The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 7, 1934, Page 1

omy La Guardia Fails to Break Taxi Strike Through N. R. A. and es Union HELP FIGHT WAR PLOTS By Getting Subs for “Daily’”’ Vol. XI, No. 33 _—* Daily QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Entered es second-class matter at the Post Office at ew York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1934 WEATHER: AMERICA’ S ONL CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER Y WORKING =— = seta Fair, cold. (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents BARRICADES UP IN PARIS; 1,000 WOUNDED, MANY KILLED Comintern Mourns German Party Secretary and Comrades, Killed at Their Posts by Nazis Cab Strikers Should Reject LaGuardia’s NRA Sell Out Plan! Gilbert Urges Hackmen to Reject Proposals of Mayor La Guardia FOR ONE UNION Mrs. Herrick W ould Oust Committee of 13 BULLETIN NEW YORK.—“To accept La Guardia’s proposals would send | us all back to work without | gaining our major objective, full payment of the 5 cent levy,” declared Josenh Sg, after the mutiny of the Com-| mittee of 18 late yesterday. In} a ringing call he urged all hack- men to reject these proposals. By a vote of 9 to 4 the committee of 13 decided last night to accevt LaGuardia’s proposal to go back to work without winning 100 per cent of the nickel tax. Those voting against the sell-out plan were Joe Gilbert, A. Rabin, Har- ry Cantor of the Taxi Workers Union, en before stril the city last e meetings throughout ight for a vote. NEW YORK.—“The taxi, strike is not settled!” That wes the statement made by the strike committee of the United Taxi Drivers Union, following efforts of Mayor La Guardia through the N.R.A. to drive the men hack to work without granting their demands today. Mayor La Guardi: to break the t: ths: 17.4; melee Co. mobi forces to snlit the ro in on attempt strike, brought in at! / sf en and Mozris ‘mediator” chesen by La Guardia, The whole tone of one of ignoring the 2 mand a ihe 109 per cent payment of the| La Guardia at his inability ke. city of New ly at a stand-| atter 30,909 hackmen | t strike for 100) 1 tax, and for pay stowed ang: thus far to end the Cab service in York remained pr: still yester ay, union recognition. Against the demand for recognition of the taxi men’s unicn, the La Guar- dia conference leaders proposed trat recognition would be granted by ihe employers when union officials had been elected and certified by the Regional Labor Board. Refuse Such a Pr “The strikers will flatly refuse such a propositien,” declared Joseph Gil- bert, speaking for the strikers. “It isn’t a question of whether the Re- gional Labor Board certifies our leadership or not. We demand that the operators recognize our union, which is supported by the workers.” Mayer La Guardia and his “media- tor” tool, Ernst, admitted that the (Continued on Page 2) grererene EERE TR NEE In the Daily Worker Today Page 2 Sports, by Phil Wolfe. Page 3 Unemployed Delegates Protest Race Discrim‘nation at Capitol. Convention Figures, by Mar- guerite Young. Millions Gouged Out by A. F, of LL. Heads In Big “Kick-Back” cn Piers. Page 4 Letters From Needle Workers. Patty Lie “Dr. Luttinger Advises” In the Home. Page “Change the Werld?” What Songs Should Workers’ Choruses Sine? A Story From Texas. Page 6 Editorials Foreign News World War Is Due Soon, Senate Told Workers! Fight Jingo Spirit Imperialists Strive to Build Workers! Rally to Support of German Workers’ Revolution! Redouble Protests! Mass mt plan was to be tak-| Striking Taxi Drivers Say, “Daily Is Great!’ NEW YORK—“The Daily Worker is really great!” This is what several striking taxi drivers picketing at Saratoga and Lavonia Sts. Brooklyn, said after reading Tuesday's “Daily,” || which contained special articles on |} their strike. They had never read the Daily Worker before. Ten thousand copies of Twues- day’s edition were spread among the striking taxi drivers, most of whom saw. the “Daily” for the first time, “This paper sticks up for us, alright. It tells the truth. Every hackman ought to read it,” are some of the enthusiastic remarks New York taxi drivers made while reading the “Daily.” Taxi Bosses Refuse Wage, Hour Pledges ‘In NR.A. Taxi Code ‘|\Gen. Johnson Silent ) on Negotiations With LaGuardia | (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—National | Recovery Administration officials said today that taxi owners are standing pat on their determination jnot to adopt an N. R. A. code pro- viding any guarentee on wages and hours for taxi drivers. No comment was forthcoming from the office of the N. R. A. Adminis- trator General Hugh R. Johnson on | his conference yesterday with Mayor LaGuardia of New York on the taxi drivers’ strike there. After weeks of negotiations, in which owners insisted that taxi drivers are “outside salesmen” exempt from all Jabor provisions, N. R. A. officials s:|held a series of conferences with them last November. The owners, orzanized in the National Taxi Cab enference, flatly refused, then, to agree to a code including hack- men under labor provizions.. Occa- a en in communication with the lowyer, Mourice Hotchner, | Srey Brocdway, New York City, but the employers refused to concede anything. Many taxi companies signed the President's recovery agreement scon efter N. R. A. was instituted, flew a | Blue Eagle, but without making any drivers. The President’s recovery asreement exempted “outside sales-~ |men.” The taxi companies then classified drivers as “outside sales- men”—and are still insisting on this “out.” Seamen in Baltimore Strike for MWIU Code BALTIMORE, Feb. the Gralock chartered by the Lucken- back Lines came out on strike today for the code of the Marine Worker Industrial Union. Yesterday the crew of the “Munsumo” struck and presented their demands fo the local office today, | guararitee of wages cr hours to their} 6.—The crew of ; (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.— “Burope is today on the verge of dnother great war, and there isn’t any question about the Far East,” Arthur Robinson, Republican of Indiana, American Legion spokesman and big navy advocate, declared on the floor of the Senate today. When Robinson was in the midst of a discussion concerning the rela- tive advantages of the American, Japanese and British 7,500 and the 10,009-ton cruisers, especially those carrying 6-inch guns as against the 8-inch ones, he was advised to refrain from making specific argu- ments »uh'cly, by Senator David , big Navy man and Mellon in- terast representative. “This is not the place for a public discussion of the relative merits of the two types of ships. What little we know about it we'd better keep to ourselves,” Reed cautioned. “If we are to avoid the horrors of peac—eI mean the horrors of war. we must be prepared to defend our- selves against attack,” Robinson con- cluded his argument for additional warships in the impending imperia!- ist war for markets in the Far East. ‘The House Appropriations Com- mittee announced today that it had approved the $286,332,392 Navy De- partment appropriations bill for the fiscal year ending June, 1935. of ele The declaration of Senator Robinson, following on that of Speaker Henry T. Rainey of the House, is being used by the cap- italist class to whip the jingoistic fears, hatreds, and war fever which “national defense week,” beginning next Monday, is intended to bring to fever pitch, All the forces of the American working class must be mobilized to fight this jingo spirit, to build the international solidarity of the work- ing class, Through leaflets, meet- ings, through constant c‘arification of the fact that the U. S. govern- ment is preparing the American workers for an imperialist slaugh- ter, the tide of jingoism must be fought down. Simon Urges More Arms for Ensland Eden Sent to Organize Anti-Soviet Front LONDON, Feb. 6.—A big British ; program of armaments, along with | some re-armament for Germany, wes pdvoczated by Sir John Simon, Foreign Secretary, in Parliament today. At the same time he announced that Anthony Eden, Lord Privy Seal, was starting out on a visit to Paris, Rome and Berlin, to hold private dis- cussions on the “arms situation.” Sines the armament issue is first of all the issue of building the anti- Soviet front, Eden’s trip is clearly an organizing tour for the coming interention against the Soviet Union. PINCHOT V=7TO7S ANTI-JIM CROW BILL HARRISBURG, Pa—Gov. Gifford Pinchot, fomous liberal, last week vetoed a bill intended to prevent dis- crimination against Negroes on state jobs. ‘To Workers in CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 5.