The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 17, 1934, Page 1

COT eee —— AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER ————— 2 CIRCULATION DRIVE New Subs Received — 15th: Daily - 52 Sat.......68 Daily <QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office a Kew York, N ¥, under the Act of March 8, 1879 AUSTRIAN ¥ WORKERS RENEW FIGHTING AT MANY P01 , Vol. XI, No. 42 > NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1934 WEATHER: Fair and Warmer (Eight Pages) Price 3 Cents | ie a) | = =| i Se) — a ep) 3 — = — — = bamens] al ot CI. | mend] = = a. wr — | cer) << CH2 —— Roosevelt Aids R. R. Magnates Clamp New Wage Cut on Workers & “Daily” Editor in Statement Sr Tells How He Was Beaten at Fighters Spring Garden Meet By S.P. Leaders | Meet By S.P Up Where State eco oe. | . Clainis ‘Control . DespiteProvocationof S.P. Leaders, Workers Unite for Garden Meet | Railro af Union: Heads Help Bosses in Trick Wage-Cut Moves BULLETIN (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—Presi- dent Roosevelt said today that he had not heard from Chairman Whitney of the Railway Labor Ex- ecutives Association following the anneuncement of plans to continue the 19 per cent railroad workers pay cut. The President said, how- ever, that he did see Whitney 3 days azo. Asked whether Whitney said anything about whether the workers would strike against em- ployers persisting in the wage cut, Rooseve't relied in the negztive. By MARGUERITE YOUNG, (Daily Werker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has thrown his might toward nailing hundreds of thousands of railroad workers down to the an- vil of reduced, nees-ctotv2tion F277" | until January, 1935, despite the fact | that railroad profits have beca m-!- tiplying enormously for a year, al-/ ready, and that the President him- self is “hopeful” that prices the work- ers have to pay for necessities will substantially. 22 tank and file of railroad men vill be interested to learn that A. F. Whitney, chairman of the Railway Labor Executive Association, con- ulted. about this today, told your correspondent: “I have nothing to; say, ‘Thin as an gld leaf, the Roosevelt maneuve: was cCisclosed when he made public a letter propcsing con- tinuation of the 10 per cent “tem-| porary” wage cut wh was put into effect, over bitter labor protests, to end next June 21. Railroad owners (Continued on Page 2) ‘ 3 Ships Strike in Boston: Morefraws Expected to Go Out! MWID rea Fight for | 1929 Wage Seale; Call for Dockers Support BOSTON, Moss... Feb. 16. — The crews of three shins. the Tsaac enn, Lemuel Rurrows, and the G'sn White, came cvt on strike tadow under the leadership of the Marine Workers Intvstrial Union for the 1929 wage scale. More ships are expected to join the strike late today. ‘The strike committees of the three shins have issued a joint call to strike all coal heats, One of the main demands of the strike is avainst forcing seamen to trim (shovel) coal. A call has been issued to all coal trimmers, memb2rs of the LL.A. in the Port of Norfolk. Va., to unite in| solidarity action with the seamen. eS In the Daily Worker Today Page. 2 Sports, by Jerry Arnold. Page 3 Pre-Convention Discussion. Pave 4 ee Woll, gern: bien is Enemy of . Austrian Workers age 5 ; Wall Street’s Capitol, by Sey- mour Waldman Congress Anti-Lynch Bill Calls Mass M-stings “Mobs” Lincoln's Policies Protected the Interests of Nozthern Capi- Page 7 “Chanze the Wor!d,” by Michael ‘a old. Review of “S.S. Utah,” by Harry Raymond The “Queen City” of Charlotte, by John L. Snivak “Een'n and His Party,” A. G. / Bosse Page 8 Eiitorials. \ toreign News. —————————————— Ciarence Hz Dey: Work: athaway, editor of the | , was atiacked by So- \ ot cileinIs waen | he F aieripte is restore order at | the Madison Square Garden meet- . ing. | France Places Giant Orders for Nitrates PARIS, Feb. 16, — Laying up |] munitions for the coming waz, | nee is placing orders 70,009 tons of nitrates, an essen- tial element of high explosives, |] An order for 49,000 tons was |] placed teday in the United States, || ani ofdézs for 20,900 tons from Norway and 10,090 from Germany xre to be placed within the next few days. Sell-Out Angers \To Diseuss Next Steps in Meet Today NEW YORK. — Tremendous re- | Sentment against the sellout of the general hotel strike bv the leaders of the Amalgamated Food Workers Union is seething among the rank and file who were not only sold out de- serted by the leaders, They are finding that the state- ments about no discrimination and hokum. Strike committees coming to the hotels for settlement are either not recognized or are given offers of taking back a handful of work- ers. “What should be our next steps,” is the