange- ments for the use of radio-broadcast- | ing stations in New York during the | next few days. | The defeat of the bill, which needed | a two-thirds majority to be passed, was led by the Democrats in the} Legislature, whose entire fight cen-| ters around the control of the reor- | ganization of city bureaus. Neither the Pusion forces nor the Tammany machine differ in any respect in their attitude towards the enforced fur- | lough for civil employes or the wage- | slashing plans which the bill seeks | | to legalize. The fight centers around the control of city bureaus, ee with the high-salaried offices and political graft attendant on power in this field. LaGuardia's threat of “forced fur- lJough and wage-cut vs. payless pay- days” has already been exposed as demagogy of the lowest type. With the city administration paying huge | sums to bond-holders and banking interests, which have caused the present city deficit of een city workers are raising the cry of “No wage cuts! Street bankers!” No tribute to a Spivak’s ‘Portrait of America” Series Start in the “Daily” Feb.9 NEW YOR! e Daily Worker will start publishing John L. Spivak’s series of articles, giving a portrait of the United States as it is today. on Friday, Feb. 9. Spivak, who is making a na~ tional tour for the “Daily.” gives in his first articles a vivid and brilliant description of what has happened to New England durii the crisis, especially in t industry. The title of the ti ticle is, “How Shoe Goes, So Goes Brockton.” Don’t miss the beginning of this brilliant survey of current condi- tions in the U.S, Order your cop- jes in advance. (Six Pages) 1,000 || New Ant Japan and thej| § ONLY WORKING Price 3 Cents "3 JAPANESE ARMY COLUMNS APPROACH SOVIET BORDER Basic Industries, AFL|Hudson Hits | Anti-USSR Actions in Harbin; Soviet Rail Workers Arrested Large Force Advances to East Manchurian Frontier BANDITS” PRETEXT oviet Demon- stration in Harbin TOKYO, Jan. 31. — Three large columns of Japanese and Manchukuo infantry are moy- ing to the Soviet border in astern Kirin province, Man- g to Rengo (Japa- from Hs! inking. espondents y tions were a! ng the Soviet | NEW PROVOCAT | RAILWAY to the Daily Worker) Jan. 31 (By Radio)— protected by the Ja- horities, and iS ON At Tj nese | 30 | by Guard, and a se police made a vai @ number of Soy- xt citiz The then raided the rail- club and settlement. eastern polic ri With the result that about $0 loaded freight cars are tied up at the depot ‘State Chamber Asks | For Anti-labor Laws Report Reread! at Foreign | and Native Workers NEW YORK.—Two reports, aimed | directly against the workers of the | United States, both native and | foreign-born, have been prepared by |the Execut Committee of the | Chamber of Commerce cf the State of New York, to come up for action to- day at 65 Liberty St., where the next tae meeting of the Chamber is re d. ‘st report urges the vompul- | Sory registration of all Americar citi- zens and the fingerprinting of all foreign-born people in the country. The second urges that the Federal | Government take immediate steps to | suppress “radical activities” and asks that unlimited power be established to discover and check such activities, Both reports are accompanied by resolutions urging the Federal gov- ernment to pass laws which would | mean the immediate intensification of working class suppression and would more vicio coordinate legal suppression of strikers, unemployed | workers, etc, Both reports prepared by this big- business and bankers’ organization | claim that “the authorities are at present helpless to deal with radical | and subversive activities that have |for their objectives the organization | of revolutionary movements and the Says He Will “Go to People” in Demagogic Threat | “"4'™™¢ 9 the government.” of “‘Payless Paydays”’; Banks Still Collect | A vigorous campaign against the anti-foreign-born proposals of .the | Chamber of Commerce will be waged | by the Committee for the Defense of | Foreign Born Workers, which held # large conference in New York on | Saturday, , Jan. 20, The committes decided to combat relentlessly all measures and organizations which attempt to lower the already bad con- | ditions of foreign Korn workers in the United ene’ Lop ‘Begins Fight Against LaGuardia | Police Brutality | NEW YORK.—Starting its cam- | Daign avainst the police brutality | Which, since the inauguration of | Mayor La Guardia, has steadily in- | tensified, the New York District of |the International Labor Defense is calling an important meeting today jat 11 a. m. at the District Office, 870 ich Hiiabegcnth: of axions are urged.to. ‘he main purpose of the meeting will be the forming of a delegation composed of workers from ‘trade | unions, the Unemployed Councils, the Ex-Servicemen’s League, and all other mass organizations, to ‘visit LaGuardia to demand the cea sation of this reign of terror.