The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 6, 1934, Page 1

Demonstrate at Pier | —" 5 | CIRCULATION DRIVE NEW SUBS RECEIVED YESTERDAY: Daily Cotal to Date +6 «1,489 Saturday...... Total..........908 Vol. XI, No. 56 =. Daily -QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 8, 1870. "ROOSEVELT LAUDS NRA SLAVE CODE AT BOSSES CONFAB Hands Out Old Tomorrow Against Seab Tobacco Cargo To Rally at Pier 33, Brooklyn, in Support of Cuban Strikers M.W.LU. ISSUES CALL Seamen : Witesed To Load Ship in Cuba NEW YORK.—All out to pier 33, Hamilton Ave., Brook- lyn, at 9 o'clock Wednesday morning! Stop the unloading of scab tobacco from the S.S. Santa Barbara of the Grace. Line which was loaded by strikebreakers and troops in Havana harbor! This call was issued today by the Marine Workers Industrial Union after the receipt of the fol- lowing cablegram from the Federa- tion of Harbor Workers of Havana: “Crew of Santa Barbara refused to load tobacco. Boycott tobacco loaded by strikebreakers. Mobilize all forces to await arrival of ship.” Workers from Manhattan, Bronx and Harlem can get to the Grace Line pier, where the Santa Barbara docks, by taking the Hamilton Ave. Ferry at the foot of South Street. ite ee" HAVANA, March 5.—Supporting the strike of the tobacco workers here the crew of the Grace Liner Santa Barbara, led by the Marine Workers Industrial Union, refused to load a cargo of tobacco. The tobacco was afterwards loaded by strike- breakers, Who were guarded by a heavy detachment of troops. The ship will dock at Pier 33, Brooklyn, on March 7. Calling on all New York workers to support the struggle of the Cuban ‘Tebanee workers, the Federation of Harbor Workers of Hayana cabled the Marine Workers Industrial Union, 140 Broad St., New York City, to mobilize all forces to await the arrival of the ship. Dockers’ Strike. All dock workers and newspaper employees are striking here today in protest against the loading and ship- ping of tobacco that has been stacked up on the docks since the Grau San Martin government was in power. The strike of the long- shoremen and newspaper workers is im support of the long and deter- rained struggle of the Cuban to- becco workers for higher wages and bitter conditions. The longshore strike has effected tye entire waterfront. Newspaper workers have shut down every paper ‘m Havana. 6,000 Out in the Shoe Strike at Haverhill, Mass. Three Locals Endorse Beidenkapp for Secretary (Special to Daily Worker) HAVERHILL, Mass., March 5. — Over six thousand Haverhill shoe workers walked out on strike here this morning to force manufac- turers to sign the agreement and hour rate price bill of the United Shoe and Leather Workers’ Union. The strike started at the Continen- tal Shoe at 8 a. m. and 11 a. m. All workers were out and started to parade with a band through the shop district. Three locals of the United Shoe, 8, 9, and 13 have endorsed Fred BiedenKapp for General Szere*-ry and Treasurer of the Unicn. The workers here realize that the whole question of whether this new amal- gated union will be a weapon in the hands of the shoe workers to better their conditions depends upon the type of leaders that they elect at the coming elections. ff In the Daily Worker Today Pre-Convention Discussion Second Year of the New Deal, by Harry Gannes PAGE 4 Letters from Steel and Metal Workers “pr. Luttinger Advises” “In the Home” “Party Life” PAGE 5 “Chang: the World,” by Sender Garlin What's Doing in the Workers’ Schools Proletarian Music, a Historic Necessity, by Carl Sands Editorials Foreign News PAGE 6 | EMIL GARDOS Worker whose citizen papers were revoked by the government because of his militant working- class activity. Delegates Hit Dies’ Bill at Hearing Today Workers’ Committees To Expose Gardos Frame-up NEW YORK.—A delegation rep- resenting the Committee for the Protection of Foreign Born and the international Labor Defense left here yesterday for Washington where bills restricting immigration: will be reviewed at open. hearings today and tomorrow. Two of the bills which will be reviewed are proposed by Represen- tative Dies of Texas. They intend to restrict immigration for ten years and cause suppression and deportation of militant foreign born workers. A bill for the right of free asylum in the United States and one de- signed to facilitate naturalization of foreign born workers, drawn up by the Committee for Protection of Foreign Born will be presented by the delegation. The delegation will also expose the arbitrary act of the government in revoking the citizenship papers of Emil Gardos, whose case has been appealed to the Supreme Court. Organizations are asked to con- tact immediately the Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, Room 430, 80 E. 11th St., for fur- ther information and for guidance in organizing Gardos Defence Con- ferences in every city. ‘Crew Threatens | Strike; Wins All Demands in N. J. HOBOKEN, N. J., Mar. 5.