The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 24, 1934, Page 1

NO MATTER HOW SMALL! Order a Daily Worker Bundle for Sale To Those You Know Vol. XI, No. 124 > * Entered as second-cless m New York, N. ¥., under Daily,QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) t the Post Office at he Act of March 8, 1879. NEW YORK, TH URSDAY, MAY 24, 1934 WEATHER: Fair, Continued Cool. eR cag RS a AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents GOV. OLSON CALLS OUT TROOPS; STRIKE CONTINUES IFree Victory; ILD AppealsForFunds Harry Haywood Tells of the Rising Terror Against Negroes DEFENSE FORMED DEFENSE HAMPERED | ae | Weinstone Urges White | WorkersDefendNegroes | By A. B. MAGIL | (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, May 23, — A} mass movement to smash the frame up of James Victory, Negro worker and war vet-! eran, charged with having slashed a white woman with a razor, was launched last night at a spirited protest meeting of about 200 Negro and white workers, with Negroes in the over- whelming majority. The meeting was held in the Israel Baptist Church, 3900 Riopelle, under the joint auspices of the International Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. The I. L. D. is handling the defense of Victory, with the co-operation of the LS.N.R. “The Victory frame-up is a local Scottsboro case,” declared Harry Haywood, National Secretary of the LS.NR., “arising out of the whole campaign of terrorism against the Negro people and the importation of | Southern methods into the North.| This campaign of terror is sweep-| ing the country and has reached a new height in the cold-blooded mur-| Money Urgently Needed for Scottsboro Appeal Hearing Friday Contributions Should) Be Rushed NEW YORK.—Funds are ght To, Answers Tugwell KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 23.— In a brilliant refutation of the speech by “Brain Trust” Tugwell, Mary van Kleeck, of the Russell Sage Foundation, speaking before urgently needed to carry thru the Scottsboro appeal to the Alabama Supreme Court, which has set this Friday for hearing on the appeal against |the lynch death verdicts against Haywood Patterson and | Clarence Norris, the International | Labor Defense declared yesterday Preparations for the appeal are being greatly hampered by lack of funds, the defense organization warns. Out of town workers and groups are uged to wire their contributions, while local groups tributions today to the National Street, Room 430. The appeal against the savage lynch verdicts will be argued by Osmond Fraenkel and Samuel Leibowitz, well-known New York attorneys, before the Alabama Su- preme Court in Montgomery, Ala., this Friday. All organizations are urged ush protest telegrams to the court, to Gov. B. M. Miller, both at Montgomery, Ala., and to Presi- dent Roosevelt, demanding the im- mediate, unconditional and der of Negro strikers in Alabama. s to Case created. a le feeling against the! ion of the Negro people. It! white workers into the! gele side by side with the Negro If we are to prevent a second Scottsboro, we must organize a similar movement here in the Victory case. Contrasts Treatment of Minorities | Telease of.. the nine Scottsboro boys. State Relief Bill Cuts Appropriation are asked to bring in their con- | Office of the I. L. D., 80 East 11th | safe) innocent | in Soviet Union | Haywood dealt with the silence To Continue Pay Cuts of Negro reformist leaders regard- a ing the frame-up of Victor. “Is i¢; to State Employes possible,” he asked, “that contribu- tions to campaign funds of certain) ALBANY, N. Y.. May 23. — Gov- Negro politicians and to certain|¢rnor Lehman yesterday signed the ministers by auto companies are| Wicks Bill which provides for a responsible for this silence. This| New bond issue of forty million dol- so-called leadership among the Ne-|Jars for unemployment relief in gro people has failed. Negroes need| New York State for the period of @ new kind of leadership of the type| November 15. 1934. until February of Angelo Herndon, who is now in| 15. 1936. 2 period of 15 months. The a Southern ruling class jail for try-| bill will be submitted for ratifica- jtion in the November elections. | This means a direct cut in the state appropriations for relief. On March 20, the state allocated forty- Vemmitte6 223 Fla ysNaz Terror Report (Continued on Page 2) million bond issue for the year pre- | * | vious) for a period of ten months. 