The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 2, 1934, Page 1

HELP FIGHT WAR yy Getting Subs for “Daily” Vol. XI, No. 29 Congressman U. S.- Britain In Gold War; Stocks Rise In Wall St. Equalization Funds Secret Warfare for Trade NEW YORK, Feb. 1—Hardly was the ink dry on Roosevelt’s new pro- clamation fixing the dollar at 59.06 cents in gold, when the British Equalization Fund, huge financial weapon of British imperialism struck the first blow in the international currency war by raising the price of gold in London to a new record high of 135 shillings and six pence an ounce. This sent the pound to $4.98, a drop from $5.04 cents earlier in the day. Roosevelt. wants to keep the pound above the $5.00 mark, British impe- rialism wants to force the pound to about $4.86, or below. Both immense Equalization Funds, Roosevelt's of almost 3 billion dollars and the British of one and a half billion are now waging a fierce, secret battle against one another for finan- cial domination of the world’s for- eign markets. Stocks Rise Meanwhile, Stock Exchange and commodity prices are soaring on huge volume, bringing enormous specula- tive profits to Wall Street investors and, at the same time, raising the spectre of rising costs of living for the masses. Brokerage houses are swamped with orders as speculators are rush- ing to cash in on the inflationary price rises. Cotton rose to new highs, and wheat and other basic commodities adyanced sharply Stocks of war industries showed heavy rises. in The baitie between Britain and the | United States for the financial lead- ership is bringing the gold standard of French imperialism in serious danger, as huge quantities of gold are being forced out of France by pur- chases of the franc as American im- perialism is selling dollars on the foreign exchanges. It is conjectured than France will soon have to place an embargo on gold shipments if the present drain continues. Shortest Convention of UMW Ends; Fight To Go On in Locals By GLEN PHARES INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Feb. 1— The thirty-third biennial convention of tho U. M. W. A., the shortest in the history of un‘on, came to a close yesterday afternoon with a pze- war speech by Lewis. Delegates who led a bitter strug- gle against the Lewis machine dur- ing the convention are going home prepared to carry on a relentless and militant fight exposing Lewis and other misleading officials of the union to the locals. Open control of the convention by the betraying officials have forced the local press to use the phrase “well-oiled machine,” as resolution after resolution which would benefit the toiling miners was rejetced. The “recommendation” cf the of- ficers that headquarters and next convention of the union be held in Washington, D. C., was carried, al- though a large number of delegates fought against the removal. SR EERE ENE RRS In the Daily Worker Today Page 2 Sports, by Ted Roberts. Page 3 “Ritzy N. Y. Hotels are Dens of Misery for Waiters, Kitchen Help.” Observe “Roosevelt Tail-less Blue Eagle” in Action and Join “Dr. Luttinger Advises” “In the Home” Page 5 “Change the World,” by Michael Gold “Lunacharski’s Great Gift as a jukharin, “Soviet Songs Popular Here,” by Jerome Arnold. Taning In; What's On. Page 6 ~Utorials: Fight the Jingo Tor- rent! a “Slum Clearance” Pro- gram; the 59¢, Dollar—Wage Cuts and War. Foreign News > * Entered as second-class Daily QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) matter at the Post Office at Hew York, MN. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. Jobless Ins 1.500 CWA Workers Demonstrate on Job And Hold Mass Meet Refuse Reduced Wages; Elect Committees; Fight Police BULLETIN As the Daily Worker goes to press, word comes that the C.W.A. supervisors have induced the work- ers at Dykers Park to accept the checks for $$11.20 with the promise that in the future they will be paid $13.40 with the opportunity to make up all weather. The $11.20 check is To be supplemented with food hecks for $1.56, The Relief Workers League has called a meeting of all C.W.A. workers at 196 State St., Brooklyn, tonight at 8 p. m. to formulate a vlan of struggle for the workers’ demands. NEW YORK.—More than 1,500 C. W. A. workers, employed at Dykers Park yesterday refused to accept reduced pay checks given them, and, in the face of police brutality and provocation, held a mass meeting on the job to elect committees to de- mand that the O.W.A, officials im- smedately pay them their full wages. Police were called and tried to pro- voke a fight. These workers were originally hired to receive $15 weekly wages. The Roosevelt wage cut given all C.W.A. workers reduced this to $13.40. Yesterday, when the workers were paid, they found that their checks were made out for $11.20, one-half a day's wages being de- ducted for a rainy day during the week, In the past, they were paid in fuil for days on which it rained, since on these days they have been | forced to report for work. The workers refused the checks, and called a mass meeting on the job. Immediately the C.W.A. super- visors summoned scores of police to ; terrorize the workers. Despite police provocation, the workers held a mass meeting and elected commit- | tees to present their demands to | Col. W. A. De Lamater, city C.W.A. | administrator. N.Y. Hotel Strikers | Repudiate Official Sell Out Contract Unity, Spreading Strike Way to Win, Says the Industrial Union | NEW YORK.