The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 3, 1934, Page 1

| _ Daily’ Printers at Tomorrow’s Banquet | | Release Tnaelmann meen e Mass at German Consulate, 1:30 To day! CIRCULATION DRIVE NEW SUBS REC EIVED YESTERDAY: Dally 5 -<s ssa 51 Sat. - 2 Total toDate.... 1,276 Total . 768 ex “, Vol. XI, No. 54 New York, N. ¥., under ¢ aily QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at he Act of March 8, 1878 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1934 CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER WEATHER: Probably rain. (Eight Pages) Price 3 Cents 5,000 STRIKE FOR WAGE RAISE AT 3 MELLON PLANTS Wagner Bill Conceals A Devastating Attack On AllLaborStruggles Empowers Nat'l Labor Board To Step Into All Strikes FOR INJUNCTIONS Aims To Keep Workers From Stopping Production By HARRY GANNES NEW YORK.—With the support of ; President Roosevelt and William Green, president of the A. F. of L.,! the Wagner National Labor Board bill, the most dangerous strikebreak- ing instrument yet devised by the Roosevelt. regime, is going to Con- gress for consideration. In his statement in support of the bill Senator Wagner declares that it is aimed mainly at company unions and to “equalize the bargaining power of employers and employes.” An examination of the bill shows it carries to a more vicious length th2 results felt by the workers from Section 7-a of the N.R.A. Every pro- capitalist measure is concealed as a favor to labor. Throughout, the bill virtually makes strikes illegal, and sets up machinery to smash strikes, though it contains the following lip-servite acknowledge- ment of the right to strike: “Nothing in this act shall be construed so as erfere or impede or diminish in ay the right to strike.” How: It Hits Strikes v provision of the Wagner at preventing or smash- kes when they actually take r Board shall step in under any ions where “the free flow of is i ered with,” or has led or tel to a labor dispute that m: ng for “col- z bill sets up nent agencies and empoy eral Courts to institute geinins” in all strikes. The that what the 14,000 Co., the Ford and Budd gover the Fed: Page 2) L000 | son Auto For Higher Wages Entire Floor Walks Out tn Detroit Gratiot Plant DETROIT, Mi: March 2—The entire second floor of the Hudson atiot nlant where auto bodies are factured quit work yesterday they went back to work ny offeted conces- ‘The nature of the agreement sion. is not yet known. The Auto Workers Union distri- e-ting on other depart- front strug7ie of A, F. of bers, Auto Workers Union L. members, and unorganized workers. Th2 Hudson Jef*erson plant closed teday hocause of lack of auto bodies. ill provides that the National | for the same demand, Osman’s Conviction Is Reversed by F’ash’ton NEW YORK.—The conviction of Corporal Robert Osman of Brook- lyn who was found guilty by a court martial in August, 1931, of “communicating military secrets to persons said to be Communists” was reversed by the federal gov- ernment, it became known yes- terday. Osman was sentenced to two years in prison at hard labor and a fine of ten thousand dollars j| by an unfair and vrejudiced court martial. He is now held in a Panama prison. Osman will be re-tried, Raise $1,000 for Jefense of the Scottsboro Nine Langston ‘Hughes, Cag- ney, Help; Columbia Students Protest SAN FRANCISCO, March 2.— Over $1,000 was raised for the Scottsboro defense at an auction sale of art works presided over by James Cagney, fast-talking screen star. All items were donated by their creators, including severa! drawings by Cagney. The auction was arranged by Langston Hughes. noted Negro poet and author and | president of the League of Strug- gle for Negro Rights, « « BALTIMORE, March 2. — Protest wires are flooding President Roose- velt, the Alabama Supreme Court and Gov. Miller of Alabama’ from scores of organ'‘zations, clubs, lodges and churches in this city. The long- shoremen were the first to respond in indignant protest against the fraudulent ruling of Judge Callahan denying a hearing, in his court, on the International Labor Defense mo- tions for new trials and reversal of the lynch verdicts against Haywood 2tterson and Clarence Norris, two