The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 10, 1934, Page 1

Le AO My ‘ NOREEN ee owe REE i. | oe tS | a CIRCULATION DRIVE NEW SUBS RECEIV) =D: Daily 81 Total to date.1,7140 Vol. XI, No. 69 5 second-cles rk, N.Y und) Daily,QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) S matte: NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1934 WEATHER: Fair, Col AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER der (Eight Pages) Price 3 Cents ‘U.S, MENDIETA IN ARMED WAR ON CUBAN STRIKERS /_ Parmelee Hackmen Strike . Against Company U Union Rolling 2,000 Cabs § Stop As Men_ Hit Blacklist Strike Starts When the|f Parmelee Co. Fires Union Man COPS AID COMPANY Call for Blecion of Broad Committee NEW YORK.—Taxi drivers of the Parmalee System, Inc., the largest taxicab fleet in the city, struck yesterday against the formation of 2 company union and the discharg of a union shop steward, Over 4,500 drivers were out b noon and 2,000 cabs were in th garages. The walkout which began at a garage at 155th St., and Brad- hurst Ave. where a shon steward, Samuel Jaffe, was fired for his union activities, has spread to all garages in Manhattan, Bronx, Har- Jem and Brooklyn. It is being led by the Taxi Drivers’ Union of Greater New York. The strikers have drawn up a list of 12 demands which include re-in- statement of all discharged men fired for union activities, abolition | of the spotter system, two weeks vacation with pay for all regular drivers, uniform caps to-be supplied by the company, abolition of the blacklist, no discrimination against Negroes and recognition of the Taxi Drivers’ Union of Greater New York. Many Drivers Fired. Joseph ‘Gilbert, field organizer of the union, told the Daily Worker that the firing of Jaffe was not an isolated case. “The same discrimi- nation aganist union men could be found in all garages,” he said. “Men have been fired in Parmelee garages all over the city for refusing to join the company union.” The strike was called following a vote taken by the drivers at Iry- ing Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place, and Rockland Palace, 280 W. 150th St. at 3 o'clock in the morning. A strike committee of nine, three from each borough, was set wp amd pickets were sent to the (Continmed on on Page 2) Hospital Red Tape Kills Baby; Parents Protest NBW YORK.—A case of hi red tape which delayed medical aid to % baby was forced to Mayor La Guardia's attention after forceful complaints were made by the par- ents, Mr, and Mrs. John Barrett. The baby died last Saturday at the Kings County Hospital without the hospital authorities notifying the parents how dangerous the case was, and the paernts were turned away from the hospital during their frequent visits and told to return during regular visiting hours Se In the Daily Worker Today : PAGE 2 Sports, by Sam Ross. PAGE 3 Wall Street’s Capitol, by Sey- mour Waldman. Pre-Conver*” ae in Auto, Coal Show Ris- ing Struggle Against N.R.A, Spy Agency Linked With A. F. of L. Heads; S. P. Press Aids Scabs, : PAGE 5 Sceds of Fascism in New Pam- phiet by Secretary Wallace. Communist International Cele- brates 15th Year Under Lenin, Stalin Banner. PAGE 6 Letters from Miners, “In the Home.” “Dr. Luttinger Advises.” “Party Life.” With Our Young Readers. PAGE 7 “Change the Yo-.¢,” by Sender Gariin. Browder Tells of 10-Day Trip Through Concentration Dist- ricts. “If He Doesn’t Get Work, He'll Do Anything,” by Jchn L. Spivak. “Sherwood Eddy Sces U.S.S.R. Through New Spectacles,” by Harry Raymond. PAGE 8 Béitorials Foreign News. EEE JULIO ANTONIO MELLA Leader of the Communist Party of Cuba, who was assassinated in 1929 by Machado’s agents for his activities on behalf of the Cuban workers and against Yankee im- perialism. His ashes were recent- ly ceremoniously buried by the Cuban workers, 5 Ships a and Dock Strike In Baltimore Negro Longshoremen Walk Out As the Crews Strike BALTIMORE, Md.,March 9.—The crews of five ships and coastwise longshoremen struck here, under the leadership of the Marine Workers Industrial Union. The crews walked off the ships, demanding the full code of the M. W. I. U.—the 1929 wage scale, full crews and better conditions. The striking longshoremen, all of whom are Negro workers, are members of Baltimore Local 1 of the Longshore Section of the Marine Workers In- dustrial Union. They are demanding 75 cents an hour. The names of the striking ships are the Walter Munson, the Rebore, the Fireore, the San Angelo and the New Britain. The crew of the El Capitan sent. word ashore that the men are ready to strike. The S.S. New Britain got out of the harbor with a skeleton crew pound for a southern port. | Arrests at. City Halls | Fail to Stop Demand; | 4 Locals Endorse NEW YORK.