The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 23, 1934, Page 1

Steel Barons ) Reject Demands In Youngstow NO MATTER HOW SMALL! Order a Daily Worker Bundle for Sale To Those You Know Yol. XI, No. 123 at the Post Office at Act of March 8, 1879 Entered as second-class mi Sew York, N. Y., under th ->* YEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, Daily <QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) WEATHER: Pair, cooler / a a ce REE AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER Price 3 Cents 20,000 MINNEAPOLIS PICKETS ROUT 1,500 ARMED COPS Strike Sentiment Grows Rapidly As Companies Reject Demands UNITY PROGRESSES | Locals of A. F. L. Steel | Union Accept Unity | Call of SMWTU | (Special to the Daily Worker) — | YOUNGSTOWN, 0., May! 22.—The Republic. Carnegie} and Youngstown Sheet and Tube steel companies yester-| day rejected the demand pre- sented by the steel workers for union recognition and the Republic Co., came out flatly for retention of the company union, which they declared the N. R. A. permits. These companies thus gave flat rejection to the demands presented as on May 21, the day | the steel workers presented de- mands to all companies. Meanwhile. preparations of the} Steel and Metal Workers Industrial | Union and Amalgamated Associ- ation (A. F. of L.) rank and file, for strike are being speeded up. The strike sentiment is rapidly rising, and the A. A. locals one after the | other are declaring for a unified struggle. in answer to the call of the S. M. W. I. U. for united strike action. Unity Move Growing | The Republic Company states. | Recognition in the sense demanded ; by the Amalgamated Association | simply means yielding to the closed shop princivle and this our com- pany has steadfastly refused to do; this policy will be maintained. We will not make any contracts with Amalgamated or any other organi- zation. There is nothing in the NIRA that requires the company to do so. The employee representation plan is working satisfactorily.” | The Steel and Metal Workers’ Union is mobilizing all its forces and additional organizers have heen placed in the field. Over two hundred attended an enthusiastic meeting last Sunday of the S. M. W.I. U. Many local Amalgamated officers and members attended the S. M. W. I. U. meeting, which was addressed by Secretary Egan of the S. M. W. I. U. A resolution was unanimously adopted for united action by both unions in developing the strike, and the movement for unity of all steel workers is rapidly growing. Last night Joe Dallett, district secretary of the SM.W.LU., ad- dressed a meeting of Buckeye Lodge of the A. A. in the Carnegie Steel Co. The hall was packed and the audience not only applauded the unity proposals, but also his bitter denunciation of the strikebreaking, splitting role of Tighe and Co., na- tional officials of the Amalgamated. A, A. members passed out the unity call of the National Board of the S.M.W.LU. At the conclusion of this meeting Joe Dallett was given a ris- ing vote of thanks and he was also invited to address Republic Lodge No. 100 of the A. A. next Saturday night, where he will propose a joint committee and a joint mass meet- ing. The Youngstown S.M.W.LU. is accepting the invitation from Riverside Lodge of the A. A., Otis Steel Co., Cleveland, Ohio, to send delegates to Sunday’s session of the Sixth District Conference of the ALA. Demands of Steel Workers Today the S.M.W.L.U. presented demands to the Republic Sheet and Tube Co., which differ from those of the A. A. The A. A. demanded recognition only. The S.M. W.I.U. demands the six-hour day, five-day week; $1 an hour minimum wage; abolition of the speed-up; equal rights for Negro workers; weekly posting of working schedules; four hours’ pay when called out and sent home without work; improvement in sanitary facilities and safety de- vices; abolition of the mill police and spy system; recognition of de- partment and mill committees, democratically elected by all work- ers, and the abolition of the em- ployee representation plan and all other forms of company unions. In place of this plan of the com- pany union the S.M.W.1.U. demands “recognition of the union chosen by the workers (the S.M.W.I.U. or the A. A. or both) the proportion to be decided by free balloting by the workers in the plant, free from company supervision.” The strike sentiment is growing steadily and the greatest danger facing the steel