The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 16, 1934, Page 1

a a CIRCULATION DRIVE NEW SUBS RECEIVED YESTERDAY: Daily ,QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Entered as second-elass matter at the Post Oifice at Wew York, M. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1934 WEATHER: Rain, colder AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER So (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents N.Y. DELEGATION DEMANDS C.W. A. JOBS OF HOPKINS “Auto Plants On Ve Verge > of Strike,” Pleads Green at Hearing Wants V Wagner Cc Compulsory Arbitration Bill Passed Green Shamelessly Hides Budd, Weirton Strike Betrayals WORKERS TRICKED Wagner Bill Would Not Outlaw Co. Unions By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, March 15. —"The automobile industry stands on the verge of the greatest strike in the history of the nation. . . . This strike would have taken place already if the National Labor Board had not intervened . . . I see the develop- ment of a most menacing situation, one filled with menacing potentiali- ties...” William Green, President of the American Federation made these admissions today in arguing from the employers’ viewpoint that it is imperative to enact the new Wag- ner bill to provide compulsory arbi- tration under the sham of outlaw- ing company unions. Testifying before the Senate Com- mittee on Education and Labor, the diamond - fingered Green put for- ward the most reactionary position she American Federation of Labor officialdom have ever taken in their historic course of collaborating with the employer class. Taking this stand, naturally, he meanwhile poured out a deluge of demagogy but this was so thin that even John L. Lewis or the U.M.W.A. watched Green with a thick sneer on his face. At one point reactionary Republi- can Senator Davis of Pennsylvania, a member of the committee, seized an opportunity to make trouble for the Democratic sponsors of the Wagner bill. Davis turned to Green and sardonically interrupted: “Are (Continued on Page 2) Cops Use Tear Gas, Clubs Against 500 Pickets in Racine Socialist Leaders Aided Police Against Strikers RACINE, Wis., March 15.—Police here today used tear gas bombs and whacked at the heads of strikers in an attempt to smash the picket lines of over 500 at the J. I. Case Com- pany plant. Over 1,500 workers have been on strike here for several weeks demand wage increases and union recognition. Pickets were effectively surround- ing the plant, preventing the en- trance of scabs, when the entire police force, mobilized for the oc- casion, descended on the workers and attacked them viciously. Clubs (DailyWorker Washrington Bureau) WASHINGTON, March 15. — Former Judge Jacob Panken today endorsed the new strike-breaking Wagner Bill on behalf of the So- cialist Party, and simultaneously demanded that all independent trade unions be forced under the domination of the reactionary American Federation of Labor leadership. “I want to say that I for one would like to see all independent unions under the banner of the A. F. of L.,” Panken declared, in testifying before the Senate Com- mittee on Education and Labor. He began his remarks by nam- Strike Talk Surges At Auto Hearing A.F.L. Head and Auto Boss Agree on Fight Against Strike By SEYMOUR WALDMAN (Daily Worker Washington Buream) WASHINGTON, March 15.—The second and final day’s hearings be- fore the National Labor Board, called by the Roosevelt Administra- tion to head off the imminent strike in the automobile industry, was held today in an atmosphere that was filled with strike sentiment and strike murmurs. It was clearly evident that the Labor Board stood revealed before many disgusted and disillusioned auto worker delegates as an open strikebreaking body operating as the agent of the hard-faced and relent- less employers. Thus, even the faintest mention of the word strike was applauded by the workers. Many workers openly talked strike while William Collins, the chief A. F. of L. leader in the automobile industry crawled at the feet of the brutal owners, disclaiming any res- ponsibility for the strike he knows is in the offing. Clay Williams, head of the slave-driving Reynolds To- bacco Company and Chairman at today’s Labor Board session, ended the hearings without promising any definite time for rendering a deci- sion. Duet Against Strikes J. P. Morgan’s automobile spokes- man representing the powerful and czaristic General Motors Corpora- tion, and Collins, the A. F. of L. national representative, played a duet, the main theme of which was to prevent the strike. W. S. Knudsen, the executive president of General Motors, based his address on the “merit” (fire at were swung freely on the strikers. Ernest Siewait, 61 years old, was brutally beaten over the head by have been cooperating with the po- lice against pickets. Recently the Socialist A. F. Mitchell, in accord- ance with the wishes of the bosses and the police, urged the workers to refrain