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

| ,| | | ( f date. fense, 30 E. 11th St., Vol. I, No. 192 8 wt second -c Only 21 days are left to raise $12,850 de~ fense fund for the appeals of Angelo Herndon and the Scottsboro boys. See blank on page four of this issue. $2,150 received to Rush contributions to International Labor De- New York City. New York, N. ¥., under the Act of Daily,QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. ( matter at the Post Office at h 8, 1879. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) ‘YEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1934 |Hathaway Appeals for Mass Rally ‘LIVING COSTS SOAR IN WAKE OF ROOSEVELT MEASURES Workers Will Greet Herndon At Two Big Mass Rallies in Manhattan and The Bronx Prices Rise On News of Silver Deal Officials Admit Prices Will Continue to Mount SPECULATORS GAIN Further Inflation Is Called a Certainty WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.— The price of daily necessities will rise in the coming weeks and months as a result of the present Roosevelt inflation measures, the A.A.A. crop destruction, the drought, and prospective further devaluation of the dollar, it is now freely admitted in official -circles. Already the price of bread, eggs, milk, and coal are leaping upward, slashing the pay envelope of every worker in the country. Food prices are now 21 per cent higher than when. Roosevelt, took office. Department store articles, such as clothing, home furnishings, furniture, are 28 per cent higher than last March. Grain Market Up As a result of the Roosevelt silver purchases, which will add about $79,000,000 to the already swollen bank feservés, the commodity mar- kets boiled upward yesterday with grains touching peak levels, With heavy trading there was profit tak- ing by the speculators with result- ant small declines, particularly as the basic business conditions con- tinue to show further crisis. The Roosevelt silver measure in itself will mean large profits to silver mining companies. Of itself it is not a measure that will affect business. But in its implications of policy, taken with the fact that the Roosevelt government faces a severe drop in production snd declining retail sales, the silver purchases are decidedly inflationary in meaning. See More Inflation The existence of tremendous un- sold stocks of goods in certain in- dustries will perhaps still work for price declines. But this can’ only be of a temporary nature since Roosevelt will have to pump further inflationary water into the body of American capitalism to keep the prices indices rising. Further in- flation, such as the devaluation of the dollar, is a certainty. Hogs, lard, cotton, wheat, rubber and corn prices leaped swiftly on all the exchanges, giving speculators millions in new profits. With the A.A.A. program having destroyed more. than one-third of the country’s crops, as well as with the tremendous drought destruction, food supplies will be at a premium. This is admitted now by leading officials. Officers Fire 35 | Fire 35 C.C.C. Workers After a Strike Against Rotten Food LAUREL, Miss., Aug. 10.—Thirty- five C.C.C, workers were today dis- honorably discharged from Camp Ovett, near here, after they had refused to eat the rotten food served them. The workers had gone on a food strike as a protest against the qual- ity of food. The strike followed another early this week when work- ers protested and won promises of better food. The camp officers, however, failed to keep their prom- ise to improve the quality of the food and 35 workers went on strike yestrday. Detroit Packing Strike Ends As Men Win Gains DETROIT, Mich., Aug. 10.— The strike at the Detroit Packing Com- pany ended today when the work- ers agreed to go back and prepare for a more determined struggle in the near future. Wage increases were won for some. The strike, which started Monday, was led by the United Sausage ‘Workers Union, affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League, which recently signed victorious agree- ments with 13 companies. Get Daily Worker Subscribers > ® Heroic Negro Leader | to Speak Wednesday and on Aug. 22 NEW YORK —Angelo Herndon, heroic Negro leader of the working- class, will speak in this city at two great mass welcome meetings, called by the International Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. The first meeting will be held at the Rockland Palace, 155th Street and Eighth Avenue, next Wednes- day evening. The second meeting, expected to be one of the greatest turnouts in New York labor history, will be in the Bronx Coliseum on Aug. |22, the anniversary of the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti, commemorated by the I. L. D. as} National Scottsboro Day, in the struggle for the freedom of the nine | Scottsboro boys, His first public appearance ituce the tumultuous mass welcome ac- corded him on his arrival in this city last Tuesday, following his re- lease on bail pending appeal, Hern- don will be