The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 9, 1934, Page 1

CIRCULAT: ION DRIVE NEW SUBS RECEIVED SATURDAY: Daily .. 55 Total to date _3,136 Saturday Total ... Vol. XI, I Entered as second-class New York, N. ¥., under > % Daily <QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) matter at the Post Office at the Act of March 8, 1879. EW YORK TONDAY, APRIL 9, 1934 WEATHER: Fair AMERICA’S ON CLASS DAILY LY WORKING NEWSPAPER (Eight Pages) Price 3 Cents NRA AUTO PACT CRACKS; 2,200 TOOL MEN VOTE STRIKE “Prepare Party for Great | CWAM Tasks,” Browder Calls, | aoe Victory; Act Closing C. P. Convention 500 Delegates Return to Shops, Mines, Farms To Build Mass Party GROWTH IN SOUTH Serious Work Will Put Communists in Congress Browder States By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Special to the Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, O., April 8. —The Eighth National Con. vention of the Communist Party of the United States adjourned last night after electing a new Central Committee and punctuating with still tumul- tuous applause a summary of the} proceedings by Earl Browder, Gen- | eral Secretary of the Party. Prais- ing the great gains reflected by the Convention, Comrade Browder also cited weaknesses as sharply as and even more concretely than he had done in his report to the opening session of the Convention. He flung out this challenge: "If we make use of the tre- mendous opportunities revealed here in this Convention, in a short time we will be a mass Party. We will be leading serious daily struggles, and we will be seriously preparing the American workers for their revolutionary task.” Traveling homeward, chiefly in great buses, 479 delegates already were talking eagerly of what they will do first, back home, ‘to’ meet) Comrade Browder’s challange. They | were speaking thus, in fact, even as they left the final session in a Cleve- | Jand church around which guns had once been set up by police to greet | in a Scottsboro the participants demonstration. Calls for Communists in Congress Next Fall Emphasizing anew the necessity for consolidation and extending victories in trade union work in revolutionary and in the American Federation of Labor, in the Negro liberation movement—all the tasks leading to winning the majority of the working class to the Communist program—Browder also again called for the election of some Commu- nists to Congress next fall. “I don’t know whether I have a parliamentary deviation or not, but I really have an ambition to go to Congress,” Browder said, accenting his call for serious Congressional election campaigns by an informal manner. “I think we can find five or six who ought to be convinced of the necessity of making really serious election campaigns. We must remember that large masses are swinging over to the Commu- nist Party program, especially in elections.” Therefore his call for the election of some Communist Congressmen is “not Utopian,” he declared. He said, “The only condition for suc- tess is a serious campaign.” In a report from the Credentials (Continued on Page 2) USSR and Finland Extend Peace Pact Another Ten Vears Follows Eetenaian of the Pacts with Other Baltic States MOSCOW, April 8. — Four days after the signing of a ten-year ex- tension of the non-aggression pacts between the Soviet Union and Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, the Soviet Union today signed a similar extension of its non-aggression pact with Finland. The original pact, signed in 1932, is now extended to remain in force until 1945. Demonstrating its unswerving will to peace, the Soviet Union, having negotiated these extensions of the pacts, has also made it clear that it wishes to see similar pacts signed between all countries. Cops Terrorize Convicts | As Flames Cover Prison MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Aprli 8, —While tongues of flames licked the walls of the State Penitentiary here today, more than 2,500 prison- ers, alarmed by the ravenous fire, were closely guarded by police re- serves threatening them with ma- chine guns and tear gas bombs in order to make their escape impos- sible, endangering the prisoners’ liver EARL BROWDER Unanimously re-elected Gen- eral Secretary of the Communist Party of the U. S. at the closing session of the Eighth Convention of the Party in Cleveland, Cuba Wiekors Seize Sugar As Pay Is Refused N.Y. Worker, Given Two} | Years, Leads Hunger | Strike