The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 30, 1934, Page 1

4 é Browder Asks Youth toRally On Saturday NEW YORK.—Earl Brow- der, general secretary of the Communist Party, yesterday issued a statement addressed to all young workers in which he urged them to participate in greater numbers than ever before in International Youth Day demonstrations on Satur- day. “T hardly know of anything ore important now,” Brow- «rs statement declared, than for the youth to make big mass affair of the dem- istration against imperialist pr and for the defense of fe Union of Soviet Socialist publics on Sept. 1, Interna- fonal Youth Day. “The open, brazen war pro- vocations by the Japanese imperialists in Manchuria, with the admitted speeding up of the Hitler war and in- tervention plans in Germany, the unprecedented outlays in war preparations by the United States government of funds practically stolen from the 16,000,000 unemployed, show that now it is necessary as never before to mobilize the working class and farm- ing masses — and above all the youth—to fight against imperialist slaughter. Cites Rise of Fascist Violence “Who knows whether this will be the last International Youth Day before the second World War breaks out? “Extra-legal fascist bands, with or without uniforms, but always organized by and cooperating with the police, are rapidly being brought to serious formation; financed from secret sources, are now appearing in every big strike since the Toledo event last May. The preparations for war, the wholesale strike- breaking plans of the U. S. government, the sharpening police terror and the more open encouragement of ‘vigi- lante’ gangs by even the ‘liberal’ capitalist press, show a general preparation by the capitalists for struggles against the American work- | ing class directly and inter- nationally for a world scale war. “The opportunity to meet and defeat the fascist war makers, however, is far better than ever before, and it is rapidly improving with the upward swing of working class resjstance to wage cuts and, more and more con- sciously, to the whole capital- ist program. This is shown again for the hundredth time in the impending half-million strong textile strike. |. “On a world scale, the suc- cesses in France, Austria, Italy and in the Saar Valley in united front actions to fight fascism, the big anti- Hitler vote and the economic ruin in Germany, the increas- ing chaos in bourgeois world finance and trade, mean a urgently penses. Rush funds to Labor Defense, 80 E. 11th Vol. , No. 208 <> Roosevelt Gets Report On Distress Plow Under, Richberg Says, Disregarding Needs of Jobless WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. —The policies of the Roose- velt administration in dealing with the nationwide farm crisis, which have brought millions of farmers and farm laborers to ruin since 1933, are not to be changed, said Donald Richberg, secretary of the National Emergency Council, in a report to President ‘Roosevelt today. The report, second of a series of eight documents on the present status of various emergency measures adopt- ed by the New Deal administration, deals with the problem of “Relief of Agricultural Distress.” Declaring that “the mechanics of adjustment” must go on, Richberg clearly indicates in his sixteen pages of data that the crop reduction and plow-under program of the Agricul- tural Adjustment Administration, which together with the recent drought has been the cause of wide- spread misery in the farm country, will continue. Only by maintaining A.A.A, restrictions, Richberg’s report maintains, can farm prices be per- manently maintained and “re- covery” speeded. Administration Theory Maintaining the fundamental ad- ministration theory that what to do with surplus acreage is not to grow food for the jobless, but to plow under, Richberg states: “The A.A.A. is the agency charged with responsibility of restoring the equitable balance between the price of things farmers sell and the price of things farmers buy, through ad- justing production of certain basic agricultural commodities to the ef- fective demand for such commo- dities, by voluntary adjustment pro- grams or marketing agreements.” Richberg’s own estimate, how- ever, admits that this sought-after balance has not been restored. In- cluding the so-called benefit pay- ments to the farmers for limiting acreage, prices of seven basic farm products rose in August 1934, to 116 percent of pre-war prices, while the prices of manufactured articles bought by farmers rose to 122 per cent. Richberg admits that the farmers are not