The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 11, 1934, Page 1

té V7 Rem — Pack St. Nicholas . Arena Tonight At Scottsboro Mothers’ Send- Of | NO MATTER HOW SMALL! Order a Daily Worker Bundle for Sale To Those You Know Daily,<QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) See Story on Page 2 AMERICA’S ON CLASS DAILY LY WORKING NEWSPAPER Vol. XI, No. 113 =* New York, ¥. ‘Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1934 WEATHER: Fair (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents 9 ALABAMA STRIKERS SLAIN IN STEEL TRUST TERROR 128 8 Ships s Tied Up In “West Coast Longshoremen’ S Strike ¢ Picket In Masses At Docks To Halt Seabs | Message From A. F. L: Leaders To Call Off Strike Ignored DEMAND $1 AN HR. Seamen and Unem- ployed Support Walkout SAN FRANCISCO, May 10. —The strike of the longshore- men was 100 per cent ef- fective today and shipping along the entire west coast of the United States was at a complete standstill. One hundred and twenty-eight ships from Seattle to San Diego are tied up at the docks, many of them with perishable goods, unable! to discharge or load cargo. It is estimated that 12,000 dock workers) are striking. The whole strike movement for higher wages has swept over the heads of officials of the Interna- tional Longshoremen’s Association and Senator Wagner, who have been sending hysterical appeals to the longshoremen urging them not to strike. See page 2 for detailed stories on West Coast longshoremen’s strikes, Cincinnati Metal Strikers Picket in| Force, Defy Arrest Pack Patrol Wagons, as Nineteen Are Jailed (Special to the Daily Worker) CINCINNATI, Ohio, May 10—One hundred and twenty mass picketers packed into 13 patrol wagons! this afternoon when police at- tempted to smash the militant strike of the 370 workers of the Formica Insulation plant, led by the Steel and Metal Workers’ In- dustrial Union. Nineteen workers were arrested yesterday on the picket line. This morning workers came out in mass again, despite the arrests. The strikers held an auto parade of 50 cars, with placards, around the! shop. Rank and file members of the Valley Paper Bag Union helped picket. The trial of the 19 strikers was postponed from today to Monday, May 14. The arrests infuriated the strikers against the city government, Police and the company. The fight- ing spirit was raised and the strikers are determined to stick solid. The afternoon papers report a strike wave developing on the} heels of the Na) epacaiad dete 1,000 Picket at Aircraft Strike Remington Rand Men: Demand Increase (Special to the Daily Worker) HARTFORD, Conn., May 10.— One thousand workers were on the picket line of the Pratt Whitney Aircraft. strikers yesterday. Many of these were women and children. A brass band accompanied the workers, who sang strike songs. There will be a women’s meeting tonight to plan for tag-days for the support of the strike. All workers are invited to participate in this meeting. The employers are asking that a verbal agreement be concluded, but the workers are insisting that there | must be a written con . Over 1,500 workers walked out of the Remington Rand Co. in Mid-ie- town, Conn., demanding 1929 wage ja hecring May By Hearst Sheet On| Arrival In Capital | Is Effort To § Split Stinks of Ex-Servicemen at Convention (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) | WASHINGTON, May 10- —Hearst’s | “Washington Herald” today greeted | the New York contingent of the 150 Negro and white veterans who ar- | rived here last night for the Fort Hunt, Virginia, Veterans National | Rank and File Convention with a! welcome consisting of false “reports | from New York” comment, of Police Major Ernest W. Brown, obviously designed to dishearten the} ex-soldiers. “Reports from New York,” wrote | the imaginative Hearst reporter, “disclosed that veterans there are being forced to show their service papers and pay $2 before they can} become bonus marche! This story | characterized the) denial which | elicited an immediate rank and file | ‘ B| | | | | Herald piece as “a repetition of the} press propaganda started last year to split the ranks of the veterans | and to discourage others from ar- riving.” The veterans declared that | “the rule which was deliberately | misconstrued concerned instructions | which were issued by the Commit- tee that all veterans mr‘st produce discharge papers or pre¢ der identi-| fication to be eligible for the march arid for the convention. The New York contingent which arrived last night are bona-fide ex-servicemen with a just claim against the Fed- eral Government. They rode se | (Continued on Page 2) Propose To Change NRA To Help Big Trusts Boost Prices. | To Concentrate on Codes in Steel, Coal, Auto, and Like Industries WASHINGTON, May 10.