of Sixty Special to the Daily Worker HAVANA, April 8 (By Cable) —As the sugar harvest comes to an end, and the bosses are at- tempting once again to cut wages, or even refusing to pay wages for work done, the volutionary movement of the peasants and sugar workers is rising once more. Two thousand workers have gone on strike at the Nazabel cen- tral against an attempt to re- introduce a 40-cent a day wage. Strikes have broken out in the| past week in four sugar centrals | in Santa Clara province, in the Miranda and America centrals in| Orineta, and the Toledo central in Havana pronyince. At the Santa Rita and Aus- trialia centrals, the workers have | seized the sugar and the com- panies failed to pay wages. Sixty workers held in Cabana fortress, Havana, for violating the Caffery-Mendieta decrees against strikes, went on a hunger strike last night, demanding release and protesting against the arbitrary procedure of the tribunals. Among the leaders of the hung- er strike is Rolando Soria, young member of the Julio Mella club of Harlem, New York City, who |has been condemned to two years lin jail for supporting a strike. In Santa Clara prison, 16 work- ers were assaulted in their cells by soldiers with machetes, Fifty Communists Win in Greek City Elections ATHENS.—According to the latest returns, 50 Communists have been elected to Greek mu- nicipal councils. ~ At Marathon, on Crete, the poor peasants have elected a red town council twice. In spite of all the election manoeuvres of the lackeys of Venizelos and Tsaldaris, four red municipal councilors have been elected at (Mother Bloor, Veteran F ighter, Gets Ovation at Convention J TAmter and Bi Biedenkapp | Tell of Struggles of the Workers By HARRY GANNES CLEVELAND, April 5 (By Mail). —‘Let us go out of here as one solid phalanx of the army of com- ing revolution!” That was the con- cluding appeal of Mother Bloor, one of the speakers in the discus- sion on Comrade Browder’s report. The 72-year-old veteran revolution- ary fighter was introduced by the chairman, Comrade Gebert, district organizer in Chicago, as the “young- est delegate in the convention.” The afternon discussion covered a wide range of Party tasks, with a longshore delegate in the Party just three months, discussing the |problems confronting the Eighth National Convention in the same fervent and earnest manner as some of the oldest Party members. Comrade I. Amter reported for 30 minutes on work among the un- employed. Unemployment, in the specific period of depression out~ lined by Comrade Browder, is be- coming permanent, Amter declared. “Unemployed work has been dis- cussed here very little,” he stated. “Relief is being cut, and the misery of the unemployed is greater. The Negroes are the worst sufferers. Roosevelt's program forecasts still less relief. We have built the only real national unemployed move- ment, though others may have built thovements in various sec- tions of the country.” He dwelt on the shortcomings, unemployed, only a few actively participated in unemployed activ- ity. We must have strong fractions, he said, not to dictate, but to lead and educate. He showed how un- employed work can establish shop activity, stressing, at the same time, the need of unity of employed and unemployed. “Our unemployed councils have compelled state, county and city governments to pay out tens of millions in relief, and to hand out tons of food. We forced the introduction of the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill into the United States Congress. This is a great (Continued on Page 2) Gov. LehmanWants. $110,000,000 for the Mortgage Holders To Give Huge Funds To Investors While Slashing City Pay ALBANY, April 8.—At the same time that the State legislature and Governor Lehman are completing arrangements for slashing the wages of thousands of civil service City employees through the LaGuardia “Economy Act,” Governor Lehman announced today that he is push- ing plans to grant $110,000,000 in aid to mortgage holders who are not now collecting interests in their investments. Lehman submitted to the Legis- lature yesterday his plan to get $100,000,000 from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and to get the rest from private banks, In addition, Lehman urges that the “distressed” mortgage investors be given the benefit of free man- agement of the properties under the mortgages, the management to be St. Konstantin, near Agerini. In Aggrini the