The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 9, 1934, Page 1

fH ear Browder on the CIRCULATION DRIVE NEW 8U RECEIVED YESTERDAY: Daily .. .+-.. 181 Saturday ........ pd Total to date eeeeee LEO50Total ..,..-.cess0.. 340 Vol. XI, No. 59 eS New York, N. ¥., daily <QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at under the Act of March 8, 1879 NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1934 WEATHER: Probably Snow United Front Tonight at Irving Plaza, f mm, 8 p. & AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING CLASS DAILY (Six Pages) NEWSPAPER Price 3 C ents GEN. JOHNSON BOOSTS AFL. HEADS TO SMASH STRIKES ISSR ¢ Giles bas Acti of Wonien in All Fi Fields on ic Fad Women W orkers’ Day ® ve 000,¢ 000 in. Production In the USSR. Pravda Points to Role | of Women in Working | Class Battles MANY. IN Tremendous Growth in Consciousness in Villages Cited By VERN SMITH (Waily Worker Moscow Cor- respondent (Specal to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, March 8. (By Radio). —Today, on International Women Workers’ Day, ihe workers of the Soviet Union are summing up the gigantic growth in the participa- tion of women in the great work of socialist construction, The victors of the first Five- Year Plan and the triumphant conquerors of the second can say with full satisfatcion that Lenin’s famous slogan: “Make it possible for every kitchen maid to know how to run the government,” is nearing its realization. While in the capitalist countries, and especially Germany, woman economically, sacially and politi- cally is throvm back into the Middle Ages, where according to the words of the fascist hangman Goebbels “she 1s placed on. a level with -pros- titutes,” the woman of the Soviet Union has become the mistress of her socialist fatherland, enjoying full rights ds a participant in the construction of socialism, the con- struction of a classless society. 7,000,000 Women in Production Over 7,000,000 women have been drawn into production. There are (Continued on Page 2) Hold International Women’s Day Meet | in Phila, Today, Other Meetings Will Be Held in Worcester, Newark, Paterson PHILADELPHIA, — International Women’s Day will be celebrated here | tonight ing men and women gathering the Boslover Hall, 701 Pine St., tonight to hear Julin. Stuart Poynic speak on the significance of the day. WORCESTER. Washburn Hall, 321 Main St., celebrate International Women’s Day, Friday, 8 p. m. Ann Burlak National Organizer of the N. T. W. -- Meeting in I. U. There will also be a musical} program. NEWARK. — International Wom- en’s Day meeting will be held to- night at Ukranian Hall, 59 Beacon St. Sreaker: M. Pechney. caer PATERSON. — Meeting will be held tonight at_3 Governor St, Speaker: C. Tafler, MILWAUKEE.—R. Ferguson, Ne- ‘woman, who spent two vears in the Soviet Union, will be the chief speaker at the International Wom- en’s Day meeting to be held here Friday, 7:30 p. m., at Liberty Hall, 736 W. Walnut St. Pe ese NEW HAVEN. — International ‘Women’s Day will be celebrated .at Little Cinema Theatre, 35 Howe St., tonight at 8 o'clock. erence nme In the Daily Worker Today Pre-Conven*-— PAGE Yetters From Transport Work- ers. “Party Life.” “Dr. Luttinger Advises.” “In the Home.” PAGE 5 “Change the Wor'd,” Gorin. by Sender “Farmers Losing Faith in Roose- velt Govern by. John L. SOVIETS | to} Mie ainens Strikers Are Local Leaders, Aided by | Rank and File, Fight Fake Pay Raise By JAMES EGAN | Acting Secretary, Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 8.—| The 4,000 strikers at the Mellon-j| controlled Aluminum Company of| American plants in New Kensing- ton are sticking solidly. The strike committee negotiated with the com- pany at 11 o'clock Wednesday morn- ing. The committee is of the opin- ion that the main demands should be for the check-off and are not pressing the increase of wages as the main demand of the “holiday.” This strike was called originally for in- | crease in wages. The increase of | wages should be the main demand} presented in the interests of the workers, | The strike shows many weak- nesses, despite the fact that a de- termination on the part. of the workers to have rank and file con- trol of the strike has forced the offi-' cial representative, Mr. Swift, of the) A. F. of L., from the field. There are still some elements who are dan- gerous to the strike in official posi- tions. Oliver Moyes. Secretary of the National Council of the Alu-| minum Union, who was chiefly res- ponsible for the negotiations of the} 11 per cent “increase” rejected by} the strikers, as well as some of the other officials who supported the 11 per