The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 10, 1934, Page 1

yj | RICHBERG REPORT REVEALS IMPERIALIST a While day-to-day expenses of the Herndox-Scottsboro appeal and defense mount, the half-way mark toward the $15,000 needed has been passed with $7,517 contributed to date. Rush funds to International Labor Defense, 80 E. lith St.. New York City. ea ge Or eS ee a, Bie ene Vol. XI, No. 217 > Entered as second, New York, N. ¥., 130.000 TO JOIN TEXTIL Coast Employers Organize Nationwide Vigilantes G NEW APPARATUS Daily QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) class matter at the Post Office at under the Aet of Mareh 8, 1879. NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1934 E STRIK See Story on Fund Drive—Page 3 Press Run Saturday 63,700 WEATHER: Fair ix Pa WAR ges) Price 3 Cents EIN 12 STATES roups PLANS ‘Open Press GORMAN HASTILY COMPLETING MANEUVERS AGAINST STRIKES 2 "2" ers WITH ROOSEVELT BOARD TO SMASH STRIKE; ALSO ADMITTED es a || Hathaway, Spivak And Mother Bloor || To Speak on Strike NEW YORK--Clarance Hatha- way, editor of the Daily Worker; John L, Spivak, noted journalist who returned recently from a tour of the South; Manning Johnson, young Negro organizer for the Trade Union Unity League; Mother Ella Reeve Bloor, and others will discuss the textile strike situation in the South at a mass meeting at Webster Hall, Thursday evening, at 8:30 o'clock. The meeting will be held under the auspices of the Southern Strike Relief Committee, a branch of the Committee for the Support of Southern Textile Orangization. The committee is composed of Program Is ( Called ‘Im- Sat provements in Public Service’ WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 9—A| summary of war preparations, plans for aggressive imperialist expansion. and government strike-breaking which characterize the Roosevelt “New Deal” with increasing obvi- ousness are contained in the latest | and final report issued today by| Donald Richberg, key man in the Roosevelt NRA apparatus, giving an accounting of the major Roosevelt, policies since last March. Under the heading of “improve- ments in public service,” Donald Richberg gives an unwitting picture of steadily increasing activity in the interests of Wall Street monopoly imperialism, Listing such activities as the ap-| pointment of the Federal Aviation Commission, the strike-breaking || writers and professionals in- operations of the Railroad Co-ordi- || ciuding Paul Peters, Grace nator and NRA Labor Boards, as|} Hutchins, Esther Lowell, Lois “public improvernents, Richberg’s'| McDonald, Erskine Caldwell, report is an attempt to conceal the | true objective of the Roosevelt NRA | as Tevealed in the Darrow and) Thompson reports, the speeding up| of Wall Street monopoly control of | American industry and the guaran- | tee of Wall Street monopoly profit. Fights for Markets Richberg’s report reveals the | tremendous efforts Roosevelt is | making to militarize the economy | of the country in the effort to strengthen the position of Wall | Street imperialism in the fight for John Howard Lawson, Dr. Her- bert, Gerritt and Grace Lumpkin, Crew Accuses Ship Company In Sea Tragedy world markets. He reports the NEW YORK —While the odor of work of the Communication | burning flesh wafted its way up- Commission in “regulating” the | ward from the still-smouldering communications industry in the | wreck of the Ward Liner Morro interests of war efficiency, the work of the National Power Com- mittee, the National Resource Board, the National Emergency Council, and the Special Advisor to the President on Foreign Trade, all activities directly connected with the speeding up of war preparations and the struggle for | foreign markets for Wall Street monopoly. Justifying the — strike-breaking activities of the NRA Labor Boards, | Richberg’s report states, “Several! controversies of major importance | in the past year have brought the! intervention personally of the Ad- ministrator for Industrial Recovery, | steed of and in some instances of the Presi-| , dent, whereby a number of male le ate Castle, which caught on fire Satur- day eight miles off Asbury Park, and is now beached on the New Jersey coast, on its way home from jan excursion trip to Havana, Cuba, |an investigation was set under way here in New York to fix respon- sibility. This sea holocaust, one of the worst in recent marine history, claimed more than 200 lives, with the death list still incomplete. Rumors began to circulate here about a “sabotage plot” and “in- cendiary origin.” The crew see in the tragedy on the seamen. the They of watchmen and the |this a sinister attempt to lay the} ese rumors and point} In Capita ‘Will Not Seek Aid from| Unions,’ But Expect | RG CRIES Woll To Help Main Demands | By Marguerite Young In the Strike (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) r ‘ 1,000,000 || | WASHINGTON, Sept. 9—Pacific |] one, “tram “Mele” to A ctrong, from Maine to Ala- | Coast employers who organized the | bama, are fighting for the fol- fascist terror against the recent | lowing main demands as adopted general strike have branched east- | by the recent convention of j ward and opened headquarters here | | | United Textile Workers’ Union: (1) Hours: Two shifts of 30 in the capital for a national fascist || hours per week with no exemp- !