The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 26, 1934, Page 1

i 3 CIRCULATION DRIVE i NEW SUBS RECEIVED SATURDAY: \y 30 Saturday . 64 i Total to date.... 2,364 Total . 1734 Wii tk P_ Vol. XI, No. 73 a Daily <QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at under the Act of March 8, 1879. Call Nation-WideOne ‘Hour Protest Strike; ‘Demand C.W.A. Jobs a of { Mary Van || | Kleeck for Social Insur- | ance Is Broadcast iy i ines ons enjamin Exposes War| oe Relief Cuts By CARL REEVE \NEW YORK.—Nine thousand C. WW.A. workers, employed and unem- floyed, at Madison Square Garden esterday, amidst tremendous enthu- asm issued a call upon all C.W.A. ind shop workers to lay down their pools at 3 P.M., one hour before quitting time next Thursday, | March 29, in the nation-wide pro-| .t strike against Roosevelt’s iquidation of C. W. A. jobs. The workers decided to mass at the City Hall on Thursday at 3:30 p. m., to demand extension and con- tinuation of all C. W. A. jobs. A thotion ‘was also passed in support f the striking taxicab drivers of lew York City. { The meeting showed the deep rowing demand of the workers f New York City for security, the \sspeakers being constantly inter- ‘rupted with prolonged applause | and cheers as the call for a nation- | wide strike was given. The full | Program was to have been broad- st over station WNYC, but ayor LaGuardia, at the last min- e, made a ruling that only Mary \j7 an Kleeck’s speech would be al- ‘flowed over the air, and after her eech the city-owned radio sta- “ion was turned off. There were 19 speakers repre- venting many unemployed organ- ‘zations, trade unions and C. W. A. orojects, including Mary Van | Kleeck of the Inter-Professional Assocition for Unemployment In- surance; Herbert Benjamin, Na- jonal Organizer of the Unemploy- ent Councils; Richard Sullivan, ecretary of the Unemployment Jouncils of Greater New York; ‘Alex Tayler and Jules Korchein ‘vepresenting the white collar un- employed organizations, Emanuel "Levine of the Workers Ex-Service- / men’s League, Ben Gold of the | Needle Trades Workers Industrial | Union, Louis Weinstock of the A. esac | | | | ' F. of L. Committee for Unemploy- {ment Insurance, workers on C, W. JA. jobs, ete. if Mary Van Kleeck Speaks Mary Van Kleeck in a brilliant / wpeech broadcast over the radio } (ease that the first act of her ganization was the endorsement i the Workers Unemployment and (Social Insurance Bill. There was pr applause when Mary an Kleeck said “the program for ‘the unemployed is not to be made (Continued on Page 2) Red Herring” In Fascist Sauce Is Served in House || WASHINGTON, March 25.—A , large “red herring” soaked in semi- 4 | Fascist sauce was dragged out yes- terday in the House Committee _ hearings on the proposed regulation _ of the New York Stock Exchange. {It was in the form of a letter said to be written by Dr. William wW. _|/ Wirt, of Gary, Indiana, in which he ‘quotes one of the members of Roosevelt's so-called “Brain Trust” its. “We believe that we can keep ir, Roosevelt there until we are ready to supplant him with a Stalin. We all think that Mr. | Roosevelt is only the Kerensky of this Revolution.” | This was read yesterday to the ‘Committee of the House by James | Henry Rand, Jr., as part of his evi- | dence for opposing the Fletcher- On the basis of this letter, Rep. . L. Bulwinkle, of North Caro- who represents the textile ufacturing interests of Meck- and Gaston counties, (scene of the Gastonia strike of 1929) proposes to introduce a sweeping resolution calling for an investigation of the “brain trust.” Bulwinkle, it will be recalled, led (a mob on Sept. 10, 1929 against i) rs and workers of the Na- _. tional Textile Workers Union, kid- _ napping and flogging Ben Wells, ret an organizer, and two other work- AXI MEN CHEERED | Danaget of Roosevelt; | “Big Six’? Meeting Endorses Workers’ Unemployment Bill NEW YORK, March 25.—The Typographical Union No. 6 yes- terday endorsed the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598) by a vote of two to one, at an adjourned meeting at Stuyvesant High School. Intro- duced some time ago in the form of resolutions adopted by the World-Telegram, Journal, Mirror and the Unemployed Association of Big Six, members of the Amalgamation Party were suc- cessful in bringing it out of the committee, and it was passed over the opposition of the Exec- utive Committee, Socialist and Tammany adherents. 