The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 10, 1934, Page 1

-_—S CIRCULATION DRIVE NEW SUBS RECEIVED YESTERDAY AMERICA’S ONLY WORKI aily <QWorker sc agar og ie oe CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER Pies CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) ; é z Vol. XI, No. 86 > 6 ging higeyenrdiersn ge raniantny NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1934 WEATHER: Showers, colder (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents ‘DETROIT AUTO STRIKE SHUTS DOWN HUDSON PLANT Urge T ax i Minneapolis C.W.A. Men | Drive rs to Act to Insure Victory of Spike S. P. Demonstration for Jobs _ Split Tactics 1 | Thomas and Panken in| Move To Break Up Taxi Union Motor Products Men Spurn Sell-Out Plan Of A. F. of L. Leaders 3,000 Hartford Aircraft *S.ice:'s.800 ou ° | In Muskegon ‘Men Demand Pay Raise : COLLINS IS BOOED 400 Stamford Rubber Workers Vote for Strike, Strike of 15,000 Looms This Thursday | When Minneapolis Workers Won Relief Demands ys. g x | datitiaink Party Will Hold 6 Mass Meets for Arrested 32 No Reason for Auto Workers to Strike?— Just Look at This! NEW YORK—Why auto work- ers strike and fight for higher wages and better working condi- tions can be clearly realized by looking at the difference be- tween profits of the capitalist owners and wages of the workers. ‘The General Motors report for the year 1933 reads: (Special to the Daily Worker) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., April 9.—| Large committees of former C.W.A. | | workers were elected at overflow | meetings held by the United Relief | | Workers’ Association in two halls | here Monday to present the work- | ers’ demands before Governor Floyd | B. Olson. Olson, the Farmer-Labor | Governor, who, at the recent con-| NEW YORK the Socialist Party, Thomas, Judge Jacob Panken and | Morris Feinstone, stepped into the limelight yesterday and promised | to give their full support in the} move now afoot to split the Taxi | *e Demand Union Recognition Sine ee ; “Sales in dollars rose 31 per setae | unaeacae takor | ithe earnings rose 50,000 per lghktve wank’ $6 tesa tamion tka nig (Special to the Daily Worker) | strike if no answer is given them MUSKEGON, Mich, April 3— } Following an announcement in ey se issued a statement to the press re-| HARTFORD, Donn: spell tar Leese aus Sie thousand Eighteen hundred workers of the Socialist newspaper, the ‘New | ‘Average annual wages rose garding the workers’ demonstration With 2,000 workers from the Hart| five hundred men at the Colt plan Campbell Wyant a C dander that-& pesouitinn had. Ween chee of one per hove: Prifiay. that “thie ‘Hotne" was and Hegemn Arrow Electric Co.| have voted today for a strike, and Poca: taatatnchariae ppeercics pigeons Te teeta = the nba Bae fae Cane tunieisy we were ny pete ce Pippin Bid ad jsitla aks Naad ea ie blocks, struck Saturday for wage calling for the affiliation of these sections with the A. F. of L. and the driving out of Communists, the capi- talist press took up the cry yester- day for a split in the union. The resolution calling for the split is to be brought up, according to} ‘Phila. C. W. A. and Jobless Demand tercede; let the law take its course.” All 82 of the arrested workers ex- pressed their confidence in the In- ternational Labor Defense, and will be defended by David Levinson of the I. L. D., with the help of local) attorneys. Communist Party Calls Mass Meets tories threatening strike unless their demands are won, Hartford faces a strike movement throughout the city this week. Four thousand workers at the Underwood plant threaten strike by Wednesday. Three thousand work- | are ready for a (Special to the Daily Worker) STAMFORD, Conn., April general walkout. | Four hundred workers of the Nor-| | walk Rubber and Tire Company | voted to strike this morning. workers are demanding recogn | increases and other demands. Mass picketing started this morning, | and picket, scale and press com- | mittees were elected by the strikers, By A. B, MAGIL of the Rubber Workers Industrial | Union and an increase in wages. | ers from the Pratt-Whitney Aircraft | Co. are presenting their demands capitalist press reports, for a vote (Special to the Daily Worker) The Communist Party is issuing See Editorie] on Taxi Men on Page 6 at two meetings at 4 a. m. today, organized by the Socialist leaders at Hunts Point Palace