The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 7, 1934, Page 1

CIRCULATION DRIVE RECEYVED Daily ,QWorker CENTRAL-ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER NEW SUBS YESTERDA®E: Vol. XL, No. 84 > *« Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 8, 1879. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1934 WEATHER: Fair. (Eight Pages) Price 3 Cents 7000 MORE IN COAL STRIKE; REPULSE TEAR GAS ATTACK Communist Convention Is Stirred By Reports of Growing Strike Struggles Gebert and Johnstone| Tell of Work in Basic | Industries GETS STRIKE NEWS| Report Progress Among | R.R. Workers By CARL REEVE (Special to the Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, April 6.— The Eighth National Con- vention of the Communist Party heard today the reports | of the district organizers of two important industrial concentra- tion districts, Comrade Bill Gebert| from the steel, stockyard, mining! concentration area of the Chicago District, and Comrade Jack John- stone from the steel and coal cen) ter of Pittsburgh as these reports and speeches of shop delegates pro- ded, telegrams continued to} into the Convention from} industrial centers, report-| 2s and struggles break-| roughout the country. ce From the Baltimore waterfront came a telegram signed by the Ma- rine Workers Industrial Union, say- ing that “The Marine Workers In- dustrial Union greets the Party Con- vention by organizing the second &i.ti-war committee in che Chilore, « Spactows Point ‘Baltimore? ship.” Spread of strikes in Cleveland and Detroit was reported. From Mor- gantown, W. Va., Frank Borich, a! leader among the bituminous miners, wired that it was impossible for him to come to the Vonvention because of the continuing strike of the West Virginia coal miners, From Spring- field, Illinois, came the news that the rank and file unity committee has called a conference for Sunday in Springfield to take up the ques- tion of turning the lockout of the Southern Illinois coal miners by the operators’ association into a militant (Continued on Page 2) Stachel Shows Growth of U.S. Strike Wave Tells Convention AFL Influence Must Be Broken By HARRY GANNES CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 5—Be- fore a delegation characterized by Comrade Browder as “a convention of strike and unemployed movement leaders,” Jack Stachel, member of the Political Bureau of the Commu- nist Party, made a two-hour ex- haustive report on the great strike struggle and the task of the Com- munists at yesterday afternoon’s session of the 8th National Conven- tion of the Communist Party. Again the great confidence and enthusiasm of the assembled Com- munist delegates towards the lead- ers of the Party were expressed by the ovation given Comrade Stachel when he was introducd by the chair- man, Comrade Ford. “Comrade Browder’s excellent re- port for the Central Committee has already laid down the basic line for; our Party,” began Stachel. “It is my task to deepen some of the practical problems already so brilliantly out- lined. | Ovation for Browder “I believe I voice the firm and unanimous opinion of the entire delegation when I say: The report of Comrade Browder is the best one that has yet been made at any time in the history of our Party.” Showing their agreement with this estimation, the delegation ap- plauded. ' “This is due,” declared Stachel, “to the fact that under the guidance of the Communist International our Party, despite all its weaknesses, de- spite considerable lagging behind (about which all of us will speak at this convention) has made some important steps forward—especially since the adoption of the Open Let- ter. This was made possible under the leadership of the general sec- retary of our Party, Comrade Browder. (Enthusiastic applause). “We have felt the absence in our work of our great leader Comrade Foster. Tho he was ill, his advice in the fight against the N.R.A. and company unions, intensifying our work within the A. F of L., was Trish Communist Leader Greets 8th U. S. Party Convention Communist Parties of Cuba and Canada Represented By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Special to the Daily Worker) Communist Party of Ireland, the latest addition to the world-gird- ling working class battle ranks formed by the Communist Inter- national. Sean Murray greeted the National Convention of the Com munist Party of the United State: made for the first time the two Parties will be of benefit to the workers and farmer in both countries. The cheering response brought to a high-water mark the spirit of International laboring class amity that lifts the convention again and