The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 6, 1934, Page 1

/PICKETS IN NEW ENGLAND BANKS RECEIVED. While day-to-day expenses of the Herndon-Scottsboro appeal and defense mount, only $6,695 has been received of the $15,000 needed. Rush funds to In- ternational Labor Defense, 80 E. 11th St., N. Y. C. Vol. XI, No. 214 ROOSEVELT ACTS TO STEM TEXTILE STRIK Daily -<QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under t he Act of March 8, 1879. EPTEMBER 6, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, § See Story on Daily Worker Fund Campaign—Page 2 1934 WEATHER: Fair. (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents TROOPS KILL, WOUND STRIKERS IN SOUTH: KIGHT BILLIONS FROM ROOSEVELT Huge Sum Was Spent| in 18 Months, Says Richberg Report SAVED BIG PROFITS Money Is 10 Times As| |He Much As Relief Expenditures WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.—The enormous expenditures of eight bil- lion dollars of government funds within the last eighteen months by the Roosevelt government to guar- antee profits and investments of Wall Street corporations, banks, and bond and mortgage investors was revealed today in the fourth report by Donald Richberg, N.R.A. Execu- tive Secretary to Roosevelt on the “New Deai” results. Of this record-breaking subsidy to private capitalist investors, $5,853,000,000 was disbursed directly through the R. F. C., since March 1, 1933 when Roosevelt began his “New Deal,” and more than $2,500,000,000 through such various agencies as the Home Loan banks, the buying of bank preferred stock by the R. F. C., mortgage loans, etc. The report reveals that Roose- velit has been subsidizing Wall Street bank and mortgage invest- ments with government funds at a faster rate and with greater expen- ditures than the Hoover govern- ment. Hoover had authorized R.F.C. loans to Wall Street totalling $2,738,000,000. Roosevelt in a com- parable period of time, has spent more than twice that amount for Wall Street subsidies. It is remarkable that the Roose- velt government, according to Richberg’s own figures, disbursed during this period only eight mil- lion dollars at a rate of $1 for relief to every $10 for Wall Street bond and mortgage investments, Little Home Aid In his report on the activities of the Home Loan Corporation, bally- hooed as the saviour of small home owners, Richberg’s report reveals that only one out of every three home owners who applied for relief got any funds at all, Out of 1,587,000 applications only 432,000 were granted loans. But even these loans aid only the mortgage hold- ers, since the funds are turned over to meet mortgage payments and must be paid for by the impover- ished home owners. Mortgage hold-. ers have already receved $1,299,445,- 000 from small home — owners through such government loans. The Home Loan disbursements also include direct disbursements to banks aniounting to. $200,000,000, to municipalities for back taxes to be paid to bond holders $89,000,000, and to insurance companies and fee appraisers $23,000,000. Although the Richberg report claims that the Roosevelt subsidies have eased the real estate crisis evidenced in the amount of frozen assets and lack of easy credits, his report admits that there has been “difficulty in inducing civic-spirited citizens to subscribe to the mini- mum capital requirements” of the Federal Savings and Loan associa- tions created to invest in real estate with the Government cutting up 75 per cent of the capital. This re- veals that capitalists are fearful of investing evenly one fourth of the capital of the agencies designed to provide real estate credit om mort- gage and home collateral. Loans to Corporations A further noteworthy revelation in the report is the information that the Roosevelt government has (Continued on Page 6) Hearing Is Postponed On Weirton Injunction WILMINGTON, Del. Sept. 5— ‘The courts and other government agencies continue to delay and play hide and seek with the workers of the Weirton Steel Company, which js attempting to foist a company union on its employes. The hearing on the government petition for a permanent injunction against the Weirton Company, sup- posedly to prevent the company from forcing the workers into a company union, was postponed a | | month. Recently the court refused to grant a temporary injunction, | proclamation More Deaths To Come, Says Hitler’s Edict Exto oe 8 Role of Murderers at Nazi Congress NUREMBERG, Germany, Sept. 5. | —Heralded by the reading of a signed by himself threatening death to all enemies of the Fas regime in Germany, Hitler today spoke before the Fourth Nazi Congress extolling the “cul- tural” role of the Fascist butchers. Hitler appealed to the capitalist rulers of the world to support his regime because it was the bulwark against world boshevism, “Just as when the national racial shock from. the immeasurable East broke over Germany,” he said, “so also now are our people the breakwater against a flood which would have buried Europe with its welfare and culture.” The destroyer of all cultural life in Germany and