The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 8, 1934, Page 1

f L- Celebrate International Women’s Day at Mass Meetings Today! )\ "Vol XL No. 58 ‘, »_* Butered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Mew York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879 Daily <QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1934 CLASS DAILY AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING NEWSPAPER WEATHER: Colder (Eight Pages) ——— Price 3 Cents PRESIDENT WON'T CUT HOURS, RAISE PAY—JOHNSON Fire 10,000 C.W. A. Men in N.Y. in Wk., Orders D Mass Firings Continue New York CWA Workers NEW YORK. — Ten thou- sand C. W. A. workers are to eLamater Lenin’s Writings On The Jewish Question Today On Page ~ All readers are urged to give the most careful study to the ex- cerpts from Lenin on the Jewish Question, appearing in today’s is- sue on Page 6, now printed for the first time in English. Taken from the pamphlet just tssued by the International Pub- lishers, New York City, these ex- cerpts from Lenin’s writings on this question as well as the offi- tial documents of the Soviet Union, are the theoretical wea- pons with which the fight against feactionary chauvinism, race orejudice, anti-Semitism, etc., nust today be fought. further announced The Lenin writings on Page re workers within pribggsdayr bee are of historic importance. Give ‘weeks will be taken bod ety them study. Discuss them with rolls. Some of these C.W.A. hott your fellow workers! ers we Put on local works’ pro- Jects. undoubtedly the plan is paged on March 30 when the C.W.A, liquidated. . All C.W.A. workers who are trans- WinsBackJ obs ferred to a works aeopes an p luctions in apse vil ber emprchance or one OF 86 Painters penwation in case of accident or ill- (Continued on Page 2) Workers To Mass Today ToCelebrate Int'l Women’s Day N. Y. Holds 18 Meets Under Communist Party Auspices NEW YORK.—International Wo- men’s Day, the day thousands of working women throughout the world will gather to express their hatred of war, fascism and the economic system of capitalism which breeds death, starvation and unemployment, will be celebrated today by many mass meetings in all of the city. Meetings will be eld tonight; Irving Plaza, 15th Manhattan: 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, R. Norkin; Spanish Workers Center, 1413 Fifth Ave.: Harry Wicks, James Ford, Anns Damon. Bronx: Grand Plaza, 160th St. and Prospect Ave.; speakers, C. Brodsky, Charlotte Todes, D. Rich; ‘Westchester Workers Club. M. Cowl. Cruger Manor, 3200 Cruger Ave., H. Sheppard, Nell Carrol, M. Pechney. Brooklyn: Usxrainian Hall, 101 Grand St.; speakers, Robert Minor, Sadie Van Veen, Grace Campbell, Finkeistein. 240 Columbia Ave.; res ‘White, J. Poyntz. Scandin- avian Workers Club, 5115 Fifth Av.; J. Stachel and S. Blacker, Premier siace, 505 Sutter Ave.; C. Krum- §. Kingston. Fifth Ave. and Si; N. Bruce, Violet Lynn. 8. No. 1, Ven Alst St. and 9th C. Green, C. Bodian. Savoy Mansion, 60th St. and 20th Ave.; (4. Bedacht, H. Williams. Coney Is- fand: 2774 W. 27th St., A. Eisenberg. Queens: 148-29 Liberty Ave, Ja- maica; speakers, J. Bassett, A. Leis- man. 114-25 Lefferts Blvd., Rich- mond Hill; J. Little, F. Golos. Staten Island: 2047 Richmond Terrace, Port Richmond—S. Licht. Tomorow’s meetings: Newark: Ukrainian Hall, 59 Beacon 8t., M. Pechney. Paterson: 3 Governor St., Tafler. Cc. Inthe Daily Worker Today PAGE 2 Pre-Conven’*-~ ™"-cussion. PAGE 3 Jamestown City Council, 18 A. ¥. of L. locals endorse Work- ers’ Unemployment Insurance Br. PAGES 4 and 5 Articles on Internatonal Wom- en's Dav. PAGE 6 Letiers from Farmers, PAGE 7 “Change the World,” by Sender Gariin. “We Were Just About Ready for a Revolutien,” by John L. Spivak. PAGE 8 Kaditorials Foreign News. | Relief League Wins Victory After Picketing NEW YORK.— The 8 OWA. painters who picketed the C.W.A. offices with placards all day Tues- day and Wednesday led by the Re- lief Workers League, after having been laid off the West Washington Market C.W.A. project. 