—The crew of the Latvian ship Evero- nika, threatening strike action on March 3, won a series of aie including recognition of the ship committee, a full crew, wages for the crew in every port and sani- tary conditions in the living quar- ters. The action was led by the Marine Workers Industrial Union. Shortly after the ship arrived delegates from the M. W.I.U. (American Section of the Inter- national of Seamen and Harbor Workers) boarded the ship and discussed the conditions with the crew. The crew, with the delegates, worked out their demands which tain, threatening strike action if they were not granted. | Families on Relief Up From 20,000 to 243,- 000 in Past 4 Years NEW YORK.—The number of families dependent on relief has increased tenfold within the past four years, the annual report of the Association for Improving the Conditions of the Poor de- clares. Two hundred and forty- three thousand families a month were on relief rolls in 1933, com- pared to 20,000 families a month in 1929, This includes private and public relief expenditures. Revolutionary Spring Nears, Says “ Pravda” Hails Workers’ Rally to Banner of Communist International Special to the Daily Worker MOSCOW, March 5 (By Radio).— Writing about the 15th anniversary of the Communist International, which was celebrated throughout the world yesterday, “Pravda,” or- gan of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, quotes the words of {Stalin at the 13th plenary session of the Communist International last December: “The idea of storming capi- talism is ripening in the consci- ousness of the masses.” Pravda writes: “The international proletarian revolution has in the’ person of the Communist Interna- tional the tried Bolshevist staff which has assimilated the enormous experience of the class struggle, and in the grown Communist Parties it has its steadfast Bolshevist cadres. “The Communist International :has drawn into itself the most ad- vanced strata of the proletariat, and particularly now it sets with max- imum insistence before each of ‘its (Continued on Page 2) Brooklyn Pastor Aids Drive for Scottsboro Boy Joins Congregation in Protest Telegram to Alabama Court BROOKLYN, N.Y—The Rev. B. Carter, Negro pastor of the First Central Baptist Church in Browns- ville, after much persuasion per- mitted a Scottsboro protest meeting in the church on March 2. After hearing the speakers of the Inter- national Labor Defense, he insisted on having his name signed to the protest telegram adopted by the meeting and, not satisfied with the small collection taken up, made a donation himself, and a second ap- peal to raise funds for the Scotts- boro defense. In reference to the Negro ques- tion, Dr. Carter declared in his sermon the following Sunday: “T learned more about this prob- lem from one I. L. D. meeting in this church, than I have learned all my life.” The telegram, which was unani- mously adopted, was dispatched to the Alabama Supreme Court and demanded the immediate, uncondi- tional and safe release of the nine innocent Scottsboro boys. LAWYERS DISAPPROVE UTILITY CUTS NEW YORK.—A bill for an eight per cent reduction of the rates of water companies was disapproved and called “unconstitutional and of the Bar of New York City. N With 2,400 | mone Carpenters Loe. (AFL) | Demands Passage of Workers’ Bill GILLESPIE, Ill, Mareh 5. — The demand of the rank and file mem- -bers of the trade unions for the en- actment by the present session of | congress of the Workers’ Unem- ployment and Social Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598) is gaining in volume from day to day. Every day reports Teach the Daily Worker of addi- tional local unions indorsing the Workers’ Bill. The last regular meeting of Local No. 1, of the Pro- gressive Miners of America, with 2400 members, adopted a resolution - approving the Workers’ Bill (H. R. 1598). The copies of the resolution were sent to the Illinois Senators, to the local Congressmen and to the House Labor Committee. 