workers is a sell- out by A. A. top officials and the vacillations of A. A. insurgent lead- ers on the questions of a united front and arbitration. The workers throughout the country must assist the unity movement and_ strike Second Five-Year Plan| |Loan Fully Subscribed MOSCOW, May 22 (By Radio) — | The of 3,500,000,000 rubles, issued on | | April 15, 1934, was fully subscribed Nn! by May 20, 1934. — Fascist Heads NRA Jacks Up Living | In Bulgaria Cost, Pay Stays Low, | | Fear Revolt 4 | | (Special to the Daily Worker) | | | Second Five-Year Plan loan} Sec’y Perkins Admits WASHINGTON, May 22, — Turning back on all her official press releases which paint a happy picture of current condi- Led vommunists; One Demonstration Is by € “Git That Striker!’’ The Cops’ Cry 50 Injured; Deputy Dies as Strikers Defend Selves; Johnson Prepa WASHINGTON, May 22.—N. R. 40,000 Workers Now Out ring to Break | Daily Worker Washington Bureau putes Bill, the Administration strike- | breaking company union measure recently tions, Secretary of Labor Fran Perkins admited before the Sen- ate Banknig Commttee that the cost of living for all workers has risen at least 10 per cent since the N. R. A. went into effect, while wages have remained sta- tionary or have dropped. Clothing prices have gone up 21 per cent and food at least 16 per cent since Roosevelt started his program, she admitted. Metal Union Puts Demand 'To Nazi Envoy Opens Campaign to Free Communist Leader, Ernst Thaelmann NEW YORK.—A delegation of the Metal Workers’ Industrial Union declared yesterday morning at the German Consulate here that the workers of New York demanded an end to the secret trial arrange- ments being made to rush the exe- cution of Ernst Thaelmann, leadei of the Communist Party of Ger- many, now being tortured in a Nazi | | Is Killed | SOFIA, May 22,—Fear of mass up- | risings against the newly instituted) |fascist regime spread among the| | ruling clique here when Communists | | in one of the suburbs here yesterday | | led a demonstration against fascism. | | The police had a difficult time in smashing the demonstration. | The workers resisted militantly. | One Communist was killed, and | |many workers were arrested and| |face torture at the experienced | | hands of the butcher Zankoff and | | his band of executioners. | | ‘Thousands have already been | arrested, and raids are going on in- | cessantly in an effort to destroy the | Communist Party. Because of the | long illegal experience, and because | of its mass base among the workers, | |the fascist, regime is having the | greatest difficulties, and in its wrath arrests anyone on the slightest sus picion. | | Action is being taken against the | | Macedonian national _revolution- | aries, and especially their organiza- |tion, the Imro, as the Bulgarian | fascist regime fears a national in- dependence movement that would | endanger their weakly balanced re- | | gime. { | Unlike the fascist regime in Ttaly | | and Germany, the Bulgarian’ fascist | | dictatorship does not have an or-| ganized mass base among the mid- | dle class. The coup was carried out | | in the strictest)secrecy, with only the | top groups of the military and the MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—A striking truck driver lies in the middle of the road after being attacked and felled by nightsticks of the police, who are trying to break the strike of the heroically battling teamsters. ro Appeal Next F riday To Argue Scottsbo I. L. D. Urges Mass Protests and Immediat Contributions for Defense. Fight A. Administrator General Hugh 5. Johnson made it clear today that the N. R. A. and other sectors of the Roosevelt Administration are |considering new legislative ways} jand means of aborting or breaking} the mounting wave of Summer | strikes. Asked in his press conference | whether he considers “some legisla- |tion necessary to meet the Summer | strikes,” Johnson shot back, “Yes, I think so.” | However, he refused to discuss the | Specific revisions of the long- | awaited revised Wagner Labor Dis- | Ships’ Crew reformulated by a commit- tee consisting of Wagner, Secretary of Labor Perkins, Johnson, and Fed- eral Relief Head Harry L. Hopkins That the N,R. A. big business machine is being tightened was strongly indicated by today’s an- nouncement that an advisory coun- cil, consisting of three members from the Consumers Advisory Board, the Labor Advisory Board and the Industrial Advisory Board is being formed. Hereafter the codes will be referred directly to the Ad- visory Council rather than to each board as was the practice. Longshoremen Paralyze New Orleans Shipping | Boilermakers, Shipwrights, Machinists, Clerks, } (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW ORLEANS, May 22.