The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 22, 1934, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1934 Page Three Amalgamated Union Rank and File Expel Sellout Chiefs Bodily Renegade Celdis Runs to Get the Police; Union Roosevelt Urges More Direct Loans Fig To Monopolies Soo Proad Toward More Inflation in Passage of Silver Bill WASHINGTON, March 21.— The Funds Are Missing NEW YORK.—Members of the Amalgamated Hotel and Restaurant Union enforced the vote made Monday night to oust all the sell-out officials of the union, by throwing them | two letters sent to out of the union hall offices yesterday and seeing to it that| the banking and c he Committee of 30, whom nion was installed. When the workers came to the nion headquarters yesterday they| ound B. J. Field, Caldis and Kostas, ousted officials, meeting with the ex- rcutive board. Confronted by the| sommittee the officials tried to run o the union offices where the files we kept but were stopped and thered out of the hall. Caldis Gets “Police” Caldis, a Gitlowite, ran for the police. The police were forced to leave when they found the Commit- tee of Thirty and the executive board were the real leaders of the union. A committee elected to guard the offices against any attempts of van- jalism on the part of the officials remained in the union offices all right. A sum of money, as yet unde- ermined, was taken by the ousted officials, This final act of treachery further confirms in the minds of he rank and file the rottetness of the renegade cliques of Lovestonites, Trotzkyites and Gitlowites, whose policies lost the hotel strike and vic- timized 2,000 workers, Issue 50,000 Copies of Chicago Edition, Daily Worker, Sat. CHICAGO, Tll., March 21. — Fifty thousand copies of the special Chicago Edition of the Daily Worker will be distributed here Saturday. The special issue of the Daily Worker will particu- larly deal with the struggle against C. W. A. layoffs and the march through the loop on March 31, 4s well as the strike struggles. ‘The special Chicago edition of the Daily Worker will also carry a startling expose of Dr. Curtis Howe Springs, publisher of the Fascist paper, “The New Deal,” official organ of the “Legion of Honor.” Mass organizations and Party units must call for their copies Saturday, March 24, at the book stores, at 2019 West Division St., at 4303 Indiana Ave. organizations Saturd Units and should call all y afternoon and all day and the rest of the week. WORKERS’ ENEMIES EXPOSED PHILLIP BOUCHARD, of New! York City, former treasurer of French Workers Club, has been ex- pelled from the Communist Party and is hereby publicly exposed as a swindler. He ran away with over $85 of the funds belonging to the French Workers Club. Description: About 29 years old, about 5 feet 4 inches, in height; eyes, blue; hair, brown; complexion, ruddy; has a sharp pointed nose, speaks with Ca- nadian French accent in a light high voice, never wears a hat, does not talk much. He is a heavy drinker and also gambles. His eyes are usually red-rimmed and blood- shot. * * * ED TERL, of Des Moines, Iowa, formerly of Rock Island, Tll., who pretended to be a sympathizer of the Communist Party (not a mem- ber) and who undertook to handle the Daily Worker bundle sales, has absconded with Daily Worker funds. He also took $10 from the comrade with whom he roomed. Description: About 5 feet, 10 inches, tall; weighs about 175 pounds, has a sandy complexion and talks a little tongue-tied. @ they elected to take over the | | ii SAMUEL ORNER President of the Taxi Drivers | Union of Greater New York, He called the fleet owners‘ binff yes- terday, Cab Strikers Surge Thru Streets; Stop Scab-Driven Taxis | (Continued from Page 1) {call the bluff of the fleet owners | by permitting a plebiscite of all drivers in the city while the strike | is on, as to whether the men want the Taxi Drivers Union or the com- pany union. Call Company Union Bluff “They wanted to vote; we'll call | their bluff,” said Samuel Orner, | President of the Union. “TI believe | the taxi drivers of New York are in- | telligent enough to take the Taxi | Drivers Union. The spirit of the | hackmen shows that we cannot be | defeated.” | The union agrees that the poll | shall be taken in public buildings, | away from company premises, while ; the men are striking. A telegram | was sent to all officials of Parmelee, , Terminal and Radio companies ask- |ing them to appear at the city hall where they will be asked to give their position on the plebiscite and | the question