from picketing and abide by police orders to let scabs through. es In the Daily Worker Today PAGE 5 “Change the World!” by Sender Garlin. “So They Have to Work for What They Can Get,” by John L. Spivak. “Leaders of the Red “Activities of City Gabe? by J "PAGE 6 Editorials Foreign News. RES will) clause of the vicious auto code which was signed by William Green, Panken, S. P. Leader, OK’s Wagner Strikebreaking Bill ing the strikes in which he “had the pleasure” of negotiating, such | as the New York taxi strike, which | he helped to break, and added: “I, want to put it into the record that | I represent the Socialist Party in| what I say about the bill.” Panken then attacked Commu- | nism, misrepresenting the dicta-| torship of the working class in the | Soviet Union by implying it is) similar to the capitalist reign of terror through Hitler's dictator- ship. Just before Panken testified, Carlton Ogburn, A. F. of L. Street Railway Union lawyer, had told4 the Senators: “The A. F. of L. is the strongest force in this country opposed to Communism.” “Do you agree with the state- ment of the previous speaker?” Senator Wolcott, Connecticut Re- publican, asked Panken. “I wouldn't put it just that way,” Panken replied, “I should say that the A. F. of L. is one of the bodies opposed to Commu- nism. I'll say it has fought Com- munism in the ranks of its unions. I am a Socialists — ” “Are they synonymous?” Wol- cott asked. “No,” Panken said. “We don't believe in dictatorships!” “Would you say that company unions are closer to Communist, unions than the A: F. of L.?” Wol- cott asked. “I wouldn’t reason it that way. I would say that company unions are closer to the unions in countries where dictatorships exist, such as in (Continued on Page 2) Roosevelt Never Meant To Disarm, Says John Simon British House Cheers Demand for Arms Increases LONDON, March 15.—The Roose- velt government never had any intention of taking part in actual disarmmament, Sir John Simon, Foreign Secretary, declared in the House of Commons last night, in a debate in which all speakers stressed that Great Britain must arm to the teeth. Simon’s ‘statement was in answer to a Labor Party member's declara- tion that the British government had interfered with international disarmament plans. Capt. Anthony Eden, Simon’s representative on a war-talk tour of Europe, declared the breakdown of the “disarmament” conference meant that “we, like the rest, will have to review our armaments and perhaps more quickly and urgently A. F. of L. top cashier, and John L, Lewis, United Mine Workers of America chieftain, both of whom (Continued on Page 2) than the others.” Winston Churchill was cheered as he demanded immediate and powerful increases in all British arms, May Day Ldition to Carry Browder, Hathaway Articles A Half-Million Copies of This Special 24-Page Edition Will Be Circulated Thruout the U.S. Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party of the United States, and C, A. Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, will contribute two outstanding and Significant articles to the special feature 24-page May Day edition. 1934.” This will be a thorough and lucid presentation of the situation and tasks which confront the American working class. Hath- away’s article, “May Day and the Struggle for Power,” will review the ripening revolutionary situation throughout the world in the light of the approaching class battles for Soviet power. These contributions are two of the many features, articles and essays, on historical, political and economic subjects, which are sched~ uled for publication in the May Day edition. A half-million copies of this issue will be run off the Daily Worker's Browder will write on “May Day| triat. new press, to be distributed in city and countryside throughout the; United States. Copies of this edi- tion will reach miners in Pennsyl- vania, textile workers in New Eng- land and the South, stockyard| workers in Chicago, steel wee transportation workers—every large stratum of the American prole- Tt will be circulated in thou- sands among the militant farmers of Iowa, Wisconsin, the Dakotas: - the huge midwest farming region where many farm battles are ex- Pected to take place during the coming summer. It is up to the districts all over the country to see that this 500,000- copy edition becomes the most suc- cessful and most effective ever published. Get busy on your orders! Mobilize local workers, members of Communist Party and Young Com- munist League units, of mass and fraternal organizations, trade un- ions, workers clubs, to prepare for the greatest distribution in our Taxi Strike Leader \ (Left) Samuel Orner, President of strike is as effective as ever. the Taxi Drivers Union of Greater New York, and (Right) Joseph Gilbert, fleld organizer, They say the | Articles by Minor On History of C. I. Continue on Page 4 The series of articles by Com- rade Robert Minor on the Com- munist International, whose 16th anniversary is now