—Sea- men of the S. S. Edgar Luckenbach _ | Struck here today, under the leader- | ship of the Marine Workers’ Indus- | 2 capitalists and landlords involved. | Professor Zankoff, leader of the | National Socialists, declared today that his group would support the fascist regime of Premier Gueor-| guieff, | A new fascist legislative body of 100 will be organized to replace the prison. The Nazi Consul, very much dis- turbed by the demands of the dele- gation, which they informed him were just the beginning of a series by hundreds of workers’ organiza- tions, stated he would “refer =| | | | matter to the Consulate General.” dissolved parliament, which had 274 at : members. Three-fourths of the} The visit of the union delegation | members of this fascist body will | yesterday inaugurates an intensive campaign, including constant pick- eting before the Consulate. Dele- gations of professional and intellec- | tual groups, besides the trade unions, will continue to visit the | New Scottsboro | | gore paris sat a eee ms \ to mand | zon tocmecs "Seen in Arrest Although many branches and or- | . ganizations have begun to act in| Of Detroit Negro | cabinet. | | accordance to the sentiment ex- | pressed in the cable sent by the In- | | ternational Liberation Committee, | i . | which states that “nation-wide mo- | Bail Set at $50,000 bilization and action can hinder, for James Victory, this crime,” the New York District | International Labor Defense has World War Vet urged that no time be lost in carry wee By A. B, MAGIL (Special to the Daily Worker) ing out these protest actions, since it was the combined efforts of work- | DETROIT, Mich.. May 22.—What may prove to be Detroit’s Scotts- ing-class organizations which played boro case, unless workers act to the major part in the release of | smash a vicious frameup, opened Dimitroff, Popoff and Taneff. , this morning with the examination before Judge Killman in Recorder’s Court of James Victory, Negro U. S. Arms Merchants | be appointed by the king and his | ~~ NEW YORK.—Hearing by the Alabama Supreme Court on the In- ternatonal Labor Defense appeal against the lynch death verdicts imposed on Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris, the first two of the Scottsboro boys to be re-tried under the decision wrested by the world-wide mass protest from the U. S. Supreme Court for new trials, Big Business Tries To Soothe Feeling On NRA Exposures Campaign of Talking Down Whole Affair; Soft-Soap Farmers By SEYMOUR WALDMAN, (Daly Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, May 22.—Big business “is taking a middle course” and “by and large is swinging neither to the right nor to the left,” Henry I. Harriman, one of the spon- sors of the N.R.A. and president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, the highly organized will take place this Friday, May 25,| lal Union, in sympathy with the | in Montgomery, Ala., the I. L. D.| longshoremen. | announced yesterday. | Crews of the Point Salinas, Grey-| ‘The I. L. D. announcement of the| lock and the Marjorie are also pre- hearing was accompanied by an| Paring to strike. Seamen on the urgent appeal to the workers, in-| Ulysses are striking at Port Aran- tellectuals and all opponents of| sasas, Texas, also under M. W. I. U. lynching and Negro oppression for) leadership. immediate contribution of funds to| ‘Thousands of longshoremen are defray the expenses of the appeal] continuing their strike here despite | and for vigorous nation-wide pro- test actions to demand the imme- diate, unconditional and safe release of the boys. The appeal will be argued by Os: mond K. Fraenkel and Samuel Leib- owitz, The appeal will be based particularly on the flagrant violation of the constitutional rights of the} defendants and of the entire Negro people by the systematic exclusion| of Negroes from Alabama juries; the forging of the names of Ne- groes on the Scottsboro jury roll in} an attempt to “prove” that Negroes had been considered for jury service but found neligible; the lynch at- mosphere in which the new trials, like the original farcical Scottsboro trial, took