he Scottsboro boys. Arrangements are be- { ing for a giant meeting at |New Atbert Auditorium on Pennsyl- vania Ave., next week, with either liem L. Patterson or Richard B. re as the main speaker. The powerful uvsurge of the Scotts- boro movement, b«s71 on the struggle for Negro ntional liberation, will be integrelly linked with the fight against the disbarment of Bernard Ades, I. L. D. attorney who is in the forefront of the strugs’e against brutal Jim Crowism and oppression of the Negro people. Columbia Students Protest NEW YORK. — Ruby Bates and fense witnesses, addressed a Scotts- boro protest mesting of 490 students on the Columbia University camous yesterday afterncon, under the aus- nices of the Co'umbia Social Prob- Jems Club. The meeting unanimously adonted nrotest resolutions to be for- warded to Judge Cvllahan, Gov. | Milter and Prestdent Poosevelt, de- manding the release of the Scotts- boro boys. 2 NEW YORK.—When the Red Pre, Benguet opens tomorrow night, 7 o'clock at ‘he New Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave., the entire printing shop’ of the “Daily,” Freiheit, and Arbeiter, will be on hand to celebrate the installation of the new printing press. i ‘The linotypers, compositors, stero- typers, and pressmen, who set the tyne, make the paves, meke the nla‘ss for the nress, and run the pavers cff the vress, will join with the hundreds of New York workers. individuats, an’ delegates of organizations, in the eslebration for the new printix press. " Earl Browder, recently returned from a tour in which he lectured on Austria, will deltyer the main aAaress of “2 evening. James W. Ford, os 3; Krumbsin, and Moissaye Ol- ¢ - editor of the Morning Freiheit, will give greetings to the workers presen‘. Clarence Hathaway, Editor of the Daily Worker, will be chair- man of the evening, and will present the Red Press Certificates Workers in the Daily Worker press room will bring @ substantial dona- Lester Carter, chief Scottsboro de- | 500,000 Men Fired Friday Off the CWA Plan To Fire 1,104,000 in March by Roose- velt Orders NEW YORK.—Following up the Roosevelt plan for the cutting down | of unemployment relief, the federal | government announced yesterday that another 1,104,000 C.W.A. workers will be fired in the four weeks of March. Yesterday another half million C.W.A. workers were fired. A to the announcemnt of Federal Relief Di- rector Hopkins, there were yesterday 2,609,500 C.W.A. workers still on the C.W.A. rolls. This figure was arrived at by sub- tracting the nearly one and one half million C.W.A. workers fired within the ‘past few weeks, from the sup- posed figure of four million which the C.W.A. claimed to have on its rolls before the firing began. The figure of four million total who were on the C.W.A. rolls, is highly inflated. There have been one and one half million fired off the C.W.A. rolls within a month, under Roosevelt’s plan of cutting relief to the jobless to almost nothing. The reduction in C.W.A. forces dur- ing March, announced by Hopkins, is as follows: March 2nd, C.W.A. forces reduced to 2,609,500; March 9th, re- duced to 2,337,250; March 16, reduced to 2,062,200; March 21, reduced to; 1,787,050; and on March 13th, reduced ' to 1,505,500. This schedule calls for the firing of 1,104,000 in the month of March, ous New York C.W.A. Unpaid NEW YORK.—The Central Regis- tration Bureau at South Ferry under the Department of Public Welfare is in an upheaval. C.W.A. men are sup- posed to get between $30-$35 a week, and women from $20-$22, some have been paid, but many have not been j paid for the last two weeks. The/ clerks receiving $12 a week, employed under the E.W.B. which is a city de- partment, appointed by Deputy Com- missioner Ben Howe, have not re- ceived any wages in eight weeks. | There is a tendency to call a strike there. The new method of handling these men is to alternate them in cheap lodging houses. Philipnines Offered Fake ‘Independence’ Bill Binds Islands While Flattering Native Land- lords and Bosses WASHINGTON, Mar. 2.