The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 4, 1934, Page 1

While day-to-day expenses of the Herndon-Scottsboro appeal and defense mount, only $6,050 has been received of the $15,000 needed. Rush funds to In- ternational Labor Defense, 80 E. 11th My Make te ————— Speed ‘Daily’ $60,000 Drive Fund! Friday's Receipts eseee> $317.04 Total to Date .. $1,477.71 Press Run Yesterday—43,200 Daily,QWorker COMMUNIST PARTY W.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1934 j ba L. CHIEFS DODGE | WORKERS ALERT AS WALKOUT SWEEPS DISTRICTS; DEPUTIZED THUGS JAIL STRIKERS IN ‘BOMB SCARE’; GREEN WELCOMES STRIKE AS BRAKE ON PRODUCTION CENTRAL ORGAN = Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. WEATHER: Showers, cooler Price 3 Cents (Six Pages) Of Mooney Dead at 85 Tour on Behalf of Son, Framed by Bosses, Weakened Health SAN FRANCISCO, Calif, Sept. 3.—Tom Mooney’s 85- year-old mother died here suddenly last night at the Mission Emergency Hospital of a heart attack. | “Mother” Moon y, as she had become known to millions of workers throughout the world as a result of her years of activity in the | fight for her son’s release, stricken at her home. Neighbors | telephoned the hospital where she| Z z : ] New England Workers Strike Situation || Hail Unity Plea Which In Brief Leaders 5 Oppose discs Wes AA tei ee |*RED SCARE’ FAILS affected, with 1,000,000 workers — | N.T.W.U. Calls for Mass involved. Demand is for minimum $13 % 3 Picketing, Rank and | File Control — AFL Leaders Withhold Textile Workers! Beware of | oe | ; f Strike Demands Arbitration Proposals eietr Tie See AN EDITORIAL Perkins and AFL Chiefs. Talk To Turn Tide of Workers’ Upsurge HARP ON ‘RED SCARE’ | Silk Boss in Washington Seeks To End Strike in Paterson Plan ‘Profit Insurance’ | In Place of Job | | Insurance HALL the textile workers, after their bitter experiences with vari- ous N. R. A. boards during the past year, again submit their de- mands to such arbitration procedure? Victory or defeat for the textile strikers hinges on the correct answer to this question. That th boards have contemptously ignored the demands of the textile workers in the past is admitted by Francis J. Gorman the U. T. W. strike leader. “Our people have been treated so badly by the Textile In- a week for 30 hours, with $18 and $30 for semi-skilled and skilled workers, and reduction of production load per worker. General strike involving 200,- 000 clothing workers in 25 states looms. EASTON, Pa.— Three thou- sand, more than 9 per cent, go TON, D. C., Sept. 3— William Green, in cone rsation with various A. F. of L. leaders, is understood to have de- clared that the textile strike is a By Harry Gannes | | NEW YORK. — With the greatest textile strike in U.S. By Carl Reeve (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Sept. 3. — The proposal of “Mother” Mooney | died a short time after her ar- is r q i aie | Pe __|labor ey, UME ‘the || out on. strike. unity presented by the Na-| dustrial Relations Board,” says Mr. Gorman, “that we cannot pond thihie-heesaie tt el cine te Whan hes cane anne nee American workers, William PROVIDENCE, R. I. — Me- || 0D) oe Warers Ui go to that body. We have been fooled so long that we naturally indastty-a: chance to clear wat 10 car conductor, and her daughter, C; P and S P Green, and Frank Morrison,|| M@hom, president of U. T. W., | tional Textile Workers Union mistrust that board. We have sought to obtain relief from the inventory. “and start. the’ ‘whels Anna, arrived at the hospital, they| ~*~ ° °” © ~ | officials of the A. F.of L.,| prised beard ts athe avoid the |/in leaflet form to a United heavy burdens imposed on us by going direct to the employers. system anew.” found their mother dead. | | Se ee ste LAFAYETTE, AR —an mitts || Textile Workers mass meet- They referred us to the board AND THE ABUSES CONTINUED.” That is, it will give the em- Tom Mooney Unnotified Leaders Meet and Secretary of Labor Per-|| yoceg. Stes Renee es hakaesid “at Now George L. Berry, a notorious strike-breaker who pretends | pleyers an opportunity to make Tom Mooney, locked for the kins, utilized Labor Day to attempt || KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. c.—|{ins Of Several thousand at) to serve labor as president of the International Printing Pressmen’s | additional profits mainly at the night in his cell in San Quentin ° |to turn the tide of discontent with]] Wundreds of textile worke Hazelwood Park this morning was} Union, but who actually serves the bosses as a Divisional N. R. A expense of the textile strikers and prison, was not notified by Warden In Milwaukee the New Deal, and for a viciou’|| marsh from Selby and force || Well received by workers, although | aqministrator, proposes a new arbitration board as a means of set- the rest of the workers. This Holohan of his mother’s death, and | -onslaught against the Communist || shutdown of all plants here. | rejected from the platform by Wil- | ting the -textile strike view is supported by the fact that Pig ome yen mcg ain ce ; || “GASTONTA, N. ¢.