The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 26, 1934, Page 1

} Walk Out in Watch This Figure Grow 40,200 PRESS RUN YESTERDAY Vol. XI, No. 152 <=. * New York, N. ¥., under Carmen to | | 4.PM Today Socialist Mayor Hoan Silent on Strike | Proposals for immediate action District Organizer Says Doubling Should Be Simple Daily .QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at the Act of March 8, 1879 Krumbein Urges Party pee. In N.Y. to Pass Quota; Milwaukee.) Units Will Act Tonight! Jirculation in the drive to increase New York | | | BOSSES ARM CARS Communist Party Issues Leaflet to Men (Special to the Daily Worker) MILWAUKEE, Wis., June} 25. — A general electric and | transportation strike is sched- uled for 4:00 p. m. Tuesday. | A mass demonstration of Mil- waukee workers has been called for Tuesday at 6:00 a.m. in front of the electric com- pany terminals. This includes em- ployed and unemployed. The electric company, in open provocation, is running street cars through the Milwaukee streets to- circulation by 10,000 have been sent by the district office of the Com- munist Party to all units meeting tonight. Units have been instructed to take the necessary action to throw the whole party in New York into the campaign immediately. Party fractions and all organizations NEW YORK, TUE 3 Injured Cheered at Y.C.L. Meet! California Delegates} Arrive After a Severe Accident By HARRY GANNES | NEW YORK.—One with a broken | hand and nose, another with ten | stitches in his scalp, and a third} painfully hurt, as the result of an/| | automobile accident, the California By CHARLES KRUMBEIN New York District Organizer, | Communist Party 'HE drive to double the circulation of the Daily Worker comes at a very opportune time. With all the strikes that have taken place as well |as many more in the offing, it must |be clear that large sections of the working class are becoming dis- sary and correct steps to improve their conditions. follow that these workers are in- terested in more than the struggle for their day-to-day needs but are also interested in a more funda- mental and permanent solution to illusioned with the demagogy of the | New Deal and are taking the neces- | From this must | day already covered with armor plate ynd wired cages armed with private guards and barbed wire! strung around the company prop- erty. their problems. “Role Tremendous” has played in the workers’ struggles, A committee of workers organized |i" disillusioning the masses in the | by the T. U. U. L. is going to | New Deal as well as showing them Mayor Hoan this afternoon to de-|the revolutionary way out has been mand his stand on the strike. He|ttemendous. By doubling the circu- has been silent all the time. A. F.|1etion of the Daily Worker we will ? | triple and quadruple the influence vA apr eaalggy Pb tienen | of this fighting leader and organizer The role that the Daily Worker | overtime to stop the walk-out. { of the working class so that it can will also act on this campaign immediately. aaa ere _——————— | “WE'LL FULFILL OUR QUOTA!” Says Charles Krumbein, New York district organizer of the Communist Party, who, in the accompanying statement calls for delegation finally reached the 7th | National Convention of the Young | sessions. | on the trip. | mittee of the Communist Party by Workers insist that those fired) for union activity be reinstated. | ‘They also demand the right to vote | for the union of their choice. The! company is willing to allow the vote The Communist Party in a leaf- let points out that the following additional demands are necessary: 1. For a 5 per cent wage in- crease with a 75 cents minimum hourly wage. 2. Immediate recognition of the union. No consideration to be given to the E. M. B. A., since it is a company union. A com- mittee to be appointed with rep- resentaties from the three local unions in the Electric Co., to con- sider immediate amalgamation of one union for all T. M. E. R. & L. Co. workers. 3. Immediate reinstatement of all those fired for union activity. Back pay for all time lost during this period. FarmWorkersMeet Thugs in Attack on Seabrook Strikers immediate action to drive up the circulation of the Daily Worker. (Continued on Page 2) Steel Delegates Breathe | Militancy Into Ashes of Bill Green’s Sell-Out Department of Labor Officials Embarassed as the S.M.W.LU. Define Worker-Employer Stand (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, June 25.