/the great textile strike to the| finds the mills throughout|| Carolina openly admits troops roup, including a countrywide |} tions. } aan a ge Tey (ee As : || are being used to fight the prunes Sate of “Vigilantes (2) Differentials: The estab- | Roosevelt Arbitration Board|New England closed down|| strikers. Fifty National Guard | of 1934.” They hope to take in, but || lishment of four minimum |) is in direct opposition to the oy nicn| with the exception of t nills in|] units are in action against si not to identify, 1,000,000 “Vigi- || wages: Unskilled, $13 per 30- | of workers in the Southland. The) Lawrence. Militant rs are Rhode Island siik manufec. lantes,” including ‘Vice-President | hour week; semi-skilled, $18 per | tremendous fighting spirit of the) now preparing to throw mass nickst | turers propose new plan to kil Matthew Woll of the American Fed- | 30-hour week; skilled, $22.50 per | strikers in face of the brutal reign| lines around these two mills, the || the strike by splitting the unii eration of Labor. 30-hour week; highly skilled, $30 | of terror stalks through the! Arlineton and the Pacific, and of the ranks in the Pawtucket rina! wan disclosed toda! when a |L Perse mowr: Week, __ }| two Carolinas and the spreading the |make the New Enginnd 1- | midis, | formal announcement to the press (3) Machine Load: The revi- {| strike over the weed-end proves | plete. Communist Party in New Fng- \ set forth that “America First! Inc.” | sion of all work toads on the this. I have talked to workers along According to the figures of the || and pledges full support to |hhas opened offices in the National | basis of reason and ordinary | 400 miles of the strike front and! ynited Textile Union, more than | strike, wrers rank and ill to | Press Building. It will “protect the | common sense. Say they all express the opinion that | 200,000 are now out in Nev Eng- || take control of strike machinery stitution from subversive at- (4) Recognition of the Union: , the strike should be settled only by land. The American Woolen Mill || #4 negotiations. the announcement said, and | Reinstatement of all workers | direct negotiations with the manu-|cigsed its doors yesterday on the Relief activities for strikers co-operate with the leading | vietimized because of union }/ facturers through _ representative | pretext of a two weeks lay off. planned in New York and other patriotic societies, chambers of com- | membership. committees of the strikers. | thexae Potion” Guile citi (NOTE:—For detailed statement of wage demands for each category of workers and machine loads in each department ser. the Daily Worker of Tuesday, September 4.) Silk Industry In Allentown | Stopped 927% By CHARLES SPENCER (Special to the Daily Worker) ALLENTOWN, Pa., Sept. 9.—Al- lentown's silk indus! has been cloced down practically 100 per cent | bers and trade associations,” as well as establishing its own “field force of Vigilantes of 1934,” | Heads Coast Ship Company | The announcement, from the | “America First! Inc.” offices on the | twelfth floor of the building, named | Robert B. Armstrong among the three “responsible” for it, Just three floors below the “America | First! Inc.” offices there is another | | suite. On the door large gold let-| ters identify the same Robert B.)| Armstrong and his son as follows: | |“LOS ANGELES STEAMSHIP CO, | ROBERT B. ARMSTRONG VICE-PRESIDENT ROBERT B. ARMSTRONG, JR. WASHINGTON WESTERN NEY | SERVICE by the picket lines of the striking | | LOS ANGELES CHAMBER oF _ “JK workers, despite the attempt of | | COMMERCE” the leaders to demoralize the strike, | Armstrong — Senior, nationally All but two smell mills of Allen- town’s 25 are closed today and these mills will be picketed tomorrow. | Ribbon workers have also been urged to join the strike tomorrow. This will affect about 1,500 more known for these and other extreme (Continued on Page 6) ‘FSU Delegates Demand Halt to Proyocations, By Japan Against USSR of strikers to 6,000, Mills throughout the entire Le- high County have heen forced to close one after another until today | | production has been cut 98 per cent. NEW YORK.