— This his- |) liam Batty, the main speaker. | "Scnowing that the workers mistrust the ‘Textile Industrial Rela- | nog tnt hey have about 400 Bt (Special to the Daily Worker) iam Green, president of the || toric battleground of textile e N.T.W.U. prop’ tions Board, and that they will not again trust the settlement of eas gi ecards the prison to attend her funeral. Ever since the frame-up and im-| prisonment of her son 18 years} Mother Mooney has worked | day and night in the defense cam- paign to force his releasee. In 1932) she made a national tour on her| son’s behalf, and later spoke in scores of European cities in Eng- land, Gemany, France and the So- viet Union. All ‘these activities weakened her waning health. Earlier that year she made an effort to place the facts regarding her son’s frame-up before Presi- dent Roosevelt, but he refused the aged woman an interview. One of Roosevelt's sécretaries informed} Mother Mooney that he would in- form the president she had called. | Mother Mooney Stricken It was during this tour that she was stricken with blindness while in Chicago. She later recovered | her eyesight. Late in 1932, when Mother Mooney was chosen a delegate to the con- gress of the International Red Aid| in Moscow, the State Department refused to grant her a_ passport. Following a storm of protests, how- ever, the State Department reversed | its stand and granted the passport, | and Mother Mooney sailed for the congress on October 28 of that year. While in Europe, she stirred large masses of workers by her moving} appeal for the freedom of her son, Almost daily during the past 18/ yeats, Mother Mooney has made the | trip from San Francisco to San Quentin prison in Raphael to visit her son. During these years she was able to see her son only over the barriers of a prison reception room. She was a real proletarian mother, one whose life was a continuous struggle, even before the frame-up of her courageous son during the height of his organization activities in San Francisco. Mother Mooney came to the Uni- ted States from County Mayo in Ireland while yet a girl and settled with her folks in Mt. Holyoke, Mass. Later she married Bryan Mooney, a coal miner, and they moved to Indiana. Worked in Milks When her husband died and Mother Mooney was left with three children, she raffled off her dead husband's mining tools in order to bury him. Then, leaving Indiana, she returned with her children to Mt, Holyoke and went to work there in the paper mills, sorting rags in order to support her little family. Besides her work in the mills, she did washings in her “off hours.” It was in Mt. Holyoke that Tom, her oldest son, learned the trade of iron molding. His father’s death cut his schooling short, and Tom was 15- years old when his mother helped him get a job in a foundry as an jron molder’s apprentice. Tom Mooney’s love for his old mother was movingly expressed in a Jetter which he sent her on Septem- ber 21, 1932, just before she left for Moscow as @ delegate to the World Congress of the International Red Aid. In this letter Mooney, wrote: “My Dear Mother: “Bless your dear old Irish heart. You're game to the core. You're a diamond in the rough. What you are doing for me, you do not fully | realize, but I do want you to know this much from my own heart; I | Robert Minor, Bill Gebert and Mor- |Committee of the Communist Party | reported. (Continued on Page 3), MILWAUKEE, Wis., Sept. 3.—A| delegation of three, composed of | ris Childs, representing the Central | of the United States, were received by the National Executive Commit- tee of the Socialist Party at aj} meeting yesterday, where they pre- sented proposals for united actions between the two parties. The united front proposais, based upon those previously made by Earl Browder, General Secretary of the Communist Party, in a letter to Norman Thomas on Aug. 17, espe- cially urged immediate united front action around the coming Second National Congress Against War and Fascism, Browder’s letter of Aug. 17, ad- | dressed to Norman Thomas, stated | that the Central Committee of the | Communist Party had taken note | of Thomas’s statements made at A. F. of L. spoke at Witchita, Kan- sas; Frank Morrison, at Flint, Michigan, and Madam Perkins in Washington, all over nation-wide radio hook-ups. “Progress has been made under the recovery program,” piped Madam Perkins. “The National Recovery Act developed out of the dire need of our distressed popu- lation for relief from unemploy- ment,” added Mr. Green. “Its pri- mary purpose was to create em- ployment opportunities and restore | buying power among the masses of | people.” Morrison, secretary of the A. F. of L., continfied in a similar vein. Yet despite their strivings, Green was forced to admit that never be fore in the history of the count: was so large a section of the Amer- | ican working and farming popula- tion faced with destitution and starvation. | the American Youth Congress favoring united action between the | two parties. It further made note| of his recent endorsement of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, his approval of the unity of all anti-fascist fighters, and his ex- | pression of hope for united front | between the two American parties. | In