The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 12, 1934, Page 1

——— CYRCULATION DRIVE MEW SUBS RECEIVED YESTERDAY Students > « to Hit War Tomorrow In Many Strikes Plan Demonstrations in Schools Throughout the United States N. Y, MEET TONIGHT Final Preparations to Be Made for Actions NEW YORK.—Students in universities, colleges and high schools throughout the United States will hold scores of mass meetings against war and take part in a one-hour strike against war tomorrow, according to an announcement issued by the Youth Section of the American League Against War and Fascism. The one-hour strike will begin at 11 a. m, tomorrow. It has been planned and organized jointly by the National Student League and!| the League for Industrial Democ- | racy, with the assistance and sup- port of the youth section of the League Against War and Fascism, the Young Communist League and other young workers’ and students’ organizations. eet ee NEW YORK.—A joint mass and membership meeting of the League for Industrial Democracy and the National Student League will be held tonight at the Union M. E. Church, 229 W. 48th St., to make final preparations for the student strike against war on Friday. Following the meeting the entire membership will form a torchlight parade through the Times Square district. ‘The strike preparations are find- ing great response in the city high schools and colleges, with a great number of faculty members of Co- lumbia University, New York Uni- hibald Bouton has warned the cents not to strike. His threats n back at a large student. ng on Wednesday. The Peace Council of Hunter come out in support of At Columbia University committee of three students is interviewing President Nicholas Murray Butler, to get his stand on the struggle against war. Besider the strike being prepared at De Witt Clinton High School and Abraham Lincoln, large mass meet~ ings at Jamaica High School, where students are given military train- ing, and Townsend Harris, have been orgenized to get the sentiment, of the students towards the call of the Youth Section of the Amer- {Continued on Page 2) Vets to Meet On May 10th Rank and File Demand Cash Bonus, Repeal of Economy Act WASHINGTON, D. C., April 11.— The Veterans National Rank and! File Committee has issued a call| here for a mass rank and file con- vention of the veterans to take place here on May 10. The convention will demand com- plete repeal of the Economy Act, and “nothing less than the return to the status of benefits paid March 19, 1933.” The recent concessions made to the vetérans by Congress in the Independent Offices Act did not fully restore to the veterans the al- lowances taken from them by Roosevelt’s Economy Act. The veterans’ convention will de- mand immediate cash payment of the bonus and will support the de- mands for relief to the unemployed and to the farmers. The Veterans Rank and File Com- mittee, P. O. Box 177, Washington, D. C., calls on all veterans to send & “Daily” To Print Full Text of Earl Browder Report on Saturday Four full pages of the Satur- day edition of the Daily Worker will be devoted to the publica- tion of the brilliant report by Earl Browder, General Secretary of the Communist Party, to the Eighth National Convention, which was held in Cleveland last week, The four pages will com- prise a separate and removable section of the issue, so that workers will be able to preserve this masterly analysis for future reference. All workers’ organizations, clubs and units who want to spread this report should order special bundles of the Saturday edition immediately. Hitler Court Plans Death For 50 Seamen German Red Aid Urges Immediate Worldwide Mass Protests HAMBURG, Germany, April 11, (By Cable).— Trial of 50 German seamen and harbor-workers, charged with revolutionary activities, began here today. The death penalty is asked of the Hitler court by the Hitler prosecutor, The German Red Aid is actively organizing mass defense of these workers, and has called for support from anti-fascist workers in all parts of the world, in the form of resolutions and cables of protest, demamjing the release of these worketts. Protests should be ad- dressed to the Hanseatisches Son- dergericht, Hamburg, Germany, the court before which they are being tried. Shtered # sPbOHt-<hws matter dt fhe Post 5 New York, N. ¥., ugder the Apt of March 8, 1979 Daily .~QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) & NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1934 New York Students Demonstrate Against War Students of New York colleges and high schools taking part in a demonstration against war at the “eternal light” in Madison Square, New York, Students throughout the United States will go on a one- hour strike against war Friday, at 11 A. M. Buffalo Keep Scabs Out of Factory (Special to the Daily Worker) BUFFALO, N. Y., April 11—Two thousand workers of the Curtis Air- craft plant battled scabs and police been increased, and all are armed with tear gas bombs. When police rushed scab cars through the plant, and made their attack on the strikers, they answered with a shower of stones against the scabs. One cop and six other persons were injured. Sheriff Frank J. Offerman has asked the Erie County Board of Supervisors. for $5,000 for additional deputies. The company threatens to move the plant to Baltimore. The strikers appeal to all workers’ organizations in Baltimore, Bristol, Pa., and Gar- den City, Long Island, to help them by preventing the recruitment of scabs. They have sent telegrams of protest to Sheriff Offerman, Buffalo. All workers organizations are urged to send pledges pf solidarity and support to the Aeronautical Workers Union, 244 Forest Ave., Buffalo, N. Y. (For further news of the Curtiss strike, see Page 3) here yesterday. Police details have} Workers Rally to Delerike of Right to TaxiUnion Will Not Affiliate With AFL, Says Samuel Orner ‘Calls Mass Meeting in In Washington | Manhattan to Hit the Union Splitters BULLETIN NEW YORK.— The officials of The Taxi Cab Drivers’ Union of Greater New York will lead a delegation of taxi-cab drivers, whose licenses have been sus- pended or revoked by the Hack Bureau of the Police Department, and their wives and children to City Hall, Friday,, at 11 a.m. Included in this delegation will be men who for their strike ac- tivities are being discriminated against and black-listed in the taxi cab garages in the city of “New York. The men will meet on the Plaza of City Hall with their wives and children to demand that both their licenses and their jobs be restored, or that the city award them cash relief. a cae NEW YORK.—The Taxicab Driv- ers Union of Greater New York has not affiliated and does not intend to affiliate with the American Fed- eration of Labor, Sam Orner, Presi- dent of the Manhattan Local de- resolutions to Congressmen, Presi- dent Roosevelt, to the Veterans’ Ad- ministration, demanding that ap- propriations be made to feed and house the rank and file delegates during their stay in Washington. The veterans are called on to hold clared in a statement yesterday. “A resolution purporting to repre- sent the decision of the member- ship was alleged to have been adopted in the Joint Countil of the Union by Messrs. Most and Smith, of the Bronx Local, and Mr. Gold- stein of Brooklyn. No such endorse- Union Sq. May First Many Groups Support Call for United Front Conference Saturday NEW YORK.——New York work- ers yesterday answered the attack by Mayor LaGuardia and his po- lice department on the plans of the United Front May Day Arrange- ments Committee for the use of Union Sq. on May Day by passing resolutions supporting the commit- tees and expressing their determi- nation to march on Union Sq. on May First. The City Committee of the In- ternational Workers Order, repre- senting a membership of 13,000, pledged to “mobilize our entire membership in New York City to march as a body together with all the working class organizations on this May First.” The United Coun- cil of Working Class Women, rep- resenting 4,000 members, stated its support of the United Front May Day demonstration. A call to all A. F. of L. locals and rank and file groups in the (Continued on Page 2) Aero Strikers! Perkins Would Extend “Share Work” Scheme Lewis Accepts the Plan| Which Would Cut | Miners’ Wages By SEYMOUR WALDMAN (Daily Worker Wahington Bureau) | WASHINGTON, April 11.—Secre-| tary of Labor Frances Perkins to- day announced that a special an-| thracite coal committee named by} her has recommended the applica- tion of the share-the-work plan to | the Western Pennsylvania area.