receiving great benefit from the recent price rises. Rises in prices of wheat, corn and cotton, the re~ Port states, reflect toa certain degree the drought, and “therefore the high prices do not mean a fully cor- responding increase in farm in- come.” Implying the danger of food shortages, the document declares that “by the program (A.A.A.) and the unprecedented drought, supplies shifting in relationship of forces in favor of the masses and of the Communist-led struggle against war and fas- cism. ; “In the United States the recent complete defeat of the fascists in the Youth Con- gress by a united front of Communist youth, Socialist youth, Negro youth and re- ligious and other youth or- ganizations, give a slight in- dication of the tremendous volcano of revolt of the work- ing class youth, which is only waiting for effective work on our part to bring it into full play against the ruling class of basic commodities have been re- duced to nearly normal proportions or less. The wheat stocks of 1932, which were 400,000,000 bushels, are now approximately 290,000,000 bushels and by next summer prob- ably will be 125,000,000 to 140,000,000 bushels. . . . The 1934 program is aimed at further adjustment of this type.” Referring to the wanton butch- ery of live stock, Richberg indicates his by reporting that the “excessive numbers of livestock on farms at the beginning of this year are now being reduced to something like normal proportions.” The 1933-34 farm crop income is given as $5,083,000,000, an increase of $1,202,000,000 over 1932-33. No attempt is made to calculate the actual rise or to indicate by how much prices would have risen had not the dollar been devaluated. Various government cotton loans, the report estimated, yield borrow- ers @ profit—realized or accumu- lated—of $48,000,000. The report and the war makers. “Let us appeal, then, to all members of the Young Com- munist League and to all its sympathizers, and to the working class, and student youth of all organizations to turn with a fine Lenin-like energy to the task, today, to- morrow and next day. to lead all of the active sections of the youth, Negro and (Continued on Page 2) does not state, however, what pro- portion of this sum went to tenant farmers or to large plantation own- ers, This, observers here pointed out, was an extremely significant omission. PWA Workers Demand Pay Rise in Washington WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 29.— increase Demanding an in hourly pay from forty-five to sixty cents Only $4,985 has been contributed to date to the Herndon-Scottshore $15,000 appeal and defense fund. — Funds are needed for day-to-day New York, N. ¥., ® ex- International Ste Ne Yc. Entered as second-class matter at the Post under the Act of March Office at 8, 1879. | September, 1984, marks geoisie, which aimed at a Celebrate 15th Anniversary of Communist Party STATEMENT OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE, : COMMUNIST PARTY, U. S. A. the 15th anniversary of the Communist Party of the United States. Nineteen hundred and nineteen was the year when our Party was formed. It was a year of great mass strikes and deep revolutionary fermentation among the widest masses of the toiling population of the United States. The American working class was beginning to wake up to the swindle of the first world imperialist war, to the gigantic crimes of the capitalists and to their reformist supporters in the labor movement. and peace reconstruction plans of the American bour- The demobilization widespread lowering of the standard of living of the toiling masses, were met with militant strikes in almost all the basic industries of the eral Strike. step. country. It was also the year of the great Seattle Gen- Nineteen hundred and nineteen was the year when the Com- munist International was formed, Party by about five months. Our Party became part of it. This fol- lowed logically and inevitably from the whole situation in the United States. All the lessons of the American class struggle dictated this But it was only through the costly experiences of the first world war, and especialiy the victory of the proletarian revolution in preceding the formation of our Russia under the leadership of the Bolsheviks, that the proletarian (Continued vanguard of the United States came to realize that the Bolshevik way is the only way for the liberation of the American proletariat on Page 3) Minor Banquet Set for Tonight In New York NEW YORK.