The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 19, 1934, Page 1

_|Prepare the Protest Strike Against C.W.A. Firing, March 29th! | | The New York Conference for United Action on Unemployment has set a splendid example of effective action issuing a call for a nation-wide strike and dem- onstration on Thursday, March 29, against the pro- gram of firing C.W.A. workers. The Daily Worker greets this action and sets itself the task of being in the forefront of organizing this strike and helping to CIRCULATION DRIVE NEW SUBS RECEIVED SATURDA Daily Total to date ..2,171 Saturday +39 Total... -1,423 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office EB 2 sew York, N. ¥., under the make it a powerful action of mass starvation. zations throughout the co resolutions of approval to every city and town in the Act of March 8, 1 all actions in preparation for this strike to us. against Roosevelt program We call upon all workers’ organi- untry to take up this call, published in this issue of the Daily Worker. Send your the Daily Worker. Report In United States the proposal for a strike against C.W.A. firing should be made the first order of business. All workers should be rallied to endorse it and to take the steps to put the strike into action. ment be developed of sufficie ers’ answer to Roosevelt condemnation of millions to hunger. Only by this means Only by these means can a nation-wide move- nt force to give the work- can we now unite the em- ployed and unemployed in a mighty battle that will Daily QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) AY, MARCH 19, 1934 NEW YORK, MON WEATHER: Rain, colder. workers’ organizations. Fight against C.W.A. firings! and unemployed into action for unemploy ance and for the retention of the C.W.A.! call for strike on March 29th! have telling effect against hunger. should have a sympathetic and enthusiastic response amorg all unemployed, in all trade unions, and in all Make the strike effective! This call for strike Arouse the employed yment insur- Answer the AMERICA’S CLASS DAILY NLY WORKING NEWSPAPER (Eight Pages) Price 3 Cents UNITED FRONT MEET CALLS NATL CWA PROTEST STRIKE Detroit Auto Workers Mass at Union Meetings As Strike Sentiment Sweeps Plants Strike Spreads | To ALIN ew York Taxi Companies 25 Fleet Owners in 5 Boroughs Already Signed By Union MEET BACKS STRIKE 190 Trade Unions and Workers Organizations Pledge Support NEW YORK. — The strike of the Parmelee cab drivers Fal t the company union, e-’ended over the week-end to a genoral strike affecting a1 companies in the city. m ef the big fleets put cabs in the gavages and struck following the @ for a general strike which was by 5,000 members of the Taxi Dri Union of Greater New York at St. Nicholas Arena early Satur- dey morning. niton of the union, abolition of the ccmpany union and the blacklist system. ‘The first victories of the strike were scored yesterday, when 25 fleet owners in five boroughs were forced | to sign an agreement with the union. | Two thousand independent owners have signed with ‘the union and are suvrorting the strike. i It is estimated by union offcials (Continued on Page 2) Buffalo Foundry Strike Ends in a Victory for Men Gain Wage Increases And Shop Committee Recognition BUFFALO, N. Y., March 17—The strike %. the North Buffalo Hard- ware Foundry, led by the Steel & Metal Workers Industrial Union, was settled Saturday with a victory for the workers. Wage increases were won from 15 to 25 per cent, and higher rates for piece work. The agreement provided for no discrim- ination, re-hiring of all strikers, and continued recognition of the elected shop committee. Time-and-a-half for ovf:ime above the 40 hour week was also gained. The men throughout refused to countenance the interference of N. R. A. labor boards, local capitalist politicians, and the A. F. of L. leaders. During the course of the strike picket line numbered as high as 3,000 men, women and children, in- cluding employed and unemployed. In the Daily Worker Today Page 2 Sports by Sam Ross Page 3 Pre-Convention Discussion Page 4 NRA Sends Living Costs Soaring 8.6 per cent in Four Weeks. “Wall Street's Capitol,” hy Sey- mour W: NRA Meet Shows Bosses Mobiliz- ing for War. Page 5 Wm. Z. Foster Stresses Winning of Youth in Pre-Convention Discussion. ym Wor Page 7 “Change the World!” by Sender Gariin. "page 8 Hack- | 115 Parmelee Men Are On Relief In Pittsburgh, Pa. PITTSBURGH.