place; the open hostility of Judge Callahan to the defense, as shown in his hampering of the defense, his refusal to allow ad- journment during Patterson's trial to permit the filing of an affidavit by Ruby Bates, star defense witness, who was seriously sick at the time in a New York hospital. Wax Fat on Chaco War, Export Figures Show WASHINGTON. — United States | munitions manufacturers are doing | worker and World War veteran, charged with having slashed Mrs. Kaye, white woman, with a razor. The arrest and frameup of Vic- tory came as part of a man hunt organized against Negroes by police legislative and propaganda organ of American finance and industry, said here tonight before the American Advertising Agencies Association's annual meeting at the Hotel May- flower. Expose State’s Appeal to Passion, Race Prejudice The I. L. D. attorneys will also stress the open appeal to passion and race prejudice by Attorney General Knight, Jr.. whose father is ag heel _|on the basis of hysteria whipped a | gro slasher” that was supposed to Nap gasieainncrag eee aS | be roaming the city, slashing white dicate. Since November, 127 ma-| Women. In the course of the man- chines eins tate. deeds ACS sage hunt 40 Negroes were arrested and Pan dia Wie JER ft there beaten by cops. Charges against have been 29 shipped to Bolivia, sinory. Ares sone, ead aimee aaa eer pad. A iia and battery less than mur- Last Vv! out) der.” ee tomperploaives to me ‘ave The defense of the framed Negro 7 worker, whose unimpeachable char- and March it bought $137,529 worth | acter has been attested to by many from this country. Exports of air- : white people, is being waged by the planes and parts to Bolivia in the | International Labor Defense in co- 26 months ending Feb. 28 were val- ued at $688,337. (Continued on Page 2) $60 a Month Engineers Built Chrysler’s $20,000 Joy-Wagon DETROIT.—Luxurious idleness at the top and underpaid skilled work- ers at the bottom is a picture pre- sented as designers, technicians and engineers create a specially built car for W. P. Chrysler, Jr. The car, which is to be a surprise present from Chrysler to his son, is the last word in motor car lux- uriousness. It is a four-door sedan, has such specially built accessories as a complete built-in cocktail bar in the rear, a handsome rack to hold cocktail glasses, a complete luncheon outfit and silverware of a $3,000 will keep Chrysler and his companions warm. The interior of the car harmonizes with the robe. The car when completed will cost approximately $20,000. Engineers—not to speak of the shop workers—whose skill made this car possible are flagrantly under- paid. Graduate engineers are work- | ing in the Chrysler research depart- | ment for $140 a month. Engineers | who have been displaced from jobs | in other industries are working at the “board” for as low as $90 a month, Body draftsmen (graduates preparations of the steel workers by supporting the 5.M.W.LU, special design. A genuine leopard’s robe costing from technical schools) are hired as low as $60 a month, Harriman’s speech, broadcast over a coast to coast network, gave every | indication of being an attempt to neutralize the Darrow-Thompson monopoly and anti-labor indictment. of the N.R.A. which has thrown such a fright into the Roosevelt Administration officials from Gen- eral Johnson up and down. “There is no desire, and, I am convinced, not much fear on the part of business that Democratic capitalism is to be abandoned and a new political and economic system set up in its place. It is not fright- ened by the spectre of Socialism, of Nazism or of Communism.” said Harriman. All this is the familiar announce- ment that big business wishes to meet its workers in its own way and in its own back#ards—with its own machine guns. If possible, it doesn't | want even a company union. Ignoring the poverty suffered throughout the country by hundreds of thousands of small farmers, Har- riman declared: “There is also a growing feeling that the real basis for security is a return to the part- nership between agriculture and industry. The man with the garden and the cow and the little red hen is far more secure than the wage earner who lives in the fifth story of a city tenement. Even though busi- ness be slack, he still can gain by his own efforts the food and shelter needed to sustain life. Not so the workman in the big city. If he is without a job, he is without bread and coal and a roof.” - Harriman said nothing about Federal Unemployment Insurance, one of the Supreme Court justices before whom the appeal will be made. Knight, in line with his ex- pressed determination to burn the (Continued on Page 2) police terror and efforts of the leaders of the International Long- shoremen’s Association and the In- | dependent Jim-Crow union to be- | | To Raise Question of Negro Rights tray the movement. | Mayor Walmsley and Police Su- | perintendent George Reyer, aided | by the Reverend Peter and M. H.