again. Hardly had it died down, when it stormed anew—for the next speaker happened to be an Irish- American worker from Philadelphia, and he bega: “As an Irish-Amer- ican worker, I greet the Communist Party of Ireland. I know all the Irish in Philadelphia will be glad to hear about it.” One of the four representatives of the Communist Parties of as many other lands, Comrade Mur- ray reported the affiliation of his fellows with the Communist Inter- national about a year ago. Anna Schultz, widow of John Scheer, Hitler-martyred friend and co-worker of Ernst Thaelmann, heroic leader of the German Com- tion at every appearance. “Hitler will never succeed!” Comrade Schultz cried, citing strikes and other mass resistance against the Fascist terror against the German workers. The Communist Parties of Cuba and Canada are represented. And the delegate from Imperial Valley in California is a Philippine worker who was arrested with some 100 fellow strikers in the mass arrests carried out recently and the semi- ifascist vigilante rule, in a futile attempt to crush the agricultural and cannery workers industrial union. Every brother Party delegate em- phasizes the living actuality of the international solidarity of the work- ers of all nations in the Third In- ternational. Sean Murray declared the year-old Irish Party “already has won its place in the revolu- tionary struggles of the Irish work- ers and farmers.” He added: “We are struggling for complete na- tional independence. but we will not stop there. We will not stop until we've built a Soviet Ireland.” (ag Rule at S. P. ‘Anti-War Confab’ Reject Defense of USSR and Militant Struggle NEW YORK. — The “New York Conference Against War” rushed through a short session in Town Hall yesterday afternoon ,and closed without permitting any discussion from the floor. No vote on any res- olution not unanimously reported by a hand-picked resolutions commit- tee was permitted. Vigorous pro- tests were made by a number of the | 250 delegates present as the “con- ference” was rushed to a close. The “conference,” organized by the Socialist Party and some of its affiliates, was attended by delegates of the National, Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the NEW YORK.—The members of the drum corps and band of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum at 137th St. and Amsterdan yesterday signed a petition against their being forced to Participate in the Army Day parade on Fifth Avenue At an early hour already twenty seven of the 75 members of the two musical groups had signed the peti- tion and were preparing to present it to the executive director of the istitution, Col. Lionel J. Simmons. In the accompanying resolution the orphans branded the parade as munist Party, had received an ova- | o- CLEVELAND, April 6.— For the} today, declaring that “the contact : Leader of Marine Workers In- dustrial Union who aroused en- thusiasm with his report at Com- munist Party convention in Cleve- land, Roy Hudson in Fiery Talk at Convention | Marine Workers’ Leader | Gets Thunderous Ovation By HARRY GANNES (Special to the Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 6.—A true son of the American working | class, trained by his Party into a forceful proletarian leader among the American seamen, Roy Hudson, Secretary of the Marine Workers Industrial Union, roused the confi- dence and enthusiasm of the entire convention today by his Bolshevik readiness and native ability to win the masses for the cause of the Party: In testimony to his leadership of valiant struggles of the Marine Workers, the entire convention gave Comrade Hudson a rousing ovation, both before he began his report and at its fiery and gripping conclu- sion. Hudson centered his whole speech on the concrete experiences and problems of applying the Open Let- ter in the marine industry. He showed how, through the policy of concentration the revolutionary ma- rine union was built into a powerful force, and an opposition built in} ithe reformist longshoremen’s organ- ization that was winning great num- bers of the rank and file. “Because of our activity,” said (Continued on Page 2) American Workers Party, the Trot- sky renegades, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, the Industrial Workers of the World and the War Resisters League. A resolution calling for affiliation | with the American League Against War and Fascism was tabled with- out discussion om vote being per- mitted. The same fate met a res- olution calling for defense of the Soviet Union, and every other res- olution with any militant content. When delegates began clamoring for the floor after the set speeches had been made, the chairman hur- ‘riedly ended the “conference.” Hebrew Orphan Band Refuses To Play in Army Day Parade militarism.” They recollected that “two years ago the band and field music were very happy to play at an anti-war parade” and did not “think it proper that we should play he a parade so opposite in charac- rr.’ The Youth Section, American League Against War and Fagcism has written a letter to the signers of the petition pledging its support should the authorities undertake any punitive steps against the or-! phans. | A letter sent to Col. Simmons urges him to heed the wishes of the band members and not force them a “demonstration the purpose of (Continued on Page Four) which is to arouse nationalism and “nto a militaristic show whose whole object is abhorrent to them.” , Peek Asks Trade War On Britain |Roosevelt Spokesman} Sounds Alarm At British Advance WASHINGTON, April 6.—Presag- ing a new fierce fight with British | imperialism for world trade, George | N, Peek, special advisor to President | Roosevelt, today announced bluntly that the Roosevelt government is no longer “to be the Simple Simon and continue to be pushed about just because we have possessed no co-ordinated policy of maintaining our proper position.” Referring directly to the fierce} imperialist antagonism between British and American imperialism; which is leading to feverish war preparations on both sides, Peek stated: “Our British cousins from whom | almost 20 years ago we wrested | the supremacy of world trade in exports, last year, for the first time since the war, had a greater trade export than ours.” M inneapolis Asking Work Met With Police, Machine Guns ® Young Reynolds Gets $25,000,000 Legacy; Girl Inherits Hunger BALTIMORE, April 4.— Richard J. Reynolds, Jr., re- ceived $25,000,000 from the Safe Deposit and Trust Com- pany today as his share of his father’s $100,000,000 estate. According to the terms of his father’s will Reynolds came into possession of about one-fourth of the tobacco mil- lionaire’s fortune on becoming 28 today. * * NEW YORK. — Catherine Sweet collapsed from hunger yesterday for the third time in six weeks. Her clothes shab- by, shoes torn, Catherine staggered and fell on the street yesterday. The ambu- lance surgeon said it was “un- The British imperialists, thus, | have succeeded so far in beating) Wall Street in the fight for the} South American markets and the markets of the Far East. This means! that not only will Roosevelt enter! more aggressively into the fight for} “reciprocal trade agreements,” for} which he is now armed by a re-| cent bill of Congress, but the in-| flationary fight will also grow more} intense. | Demanding more aggression in foreign policy, Peek, who is recog- nized as Roosevelt’s spokesman stated: “We cannot formulate our for- eign trade recovery upon the prin- ciples which we now see led us inevitably into this disaster.” Peek recommended a three-point program to aid the exports of the Wall Street monopolies: Direct money grants from government banks to finance exports, trade! agreements, and the establishment of agents in foreign countries to seek for trade opportunities for Wall Street monopolies, Peek’s speech, signalizes that the Roosevelt government is preparing} for more aggressive imperialist ex- pansion against its rivals. NRA Protects Co. Unions Senators Told Senators Give Steel Trust Full Time To Present “Case” | By SEYMOUR WALDMAN | (Daily Worker Washington Buro) | WASHINGTON, D. C., April 6— The steel corporations today staged a veritable company union festival before the sub-committee of the Senate Committee on education and labor, which is holding hearings on the Wagner labor disputes bill. Sixty-five selected company union representatives, whose expenses for the trip to Washington were paid by America’s leading steel concerns, nearly filled the huge Senate caucus room to hear their nearly two dozen spokesmen testify to the “similarity” between workers’ and employers’ interests.” The company union puppets of, finance capital’s strongest industrial segment executed their employers instructions so well and with such seeming spontaneity that former Governor of New York. Nathan L. Miller, now general counsel of J. P. Morgan's United States Steel Cor- poration, remarked as he left the building, “That show was worth hearing.” Get All the Time They Want Senator Walsh, Democrat of Mas- sachusetts, chairman of the com- mittee and the holder of ten shares of stock in the Republi Steel Corp., gave the Company Union spokesmen as much time as they needed to read the statements which had been pre- pared by their employers. Walsh’s liberality contrasted markedly with his recent action in refusing to give Pat Cush president of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, more than 10 minutes. In fact, (Continued on Page 2) Demonstrate Against Anti-Negro Bus. Co. This Morning at 11 NEW YORK.