greeted by the out- standing leaders of the revolution- ary movement. Besides Herndon, speakers at the Harlem rally will include Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party; Anna Damon, of the National Office of the I. L. D., James W. Ford, William Fitzgerald, Joe Brodsky and Israel Amter. Ben Davis, Jr., Herndon’s lawyer and editor of the Negro Liberator, will be chairman. Herndon will be greeted in the Coliseum mass meeting by Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker; Ben Gold, Harry Haywood, national secretary of the L. 8. N. R.; Robert Minor, Ruby Bates, key witness in the Scottsboro case; Ben Davis; Gil Green of the Young Communist League, and others. Nat Stevens, District Secretary of the I. L. D., will be chairman. Revolutionary entertainment is being arranged for both meetings. Bronx workers’. organizations are planning to form a mass torchlight parade to the Coliseum meeting. Herndon, still seriously ill from his treatment in the Atlanta, Geor- gia prison, is at present under doc- tor’s care, but is anxious to get into the campaign for the freedom of Thaelmann and the Scottsboro boys and for the raising of the $15,000 needed |to take the Herndon and Scottsboro appeals to the United States Supreme Court. Protests to Governor Against Ives Loyalty Bill Urged by Teachers ALBANY, N. Y., Aug. 10—Work- ers’ and iniellectuals’ organizations are being urged by the Unemployed Teachers Association and Classroom. Teachers Groups to send immediate protests to Governor Lehman de- manding that he veto the Ives Loyalty Oath Bill which the Senate approved Wednesday. The Ives Bill requires an oath of allegiance from teachers to the Fed- eral and State constitutions. If this bill is passed all progres- sive-minded teachers would face loss of their jobs if they dare to ex- press their views. The bill is also an affront to teachers who engage in working class activity outside of school and challenges the right of teachers to organize militantly for better working concitions. Protests should be sent immedi- ately to Governor Lehman, Albany. District C. P. Asks Aid for Y.C.L. School The appeal issued by the District Secretariat of the Communist Party of New York to support the full- time District Training School of the Young Communist League, points out that it is absolutely essential to support the Young Communist League in educating and developing new cadres to help the Y.C.L. to become a mass revolutionary youth crganization in New York. The District Secretariat has called upon all Party units, branches of fraternal organization, all locais of the trade unions, clubs, and all organizations to send in 25 cents each within the next 10 days, to enable the Y.C.L. to go ahead with its plans for a full-time a Training School. yesterday issue an appeal to all The campaign calls for the Trotskyites Push Betrayal In-Truck Strike MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Aug. 10.— Contrary to false reports circulated by news agencies, the strike of Min- neapolis truck drivers has not been called off, although Trotskyite lead- ers of the strike have suspended Picketing while the Federal Court decides whether martial law shall be lifted or remain. Governor Olson, testifying before the court in an effort to retain military rule, resorted to the lowest type of provocations against the Communist Party. Affidavits sub- mitted by National Guard officers seek to put the blame for violence on the workers under the leadership of the Communist Party but these documentary falsehoods are so crude that even the address of the Communist Party headquarters is incorrectly stated on them. The documents, which confuse the street addresses of the Party and Unemployment Council head- quarters, are inept fables about so- cial revolution patterned after Hearst's home-made __ sensations. Governor Olson made free use of these transparent tool-pigeon methods before the court, however, to cover up the strike-breaking ac- tivity of the Farmer-Labor Party leadership. Nearly 200 workers are still imprisoned in the military stockade. The Communist Party has issued a statement exposing these new provocations and calling on the workers to renew their picketing and to demand the withdrawal of the troops. Thugs Assault Leaders of Taxi Drivers Union NEW YORK.—Bruitally assaulting Sam Orner and William Gandall, leaders of the Taxicab Drivers Union of New York, thugs wielding night-sticks attacked an open-air meeting of the union before Katz's garage, 13th Street and Avenue B yesterday. Gandall suffered injuries about the head. Fight Urged for Foreign-Born Workers; Committee Appeals for Protests to Perkins NEW YORK.