in the Bronx and the Amalgamated Temple in Brooklyn. The prime movers and chief ad- vocates of the split, the aim of which is to divide the Brooklyn and Bronx drivers from the militant Manhattan local, are none other than Norman Thomas, Judge Panken and Morris Feinstone, who, it is reported, will address the meet- ings. Gilbert Calls for Unity Joseph Gilbert, organizer of the Manhattan locai, in commenting on this latest move of the Socialist leaders to divide the taxi workers, said that “the aim of Thomas and Panken is to break up the militant Taxi Drivers’ Union and stampede a section of the men into the A. F. (Continued on Page 2) Protest Meeting in Wash’ ston Tonight On Jim-Crowism Called tay United Front Group Organized by the L.S.N.R. (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, April 9.—Negro and white workers and all others interested in fighting discrimination against Negroes by the Federal Gov- ernment are urged to attend a mass meeting and conference here on the question, particularly on the recent open Jim-Crowism of Negroes in government buildings, on Tuesday, April 10, at 8 p.m., in the Christian Church on 12th St., between S and T Sts. The meeting is being held by the Provisional Committee to fight dis- crimination. Organized by the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, the committee includes Howard Covington, Negro student of Howard University who was fired from his part-time job as a waiter in the House of Representatives restaurant because he served one of his race in this public eating place. Signers of the call for the meeting are Rev. Leon Collins, Rita Boston and Ger- trude Thorp of the LS.N.R., L. Wil- liams, of the International Labor Defense, George Murphy, of the Afro-American, Baltimore News- paper; Dorothy Cook, of the Wom- ens’ International League for Peace and Freedom; Harold Spencer, of the Communist Party; Peter War- ner, of the Young Communist League, and Covington. Building a united front to carry through immediate action against police brutality and all discrimina- tion against Negroes, the committee bas won rank and file support which forced the Socialist Party and Young Peoples’ Socialist League leaders to cooperate. Among the other organizations that responded to the call include the International Workers Order, one lodge of the Daughters of Moses, the Mount Nebo Baptist Church, the Negro Mechanics Assoriation (organized Negro workers who were refused admittance into the Amer- ican Federation of Labor) and the . F. of L, rank and file committee. ‘ Allison Miners Strike In New Mexico Against Company Lamp Charges GALLUP, N. Mex., April 4 By Mail) —Miners of the Allison mine went on strike here against charges of $1.75 a month for lamps. The strike is practically 100 per cent effective.. Only one scab is work- ing in the mine. Cash Relief, Jobs 700 at Peoria Meeting Demand C. W. A. Continue PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 9. — Protesting the forced labor which the City Welfare Department has instituted for relief and “work re- lief” projects, and demanding union wages in no case less than the original C. W. A. wages, more than 1,000 workers, under the leadership of the Unemployment Councils and | onstrated at Raeburn Plaza here Saturday. the Unemployment Councils, had outlined the entire hunger program of Roosevelt and the city adminis- tration, the workers greeted the de- mand for the immediate enactment of the Workers’ Unemployment In- surance Bill. The dollar-a-day coolie wages are being carried out of “work relief.” A Negro worker, Hamilton, reported at the meeting that he had worked three days on his job last week, and had only been paid $3, Mass Meet in Peoria PEORIA, Ill—Seven hundred C. W. A. and unemployed workers jammed the mass meeting, held at the Ray Hotel here last week, de- manding continuance and enlarge- ment of C. W. A. and the enact- ment of the Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill. As the crowd of workers filled the hall and overflowed into the street, a second mass meeting was held for those workers who could not get into the hall. The Workers’ Bill H. R. 7508 and a Workers’ Relief Ordinance were unanimously approved by the as- sembled workers, and a plan of ac- tion formulated. Several hundred workers joined the Unemployment Councils, and steps are being taken to consolidate the movement and build branch locals of the Council in the neigh- borhoods. ALGERIAN LEADERS FRAMED PARIS.