The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 5, 1934, Page 6

' Page Six DAILY W ORKER, NE YORK, THUR: Daily <QWorker | Minneapolis Workers Fight ANTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) | “America’s Only Working Class Daily FOUNDED 1924 Newspaper” PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-7954, Cable Ai k Press Building 706. Chicagc, © 30,000 Miners Avoid the} N.R.A. Trap LEARLY perceiving the N. R. A. arbitra- tion moves as a trap, 30,000 coal miners have walked out on strike in the West Vir- ginia fields. They are demanding a $5 a day wage and the seven-hour working day. This militant move of the miners, all of whom are members of the United Mine ers of America, is characteristic of the new age of struggle against the N.R.A. In an attempt to ad off this new develo; strike movement in the coal fields, General John- NR.A. app on mining id been ad- rike; for, they great things would tus generous out the sly sug- 1 9 the miners’ mil- he N.R.A, and that ful thereafter in the complished no doubt ght-of-hand. But the miners do not believe in magic; een all of General Johnson’s performa: ing of Mr. Roosevelt's New Deal Cir- bag of Ss, the miners have seen, hing but wage-cuts and other unpleas- and toil. the Frick “captive” atening auto strike an Federation ms on the revelation to gestion that on or about Jenium would be ushered in t all would be mines. well and y Thi. e mysterious act of they The operators r the matter, as it was last 2 They had 2 They know that weapon to win better the he U.M.W.A., who re- ion, that the best way to strike and not rely workers caught in the rap of the New Deal. ey carefully avoided it. 7 st now avoid being trapped by offi- heir union. Strong, democratically elected rank and file committees must be set up in each mine to lead the struggle. A broad rank and file committee must be formed. The miners through their militancy must spike all attempts of the leaders of the union to negotiate an agree- ment with the N.R.A. and the operators that will be unfavorable to the men working in the pits. The strikers should see to it that all negotia- tions with the operators shall remain firmly in the hands of the rank and file and that all deci- sions be referred back to the rank and file. Un- der no circumstances must the miners allow themselves to be tricked into calling off the strike in the hope of getting a favorable decision from the N.R.A. Labor Board. This struggle should be spread to the Illinois and Oklahoma fields, where the mine-owners have locked out thousands of miners while awaiting the N.R.A. decision. This lock-out should be turned into a strike and demonstration against the wage cutting, Strikebreaking policies of Roosevelt's so-called Na- tional Recovery Administration, HE news 8,000 ne: hat has just come from Minneapolis d C.W.A. workers broke through the g the City Hall and swarmed the Welfare Board, demanding nce that to fight back against the r decree of the Rooseve! t inks that he can that governme e out the C.W.A. is of jobless workers to bel g of the workers. But the thousands of workers in Minneapolis who courageously defied the clubs of the police in their fight for bread for their families gives unmistakeable indication that the workers are everywhere beginning to see through the brutal capitalist realities that lie behind the rainbow promises of the sweet-worded Rooseyelt. ese workers should blaze the way lar actions all over the coun- Already in many localities, in Penns; n in New York, C.W.A. workers have united other jobless workers in militant demonstra- demanding work and relief for themselves and Organized, militant mass action— this is the only language that the Hunger Masters, now carrying out Roosevelt's order to abolish the C.W.A., will listen to and understand. Before all Relief Bureaus, all Welfare agencies, all C.W.A. offices, the C.W.A. workers united with all unemployed must demonstrate for the continu- ation of the C.W.A. jobs, against the fraud of the forced labor “Work Relief” projects, and for union wages on all government work jobs. In all localities the Unemployed Councils, the Communist units and Communists in the mass or- ganizations must react at once and organize the jobless and C.W.A. workers for determined resistance against the Roosevelt hunger decrees. Fight the Roosevelt Hunger Program! Fight for Bread, for-adequate relief, for union wages! Fight against the coolie standards of “Work Relief” projects! Fight for Unemployment Insurance! try Ohio, the ‘Mayor LaGuardia Knifes the City Employees AYOR LaGuardia’s much-touted Economy Bill, after four defeats in the state legislature, finally was on the verge of successful passage last night. To anyone who has followed the