cent agreement, However, this group is being fought by the local chairman Hul- lit, MaCall, and several other local | leaders who are opposed to going back on the basis of the fake 11 | per cent agreement. Office Workers Ask for Pickets | The office workers and laboratory | workers sent a delegation to the |union headquarters and asked that| |@ picket line be formed before the offices and said that they would| come out, as soon as they were called | upon. The strike leaders told them | that if the company did not sign up |favorably by 11 o'clock Wednesday, | that they would gall on them to come out. This shows the dangerous position the strike is in on the one hand, and ‘Seamen Picket (Continued on Page 2) Scab Tobacco | Nazi Agents Flee Ship In Havana Fearing Demonsiration NEW YORK—Iin answer to the | call of striking Cuban workers to | protest against the shipment of seab tobacco to New York aboard the S. S. Santa Barbara, seamen and longshoremen picketed the Grace Line docks here yesterday morning. When the Santa Barbara arrived at the ‘dock at 9:30 Wednesday night none of the regular Grace Line longshoremen were there. A special crew guarded by two car- loads of police and 12 detectives were rushed to the dock and the tobacco was unloaded in a half hour. Pitket Docks On Thursday morning the Mar- ine Workers Industrial Union es- tablished a picket line in front of the dock, Roy Hudson, national chairman of the union, said that the M. W. I. U. was arranging to In Protest On Workers! To Improve Your Conditions, Fight the A.F.L. Officialdom Whose Interests Are the Employers’ Interests INTERESTS!”—this was tion yesterday of General TLEMEN TRY,” the conference of biggest monopolists. ing? He was speaking, leaders would aid them wave, words. workers? in our history. Why suffer it? out. PLAY THE GAME, and get it over quickly. I know your problems. GRADY, MIKE BERRY ‘and a host of others “THEIR INTERESTS ARE YOUR son to the conference of 4,000 “GEN- WHO CONTROL INDUS- Of whom was General Johnson speak- William Green, John L. Lewis and other bureaucrats of the A. F. of L. He was assuring the biegest bankers and man- ufacturers that these so-called labor strikes, in blocking the growing strike “Their interests are your inter- ests,” he assured the capitalists. Here are General Johnson’s exact What do you think of them, “We know something about what is toward in this country—the worst epidemic of strikes Submit to the law, “I want to tell you this for your comfort. I would rather deal with BILL GREEN, JOHN LEWIS, ED Mc- MacDONOUGH, GEORGE the declara- Hugh John- the nation’s than with any Frankenstein that you may build up under the guise of a company union. “In fact—take it from me and a wealth of experience—THEIR INTERESTS ARE YOUR INTERESTS and under the law and in this modern day, it is the best and quickest way to economic peace. Here is one cloud that we can erase from our horizon with one stroke. Let’s do it.” workers, of ese ie, tae in breaking goods on these strikebreakers * * whom the Daily Worker has been exposing in every step of their treachery. Workers! Take this up in your local unions. Mobilize your forces for action against this strikebreaking alliance. Workers! To protect your interests, organize to fight the bosses and their agents, whose in- terests are the same. 1) Demand shorter hours in all industries without weekly pay reductions. 2) Demand wage increases to meet the rising cost of living. 3) For the passage of the Workers Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill. 4) Defend your uncondi- tional right to strike. 5) Defeat all attempts to through the Here is a way fasten compulsory arbitration on the workers strikebreakifig National Board. 6) Demand the immediate withdrawal of all A. F. of L. leaders from the strikebreaking NR.A. and National Labor Board. 7) Against Labor all forms of government regulation and con- I could name, movement. trol of the trade unions. 8) Defeat the class col- laboration policies of Green, Lewis, Hillman and Co, 9) Smash the company unions. 10) For & powerful independent class trade tinion (See page 3 for article by Harr y Gannes on Jobmson's speech) Postal Workers Fight “Economy” US. Wage Slash To Hold Mass Meeting; $6 a Week is Gov’t Average Pay NEW YORK, March 8.