The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 5, 1934, Page 1

CIRCL NEW SUBS Daily Fotal to date.. Vol. XI, No. 55 Shows Way Out of Wage Pravda Says Masses Fast Learning the ® Slavery, Entered as second-class m: New York, N. ¥., under t 15th Anniversary of Commun Daily QWork CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) ater at the Post Office at he Act of March 8, 1879. NEW YORK, M DAY, MARCH 5, 1934 WEATHER: Cloudy, probab ist International Hailed By Work Roosevelt t NRA With S Break New eS i Road to Soviet Power IMMENSE VICTORIES Marked Contrast to the Bankruptcy of the 2nd Socialist Intv’] (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, March 4. (By radio) — The fifteenth anni- versary of the founding of the Communist International is being celebrated in the entire Soviet press. In a special anniversary adition entirely devoted to the Com- Intern: and its history, Pravda, lead- ing organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union leads with an editorial under the head, “One Path Is Open to the Working Class of the. Whole, World — The Path of Struggle for the Proletarian Dicta- torshiv, for a Soviet Government. Long Live the Great Unconquerable Banner of Marx, Engels, Lenin ang. sane’ The Pravda publishes leading arti- cles. by Piatnitsky, Knorin, Dimitroff, Radek, and others. An editorial called, “A Historic Breaking Points” summarizes the re- sults-of the 15 years of Comintern history, and...quotes-.extracts from Lenin’s. speech delivered at the open- ing of the First Congress of the Comintern. It qvotes what Lenin xaid, at, that time: dictatorship of the prole- taviat, which was latin for the masses, is now translated inte all modern langages, thanks to the spread of the system of Soviet rule,”, Commenting, the Pravda states: “Eyery workman, peasant and toiler can now see with incompar- (Continued on Page 2) London Workers Jam. Trafalgar Sq. in Giant Meeting Tom Mann, Harry Pollitt Lead Monster Protest Against Hunger LONDON, March 4.—At_ least 75,000 workers filled Trafalgar Square today in a monster demonstration against the Unemployment Bill and the hunger program of the Ramsay MacDonald government. Tom Mann, veteran British work- ers’ leader, and Harry Pollitt, sec retaty.of the Communist Party of Great Britain, both out on bail on charges of “sedition,” were among the “speakers who addressed the meeting. Despite the fact that British law forbids demonstrations in this neigh- borhood, which is near the House of Parliament, the militancy of the workers was so great that the thou- sands<of mounted and foot police were forced to allow the demon- stration With 2,000 Hunger Marchers from all over Great Britain in the center, the massed workers demonstrated for many hours. The demonstrators then fcrmed» columns with bands and banners and marched through many sections of the city. In the Daily Worker . Today Spee Balance Sheet of One Year of the New Deal, by Harry Gannes, Draft Youth Resolution for sth Cotivention of C. P., U.'S. A. “Self-Criticism in the Pre-Con- vention Discussion Builds Our “ohange the World!” by Sender rn ore Ignored by U. S.,” John L. 8) its in Thaelmann’s Life.” 5 8 | é GENERAL JOHNSON Slave Code Head Gen. Johnson Closes ‘Hearings on N. R. A. Codes | Criticisms Minor’s Report Is Only Basic Exception to the Approval of N.R.A. (Daily Worker Washington Bureau ~ WASHINGTON, 'D. ©; March rs “I enjoyed my talk with Mr. Minor. Of course, that talk was political and was designed for the overthrow of our government. But the overthrow of our government does not come under the N.R.A.,” General Hugh S. Johnson, N.R.A. Administrator, de- clared Friday afternoon in the course of a short prepared speech which closed the N.R.A. criticism sessions. “Of course, there has been some dia- tribe,” he said, just before mention- ing Robert Minor, Communist Party spokesman, Johnson not only failed to reply to a single one of Minor’s specific criticisms of the strike-breaking, starvation-codified N.R.A., but also ignored the mountain of bitter com- plaints from workers in nearly every industry. “Practically all of the critics | expressed their unqualified support of the N.R.A.,” he announced at the beginning of his little speech. In ending, he professed to be “immense- ly pleased with what has happened in these conferences.” The General attempted to defiect much of the criticism concerning the strike-breaking activities of the