—Greetings to Rob- ert Minor on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday from Mother Ella Bloor, veteran revolutionary woman leader; Art Young, artist; Roger Baldwin, of Civil Liberties Union; Hugo Gellert, revolutionary painter; District 8 of the Communist Party; the staff of Trud, Soviet Trade Un- ion paper, and Fred Ellis, former Daily Worker cartoonist now in the Soviet Union, sped plans for a ban- quet to be held in Minor’s honor tonight at Irving Plaza Hall, Irving Plaza and 15th Street. Mass organizations and trade un- ions are sending delegates to the celebration, “Bob Minor says he’s fifty years old, but somehow he seems much younger to me,” Mother Bloor wrote yesterday. “Many memories come to me of his loyalty to his comrades all through the years... He belongs to the workers; his roots are sunk deep into the mass—the mass of struggling workers everywhere, Ne- groes, farmers, women, youth, “He belongs to us all. Long life to you comrade, soldier in the Revo- lution. We shall march together to victory—victory for our class,” Analysis Shows Fakery in Richberg Facts Distorted to Give’ capitaist Press, But it is an obvious Favorable Picture As Misery Rises By Labor Research Association The first of the “Reports on Progress of National Recovery” was handed to President Roosevelt Au- gust 26, by Donald R. Richberg, chairman of the National Emer- gency Council of N.LR.A. Present- ing a rather optimistic view of the present situation, the report has been given front page prominence by the newspapers of the country. The favorable estimate of the situ- atio presented in the Richberg re- port, however, does not stand up under a detailed examination of the facts. Cost of Living For example, Mr. Richberg re- Ports that total weekly payrolls in- creased from $96,000,000 in June 1933, to $132,000,000 in June of this year, a rise of 3714 per cent. “When this increase of 37.5 per cent is compared with an increased living cost of 9.6 per cent,” he reports, “there remains despite increased for laborers on PWA projects, the Building Laborers Union here yes- terday announced that a strike would be called unless the pay rise ds granted by Sept. 10, cost of living a net increase of 25 per cent in the total purchasing power of manufacturing wage earners.” This statement has been accepted and publicized by the Robe. Industry Is Paralyzed By Walkout NEW YORK.—The bathrobe in- dustry was almost completely par- alyzed yesterday in Greater New York; Red Bank, N. J.; Highland Park, N. J., and Rosewell, due to the general strike of robe workers Jed by the Bathrobe Workers’ Industrial Union, In Brooklyn police attacked a picket line at the 8, L. Hoffman plant, 1 Carlton Ave., brutally as- saulted Ben Stallman, organizer for the union, and arrested him on an assault charge. Stallman was later released on bail. Delegates from South Norwalk, Conn., where the Royal Robe Com- pany is located, were in New York yesterday. They reported that the city officials had placed police at all strategic positions around the plant and were carrying on the ut- most terror against the workers in an attempt to keep the workers from joining the general strike. Representatives of the striking workers of Red Bank stated that the industry was completely tied up in that city. Several applications for settle- ment of the strike have been re- ceived by the strike committee in New York at its headquarters at Irving Plaza Hall. They will not be acted on until next week, however. Outrages | Backed by | War Call More Arrests Forecast by Papers Which Urge Conflict (Special to the Daily Worker) PEIPING, China, Aug. 29, Wireless) —Provocative arrests by Soviet employes of the Chinese Eastern Railway, this time directly by Japanese military police, con- tinue. More jailings are openly threatened. by Manchuria police and Russian white guards. The latest series of arrests were made by Japanese authorities. Almost everywhere the raids and arrests are conducted without war- rants, and without informing the management of the railway. No) official documents are drawn up on the results of the searches. Among the arrested people are many rank and file workers, engineers, shop | repairmen, switchmen, etc. Wild stories are being spread about “con- spirative activity” on the part of the arrested; about “folding weap- ons,” found on them, etc. Secret Searches The Japanese-Manchurian news- papers unwittingly disclose the me- chanism of the preparation of these police provocative acts. For ex- ample, the Japanese paper, ‘The Harbin Times,” says: “Many searches of Soviet citizens are conducted in their absence.” In various stations and sidings of the Eastern Line of the Chinese East- ern Railway, the