The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 13, 1934, Page 1

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Daily,QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. ) 33 757,600,000 Social Insurance Fund In USSR Gigantic Sum Given to Trade Unions To Administer WORKERS GET ALL Equals Funds U.S. Gives | To Big Capitalists By VERN SMITH (Daily Worker Moscow Correspondent) MOSCOW, April 12 (By Radio).—The workers’ social insurance fund which the state is turning over to the| trade unions for the coming} fiscal year totals 4,880,000,000 | , Which is the equivalent of | 00,000 at current exchange. | This sum, given to the workers for medical care, care of children, | insurance for old age or tempor- | ary disability, including confine- | ment for women workers, is al- most exactly the sum which the | Roosevelt government has set| aside this year for the Recon- struction Finance Corporation, to be given to banks, railroads, utili- ties and loan corporations, while the workers of the U. S. get no unemployment insurance, and @ paltry few get a starvation level of federal relief. Billien for Medical Care Of the gigantic sum set aside by the Soviet Government for work- ers’ social insurance, 1,040,000,000 roubles is for medical care; 750,- 000,000 is for worker-students’ scholarships; 884,000,000 is for building workers’ homes, hospitals, rest homes, sanatoria, homes for invalids, etc.; 823,000,000 is for wage insurance against temporary inabil- ity to work, such as pregnancy or} illness; 675,000,000 is for invalid | pensions; 327,000,000 for catering to | workers’ children—creches, kinder- gartens, Pioneer camps, extra diets) for school children, etc. | Unions Control Fund The government decree concern- ing this item of the state budget calls on the workers to popularize the workers’ control of this fund. and check on the correctness Of its distribution. The fund is adminis- tered by the trade union organiza- tions with the constant assistance of an immense network of volun- tary workers acting as inspectors in all plants, seeing that no one en- titled to social insurance is missed, and that the funds are properly ad- ministered. The workers and office employes maintain complete control over the organization of treatment of the sick, of sanatoria, hospitals and other medical institutions, as well as the creches, kindergartens and children’s homes. Over 1,000Workers Fired By City in Big Wage Cut Drive Layoffs, Wage - Slashes Follow Passage of Economy Bill NEW YORK—Over a thousand New York city employees were fired and other workers received new wage-cuts as LaGuardia began the actual slashing, of workers’ wages under the City Economy Bill. The wage-cuts and lay-offs involved em- ployees of thirteen city departments. Schedules for similar large-scale lay-offs and wage-cuts are now be- ing considered and prepared by the Board of Estimate, which announced yesterday that it would publish its plans for further drastic salary re- ductions within the next few days. In all, a total of $13,000,000 will be taken away from city workers in LaGuardia’s move to cut down on city expenses without touching the enormous sums annually due the Chase National and National City banks. The payment of $126,000,000 a year to these Wall Street banks will not be interrupted. LaGuardia is preparing further “economies” for his Wall Street masters. Foremost among these is the rise in subway fares, which is now secretly in preparation under the guise of a demagogic and fake “opposition” on the part of the Mayor. ‘i Czech Police Beat Starving Widows, Orphans of Miners PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, April 12.—Kighty-eight widows and 18 orphans of miners killed in the Nelson mine disaster, which was due to speed-up and neglect of safety provisions by the owners, were driven by police out of the parliament today when they de- manded an increase in their dole, declaring they could not live on the amounts allowed them by the gov- ernment. The women and children defended themselves vigorously against the police, several were in- jured and a number knocked un- ronscious before they were driven out. Trial of 37 Garfield, N. J., City Council Endorses the Workers’ Bill, 7598 GARFIELD, N, J., April 12.