1 At this time Governor Lehman j Stated that 500.000 families, repre- |senting 1,750,000 persons were on | the state relief rolls. | Governor Lehman also signed a — bill to continue the pay cuts to Thaelmann Demonstra- |‘! employees. tion in Astoria Next Saturday BRITISH GIRL FLYER SETS RECORD PORT DARWIN, North Australia, May 23—A 24-year old New Zea- jland girl set a new women’s record when she reached here today after flying from England in 15 days, 23 hours and 35 minutes. LONDON, May 23.—Popular re- sentment is being aroused through- out England against the vicious new fascist tribunals of Germany called “People’s Courts,” where the judges 4,000 social workers here, warned the National Conference of Social Workers that the Roosevelt ad- ministration would not and has | not put forward an adequate re- lief program. Tugwell had on the day previous boasted of the many | “blessings” which the N. R. A, had | brought to the working class. | “Farmers call for a program more fundamental than the de- struction of crops,” yan Kleeck | sald, adding, “Relief to starving | coal miners is only an incidental | make-shift.” | Miss van Kleeck resigned from | the Advisory Council of the U. 8. | Employment Service because she | saw that the N, R. A, was en- | slaving the workers. : Portland, Ore.! Backs HR 7598 Instructs Congressmen To Sign Round Robin PORTLAND, Ore., May 23.—Mass pressure of the employed and un- jemployed forced the City Council | of Portland, Oregon, on May 17, to endorse the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill (H.R. 7598), now in | the House Committee on Labor. The| City Council, following the constant | demand of the Multnomah County | Federation of Unemployed, not only | endorsed the Workers Bill, but was | forced to petition Congress to bring | the bill out of the House Commit- tee and give it immediate attention, | and instructed the Congressmen | City Council R oO é ie v elt 40) Shuns NRA Indictment Sen. Nye “Opposition” Calls On Roosevelt | To Fix “Defects” By SEYMOUR WALDMAN | (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, May 23.—Presi- dent Roosevelt continued to evade | an open declaration on the Darrow | | Board’s indictment of the N. R. A. | as the headsman of the small busi- ness man, the mechanism for lower- ing the already dangerously low standard of living of the workers, | ; And the consolidator of monopolies. | For the present he is depending | on General Johnson's bombast and | | Senator Wagner's Fourth of July | liberal generalities to snuff out the fire which Roosevelt’s own Darrow | Board set under the Administration. | At the same time the President and | |Jim Farley are making every effort | |to get Congress out of the way | through adjournment so that oppo- | | nents of the N. R. A. will be with- | | out their most effective sounding | | board. | | Asked today in his press confer- jence for comment on the Darrow | reports, Roosevelt dodged blandly jby replying in Latin, “res ipse | | loquitur.” That means the ded. | | | | | speaks for itself, Roosevelt added. Another correspondent, not con- | sidering Roosevelt’s Latin relevant, |asked him whether he planned any changes of policy in the N. R. A.| | Roosevelt replied evasively that | there will be weekly changes, con- | stant changes, as in the past. Wagner Defends N. R. A. Senator Robert F. Wagner, of New York, jumped into the fray to answer Senator Nye, North Dakota spokesman for the small business man, who yesterday described the | N, R. A. as “a bird of prey for the |masses and the small independent | business man.” | After paying glowing tribute to General Johnson, Wagner, who | perhaps knows better than any one | else in Roosevelt's Administration | that the N. R. A. was admittedly | established to intrench monopoly, wound up by attacking the Darrow- | | Thompson supplementary report | (Continued on Page 2) | NRA OrdersTextile. Working Hours Cut from the dist i i 5 7. on the speaners eatin ===" To Protect Profits ) bill from the House Committee. | Portland, which, according to the | incomplete records of the Daily | Worker, is the thirty-sixth city offi- cially to go on record endorsing the Will Mean Wholesale! | Firing of Mill Workers Unempl it Ins | | ployment urance | Bill, is an important shipping center | Workers | with a population of more than 2 Ra | | 300.000. | WASHINGTON, May 23.