being cele- brated by the working class all over the world, will be continued on page 4. These articles, giving a detailed exposition of the long struggles of the Communist International against the opportunism of the Second Socialist International, its rise under the leadership of Lenin who founded it, reviving the revolutionary principles and tactics of the First International founded by Karl Marx, are of the greatest importance at the present time, when the Commu- nist International and its sec- tions represent the main force against the advance of world fascism. Turn to page 4 for Robert Minor’s importasnt series. Negroes Are Again Refused Service in House Restaurant Congress Dining Room Continues Its Vicious Jim-Crow Policy WASHINGTON, D. C., March 15. —Negroes were again refused ser- vice in the House of Representa- tives restaurant yesterday when a party of two Negroes and three whites were told they could not eat in the dining room operated and controlled by the House. ‘The party included Rev. John F. Whitefield, pastor of the Christian Church; L. C. Farrar, secretary of the National Forum Association, and three whites. Mrs. Charles Ed- ward Russell of the N.A.A.C.P., Har- Jan E. Glazier, local Socialist, and Robert Shostick of the Citizens party. The three whites had entered the dining room first, and were later joined at a table by the two Negroes. As soon as the Negroes were seated, D. H. Johnson, mana- ger of the restaurant, went over to the table and told them they would not be served as he had orders from the House Committee not to serve Negroes. Several weeks ago, the Secretary Oscar De Priest, Negro millionaire Congressman, was similarly discriminated _ against. With the eyes of the Negro and white on him, De Priest was forced to protest the discrimin- ation, but entered into an agree- ment with Speaker Rainey of the House not to push the question on the floor of Congress. Lately, De Priest has indicated he will use the issue in the attempt to get himself re-elected with the fake promise to “push the fight” in some problem- atical future. ‘Negroes were also excluded and even forcibly expelled from Senate restaurant during the hear- ing on the Costigan-Wagner imi- tation anti-lyching bill. Mrs. Mabel Byrd, one of those thrown out of the Senate restaurant, is still suf- fering with nervous trouble as a result of her experience with the paper’s history on the May Day weekend, government thugs who manhandled her, the | Masse” with their banners, in a Trade Unions Mobilize To Support Strike of Parmalee Cab Drivers Strikers in Mass Meet Spike False Rumors of Co. Union NEW YORK —Supporting the strike of the Parmelee taxi drivers against the company union, trade unions’ and working-class orginiza- tions throughout the city are elect- ing delegates to the anti-company union conference called by the Taxi Drivers’ Union of Greater New York at Manhattan Lyceum, on Sunday, March 17, at 11 a.m. Pledging support of the strike and arranging for the election of delegates to the conference is the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union, the United Shoe and Leather Work- ers’ Industrial Union, Metal Workers’ Industrial Union, A. F. of L. Committee for Unem- ployment and Relief, United Coun- Ex-Servicemen’s League, Interna- tional Workers’ Order, Furniture Workers’ Industrial Union, Food Workers’ Industrial Union and Jew- ish Workers’ Clubs, Calling on all shoe workers to support the strike of the Parmelee drivers, the United Shoe and Leather Workers’ Union, in a state- ment issued to all locals, said: Shoe Union Hails Strike “The taxi drivers of the Parmelee system are now fighting the same battle that the shoe workers fought in the summer of 1933. It is a fight against the deceptive and_ strike- (Continued on Page 2) Insull, Disguised as a Woman, Escapes Police ATHENS, March 15.— Samuel Insull, finding himself in the pe- culiar situation of being unable to graft his way openly out of extra- dition, managed to escape early this morning despite the “closely” guarding police force surrounding his home. He was told that he would have to leave before midnight, but in the meantime, he made necessary prep- arations to make possible hi8 escape by bribing officials, whose police force would remain ‘blind to the disguise used by Insull. It is rumored that he disguised himself in women’s clothes and that he is on his way to Paris. it ers’ Union, the Needle Trades Work- | Steel and} cils of Working Women, Workers’ | Give Them general and empty promises is an Starvation being dealt out to the relief cuts and starvation. firing and relief cuts. for all unemployed workers. resonpsible for leading the fight to Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598). The CWA Workers Are Fighting; AN EDITORIAL Roosevelt government is determined to liquidate the C.W.A. and cut as many unemployed workers as possible from the relief rolls. Federal Relief Director Hopkins’ visit to New York with new Roosevelt. Relief