— The City Council of Garfield was forced to endorse the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insur- ance Bill (H. R. 7598) after a committee of workers from the Unemployment Councils, led by Saller, Communist candidate for Mayor in 1933, demanded that they do this. At previous meetings of the City Council, workers had ap- peared in behalf of the workers’ bill, demanding endorsement. When the committee presented the bill Wednesday, the council, by a unanimous vote, and with- out a word of comment, endorsed she bill. All But 6 of 69 Rescued From Ice-Floe Camp Schmidt, Tl, Flown To Nome, Alaska, for Medical Care (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, April 12 (By Radio)— Only six men are now left on the ice-fioe camp of the Chelyuskin ex- Pedition, tinuing their heroic rescue work, | and the last six are expected to | reach land very soon. Dr. Otto Schmidt, leader of the expedition, who is suffering from pneumonia, was flown to Nome, Alaska, from Cape Van Karem, Siberia, in a plane piloted by Slep- nev. He was put under doctors’ care there. Professor Schmidt, who had con- cealed for three days the fact that he had a temperature of more than 103, only agreed to leave the ice- floe before the last of his com- panions on specific orders from Moscow. (See Page 6 for details of rescue.) 1,000 Pottsville,Pa., ‘Small HomeOwners Force Tax Hearing |Seize and Force County Commissioners To At- tend Grievance Meet POTTSVILLE, Pa. April 12— More than 1,000 small homeowners from West Maloney Township smashed through the steel doors of an office of the Court House Annex here today, and forced the two Schuylkill County Commissioners to accompany them to a hearing on exorbitant taxes to small home- owners while the large coal com- panies assessments remain at pre- vious low levels. Assessments on small homes have been increased as much as 300 per cent, while the large coal companies have not had increased taxes. Following the demonstration, the city was forced to appoint a com- mittee to arrange assessment hear- ings throughout the township. Unemployed Begins in Minneapolis —» | Levinson of ¥ ILD Shows | Frame-up; Call 109 Witnesses MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., April 12. |—The city government mobilized all | of its forces to secure conviction of |the 37 workers arrested at last Fri- day’s demonstrations for C.W.A. jobs at the City Hall, as hundreds of workers jammed the court house the trial. of their demands and cash relief. As the trial of the first 19 work- ers began, David Levinson, Interna- tional Labor Defense attorney, who is defending the workers, brought for C.W.A. to the doors on the opening day of | The workers were ar-} | rested after the police had attacked | with tear gas, and after they had| forced the city council to grant all| jobs | Planes Rescue Mar This plane was one of those engaged in the work which preceded the rescue of most of an ice floe off the Siberian coast from Feb. 13, when their ship sank to April 11. In the plane is (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1934 ooned Chelyuskiners the 101 Russians marooned on Capt. Voronin of the Chelyuskin, WEATHE: Fair. N.Y. Harbor | AS Dandi: Seishin Out Vo tl e = n S trl ik e Against Wage Cut NEW YORK—The crew compris- ing 250 men of the Munson Line S.S. Pan America went out on strike today under the leadership of the| Marine Workers Industrial Union. | The strike is one hundred per cent effective. This is the first strike on a pas- | senger ship since 1923. | Efforts are being made to spread the strike to other passenger ships of the Munson Line. Fifty per cent | of the crew are Negroes. The work- ers are demanding the recognition | of the ship committee and are str ik- | ing for the code of the Marine | Workers Industrial Union. General Strike In Denmark COPENHAGEN, Denmark, April | 12 (By Cable)—Danish seamen went out on a general strike in protest | against a seven crown cut in wages. | Besides demanding that the wage | are demanding three watches on| cut be recinded, the striking crews |'—. AMERICA’S O CLASS DAILY ‘LY WORKING NEWSPAPER Six Pages) Price 3 Cents ‘Ship’s Crew Tool, Die Men’s Strikes In Ultimatum Ends; Get Up!’ Boss Shouts at Cab Driver Who Drops Dead at Wheel (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau CHICAGO, April 12—A cab owned by the Parmelee Co. was parked at the corner of Cedar and Rush Sts. here yes- terday. The driver, Frank Good~- now, 34 years old, 1461 Carmen Ave., sat leaning over his wheel. Just then Henry Jacobson, a superintendent the Yellow Cab Co., came wa by. “Hey there,” he shouted “you can’t sleep on di was no reply. Incensed, aTaotbs son leaped toward the cab. But the driver would not budge. Frank Goodnow had _ suc- cumbed to the speed-up—he was dead at the wheel. iW ould Kindle Smolder- ing Fires of General Auto Walkout DEMANDS REJECTED Smith, Leader, Lays Ground for Treachery and Sell-Out DETROIT! h., April 12. —The ultimatum of the tool and die