—A protest meeting of post office workers against the announced “economy” slash of Postmaster Farley will be held Sunday, at Public School 27, ‘Third Avenue and 42nd Street, N. Y., the National Association-of Sub- stitute Postal Employees announced today, Roosevelt's Postmaster has just announced that a new speed-up sys- tem will be installed in the post offices which will practically send 25,000 postal workers into the ranks of the jobless. The order comes right after the “request” of Reose- velt and Johnson for “shorter hours and higher pay.” Postal workers have had their wages driven down to starvation Jevels by the Roosevelt “economy” bills. Many substitute workers get as low as 53 cents a day, with every day’s work uncertain, The regulars are being speeded up to inhuman lengths. Many workers get not more than $6 a week. The protest meeting will be fol- lowed by a parade to the main post office at 34th Street. LANSFORD, Pa., March 8—De- spite the threat by John L. Lewis that he will revoke their U.M.W.A, charter, more than 17,500 miners’ here are still out on strike. A vote .|has been ordered on whether the strike will be continued and results will be known tomorrow, Cleveland, St. Louis, Auto Workers Join in Strike Demand NEW YORK—A huge strike wave is gaining momentum throughout the country, with William Green, John L. Lewis and the National Labor Board straining every nerve to thwart them and to defeat the workers vote for strike. In Washington yesterday Green called on A. F. of L. leaders in St. Louis, Cleveland and Michigan to come to the capital and meet with the National Labor Board in an effort to keep tens of thousands of auto workers from going on strike in Chevrolet, Buick, Hudson, and Fisher Body, for union recognition and higher wages. Yesterday nearly 5,000 workers in the Fisher Body Company’s pliant in Cleveland balloted on strike. Around 7,090 work in the plant. Nearly 5.000 are members of an A. F. of L. Federal Union. Despite the wishes of the workers, the leaders have already announced they will block strike, and have the matter referred to the National Labor Board * . . SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., March 8. —Members of the International Loneshoremen’s iat om i here are voting on a proposed strike, to be effective March 23rd. Ballots have been mailed to all members and results are expected to be mown March 15. ST. LOUIS, Mo., March 8—The Regional Labor Board here has asked the National Labor Board to step in to prevent a strike of work- ers in the Chevrolet Motor Co. and the Fisher Body plants. The work- ers are demanding union recogni- tion, and the reinstatement of workers fired for Ais 5 activity. . * DETROIT, Mich, March 8.— James F. Dewey, ‘National Labor Strike Wave Grows in Answer to Bloody ‘Mendieta Terror HAVANA, March 8—A strike of and in tary ‘Teports reaching telephone and radio workers at noon Minas INisaia tone theaters ace today silenced Cuba’s whole tele- phone and broadcasting system. This strike marks another impor- tant advance in the general strike wave, called by the National Con- federation of Labor against the bloody repression decrees put into ‘Auto Strike Wave Swells, As Green, Lewis Try to Smash Workers’ Actions Lerroux Deepicen Terrer Against A Big Strike Wave Spain Gets 27,000 More Cops; ‘State of Alarm” Is Declared MADRID, March 8.—Strikes of a widespread mass character, and developing from economic to poli- tical demands, are shaking the re- actionary Lerroux government, which is taking extraordinary meas- ures for their violent suppression. The strike of 80,000 building trades’ workers in Madrid, in a Communist, Socialist, and Anarchist united front, is to be joined tomor- row by a general printers’ strike in sympathy with the strike of the printers of the newspaper ABC against the open shop. Numerous other strikes are going on in many cities. : The Cortes yesterday also granted authority to Lerroux to add 15,000 men to the Civil Guard, which now numbers 25,000, and 12,000 to the Assault Guard, which now numbers 5,000. Board conciliator here ordered Hud- son Motor Car workers to suspend their strike call pending a Washing- ton conference. The conference is set for March 15th. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., March 8— Declaring they would not retum to work until thelr union is recognized wages affect by President Mendieta on the ) Shooting was reported in Camaguey, | Soldiers Wound Many er in Attacks on Workers All Over Island advice of U. S. lor Jeffer-| w son Caffery. The slogan of the general strike Ne eer ik antl most parts of se ene militantly resisting the efforts of the army to smash their strikes with machine guns and bayonets. Many were reported wounded, two here soldiers are as eee alias and street car ines. di - in, Gis office. with machine guns seriously, when soldiers fired on a| which gathered outside the health demonstration in front of the pro-| department building. vincial palace’ at Santa Clara. A Negro worker