The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 11, 1934, Page 2

| | | | Page Two uth Committee already agreed to send delegates to the District Conference Against War and Fascism, to be held Sept. 15, at 2 p. m., in} A. B. C. Hall, 7949 Mack Avenue. delegates to the Second Chicago Congress. was called by the Detroit Youth¢ Committee Against War and Fas- cism. They have arranged a dance for the delegates, to take place on! Thursday, Sept. 27, at MeCollister | Hall. | Paris Delegates to Speak | CHICAGO, Sept. 10—At a mass meeting, one of many arranged in preparation for the Second U. S./ Congress Against War and Fascism which is to take place in Chicago Sept. 28, 29 and 30, Mabel Byrd and Martha Lewandowski, delegates to the recent International Women's League Congress Against War and Fascism in Paris, will make reports. The preparation meeting will take place at 8 p. m., tomorrow in New Jerusalem Church. The Dimitroff Club of Chicago, in order to raise funds for the Second | Congress Against War and Fascism | has arzanged a large affair at the Logan Square Masonic Temple, to take place on Friday, Sept. 21, at 8 p. m. N. Y. Rally Planned NEW YORK—The Building Com- mittee Against War and Fascism has called a mass rally, in prepara- tion for the Second U. 8. Congress Against War and Fascism, for Sept 13, at 5 p. m. in Christ Church House, 355 W. 36th Street. Conference in Brownsville | _UNIONTOWN, Pa., Sept. 10.— The Brownsville Committee Against War and Fascism is preparing a conference and will elect delegates to the Chicago Congress Against | War and Fascism. The local con- ference has been called for 10 a. m., on Sunday, Sept. 16, at Max Baum Hall, Main Street and Pittsburgh Road, Uniontown, Pa, Pickets Close Biggest Mills (Continued from Page 1) Committee is carrying out the pro- posals made by the National Tex- tile Union, Shop meetings are be- ing held, with representatives elect- ed to the Board Strike Committee. | McGinley strikers elected seven representatives to the strike com- mittee, other struck shops follow- ing suit. Strikers will carry on continuous | picketing at the struck mills. Ten mills now have struck in Easton, Phillipsburg, and Belvidere. | A United Front meeting, held last night, was addressed by Russ Wood, President of the American Federa- tion of Silk Workers, National Tex- tile Workers Union representatives, Trumbull, local organizer, and Pitt, | field organizer. The National pro- gram of United Front was received with enthusiastic applause by the strikers. Hosiery Strike Set (Special te the Daily Worker) READING, Pa., Sept. 10.—Eigh- teen thousand hosiery workers are due to strike in Reading and vicin- | ity Wednesday. Strike sentiment is | =strong in the shops. Officials de- layed strike preparations while ne- gotiations were going on in Wash- ington during the past three _months. The strike was called only > through the pressure of rank and file militants, The sentiment here is to stay out till every demand is won. The hosiery workers were be- trayed through arbitration negoti- ations in last Summer's strike. + Lancaster Shut Tight (Special to the Daily Worker) LANCASTER, Pa., Sept. 10— = Lancaster County is shut tight with the exception of three important mills in Lancaster City, the Stehli Silk, Foolmer and Clogg, and Am- erican Silk, These will need the help > of flying squadrons from York, Col- - umbia, Reading, and Allentown to! be shut. These mills are heavily guarded by armed deputies and police. School teachers in Lancaster are reported to be talking to children against the strike. In York 10 plants are shut with 1,800 workers in 12 hosiery plants | being pulled today. A joint com- mittee of U. T. W. and Unemployed ~ Union was formed to get relief for | ; the strikers. | The conference will elect The conference New York District Urges C. P. Voters to Go to the Polls NEW YORK.—For the first time in the history of the State, voters enrolled in the Communist Party in New York will be able to participate in the primary elections which are scheduled to take place on Thursday. It should be clearly borne in mind that this does not mean only members of the Communist Party, but any voter who in the last election voted Communist can vote in this year’s Commu- nist Party primaries, the office of Campaign Manager Carl Brodsky announced yesterday. I. Amter, Communist candi- date for Governor, will be the principal speaker at the first mass rally in the election drive tonight at 764 40th Street, in the Ninth Assembly District, Brook- lyn. New Bedford Mills Tied Up 100 Per Cent (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Sept. 10. | —During the past week-end ru- {mors were being circulated here that New Bedford mill owners would try to open up some mills Monday morning. A personal sur- yey by your correspondent has proven these rumors to be false. This town is completely tied up and the mills are closed 100 per cent. About 700 Workers attended a mass meeting, called this morning by U.T.W. leaders, who advised the workers to have faith in Roosevelt's “arbitration” board, headed by strike-breaking Governor Winant of New Hampshire. No organization questions were taken up, as, for example, organiza- tion of strike committee in each mill. There is so far not one rank and file committee elected in any mill here. It is clear that the U. T. W. lead- ers, Batty, Binns and Sylvia, are | blinding the strikers with sugar- coated lying phrases to prepare them for arbitration and a sell-out later. The Communist and left-wing workers state that only under the