—Drastic changes in the N.R.A. in order to | put all concentration on the big | trusts, and help them through in- | tensified monopoly, was indicated today in statements from high of- ficials in the N.R.A. administra- tion, The object is to eliminate codes for the so-called smaller in- dustries such as laundries, barbers, restaurants, hotels, etc., doing away with even the pretense at a mini- mum wage or maximum hours. The reason for this is that a number of complaints have been piling up against the N.R.A., and General Hugh S. Johnson, chief N.R.A. administrator, has been unable to conceal the fact that the Roosevelt administration does not intend to take them up. Hereafter, according to the plans, the main emphasis will be put on steel, coal, automobile, lumber and) other manufacturing industries, where the codes will be tightened up at the expense of the workers. The idea is to permit the big| trusts to go ahead with their mon- opoly price-fixing, and let the smaller industries out of the codes. and pessimistic | quoting Superintendent | F had “Graduate” | | | | . MOSCOW,—Michael A. Levan- | dovski, Soviet rigging worker, was sent to the United States, where | he worked. in Ford's for six months, When he returned here | he was made rigger foreman; after rapid promotions he is as- sistant chief of mechanical rig- ging in the Stalingrad tractor works. U.S. Ruling Sharpens War Debt Crisis State Dept. | Says Tokens | Will Not Be Means of Avoiding “Default” WASHINGTON, May .10.—A se- vere sharpening of the war debt crisis, and an increase in imperial- ist antagonisms, especially between the United States and Britain, was made certain today by the ruling of the State Department, which de- clared that in the future token pay- ments by European powers on War debts to the United States would constitute “default.” Last June Great Britain paid in! a certain amount of silver, which was accepted as a “token” pay- ment, obviating “default.” In Britain the capitalist press is sharply coming out with agitation to refuse to pay any more of the war debt to the United States. The London Daily, Express, in an edi- torial yesterday, declared: “Presi- dent Roosevelt may as well know | that this country is paying no more war debts.” The Roosevelt government is | using the war debt issue in the bit- | ter struggle for world markets and colonies, and in order to strengthen the position of the American pank- ers, in their mancuvers with other imperialist powers. Negro Who Bisiched Insulting Clubman Is Held for Homicide NEW YORK.—Because he had xesented insults of “damn dirty nig- ger,” hurled at him by a wealthy clubman seated in his cab, John Porter, 26, Negro taxi driver, was arvested yesterday and hele for hearing on cherges of homicide. According to the police report, Tyler C. Bronson, who had insulted him and then threatened to attack him, had been fatally injured by Porter who hit him in the jaw after Bronson and a friend, who was rid- ing in Porter's cab had asked to be let out. On the sidewalk the rich broker and clubman kept call- ing him “dirty nigger” and ad- venced threateninsly at Porter. In the ensuing sezamble Bronson S punched en the jaw. Porter is heid on $5 17 in Homicide wi Court. The International Labor Defense yesterday assigned e member of its levels. a 20 per cent increase and Recognition of the union. legal staff, David Schriftman, to undertake the defense of Porter and | 090 bail for is initiating a mass movement to free him. At 63 W. 139th S‘., where Porter lives with his wife and two children, Mrs. Donald told the Daily Worker reporter that: “John is a good boy, a nice clean boy. I'm not saying that because he’s my bey but anybody will tell you. He works hard and takes care of | us as best he cen.” “If I had been in his place I would have done the same thing,” A Negro policeman in Harlem admitted to the Daily correspondent. When the Daily Worker reporter visited Hotel Roosevelt, where Fred- erick Lloyd, Bronson’s friend who had been riding with him in the} lived, he found that Lloyd had dos and had left no mail- ad revurned last week from. Miami where he had spent. the winter in swell sty} listed in the Social Re the Blue Bool and is known as an “independent Wall Street trader.” ' DETROIT, May 10.— Fourteen thousand workers at the Fisher Body plant Number 1, struck this aft- ernoon for higher wages and against speed-up. A. F. of L. leaders are forced to allow the strike to go through, but have organized no picketing. If the strike continues, it will cause the Buick plant to shut down because it depends on Fish- er for bodies. Call Militia Tampa, Fla. “ Demonstrate, School Children Strike TOPEKA, Kan., May 10.