fortunes of the LaGuardia measure, one thing will be immediately and unmistakably apparent: It is a measure aimed solely against the masses of New York City’s employees. It plans to lower even more drastically the living stand- ards of the city workers, whose wages have been cut again and again by the Fusion administration and the Tammany gang which preceded it. The outstanding purpose of the bill is to put over new wage-cuts, under the fancy name of “en- forced furloughs” on the workers of the city whose wages are in the lowest salaried group. Particularly the oft-victimized school teachers will suffer when LaGuardia’s bill goes into effect. By now the purpose of the squabbling which held up the passage of the bill should be clear to all. It was never, as the “progressive” journals and newspapers tried to fool their readers into thinking, the pure and noble Knight LaGuardia go- ing forth to battle the corrupt Tammany Dragon. From the very beginning, the whole fight was be- tween two corrupt gangs of boss politicians, united in their plans to victimize the working class, but fighting like curs over pickings to divide the enor- mous graft which is part and parcel of the Ssys- tem of county offices in New York. The Daily Worker alone exposed the character of the Tam- many opposition to this bill before; and now, on the eve of its passage, it does so again. The Tammany gang in Albany was determined from the very start to hold on to the county of- fices, one of its greatest sources of Political power and financial graft, which Mayor LaGuardia planned to take from them in order (1) to insure a less- expensive city government for his Wall Street banker-masters, and (2) to transfer this graft and political dominance to himself and his own cohorts. Now, after a series of slick, underhand and secret conclaves, in which LaGuardia, Governor Lehman and many of the Tammany boss Politicians took part, the differences have been settled, the corrupt | spoils have been divided. LaGuardia's noble crusade for the Economy Bill now stands revealed for what it is—a vicious slash | at the living standards and wages of New York City’s civil service employees in order to protect the moneybags of the Rockefeller-Morgan banks, Rally Against War in Eve AY, APRIL 5, 1934 | Incites War | on Workers Carries Out Gigantic Campaign of Proyo- cation of the rapid growth of the Com- st Party and the anti-fascist ront in France, and to prepare the for. armed attacks by fascist bands and for an attempt to sup- press the Communist Party and the revolutionary trade unions, is being carried out by the French press, un- der the directions of Andre Tardieu and other members of the Doumer- gue cabinet. paign st way This campaign coincides with the rising wave of protests agai cabinet’s program to take billion franc deficit directly cut of the pockets of the civil service work - ers, veterans and unemployed. State Slashes Wages The cabinet today approved ‘the first "economy” decree, which re- tires 65,000 civil service workers, and cuts all wages of state employees 5 to 10 per cent. The decree was | signed by President Lebrun. Kerillis, a leading fascist, wr in the newspaper “L’Echo de Paris’ “The new police prefect comes just in time. In the past six weeks the Red forces have made tremen- dous advances. The time has come to smash them.” Desire Ferry, editor of Tardieu’s newspaper, “La Liberte,” spread a story that a shipment of 14,000 rifles has been received by Communists in Paris. Although the other capi- talist papers join in the feverish denunciations of the Communists, no other paper mentions the 14.000 rifles, for the simple fact that, as “L'Humanite,” Communist daily, shows, these arms actually have been imported by fascist groups financed by big financiers and in- dustrialists, for a forthcoming ai- tempt at a fascist coup. | Porto Rican Lepers Demonstrate; Say They Are Starved | SAN JUAN, P. R., April 4—De- jclaring that they were starved and denied proper medical care, ten lepers who escaped from the leper colony at Trujillo Alto, staged a demonstration in Baldorioty Plaza, in the center of this city. | ‘They handed to newspapermen an j2ppeal addressed to the legislature, | demanding increased appropriations and better care. They said they had complained many times without re- sult. Police arrested the ten and shipped them back to the colony. Coering’s Modesty— 4 “National Problem” ESSEN, Germany.—The over- whelming modesty of Prussian Prime Minister Goering is be- coming a formidable Nazi prob- lem, In last week's edition of the National Zeitung, the Prime Minister's personal organ, there appear only 21 photographs of the Nazi “violet.” They are de- voted to front views, back views, side views, top views, and views from some eight or ten angles. All were taken at the opening of a new aerodrome, PARIS, April 4—A gigantic cam- | provocation, designed to | by Burck Mass Organiza tions, Trade Unions Lag in “Daily” Drive NEW YORK.