—In| | According to the files of the Daily | Worker, other city governmental | bodies which have endorsed the bill Milwaukee, Wis. West Allis, is. Minneapolis, Minn., Rockford, | Ill, Thayer, Tl., Belleville, Tl, Vir- den, Ill, Benld, Il, Caseyville, I, Harvey, Ill., Midlothian, Tl., Zeigler, Ill, Collinsville, Ill, Norwood Park Township, Ill., Swissvale, Pa., Forest Hills, Pa., Wilkensburg, Pa., Glas- port, Pa., Allentown, Pa., Toledo, Ohio, Canton, Ohio, Bedford, Ohio, Linndale, Ohio, Brooklyn Village, Ohio. Superior, Wis., Clifton, N. J., Linden, N. J., Garfield, N. J. St. George, Me., Tacoma, Wash., Des Moines, Iowa, Racine, Wis., Buffalo, N. Y., Klamath Falls, Mich, | order to protect textile manufac- | turers against profit losses which | | are threatened by fast accumulat- ing ‘surplus’ stocks, General John- son of the N. R. A. today ordered | | that the textile mills fire enough ‘workers to bting their Production | hours to 75 per cent of the code) maximum. | This will mean wholesale firing of workers and lowering of wages for all workers having their work | | time reduced. | This is the first order issued by the N. R. A. for restricting in- dustrial production. It will pro- tect manufacturers’ profit by keep- ae textile prices high and wages | iow. , are to be Nazi executioners. The largest English evening paper, the “Star,” commenting recently on the passage of the new terror law, em- phasized the perilous position of Political prisoners in Germany. In response to the growing mass resentment against the Nazis’ butcher courts, and on the initia- tive of the World Relief Commit~ tee for the Victims of Hitler Fas- cism, a delegation of persons prom- inent in English public life, has been organized to go to Germany | U.S, Fascism Is Rapidly Growing (Continued on Page 2) Nazis Cut Swastikas || By MILTON HOWARD NRA Soil Out of Which | ct the county, on Yorkville Shops; Anti-Nazis to Meet NEW YORK.—The stealthy hand of the fascist crept through York- Ville late Monday night and left in its wake a trail of swastikas scratched into the windows of Jew- ish stores. Using a diamond glass-cutter, the Nazis placed their hated mark on dozens of store windows. One big bakery window had fifty swastikas cut into the plate glass. A Ger- man bookshop, owned by a Jew, was marked with the word “Kosher.” The length of time necessary to} do this work indicates that the cops cooperated with the Nazis. A mass protest meeting against the Nazis called by the United | Anti-Fascist Action, will be held temocrow, 7:39 p.m, at 85th St. son in outraged assault on the Darrow Board findings. And he thinks that with these words he has demolished the report and its significance. “Stripped of shadowy verbiage, this means that the choice of the American people is between Fas- cism and Communism,” replies Johnson to the Darrow report. And this is a correct criticism of the report. For it places the political significance of the Board’s findings clearer than the authors of it them- selves. In his reactionary Johnson reveals the true meaning of the Darrow report. For that is precisely the choice that the advance of the Roosevelt program, the deepening of the crisis, and Third Ave. = My ' ~ Places before the toiling population Bei or Communism,” «4 splutters the keeper of the Blue Eagle General John-| bluntness, | Monopoly Rule Shown by Darrow Can Be Ended Only by a Soviet America Johnson conceals what the signers | of the Darrow report themselves did | not see, That it is neither the Roosevelt N.R.A, nor Fascism, But that Fas- cism is growing rapidly right out of the N.R.A, itself, right ont of the Roosevelt policy, that Roose- | 5 7a.) GENERAL HUGH JOHNSON | of Communism, Revolutionary Road | Alone Can Solve the | Crisis for Masses velt himself is the leader of ad- vancing American Fascism. a omar 'ASCISM is the rule of the mon-| opolies by which they intensify the oppression and expoitation of the rest of the population to swell their own profit. And it is precisely this which, the Darrow report revealed, is swiftly | develoring in this country under the Roosevelt N.R.A. codes. Communism is the opposite of Fascism. It is the rule of the work- ers and toiling farmers over the! Wall Street monopolist crooks, over! the mortgage holders, the investors, | the employers, the speculators. Com-| munism puts the wealth of the coun- try into the hands of the workers | |and toiling farmers to be used for mands presented by the steel work- themselves and their families. ! That is why Jhonson and Roose- velt are so terrified at the prospect 6 "HE Darrow report confirms the wonderfully clear, keen picture | (Continued on Page 2) A 000 Minn. Strikers Call Meet; General Strike Looms in Toledo - By CARL REEVE Roosevelt New Deal Becoming Broad Strike Wave Target NEW YORK.