23, were re- instated yesterday. ‘The 86 painters were transferred from the Washington Market job Market. Here, since the city had failed to provide material, they were given work as laborers. The engineer in charge ordered the work discon- tinued. All were then fired. mater, C.W.A. administrator, who referred them to H. P. Moran, C.wW. A. engineer on city wide projects. Patrick Murphy, technical (Continued on Page 2) Gov't Debt Rises By $5,000,000,000 Under Roosevelt WASHINGTON, Mar. 7. — The United States government debt has increased by more than $5,000,900,- 000 since Roosevelt took office it was disclosed today. Most of this enormous advance in which falls on the masses in in- | creased taxes, is the result of the a dollar subsidies to Wall ~ banks, reilroads and insur- ance companies, etc. Close to 40 per cent of the R.F.C. disbursements, for example, have gone to direct bank subsidies. War expenditures have also contributed to the tre- mendous new load of government debi. The rapid increase in debt aggra- vates the menace of further cur- rency inflation, which will further slash the buying power of the masses, as well as add new tax bur- dens onto the backs of the poorest sections of the population. last week to the Bronx Terminai| The painters went to Col. Del=-| super- | | public debt, the main burden of| Union Heads Call off D&H R’way Strike Flout Vote of 2,300 Men For Action Against Wage Slashes ALBANY, N. Y., March 7.—‘I reckon we'll juss have to be good boys and wait for the Federal Board to act,” was the remark of 3. F. Emerson, official of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En- giners, when he flouted the deci- sion of 2,300 railway workers of the Delaware & Hudson who voted to go out to strike at 5 a. m. Friday. The men voted for strike last Monday against the order of the railroad management providing for }an hourly pay base instead of a | mileage rate. The shift amounted to a wage cut. The workers realized the only way to defeat it was by going on sirike. On the ground that the law re-| quires a sixty-day period of “media- | tion” with a Federal-appointed} board, the Brotherhood officials} called off the strike. | President Roosevelt, as soon as he} heard of the strike vote, immediately | stepped in to the workers from} taking action. He appointed a me- | diation board. The board consisis of | close supporters of railroad stock! and bondholders, namely, Chief Jus- tice Walter S. Stacy, of the North] | Carolina Supreme Court; | Admiral Henry A. Wiley, U. S. N.| | retired; and Dr. Walter Hamilton of} Yale University. Strike votes are growing on the | railroads, the most outstanding being those of the Chicago & Northwestern, and the Kansas City Southern. Besides these special wage cuts, all of the 900,000 railroad workers in the country 1ace a continuation of their 10 per c2nt wage cut, which is supposed to”expire in June, and |@ probably additional 5 per cent cut. On March 15, in Washington, |there will be a conference between railroad labor executives and the managements, together with repre- sentatives of President Roosevelt to work out means of continuing the wage cut and preventing strikes of the railroad workers, Rear- | LL.D. in New ' Move for the _ Seottsboro 9 Mrs. Wright, Gallagher | To Speak At Boston Meeting, March 17 NEW YORK.—With the appeal in the Heywood Patterson and Clarence Norris cases filed in spite of the attempt by Attorney-General | Thomas E. Knight and Judge W. W. Callahan to rob these Scotts- boro boys of their appeal rights, the International Labor Defense is pre- paring to expose further the ruth- less lynch role of the court in legal steps appealing Callahan’s refusal | to hear the motion for a new trial, | it was announced today. Papers are being prepared on a} motion for re-argument of the mo-}| tion for a new trial, on the grounds} that Callahan deliberately misled the defense attorneys in granting! extension after extension, and then | conveniently cancelling them on the| excuse that he had conveniently | | “forgotten” the statute of law) which would have prevented him) from giving thes? extensions. The papers are being prepared under the direction of Osmond K. Fraenkel, well-known attorney, who} | is in charge of the appeals for the| I, L. D., and who also directed the} tremendous jod of preparing the appeal papers—a 90 dey job which (Continued on Page Two) 19 Menaced With Death As Fire ‘Razes Old Red Hook Tenement 13 Children Among Those Saved by 3 Passersby in Same Area Where Fire Killed 5 Last Week NEW YORK.—Nineteen working- class occupants of an old tenement building in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn—thirteen of them chil- dren — escaped death only by the merest chance early Monday when three passersby, detecting a fire in the structure, roused three families and aided them to safety before the fire apparatus arrived on the scene. The fire occurred in a tenement house at 262 Fourth Ave. on the corner of Carroll St. It was at 169 Carroll St. that a mother and four children were burned to death in a tenement fire last week. \ The three men who discovered the fire found the stairways in flames when they attempted, after sending cut two alarms, to enter the build- ing. They were forced to enter the building from the outside. Forming a human pyramid, they managed to reach the la@‘sr of the old-style fire escape. Pulling it down to the sidewalk, they mounted