wae arrested in’ with timed Urgeneta, ft ! *Private Citizen! eels Given Right to Twelve More AFL Kill 3 Negroes Locals Kndorse Mississippi Se Senate Puts | Thru Special Fascist Vengeance Measure | measure rushed through the Mis- | sissippi Senate yesterday wipes out) the ragged imaginary line between legal lynching anda mob lynching by | giving the father of an alleged | “rape” victim, tlie right to spring | the trap in the mass legal lynching of three Negro youths ordered for March at Hernando. The bill, in effect, gives official approval to crimes of vengeance against Negro victims of the traditional charge of | “rape” with which the southern capitalist landlords attempt to jus- | tify their persecution of the Negro masses, This fascist-vengeance measure, supported by Senator Collins, cousin of the alleged victim, was passed to enable De Soto County authorities to keep a secret agreement with the father of the girl for the privilege of springing the trap when it was discovered that existing laws pre- (Continued on Page 2) LL.D. to Argue Motion Friday On Scotisboro) Demonstration Called) for Saturday Noon In Harlem NEW YORK.—A motion for new trials for Haywood Patterson and| Clarence Norris, two of the Scotts- boro ‘boys, will be argued in Judge Callahan’s court in Decatur, Ala.,| on Friday by Eli Schwartzbard, representing the International La- bor Defense. While appeals already have been filed with the Alabama Supreme Court against Callahan’s recent ruling denying a hearing on motion for new trials, the action on Fri- while she was being revived. day 4s designed to force Callahan! cyortiy before the case came up, to reverse his decision. ‘The mo-/ iat. in the afternoon, Attorney! tion is based on the grounds that Callahan deliberately misled the defense attorneys in granting ex- tensions and then conveniently cancelling them on the hypocritical excuse that he had “forgotten” the statute which would have pre- vented him from granting these extensions. ut . NEW YORE.—A call for a mighty protest demonstration this Satur- day afternoon in Herlem was is- sued yesterday by the Harlem Sec- (Continued on Page 2) Terrific Explosion in Munitions Plant Rocks Towns, Kills 4 DOVER, N. J., March 8.—A terrific explosion, reminiscent of the deadly blasts in munitions’ factories during wartime, yester- day blew at least four workers to bits, shattered a huge hall of the Hercules Powder Co., rocked towns and broke windows five miles away. Jobless Girl, Hungry, Faints In Court Trial ‘Lawyer, 2 Others Jailed one of nine unemployed workezs being tried before Judge Burke in} thagistrates court at Centre and) Franklin Sts. for taking part in a delegation to the Home Relief Bu-| day afternoon and court recessed reau to demand relief for the Cot- Relief officials called the police and Workers’ JACKSON, Miss, March 8.—A| — Hear Browder Speak on Unity Tonight at |) Irving Plaza Hall NEW YORK.—Earl Browder, General Secretary of the Com- munist Party, speaks tonight, at 8 o'clock at the Irving Plaza, 17 Irving Place, on “Two Theories of Working Class Unity.” He will discuss the burning question of How to achieve that unity which is indispensable in the struggles of the workers, against war, against fascism, for unemploy: ment relief, and for unemploy- || ment insurance. The lecture is held under the auspices of the Workers School, and all proceeds will go to the benefit of the ten-week, full-time | National Training School of the |) Communist Party, which is now drawing to a successful conclu- | sion, due to the support given to it by workers and workers’ or- ganizations, for Protesting at Frame-Up of 9 NEW YORK—Dorothy Marvin, | reau, collapsed of hunger yester- Louis Fleicher of the I. L. D., and} Clarence Roth and Mary Smith, workers in the courtroom, Were ar- rested in court for protesting against continued delay in bringing up the cases of the nine arrested| workers. Roth and Mary Smith| were taken away to the Elizabeth St. station and Fleicher was placed} under technical arrest. The nine workers were arrested | two days ago when they went in a delegation to the Home Relief Bu- tello family, Porto Ricans who were denied relief for a year, be- cause of their race. Mrs. Cottello, who is pregnant, testified in court yesterday that) she was previously getting $2 a| week relief from the Salvation Army, tor her family which in- cludes a three year old child. But this was cut off. The Home Relief kept telling her to go back to the Salvation Army but they did nothing for her. She was starving. The Unemployed Council then organized the delega-| tion to demand relief and the Home had them arrested. | MIGHTY | Five | Baroga | Michigan, | repor: ed to the Daily Worker yi | Pill |M. A.,, Bill Virden City Council Calls for Enactment of H. R. 7598 CAMPAIGN Progressive Mine Locals Endorse Bill NEW council YORK—The city of Virden, Ill, the County Board in and twelve addi- local unions, eight af- | filiated with the A. F. of L. and four with the Prage ssive Miners of A Workers ete ment and Soc | Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598), it was these endorsements All of t rank and file in the A. F. of L. for the enactment of the bill is being put forward by one local union after another, in the face of the opposition of the |trade union misleade| Miners Demand Action The “Progressive Miner,” trolled by the misleaders of is campaigning amo! members for the indorsement of Wagner Bill, misnamed an “une: ployment insurance” bill, which does not apply to the 16,000,000 now totally unemployed. In. spite of this attempt to sidetrack the Work~- ers’ Bill, four additional local unions of the P.M.A. have indorsed the bill. These locals are Nos. 39 at Virden; Local 80 at Glen Carbon; Local 57 at Pana, and Local 16 at Springfield. Local No. 1 of Gilles- (Continued on Page 2) $198,000 0,000 British Budget For Its Army Demands More Planes; France to Rush Ship Building 8.—Japan will the gigan- Visison TOKYO, March take up the chailenge tic naval program. of bill, passed Inst Tuesday, and build up it b 1 the present treaty- iit Dineen: the navy min- istry announced today. Japan's navy will have a total tonnage of 735,063 to America’s 1,125,240 by 1939, Navy Minister Mineo Osumi declared, adding that The nine arrested jobless work- ers were called to trial day before} The explosion occurred at 2:15 pm. yesterday in the dynamite shell loading plant where men were Inading powder into paper ’ cartridges with a dynamite pack- ing machine. The Hercules Powder Co. is fone of plant in fitting from the huge munitions orders given by the war-making Roosevelt government. Phone, Radio Workers Join Cuban General Strike * charged with being an agitator. ‘new head of the city|terday, charged with “conspiring lepartment, was shot and | against Soldiers fired) an traffic is diverted today from on 4 large crowd) the neighborhood of the presidential which palace, chine gun the government.” yesterday. Over the protest of| Fleicher, the case was continually put off. Fleicher proposed that} the workers be parolied in his cus-| tody but Judge Burke refused. I | became obvious that Burke was determined to persecute the unem- ployed workers as much as possible.) All day yesterday Burke kept | calling other cases. At 3.15, it was} apparent that Burke would try to hold the unemployed workers an- other night in jail. Fleicher then demanded again that their cases be called. Judge Burke stated he would call what cases he pleased. ‘When Fieicher insisted, he was ar- rested. Upon Fleicher's arrest, the workérs in the crowded court-room protested, and Roth and Mary Smith were taken out of ihe crowd. Fleicher was later rezeased. Robert Minor to Talk on Austria Tonight NEW YORK —Robert Minor, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, will speak on the Austrian situation and the need for a united front at a mass munitions’ the largest bene- the country now this ratio was unacceptable, and that Japan must build more war- ships. eae plied England Increases Army Budget LONDON, March 8.—British army timates for 19: 935 were an~ nounced today, h a, total of $198,000,000, an increase of $8,250,- 000 over the previous year’s budget. Sir Phillip Sgesson, under-secre- tary for aviation, demanded a much increased air force Great Britain in a speech in the House of mons, in which he declared Britain was fifth in air power among tho werld powers. He insisted . the British air force must be built up to equal that of any other power, Figures issued here today appear to indicate thet France is first in air power, and Britain sixth, being below Japan. These figures are be- ing used as the basis for a great campaign to vastly increase the British air force. ee France to Build Warships at Once PARIS, March 8—The French government will go ahead at once with its naval building program whether or not parliament author- izes it at present, it was announced here today. meeting tonight at the Boro Park Workers’ Club, 18th Ave. and 47th St. Brooklyn. Twenty-five per cent of the income goes to the Ger- man workers in their struggle sgeinst Hitler fascism is guarded by ma- emplacements and troops aL ee BRUSSELS, March 8—Only war will prevent Germany from rearm- ing, Count de Broqueville, premier of Belgium, declared im = statement,