The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 19, 1934, Page 1

) Roosevelt O.K.’s =< CIRCULATI ON DRIVE NEW SUBS RECEIVED YESTERDAY: Daily <QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERHATIONAL) Daily . 15 Saturday .... 7 Total to date ..3,481 Total ... T r r x Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Vol. XI, No. 94 =” New York, N. 4 under Measure Right To Strike rs Also Approves Wagner- | Lewis Bill to Thwart | Jobless Insurance | By MARGUERITE YOUNG | (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) | WASHINGTON, April 18. | —President Roosevelt today} announced that he wants Con- | gress to enact the Wagner La- bor disputes bill or some sim- ilar measure to provide permanent | mediation—a nolite name for com- | pulsory arbitration—in labor-em- | ployer disputes. At the same time he said he is conferring today or | tomorrow on the Wagner-Lewis tax | bill substitute for Federal Unemploy- ment Insurance. He did not indi- cate, however, that he is ready to call for passage of the substitute. The executive frankly told the press he wants permanent mediation accomplished by legislation instead of solely by his own executive action. This represents a retreat in the face ef the workers’ stubborn opposition to the auto settlement and further reveals the str breaking char- acter of the Wagner Labor Disputes Bill. Labor having refi to take the auto settlement arbitration principle lying down, although it came direct from the President, the latter now prepares to have Con- gress write the same ticket. In mentioning the Wagner-Lewis | so-called Unemployment Insurance | Bill, Roosevelt clearly indicated he | is aware of the mass demand for | genuine unemployment insurance and the specific mass campaign now | being waged for the only bill which embodies real insurance, the Work- ers’ Unemnloyment Insurance Bill | (H. R. 7398). Proposing no suggestion for direct Federal unemployment re- | lief, but rather a Federal tax to be contributed toward state unemploy- ment reserves, the Wagner-Lewis bill does not apply to the present unemployed millions, It only takes effect two years from now, and then with multiple | discrimina*ions and only through ued on Pase 2) Demand the Release of Thaelmann (Cont Brooklyn Meet Friday To Counter Nazi Meeting EW YORK.—New York work- will again mass at East 86th | St. between Lexington and Third | Aves., tonight at 7 p.m. to de- mand the immediate and uncon- ditioncl relezse of Ernst Thael- mann, leader of the German Com- munist Party, now in a-Nazi dun- + = * ~\dowmhere swelling your heads you’re | “ag Against Lucy Parsons Tells Story of May 1, 1886, in May Day “Daily” “The first May Day demonstra- tion? Yes, I'll tell you about it. It was what today we call a United Front.” It is Lucy Parsons speaking, widow of Albert Parsons, famed Haymarket martyr. She will tell the story of the first May Day demonstration in Chicago in 1886 in a special interview by Bill Andrews of the Daily Worker Midwest Bureau. This interview, together with a host of other superlative fea- tures, is to appear in the 24- page May Day edition of the Daily Worker. Order your bundle now. Send your greetings without delay! {ndividual greetings will be printed for as little as 25 cents. Forward to a half-million dis- tribution of the special May Day edition! Bronx Protest on Scottsboro! Torture Friday, Boys Reveal Threats of Murder for Rejecting NAACP “Defense” BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 18.— Constant threats of murder in their prison cells are held over the Scotts- bero boys in Jefferson County jail here, it was revealed today as more | details of their torture by jail wardens were uncovered by the In- ternational Labor Defense investi- gation. “As long as that nigger lawyer (Ben David—Ed.) keeps coming going to stay ih solitary,” he threat- ened them, On another occasion Warden Rog- ers brandished his pistol at one of the boys, threatening to kill him. “I ought to kill you now,” he said. “They’re going to kill you anyway, just like they’re going to burn Patterson and Norris.” Stool-pigeons, openly referred. to as such in the jail, are placed in the boys’ cells to provoke them into fights, It was on the basis of such | a provocation that the boys were | recently thrown into solitary con- | finement. | “Tl always believe my stool- | pigeons in preference to you nig- | gers,” Rogers has boasted. | Recently, when Myra Page, well- | known writer, visited the boys, Warden Rogers yelled at them that long as white whores come (Continued on Page 2) | | the Act of March 8, 1879. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1934 Mobilize for May Day by Every-Day Struggles Against the Bosses! Down Tools on May First! | | demonstrations all over the world the world. crats of the American Federation Yet in the minds of nfillions of system. of the whole capitalist world, and manyfold. The fifth year of the for the dollar than they could buy Retreaton Union Sq. Ban Revolutionary Workers To Enter Square at 2 P.M. May Day NEW YORK—Union Square has been won for the revolutionary workers of New York City with the defeat, by mass pressure, of the lat- Close Working-Class Ranks Against Capi- talism, Against Fascism, Against War, IOMRADES! May Day is near. May Day has been the International Revolution- ary Labor Day ever since 1886 when the workers of Chicago downed tools on May First demanding the 8-hour May First has witnessed numerous working-class of struggle against boss exploitation and boss war. Many a reformist labor leader has tried to make May Day a peaceful picnic day; leaders of the Socialist parties in every country have attempted to take the fight out of this red banner day of the workers of In the United States the labor bureau- lusion with the government, have attempted to sub- stitute boss Labor Day for Working-class May Day. remains fixed as a day of militant working-class action. Through the practice of the fighting work- ers in every country this day has become fixed as a day of great mass upswing against the main source of all the sufferings of the toilers, the capitalist May First 1934 finds the sufferings of the masses workers and farmers of the United States, increased There are fifteen million unemployed. There are millions of farmers either bankrupt or on the verge of losing their only source of livelihood. The New Deal of capitalism under the Rooseveltadministra- tion has helped the capitalists to garner more profits, but in order to be able to do so, it has slashed the real wages of the workers who can now buy less increased the speed-up in the factories to a degree Police, S.P. Powers’ Warlike Notes geon, NEW YORK—New York and Brooklyn workers will show what they think of Adolf Hitler when they mass in an open-air demon- stration Friday night outside the Brooklyn hall, where the New York Nazis are to gather to celebrate Hitler’s birthday. The Nazi celebration is to take place on Friday, April 20, at 8 p.m. in Schwaben Hall, Knickerbocker and Myrtle Aves., Brooklyn. An open-air demonstration against German Fascism will begin at 7 p.m. in a park in front of the hall. It is called by the Anti-Fascist Ac- tion, representing 100,000 members, and the Anti-Fascist League. | Sterilization Law to Be Enforced in Okla. NORMAN, Okla.—Fourteen women and one man will be ster- ilized under’the new state law pro- viding for the sterilization of the “socially misfit,” according to an announcement yesterday. Hopelessly insane, third-term triminals and others “who might become public charges” are sched- uled for this operation. This is a similar wording to the law now being enforced in Germany and directed against revolutionary workers, est conspiracy of Mayor LaGuardia and the Socialist Party leaders to bar the United Front May Day dem- onstration from the Square on May First, Tens of thousands of workers will pour into the Square at 2 o'clock, May Day, under the banner of the United Front struggle against hun- ger, war and fascism, S.P. Gives Up Square in Mortal Fear of United Front The yrowing sentiment of trade union and Socialist workers for the United Front of Struggle on this (Continued on Page 2) Rakovsky, Chief Trotsky Ex-Aid, Hails the Correctness of Stalin Leadership Party Line Is Wholly Correct, Rakovsky Admits (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, April 18—Christian Rakovsky, the chief lieutenant and close friend of Leon Trotsky, has addressed a long communication to the Central Committee of the Com- munist Party of the Soviet Union, soliciting readmittance to the Com- munist Party. He writes: “In my telegram dated Feb. 17, 1934, I stated my adherence to the general line of the Party, and my complete and unreserved submis- sion to the decisions of the Party congresses and to Party discipline. “I hereby beg that it be consid- ered that differences of opinion no Jonger separate me from the Party, that I fully and absolutely approve of the general line of the Party, also that I have broken irrevocably with counter-revolutionary Trotskyism.” “Stalin Personifies Bolshevik Unity” \ Analysing his errors in detail, Rakovsky concludes: “The Party \would not be able to carry out the } { \ y icrmous: task of the radicel re- yeeastruction