10 AFL Loeals ‘Support CWA Chicago Workers to Parade Through Loop on 31st (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Ill, March 25.—Ten local unions of the American Federation of Labor have already endorsed the march through the loop which takes place on March 31, against the firing by Roosevelt of 65,000 Chicago C.W.A. workers on that date. The parade will as- March 31, and at 10:45 will march down Randolph St., to Michigan Blvd, and south on Michigan ae to the Square at Congress it. Local No. 34 of the Chicago Workers Committee on Unemploy- ment voted Thursday to support the Jobs March through the Loop, March 31. Similar action taken by Local No, 14 last Monday, shows the rising spirit for unity within this organization despite its Socialist-Democratic Party lead- ership. A mass meeting was called for Sunday on the South Side to mo- bilize for the demonstration. Sen- timent of the Negro workers is strong for the march. Five Scottsboro Boys Condemned io Solitary BIRMINGHAM, Ala., March 25, —Five of the Scottsboro boys are in solitary confinement for defending themselves against fellow-prisoners, egged on by Jefferson County prison guards to attack the boys in a con- tinued campaign by the white ruling class lynchers to break their militant spirits. Roy and Andy Wright were the first two of the boys to be victim- ized, having been placed in soli- tary since last Friday following a fight with a Negro stool-pigeon, Sekiel Mitchell. Willie Robertson, Ozie Powell and Eugene Williams were thrown into cells in “solitary tow” yesterday, after Warden Felix L. Erwin accused them of taking 50 cents from Mitchell and “attack- ing” Sam Woods, another Negro stool-pigeon used by the guards in their provocation campaign against the Scottsboro boys. Mareh in Chi. semble at Union Park at 10 a. m.,| NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1934 Auto Workers Danica Puts Demands to Roosevelt’s Sec’y Hits Roosevelt Actions for Auto Manufacturers (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON March. 25.—Phil Raymond, National Secretary of the Auto Workers Union, the oldest auto workers organization fighting for the demands of the rank and file, arrived in Washinton vester- day to advise President Roosevelt of the main demands of the workers. He declared that the present strike- stalling delays “were requested by the President and eagerly acceded to by American Federation of Labor leaders subservient to the interests of the employers.” in a statement given to Marvin MacIntyre, one of the Presidential secretaries. The militant auto workers’ leader demanded a $35 minimum wage for a 30-hour week, abolition of the “murderous speed-up system” recoz- nition of the “right to organize into veal trade unions of the workers’ own choice,” and, among other things, abolition of Negro dis:rimi- nation and the spy systems. Raymond returned to Detroit last night. lows: | The Hon. Franklin D. Roosevel, President of the United States, White House. Dear Mr, President: _ The current conferences with the | President on the struggle of auto- mobile workers for decent wages and conditions in the industry and for union recognition are strike- breaking conferences. They once again put the seal of Presidential (Continued on Page 2) Roosevelt Signs Independence Bill For Phi Philinpines | Leaves the W Wall Street Griv Tighter Than Ever Before WASHINGTON, March 25.—The McDuffie-Tydir.gs Bill giving the Philippines their formal indepen- dence in 1945 was signed yesterday by Roosevelt. The bill gives the Philippines the appearance of independence. Ac- tually, it strengthens the hold of American imperialism on the sugar investments of American imperial- ism in the Islands. Philippine sugar competes duty-free with Cuban sugar, and is able to undersell domestic production, The granting of formal independence will permit certain domestic sugar interests to fight for a tariff on the importation of Philippine sugar. Already there is a bill up in the House for a tax on Philippine cocoanut oil, which competes with domestic oils. At the same time, Roosevelt’s ac- tion gives American imperialism a bargaining point in its present diplomatic discussions with Japan- ese imperialism, while in no way lessening the grip of Wall Street on the island through financial monop- oly. In adition, the Roosevelt action is intended to serve as a damper on the growing struggles of the Philippine masses for real in- dependence from Wall street dom- ination. FOR UNION, PAY RISE The text of Raymond's letter fol- | | | WILLIAM GREEN President of A. F. of L., working overtime to prevent the auto strike. A. F.L. Heads Fear Failure in Strike Stall Face-Saving Maneuver (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, March 25.