it and) roused the three families. | The families who reached safety just as the first fire engine arrived on the scene, were: Vincent de Pris-| co, his wife and four children; ) Rosario Zazzaro, his wife and four (Continued on Page 2) One Year of Hitler Terror! Fight for Liberation of Thaelmann from Nazi Dungeons! Fight for Release of All the Anti-Fascist Prisoners! Communist Party Sounds Call for Renewed Struggle Against Fascist Reaction Statement of the Central Committee, Communist Party, U.S. A. ‘To All Workers, To All Anti-Fascists: One year of Hitler! One year of unbridled despotism! One year in which the bloody claws of Hitler fascism have torn chunks from the flesh of the heroic German working class! One year of insane savagery and sadist violence! One year of concentration camps, “suicides,” “escapes,” ending in murder! One year of medivial bar- barism! One year of Hitler! A year of unprecedented attacks on the living standards of the German masses! A year of wage cuts! A year of cuts in social insurance allowances! A year of further mass impoverishment, of hunger and misery for the people! A year of growing economic chaos! A year of bestial chauvinism bringing the world close to a new imperialist slaughter. The Hitler murder terror against the German working class is rising to new heights. This time a concerted effort is being made by the capitalist press throughout the world to throw a protective screen of complete silence around this terror and to create the im- pression that progress, peace and order have been restored in Ger- many. But behind this wall of censorship and conspiracy of silence the systematic murdering of all leaders of the working class who do not surrender to fascism is proceeding day by day. The recent cold-blooded assassination of Comrades Scheer, Schoen- | har, Schwartz and Steinfurth is being repeated throughout Germany in every industrial district and concentration camp. Soon the Hitler | government will stage a new “sedition trial” against Comrades Thael- man, Torgler, and other leaders of the German working class in order to “legally” execute those who have not been “shot while attempting to escape.” It is not an accident that the latest wave of murders is directed almost exclusively against the leaders of the German Communist Party and against the workers, Communists, Socialists and non-Party, who have turned to Communist leadership. Throughout Germany there is only one organization that seriously continues the struggle for the daily economic and political needs of the German working class and prepares for the overthrow of the Hitler dictatorship. The German Social-Democratic Party flolmders and capitulates in the face of Hitler's demagogy and ‘terror. The dominant wing of Social-Democracy, represented by Paul Loebe, the former head of the Reichstag, has most shamefully endorsed and approved the Hitler dictatorship. The Socialist Democratic emigres shout loudly of “revo- lution,” but only for the return of the former “democratic” regime which served as the instrument for the installation of fascist dictator- ship. With revolutionary phrases they still try to. prevent the revolu- tionary struggle of the masses for the seizure of political power, for the setting up of a Soviet Germany which alone offers a way out of misery, suffering and fascist terror. Only the Communist Party without hesitation or faltering con- tinues the daily work of organizing and p:eparing the German work- ing class for the revolutionary overthrow of the bloody dictatorship | of finance capital, the Hitler regime. The Dollfuss fascists are executing the heroic fighters of the Austrian working class, and carrying through a hideous terror against the workers, men, women and children. The Austrian working class, having broken with the suicidal policy of Otto Bauer, of collabora- tion with the fascist hangmen, require the fraternal solidarity aid of the workers of America, Communist and Socialist, in the same sacred with which the Austrian workers joined hands on the bar- icades. The lessons of the heroic struggle of the Austrian workers show | that there can be no intermediate road. Fither the struggle for the overthrow of capitalism, for the dictatorship of the proletariat, for Soviet power, or capitulation to the advance of fascism. The criminal flirtations of Otto Bauer with Dollfuss, the policy of the “leéser evil,” of supporting Dollfuss in preference to the Nazis, ete., the policy of the defense of bourgeois democracy have heen thundered out of court by the roaring howitzers of the Austrian fascists. Tt is necessary to arouse throughout America the most intense protest against the campaign of Hitler and Dollfuss of extermina- tion of the Communist