—With the exception; of the Finnish Federation and scat- tered members of other foreign lan- guage groups, militant organizations of foreign-born workers are showing up badly on the whole in the drive to gain more subscribers for the Daily Worker. The same holds true of revolu- tionary trade unions and various mass organizations. In Boston, for example, where a Daily Worker conference was held recently, only 9 mass organizations were represented out of 50 such or- ganizations, including clubs and I. L. D. branches. There were no delegates ,from the Shoe, Marine, Furniture, Needle Trades and Dye House unions. “The absence of delegates from most of the clubs, mass organiza- tions and unions is no accident,” Boston writes. “In many cases, comrades holding responsible posi- tions in these organizations show by their inaction that they lack a political understanding of the role the Daily Worker plays in the lives of the workers as the crisis deepens.” At this same conference a worker who is not a member of any organi- zation but who read the announce- ment of the conference in the “Daily” came to the conference and asked permission to attend. After the conference he pledged to order a special bundle of the May edition. The delegate from the Scandina- vian Workers Club brought in new subs and also a donation of $5 for the new press. But it is significant that the Daily Worker is not sold at a single workers’ club headquarters, including that of the John Reed Club, during the numerous meetings they hold. True Elsewhere The situation in Boston fs not on OK, SaysWesternUnion Head at Hearing Messenger Boys Give Facts on Low Wages By C. LANDS ‘The Communiations Code hearing opened Monday in Washington, with @ provocative speech by the deputy administrator of public utilities, aimed directly at the delegation of messengers which represented the Telegraph Messengers Union, of 114 W. 14th St., New York City. In his attempt to squelch these young boys from speaking, he insisted that order must be maintained The first speaker, Roy B. White, president of the Western Union, ad- mitted that his company controlled three-quarters of the land lines. Yet in the face of this statement he asserted that the W. U. had no monopoly but only engaged in active competition. In speaking of the company union (Association of Western Union Employees) he dared to maintain that the representatives were of the employees own choosing and that they have solved all dis- agreements to the satisfaction of the employees. The fact that the offi- cials of Local 77, of the AW.UE. did not even bring up the resolution for the return of the last 10 per cent wage cut, a resolution which had been unanimously passed by the membership at the last meeting, gives the lie to this statement. Mr. White admitted that the in- crease in pay which will start April 9th is due to the demands of the workers themselves and not to the efforts of the A.W.U.E. officials. Mr. White concluded with another bouquet to his company union, say- ing that he is loath to break the telationship between the A.W.U.E, | whether messengers were represent- jed in the A.W.U.E, White was forced to admit that they were not. Howard L. Kern of the Postal Telegraph Co. pleaded poverty for the company as the reason for the low wages paid its employees, al- though the finances for the Postal Land and Cables show a gain of | $90,000 in 1932 and $750,000 in 1933. Kern claimed that the Postal Co. has lived up to the reemployment act by hiring new employees. Yet it is a known fact that 28 extra employees were fired not long ago and that old employees are con- stantly being fired to be replaced by new workers at lower wages. The messengers’ delegation then obtained the floor as a result of their insistence. Abe Dubroff, presi- dent of the Telegraph Messengers Union, exposed the horrible condi- tions facing the thousands of mes- Sengers. The beggarly pittance of $7 or $8 per week that the messen- gers, earn, the question of <<dle time” and no minimum wage, the bicycles that the boys must buy and pay for themselves, no vaca- tions for messengers under 21, when the majority of boys are under that age, and other grievances were brought to light; also the policy of the Western Union in firing mes- sengers for organizational activity, as in Dubroff’s own case, Dave Newman, a messenger of the Western Union. then gave specific instances of vicious practices exerted on the messengers, and he was fol- lowed by Bruno Kivyta, of the Postal Telegraph, who spoke eloquently of the porter