Na- tional Labor Board by pleading that the Board “is independent of the N.R.A..” despite the fact that the board ‘s an integral part of the “Re- covery” machirg and that no notice was given that such was the opinion of the administration. It is significant that Johnson re- ferred realistically to the real authors and bosses of the N.R.A. by pointing out their “support of the President.” “Nothing better demonstrates the support of the President than the unanimous acceptance of the code conference invitations,” he declared. o “Modify” wope Plan to Strike Wave Johnson Urges “Wider Use” of NRA Strike- Breaking Machine By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, March 4.—Presi- dent Roosevelt will stand before about 4,000 big business men tomor- row to welcome the “Congress of Industry” summoned by N.R.A. Ad+ ministrator General Hugh S. John- son to seek ways of heading off the spring strike wave which is already clearly foreseen by government offi- cials. | The official announcements say the conferences are for discussing “pos- sible modification of N. R. A. codes and code administration policies.” Among the “modifications” hundreds of the conferees have in mind, The Daily Worker was reliably informed today, is the adaptation of the N.RB.A. to the principles of the Swope Plan, This plan, designed by Gen- eral Johnson and Gerard Swope, of J. P. Morgan’s General Electric Company, was announced last fall but hastily withdrawn from public attention when it met a storm of denunciation because of its openly fascist character. Even now, rest assured, no one will mention the Swope Plan by name.. But it served as a guide- post for the proposals which the notoriously anti-labor National Asso- ciation of Manufacturers and the National Industrial Conference Board (Continued on Page 2) Cuban Soldiers Murder Seven Sugar Workers U. S. Workers Urged to Protest the Mendieta- Caffery Terror (Special to the Daily Worker) Havana, March 4——Seven sugar workers were killed and scores savagely wounded in a massacre at the Tacajo and Baguanos sugar centrals, property of the U.S. An- tilla Sugar Company, in Oriente province. _ Rural guards and A.B.C. assas- sins entered a Tacajo strike meet- ing, and fired point black into the defenseless workers when they protested the attempted arrest of their leader, Valentin. The victims were slashed, beaten with rifles and bayonets. A boy of 15 was shot through the chest. U.S. Workers’ Protests Urgent In Camaguey prison, 20 sugar workers have been on a hunger strike since Feb. 26. They are pro- strated, A A general strike begins today in Camaguey, to force the release of the strikers. In the Moron region, a Jamaican worker has been hung. Powerful mass protests in the United States against the reign of terror in Cuba is an urgent ne- cessity. NEW YORK.—Although it had a very sow start in the Daily Worker circulation drive, Cleveland district is now giving Chicago a stiff battle for the leadership in the campaign. Cleveland sent in 59 new daily subs in the week ending Feb. 28, leading all districts In that week. It gained 131 new daily subs from Jan. 24, the start of the drive, up to Feb. 28, while Chicago, which sent in 44 new daily subs last week, has a total of 150 new daily subs. New York district sent in 34 new ‘daily subs last week, bringing its total 120, exclusive of a gain of 1,007 daily readers by Sections, car- Boston is third among districts out- side of New York with a total of 98 new daily subs; Philadelphia fourth, with 81; Minneapolis fifth with 78. Saturday Subs Chicago sent in 36 new Saturday 312. Boston, ich sent in 19 new gnes last week, is second with 67; Cleveland sent in 33 new Saturda: with a total of 34. In the weel districts sent in compared with new Cleveland, Chicago Battling For Lead in ‘Daily’ Sub.Drive week, 208 new Saturday subs, against 278 the week before. The decline last week as compared with the week before shows that in- | Stead of intensifying activity in the drive a number of districts slowed down. . An immediate improvement is necessary, comrades, in order to put the drive over the top. Every class-conscious \ worker 1s urged to join actively in this cam- paign to strengthen our revolutionary movement by increasing the circula- tion of our Daily Worker. Ask your immediate friends and your fellow and Red Builders since Feb. Ist.| of the districts from Jan. 24 to War Plants Built By Du Ponts In Jersey PARLIN, N. J., March 4.