—Four additional local unions of the American Fed- eration of Labor have endorsed the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill (H.R. 7598) and in several cities militant demonstra- tions of the workers were held at city councils, demanding enactment of the bill, in the face of police terror and arrests. The local unions of the A. F. of L. endorsing the Bill were the U. M. W. A. Local 916, of Hiteman, Iowa; local union nine of the Coop- ers’ International, Phila., the Cer- and the Eveleth, Minn., International Mine, Mill and Smel- ter Workers Union. The Eveleth | Roosevelt, C.W.A. Club and the Eve- leth fire department endorsed the bill, which has already been en- | Mesabe Iron Range town. Shenandoah Demonstration In Shenandoah, Pa., anthracite coal mining center, seven members of the Unemployment Council were arrested at an open air mass meet- ing called March 6, to go before (Continued on Page 2) |Eighth Army Flyer Is Air Mail Servicer NEW YORK, March 9.—The crash of two Army planes, one in Ohio and one in Florida, brought the total of killed army fliers to eight since the Army took over the air mail service less than a month ago. Both planes were carrying mail when they crashed. Roosevelt has just decided to turn the air mail over to private com- panies again. 1,200 Post Office Subs Laid Off in Chicago, Tl. (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Ill, March 9.—All postoffice substitutes here were laid off today, and their routes added to the routes of the regu- lars. The latter are working under a terrific speedup. They are being given four day fur- loughs without pay instead of the promised 15 per cent pay increase in pay. The National Association of Post Office Employes is imme- diately taking steps to fight against the layoffs. The postoffice heads claim there are no funds left to pay substitutes for the rest of the fiscan year, which ends on July 1. Twelve hundred ‘substi- tutes are affected by the layoffs. dorsed by the city councils of this} H.R. 7598) penters local in Jamestown, N. Y.., local of the | | Killed in Government | 20,000 Vote for Strike Hitler N ote Smith, Canadian Libor, |Leader, Acquitted by Jury in Sedition T rial) TORONTO, Can., March 9.—A verdict of not guilty was returned yesterday by the jury in the case of A. E. Smith, veteran labor leader and General Secretary of the Canadian Labor Defense League, whose indittment on a charge of sedition evoked a tre- mendous outburst of mass pro- tests in this country and in the United States. (Editor's Note. — The Daily Worker will carry a complete report of the final day of the trial and Smith's speech in court, on Monday.) Huge City Wide Protest Action, Harlem Today Callahan Again Denies Scottsboro Motion; All Out Against Lynchers! BULLETIN DECATUR, March 9.—Judge W- W. (Lynch) Callahan today again refused to hear a motion for 2 new trial for Haywood Patterson and Clarence Ni two of the Scottsboro boys, ining to hear argument by Eli Schwartzbard, | International Labor Defense at- torney, against his recent decision | which virtually attempts to rob the two boys of the right of ap- peal. Appeal has been filed with the Alabama Supreme Court by the LL.D. attorneys. All workers’ or- ganizations are urged to rush de- mands to President Roosevelt, Gov. B. M. Miller and the Ala- bama Supreme Court for the immediate, unconditional and safe release of the nine Scotts- boro boys. leak) NEW YORK.—“They Shall Not Die!” will be the thunderous answer of thousands of Mew York workers this afternoon to the latest maneu- vers of the Alabama lynchers to tush the Scottsboro boys to the electric chair, as workers from all over the city mobilize in Harlem for a powerful Scottsboro protest dem- onstration. The Harlem sections of the Com- munist Party and Young Commu- nist League in calling the demon- stration urged all sections of the party, and all mass organizations and workers throughout the city to turn out. The demonstration is called for 2 o'clock this afternoon, All work- | 8,000 in Walker County Defy NRA and UMWA | Leaders BIRMINGHAM, Ala., March 9. | Machine guns, gas bombs, airplanes, rifles and bayonets, along with a cavalry unit, are being transported into Walker County