—Enthusiastic picket lines at the hotels yesterday answered the lies of the boss press that the strike of the hotel workers is over. “The strike is not broken. It can and must be won by a policy of spreading it within the hotels on strike, by continued mass picketing and above all by a united strike committee and united action of the strikers in both unions waging the | struggle, declared William Albertson, organizer of the Hotel and Restaurant Industrial Union. Tremendous pressure of the strik- ers forced the Amalgamated officials to take up the question of the sell out contract they circulated among the bosses at a strike meeting yes- terday. Shop delegates demanded an ex- planation of this treacherous action which like any typical A, F, L. con- * (Continued on Page 2) Vivid Articles on N. E. Workers’ Reaction to Crisis Starts Feb. 9th The rising anger among workers urth ‘year | in New England in the fo of the crisis will be vividly described by John L. Spivak in the first articles of his “Portraits of America” series, starting in the Daily Worker, Friday, Feb, 9th, New England is Spivak’s first stop on his nation-wide tour for the “Daily.” His articles will feature personal interviews with workers, union offi- cials, bankers, manufacturers, busi-| not miss the | ness men. Make sure i will rilliant series, bring- ing to you the very pulse of America > time lost due to rainy | urance Bill Canada Sends Fraternal Delegate; Locals of AFL Represented PROTEST FEB. 5TH Socialist Rank and File Among Delegates By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D, C. Feb. 1—The Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bll sponsored by the Un- employed Councils and the Commu- nist Party, will be introduced in Congress tomorrow by Representa- tive Ernest Lundeen of Minnesota. Herbert Benjamn, National or- ganizer for the Unemployed Coun- cils, who is here to complete prep- arations for the National Convention | Against Unemployment which opens | here on Saturday, telegraphed the | news to a send-off meeting for del- | egates from New York, in St. Ni- | cholas Arena tonight. Mass Pressure Forced Bill “As a result of the introduction of the bill in Congress, we will be in a position to intensify our mass struggle for it and thereby force Congress finally to enact it into law,” Ben- jamin said. “It was mass pressure that brought the introduction of the bill. By the same, intensified struggle, we can and will achieve the enactment of it.” Lundeen’s agreement to introduce the bill followed the action of the City Council of Minneapolis, in Lun- deen’s District in endorsing the bill and memoralizing Congress for “its passage. Unemployment Councils led the mass movement that resulted in the City Council’s approval. A Farmer-Labor Representative, Lundeen said: “I am proud to have the bill continue under the name of ‘the workers’ unemployment and so- cial insurance bill’” The center of nationwide struggles against enforced joblessness, the bill will be the only one before Congress (Continued on Page 2) Gallup Miners Hold Lenin Memorial Meet GALLUP, New Mexico. — Despite the continued existence of martial law and presence of the troops, the miners of Gallup packed the Kitchen Opera House, headquarters of the Strikers during the strike, to com- memorate the 10th Anniversary of the death of Lenin. The meeting was held under the auspices of the Communist Party. The hall with a capacity of 70 was filled to over- flowing. Although the strike was ‘settled in | a victory for the miners on Nov. | 29th, martial law is still in effect | and the troops remain. It is said that martial law will continue until at least April, when the municipal and county elections are to be held, in which the miners will have a ticket against the capitalist parties. A number of miners joined the Party at the meeting, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1934 to Introduce Worke Chisholm Communists Increase Vote 400% CHISHOLM, Minn., Feb. 1. — In the recent municipal elections in this mining town John Hautala, Com- munist candidate for Mayor, received 250 votes. This is an increase of 400 per cent over the Communist vote for Mayor in the previous election, Comrade Hautala was one of four candidates for Mayor. ei ite VIRGINIA, Minn., Feb. 1.