1 ‘This large P.M.A. local took ac- tion for the passage of the Workers’ Bill in the face of the campaign of the “Progressive Miner” in favor of the Wagner “Reserves” Bill, which provides for state insurance “reserves” laws giving no benefits to those sixteen millions now totally unemployed. The resolution of the P, M. A. local was sent to the “Pro- Fernie Miner” to be printed in ‘that paper. . | National Campaign. NEW YORK.—The Carpenters’ Local Union No. 2163 (A. F. of L.) with 700 members, has indorsed the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598), and sent a letter to the House Commit- tee on Labor calling for enactment of the bill. Letters were also sent to the local Congressmen, calling for support of the Workers’ Bill. The National Unemployment Councils has printed 100,000 postal cards calling for enactment of the. Workers’ Bill which are to be used for mailing to Congressmen and to the House Committee on Labor. All workers and working-class or- ganizations are asked by the Coun- cils to secure these postal cards from the Unemployment Councils’ of- fices at 80 East East 11th St., New York. | ‘The National Councils points out. that only the mass pressure of the workers will force Congress to act on the Workers’ Bill (H. R. 7598). \ There is danger that the bill will be allowed to die in the Labor Com- mittee unless the masses of work- ers and farmers put their pressure behind the bill and force Congress to act. ‘ The Roosevelt administration {s boosting the Wagner Bill, which calls only for state “reserve” funds and applies only to those now work- ing. The Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598) is the only bill now before Con- gress which applies to the sixteen million worke:s now unemployed. Chicago Bosses’ Paper Prints Strike Tactics | Not for Workers’ Good CHICAGO, TIL, March 5.—The Chicago Journal of Commerce, a daily newspaper of manufacturers and bankers, is publishing serially the pamphlet, “Problems of Strike Strategy,” of the Red International of Labor Unions. This pamphlet, which contains the most effective strike strategy developed by revolu- tionary trade union leaders throuzh- ,out the world, is published by this organ of the Chicago bosses for two reasons. First, because of the de- veloping strike wave and the grow- ing opposition to the strikebreaking tactics of the A. F. of L. leadership, _ all electric’ light, gas, steam and the workers are adopting these tac- tics of strike struggle. Second, the Chicago Journal of Commerce is they later presented to the cap-! arbitrary” by the Committee on developing a campaign for suppres- State Legislation of the Association sion of the Communist Party fa of the fascist revolutionary trade unions. 'W YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1934 Progressive Mine Local, Members, Is For Action on HR 7598 CWA Firing Is Heavy inSouth, Factory Cities Fire 11,000 Weekly in Chicago, 34,000 in South Carolina CHICAGO, Ill, March 5.—The Tllinois C.W.A. will fire 11,000 work- ers weekly during the remainder of March, according to orders recently sent out by Harry L. Hopkins, Roose- velt’s federal relief administrator. The 159,500 workers now on C.W.A. must be reduced to 115,000 by March 30, the federal government ordered. It was explained by Hopkins, in Washington, that this is in accord with his plans to reduce the na- tional C.W.A. to not more than 1,505,500 workers by March 30th. Drastic Relief Cuts At the same time, drastic cuts are being put into effect in Federal Emergency Relief. Latest FERA statistics available show that 36,152 families were dropped from federal relief during the month of January in Illinois alone. According to figures of the TERA, 219,315 families in Illinols received federal relief in December; in January this figure had been cut to 183,163, a reduction (Continued on Page 2) Britain Signs Trade Pact With USS.R. England to Buy More Than It Sells LONDON, March 5—The Anglo- Soviet trade agreement was signed yesterday by Sir John Simon, British Foreign Minister. It was then sent on to Moscow, where it is to be signed in behalf of the Soviet government. The agreement marks the re- sumption of normal trade relations which were broken off by Great Britain, at a great loss to British interests, last summer. Under the agreement, each coun- try agrees to give the other’s trade “most favored nation” status. The trade balance, which is greatly to the favor of the Soviet Union, is to be adjusted gradually over a period of years, although Great Britain agrees to buy from the Soviet Union more than it sells even after the ratio has been changed. Report Dillinger Escape Is “Fixed” Of"CAGO, March 5. — Rumors that the Dillinger escape had been “fixed” gathered impetus today as the notorious bandit, hunted by police of six states, seemed to have eluded all pursuers. Three investigations are in pro- gress, all working independent of one another. Reports were current that Sheriff Lillian Holley, Dillinger’s custodian, would be asked to resign. Dillinger had escaped in Sheriff Holley’s automobile. A political dog-fight is on between the Republican governor of Indiana, McNutt, and local Democratic county officials, each group utiliz- ing the Dillinger escape for its own political purposes. FASCIST CLUB HOUSE SET ON FIRE IN ITALY MILAN, Feb. 20 (By Mail).