night, with a mass meeting at the Deutsches Haus where the and of M. E. S. vote on strike action. The spirit of nk and file of the M. E. S. A. s to an overwhelming vote in r of strike. But Matthew Smith, makers ex} to- A. will out the prejudice of the court. Le-| the sunken ship, and the famed vinson objected to admitting the in the rescue of the Italian explorer, whee a few years a aviator Babushkin, who helped deck, three in the engine room, and | | all shipping to be done through the | testimony of the policeman Ralph Welbaum, who made an attack on} |S. Davis, leader of the demonstra- tion, but was over-ruled by Judge Clyde R. White. Levinson brought IU. S. Students to Strike union halls. The strike is being led by the) Danish Section of the International | jof Seamen and Harbor Workers, | | which recently left the reformist In- ral secretary of the M. E. S. A., le pa p service to the sen- timent for strike action, at the same | time is trying to narrow down the |strike and put the workers at a | disadvantage. The threatened strike of the tool Hack Drivers To Demand in the Bering Sea. The} Soviet fiyers are energetically con-| out that Mayor Bainbridge had made statements “prejudicial to the defendants” when he stated that “he hoped the courts would back up the police department.” Levin- son made motions for a _ steno- grapher to take all testimony, and that the city pay for furnishing the unemployed defendants with a com- plete transcript of the trial. Judge White reserved his decision on these motions. Defense Witnesses Finally Admitted The ILD. attorney forestalled an attempt to bar defense witnesses when he brought out in the morn- ing session that none of his 109 wit- (Continued on Page 2) CWA Union, Jobless ‘Councils Act To Halt Firing, Pay Cut Relief To All Unemployed NEW YORK.—Figures released by the New York Welfare Council show that approximately 53,600 C. W. A. workers were fired in New York City during the month of March. About 23,600 of these workers were fired at the start of the Roosevelt firings early in March, and 30,000 were fired on the basis of the Welfare tionnaire. Following the demands of the workers expressed in huge mass meetings and a city-wide demon- stration at the City Hall, under the Jeadership of the Unemployment Councils and Relief Workers League, and mass picketing at 50 Lafayette St., Hodson was forced to reverse his position, and ordered the rehiring of 2,000 workers with the promise that 10,000 would eventually be re- hired on city “work relief.” The workers are not satisfied with these promises, and demand that all fired workers be rehired. Wages of C. W. A. workers were cut from a $15 minimum to $13.44 a week, and at the institution of city “work relief,” another wage cut of $1.44 a week was handed the manual workers, white collar work- ers were cut seven per cent, and skilled workers as much as 40 per cent. It can truthfully be said that the only reason wages were not cut to the Roosevelt minimum of $7.20 a week was the mass ac- (Continwed on Page 2) Department's pauper’s oath ques- | Against War at 11 A.M. pare Coast-to-Coast Demonstration NEW YORK.—Students of scores of universities, colleges, and high schools throughout the nation will go on strike for one hour at 11 a.m. today in a demonstration against war, at the call of the National Student League and the League for | Industrial Democracy, supported by the American League Against War and Fascism, In many institutions, presidents, deans, and principals have threat-| the Los Angeles and Pasadena Junior Colleges; the University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins University, and Ohio State University. Many Mass Meetings Among those where mass meet- ings against war have been called, in many of which strikes will also take place, are Yale University, Massachusetts Institute of Techno- logy, University of Washington, | ‘NRA Injunctions Administrators Threaten Penalties as Youth Pre-| | Smith College, Amherst, Dartmouth, | |ened disciplinary action against any Linstances. a majority of the faculty) |are every one in New York and | Brooklyn; five in California, includ- Demand Jobs or Cash) students who strike, while in many} have decided to support the stud- ents in their demonstration. Among the colleges and univer-| sities where strikes will take place ing the University of California, the University of Southern California, Cornell University, Howard Univer- sity in Washington, D. C., Temple College, Philadelphia, and Missouri} State University. At Cornell, Utica, N. Y., there will be a mass meeting and conference against war on Saturday. Students of Brooklyn