—A “Philippine independence” _ bill, embodying certain smendments to the Hare-Hawes-Cutting Act, was | presented to Congress today with a special messare from President Roosevelt urging its passage. It meets the demands of the Filipino masses for independence with a scheme to grant indepen- dence in not Jess than 11 years, and to allow for “negotiations” on the disposition of U. S. armed forces and naval bases in not less than 13 years, The bill contains a few conces- sions to the Filipino bourgeoisie, which reiected the Hare-Hawes- Cutting Bill. These are. designed to win supvort of the Filinino Jandlord-capitalists for the United States in the coming conflict with Japan. Meanwhile, its economic clauses are expected to rivet down the financial subjection of the islands to Wall Street. tion to the banquet, for the press. A worker in the composing room of the “Daily” said yesterday “Only those men who have worked on the paper since it came to New York can av- rreciate the great strides ‘he Daily Worker has made.” Harry Chandler, foreman of the comnosinz room sald “Now we can make the vaper look like something! All of vs here will be en hand Surdev nicht to we'come the new nrevs.” MecTnnes. shon chair- man of the Drtlv Worker, comnosing Taem teld how the men, members of the “Bie Six”, A. F. of L. Tyno- eravhical Union, initiated the nress comnmaien in the shon,' called a sve- cial mee’ing, decided uvon contribu- tions, and erranged for an entire teble at the banauet. The Radams'ys, Marie and Sergei, will make their Jast appearance at this banouet before they return this month to the Soviet Union, to tour in Siberia. The Hall Johnson Quartette, a newly organized Negro group will sing among other numbers, an ar- Tangement of “Water Boy,” made 1 ‘by Hall Johnson for the Quartette for sing other Negro work songs, as well as Negro spirituals, | Proclaims ‘Roosevelt Demands ALUMINUM STRIKERS PICKET Striking workers massed outside aluminum factory N. Y. Workers Will Mass’ Today at Nazi Consulate Dollfuss Announces ‘Natural Law’ Rule, Constitution's End Unrestrained War on Workers and Their Organizations VIENNA, March 2—The Dollfuss government ‘today announced offi- cially that it had scrapped the Aus- trian const'tition, and would govern by “natural law.” ‘This announcement appears in the Official Gazette, in which Robert Hecht, constitutional adviser to Doll- fuss, announces in large type that “The law of state necessity has its roots’ in natural law and stands above the constitution. “The energetic gentlemen heading the government will, of course, have greater respect for natural law than for a written constitution.” Thus the fascist government of Dollfuss gives notice that it binds it- self by no rules of any kind in carty- ing out its campaign of complete suppression of the working class and all its organizations. The ODollfuss government an- nounced it would publish the “Ar- beiter Zeitung,” formerly official) organ of the Social Democratic varty, as a fascist organ under the direc- tion of the official Austrian News Agency. Tariff Powers for Use in Trade War Demand for Sole Power Shows U.S. Imperial- - ist Aggression WASHINGTON, March 2.—Roose- velt today asked ‘he House to give him. the greatest tariff powers in the his- tory of the country for use in a new aggressive imperialist drive for for- eign markets. ‘The question of new foreign mark- ets is vital for the New Deal, Roose- velt said. He requested the power to enter into reciprocal trade agreements with any country without going thru the present procedure of having tariff in- vestigations first. He wants a clear undisputed power to negotiate and maneuver for foreign trade advan- Bob Lewis, of the Group Theatre’s “Men In White” will present a group of revolutionary numbers including “The Red Hamlet.” It will be known Sunday night whe*her or not enouch money has been raised to pay for the new vrinting press of our revolution- ary movement. Bring your personal donction to the banauet! See that your organization makes its donation et the bancuet. Or meil 1 in to/ Press Committee, P. O. Box 136, Sta. D., N. ¥. C. Out of town orzaniza- , tions are urged to come to quick sun- ‘port of the revolutionary press. Mew Yorkers, indiv'dusls, and representa- | fives of organizations, do your part towards the press by