Japanese no longer consider it necessary to hide behind the backs of the Khunhus tribes- men, and terrorize the railwaymen themselves, interfering in their work without authorization, and disorganizing traffic, utterly dis- regarding railway regulations and safety rules. For example, a group of armed Japanese officials and Manchurian soldiers came to one station of this line a few days ago and by threats compelled Soviet enginemen to drive an engine to another station re- gardless of regulations. Violence to Prisoners The Japanese-Manchurian papers openly “forecast” further arrests. The Harbin “Nichi Nichi” writes: “It is possible that the wave of arrests on the Eastern Line will spread to Harbin, where mass ar- rests will take place. Later higher agents of the CO, FE. R, will be ar- Relatives of arrested people are greatly alarmed by information of violence and inhuman tortures of the prisoners in police dungeons by white guard and Manchurian po- licemen, and also by Japanese gen- darmes, Papers Urge War (Special to the Daily Worker) PEIPING, Aug. 29, (By Wireless). —The anti-Soviet campaign in the Japanese - Manchurian paper be- comes more unrestrained and pro- vocative every day. They openly call for war preparations and war (By | Previously the arrests were made | Seven Hiltsbo New York District Sets |, NEW YORK.—Jan Wittenber demonstration, yesterday sent a tense, to the ‘Daily’ drive. Section 12, furthermore, ch General Strike In Yarn Trade Begins in N.Y. NEW YORK.—A general strike of textile trimming and yarn workers, expected to involve 4,000 employes in the trade, began yesterday morn~- ing. The strike, led by the Textile Trimming Workers Union (indepen- dent), demands the 30-hour week, pay for holidays and an increase in wages. At 10 in the morning, the hour set for the walkout, the strike hall at 40 West 18th Street was jammed with workers who came to register. Picketing of union shops continued throughout the day. Samuel Stember, union organizer, said at strike headquarters yester- day there were 150 textile trimming and yarn shops in Greater New York and that the union expected to tie-up all of them within a few days. A complete report of the number ef workers already on strike is not available, but the strike is spread- ing rapidly. General mass picket- ing of the struck shops will begin today. Furniture ‘Wades Win Demands After Strike NEW YORK—The Newport Par- lor Frame Company, 240 Newport shops in the parlor frame trade, has settled with the National Furniture Workers Industrial Union, granting all the demands of the union. Eighty strikers return to work to- day, having won an increase in wages, shorter hours, 2 per cent un- employment insurance to be paid by the employer and other demands. The furniture workers union an- nounced yesterday the Ginsberg Parlor Frame Company has also acceded to the demands of the strike, under the leadership of the against the Soviet Union. | Cabinet Section of the union. 8.5 per cent over June 1933. The difference between the 85 per cent increase in ayer- age weekly earnings and the rise of 9.6 per cent in the cost of liv- ing gives a net decrease of 1.1 per cent in the real wages of manufacturing workers, even ac- cording to Mr. Richberg’s own figures. This means that the wages of manufacturing workers in terms of what they are able to buy is actually 1 per cent less than it was in June 1933, when N.LR.A. was being legislated. Part of the rising cost of liv- ing, Mr. Richberg conveniently fails to mention that the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ latest report on retail prices covering the two weeks ending July 31, shows that food prices for the country were the highest point in 30 months and were 22 per cent above those of April 1933. One estimate places the inerease in the food bill of the masses at $2,250,000,000 a year. (See Labor Research Association's Economic Notes, September 1934). Compared with only a year ago, ' e according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics of ine U. S. Department of Labor, the largest increases for the country as a whole were for white potatoes, 44.4 per cent; pork chops, 37.4 per cent; rice, 32.3 per cent; canned peas, 31.3 per cent; oranges, 29.5 per cent; sliced bacon, 27.2 per cent, and so on, Further- more, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace himself declared August 13, that general living costs would be up 6 per cent or 7 per cent more next winter as a result of the drought. Although Mr. Richberg ventures to forecast the state of employment among public works fund workers, he