The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 2, 1934, Page 1

| Revolutionary Greetings to the 8th National Convention! CIRCULATION DRIVE NEW SUBS RECEIVED SATURDAY: Daily ........ 38 Total to date. .2,831 Vol. XI, No. 79 Daily <AWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 1934. WEATHER: Fair, warmer. AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER (Eight Pages) Price 3. Cents THOUSANDS OF CHICAGO CWA MEN MARCH THRU LOOP Ta a Strike E. Ends; Di Drivers Vote to Return to Work Today 8th National Communist Party Convention OpensTonight With Huge Cleveland Mass Meeting x Outstanding I Leaders of| if C. P. Will Address Gigantic Meet DELEGATES ARRIVE Come from Districts Throughout Country CLEVELAND, Ohio. +The} Eighth National Convention of the Communist Party of the United States opens here tonight with a gigantic mass meeting in Music Hall of Public Auditorium. Dele; from every district of the United States, whose conven- tions have heen held on a nation- wide scale during the past two as well as workers living and in many sur- tow yns, will gather at this g promptly at 7:30 utstanding leaders | Party, leaders of | Ing class in their ab, addres: s the anding Speakers utstanding. speak- Browder, general} Communist Party; cling national sec-| the Trade Union Unity C. A. Hathaway, editor of Wo: W. Ford,| ate for Vice-} @ 1932 elections; ', Cental Committee the Communist Party; n Patterson, national secre- ‘e International Labor De- la Reeve “Mother” Bloor, working class leader now among the farmers of the middle west; Max Bedacht, general secretary of the International Work- ers Order; I Amter, national secre- tary of the Unemployment Cuoncils, and Mary Himoff, member of the| National Bureau of the Young Communist League. This convention, following close- ly on the heels of the district con- ventions, will be the first national convention held by the Communist Party of the United States since the Seventh Convention, held in New York in 1930. It will be attended by delegates from all the decisive fronts of the class struggle in this country. Workers of Cleveland, and work- ing class organizations throughout the country, have contributed from their own meagre funds to enable this epochal. convention to take place; Cleveland workers have of- fered their own small homes to house the delegates from New York to California, from New Orleans iG Michigan. These workers will be present at 7:30 tonight at the Music Hall of Public Auditorium to greet in per- son the leaders of the Communist Party and the delegates who have come from all corners of America to meet in this Eighth National Convention. Campbell Soup Men Go Out on Strike Today CAMDEN, N. J., April 1—Fifteen hundred workers of the Campbell Soup Co., voted yesterday to walk out on strike Monday to demand recognition of the union and a 15 per cent wage increase. The strike is under the leadership of the Canners Industrial Union and affects at least 75 per cent of the workers. A mass picket line will be formed in front of the plant. Dillinger Still At Large; Federal Agents Fooled ST, PAUL, Minn., Apr. 1—John Dillinger, who is now outlawed fol- Jowing his “miraculous” escape from an Indiana prison a few weeks ago, still remains at large as St. Paul authorities and Federal agents were today convinced that he was not among the three persons who shot their way out of an apartment here yesterday. BANK $12,000 SHORT KINGSTON, N. Y.—State bank examiners here are reported to have found a shortage of $12,000 in the funds of the National Ulster County Bank here. Leroy P. Port, former president of the National Ulster County Bank and Trust Co., whose business was assumed by the new company was released on $5,000 bail following his arrest after the dis- covery. i] j | ing hg 3 Concentration Districts Hold Their Conventions Pittsburgh, Detroit and’ |Cleveland Turn Face to Heavy Industry (Special to the Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 1.