— This Cleveland Out to Bring “Daily” the War Plants New subs already secured in this (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Feb. 6 (By Cable).— The presidium of the Executive Committee of the Communist In- ternational yesterday issued the following announcement: “The Presidium of the E.C.C.1. records the serious loss suffered by the German Communist Party and the whole German proletariat through the brutal murder by the fascist government of Comrade John Scheer, secretary of the Con- tral Committee of the Communist Party of Germany, and three ac- tivists, Comrades E. Stetnfurt, E. Schoenhar and R. Schwartz. The Presidium of the E.C.CI. simul- taneously expresses its condolences to the families of these comrades, murdered at their post. “Long live the cause of the revo- lution for which these comrades fought heroically until the last minute of their lives! “For the Presidium, E.C.C.L., “KUUSINEN.” ° * NEW YORK-—Eugene Schoen- ‘unaar, one of the four Ge:man Com- munist*leaders*murdered séveral days ago by the Nazi fascisis, had been in the United States in 1928 as a rep- resentative of the International Red Aid, of which the International La- tor Defense is the American Branch. Comrade Schoenhnaar had been in this country for more than a year before he retuyned to Germany. He remained in Germany after Hitler took power, doing excellent revolu- tionary underground work before he was murdered. * ° These four German Communists were shot by Nazi police on the road from Berlin to Potsdam, last, Friday. They were being trans- ferred from prison in Berlin osten- sibly for questioning in connection with the preparations for. the Nazis Seize Danzig in Coup; Sharpens CrowingWarDanger City Brings Nazis Closer to the U. S. S. R. in War Drive DANZIG, Feb. 6. cedure very similar to that used by Hitler in his seizure of power in Berlin, the Nazis here seized prac- Sieally all political power today when the Nazti-controlled Senate appointed & single State commissioner to take full charge of the city, Danzig was proclaimed a Free City | by the League of Nations as a solu- ticn to the desire of Poland to free this important seaport from the in- fluence of German capitalism. The Jand which it occupies is on the famous “Polish corridor” which cuts Germany into two sections at the Northern border. The struggle for the control of this port has been a bone of fierce contention between the two countries. The open seizure by the Nazis 1s fraught with the gravest. menace of war, as Polish capitalists have always maintained that any overt Fascist acts against the city would imme- diately involve the question of mili- tary defence. More than that, it brings the Nazis closer to the Baltic ountries for a war drive against the U. S. S. R., and sharpens the whole world war situation. —Following a pro-| Sunday Night at Bronx Coliseum “trial” of Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the Communist Party of Ger- many, on charges of “high treason.” i. ew NEW YORK.—The murder of these four Communists, including the secretary of the Party’s Cen- tral Committee, lays appallingly bare the fate awaiting Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the Ger- man Party, as well as George Dimitroff, Ernst Torgler and their comrades. Thaelmann, ieader of the Party which is the world proletariat’s vanguard against fascism, is pro- tected today only by the vigilance and indignation of the interna- tional working class. Workers! Jam Bronx Coliseum next Sunday night to declare your solidarity with the German working class! Support the Ger- man workers’ revolution! At this meeting the situation in Germeny and the struggtes of the German Communist Party will be described by Earl Browder. All proceeds will go to the Cen- tral Committee of the German Communist Party. Anna Schultz, Wife of Dead German CP Leader, to Speak Will Talk at Chicago Anti-Fascist Meeting at Coliseum Saturday By DAN DAVIS CFICAGO, Ill, Feb. 6.