The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 27, 1934, Page 1

niamemuammaemnningengaan * | | Defend the Soviet Union and Chinese as ch Tools ae CIRCULATION DRIVE NEW SUBS RECEIVED YESTERDAY 49 144 Saturday Total . 37 2,644 Vol. XI, No. 101 Daily,QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Entered as second-elass matter at the Post Offer at <> «6 New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1979. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1934 WEATHER: / iy AMERICA’S CLASS DAILY ONLY WORKING NEWSPAPER Showers. Price 3 Cents DETROIT WORKERS 10 DEFY MAYOR'S BAN ON MAY DAY Nb apeke Railroad Agreement . Aims to End Stri Pact Binds Men Against Making New Demands Restore 10 P.C. Cut; Leave Lower Brack- ets Untouched SPEED-UP REMAINS “Breathing Space” for Roads, Brotherhood Chiefs Boast WASHINGTON, April 26. —In an agreement that def- initely binds the railroad workers against any strike ac- tion for the next 12 months, the Railroad Brotherhood chiefs and the railroad man- agement agreed late today that there will be no further dis- cussion of any wage increases until May 1, 1933, with the present 10 per cent cut to be gradually restored by that time. ‘This agreement, arrived at by the Brotherhood chiefs after many secret negotiations behind closed doors, thus leaves the railroads, now coining bigger profits than at any time during the last three years, protected against any strike action of the workers for higher pay to meet the advancing cost of living. Protests Speed-up With the greatest distinctness, the agreement signed by the Brother- hood chiefs leaves the thousands of lower paid railroad brackets at the mercy of the management, and also Gets Tipped Off That Cuban Government Is Only Spoofing NEW YORK.—Butcher Machado, “man of a thousand murders,” ex- president of Cuba, was conveniently tipped off by Federal authorities here yesterday that a formal war- rant had been issued for his extra- dition to Cuba. Gerardo Machado, who had been living in the United States, under the protection of Wall Street, entered a Parmelee taxicab at his hide-out at 109 E, 91st St. six hours before the Federal authori- ties arrived, with the full knowl- be in. dieta in Cuba, based on the same forces and murderers that, Machado relied on to rule, in compliance with mass hatred of Butcher Ma- chado, and in order to put on a cheap mask of “left” demagogy, “requested” Machado's extradition. He is charged with murder and em- bezzlement, All his murders and embezzlements were in the interest of the United States government and the leading Wall Street bank- ers, in order to keep Cuba in the vise of the Yankee exploiters. Mendieta no more wants Ma- chado than Roosevelt seeks to de- tain him. In Cuba, the Mendieta govern- ment, which has in its service many of M@ehado’s-assassins, the “por- ristas," is stirring up the news- papers with the alleged “man hunt” of Machado. At the same time Mendieta con- tinues Machado’s murderous busi- ness for the Wall Street bankers by his anti-strike laws, his murders of revolutionary workers and peasants | and wholesale imprisonments of the edge that the butcher of the Cuban} workers and peasants would not) The government of Carlos Men- | Machado’s Address | Militants Is Stoppage in Jenks, Muir Forces Increases in Wages (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, April 26.— Matthew Smith, General Secretary of the M.| E. S. A. independent tool and die | makers’ union and member of the Socialist Party, has at last come into the open. the expulsion and terrorist policies of A. F. of L. leadership, he has started a move to expel all Com- munists and other militant work- ers from the M.E.S.A. Flouting every constitutional right and using police to help him, Smith Aim| Adopting with a vengeance all| ary Smith’s drive against militants is for the purpose of crushng all re- sistance to his sell-out policies that are wrecking the strike of 3,000 tool | and diemakers and of 1,000 workers Gerardo Machado, the bloody former President of Cuba, who is | being sought on an extradition warrant for murder. same forces who fought Machado, j especially the Communist Party of Cuba. Recently 40 revolutionary work- ers in Havana went on a hunger strike against