—The top ‘leadership of the American Federation of Labor, having sur- rendered every major demand of the auto workers and facing a re- volt by their own lower leaders now in Washington, today admitted to the Daily Worker that their only hope of preventing a strike tomor- row was to reach some face-saving formula for the sell-out by tonight. Meanwhile the manufacturers, en- joying poker games in swanky ho- tel quarters, stood pat, promising nothing, insisting that the A. F. of L. identify its members direct to the employers in connection even with any fake collective bargaining promise. Asked by your correspondent whether he would agree to a strike if no agreement were reached to- night, President William Green re- plied: “Something has to be done to- night. Otherwise something will break tomorrow.” Assistant Secretary of Labor Ed- ward McGrady, former A, F. of L, leader who is ready to rush to De- troit to repeat the strike-breaking “President’s promise” maneuver by which he broke the Pennsylvania coal strike last summer, told news- papermen today: “William Collins and these fellows claim they're afraid they can’t hold the men back if they don’t get a decision to- night.” Collins, the national A. F. of L auto organizer, admitted ~ A that the local leaders “want to go back,” and might leave today. The threatened revolt of the lower A. F. of L. leaders participating in the conference with N. R. A. Ad- ministrator General Johnson _be- came more menacing to Green to- day as President Roosevelt issued no summons and General Johnson called the A. F. of L. in without having made any new proposal. The revolt was staved off yesterday only on assurances that some agreement would be forthcoming today, that probably Roosevelt would act. The bitterness of the leaders, who must go back to Detroit to face the men, increased when Johnson declared at (Continued on Page 2) Hope for Last-Minute! | call for United Struggle of AFL AWU, MES Rank and File 70,000REPRESENTED | Point to Strike as Only Way to Win Demands WASHINGTON, March President Roosevelt, realizing how near the auto workers are to striking against the orders of their top leaders, and how near some delegates in the Washing- ton conference are to revolting against further 25— | strike-stalling, | late today called the union con- | ferees to the White House. Some characteristic N. R. A. formula for strike today is ex- | pected, but officials refuse to pre- dict anything. By A. B. MAGILL DETROIT, Mich., March 25, — “Fight the sellout!” This is the call ringing through the united front auto conference now in session challenging the double-crossing maneuvres of the A. F. of L. officialdom working with the government and the millionaire auto magnates in Washington. The conference meeting in Car- pathia Hall, 3500 Elmwood, and called by the Auto Workers Union | brought together delegates from the Mechanics Educational Society, and rank and file A. F. of L. mem- bers as well as represeritatives of unorganized workers from prac- tically all important shops. The conference Was filled with the de- termination to unite the forces of all auto workers for immediate ac- tion to defeat the A, F. of L. leaders’ betrayal and force the manufacturers to grant their de- mands. There were present 146 delegates, representing nearly 10,000 auto workers. Delegates include 23 A. F. of L. members, 24 from the Mech- anics Educational Society of Ame- rica, and about 65 from the Auto Workers Union, the rest being from unorganized groups of shop work- ers. The keynote of the conference was sounded by Earl Reno of the Auto Workers Union who gave the main report. He said “The time has come when the workers must take matters in their own hands. The Auto Workers Union and the Mechanics Educational Society rank and file, and unorganized workers must unite their forces for an immediate fight against the sellout, for immediate action to win the demands of the automobile workers. “We will have nothing to do with the A. F. of L. officials who are