and Socialist fighters. It is necessary to give expression to @ rising mass movement of international solidarity with the German and Austrian working class. The only possible way to help fight Hitler fascism is to act in support of the struggles of the German working class, led by the German Communist Party. The only effective way to fight Dollfuss fascism is to help the united front of Socialist and Communist fighters in Austria. The Communist Party of U. S. A. calls upon every honest fighter against Bascism to unite in actions, in demczstrations, in resolutions and cables of protest against this murder campaign, in delegations to the German and Austrian Ambassadors and consulates and in a great campaign to arouse all the toiling masses of America to under- stand the hideousness of these murder governments, and the mecessity for their ecndemnation, and especially the support of the only un- flinching fighters in Germany against Hitlerism, led by Ernst Thaelman. Defeat the activities of German Fascist agents in the U. 8. A.! Demand the release of Ernst Thaelman and his comrades! | Demand the free! of all anti-Fascist prisone: Germany and Austria! sd si coe ee leaders of the German working class! CENTRAL COMMITTEE, COMMUNIST PARTY, U. S. A. WILLIAM Z. FOSTER, Chairman, | EARL BROWDER, Secretary. 2 Cents An Hour Paid Roosevelt “lenorant” New York Child Labor | Of Strike Situation ALBANY, N. Y., Mar. 7.—Wages (Daily Worker Washington Bufl) as low as 2 cents an hour are being Pald to industrial home workers in|| juve nonenaiy Wan acked tedey New York State, according to In-|| in his press conference to com- dustrial Commissioner Elmer F. An-|| ment on “the strike situation, drews. He pointed out that the pereuey, cae emote strike.” e in’t earnings of the 30,000 women and|| trike.” about i and that children employed in industrial home work have been slashed to as little as 25 cents a day for 14 hours’ work. Labor Department records in- dicate that 2,491 contractors in the state send out home werk N.R.A. Administrator General Hugh 8. Johnson has been tco busy in the last few days to talk to him at all. The Michigan au- tomobile workers originally sent protests direct to Roosevelt. f EXTENDING THE HAND OF SOLIDARITY, Henry Sheppard, Negro Trade Union Unity League leader, speak- ing to a group of Nesto and white workers at a Cuban sugar mill in Tinguaro, during a recent visit of a delegation of American workers to Cuba, Revolutionary Fight in Cuba Looms in Answer to U.S.-Mendieta Terror General Strike Call Is ° Answer to Drastic ‘80,000 To Strike Suppression Law as M dri d 7 d | | in Madrid Today HAVANA, March 7—Faced by the | mobilization of the army to carry out a decree aimed at cutlawing all workers’ struggles, the Cuban Na-| |tlonal Confedera*ion of Labor has | issued a call for a general strike, Government Prepar es To Smash Walkout MADRID, Spain, March 7.— Eighty thousand building trades workers will strike here today to and the Communist Party, with the | support of the unions, has raised ‘the slogan of struggle for a work-| tain Soe enforce the 44-hour week. The ers’ and peasants’ government. —_| strike is a united front strike of The many strikes which have al- | Communist, Socialist and Anarchist | ready paralyzed industry and icine | trade unions, portation: an many “parts ot | tbe “Extraordinary measures to pre- [island are rapidly developing in‘o pti odes recs feces 1 whi, serve a general revolutionary strike which | taken after a Cabinet meeting. A first jthe U. S.-Mendieta repression MAY) «tote of prevention,” the transform into open armed struzzle.| stsee toward full martial law, is The Cabinet of Carlos Mendieta, | jn “force, | with the advice of U. S. Ambassa- Only Bosses Have Say If They Wish to Lower Hours 10 P.C.; Pay to Remain at Hunger Level Roosevelt Demagogy Blasted By Deeds of NRA and Johnson Admission BIG BOSSES TO MEET Roosevelt Blah Aimed to Stop Rising Strike Wave WASHINGTON, March 7. —No steps will be taken by |the government, declared Gen- eral Johnson here today at the N. R. A. hearings, to force any industry to lower hours. John- son’s statement followed two day's |of vitriolic speeches, unanimously applauded by the representatives of the bosses who employ 90 per cent of the workers under the code, de- claring that they are opposed to any reduction in hours or any in- crease in pay. While statements made here s23 that General Johnson tonight will appeal to industry to lower hours no mention is made of wage in- creases to compensate for lower \hours, or to meet the rapidly ris- ling cost of living. Roosevelt's speech, promising in- | creased wages and lower hours, now |tarns out to be the sheerest and baldest demagogy. “I hope