—Work was started last week on another plant addition here for the Du- Pont Film Manufacturing Corp. subsidiary of E. I, DuPont De Nemours Co., ammunition makers. Three other units involving an expenditure of over $200,000 are nearly ready for occupancy. These include a casting building addi- tion, a filtering plant addition and a mixing house. All can be readily transformed into productive units in the man- ufacture of war méaterials.. Sur- veys have also been made by the parent company for the erection of still another plant ostensibly to manufacture paint. One-half mile away the Hercules Powder Co., which only recently declared an extra dividend, is working with night shifts. Citizenship of 'E. Gardos Void, U.S. Court Says Labor Department Aids Attempt to Deport Gardos MILWAUKEE, March 4.—A Fed- eral Court decision containing a menace to hundreds of thousands of foreign-born workers was handed down today Federal Judge F. A. Gei- ger, who revoked the citizenship papers of Emil Gardos, member of the Communist Party and a well known leader of the working class in Cleveland. Throughout the trial, the immi- gration agents from the Depart- ment of Labor. Secretary Perkins played a prominent part in giving testimony against Gardos. “In the heart of an alien taking the oath of American citizenship there is no room for any loyalty but to the Constitution of the United States,” the Judge declared in can- | celling Gardos’ citizenship papers granted to him in 1926, Gardos had declared: “I have no loyalty higher than my loyalty to the working class.” Gardos, who was defended by the I. L. D. Attorney, D. J. Bentall of Chicago and Samuel Berg of Mil- waukee, arrived from Hungary in 1922 and became a citizen in 1926. He has been in the front ranks of the workirle class struggle against capitalist exploitation, as a militant organizer in the Communist Party. The occasion used by the Govern- ment prosecution 1s his active par- ticipation in the Passaic strike and the fact that he ran on the Com- munist ticket in iWsconsin during the ‘ year that he was granted his citizen- | ship. Since he was already a Com- munist at thgt time, the Judge ruled that he could not have really sworn the truth when he accepted the oath of citizenship in 1926. Under the decision, Gardos be- comes immediately liable to deporta- tion to Fascist Hungary. 2500 in Pittsburgh Demonstrate Hate of Fascism, Hunger PITTSBURGH—Two thousand five hundred workers paraded here Satur- day, March 3, demonstrating their protest against the terror and mur- dering of the Austrian workers, and against misery and hunger in Pitts- burgh. Fourteen organizations an- swered the Call of the Pittsburzh Committee of the League Against War and Fascism. The Communist Party, the Y. C, L, Unemployed Councils, Jewish People’s Committee Against Fascism, the L. S. N. R., the Veteran’s Rank and File Committee, Pen and Hammer, Lithuanian Supreme Lodge, Icor, I. W. O., Russian Mutual Aid Society, William Penn Strikers, IL.D., and Young Pioneers of America. Many different banners and slogans were carried by hundreds of workers. The parade went through the main streets of the city. Resolutions adopted were the fol- lowing: Against Austrian Fascism; For the release of Thaelmann and Torgler, for unconditional release of Frank- feld, Jessup and Egan, the Rankin | ! portions, with additional local unions Dety Green; AFL Locals) For HR 7598: A.F.L: Executive Council In Lying Campaign Against H.R. 7598 NEW YORK.—The demand of the rank and ‘file members of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor for the enactment of the Workers Unem- ployment and Social Insurance Bill (H. R, 7598), has reached mass p¥o- indorsing the bill every day. Three additional A. F, of L. local unions, located in Chicago and Detroit, have indorsed the Workers Bill. In the past week alone the Daily Worker has received word of a score of A. F. of L. local unions demanding that Congress act favorably on the Work- ers Unemployment Bill. Local Union 37, Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhang- ers with 400 members, and Local Union 42 of the same Brotherhood, both in Detroit, indorsed the Bill, (H. R. 7598), and instructed their secretaries to write the local Con- gressmen calling on them to give it support. Cigar Makers Indorse Cigar Makers Union Local No. 14, of Chicago, affiliated with the A. F. of L., at the meeting of Feb. 27 in- dorsed