— An urgent call for all Negro and white workers to demonstrate this morning at 11 o’clock in front of the Fifth Avenue Coach Company, 132d St. and || Broadway, against the refusal of the company to employ Negroes as chauffeurs and conductors, was issued asi |! night by the League of Steug- | gle for Negro Rights, which called for the demonstration several days ago. dernourishment.” According to the words of she has no home She is 19 Catherine, and no parents. years old. N.Y. April 8th Conference to Demand Jobs Demonstrate . in Phila- delphia Today NEW YORK.—The Greater New York Conference on C. W. A. and Unemployment will reconvene Sun- day, April 8, at. 1 p. m., at. Stuy- vesant Casino, 142 Second Ave. ‘The conference will formulate a plan of action in the struggle for continua- tion of the O. W. A. program, its enlargement to provide jobs for all unemployed workers, the abolition of the means test (paupers’ oath), im- mediate cash relief equal at least to C. W. A. wages for all unem- ployed and fired C. W. A. workers, and the enactment of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. The program of action as outlined by the Commitee of One Hundred, [elected at the last meeting of the | Conference calls for: 1) to demand |relief for the fired C. W. A. work- jers and to fight for their re-instate- {ment; 2) jobs at union wages for all unemployed workers on a work | basis and not on the so-called basis lof “need”; 3) to organize all the workers into project locals so as to carry on the fight on the job; 4) to fight the wage cut; 5) to engage in day to day struggles in order to unite all unemployed and C. W. A. workers; 6) to fight on the job every case of discrimination. Mass Picket Lines Today Already an important victory has been won. Today at 9:30 A. M., the committee and job delegates will meet with Commissioner of Welfare William Hodson to demand re-in- Statement of all fired workers, re- Scinding of the LaGuardia wage cuts of C. W. A. workers; and relief equal to C. W. A. wages for all fired C. W. A. workers and unemployed. While the «workers delegates are meeting with Hodson, the commit- tee urges all workers to form mass picket lines at the Welfare Depart- ment offices at 50 Lafayette St., where fired C. W. A. workers have been picketing for the past week. Fight Wage Cuts Under the city “work relief,” every category of C. W. A. worker has re- | ceived wage cuts. Laborers, the vast | majority of C. W. A. workers, are to jbe limited to a $12 a week wage |level, a direct cut of $1.44 a week |from the starvation wages estab- (Continued on Page 2) CWA Men | Workers Twice Storm City Hall To Free Arrested Leaders | MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., April 6— Machine guns were mounted on the steps of the City Hall here today as thousands of C.W.A. and jobless workers recently fired from the C.W.A. projects again marched on | the municipal buildings demanding work and immediate relief for themselves and their families, | Today's demonstration, which saw the main streets of the center of the city crowded with thousands of workers, men and women, brought the threat from Chief of Police Johannes of an order calling out the National Guard troops, Charge Twice Twice the infuriated workers| rushed the City Hall in an attempt to free their delegation which had been arrested after presenting the workers’ demands to the City Coun- cil for cash relief and C.W.A, jobs to all unemployed. ' As the police charged the work- ; ers, hte unemployed seized paving blocks, stones and coal from a stall- ed truck with which to defend) themselves. As the police hurled| tear gas at them, the workers picked! up the bombs and threw them into! the City Hall and Court House,| routing the officials, In an attempt to cow the mili- | tancy of the workers and to dis- perse the orderly ranks, police hurled gas bombs into the center| of the workers’ ranks. The work- ers seized the bombs and hurled | them back at the police. The full mobilization of Minne- apolis police together with all police riot cars and trucks were swept aside by the infuriated workers. The Police sent out a call to city fire stations. One hundred firemen turned powerful streams of water on the defenseless workers, as the (Continued on Page 2) Strikers to Hit Terror In Camden S. P. Leader in League With Police in Move To Break