will be given only “to the needy,” which is a warning that relief cuts are coming. Under cov@t of talk of “getting back to the relief basis” the unemployed are to be given Leadership! attempt to sugar coat the pill of jobless by the hunger regime of Hopkins said, The demonstrations of C.W.A. workers throughout the country show that the unemployed are going to fight against Roosevelt's C.W.A. The Unemployment Councils, especially, have the task of develop- ing at once, on all C.W.A. jobs in the neighborhoods and at the relief offices, the mass actions against C.W-.A. firing, and for relief The delegates to the last Naflonal Con- vention Against Unemployment must rally the masses of workers for jobs and relief. The units and sections of the Communist Party are defeat Roosevelt's hunger program, and to stop the C.W.A. firing and relief cutting. Employed and Unemployed Workers! Hopkins and Roosevelt’s promises will be kept only to the extent | that the mass action of the workers forces the bankers’ government of Roosevelt to come across with relief or jobs! C.W.A. workers—demonstrate at the C.W.A. offices against C.W.A. firing. Organize job committees on all C.W.A. jobs and demand con- tinuation and extension of C.W.A. wage cut and union wages and conditions on all C.W.A. jobs. Uemployed workers. Demonstrate at the relief offices for jobs or cash relief for ail unemployed. Demand cash relief equivalent to the prevailing wage in the industry at union conditions. Employed and unemployed. Demand of your local Congressman | the immediate passage of the Workers’ Unemployment and Social jobs. Demand restoration of the Quick Unification Of All Aviation Is. New Roosevelt Plan WASHINGTON, March 15.—A survey looking toward the unifica- tion of all the countries air forces has been ordered by Roosevelt, it was announced today. The survey will be under the di- rection of the War Department. The Roosevelt government desire to unify the country’s air forces under central leadership follows Roosevelt’s suggestion that all the telephone and telegraph companies be also directed by a centralized Office. These are all parts of the Roosevelt government preparation for war. The fight among the inner mili- tarist cliques of the Roosevelt gov- ernment and the group of airplane company industrialists for the con- trol of the government’s air-mail routes has flared up again. Colonel invitation of Secretary of War Dern to serve on the commission in- vestigating the proposal to unify the air forces. Lindbergh has con- nections with the airplane com- panies who have been reaping fat profits through government con- tracts and government corruption. The clique of the War Depart- ment fighting for the government control of the airmail lines is in- teretsed mainly in getting the routes for war purposes. Lindbergh has refused to accept the| 8 Minneapolis Farm Labor Party Indorses Social Insurance Bill ® MINNEAPOLIS, M Minn., March 14. —The Hennepin County Farmer- Labor convention, which met March | 11th, endorsed the Workers‘ Unem- | ployment Insurance Bill No. 7598 as | introduced in the United States Congress. The convention instructed its state and national representa- | tives to support the bill. The only dissenting voice was a telegram from William Green, pres- ident of the A. F. of L., urging the convention not to support the bill as it would be “unconstitutional.” The effect of nation-wide mass pressure for the enactment of this bill was evident. The Farmer- Laborites are not going to do more than mass pressure forces them to do. They exposed themselves as merely trying to curry favor among the working class. The 23 planks in the platform as accepted and which will be proposed to the state convention represent complete sup- port of the present system flavored with demagogy designed to get mass support. One plank proposed a state unem- ployment, accident, sickness and health insurance bill. However, there was no provision given re- arding the financing and adminis- tration 9° such a bill and no men- tion of the Farmer-Labor Party Governor Olson’s fake “unemploy- ment insurance” bill. Another plank called for the enactment of a State Recovery Act to “solve the economic crisis.” Five new clubs from rural Hen- nepin County were represented. There were 327 delegates and 14 anernates. An outstanding feature of the convention was the smooth purring of the well oiled machinery. Fight On C.W.A. Firing Rises Thruout Country Hopkins Dodges Work- ers, Makes Empty, General Promises C.W.A. MEN STRIKE Indianapolis Jobless at Capitol, Demand Jobs, Relief NEW YORK. — Fifty-five workers’ delegates, from many unemployed and C.W.A organizations, headed by Her- bert Benjamin, organizer of the Unemployment Councils, yes- terday afternoon marched to the state C.W.A. headquarters, to de- mand jobs or relief of Harry Hop- kins, Rooseevit's federal relief di- rector. Hopkins, who has made a general statement to the press, | evading the giving of any definite | information as to what the govern- | ment will do after April ist, dodged | the delegation. Although notified in advance | that the workers would call, Hop- | kins, fearing to meet with the workers’ delegates, chose to have luncheon with Mayor LaGuardia. Herbert Benjamin, national or- ganizer of the Unemployment Councils, who headed the delega- tion, in addressing the delegates afterwards, said, “We accept Hop- kins’ refusal to see us as an indi- cation that he is afraid to face the workers’ delegates, and that the | Roosevelt government intends to | stop all C.W.A. unless the organized Pressure of the workers forces a reversal of this starvation policy. Every delegate here must go back | to his project and continue the or- | ganization of C.W.A. workers to fight the abandonment of the | C.W.A.” Before leaving, the delegation filed with the C.W.A. the demands | of the workers. These included ex- tension and continuation of C.W.A Projects and jobs, no pay cuts on (Continued on Page 2) Congressmen Defy Roosevelt’s Orders Twice in One Day Members Break Party Limes on Bonus and St. Lawrence Bill WASHINGTON, D. C., March 15. —Indication that the iron-clad rule of the Roosevelt administration in the House and Senate is beginning to crack was given yesterday by the open rebellion of a large Democratic bloc in the House against the Roose- velt-sponsored Independent Offices Appropriation Bill and the St. Law- rence Waterway Bill. The House and the Senate have written about $350,000,000 back into the appropriations bills giving the veterans and Federal employees some advances in benefits and pay, as the Congressmen no longer can ignore the resentment at the con= sistent reductions in appropriations for the vets and employees while the banks and railroads continue to get millions in subsidies. Democratic Party leaders are busy trying to patch matters up between the disobedient Congressmen who are no longer willing to risk their elections to carry through the President's “economy” program and Roosevelt. Will Open in Public. Auditorium, Mon., April : 2nd CLEVELAND, 0} Ohic-—The huge Music Hall of the Public Auditorium in Cleveland, will be packed Mon- day night, April 2nd, for the first time by a workers’ demonstration and meeting, when thousands of workers and members of mass or- ganizations from Cleveland and the outlying vicinity, will come “en great solidarity demonstration of support to the Communist Party’s Eighth Convention, to greet the Convention delegates, arriving from all parts of the country that night. Mass organizations in Cleveland are buying large blocks of tickets for the meeting. Workers from fra- ternal organizations, carrying their banners, will be placed in solid sec- | tions. Leaders of the Communist Party will estimate and analyse the rapid change of the world political and economic situation since the 1th Convention in 1930. Earl Browder, national secretary of the Communist Party, will make the keynote speech at the Opening Meeting. He will review the work of the Party since the 7th Conven- tion, and will give an analysis of the period in which the 8th Con- vention opens and its role in the Party's life. The Eighth Convention is called in a concentration district of the Party, one of the main centers of basic industry—steel, rubber, auto, mining—site of many past battles, and of strategic struggles to come. The Central Committee has in- vited all organizations to send guest delegates to the Convention. These guest delegates will be able to be present at all sessions of the Con- vention. Names of guest delegates should be mailed at once to Org. Commission, Central Committee, P. O. Box 87, Sta. D, N. Y¥. C. In order to meet the great ex- pense of the 8th National Conven- tion, the Central Committee must depend upon support from all work- ers, intellectuals, students, sym- pathizers who support the Party in its work. Organizations which elect guest delegates are therefore called upon to send a substantial donation to the Opening Meeting with their delegate Monday night, April 2nd, to be presented to the arrangements committee at the Music Hall. All crganizations and all individuals are asked to support the Eighth Con- vention with their donations. All contributions should be addressed at once to Earl Browder, Central Cleveland Workers Mass to Greet Party Convention ‘Earl Browder to Make Keynote Address on First Day Committee, P. O. Box 87, Sta. DB, New York City. Call For Housing Housing in Cleveland must «be found for between 500 and 600 dele- gates to the convention. Cleveland workers are called to help the Con- vention by throwing their houses open to the representatives of the Communist Party throughout the country. The Convention will last from the nizht of April 2nd to April 8th. Cleveland Communists and sup- porters of the Communist Party are urged to get in touch at once with the Cleveland district office, 1514 Prospect Avenue, Room 306. State the number you can house biesvind the Convention.