that nothing the Presi- | dent has said.” General Johnson | told the code authorities and the employers gathered here, “or I have said will lead any one to the idea that industry is to be placed in a procrustean bed by ukase or fiat or to say that hours shall be | so and so by administrative order. “I hope you get any such idea | owt of your mind because nobody | ever dreamed of doing it.” As the bosses have unanimously | declared for no reduction in hours and no increase in wages, General | Johnson’s statement was consideresi jhere as definite word from the | White House that no steps would | be taken to make any such changes jin N. R. A. codes. The speeches by | bcth Johnson and Roosevelt turn |.out to be so much palaver for pop- U.ar consumption. ‘The real program of the N. R. A aiter the code hear.ngs is to be woiked out in a conference between General Johnson ana Presideai | Roosevelt and key industrial lead- ers, representing the nost powerfu: (Continued on Page 2) | 500 Toledo Tool | And Die Makers | dor Jefferson Caffery, today sus pended constitutional and ¢! rights, and issued a decree of tional defense” admittedly aimed smashing the trade unions and the Communist Party terror. Government Fears Workers The revolutionary mood of the workers is reflected also in a deep discontent among certain sections of the petty bourgeoisie and of the army. The government has announced that it is fearful of an armed upris- ing of workers, supported by some (Continued on Page 2) through bloody Premier Alejandro Lerroux an-/ | nounced in the Cortes that the) ie nesty of royalist prisoners and iO ut On Strike April 14. This amnesty is designed Senet " | to release all reactionary prisoners, Walk-On ~ | but does not apply to any class-war ie at “ant When | Boss Fires Union Men: exiles would be put into effect by | prisoners. | Demand Pay Rise ELECTRICIANS STRIKE IN NEWARK | =e | NEWARK, N. J—A strike of 130; _ TOLEDO, Ma reh 7.—Five“hua- lu baie, ‘against the employment | ‘red emvloyes of the Toledo Ma- of non-union electricians on signal/Chine and Tool Company walked jtower work held up construction jout this mornine under the leader- | work on the Pennsylvania railroad| shin of Local 105 of the Interna~ on at Newark, N. J., and on| tional oe —— r. |cause the comna s refused ges across the Passaic river. iin raed pe ng are 5 ition, seven-hour dav and five-day Britain, France Use Vinson | Bill to Speed yosk and a pav increase, The Mechanics’ EAveational So- fety has a ber of members in bis plant and are particivatine in the strike action. It is reported that the anv is removing sortie machin to Hastines, Michigan. Naval Building \Frenzied Construction of New Warships Shows | BULLETIN (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, March 7.—The $750,000,000 five-year Trammel Navel construction bill, which was passed yosterday by the | overwhelming majority of 65 to 18 in the Senat2, went to conference today with the House to iron out the amendments attached to it by the Senate, The dispatching of the bill to conference was made possible by the withdrawal of the motion to consider made late yes- terday by Senator Dill. Asked whether he though the | House Administration forces would object to the purely formal 10 per cent limitation on profits, Carl Vinson of Georgia, chair- man of the sfouse Naval Affairs, | told the Daily Worker: “I’m for Danger Vinson- | as a threat to break the strikey ke was vrecinitated by the ecinnine to revlace union ith newly bired workers,At it time there is no sppe- jrent volicy for real mass strikelac- tion. no mass picket, lines or no-ap- 1 for sunnort. The Mesa is hold~ ine a sveciel mass meeting tonieht for the strikers. The ae of L. fficials ane carryine o1 same NEW YORK.—On the heels of | O°." a nie tererios Oy ana n the strike of the auto workers vesk pnd ers denen upon gigantic program of naval construc- any wan nd ee ae \tion, British and French moves inj. x ptia 5 |the world-wide naval rice of the/ “ame strikers can hove for very | chief Soe Deka raaerait [litle under *his plen, sine the auto nounced. e Japanese pro s\ workers fornd ont Het the vel ‘jargest in its history, was announced peeiay pant inetenke Abani ead some time ago. The Spicer Co. and 4 are already ‘firing of War the amendment in principle and I think the House is for it. No, I | wouldn't be surprised to see it go | through conference quickly.” * . 2 ine to them. oe a vlant other Billion Franes For Warships | PARIS, March 7—The naval com- ittee of the Chamber of Deputies} | yesterday approved a naval con-} wholeseie nt personnel. Raim- sey and his bosses-controlled auto- |mobile workers’ union are doing ‘nothing for the victimized workers | (Continued on Page 2)