—Gov- ernor Alf M. Landon today ordered the National Guard unit at Hut- chinson to go to Wichita where 3,000 relief workers: yesterday ‘voted to go on strike until their demands are met for more hours and in- creased pay on all projects. The Na- tional Guard was rushed to Wichita at the expressed wish of Wichita police, city and relief officials, as thousands of unemployed and relief workers gathered for a meeting in @ pasture on the outskirts of the city to formulate plans for conduct- ing their strike after police and fire- men had attacked them yesterday. On Tuesday, more than 3,000 un- employed in a mass meeting voted to strike unless their demands for a living wage were met. On the fol- lowing day, police were massed on the projects where a handful of workers, recruited by the police and the relief officials were at work. Hundreds of the strikers joined in |@ march to pull out all projects solidly. As they descended upon a i Street widening project, the police retreated, and the workers came out solidly. As they continued their march, they were continually har- (Continued on Page 2) Call on Negro and White Toilers for Ore Strikers’ Aid L.S.N.R. Mobilizes Its Branches To Protest Alabama Terror NEW YORK.—Rallying to the support of the Alabama ore miners now facing the most vicious gov- ernment and company terror in the United States, the League of Strug- gle for Negro Rights, in a statement | issued yesterday by Harry Haywood. national secretary, called upon all its branches and affiliates, upon all members, and upon all white and Negro toilers, to rally to the de- |fense of the Alabama ore miners against the bloody terror unleashed s2e Coal and Iron Corporation. The L. S. N. R. particularly urges all Negroes and Negro organizations, unions, mass organizations, social clubs, and churches, to immediately organize a tremendous protest movement against this terror reign, and against the murder of four striking Negro ore miners. “The responsibility for these mur- ders, for this reign of terror, rests squarely upon President Roosevelt, upon the N. R. A. officers. who of- ficially blessed and sanctioned the slave wage differentials against which the miners are striking,” Haywood said. The statement called on all white and Negro toilers to reject the Ne- gro reformist misleaders, especially of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. “They have turned their organ, the red-baiting, lick-spittle Pitts- ‘burgh Courier, into an organ of b2llvhoo for the New Deal, the N. R. A. and all ihe added burden of ion end siavery which thse sent, end have betrayed the holdine them back The blood of the of Alabama is on murs + their heads also.” an: Sirike|= N.Y. Vets Slandered [News Flash| Two More Ne sro Miners Killed: Workers Fight For Right To Strike; Call National Protests Unions Thruout Cutis try Urged To Imme- diate Protest Action T.U.U.L. Urges Independent, F. of L. Unions to Rally Aid country were urged to raise aj | tremendous protest against | the brutal attack by the Mor- Jobless 22" -controlled Tennessee Coal ‘and Iron, and other companies by the Morgan-controlled Tennes- | in Alabama on the militant ore strikers of the state, following the brutal murder of the four Negro strikers by company and govern- ment gun-thugs on Tuesday and Wednesday. The Trade Union Unity League, through its acting national secre-* tary, Jack Stachel, issued the fol- lowing statement yesterday: “A reign of terror has been un- leashed against the Alabama ore miners by the Birmingham police and murderous special deputies of the ore mining and steel companies. | Eight thousand ore miners, the ma- jority Negro workers, stand together in a remarkable demonstration of working class unity. Four Negro pickets have been killed in cold blood and a score wounded. At the same time arrests are being made of all militant workers and Commu- nists. The ore miners are defending themselves against the terror and murder of the companies. They are | fighting for recognition of their | union and against a five cent per| day wage reduction which was em-| (Continued on Page 2) Remington Workers Strike in 4 Cities CINCINNATI, Ohio, May 10.— Machinists and metal polishers went on strike 1,200 strong here today at the Norwood plant of the Remington-Rand Corpora- tion. The plant was tied up by the strike. The strikers are de- manding recognition of their union. Three thousand five hundred employes of the Remington- Rand had alrady walked out on strike in the plants at Ilion, N. Y., Middleton, Conn., and Syracuse, N. Y. | | ‘STATEMENT A. 7 YORK.