does not forecast these coming, further increases in living costs, Unemployment The Richberg report repeatedly refers to “reliable estimates” and “reliable figures.” But in each case it fails to mention the sources of these estimates. With one excep- tion these figures fail to check with the standard indexes such as those of the Federal Reserve Board on production, and of the Bureau of Labor Statistics on employment and payrolls. An increase of 4,120,000 is report- ed in the number of employed in NRA Repo rt Other Figures Ignored As Jobs Fall Off and Prices Rise workers from June 1933, to June of this year was 2,320,000, accord- ing to Richberg. These figures are, of course, unsupported by facts. We are simply asked to accept them. On the basis of government figures, Labor Research Association estimated the number of unem- Ployed in November 1932, at 16,- 886,000 and in November 1933, at 15,835,000. This represents a decline of slightly more than a_ million during the year. But the economic situation during recent months has not changed sufficiently to warrant any drastic reduction in this es- timate for last November. During the early spring months of 1934, industry took on some few hun- dred thousands of the unemploy- ed at least for part time jobs, but this gain has been at least par- tially counterbalanced by the de- cline in employment during June and July, Production Mr. Richberg reports that the in- dex of production of all manufac- June 1934, as compared with March 1933. The increase in employed’ (Conpinued on Page &) «| plang a A cen \ WEATHER: Pair, war Worker in connection with its $60,000 drive. half of their relief money toward the campaign fund. The letter to the “Daily” follows: “We, the remaining seven Hillsboro prisoners, hail the announce- | ment of the three editions for the “Daily.” . . the prisnoers’ relief money, received from the International Labi . Long live the Daily Worker!’ TERA Adopts Street, Brooklyn, one of the largest) union after the workers went on| IMMEDIATE FUNDS Total é W rk °° Success of $60,000 Drive Requires Yesterday's Receipts .. eeee-$ 90.70 CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1934 ro. Prison Quotas for Sections and Mass Organizations—Yonkers Issues Challenge one of the seven Hillsboro workers | still in jail on criminal syndicalism charges for leading an unemployed message of greetings to the Dail The prisoners also sent . We are sending half De- Twelve and three-quarters per cent of its quota in the $60,000 drive of the Daily Worker has already been filled by the Yonk Section 12—of the New York Districtyof the Party! Its quota 0. allenges Section 9, which has a similar quota and a similar scattered territory, to a Socialist Com- No Strike Rule On Relief Jobs NEW YORK.—A bulletin issued by the New York State Temporary | Emergency Relief Administration on Aug. 25, for inter-departmental use, denies all relief workers the right to organize, to “bargain collective- | ly,” or to make “demands” on th |relief administration, the Daily} Worker learned yesterday. | The anti-strike and anti-organi- | zation ruling, which is labelled “ad- | ministrative policy on labor organi- | zations,’ and was handed down by | |State Attorney-General Harry 5S. Epstein at the request of the relief administration, states, “There should be no matter of ‘demands’ because they [relief workers—Ed.] are not in a position fairly or reasonably to make demands. It is the State they are dealing with.” “The question is raised,” the bul- letin reads, “whether laws dealing with labor organizations and the right to ‘collective bargaining’ with employers are applicable to relief workers and the State Administra- tion, or between workers and the local units representing the State Temporary Relief. After stating that under the state laws there is no loophole under whichithe relief administration can deny the workers the right to or- ganize, the statement adds: “There should be no interruption of work | for that purpose, nor any form of activity which may interfere with the progressing of the work relief projects or the working without in- terruption or annoyance of other There is no question of ‘bargaining’ here, because the basis of earnings is the relief need, and the Adminis- tration is the final judge.” State A. F. of L. Heads | in Convention Drive Against Communists New York State Federation of Labor Convention opened here yesterday with the stage set by the lead for an attack on Communists and the militant class struggle policy of trade unionism. Leading the attack was Lieut, Gov. Bray, who, while