| Wynhoven, Chairman of the Re-| gional Labor Board, have issued or- | ders that no more than four pick- | ets will be allowed at each corner of the docks. Officials of the I. L. A. and the independent union have | ordered the men to obey this order. | 70 Arrests | Thirty-two pickets were arrested this morning, making a total of over 70 arrests since the beginning of the strike. In an attempt to stop mass pick- eting, Senator Calvin K. Schwing introduced a bill in the State Legis- lature on Monday making persons guilty of rioting if three or more persons “have assembled for any purpose to disturb the peace by using force or violence to any per— son or toward property or threatens to commit such disturbance.” The local press says the bill is necessary because of labor troubles, strikes and Communist gatherings. The Marine Workers’ Industrial Union is gaining great influence among the strikers. Thousands of Caulkers Walk-Out in Support of Dockers in San Francisco | won, for mass picket lines and for j rank and file control of the unions j}and the strike leadership, og eS West Coast Strike Solid SAN FRANCISCO, May 22 Fifteen thousand Pacific Coast longshoremen kept coast shipping in almost complete paralysis, while federal mediators, led by Assistant (Continued on Page 2) Roosevelt Urges New Money Base of 15-25 Gold-Silver Inflationary Effect To Be Spread Over Period of Time WASHINGTON, May 22.—Giving | way to the insistent inflationary pressure of the “silver bloc,” Roose- velt today sent a message to Con- gress asking for authority to na- tionalize silver and proposed that he be directed to buy silver until the monetary stocks are in a ratio of 75 gold to 25 silver. The silver will be used as backing for currency to the amount re- quired to purchase the metal. The purchases will be mandatory and will have as a time limit only the phrase “until the ultimate ob- jective is attained.” In addition, to counteract the ob- | vious attacks that will be made on the proposals as giving huge profits to silver investors, among whom are included such people as Father Coughlin, and many Wall Street banks, Roosevelt asked for a tax of | 6 Sikes As| Labor Board Tries To End Strike of 40,000 New Strike Wave, He Admits | eur aa .000 Building Trade Workers Are Out BULLETIN MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., May 22. —A general walk-out in sympathy with the striking truck drivers and building workers was reported impending here today. Most of the industries depend- ing on trucking have already been forced to close their doors, among them laundries, gasoline stations, coal yards and bakeries. More than 300 strikers have been arrested. (Special to the Daily Worker) MINNEAPOLIS, May 22. The mass picket line at the public market reached close to 20,000 this morning. Hun- dreds of deputized thugs were there since early morning. At 11 a. m. the workers’ indig- nation against the police finally re- sulted in a fight that drove the deputized thugs out of the market Dozens of them are in the hos- pital today. One of the deputized thugs, a Minneapolis business man, C. Lyman, died in the hospital af ter the beating given to him by the strikers. The employers announced yesterday that they will move ks today. They did not dare jit in face of the mobilization of the workers. | All efforts for a sell-out of the | strike through arbitration of the N, R.A. Labor Board is definitely mani- Foray now as the strike leaders have just agreed to a truce, calling off | the picket lines from the market for 24 hours. Leaders Drop Demand This they do while the Regional | Labor Board sits in session now with representatives of the employ- ers and the leaders of the strike committee. According to the report of the local newspapers, the A. F. L. and | Trotskyite leaders have already | agreed to the dropping of the de- |mand for unconditional recognition |of the union under the pretense of | getting equal concessions from the | employers. | The N. R. A. Board has author- |zed the Regional Board to enforce | their strikebreaking decisions upon | the workers. The sentiment amongst, the workers in Minneapolis for gen- eral strike has been steadily grow- ing. The Central Labor Union of Minneapolis was even forced to pretend to be in favor of general strike but immedately dismissed this idea when the national N. R. A, | Sent the call for arbitration | Gov. Olson has been doing all in his power to prevent the broaden+ (Continued on Page 2) | Cooler Weather Here, Bureau Announces NEW YORK.