making the banquet, a “Victory Bonquet.” Tickets for the banquet will be sold all day Sunday at the Business Office of the Daily Worker, until 5 o’clock, at the box office at New Star Casino after 6 o'clock. | tages. The House bill is so drawn that this will become the permanent tariff Policy of the United States Govern- ment. This request reflects the growing intensity of the world imperialist struggle for the re-division of the existing world markets, shrunken by more than 66 per cent since 1929. Par- ticularly, it refects the intense ag- gressiveness of American imperialism in its latest drive to repdace its British and Japanese imperialist rivals in the world market. VOLUNTEERS WANTED to act as waiters, waitresses and ushers at our PRESS BANQUET SUNDAY, MARCH 4th, at New Star Casino, Please apply today at Daily Worker Store, 35 E. 12th St., City. In Thaelmann’s Defense Demonsirate 1:30 P.M., By Thousands at 17 Battery Pl. NEW YORK. — Today, one year ince Ernst Thaelmann, beloved lead- or of the German Communist Party, was thrown into a Nazi dungeon in Berlin, workers throughout the world will mass in protest demonstrations, demanding his release. In New York, a gigantic dem-. onstcation is called to gather in. front of the German Consulate, 17 Battery Place, at 1:30 pm. today, ‘o demand his freedom, to hurl in the teeth of the Nazi butchers the American workers’ hatred of their bloody persecutions. The call for this demonstration is issued by the Young Communist League, in response to an appeal of the Intern-tional Labor Defense, and its parent body, the International Red Aid, to make the week of March 3 to 10 a week of gigantic mass ac- tions throuthout the world for the freedom of Thaelmann. * 8 6 ‘TORONTO, March 2—Leo Galla- her, Internatonal Labor Defense at- torney who fought for the acquitted Reichstag fire trial defendants in Germany, and is here now to defend (Continued on Page 2) Jones Tells of Gun Rule a Docks Order Men Back, Marine Editor Scores} ee tf i, NRA Code for Seamen | Negotiate Later and Longshoremen + By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Mar. 2.—‘Under your N.RA., we have machine guns/ on the docks in Boston and we have men who try to walk ashore on strike driven back aboard by guns shoved | into their guts.” ‘Thus Hayes Jones, editor of the) Marine Workors Voice, today told) N.R.A. officials one reason why the Marine Workers Industrial Union “ts! heartily opposed to the N.R.A. and| has been from the start.” Jones and Lines During the Counts | : Negotiations |Says Professor CLEVELAND, March 2.— A new| | social order where “The new collec- | 1,000 VOTE ST RIKE tive economy will be administered in| “We'll Go Along with the interests of the great masses who | do the work of the country,” was | Board,” Says Union Official advocated by Professor George 8.) Counts of Teachers College, Colum- | bia University, at the Progieesive | ation Association Conference i PITTSBURGH, Pa., March other independent union spokesmen | day. | 9 paige indicated the shipping code as the} “The rising generation must be | 2-—The N.R.A. Regional Board “field day for critics came to @ closc| told that the system of private capi-| here reported that representa- ot NAA, Readuussters, isin oy beet to be Leck tives of nearly 5,000 strikers The four day hearings piled up| *urt,” sail ‘ounts, who is a member | 3 such » mountain of discredit and dis-| ‘ the commission of the American |t the three plants of the Alu approval of the N.R.A. that Adminis- | Historica! jation and author of | minum Company” of America, pete trator General Hugh S. Johnson ap- | ~cveral ici ad Andrew bene eps agreed to peared personally to wind them up| educational system. r the men to return to work with a speech asserting that “prac-| —__——_- “negotiations” of tically all of the critics express their . ° Metal Union Hails . ° | of the Regional Board. Aluminum Strike} While the negotiations were going ss books pzaising the Soviet) t or the nm was taken after & con- |ference between the strike leaders, Mellon company officials, and heads unqualified support of the N.R.A.” |on, however, the strikers marched on It is true that Communist and