—The vital issue of the rela- | tions between steel workers and steel companies, supposed | |to have been buried quietly in an unmarked grave by the | proposals of President Green of the A. F. of L. and subse- Communist League early Monday} morning on the fourth day of its One of their members, a young seaman from San Pedro, Cal-} ifornia, was forced to remain in a} hospital at Denver, his injuries be- | ing too severe for him to continue | When these badly battered but | undaunted young workers entered | ; the convention hall they were wildly | cheered. The introduction of Leo ‘Thomp- | son, a young Pennsylvania miner | organizer, who served more than | two years in Blawnox Penitentiary, | was another occasion for a stormy | outburst of enthusiasm. Comrade | Thompson was viciously persecuted | This was his first appearance on the fighting front again. convention from the Central Com- Jack Stachel and James Ford. After hearing reports on trade union work and organization by Lou Cooper and Johnnie Marks the con- vention yesterday morning resolved itself into a number of industrial (Continued on Page 2) “No Strikes Allowed,” Says Mayor Hague Jersey City Official) Backs Judge on the Arrest of Pickets (See Editorial on Page 6 Today) JERSEY CITY, June 25.—Mayor | Frank Hague, ardent Roosevelt supporter and member of the Na- tional Committee of the Democratic Party, continues his czaristic attack against organized labor and the working class in general. The no-strike edict stands in Jer- sey City, he has declared. SDAY, JUNE 26, 1954 Greetings were brought to the | — Lyn MERICA’S ONLY WORKING CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER WEATHER: Pair. Two big Philadelphia policemen the Nazi Consulate on Saturday. Committee Calls for No Friends of Anti-Fascisis 4 rd Price 3 Cents ‘COMMUNIST PARTY SENDS UNITED FRONT CALL T0 8. P. C. P. Proposes Joint Actions On Daily Issues Offer to Meet Newly Elected Executive Committee To Plan United Actions Against NEW YORK. — Once a Wage Cuts, War, Fasci sm gain, the Communist Party, ae ae about to drag a worker demanding in prison and came out seriously ill.) the release of Ernst Thaclmann—one of several hundred who picketed chTrialof Thiilmann, 6,000 Others Next Week Auto Union through its Central Committee, has issued a call to the Na- tional Executive Committee of the Socialist Party for the | organization of joint united front actions on certain definite actions against the reactionary-wage-cutting offensive of the | Wall Street-Roosevelt government. | In a statement issued today, the Central Committee of the Communist Party, repeats its invitation for united front |actions which it addressed to the recent Socialist Party con- | vention at Detroit. Pointing out that the newly elected National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party is now composed of those | elements in the Party who last year declared that their readi- | ness to join in united front actions was hampered only by the | “Old Guard,” the Central Committee declares that the new 2 Socialist leadership must take a definite stand immediately on all the day-to-day questions that confront the American working-class fighting fora | | | | Demand One Industrial way out of the: capitalist crisis. Hence The complete statement, igned bv Earl Browder. General | Protest Actions Grow Throughout U, S., National Rank, File A.F.L. Auto Intensified Campaign | Delegates Fight the NEW YORK.—With Ernst Thael- mann slated as the first, victim, over 6,000 anti-fascist .German workers are to be “tried” by the newly or- ganized Hitler lynch tribunal, be- Negro Worker Lynched; His Body Mutilated 8 Killers Who Invaded Negro Dance Are Not Indicted MANCHESTER, Tenn., June 25. - Burocrat’s Plan ginning July 2, the National Com- mittee to Aid Victims of German| DETROIT, Mich., June 24—Rank |Pascism has been informd by cable.| and file delegates to the national | The National Committee yester-| conference of A. F. of L. Federal | day issued an urgent appeal to all| Auto locals fought on the floor for workers, intellectuals and organiza-|the militant program of one in- | tions, to energetically intensify the | dustrial union in the auto industry, | present mighty mass campaign for| and despite railroading methods of the freedom of Thaelmann and other | the Green-Collins machine, secured anti-Nazi fighters in Germany.|@pproximately 50 votes against a Present protest actions, picketing of |Green-dominated national council. the Nazi consulates, mass telephone | The Green-Collins machine resolu- calls, sending of delegations, should| tion proposes to form a national be supplemented by immediate | Council of il members, with full preparation for nation-wide dem-| Powers given to Sipe gree mea onstrations around July 2, the Com- | 7ePresentative in the auto industry. mittee urges. The machine’s resolutions commit- ‘ * tee tried to stop discussion but was All anti-fascists and organiza-| yoteq down. tions are urged to get behind the| Socios: ot the (Miulle Sector campaign for one million signatures| 1...) of Cleveland spoke i cfauar }and contributions to protest the) or the: mobi: for. sn sndiistrial | Nazi mass murder plans and to de-| union in the auto industry, to in- fray the expenses of a delegation) cide the Auto Workers Union, the | by a Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union delegation. It is again a living, breathing | entity. . Thomas Elliot, Associate Solicitor T. U. U. L. Agricultural of the Department of Labor, re- . 