the butcher of his own cohorts, went on to declare: “National socialism, by its uni- fying effect on the. people thus has conquered and rooted out the threatening manifestations of de- struction. . . . The world ideal of a imeral epoch invites us as a result of the international idea of Communistic socialism. That, in turn, leads to anarchistic chaos or Communistic dictatorshi, As evidence of its preservation of “culture,” Hitler pointed out that his axmen and gangsters will here- after be the administrator.and cen- sors of culture for the German people. “The political as well as the cultural development of the Third Reich will be dictated by the Nazi Party,” he exclaimed. . Along with the most brutal and savage dictatorship, which is de- stroying every vestige of culture, the Hiter regime, faced with a tre- mendous revolutionary upsurge as expressed in the heroic opposition in the plebiscite and the growing activities of the Communist Party, has called this Congress in order to work out more oppressive and ter- roristic attacks on the German toiling masses. As admited by Minister of Lying Propaganda, Goebbels, just before the Congress was called, the German masses face increased starvation and poverty this winter. Hitler's opening speech at the Congress was taken by foreign newspaper correspondents here as a declaration of a new murderous attack on Communists, and holding out the most dire threats against Ernst Thaelmann, imprisoned leader of the Communist Party of Ger- many. Food Union Chalks Up Victories in New York; Leads Brooklyn Strike NEW YORK.—The Dairy and Fruit section of the Food Workers’ Industrial Union have chalked up many victories during the past two months and have recruited a large number of new members to the union. Reports from the union show that ten shops on Avenue U in Brooklyn have signed with the union, “The workers in these shops received in- creases in wages. Two shops on Schenectady Avenue signed an agreement with the union. Among other victories won by militant action of the union were the following strikes: 6613 Eight- eenth Avenue, Brooklyn; Grocery and Dairy Shop, 1372 Sheridan Avenue, Bronx. The union is now carrying on a strike at the Ingbors Fruit and Produce Market, 1507 Kings High- way, Brooklyn, and at another market at 1515 Kings Highway. Workers in these markets were working as high as 100 hours a week for wages as low as $14 a week. INFORMATION SOUGHT NEW YORK.—Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Lillian Adler is 6 1° | a ane Keller Sidetracks Move) | Paterson Silk Workers’ | Delegates Vote To Join Walkout DYE CALL CHOKED While Lodi Dye Strike Nears PATERSON, N. J., Sept. 5.—A few hours after thousands of silk workers joined the general strike today, the Industrial Relations Board ruled that the strike is illegal because “the union had broken its contract with the mill owners.” (Special to the Daily Worker) PATERSON, N,_J., Sept. 5. —At a meeting of about 200 shop chairmen and executive ican Federation of Silk Work- ars Tuesday evening, the call to strike to all branches of the silk industry (with the excep- tion of the dyers) was announced. a telegram from Francis Gorman in Washington stated that already | more than 50 per cent of the silk industry was on strike. Right after the representatives of | the jacquard, ribbon, hatband and label branches of the Federation | | announced that the workers of their particular crafts would join the} strike one hundred per cent, L. Valgo, elected to the broad silk ex- ecutive board by the members of the National Textile Workers Union in the act of merging, took the floor and pointed out that past exper- iences prove that one of the main factors determining the victory or defeat of the silk workers, are the Shops, he therefore proposed that a resolution be adopted by this body appealing to the dyers’ federation to immediately call upon the dye work- | ers to join the general strike. A round of applause greeted this pro- posal. Eli Keller, however, side-tracked this motion by stating that this body cannot make any motions or resolutions, and that it is called upon to meet only for the purpose .of receiving instructions. The refusal to entertain»this mo- tion for a resolution calling on the dye workers to join.the strike im- mediately, is to ignore the letter and spirit of the U. T. W. convention and particularly the desire of the masses of silk and dye workers, Lodi Dye Strike Expected (Special to the Daily Worker) LODI, N. J., Sept. 5.