mili- Urges To Beware of N Alt picket lines and kept the alumi- tant union spokesmen were the aly critics who launched a basic avtack n plants shut. The only ones al- Labor Board owed to go in were maintenance upon the purposes of the New Deal—| but the General was absurdly inacc’ who obtained permission from re given cards to rate in claiming “unqualified support. Only a little earlier on the same plat- form Jones had asserted, “The funs- tion of the whole shipping code is] to destroy the only weapon the work- ers have—the strike. The National! Labor Board is just a stepping stone | ¢ to Government control of labor unions; been addressed to thi 1 | fascism.” and Metal Workers Industrial Union. | Heap Disdain on N.R.A. | Signed. by Pete Chaap, acting st And literally scores and scores of| retary of the union, the statem: others, representing little business, | reads: profesional workers, and labor, both} “The Steel and Metal Workers In- ortanized and unorganized, had heap-| dustrial Union greets your strike and ed reports of disi’lur‘onment and) pledges support. We urge you to be-| ment accep despair upon the N.R.A. in general} ware of the N.R.A. and its National | voted as well as in specific cases. A Detroit} Labor Board. Experience of thou-| si at a meeting. teol and die makers’ representative! sands of strikers in Weirton Steel,| Thomas S. Baker, chairman of had expesed the stimulatton of the| Ford Edgewater plant as well as in| the N.R.A. Regional Board, who took laber-spy business by the N.R.A., say- | Chester, Budd Auto plant, and inja leading part in the negotiations, is ing that the name, Representative | other places, clearly show that the| nresident of the Carnegie Institute of Carl Weideman of Minnesota (the| National Labor Board is an instru-| Technology and a director of the same who recently introduced a, ment of the employers, exvressly used ‘bes National Bank of Pittsburth bonus-stalling bill for the leadership to ak strikes against the interests) which has close relations with the of the veterans of foreign wars) ap-| of the workers. elion interests against whom the peared on the Ictterhead of a labor “Closé ranks firmry and stay out| strike is directed. spy company in the auto industry. | until the company grants your | Form National Union In addition to reflecting nationwide} mands. Your strike is inspiring 1} The strike (termed a “holiday” by , discontent and prevavations for a neW| and metal workers throughout the| the leaders of the union) began Wed- | country. Your strike can and must/ be won!” I t | See editorial on Page 8 and news gn Paze 4. pted by the leaders, wos down last night by over 1,000 oa (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 2) Austrian Communists and Bauer: Historic Contrast C. P. of Austria Distributed Strike Call While Bauer Tried to Come to Terms with Dollfuss 2 NEW YORK.—The following is the full text of the call issued by the illegal Communist Party of Austria in its paper “Die Rote Fahne” to the workers in the big factories and elec- trical plants of Vienna and Linz: It will be noticed that the date is two days before the first outbreak of the general strike. This leaflet calling for general strike against Fascism is in remarkable contrast to the ap- pended statement of Otto Bauer, leader of the Austrian Socialist Party, as given to the world press during the days of the open class battles on the barricades. February 10th, 1933 OUT ON GENERAL STRIKE! The shops in Liesing and Atz- from there are arrested, In Inns- bruck, the Socialist headquarters and their printing plant have been smashed by the fascists. There have been bloody collisions. The Heimwehr bandits have armed and mobilized their bands throughout the country, by agreement with Dollfuss, They are demanding commissars in place of the provincial govern- ments, and the Social Democratic municipalities. In more than 20 Social Democratic municipalities, commissars are already appointed. ‘hey are demanding ocommissars for labor exchanges, social insur- ance administration, and also for the factories. BEAT FASCISM DOWN BEFORE IT BEATS YOU DOWN! Down tools at once! Strike! Call out the troops around