—One hundred || fifteen of the drivers of the Par- meee cab monopoly are on re- lief it has been revealed in con- nection with the application of the Zone Cab Corporation of Cleveland to enter the Pitts- burgh field. This is the com- pany against whose New York branch cab drivers struck early ast week. Strike Votes Force RR Pay ‘Cut Rejection e men ere demanding recog- But Rail Union Officials | tional organizer appeared at a | Still Maneuvre to Aid | Roosevelt, Bosses WASHINGTON, March 17, — With the rising storm of rank and file strike votes on various rail- roads staring them in the face, of- \ficials of the 21 standard railway unions yesterday rejected the pro- posals of the companies and Roose- demand of the company for a 15 Following President | expiration, the railroad bosses had | proposed it continue for ten months. The action of the railway labor executives, coming at a time of tremendous strike sentiment and caused consternation in government circles. W. F. Thiehoff, chairman of the Railway Executives Committee, in- formed the union heads in a public statement that the action of the railway labor executives came as a surprise and shock. However, the railroad bosses, with Roosevelt's support, knowing of past maneuvers whereby the same union officials aided them in putting over wage cuts, feel confident that they will be able to get their collaboration this time also. Inflate Roosevelt The very wording of Alexander F. Whitney’s statement (speaking for the railway labor executives) re- jecting the wage cut proposals, tries to arouse the confidence of the rail- way workers in Roosevelt, and at- tempts to prepare them to accept Roosevelt as mediator in putting over a wage cut finally, “Your rejection of our proposal has come as a surprise and as & (Continued on Page 2) velt for a continuation of the 10 per cent wage cut beyond June 30,/ 1934. They also rejected the earlier per cent wage cut after that date. Roosevelt's cue of continuing the wage cut for | six months, after the date of its) Preparation in auto and steel, has ® ‘Call wate Men to Act For Strike Auto Workers Union Set) March 24 for United | Front Conference BULLETIN | DETROIT, Mich. March 18.— Sentiment for strike action is | sweeping the auto plants, auto workers are rallying today through- ‘out the city at meetings called by) | the Auto Workers Union and the) A. F. of L. locals, The A. W. U. is | distributing thousands of leaflets | calling on the workers to form | | united strike committees for imme-| | diate strike action warning that'| | General Johnson’s proposals will not | grant a single demand of workers, | but will put through election under| | conditions that will assure victory | tor the company unions. | Twenty five thousand copies of the Auto Workers News containing | the A. W. U. appeal to the A. F.} of L. and Mechanics Educational | | Society locals and unorganized for} | united action are being distributed ‘tomorrow. Preparations are being {made for big united front con- | ference next Sunday ten o'clock at} Carpathia Hall, 3500 Elmwood. | Last night a committee from the | A. W. U. headed by J. Wilson, na- | meeting of the M.ES.A. executive |committee and shop stewards and} read the united front appeal, The) appeal was warmly applauded and the M.E.S.A. executive promised all locals would send the delegates to the conference. Final decision as to whether the M. E. S. A. will sup- |port the program for immediate | Strike action is not yet made but |M.ES.A. membership favors strike. | . DETROIT, Mich., March 18.| |— Only immediate prepara- | tions for strike action on the |basis of the united front of all auto workers can win wage in- | jereases and union recognition, de- clares an appeal issued today by the Auto Workers’ Union here from its office at 4210 Woodward Ave. “We are calling a conference for Sunday, March 24, at 10 A. M., in Carpathia Hall, 3500 Elmwood,” says this appeal, “to which we invite delegates from locals of the A. F. of L., and the Mechanics Educa- tional Society, shop stewards, shop committees, department committees and groups and from unemployed workers.” “The auto manufacturers know that now is the time that the work- ers can win their battle,” says the Executive Committee of the Auto Workers Union. “That is why they are doing everything to postpone action and prevent us from strik- ing, so they can build up a reserve supply of automobiles and prepare their strike-breaking machinery.” The main demands put forward for strike action are: a $35 minimum wage for a 30-hour, six-day week; 30 per cent increase for all workers receiving above the minimum; abo- lition of speed-up; right of real trade union organization based on the workers free choice; against company unions; against discrimi- nation and for unemployment in- surance, rs HARRY L. HOPKINS Roosevelt’s Relief Administra- tor, against whose order to slash wages and fire all C.W.A. work- | | | ers by March 31, C.W.A. workers | throughout the country are strik- | ing and holding mass demonstra- tions, Wall Street to Get Millions From the RFC, Want Sweeping Powers To Extend Govy’t Aid To Big Industry Further extraordinary