town council is red. Provided by a State-organized. cor- poration, )Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Ill, April 8—William Randolph Hearst, notorious red baiter and jingoist, was hung in effigy Friday on the campus of the University of Chicago, after one hundred students and professionals marched the figure around the campus for almost an hour and then held an anti-war meeting which 450 attended. Towards the end of the meeting, about a dozen men wearing the col- lege athletic insignia rushed the mecting and made off with the effigy. Walter Rellis, National Student. Chicago University Students Hang Hearst Effigy on Campus League leader, recently returned from Cuba, spoke at the demonstra- tion together with Joe Kebeks, also of the N.S.L., and Noss, member of both the Cook County Socialist Party Executive Committee and the Civil Liberties Union. While Noss evaded the question of imperialist war, and minimized the danger of war between the U.S. and Japan, Rellis pointed out the real live war danger, especially an attack on the workers fatherland, the Sov- jet Union. Hearst’s effigy swung from the Midway in front of the Harper Li- brary. | pointing out that while 60 to 70 per} jcent of the Party members were Minneapolis Sends Greetings To Jailed Workers MINNE POLIS, Minn., April 8. —Winning a victory in forcing the | City Council to grant their full de- mands, the Minneapolis worker: | are marshalling their forces to de- mand the release of their arrested leaders and the impeachment of Chief of Police Johannes, On Friday, 15,000 fired CWA and jobless workers, under the leader- ship of the Communist Party, un- chine guns, gathered in a huge mass demonstration the City Hall buildings, and forced the Welfare Department and the City Council to acceed to all their demands. are in jail, having been arrested after the demands were granted. The Welfare Board had refused for the whole week either to see a dele- gation elected by the assembled CWA workers, or to listen to their demands. which on Friday reached its great-| est strength, resulting in the mob-)| ilization of the entire police forces ard the fire department against the demonstrators, as well as a threat that the National Guard troops would be called out. Under the pressure of the masses of militant workers led by the Communist Party, the City Council was forced to re- verse its first decision and voted the workers’ demands for con- tinuation of CWA with no wage cut, 40 per cent. increase in re- lief, jobs for , all unemployed ; Werkers, and free clothing and | rents for the unemployed and their families. Kovetsc i graces Prominent in the demands of the workers in their shouted de- mands and on their banners was the demanded endorsement of the Workers’ Unemployment and So- (Continued on Page 2) 250 CWA Workers Picket Welfare ‘To Return Monday as Delegates Meet With Hodson NEW YORK.—For four hours, in a continuous downpour of rain, more than 250 manual and white collar former C. W. A. workers, carrying banners and shouting “We demand jobs!” picketed the offices of Com- missioner of Welfare William Hod- son, Saturday morning. On the line were 30 fired OC. W. A. workers from project 13, Gunhill Road and Kings- bridge Ave., Bronx, carrying the picks and shovels that they had re- fused to return to C. W. A. after being fired. These workers ex- plained: “Commissioner Hodson has declared that every worker in ‘need’ will be guaranteed a job; we're keep- ing our tools for our promised jobs.” The pickets, shouting their soli- darity with the heroic Minneapolis C. W. A. workers who won their full demands after a militant dem- onstration and four-hour battle with the police on Friday, sent telegrams to the Minneapolis workers hailing their victory. Refused Meeting Hodson refused to meet with the elected delegates of the workers, claiming that he was “too busy.” He did, however, receive the press. * When asked by the Daily Worker reporter why he refused to meet with the workers, but found time to be interviewed by the metro- politan press, Hodson answered: “This is a time for action, not for talking .. . obviously no good pur- pose is served by a town meeting + «+ We are now geting reports as (Continued on Page 2) Spectre of Dillinger Seen in 19 States PITTSBURGH, April 8. — The spectre of John Dillinger, notorious bank robber, apparently seems to be floating all over the country, as the widespread search for the es- caped