—At Bertocchi (Istria), the headquar- “After Work” organization has been set on fire. WEATHER: Fair, colder, | ‘Daily Worker’ in 8 Pages Tomorrow on Int’l Women’s Day ‘The special supplement of the Daily Worker on International Women’s Day will appear on Wednesday, March 7, will con- tain many outstanding features of special interest to women workers. There will be a special state- ment from the Central Commit- tee of the Communist Party on International Women’s Day, a speech made by Comrade Lenin at the Second International Con- gress of Women that was held in Moscow in 1921, Comrade || Kuusinen’s speech made at the 13th Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist 4 International. Order special bundles of Wed- nesday’s Daily Worker which will contain this supplement at once. Capital Cops Delegation Group Protesting Jail- ing of Workers’ Lead- ers Is Refused Hearing (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) Bar Filipino | | AMERICA’S ONLY WORK? CLASS DAILY ! NEWSPAPER (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents Broken Promises Made to Labor —¢ P. MORGAN Wali Street banker who dumped his air mail stocks when he learned through a “leak” that his Rocsevelt regime was going to cancel all airmail contracts. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 5. Government police today prevented a delegation representing the Action | Committee for the Release of Fil-| ipino Political Prisoners from seeing} Pedro Guevara and Camilo Osias, | the two resident Philippine Com- missioners whose offices are in the| new House office building. The delegation, headed by the Filipino leaders, Maximo C. Manzon and Pedro R. Sajona, came to pro- test against the imprisonment of | Crisanto Evangelista, Guillermo Capadocia, and fourteen other Fili- pino worker and peasant leaders, arrested and convicted on charges of sedition under an old Spanish Royal decree of September 12, 1897, passed by the Spanish imperialists to suppress the early Philippine reyolution. Represent 30 Organizations The delegation, which represented thirty Filipino and American mass signatures of New York, Phila- delphia and Baltimore workers. “Ts it possible that we can’t even see our own resident commission- (Continued on Page 2) J. P. Morgan Sells Plane Stocks on Secret Gov't‘Leak’ Avoided Losses When News of Mail Shift Came Out WASHINGTON, March 5.— Fat profits for the biggest Wall Street bankers, including the king of them all, J. P. Morgan, were disclosed today in the testimony on the air- plane contracts given before the Senate Banking Committee today. It was shown that Morgan had dumped his block of 4500 shares of United Aircraft stock shortly be- fore the Government cancelled the plane companies’ contract for fraudulent practices. Morgan thus avoided any stock losses. In addi- tion, other Wall Street speculators profited from the government can- cellation of the mail contracts through selling the stock short and cashing in when it fell. Some secret source of government infor- mation for Wall St. banks was hinted at. The Roosevelt government has already been implicated in grafts involving ocean shipping contracts, air mail contracts and Army and Navy equipment. organizations, brought 5,000 protest | { End Strikes, Wagner Tells NRA‘Congress’ Slash in Real Wages Admitted by N.R.A. Consumers’ Board By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker Washington Burean) WASHINGTON, D. C., March 5.