work that messengers were forced to do when porters were fired and of the clerical work that they were forced to do because of the shortage of clerks. That this delegation of young messengers startled the entire code hearing is evidenced by the reports in the New York press and by the sudden interest of Miss Grace Abbott of the Children’s Bureau The Telegraph Messengers Union is prepared to continue its excellent organizational work among the mes- sengers and to rally them to the fight for the betterment of their ‘Qnd the employees. When asked J 1 { conditions. Sociaia (Continued from Page 1) by the treacheries that led the German and Austrian working class into the trap of Hitler and Dollfuss, Cie eee {Weer then did the Communist | i Volks Zeitung print? After an-| nouncing the news of Severing’s! book that had already appeared in two other European papers, and which had been broadcast on the German radios by Goebbels, it re- | printed from some of Severing’s| earlier speeches and _ writings, | many of his utterances which, | now in the light of recent. events, | showed how clearly Severing had all along been travelling the road to Fascism, | It did not print this as an ar- ticle of Severing! It very plainly and clearly printed the fact that this article was a collection of Severing’s actual statements col- lected by the editors of the Volks- Zeitung as examples of what expect from the announced book by Severing. Never was it hidden that these quotations were taken from previous books and speeches of Severing, In the plajnest black and white on the leading editorial page of the issue (and it is interesting that the editors of the Forward deliberately lie about the size of the type, telling their readers that the type of this notice was smaller than the rest of the paper, when it is exactly as Prominent as the Severing story it- self) makes it clear that the state- ments of Severing are taken from his earlier books and speeches, What the editorial in the Volks- Zeitung says is as clear as day: Re- ferring to the Severing “article” it States editorially: “Severing in the Deutsche Volks- Zeitung? The alleged abstract from Karl Severing’s new book appearing in this issue was origi- nated in our office. With the ex- ception of the introduction, the conclusion and some unimportant ! additions in the text, the article —+> exceptional. At a time when the Daily Worker must be spread more broadly than ever before in order to win over the workers whose discon- tent with capitalism grows, num-! erous organizations and their mem- bers pay lip-service to the “Daily,” but do not get into action to reach their fellow workers with our only American working-class daily news- paper. A real revolutionary example is set by P. S. a Greek worker in Fairmount, W. Va., who, although | along. “I wish that other Greek work- ers and all foreign-born workers should put up their energies and efforts ten-fold to get new subs for the Daily Worker,” he writes. The Cafeteria Workers Union in New York, affiliated with the Food Workers Industrial Union, is doing good work to increase the sales of the “Daily.” Experience shows that where effort is made to reach the workers with the “Daily,” it is wel- comed by them. How about other unions, other foreign-born workers, I. L. D. branches, I. W. O. branches, work- ers’ clubs! What are you doing to get new subscribers for the Daily Worker? Let’s hear from you! Help put the sub drive over the top! Nazis Operating in Buenos Aires, Charges Argentine Newspaper BUENOS AIRES, April 4—Four- teen teachers, lately from Germany and garbed in brown shirts, have instructing pupils in Nazism at the private German Hin- suburb oi according to the newspaper Noticias, who have made been found Genburg-Schule Buenos Aires, in a this charge. “We'll Be Back,” Says Red Banner on Vienna Block VIENNA, March 23 (By Mail). —A few days ago a great red banner was hung from an al- most inaccessible tower of the bombarded Schlingerhof, one of the great working-class co-oper- ative tenements of Vienna, with the inscription: “We shall come back again!” Protest Cancels ne cos not spink Eneish ver we Harvard Invitation to High Nazi Chief 'Hanfstaengl, Hitler’s Close Friend, Has to - Give Up Plan — BOSTON, April 4—A storm of protests has caused the cancelling of the proposed visit of Ernst F. Hanfstaengl, high Nazi official and intimate friend of Adolf Hitler, who had been invited to be an aide of the grand marshal of the com- mencement exercises at Harvard University this June. Professor Elliott C. Cutler, grand marshal, who had invited the Nazi, announced that he would not come after all, although last week Hanf- staengl announced that he had ac- cepted the invitation and would surely be there, bringing with