of the economy of the; CHRISTAIN RAKOVSKY country without adopting an_atti- tude of Bolshevist irreconcilability to all petty bourgeois deviations and fluctuations, resolutely suppressing them. It wovld net be able to carry out its tasks if at tae same time the | Trotskyism Leads To Counter-Revolution, He Declares Central Committee did not insure the observance of that revolution- ary, strict, ‘almost military’ observ- ance (as Lenin said), which is de- 1manded from each Bolshevik Com- |munist in carrying out the decisions of the congresses and other in- stances. “Stalin personifies this Bolshevist ideological irreconcilability and or- _| ganizational discipline and unity in word and deed. It was against these principles that the attacks of the opposition were actually directed when they attacked Stalin’s person- ality. In my person, one of the last representatives of the opposition to- day declares that what we formerly considered deficiencies of Stalin’s leadership are its merits. Trotsky Faction Counter-Revolu- tionary and the working class I repeat: “Only because by having a leader with the ideological irre- (Continued on Page 2) “Together vith the whole Party | For a Workers’ [ Declaration by Central Committee, Communist Party, U. S. A.] to organize and for a total aboli work-day. under the banner creased discrimi: has imprisoned of Labor, in col- itant workers al lowering of the toilers May First but on the cont: and war. Fascism has workers’ organizi A ist dictatorship the misery of the ‘en unions into the crisis is upon us, to break strikes, outlawing strike: under the N. R. a year ago; ft has Workers’ where the lives of the workers are rapidly destroyed; it has put restrictions on the right of the workers poured billions upon billions into the treasuries of the bankers, manufacturers and landlords, leaving the great mass of unemployed to starve; it has in- degree surpassing all the records of capitalist bru- tality; it has let loose a reign of terror against the workers and farmers, which finds its most hideous expression in the lynching of Negroes, with agents of the State aiding and abetting the lynchers; it | the capitalist way out of the crisis; but since this still unable to do away with the crisis of capitalism, militant resistance of the workers, the American government is moving headlong towards Fascism systematically introduced by incornorating the labor the leaders of the A. F. of L. and the Labor Boards the most vicious nationalism, white chauvinism, and propaganda against the foreign-born masses. War preparations are being made by cariying out gram in the history of the U. S. A., by mobilizing (Continued on Page 6) Government. For Freedom Under Socialism. to strike, and it prepares the ground ition of the right to strike; it has nations against Negro toilers to a thousands upon thousands of mil- nd farmers. All this was done as standards of living of the masses is rary it has met with an increasing | for its purpose the crushing of the | ations by means of an open terror- | of capitals: Fascism is being machinery of the government, using attacking the militant labor unions, S, while at the same time spreading A. the greatest naval building pro- Reveal Growing Tension Japan, France, Britain, | Germany in Snarling Declarations NEW YORK — Great Britain, |France, Germany and Japan, in ;Sharp, harsh declarations issued all within 24 hours, revealed openly |today a capitalist world of snarling imperialist bandit powers ready to plunge the world into war. Japan, through a Foreign Office spokesman, threw a snarling warn- ing at the U.S. and other imperial- ists competing for the spoiliation of China, and declared Japan would resort to force to protect its claim to complete “responsibility” for the East, France, in a sharp and bitter note, declared it would have noth- ing to do with discussions on dis- armament until Germany was dis- armed and until Great Britain guar- anteed armed protection of France against aggression. The note declar- ed that the Little Entente, Czecho- slovakia, Rumania, and Jugoslavia fully agreed with France. It declar- ed its sharp opposition to Ger- many’s rearmament program, which involves a budget increase of 40 per cent, Great Britain, in a “white paper,” reported the French note, together with other documents arising out of Capt. Anthony Eden's tour of Europe, revealing the determination of all European capitalist powers to arm to the hilt. This paper secks to place the responsibility for Britain's own big armament pro- gram on France, Ernst Roehm, chief of staff of Germany’s Nazi Storm Troops, an armed force of a million and a half men, declared that the Storm Troopers will be maintained as a fighting force, and that Nazi Ger- many is prepared to defend itself against any aggression, Murray, Irish C. P. Leader, to Speak in N. Y. Tomorrow NEW YORK.