of recognition of the | union. Strike Relief Strengthened The drive for strike relief was | strengthened yesterday. Cooperat- {ing with the taxi union in gather- |ing and distributing relief is the Workers International Relief with headquarters at 870 Broadway, and the Food Workers Industrial Union, 60 W. 45th St. Hot meals are being | Served to the strikers every day by the relief committee at the strike headquarters. The Workers International Relief has issued a call to all organiza- tions and groups of workers to col- lect canned goods and food for the strikers and bring these donations to the strike hall at 16th Street and Third Avenue. On Thursday at 6 p.m. the W.LR. will hold a meeting at 12 H. 17th St. to rally more support for the strike. Trade unions and workers’ organi- zations are urged to send delegates to this important meeting. Mass Meeting Monday The downtown section of the Communist Party has arranged a An Amazing Revelation! RE AD NRA: The Crooked Referee in he Auto Workers’ Fight By Maurice Sugar in This Week's NEW MASSES (Out Friday, March 28) Workers, especially in the automobile centers, will want this SMASHING EXPOSE. Units and sections should bundle orders with cash immediately to NEW MASSES, 31 27th Street, New York City. to read send East Boston, Mass. THE WORKERS’ SCHOOL OF BOSTON will hold the second of a series of 8 illustrated lectures by Professor H. W. L. DANA on THE LAND OF Thursday Brenings at 8 O'clock OREDIT UNION MALL, 62 Chambers St. West End This week: “OCTOBER REVOLUTION” THE SOVIETS pressure toward further inflation is beginning to make itself felt again, latest developments in the capital | reveal, Roosevelt, has just made public| the chairmen of uurrency commit- | tees in which he urges Congress to give the Federal Reserve Bank power to set up twelve regional govern-| Judicial Court meets on March 27| to decide on the permanency of the | |ment banks to give direct loans to private industry. | The proposal to lend government funds to private industry is an ex- | tention of the present policy through |which the R. F. C. has already |granted more than $10,000,000,000 |in subsidies to banks, railroads, in- | surance and mortgage companies. It lis a continuation of the policy of | Hoover, who pursued the policy of | | trying to force bank loans into in-| | dustry through government banks. | |The policy failed because the banks could not find any borrowers with adequate security. | Roosevelt’s proposal is a step to-| | ward further inflation, since it ‘is| | based upon lending government} |funds to industries now unable to get funds from the banks for lack} of assets having any value. It is | tantamount to an inflation of credit leading to an inflation of currency. For bankrupt industry it simply | means easy government funds to) make up for the losses of the crisis. Part of the propaganda for the measure is that it will revive small businesses. Leading credit experts point out however, that small firms | will never be able to obtain any of | the government funds for lack of any kind of proper security. Pass Silver Bill Late Monday, the Dies Silver Bill was passed in the House by a | vote of 257 to 112 over the wishes |of the administration as expressed publicly by Secretary of the Treas- ury Morgenthau. The Bill provides | for the financing of agricultural ex- ports with silver to be bought by/| | the government at a price 25 per) ;cent above the world price level, this silver to become the basis of | currency. This is definitely infla- tionary as it will tend to raise prices | at home in order to permit Ameri- | can cotton and other producers to dump their products in Far Eastern markets. | mass meeting in support of the taxi | drivers’ strike which will be held/| on Monday, March 26, 8 pm. at Manhattan Lyceum. Ben Gold, mil- itant leader of the Needle Trades Charles Krumbein, District Organ- izer of the Communist Party, will |speak. 411 workers, and especially | mass meeting. In an attempt to cover up police violence against the strikers, the New York Times im writing on | Tuesday’s demonstration said that “James Martin, of 224 22nd St., Brooklyn, a pedestrian, was struck | in the head by glass from cabs or stones hurled by one of the strikers.” | The facts of the case, however, are quite different. A reporter for the Daily Worker, who took Mar- tin to the Bellevue Hospital, saw | ‘of their taxi drivers are urged to attend this ij |are determined to hold their farms | |court injunctions and foreclosures. jers’ League hes grown immensely. Freedom of 17 Jailed | Farmers (Special to the Daily Worker) SISSETON, 8. D., March 21.