question in the minds of all the hetel strikers and will be an- P. M. at Bryant Hall, 32 St. and Sixth Ave. The meeting is called by the Hotel and Restaurant Work- ers Union Local 119 of the Food Workers Industrial Unicn. Anti-Fascist Meet in Chicago CHICAGO, Ill—An account of re- cent developments in Nazi Germany will be given by Lerd Marlev, Deputy Speaker of the British House of Lords, in en address here Tuesday, February 20th, 8 p.m., at 32 W. Ran- dolph St. Hotel Workers: everybody rehired is just so much | the curse of capitalist-reactionary t Sq. G: den, Workers 2 meeting. responded to the call for strike grim determination, thousands? of New York workers streame? |from their shops and factories toward the immense meeting hall, eager to pledge their proleta- rian class solidarity with their clas: »rothers now facing fascist bayonet~ end bullets on the barricades ot Vienna. Many thousands of workers were turned away by the police, apparentiy on orders from the Socialist and srade union officials managing the meeting, although there were at “east 8,000 empty sents in various “reserved sections” of the hall alt ‘hrouzh the afternoon. All werke-s entering the hall were aiskea by the ushers searching fo: eoflets or copies of the Daily ‘Worker. “The strike call was answered by workers belonging to A. F. of L. un- ‘ons, unions of the TUUL and ‘in- dependent trede unions. Thousands of workers from the Amalagamted Clothing Workers and other right wing unions struck in unity with workers of the left wing and inde- pendent organizations. The strike represented a mighty united front of the working class against fascism and war, a united front forged over ‘eads of the A, F. of L. and Socialist Party leaders. Here the Socialis: ‘nd Communist workers were united sogether in common bonds. Keep Thousands Out Despite these tactics of the man-| agement, the extraordinary feeling | mong the wor! for unity ana sol- | arity Was 2lectrical throughout the entire hall as well as outside among the thousands milling outside. The intense agitation of the Communist Party and the revolutionary trade unions during the recent days had obviously stirred thousands of work- ers profoundly to work for true pro- letarian unity in the struggle against Fascism. Sensing this extraordinary emotion in the huge assemblage of workers, the order was soon sent out to the police to stop all further entries into the hall, and not more than two- thirds of the hall was filled, despite the thousands outside clamoring for swered at a mass meeting today, 3, admission. Inside the spirit of the Austrian workers pervaded the thousands of assembled workers. An intense ex- citement and hubbub filled the hall. The speeches of the speakers could scarcely be heard. | Workers Keep Woll, LaGuardia Away | Mathew Woll, strikebreaker and | fascist agent, who was scheduled to appear at the meeting, did not show up. This provocative action of calling on an cpen fascist to ad- dress a meeting in support of the Clarence Hathaway, Daily Worker Editor, Badly Slugged by Socialist Leaders When He Attempis To Appeal for Orderly Meeting, United Ranks BULLETIN NEW YORK.—As we go to press ten thousand Socialist and Com- munist workers, in united ranks, determined on showing their solidarity with the Austrian workers, have marched to Union Sq. from Madison More thousands are constantly pouring into the Square in a mighty outdoor demonstration despite the bitter cold. are indignantiy expressing their resentment at the pro- vocative and brizl atiack made by the Soci:!ist leaders on C'arence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, at the Madison Sq. Garden NEW YORK.—Scores of thousands of workers yesterday | and converged in an enormous demonstration cf solidarity with the heroic, embattled Austrian | | working class toward Madison Sq. Garden. In an atmosvhere filled with proud enthusiasm, as well as} valiant Austrian revolutionary workers, aroused many rank and file Socialists. “Why did they call on that bastard to come here,” sald Socia'st. workers sitting near Com- rade Hathaway. Mover '-Gr-rdis. who also was prominently scheduled as a speaker (in fact the New York Evening Post lying reported him as having spoken, giving quotations from his | -egecch) never apvezred on the plat- form. He is said to have arrived <4 oa Anse 6? fa Ancdos. A pmonm of Socialist Jeaters met b'm end told him not to appear on the platform, it is reported. The intense agitation and exposure of the fascist deeds of Woll and La Guardia, carricd on by the Commu:- ist Party and the Daily Worker in its svecial editions reaching over 175,-| 000 copies; met an_ enthusiastic resvonse among great messes of, workers. The demand that on dnd