The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 6, 1934, Page 1

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CONVENTION 5,000 In Anti-War Meeting Tonight To Reply to U.S. Jingo Drive Youth Demonstration, Madison Square, Noon Today MANY LOCAL MEETS Ex-Servicemen March To Arena Tonight NEW YORK. — A ringing challenge to the war-makers will resound in St. Nicholas Arena, 69 West 66th St., to- night, as workers, students, and professionals rally on this, the 17th anniversary of America’s entry into the world war to pledge a mil- itant fight against imperialist war. This mass meeting, climax of a series of anti-war meetings through- out the city under the auspices of | the American League Against War and Fascism, will mobilize many thousands of workers in the struggle against war, and against the jingo glorification of war in the official * celebrations of Army Day. The meeting will begin sharp at | ‘7:30 p; m. Dr. Harry FY Ward; na- tional chairman of the League, and representatives of many trade unions and mass organizations opposed to war will speak. The meeting will be preceded by other anti-war demonstrations and marches during the day. Youth Parade Today A mass rally was held at Browns- ville corner Hopkins and Pitkin Avenues on Thusday night at 8 p.m. The youth section of the Amer- ican League Against War and Fas- cism will hold an anti-war parade starting at the Eternal Light in Madison Square, where a wreath will be lead. The wreath will bear the pledge recently made at anti- war conferences in all the colleges of New York: “We Will Not Sup- port the Government In Any War Tt May Undertake.” After several dedication talks the group will march on to Columbus Circle, stop- ping on the way for short meetings in front of Morgan residence on 28th Street and at the National Civic Federation, which has been carrying on a campaign against the student anti-war movement. There will be another large dem- onstration. at Columbus Circle. The demonstration called by the Youth Section, American League (Continued on Page 2} State Assembly Passes LaGuardia’s Wage Cut Bill By 120 to 23 Votes ALBANY, N. ¥., April 5.—The amended LaGuardia Economy (wage-cutting) Bill was passed to- day in the State Assembly by a vote of 120 to 23. The Bill, which leaves intact the grafting and powerful county offices which the Tammany gang controls, will result in wage cuts and enforced fur- lJoughs for New York city employes. The bill is expected to pass in the State Senate within a few days. Phil Raymond, leader of mili- tant auto workers, arrested, as 5,000 men go out on new strike, defying N. R. A.-A. F. of L. pact. USSR Renews Peace Pact In ‘Baltic Sector | stranglehold of the A. F. of L. offi-| Prayda Haile Extension of Non-Aggression Pact As New Peace Victory (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, April 5. (By Radio) — A protocol prolonging for ten years the terms of the non-aggression pacts between the U. S. S. R. and Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania was signed at Moscow yesterday. As is already well known, the offer for the prolongation of the pacts, made by the Soviet Government two weeks ago, encountered full ap- proval and support in the Baltic states, The Moscow protocol was drawn up and signed in a short period of time unprecedented in the history of diplomatic relations. “Pravda,” central organ of the Central Committee of the C. P. 8. U. commenting on the signing of the protocol, says: Victory for Soviet Peace Policy “The prolongation of the pacts by these three Baltic states is a new link in the chain of the victories for the peace policy of the U. S. S. R. The enemies of the U. S. S. R. have often attempted to speculate on the idea that her peaceableness was due to the weaknesses of the country of the proletarian dictatorship and the weakness of her powers of defense. Now even the most blunt-minded enemy of the U. S. S. R. can hardly. dare to assert that the peace policy of the U.S. S. R. is a sign of weak- ness. The Soviet Union has vic- | (Continued on Page 2) Detroit ng Jail Raymond, Auto Strikes Hit Rubber, Radio Seclicn 7A Good Enough Steel Barons Testify | Walk Out on News of Wage Cut |Rising Struggles Thru Country Give Lie to Perkins BULLETIN WASHINGTON, April 5.—Ed- ward F. McGrady, notorious for his strikebreaking activities in the fur industry and in the strike of the Pennsylvania miners last Fall, and a member of Roosevelt's N. R. A. Labor Board, was sent to Detroit by General Johnson today to squelch the growing strike movement among the automobile workers. Detroit A. F. of L. leaders have complained to Johnson that the mediation board set up by Pres- ident Roosevelt and headed by Leo G. Wolman is functioning too slowly to halt the growing strike | sentiment of the workers, and that they fear another general strike. ee aes | (Special to the Daily Worker) | DETROIT, April 5.