criminal goes on by Federal officials. Latest reports show that Dillinger was seen here early today riding in an automobile. A week ago, he presumably shot his way out of a St. Paul apartment where an accomplice of his was wounded. Other reports coming from the Department of Justice say that he is still in Minnesota. So far, he has been seen in about nine- teen different States. To Free 30 A ~ ch d| Communist Convention daunted by police clubs and ma-| surrounding| Thirty of their leaders} The refusal of the Board to meet) with the demonstrators only had} the effect of adding new thousands) of workers to the demonstration, | Dept. Saturday. Workers i in 5B Big Plants Refuse. Await Hearings; Demand Wage Rise | Auto Workers! —at Detroit, plants. | called neutral; of Pontiac, and Nicholas Kelly, | entirely. Byrd, the A. F. of L. dent Roosevelt said, someone.” Board.” Body Workers did not have. REAKING through the Roosevelt NRA | strikebreaking set-up at three points | Kenosha and Racine—a | large section of automobile workers are now blazing the way for a struggle for union conditions and union recognition of the auto The vote of the workers of the Seaman Body Corporation and the Nash Motors Company to re- ject the plan of Roosevelt’s National Automobile Tribunal, which attempted to stampede the strikers back to work without securing for them one single | demand, was a victory for the auto workers. | As predicted by the Auto Workers Union, the | Auto Labor Board, composed of Leo Wolman, so- Richard Byrd, Secretary of the United Automobile Workers Union | League for Industrial Democracy and representa- | tive of the auto barons, presented a plan whereby the 60 cent hourly minimum was reduced to 50 cents and recognition of the union was left out Of this open strikebreaking agreement Richard leader on the Board, said: “If the men in these communities have faith in the agreements which have been made through the establishment of new mutual confidence be- tween labor and employes, they will find the great- | est achievement they ever dreamed of. “We've got to have faith in So have faith in the integrity of the But faith in the Board the Nash and Seaman They saw clearly that the whole set-up of the Labor Board is iden- tical to the Nash company union proposal of last Dow’t Be Stalled! Strike Now! Fall. heralded by the of L. officials a: the bud. resign from it. A. F. of L. leade bordering on col ¢ A. F. of 1.) the part of the official of the | trayals. But the auto of L. officials to maneuvering. are trying to get | attempt a more | The demand. | will be won on! t Now is the ti As Presi- bers! Starve, Torture Six Scottsboro Boys in Ala.Jail 'Tormented Lads Told They Must Accept the NAACP “Defense” Scottsboro boys in Jefferson County jail, Birmingham, Ala., is to force them to dispense with the services of the International La- bor Defense, organizer and leader of the worldwide mass fight which alone has saved the boys : from the electric chair so far, it was re- vealed yesterday by Samuel S. Leibowitz who, with Joseph Brod- sky, conducted the defense in the second trial of Haywood Patter- son. Leibowitz’s revelations are based on authentic information received from Benjamin J. Davis Jr., one of the two Atlanta Ne- gro LL.D. attorneys in the case of Angelo Herndon. Mr. Dayis letter substantiates a letter by Olin Montgomery to Joseph Brodsky that he was being starved and tortured. Mr. Davis declares that six of the boys are still held in solitary con- finement, and are being tortured by the warden who daily bran- dishes a pistol before them, threatening them with dire con- sequences if they should not dis- pense with the I.L.D. and accept counsel offered by the National Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People. The endorsement by the Ala- bama lynchers of the leadership of the N.A.A.C.P. further em- (Continued on Page 2) | NEW YORK.—Torture of the continuing in a dastardly attempt | “Workers of the Sat Unite!” Strikers Chalk) On California Jail Cells EL CENTRO, Cal. ers arrested in the Imperial Valley | lettuce pickers’ strike chiseled into the wall of the jail cells the motto, “Workers of the World Unite,” and| a large Rene Andee and sickle emblem. | Auto Workers Win Strike in Canada; | Get Wage Increase Shorter Hours Also Won in 2-Day Strike in Windson By F. COLLINS WINDSOR, Ont., April 8.