— One of the most important of re- cent struggles of the ruined and impoverished farmers of the coun- try reaches a new stage when more than a thousand farmers are ex- pected to gather here as the Fifth injunction which has been handed down against any and all further meetings of the United Farmers’ cils in this state. the organizations of the farmers, weighted down by mortgage debts, to evictions and foreclosures. Jail 17 Farmers Out of the struggles led by the U. F. L. against evictions and fore- closures in this state, 17 farmers are now in jail, including Julius Wal- stad, state organizer of the UF .L., and an injunction has been handed down against 90 other militant farmers forbidding them to partake in the slightest action in defense interests. This arrest is similar to the recent jailing of Al- fred Tiala, national secretary of the U. F. L, for six months. These 17 farmers were jailed as a result of the struggle that took place on Jan. 31 in defense of a farmer whose truck was being seized by the Morgan - dominated International Harvester as security for a debt, and in defense of Henry Nieland, old homestead farmer who was be- ing evicted from his farm for non- payment, More than 500 farmers, led by the U. F. L., defied the sheriff and moved Nieland back into his farm. State police arrested 17 of the most militant of the farmers, and jailed them at Sisseton. The farmers re- plied to this action by swarming into the town threatening to tear the jail down, an action that was prevented by the leadership of the U. F. L. The state court issued in- junctions against any collections of funds or aid for the jailed farmers, or any actions by the U. F. L. To this the farmers replied by calling a State Conference of the U. F. L. March 6 to 8, a confer- ence which was held in the face of open intimidation and threats | by the state police power, the | court house of the jailed farmers | being guarded by 150 deputies | with four mache guns. | | was balked by the militant protest of another meeting of farmers be- | fore the court house. In addition, | more than 250 new members have joined the forbidden United Farm- ers’ League, bringing the total state | membership to over 1,000 in Roberts | County, the scene of the actions, alone. Indignation among the farmers here is at the boiling point. They | against the rich bankers, and their | The influence of the United Farm- | In preparation for the court hearing on the 27th, the U, F. L.| has engaged David Levinson, prom-| League and the Unemployed Coun-| For the past few weeks a sharp/ struggle has been going on between | and the bankers, insurance com-| panies, etc., who are determined to| put an end to all farmer resistance | Police officer 9394 beat Martin un- linent I. L. D. atorney of Philadel- ht Injunction Aimed At United Farm League e- | Meet Mar. 27; Demand | ELLA REEVE BLOOR Veteran Communist, now active among the farmers. | with a special problem | inet factory. A group of I. W. W. ; Members, although insignifice | numbers, has t Nebraska Farmers Hold Convention; 30,000 Represented Mother Bloor, Veteran | Fighter in Labor Ranks, Is Delegate (Special to the Daily Worker) | GRAND ISLAND, Neb., March 21. | —Farm delegates representing more | than 30,000 members of the Farm Holiday Association (Madison Coun- plan) will meet here in conven- tion on March 22-23. Delegates and visitors are already | coming into the town from all parts |of the State, ready to discuss vital | farm problems, to elect officers, and to lay down programs of action for |the immediate future. The Asso- | ciation is directly affiliated with the | Farmers National Committee. As fraternal delegates, Lem Har- \ris, Frank North of Iowa, and | Mother Bloor, members of the Na~- | tional Committee, will be present. John Miller of the Farmers Weekly will also be present. City workers’ organizations from Grand Island, Lincoln, Hastings, and Omaha have already sent dele- gates. A mass play will be presented to the Convention by the Youth Committee of the Convention. C. W. A. Union Forces Workers Industrial Union and| Also, an attempt to evict Nieland Continuation of Relief CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 21.