Mendieta’s terror, and through international working- class action won their freedom. arranged like a movie scenario. No pains were omitted to make sure he would not be detained. Movie camera firms were notified so they could be present. Flat-footed Mar> shal Mulligan, charged with serv- ing the warrant, says he “laid care- ful plans, mobilizing a huge detec- tive force,” a la Dillinger raids. The whereabouts of Machado, however, could easily be obtained | from the U. S. State Department or from either the Chase National Bank or the National City Bank of New York. Machado’s attempted “arrest” was at the Michigan Stove Co. Smith’s campaign was launched Tuesday night when on his proposal the District Executive of the M. E. S. A., composed almost entirely of his henchmen, voted to kick all Communists out of the organiza- tion. This was followed last night by forcible expulsion of John Mack, member of the District Executive and one of the outstanding leaders of the militant rank and file, from the meeting of his local, Local 8. Keeps Rank and File In the Dark ‘To put over the expulsion Smith saw to it that the membership of the local was not notified of the meeting by mail, as is usually the | (Continued on Page 3) Code Scored M. W. I. U. to Fight the Proposed Code in All Ports By SEYMOUR WALDMAN (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, April 26.— “The proposed N.R.A. code for the ship- ping industry is substantially the | same one which the seamen have been striking against since Janu- | ‘y,” Roy Hudson, National Secre- tary of the Marine Workers Indus- | trial Union, told the Daily Worker correspondent late this afternoon | | after having waited all day to ap- | Pear before N.R.A. Deputy Admini- strator Joseph Weaver and about 200 | shipowners and ship builders at- | tending the third public hearing on the code drawn up by the American | | Shipowners Association. | Weaver told Hudson just before the afternoon session that he would | be called this evening. The employ- ers, in consonance with N. R. A. practice, got first call. Negro and White Seamen at Hearing Hudson, who has electrified at previous N. R. A. shipping code hearings, led a delegation of ten Negro and white marine workers who attended the hearing. One of them, Andrew Fetzik, represented the Great Lakes seamen who, under the leadership of the M. W. I. U., have already b to fight the em- ployers’ dei eee Today’s hearing was held in’ @ small, room in the United States Chamber of Commerce Building. | _(Continued: o on Page 2) 2,000 Tarrytown Fisher Men By Seamen Painters and Decorators Turn Down S. P. Meet, | Defy $9 Fine Edict TAG DAYS THIS WEEK | | Big Program for Night Meet in the Garden NEW YORK.—The membership | and of local 499 of the Painter: | Decorators Union last Wedne: | night voted down the Zausner mi |chine proposal to particiate in the | Socialist Party parade and pink tea demonstration on May Day. By a} vote of 140 to 9, the local decided | to join the United Front May Day | parade and demonstration against Hunger, fascism and war. By their vote, the members gave | a militant answer to the attemont | of the reformist leaders of the Brotherhood to herd them into the Socialist Party parade by a threat of a $9 fine for each member who joined the United May Front dem- onstration, The A. F. of L. painters will march with the Painters Rank and ‘FyPMe Association, and will begin as- sembling at 11 a.m., next Tuesday on 18th St., west of Eighth Ave, A proposal of the Zausner gang for a 25¢ a day work tax was also voted down, as was the District Council’s proposal for the 17-hour day and $9 minimum wage. The rank and file of the Local are sup- | porting @ program for a 6-hour day e United May Ist Demonstrations NEW YORK.—Union Squ: 2:30 to 5 p.m., preceded by two monster parades. Evening bration at Madison Square Garden, 7:30 p.m.| BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Capitol Park, facing Jefferson County jail DETROIT, Mich. — Grand Circus Park. kes for One Year Wall St. Bankers Know Oust MESANN.R.A. ‘Ship 4. fe art. Loeal Defeats Officers’ Motion; Will Be In United Front Parade | Acrested ©. (We As Mea To Lead Parade in Minneapolis PLAN MEETS IN § Penn. Miners and Steel Workers ta Demonstrate DETROIT, April real reason for denying G CLEVELAND, Ohio—Public Sq., Circus Park to the workers at 4:30 p.m. was exposed today by the Ma CHICAGO, Ill., Grant Park as exposed toda, : h SOUTH CHICAGO.