LaGuardia shall not speak!” made a reality by the hatred of the whh rate to dear, revolu- speeches of international tionary solidarity. ‘Sneaky Woll, who did not dare | followed him, after having previous! pressed and natural protests were succeeded quickly in similarly qui a word of answ diately joined by the other lea by the whole group. I appeai. vf the Aust j velding a so’ id unification below. ing their support of the heroic Austrian workers, found th with a situation in which a large section of the meeting demanding working class unity in the struggle aga‘nst Fas test against the provocative speeches of the ch: announced united front with Matthew Woll, the m man and enemy of Socialism in the American Fi Notwithstanding the fact that these justified, they situation falling into the trap of these provo I appealed to the workers in the section where form to propose to the chairman that I be permitted to make a one- minue appeal ‘or perfect order in the mee! , struck me a heavy rs cn the platfcrm ir on me in ‘which blows from fisis and chairs and kicks, were’ administered | to the Socialist and Communist workers not to allow any- aody to use these incidents to widen the breaci aificent solidarity demonstration of the great po revolutionary workers must be made the beginning of nselves faced were roused to pro- nan and those who wor Iw sitting and sion. After ‘n went to the plat- © order in th: jon, I tk 1, low in the ¢ chairm without imme- a vicious assault h between them. The mag- i 2 in support I appeal to those workers who follow the Communist Party not to allow themselves again to be provoked as the: Garden by the tactics of the Socialist leaders, but to come together in every shop and every neighborhocd, build up a joint struggle against the growing a‘tacks of beastly fascism in e in the M dison Square in every workers’ organization to Austria and Germany and also in the United Siates. | Forward to the ever growing unity of ers in the common fight against the fascist menace and against the whole rotten capitalist. system. Socialist and Communist work- || Furniture Workers LaGuardia Police Strike in Grrdner GARDNER, Mass., Feb. 16. — About 250 worl-ers emnloyed at the |O. W. Seikert Co. here, struck ‘Thursday for a 30 per cent wage in- crease. Mass picket lines are being | daily thrown around the plant. The furniture aroused azains: the intolerable con- ditions of work, are forming fizht- ing un‘ons to force the mill owners to grant their demands. The local furniture workers union face the workers, sent a telegram that | has sent two delegates to the Furni- (Continued on Page 2) ture Workers ndustrial Union con- vention. Workers Eagerly Ask for Daily’; 50,000 Extra Edition Is Sold-Out NEW YORK.— Two hours before the strike for support of the heroic Austrian workers began here, and tens of thousands of workers marched | to Madison Square Garden, 50,000 copies of the two-page special inter- national solidarity edition of the Daily Worker were on the streets. For blocks around Madison Square Garden, hundreds of workers were selling the Daily Worker. While only 20,000 workers were allowed into the meeting, tens of thousands who did not get in went away with copies of the Daily Worker in their poc'xct. “It’s the easiest thing to se!l the Daily Worker here,” said one dis- tributor. “The workers come and ask us for it.” On each corner approaching the Garden, from every direction, four to five workers were distributing and selling the Daily Worker. Subways ‘were covered. The entire special édition was sold out. And many who did not get copies, asked for them in vain. Distribution began promptly at 1 o'clock. The Red Builders, who waited anxiously for the presses to roll, were the first to grab the bundles as they came hot off the press for distribu- tion. They went to Garment Cen- ter, 39th and 7th Avenue; they came back within half an hour all sold out, asking for more. Section 2 of the Party membership and the Red Builders mobilized for the next batch and covered Madison Square Garden. After three o'clock they sold the Daily Worker inside and outside of the Garden. Along every line of March, the Daily Worker was prominent. There were close to 350 volunteers Who were mob!ized for the sale of this special edition. Many workers, despite the bitter cold, stopped to buy the Daily Worker, some going out of their way, on their journey to the Garden, to get a ccpy. On the subways many copies of che Daily were sold to workers who did not know of the strike or the Gar- den meeting. ‘This is the second special extra edi- tion of the Daily Worker fully sold out since the “Austrian uprising. Chicago Demonstration Called for Saturday at Grant Park NEW YORK.