| Their report recommended the “reg-| ulated equalization or shortening of| the working week to 32 hours in four days” and “unemployment insur- ance” based on joint contributions by miners and operators to solve “the emergency situation in the coal fields.” Mary Van Kieeck, Director of In-| dustrial Studies of the Russell Sage Foundation, characterized the Per- kins committee report as “another effort to force the miners to bear the burden of the exploitation of the non-restorable natural resource, coal.” The “share-the-work” plan, which was first inaugurated by Herbert Hoover, means wage cuts for those put on part time. To Extend Wage Cutting Scheme Miss Perkins indicated that the share-the-work (share-the-misery) plan will be applied to other in- dustries, thus making it clear that the Roosevelt administration, sup- ported by the officialdom of the American Federation of Labor, has begun a new drive to make the em- ployed workers share what little they have with the nearly 16,000,000 unemployed, “The plan is not per- (Continued on Page 2) Nessin to Speak on Taxi Strike Tomorrow NEW YORK.—The New York taxi strike will be the subject of a lecture by Sam Nessin, organizer of the Trade Union Unity League, at an open forum to be held under the auspices of the Communist Party, Section 15, Friday, 8 p.m., at the Bronx Workers Club, 1610 Bos- ton Rd., Bronx. $250,000 OHIO FIRE MARIETTA, Ohio, April 1— Fire raged unchecked for more than two hours early today, caus- ing $250,000 damages before it was stopped. The _ flames’ spread through the downtown section, al- most destroying the entire district. 990 Hartford Aero Men Walk Out; Cops Attack Curtiss Strikers in Buffalo © i Expect Hartford Walk- out to Involve 2,000 in Wage Demand HARTFORD, Conn., April 11— The strike in the aviation war in- dustry here is rapidly spreading. Over 550 workers are already out. Four hundred in three departments of the Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Company today joined with 150 aviation workers who struck yester- day at the Hamilton Standard Propeller Co. The strikers are demanding the restoration of the 1929 wage levels. The strike is expected to spread to the Chance Voight Corporation Wednesday, if the workers’ demand of an immediate 10 per cent pay increase is not granted. All three concerns are subsidiaries of the United Aircraft and Trans- port Corporation. They employ around 2,000 workers. The strike is under the leadership of the Indus- trial Aircraft Workers of America. Workers Strike for Overdue Back Pay March on City Hall; Drive Disruptor from Meeting BUFFALO, N. Y., April 11.—Six- teen hundred workers here, em- ployed by the Temporary Emergency Relief Administration, struck on the job yesterday for the back pay due them, and several hundred marched on the City Hall. Under the leader- ship of the Employed and Unem- ployed Protective League which had issued a general strike call to all relief workers on Monday, the workers are demanding full cash payment of their wages, which are now two weeks overdue. The self-styled “leader,” Frank Starkins, who sabotaged the last strike by issuing statements to the press that the strike had been called by a “little group of adventurists,” was exposed and driven from the strike meeting by the workers with the cries of “stool pigeon,” “skunk.” PHILA. PRISONERS ON HUNGER STRIKE PHILADELPHIA, April 11.—Re- volting against solitary confinement, which was forced upon them follow- ing a demonstration demanding bet- ter food, a score of inmates of the Philadelphia County Prison are on a hunger strike. The strike began Thursday after the disorders in the prison, Main Obstacles to Success By SAMUEL ORNER (President of Manhattan Local, Taxi Drivers Union of Greater N.Y.) NEW YORK.— The “Labor Sec- demonstrations and rallies in every Congressional district and to select|Mment was ever given by the Joint veterans to go to Washington. All| Council to our knowledge,” said Mr. veterans in shops, factories, frater-|Orner. “The resolution was the nal orders are called on to support| Work of a handful of people work- the mass convention in Washington,|ing under the guidance and insti- and to send representatives. gation of the Socialist Party leader- ship and does not have the backing (Continued on Page 2) ‘40-Years-and-Up’ Men Nazis herent German Worker on BombCharge BERLIN, April 11—Erwin Schulz, * a house panter, was arrested today| Form Pension, Job Clubs by Nazi policemen on the charge of throwing a hand grenade in “Un-| SAN DIEGO, April 11—“Forty ter den Linden,” which is located | Years and Up” clubs have been or- near the Interior Ministry, on] ganized in Southern California to March 21. demand Federal