—On Wednesday, March 28, the workers of the Auto Specialty Co., Windsor, Ont., concluded a successful strike. These workers had suffered ex- ploitation, typical of the exploita- tion taking place in all auto plants at the present time. In an effort to win better conditions these work- | ers organized into the Auto Work. ers’ Union and went out on strike. After maintaining a strong picket line for two days (completely tying up the plant), the workers found the boss ready to settle with the workers and the strike was won.| Increases ranging from 40 per cent to 80 per cent, a 9-hour day instead of the 12 to 16 hours previously worked; time and a half for over- time; recognition of the shop com- mittee, were some of the demands won by the strikers. These workers now recognize what it means to have an organization in the shop} that takes care of their living standards and working conditions, The little Blue Books is: provided that all disputes be se! | @ board of three: workers, and one so-called neutral. This company union The workers are co! face in the midst of one of its most brazen be- For through their maneuvers t at the height of the production period. ite al forces on the picket lines in overwhelming num- Build rank and file strike committees. | is the way to win. | Defeat all strikebreaking efforts of the manu- facturers and the NRA to beat down the standard of living of the auto workers by striking now and striking all the big auto plants unitedly, Nash eens Wears 4 in 1 Milwaukee, Kenosha Reject Auto Board Proposal (PP)—Strik- | one for the co) plan of Roosevelt new deale is a boon to labor, This move on the part of the r signifies that the Board is already Mapse. It is a desperate move on A. F. of L. officialdom to save its workers must not allow the A. F. save their faces through their s) t into a more favorable position to | brazen betrayal. is of the auto workers ly through their united can Arbitration resulted in the betrayal of the Nash strike last November. Let's have none of it today, ime for the auto workers to strike— This “Faith in ia Rosey elt” Plea by A. F. L. Man | Fails To Break Strike (Special to the | KENOSHA, Wis. April 8.—Nash| auto workers yesterday noon d |to reject the strikebreaking propo- |} sals put forward by Roosevelt’s Na- | tional Automobile Tribunal. Several hours later workers of the Seaman Body Corp. plant also voted} 40 to 85 to carry on t e for higher v This decic’ons of the Kenosha workers are binding on the | workers of the Nash auto plant at Racine. A cursory examination of the) document containing Roosevelt's proposals and purporting to be a | settlement, but which actually is a | frantic effort to deceive the Nash | men into returning to work, reveals | that it is in all respects identical} with the reply made by Nash to the demands of the strikers some two or three weeks ago. At that time Nash offered to! increase the wages of the Racine men 10 per cent and adjust wages in both Milwaukee and Kenosha. Daily Worker) vides for. It is by no means the 20 per cent flat increase that the committee was demanding. The settlement makes no mention of rec- ognition of the union, and instead | mum. | Auto Workers Urged Rejection The Auto Workers Union issued 1,500 leaflets calling upon the strik- ers to. reject this betrayal settlement | at their meeting. | One of the most disgusting fea- jtures of the so-called settlement |; was the manner in which Richard Byrd, secretary of the United Auto- mobile Workers Union (A. F. of L.) of Pontiac and labor’s representa- tive on the board, atempted to stuff (Continued on Page 2) |matum on s' | Co.; | big shops if This is what the settlement pro-| | of the 60c an hour minimum de-| | manded, provides for a 50c mini-| this rotten deal down the unsuspe*t- | to T Picdaeet Body, Hudson, Midland Steel Affected in Plan for Walkout DEFY A. F. L. HEADS Strike in Western Union for Pay Increase By A. B. MAGIL despite the fact that the ‘ca DETROIT, April § throughout the land already had the strike sett A. F. of L. ieader and were throwing sweet-smelling bouquets at the feet of Mr. Roosevelt and his Labor Board. gaged in secret negotiz ations * Fa : with the newly ganized ‘OLLOWING the failure of the Labor Board to | automobile labor board in an break the strike, Richard Byrd “threatens” to | effort to sell out the Motor Product e movement in hundred tool Ss of Mi of Americ to stri ‘their. dema The M.ES.A, Yaa se Fisher Body plant No. 37; 1 Steel Products Co.; Hudson M Detroit Michigan Stove Co., and