—In an at- | | tempt by the Motor Products Plant and the police to smash the strike of workers, which broke out this morning in revolt against the A. F. of L. officials’ strangle- hold, Phil Raymond, national sec- retary of the Auto Workers’ Union, and David Jones, vice- president of the local union, were arrested today with charges of inciting to riot. . * * DETROIT, April 5.—Breaking the cials, the entire Motor Products | plant struck this morning, demand- ing restoration of wage cuts and a 20 per cent increase in wages. The strike started yesterday among the afternoon shift of the the workers another cut. The 11 p.m. and morning shifts in the same department walked out following this action. In addition, this morn- ing, buffers and polishers also re— ¢e Motor Products Men) BOO COLLINS, A.F.L.| chrome plating department, when, | instead of a raise, the company gave | fused to start work, and other de- | partments are ready to strike de-| spite the company's’ efforts to demoralize the ranks by locking out the rest of the workers at 9 am. Over 5,000 men and women have been working at this plant with the majority organized in A. F. of L. locals. Picket lines have been estab- lished at both gates and the strikers are determined to win. The strike is a culmination of re- yolt against the sellout policy of the A. F. of L, leaders, William Collins and Hugh Thompson, who have hamstrung the Motor Products workers for weeks while maneuver- (Continued on Page 2) Start Forced Labor in 22 Illinois Counties as CWA Program Ends CHICAGO, Ill, April 5—Unem- ployed workers in Southern Illinois will be given forced labor in ex- change for food orders, Secretary W. S. Reynolds of the Illinois Emer- gency Relief Commission recently indicated. With only 80 of the 102 Illinois Counties “eligible” in the Leader; Strike Wave Extent Shown By Tabulation Rejection of Sell-Out Proposals of N. R. A. Marks Struggles BULLETIN (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, April 5.—Five thou- sand tool and die makers in 60 jobbing shops will strike Monday unless their demand for a 20 per cent wage increase and a 36-hour five-day week is granted, accord- ing to announcement of the Me- chanics Educational Society of America, the independent union of tool and die makers. Workers are scheduled to meet at the Deutsches Haus, Saturday, for a strike vote. eae att The following partial tabulation of. strikes now going on or being pre- pared will give some idea of the ‘trike wave which Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor, dismisses with the cool statement that “there is no strike wave”: Detroit—5,000 Motor Products workers shatter N. R. A. pact. Chicago—2,000 out at Dryden Rubber Co. Haverhill—5,000 shoe workers in 42 shops out, fighting the N.R.A. arbitration clause. Camden — 5,600 out in three plants. Strike looms at Victor Co. Fairmont, W. Va.—35,000 miners on strike in West Virginia, against N.R.A. trickery, Buffalo—2,000 out in two air- plane plants. N.R.A. mediation re- jected Philadelphia — Strike at S.K.F. ballbearing plant. General knit goods strike now on. Both reject arbitration plan. Keystone Slipper Co. strike voted. Lakeland, Fla.—Citrus workers on strike in Polk County, with state-wide strike being prepared. Hayward, Cal.—4,000 pea pickers in Alameda County preparing strike. Rocky Hill, Conn.—400 strike at Belamose rayon plant. Cleveland, O.— Addressograph- Multigraph strike spreading. Johnstown, N. Y.— Leather workers win strike. Milwaukee, N. Y¥.—1,400 Sea- man Body Corp. workers on strike. New York. — Floor covering workers, and workers in the pipe- making industry, are among those on strike, new State “work relief program, Wilbur said that the jobless in the remaining 22 “ineligible” cohnties may work in exchange for food and other necessities, but not for cash wages, Are you doing your share in the Daily Worker sub drive? Every reader getting only one new sub- seriber will put the drive over the top! Workers Resist CW.A. Wage Cuts and cy New York Conference |at 1p. m, at Stuyvesant Casino, Reconvenes on April 8 NEW YORK.— Unusual precau- tions are being taken on all projects against a mobilization of the work- ers to resist C. W. A. firings, it was stated yesterday by the Relief Workers League. Notably on the Brooklyn C. W. A. projects, which the city is continuing as “work relief” with a reduced working staff and at lower rates of pay, police and radio squad cars are kept con- stantly on the projects. ‘When the workers_are fired, they are led to the offices in small groups under heavy guard. Fences and what almost amount to barricades have been built around some of the project offices. To resist the firings, the Commit- tee of One Hundred, which is re- covering the Greater New York United Front Conference on ©. W.