power to permit the R. F. C. to pour more millions directly into the coffers of big industry was requested Friday by Jesse H, Jones, Roosevelt-ap- pointed chairman of the R. F. C. The plan outlined by Jones is not only to extend the present enormous government subsidies to the banks, | railroads and Wall Street monopoly | corporations, but to provide facili- | ties for the government to grant} loans to private industry to an ex- |} tent unprecedented in the history of the country. The plan, which reveals the fur- ther fusion of Wall Street monopoly capital with the State power at Washington, for the protection of (Continued on Page 2) War Department Plans | 20 New CCC Camps for New York State Area NEW YORK.—In addition to the present 46 C. C. C, camps in New York State, the War Department will open 20 new camps in con-| formity with Roosevelt's order to| continue the militarization of the youth. The Roosevelt order calls| for the enlistment of 14,000 young | workers from New York State alone, most of whom will be fe- cruited from the metropolitan area. As the third period of the C.C.C. is inaugurated next month, Roose- velt war plans call for the enlist- ment of about 250,000 young} workers. Plans are under way to demobilize those who have received preparatory training, and to enable the camps to train new recruits. In addition, the ranks of the C. Cc. C. army, depleted by thousands who could no longer tolerate the conditions and military training, will be filled by the new recruits. 5,000 Battle Launch National M Cops at Meet For 9 Boys Workers To Pach The! Four Arrested NEW YORK. — Indignant workers will pack the East 12ist St. court (between Third and Lexington Aves.) | this morning at the hearing | on four workers arrested Saturday! afternoon when police brutally at- | tacked 5,000 Negro and white work- ers participating in a mass welcome to the Scottsboro Mother, Mrs. Ada Wright, and a protest demonstra- tion against the Scottsboro lynch verdicts. The four workers, three colored and one white, were arrested | while defending the Scottsboro! Mother and other speakers at the demonstration, | The demonstrators had paraded | to 125th Street and Park Avenue, | where they gave a rousing welcome | to the Scottsboro Mother who ar- rived at 2 o'clock on the Grand Central railroad from the South.| Both on their way to the station | and back to Lenox Avenue and 128th | Street, the central point of the dem- | onstration, the workers were har-| assed by police attacks but refused | to be provoked, at the same time militantly maintaining their march- ing ranks. Workers Prevented Attacks On Mother Wright Shortly after the meeting opened at 126th St. and Lenox Avenue, the CWA Firing on |Court Today To Defend | Strike for One Hour Against Thurs. March 29! There remains but one course of action for all work- ers who realize that this ac- tion of the government repre- sents a further attack upon our already miserable living stand- ards. We must make our protest more vigorous and our resistance more effective. We must join in protest action of workers, the em- ployed as well as the 2mpioyed, the workers in the sho F mills, as well as the workers. on Civil Works projects. This conference for united ac- tion on C.W.A. and unemployment representing the workers on every C.W.A. project in Greater New York, every organization of unem- loyed and C.W.A. workers and scores of local unions and workers’ fraternal organizations, proposes and undertakes to organize a pro- test strike for one hour beginning at 1 p. m. on Thursday, March 29. We call upon all unicns in all trades and industries to officially endozse this strike call. We urge and wi"! undertake to bring out on strike all workers on the C.W.A. projects and the work- police resumed their provocative | tactics. As Mother Wright got up! on the speakers platform, the police started to rush the platform, but | were deterred by the roar of fierce | protest from the huge crowd around | the platform and workers on the) sidewalks and in tenement house | (Continued on Page Two) U.S. Senate Guards. Beat, Eject Negroes Fighting Jimerow WASHINGTON, March 18.