— Following the Roosevelt order that distribution of federal surplus foods to all C. W. A. workers be stopped after Feb. 15, a delegation of work- ers from the Richmond County Re- lief Workers’ Union met with the state relief officials, and forced the continuation of the food orders. Ask your friend, your fellow worker to subscribe to the Daily Worker. the injunction and demanding its immediate cancellation, Farmers and workers everywhere are urged to do the same, since the injunc- § | the cabinet factory. The union today is confronted Build Own Uni Hit Co. Union Strong Union in Radio Plant; NRA Vote Plan Proves Failure March 2 of the R.C.A n are building a s The union Worke ee | ind Radio a ed tool makers in Ma is a definite answer to attempt of company to intro- duce piece work into the tool room place in ks of the work- of the Radio strial Union for unity rejected. However, the workers in the cabinet factory are joining the Radio and Metal Workers Industrial Union over the heads of the leaders, Tries to Force Company Union The R.C.A. Victor Corporation has not accepted the independent union without struggle. With the introduction of the N.R.A., an Em- ployees Representation Plan was in- | troduced. The company control in |this plan was, however, too plain. ‘The plan was then changed to an- jother form of company unionism, known as the Employees Union, with Tobias, McDonough, and other company supervisors as the offi- cials of the so-called union. Within the last two weeks the company union has issued a special leaflet with special attacks upon the shop paper issued by the nucleus of the Communist Party. The Employees Union has tried to play the role of pretending to represent the inter- ests of the worker: | Campbell Workers Organize Canners’ Industrial Union Will Fight “Com pany Union in Camden Plant CAMDEN, N. J., March 21.—Over 1,400 workers in the Campbell Soup Co., in Camden, have organized the |Canners Industrial Union. The union has tried time and again to | gain recognition from the Campbell Soup. The workers through their own bitter experience are learning the role of the National and Regional | Labor Boards. The leaders of the | union, many of whom are Socialists, have laid the main emphasis upon |the decisions of the National and | Regional Labor Boards to gain their recognition. | gation went to Washington, and the | only answer they received was a lot of empty promises. | Finally the National Labor Board 11,000 Dakota Farmers WorkersinCanden Ohio Threatens to on Deport Foreign-Born Workers On Relief Planned As Supplement to Roosevelt's “Work Delegation after dele- | to either the W.LR. headquarters, or | conscious with a club at Greeley | Square about 11 p, m. Tuesday night. During the police attack Tuesday night, six strikers were arrested and held on charges of disorderly con- duct. The jailed strikers will be phia, who has come to Dakota to} lead the fight against the court in- junction. Levinson was given an| enthusiastic welcome by more than 1,000 farmers at a meeting at the} court house on Saturday. More than 27 telegrams have been sent by farmers’ meetings here given legal defense by the union defense committee, tion against the Dakota farmers is | ordered an election. The Campbell only a test case to determine| Soup company simply refused to whether this court weapon can be/| turn over the pay roll, and there- used against ruined, impoverished | fore the vote cannot be held. The Scheme” to Replace ¢ 1 W. A.; Unemployed Councils Call for Struggle Against Order COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 21.—The state of Ohio an- nounced that it will take im- mediate steps to deport 10,000 foreign-born workers. These @ relief director, to supervise the deportations. Arrangements have already been made with the r ads for Foster Exposes A.F.L. Betrayal of M’Namara in Saturday’ s‘W orker’ NEW YORK.—How labor fak- trapped the McNamara brothers into a plea of guilty: and hen joined the hue and cry raised by California bosses fer their blood is vividly told in an article by William Z. Foster, to be published in Saturday's 10- page “Daily Worker.” In his article Comrade Foster traces the history of the greatest defense movement ever organizd, before or sinc, by the American working class, to its ultimate be- trayal by the A. F. of L, and So- cialist Party leadership, and draws its lessons for the Ameri- can working class. ers Young Workers Win Minneapolis CWA Jobs | MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., March 21. —After months of struggle, the young workers here, led by the Un- employment Councils and the Young Communist League, have won a big victory. All single un- employed workers between the ages of 18 to 25 who are on city relief or whose families are on relief