be- traying the auto workers. We carry on the fight against the leaders who sell out the workers, or refuse to answer the call for united action.” Reno proposed as concrete steps for united action: 1. City wide mass meetings, within the next few days to be called jointly by the Auto Workers Union and the Mechanics Educational Society; 2. a joint ap- peal for united action in A. F. of L, locals and unorganized shops; 3. a fight against the sell out, through (Continued on Page 2) 20,000 Miners Prepare to Strike in England SWANSEA, Eng. March 25. — Twenty thousand Anthracite miners prepared to strike today after one of the Amalgamated Anthracite Collieries refused to pay the mini- mum rates to 28 men employed in the mine. : Two thousene workers nave al- ready been striking for a week. ‘SthC.P. Convention WEATHER: Cloudy, warmer. AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER (Eight Pages) Price 3 Cents TAXI STRIKERS REJECT LAGUARDIA’S FAKE VOTE TERMS 'D, 000 at N.Y. Madison Sq. Garden Me Meeting End Endorse C.W.A. Protest Strike Mar. 29 Auto Conference Mobilizes Men in 3 [Mass Meet Unanimous for Unions for Action Against Sell-Out Vote of All With Strike on New York Communists In Convention; Browder And Krumb —o Oil Magnate Secretly Made $19,000,000 in Fleecing Small Buyers | | i WASHINGTON, March 25.— While hundreds of thousands of |} professionals, etc., were losing their life savings through in- vestments in the stock of the Cities Service Company, the President of the Company, Henry L. Doherty was reaping a fortune of $19,000,000 in se- cret stock operations in his own company’s stock, it was revealed today before the Federal Trade Commission. West Virginia Coal Miners Respond to Many will ‘Attend Open- ing Meet in Cleveland April Second CLEVELAND. — Delegations of coal miners from Logan and Mingo counties, West Virginia and work- ers from the steel controlled Lorain, Ohio, are among the workers from all over the country, who have sent requests to the Cleveland District Office, for tickets to the opening mass meeting of the Eighth Na- tional Convention where Earl Brow- der and other outstanding national leaders of the Party will speak. Factory gate meetings and wide- spread leaflet distributors are two of the methods used to tell Cleve- land workers of the Opening Meet- ing on the night of April 2nd, at the Music Hall of Public Auditorium in Cleveland. Special leaflets have been issued to the steel and metal workers on the convention. Fif- teen thousand copies of a special convention appeal have been issued by the Communist fraction of the Steel and Metal Workers Indus- trial Union. Ten thousand leaflets are being distributed in the neigh- borhood in which the Negro com- rades, Rayford and Jackson, were murdered. The arrangements committee in Cleveland announces that all ads for the Journal of the Convention, which will have important political documents in it, must be in at the lastest, Tuesday, March 27. The Central Committee of the Communist Party appeals to all or- ganizations who have not yet do- nated, to do so as quickly as pos- sible, since arrangements for the feeding, rent for halls, etc., for the Convention must be made at once. Local organizations and branches have responded wholeheartedly to the call for support, sending in many instances more than the $2.00 minimum requested. Average dona- tions from local branches have amounted to $5.00. All organiza- tions and individuals, are urged to send funds for the Convention to Earl Browder, P.O. Box 87, Sta. D, New York City. ein Report Stress Shop Ww ra Gains; Elect Delegates to the Nat’l Convention NEW YORK.—With 194 delegates present, and far more than tw that number sitting in, the and final session here of the munist Party district conventic yesterday brought to a peak its di cussion of the situation and task: facing the Communist Party in the | Present period as raging world economic crisis of the past four and a half years is being trans. formed into a revolutionary cri In addition to electing a Distri ic Committee, the Convention had as President of the T: jone of its main purposes the clec- | v tion of delegates to the 8th National | {08¢ who we Communist | Convention of the | Party, which will open in Cleveland | on April 2. ventions, at which other delegates will be chosen, are taking place | throughout the United States Gathered in the large auditorium of the