—Three revolutionary leaders in Algeria have been sen- tenced to one year in prison each, it was learned last week. The charge was inciting to pillaging, al- the charge is contrary to the actual fact. the C. W. A. Workers’ Union, dem- | After John Parkes, Secretary of | though the evidence showed that| the 25,000 statements calling for six mass meetings in the city, where some of the members of the committee who have been released on bail will speak. At these meetings, Com- munist Party members will present the program of the Communist) Party. As the trial of the 32 arrested workers opened Monday, the City Hall was an armed camp. Workers and professional workers who came in dozens to appear as witnesses for the defense were searched by the police before being allowed into the ers will be called as witnesses for the defense. Meanwhile, the Fifth District Farmer-Labor Association, in a meeting yesterday, demanded that (Continued on Page 2) Hodson “Helpless” As Pickets, C.W.A. Men Demand Jobs Picket Lines Will Con- tinue, Leaders Say NEW YORK.—wWhile laid-off C. W. A. workers continued to picket the offices of Commissioner of Wel- fare William Hodson, at 50 La- fayette St., Hodson told a delega- tion of five workers, elected by the Greater New York United Front Conference on C. W. A, and Unem- ployment, that he was “helpless.” Hodgon, smooth, ingratiating, al- ways soft-spoken, expressed his “sympathy” with the unemployed and fired C. W. A. workers, but when the workers’ delegates de- manded that he translate this “sym- pathy” into actions in granting the workers’ demands, he categorically refused, variously portioning the blame onto the Board of Estimate, the city administration, the state, and Washington, “How can I do what you ask me,” Hodson pleaded with the delegates, “when I am constantly beseiged with delegations?” attempting to evade main issues that the delegates (Continued on Page 2) NEW YORK—‘“Trud,” the official organ of the Soviet Tradé Unions, which have a ‘membership of mil- lions of Soviet workers, will have a special page in the May Day issue of the Daily Worker. A cablegram received from Mos- cow yesterday states that N. N. : Shvernik, Gen- eral Secretary of the Soviet Trade js sending an ditorial, s pe- jally written dy him for the “Trud” page in the Daily Worker. Shver- Fred member of the see Presidium of the Communist Party Congress held recently in the U.S. S. R. ‘The special “Trud” page will con- tain letters written by Soviet work- ers and hitherto unpublished pic- tures showing industrial progress in the Socialist Fatherland. In addition, the “Trud” page will contain a drawing by its staff car- toonist, Fred Ellis. Comrade Ellis, at one time the Soviet “Trud” to Have Page In May First Issue of “Daily” staff cartoonist of the “Daily,” now residing in the Soviet Union, is in- ternationally known for his power- ful revolutionary cartoons and drawings. An exhibition of his work in Moscow recently evoked high praise and enthusiasm from Soviet art critics and from Soviet workers. ‘The special May Day issue of the Daily Worker will contain 24 full size pages, the largest edition in the history of our paper. Its circulation is expected to reach half a million, twice the circulation of the histo- rical Tenth Anniversary edition. The numerous feature in the May Day edition will make this issue of lasting revolutionary worth to every worker. Order your copies of the May Day issue in advance. Send May Day Greetings to the “Daily” for May Day. Have your friends and fellow workers send greetings. Have them order their copies now. Several editions will printed, with special pages for various districts of the country. The editions will be printed in time to reach the districts for May Day sales. Altogether, comrades! Help reach half a million new workers with the history-making May Day issue of our Daily Worker! One of the high moments in last Friday, when thousands went relief and against C.W.A. lay-offs. break up demonstration. cs | the demonstration in Minneapolis to City Hall to enforce demands for | . Police used tear gas in effort to | Leaflets in Counter- Demonstration NEW YORK —With 250 Nazi storm troopers wearing Silver Shirt uniforms on guard, the Nazis of New York concentrated all their forces in a mass anti-Jewish meeting