—Hundreds of dem- onstrations and rallies in solidxrity with the Austrian workers have b2en arranged by Communist. Party dis- tricts and sections throughout the country, according to news received here. In every big city of the United States such demonstrations and meetings have been called, urging workers of all kinds, regardless of their political affiliations, to take ac- tive part. Many have already been held in various cities, Some of the outstanding meetings called to pretest against war and fascism and to demonstrate in solid- arity with the Austrian workers, fol- low: ee ea | CHICAGO — Mass demonstration Saturdey, Feb, 17, 2:30 p.m. in Con- gress Plaza, Grand Park, at Congress and Michigan Aves. PITTSBURGH—Mass meeting and lecture by Earl Browder, at Fifth Ave. High School Auditorium, 1800 Forbes St., Monday, Feb. 19, at 8:30 p.m, ele RICHMOND, Va.—Mass meeting at Richmond Beneficial Hall, Jackson and Second Sts., Friday, Feb, 16, at 8 p.m. NEWARK, N. J.—Mass meeting at Krueger's Auditorium, 25 Belmont Ave., Sunday, Feb, 18, at 8 p.m, a CLEVELAND, Ohio — Four mass united front demonstrations on Sat- urday called by the District Com- mittee of the Comunity Party. e. PHILADELPHIA, Pa. —Demonstra- tion at Heyburn Plaza, Saturday at 1pm, . 8 MINNEAPOLIS, Minn—Two soli- darity meetings, both at 2:30 p.m., Sunday, at Homboldt Hall, 1317 Glenwood Ave. N, and at the Metal Workers Hall, 329 Cedar Ave. S. Hundreds of other mass meetings and demonstrations have been called in smaller cities. The places and dates of these meetings, however, had not been ascertained as this edition of the Daily Worker went to press. irae eae} BOSTON, Feb. 16.— Six demons- Party Districts Plan Int'l Solidaré ity Actions Ticokdec Speaks at Meet In Pittsburgh at High School trations in the form of open air meetings will be held Satr “2y afternoon under the ausvices of the Communist Party to protest the Dollfuss terror. in Austria. On Monilay. evening the American League has called a mass meeting for Monday evening, 8 ~.m., at Franklin Union Hall against Aus- trian fascism and to protest “Pre- paredness Week” of the Roosevelt warmaking government. Other pro- test meetings will be held in Nor- wood Sunday evening, in Peabody Monday, in Amesbury and Fitch- burg on Tues:lay and in Providence on Wednesday. workers here, | | that the co-cal'ed “riot” Began Anti-Fascist “Riot,” C.L.U. Says. NEW YORK. letter charging | in front of | the A ian Consulate was delib-! erately precipitated by the La Guardia nolice was made public to-/| day by the Civil Liberties Union. | It sent a letter to Commissioner | O'Ryan askine for the publication | of the orders that were given to the police before the demonstration. | At the same time, the Civil Lib-| erties Unicn declared that it noted “with pleasure” thai the police ministration is conducting an istration that is resnonsible for the Police clubbing and brutality. “The picture presented to us is/| fantastic,” the Union's letter de| clared.. “Mounted patrolmen gallop- ing up and down the steps of the public library, chasing bewildered citizens along the Fifth Avenue side- walk, clubbing all who were not fast | enough in running away. We charge | that the ‘riot’ to which the news- | papers refer was precipitated by the) Police. Widespread damage to prop- | erty, scrious injuvies, even deaths might we'l have resulted from the police tactics, “This is the second serious attack upon peaceful demonstrations of left- wing groups in the course of the last two wecks. Can it be that the New York's finest are leavaing their lessons from Hitler and Dollfuss?” the letter asks. + Central Labor Union of Lincoln, Neb. Endorses | Jobless Insurance Bill LINCOUN, Neb., Feb. 16.—The “incon Central Labor Union has endorsed the Workers Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598) and nassed a motion to demani the City Council give its endorsement with a petition that Congress enact it. Canton, Ohio, City Council Indorses Social Insurance CANTON, Ohio, Feb. 16.—The City Council of Canton, Ohio, an important steel town, has in- dorsed the Workers Unemp'oy- ment and Social Insuzance Bill (H. R. 7598), at its meeting of |) Feb. 14. The City Council took action follow’ng two mass meet- ings called b ythe Unemploy- ment Cowtcils, and the visit of mass delegations, elected at these meetings to the City Council. The National Unemployment Councils urge all working class organizations and all individual workers to at once write and telegraph their Congressmen and also Chairman Connery of the House Labor Committee, de- manding immediate enactment of the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill (H. R, 7598). ———_$_ | cleared the way for cccu; | fare continy | the anti-Fascist Report Socialist Leaders Fore MORE Order Attacks on State s to Stop, Only Heimwehr to Be Fought. Workers F lout Order PRISONERS HANGED IN VENGEANCE Thousands Hungry, Homeless, in Vienna; Fascist VIENNA, Feb. 16. — Undaunted vgeinst the fascist state fe iP oot in many p2rts of the country. In every indus- Drive on Race Minorities Begins fighting orces continues in Vienna ial ceonter a heroic resistance continues despite | als losses. Vienna is more paralyzed than ever by a gen- eral strike, In those recions where the batteriny bombardmert has In the Stadt-Park district. Protest Tonight Against Dollfuss’ Trade Delegation NEW YO?K.