—Sean Murray, of Dublin, leader of the Communist Party of Ireland, will be the chief speaker at a mass meeting in support of Irish national inde- pendence at Bryant Hall, Sixth Ave. at 42nd St. tomorrow at 8 p.m. A veteran of the Anglo-Irish and post-treaty wars, Murray has heen associated with the Trish fight for independence from the age of 16, 6 pone U. S. Plans to Co-ordi- nate Planes, Industry for War | (Daily Worker Washington Burean) WASHINGTON, April 18, — The Military Aviation Commities, headed by Newton D. Baker, former Ses- retary of War now a big business lawyer, appointed by Secretary of War Dern, got down to business today at the War College. Consisting of six civilians and five | general staff officers, the Baker group, ordered yesterday by Dern to find out “whether we have a good military air force or not,” will con- cern itself also with the problem of co-ordinating the purely military with the extensive industrial mobi- lization plans of the War Depart- ment. The aristocratic Daughters of The American Revolution, meeting here for their forty-third Continental Congress, today snorted some more of the militarism for which they are so well known. The ladies’ resolu- tion on a trained citizenry urged the enlargement of the Citizens’ Military Training Camps, The Re- serve Officers’ Training Corps and the enlargement of the regular Army to “guarantee and assure the protec- tion of interests and politics. of the nation and preserve its integrity against threats of aggression.” The D.AR. leadership is generally close to the owners of American in- dustry. One of the recent President Generals was the wife of the head of the Mack Truck Company. | Was shot and killed today by Deputy AMERICA’S CLASS DAILY ONLY WORKING NEWSPAPER WEATHER: Fair. (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents Deputies Kill Striking Negro Miner In Alabama; Auto Men Rej Murder of Negro Mine Striker Opens Terror Reign in South MILITIA IS CALLED 21,000 Out; Pickets Go On to Shut All Mines BULLETIN Daily Worker Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, April 18.— Strike-harried Alabama coal op- erators conferred at length today with Donald R. Richberg, head lawyer for the N. R. A. and of- ficials announced N. R. A, Aé- ministrator Johnson personally wiil get to work on “solving” the “crisis” as soon as he returns to- night. Richberg thought no an- | nouncement would be forthcom- ing tonight. In other words, no agreement has been reached on the method to be adopted to break the rapidly spreading strike of the Alabama steel workers and ore miners, . | Special to the Daily Worker | BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 18.— Edward England, Negro coal striker, | N. E. Kirkland and Chief of Police H. L. Meson. England was murdered on the| picket line at the Red Diamond Coal Company, Leeds, Alabama. With drawn guns, the chief of police and deputies ordered the strikers to dis-| perse. A group stood their ground, and both gun thugs fired point blank at England, killing him on the pot. This unleashing of terror is the beginning of a drive to stampede the 21,000 striking miners back to work. National Guards have been sent to the Edgewater Mines of the| Tennessee Coal and Iron Co., a J.| P. Morgan corporation. The militia-| men are armed with pistols, rifles| and machine guns. General John! |C. Persons, commander of the Ala-| |bama National Guard, and a bank/ diana @elegaticn, introduced a res- Official, ordered out additiorial national guardsmen for strike! duty. The militia is supplementing) the 225 special deputies at the T. C. I’s four captive mines, | Sheriff Hawkins, who whitewashed | the torture of the Scottsboro boys, | | advised the sending of troops. | Picketing continues at all mines. The Red Ore miners of T. C. I.| threaten to strike, demanding $4.50 a day for all outside labor, and $5 for all inside common labor. They) also demand equal pay and jobs for white and Negro. | The Communist Party and the In-| ternational Labor Defenze is de-| manding compensction for the f: ily of the murdered striker, and ar- rest and conviction for the mur- derers, the deputy police. Communist strike leaders are be- ing threatened that they will be put) on the spot by officials of the United Mine Workers of America. | Detroit Conference to Discuss Program for Spreading “Daily” | DETROIT, Mich.