—One of the four Communists murdered by Nazi police Frid-v was the hus- band of Anna Schultz, former s7c- retarv of Ernst Torzler, wh snesk at an anti-fa Chis-~o Sigg ete Waeba: dor the auspices of the Committce to Aid Victims of Ger- men Fascism. At the same time that the anti- fascist mesting here was en- nounced, it was learned that the “Friends of New Germany.” Am-r'- can branch of the German Nazis, has called a meeting for the fol- lowing Saturday, Feb. 17, at Lozen Square Masonic Temple, 2453 North Kedzie Blvd., at 8 p.m. A Nazi agent from New York is expected to be the main speaker, together with Dr. Griebi, who has taken the place of Heinz Spank- noebel as leader of the Nazis in the U. S. i | ? Swift Murder Lurks for Thaelmann, C. P. Leader, Killing of Scheer Proves Boys Expose Traitor Act e Scottsboro Marine N.A.A.C.P. Leaders Hit} In Alliance With Lyne ers to Betray Defense BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Feb. 6—“I'm| joing to stick by the LL.D. until the| last breath of my body,” was the an- swer Charlie Weems, one of the Scottsboro boys, pave to new attempts by the Icadcrs of the N; mal Asso-| ciation for the Ad ioe ent of Co! ored People to get the International Labor Defense out of the ¢ ase, to be- tray the innocent boys still threatened with legal lynching by the Alabama lynch courts despite over- whelming proof of thei innocence. The N.A.A.C-P. leade: working, tegother with many ropre- sentatives of Alabama’s ruling tlass, through a certain Negro woman. Mrs, Hooks. Mrs. Hocks had wormed ‘er way into the confidence of the TLD. and had cften taken packages -f cigarettes and cther comforts, sup- lied by the IL.D., to the boys, es there was evidence that gifts to the boys were being stolen and held up when sent through rezular channels. By pretending these things were from herself, Mrs. Hooks att: d to gain the confidence of the boys. The prison authorities, while bar- ring the real fricnds of the boys, sperated with Mrs. Hooks, t messages into the jail and allowing (Continued on Page 2) 26,000 R.R. Workers Get Strike Ballot; = 13 Unions | Involved Heothechuod Chiefs | Omit Key Engineers from Vote 21, were sont to 26.00) c the Chices> az: d b7 eo-o ef 13 ur ni ets halon. On tre strike Pllct are listed 512 grievances, some dating ban’: to 19°8, move is seen as merely e the rank and file “Line Borrd of Adjustment” spon- sored by the government. Engineers, cond rs and tele- gravhers are not included in the! strixe call. The unions involved include the} Brotherhood of Raitroad Trainmen, | the Protherhcod of Locomotive Fire- men and Enzinemen. the Order of Reilway C'erks, Freicht Hand'ers, Exoress and Station Employes; Sig- nalmen, Train Dispatchers; eel Brotherhood of Maintenance of Emvloyes, and seven orsaniza Be affliated with the Federated Shop | Crafts. hip has been} | ied relation of the pound to the Jersey Factories Busy \| Turning Out Munitions || For Roosevelt Regime HARRISON, N. J., Feb. 6.—Refiect-| ing the war preparations of the Rocscvelt regime, muniticns plants here and in Corning are running full| blast. The Crucible Stzel Co., subsi- diary of the U. S. Steel Co., has in-| | creased its forces from 200 to 909 men| |in three months, and like the Pollak Manufacturing Co., Corn! ting in two eght-! ‘hour shil third shift being considered. U.S. Dollar Drive | Forces France to, ‘Cut Gold Shipme:.ts| |Imminent Danger to the) Gold Standard Seen NEW YORK, Feb. 6.—France took another step along the road to aban- donment of the go'd standard today, when the Bank of France issucd a! notice that all gold shipments must |be preceeded by prior notice of 48 hours, This has the effect of vutting brake on the large outward drain of go'd which has been the result of | the Reozevelt government standing | offer of $35 an ounce for all offerings. The future of the franc is so clouded as far as its relations to a |goid standard are concerned that |frane futures are now s2 is at al | discount of 10 and a half points, with the market having practically disap- peared. For some time British imperialism, through the oper: |franc against the depreciation of the| dollar. But now Britain, under the} blows of the 9 cent dollar, has cut} loose from the franc, in order to) protect itself. Ruegg Protest Today at Chinese Consulate | | NEW YORK.