you! Elect committees of action in every shop, to lead the fight! Out into the streets! Disarm the fas- cists! Arms into the hands of the workers! GENERAL STRIKE! Immediate dissolution of all fas- cist organizations! Down with all the fascist com- missars! Down with the fascist adminis- tration of the Chambers of Labor! he restraints of illegality issuing filets for a general strike in all the large factories, the following state- ment of Otto Bauer, leader of the Austrian Socialist Party, reveals with what desperation the Socialist lead- ership was trying to stop the workers from taking the road of general strike and armed struggle against | Fascism. This statement of Otto | Bauer was made to the representa- | tives of the press of the whole world | While the class battles were still rag~ | ing on the barricades of Vienna and | Linz: DOWN WITH HE HANGMAN GOVERNMENT! Communist Party of Austria (Section of Third International) erie ees i 'HILE the Communist Party of | Austria was breaking through all smmediate restoration of free- dom of assembly, press, collective bargaining, and of strike! Immediate liberation of all anti- fascist prisoners! Down with the death penalty and martial law! | Die Role Fahne 10. Gebdruar 1934 Sondernummer Ge. 3 “We offered to make the greatest concessions that a democratic party | ever made. “We let Dollfuss know that if he would only pass a bill through Par- liament, we would accept a measure AUTHORIZING THE GOVERN- MENT TO GOVERN BY DECREE FOR TWO YEARS WITHOUT ANY PARLIAMENT on two condi- tions, ete, (our emphasis) “L arranged for them (the workers of Linz) to be told that if we in Vienna could submit patiently to a search for arms, they must try to do the same. Apparently the message arrived too late.” And then the final confesstes that he tried to join Dollfuss te | crush the workers’ struggles, in his own infamous words: “When I heard that the elee~ trie workers had gone out in spone taneous strike, I asked our Finance Minister and Vice-Governor to get in touch with Dollfuss or Presi- | dent Miklas at all costs TO | ARRANGE FOR JOINT ACTION | IMMINENT SKeraus 3um Generaljtreik! Die Betriede von Liejing, Uhgersdor} ftreiken bereits. Wile fogiaidemokra- filden Bertravensmanner wurden dort verhaite!. Su Snnsbruck wurde Urbeiler deim und Druckerei von den Faldifien gulammengeldlagen Es kam ju blue tigen Sufammenftipen. Die Geimmehren haben im -Einoernehmen mit DoOfub w alten Gundeslindern ihre Horden Semofine! aufgeboten. Sie’tordern Kommisre ‘an Stelle ek Laidesregieringen wnd der Yostate demokralifden Gemeindeverwattungen. Gn mebr ais 20 fostaldemokraltiden Gemeinden wurden die Hommifidre bereits einacickt. Gie fordern Kommtifidre fir die Urbeifslolennermittiungen, Goxialverficheringsiiflitute und and fir die Pripalbdeiriche Schlag! den Fajchismus nieder, ehe ex eud) niederjchligt! eg fotor: Ore Urder! mieder' Strethl? Holl dre Nachbarhetriede derans! Wadi Wktionshomitees yur isons des Rampfes in jedem Betried? nal cr es) Girake! Cntwalinel die Faldhitten! Die Wafien tw dte Hinde ‘ rbeiter ! Generaljireik! Sojortige Unilldjung aller taihtitiiqen Orgentiattoees? ‘Weg mit allen jolchiftithen Aomifjdren! ‘Weg mit den js} ‘Derweltungskommiffioner Aer Wrdetterhamenerat meen ligng ber Gerjammiengs-, Preller, Roglationse aad Solortige aller antifel¢ j tiftgen Gelangenen! ‘Deg wil der Todesiiraie aad sem Standrect! : Weg mit der Senker-Regierung! Sommunifiche Dariet OcRerretgye (Gehtion ver U1, Suterneitenatc} Call for general strike distributed by the Austrian Communist Party im the large factories two days before the general strike broke out. The top Socialist leadership was trying all the while to stop the strike actions and to crush the armed struggles. TO sToPp THE FIGHTING.” Bauer offered himself and his Party to the Fascist Dollfuss for action against the striking | cers and their brothers on the | barricades! It was over his head and } against his orders that the Austrian | working class took to the general | strike and armed struggle. The Com- munist Party alone called upon the workers to strike the blow sgaines Fascism, j NR A, AF 'L Heads | “Capitalism Bankrupt,” | Strikers Hold Picket =