by three com- panies of the Alabama National Guard to crush a general strike, voted by 20,000 miners in their lo- cals. Eight thousand miners are already on strike, and are sending delegations to all mines to pull them jout. The miners involved are do- fying the district labor board’s rul- ing to end the strike, as well as the orders of the U. M. W. A. officials. Admitting that “No violence has been reported in the strike areas,” Brigadier General John C. Parsons, nevertheless, gave his troops the jorder to march against the miners in Walker County. Communist Units Active. The Communist Party mine units are issuing leaflets calling for a spread of the strike, and rank and file control. They demand full rec- ognition of the union and to fight against the company union. A basic day rate of $3.40 for outside work~- ers, and $4.40 for inside labor; sixty two cents per ton, with a minimum of four cars a day; abolition of contracting; equal pay for equal work, and the right of Negro min- ers to any job; an eight-hour day; re-installing of free transportation to work and for larger bath houses; lreduction in high (Continued on Page 2) ers are asked to be at their mobi- lization points by 1:30. The various organizations will mobilize as fol- lows: Bronx section, together with the International Labor Defense and the Finnish Federation, at 126th Street and Lenox Ave.; York- ville, East and Lower Harlem or- ganizations, together with the Young Communist League, at 115th St. and 5th Ave., Harlem Party sec- tion and Unemployed Couniils at 131st St. and Lenox Ave.; League of Struggle for Negro Rights and all Manhattan sections at 141st St. and ‘Lenox Ave. The main mobilization will be at 131st St. and Lenox Avenue, from which the march will start, pro- ceeding up Lenox Avenue to 135th Street, west to 7th Avenue, down to 125th St., east to Lenox, and culminating in a huge demonstra- tion at 131st Street and Lenox Ave- nue. The speakers include James W. Ford, organizer of the Harlem Section of the Communist Party; William Fitzgerald of the Harlem Section of the International Labor Unemployed Council; Charles White, Young Communist League organizer; and Herman McKawain of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. commissary | | Britain ‘Masirens Vinson Bill With Gigantic Military Budget BULLETIN PEIPING, March 9.— Japanese get a list of American mission properties in North China, “in order to avoid damage to these properties in the event the Jap- anese army found it necessary to come southward from the Great Wali in the near future.” yearm, claiming equality other powers in its right to military forces. This is revealed in a memorandum of Dec. 18, made public by the League of Nations today. Louis Barthou, French minister, declared that France would refuse any disarmament steps if Germany rearmed beyond the Ver- sailles Treaty limits. * ar Baldwin Sounds Anti-Soviet Hate LONDON, March 9.—The defin- itely anti-Soviet character of Great Britain’s active war preparations ‘was once more made clear by Stan- ley Baldwin, Lord President of the Council, during debate in the House of Commons last night on the $87,- 805,000 war plame construction budget. Baldwin, leader of the Conser- vative Party, and former premier, intervened in the name of the Cab- inet to insist that Great Britain must create an air force equal to | that of any country “within strik- ing distance.” Half Billion War Budget If Great Britain fails to get a “disarmament” convention on its own lines, it will “start to work air convention alone among the countries of Western Europe, for saving our own European civili- zation.” The airplane budget presented by the government calls for construc- tion of six airplane squadrons. Added to the current army and navy estimates, it brings the British military expenses for 1934-35 to $568,555,000. The energetic pushing of British to be a response to the American big-navy and warplane program, and particularly to the Vinson bill, which provides for making the UV. S. navy the most powerful afloat. 4 Hurt in U. S. Submarine Explosion SAN DIEGO, Calif. March 9.