—In protest against | the continued imorisonment of Paul and Gertrude Ruegg, Pan-Pacific} trade union leaders, by the Nanking government, a delegation will visit} the Chinese Consulate at 13 Astor | Pl., New York, today. | Delegates from the Friends of the Chinese People, the Chinese Van- | guard, the Workers’ Ex-Servicemon's League, the International Labor De- | fense and the Trade Union Unity | Leaque, will meet at 10 a.m, today at the N. Y. I. L, D. office, 800 Broad- | way. Report 10 Dead; Ministry Building On Fire Session of Parliament in Uproar, Behind Machine Guns | TROOPS CALLED IN Taxes, Wage-Cuts Rouse Mass Indignation BULLETIN PARIS, Feb. 6.—More than 1,060 demonstrators and several hundred policemen wounded, an@ an -un- known number killed was the un- official estimate of casualties at | 10:15 p.m., Paris time. Buses were on fire in many parts of the city, and firemen still fought the flames at the Ministry of Marine, PARIS, Feb. 6.—Ten are un- officially reported killed, with |two known to be dead and hun- | dreds injured as the masses of |Paris have seized the streets jin the greatest mass upsurge since the days of the Paris Commune. Late this evening, the Ministry of Marine building was on fire, and gunners were firing on the crowds in the Place de la Concorde. Fifty were wounded when police fired on a crowd in front of the Elysee Palace. Military censorship was clamped down at 9 p.m., Paris time. At that time, barricades had been thrown up in several parts of the town, and Paris’ 15,000 police, sup- ported by troops, had been driven back time and again as they attacked demonstrating crowds. Deputies Barricaded In ‘The main masses were attempting ‘o reach the Chamber of Deputies, across the bridge from the Place de ls Concorde. Within the Chamber, barricaded and with machine guns mounted at strategic points, the session of the yarliament broke up in an uproar, ef- ‘er the government of Edouard Dala~ dier had three times won a three to two vote of confidence, under the strictest gag rule. The mass backing of the Commu- nist deputies was revealed when, in a decision to limit questions from the floor to four, one of the questions admitted was that of Jean Thorez, Communist. Later, however, Dala- dier refused to meet any questions, as the tumult in the Chamber grew until the session broke up completely. Socialists Support Government While the Socialist Party swung the parliamentary vote of confidence in Daladier, in an effort to protect the government, the masses in the streets were voting no confidence with torn-up paving stones and street (Continued on Page 2) Jobless A. F. of L. Members Expose Green’s Sabotage of Unemployment Insurance Bill By JOHN ADAMS WASHINGTON, Feb. teint Green and his right-hand bowers in the executive council of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor were sur- prised yesterday morning by a dele- gation of the A. F, of L. Rank and File Conference for Unemployment Insurance, and the labor fakers, for the first time, had to answer straight-from-the shoulder questions of men representing thousands of workers in the ranks of various A. F. district, which contains industrial! district so far show a greater enthu- plants, among them Industrial Rayon,|siasm for our paper than was shown that can be converted at short notice/in the early stages of any previous of L. unions. Constantly interrupting feebly, “Gentlemen, don’t lecture us,” Green Labor Faker Admits for the manufacture of war supplies, the workers in these factories with our “Daily” to mobilize them for mass opposition to Roosevelt's imperiatist : war plots. In Section 1 are located not only Industrial Rayon but also Midland Steel, U. S. Aluminum. Industrial Rayon can be turned over to the manufacture of poison gas within twenty four hours. Section 1, which did outstanding work in the $40,000 campaign, pledges to canvass these plants with the “Daily” during and following the present