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

/ / a Celebrate Dimitroff’s Release at New Star Casino Tonight! CIRCULA’ TION DRIVE NEW SUBS RECEIVED YESTERDAY: Saturday. Total.... Sa Vol. XI, No. 53 ee x Entered as second-cless matter at the Post Office at ew York, N. Y., under the Act of March 8, 1879 Daily Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1934 WEATHER: Rain, warmer CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER { (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents MILITANT TRADE UNION LEADERS HIT N.R.A. AT HEARINGS SEAMEN LED BY MARINE WORKERS INDUS Boston Crews Vote | To Return to Work 0 Pay Raise With $1 Settlement Affects Four Companies; Crews Join Union BOSTON, Mass., March 1.— Through an unanimous vote of the coal boat sailors the his- toric 14 day seamen’s strike ended here today, the men re- turning to the vessels with a $10 in- crease in pay and improved condi- tions. Some of the crews began reship- ping this morning. Others will re- turn to the ships in a day or two. A large number of seamen have joined the Marine Workers’ Indus- trial Union, which led the strike. The most active strikers have joined the Communist Party. The union has organized 20 per cent of the entire fleet. The wage increase won has benefited every crew in the entire fleet of four com- panies which own over a hundred boats. Fourteen ships were actually tied up in the strike. Decision Reached At Meeting The decision to accept the $10 in- crease in wages and return to work with organized ship committees and (Continued on Page 2) Bus Officials at Polls Intimidate Workers; Halt Vote Workers Should Build Own Union in Every Garage NEW YORK—The poll of Fift Ave. Coach Co. workers, organized by the Regional Labor o2.u, 12 2-42 whether the employes wished to have a@ union or an organization trolled by company officials was smashed up yesterday by the bosses who were allowed to freely picket the polling places and intimidate the workers with threats of firing. The poll was called off by Mrs. Herrick, Regional Lavor Board chair- man, who did nothing to halt the in- timidation. Early in the morning when the polling was to begin, executives of, the company with pads and pencils in hand patrolled the polling places. When a busman entered he was carefully looked over and his name noted. Mrs. Herrick asked them to move, but they refused. Police who had beaten workers and chased them from picket lines stood calmly by, but failed to move against the employer pickets. Nor did Mrs. Herrick ask them to drive off the bosses. : Twelve company executives stood in front of each polling place. Mrs. Herrick says she will take the matter up with the N.R.A. in Wash- ington. But workers are urged not | to rely on Mrs. Herrick and the N.R.A. Do not wait for a poll, but go ahead and build the Amalgamated Association into a fighting class union on the basis of elected rank and file committees in each garage. Women Poisoned on Los Angeles CWA Job LOS ANGELES, Cal, Mar. 1— Women working on a CWA project im an American Legion hall here were Lasetingies by food mad 4 government employed agent were given first aid and sent home. /The women pay for the lunches. ( con- | | chairmanship ; member of the New York District Demand Thaelmann’s Release at German Consulate Tomorrow New York workers will join hands with the workers of the world in a demonstra- tion tomorrow as part of the “International Week” to save the lives of Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the German Communist Party, and other working class leaders from the hands of the murderous Nazi behead- ers. Mass in thousands at Ger- man Consulate, 17 Battery Pl, tomorrow, 1:30 p.m., to stay the bloody fascist hand! “We represent the workers . . Mass Meet To Hall Dimitroff, Popoff NEW YORK.—Thousands of New York workers will rally tonight at, the New Star Casino, 107th St. and| Park Ave. to celebrate the release of the heroic defendants of the Reichstag fire trial, Comrades Dimi- j troff. Ponoff and Teneff. The meeting is being called for 7:30 p.m.. end it is expected that the place will be ful much hefore that time. Admission will be 25c. ' Comrade Sergei Radamsky, well known singer of Russian revolution- ary songs, who is engaged to sneak and sing at the “Sovixt Russia To- day” banquet has volunteered to ab- sent himself from the haneuet for @ period of time that will a'ow him to also sing at this celebration. | The meeting will be under the of Steve Kingston, Secretariat of the Com™unist Party. The main sneeker will he Comrade Max Bedacht, National Secret>ry of the Inte-national Workers Order. Comrade M. J. Olgin, editor of the Jewish