are to be given 24 hours of work a month with cash payment of 55 cents an hour. The workers also forced the promise that this work | will be continued at the close of the | C. W. A. with other funds. | jheels of the victory of the workers in forcing the city relief to grant food orders of $3.50 weekly to all single unemployed workers. As a result of these struggles, the young workers are organizing into the United Relief Workers’ Association, and are raising the demand for six days’ work a month instead of the present three. halt- | This victory follows closely on the | fare rates in order to facilitate the rr deportations, and steamships are expected to respond with Bids for steerage tral tation. The first steps will be the whole- sale removal of all Mexicans on the elief rolls, and arrangements have been made with the Mexican gov- nam as Mexico has a sub- tence farm project on which to ce these workers. The facilities ied to these workers is indi- in the railroad fares—$15 a head—which is to be paid for .| transportation to the Mexican bor- der. European nations have been reported as being favorable to this plan, which is to accord them poten- tial cannon-fodder. As a result of these mass depor- t ns, the state of Ohio expects to save $200,000 monthly in relief expenditures. The Unemployment Councils call upon all workers to fight these dis- criminations against foreign-born work and against Negro workers. The Unemployment Councils cail upon all workers to organize mass demonstrations at the local and central relief headquarters, and to send delegations and resolutions of protest to the governmenta] and relief officials demanding an end to the deportation plans. | Hathaway Speaks In Duluth Sat’day Will Tell How Soviets Would End Poverty DULUTH, Minn., March 2. — Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, will speak here Sat- urday night at a mass meeting in Camels Hall, on the subject: “The Communist Answer to Governor Ol- son: How a Soviet Government Would Abolish Poverty in the U. S.A.” This mass meeting will be in an- swer to the demagogic speech of Governor Olson in Duluth Tuesday, about cooperation between the state and federal governments to “abol- ish poverty by law.” Olson said that after the C.W.A. program ends, | the new relief program of the gov- ernment will take care of all in | need, without doles. This is the first time since 1925 that Hathaway will speak in Duluth. He was formerly vice-president of the Minnesota State Federation of Labor and organizer of the machin- ists union in Minneapolis. Hatha- way began his activities im the American labor movement in the state of Minnesota, where he was ‘born, CLEVELAND, OHTO— “ OLEVELAND, OHTO Welcome Delegates to if} GIGANTIC EARL 8th Nat'l Convention! MASS OPENING 8th NATIONAL CONVENTION COMMUNIST PARTY, U. S. A. BROWDER, Secretary of the farmers all over the country. The office of the farmers’ national newspaper, which gives full counts of the farmers’ struggles, is to Roosevelt and Governor Berry of South Dakota, protesting against “Farmers’ Weekly, 1817 South Loomis St., Chicago, Ml. CCC. Youth Brutally Murdered By Foreman, Eyewitness Reveals Sworn Statement to Daily Worker Shows Witnesses Were Tricked Away from Grand Jury; Government Attempted to Cover Up Case By CARL REEVE NEW YORK. — Abe Yankowitz, eighteen year old C.C.C. youth, brutally murdered by his bestial foreman, George Santiano, at the C.C.C, camp, near West Yellowstone, Mont., last year, July 13. The case comes again before the Wyoming Grand Jury this May. (The camp . on the Wyoming-Montana, bor- ler.) The Daily Worker has secured from an eyewitness, Irving Stein- berg, of ‘New York, a statement, as sworn eyewitness account, given by Irving Steinberg of New York, telling how the foreman killed Yankowitz, said, “I was resting in my tent (at the C.C.C. camp, near West Yellowstone, Montana), a little before one o'clock on July 13, 1933, tae o'clock that night, from frac- about |fused to work. Cunningham that tured skull, after lying in his tent for hours without any medical at- tention. The above paragraphs are re- printed from yesterday's Daily Worker, because an important sen- tence was omitted in the composing room. The following paragraphs are reprinted because the story as it appeared in yesterday’s Daily Worker, page four, was scrambled up in the composing room. The story of the killing of Yanko- witz shows how government officials “passed the case’ over the last ses- sion of the Wyoming Grand Jury and how the killer, George