—R. Tan- tila, Communist candidate for Mayor, received 204 votes in the municipal | elections, nearly 10 per cent of the total vote, | | Open Fight OnCompany NRA Unions| 5 AFL Heads on Detroit Board Helped Bosses in Fight On Workers (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) | WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—~The Na-| tional Labor Board today heard a} bitter denunciation of its Detroit Re- gional Labor Board and of the N, R. A. Compliance Board of Muskegon, | Mich., on behalf of workers in an| American Federation of Labor Union that grew out of a company union | put over by the two boards. | The attack on the regional boards, | however, specifically exempted from | criticism A. F, of L. kingpins who} are members of the very boards that fostered the injustices against the) workers—and thus it was revealed | that the local A. F. of L. leaders were fighting for their own dues in- stead of for the interests of the mem- bership, - In fact, the local A. F. of L. lead- ers’ attack reflects a general policy of the federation to capitalize the employes’ growing disillusionment with the N. R. A. and their deter- mination not to be saddled in com- pany unions into a bigger following for the federation, which is part and parcel of the N. R. A. machinery the workers are fighting. Rejects Company Union Eleven hundred workers of the Norge Electric Refrigerator Corpora- tion at Muskegon are involved in the case. This Company last August formed a company-union, “the Norge Corporation Association,” and held an election among the employes. They selected representatives, But these, headed by Thomas A, Watson, | rejected the charter rules supplied by the company and substituted rules of their own. These the company refused to recognize. Thereupon Watson and other employe represen- (Continued on Page 2) Jobless Veterans to Demand Relief Today NEW YORK. — The Workers Ex- Servicemen’s League urges all vet- erans to assemble at Union Square today at 11 a. m., to prepare for a mass march to City Hell to demand that the LaGuardia administration provide adequate relief to all jobless veterans. * rs Unem iP Workers! Fight U.S. Call to Prepare War! WEATHER: Colder, Ee AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER Price 3 Cents WAR DEPARTMENT PLANS JINGO ‘PREPAREDNESS WEEK “Lundeen ener a rere af National Jobless Meet On Saturday; To Demand loyment Insurance Bill Today Organize Nation-Wide Mass Protest Actions! ay, USSR Protests As | Manchukuo Plans | New Blow at CER. | Provocations Continue On Soviet Railroad in Manchuria | | | | | (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Feb. 1 (By Radio).—| Reports by Tass (Soviet news agency) in Harbin are that Slavutski, Soviet representative, has made an emphatic protest to the Manchurian authorities against the organized White Guard anti-Soviet demonstration in Harbin Jan, 27. Slavutski pointed out that the White Guard demonstrations were directed not only against the Soviet representatives on the Chinese East- ern Railway and the Soviet colony, | but also against the U.S.S.R. He | declared it was of an extraordinary character in the light of Soviet-Man- churian relations and the situation in the Far East. He declared that Man- | chukuo was fully responsible for the consequences. Demands Freedom for Soviet Citizens Slavutski referred to Manchuria’s eranting full freedom of action to White Guard elements, and called at- tention to the continual causeless ar- rest of innocent Soviet citizens. He emphatically demanded the release of the arrested Soviet citizens, Tass reports from Peiping say that the prevecations by Japanese. and Manchukuo authorities on the Chin- ese Eastern Line continue. New ex- cuses are invented daily. Harbin reports that all local papers vublished an item uniformly headed “Extraordinary Measures Prepared.” | These papers say that several minis-| terial conferences took place in| Chang-Chun, making it clear that “the Manchurian Government fully shares the demand for a relative re- fuction of rates on the Chinese East- ern Railway.” It is known that the question of rates on the railway served as the pretext ‘for the White Guard demon- strations. The papers say that the Ministry of Communications will shortly “take firm steps in this direc- tion.” U. . Launches Fastest Destroyer, First of 10) NEW YORK.—The destroyer Hull, | to be the fastest ship ever built in| this country, was launched at Brook- | lyn Navy Yard Wednesday. } It is to be the first of ten fight-! ing ships of its class, 1,500 tons, with | @ speed of 37 knots, carrying five | 5-inch gums for use against both water and aircraft, and with eight 21-inch torpedo tubes. It cost $5,- 009,000. The keel of the second destroyer of this type will be laid within ten days on the ways from which the! Hull was just launched. es KIO dispatches report the alarming news that three Japanese army columns order, are approaching the Soviet The hypocritical pretext of the Japanese war lords that they are going to fight bandits in exploded by the fact that every new invasion in China by Japanese imperialism was announced with a similar trumped?up excuse. The whole world knows that the Japanese are massing troops for an invasion of Soviet territories. Dispatches from Harbin tell of the simultaneous attack on Soviet officials of the Chinese Eastern Railway, the staged demonstration of Japanese whiteguards instigating immediate war against the workers’ fatherland. The whole strategy of Japanese imperialism is to get into position for a sudden, rapid, momentous lunge to war against the Soviet Unon. The workingclass must not permit