him his “Horst Wessel.” NEW MONSTER BAFFLING PORT SAID, April 4—A fifteen- ton monster, washed up on the Romani Beach on the Mediteranean, puzzled scientists today. Fishermen found the sea-monster partially buried in the sand. It measured more than 15 yards and had a yawning mouth more than three yards wide, list Eliaurs Spin Fantasti c “Forgery” Tale CONSISTS ENTIRELY OF DI- RECT CITATIONS FROM SEV- ERING’S BOOK ‘IM WETTER UND WATTERWINKEL,? THE VORWAERTS, AND THE MIN- See ANFRAGEN AN Pa es. The front cove r of the German magazine UTES OF THE PRUSSIAN LANDTAG SESSIONS,” [Capitals ours—D. W.] Thus the Communist editors of the Volks-Zeitung made no pre- ‘Aufruf,” printed in Prague, on March 15, carrying a leading article by George Bernhard, famous all over Europe as the former editor of the conservative “Vossische Zeitung,” in which Bernhard describes the “shame” of the reported book by Karl Severing, Socialist leader, on the Nazis. Since this article was written many days before the article in the Communist Volks-Zeitung, it proves how utterly false is the charge of the Forward that the Volks-Zeitung is the “forged scource” of the Severing story. tensions that they were printing an article by Severing himself. They were printing earlier citations from Severing showing how closely he had always been moving to the political position of Fascism! They were printing these cita- tions to show how his present failure to fight the Nazis is noth- ing but a direct, logical, inevitable consequence of his entire political career. And this is made as clear as the sun in the editorial note. It is part of the clumsy atttempt of the Forward editors that they are forced to print this note in their paper’s “expose.” i They must print this (though deliberately reduced in size to give the impression that the Communist editors of the Volks-Zeitung had also printed it in this small type) because only in this way can they even maintain the slightest pre- tension of an “expose.” But this very notice makes them look ridicu- lous. And they know it. And that is why they very lamely and stupidly invent the insane the- ory that the Communist editors printed this note oniy to evade the libel laws of the Saarbruecken au- thorities! This is all that is finally left of the old wives fantasy so shrick- ingiy proclaimed by the not-too scrupulous editors of the Jewish Socialist Forward! But this is not tHe end of the question, The Socialist editors feel that they are defending a criminal of whose innocence they cannot be so sure! So in today’s Forward they are already sounding an advance alibi for Severing in the event that their elaborate structure of “Communist forgeries” really turns out to be the truth! After all the windy indig- nation at the very idea of Severing supporting the Nazis, they begin to apologize for him in advance: «Let us assume for a moment that this thing is true that Sever- ing actually wrote this book that the Communists talk about, Sev- ering today finds himself in the hands of the Nazis. He is one of the thousands of Socialist and Communist victims here. Nobody knows how much they torture him. The whole world knows what the meaning of the third degree is. World history shows that with the third degree it is often possible to break down the strongest per- sonality and force one to reveal the most sacred secrets, to confess the crimes that one never had any intention of committing. For this reason there are rules of conduct among all civilized people that when one confesses under duress, that then he is not subject to conviction.” %: So the shyster lawyer is already getting ready for the verdict of guilty! Heé is anticipating the con- fession of his “innocent” client! The shyster screams “innocent” to the jury, but he secretly feels the oppo- site, and he is worried. He already is pleading extenuating circum- stances. He is already making ex- cuses! “Who knows how they are tor- turing him?” weeps the Forward. What a grotesque picture of the Socialist leader who is now living comfortably and well in his rich villa, his Summer home at Bielefeld! What does this faithful lackey of the bourgeoisie know of torture? Thaelmann is whipped in the Nazi dungeons. Torgler is tortured in the isolation of his dark prison cell. But out of them not one single word can the Nazi beasts get for their satisfaction! But Severing, the Socialist Min- ister, is now collecting a pension from the Hitler government, money “filthy with the blood of the Ger- man working class! We dare the Socialist editors of the Forward to deny it! We dare them to print this in their paper! We dare them to print the fact that Noske, too, and Loebe, too, all Socialist lead- ers, ate at this very moment living on the fascist Judas silver