—Trade union) |mem bers throughout the| AN EDI IHE working class of the entire country, “Rally to the Defense of the Alabama Strikers TORIA L—————_ and all farmers, honest intellectuals and professionals, without a mo- bama strikers. and for union recognition. ment’s delay, must rally to the defense of the heroic Ala- Alabama today is an armed camp. The Alabama workers are striking against wage cuts They are fighting for the right to organize, to strike and picket, to assemble and speak. Wages and the most elementary civil rights of the workers are the issues in Alabama. Arrayed against them a re the armed forces of the state, the police, deputies and National Guard, doing the bidding of the Morgan-controlled Tennessee Coal and Iron Company. They are determined to drown the workers’ struggles in a sea of blood. Already four iron ore miners and one coal miner have been brutally Scores have been wounded. jailed. A reign of terror has been launched in a franti picket lines. effort to smash the strike. the N. R. A. administration. murdered on the Many have been Why is all this happening? It is to enforce the no strike orders of Roosevelt and It is to force the workers to accept lower wages as decreed by the N.R.A. The bosses, the government, the A. F. of L. leaders, by various maneu- vers, failed to put over the wage cuts and to prevent the presént strike of 8,000 ore miners. Now, with bayonets (Continued on Page 6) Series of N. Y. Meets Tol Hit Ala. Murders Monday NEW YORK.—The Communist , | Party, the Trade Union Unity Coun- jeil of Greater New York, and the |International Labor Defense have jarranged a series of open-air pro- test meetings to be held through- out the city during the next few days to rally mass support for the Alabama ore strikers, now undergo- ing one of the worst terror drives in recent years. The T. U. U. C., through its secretary, Andrew Overgaard,, yes- terday issued a call to all unions to send immediate protests to Washington and to Governor Mil- ler at Montgomery, Ala., to organize protest meetings throughout the city. The T. U. U. C. executive com- mittee, Overgaard declared, would! hold a special meeting today to take up the question of further ac- tion. The first of the protest meetings scheduled is for Monday at 12 noon. It is to be held in the needle trades market, 36th St. and Eighth Ave. Speakers will be Andrew Overgaard and Irving Potash, N. Y. secretary of the Needle Trades Workers In- | dustrial Union. On the evening of the same day, | C. A. Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, and James W. Ford, Har- | lem section organizer of the Com- munist Party, will address a pro- test meeting at 131st St. and Lenox Ave., in the heart of Harlem. Meetings wili be reld in lower (Continued on Page 2) | Strikcérs Smuggle Oui Appeal for Aid; Many Wounded STRIKES MOUNT Meetings Banned; Po lice Raise “Red Scare” (Special to the Daily Worker) BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 10.— A wave of murderous terror has been launchec against the 8,000 striking iror ore miners by the steel trust gun thugs, police and Na- tional Guard troops, as two more strikers were brutally murdered on the picket lines and many wounded. The strikers, George Bell of Sloss Red Ore mine, and W. H Ford, of the Muscoda Ore mine, the latter owned by the Morgan-controlled Tennessee Coai and Iron Company, were shot down in cold blood by T.C.I. gun thugs Four ore miners and one coal mine: have so far been murdered by the steel trust agents. | Simultaneous with the murderou: | assault on the strikers in the min | ing area, in the city of Birminghax itself, under the slogan “Wipe oul Communism,” chief of police Hol | ums is directing his police in « reign of terror again: and all militant wor! fighting for their elementary The Birmingham workers and min- ers in the surrounding area are fighting in the face of the most extreme terror of the police, gun thugs and state troopers for the right to strike, to organize, to picket and to meet and speak. The chief of police has ordere all workers’ meetings banned, ané the arrest of anyone holding « meeting. Iron ore strikers who are at this moment surrounded by armed thugs and troopers and who are in momentary danger of their life, | smuggled out an appeal for imme- diate help which is herewith transmitted to the entire working class. The letter is addressed to the International Labor Defense and declares, “For God's sake have the LL.D. come and save | us.” The letter declares, “It all | happened half a mile from