The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 7, 1934, Page 1

y walt 4 \ i | i ‘4 f ‘ | Weinstone Answers Socialist Leaders on Austria at Cooper Union Tonight at 8 CIRCULATION DRIVE Daily <QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Entered os second-class matter st the Post Office at Mew York, MW. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1934 CWA Ends March 30 Instead of May 1, Is Order ot Roosevelt Those Gettin g Local Jobs Will Lose Their Compensation WAGES 30 CENTS Those Fired in Rural Areas Get Nothing WASHINGTON, D.C., Mar. 6.—The C. W. A. will be com- pletely liquidated March 30 instead of May 1, one month ahead of the date previously ernment payrolls, it was announced by the Roosevelt administraton. ‘The Roosevelt administration pro- four hours a week under the local) relief organizations. Not even a promise is made regarding the C. W. towns of 5,000 and less. Those fired ©. W. A. workers who not get any compensation or in- "surance when sick or injured, it was Hopkins said that “only those who can show need” will be put at forced will get some of their money from the federal government. North and South Dakota and n the drought area of Mnnesota and terday, and similar action will be taken “soon” in the draught areas | Hopkins has lett for a vacation trip to Florida. Figures of Green “Doesn’t Know” of Ambridge Murders (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Mar. 6.—Frances A. workers fired in rural areas and t on the local forced labor projects stated. labor by the local agencies, which The C. W. A. in the states of Kansas were entirely liquidated yes- of Wisconsin. Perkins “Ignorant” BlessesCompany Unions, By SEYMOUR WALDMAN Perkins, Secretary of Labor, today blessed the mountainous growth of | company unions under the National Recovery Act and endorsed the de- mobilization into starvation and des- titution of the officially estimated 4,000,000 C.W.A. workers. Informed by one of the corres- pondents’ that Senator Wagner had characterized the company union, which has increased 59 per cent! since the inauguration of the N. R. A. as a “grave menace,” (he didn’t call it that—Ed.). Miss Perkins, one of the chief fascist-minded props of the Roosevelt Administration, re- plied: “I think it’s too early to say that. Grave menace is a very strong word. I'm not in accord with the idea of company dominated unions .. Whether or not the company dominated unions have been a grave menace to the N.R.A. re-employment (Continued on Page 2) In the Daily Worker Today PAGE 2 Chieazo A. F. of L. Votes to Join Unitcd Front on Unemploy- ment Insurance, PAGE 3 P:e-Conventicon Discussion RAGE 4 Letters from Textile and Needle Wor! PAGE 5 “the Arrival of Mother Dimi- troff in Moscow,” by Michael Kottstoff. “Croppers Needed Rolief Long fore 1929,” by John L. | Spivak. PAGE 6 Foreign News ‘ing snow, they received no pay, be- MADAME PERKINS Roosevelt’s Secretary of Labor, who yesterday blessed company unions. CWA Painters -|Picket Office, ‘Demand Jobs |Carry Placards, Hold Street Meetings, After Firing NEW YORK—Eighty-six painters who were fired from project 23, West Washington Market, picketed the Port Authority building, Eighth Ave., and 15th St., all day yesterday, under the leadership of the Relief Workers League, demanding their Jobs back. ‘The workers last night stated they will continue picketing until they get back their jobs. Picketing starts to- day at 12 o’clock this morning. The demonstrators carried placards with slogans against C.W.A. firing, de- manding back the C.W.A. jobs and j@ ing the enactment of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. The workers held street cor- ner meetings at the corner of the Port Authority Building, which ts the main C.W.A. headquarters, while the picketing proceeded. All C.W.A. workers who have been fired are called on to join the pick- eting at 12 o’clock noon today. Bridgeport Jobless Ask Civil Liberties Union to Protest BRIDGEPORT, Conn., March 6—Unemployed workers here yesterday sent a telegram to the Civil’ Liberties Union request- ing the union to protest the in- terference by McLevy's police with their elementary risht to assemble The telegram read: ‘“Hun- dreds of ‘nemployed workers, young and old protest the de- nial of free assembiays, and Police sluggings, and McLevy’s refusal to meet workers’ dele- gations at City Hall teday. We are organizing hundreds strong to protest.” Weinstone to Speak at Cooper Union Hall on Austria Tonight NEW YORK.