—The Pittsburgh district convention of the Communist | Party closed here today after | two days. | The main report was delivered by| Jack Johnstone, district organizer, | on the Party’s work in industry in| the district. Other important re-| ports were given as follows: Allander on organizational work; | Carethers on the Daily Worker;| Hawkins on the Young Communist League; Egan on trade union work; | Frankfield on Negro work; Chapa on the Young Pioneers, and Mine- rich on women’s work. ‘ ¢ Party’s Influence Growing The discussions showed the grow- influence of the Communist Party in the district, the growing opposition on the part of the work- ers to the American Federation of Labor bureaucracy, and the achieve- ments of the district in the growth of shop units, born as a result of actual struggles. A growth in Party membership and the consolidation of leadership, as well as real im-| provement in the composition of Party members—the majority of the new recruits being miners and steel workers—were recorded by this con- vention. The beginning of real agit-prop work, improvement ‘of the Daily Worker circulation and literature sales, were also noted. The strengthening of Negro work was | discussed, with some improvement | noted and plans for further im-| provement made. After much serious self-criticism and the revelation of shortcomings and failures and mistakes during the past period, the convention closed with a definite spirit of optimism—| the delegates confident that they would go on to build the Party here in the midst of the coming strug- gles, psa cena DETROIT, Mich. Apr. 1.—'The District 7 convention of the Com- munist Party opened here Friday night with a packed mass meeting at the Workers Home, 1349 E. Ferry Ave. The present situation in the auto industry and the tasks of the Party in fighting the A. F. of L. sell-out and developing united actions in the shops occupied the center of the speeches made by John Schmies, district organizer, and William W. Weinstone, representative. of the Central Committee of the Com- Lynn Electrical Men Spurn AFL Co. Union For Independ’t Union WASHINGTON (F.P.) — The Electrical Industry Employes. Union, an independent organiza- tion, won a sweeping victory in Lynn, Mass., plants of General Electric in a national labor board election. The independent indus- trial union won a 2 to 1 victory over the company union. Scat- tering votes were cast for the A. F, of L. Jingo March In NY on War Anniversary Bosses Will Glorify the | Army; Workers to Denounce War NEW YORK.—Led by Mayor La Guardia, for the civilians, and Major Dennis E. Nolan, commander of the Second Corps Area, U. S. army, a march of 15,000 armed men will glorify war in New York next Sat- urday, on Army Day, the day follow- ing the anniversary of America’s entry into the World War. Under the sponsorship of the Military Order of the World War,| the regular army, national guard, | reserve corps, veterans’ organizations and “patriotic” societies will march on Fifth Ave. from 90th to 60th St. The New York workers’ answer will be a series of mass meetings against war, culminating in a mass! anti-war rally on the evening of Friday, March 6, in St. Nicholas Arena, 69 W. 66th St., under the auspices of the American League Against War and Fascism, ea oe Steel Town Anti-War Meet YOUNGSTOWN, O.—In this steel town where the mills are busy pro- ducing war orders, the whole jingo press, radio, and schools are being mobilized to poison the minds of youth for war, especially on April 6, anniversary of the U. S. entry into the World War. On that day the Young Commu- nist League of Youngstown has called on all young and adult work- ers to rally in a mighty protest against a new bosses’ war, in Cen- (Continued on Page 2) tral Auditorium, 225 W. Boardman Three Terminal Garages NEW YORK.—The general taxi- cab strike ended here Saturday with the hackmen returning to work in an organized body under the lead- ership of their garage committees. Despite continued attempts on the part of the capitalist newspapers, the LaGuardia city government and leaders of the Socialist Party to divide the ranks of the drivers and thus bring about a disorderly route of the strike, the ranks of the strik- ers remained firm, the men return- ing to their garages in organized groups under the leadership of the Taxi Drivers Union of Greater New York. In garages of the Terminal Com- pany where the fleet owners in- sisted that the drivers joni the com- pany unions, the strike is being con- tinued. The strike is still on in the 23rd, 38th, 49th and 60th Street garages of the Terminal Cab Com- pany. Men Vote to Retura The general strike was terminated following a vote taken by the union men at the various strike headquar- ters. The following statement on the settlement of the strike was issued Saturday