—Protesting against |The four silk mills of Emaus are | | Japanese imperialist designs against, | just waiting for pickets to come and the Soviet Union, a delegation of |they will come out on strike, the | industrial conflicts have been pre- vented and others have been ad- justed. The development of an ade- quate, co-ordinated federal machin- ery to meet all such needs is at the present time one of the major prob- lems pressing upon the Labor De- partment, the National Labor Reéla- tions Board and the National Re- covery Administration.” Reporting on the activities of the Railroad Co-ordinator, report unconsciously reveals its true purpose: to reduce railroad employ- ment in the interests of stock- holders’ profits, by stating, “because of the statutory limitations placed on the immediate reductions in em- ployment” there still remains room for improvement in making profits out of the railroads. Justifying the criminal AAA crop destruction Richberg’s report calls for further expansion of foreign trade through aggressive imperialist | policies because of the “failure of purchasing power of domestic con- sumers,” ignoring that it is the in- tensified poverty caused by the NRA that has reduced domestic con- sumption. “The stimulation of for- eign trade is especially pertinent to the efforts of the AAA,” Richberg states: Higher Bond Interest For assisting Wall Street imperi- alism, Richberg lists the following “improvements in public service’: the First and Second Import Banks, the Foreign Trade Board and the Inter-Departmental Committee on Trade Agreements, all of which are finding profitable fields for Wall Street monopoly trade. The report, aside from listing false figures on the “revival” of employment, a revival that has come abont in spots mainiy be- cause of the spread-work effect of the NRA codes, also reveals that the Federal Government now | pays close to a piflion dollars every twelve months in bond in- terect to Wall Street banks hold- ing the bonds. * Richberg’s | | 12-hour, two-shift system as the main causes for the catastrophe, and the resulting loss of life. The fire, according to all reports, broke out at about 3:30 Saturday morning in one of the salons. At 4:23 an S.OS. was sent out by Chief Radio Operator, George W. Rogers, who was trapped in the radio room and allegedly burned to death. Quickly spreading amidship, the flames cut off any hope of exit to most of the passengers, who were penned in cabins. A gale-driven rain added to the difficulties of those who rushed to the life boats. | Despite this, approximately 300 reached shore alive, Full responsibility for the tragedy |is placed on the ship's company by | members of the crew, who charge the ship was undermanned and that this accounts, to a great extent, for (Continued on Page 2) Soviet Union and Icor,.called uvon 500 Fifth Avenue, Saturday, and de- manded that “all anti-Soviet provo- cation and activity of the Japanese imperialist government and the puppet state of the Japanese im- perialist government, Manchuria, be immediately stopped.” At the same time, more than 400 men and women, carrying banners denouncing the provocations of the Japanese imperialist government and calling for the defense of the | Soviet peace policy, demonstrated in mass picket formation around the building where the offices of the consulate are housed. Picketing at the Japanese Con- | sulate will go on every day between 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. The Friends | of the Soviet Union urges all mem- bers of the F. S. U. and sympa- thizers who wish to assist in the Picketing to report Monday at 799 Broadway, Room 233, at 10:30 a.m, (Special to the Daily Worker) HONEA PATH, S. C., Sept. 9.— The working people of the Caro- linas paid honor yesterday to the six strikers who were brutally slain in front of the Chiquola Mill last Thursday. More than 10,000 work- ers from the textile mills of the two states came on foot and by car |ove. miles of dusty road to attend the mass funeral of their brother union men. | Lee Crawford, R. T. Yarborough, |B. M. Kniglt, I. R. Davis, Claud |Cannong and Maxie Peterson, the [six dead work: were hailed as ‘heroes of labor by the fellow union t 10,000 Attend Burial Of Six Slain Strikers members who escorted their caskets to red clay graves. Although the great mass meeting |which prc “cd separate proces- sions to “ce cemeteries had int somewhat of an atmosphere of a |religious ceremony, common to |mass gatherings of werkers in the |South, a sirong spirit to carry on |the militant textile stru | dominated. jdemonstration againsi the’ terro> that is now sweeping the South—a protest against murder and the brutal exploitation of workers in the textile mills, It was a tremendous| five, representing the Friends of the | workers indicated yesterday at a| the manufacturers | meeting of the Tremlow Mills. Ar- a flying squadron to Emaus tomor- row morning. The Twentith Cen- tury Mill at Bethlehem has been | closed 100 per cent. | Berks County, Bucks, Carbon} | County, Columbia County, Jefferson | County, Lancaster County, Lebanon | County, | mery County, Northampton County, Northumberland County, York County and Wayne County mills are practically closed down. | In Bethlehem Chief of Police Trafford has issued an order against |all picketing. Two girl pickets were | arrested and the International La- | | bor Defense is defending both cases. |The Communist Party and the Un- | employed League