Drily, Morning Freiheit, and Charlie White of the Y-une Commu- nist League, will also sneak. | The New York District Committee of the Communist Party declared yesterday that the meeting will a'so voice the protest of thousands of New York workevs at the Intest at- tempt on the part of Judge Callahan to railroad the Scct*sb>ro boys to the electric chair, and a mobilization point for the demonstration in front of the German Consulate which will take nlace Satuvday, at 1:30 pm, to demand the immediate and safe yelease of Thaelmann and Torgler. | THE COMMUNIST POSITION ON THE N.8.A, . The N. R. A. is an offensive again-t the workers . . to the end . . . The final wwrd will be said by the workers in the steel mills, the coal mines, on the rail- We will ficht # roads, and in the workshops and factories.”—Robert Minor at the N.R.A, hearing before General Hugh S. Johnson in Washington. Release of Taneff, Dollfuss Follows |Mass Nazi Mathods for Imposing Fascism Heimwehr With Bayo- nets Patrols as Youth Is “‘Co-ordinated” VIENNA, March 1—While Heim- wehr troops with fixed bayonets pa- trol the streets, the fascization of all phases of Austrian life, alont exactly the lines fo'lowed by the Nazis in Germany, is being pushed by the Dollfuss govenment. All young peovle between 14 and 18 have been ordered to resister with the government. They are to be compelled to join a “patriotic organ- ization.” ANl office bo'ders are ordered to wear uniforms and badges of their rank. The w rms will he of the green, which is the color of the Aus- trian fascis's. All vrovincial diets and municipal administrations ar2 heine “rocrtin~ ated,” giving up their authority to fascist commanders. More than 2,000 persons, almost all of them workers, sre to be tried on various charzes of resisting the gov- ernmen’. Charges of hich treason have been laid against a number of Jeadint Soci2l Democrats for having know'edze of the preparations to re- sist Dollfuss fascism, despite their acknowledged efforts to disarm the workers and give Dollfuss support. Anger in Chinaas Japan ‘Crowns’ Pu-Yi 50,000 Soldiers Keep Everyone Away from Hasty Ritual SHANGHAI, March 1.—Mass dem- onstrations of protest in all parts of China and a renewal of the cam- paign for a complete anti-Japanese Japanese in Manchuria of Henry Pu- Yi as emperor of the Japanese pup- pet state of Manchukuo. The Chinese press is unanimous in recognizing the farce of the corona- tion by Japan as a step in Japan's war plans, leading toward another ‘world war, Chee me HSINKING, Manchuria, March 1.— Behind a wall of Japanese bayonets which kept the whole population far distant from the scene of coronation, Henry Pu-¥Yi traveled in an Amer- ican-made armored car today from his palace to the “altar of Heaven” the puppet state of Manchukuo, Fifty thousand Japanese and Man- the capital which was virtually in a state of siege. Even the handful of invited Manchu, Chinese and Jap- anese guests were herded behind barbed wire more than 300 feet from the procession. Soliiars Warder ~ 4 Cuban Strikers M. J. Olgin, Freiheit Editor, Will Speak at Red Press Banquet,Sun. At Orders of U.S. NEW YORK.—Moissaye J. Olgin,, leases that are the current concern edi‘or of the Morning Freiheit, took of the editor of the Morning Freiheit. a few minutes off yesterday, from a| The new printing press day heaped with articles, telesrams 1s at the use of the revolutionary and all the concerns of an editor, to movement for its mass activi ies, and reminisce. He spoke of the dark Czarist days, illegal printing presses, police spies, and stated: “We may soon have to bui!d underground presses here, the way we did in Czarist Russia, and as it is clear, the press must be kept for the movement. It must be paid for within a very few. davs. Get your organization to donate today the $5 or more thet will enable it to possess the “Red Press Certificate” of the Central Committee. Have you mace Seek To Force Harvest at Point of Bayonet and Machine Guns HAVANA, Mar. 1—The massacre of striking sugar workers urged on the Mendieta government by Jeffer- son Caffery, U. S, ambassador, began yesterday in Oriente province, where soldiers killed four workers and wounded many more. Two were murdered at Tajaco and boycott greeted the coronation by the; where he was crowned emperor’ of | churian troops were concentrated in} Fire 17,500 Minois CWA Men in Drive | To Stop All CWA Wholesale Firings in Less Organized Rural Districts CHICAGO, Mar. 1—Approximately 17,500 C.W.A. workers were fired from Tilinois C.W.A. jobs on the completion of their work Thursday nisht, as part of the Roosevelt orders to stop all C.W.A. work throughout the country. Five thousand of the mon fired were from Cook County, Chicago, and 12,- 900 from the remainder of the state. In making the announcement of the firings, D. Chase, state C.W.A. administratcr, indicated that the fir- ings would con‘inue at this rate until all C.W.A. work is absndoned, hee ae Slash Ficrida C.W.A. JACKSONVILLE, Fla.