— The iron claw that big business and the Roosevelt government are forg- ing to throttle labor protruded from the velvet glove of demagogy in to- day’s first sessions of the N.R.A.’s “Congress of industry.” While President Roosevelt flaunt- ed the glove, calling upon industry to “re-employ more people at pur- chasing wages,” two other speakers held out, respectively, compulsory arbitration to the employed and forced labor at subsistence wages to the employed workers, Robert F. Wagner, Chairman of the scab-herding National Labor Board and proponent of a new and more powerful board with absolute power to scrap the strike weapon, recited the enormous growth of com- pany unionism under the NRA., then, referring to “the threat to industrial peace and security im- plicit in the present state of affairs,” he declared, “there must be above all cooperation between employers and employees,” and that the first step in this direction is “that they settle their disputes amicably, with- out resort to the bitter and futile measure of the strike.” Propose Coolie Wage Ralph E. Flanders, Chairman of the Jones-Lamson Machine Com- pany of Bridgeport, Conn., later thus boldly proposed a resurrection (Continued on Page 2) ENGLISH LABOR MEMBER GOES FASCIST LONDON, Mar. 5.—John Beck- ett, Labor Party member of Par- liament, announced yesterday that he had joined the Fascists. “The labor members of the House of Commons are too lazy to think and too cowed to kick,” he said. “So I put on my black shirt and submit to that discipline which alone can bring salvation.” He thus gives his opinion that the Fascists will carry out the aims of the British Labor Party better than the Labor Party will. By MILTON HOWARD NEW YORK.—This time they had their meeting without inviting Mat- thew Woll or Mayor LaGuardia. LaGuardia, however, was well represented by a heavy delegation of police, who formed ranks outside Carnegie Hall, and then watched in great numbers throughout ali the lobbies, corridors and in the wings of the large stage. It was the meeting arranged by the Socialist Party leaders to wel- come Max Winter, former Vice- Mayor of Vienna, the first repre- sentative of Austrian Social-Dem- ocracy to arrive here since the proletariat of Vienna and Linz marched forward on the eventful Feb. 12 over the orders of their leaders in @ heroic, spontaneous up- rising against. Austrian Butcher Dollfuss Preferable to N azis, Vi ienna Socia list Says at s. P. Meet Max Winter, Vice-Mayor of Vienna, Tells N. Y. Meeting That Austrian S. P. Leaders Still Prefer Dollfuss Murder Regime as “Lesser Evil” es sas ee Winter has come to collect funds for the Austrian Socialist Party. The audience of 3,500 filled the hall fairly well, though at no time was the hall entirey filled. Here and there I caught sight of the serious, strong face of some worker from the factories, not altogether at ease surrounded by city police. ‘There were no banners with slo- gans. At one moment a worker in the highest balcony rose to shout his greetings to Winter, seeing in him the representative of his fellow workers who had begun to speak the language of Bolshevism on the barricades of Austria, “Freund- schaft,” he shouted. And the peo- ple around him were embarrassed. The worker sat down. ‘ were remarkable for studied evasion of the most vital questions raised by the events in Germany and Austria. Otto Bauer's name was mentioned only once throughout the entire evening, when Joseph Schlossberg, official of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, praised him with grisly, unconscious irony, as “the theoretical leader of Social Democracy with a mind of Talmudic keenness.” Surely this praise was deserved, for Bauer's “Talmudic,” dead, scholastic, dis- tortions of Marxism have now suc- ceeded in permitting Austrian reac- gain once more the seats of power of the Austrian working class after the war, . rose to speak, introduced The speeches Fascism.| their political emptiness, their tion and counter-revolution to re-| (who struck Hathaway.in the face at the Garden). He is a small, white-haired man, with a goatee beard. He is the typical Socia- Democratic official, with lang years of service in the chairs of the capi- talist state apparatus. He has the shrewd, urbane look of a little old man who has mastered well ali the arts of office and bureaucracy. And his speech did not belie his appearance. He spoke in English, reading from a manuscript. He greeted the audi- | ence in the name of his Party. Then he launched into a criticism of Dollfuss. And it is here that this urbane little old man revealed what it is that lies at the marrow of the leadership of Austrian Social- Democracy, and at the heart of the Second International. He spoke by Algernon Lee, the chairman with a show of indignation. But . his every word dripped with roften | conciliation of Dollfuss, rotten and | terrible treachery to the Austrian | workers who faced the bayonets and | machine guns of Dollfuss. He read from the latest message of his Socialist paper, the Arbeiter | Zeitung: | “Nazi rule in Austria would be | stronger and more lasting than | | the