—Willism Wein- Ave. and 8th St, st 8 tonight, Weinstone will discuss the situation in Europe, with spe- cial emphasis on the Austrian situation and the need for a united front and will also an- swer the speech of the social- democrat, Max Winter, made on Sunday at Carnegie Hall. pm Stop Cuba Scab ‘Cargo Today War Declared on Cuban Workers for Protest Strike at Loading BULLETIN HAVANA, March 6.—The U. S. transport Antares, which was to sail from Havana harbor Wed- nesday, has been ordered to re- main. U, S. marines from the U. S. Wyoming have been con- centrated on the Antares. HAVANA, March 6. — In the name of 300,000 members of the Cuban National Con- federation of Labor, the To- bacco Workers Industrial Union calls on dock workers in all Amer- ican ports to refuse to unload a cargo of 40 cases of boycotted cigars on the Grace Liner Santa Barbara, which sailed from here Sunday. This cargo was loaded by scabs, | guarded by the army, against the | will of the Havana dock tatttop aa who went on strike in sympathy | with the Cuban tobacco workers, who have been on strike four months against intolerable condi- tions. Forty thousand Havana laborers, printers, sugar, textile and railway workers are on a@ 24-hour protest (Continued on Page 2) Picket Cafe Today in Injunction Fight NEW YORK.—The N. Y. Trade Union Anti-Injunction Committee calls on all workers to mobilize in mass picketing to protest the in- junction against the strikers of the Colby Cafeteria, 38th St. and Eighth Ave., at noon today. Mobilization points are at 131 W. 28th St., headquarters of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, and at 140 W. 36th St., headquarters of the cloakmakers unio: Carpenters Walk Out; Demand Reinstatement Of Fired Workers NEW YORK.—Carpenters of the Boulevard Fixture Manufacturers Inc. 1164 Southern Boulevard struck under the leadership of the Independent Carpenters Union, de- manding the reinstatement of three workers fired for union activity. A special membership meeting to take up the problems of the strikes will be held tonight, 8 p. m., at the union headquarters, 820 Broadway. NY Workers to Scottsboro Appeal Filed In High Court Mass Fight Is Growing All Over Coutry in Re- sponse to LL.D. Plea NEW YORK.—The bil of excep- |‘ons on which the appeal of the |lynch sentences of Heywood Pat- terson and Clarence Norris, Scotts- | boro boys, to the State Supreme Court, wll be based, were filed in Montgomery Monday, March 5, it was announced by the International Labor Defense yesterday. March 6 was the final date on which the papers could be filed, under Judge W. W. (Lynch) Callahan’s recent ruling. Because of Judge Callahan's ac- tion in refusing to hear the motion for a new trial, the I. L. D., with only ten days to do work for which 90 days is normally allowed, was ob- liged to keen four lawyers and three printers working day and night for a week to verfect the bill of excep- tions. The work included the digesting into narrative form of 3,- 500 pages of the court record. Mrs. Carol Weiss King, Sol H. Cohen, Eli Schwartzbart, and Shad Polaire were the lawyers, who prepared the appeal papers, under the direction (Continued on Page 2) Int'l Women’s Day Tomorrow Brings Many Mass Meets |Prominent Co Communists Speak in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx NEW YORK.— Working women throughout the city will mass tomorrow, International Women’s Day, in fifteen meetings to hear prominent working class leaders speak on the significance of the day lowing halls: Manhattan: Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Pl. Speakers, Rose Wortis, C. Alexander, Ruth Miller, Anna Schultz: Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th St.; M. Olgin, Pauline Rogers, Anna Schultz. Spanish Workers Center, 1413 5th Av., Harry Wicks, James Ford, Anna Damon. Bronx: Grand Plaza, 160th St. and Prospect Ave.; speakers, Ben Gold, Williana Burroughs. West- chester Workers Club; M. Cowl. Cruger Manor, 3200 Cruger Ave., H. Sheppard, Nell Carrol, Brooklyn: Ukrainian Hall, 101 Grand St.; speakers, Robert Minor, Sadie Van Veen, Grace Campbell. 