pensions for the Schulz, picked up because he is| aged and to advocate employment @lleged to be a Communist, firmly | in industry of persons who are more denied the bombing charge. than 40, tion” of the Socialist weekly, the New Leader of Saturday, April 7, features an article by Amicus Most, so-called organizer of the Bronx Local of the Taxicab Drivers Union of Greater New York, which con- tains statements reflecting upon the honesty, integrity and ability of the leadership of the Manhattan Local. In conjunction with this article, this same New Leader carries what purports to be a resolution imply- ing censure of the methods em- ployed by the’ Manhattan Local. We would be pleased to know when and where this resolution was voted upon. We have made some inquiries of dozens of Bronx mem- bers, but all seem to be in the dark as to this resolution. On one thing they are all in perfect accord—that this resolution was never put to a Panken, Levy, Most ‘hele sues that Mr, Most introduced vote of the Bronx members. Is it WEATHER: Clearing and Colder jf / AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING CLASS DABLY NEWSPAPER (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents Strike Of 5,000 Auto Tool, Die Makers Looms Today; Smith Maneuvering Sellout E of the most important National Convention of th working-class power. workers’ needs an aim in itself. masses with a two-fold objective. interests of their capitalist exploite: classless, socialist society. improve their conditions even now Popularize the Struggle for Power, For a Soviet United States | (AN EDITORIAL) more clear, concrete and forceful placing of the problem of the revolutionary way out of the crisis, the problem of There have been certain tendencies in practice, though not in theory, to make the immediate, day-to-day struggles for the The Communist Party always entered every struggle of the toiling First, we tried with all our strength | and capacity to organize the masses and to lead them to immediate | victories, that is to higher wages, improved working conditions, social | insurance, etc. Secondly, we aimed to convince the masses, on the | basis of their present unbearable living conditions and their experi- ences in every struggle, that the present state power serves the class must be destroyed by means of a proletarian revolution, and that through such a revolution a workers’ state can be established which will then enable the workers to lead the way toward the building of a In other words, in the day-to-day efforts of the toiling masses to | are always in the forefront. We reject the old, shop-worn theories of |C° (Continued on Page Six) ‘Midland Steel, Motor | Products Workers Force Pay Rise A.F.L. HEADS’ GUILE | Strike Wave Spreads to Canadian Factories contributions of the Eighth Communist Party was the BULLETIN (Special to the Dafly Worker) TOLEDO, Ohio, April 11.—Five hundred workers of the Bingham Stamping Co., manufacturers of auto parts, struck this morning. They demand a 10 per cent wage increase and union recognition. The strike is led by the Automo- tive Workers Federal Union. They participated in the strike during the latter part of February which was settled with a five per cent increase in pay and a promise of | more on April 1. | Action was taken by the rank and | file of the Bingham workers with- out their leaders when no pay in- | crease was forthcoming. Sentiment s for spreading the strike to the Auto-Lite Co. and the Logan Ge: All these plants are controll eee: | am pli Ts, that this state power can and under capitalism, the Communists by the Minniger int are on duty at the Bi ‘Can’t See Scott: Jailers Tell I. L. D. Attorney By A. B. MAGIL (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., April 11—While the strike of 800 workers of the De- troit Stove Co., under the leadership of the Mechanics Educational So- | ciety of America holds solid, a walk- shoro Niggers’, With Attorney on Patterson and Norris Denied Right To Consult | Vigorous Protests Urged | out of 5,000 tool and diemakers for tomorrow midnight loomed as a re- sult of the rejection today by the | Manufacturers’ Association, repre- | senting the job shops, of the men’s | demands. | The tool and diemakers, organ- Pending Appeal; MONTGOMERY, Ala., April 11.