bloodthirsty but mmuddle- | headed dictatorship of the stupid | Auvirian Fascism.” One listened to this old man read | | these words, and one was appalled | | by the incredible cynicism that per- | vaded them. Here was Winter fresh |ran with the blood of the Austrian working class, actually telling the, workers before him that this Doll-| | fuss was, after all, not so bad as \the Nazis would have been! Here the ugly head of the “lesser evil” raised its head, and Winter was telling us that he and his Socialist leaders still prefer to support the | “stupid” Fascism of Dollfuss to the Fascism of the Nazis! So Winter came to America to help the Amer- ican Socialist leaders inoculate the American workers with the same deadly virus of the “lesser evil,” that poison by which the Austrian Socialist leaders led the Austrian workers step by step into the am- bush of the Heimwehr! Continuing his amazing confes- sion of class treachery, Winter de- | clared, repeating the now world- lfrom the streets of Vienna which Notorious statement of Otto Bauer: | ragin, Bor oii siy esol ot Gao Actch “Until the very last Wwe otfores. | rn: neces oie ine to come to some agreement with Dolifuss. But he stupidly refused.” Here it was again. This “ter- {Continued on Page 6) 13,500 Exploiters of Labor Told NRA Is Their Instrument CRITICS IRK HIM ‘Democracy’ Is Failure, in Crisis, He Declares NEW YORK. — President Roosevelt delivered a broad- side apology for the N.R.A.’s batterying down of the liv- ing standards of the Ameri- can workers yesterday. In a speech before 3,500 captalists, representing 600 industries, employing 9 per cent of the workers under the code, meeting in Washington, he made a lame attempt to answer the tor- rent of criticism leveled at the N.R.A. “The team ts before me this morning,” he said, referring to the leading exploiters in the country, saying that it was up to them to lead the N.R.A. ‘to victory.” Bankers’ Congratulations As against the growing disillu- sionment, born of lowered living standards, the tremendous growth of company unions oppressing the workers, Roosevelt answered that: “The willingness of all elements to enter into the spirit of the New Deal becomes more and not less evident as it goes on.” ‘To prove his statement he quoted a telegram from Mr. Francis M, Law, president of the American Bankers Association, who said: “On this, your first anniversary, please allow me, in behalf of the country’s banks, to express our full confi- dence and our courageous efforts te bring about recovery.” He did not quote the opinions of Ford, Budd, or Weirton Steel Com- pany workers, or the millions of others under the codes, whose wages have been slashed and whose liv- (Continued on Page 2) Budd Auto Bosses Threaten Workers With Co. Union Wholesale Firing of Militants; Workers . Demand Elections PHILADELPHIA, March 58— After firing the most active strikers, and fastening a company union on the workers through threats of dis- missals, Edward G. Budd, owner of the Budd auto body plant, declared today he would permit an “elec- tion” under the supervision of the National Labor Board. Two thou- sang strikers have not been re« hired. The National Labor Board originally broke the Budd auto workers’ strike, and all the promises | made to them about no discrimina- | tion and elections to choose the workers’ own representatives, were flouted. Elections Friday The elections are supposed to take place Friday, March 9. Even lead- ers of the A. F. of L. United Automobile Workers Federal Labor Union, No. 18763, said they were “skeptical” about the elections. All sorts of pressure is being used to get the workers’ to endorse the | company union. The voting is sup- | posed to be on four points, the first whether the workers want to be- long to the company union; second whether they want to belong to the A. F. of L. union, third whether they want any other organization, and fourth whether they want sny organization at all or want to deat individually with the boss. The workers are di the elections take place off of the company’s premises, Rain, Warm Weather Bring Flood Danger | NEW YORK.—While s warm out (which followed a drigtling rain | brought fresh smiles to the faces? ‘city workers, and served as a algnti |for Florida vacationists to | started for the North, the loosened ice and snc, threatened damaging floods +. the farmers in the Melting snow flooded the and streams, turning them a geek moment overflow their banks drown the farm lands and |in a deluge of melting ice. |rain forecast for today added | this dangen ff