—More than 3,500 C.W.A. workers here in Duval County were laid off last week, and an additional 2,900 were fired Thurs- day. The last firings bring the total to 10,009 in this county since the be- ginning of the Roosevelt abandon- ment of the C.W.A, Although it was first announced that the C.W.A. here would be gradu- elly “tapered off,” and that “only” 10 per cent would be fired weekly, the local C.W.A. has been reducing the number drastically in order to pzo- vide a large labor market to the big fruit growers. . oo Fire 600 in Bemidji, Minn. BEMIDJI, Minn. — Six hundred C.W.A. workers here were fired at one time. The Iccal C.W.A. has an- nounzed that 100 will be fired every week hereafter, until all C.W.A. is stopped. Since there are only 800 C.W.A. workers in this town, a com- plete stoppage will be effected next week, TRIAL UNION WIN STRIKE Steel Trust Terrorizes Men, Says Pat Cush, Union Leader Ps N. R. A. Labor Board Flouts Weirton Prom- ' ises by New Maneuver MEN GET DIRTY DEAL Case Given to the U. S.| Department of Justice (Daily Worker, Washington Bureau) | WASHINGTON, Mar. 1—The Na-| tional Labor Board today once more} took its hands off the brutal betrayal of Weirton Steel Workers und: e! Board's own election maneuy rendered a formal decision, tur the whole matter over to the justice| department for the second time— and, in this case, not even suggest- ing a specific procedure. “The Board is unanimous in its action,” the annourc>ment read. “No | other course was left.” Pat Cush, President of the Steel| | and Metal W<a":: Industrial Union {and a veteren of alm-st half a ccn-!' tury of actual slaving before the hell | lasts of the rolling mills, branded | the decision “proof pcs'tive that the | Labor Board frem the beginning has been only gestur'n¢ 0: mse ef en- forcing collective aining under the N.RA..” and forecast a Spring strike at Weirton. White passing out the Weirton de- cis'on with one hand, Chairman Wag- ner of the Labor Board with the other hand introduced a bill in Con- (Continued on Page 2) Strike Shuts Down : 3 Mellon Aluminum Plants in Penn. Union Leaders Say It Is) | Marine, Food, Needle and Other Unions Hit N.R.A. Attacks LYNCHINGS BARRED Ford Workers Tell How N.R.A. Robbed Their ‘and picketed three of the company’s} , Plants. a “Holiday,” Not a Strike NEW KENSINGTON, Pa., \ —Fightirg eeainst the most abso- | lute trust in the United States, owned | , ‘ by Andrew Mellon, billionaire, 2,000|“The steel workers in Am- workers of the Aluminum idge, Pa., are still ready, Se een willing and anxious to join our | union, but are being prevented The factories employment, about! “rom doing so by the local police 3,700, are shut down. Leaders of! ‘orror and the } A.” Pat Cush, the Aluminum Workers Union de-| President of the eel and Metal cleved that the workers are deme d-) Workers Industrial Union, declared ing $1.06 cents an hour and a 39-/| ‘oday in the N.R.A. criticism hear- hour week, rgainst the present mi! ings. imum of 40 cents an hour in the} «rast week, 130 workers, former NLR.A. code and a 40-hour week. The] ,trikers, were fired from the C.W.A. Roosevelt government grantéd An-|:p nbridge for trying to organize. drew Mellon a cut in wages through} They appealed to the Burgess and he the N.?.A. codes. ly threatened them. He told aders of the union, however,| them, ‘If you s anything, what are try to prevent a militant} will happen will make the riot of last strike, appealing to the Regional| ‘all lock like a pink tea,’ Labor Boord in Pittsburgh to step ing 5 taal aoe tie Gee Beh ashing, cantlentian. of. i tration.”.-In fact, F. Swerts, presi-} oa 18 this terror~ by dent of the Mew Kensington local,|-te-ty ref 231 protection to the declares thet the walkout is not @ workers, who are being followed into strike at all, but a “holiday.” | % eat Bee rod - | with jail but with death.” Jobs By MARGUERITE YOUNG | (Dally Worker Washinston Burean) WASHINGTON, March 1.— The | toemy He drew DETROIT, Mich, March 1.—A , Strike in “B” Building of the Ford plant here has forced the slowing |down of the line. The men, unable to stand the terrific speed-up, sterted to walk out. The foreman called the men back and slowed down th: discontent. The Auto Workers Union is active urging the workers to crganize. De- partmert strikes are continuing in other plants. | . . 