itself to be taken by surprise by this impending sudden attack by the Japanese war lords. It is the duty of every militant American worker now to see to it that these imperialists keep their swinish snouts out of Soviet territory. Against the spirit of jingoism being aroused by Wall Street, by the robber American imperialism against Japanese imperialism the American workers must answer with a call for solidarity with their Japanese brothers for the defense of the workers’ fath erland, Imperialist war against the Soviet Union may occur any day, any moment. The impending threat of an immediate war attack on the Soviet Union should be brought to the attention of every workers’ organization, into the shops, to raise the alarm and mobilize for struggle. We should now rally a united front of all workers against this im- perialist war danger, and for the defense of the Soviet Union. All Moscow Marches in Huge Jubilee for Stalin, 17th Party Congress 45 School Employes Laid Off for Month NEW YORK — Forty-five em ployees of the building bureaus of the Board of Education were forced to accept a payless furlough of one month by a decision of the Board of Education made at a special meet- ing Wednesday night. Among those laid off are inspectors, draftsmen, clerks and stenographers in the Bu. reau of Construction and Mainten- ance and the Bureau of Plant Oper- ation. There was a possibility that the 28 workers who remain on the payroll |Party Congress Adopts | Stalin’s Report | Unanimously | | MOSCOW, Feb. 1.—This city today ‘as the scene of an extraordinary {demonstration of joy and jubilation | such as has rarely been witnessed in |the history of modern times. | Hundreds upon hundreds of thou- jsands of workers from the factories and offices of Moscow poured into | the immense Red Square demonstrat- | ing to the assembled delegates of the |17th Party Congress of the Com- |munist Party of the Soviet Union |that unbreakable unity exists not |enly in the ranks of the Party, but \in the ranks of the entire working | class, in the ranks of all the toilers jaround the Party. The Moscow Huge National Campaign Keep Their Swinish Snouts Out! AN EDITORIAL | for War Announced | to Begin Feb. 10 | “DEFENSE” PRETEXT |Radio, Schools, Papers, | Enlisted By Jingoes By SEYMOUR WALDMAN (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) | WASHINGTON, Feb. 1. — |Open imperialist war propa- {ganda starts today. | “While the imperialists and | professional militarists waited {for the Senate to go through the parliamentary motions of ap- | Proving the $570,000,000 Vinson war- |ship and war plane construction bill just passed by the House, the big war | propaganda guns are being made ready for intens! use during “Na- | tional Defense Week,” which will last from Feb. 12 to 22. ‘The War Department, which is moving closer every day to open | supervision of the whole government | apparatus, will use the Reserve Offi- | cers’ Association, one of its best- trained adjuncts, to attempt to jus- tify the impending imperialist war \for markets, especially in the Far East, before the people of the United States, Double Army Plane Quota The House Military Affairs Com- | mittee, which is still meeting secretly, | will support the demand of John J. | McSwain, its chairman, for 2,000 jarmy war planes, despite the fact |that the general staff of the War | Department only asked for 1,000, your | correspondent was informed today by }an official close to the committee. |The cost is estimated at about | $80,000,000. | The War Department is also solicit- jing civil technicians for war train- ling, it was learned today. Your | correspondent was informed that the War Department recently mailed queries to graduate engineers, asking them whether they wouldn’t like to co-operate with the government in some preparatory military training. |In addition, various reserve officers’ organizations have been notified in the part year to keep in physical trim and in readiness for call. War Propaganda Campaign Speakers’ bureaus, radio addresses |over national hook-ups and “essay | contests” among students at schools and at colleges, will be directed dur- | ing this “defense” week by the reac- | tionary American Legion leadership; | the Navy League, which was founded to increase the profits of steel cor- | porations by such patriots as the jelder J. P. Morgan; the American might also be forced to take | workers marched through Red Square, | War Mothers; the Military Order of timate claims that it is having diffi- culty in raising the regular payroll.| slogans of the Seventeenth Party | That this move is in direct line| Congress and greetings to the Central | with LaGuardia’s threats of “payless pay days” is evident. workers, Frederick Marx, a mechan- ical draftsman who refused to sign an “application” for leave of ab-| workers marching in honor of the | \ sence, was dropped from the payroll.