—A special Daily Worker Concerence will be held here Sunday, April 22nd, 10 a.m., at the Finnish Hall, 5969—14th St., to stimulate the Daily Worker circula- tion drive and to make final ar- rangements for the mass sale of the 25,000 copies of the special May Day edition. A new plan worked out jointly by | the management of the Daily | Worker and the District Daily Worker Committee will be presented for discussion at the conference. Many practical and concrete sug- gestions will be offered to the Party | units, mass organizations and to individual workers how to increase the circulation of the “Daily.” | Every Party unit, every workers’ | mass organization is urged to send delegates to this conference. Friends and sympathizers of the Daily Worker are invited to attend. Baseball Results on P2g> 2 All baseball results will be run) daily beginning today throushout the remainder of the baseball sea- | and chief of |§ son on Page 2, Liars (Officials) Still Figure It Would Seem WASHINGTON, D. C., April 1 —How Secretary of Labor P kins is doctoring the governmen reports to give a false impression of improving conditio: ployment and wages vealed today when it wa public that the bor Statistics has changed index of average compa from 1926 figures to the 192: average This change makes the pr ent situation look at least 10 pe cent better in comparison w the past than it really is the earlier years averages lower than the generally accept- ed 1926 averages. This change in the method of publishing government statistics was made at the suggestion of Perkins’ advisory labor board. in em- re- as Steel Workers Flout Chiefs At AFL Confab' Rank and File Defeat Tighe Machine At First Encounter (Special to the Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 18.— Militant rank and file delegates at the convention of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers, A. F. of L. union, which opened Tuesday, defeated the ma- chine at the opening clash of the gathering. Mike Tighe, president, tried to introduce Senator Jim Davis. The convention, led by the Gary, In- lution condemni iii lamas support to the come iy unions, and forced him from the convention hall. The fight began with the seating | of delegates from new lodges in arrears on per capita tax. The cre- dentials committee, hand-picked by Tighe, brought recommendations to the convention for the non-seat- ing of the delegates. Led by a dele- gate from Youngstown, the pro- posals of the credentials committee to oust these unanimously voted down. from n n ol e Tighe ma chine. Eah credential w tak all Every recommendation of mittee, not to seat a dele met by a thunderous was not a single “yes” to sus the committee. Even the machine delegates lacked courage to face the ire of the whole delegation. There are resolut! before the convention for lowering the per capita tax; lowering initiation fees and dues; immediate presentation of demands of the workers, with a 10-day ultimatum and a general strike. The Workers Unemployment In- surance Bill (H.R. 7598) will be pre- sented from the floor. and there will undoubtedly be a fight on the Wagner strikebreaking bill. There is a danger of overcon- fidence on the part of the dele- gatos due to their initial victories. Only a well-organized can beat the Tighe moc finish, The delegates must mee‘ in caucus, draft a clear opnoci program and the tactics of put- ting them over. DILLINGER AGAIN SHREVEPORT, La. — John “Naughty Boy” Dillinger’s picture adorned the walls of the bank which he held up here yesterday, bank Officials said, after the elusive ban- | dit had copied the bankers’ game ‘|and robbed a bank. The “bad boy of the West” was still at large, after he had last week Stolen bullet-proof vests from a Police station in Warsaw, a town in one of the western states. e Seamen’s Mass Sirikes Taking Place, First Time Since 1923 By HAYS JONES EAL growth of the union and of union activity marked the mect- ing of the National Committee of the Marine Workers Industrial Union in Baltimore, April 14 and 15. The committee members and other active forces of the union came from seaports and inland waterways to report on the eight months activities since the Na- tional Convention and to plan fur- ther activity for the coming months,; bers before August, when a National United Front Conferenze is planned, to consider strike action on a na- tion-wide scale to force improved conditions in the industry. Reporting on the work of the union, Hudson, National Se:retary, Tonight the Marine Workers In- dustrial Union will celebrate its fourth anniversary at a banquet at Manhattan Lyceum, 63 E. Fourth St., New York City, Earl