addition, it referred to Thomas's | approval of the united front} achieved in France, | After a discussion and questions | between the representatives of the two parties yesterday, Thomas in- formed the Communist Party del- egation that the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party would officially notify the Central Committee of the Communist Party of its decision, 200,000 May Strike In Clothing Industry For a 36-Hour Week CHICAGO, Sept. 3—A strike in the clothing industry to affect 25 States and involving more than 200,000 workers, in addition to the 1,000,000 now out in textiles, ap- peared imminent today as wide- spread resentment among the rank- and-file of the clothing workers union compelled David Dubinsky, national head of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, to State today that such a strike is being considered. The union will demand a 36-hour week of the clothing manufacturers and will prepare a nation-wide | strike, Dubinsky said, if manufac- turers do not comply. Cuban Troops Fail In Terror Campaign; Strikers Return Fire HAVANA, Cuba, Sept. 3—Efforts of government troops to terrorize striking government employes here today caused heavy fighting, when the workers answered the gunfire of the soldiers. No casualties were Soldiers took up positions on the rooftops and fired at the striking | workers in the vicinity of the tele- | phone building, who had come out | in a protest strike against the | shooting of two youths during an International Youth Day demon- stration in Havana, a “Never in the history of our | Nation,” said Green, “was there such a large percentage of our population dependent as now. There is now added to this dis- tressing situation intense suffering caused by prolonged drought among a large part of our farm- ing population and over a widely extended agricultural area.” The inescapable conclusion from | reading or hearing these speeches | is that the A. F. of L. officialdom and Madam Perkins were arguing against a tremendous force of up- surge and struggle among the rank and file of the A. F. of L. Admits Intense Feeling Morrison, for example, who spoke to the auto workers who were be- trayed by the A. F. of L. top offi- cials, working with Roosevelt and the auto bosses, admitted that there was “a very intense feeling of re- sentment against these corpora- tions.” He deplored this fact and urged the workers not to expect any rapid improvement in their condi- tions, to be patient, and not to struggle. “It must not be forgotten,” he told the newly organized auto workers, “that the most impatient workers are the members of the newly or- ganized unions. They feel that as soon as they become members of a union they should be able to estab- (Continued on Page 2) struggles witnessed the mobiliza- tion of police “against, Commu- nists.” Mijls shut down. NEW LONDON, Conn.—Union officials warn workers against “Reds” as Communist leaflets flood state calling for united action of all workers for winning of strike demands regarding wages and stretchout. Leaflets urge rank and file leadership. Union officials urge strikers to “accept decisions of National office.” 15,000 Textile Workers Out InPhiladelphia PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 3.— Twelve to fifteen thousand silk, cot- | ton, woolen and worsted workers | joined the national textile strike here, said Edward Haney, local Uni- | ted Textile Workers organizer, to- day. Picketing of 53 mills will be- gin tomorrow. Allentown, Lebanon, and other up-state textile centers report militant “approval of strike | action there by the workers. Action by knitgoods workers here | was backed when the International | Ladies Garment Workers Union Executive Board continued in secret conference with the bosses until Thursday, despite eagerness of the rank and file for action, following reports of favorable settlements in New York. Several hundred strikers braved a rain to attend the Labor Day strike rally in Kensington, heart of the} mill section, and scene of several | militant strikes in past few years. J. P. Casey said labor legislation | was a mockery because enforcement | was hamstrung by insufficient forces. | He congratulated the textile work- | ers for “what they’re doing for American workingmen,” and pledged full support of the Brotherhood of | Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, | to aid in “any way possible.” Join the Red Builders! Browder Cites Approachi In Appeal for ‘Daily’s’ $60,000 Fund By EARL BROWDER (General Secretary, Communist Party, U. S. A.) 