— Defense; Louis Campbell of the| Four members of the crew Nautilus, a locally based submarine, were hurt last night when an explosion occured due to an exploded crank- case as the submarine was engaged in a power run 100 miles out at sea. | military officials today sought to | foreign | the next morning to try to get an} war preparations is understood here} | | | GENEVA, March 9,—Germany has | officially announced its decision to/ with all! | Fight ——_——— © Masses in ‘Troops, Airplanes Sent Nazis Will ; | Action for | Against Ala. Miners; Rearm, eo of U. S.! Support Cuban Toiler Intervention of| U.S. Armed Forces in Cuban Struggle! |OUT WITH CAFFERY! \Demand. ‘Roosevelt Keep U.S. Hands | Off Cuba! | Wall Street's puppet in Cuba, President Carlos Mendieta, with | | the support of Roosevelt's battle- | ships and arms, is preparing to drown a general strike of the Cuban workers in a sea of blood. Workers! American imperialism | to protect its blood money, its | $1,500,000,000 investment in Cuba, and the $90,000,000 that it squeezes out of the Cuban masses yearly, is ready to shoot down your Cuban brothers. The Mendieta government, to protect the profits of the Ameri- can bankers, public utility owners, and sugar magnates, has decreed that strikes are illegal. In the tremendous strike wave in Cuba, | Mendieta, recognized by the | Roosevelt government, is repeat- | ing the murderous tactics of the butcher Machado. Just as the Roosevelt govern- ment through its N.R.A. is moy- ing towards making strikes illegal, the Wall Street puppet in Cuba, Mendieta, has taken the next step and is mobilizing the army to crush strikes by bloodshed. American workers! Your Cuban brothers are fighting against the )same enemy who oppresses you and wants to smash down your | living standards. Fight against | American armed intervention in Cuba! Demand U, S. battleships | get out of Cuban waters! Demand | all U.S. armed forces be with- | drawn from Cuba! Demand the ousting of Wall Street's ambas- | sador, Jefferson Caffery! Demand the Roosevelt government keep its hands off of the struggles of the Cuban workers! Step the shir- ment of arms and munitions to Cuba, to be used against your fe!- low workers in Cuba! Support the general strike of the Cuban work- ers against the monster of the American bankers and the native landlord capitalists! For interna- tional solidarity with our Cub=n brothers! 23 Hurt, 1 Killed in Bus Crash PROVIDENCE, R. I., March 9.— One woman died and 23 persons) were injured when a New Haven! Railroad bus bound from New York | to Providence skidded this morning due to the freezing of snow that) fell the previous night. | for AFL Heads Refuse to Divulge Fisher Body Strike Vote; Strikes Spreading Fairmo it Aluminum Men on Strike; Lewis Orders Miners Back CLEVELAND, March 9.—A. F. of L. leaders here refuse to armounce the results of the strike vote of nearly 5,000 Fisher Body Co. work- ers which took place yesterday. They declare that the vote will not be announced until Wednesday, pending a ruling of the National Labor Board, The workers voted de- spite newspaper stories to the con- trary. Voting undoubtedly showed sentiment for a strike, although no figures are available. An A. F. of L. union mass meet- ing has ia called for Sunday afternoon at Mbose Hall. The workers are demanding rec- ognition of their union, while the A. F. of L. leaders are doing all they can to crush the strike sentiment and hold back action by the work- ers, awaiting the decision of the National Labor Board, which is supposed to be given on March 14. In reality, the National Board is scheduled to mee: on March 14th in ‘Washington, not to render a deci- sion on that date, but to work out plans to stem the growing strike wave in the auto industry. The Auto Workers Union calls on the Fisher Body workers to vote for strike, and prepare for action, atiding the additional demands of a 25 to 50 per cent increase in wages, time-and-a-half for overtime and Saturday; double for Sunday work; against piece work and speed-up. They call on the workers to elect their own rank and file strike com- mittee, based on representation from each department. “All workers act now and form well as unorganized, without the A. F, of L. leadership,” urges the Auto Workers Union. (See Editorial on Fisher Body strike on page 8) ees Te Fairmont Aluminum Strike FAIRMONT, West Va. (By Mail) —More than 125 members of the Aluminum Workers Union No. 18,292, went on strike here March 2nd in support of the 4,000 out on strike at the Mésllon-controlled Aluminum Company of America plants in New Kensington, Pa. The aluminum workers picket here, starting at 6 o'clock in the morning at the Fairmont Aluminum Company plant. The workers here, like the New Kensington workers, are demanding recognition of their union and in- creased wages. Telegrams were