in Ridgewood Grove, Queens, Sunday night. The Nazis mustered 6,000, who filled the hall, and three or four thousand more who could not get in. Hundreds of police were on hand to protect the Nazis, and the silver-shirted storm troopers inside, armed with rubber blackjacks, ejected anyone they disapproved of. Cries of “Heil Roosevelt!” were mingled with cries of “Heil Hit- ler!” as speakers denounced all Jews and declared that Hitler's and Roosevelt's policies were ex- actly the same. When a resolution calling for a counter-boycott to the anti-Nazi boycott was presented, and one voice in the hall cried “No,” the storm troopers pounced on him and threw him out. Five thousand leaflets exposing the Hitler terror were distributed at the meeting and outside the hall by workers called by the Ridgewood Anti-Fascist Committee, the Com- munist Party and the Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism. ‘The workers had attended a mass meeting in Queens Labor Lyceum earlier, where speakers attacked the Nazis; Leaflets Effective That the leaflets they distributed were effective was demonstrated by the fact that no leaflets were to be seen on the ground afterward—all those who received them kept them and read them. Nazis and workers clashed out- side the hall several times, and three persons were arrested, among them Aaron Schlossberg and Abe Bloom. Both were charged with third degree assault, and released in $500 bail provided by the Inter- national Labor Defense. Schlossberg will come up for trial Wednesday, and Bloom on Friday, in the Fifth Magistrates’ Court, Ridgewood, Queens. Workers are urged to pack the courtroom when they come up for trial. 71 Cuban Prisoners On Hunger Strike Issue Appeal to World Proletariat (By Cable to Daily Worker)’ HAVANA, Cuba, April 9.—Seven- ty-one prisoners at Principe prison went on a hunger strike here yes- terday. The prisoners sang the In- ternationale. An appeal which they issued, states, in part: “We demand the freedom of all workers, soldiers and sailors who are being held for po- litical reasons, and declare before the whole world, especially the world proletariat, that we hold the government, Mendieta, and the im- perialist agent Caffery responsible for any consequences of our actions. Down with Yankee imperialism! Long live the agrarian anti-impe- rialist revolution!” | At Nazi Meet in Que Court House. More than 100 work-| [Workers Give Out 5000 — | today for wage increases and better working conditions, and plan a Mass picketing of the started this morning. oe ‘New England “Heil Roosevelt!” Is Cry Bosses Form ens, \Threaten Leaders of Shoe and Leather | Workers Union Roosevelt Signs Bill Giving $250,000,000 To Destroy Crops WASHINGTON. April 9.—Sit- ting on the palatial yacht of his close friend, Vincent Astor, mul- ti-millionaire real estate king and landlord of slum tenements, Roosevelt yesterday signed the new Agricultural Adjustment Bill providing for an appropriation of another $250,000,000 to pay for the destruction of wheat, cotton and corn crops this year. Last year Roosevelt spent al- most $800,000,000 to pay the rich farmers and plantation owners for the destruction of wheat, eorn and cotton. The Govern- metn collects the money back from the consumers through the processing taxes which have raised the price of bread and clothing by 15-25 per cent. since | last March. Workers, Faxcts, Clash In Belgium, France; Many Hurt One Dead in Brussels; 200 Arrested in Thionville BRUSSELS, April 9—One was killed and more than 40 injured in clashes between workers and fas- cist Nationalists in many parts of Brussels yesterday, when the fas- cists opened their new headquarters. Fascist headquarters at Eckeren were damaged, and one worker seri- ously injured, in clashes there be- tween workers and fascists. * PARIS, April 9—Two hundred were arrested in Thionville when police and fascist Nationalists at- tacked an anti-Fascist demonstra-| tion. Many were injured, includ-| ing two policemen, | Socialists At. Columbia Back NSL Candidate on Anti-War, Fascism Slate NEW YORK.—The Socialist Club at Columbia University has come out in support of the candidates and platform of the Social Problems Club, chapter of the National Stu- dent League, for the coming stu- dent board elections. The N. S. L, candidate, David Cook, is running on a six-point platform as follows: 1, An uncensored press. 