—At 90th and| Day delegation of four that Greenbay Ave., 4 p.m. interviewed Mayor Couzens, NEW ORLEANS, La.—Corner of | po]j, . e ice Commissioner Henrich Canal and Claibourne Ave., 7 p.m. Pickert and Supt. of Police ST, LOUIS, Mo.—Old Court House, Broadway and Market, at 4 p.m. | PITTSBURGH, Pa.—At Dinwiddie | and Fifth Ave. to West Park, at 1pm. MILWAUKEE, Wis.—Red Arrow} Park, at 5 p.m. Evening celebration at Milwaukee Auditorium, at 7 p.m. BOSTON, Mass.—Charles St. Mall, | Boston Common, at 12 noon. BALTIMORE, Md. — City Hall Plaza, 1 p.m. Parades (1) from So. Broadway and Thomas St. ~11!30 am; and-(2)°from-Penn Ave. and | Laurens St., 11:30 am. AKRON, Ohio — Perkins Square | at 2 p.m. NORFOLK, Va~-At Cone Park Pavilion, East Princess Anne Road and Bolton St., at 8 p.m. | SPRINGFIELD, Ill—Berger’s Pk. RACINE, Wis.—Lake Front Park. at the City Hall. The delegation propos sed Square which has been bk workers as an alternative to Ci Park. Mayor Couzens insisted th | Cadillac Square was closed and maintained that Grand Circus Park was “seeded-up.” The Committee offered to protect the seeded sec- tion of the park. When this was turned down, the delegation pro- posed to set up a platform imme- diately outside of the park, facing Madison Avenue, a ‘bromd boulevard which can accommodate the work- ers, This was again refused by the city offici: The delegation left with statement made by Earl Reno: “We want to tell you that this is clearly a deliberate attack upon the civil rights of the workers of the | | |and $9 minimum wage, with unem- | pioyment insurance to be paid by |the bosses and their government, Great eee Detroit, an attempt to drive them from the streets. We want to tell you that we mean to fight for VIRDEN, Ill.—City Hall. | BELLEVILLE, Ill.—In front of | Court House. iy 500 Strikers provides that the roads can pro-| ceed with their spread-work plans that brought the weekly pay of Hail Cleveland Str ike Demands on thousands of railroad workers to} less than $15 a week. The agreement states: “With re- spect to employees in the lower paid brackets, this agreement shall not be taken to prevent dis- cussion and adjustment between individual carriers and organiza- tions with respect to spreading employment or of the matter of opportunity for increased earnings of part time employes.” In a statement remarkable for its admission of the immense aid that the agreement gives the railroad stockholders, A. F. Whitney, of the Railway Labor Executive Associa- tion, stated: “We have joined in the agree- ment to with wishes of President Roosevelt in the interest of national recovery. “This will stabilize wages on American railroads and give all concerned a breathing speil.” It was with such phrases that Whitney agreed to the 10 per cent wage reduction which has already robbed the railroad worker of hun- dreds of millions of dollars. Strike Spreads in Spain as Political Crisis Sharpens ‘State of Alarm’ Is Pro- Claimed; Premier Not Yet Named MADRID, April 26.—Spain is un- der a “state of alarm,” a modified form of martial law, with clashes between heavily armed police and strikers in many cities, as President Alcala Zamora is reported debating whether to call a new Cabinet to replace that of Alejandro Lerroux, which resigned yesterday, or to re- sign and precivitate a new election. General strikes are holding firm in many cities, and are reported most complete in Valencia and Zaragoza. Many smaller strikes are breaking out. Farm workers outside Valencia are reported also on strike. Valencia streets are patrolled by police in armored cars. The 9,000 reactionary political prisoners freed by the Lerroux am- nesty which does not include any worker prisoners, of whom there are thousands in Spanish jails, are hurryinz into acticn, pressing for a fascist-like solution of the political crisis. Jose Gil Robles, leader of the fas- cist “Popular Action” Party, was re- ported not to wish to head a gov- cement pow considering his forces cient ‘Win Demands Buffalo Aero Strike Is Solid; Stachel Is Cheered at Meet HARTFORD, Conn., April 