are making prepa | rations to break through this terror |. The masses of silk workers in | Bethlehem and the unemployed have been warned by the Commu- nist Party of an attempt to decrease |the strength of the picket lines. | They have called for an increase yon the lines tomorrow morning. While the silk workers are fight- | ing heroically to keep the mills closed until the demands of the workers are granted by the bosses, the U.T.W. leaders are doing every- thing in their power to demoralize the strike and to prepare for an easy betrayal. The Communist Party is urging | every mill to hold their shop imeet- ings and to elect their shop com- mittees and to demand representa- oe on the general strike Sepia h| The Communist Party is flooding | the city with leaflets warning egzinst the maneuvers to turn over | their stvike to the arbitration board In Bethlehem. Dan Slinger, Com- munist candidate for secretary of Internal Affairs in the State of Pennsylvania, spoke to a mesting of | the stvikers, and exposed the arbi-! tration maneuvers of Gorman and| the other U.T.W, officials | tional Guard. Gorman’s Proposal of Arbitration Resented in the South Raymond (Special to the Daily Wi CHARLOTTE, N. C., Sept. | 9.—Francis J. Gorman’s pro- posal to submit the issues of | “We'll settle the strike after we have spread it to more mills and when the employers are ready to} grant the demends that these six union brothers of ours died for,” a local strike leader told me yester-| day, as we s:cod in an open field} at Honea Path beside the biers of the six workers who were shot to death by armed thugs in front of the Chiquola Mill. e’ll arbitrate the thing ourselves,’ he added,! when approached on the question of turning the matter over to the government board, | 250,000 Out in South The strike, which on Friday in- yolved 170,000 workers in the Southern area, has now reached the | point where 250,000 are out. John Peel, third vice president of the United Textile Workers’ of America, gave out the following figures serday at the union headquarters in Greenville, S. C.: 85,000 out of 110,000 are out in North Carolina, 56,000 out of 70,000) in South Carolina, 45,000 out of | 58,000 in Georgia, 18,500 out of 33,000 in Alabama, 6,000 out of workers, to bring the total number 19.999 in Tennessee, 5,000 out of | Strike,” 8,000 in Mississipni, over 30,000 are striking in other Southern areas, The local press has announced for the past two days that mills in yarious sections wiil attempt to open tomorrow, But in the cI headquarters at Greenville, it was announced that “for every mill that | attemp’ to open} with skeleton crews we will close | tees the Japanese Consulate General at | rangements are being made to send | pa " aie Plan to Shut Every Mill Tremendous preparations are| afoot in Shelby, N. C., where all the | | mills are closed, to shut every mill’ mectings. | Luzerne County, Montgo-| with skeleton crews under the pro-|ly tied up th | operating in the surrounding area. Mills at Kings Mountain, a few miles from Shelby, are operating tection of three companies of Na- In Spindle, a few miles south of Shelby, of the town is roped off by troops and deputized thugs one is allowed in or out of the town unless passed upon by the thugs. President Allen of the Sheiby local of the U.T.W. stated that mass picketing would commence Monday in the Shelby area. A mass meeting of strikers at the Shelby Union Hall Friday night enthusiastically endorsed th> call for intensification of 0’ nd the stopping of additional mills. Treeps Get C.P. Leafe’s At Greensboro and Concord leaf- lets issued by the Communist Party were ‘passed out to both the tzcops and strikers. The leaflet to the troops urged the soldiers, many of whom are textile workers from other centers, to refuse to be as strike-breakers against their f: low workers. Those issued to the worke:s called for mass picketing and s:riking of all mills still op- erating. One of the main weaknesses of the strike at the present time is the lack of sufficient mass picketing. Whiie in Peel and Ge in ing the | effort to continue the fiying squadrons and intensify mass picketing, Mr. (Continued on Page 2) | Saylesville, R. xge | All But 2 Mills Closed in | yp, New England—More New Than 200,000 Out Ss of In Brief More than 125,000 moze » ers of allied trades join te: strikers. German, U. T. W. leader, and William Green, A. F. of L. pres- ident, confer with Roosevelt. Governor Ehringhaus of North By Carl Reeve BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 9.