by Samuel Orner, presi- dent of the union: “At a meeting of the general] strike committee held Friday, March 30, at the headquarters of the Taxi Drivers Union of Greater New York, 133 W. 42nd St., it was decided to drivers. ~ “Following this meeting, meetings of strikers were held in all the vari- ous strike halls, where the mem- bership, through their vote approved the recommendation of the general men return to work on the follow- | ing conditions: “1) Immediate reinstatement of all strikers. “2) No discrimination for past, (Continued on Page 2) |35,000 at Funeral of Paris Taxi Striker, Murdered by Police PARIS (By Mail)—Twenty thou- sand workers on foot, followed by 7,000 taxis, making a total of 35,000 in line, followed the funeral of Yves Maurice, taxi driver who died after a police beating during the Paris taxi drivers’ strike. Among those who followed the funeral are the striking cab washers, almost all Negroes from North Af- rica, and delegations of workers and employees from the civil services. During the whole march, the workers shouted in chorus the slogan, “Join the Communist Party,” which has become the mass slogan St. 7:30 pm. of all workers’ demonstrations in Paris, recommend the termination of the} | general strike of the New York taxi strike committee—that is, that the | Hackmen Return to Garages in a Body; Led By Union Committees ¢ Continue Strike In! William L. Patterson, national secretary of the International Labor Defense, who will speak at the opening of the Eighth Con- vention of the Communist Party in Cleveland tonight. Calif. Ranchers Form Terror Gangs To Block Strike | Threaten Blood Bath If “Lawful” Attacks on Pickers’ Rights Fail NEW YORK.—Further admission that California growers and law officers are organizing fascist mur- der gangs to smash the strike plans | of the bitterly exploited migratory | |pickers is made in a Los Angeles dispatch to the New York Times, published yesterday. “One of the chiefs of the latter | organization (Growers’ and Ship- pers’ Protective Association) de- clared that vigilante law would be | resorted to if. lawful means to com— bat the strike agitators failed to protect the ranchers’ interests,” the dispatch reports. “The ranchers are organizing militant (read fascist military) groups to combat invading labor agitators,” the Times dispatch states. Meanwhile, all meetings of pick- ers are being broken up by the hired thugs of the ranchers and their organizations, Valley Anti-Communist Associa- tion and the Growers’ and Ship- pers’ Protective Association. The strike of the pickers against starvation pay, long hours and dis- crimination against Mexican and Japanese workers, who constitute the bulk of the pickers, is being organized by the Cannery and Agricultural Workers’ Industrial Union. the Imperial | “ C.W. A. Protest Actions E brutal, rapidly. Relief, Hopkins, is ordering all cities to completely disband all C.W.A projects. Upon the leadership Workers Leagues, depends whether the latest brutal hunger program nation-wide firing of of the will be defeated. Every Communist in these organizations hi: responsibility of taking the lead in this fight against starvation C. W. A. WORKERS—EMPLOYED AND UNEMPLOYED! FOR CONTINUATION AND EXTENSION OF C. W. A. JOBS! Organize committees on every C. W. A. job. C. W. A. and relief offices against the C. W. A. firing. tinuation of every C. W. A. project fired. FIGHT AGAINST ROOSEVELT’S WAGE CUTS ON “WORK RELIEF.” Demand union pay on all C. W. mand union conditions. Demand recognition of your C. W. A. workers’ organizations. STRIKE AGAINST WAGE CUTS ON C. W. RELIEF.” Demand no discrimination against Negro workers on C. W. A. and “work relief.” DEMAND JOBS OR ADEQUATE CASH RELIEF FOR ALL UN- EMPLOYED. Demand cash relief equivalent to the average trade union wage in the community. DEMAND THE IMMEDIATE ENACTMENT BY CONGRESS OF THE WORKERS’ UNEMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL INSURANCE. BILL (H. R, 7598), Demand the CWA Jobs Continue! Fight Layoffs ! AN EDITORIAL On the orders of Roosevelt, Federal AFL, Socialist Workers Join C.W.A. Job March DEMAND H. R. 7598 Pledge Support to the Striking C. W. A. Workers (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Ill, April 1.