— “I don’t give a damn who you got a letter from, you can’t see those! | Scottsboro niggers,” was the an-| | swer of the jailers here to a request by Benjamin J. Davis. Jr. Negro. I. L, D. attorney of Atlanta, Ga., who was sent by the I. L. D. to in-| terview Heywood Patterson and Clarence Norris in Kilby prison. Davis had a letter from Joseph Brodsky, chief counsel for the I. L. D. and attorney of record in the Scottsboro case, authorizing him to interview the boys as member of counsel. He was categorically re- fused permission to see them. Davis announced he would return in a few days and force the prison authorities to let him see the boys. Davis is I. L. D. counsel retained in the legal defense of Angelo} Herndon, young Negro organizer of the unemployed under sentence of World Workers to | Protest Scottsboro | Verdicts April 25 NEW YORK. — The Interna- tional Labor Defense in more than 70 countries throughout the world will participate in an in- tensive Scottsboro protest drive, culminating in demonstrations before American consulates April 25, anniversary of the first big Scottsboro demonstration, held in Harlem on that date in 1931, The demonstrations and ac- tions throughout the world, un- der the direction of the Interna- tional Red Aid, world ILD. body, will be directed to the de- mand for reversal of the lynch sentences against Heywood Pat- terson and Clarence Norris by the Alabama State Supreme Court, before whom the cases are now being appealed. | ized in the M. E. S. A., are demand- 18 to 20 years on the chain-gang in ing a 20 per cent wage increase, a Atlanta, Ga. * s 30-hour week, overtime pay f hours over seven; no Saturday NEW YORK.—A call to all sym-| work; and 24 hours notice on dis- pathizers with the Scottsboro boys | charge. to intensify their protest against Matthew Smith, general secretary the torture of the.Scottshoro boys | of the M. E. S. A., is doing every- in Jefferson County jail, where! thing possible to prevent the strike, they are being kept in solitary and| gespite the demand for action by given beatings in an effort to force; the men. Smith is laying the bas ‘them to renounce the I. L. D. de-| for bringing in the strikebreaking fense and accept a lynch lawyer Regional Labor Board, of which he of the National Association for the| is a member. But his hand may be Advancement of Colored People,| forced by the rank and file who last was sent out today by William L.| Saturday voted unanimously to Patterson, national I. L. D. secre-| strike tomorrow midnight. tary. | This afternoon Smith conferred Protests, addressed to Governor | with officials of two General Motors the warden of Kilby Prison, Mont- gomery, Ala., should demand per- mission for I. L. D. lawyers and representatives to see the boys| held in that prison. | Protests against the torture of Miller, the state supreme court a |the boys in Birmingham should be sent to Governor Miller, the state supreme court, all at Montgomery, Ala.; the sheriff of Jefferson County and the warden of Jefferson County jail, Birmingham, Ala, Libel Hearing of the | “Daily” Writer Is Postponed 2 Weeks} NEW YORK.—The hearing on the | case of Harry Raymond, Daily) Worker staff writer, accused by) George Williams, notorious strike-| breaker, of criminal libel, which was | called for Tuesday, April 10, was| again postponed—this time until) April 24. * | This law suit, while aimed per-; sonally at Raymond, is an attempt on the part of the Williams and Sherwood strikebreaking forces to| muzzle the Daily Worker, which is the only paper that supported the| taxi drivers’ strike and effectively | exposed the enemies of the hack- men. j Taxi Union Head Reveals Betrayal of Socialist Leaders and voted upon this resolution him- Self? Mr. Most states that we were of- fered a plebiscite by Mrs. Herrick, that we rejected this plebiscite, and then pleaded with the N.R.A. and the city officials for the same ple- biscite that he claims we rejected. Most’s Autocratic Tasts We believe that Mr. Most is fully aware that the methods of the Manhattan Local leadership are thoroughly democratic; that we never accepted or rejected any pro- posal without the approval of the rank and file. Mr. Most knows that we have at all times submitted all proposals to the membership for rejection or acceptance. This method possibly does not appeal to the autocratic tastes of Mr. Most. What our membership rejected was not a proposal for a plebiscite that would -be thoroughly democratic, free from all intimidation, and coercion, but a proposal of Mrs. Herrick that we first go back to work before the