—Despite the smothering tactics of the A. F. of L. officials here, a strike of 15,000 dye workers is expected here within the next 24 hours. Workers and leaders’ of the Na- tional Textile Workers Union are working energetically for the strike and for the unity of the workers. The N.T.W.U. proposes only as a to the local A. F. of L. for the im- mediate merger of the two unions in order to increase the fighting ef- fectiveness of the workers against the employers. No answer has yet been made to this offer. The N. T. U. proposes only as a condition that its members be ac- cepted as full-fledged members of the A. F. of L. local solely on the exchange of membership books and without any initiation fees. It has proposed to meet with a committee to be appointed by the A. F. of L. union to discuss strike and merger plans. The largest and most enthusiastic mass meeting since the last strike was held here under the auspices of the N. T. W. U. with the 500 for immediate. strike. Fisher, leader of the last strike, and Sellers of the N. T. W. U. an- alyzed the way in which the policies of the A. F. of L. leadership are asked to notify Room 500, 50 E. 13th St. AGontinued on Pogs 2) doard members’ of the Amer- | The strike call was issued after | thousands of workers of the dye, | { } ‘Pickets Free Seven Seized in Philadelphia Jel. That body has discretionary ‘Fourteen Mills Tied per tS anes ote textes | H fv a council can be gotten together in in City—Many ~ (oul ¢ , | Gorman Ready To Make Individual Settlements Main Demands In the Strike STRIKE GAINS FORCE The textile workers, 1,000,000 strong, from Maine to Ala- bama, are fighting for the fol- lowing main demands as adopted by the recent conven- tion of United Textile Work- ers’ Union: (1) Hours: Two shifts of 30 | Scheme as in Auto and Steel Advanced To End Struggle | | | hours per week with no ex- By Seymour Waldman bare ida) waa (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) erentials: e estab- ba \f \g ‘lishment of four minimum || WASHINGTON, Sent. 5.— wages: Unskilled, $13 per 30- || U. T. W. Strike Chairman eect Petoa ti ES ue, | Francis J. Gorman this after- | $22.50 per 30-hour week; highly || noon characterized President | ae soled wat tae |Roosevelt’s announcement Machine Load: The re- || + Pr vision of all work loads on the ||that a strike “settlement basis of reagon and ordinary common sense, (4) Recognition of the Union: Reinstatement of all workers victimized because of union membership. ) mediation “board would be announced Hyde Park as a posal.” When asked whether he will ac- cept the oft-requested Presidential “mediation” without first insisting that the employers grant the tex- tile workers’ specific wage demands for the various categories ranging from unskilled to highly skilled, Gorman hedged: “We're going to see to it that wages above the minima in the higher brackets are protected.” Queried as to whether his strike committee leadership can accept | “mediation” without first putting it to a general membership vote, Gor- man replied in the negative. He declared that this committee, under the U. T. W. rules, “must refer | | such action to the Executive Coun- | tonight at “tentative pro- (NOTE: For detailed statement of wage demands for each category of workers and machine loads in each department see the Daily Worker of Tuesday, September 4.) Gorman said 400,000 textile work- ers are on strike now. “We expect . Others Crippled Mil | | ee ay Reject ‘Arbitration! EDITORIAL HEN the textile strike shows every evidence of becoming a real effective strike, capable of winning the demands of the workers, President Roosevelt steps in with the same trickery that cheated and defeated the auto, steel and marine workers in their strikes. Yesterday he announced plans for the appointment of a three-men board to arbitrate the strike. “Textile Workers! This is precisely what the Daily Worker on September 4 warned the textile workers against Beware of Arbitration Proposals!” in its editorial, Both Gorman and Sloan greet this means of ending the strike. without granting the demands of the workers before they work! declares Gorman. our utmost respect,” Before the strike started, return to “We shall go as far as we can to meet the President's wishes. “Any board appointed by the President will receive chimes in Sloan, spokesman for the mill owners Gorman admitted that the experiences of the textile workers with boards appointed by President Roosevelt led to disastrous consequences for the textile workers, burning issues of the textile workers’ conditions and lives were referred of tHree| to these boards “the abuses continued,” Gorman admitted. These, arbitration moves should be rejected by all textile workers as the most dangerous strike-breaking moves confronting them! The aim of the arbitration board is to get the workers back to work first, to smash their fighting ability, to disorganize their forces, to block the whole effectiveness of the strike. been accomplished with promises of “consideration” of the demands, these demands for which the workers are fighting so bravely and so |the thousands of pic! fiercely now will be thrown into the waste-basket. | The Roosevelt regime has made it a policy in all of the big strikes |the Goodyear and Fire: of the workers for better conditions to substitute these arbitration boards, which are agencies of the employers, for demands for improved living conditions. now! LE D. Offers Strikers Aid (Special to the Daily Waki: (Continued on Page 2) ‘Mill New England | Regain Relief | | HUNTSVILLE, Ala. Sept. 5. Every time the Then when this has This strikebreaking maneuver must be smashed, and smashed right | The strike should be extended! down, Every local of the U.T.W. should go on record against arbitra- Every mill should be closed Srsiicers In the South. |stopped the r | tering FY POLICE Paterson Silk Workers. Vote ie Join Walkout; Textile Strike Chiefs Wait for Mediation lai Workers Press for Victory by Mass Picketing Thousands Face Police Provocation in New Bedford Picketing BURLAK IS CHEERED Walkout Rapidly Nears Complete Tie-up in New England Reeve By Carl Special to the Daily Worker) NE REDFORD, Mass., Sept. 5.