—The Communist Party and Young Communist eacue, N. Y. District, issued a call yesterday to all worke: delegation, the representatives of the blocdy Dollfuss fascist gov- ernment in Austria. Workers will mass tonight at 8 p.m. at the foot of West 29th St. to awa‘t the arrival of the “President Hard- ing” of the U. S. Lines. The representatives of the bloody fascist government in Austria must be driven out of the country!” says the Commun- ist Party in a Icaflet issued to all workers on the occasion of the eve of the arrival of the Dollfus delegation. Mayor Mclevy Spurns United Fronton Austria = Asserts He e Will Never Unite With Commu- nist Workers BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Feb. 16— Mayor Jasper McLevy, recen' elected on the socialist ticket, to- day refused to speak at or endorse meeting called in solidarity with the Austrian working class by the United Front Anti- Fascist Committee. The mecting is arranged for Saturday at 2 P.M. in the City Plaza. In answer to a question as to whether he favors a united front of the working class, McLevy stated that he would never agree to any form of united front with Communist workers, no matter what the issue. MrLevy'’s own Sixth District Club voted last Wednesday approving joint action of all workers on Sat- urday in pledges of solidarity with | the Austrian workers. Mention the Daily Worker nl addressing advertisers. tion by state troops, guerilla war- twenty worker riflemen leaned “suddenly from a manhole, sniped at a group of Heim- wehr .men,<and disappeared a etls is an example, of the guerilla ich is goine on in all the the state troops have | Battle Retains Heroic Scale. ‘tual situation is sh censorship, The fact of the unbro shin ntzes thet tee that the heavy censo |the bottle r: | At the heict of the Austvian workers comes a re= port of a new contemntible treache jery of the remaining Social Demo- jeratic leaders in Vienna. At a socvet meeting in Vienna to- day, they issved ers forbidding all or police, w! S have carried on a |be limited to the semi-official Heim- webr alone. | Socialist Leaders in New Treachery. | The Socialist leaders, spattered with = blood of their own folow- w at the climcx of the united front with the lerers of the Austrian workers. | mur Meanwhile, the Dollfuss govern- |ment t leaders seek to nrotest is goin full sveed with m of revenze. werkers are held in Viennese prisons alone. Three of them died on the gallows todey. The whole bourzeois‘e is clamoring in its neers for their blood. Two move workers were hanged at Sint Pcelten at 10 p.m. today. In martial sentenced Socialist, to the same time the fascist drive into full h and Czech n arrested, | Workers Rally Again | The whole Socialist rank and file s rc’ec‘ed the ord-rs of its lender- ship, and continues the fight un- daunted. The Karl again and a Marx Hof, invested in by the state forces, appears to be unconquerable, Firing from there has begun again. From Linz, Stey Ebensee, Neu= kirchen, where the stete forces have claimed victories, word comes of re- newed fighting. Workers driven out of their positions have rallied n other positions, or on hills near the towns. Fierce clashes between workers ar? so] "ors took vlace in a cemetery ‘at Linz. The whole fire department (Continued on Page 2) Apologizes for Special to the Daily Worker ZURICH, Feb. 1st, (Runa). Fritz Adler, secretary of the Soci ist International and leader of the |P Ys lby Dollé uss, apologized for the armed resistanze| fact that the worke of the Austr’an workers, and re-|taking up arms. vealed that the Social Democratic} Austrian Social Democratic par leadership had no _ intention resisting Dollfuss facism, at meeting here last night. Adler, Austrian Socialist Head, Workers’ Fight nna that he was convinced a s at hand, “but d overy unex- et, use of violence pologized for the s had replied by an He said he had written assurance of| that Otto Bauer and Julius Deutscliy Sof the Austrian Social Democratic Party, had arrived in Czechoslovakia He declared that he had often said| Wednesday, 4