| tuality of being forced to arrest all! ~ i A. and Unemployment, on April 8th 142 Second Ave., urges the imme- diate formation of protest actions of the employed and unemployed, Picketing of the jobs and the Wel- fare Board offices at 50 Lafayette St. and mass delegations to de- mand the immediate re-instatement of laid-off workers, Demand Cash Relief Pressure must be brought to bear upon the Home Relief Bureaus to demand that fired C. W. A. workers be granted immediate cash relief, equal at least to C. W. A. wages. Picketing of Commissioner of Wel- fare Hodson’s offices was resumed yesterday by fired workers. On Wednesday, 13 of the pickets were arrested as they formed their lines. Immediately, to the amazement of LaGuardia’s police, other workers took the places of their arrested comrades and the mass picketing was resumed. Faced with the even-! { was forced to state that “he did the pickets, Commissioner rl To Form Mass Picket Line on Saturday at Welfare Department NEW YORK.—The Committee of One Hundred yesterday issued a call to all unemployed, fired C.W.A. workers and workers on work relief projects to form a mass picket line around the of- fices of the Welfare Department offices at 50 Lafayette St., Satur- day at 9 a.m., when a workers’ committee will meet with Com- missioner of Welfare, William Hodson, to demand immediate reinstatement of all fired C.W.A. workers, cash relief equal at least to C.W.A. workers for the unem- ployed, and the rescinding of the LaGuardia wage cuts. e e Firings Philadelphia Wo rkers To Demonstrate April 7 not approve peaceful picketing.” The pickets carrying placards reading, “We Want Work, Not ‘Relief Works.’ We Protest Whole- sale Lay-offs.” are determined to: continue picketing until all fired C. W. A. workers are reinstated. Mass picket lines are being formed at 29 E. 20th St., the headquarters of the Relief Workers League and the Unemployment Councils, to Picket the Welfare Department and the projects. League Offices Open All local offices of the Relief Workers League are now open day and night. Delegations are being formed to visit the Home Relief Bureaus and demand that all fired C. W. A. workers be given imme- (Continued on Page 2) pA ; Weirton and other steel concerns, Tell Senate Committee) NRA Can Be Enforced Without Wagner Bill By SEYMOUR WALDMAN (Dally Worker Washington Burcau) WASHINGTON, April 5.—Ameri- ca’s steel moguls, their lawyers, bodyguards, publicity men, com-| pany union men and factotums of | various sorts, packed the big Sen- ate caucus room today to listen to) their half dozen spokesmen attack the compulsory arbitration Wagner disputes bill before the Senate sub- committee on labor and education. Their arguments for their own company unions ranged from the charge that the Wagner bill, which is also a strike-breaking measure, is unconstitutional, arbitrary and par- tial to the American Federation of Labor officialdom. to the solemnly uttered warning that the bill is a| threat to the golden rule, “the pre- cept given us by the Carpenter of Nazareth.” Senator Wagner's absence from today’s session surprised many spec- tators, who had expected him to question the representatives of the} corporate interests which have | waged such an intensive attack on his bill. Senator Walsh, Democrat | of Massachusetts, chairman of. the committee and shareholder in the | Republic Steel Corporation, aided | Senator Davis of Pennsylvania in not annoying or pressing the Steel Corporation men with relevant questions. In fact, they didn’t even | ask one question of E. T. Weir, the head of the Weirton National Steel | Corp., holding company for the} who is supposed to have violated | Section 7-A of the NIRA. Arthur H. Young, the $75,000-a- | year vice-president in charge of the industrial relations department of | the United States Steel Corp., the! feudalistic and most powerful of | American ‘Finance Capital's indus- | trial giants, significantly declared that his “arguments” for the com- pany union “are reinforced by the logic and the directness of the re- cent statement by the President of (Continued on Page a) Wealthy Handful Own Country, US. Senator Admits. Warns That Masses. May “Pull Down the Temple” (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, April 5.—“I'm thoroughly tired of seeing Ameri- cans starve in the midst of plenty,” Senator Homer T. Bone, Democrat, of Washington declared yesterday, during the debate on the tax bill. “If the American people have the nerve of rabbits it won't go on. ‘The American people are becoming dis- | illusioned about party (Democrat | and Republican) Promises,” he added. “We must stand face to face with the fact that a handful of men own America. We ought to pay our national debt by tapping this reser- voir of wealth. Some day the dis-| Possessed classes will pull down the temple around our ears. I don't want to see that day,’ Bone con- cluded passionately, Senator William Borah, Republi- can “Progressive” from Idaho, an- nonced that he did not “desire to use the taxing power for the re- distribution of wealth.” «ft doubt whether it will be effective. The person who has a million dollars ought to be willing to meet the obligation this proposed tax bill Places upon him,” Borah interjected mildly. The Senate today adopted the Harrison amendment to the pending tax bill. It subjects a million