—The Committee for Protection of Foreign Born workers’ organizations to join in their campaign against the persecution of foreign born by United States officials and departments. circulation of thousands of post cards addressed to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, protesting the support of the department to fascist attacks on workers in San Francisco and throughout the country. per hundred and can be obtained from the Committee at 80 East llth Street, Room 430, New York City. The Committee for Protection of Foreign Born plans to intensify the fight to regain citizenship rights for Emil Gardos and to force cancellation of deportation warrants for Edith Berkman, William Zazuliak, Jack Schneider and others, ing the bill for Right of Asylum for Political Refugees. Cards are one dollar ‘The committee is also back- Fur Workers Win Increase In 200 Shops NEW YORK.—Tired of fruitless parleys by manufacturers and the Code Authority, hundreds of fur workers have come out of their shops during the past week to en- force the five-day-week and July wage increases. According to the Fur Workers Industrial Union, more than 200 shops have received July increases as a result of direct mili- tant action. To continue this successful fight the Fur Workers Industrial Union has called a special membership meeting for next Wednesday, “right after work” at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th Street and Irving Place. The general situation in the trade and the particular problems of unem- ployment, July wage increases, the five-day-week and the general elec- tions in the union will be dealt with, Tomorrow at noon, the union will hold an open air meeting at the corner of 29th Street and Seventh Avenue. On Saturday the Fur Workers In- dustrial Union mobilized scores of workers for picketing of shops open that day in violation of the code. In a leaflet issued to its member- ship calling on them to picket, the union declared: “In view of the fact that the racket which calls itself the code authority is a complete failure, as we have predicted it would be, the gentlemen-manufacturers work on Saturday and compel some of the workers to work overtime. We call on all active members to help stop shops. We also want to remind all fur workers not to go in to work on Saturdays.” DARCY TO SPEAK AUG. 19 LOS ANGELES, Aug. 10.—With Sam Darcy, district organizer of the Communist Party and candi- date for Governor, as_ principal speaker, the annual Workers’ Press Picnic will be held Sunday, Aug. 19, at Royal Palms Grove, one mile west of Point Firmin; San Pedro. ® Workers to CUBA C. P. ASKS Revolt At WEATHER: Fair, cooler. Make This Figure Crow PRESS RUN YESTERDAY. 4A, 100 — (Eight Pages) Price 3 Cents 2,000 STRIKE ON BRIDGEPORT FORCED LABOR for Ordoqui Monday Gather at F[GHT TO END Scheme of Consulate WALL ST. REIGN S.P.Mayor | Demonstration on Anniversary of Machado’s Fall Comes} (Special to the Daily Worker) HAVANA, Aug. 10.—For the first anniversary on Sunday of the oyer- throw of the bloody Machado gov- NEW YORK.—wWorkers will mass|ernment, the Communist Party of at the Cuban Consulate, 17 Battery |Cuba today issued a manifesto to Pl., Monday, 10 a.m., demanding the release of Joaquin Ordoqui, leader of the Cuban National Confedera- tion of Labor, flung into a dun- geon by Mendieta. The demonstration, on the first anniversary of the overthrow of Gerardo Machado, former tator of Cuba, will also support the demands of the Cuban masses against the Wall Street-Mendieta terror and for all workers’ and toilers’ rights. On the same day at 8 pm. a meeting on Ordoqui's arrest will be held at the Julio Mella Club, 1413 Fifth Ave. near 116th N. Y. C., where speeches will be made in English and Spanish. Two hundred dollars are needed for the defense fund. Funds should sent to the Ordoqui Defense Fund, Daily Worker, 50 East 13th St, No Yc. In an appeal, following that of Earl Browder, General Secretary of the Communist Party; Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker and member of, the Central Committee, yesterday” called for demonstrations and actions to win the release of Joaquin Ordoqui. “Itis especially our duty to our class brothers in the colony of Wall Street, Cuba, to join them in their fight to win the release of their militant leader, Ordoqui,” Hatha- way said. “Ordoqui is hated by the Men- dieta government because he fights against them and their Wall Street masters, who plunder and exploit the Cuban masses with ruthless brutality. But it is these same cap- italist exploiters who are the ene- mies of the American working class. In fighting for Ordoqui, we are joi! ing hands with out Cuban comrades in their fight against our common enemy, American imperialism, “Therefore, I earnestly urge all workers and anti-imperialists to join in the demonstration before the Cuban Consulate on Monday morn- ing, and to send funds to the Daily Worker for the fund to help free our imprisoned comrade.” ILD Seeks Writ to Halt Deportation of Seaman To Fascist Germany NEW YORK — In a last-minute attempt to save Frederick Beijer- bach, 22-year old seaman, from de- portation to fascist Germany, where he will face certain imprisonment, the International Labor Defense fought yesterday for a writ of habeas corpus. Beijerbach, an active member of the International of