'HE dark clouds of war are hovering over the world. Each day brings this danger nearer to the toiling masses of America and of the world. In the Far East, Japanese imperialism grows more bold and more insolent in its prov- ocations against the Soviet Union. The countries of Europe are armed camps, waiting only for an “inci- dent” to send them into action against each other. Every impe- rialiss power is spending lavish sums for war preparations. While the capitalist press can not hide these facts, it attempts to minimize them, and to lull the working class letter to the New Bedford Textile Council and all members and locals | of the U.T.W. the merging”of the} N.T.W.U. local with the U.T.W. on} the basis of no discrimination | against N.T.W.U. members and their right to participate in all strike | activity. The leafiet greeted and | supported the strike to the fullest | extent and also proposed a joint conference tomorrow to work out this unity. | The influence of N.T.W.U. policies | on New Bedford workers was seen | in the fact that Batty, who led the} “red scare” at the U.T.W. conven- | tion, did not make a single refer- ence to the N.T.W.U. by name. Instead he made a very radical sounding speech, urging 100 per cent on the picket line. He then de- clared, however, that the purpose of the U.T.W. is to secure the ear) of Washington and to get collective bargaining conferences from Wash- ington as early as possible. Batty thus while attacking the N.R.A. re- sults declared that employers violate the N.R.A. and maintained the illu- sion that Roosevelt and Johnson will soon act favorably for the tex- tile workers, | Batty then definitely rejected | the unity proposal of the N.T.W.U.,| stating “there has been a proposal to merge, but this is like tying two cats together by the tail. Oil and water will not mix, .. no quarrel with other unions, but let them go their way and we'll go ours. The) U.T.W. has a different policy and} will not accept a merger.” | It is significant that the fierce “red scare” in the newspapers and by the U.T.W. leaders has failed to catch on to such an extent that not a single U.T.W. leader dared attack either Communists or N.T.W.U. by} name in today’s Labor Day mass | meetings, which was a mobilizatiou for strike. The unity leaflet was) well received by workers today. “Red Scare” Continues ‘This red scare continues unabated in the press. Today's Boston Her-| ald had vicious attacks on Ann Bur- | lak, stating that the police have) orders to arrest her at the slightest | | sign of activity, and that she is “‘hid- ing in the South End tenement dis- trict of New Bedford.” Meanwhile | Burlak was present at Hazelwood | (Continued on Page 6) ng Fascism | their grievances to that body, he proposes a new three-man arbitra- tion board to be appointed by, General Hugh Johnson and Secretaries Roper and Perkins of Roosevelt’s cabinet. RANCIS J. GORMAN, replying to questions on his attitude “Any attempt to arbitrate the issues would such a board, replied: be welcome.” toward Thomas F. McMahon, president of the U. T. W., likewise com- mitted himself not only to the arbitration principle, but he already (Continued on Page 6) Deputies Jail Paterson Dye 3 in Alabama | ‘Bomb Seare’ (Special to the Daily Worker) BIRMINGHAM, Ala.,, Sept. 3.— Three workers were seized here in alleged drive against bombing, as the textile strike spread to new mills. The names of the arrested textile workers have been kept secret. Forty heavily-armed special dep- uties jailed six leading strikers here today on trespassing charges to pre- vent a strike at Boaz, Ala. Peace warrants have been served on about a score of union leaders in Marshall | County, which includes Boaz, Gun- tersville, Albertville, to prevent pick- eting and in support of a new semi- company union for textile workers | of Alabama, John Dean, U. T. W. A. strike} leader predicts 26,000 out by tomor-| row, although no real campaign has | been conducted in Southern Ala-| bama and many mills are expected | to remain running there with the exception of Selma, where the Com- munist Party has considerable in- fluence among the Negro textile workers. Israel Berlin and Fred Keith have been unconditionally released from the criminal anarchy charges when John Foster, city attorney, admitted no further evidence and nolprossed the case. Berlin still has a convic- tion of six months on the chain gang and $100 being appealed. A Red Builder on every busy street corner in the country means into a sense of security. Only the Daily Worker brings the full sig- nificance of these facts to the workers and organizes them to fight against the threatening war. Bloody fascism has fastened its claws upon a score of European countries, bringing untold miseries and sufferings to the workers. The capitalist press would have the American workers believe that this | menace is confined to the other side of the Atlantic. Only the} Daily Worker tells the American working class of the threatening | danger of American Fascism, and organizes them to fight against it. Pe ert IN every section of the country workers are striking against their Y Workers Join In Silk Strike (Special to the Daily Worker) PATERSON, N. J., Sept. 3.