plebiscite was to be held. Mr. Most, why do you rebuke us for this? As a so-called labor or- ganizer, you should know what it means to have men abandon a strike, go back to their shops and then vote under the noses of their employers. SAMUEL ORNER President of the Manhattan Local of the Taxi Drivers Union of Greater New York, Yes, Mr. Most, we did reject this plebiscite, and we are mighty proud of having done so. Mr. Most states that we closed the doors to all nego- tiations. Why? Because we rejected a plebiscite which put the odds against us? Many of us are now seriously considering whether all of our negotiations in City Hall were worth the time spent upon them. We are inclined to believe that these negotiations had the twofold pur- pose of crushing our strikes; first by compelling the leaders to absent themselves from the men, thereby losing contact with them, as all these negotiations were dragged-out affairs; and secondly, by fostering a false illusion that something worthwhile can be gotten at these parleys. It has been our bitter ex- perience that these parleys are dragged out until our men are, starved into submission, or they result in the sort of an agreement, that your master, Mr. Panken, shoved down our throats, the agree- ment which terminated the Febru- ary strike. Mr. Most's Falsehood | The statement of Mr. Most that! we rejected Mrs. Herrick’s sell-out | Plebiscite without the knowledge of | > Urges Rank and File Socialists to Halt the Split Maneuver | the Bronx and Brooklyn leaders is a downright lie. Both Mr. Gold- stein of the Brooklyn Local and Mr. Smith of the Bronx Local were pre- sent at Mr. Golden’s home with the | Manhattan leaders, when all of the} j above informed Mr. Golden, Secre- | |tary of the Regional Labor Board, | | that the plebiscite was unacceptable |to the men of all the locals. Prob-| ably the only one not consulted was! Mr. Most. If Mr. Most would have | spent more time with the strikers | barge lines. * | yesterday against (Continued on Page 2) 200 Dock Workers Strike in St. Louis For Wage | Increase |Barge Captains Out on Strike in N. Y. Harbor (Special to the Daily Worker) ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 11—Two hundred Negro and 75 white work- ers of the Federal Barge Line, gov- ernment controlled, struck at noon yesterday. They demand a 40 per cent increase in wages. A joint strike committee of the A. F. of L. members and the Marine Workers Industrial Union was formed. There is complete solidarity and a united front among the work- ers. Lee, Negro ward heeler, is mak- ing an effort to split the strikers’ ranks, The Regional Labor Board is ac- tive, but the men from the start are determined to win. The American Steel, U. 8.’ Steel subsidiary, and the Monsanto Chemical Co. need sulphur, a barge line cargo, to operate for war pro- duction, which they cannot now ob- tain with the barge lines tied up. There is a move on to spread the strike to the railroads and to other ee NEW YORK.—Thirty barge cap- tains of the Hedgers Transportation Co., located at the foot of Columbia St., Brooklyn, walked out on strike the miserable conditions prevailing on the barges. Over 700 barges are expected to be tied up wthin the next few days. The Marine Workers Industrial Union, 140 Broad St., has pledged its support to the bargemen and has called on them to elect a committee of the vest fighters among them to lead the strike. “Spread the strike to other barges,” says the call issued by the and less time at Mr. Panken’s home | Marine Workers Industrial Union. receiving instructions on how to be- | The union offered the bargemen fuddle the men, probably he would | assistance to organize a mass picket have had an opportunity to vote in| line and warned the strikers to be- the affirmative on Mrs. Herritk’s| ware of individual “negotiators” who sell-out plebiscite. | want to “settle” the strike through Mr. Most rebukes the Manhattan | private negotiations with the barge Local for calling a conference of| owners without the whole strike labor unions, fraternal organiza-| committee being present. tions, etc., at which Mr. Most says| The men are forced to remain that Ben Gold was to be the chief| aboard the barges 24 hours a day | speaker. At no time was the sug-' for the generous N.R.A. sum of $1 gestion made that Ben Gold was a day. The strikers are demanding $135 a month and $2 @ nigh fer | watching the barge (Continued on Page 6) i