Santi- ano, was released from jail within two days by Captain Cunningham, in charge of the camp. The sworn statement of Steinberg, describing the brutal killing, continued, “Cun- ningham then went to West Yel- lowstone, the nearest town, where Santiano had been put in jail. The next morning Cunningham brought the foreman back to camp. He got him out of jail and he was back in camp and on the job. Then we re- night pulled a gun on us. We didn’t eat that night. We were afraid. About fifty of us had refused to work, Saturday I left camp with an- other fellow and hitch-hiked away.” The brother of Abe, Harry Yank- owitz, pressing the case, was told by the government that the case was “passed over” by the Grand Jury because the witnesses were not pres- ent. Irving Steinberg, who was subpoenaed to appear, tells in his remarkable story that it was the marshal’s office itself, which kept himself and other witnesses from | appearing. “I was subpoenatd with several other witnesses,” Steinberg told the Daily Worker, ‘“to appear in Cheyenne, Wyoming, at the Grand Jury session. It was about late October. We were going io tell about, the killing of Yankowitz. The New York Marshal sent us off and gave us expense money. When we got as far as Cleveland, Paul Rosen, one of the witnesses, got a telegram from the New York Marshal not to go any further, that the case was postponed. We went on to Chicago anyway, and sent a telegram to the Marshal in New York. We wanted to know what we should do. We re- ceived a wire from the New York Marshal to stay in Chicago for a day. A few hours later we received a telegram to leave the next morn- ing for New York. This telegram came from the New York Marshal's office. We got to New York Saturday morning. We came to the Marshal's office in the old Post Office Building, and he told us the case was discon- tinued until further notice.” The U. S. officials at Cheyenne, Wyoming, claimed that the case was not taken up at the last Oc- tober Grand Jury session, because no witnesses appeared. Steinberg’s sworn statement shows why they did not appear. The C. C. C. camp Officials laid the death of Yanko- witz to “heart ills,” although the death certificate, reprinted in yes- terday’s Daily Worker, showed he died of cerebral hemorrhage and a fractured skull. A second story on the brutal mur- der of Yankowita will appear in an early issue, ac- | | officials again relied on the entire | capitalist machine, In the meantime the Campbell Soup is firing union members, and | hiring new non-union people, forcing them to join the company union, | (WA MenDig Yacht Basin for Wealthy (Daily Worker Mid-West Bureau) CHICAGO, March 21.—In an at- tempt to prevent news of the rotten | conditions on C. W. A. Project 692 | here, where workers are digging a yacht basin to enable rich owners | to anchor their pleasure craft, | straw bosses drove a Daily Worker | investigator off the premi: Wages on this job, which is in| Jackson Park, have always been be- | low even the low standard of the | C. W. A. Now that other projects | have been closed down, workers have been transferred here and | fierce competition to “hold the job” | has been instigated. “Work fast or | be fired,” is the slogan of the fore- man. Workers are forced to wade knee deep in ponds still full ‘of floating ice. Sickness is common | amongst the workers. Communist Party-—FORD, STACHEL, MINOR, HATHAWAY, PATTERSON, BLOOR, BEDACHT, AMTER, HIMOFF MONDAY, APRIL 2nd, 7 P. M., PUBLIC AUDITORIUM—MUSIC HALL, E. 6th ST., and ST, CLAIR Mass Singing and Chorus of 400 Voices Adm.—25c. Unemployed with cards 10c On Sale—1514 Prospect Ave., Room 306 AUSPICES—Central Committee Communist Party and Cleveland District. BASKETBALL GAME AND DANCE RENNAISSANCE Thursday 29th World Negro Champions-Con- March tenders World Championship —-8P.M.— VS. Te ; St. Nicholas Arena All Star Aggregation |¢gin street and Columbus Ave. Spindell, Posnack, Rothenfeld ¥ 2 St 's) EFENS! Davidoff, Spahn, H. Cohen, for SCOTTSBORO D 17 H. Davis, R. Gordon ch as Admission: 49 Cents - - Auspices: Labor Sports Union Calendars may say Spring begins Mareh 21st—but then they are capitalist calendars. Spring begins officially with the NEW MASSES SPRING FROLIC, to be held the night of March 23, at Webster Hall, 119 East 11th St. and there will be dancing until 3 A. M.! And Will There Be Fun! Come in costume or not—as you wish. Get your tickets NOW—they are $1 in advance, $1.50 at the Box Office—from NEW MASSES, 31 East 27th Street, Caledonia 5-3076; WORKERS’ BOOKSHOP, 50 E. 13th 8,