240 Columbia Ave.; Ch. White, J. Poyntz. Scandinavian Workers Club. 5115 Fifth Ave.; J. Stachel and 8S. Blacker. Premier Palace, 505 Sutter Ave.; C, Krumbein, 8, Kingston: Fifth Ave. and 23rd St.; M. Stone. P. S. No. 1, Van Alst St. and 9th St.; C. Green, C. Bodian. Savoy Mansion, 60th St. and 20th Ave.; M. Bedacht, H. Williams. Queens: 148-29 Liberty Ave., Ja- maica; speakers, J. Bassett, M. Pi- cheny. 114-25 Lefferts Blvd., Rich- mond Hill; J. Little, F. Golos. Meetings will be held in the fol- Senate Rushes Through $750,000, 000) Record-Breaking War Machine Bill Passed Under Gag Rule| As Roosevelt Cracks the Whip TO TREATY LIMITS Talk Pacifism; Prepare| Imperialist War By SEYMOUR WALDMAN Daily Worker Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, D. C., March 6— American imperialism, backed to the limit by the powerful Roosevelt war| machine, today scored a 65 to 18 Senate victory through the passage | of the $750,000,000 five-year Vinson- Trammel Naval construction bill.| Since the bill has already been} passed by the House and has “the unqualified support” of President Roosevelt it is virtually law. This war measure, which when Passed a few weeks ago in the house without a record vote, was estimated conservetively to cost, ultimately over a billion dollars, exclusive of the hundreds of milions for annual up-keep, gives Roosevelt “blanket authority” to build up to the Lon- don treaty limits—this program ten~- tatively calls for the construction of about 102 warships and 1184 war planes suitable for long distance fly- ing. More specifically, the author- ized construction would amount to *5 destroyers, one airplane carrier, 30 submarines and six cruisers. This will make the greatest “peace time” navy in the history of the United States at a time when many millions of workers face starvation because of the recent C. W. A. closing-down verdict of Roosevelt. Passed Under Gag Rule Administration spokesmen drove the bill through after only a few hours of debate—ten minutes to each Senator who cared to speak, by general agreement—under the slo- gans of “peace,” “peace and dis- armament,” and a eee of openly avowed impe! erm against war. If I could de- stroy every battleship in the world today I would gladly do it,” orated Logan of Kentucky in his speech for the monumental war bill. “I have a passion for peace. .. . I be- lieve that the day will come when men will say that there shall be no more war but the time is not yet.” He added, finally winding up with, “As much as I dislike war, and as much as my heart beats for peace. . We should not lie on our backs while the world arms against us.” Pacifist Smoke-Screen Several leading administration Senators substantiated the analysis of the draft resolution for the eighth convention of the Communist Party—that war is being prepared under the imp2tns of the demagogic ery of “pacifisn:.” “The last war was a war of com- Mercial economy. Whatever the propagandists succeeded in invest- ing the public mind about a war for democracy or freedom,” calmly ad- mitted Lewis, Democrat, of Tlinois, in his speech supporting the bill as an American imperialist weapon ‘|against British and Japanese im- perialism. Senator Coolidge, Democrat, of Massachusetts, called on his fellow- ‘imperialist lieutenants to witness that “as one who believes in dis- armament I’m going to vote for this bill.” Senator King, Democrat, of Utah, and an acknowledged admirer of Roosevelt, however, adduced the (Continued on Page 2) ‘Defense Grou Issues Call for Gardos Fight Citizenship Papers of Communist Leader Revoked NEW YORK.