the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill unanimously and eletced four delegates to be con- nected with the A. F. of L. Rank and File Committee on Unemployment (Continued on Page 2) Big Scottsboro Protest Meeting In Australia Delegation to Visit the Alabama Governor Tomorrow NEWCASTLE, Australia (By Mail). —Mayor R. G. Kilgour, of this city, presided Jan. 24 at a Scottsboro pro- test meeting organized by the Inter- national Labor Defense of Australia. Among the speakers were J. Kidd, secretary of the Newcastle Kurri Cess- nock group of the Austrialian Labor Party; H. Sutherland, organizer of the Federated Engine-drivers and Firemen’s Association; J. Jack, Northern President of the Miners’ Federation, and G. Bateman, nation- al secretary of the Australian I. L. D. . . . NEW YORK. — A delegation will visit Gov. B. M. Miller, of Alabama, at Montgomery tomorrow to demand the unconditional release of the nine Scottsboro boys and of Willie Peter- son, tubercular Negro miner and war veteran, sentenced to die March 30 on framed murder charges. The dele- gation was organized by the Inter- national Labor Defense. Mass protests, organized by the body, forced Gov. Miller, in spite of the sabotage of the N.A.A.C.P. “de- fense attorney, John Altman, to post- pone Peterson's execution, originally set for Feb. 16. Miller set a “clem- ency hearing” for March 6, 1{MERICA’S ON CLASS DAILY LY WORKING NEWSPAPER ly ers of Soviet Union Steel tion Nat'l Meet Girds AFT, Leaders For Strike Wave Rise in Metal Bouee 77 Delegates from 30 Cities, Representing 37 Mills, Cheer Two from Aluminum Strike and Pledge Unity in Struggle; Adopt Organizational Program (Special to the Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 4—In the midst of a series of strikes, 2 With the participation of two dele- gates from the Aluminum strike, the} Metal Workers Indust opened its sessions y ith 77 at Union | after-| rial es rose and cheered said the workers would stand firm for arrived he hall from the A. F. of | L. Aluminum Wor! Local No. 18356, now partic g in the alum- inum strike. They presented their credentials and were seated. They| said the workers would stand their demands and build an ind | trial union, probably not afiiliated with the A. F. of L. Support Aluminum Strike The conference’ voted to support the aluminum siril program on organization and le _through- E ed, provid- including unity the ship of the A. F. of L. ste the Amalgamated Association. ‘The outstanding points dealt with were: I‘ the rise of a huge strke- wave which is expected to steel and meta! industries, al shown by the strike the Al Company of America, the auto strike; 2) and the lessons of the Weirton and Ambridge 5 Of the 77 delegate: locals and districts and 15 were fraternal de Among the fraternal delegates th were representatives from loca the “A: F, of L, Sieel Union, the Am gamated Association in Clairton, Ps which led the strike in the Carnegie Steel Corporation’s plant in that city Jast year, as well as two delegates from the aluminum strike in New Kensington. The regular delegates represented 12 districts of the union, among which were Birmingham, Buffalo, New York, Brooklyn, Chicago, Gary, Pittsburgh, Youngstown and Balti- more. Chapa Reports The main report was made by the y, Pete Chapa. In the jate over 30 delegates representing all the districts. The main emphasis of the confer- ence laid on preparation for the strike wave, manifested not only discussion spoke, but the for| States | S= p-going discontent in teel Corporation's attempt to make t7.c company unions acceptable to the workers. The workers in the largest steel mills are immersed in mili st the company unions and for action to improve their conditions and win union rec- orgnition. Lessons of Weirton, Ambridge point receiving the great- jon was drawing of lessons Weirton and Ambridge strikes. In Ambridge, Pa., it was pointed out, the strike was broken through the extreme terror of the steel trust, and because the workers were not properly organized in de- partment and shop committees. The eirton strike was betrayed by the National Labor Board. Every speaker took up points on how to make the coming struggles more _ successful, Much attention was devoted to con- centrating on decisive mills such as Jones & Laughlin, in Pittsburgh, the Illinois Steel Mill, the Republic Mills in Buffalo, anid the nvdills in the-Cleve- land district as well as