sent to John B. West at New Ken- sington, official of the union, telling him of the strike, Howard Nuzum, president of the local union declared: “We are in sympathy with the men of New Kensington, Pa., and all other mem- bers of aluminum companies, be- cause we think our wages are too low, our conditions inade- quate and our hours too long, but we have declared this holiday pri- marily for our own benefit.” ‘The demands of the workers are similar to those of the strikers in New Kensington: $1.06 an hour for unskilled workers; the present west here is 35 cents an hour. The 4,000 New Kensington strik- ers three times rejected efforts of some of the leaders to put over fake agreement to end the strike. The local leaders. in New Kensington, such as Hullit McCall and Caruso the united front of organized as|are working with the rank and file, ization as a good agent of the bosses | against the pie cbisanareene Lewis Onlers Strike Broken WASHINGTON, March 9.—John L, Lewis, living up to the character- made by General Johnson to the 4,000 bosses, today ordered 7,000 striking anthracite miners in Pan- ther Creek Valley to return to work. The miners are striking against; Johnson Speech Praising AFL Heads, Attack General Dressed Up Speech for Boss Press, Delet- ing Part Telling of Fight Against Communists, and Section Slandering Negroes NEW YORK. — General Johnson | deliberately deleted important pas-) sages from his speech praisine the A. F. of L. officials as the best strikebreakers of the New Deal and a‘tecking the Communist Party. The speech given out by N. R. A. Officials, made by General Johnson on March 7th at Constitution Hall in Washington stated: “T want to tell you this for your comfort. I know your problems. I would rather deal with Bill Green, John Lewis, Ed McGrady, Mike MacDonough, George Berry and a host of others I could name, than with any Frankens‘ein that you may build up under the guise of a com- pany union. “In fact—take it from me and a wealth of experience—their interests are your interests! ...” To this, General Johnson added, when he spoke to the 4,000 leading | exploiters; ed Communists | “Gentlemen, the A. F. of L. is the | worst enemy of the Communis's.” This fact is reported to the Daily} Worker by Seymour Waldman, cf the Daily Worker Washington Bureau who was present and heard General Johnson speak. The whole story can be found on page three of today’s Daily Worker. This shows clearly that General | Johnson not only told the exploiters of 90 per cent of the workers under N. R. A. codes that the A. F. of L. leaders’ interests were their own, but that they were the worst enemy of the Communists who have ex- posed and fought against.the N. R. A. slave codes, Besides this important omission, General Johnson did not allow the capitalist press to publish his chau- vinist “joker” wherein he regaled the 4,000 bosses with the story of | trusts’ proposal to substitute com- | Trusts have recently the Southern newspaper depression |headline; “Banker Marries White | Gir.” worsening of their conditions through the N.R.A. Lewis declared under the existing wage agreement strikes are illegal, and that the miners in striking are violating the agreement. Local U.M.W.A. leaders urged | tl Lewis to make a tour of the region and see how rotten conditions are, but Lewis answered that “business” in Washington keeps him occupied. He is too busy breaking strikes to observe the conditions against which the miners are striking. cheat tr 6,000 Milk Drivers Reject Proposal CHICAGO, March 9.—Six thou-| sand milk drivers voted unanimously last night in Carmen’s Hall to reject | missions for present wage of forty dollars week. The proposal “guar-| anteed” stem of “points” for sales. | The lifetime officials of the Milk Wagon Drivers Union Local 1753} have ignored the demand of the rank and file that negotiations on the wage cut, which have gone on for more than a month, cease. The lowered the price of milk of this city one cent in a maneuver to cut wages and then increase the price of milk again. The rank and file committees with headquarters at 160 North Wells St., Room 301, are organizing the work- ers for strike against the wage cut and against the flagrant betrayals of the union officials, st ve Connecticut Workers Strike | NEW BRITAIN, Conn., March 9.