that is handed out by them by the ry City on April 6! lPrench Press , THE RIGHT WEAPON WITH WHICH TO STOP HIM! ‘Meetings Are Organized in Many Centers; Demonstration, Meet Called in Industrial Cities | | (See page 1 for news of New | York anti-war meeting, April 6.) CHICAGO. — Two demon- strations and ten meetingp under the auspices of the Ch |cago branch of the Americaz | League Against War and Fas- }eism, to which n | ganizations are affi ; Friday, April 6, the 17th anniver- sary of America’s entry into the World War. A demonstration will be held at 11 am, on the campus of the Uni- versity of Chicago, with banners and placards carrying slogans against war. This demonstration is called by the newly formed Stu- dents’ Anti-Wer Association, and is supported by the Youth Section of the American League Against War ! and Fascism. Another demonstration, at 3:30 p.m., will be held in front of the Cribbin and Sexton factory, Sac- ramento and Chicago Aves., where war munitions are to be manufac- tured, Among the other meetings called for that evening at 8 p.m. are the following: Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd., speaker Dave Brown, with Bartel of S. P. chairman; Albany Park Workers’ Center, 4825 N, Kedzie, speaker A. Guss; Norths west Side Workers’ Center, 3911 W, Chicago; speaker Tom McKenna; Unemployed Council 3069 Armitage Ave.; Workers’ Center, 4112 Ar- mitage Ave. speaker McDonald; in Ave. and 1326 E. 55th Hall. Eee ieee Force Permit for Boston Meet. BOSTON.—A protest against the war plans of the Roosevelt govern- ment will be demonstrated by the workers of Boston at the Parkman Bandstand (Boston Common) on April 6 at 5:30 p.m. sear New Haven Rally and Demon- stration | NEW HAVEN, Conn—A mass |meeting against war will be held April 6 at 8 p.m., in Center Church Parish House, 211 Temple St., near the Green, under the auspices of the New Haven League Against War and Fascism. James Menden- hall, of Lincoln School, Columbia University, will be the main speaker, | along with other speakers from New | Haven. | On April 13, the League will hold an outdoor demonstration in Cen~ tral Green. At this demonstration, in addition to speakers, there will be given an anti-war play by the John Reed Club of New Haven, . 8 * Youngstown Rally YOUNGSTOWN, O.—A mass rally against war has been called by the Young Communist League of Youngstown for April 6, 7:30 p.m,, in Central Auditorium, 225 W: Boardman St. Many workers and their organizations in this steel town: have signified their intention o: taking part in this protest against war preparations and the jingo glorification of war which is cele- brated that day by the bosses, their press and all their agents, Be ie Union City Meet UNION CITY, N. J.—Young work< ers and students, Negro and white, have been called to an anti-war rally Thursday, April 5, at 8 pm, in the Workers Center, 504 44th St, Frank Carlson, New Jersey district organizer of the Young Communist League, which issued the call for the meeting, will be the chief speaker, Entertainment and danc- ing will follow. Send us names of those you know who are not readers of the Daily Worker but who would be interested in reading it. Address: Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St, SS understanding fascist Goebbels as pensions! Deny it if you dare! This is your “innocent” client, “tortured” by the Nazis, gentle- men of the Forward! Thousands of Socialist workers feel the lash of the whip, the hoi iron of torture, the hunger and misery of the concentration camps, But they do not keep silent about their hated class enemy. They do /not live in villas protected by the fascist officials so that they may write a book of memoirs! They are fighting the fascist monster in the face of death and torture! The working class of Germany, Communist and Socialist workers alike, is meeting courage the fascist monster. It does Tt does not issue polite statement in which not one word is said’ ageinst fescism. The editors of the Forward, the Abraham Cahans, can: continue to invent their kindergarten bugaboos, their frenzied lies, their old wives | fairy tales about forgeries.” ‘The |damning truth about the Socialist leaders cannot be so easily washed away. The fascist bloody terrorism in Germany and Austria are the monuments of their political treach. eries. No hysterical screaming about mythical forgeries can hide that. It is the Socialist editors whose hands are dirty with trickery, delibe erate and cunning. But the facts are too much for them. They cane not escape tifat. They stand too naked as tricksters and political charlatans unwilling to meet the real issues, unwilling to face the terrible results of their betrayals, , Try another “forgery,” caught this time’ with deathless , ——