at the Beth- lehem plants in Baltimore. The conference listened to a very important speech made by Jim Egan, one of the officers of the union, on the united front. Power Plant Workers Vote General Strike in Milwaukee ¢ 5,000 Plan To Walk Out| Today; Will Tie Up All City Power (Special to the Daily Worker) MILWAUKEE, Wis. Mar. 3—A eeneral strike of all heat, light and transportation workefs in Milwauk-e wes colled fov 4 a.m. Monday morn- ing by 1,400 street car, interuban bus employes with electrical work- ers in the power house and street car barns, One hundred and fifty power house engineers, representing employes of the Milwaukee Blectric Reilway and Light Com- pany, voted for the strike. The ultimatum was voted by mem- bers of the Electrical Workers Union, the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes and Local 311 of The International Union of Overating Engineers. The workers are demanding union recog~ (Continued on Page 2) 1,000 Hudson Auto Men Win Demands Through Strike (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich. March 4—The) strike of 1,000 workers in the Hudson Gratiot plant gained a real victory. The men demanded a bonus of $200. After the entire second floor refused to work, the company guaranteed they would make at least 95 cents an hour. Since the basic rate is 48 cents, this is practically what the men de- manded. The company’s promise is retroactive covering the last pay. A number of strikers joined the Auto Workers Union. The opportun- ity for organizing the workers on the basis of the united front is now very good. Hudson’s is where the Auto Workers Union led a victorious one week strike last February. he present and recent struggles, | mills, shown by the United | 34,000 Remain Out Socialist Fails to Stop Speech by Steel Union Representative | SMWIU BACKS STRIKE Strikers Send 2 Delegates to Industrial Union Meet NEW KENSINGTON, Pa,, March 4.—Having twice re- jected proposals to return to work without winning their demands, over 4,000 strilzers in the three plants of the Mellon-con- trolled Aluminum Company of Amer- ca here were confronted today with secret ballot maneuvers by their of- ficials ‘n an effort to reverse the previous emphatic decisions of th | workers, | On Saturday, nearly 3,000 workers voted to stay out on strike, and to refuse the so-called 11 per cent wage increase, which does not apply to the, majority of those on strike. Only one worker voted to return to work. The “agreement” to end the strike was reached ata conference between the leaders of the union, and officials of the Mellon trust, aided by mem- bers of the N.R.A. regional board of Pittsburgh. Last Thursday, the workers voted not to obey the order of the regional labor board which commanded them (Continued on Page 2). »»+ theiy Savin sal | Investigate Dillinger Sensational Jailbreak CROWN POINT, Ind., March 4.— White 20,000 police in three states hunted high and low for the notori- ous John Dillinger who escaped from jail here yesterday with the aid of toy pistol, state and county authori- ties today launched an “inquiry” ir the circumstances surrounding the jail break. Governor Paul V. McNutt, former national commander of the American Legion, ordered a special state investigation. 3,500 Crowd Hall to Hear Hathaway Debate Against Fascist Head} NEW YORK. Over 3,500 people crowded into Mecca Tem- ple, 130 W. 55th St. yesterday afternoon, to hear C. A. Hatha- way, editor of the Daily Worker and member of the Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party, debate against Lawrence Dennis, avowed leader of American fas- cists. The crowds arrived early, overfiowing the auditorium. Many had to be seated on the platform. Hundreds of others had to be turned away at the door. Pull details of the debate, which was still in progress as this issue went to press, will appear in to- morrow’s Daily Worker. Workers Throughout U.S.S.R. Raise One Million _ Schillings Donations Continue In | ' All Parts of the Soviet Union (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, March 4. (By Cable)— Readily responding to the call for international proletarian solidarity, the workers of the Soviet Union, who last week offered homes in the USSR. to the children of victims of Austrian Fascism, have collected a sum equivalent to over a million to Aid Victims of Austr The Praesidium of the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions, through which these