—A call for the im- iate building of Emil Gardos Defense Committees was issued yes- terday by the Committee for Pro- tection of the Foreign Born, which joined the International Labor De-| fense in warning the workers| against illusions in the higher) courts, to which the decision re-| voking Gardos’ citizenship is to et appealed. Gardos’ citizenship papers were | | revoked in a decision handed down | this week by the Federal court as a penalty for his working-class acti- | vities and to pave the way for his | deportation to fascist Hungary and for the outlawing of the Commu- nist Party of the U.S.A. The I. L.| D. is preparing an appeal to the Court of Appeals to supplement the mass protest movement which must be immediately organized through- out the whole country. ‘J. P. Morgan Grabs UpTwo BillionR.R. On Loan Default Van Sweringen System | Dwes$40,000,000 ;RFC Aidded Bankers WASHINGTON, ‘De. March—The two billion dollar railroad empire | controlled by the Van Sweringen brothers has fallen into the open control of a banking syndicate head- ed by J. P. Morgan and Co., it was/ |revealed today before the Federal | | Trade. Commission. | The Van Sweringens have always | acted as the agents of the Morgans in this particular railroad system, which includes the Chesapeake and Ohio, the Missouri Pacific, the Pere Marquette, Chicago and St. Louis, etc. ‘The open control of these roads is therefore only the final recogni- tion of an existing condition. | The immediate occasion of the | gobbling up of this railroad empire was the default of a $40,000,000 loan. Last year J. P. Morgan received diately turned over by the Van Sweringens to the bankers. Van Sweringens were revealed as year. They are heavy contributors to the campaign chests of the Re: publican and Democratic Parties. Calgary Post Office Bars “Labor Defender” NEW YORK.—The February ‘La- bor Defender,’ organ of the Inter- national Labor Defense, which con- tains a history of white terror and defense activites against it, and a history of I. L. D. victories, for the year 1933, has been prohibited by the post-office authorities at Cal- gary, Alberta. | plant months ago none were sold} | and during strike the Daily Worker! the lion’s share of a $14,500,000 loan | granted to the Van Sweringens by | the R.F.C. The money was imme-} The | having dodged income taxes last| 4MERICA’S ONLY WORKING CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER ee (Six Pages) “WILL GO LIMIT TO PREVENT STRIKES!”~ SEN. WAGNER: WORKERS, DEFEND YOUR CONDITIONS, RIGHT TO STRIKE! AFL Heads Join with NRA Board to Smash Thomas Welcomes Mrs. Rockefeller 3rd to the Socialist Party NEW YORK.—The Socialist Party is supported by one of the Rockefellers, it was discovered with the publication early this week of the party enrollment lists. The Socialist supporter is Mrs. John D, Rockefeller 3d. Norman Thomas hailed the news of Mrs. Rockefeller’s sup- port with welcome from “all who work for a co-operative common- wealth.” The rest of Socialist headquarters heard the © news with mixed feelings. Cops in Socialist | City Club Seamen | Auto Body Men’ Pickets Shout “We Want Communist Party to Lead Us” By E. G. CLARKE MILWAUKEE, Wis., March 6.— One thousand Seaman Body strik- |ers battled several hundred police today on picket lines here. The | trouble was due to the policy of the A. F. of L. bureaucracy, which per- | mits certain crafts to remain at | work—the engineers and machin- ists who receive picket passes from | automobile workers union. The} Passes, however, were used to | smuggle in scaos. The pickets got wise and attempted to stop the | scabs. Seventeen pickets were ar- | rested by the socialist controlled Police. The Socialist City Attorney Ras- kin told strikers that the police | were their friends now know better. | When Communist Party units first concentrated on selling the Daily Worker at the Seaman Body | but the sale was quickly built up, | was sold every day on the picket | lines. Today many pickets were| shouting “we want Communist |° Party to lead us,” “we'll get Com- munist Party to help us.” T.U.U.L. leaflets were torn up at first by the strikers, but now they are eagerly read. A leaflet issued today by the! Trade Union Unity League de- | mands; 