the McCord Radiator Co. The tool and die makers meeting gave an enthusiastic ov n to John Anderson, fighting organizer of Local 7, MES.A., who pointed out the ne of pulling out the e strike is to be Ss are being taken CoN Toa poe militants: in the M_ES.A. to as- |sure the election. of a rank and file strike committee. The Motor Products M-ES. ne members, among whom are m militants showing the way, are ta! ing steps to organize a united action of all strikers to win their demand: A mass meeting of the striker: called for tomorrow at 8 p.m. Thi workers are inviting representatives of all unions to speak. Leaflets ex- posing the A. F. of L. officials and |calling for united action, and the successful. St Jelection of a rank and file strike committee are being distributed. Negotiations with the Labor Board are in the hands of a committee of six, all faithful flunkeys of the A. F. of L. leaders, | Thompson, who are the ones direct- ling sell-out moves. Collins and Thompson are continuing to pre- vent militant mass picketing and are trying to keep away from the plant. A. F. of L. ‘strong- jarm squads are operating around |the picket line, but militants are | nevertheless active in picketing. The men feel that if the A. F. L. leaders try to send them back pending a | settlement they will not accept it They are holding fast to the demand for wage increases while the com- | pany is not only fighting the in- | crease but is actually trying to put | over a wage cut. Collins and Thompson Not Present At a local of A. F. L. meeting yes- terday Collins and Thompson were not present and on the motion of | Joe Schuler, a rank and file presi- dent of the local, a motion was passed to allow M. E. S. A. members who had been kept out by A. F. of L. thugs into meetings. The spirit of t is strong but organization- 5 were weak. However realization of need of organizing op: (Continued on Page 2) Detroit Western Union Messenger Boys on Sirike | DETROIT, Mich., April 8—More than 100 messenger boys of the Western Union Telegraph Co. went out on strike yesterday, demanding a minimum wage of 30 cents an hour, it was stated by A. A. Burr, local superintendent of the com- pany, The appended new item taken from the New York Times of April 5 confirms the information that Karl Severing and Paute Loebe, leaders of the German Socialist Party, are now collecting pensions from the Fascist Hitler government. Never were pensions better de- served. Severing, whose name was re- cently the subject of the ludicrous, cooked-up story of the Socialist press that the Communist press had “forged” the story of Severing’s having writen a book praising the Hitler regime has a long record ® Severing, German S. P. Leader, Gets Hitler Pension NEW LEADER REPRINTS JEWISH FORWARD SLANDERS; SILENT ON SEVERING PENSION of treachery to the German working class. He has admitted his leading part in the bloody suppression of the proletarian revolutions in Germany| |and former editor of the eonser-| during the years immediately after the world war in Germany. He has boasted how he “went easy on the Rights” during those years,| 15. and “suppressed the Left radicals,” thus “saving the country from Bol- shevism.” It was reported, it will be remem-| bered, that Severing is now writing a book of “memoirs” in which he finds “some positive achievements” in the Nazi regime of Hitler, ciepceenrne eraenenenimaramemanrmnannannaonrent: atik-ndi Stila This report appeared on March 10,} in the anti-fascist paper, Gegen- hard, famous European jeyrnalist | vative “Vossische Zeitung,” printed in the magazine “Aufruf” of March It was then that the Seeiaieia! paper in the Saarbrucken, the| Volks-Zeitung, printed the news, and | appended an article made up from | previous writings of Severing to} indicate the sort of thing that the) readers of Severing’s sso book could expect from him as in- \ Angriff in Paris. It then appeared | in an article signed by George Bern-| dicated by what he had said anc | done in the past up to Hitler’s ac- cession to power. ‘he Communist editors of the Volks Zeitung very plainly and clearly stated that Severing of course, wes not writing for their paper, and that the article under his name was a composite article made up from Severing’s own writings. The Communist editors of Volks Zeitung showed that even before one had seen Severing’s new book one could already see what it would be from what he (Continued on Page 8) | Collins and -