Browder, General Secretary of the Com- Growth of Marine Workers Union Cited at a Meeting of Nat’l Committee % The union leadership decided to} All Are Bei start a drive for 5,000 new mem-/ The Marine Workers Industrial Union pointed out that the eight months since the National Convention had proved that we were right then in our analysis of the N.R.A., and its action in the marine industry. Analyzes N.R.A. The N.R.A. was enacted, Hudson pointed out, just at that time, and we analysed it, showing it would not bring prosperity, would not raise wages, munist Party, will be the main speaker, Admission is 75 cents. tli right to organize and strike. On the (Continued on Page 2) questioned delegates | con. | dent ng Led by) would not guarantee the | ect Board Cooperage Plant Walks Out in Detroit, Mich., for May Pay EXPOSE GANGSTERS Arrest Workers Handing Leaflets to Hudson Men (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, April 18.—The strike of nearly 100 workers at Roberts Brass Mfg. Co., manufacturers of auto and aircraft parts, entered its second day with all strikers out on the picket line this morning. There is only one scab named Doyle who ran for council in the Dear- born elections last year and ap- pealed for the labor vote. The strik- ers the militant, indes Brass Workers In- are led by h ions committee yes- terday refused to be tricked by the Automobile Labor Board, which called the committee before it in an effort to break the strike. Byrd, | A. F. of L. representative on Board, asked them whether they would be willing to accept an agreement similar to that put over in the re- cent Motor Products’ strike. He of- fered 50 cents an hour minimum, 15 per cent increase on piece rat and pay for ng time. The com. mittee replied by presi \demands adopted by the and declaring it had no authority to change the demands or to make ttlement. | The strikers’ demands are 30 per cent wage incre , recognition of the union, 24 hours notice to sho committee before a worker, shop comm: |sulted on piece rate | The union is mass meeting of all brass and aluminum workers in an effort to spread the strike. adjustments. planning to call a Cooperage Men Strike (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, April 18.—A depart- ment strike involving 100 workers at the Michigan Cooperage broke out today. The workers are de- manding a 10 cents increase in wages from their present 65 cent hourly rate. The workers are or- ganized in A. F. of L, local 54 of the Coopers International Union. |The company had a contract with the local promising to raise the | wages to 75 cents an hour. When the company failed to carry out its promise, the workers in the depart- | ment went out on strike. The coms | pany also tried to bribe the presi- of the local by raising his wages $5 a week. The local is try= |ing to get out the men still work- ing in the second department. The plant employs 200 workers and is located at Rademacher and Fort. The chairman of the striking local is Charles Landis, and the secretary George Alston. * CRE Lr Expose Gangsters. | (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, April 18—It was just | brought to light thet the Michigan Stove Company, while a strike has | been on for the past week, hired as | its “employment” manager a notori- (Continued on Page 2) Aircraft Strike Solid; Weinstock Is ‘Told To Cool Heels ‘Mass Picketing at 2 Hartford Plants Show Militant Spirit (Special to the Daily Worker) HARTFORD, Conn., April 18— The s'rike of the 1,500 workers of the Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Co. and the Hamilton Propeller, re- | Mains solid. Masses of workers are on the picket lines. A packed mass meeting at Sons of Italy Hall, composed primarily of youth, with great enthusiasm cheered the proposals to stick until all the demands are won. President Lavista of the Industrial Aircraft Workers of America, leading the strike, reported that all indications show the employers will soon come to terms. He also stated: “I was esked to come to a meeting with Anna Weinstock at nine o'clock last night, but there was plenty of time to meet with misleaders.” Weinstock, government concilia- tor and tool of the N.R.A., has sold out 250 greenhouse workers at Cromwell, Conn., sending them back without the granting of any conditions, with blacklistings, and no union recognition. She remains here in conference with the bosses and their agents, attempting to sell out other strikes. The strike of the 1,500 workers at the Arrow-Hart and Hegeman plant, led by an A. F. of L, federal union, is solid. Hundreds of women (Continued on Page 2)