1: all crafts join in the| strike; 2. all passes be abolished; |3, all ‘workers employed and unem- ployed from other shops develop) |mass picketing; 4, picketing start| |again in front of factory gates| | (police have driven them across street); 5, elect rank and file com- mittees to go to city officials de- manding police be recalled from strike scene; 6, workers not to de- pend on arbitration promises as | Seaman, himself, is chairman of the county N. R. A. board; 7, all workers’ organizations to send pro- tests to Hoan and Raskin. The Milwaukee Leader, Socialist organ, yesterday ran a strike- breaking advertisement of Tmerl Company against the pending util- ity strike. March Twice on City Hall; Clash With Police; Krieger Arrested By W. W. BRIDGEPORT, Conn., March 5. city .of Bridgeport Tuesday tasted the first fruits of the Socialist ad- ministration headed by Mayor Mc- levy and found it bitter. From two o'clock Tuesday afternoon until late into the night the ci‘y was in tur- moil with the unemployed twice on the march to the City Hall and with militant clashes of the unemployed with the police. There are 20,000 unemployed in the Socialist city, many of whom, and particularly the youth, receive no relief. When they finally se- cured two and three days’ work in the blizzard two weeks ago shovel- —The unemployed workers of the | ; Mayor Mclevy. They came to de- Socialist Mayor McLevy’s Police Club Workers for Asking ing delayed with promises of pay from day to day. 1,000 Gather Over a thousand, mostly young workers, gathered before the armory Tuesday for their pay. When they were again refused, they marched in a body to the City Hall to see mand their pay, to demand relief and work, but they were met by the clubs and blackjacks of the nolice jeer the direct incitement of Mc- levy. Arriving at City Hall the march- ers, joined by 500 more workers, held a meeting at which rank and file. workers spoke bitterly, com- plaining of the long and unjust de- lay in the payment of their wages, and the miserable conditions of the unemployed. then elected a times be open to the workers. But the entrance to City Hall was blocked by the police, who told the delegates that the Mayor was not in. Refuse to Leave The 1,00 workers were told to go back to the armory and within half an hour Mayor Mclevy would be there. But they stuck and told the police they would wait for him at the City Hall. Every trick to get the workers to leave was in vain. And finally, efter waiting an hour and 20 minutes, the Mayor came out of the City Hall and addressed , the workers, McLevy said “All you men will be paid as soon as pos- sible.” And asked after a pause, “Is this satisfactory?” To this the workers replied with a chorus of NO's, Uses “Red Scare” . They committee of 12 to see the Mayor who during the last election prom- | ised that City Hall would at all: Indignant at this reception of his meanineiess p-omise, the Mayor re- nunciation “No Communist demon- stra‘ion will get you anything and, turning to Sam Krieger, he shouted hysterically, “You never worked in your life.” A protest went up from the crowd at this denunciation of Krieger. He rose to speak, amidst the cheers of the workers. When Krieger asked, “How many have worked know that I worked at snowshovel- ing,” over fifty hands went up from those who worked with him. Krieger demanded that McLevy tell the workers more definitely when they | would get paid, and how they are to get permanent work or continu- ous relief. Again McLevy spoke, implying that these men wanted their pay dishonestly, and heatedly shouted “Demonstrations won't get you any- thing.” This was the signal for beaten by the police, and was ar- rested, with the workers rushing after the police calling for Krieger’s release. Meet Again. At night, the workers again as- sembled at the City Plaza. ‘The workers then selected an- other committee to go to the Com- | mon Council. The workers retreated sullenly down the streets, and gathered once more in the City Plaza to decide upon their next steps. ‘There they denounced Mayor Mc- Levy and the Socialist Common