| League movement which already —Demanding a 40 per cent wage in-| has had resolutions passed in sev- | crease, a thirty dollar week with) of railroad owners and unich offi-| 6,000 Chicago Milk Men Reject Bosses’ Pay Proposals met they will go on strike here at the Stanley Works on Monday. ie lie MIDDLETOWN, Conn., March 9. —Over 900 weavers here at the Russell Manufacturing Company went out on strike today declaring that promises mede for the ending of a previous strike have been broken. A committee representing the sirikers met with the bosses and demanded a 10 per cent wage in- which was promised at the ending of the last strike. Bosses, Union Heads, Ward Off C. & N. W. Strike CHICAGO. March 9.—Discussions cials on Chicago & Northwestern ended this week with the settling of a few of the thousands of griev-| ances and with practically a com- plete victory for the bosses in ward- ing off a strike. The union officials, who tricked the workers into voting them com- plete power to negotiate with the rail owners, are attempting to shut the eyes of the workers to the main grievances of the ten per cent wage cut and the working conditions which have grown even worse during the very week negotiations were taking place. The present concessions, which consist of the return of jobs to some workers and back pay, were forced by the active Brotherhood Unity jare preparing |tempt to drown in blood the | general strike of Cuban work- ‘to have at least 3900 | machine guns, and 109.0% rounds and outlawing s’ Fight More Strikes Answer Attempt to Smash C.P., and Trade Unions FULL TIE-UP NEAR Fascist Bends Armed With U. S. Aid WASHINGTON, March 9.—Se- cret orders to all American war- ships in the neighborhood of Cuba to be ready at short notice to rush to the island have been issued by the Navy department. HAVANA. March 9.—U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery ind President Carlos Mendieta todav ton oat. ers, which is sweeping the island and approaching the scale of the strike which brought about the dev~foll of Machado last summer. While a snokeman for Mendieta announced that the strikes would be broken with full army protection, fascist bands armed throuch the help of former Ambassador Sumner Wells and Caffery are being drilled, in the fear that the armv will fraternize with the revolu‘ionary | workers. These fascist bands, com- | posed of young members of the ABC capitalist landlord party, are known rifles, 100 of ammunition. U. S. Marines Ready Capt. Albert B. Moore. fo. of the New York State Po’i rived in Havana lest nivi+ + ganize the Havana police for Several U. S. hi |Cuban harbors, and the tra ship Antares. with the full m-rine |force of the U. chored in “Haw marine and mil euertered on fhe | Gvantanemo beer, These elsborats military nrepora- tions are the Well Street-Mendic’a government’s answer to a sirentic revolutionary wave which received immense impetus from rene decre> fosued yo pending cons 1 qurrantess all s, The spread of the ceneral strike is a direc‘ defense of the revolution- ary National Confederation of Labor (CNOC) and the Communist Party, which the emergency @4 fs avowedly intended to smash. CNOC has 300,000 members. United Front negotiations between the CNOC and the Labor Federation joint s‘ruggles in defense of workers’ rights are progressing, and The (Continued on Page 2) Labor Party | GainsLondon County Rule Conservative Defeat Shows Radicalization of London Masses LONDON, March 9.—Deep disil- lusion with the hunger government of the Conservative Party, etd radicalization of the masses of Lon- tself felt in don workers has made it the complete overthr to the London County Council. The Labor Party gained the votes lost by the conservatives, getting a majority on the Council for the first time. Nearly complete returns give the Labor Party 61 seats, the conservatives (municipal reform), 37, and the Liberals none. The old council had 83 Conservatives, 35 Labor, and 6 Liberals. Only householders are eligible to vote in this election for a municipal body which controls housing, edu- cation, relief, fire departmert and other municipal departments, Herbert Morrison, = London Labor Party. reassure the capitalists of the loyal intentions of the new admini- stration. “London may be confident that the Labor majority will exercise its power cleanly and free from im- proper influence,” he said; “with determination and with a sense of public responsibility. I hope and crease, 100 tool and die makers de- | eral lodges against the wage cut and believe London will noi regret the cided that if their demands are not | demanding action, great change which has been made.”