— Capitol police and Senate Guards savagely attacked a group of How- ard University students carrying out a militant demonstration against the Jim-Crow order in the Senate and House dining-rooms Saturday. The Negro students, insisting on the right of Negroes to be served in the public restaurants cperated by the government, were forcibly barred from the dining-rooms by police. One student, a waiter, who was dismissed Friday for serving a member of his race in violation of the jim-crow rule, was arrested after an attack on him by a Handkerchief Head Negro, Harry Parker, a veteran messenger of the House Ways and Means Com- mittee, (Resolution of the New York Conference for United Ac- tion on C. W. A. and Unemployment) , ers in all shops, factories and stores. | We propose that similar action shall be taken simultaneously in | every city and town throughout the country. We therefore call upon | the National Executive Council of |the American Federation of Labor, jand all its affiliated, national and | international unions to endorse and | support this strike call. “We urge that in all cities, em- all be imme- | ergency conferences s | diately called for | taking similar act | date of this s and towns to demand: tinuation and extention of | Works jobs. 2) Jobs for all unem- | ployed. For those on the verge of | pauperism, as well as those already | reduced to this state. )3 Immediate |enactment by Congress of the Workers Unemployment and Social | Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598). | Forward in a mighty united front) struggle to stop lay-offs, to secure {adequate relief, to prevent further) |extention of the Rooscevit forced pauaes program, and to win security | by forcing the enactment of the | Workers Uncmployment and Sociai | Insurance Bill.” CWA |1,000 Shamokin €.W.A. Workers Strike Men Strike, Demonstrate Against Pay Cuts and F irings 5 Lancaster Mass Meet Tonight NEW YORK. — Following the victories gained by C.W.A. strikers throughout the country, C.W.A. strikes continued to spread in Pennsylvania, New York State, and in other parts of the country. In Shamokin and Mount Carmel, Pa, more than 1,000 C.W.A. workers struck on the job Friday night. In Lancatser, prepazations are under way for a nuge demon- stration of C. W. A. and unem- ployed workers against the Roose- velt pay cuts. The monster strikes in Northern New York, involving at one time more than 12,000 workers, have ended in completo or partial v..ories in some sections, while in others, the workers continue solid for their demands, In a telegram to the Utica head, F. I. Daniels, State C.W.A. administrator said: “Plezse know that the prevailing rate of wage is established by the local adminis- tration, and this administration will not question your decision.” Following the receipt of this telegram, the Utica C.W.A. heads were forced to grant the workers’ demands that wages continue at 50 cents an hour for unskilled workers, instead of the proposed wage slash to 40 cents an hour. During the week, strikes of C.W.A. workers in Northern New York were in progress in Utica, Auburn, Rome, Buffalo, Fort Ed- ward, Batavia, Leroy, Geneva and Skaneateles. Victories were wen in all but the last four cities where the men are still on strike. More than 600 remaincd out at Geneva, 325 at Batavia, 115 at Leroy, and 100 at Fort Edward. In Skaneateles, strike committee of 60 workers were visiting the C. W. A. projects to draw out the other C.W.A. workers, and the men were arming thems¢lves with pickaxe handies, 1,000 Strike In Mine Area SHAMOKIN, Pa. March 18.— ; Mount Carmel and Shamokin, in | the heart of the anthracite mining (Continued on Page 2) Special to the Daily Worker MOSCOW, March 18 (By Cable). —The entire Soviet press today ob- served the anniversary of the Paris Commune and International Labor Defense Day. The opening of the All-Union Congress of MOPR (the Soviet section of the I. L. D.) is to take place here today. The main slogan under which this day is being celebrated in the Soviet Union are Stalin’s words: “The Republic of the Soviets con- stitutes the political form sought and finally found within whose frames the economic liberation of the proletariat must be completed and the “THE SOVIETS CONSTITUTE THE DEVELOPMENT, AND COMPLETION OF THE PARIS COMMUNE,” SAYS PRAV U.S.S.R. Observes Paris Commune With Huge Celebrations Ficinut Land A ? , full victory of socialism attained. The Paris Commune was the em- bryo of this form. Soviet Power con- stitutes its development and com- pletion.” This slogan is printed in the first column of “Pravda,” central organ of the Communist Party of the U. S. S. R. The same thought about the Soviet Union as the accom- plisher of the idea which was for the first time carried into the streets in the days of the Paris Commune runs through all articles published in the press. “Pravda” “The Soviets constitute the de- velopment and completion of the Paris Commune. The greatest his- torical victories of Socialism in one-sixth of the world inspire for struggle the toiling masses of capitalist countries, and their colo- nies, The Soviet Union promised land to all the oppressed and ex- ploited. Their pride and hope, their only proletarian fatherland, is the country of Lenin and Stalin, the country of liberated labor. “For Soviets!