— | Traffic was paralized for 40 }minutes and thousands of workers lined the sidewalks as | Haoneende of 1 anes women and the C.W.A. workers is proceeding Administrator of Unemployed Councils, the Relief FIGHT Demonstrate at the Demand con- without one C. W. A. worker being A. and “work relief” projects. De- | o: ed parade through the ht A. AND the unemplo; “WORK |; joined the barked from joined the dem cheered the demor om the sidewalks. Slash Wages ve 30,000 NewYorkCWA Are Fired “Work Relief. ai Leve* of| | Subsistence” LaGuardia | Administration Orders | NEW YORK—At least 30,000 C,| W. A. workers in New York City alone will be fired today, it was admitted Saturday by Col. W. A. DeLamater, C. W. A. administrator, as the entire C. W. A. program, fol- lowing the orders of Roosevelt, is | transferred to the Works Division of the Department of Public Wel- fare. Those remaining on the jobs,| which, according to Commissioner of Welfare William Hodson, will be only on the basis of “absolute need,” will receive more wage cuts and re- ‘duced hours. Harry L. Hopkins, in discussing the new federal relief plan, stated ‘Employment is limited to 24 hours @ week ... the wages... in no case will be less than 30 cents an hour,” or $7.20 a week to those few remaining on the jobs. Limited to Starvation Levels The new “work relief,” according to Commissioner Hodson, a La- Guardia appointee at a salary of $13,390 a year, will be on the basis || Easter Society Parade | of the men, and gayly colored bon- (Continued on Page 2) mobile traffic was at a standstill, }as the marcher: 2 disciplined ranks, held t for more n a half | the City Hall. Demonstrate at City Hall A delegation of 13 went into t City Hall to place the workers’ a |mands before the Mayor, ee continuation and extension low, immediate cash relief, t immediate enactment of the W: hour “bef ore CWA Men Razz Mayor LaGuardia at N. Y. C. the workers, gation, shouted: The committee of 13 was headed by Karl Lockner and | Alexander Guss of the Unemploy- ment Councils. As the committee left the City Hall, the workers marched to Grant Park. Here Lockner called upon the workers to report on the job Monday and demand work. He NEW YORK.—The annual preen- ing of aristocratic society’s spring | feathers was rudely interrupted yes- terday by a demonstration of C. W. A. workers protesting against lay- offs. Above the sea of silky top hats nets of the women, which covered | 3 | the sidewalks, the startling placards | C@lled upon the workers to back up of the workers shot up. “When Do| the militant strike action of the We Eat?” “Easter Sunday—Layoff | Palos Park C.W.A. project at 74th Monday.” “Is This An April Fool | St. and Western Ave. These C.W.A. er | workers struck on the job Friday ee ee ee oe when they reported for their last Exe. op, | day’s work on C.W.A., demanding Se ee eee is | $18 minimum wages, union rates of e Asto! Vanderbilts, the Goulds had already passed. The shout went up: “Here | comes Al Smith!” “We demand the right to work. We refuse to starve!” The gay feathers were embar- rassed. They made haste to clear the sidewalks for the workers—who were marching for the right to live, not to show off their expensive finery. (Continued on Fese 2) 2) New Orleans Police Seize 14 in Raids On Workers’ Homes Karl Severing, German Socialist Leader, Proclaims Support Of German Fascism in Sensational Book “My Road to Hitler” “I Follow My Party Comrade, Loebe,” Former Socialist President of Reichstag Says; Boasts of Saving German Capitalism from the Revolution ® NEW YORK, March 31.—In a sensational book entitled “My Road to Hitler,” written un- der the direct patronage of the fascist Premier Goering, Karl Severing, former Socialist President of Prussia, and a leader of the German Social-Democratic Party, piblicly avows his support of fascism and Hitler, and boasts that without the Socialist Party of Ger- many fascism and Hitler could never lave risen to power in Ger- many. , ‘The book by the German Social- throughout Germany, according to the + publication of the book, an- iced weeks before by the Com- list press throughout the world, its the persistent denials of the Socialist Second International and man Socialist leader was going over to fascism. The early announcement several weeks ago of the Communist press that Severing’s book was ready for publication was branded by the So- cialist press as a “Communist slan- der.” Even the latest press release of the Transatlantic Information Service, a news service run under the auspices of the Socialist