New Harlem Casino, at 116th St. and Lenox Avenue, in the mid- dle of the important’ Harlem sec- [tion of New York, these delegates from all parts of the New York district, from the shops and fac- tories, the blocks and mass organ- izations, from the trade unions and unemployed councils, rose, one after another, to discuss the vital and outstanding problems of the h of their revolutionary activi The spirit that permeated e district convention and the dele- gates was fittingly expressed by one of the delegates reporting on shop work in the following words: “Our Party must become the heart which stirs the breast of every American worker.” This statement showed the en- | thusiasm of the delegates, who saw in it the revolutionary pledge in the struggle for the ma: and the struggle for Soviet power. So insistent was the demand of the delegates for the floor, so vital were the contributions that each wanted to make to the convention, that the recess period was given up voluntarily in order to allow more rank and file delegates to speak. Earl Browder, in an_ incisive Speech, stated: “I understand that there is a crisis in this convention. So many people who want to speak, and everyone should speak, and every- one has something to say, and (Continued on Page 2) Negro Professionals Are | Hard Hit by Depression | NEW YORK (F. P.)—Negro pro- | fessional workers have been harder| hit by the depression than any other similar group in New York City, ac- cording to Better Times, the Wel- fare Council's magazine. It tells of | a graduate of a leading music school forced to wash pots and pans, other | music teachers getting only 25 cents an hour for lessons, ministers going Similar district con- | | passed a res: | plebiscite for the whol | by the strike committee Demand Owners Accept Results of the Election Under Union FORCE NEGOTIATION Men (ire sed Against LaGuardia’s Trickery By HARRY RAYMOND NEW YORK. — Several thousand striking taxi driv- ers, at a meeting in St olas Arena, 6Sth St., 3 day afternoon voted was revealed According to the } the majority of the city would be denied the ote in the plebisci ‘pointed out by of Greater Ni ‘melee, Terminal a anies on January 30th vould be allowed to vote lan includes on! 000 of th 000 and a cabs in e city eliminate one If of the driv The stri vers unanimously a plebiscite for the and remai! z on sults of the plebiscite a by the ope: Opening the meeting yest afternoon in St. Nicholas Herman Goldstein, Pres the Brooklyn local of Drivers Union said: “We not for Parmelee, Radio drivers alone. Samuel Orner, union, in his repo: pointed out that t gained a great victo they had forced the fle: sit with them in the “Most of the boys thi plebiscite is a wonde: Te said Orner, “but I h that I will not anything tha‘ Every vote in the ple mit to a vote but taxi driver in New Y ballot.” Vote to Continue Sirike The strikers voted unanimously to continue their militant strike until they forced the companies to recognize the union. The drive for relief was intensi- fied yesterday. A decision was made that all garage stewards in the five bor- oughs are to send delegations to all labor meetings throughout the city to collect funds for the strike, and get further support of the labor movement. The first major victory of the strike was scored Saturday when the fleet owners were forced to meet with the taxi drivers representatives. Backed by Delegation. Backed by delegation of 600 strik- ers, union leaders went to the City | Hall Saturday where they met for the first time with the fleet owners. | Previously the operators had em- phatically insisted that they would not meet with the representatives of the strikers. The militancy of the strike, the mass picketing and dem- onstrations, however, forced the without salaries and several losing} fleet owners to change their minds. their churches and physicians and dentists closing offices and return-| ing to the West Indies or southern states or to take jobs as porters and elevator operators. NEW YORK, — Tr The urgent need for a solid proletarian front against the growing danger of imperialist war and increasing fascist attacks on the American workingclass, di- rected with ravage vehemence, par- ticularly ag nst the Negro masses and the for ign born, is stressed by | the May Day Arrangements Com- mittee in a call issued yesterday for a United Front May Day Confer- ence, looking toward one