2. Opposition to all signs of in- cipient fascism on the campus. 3. More intramural athletics. 4. Opposition to all forms of racial, and religious discrimination, 5. “Active cooperation with the Anti-War Committee. 6. Against retrenchment at ex- Fascist Band BULLETIN | HAVERHILL, Mass., April 9.—Six| | thousand striking shoe workers voted today to ratify a new wage and working agreement which has been approved by the shoe manufac- turers and the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union, according to captialist press reports. ‘The agreement provides for a ten/ per cent increase in wages Cae ane | HAVERHILL, Mass., April 9.—A} Vigilance Committee, a band of fas-| cist hoodlums formed by those “who have the country’s and the city’s best interest at heart,” has been) formed here for the purpose of crushing the militant six-week strike of shoe workers, | The city’s most “respectable citi- | zens,” several hundred of them, met in City Hall yesterday and signed | a pledge of allegiance to the Con-! stitution of the United States, to| Haverhill and to the Haverhill shoe | bosses. | Veiled and open threats that) “some of the union leaders would be taken to the city limits and told to keep moving,” that they would be beaten and kicked out, were made by some of the “Vigilantes.” Dr. Henry Kapp, a physician, who was chairman at the secret vigil- antes meeting, said that it was “part of the Soviet program of labor agit- ation in the U. S. It is time for us to do something to end Commu- nistic activities here.” Needless to say, the Vigilantes have the full support of the shoe bosses. \Camden Radio Workers Win Wage Increase 15,000 Ohio Miners | Win Wage Increase, Cut Working Hours Plant | yelopments in Detroit strike DETROIT, April 9.—Latest de- itua- tion are: 1. Meeting of striking | members of the Motor Products A. F. of L. local yesterday unanimously | rejected the sell-out settlement ne- | g0tiated by the automobile Labor Board and A. F. of L. officials and booed William Collins, A. F. of L. national organizer, 2. Eight hun- dred tool and die makers at Detroit, Michigan, Stove Company struck this morning under the leadership of the Mechanics’ Educational So- ciety of America, demanding a 20 per cent wage increase and a 36- hour, five-day week. 3. With the rank and file pressing for action, the M. E. S. A. threatens to call a strike involving over 15,000 tool and die makers if demands are not, met by Thursday midnight. 4. The Hud- CAMDEN, N. J., April 9—Seven| son plant was forced to shut down hundred striking workers of the| at 10:30 today because of lack of Radio Condenser Co., returned to/ stock, due to the Motor Products work today after receiving wage in- | strike. 5. Assistant Secretary of creases ranging from 10 to 34 per| Labor McGrady and A. F. of L. cent. leaders are beginning to lay the The company, however, did not} basis for bringing in Roosevelt to grant union recognition, a closed shop or abolition of piece work, which were part of the demands by the workers when they struck last Wednesday. send the Motor Products workers back. Elect New Officers Elections of new officers of the local took place at the meeting, Strikes at the Campbell Soup Co.| and the A. F. of L. leaders, in an and the New Shipbuilding Co. are! effort to consolidate their position, still 100 per cent effective. | managed to secure the election of Lawrence Moyer as president in NEW YORK. — Fifteen thousand | place of the militant worker, Joe Ohio coal miners today won a| Schuler. Moyer, who, a few days 24 2-7 per cent wage increase in an agreement signed by mine operators | ago appeared to be fighting for the interests of the rank and file, has and the United Mine Workers of | now shiited his position and be- America, according to the capitalist | COme an A. F. of L. yesman. press yesterday. Part of the increased wage is| with Motor Products, M. E. S. A. The Auto Workers Union, together made up by shortening the days to | @nd militants in the A. F. of seven hours. Enroll 3,600 New York Workers Into C. C. C. NEW YORkK.