—| The opening of the second | week of the textile strike Southern textile strikers op- pose Gorman’s propesal to sub- mit, issues to Roesevelt Arbitra- tion Board. In some sections, the mill owners have announced their intention of opening the mills today. This will be attempted with the 2 use of armed force. To give one ample of t! finishing mill i: one of the la! mills of its kind in the country, has established a dead-line around the plant. This ominous “dead-line” is being heavily guarded by police and armed deputies brought in from ight Strikers ° New ork Fight Strikers The New Bedford newspapers | today carry “wernings” that the police have refi to allow picket- (Specia! to the Daily Worker) ing, and also state that the A. F. of BURLINGTON, N. C., Sept. 9— lesagre care Her ouderiae Ket | Peul Crouch, disizict o r s of no more than a few ais Comaniiniat Barty: ci he: fol Riven? ttempt is | Ce! the following worizo:;' | Covernor Ehringhaus ton in the of his wire demanding bringing the rkers to that terror against textile strikers. they must now look there for sct- oe en epee E tlement. “There has been no sending of a5 tow TW; armed forces against strikers in Militant Policy Urged tite Bate Ute contliteny. cls: bela Issuing the slogans “Spread the used to preserve law and order. “Establish Ma. Picket Lines,” Ann Buriak, leader of the National Textile Union, called upon the mill workers to reject all arbi- trati 1 offers, defeat the mill own- Strikers will be protected in their rights but other laborers who do not wish to strike and who have no desire to strike or to do other than to be permitted to continue ers’ attempts to o1 their work and earn bread for) wr elect local rank families will be pp! i. shop committees will no violence o! od- possible, t instituted by at-| t rank and file str: rder and the in the leadershin of the ng man to) Poi t Militant workers are taking steps to activize the workers of the| American Woolen Mills into picket- | ing other shops and to hold mass!) “(Signed) J.C. B. ERRINGHAUS.” An effort by mill owners to get Burlington rayon workers to sign their petition to reopen the mills | resulted in a list containing only | nine signatures. Not one wheel is Shee Workers Endorse Strike Woonscch t Mills were complete- his past week after the i Independent Textile O7¢ e the false ni independent union with a member- | that mills are reo ship of 4,009, voted last night to At a U.T.W. ma join the stri © of the unien ke Shoe wor! in_ Lowell speaking at the mas | voted support ni to| the wor to go on \the textile strike adding | lires only in smail grou their weight behind the textile gen- 8°% down cn t knees and pray (eral strike, Flying squadrons of strikers are | In all sections the Daily W despite the statement is being sold out immed rd Payne, U.T.W. leader, it appears, and the textile workers urging the Strikers not to inter- fere scabs wishing to enter the with jare following the Daily Worker for mi strike news and directives. | 1,000 Hear Browder Assail ‘Red’ Scare Sept. 9.—One associated executive Martin Russak, Commun Gate for Congress, a wor active in Paterson strikes, PATERSON, N. J. thousand workers, mostly textile strikers jammed the Washington | Hall here last night at a meeting called by the Paterson section of the also Communist Party a‘ which Zarl | Browder, general secretary of the Communi, Party of the United |p States, spoke. A large delegation of workers whe ect from Fassaic came to in truc! Besides Browder, speak ed Moc Brown, Commu date for Governor of New Jer’ leader of the National T Workers Union before the smalsa- mation and now a member of the | os en of the different unions into one. (Continued on Page 2) ‘ N.C. Governor : Admits Troops : ’ closed. The p In Lodi, INDUSTRY PARALYZED AS TERRORISM GROWS A.F.L. Chief’s Original Position Does Not In- clude Mass Picketing By Seymour Waldman WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 9.—F s J. Gorman’s pro- pesal that the Roosevelt tex- tile “ingui itrate the national te ue bo rda holds good number of Gcavers 50.000 and pile sting to textile cmploye: ker-lawyer board headed mor Winant of New Ha: be changed from one of quis He also asked that closed be mandatory. mills remain board’s whe “We picket uch a way as the situation need he ans ed. A few days ago Gorman counter- manded an order bv local U.T.W. leaders for mass vicketing at Law- rence, Mass. This order weakened, but did net vrevent the mass march to the mills. Many More Mills Shut there has come a message of con- fidence and a message to the ef- fect that the strike lines are not only holding, but are growing. Our proposal of arbitration last night has brought many favorable com- That “original position” does not oments. We made that proposal because of the strength of ovr po= ion.” What U.T. vorable com: ration proposal can by saying. 7ack we shall have every division textile ind “We're a are going she2d without any let+ Gorman remarked to the re- ‘About 500,009 qwill be out up.” tem He added. however, that his pre- vicus 60.909 estimate employed of approximately workers in the oo lew, nnd 799.992, stect ME 1934. We s agree to he arbitration.” In the ‘ ers should for the employers. ers, through their all mills damage.” ean be br and guard ht to-8 tht em- medics arbitration is ignores Wage Demand: In listing the U. T. W. “strike demands,” German continued his (Continued on Pag