—this slogan was | sounded on Feb. 12, the day of the general strike in the streets and squares of Paris, which saw the barricades in 1871; also at the wall of the Communards, where the last | shots of the bloody May week thundered 63 years ago. ! “For Sovicts!—Undcr this slogan |coun‘er-revolution in one-sixth of | irrevocable the heroic proletarians of Austria, China, inspiring the toilers through- | destroy M who threw off the mental stupor|out the rest of China and in all/ing class must be destroyed. of social-fascist influence, fought/colonies to struggle against the | it is impossible to destroy the wor bourgeois land-owners’ bloc and the jing class. Over |passed since Marxism entered the | conference. Nevertheless, the senti- During this period | ment of the delegates who included against the fascists. “For Soviets!—The cry was sounded in Hyde Park, London, where 200,000 British workers gath- manner as participants in the great hunger march. | “The same militant slogan has, pulsing the sixth onslaught enslavers and imperialists.” Speaking of the brutalities of in- | world arena. |terna‘ional counter-revolution, the | hundreds of bourgeois governments | ered on the call of the Communist | terror of fascism, the ferocious of-|have tried to throttle Marxism. |Party to fraternize in revolutionary |fensive of the bourgeoisie against|And what happened? Bourgeo's | was ab'y expressed by Miss Stanley the proletariat and all toilers, stat- | governments have come and gone, | of ing that in 1933 alone over abut Marxism rei 1 in- | Marxism has succceded in ettaining will not suport these leaders who million workers were killed, of class is not taking into account one | by ct: thet in order t ‘ism, the entire wo - 80 years hav ins. | | More then 1,000 C.W.A. workers in t | the committee. Even more! | eet in Washington March 31 Madison Square Garden Meeting March 25 Decided On CITY CONFERENCES Mass At City Hall At One O’clock March 29 NEW YORK.—The call for a nationwide protest strike against the Roosevelt C. W. A. ring and for continuation A. firing and for continuation of C. W. A. jobs, was unan- imously issued by 600 enthusiastic delegates representing C.W.A. pro- jects, nemployed and other workers organizations, at the united front conference held yesterday in the Stuyvesant Casino, 9th St. and Sec- ond Ave. The conference, with approxi- mately 1,100 workers present, called upon all C.W.A. workers and all union members, to go on a one hour protest strike at 1 P. M., Thursday, March 29. The deleg from the projects unanimously called on the workers in all cities throughout the United States at once to hoid emergency conferences against the C.W.A. firing of Roose- velt, and to arrange mass demon- | Strations in all cities and towns on the date of the protest strike. The workers of New York will mass in City Hall at 1 p. m., dur- ing the prriod of the strike. Cheers and prolonged applause greeted the proposal of the resolu- tions committee, given by Herbert Benjamin, representing the Unem- ployment Councils, “to initiate a na- tional C.W.A. workers conference to | be held in the city of Washington on Sunday, March 31,” and that “the entire body which shall con- | stitute this conference shall on April Ist march to the White House and present the demands of the C.W.A | workers directly to President Roose- | velt.”” The united front conference fur- ther decided to call a huge protest eS | (Continued on Page 2) CWA March in Chicago to Be Held March 31 Ask for Stoppage of Employed Workers On Day of March By DAN DAVIS (Midwest Daily Worker Burean) CHICAGO, Merch 18.—With grim lization of impending greater | starvation and misery as a result of the C.W.A. layoffs 220 works’ organi- zations united their forces for & ma merch and demonstration | threuch the Chicazo Loop Satur- doy, March 31, demanding the en- forcement of a five point program for the unempoyed. The United Action was laundered in a confer- ence at the People’s Auditorium here today with about 300 delegates. The Chicago Workers Committee on Unemployment again withdrew from the united front at the last | minute upon orders given Saturday John Duffy, Democratic politi- and the Workers Committeé xecutive snd Socialist executives of enk and file pres- ure had earlier froced the official ppointment of four delegates to the those of eight A. F. of L. locals and six locals of the Workers Committee the workers committee who speaking to the conference said, “We been heard at the gates of factories | jured, thrown into prisons at hard corliplete victory in one-sixth of the fght egainst united action.” jin Spain, in the grip of an anti-/labor, and became victims of fas- fascist strike. “The Soviets are victoriously re- cist executioners, “Pravda” writes: | “In their delirium, the ruling| | world, and in precisely the very: (Continued on Page 2) Just as an agreement was ap- (Continued on page # \