Strike CAMDEN, N. J., April 6. — The strike at the New York Shipbuilding yards here has completely tied up $43,000,000 worth of government warship contracts. The strikers flat- ly refused a 6 per cent raise in pay when the company refused union recognition. The Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Work- ers is demanding a 35 per cent. in- | crease in pay. It was revealed yesterday that Gene Tunney, ex-heavyweight champion, is a member of the board of directors of the company. N. R. A. Moves In A move on the part of the N. R. A. to break the strike was revealed today when it was announced that Howard Chappell, Concilliation | Commissioner for the Department of Labor, would appear on the scene to “mediate” the strike. The ac- tivities of this gentleman, the strik- ers can rest assured, will be in the interests of the company and not the workers. Chappell was rushed to the scene of the strike when it was learned that the Roosevelt war orders were held up. His job is to get the war ship building on the move at the expense of the ship- building workers. Meanwhile leaders of the union are trying to squelch all attempts of rank and file expresion within (Continued on Page 2) Move to Join Auto Strikers) | AFL Sil he Hudson! Defy Or | SEAN MURRAY H Leader of the Communist Party | of Ireland, greeted yesterday at the Eighth National Convention of the Communist Party of the U.S.A., meeting in Cleveland. | 5,000 More in| S, Plants Joins Fight for Pay Rise BULLETIN DETROIT, Mich., April 6—As a result of widespread indignation among striking auto workers here, Phil Raymond, National Secretary of the Auto Workers Union, and David. Jones, vice-president, were released this morning after hav- ing been jailed yesterday by police at the Motor Products Plant. They | ders Of UMWA Officials; Spurn NRA Code Pickets Hurl Bombs Back at Thugs; Keep Scabs Out THREE ARRESTED Militant Rank and File Program To Fore at All Local Meetings (Special to the Daily Worker) FAIRMONT, W. Va., April §.—Following the walkout to- day of 7,000 more miners to join the 30,000 miners in this vegion already on strike, dep- uty sheriffs led a tear-gas attack on a mass picket demonstration of 400 coal diggers this morning the Jordan mine of the Consol! tion Coal Co. This company is tr ing to operate the mine with scabs. Deputized thugs hurled tear bombs at the pickets, but the mili- tant miners hurled back the bom’ before they exploded, and three deputies were badly burned. Three miners were arrested. tate police were rushed in by the operators, and more sheriffs ar- rived and attacked the picket lines The strikebreakers, however, were prevented from entering the mi by the strikers who rallied stronger forces. The 7,000 miners walked out in spite of the orders of the officials of the United Mine Workers of Amer- ica not to leave the shafts. The walkout took place immediately af- ter copies of the new Appalachian N.R.A. code, with the operators’ signatures appended, were posted at the mine entrances. Today marks the fourth day of the strike of the 30,000 miners. At every mass meeting of the mine lo- cals of the U.M.W.A., rank and file miners are bringing forward the militant program calling for mass picketing, rank and file control by democratically elected committees, and to maintain a solid-strike front until victory is won. The officials of the U.M.W.A. have offered no policy to the strikers other than urging them to go ba to work and wait for the decisi at in were defended by lawyers of the | International Labor Defense, eae eee ( Special te the Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., April 6—Five, thousand steel and die makers, in addition to workers at the three Hudson auto plants and the Midland wh: of Monday’: being rushed area evidently to help carry out the N.R.A. code h th have been hurriedly set up to stop the strike movement. More U.M.W.A. organizers, to- gether with the state troopers, are into the Fairmont Steel Products Co., have declared that they will join the 5,000 workers of the Motor Products plant now on strike, if their demands for wage in- creases are not immediately granted. The Motor Products workers struck yesterday. | At the Hudson A. F. of L. local meeting tonight, representatives from three Hudson plants will pre- | sent a proposal to send a committee to the company. The Hudson A. F. of L. local meeting tonight where representatives from three Hudson plants will present a proposal to send a committee to the company | with demands for a 20 per cent wage | increase, abolition of the cheating bonus system, no discrimination for union organization, and slowing down of the conveyor line. Kelsey Hayes Wheel of the A. F.