T.C.1. (Continued on Page 2) U. S. Gov’t Aided In Juggling Kerenshy Lown Money for r Arms Could | Have Been Used To Pay Off Debt By HARRY GANNES THERE are some very mys- terious phases about the Kerensky loans made by the United States treasury in 1917. The Roosevelt govern- ment would never dare to bring to light what it knows about these loans. There sre some new strange facts hidden away in the files of the State Denartment. The more juicy ones were burned by the Kerensky-Czerist ambassa- dor, Bekhmetieff and his financial juggler, Serge Ughet. The whole question is now brought up by the Rooscvelt gov- ernment, which, tongue in cheek, declares the Soviet Union in de- fault, because of a maze of world imperialist conflicts. The Johnson Bill was passed at a time when the imoverialist bandits were sporeach- inz the stage of armed Every impericlict an now sharpened es it m before. Capit> the world, soon to be followed by the thunderbolt of med struggle. American im sm has a $22,- musele: onism, between the has edt | wars cloud | its competitors, chiefly against Great Britain. And it has now de- cided to use it to the hilt in the} game of attacking its opponent and | trying to weaken him hy every) available means. Everything goes in this prelude | |to war. Facts do not matter. Loans | paid to a non-existent government, and used to pay American bankers, and counter-revolutionary bandits, in this situation are charged against, the Soviet Union in the general scheme of inter-imperialist con- flicts. At the same time, the enemies of the Soviet Union in the United States, see in the debt question a lever to push the world imperialist anti-Soviet war front. Those Behind the Scenes The same White Guard swindlers who dissipated and squandered the Kerensky loans, many of them now connected with Wall Street bankers, and Roosevelt government figures through marriage, and other means, are the ones who lead in insisting that the Soviet Union be falsely de- clared in default. Czarist bond spec- ulators, and others who most acute- | jly feel the basic world antag-) id of cavi- and the sword ‘dof advansing ent debt to try to ‘liver a biow to the workers’ fath- | erland, New as to the Icans th the Soviet government with being | Bakhmetieff off Had More in default to the tune of $187.000,- | 000. A bare telling of the facts | Than Enough To }some important swindlings | sian emba shows this to be a deliberate falsi- fication on its face. A recent issue |of the Soviet organ, “Za Industrial- (For Industrialization), re- some facts which expose in the izatsiu” counts Kerensky loans. While the total amount originally loaned (not to the Soviet govern- ment, or any of its agents, nor for its account) was $187,000,000, the United States government received back from various sources $30,000,- 000. In an official letter from An- drew Mellon (who knew how to empty the U. S. treasury of mil- lions for himself and friends) when | he was Secretary of the Treasury on June 2, 1922, to Secretary of State Hughes, there is the declara- tion that the United States trans- mitted not $187,000,000, but $125,- 000,000 to Bakhmetieff and his fel- low bandits. To offset this amount, however, there was a good deal of cash at the disposal of the Washington em- bassy of the Kerensky-Kolchak gov- | ernments. An official mitted by Uzhet, finzncial agent, to use an unwar- snted diplomatic term, shows that on January 1. 19%1, the Rus- v on had Is to the memorandum sub: 000,000,000. war debt weapon against |The Roosevelt government au value of $171,800,000, In other Bakhmetieff's | Liquidate Loans words, they had their hands on $46,000,000 more than was neces- sary to pay the $125,000,000 which Mellon admitted was all that was paid to their credit. But to aid the counter-revolution which tried to overthrow the Soviet government, the United States goy- ernment aided Bakhmetieff and company squander both its money and the cash rightfully belongine to the Russian people. “Salaries” and Graft | Some details of the graft that went on with the money is con- tained in a Senate document, United States Senate Judiciary Committee investigation into loans to foreigp governments (Document No. 86), published December, 1921. Very few copies of this document were printed, and they are now searcer than the proverbial hen’s | teeth. Czarist counter - revolutionisis, | employed by the embassy, were | paid tremendous “salaries.” Here are some of them. The “artillery department,” headed by Col. Y. Oranoy: whose job it was to cupply Kolchak with artillery for the months of December to Au- | (Continued on Page 3) ® iv To ss se aaT m4 es aa aan & t