College will parade at the strike hour to Long (Continued on Page 2) Turbine Plant Men | In Hartford Vote. To Go On Strike Aviation Strikers Mass Picketing at Pratt & Whitney HARTFORD, Conn. April 12—| Several hundred workers of the Terry Turbine plant voted to strike today. Auto salesmen meeting at in Hotel Bond discussed the strike | question for next week. A committee of strikers from the Arrow are meeting the bosses on the question of settlement. These work- ers favorably discussed a statement issued to them by the Communist Party. They show great interest in the Daily Worker which is distri- buted among them. The Communist Party held a good mass meeting last night. The avia- ton workers on strike at the Pratt & Whitney factory, are out solid. They conduct mass picketing. The bosses are threatening to bring in scabs. Around 550 aviation workers are striking here for higher wages, and the strike is expected to spread to Wash’gton, May 10, tee Issues Call To All Veterans By MARGUERITE YOUNG, mal call to war veterans every- where, both in and out of all | veterans’ organizations, to elect delegates and march to Washing- |ton for the veterans rank and file convention opening here on May 10, was made public today by the Veterans National rank and file committee. The Convention will press forward three veterans’ de- mands—immediate payment of the balance due on adjusted service (bonus) certificates; repeal of the Economy Act that cut off millions of dollars worth of veterans’ bene- fits; and immediate relief to the unemployed and farmers. Harold Hickerson, Acting Sec- retary-Treasurer of the committee, announced the call was sent re- cently to thousands of veterans’ other plants. A complete shut down would bring out 2,000 aero workers. Vets’ Convention in To Demand Bonus Rank and File Commit-| (Daily Worker, Washington Burcau) | WASHINGTON, April 12—A for-| ternational Transport Federation. AreEasyWhenUsed To Stop Pay Rise Atty.-Gen. Cummings Labors To Explain Weirton Case | | (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, April 12—Attor- \ney General Homer S. Cummings, | asked today why the Alabama Coal | |operators could secure an injunc-| tion immediately to escape raising | wages- and cutting hours, but the| United States Government is still| without an injunction against the Weirton Steel Company 40 days af- ter proceedings were instituted, re- plied, “that’s a long story.” “In the case of the Alabama Coal operators getting their injunction,| it's @ question of law, Cummings |said. “In the case of the govern- {ment against Weirton, there's a| question of facts involving evidence from 400 to 500 people.” This labored explanation followed the attorney general's admission to| |the press that the department of | justice will take no action now to- ward validating the permanent in- junction against E. T. Weir which should have become effective April 10. While this startling evidence was coming out, a delegation of Hosiery Workers from the Harriman Knit- | ting Mills at Harriman, Tennessee, | | Were visiting George L. Berry, of} the National Labor Board, and other | officials to demand action against this company. The White House last March 31 promised a Harri- (Continued on Page 2) Shoot Witness in Trial of Passaic Police Heads PASSAIC, N. J., April 12—Jacob Eisman, state’s witness in the recent trial of four Passaic police officials, one of whom was Abraham Preiskel, police commissioner of Passaic dur- ing the 1928 textile workers strike, and an infamous clubber of workers. was shot today. Court records reveal that the Eisman was a witness in the trial of Police Chief Monks, Commissioner Preiskel, Captain Cunningham, and Licenses Back’ Blacklisted Men Will Appear with Families at City Hall Today |: NEW YORK.—Under the leader- ship of the Taxi Drivers’ Union of | Greater New York, hack drivers who | have had their licenses suspended by the Hack Bureau of the Police Department for militant activities| during the recent strike will appear at the City Hall today at 11 am. to demand of the Mayor that the licenses be returned. The hackmen will be accompanied by their wives and children. Samuel Orner, president of the Manhattan local of the union, who | will lead the delegation, said that drivers who were discriminated against and blacklisted by the fleet owners for their activities in ia and die makers, led by the Me- chanics Educational Society of America, stands in the center of the strike situation in Detroit. With espread discontent among the otor Products workers, as the re- suit of the trickery played by the A. F. of L. leaders in getting them back to