—The first heat wave this summer is over as local | showers will be followed by fair and |cooler weather, the Weather Bu= reau announced yesterday after- | noon. | The mercury had set a record leaflets have been distributed by the | 50 per cent on silver speculation | high Monday with an 88 degree M, W. I. U. calling for continuance | profits. Whether this will go through | mark. In the next day or two it is of the strike until the demands are is not certain. Roosevelt Acts to Smother Darrow Facts To Shut Off] Revelation That NRA Has Robbed Vast Majority Ry MILTON HOWARD OOSEVELT is acting rap-, idly to choke the activities | of the Darrow Board review-| ing the N. R. A. | Unless something happens) to change the course of events, the Darrow report, which revealed some of the truth about the N.R.A., which threw such dynamite into the N.R.A. camp, will be swiftly eased out of the pages of the capitalist pvess. And then Roosevelt and his assistants hope that the masses will quickly forget it, as they hoped that the people would quickly forget the astound- ing revelations of the Morgan in- vestigation last year. But what does the Darrow report mean to the working class, to the lexpected not to go above 80, on NRA impoverished farmer, to the small; “control by the largest producers” | Scared by ExposureThat business man, the shopkeeper, etc.? | What do these revelations mean | to the people in their every-day life? What is the direct result of the| the maintenance of monopoly Roosevelt aid to the Wall Street) prices. monopolies through the N.R.A.| It is a fact that under Roosevelt, codes? the price of goods sold by the mo- | Darrow reported: | “The N.R.A. gives the sanction | of government [that is, the Roosevelt, aagige ey i.) “a self-; combinations in the Sirarent industries, Inevit- ably, this means control by the largest producers.” Control by the largest producers —that means monopoly prices and monopoly profits. Large-scale production is inevit- able. It is an inevitable result of the advance of industrial technique. In the hands of a Workers and Farmers government, large-scale production is a blessing to the masses. It gives low-cost, efficient, adequate production. Bot, «der capitalism, this means that the monopolies have the opportunity to intensify their exploitation of the workers, and to bleed the population through nopolies have risen higher than the | prizes of goods sold by the non- monopoly producers. This means that the monopolies have been able to squeeze more | profits out of the everyday sale of | goods than before the N.R.A. This means that the buying power of the pay envelope of ev- ery worker in America has been picked by the Wall Street mo- nopolies with the assistance of the Roosevelt N.R.A. ee IT WAS the strategy of the Roose- velt. government to increase the profits of the biggest monopolies by raising prices and holding wages | “minimum | wages” of the N.R.A. were just for | down. The so-called ‘ | Roosevelt Works With | Wall Street The net result was of the Roosevelt N.R.A. actually robbed the masses of an additional chunk of their | wages. This is fully confirmed by \the Darrow report, in a section which received remarkably little mention in the capitalist press “While under the codes the cost of living increases,” the five Board members stated, “wages have not risen accordingly. The prices charged for some articles the poor should have, as much as the rich, have been in some instances pro- hibitory. “According to the bulletins of the Department of Labor, taking the average cost of all foods in 1913 as 1, their cost in April, 1933, was 90 and in April, 1934, if | this purpose. |that one year (Continued on Page 2) ‘ & sneer ann DERURNENNINS Ten tenerneaNiencilpnanememvne ets mek jut nesinestste netatininia a tiemvestbobien juniidiaaiatiiniiabal |