dollar income to a tax of $593,240 and Provides for a tax of 59 per cent on everything above that, ———_____.. WISCONSIN VOTES PENSION AGE REDUCTION MILWAUKEE, April 5—As Indi- cated by returns of Tuesday's state-wide referendum, Wisconsin Auto Strike Shatter Roosevelt-A. F. of L. Pact > First-Hand Reports From | Shops Show Growth of Communist Influence Convention Roars Ovation At Greetings from Foster Marine Wesken Tell How They Smashed Race Chauvinism | By CARL REEVE (Special to the After reading the telegram, Ea: reply to Foster as follows: “We declare our great regret Foster's telegram reads: Socialist Party, Muste or other mi of the Communist International of poverty, oppression, mass sla building Socialism. The present Negroes and youth, the struggle unionism, pauperization, Fascism, of the Soviet Union. Our Conve: By HARRY GANNES CLEVELAND, Prospect Auditorium, April 5—A tremendous, pro- Ionged ovation greeted a telegram from William Z. Foster to the Eighth National Communist Party Convention today. munist Party, proposed and the convention adopted the Proposal to vention the fact that Comrade Foster is absent, and our greatest joy in the fact that he will soon be back with us again.” Revolutionary greetings to the 8th Convention of the Com- munist Party. Congratulations on the Party growth and successes. The world capitalist system is cracking. Nor can Roosevelt's New Deal, Hitler Fascism, or imperialist. war, aided by A. F. of L., at the hands of the awakening world’s toilers under the leadership Soviet Union blazes the way for the International proletariat which will follow it, freeing themselves from the capitalist jungle portunity for the party to mobilize militant workers, poor farmers, | CLEVELAND, April 5.— The call of the Communist |Party to intensify the strug- | gle for Negro liberation from the yoke of national oppres- sion was sounded by Harry Haywood, Communist Negro leader, at the Eighth Conven- tion now in session here. As the dis Daily Worker) rl Browder, Secretary of the Com- at the weakest point of our con- ussion continued in this morning’s and last night’s ses- sions of the Eighth Communist P: Convention, a cross section of the work of the entire Party in leading struggles, was unrolled—in the important factories, basic in- isleaders save it from destruction dustries, the struggle led by the Party in the fight against war and . The brilliant successes of the fascism, for the rights of the Ne- gro workers, and the building of the Party in the course of these struggles, ughter, and will take power for , | The enthusiasm of the delegates situation is an unparalleled op- continued at the highest point, Every speaker, most of them shop | workers, was heard with the most | alert attention. The shortcomings of all phases of the Party’s work, against unemployment, company imperialist war; for the defense ntion is an historic milestone in the building of the Communist Party, the only revolutionary leader the lessons to be drawn from these shortcomings and the progress of voters have given overwhelming approval to liberalize old age pen- sions, of the proletariat. My health is With the words “My health is i knowing the sender of the telegram Foster.” Negro Slain In, Fla. Terror On Citrus Pickers Bosses ine ‘Rape’ Lie; Ten Workers Jailed in Plot To Block Strike TAMPA, Fla. April 5.—James Franklin, a Negro worker, was mur-j; dered yesterday by Joe Kopman, a citrus grower, as part of a reign of terror being developed by the land- owners against citrus pickers who are preparing a state-wide strike for better conditions and union recognition. The pickers are under the leadership of the United Citrus Workers of Florida, an independent union. ‘Two police officers held the Ne- gro worker while Kopman put a revolver to his back and shot him to death, firing twice into his body. The traditional “rape” frame-up has been raised aaginst the mur- dered worker in an attempt to cre- ate a lynching atmosphere against the pickers, many of whom are Ne- you again on the firing line of the class struggle. applause. The delegates joined in shouting “Long live Comrade improving, hope soon to be with ‘the Party in the mass work, w | the core of the delegates’ speech When Harry Haywood finished |his report on the Party's work | among the Negro masses, a mot! was made by the Detroit delegation |and carried unanimously that Hey- | wood’s report be printed in pam- | phlet form and given wide distribu- lin of having “attacked” his daugh-| tion. ter. “Justifiable homicide,” a cor- | Telegrams of greeting continued oner’s jury of citrus growers and|to pour into the Convention Hall improving” delegates not previously broke into stormy and enthusiastic other business men called the mur- der, completely exonerating Kop- man. In Polk County, 10 citrus workers have been arrested on a charge of “inducing citrus pickers to break their verbal contracts.” A strike has already started there against the Chandler-Davis Packing Co. Convention Speeds WeinstoneTo Detroit Strike Front CLEVELAND, April 5.