work, with the Hudson workers negotiating for a 20 per cent pay increase, and the Mich- igan Stove workers carrying on a bitter struggle, a walkout of the tool and die makers in the job shops would again kindle the smoldering fires of a general walkout. The Manufacturers Associ brazenly turned down the de! of the tool and die makers for a 20 per cent wage increase, a 36- hour week, stretched over five days. They threatened to shift the work out of town, charging th leaders of the M. E. S. A. with stirring ub strife and hindering the return of “prosperity.” Maneuvers With Bosses ion strike will join the protest. Besides demanding that the| The Detroit News today licenses be restored and that the Smith as saying, in reply to the blacklisted men get their jobs back,| tool and die manufacturers: “We the hackmen will demand that the | Presented our platform as a tenta- city award cash relief to the un- | tive basis for discussion, and not as employed drivers and their wives|® final demand. We stood ready | and children, jto talk the entire matter over, and we stood ready to compromi if Mass Meeting At 4 A. M. necessary. We probably would have At four o'clock this morning a | agreed to a 40-hour week, provided mass meeting of hackmen will be if was a five-day, 40-hour week. We held at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St.| were willing to take a 10 per cent and Irving Place, where the hack-| Wage increase for the time being men will voice their opinion on the |at least. If a strike is voted, it attempt of the Socialist leaders,| could be averted, of course, by any Judge Panken and Matthew Levy,| individual members of the Asso- to split their ranks by herding the | ciation who wish to talk terms.” members of the Bronx and Brook-| Here we have the maneuvers of lyn locals into the graft-ridden|a crafty reformist leader who de- American Federation of Labor. mobilizes the strike spirit and con- At this meeting Samuel Orner, —_—_ jand Joseph Gilbert, the outstanding | |leaders of the recent strike, will report on the plans to defeat the split move and to continue to build up the fighting Taxi Drivers Union into a powerful weapon against the| employers. Mayor LaGuardia, in answering the statement of the Tammany Grand Jury, which criticised the quotes (Continued on Page 2) Browder and Ford To Report Sunday On 8th Convention Star Casino Meeting Jewish Clubs Prohibited Open to Members of | siete In Saarbruecken|) Mass Organizations (Continued on Page 2) SAARBRUCKEN. — The police-| NEW YORK—The first report to president Grunert has issued a po- | be given in the New York district lice decree which prohibits al] on the recent historic 8th national Jewish clubs and sports organiza- | convention of the Communist tions to arrange meetings of any | Party, will be made by Earl Brow- sort. Training days in this ter-|der, secretary of the Communist ee under the control of the, Party, and James W. Ford, Harlem League of Nations, in the Jewish | Section Organizer, at a joint mem- Captain Boyko, now awaiting sep-"Sforts clubs are not allowed any (Continued on Page 2) tence for non-feasance in office. ' longer. Wing Garment Groups Support Apr. 14 Conference NEW YORK.—Over 2,500 metal workers, organized into the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, will march in a body on May First under the banner of the United Front Against Fascism and War. The district and local executive boards have issued a call to all members to down tools May Day and demonstrate on labor’s inter- national day of struggle. All shops controlled by the union are electing delegates to the United Front May Day conference this Saturday, 1 o'clock sharp, at Web- ster Hall. The workers of the Majestic shop have voted to wear white shirts and dark trousers. The girls will wear a red ribbon. Every shop will form a separate unit with the shop chairmen acting as captains. A band has been engaged by the union to provide working class songs for the marchers, aay 6 Metal Workers, Left Five Cities Report Mass Support For May | United Front of All Workers NEW YORK.