—The unabated sweep of the The fascist t strike wave of the workers continues to spread in all sections of the country. The walk-out of 35,000 building trades workers in Minneapolis, in sympathy with the strike of 5,000 truck drivers, the defeat adminis- tered to the fascist bands by a picket line of twenty thousand workers in that city, marks the development of the strike wave in the United States toward a new and higher level. Spreading strikes in Toledo, Buffalo, Birming- ham, Akron, Philadelphia, Cincinnati and other in- dustrial centers—the preparations * In the steel and Tin Workers. with the steel w the N, R. A. to su! for immense strike struggles in the steel industry, the growing walk- outs of the packinghouse and build- ing trades workers, longshoremen and seamen—give irrefutable evi- dence that the militancy of the workers, in their struggle for higher wages and union recognition, is Thousands of been temporarily flaming with daily growing in- tensity. Broader strike struggles, bigger Carl Reeve mass picket lines, increased mili- taney, is the answer of the. American workers to the murderous attacks of the fascist bands to the treach- ery of the A. F .of L. leaders, and to the strike-break- ing N. R. A. Labor Board decisions. The Tighe-Leonard machine of the A. F. of L union is already maneuvering with the companies and workers, and to sell out the developing of L. leaders with the Labor Boards. ment for strike for higher wages and union recog- nition is rising among the packinghouse workers, par- ticularly in the main centers such as Chicago. Birmingham Strikes (Continued on Page 3) error of government armed forces and fascist gangsters, special police and deputies, is meeting stubborn resistance, with the workers fighting IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS IN to maintain the right to strike, to organize into their unions, and to fight for higher wages. industry, the call for united strike action of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union is being favorably acted upon by many local unions of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel The battle lines are being drawn, ‘orkers organizing for joint action steel jppress the economie demands of the el strikes. building trades workers are strik- ing in Minneapolis, in Washington, Philadelphia and elsewhere, in spite of all the international A. F. of L. officials could do to keep them at work. A wave of strikes in the packing plants of Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, St. Louis and elsewhere, has ended by agreements of the A. F. | But the senti- | U.S. Steel Co.|[3.600 Out on Strike || In Burroughs Adding Is Deaf to) Machine Co., Detroit Pay Demands SMWIU Calls for United Strike Preparations to Win Demands BULLETIN CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 23.— The Riverside Lodge of the Otis | Steel Amalgamated Association to- day officially invited all Metal In- dustrial Union locals to a united DETROIT, Mich., May. 23,— The workers of the Bur.eughs Adding Machine Company struck today under the leadership of the Mechanics Educational So- ciety of America, They walked out to force reinstatement of the shop steward fired for union ac- tivity. About 3,600 have been working in the plant, which is the largest adding machine fac- || tory in the world. Mass picket- ing was started this morning. Sones ae ee OfAla. Negroes Jailed in Raid Ore Pickets. Standing Firm, Steel Strike Use Tear Gas; Fire Hose in Toledo; Threaten To Call Troops STRIKES SPREADING NRA CabarBouciOedas Mpls. Strikers Back THE STRIKE WAVE MINNEAPOLIS—3,600 National Guard troops called out by Farmer Labor Governor Floyd Olson as striking truck drivers meet, TOLEDO—General strike pro- posed by unions. Police attack aute body picket line with tear gas amd fire hose. STEEL —U. S. Steel Co,, and major companies reject demands of steel unions, Workers prepare for united strike action. DETROIT — 3.500 Burrouchs Adding Machine Co, employes walk out. BIRMINGHAM, — Mass __ picket lines—white and Negro, men and women, on Alabama strike front. MINNEAPOLIS, May 23.—Gov, Floyd Olson called out 3,600 Nae | tional Guardsmen in the Minne- | apolis strike situation. In Birmingham, Ala., 8,000 iron ore miners con-| ployers fear the workers will not tinue solidly on strike in the face of the most severe The em- accept the strike-breaking dect~ sion of the Labor Board and the | development of tonight's workers’ mass meeting called by the Cen- tral Labor Union and the strike committee with the support of all workers. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., May 23.