4 peatedly flushing to the roots of his Union “wer Victory hair in embarrassment, heard the ntly S. M. W. I. U. delegation’s proposals Rece y and admitted the necessity for them VINELAND, N. and their pracmticality, but said he Jobless workers here, led by the Unemployed Councils, decided to show their solidarity with the striking agricultural workers in Bridgeton by picketing the strike- breaking employment agencies here. BRIDGETON, N. J., June 23.—In an effort to break the Agricultural Workers Union (T.U.U.L.), which recently won a strike victory against the big Seabrook Farms, thugs have broken loose slugging picketing strikers here with blackjacks, and firing shots at the strikers. Two of the pickets, Danny Mor- rone and Leonard Dramas, were taken to the hospital unconscious from the sluggings. The present strike is the result of the announcement made by the Seabrook Farms that the recent wage increases won through the strike in April would be withdrawn, At a meeting of Local 1 of the Agricultural and Cannery Workers Union (T.U.U.L.) more than 400 workers decided to answer by strik- ing. In the last strike the workers won union recognition and 30 cents an hour. The old pay was 15 cents an hour. * 0g * GLASSBORO, N. J.—Bean pickers here who were cut in pay from 15 cents per hamper to 1214 cents per hamper, struck today under the leadership of the Glassboro Local of the Agricultural and Cannery Workers Industrial Union. Two farms struck; one farm has already settled, the wage cut withdrawn; the other farm is being picketed. ‘The union is organizing delegations to other farms in the area to spread the strike; leaflets are being issued to all bean pickers to strike for the following demands: _1—Fifteen cents per hamper. 2— No money to be deducted from the workers for transportation to the farm. 3—No intermediary agent in paying wages. doubted the ability of the Federal government to enforce them. The delegation was headed by Patrick Cush, National President, James Egan, National Secretary of the S. M. W. I. U., and William F. Dunne, of the National Committee of the Trade Union Unity League. It included four Negro and white workers now employed in the Spar- rows Point (Bethlehem Steel) S. M. W. I. U. local. “The steel companies are prepar- (Continued on Page 2) 1 LOYMENT relief in New York City and throughout the United States today—after four and one-half years of crisis and increas- ing mass unemployment — is still being handled as if the owners of the national wealth and their gov- ernment were doing the unemployed a favor by preventing them from starving to death on a wholesale scale, The theory is—the typical theory of the rulers of a system of produc- tion for profit only—that the vast army of unemployed and their de- pendents to whom the system denies the opportunity to work, really have no right to demand and get relief. might, police clubs thud on unpro- tected heads, gas bombs hiss, re- volvers and riot guns flash and roar, the jails fill with arrested workers and their leaders. Another “red” plot has been uncovered. Pauperism—Sacred Institution Pauperism has become a sacred American institution, Pauperization Payrolls Fall 0.3%, Job Gain Only 0.1%, U. S. Figures Reveal WASHINGTON, June 25.— While factory employment. showed a gain of 0.1 per cent from April to May, pay rolls fell off 0.3 per cent, figures of the U. S. Department of Labor re- leased today show. The figures are computed from reports of manufacturing con- cerns in 90 important industries. About 50 per cent of the wage earners in all the manufacturing industries of the country were covered. Although the price of clothing has risen tremendously, a de- crease in payrolls of 8 per cent in the clothing and 4 per cent in the textile industries are re- ported. niture Workers Industrial Union, |and Lillian Sandry of the Civil Lib- erties Union, were sentenced by Judge McGovern in the First Crim jinal Court to serve 30 days in jail |Their “crime” — peaceful picketing jin front of the Miller Furniture |Shop, which is on strike under the \leadership of the Furniture Workers ‘Industrial Union. | The judge refused to consider tes- timony that when Sarah Blecher was arrested there was no dis- Ray Singer, 22, and Sarah Ble-| | quent actions of President Roosevelt and the Department of | cher, 45, both members of the Fur- Labor, was resurrected today® orderly conduct on her part. Even a detective testified that the pick- ets were orderly, marching 25 feet apart. Mr. Miller, the owner of the shop, declared there were 150 peo- ple in front of the plant. Meanwhile the battle continues in the courts, and the union states that it will continue to picket. Abe Rottbaum, recording secretary of the cabinet section of the Furniture Workers Industrial Union; Abel Handy, a Negro worker and mem- ber of the general executive board of the union; Goldie Perlow, Mary (Continued on Page 2) ' —Dick Wilkerson, Negro worker, | was lynched near here yesterday | and his body savagely mutilated | | following an altercation with a} | band of white rowdies who in- | vaded a Negro dance. | During the disturbance created | by. the rowdies, Wilkerson struck | one of them. The white men then | left the dance, went to Wilkerson’s | home and, according to the