united May Day demonstration in this city. The Conference is called for Sat- urday, April 14, at 1 p.m. sharp, at Webster Hall, 119 E. 11th St. The call is directed to all trade unions, workers’ fraternal, cultural and so- cial societies, Negro workers’ or- ganizations, young workers’ clubs, all organizations of working women Call N.Y. Workers to United Front May Day Conference to Battle Fascism 35 ORGANIZATIONS ISSUE RINGING CALL FOR MIGHTY UNITED FRONT MAY DAY DEM ONSTRATION AGAINST N. R. -* ATTACKS and the workers in the shops and neighborhoods. ‘The call cites the heroic struggles |of the workers of Germany, Aus- tria, Italy, Spain, etc. against fas- cism, and declares that the situa- tion, nationally and internationally, ; demands this May Day the greatest unity of all workers in support of the German and Austrian working- class, in the struggle against Fas- cism, imperialist war and for the | defense of the victorious proletariat | of the Soviet Union and its success- ful Socialist construction. The call urges all workers in the shops to down tools on May Day and turn out with the unemployed masses on May Day, the great fight- ing day of the international work- ing class. It states, in part: “This May Day (1934) finds the bosses and their New Deal furi- ously driving down the living standards and attacking the | rights of all workers. “Wage-cuts, speed-up, compul- sory arbitration, company unions, NEW YORK.—The half-million copy May Day edition of the Daily Worker is meeting a ready re- sponse with orders coming in from all parts of the country. The munist Party has boosted the total To date, has Lint May Day Edition Order Swells To 350,000; Half Million, Goal 35,000; Cleveland, 20,000; De- troit, 20,000; Philadelphia, 20,- 000; Boston, 10,000 and Denver, 10,000. Indications are that every copy latest order of 200,000 copies by|of the half-million will be cir- the New York District of the Com-| culated. It is up to the districts all over to 350,000 copies already ordered.|the country to »ut this issue into Chicage every worker’s and famer’s home. the black list, a wave of strike- | breaking injunctions and police terror — growing unemployment. | This is what the N. R. A. has brought to the employed workers, The call points to the growing | wave of fascist terror: police attacks | on the Negro workers of Harlem, | on the taxicab strikers, on tenants | fighting against fire-trap conditions | menacing the lives of themselves! and their children, as demanding | the greatest unity of the working | masses. | Every workingclass organization is urged to elect 3 delegates to | the United Front May Day Con- ference, The Conference call is sup- | ported by 35 workers’ organiza- tions, including the A. F. of L. Committee for Unemployment In- | i ‘ surance, the International Broth- erhood of Carpenters and Joiners, A. F. of L. Local 2090; Paper Plate and Bag Makers Union, A. F. of L., No. 107; Bricklayers Union, A F. of L. No. 37; Anti-Racketeer- ing Committee in A. F. of L. Unions, Trade Union Unity Coun- cil, Needle Trades Workers Indus- trial Union, United Show Work- ers Industrial Union, Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, Marine Workers Industrial Union, Food Workers Industrial Union, Amalgamated Rank and File, In- | ternational Workers Order, Com- munist Party, Young Communist League, Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, National Students League, League of Struggle for Negro Rights, Rank and File Painters, A. F, of L., etc, Reluctantly these owners of the | Parmelee, Terminal and Radio fleet (Continued on Page 2) “Get Out!’ Taxi Men Tell Reporter of the Scab World-Telegram NEW YORK.—“I'u give you a statement,” Samuel Orner said to a World-Telegram reporter whom he ordered out of the union headquarters at 233 W. 43rd St. “I'll give you a state- ment—it will be a real one. Here it is: Samuel Orner, militant president of the Taxicab Drivers’ Union, realizes that the World- Telegram is doing its utmost to break up our strike. The car- toon printed in today’s [Satur- day’s—Ed.] paper makes us look like a bunch of damned anar- chists.” The cartoon was labeled: hell with the public.” Joseph Gilbert, union organ- izer, turned to the World-Tele- gram reporter and said, “Get out.” “Wait a minute.” Orner said, “all I have to say to the World- Telegram from now on till the day I die has been said. Get out.” “To