declaring he was a firm advocate of organized labor, said that he thought the American Federation of Labor “is one of the greatest bulwarks we have against radicalism and Com- munism.” “I think it should be a source of comfcri to capital, to industry, to those in public life charged with public responsibility and to the aver- age citizen to know that fhe New York State Federation of Labor is wholesomely led and not in danger of bing swept off its feet with rad- ica propaganda,” Bray said. s, the con- vention discussed a six-point pro- gram which calls for the 30-hour week, with no corresponding wage increases, and unemployment insur- ance which will not immediately benefit the jobless. The Wavner Labor Disputes Bill, which removes the power of strike and collective baryaining from the workers and turns all labor disputes over to strikebreaking government arbitration boards was submitted by Federation officials. Mayor LaGuardia, who is listed as one of the speakers at the con- | BUFFALO, N. Y., Aug. 29.—The to Date (Six Pages) ers Aid "Daily’s’ $60,000 Drive Worker | mate time for c: ;|the big strike. leflective a si vention, arrived here today by air- - 1,040 a Price 3 Cents STRUCTION POLICY Million Involved Gorman and Garrison Concede That Mass Demand Wins By SEYMOUR WALDMAN (Daily Worker Washington Burean) WASHINGTON, D. C,, Aug. 29. — The tremendous rike sentiment which has thundered into the United Textile Workers special strike mass § headquarters here for nearly two weeks won out today as both the del FP. of Ls Lloyd Garrison. National Labor Relation conceded the certa tional Cotton Te: on September 1, deadline. “Now the air textile mill owners have definitely and finally ri ference wit man, chairman of mittee, informed afternoon. “The str he. said The Executive Committee of tt U. T. W. is to meet tomorrow mor ing to decide hour and also pon the zero pon the 2 remarked. [The Cotton Textile Institute today refused to confer with the National Labor Relations Board and the U. T. W, leaders. In a long statement today, issued in New York, George A. Sloan, chair- man of the Cotton xtile Code Authority (which is identical in membership with the institute) attacked the strike and refused to negotiate.) “My candid opinion at this hour jis that the strike will begin at the hour we have set and that it will be effective and victorious,” Gor- man declared this morning. In discussing yesterday's comprehen- sive U. T. W. Southern report warning that the workers “will not tolerate any further delay,” Gor- man told your correspondent that “we're getting the same sentiment from all over the country.” Garrison, while waiting for word from George Sloan, President of the Manufacturers’ Cotton Textile In- stitute, seemed completely resigned to the success of the rank and file’s pressure in forcing the calling of He declared that “it is unlikely that the strike can be averted.” Other developments today in the maturing strike struggle were: Gorman announced that “official draft of the order which will make e of 600,000 cotton textile workers” is ready to go by telegraph to more than 500 local unions. Another 400,000 textile workers in the silk, woolen, rayon and worsted textile industry have voted to strike, leaving the date up to their leaders. A cotton walk- out will inevitably bring out the other branches of the industry. Garrison intimated the probae bility that an investigation com- tee of three members, who will operate” with the Department of Labor and the N. R. A, will be appointed as soon after September 1 as possible by him and other administration leaders to “settle” the strike. He emphasized: “We have no intention of withdrawing.” He answered: “No thanks,” when asked whether he had any opins ion on the of armed troops against the textile strikers. Strike headquarters received 25,000 wage envelopes from workers employed in Southern mills giving statistical proof of the exploitation legalized by the N. R. A. code, (Continued on Page 2) Guild Wins Fight; Writer Reinstated NEW YORK.—The New York Newspaper Guild won a victory over S. I. Newhouse, publisher of the Long Island Daily Press when it obtained the reinstatement yester- day of Harry Weinberg, Daily Press reporter, who had been fired for joining the Guild. o The Guild continues its fight-to force the reinstatement of Aléx< ander Crosby, chief editorial writer, fired from the other Newhouse paper, the Staten Island Advance, for Guild membership, y peor | GENERAL TEXTILE STRIKE ON SEPT. 1 Japanese Officials Seize Soviet Citizens in Manchuria A.A.A. T0 CONTINUE CROP DE ee