ad- mission of Sheriff C. D, Huffman of Coffee County, “tore up every- thing he had, tore it literally all to pieces.” . Waiting until the dance was over, the gang seized Wilkerson and an unidentified Negro and took them away in an automobile. Wilkerson’s body was found about 14 miles southeast of here. axe. Before killing him, the lynchers had brutally beaten him with an Eight men were held today charged with lynching, following the confession of a 14-year old boy, the son of one of the lynch- ers and himself a participant in the crime. No move has yet been made to indict them. of American attorneys to go to Ger- many to defend Thaelmann. Organ- izations are asked to elect delegates and to be ready to finance their trip to Germany to visit Thaelmann and be present at the “trial.” Signature Lists and Post-cards Ready Signature lists have been printed in tens of thousands by the Na- tional Cemmittee to Aid’ Victims of German Fascism, 870 Broadway, New York City. Greeting postcards addressed to Thaelmann are also available. . pathy of the American masses for the distribution include impressive “Free Thaelmann” placards, a four- page leaflet exposing Naxi activities in the United States, a “Rescue Ernst Thaelmann” folder with a Call to Action and Program of Tasks, etc. 8 1,000 in Newark Demand “Free Thaelmann” NEWARK, N. J. June 25.—At the call of the New Jersey Youth Sec- (Continued on Page 6) Mechanics Educational Society, and all independent unions. Mortimer declared that there are three loop- holes in the Collins resolution for @ council of eleven: (1) The chairman of the Council jis to be appointed by Green | (2) The council itself is to have only advisory power, Collins having all authority. (3) The council is to meet Collins’ call only. Mortimer denounced the state- on Secretary of the Communist Ps:ty, follows: June 19, 1934, To the National Executive Come mittee of the Socialist Party: ‘We addressed your last convention {in Detroit with a proposal for the | establishment of united action of the Socialist and Communist Parties |on the burning issues facing the | toilers of this country. Our=-pros posals included the following main | questions as issues around which we | invited you to join with us cn -@ | united front of struggle: | 1. For decisive wage increases, to | overcome the declining standards of |living being brought about by the Roosevelt “New Deal” and the N. |R. A.; for a decisive shorteninz of the working-week; for driving coms y unions out of the ind for a bold and energetic movement in every industry to win these demands; for a decisive fizht within the unions against the polis cies of Green. Woll, Lewis & Co. and for building a revolutionary trade union leadership. 2. For the immediate enactment of the Workers’ Unemployment In-= surance Bill (H, R. 7598), the only real social insurance proposal be- fore the country, which has already been endorsed by over 2.000 A. F. of L. unions, by many City Councils, including those of Milwaukee and Other material prepared by the! ment of Green that “The auto| Bridgeport. by the Farmer-Labot workers are not intelligent or expe-| Party of Minnesota, by the unions rienced enough to form an interna- tional now.” There was big ap- plause when Mortimer declared, “We are intelligent enough not to accept (Continued on Page 2) NO RELIEF FOR FAMILY OF SEVEN NEW YORK.—Ballas Bassassis, | unemployed worker with a family of seven to feed has been refused relief because of the fact that the oldest son, Angelo, refused to re- turn to the Civilian Conservation Corps after spending six months in the C. C. C. on a gigantic scale of whole sec- tions of the working population is one of the outstanding results of the crisis and its evidence of capi- talist decay. The depth of pauperism and its nation-wide scope is seen clearly from an examination of the relief expenditures of the local, state and national government. (The figures given here are taken from the report of C. M. Bookman, past president of the organization, to the recent meet- ing of the National Conference of Social Work in Kansas City, Mo.) Mr. Bookman, speaking of the ab- solute minimum requirements for unemployment relief—and we shall see in a moment that these require- ments are based on a pauper stand- ard—said: “Should we estimate less than four and one-half million families as our relief load for some months ahead? At an average of $30 per family per month, this would re- quire an appropriation of $135,000,- 000 per month for relief. In using 330 per month per family I have placed the estimate heyond any re- lief program yet Can an average of $30, after four years of privation, furnish sufficient re- lief to provide any degree of safety to the individuals or to society? . . . ‘No one will be permitted to starve’ is no longer an ethically sound or a socially safe program of relief.” There is mass hunger—and actual starvation. Even the carefully jug- gled official figures for New York City admit that 139 persons died of starvation in the last year. The reign of terror against Com- munists and other