Seamen and Harborworkers, escaped from Ger- many when Hitler came to power. Living in France, Beijerbach stowed away on the Leviathan. Seized by federal agents, he was sent to Ellis Island on Aug. 7 for deportation to Germany. The Leviathan sails at 10 a.m, today. dic-! |the workers and peasants calling {upon them to unite against the Mendieta government, which pro- tects the Machado military officers, for the jobless to take possession of the wealthy homes and plantations, jand for the peasants to seize the lands upon which they toil. The Mendieta government hhas| demonstrated its intense fear of the| Communist Party by prohibiting all Public gatherings on the day of the! anniversary. It has arrested Ordo- qui, the leader of the militant trade | unions. Nevertheless, the Communist Party is preparing to hold street demon- | strations celebrating the end of the| hated Machado rule and calling for the smashing of the yoke of Wall| Street imperialism. UNEMPLOYMFNT COUNCIL. OF U.S. URGES NATIONAL JOINT ACTION ON RELIEF NEW YORK. — The National Unemployment Council of U.S.A has issued a call for the formation of a National Arrangements Com- mittee to carry on unified activity in the struggle for adequate provi- sion for the unemployed, for un- employment insurance and other problems. The National Unem- ployment Council proposes that this National Arrangements Commit- tee shall plan an appropriate ac- tion on this issue, issue a call for the action and supervise its ar- Tangements and organization. The call is directed to the Gen- eral Executive Council of the A. F. of L., the international unions, State federation of labor and cen- tral labor bodies, to independent | further | and T.U.U.L. unions, ployed organizations, cialist, Communist Labor Party, to veteran, youth, Ne- gro farmers, women and fraternal organizations, ete. The N.U.C. pro- poses that a meeting of the Na- tional Arrangements Committee shall take place no later than Sept. 1, so that, with winter approach- ing, the masses may be assured proper protection. The National Unemployment Council asks that all organizations immediately take up the call and Select their representatives. For) information communicate | with the National Unemployment | to all unem- to the So- and Farmer- (Continued on Page 2) Grand Jury Indicts All Hillsboro 11 (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Aug. 10.—Indictments were returned against the militant Hillsboro Eleven, Thursday, by a Montgomery County Grand Jury. Reports received today indicate that other workers were also indicted. The presiding judge suppressed all details of the Grand Jury hear- ings, announcing that no informa- tion would be given out until Fri- day morning. The eleven known to be indicted are all working class leaders who were jailed two months ago for their leadership of the struggles of the unemployed in Montgomery County. These struggles, which won for the jobless far improved relief, caused the businessmen and fascist ele- ments to organize both legal and il- legal attacks against the movement. The result was the arrests of the eleven leaders on charges of con- spiracy to overthrow the govern- ment. Presumably the indictments just voted are on that charge. The spread of the “Daily” to the mays of workers is a pre- requisite to their successful struggles. Denver Goes Over the Top e in ENVER was the second District to meet its drive quota, spurting to 122.0 per cent during the last week. In reaching this mark, Denver passed Connecticut, which slipped back to 225 new readers, the exact number needed to fill its quota. Boston closed in on Fort Worth in the fight for third place, by jumping from 58.1 to 84.5 per cent. Fort Worth moving up to 86.6 per cent. Eleven Districts gained readers during the week, the most noteworthy gains being made by Pittsburgh, Newark, North Carolina, Milwaukee, Florida and South Dakota. Serious losses were encountered in New York, Cleve- Jand and Omaha. The total net loss for the week was 470 readers, or 2.4 per cent of the 20,000 new reader quota, ‘Daily’ Drive Changes in Circulation by Districts Since July 30 Today's Teday’s Increaseor _Increase Percent DISTRICT Saturday Mon.-Fri. Decrease Since Start of Circulation Circulation Over July 30 of Drive Quota 1 Boston _.. eet 1,441 2.New York City 19,126 15,772 3 Philadelphia ECR egy 4 Buffalo 7 5 Pittsburgh 6, Cleveland T Detroit & Chicago 9 Minnesota 10 Omaha 11 North 12 Seattle 13 California 1 Newark 15 Connecticut 15 North Carolina 17 Birmingham | 18 Milwaukee _ 19 Denver 20 Fort Worth _. at 21 St. Louis _. eet — 2 West Virginia - E 28 Kentucky SOE 24 Louisiana _ 28 Florida. a 26 South Dakota. = Canada and Foreign - TOTAL Union Locals Aid Painters With Funds NEW YORK—Swinging into sup- port of the rank and file of the striking painters, Local 2090 of the carpenters union yesterdey for- warded a contribution of $50 to the strike committee of Local 499 of the painters’ union. Taxi drivers also showed their support by con- tributing $21.75 to the strike fund. The work tax, a bone of conten- tion between the members of the Brotherhood of Painters and the N. Y. District Council, headed by Philip Zausner, was to go into effect yesterday. As the Daily Worker goes to press it is being discussed at a number of local meetings. The tax Was overwhelmingly defeated by the membership in previous meetings, despite attacks upon the men by Zausner gangsters. “The work tax was unconstitu- tionally passed at a meeting of the District Council Thursday night,” stated Louis Weinstock, rank and le leader of Local 499. “Zausner and his clique did not wait for the results of the referendum of the membership but went ahead and| voted the tax in clear‘contradiction to the constitution of the union. He will-not get away with it.” Zausner, rank and file leaders charge, is effecting settlement with the independent bosses under the old conditions instead of the $9, 7 hour day demanded by the men, He will sign an agreement with the Master Painters Association, the men state, after he has gotten what he wants—the collection of the work tax of fifty cents from each member, Local 499 is still maintaining pickets and is demanding militant picketing. A statement of the Painters So- cialist League, attacking the strike committee of Local 499 and the rank and file painters, was sharpiy condemned at a mass meeting of the local members Thursday. The meeting protested the actions of the “Jewish Daily Forward” and “New Leader” im publishing what was termed as slanderous material against the local. Rank and file So- cialists were urged to repudiate the action of the Socialis: leaders, who showed themselves as allies of the Zausner machine. Members are particularly bitter at Max Gaft, a leading Socialist in the union, who led a gangster at- tack last week on the members of | bert 2| Workers in the industry, | McLevy Retidie To Act When Workers sk Pay for Work TO RALLY TODAY Head of " Soeiadisniaa Group Calls on Mem- bers To Scab (Special to Dai Wo: Ty BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Aug. 10.—More than 1,000 work responded to the call of the rank and file general action committee of the Unemployed | Relief Workers League last night at Redmen’s Hall and voted to s jovs, after he: Benjamin. natidnal organizer of the Unemployment Councils. Nearly 2,000 marched off the jobs this morning and gathered at City Hall where a delegation saw So- cialist» Mayor Jasper McLevy and demanded twélve dollars cash wages and other demands. All relief workers in Bridgeport were recently put on a complete forced labor scheme whereby they were made to work for a miserable food basket each week. Previous to this, the relief workers were paid $5.60 plus the food bas for a 24-hour work week. U: the present ruling the workers’ pay was made to apply to monthly rent checks and gas and electric bills. McLevy answered that the un- employed were to blame for the present situation because they did not vote right. for the last twenty years. He said his hands were tied, but that the workers should carry the fight for more relief to Hart- ford and Washington. The delegation reported to the waiting workers that the mayor will do nothing, and called for spread- ing of the strike, active picketing and a big demonstration at Wash- ington Park Saturday morning at 10 o'clock. Edgar Leake, chairman of the Socialist-controlled Relief Workors League, issued a strikebreaking statement calling upon members to scab, as the strike “was fomented by Communists. 3 More Shops Join Strike In Knit Trade NEW YORK.—Three open shops yesterday joined the general strike of knitgoods workers here. . Tha shops we:e taken down by the Knit- goods Workers Industrial Union, militant organization in the trade, The fight for the unity of the urged by j the K. W. I. U. upon the Interna tional Ladies Garment Workers Union and the U. T. W., the other unions in the industry, wag ane | swezed by the workers of the I. L, G. W. I. U. who formed a common picket line with members of tha Industrial Union to keep scabs from entering the Commodore Knitting Mills. - Attempts of the police to disperse the pickets proved to no avail, Leaders of the Inteznational and U. T. W. have not yet answered nor acknowledged the unity offers of the Industrial union. Many manufacturers have filed applications for settlement with the Industrial Union. These have nob yet been acted upon. A number of workers were are rested yesterday in Williamsburgh. All were later released. A meeting of the General Strike Committee will be held at 10-a.m. today to devise plans to spread the strike and to consider the settle= ment. Police Attack Pickeis Mounted |police yesterday after= ‘ked a picket line of 300 strike:s who were march ing in front of the Brooklyn Cham= ber of Commerce Building, Court and Livingston Sts., Brooklyn, in protest against the support given by Local 892, who are in opposition to Zausner’s racketeering policies. the Chamber of Commerce to bare Pany unions,