26— All demands of 1,500 strikers of the Arrow-Hart and Hegeman Electric Company were won here, and the workers have returned to thier jobs. The strike was led by a federal local of the A. F. of L., and most of the strikers were women. Mass picketing and militancy marked this strike which had entered its third week. Whitney Aircraft Corporation, and the Hamilton Propeller are still out on strike. A mass strike meeting was held last night. President La- Vista, of the Industrial Aircraft Workers of America, an independ- ent union which is leading the strike, reported that picketing was weak. He called for mass picketing saying: “That is the only way to | teach the bosses a lesson. Squeeze their pickets a little more.” Over 500 were on the aero strike picket line this morning. Terror against the strikers is increasing. (Continued on Page 6) Seamen Fight Industrial Union Urge lin Hartford | _ ReliefControl The 1,500 workers at the Pratt &| To Maintain /Ten Ships in Protest Strike; Support Balto. Seamen By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Special to the Daily Worker) BALTIMORE, April 26.—Scores of seamen, representing hundreds. who refuse to budge from their worker- controlled unemployment relief pro- ject despite efforts of government officials to ambush the project by denying funds and supplies, marched to local relief headquarters today and demanded: food, shelter, and no forced labor on the waterfront. At the same time a seamen’s del- egation went to Washington to tell Federal officials that, instead of retreating before the drive to starve them out, they are organizing a mass march from many ports to support the Baltimore Seamen's project. by parking on the Federal government’s doorstep unless and until their demands are met. Roy Hudson, National Secretary of the Marine Workers Industrial Union, last night addressed a meet- ing of the local bra pee of the union, (Continued on Page 6) NEW YORK.—One of the most powerful nation-wide calls to Amer- ican workers to “down tools” and march in solid ranks in the May Day demonstrations will be sounded by the 24-page special May Day edi- tion of the Daily Worker which will be ready for mass sale and distribu- tion tomorrow. Special editions have been whirled off the new Daily Worker press and rushed through the mails so that distant parts of the country would receive their copies in time for sale and distribution this Saturday and Sunday, April 28 and 29, Red Daily Worker weekend. For several days the staff of the “Daily,” from editor-in-chief to pressmen and ‘mailing men, have literally been working day and night to rush the May Day editions off the press. The special New York City May 24 Page “Daily” io Sound May Day Call to American Workers Day edition of the “Daily” will be ready for distributicn all day to- morrow and Sunday at the follow- ing section headquarters: MANHATTAN: 96 Ave. C, and 58 W. 25th St.; HARLEM: 27 W. 115th St; LOWER BRONX: 699 Prospect Ave.; UPPER BRONX: 2075 Clinton Ave., and at Room 3, Morris Park Ave.; BROOKLYN: 132 Myrtle Ave.; 1280-56th St.; 61 Graham Ave.; 1813 Pitkin Ave.; JAMAICA: 148-29 Liberty Ave.; MINEOLA, L. L: 80 Main St.; pone ISLAND CITY: 4206-27th The various sections have ordered jextra copies to take care of last minute orders by individual we ers as well as by workers’ orgen’ zations. .Report to these headquar- | ters tomorrow morning for your copies. Last minute orders will also be taken at the District Daily Worker office, 35 E, 12th St. | Adoption of Militant | Demands By CARL REEVE | TARRYTOWN, N. Y., April 26.—| |2,000 Fisher Body workers crippled the production at the Fisher Body eting of the Chevrolet Plant here continues. The strikers were great- ly encouraged by a telegram from the Cleveland Strikers, addressed to Otto Kleinert, President of the Union, which stated: “Our demands are for recogni- tion of our Union, 30 per cent above the basic rate; 8 hours a day; 40 hours a week. Time and a half over-time. Double time for Sundays. We are a hundred per cent out on strike, 85,000 strong. Will stay until we get our de- mands. An agreement will come to you by air mail. Stick it out. We will shut down Tarrytown through Cleveland for you. Signed, J. C. Barksites, Secretary, Federal