—Pat- erson silk and dye workers demon- strated their loyalty to the general textile strike when thousands joined together in Hinchliffe Stadium to |pledge their united support to the strike. The silk workers voted to go on strike together with the three dye shops on strike here. According to Anthony Ammi- rato of the U. T. W. Dyers’ local, “The dyers are kept back by the or- ders of the Washington strike com- mittee.” He said ‘rarin’ to go and gs 9 strike 100 per cent. Instructions were given to the workers by the silk officials “to go in front of your shop tomorrow morning whether your shop has been on strike or not.” A meeting of all shop chairmen, members of the executive hoards, etc, is to be held at the headquarters tonight to receive fur- ther instructions, but as yet no strike committee has been elected. Henry Berger, militant leader of the Paterson printers on strike for four months against both the scab néwspapers here, pledged the sup- port of the printers. Williams of the joint executive board told the workers what happened in Wash- ington. He stated that “manufac- turers here could reopen their mills signing new contract with the national office of the U. T. W. at Washington.” In connection with the declara- tion of unity by the National Tex- tile Workers’ Local and its merger with the U. T. W., Moe Brown sued the following statement merging the National Textile Work- ers’ Union with the American Fed- eration of Silk Workers, our union has taken a vital step toward unit- union intolerable conditions, for higher, while the capitalist press plays up| ing the Paterson silk workers in wages and for recognition of their unions. The full force of the state, aided by extra-legal vigilante bands, is being brought to break these strikes, to wreck the unions, to ter- rorize the workers and to reduce them to a condition of servitude. The Daily Worker is the only paper which brings the news of these struggles to the workers, mobilizes national support for the struggles, | and gives guidance to the workers | in their struggles. | Sixteen million workers in the United States are unemployed. De- spite this, workers are being thrown | off the relief rolls, and told to “get jobs.” Emergency relief work is being cut down and discontinued, the statement of the United States Chamber of Commerce that there are only seven million unemployed. | Oniy the Daily Worker keeps the} workers informed about the facts of | unemployment, fights for the en- | actment of the workers’ unemploy- | ment insurance, reports the| struggles of the unemployed andj} In this period of approaching | fascism a special terror is directed against the Negro people, with special persecutions, jeilings and lynchings in both the North and | South. Only the Daily Worker car- | ries on the struggle for Negro lib- | “~ (Continued on Page 2), this general strike. “Silk workers are greeting this unity movement. I call upon the silk and dye workers of Paterson to guard against the proposal made by Williams’ U. T. W. officials. This is a general strike and no shop should be settled until one agree- | organizes and guides these struggles, | ment is reached for all the silk workers and that this shall be voted upon by workers.” agreement all silk Our Readers Must Spread the Daily Worker Among the Members | of All Mass and Fraternal Organ- izations As a Political Task of First Importance} per cent more stock than at this time last year, They consider the chances are better now to sell at greater profi Green is charac- teristically silent concerning the He, with Gorman, favors an in- crease of textile prices rather than cuts in prof By Seymour Waldman (Dai Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C,, —“Tomorrow is the Watch the textile tomorrow,” Francis chairman of the Textile Workers (A. zenters J. Gorman, United *, of L.) special strike com- I to- press and woolen are now in- ‘oly e In a week, some 000 workers from minor textile divisio he said, “are ex- pected to walk out.” Gorman read many of the hun- dreds of strike telegrams, sent from nearly every textile town in the country informing strike headquarters that the workers are not only ent picket show their ms e expect that when we start is will be out,” remarked ing all Gorman. Demands Withheld arrival in Washington of Kaminski, president of Manufacturers Associa= nm, N. J., emphasized the fact that the strike commit- tee has significantly failed to mene tion the important specific de+ mands on which the general strike call based. “We have not received any de- mands from our workers.” Kamins ski replied emphatically when asked whether the A. F. of L. strike leadership had conveyed the specific convention demands to his organization. Katinski said his organization operates from 14,- 000 to 15,000 looms in the Paterson area The Benjamin the Silk tion of Pat Gorman, in the course of a press ntery hot” by the news reels, today reiterated “the basic issues” of the strike—“The 30-hour week, wage increases, relief and reguiae tion of the stretch-out system and the machine load, and recognition of the union.” However, neither in this nor in any other interview duri he past ten days has Gors 1 mentioned the strike des ed as “imperative” in Thomas F. McMahon's speech to the recent U. T. W. cone vention. Demands “Not Imperative” McMahon made it clear yestere day in a talk with your correspone dent that the U. T. W. strike lead- ership doesn't consider these de as “imperative” as the delegates who framed “The demands are broad c nd give away here ans thore.” he remerked signifie: ij Gorman has harped on ef? from “the vicious stretchout.” Bub (Continued on Page 6). | o that reascnable men can - “Seger