Council, and marched to the head- quarters of the Unemployment Council, located at 301 Fairfield Ave. Jammed into the hall, the; workers organized into a fighting | Unemployment Council. In the morning, they came to the court to demand the release of | tegist Wages Due | Oewenine for E Fight; Call} Mass Meeting Tonight at City Plaza was released on $1,000 bail. Formulate Demands. At their meeting, where about 100 d, the workers decided upon the following demands: for imme- diate pay to the snow shovelers; for the immediate release of Krie- ger; a minimum of four dollars a day pay for all public work, and for continuous work; for cash re~ lief instead of the present script: - for the workers’ right to meet wity—w ovt interference by the police, and | for unemployment insurance at the expense of the employers and the | | government. An executive committee of nine was elected, and a demonstration the police to bezin their violent at- ‘sorted to the usual capitalist de- tack, Krieger was kicked and Krieger, but not a worker was ad- mitted to the court room. Krieger called for tonight at 7:30, at City Plaza. P Wave of Auto Strikes Hudson, Buick, Fisher Auto Men for Strike to Win Demands LEADERS OPPOSED Set Hearing to Stall Off Action by Auto Workers By MARGUERITE YOUNG Daily Worker Washington Bureau BULLETIN WASHINGTON, March 6.—The National Labor Board Inte today set a hearing on the Michigan automobile strike and simuitane- ously formally announced that it has “recetved assurance” from A. F. of L. leaders that the strike “would be postnoned.” The Board gave no assurance whatsocver that the emoloyers wonld even atterd the hearine (they have re- fused to annear at several similar proceedings) and neither had it anything to afd to Wagner's earlicr statement that ther could get “no indications” that the em- Dioyers are willing te meet any worker demands. The Board, after conferring with General Motors and Auto- mobi'e Chamber of Commerce of~ ficials, wired notice of the hear- ing on Thurstay, to its own strike-breaker, James F. Dewey, and announced that Dewey imme- distely communicated this to Wi'liam Collins, A. F. of L. or- genizer in Detroit, and Frank J. Dillon, A. F. of L., Fint. Then, the Board announced, Dewey “re- ceived assurance that the strikes would be postnoned.” The work- ers involved of course have not voted upon postponement, . * WASHINGTON, March 6. —‘Tll go the limit to prevent strikes,’ Chairman Wagner of the National Labor Board served public notice today. Pausing in the midst of fev- erish work with auto owners and William Green of the American Federation of La- bor toward aborting the gen- eral strike of more than 30,000 Mich igan auto workers tomorrow, Wag- ner declared: “I'll do everything possible to prevent it.” He said that conferences thus far give “no indication” that auto em- |ployers will meet any demands of the workers in the Hudson, Buick and Fisher Bodies plants. He added | that he “thinks” he has enough ma~ (Continued on Page 2) House Committee OK’s 30-Hour Bill With Many Jokers Opens Way for Pay Cuts, and Stagger Plan for Workers WASHINGTON, March 6—The |House Labor Committee today voted to report favorably the Con- inery so-called 30-hour bill, with | sufficient amendments and jokers jin it to meet the needs of all the | bosses. The committee declared that the bill as passed “would be broad enough to meet all objee- tions,” referring to the opposition of General Johnson, Secretary of Labor Perkins, and CWA Admin- istrator Hopkins, who said they were against a flat 30-hour bill. As presented to Congress, the Connery Bill ts subject to modifi- cation by government boards, as we"! as in cases cf “Iabor shortage,” and other “emergencies.” As re- ported, it or .as the way for wholesale y.se slashing @ huge stagger £,svem, “SREE” COFFEE FOR THE UN- EMPLOYED ENDS NEW YORK.—Free coffee stations set up during the cold weather will be serving their last cups to the un- employed today. The old Sixty- ninth Regiment Armory and the 244th Coast Artillery Armory will be kept open, however, as day “rec- Teation” centers for the homeless.