—Thirty-six hundred workers in New York City were to are continuing their efforts to es- tablish unity of workers of all unions as well as unorganized against the sell-out efforts of the A. F. of L. officialdom. The M. E. S. A. is holding a mass meeting in the Deutsches Haus tonight at which Speakers from all unions are invited. The Hudson plant was shut down have been enrolled yesterday in the| all day Saturday and the men were C. C. C., the War Department an-| sent home at 10:30 this morning nounced. Of this number it was Stated, 2,000 will be young work- ers between the wages of 18 and 25, and 1,600 will be war veterans. The C. C. C. Boys Protective League of 799 Broadway, urges all Cc. C. C. boys, enlisted as well as/ those wrose terms have expired, to come to the American Youth Club, 407 Rockaway Ave., Brooklyn, to prepare for the May First Wage Raise Cancelled by High Living Costs, A. F. L. Admits By SEYMOUR WALDMAN (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, April 9. — “The workers’ individual real wage today is no higher than it was a year ago,” the American Federation of Labor's monthly survey of business for April announced today. Failure to raise wages in proportion to greatly in- creased corporation profits, claims the A. F. of L,, is due to the fact that the employers “are less will- ing to cooperate in the President's program.” It is a widely known fact that the N. I. R. A., which is “the President’s program” forced the standard of living of the work- ers below the. terribly low Hoover level. “There is no justification for the large price increases which have been made in many products. Code | mechanisms have been used for) price profiteering. This is contrary | to the purpose of the Recovery Act. Price control is one of the chiet | problems before us. It is of prime) interest to labor that wage increases have been completely concelled by rising costs of living. The individual worker's real wage today is no higher than it was a year ago, in| spite of all efforts to raise it,”) declared the “Survey.” : pense of campus workers and low- salaried staff members, i broadcast the news that N. R. A, ‘Though even the Hearst press has Administrator General Hugh S Johnson used the N. I. R. A. to establish and legalize the company union, the A. F. of L. officials state | that “the Administration program | sought to establish balance in in- dustry. It provided for organiza- tion of employers, balanced by organization of labor; for restora-| More because the Motor Products strike tied up production, The company at the same time is attempting to use the lay-off to smash union or- ganization. The opportunity for a successful strike is unusually favor- able at the Hudson plant, and mili- tants are calling for united action (Continued on Page 2) 25,000 to March, Demand Release Of Farm Leader Farmers Will Go to the State Capitol in Protest LINCOLN, Nebraska, April 9— than 25,000 farmers will tion of workers’ buying power to march to the State Capitol Build- put idle work.” the quick increases in dividend pay- ments” and the fact that “stock holders’ and direztors’ meetings are producing capacity _to| ing on April 16 to demand the re- However, “notwithstanding | lease of Harry Lux, jailed farm leader of theyNebraska Holiday As- sociation, Hatwii Arcadia, member of the Executive Committee of the beginning to consider bonuses to) Association, declared today. officers,” these stock holders’ and directors’ profits “are not being balanced by wage increases to work- ers to any large extent except where workers are organized in trade unions,” admits the A. F. of L. The A. F. of L. repeats its en- dorsement of the Roosevelt 10-and- 10 scheme, (a 10 per cent increase in wages and a 10 per cent decrease in hours) a variation of the Teagle Standard Oil share-the-work plan the net result of which would be a decrease in the wage of each worker. In reporting how “the only large industries to respond to this scheme were those where labor H tions were strong or s were feared,” the A. F. of L. willy-nilly (Continued on Page 2) Lux, known throughout the state ;8S5 a militant leader of the pressed farmers against the m« gage sharks, was arrested when he told a demonstration to stop the foreclosure sale of a small farmers’ farm. He was fined $100 and con- victed of contempt of court. His appeal to the Supreme Court failed. He declared that he would rather go to jail than pay the fine. “Foreclosures are still continu- ing, despite the fact that the Legislature has passed mora- torium laws,” Macdonald said. “Either we should have a mora- torium that is a moratorium or know the reason why.” Prepartions for the march on thr State Capitol are now being ma?’