| Party Congress, with bands, banners, | Worker today establishes con- crete proof that the Academy Employment Agency, 1251 Sixth Ave., operated by Joseph Dictrow, where enraged hotel strik- ers demonstrated Tuesday, is one of the big organized strikebreaking agencies in the city. Dictrow, when confronted by strik- 2,000 Strikers Join in Waldort ceeatration, Mass Marchers Circle Hotel | Shouting Protests Under NEW YORK. — The Daily} start of this in the growing crisis, by ordering your copies in advance, ; Hotel Scab Agency Exposed by ‘Daily’ Investigation ers, protested that he had sent strikebreakers nowhere, But the letter reproduced on this page is damning evidence enough | against Dictrow. | This letter, a facsimile of which} appears in the adjoining column, was | sent by J, H. Clowes, general man- ager of the Hotel Montclair, to Dic- trow thanking him for his services rendered in breaking the strike in the Montclair. “Permit me,” says the letter, “to thank you for the services you rendered in connection with break- ing the recent strike of restaurant and kitchen forces in this hotel. You did a good job and helped us out considerably.” This letter gives the lie to the Herald Tribune story of Jan. 31 (re- | produced here) which atte>nts to} cover up the strikebreaking activi- ties of Dictrow. News Flash POWERS FOUND GUILTY } NEW YORK.—George Powers, militant worker who led the unem- | ployed demonstration to City Hall in April, 1932, was found guilty yes- terday of “inciting to riot.” Powers, out on $3,500 bail, will be sentenced HOTEL MONTCLAIR LEXINGTON AVE, 49™ TO SO™ STREETS NEW YORK Jamery 26, Aoadeny Bap 1261 Sixth Avenue Yew York, New York Agency 1984 Attention: Mr. J. Diotrow Gentlemen: Permit ne to thank you for the services you ren- dered in connection with breaking the recent strike of the ree~ teurant and kitchen forces in this Hotel. You Zid a good job and helped us out consicerably. If at any tine I can kelp you, in any way, I shell be glad to do what I can to assist yous Yours very truly, One of the| | posters, upon which were inscribed Committee and Comrade Stalin. | Immense Jubilee | The magnificent spectacle this af- ernoon of hundreds of thousands of |huge pictures of Stalin, Kaganovich jand other Party leaders through a | snow storm from all quarters of the | city to the Center to express their | Joy in the victories of the Party and |to pledge the carrying out of the| | Second Five Year Plan. The factories closed at 2 o'clock, | and by 3 o’clock the streets near the center of the city were choked | | with torrents of marching workers. In the atmosphere of jubilee and | merry-making, the marchers caught up many local leaders whom they recognized, tossed them into the air, carried them on their shoulders, as the constant reverberation of the band music, and the roar of thou- sands singing revolutionary songs of laughter and dancing, filled the immense square. The spontaneous enthusiasm and happiness of the | marching workers, expressing their joy in the great victories of the Soviet proletariat is impossible to describe. | Amid the great display of bunting, | carrying slogans of the Congress and |the Party and greetings to the Party | | leaders, particularly noticeable was | the huge 40-foot red flag with a pic- ture of Stalin on it. Such triumph- ant feeling and supreme confidence | and affection for the Party, as a re- sult of the Socialist successes now | being reported, and the overwhelming assurance which the masses feel in | the future under the leadership of the Communist Party. The demon- (Continued on Page 6) \C.P. Members in A.F.L. | Will Meet Tomorrow A very important meeting of all | Party members in the A. F. of L. in New York will be held Satur- , Feb, 3, at 1:30 p.m., sharp, at Sarees is elopment ' of ly will be discussed. jmonth’s lay-off. The Board of Es-| singing revolutionary songs, carrying |the World War; the rabid, red-balt- (Continued on Page 2) Life of Dimitroff Is in Danger From _ Affection of Lungs 'Tag Days for Liberation Fund Tomorrow and Sunday in N. Y. | (Special to the Daily Worker) ZURICH, Switzerland, Feb. 1— George Dimitroff’s illn which the prison authorities say is “merely a bronchial catarrh,” is a serious |danger to his life, because he Is suffering from a chronic affection | of the lungs. Private word received from many parts of Germany indicates that the |mews of his illness, and its signi- | ficance in view of his lung ailment, has spread like wildfire all over | Germany. | It is because of this tremendous wave of feeling for the heroic revo- lutionary that the Nazi propaganda department has decided to reverse its decision forbidding mention of his name in the German press, and to issue an official denial of his ill- ness. At the same time a photo- | graph purpurting to show the three | Bulgarian Communists, Dimitroff, YVessil Taneff and Biagoi Popoff in comfortable surroundings and a@p- parent health has been given to the press, Peony on: NEW YORK—TIo meet the urgent necd to redouble the strug- gle for the liberation of the four acquitted Reichstag fire defend- ants, the New York Committee te Aid Victims of German Fascism has orgenized city-wide tag days tomorrow and Sunday. All individuals and organizations which haye not yet got collection boxes are urged to obtain them from the N, ¥, Committee a 4% Broadway