—The Central Com- mittee of the Left Wing Groups in the International Ladies Garment Workers Union issued a call yester- day to the cloakmakers to mobilize for a mighty United Front May Day demonstration. The committee called upon the Left Wing Groups and sympathisers to take the initiative in securing the election of delegates from the shop and union groups to the United Front May Day Conference at Webster Hall this Saturday noon. The call emphasizes that where it is impossible to elect delegates be- cause of lack of time, the chairman and secretary of the shop groups or active members of the groups should attend the conference in order to report back to the workers ae push the mobilization for May C. P. Issues Statement NEW YORK —The New York district of the Communist Party is- sued a statement yesterday calling upon the workers of New York, Ne- gro and white, organized and un- organized to support with greater determination the United Frant | virtual denial of Union Square to May Day Conference to be held) on Saturday, April 14 at 1 p.m. at | Webster Hall, 119 E. 11th St. The statement calls for mass pro- tests to the city administration, on the latest police provocation in the York. It also calls for mass at- jtendance at the Madison Square | Garden meeting on Tuesday, May | 1, 1934, “The necessity for involving great masses of workers in this celebra- Prepare for Distribution of May Day Edition of ‘Daily’ : Urging all districts to speed their preparations for the distribution the revolutionary workers of New! of the special 24-page half-million copy May Day edition, the circula- tion department of the Daily Worker yesterday declared that districts as far west as (and including) Chicago would receive their bundles of the edition on April 28. “The purpose of this,” the circulation department declared, “is to enable these districts to use the entire week-end preceding May First as Red Days for the distribution of the spcial May Day dition. Another point stressed in this from organizations or individuals, statement was that all greetings, “will surely appear in the 24-page May Day edition if mailed up to April 22.” Units and sections of the Communist Party were urged to send their orders immediately to their respective districts, tion,” the statement declares, “has made us fix the general admission price for this evening at 25 cents. However, due to the great number | of unemployed who are usually ad- | mitted at a nominal fee and the | |high cost of rental and expenses | involved in Madison Square Garden, jit will be necessary to reserve a certain number of seats to be sold at $1 each in order to pay for the deficit.” “We are sure every mass organ- ization and trade union will un-| derstand the financial difficulties | under which the Communist Party | is arranging this celebration in or- | der to make it the greatest event in years, and that they will c operate with us in solving the prob- lem of financing this meeting. “We suggest that each mass or- ganization and trade union assign itself a quota of $1 tickets which they will purchase from the Com- munist Party and which they will } Side. T Minor To ‘Speak at Chi. Meets; Final Confer- ence This Sunday Morning ae Workers Bock Shop, 50 E. 13th | . < Chicago May 1 Meet Sunday (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Ill, April 12—Robert Minor, member of the Central Com- mittee of the Communist Par will be the main speaker at two in-| door mass meetings here the eve- ,ning of May 1, following the May |Day demonstration through Loop. * Northside at Ashland Auditorium, 338 Ashland Boulevard, while an- other is being arranged on the Sout! Workers’ organizations have bee! urged by the united front May Da: endeavor to sell among their mem- ibership. In this way thousands will be able to attend the celebration at | the minimum cost.” Reserved tickets are on sale at | ul Committee of Action to send delega- | ; and Police Commissioner Allman, | (Continued on Page 2) the | One meeting will be held on the| bership meeting of the Harlem Section and mass organizations this Sunday, two o'clock, at New Star |Casino, 107th Street and Park | Avenue. The mass organizations of Up- Het st Lower Harlem, Yorkville ashington Heights have | gataceed one of their leading mem- bers to greet the assembly. Letters have been sent to all their members notifying them of the meeting, Thousands of leaflets have been issued in all languages. Open air meetings will be held tonight | throughout Harlem, Yorkville, Washington Heights and the Lower | West Side, while Sunday morning has been designated as Red Sunday for a last minute mobilization for this important assembly. News Flash (Special to the Daily Worker) BALTIMORE, Md, April 12— Five hundred Baltimore seamen marched on the Relief Administra- tion offices here today in protest against the forced labor “work re- lief.” The seamen were joined at lemonstration against forced labor. Marching back to the waterfront, the seamen, joined by hundreds of | tions and protests to Mayor Kelly | workers, voted to picket the relief administration, the City Hall, and |the slanderous capitalist press until their demands are granted,