2,000 Out in Kenosha | KENOSHA, Wis., March 1—After a strike vote yesterday, 2,000 workers at the Nash Motozs Co., the largest plant in the State of Wisconsin, walked out on strike today. They are demanding a 20 per cent increase in wages, promised them after a previ- | ous strike. They are also striking in support of their fellow workers in | Racine and Milwaukee. Ws eee A. F. of L. Leaders Betray Toledo Si rike | ‘TOLEDO, Ohio, March 1.— The strike of 4,000 auto parts workers here has been broken through joint action of the A. F. of L. officialdom and the employers. A proposal, un- animously rejected on the previous evening, was steam-rollered through a meeting attended by 1,500 of the 4,000 strikers. The meeting voted to return to work this morning. io op- portunity for discussion was given to the workers on the proposal of a (Continued on Page 2) '2.000 Kenosha Auto Men Strike’ As Toledo Walkout Is Broken the Ambridge massacre, th one employe was killed Meonneored” when ‘huncre of deputized in a barons was initiated Roosevelt government. spon- | shop. He said: “Streets Must Be Cleared” | “Miss Emmline Pitt, U.S. Depari- | un Strike Threat Wins Increase in Wastes: ent of Labor Cohciliator, declared before the Ambridge ts, ‘the streets must be cleared.” \ . . | 7 if eee ee i Well, the streets were clesred—and The Ford piant is seething w n| At White Motor Co. hey ran red with the blood of work- | | Cush’s stirring attack led a thun- derous chorus of denunciation and |4efiance of the N.R.A. by militant | ‘rade unionists. Representatives of marine, food, needle trades and other left-wing CLEVELAND. Ohio, March 1— Workers of White Motor Loval, Fed- eral Automotive Workers’. Union of the A. F of L., under rank end file Yeater-hin. voted strike for 20 nor 5. The strike d to crme off at 1 brit the Strike Cor mit’ee, beaded bv William Morté rank and file leader, was not t (Continued on Page 2) Philadelphia Banker, Counterfeiter, Freed by Sympathetic Court PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Walter el, president of the North Cen- Trust Company, who pleaded to stealing $36,425 irom his i bank, was given a suspended sentence because he was a “victim of the times.” A renort of the commitice nevoti- | ating the demands will be given at} Fridav’s meetine to the membership | for annrov: T, when ‘inter- viewed, waited Jo: “we enouch, the wages have be=n down to ed: tral | guilt, less than £0 per cent of whet we vsed to get and as a result of the increase in the cost of living since the N. R. A. we could not stand it| Philadelphia Courts have suddenly anv lonver.” When asked whether become con: tinape™ William Green authorized the strike,!and the ensheneea Satie ae he ssid: “Hell, no! We did not ex-/cuse racketeering counterfeiters, and pect him to. We took the right in’ embezzlers of bank funds. our own hands. We had enouvh of| Boo Boo Hoff, notorious bootleg- his telegrams telling us to do noth- jger, racketeer, fight promoter, Phila- ing” jQetphia’s Public Enemy No. 1, was It is expected that the settlement fretd of a charge of passing: bogus will have a great effect upon many, $20 bills, because “he was 9 victim other workers who are raring to gol of circumstances.” Nazi Regime Faces Revo- lution, Hitler Admits Publicly ————————— | jour comrades are doing today in in the Daily Worker Germany. we must be happy abou" Today Page 3 Pre-Convention Discussion Page 4 from forkers. \ “Party Life” e 5 Pag ) “change the World!” by Sender Garlin “sister of Slain Cropper Tells ry” a story by Mi. Bodenheim. our new red vrinting press and make the best possible use of it!” “Building an underground press in those Gays,” O'7in said, “was a grue!- linv affair. The machinery had to be brouzht in bit by bit, hidden under the clothes of workers—there always was the danzer of spies. The type had to be set by hand and was usu- ally “borrowed” from “lesal” print- ing presses by revolutionary typo- grarhical workers. “Yes, work in those printing plants was a little more difficult than work “Mississippi Farmers Talk of Revolution,” by John L. Spivak. SS will be on our new printing press, Olgin (who will be one of the speakers at the Red Press Banquet, Sunday, March 4, at 7 p.m. at New Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave.) turned back to a crowded desk —the articles, telegrams, news re- es pasascane your personal donation yet? Send in *Wo in Baguanos. In both cases all dona’ ions and reservations for the Soldiers fired on strikers. It was Red Press Banquet, individuals as Caffery who directed the murder of well as delevates from or7anizations, 2000 United Fruit Company strikers TODAY to PRESS