Local Union.” A leaflet distributed by the Auto Workers Industrial Union were eagerly seized by the strik- ing workers. The leaflet urges all workers to join the strike making it 100 per cent effective. The leaflet em- phasizes that the demands of the strike must be made crystal clear and should be the same as those of the Cleveland and St. Louis strikers in the Fisher Body plants there. It lists these demands as follows: For a 30 per cent wage raise. For reinstatement of all workers fired for union or organizing ac- tivities. Against the Company union. For recognition of the workers’ The leaflet stresses the need for organized mass picketing to keep scabs out of the plants, and urges the immediate election of a Strike Committee from the departments, with the most militant workers to be elected. It warns the strik- ers against placing any trust in the support of the police who, whatever their personal opinions, will in the end defend the Fisher Body Company. The strikers in an interview with the Daily Worker today told of their conditions and of their determina- | tion to strike for higher pay, and for better working conditions. The} telegram from Cleveland was) | printed and pasted on telegraph | eae !as their own. However, the leadership of the (Continued on Page 2) plant, Tarrytown, today, and pick- | The strikers of Fisher Body | in Tarrytown accept these demands Roosevelt Plans a Retort to Japan’s Claims on China | War Tension n Sharpened| by Flare Up of Rivalries NEW YORK.—President Roose- velt, having played a card against Japan yesterday by announcing he would begin at once to build more battleships under the Vinson bill, conferred in Washington today with Secretary of State Cordell Hull about Japan’s recent declaration of a “Monroe Doctrine” for Asia. At the same time, U. S. Ambas- sador Joseph C. Grew called on Koki Hirota, Japanese foreign min- ister, in Tokyo, and had a conversa- tion with him, the result of which was not made fublic. Just before Grew called, the British ambassador to Tokyo had also visited Hirota. After Roosevelt. and Hull had) (Continued on Page 2) By ANDREW OV OVERGAARD (Secretary, Trade Union Unity Council) AY DAY, 1934, takes place at a time of a new wave of strike struggles by the workers in New York City. The workers through their experience have learned that the Roosevelt program has intensi- fied the employers offensive on con- ditions in the shops. Wherever a few cents have been won in hourly wage rates the hight cost of living due to inflation has further de- creased the standards of living of | the workers. The continuous refusal of the government to pass any un- | employment insurance measure and |the threat of discontinuing the ©. i W. A. projects and further decreases | in unemployment relief, make it! necessary for the entire working- class of New Yerk City to prepare for one united powerful May Day | demonstration in 1934, not only for | the improvement of our economic) | miners, |cough, who served long terms for! Call Rallies and Tag Days to Prepare for May Day NEW YORK.—Plans for last min- | ute preparations and preliminary demonstrations aimed at securing a mighty turn-out of New York work- ers for the May First parade to Union Square were issued yester- | day by the United Front May Dey | Arrangements Committee. Mobiliza- tion points were also assigned for (Continued on Page 2) I. L. D. Wins Release of Sherwood, Jailed for Activities in 1931 Strike (Special to the Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 26— Edward Sherwood, young leader in the 1931 coal strike, was released today from the Blawnox Work- house, after serving 30 months of} a three to six years’ sentence for) his participation in the strike. The Pittsburgh district of the In- ternational Labor Defense applied a week ago for a parole, the appli- cation being approved yesterday and his release ordered for today. Sherwood is the last of a score of including Tom Meyers-| their activities in the same strike. | ZEIGLER, Ill.—City Park. | PEORIA, Ill—Court House Sq. | (Continued on Page 2) j1 LYNN, Mass.——Lynch Common at p.m. SALEM, 7 p.m. PEABODY, Mass.—Main St., net Walnut at 7:30 p.m. NASHUA, N. H.—ODonnell Hall} at 7 p.m. DAYTON, Ohio—Library Park at 4 p.m. | KENOSHA, Wis.