—The request of William Weinstone that part of the Detroit deleza- tion be permitted to return im- mediately to participate in the strike of the Motor Products Co. was unanimously granted amid the cheers of the delegates. “Greetings from the striking workers in Motor Products,” read a telegram to the convention from the Detroit auto workers out on the picket lines. “Strike called over heads of A. F, of L. officials.” This pledge, in the very heat of the discussion, was given a rising ovation by the delegation. groes. Kopman now accuses Frank- Sean Murray, Leader of Irish’ Communists, Here to Tour U.S. NEW YORK.—Sean Murray, vet- eran of Irish anti-imperialist strug- gles, and leader of the Irish Com- munist Party, arrived in New York yesterday for a tour of the country to rally support for the struggle for unity and independence of the Irish masses, He left immediately for Cleveland, where he will appear before the national convention of the Commu- nist Party, bringing it the greetings oi the recently formed Communist Party of Ireland. “I have come to explain to the American workers that the fight for Irish independence and unity can only be won by the united struggle of the workers and peasants of Ire- land, under the leadership of the revolutionary Party of the working class, the Communist Party,” he said. He told of the growth of the Blue Shirt fascist movement, agent of British imperialism, aided by Pres- ident De Valera’s suppression of all Inass anti-fascist struggles. “The forces against imperialism in Ireland are very strong and of a deep intensity of feeling,” said the Irish revolutioi leader. “They are sufficient to lash the power of imperialism. It depends alto- gether on how well our revolution- ary movement succeeds to mobilize these forces, to transform this spon- taneous mass feeling into a definite, conscious, directed struggle under revolutionary leadership.” Murray, a native of County An- trim, son of an Irish peasant, fought jin the Irish Republican Army against the British Black and Tans, was imprisoned in 1921, fought again in 1922 against the British in the North of Ireland and has been a leader of working class strug- gle ever since. He has again only recently come out of prison in Bel- fast, having been jailed for dis- obeying a “deportation” order for- of his birth. He will address many mass meet- ings in America in the next few weeks. A complete list of dates will be published soon. bidding him to live in the siieer ad | | at 2612 Prospect Ave., from all parts of the country, from shop workers, from revolutionary unions and from |many workers’ organizations, | Delegates Cheer Speakers Prolonged and stormy applause time and again greeted the speeches | —the report of Heywood, the speech- es of delegates from the Baltimore | Waterfront and the Sparrows Point | Baltimore steel mill, the report of | Max Bedacht on the work in the | mass organization; the report of | James Eagan, head of the S. M. W. I. U., the speech of Y. C. L. factory | workers, the delegate from Ken- |tucky, of Ann Burlak on the work jin the .textile industry, of Rose Wortis, leader of revolutionary trade | union work in New York City, and |@ Negro marine worker from Nor- folk, Va. Harold J. Asch, former State Sec- retary of the Socialist Party of Cali- | fornia, now an active member of | the Communist Party, spoke of the achievements of the Communist | Party of the California District in | winning 350 members of the Social- | ist Party away from their reaction- | ary leaders and into the Communist | Party through a correct united front | Policy. His speech was received | with the warmest enthusiasm, | “I bring you the greetings of 350 |former members of the Socialist | Party who have joined the Commu- | nist Party since Dec. 1, 1933,” said Comrade Asch. “We became mem- bers of the Communist Party on the basis of the united front appeal made by the Communist Party of | the district to the Socialists, last | November. The results in California | should inspire the other districts to | carry out similar united front ac- |tion. The California District of the Communist Party was not content merely to send a formal letter to the State Executive of the Socialist Party. This was followed by let- ters to all of the 60 branches of | the S. P. in California. The results were startling. From 20 to 25 branches responded by passing reso- lutions expressing a desire for a | united front. These included the | most active locals in the state. The | ed front appeal of the Commu- | nist Party was based on the imme- | diate needs of the workers in our } territory. “The basis proposed for the | united front was (1) to aid strikes with funds and other support, (2) a united fight against evictions and shutting off of gas, water and light, | (3) a united fight against im- | perialist war, (4) a united fight lagainst Fascism, (5) fight for the repeal of the criminal syndicalist law.” Comrade Asch then told how he € (Continued om Rags %)