—Militant mass picket lines of the workers strength ened and spread the general textile strike in New England today and last night in atly sharpened A Picket line of at idnight last from en- Mill in Fall spite police of g activity. workers the Pepr = mass after a in face morning picketing night of pol: pulled out the Fisk Tire Mill. Only remain ;to come out to make it one hun- red per cent strike in New Bed- | ford. Fall River today was ninety per cent on strike, with the large Amer- jican Print Mill completely closed. The spinners came out in the Pep- perill ing last id many ight and thi of the we: out already The loom the Pawtucket area have out and the strike in Rhode Island is spreading. Capitalist press re- ports greatly understate the effec- tiveness of the strike in Rhode Is- land, a visit last night to Pawe |tucket shows. ’ Active Strikebreaking Today in New Bedford evidences that the employers have swung into their strike-breaking campaign were many Police forces were | Morning closed three more worsted mills. Fourteen mils in all are tied up in the city, and many others are crippled. However, William F. Kelley, U.T.W. vice-president, in charge of the local strike activi- ties, said he will make efforts to spread the strike to all branches of the textile industry. He has asked the dyers and finishers union to prevent transferring of workers to dye plants working on scab goods, or join the strike. The joint U.T.W. and ILL.G.W.U. hhas asked permission of the In- ternational Executive _ Council, A mass meeting of by 500 workers, approved the strike call, (Continued on Page 2) was shot to death, Police gunfire. rell Mill, at Fall River, Mass. of relief checks. Many arrested in Macon, Ga. ditions. (Special to the Dally Worker) that eed pe will go out PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept, 5.—|‘Omorrow.” he added. Flying picket squads throughout RAD2S the night and mass picketing this WASHINGTON, D. C,, Board of the knitgoods workers meeting tomorrow in New York, to strike if local bosses fail to make a favorable settlement Thursday. worsted workers union last night, attended This morning most of the | picketing was at worsted mills, Sept. 5.—Falling in line with the Roosevelt administration’s policy in the automobile, steel and marine strikes, United Textile Workers (A. F. of L.) officials here, generalled by Vice-President Francis J. Gorman, have indicated support of the Pres- ident’s Hyde Park late morning an- nouncement that he would appoint a board of mediation to consist of three members to investigate textile conditions. Shortly before the press ticker an- nounced Hyde Park talking, Gor- man, from all appearances, waited for Roosevelt to speak the agreed “mediation” lines, “The union does not insist on a strictly national settlement,” he replied in answer to a reporter's query, “Will you cone sider individual mill settlements if (Continued on Page 2) strengthened around the tire mills Today deputy chief Chase came to BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 5.—Plac- ing all its defense resources at the | | Textile workers on the Federal r | lief lists here, after they had been|the mass picket line of thousands, oni ca oe ited textile | denied relief under the new orders | told the strikers last night at mid- Defense, Tester New eupinna |o Harry L. Hopkins, surrounded | night that he has issued orders e y prohibiting ass c District, in a leaflet distributed to| the relief offices here yesterday andj prohibiting all mass picketing in | threatened to hold the officials pris- |New Bedford from now on. This oners all night unless relief was|attempt to halt picketing was an- continued. All were paid their re-|mounced in today’s press simultane- lief checks after several hours. ously with the announcement of the pickets, called upon the strik-| ing workers to make speedy plans to defend their rights against the police terror which the employers | are now preparing. The Huntsville textile workers,|€™Ployers that their m will re- Instructing all arrested textile | Who have been on strike since Au- pean Se ering Alc te ae workers on how to act in the court. | SUSt 17, were receiving relief in the |Strike-breakers. At the picket dem- | past. After the issuance of the or- | onstrations last night before the \der by Harry L. Hopkins, Federal|thtee tire mills police drew guns |relief administrator, that the F.E. Jand tear gas was thrown to dis room, the I. L. D. urges the forma- tion of defense corps, the packing of all courtrooms with strike pick- | the | Perse the thousands at the Goods ets in all cases involving the strike. are fiom Bit Sr tet jyear plant. “One extremely important thing grounds that “they had not worked|..4nn Burlak, National Textile which must be done to win the | Workers Union national secretary, strike,” the I. L. D. eseslgbijin dag Gi be 2 herder jand Walter Burke, New Bedford statement de- clares, “is to organize ways and) “Shoot to Kill” Ordered |N. T. W. U. organizer, were on the means of defending any of the| _| Dicket lines last night and this workers who are arrested or at-|, GREENVILLE, S. C., Sept morning helping o:ganize the work= tacked by the police, company | TTO0pS with orders to shoot to Kill ors: ra in the picketing. thugs, or the National Guard.” | | 8nd with fixed bayonets threatened | Unity Policy Cheered “The International Labor De- | the picket line today at the Dunean| y.act nicht two large mectings of fense,” the leaflet, continues, “states | Mill. But despite the armed ter-|the N. T. W. U. were held, with Strike Situation in Brief A striker named Blaylock, picketing the Trion mills, Trion, Ga., One picket was shot, probably fatally, and three more were seri- ously wounded in front of the Enterprise Mill in Augusta, Ga., by Mass picket lines spread textile strike in New England. Fifteen thousand pickets stop night shift from entering Pepper- Largest textile mill in world shut down by strike in Holyoke, Mass. Strike practically 100 per cent effective in Vermont and Maine. Thirty-five thousand on strike in Eastern Pennsylvania. Textile workers on relief lists surround Huntsville, Ala., federal relief office; threaten to hold relief heads prisoners; force payment Fifteen thousand dye workers prepare to join strike at Lodi, N. J. | Police attack strikers in New Bedford, Mass., with tear gas. ‘* | Additional troops called out in South Carolina as strike spreads. _ | eo eee eee erence MTB NIMOUBLY 1F eee aS eharged Wy forsee With fixed bayonets in: Greer, tional Guard gets “shoot to kill” orders. Two-hundred and fifty mills closed by strike in North Caroiina, Na- Roosevelt plans board of mediation to “investigate” strike con- courtrooms. the release of all those workers ar- rested. side the jails. and conduct your own defense, ex- posing the connection between the judges, police officials, and mill bosses. Do not plead guilty. AL- WAYS PLEAD NOT GUILTY. In the eyes of the courts, militant workers are always guilty, but in the eyes of the workers, we are NOT GUILTY of any crime when we fight for our rights. “Defeat efforts to blacklist mili- tant strikers and to deport foreign- other information about yourself or about any other workers excevt your name. Demand the right to have a lawyer. “Do not take the defens' in the court, but defend yours: by de- neuncing the court itself and the whole governments! e-break machinery. Thousands of wor (Gonsinned on on Page 2) ¥ “Jam the courtrooms and demand | Hold demonstrations out-|the shooting a hand to hand fight Demand jury trials | took place. | born workers by refusing to give any | ers have been freed trom from the jails here | | cessful Macon, Georgia, after a shot wa: fired at the strikers by a mill offi cial at mill number 2. Followin: The Bibb mill is owned by W. D. Anderson, president of the Amer- ican Cotton Manufacturers Associa- tion. Anderson’s mill in Columbus, Ga., was also closed by the strike. | He also operates a mill in Porter- | dale, Ga. Police in both Georgia and the | Carolinas were arming themselves | with tear gas, guns and clubs and threatening to unleash extreme vio- lence against the workers. Yet the strikers succeeded in adding 10,000 Strikers today to the amount out in this area. It is estimated that 209,000 | were out at noon today | linas and Georg: While police wit | dispers ing pickets at Augusta, Ga | 3. Ralph Gay, president of the | Georgia Textile Workers, wa in ordering 2,000 pickets (Continued an Page 6), suc- | that these arrests and jailings can|TOr. the great textile strike spreads| Burke and Burlak as main speak~ be stopped by carrying the same |TaPidly from mill to mill. Jers. In the North End 2,000 mass struggle which you conduct The mills of the Bibb Manufac-| cheored hte line of the N. T. W. U. before the factory gates into the| turing Company were closed in| for unity and in the South End more than 1,000 were at the Hazel- wood Park meeting. These meet- were arranged on a day’s Burke in the name U. issued a state- g on the work- to defeat the camnaien of the Bedford manufacturers to reak the strike. “Every mill must d,” Burlak declared. “We of the police She called y, for united rank and file strike committees in every mill to organize the picketing and strength- en _the strike. The New Bedford Cotton Manu- |facturers inserted big ads in this mornine’s Mercury declaring, “The }mills of the New Bedford Cotton. will be opened at ime on Wednesday, 5 the ironical answer New | to the of U.T.W. leader | Sylvia sterday’s U.T.W. mass meeting. when he said, “We ask the | New Bedford manufacturers to co= | (Continued on Bags 4 pai