COMMITTEES, P, {1 Colombia two years ago. O. Box 128 Stetion D.N. ¥.C. Tick-' Communicstions with the eastern ets are $1, Otherwise arrange to part of the island, where the army make your perscnal, er orvanizetion has imposed virtual martial law donation, right at the Red Press Ban- around all sugar mills, are almost quet—or mail it in. Celebrate with comnletely broken, Word of the Comrade Olvin, Sunday night, the killing, wounding, and imprisonment acquisition by our Party of this “new of workers filtering through is evi- weanon of the class struggle.” Sup- dence of terror on a mass scale more port the revolutionary press! All or- intense even than that carried out ganizations, bring your banners to by Machado. NEW YORK, March 1—Breaking into open action against all threats of terrorism and repression, the Ger- ‘man working class is showing n- creasingly bold resistance to the wage-cutting and jov dismissals of the Hitler government, latest dis- patches reveal. The announcement by the Fascist officials that 300 workers in the big DEWAG works near Duisburg, for example, were slated for dismissal was answered by a strike threat of jthe entire working fcrce consisting the Banquet! oe ele Delegations of organizations are invited to briny their organization banners to the Red Press Bannuet, Sundey night, at 7 p.m, at New ried Casino, 107th St, and Park Ve. In the few mills which are work-| of many hundreds of skilled workers, ing, the workers labor under the bay-' according to a report just received onets and machine guns of the army,'here by the Transatlantic Informa- which is carrying out Machado’s tion Service. All threats of the Nazi promise to the American owners and/ officials proved absolutely futile. The investors to force through the sugar| workers refused to turn a wheel in harvest without granting the de-|the plant until the dismissal order. | mands of the workers for a living| was finally rescinded, German Workers Defy Nazis In Open Strike Actions Following on this strike news, comes an extraordinarily revealing admission of the growing shakiness of the Hitler fascist dictatorship given in the reports today, which state that the French Government is considering granting Hitler's demand for m.derate “re:rmament” in view of the fact that Hitler has openly admitted that the business of the munition factories is heip- ing to stave off open revo.t, not only among the masses of jobless, but in the very ranks of the Storm Trocp2rs themselves. The Duisburg strikes are only part of a growing series of strike out- breaks in all parts of Germany. Dairy workers at Dortmund recently went out on strike in defiance of all Nazi decrees. terror succeeded in breaking the had to be arrested and sent to con- centration camps. Vote Fearlessly Against Nazis A severe strike of miners near Duis- burg-Hamborn is also reported, as & result of determined opposition of Miners, Relief Job Work: the miners to the weekly forced con- | s tribution exacted from their wages ers Beat Back Wage Cuts clals who called for an open vote Only the severest police| strike, but only after many workers, on the question of the “relief” pay- ments, resulted in a vote of over | 900 out of 1,000 workers against the | ayments to the Hitler government. The demand against the payment of these “relief” payments figures prominently on the hundreds of thou- | sands of leaflets which the German Communist Party is lilegally c.rculat- ing tn the factories of Gerinany. This open vote against the Nazis) reveals the seething rebellion among | the German masses against the Fas-} cist regime. Relief workers on a part-time well- (fare job staged an open demonsira-| tion near Dusseldorf. against a .pro- posed 25 per cent wage cut. Despite many arrests and Nazi terrorism, these workers refused to lift s tool until their demands against the cut) were heeded by the Nazis, Thorough-| for “relief” work. The bullying of the Nazi offi- = ly frightened, the Nazi officials de: cided to restore the former wages and take no further disciplinary measures Crisis Getting Worse _ The Hitler dictatorship has fatlec to solve any of the problems of ‘the ecenomic crisis. On the contrary, the crisis has deepened under the Fas cist program. The misery of the masses, unemployment, ete, is grow- ing to unendurable limits. Indicative of “he steadily sinking buying power .\ the German “wage workers, generai sales-of food, but+ cher, and grocery stores has. more than 7 per cent below last year; ‘butter sales dropped 14. per. .cent. | Business failures are rising. Jobless- ness continues to mount, despite all the efforts of the Nazi government to conceal that faci through falsified