—The 5,000 striking truck drivers were holding a mass meeting as the Daily Worker went to press, to vote on the terms of strike settle- ment and the ultimatum of the Regional Labor Board “com- manding” them to return to work Brewing under those terms. IRM] Meanwhile, the 24-hour truce, BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 23.—| which was signed yesterday by union Tremendous sympathy for the! representatives and the employers, Communist Party exists among remains in force. Under its terms the Negro and white workers im-/no trucks are moving and pickets prisoned in Jefferson County jail] are withdrawn. The truce was made here, it was reported today by the | atter a picket line of 20,000 drove six Communist’ workers who were/ an army of 1.500 special police from front conference in Cleveland, — May 27. It also invited Rogers, | the Cleveland secretary, to speak | on unity in the steel strike at | their meeting Friday. | The Lodge also endorsed the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, H.R. 7598, * Pgaety ake PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 23.—The | officials of the United States Steel} Corporation have refused to receive | the demands presented by the Am- algamated Association of Iron Steel and Tin Workers and by the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, | and have referred these demands t their company unions, On May 2: the demands were presented to all) steel companies, following the deci sion of the last national conventio! of the A. F. of L., in which the ran! ; and file forced through a vote to take an “offensive action” if these | demands are not granted. | The Stee] and Metal Workers In-| dustrial Union has issued a call to| all lodges of the A. F. of L. union, | and all steel workers, calling for | united strike preparation. Many} locals of the A.A. are favoring such unified strike activity. The S.M.W. I.U. called for the setting up of joint | action committees in all mills. | United front conferences have) been called in the Pittsburgh, Gary- | Calumet, Ohio and other districts. The demands presented to all steel companies by the Steel and Metal) Workers Industrial Union called for | the six hour ‘day, five day week; | $1.00 an hour minimum wages for, common Jabor and proportional in- | crease for all trades; abolition of | differential between north and | south for union recognition; for | equal rights for Negro workers, and | for the Workers Unemployment In- surance Bll (H.R, 7598). The Tighe-Leonard machine of the Amalgamated Associaton is at- tempting to confine the demands to recognition only, but the national convention of the A.A. endorsed the above economic demands. ! In the Calumet area, a united) front conference to discuss united | action, will take place at Indiana! | Harbor on June 3. | James Eagan. national secretary | he is doing the best he can to stop Jokingly referred to as social reform. | prevent the of the S.M.W.) will speak in) Dockers, Seamen Continue Strikes! In West and South New Orleans Shipping At Standstill As Seamen Strike (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW ORLEANS, May 23.—The rew of the Point Salina joined with the crew of the Edgar F. Lucken- ach and struck today in support f the striking longshoremen. The uckenbach crew walked out yes- erday. The ranks of the 2,000 striking longshoremen are solid. Compro- mise offers of Mayor Walmsley and the Reverend Wynhoven have been turned down flat by the strikers. With the shipping practically at a standstill, shipowners have the gall to issue a statement declaring that “there is no strike on the riverfront.” Unverified reports are current that relief workers are being forced to scab. The Daily Worker is eagerly read by the strikers. Dockers Wise to Faker SEATTLE, May 23.—Dewey Ben- nett, secretary of the Seattle local released as a result of the nation- wide protest against the attempt, of the steel bosses and their courts | to railroad them to jail. | All Negro workers arrested dur- | ing the raids in this city have | been freed as a result of the wide protest. No charges were filed against any. Gen. John G. Persons, of the National Guard, and Goy. Miller's representative who engineered the coal strike sell-out, announced to- day that a similar procedure was taking place in the ore strike, with conference between the Tennessee Coal and Iron, Republic, and Sloss and Woodward officials and the leaders of the International Mine, Mill. and Smelter Workers Union yesterday. Meanwhile, mass picket lines, including white and Negro men and women, are keeping the Bes- semer Mines shut down, while of- ficials continue their attacks on