circulation drive to obtain 10,000 new subscribers and 20,000 new readers for the Saturday edition. }is making determined efforts to reach! ! similar campaign, Cleveland district is confident that it will reach and in all probability surpass its assivned quota of 500 new daily subs and 1,000 new Saturday subs. Conferences for placing the circula- tion campaign on a real mass basis have been held with section organ- izers, language buro secretaries and with representatives of other work- ing¢lass organizations, Cleyeland will do its utmost to help put the national drive for 10,000 new daily subs and 20,000 new Saturday subs over the top. It is determined to reach its quota in advance of its industrial sister-city, Detroit, which has a similar quota, to Spivak He Helped Bosses Slash Wages While in New England the first stopping place on his national tour for the Worker, Jchn L. Svi- vak secured a confession from a la~ bor misleader that a stagger sys- tem he approved for the New Eng- land shoe workers resulted in wages below even the minimum re- ; quired by the slave N.R.A. code. 1 What this labor misleader said will be contained in Spivak’s first “Portrait of America” series which start in the Daily Worker this Fri- day. finally admitted that he would take no stand on federal unemployment insurance, and dismissed the delega- tion with, “Gentlemen, you had bet- ter go now. We are handling the matters.” But this happened only after an hour of sharp exchanges. Locals’ Members Vs. Officials The delegation were of A. F. of L. union members who had been sent to the National Convention Against Unemployment by their local mem- bership. They went to Federation headquarters and were “invited” in. Seated around the Executive Council table were Green and several $25,000- Morrison, secretary of the Council and an official of the powerful Typo-! Louis Weinstock, Secretary of A F. of L. Committee for Unemploy- ment Insurance, who will visit a number of cities speaking on unem- |New York City, rose—and the fat insurance, officials looked discomforted. They ployment i pare losing confidence because of your | | graphical Union; also, vice-presidents as numerous as those of any corpora- sion. Frank Moziey, Philadelphia, plum- ber and chairman of the Rank and | File Committee, announced that five | spokesmen would present “Important. matters, particularly a program for unemployment insurance, dues, re- ductions and exemption of dues for unemployed members of unions, and a drive to clean the unions of rack- eteers.” | “We are discussing the problems of unemployment insurance,” Green ‘said. “That was the purpose of this meeting.” As J. Coleman, of Local 18236, Aeroneutical Workers, Buffalo, started to sveak. a Council mem*rr ehoNenged him, “Did your local send you?” “Absolutely!” Coleman renlied. “We are surprised that the Workers’ Un- employment Bill has actually been introduced in Congress without our own A. F. of L. officia’s having acted despite four years of depression. We} inaction.” | Louis Weinstock, secretary of the | Rank and File and a member of Lo-~ cal 409, District Council of Painters, knew him. They wanted to know about his standing in his union. Weinstock answered that his local sent him; that he was in good stand- ing, and that he is working now on @ C. W. A. project in the Naval Hos- pital of Brooklyn. Then Weinstock told how Green had failed to act on racketeering on the Painters’ Union even when the New York Journal sent him a wire saying that non- painter gangsters were in absolute control. Wenistock Denounces Officials’ Prejudices Weinstock also denounced the failure of the A. F. of L. kingpins te ergan’ze Negroes. n thereuvon launched an at« tack uvon Negroes, accusing them ‘failine to come to the A. Fi of iter delegate shot out, “It's for Negrocs to com? to our union, and you know it. The of. cials don’t welcome Negro workers.”” “We warn you today,” Weinstock said ‘after denouncing the N. R. A. and all the boards on which A. F. of L, leaders are cooperating against the working masses, “that new elements have joined our unions. Not to be proud of union books but to fight for _. (Continued on Page 29, ay