Party, for example, states that the an- nouncement of Severings renegacy “must be taken with a dose of salt.” The final official publication of Severing’s confession of fascist faith fully confirms the Communist press. “Always In Sympathy” In this book the German Social- ist leader not only reveals that the Socialist leaders of Germany were long in sympathy with the fascist aims to “unify” Germany, but boasts that the Socialist leaders were the leaders in crushing the Communist revolutions and the Bavarian Soviet other Socialist organs that the Ger- Hitler could never have risen to power. Severing in his book also con- news “from Nazi papers.” in 1€19-1920, actions without which | “Slander,” Cried S. P. Press As “Daily” Exposed Severing The Socialist Party press in this country, particularly the New Leader, dismissed the announcements of the Daily Worker regard- ing Loebe and Severing’s support of German Fascism as “slander.” On Feb. 27 the Daily Worker printed the announcement of Loebe’s open support of Hitler, and on March 20, printed the report of Severing’s new book espousing Fascism. The Socialist New Leader answered these announcements by denying their truth, charging the Communist press with taking Severing’s latest book, as announced by the New York Times Berlin correspondent, fully confirms the Daily Worker report and refutes the charges of the Socialist New Leader. firms the report printed in the Communist press of the world re- garding an interview with Paul Loebe, head of the Socialist frac- tion in the Reichstag, who is now @ supporter of Hitler and fascism. Anticipating whatever rebukes might result from his open avowal of Fascism, Severing hastens to make it clear that his becoming a Fascist “is no sudden going over” to Hitler, because, he says, “in the depths” of his soul he has “always had sympathy with Hit- lerism.” The report of the publication of Severing’s book from the Berlin correspondent of the New York Times states: “Herr Severing virtually pro- claims himself as a secret aly of National Socialism from the start ».. Taken at its face value this pamphlet would seem to reveal more than anything else yet pud- lished the real reason for Herr Hitler’s success.” Continuing his proof that than a year ago willing to support Hitler and Fascism, Severing states: } the} Socialist leaders were already more | Union and Unemployed Leaders Held Incommunicado Special to the Daily Worker | NEW ORLEANS, La.—In an ate |tempt to cripple the work of the | Unemployment Councils, the Relief | Workers’ Protective Association and |the Trade Union Unity League, po- lal here, in a wide terroristic cam- paign, arrested 14 active workers in their homes, All the workers, charged with spreading “Commu-— |nist propaganda,” are being held incommunicado. The police admitted that all the arrested workers were rounded up at their homes at the insistence of the Emergency Relief Admin- istration, and are being held for cism is not an isolated, individual “examination” by federal officials. Jact on his part, but the result of| ‘This move in the part of the po- this deliberate policy announced a | lico, an attempt to strangle the re- year before Hitler took power, Sev- | sentment of the workers against ering continues: | Roosevelt’s abandonment of the “My former Party comrade, |C.w.A, and the dooming of thou- Paul Loebe, has already acknowl- | sands to starvation, comes as the edged National Socislism. I now | workers in all parts of the country follow his example.” | demonstra ted for C.W.A. jobs, cash “As a German, I have remained | relief and Workers’ Unemployment faithful to myself and my poli- | tnsurance. cies, and in this manner I have | The international Labor Defense found my way to Hitler. jis conducting city-wide street mass On June 20, 1932, I submitted to | meetings, and urges all workers and force. Now, however, I fo! the | all working class organizations to voice of my German heart.” |deluge the Governor of Louisiana The notorious June 20 incident | and the Mayor and Chief of Police “As far back as 1932, I said at the Socialist Congress; if Na- tional Socialism (Fascism) proves de facto that it is in a position to develop fruitful activity, the So- cial Democratic Party will ac- knowledge this movement.” Follows Loebe Showing that his support of Fas- (Continued on Page 2) letters of protest. of New Orleans with telegrams and i