—Old Relief ee tion, 55th St. and Eighth Ave., at 3 p.m. FLINT, Mich—At Moose Hall, 312 East First St. JAMAICA, L. I. (N. Y.) —Town Hall at noon. Assemble 9:30 a.m. at 148-29 Liberty Ave. for parade. MINEOLA, L. I—Court House, 12 p.m. Assemble at Fair Grounds, Old} County Road, for parade. | YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio.—At Schad | and Federal Sts., 2 p.m. ERIE, Ohio— At Perry Square, | 6:30 p.m. BELLAIRE, Ohio—At Sonemian| Hall, 41st and Harrison, at 7 p.m. DILLONVALE, Ohio—At Co-oper- ative Hall, Dillonvale, 7 p.m. CONNEAUT, Ohio—At City Hall, 2 p.m PROVIDENCE, R, I—City Plaza, 3:30 p.m Mass.—Derby. Square at | corl Hall | | (Continued on Page 2) Secretary of Trade Union Unity Perspective for May Day Must Be “At Least 100,000 in Parade; 250,000 in Union Sq. imperialist war. | The militant strike of over 35,000 | taxi workers against the powerful filiations, and convincing them that by one united demonstration it will be possible in New York to mobilize fleet owners controlled by General | at least a quarter of a million work- Motors and finance capital, the ris-| ers, which will be a powerful an- ing strike struggles in the metal in-| swer to the bosses’ and the govern- dustry, the rapidly developing strug-| ment’s offensive. In all strikes now gle among the seamen and long-| taking place as well as in all of the shoremen, is an indication of the | local meetings, it is the task of the indication of the increased mass ac- | members of our unions to arouse the tions of the workers against the| workers and prepare them for capitalist offensive. | downing tools on May First. Our All unions affiliated with the| Perspective must be at least 100,000 Trade Union Unity Council should | | workers in the parade and a quarter now begin an intensive drive to !of a million workers in Union unite all the workers in the respec- | Square on May First. tive industries for one j dem-| In the preparations for May Day onstration on May Day. The im-j every union should immediately be- | mediate task is one of winning over gin to prepare the popularization of conditions in the shops but against (the threat of developing fascism and | factories regardless of political af-|membershpi with the history andl all the workers in the shops andj our demands, acquaint its whole 34 Billion in Small Deposits Wiped Out, U. S. Report Admits WASHINGTON, April 26.— Millions of small depositors can bid goodbye to about three and a half billion dollars of deposits permanently “frozen” in banks that were closed during the hectic bank crisis last March, the Treasury announces in the first of official report on the bank crisis. The official Government re- port finally admits more than a year after the event that these small deposits, representing the meagre savings of workers, small farmers, etc. have been com- pletely wiped out by the bankers and the capita’ risis. The Roo: government which has already granted “loans” of about $4,000,000,000 to the banks and_ industrialists through the R. F. C, and is handing out another four billion to guarantee mortgage invest- ments, has refused to take any action to reimburse the plun- dered small depositors. May 1A Rallying Point for Fi ig ht for Hi ig yher Wages es, Right to Strike, Jobless Relief, Says Overgaard ® i | Council PSE ie EEE of May Day as an inter- national day of struggle which orig- inated in the United States, and more than ever show the entire working class the need of a revolu- tionary working class way out of the crisis through the overthrow of cap- italism and the establishment of a Soviet Government of America, It becomes the task of the unions to bring forward real internation alism of the working class in con- nection with May Day, showing the tremendous rising struggle of the German working class and the need of the American workers to increase the struggle for the liberation of the political prisoners in Germany, led by Ernst Thaelmann, bring forth | the solidarity behind the Austrian | workers as well as the Cuban and | Filipino proletariat whose fight for liberation from Yankee imperialism jis of the greatest interest to the American working class. Ferward to a powerful May Day _demonstration in New York City! Down tools on May Day!