funds were col- lected, has decided to transfer the million schillings to the Soviet Union section of the International Defense. The sum will be added to the funds being raised throughout the US.S.R. for the assistance of the Austrian workers and victims of Fascism. Austrian Fascist Terror Rages Mass Arrests, Evictions and Layoffs Face Workers ” VIENNA, March 4—The “dry ter- ilies eagle Fins gamiaw Boys and the other class war prison- be Spa rosy EL os ror” is in full blast in Austria. Every ‘The table below ers; for the immediate release of the ert cone: Bi ee. iG) Gay squads of Heimwehr fascists and Scottsboro A resolution en- ; lice carry away to prison and tor- February 28, dorsing the Strike of 5,000 Aluminum | Fascism. i “f “i ture an unrecorded number of work- Sia a pean = workers in New Kensington was also| ‘The money was raised in all parts| ers, Every day more workers are 1 Boston 98 200 67 . 1000 | of ioe eave Aiea Gains among the “missing.” Bodies are New York 120 mills, collective farms. ion of | found in the streets. < Paaaethin = be < sped La Follette “Willing” funds for relief continues without| fascist Austria is like Nazi Ger- 5 Pittsburgh 58 300 13 600 To Lead Third P: let-up coreg decpaed = many. There are hundreds of wid- 6 Cleveland 131 500 61 1000 o a ur arty announce it ay, Ss cws and orphans of workers mur- 7 Detroit, Cy 500 30 1000 hundreds of nurseries and kindergar- | dered in the recent fighting. Thous- S Guitere 1p) eS «My | SEADIBON, Wis, March 4-—-Fol- | tens have been set aside for} ands more are left destitute by the 10 oe 3 100 23 200 | lowing in the footsteps of his dema-; the children of the murdered Aus-/| mass arrests which go on daily. 11 N.&S. Dak. 28 100 33 200 | gogic father, Senator Robert M. La-| trian workers. 3 Many thousands are left jobless, Westerns 3 38008 $00 | Follette, Jr. is “willing” to lead aj Not a meeting passes without work- | and hundreds of thousands are ex- SNM (ts 3: 906. Ak G00 | third party movement, he announced | ers giving or pledging sums totalling | pecting to lose jobs and homes to Conn. 19 200 “15 foo | last night at a meeting of Wisconsin| from one day's to a week’s wages.|the Heimwehr fascists, who are 16.N.&S. Car. 7. 50 3 — | Republican leaders. In addition to their protests against | clamoring for the victors’ spoils. 17 Alabama = 14 50 5 ae oes The tremendous dissatisfaction | the murders and butcheries of the | Thousands are facing eviction to give 18 Milwaukee 35 200204’ | with the New Deal among the farm-|Dollfuss government, the workers| the modern workers’ homes to fas- ©. & F. eee fo ae —— | ers was basic reason for his de-| throughout this vast land continue | cists, and thousands more can no sooo = 742.—=S«s«'20200 | Cision, he stated their actions for relief, longer pay their rent, In the face of this terror, the Social-Democratic leadérship, from its position of safety in Czecho- slovakia, continues to urge that Dollfuss fascism is to be endured as a “lesser evil” than Nazi fascism, “ “Nazi rule in Austria would be stronger and more lasting than the bloodthirsty but muddleheaded dic- torship of the stupid Austrian fascism” runs their appeal, printed in their “Arbeiter Zeitung,” which gives no directives and no slogans for the immediate fight against Dollfuss fascism. Despite their destitution, Austrian workers by thousands are rejecting the “gifts” of food offered by or- ganizations which support the fas- cists, because the packages come with fascist propaganda enclosed with the food ian Fascism | Funds Collected Through Central Council of Trade Unions | A current account has been spe ially opened for the purpose of aid« ing the Austrian workingclass, which resisted with arms the terror and butchery of Austrian Fascism. The All-Union Russian Central Council of Trade Unions has announced that it still continues to receive contribu- tions for this fund from workers and factories and groups in all corners of the huge Soviet territory William Weinstone Will Lecture on Austria at Cooper Union W ednesday NEW YORK.— Wiliam Wein- stone, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, recently returned from Eu- rope where he made an extensive study of political and economic conditions, will speak on “Lessons of Austria” at Cooper Union, 4th Ave. and 8th St., on Wednesday, March 7 at 7 p. m. at an open membership meeting of the Inter- national Workers Order, All workers are invited, \ —