the Communist Party in an at- tempt to deprive the strikers of its militant leadership. The Southern District of the International Labor Defense is planning to immediately reopen its office and to file suit for re- covery of confiscated materials. A steel strike is brewing, with A. A. leaders announcing inten- The Communist Party is inten- cruited 60 new members during the past two weeks of terror. Doing SET Gan to Break tion to call a strike here, together | with the National A. A. strike call. | sifying its activities and has re-| Strikes, Roosevelt Boasts By SEYMOUR WALDMAN (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) ways. No White House message on WASHINGTON, D, C., May 23.—| Unemployment insurance, even the Speaking for the Democratic Ad-| feeble Wagner-Lewis bill, or on any ministration’s legislative and ex-| Other “social insurance’ measure, ecutive machine, President Roose-, Will go up to Congress on the Hill, yelt today declared confidently that he said. The waterways message he the growth of strikesthroughout the Roosevelt, when pressed for some jand a third on the use of water-| the picket lines. One deputy was killed. Under the terms of the agreement, it is reported that the employers concede that they will “adhere to and be bound by all the require- ments of section 7A” of the N.R.A. If employes select representatives of the drivers’ and helpers’ union to bargain with them, employers are bound to deal with the representa- tives so selected. The manner of “selection” has not yet been made known. Although the local pri ing up this settlement victory for the strikers, in tt to get them to return to work, the strikers must guard against betrayal by the A. F. of L. and Farm-Labor leaders, who are cooperating with the Regional Labor Board. 3.000 Toledo Auto Strikers Attacked With Gas Bombs TOLEDO, Ohio, May 23.—Police, company thugs and strong-arm men | today brutally hurled thirty tear- | gas bombs into the massed ranks | of 3,000 auto strikers and strike- sympathizers at the Electric Auto- | Lite plant when they barred the way to two truckloads of scabs brought to the plant. Ten thousand workers are now on the picket line, being attacked by peiice with tear gas, fire hose and clubs. A call has been sent for the militia. The workers are fightinz back heroically and have the scahs penned in the plant. A new inivnction has heen issued against the Communist Party and the ¥.C.L. and Unemployed Coun- | cil restraining them from picket- ine. | Many workers were arrested by police, but have been released by the workers. Several nolice and strikers are in the hospitals. While the police brutality was in progress, a general strike of all organized workers in Toledo was | being voted on by all individual trade unions here. A parade and demonstration are scheduled for | June 1. | The strikers, fighting solidly to strike-breakers from | entering the building, and protest- Gary, on Friday, June 1, at 8 p.m. country. Just how or what new/| indication of his plans with refer-' ing the arrest of one of their lead= at Washington Hall, 1545 Washing-| means are contemplated the Presi-'cnce to the revised Wagner Labor ers. def | dent didn’t say despite the fact that Disputes Bill, the formula for simul-| attack with bricks and stones picked ton St. All major steel companies have re- | jected or refused to receive the de- | } ers. MUSSOLINI ORDERS WAGE CUT ROME, May 23,—~ in his: drive to “lower prices,” today or- | dered a 7 per cent wage cut for “ workers N.R.A. Administrator General Hugh! taneously legalizing the comrany §, Johnson announced yesterday | union and establishing compulsory that he considers “some legislation | arbitration, refused to say necessary to meet the summer; he contemplated pushing strikes.” sage of the bill. He intima Roosevelt denied that he had ever clearly, however, that he is said that he would send a “Social Legislation message” to Congress.| ing the weeks preceding his sell-out He announced jocularly that his of the auto workers, namely that he plans merely call for a mesage on| will use the Wagner bill as a legis- foreign debts. one on cocoanut oil lative last resort, yoo © mid: ing the program he instituted dur- s! ied themselves from this from the streets. Many fought with their bare fists against the night- stick-equipped police. The bombs were thrown into the ist of the strikers from the fac- windows by cons and deputy . When this failed to disperse the militant workers, the fire de- partment was called in and the huge gathering showered with icy streams ‘from fire-hose, oe