| of L. voted to meet Sunday to con- sider strike action if the demands presented to the company are re- fused. In an effort to smash the Motor Products strike and prevent it from spreading, all forces of the manu- N.R.A. program, which the miners reject. * 2,500 Hosiery Workers Strike INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 6— Two thousand five hundred hosiery workers went on strike today at Real Si Fulton and National Hosiery Mills for union wage scale, abolition of bonus and penalty sys- tem and for recognition of Amer- ican Federation of Hosiery Workers Union. The National and Fulton Shops were completely shut down and only a small force was at work at the Real Silk Mill. All knitters at the Real Silk Mill were on strike with the exception of six. Knitting workers have been re- fused collective bargaining through the medium of their own union. Employers are insisting that the Unemployed Benefit Association, a company union, is the official union, Middletown White and Negro Workers facturers and the government are rushing in, and launching a terror Defy Cops at Dance MIDDLETOWN, N. Y., April 6.— drive against militant workers. In| Despite attempts of the police at this they are being aided by the A.| disruption, the Scottsboro Defense F. of L. officials, William Collins,! dance was carried through success- (Continued on Page 2) ‘fully at Columbia Park Casino, last Monday night Delegation Asks Mayor’s Stand on May 1 Permit VIGOROUSLY PROTESTS POLICE SHIFTING OF HOURS FOR UNITED FRONT MAY DAY By CYRIL BRIGGS NEW YORK.—“Let’s not dispute it,” Mayor La Guardia cynically re- plied yesterday noon to the pro- tests of a delegation from the United Front May Day Arrangements Com- mittee that the police in assigning the hours for the use of Union Square on May Day ignored the priority of the Committee’s commu- nication to the police of the plans of over 200,000 New York workers to demonstrate in Union Square on May Day, between the hours of 1 to 5. ‘The delegation declared that the police and city authorities had flagrantly discriminated against these workers in giving preference to the later applications of the lead- ers of the Socialist Party and the! Veterans of Foreign Wars. The Mayor's attitude was one of suave and cynical admission that the city government. had given ar- bitrary preference to later applicants DEMONSTRATION IN UNION SQUARE for the use of the Square on May Day, coupled with the provocative query, “What are you going to do about it?” Despite his periods of suave urbanity and smooth dema- gogy during the interview, the Mayor clearly showed that he was supporting, if not the actual ini- tiator, the monstrous police attempt, aided by the reactionary leaders of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Socialist Party, to provoke a fight on May First. Cacchione Points to Conflicting Police Schedule | _ Peter Cacchione, of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, and one of the spokesmen of the delegation, pointed out that the police had | originally given the committee the | ception of choosing its own hours for ithe use of Union Square, and had subsequently submitted th: ferent schedules at three times to the committee, finally} shifting the committee’s hours to “from 5:30 and on.” Cocchione de- clared this was a deliberate attempt by the police and others to inter- fere with the mobilization for the May Day celebration at Madison Square Garden that night. He re- stated the declaration of the com- mittee that “New York workers will not be provoked, but neither will they change their plans,” and made it clear that the United Front May Day demonstration would welcome the Socialists. To the protests of Todes, of the Trade Union Unity) Council, and one of the spokesmen! of the delegation, the mayor re-! Pled “there's no question as to the/ & Charlotte 6 facts” and “suppose they (The Vet- erans of Foreign Wars and the So- ar‘y) were given preference, it?” He defended the uifting of the hours for the United Front demonstration with the statement that other applications had been received subsequently, and that if further applications were re- ceived the hours would again be shifted, adding a further admission of the rank discrimination against the United Front demonstration with the statement, “you couldn’t be put any later than you are now.” Set Monday for a Conference statements by David rer of the district , and Allen Taub, representing the National nittee for the Defense of Po- litical Prisoners, the mayor sug- gested another conference on Mon- (Continued on Page 2% ae cnet