honest and mil- itant leaders of the unemployed is scheme a “socially safe program.” One-Seventh are Paupers in New York State In New York state alone, accord- ing to a recent bulletin of the Tem- Porary Emergency Relief Admin- istration, more than 500,000 families, practically one-seventh of the total population, are living on the pauper standard of relief. Note the word “Emergency” that. is found in the titles of all these official agencies—beginning with the Federal Emergency Relief Admin- intended to make a reduced relief | try. istration! Of this feature of relief Mr. Bookman said in Kansas City: “We are still thinking of relief in terms of a few months’ emergenoy.” And this after four and one-half years of permanent mass unem- ployment! If the unemployed revolt against being forced to live on faith, hope and charity—they are, according to Mayor La Guardia, New York Police Commissioner O’Ryan, Professor Raymond Moley and their kindred in official and unofficial positions of authority throughout the coun- , “yellow dogs,” “skulking rats,” “provokers of police,” “scum of the city,” “enemies of society,” etc. The police pack is turned loose on them to the applause of the bil- lionaire and multi-millionaire rob- bers and “oppressors of the poor” who occupy reserved seats around the bloodstained arena. Take a look at this pauper relief: In the States furnishing the |highest average relief per month/ per family in January of this year. the figures are as follows. New York $32.16; Massachusetts $29.35; Maine $29.06; Delaware $26.24; Maryland. | $25.56; New Jersey $25.12; Illinois $22.45; Rhode Island $20.99; Min- |nesota, $20.78. (In 1900 the father |of this writer got $40 per month as }@ railway maintenance of way worker. We were a poverty-stricken family—and the dollar then would actually buy something.) New York, the richest State in the Union, can congratulate its of- ficials: The soup of this huge poor- house in which 500,900 families are confined is a mite thicker than in other States. It is the home town of the multi-millionaire Vincent Astor, the tillikum of President Roosevelt whose fortune finances the magazine “Today,” which led off in the drive against the unem- ployed and the Communist Party. But the main reason for the higher figure in New York is the will, or- ganization and determined struggles of the unemployed, for which Com- munists proudly claim responsi- bility. The amounts received per family | PER MONTH for relief in the | States with the lowest expendi- tures are as follows: Kansas $8.94; Tennessee $8.66; Alabama $7.94; New Mexico $7.20; North Carolina The American Poorhouse and Its Paupers By BILL DUNNE | $6.95; Texas $6.76; Georgia $6.64; South Carolina $5.12; Colorado $5.70; Oklahoma $4.95. These relief figures. both the high- | est and the lowest, represent a con- tinual hunger and starvation stand- ard of living for the unemployed millions and their dependents. The only difference between the highest and the lowest figures is the dif- ference in the rapidity of the star- vation process. Coinciding with the advent of the crisis and its enormous increase in permanent mass unemployment the Communist Party issued the slogan to workers: “Fighi—or Starve!” The Communists characterized the bat- tle for a living standard of relief and for compulsory Federal un- employment insurance at the ex- pense of the government and em- ployers (Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill—H.R. 7598, now be- Coneress) as “a fight for the right to live.’ That is what the strugele of the unemployed against the hunger and terror is. American capitalism does not grant this right jof the Trade Union Unity League; |for a vigorous struggle for imme- (Continued on Page 2) BrowderWill Speak On S.P. Convention Reiff, Former Socialist, | Will Also Speak | NEW YORK.—Earl Browder, the national secretary of the Commu. nist Party, will speak Wednesday, June 27th at 8 p.m. on the Socialist Party Convention, a‘ Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East Fourth St. Doneld Reiff, co-worker and signer of the “Revolutionary Policy Committee” platform, who recently joined the Communist Party will |speak and Joseph Brandt. organizer of the Down Town Section, C.°P, | will be chairman. | Comrade Browder will explain how the Socialist Party differs from the Communist Party, the only | working class Party and will answer | the questions: Did the Socialist Party Conven- tion go left, or was their radical talk a cover for their anti-working | class program? | Who are the “lefts” and rights in | the S. P. Convention? | Why does the “left” Norman |Thomas support the wagecutting policy of the N. R. A., its company unions and the strikebreaking ars bitration boards? Workers are invited to come to the meeting, bring their friends-and shopmates and participate inthe questions and discussion period. The members of the Socialist Party, the | Young Peoples’ Socialist League and of A. F. of L. unions are also ine vited to this meeting where the |eone position on the above questions will be thoroughly cussed.