leadership and control of the rank and file in the U. T. W. can the arbitration sell-out schemes of Gor- man be licked and all the trade demands won. The strikers are enthusiastically | waiting for the leadership of Fred Biedenkapp, well known leader of the 1928 strike, who is due here. Workers’ Delegation Protests Attacks On McKeesport Meeting McKEESPORT, Pa., Sept. 10—A delegation of 15 workers visited the office of Mayor Lysle, last Thursday, to protest the fascist attack and arrest of 24 workers on Sept. 1, and to demand the use of Diamond Park for a protest meeting next Thurs- day night. Lysle, acting under orders of the steel companies, refused a permit for the park, and again offered the |site at Ninth and Water Sts., which the workers had declined for the International Youth Day demon- strtion. Later in the day four detectives Picked up Martin and Garvin, two members of the Young Communist League, and took them to the police station where they were subjected to a two-hour grilling. The detectives accused both youths of phoning and threatening Mrs. Ben Rosenberg, wife of the Councilman who led the assault on Carolyn Hart last Saturday. The Rosenberg home was called and of- ficers tried to force Garvin and Martin to utter threats for “identi- fication” purposes. They refused to do so, Earn Expenses Selling the “Daily” PAUL LUTTINGER, M. D. — AND — _ DANIEL LUTTINGER, M. D. Are Now Located at 5 WASHINGTON SQUARE NORTH, NEW YORK CITY Hours: 1 - 2 and 6 - 8 P.M. ‘Tel. 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He may be compared to Koh-| ler, He owns the houses his work-| ers live in and threatens them with eviction if “disloyal.” The workers are virtually prisoners inside this | mill, No one can get within a quar- ter of a mile of it. All roads are | blocked by the army of guards and| | police. Some young sons of mill) workers were forced to be deputized on fear of their fathers being fired | and evicted. | It was revealed today that the State Government has aided in the arming of this gang for the mill | owners. This revelation came out | when it was learned that {ort | seven policemen from little sur. | | rounding Massachusetts towns were | | sent to the Dighton mill at the re- quest of General Needham in charge | |of the Massachusetts National | Guard. More Milis Closed Down Mayor MacDonald spilled this | when he said he had sent police to | Dighton at the request of a repre- | sentative of Needham. ‘Thus, al- | though the guard had not yet been | called by Governor Ely, the State | Government is helping to pour armed forces into key mill centers, | The Slatersville Finishing Com- {pany at North Smithfield was closed down by pickets this morn- ing. Mills in Woonsocket and East | Greenwich were closed down by mass picketing today. The Wood River Woolen Company of Hope Valley was also closed down. Mills throughout Providence are being | picketed today. Woonsocket, Samo- set Company attempted to open, but several hundred pickets closed the plant. Strike Spread Continues | | Thirty-one more mills in Woon-| socket alone closed today. | The strike thus continues to} |spread. The strikers made decided | | gains throughout the day. The |last mill working in Fall River, Luther Manufacturing Co., closed | today following mass picketing of the mill. | This spreading of the strike and continued effectiveness was achieved in spite of a movement of armed forces into New England, which I} observed Friday in Lawrence and | Island. Literally hundreds of gang- |sters are riding into New England jin trucks. The mill owners are de- termined to break the strike | through these terroristic measures, but the mass picket lines today on the first day of the second week of the strike checkmated them. Greenwich Bleachey was closed down by pickets at East Green- wich by mass picket lines. Warren Textile and Machinery Supply Co., at Warren, R. I, was closed. There were four known arrests of strikers by state troopers at the battle in front of the Sayles Fin- ishing Co. plant at Saylesville. They were dragged into the. mill yard, Strikers Batter Troops | After the fight the state troopers showed the wear of the battle, A number had heavy dents in their tin hats and several were limping. One woman and a young girl striker had to be assisted from the fight by strikers after being beaten by the trooper clubs. Strikers Jeer at Cops City police arrived on the scene | toward the close of the fight, but they were not taken seriously by the strikers. They came from Cen- tral Falls. The mill is located on the borders of Pawtucket, only a few miles from Providence. Throughout the fight, the strikers were shouting derisively at the State troopers and the police. “Here come the Americans,’ the strikers taunted when about five Central Falls police, old men, ambled into the fray. The strikers marched up the street toward the mill behind the police cheering. A baby was overcome by tear gas in one of the houses on Lansdowne Avenue. Legionaires Guard Mill Reports coming in now from all centers show that today the strikers were able to spread the strike even in small mills. As I passed through Walpole I saw a little mill, the Ken- dall Surgical Bandage Company, being guarded by Legionaires with tin hats and clubs. They were afraid of pickets coming. The Cranston Print Works which we visited today, was also heavily guarded end the workers were hanging oui tne windows on the lookout for pie’ They were ready to come out as soon as the picket |lines arrived. All mills shut down jlact weck romain closed. The mill owners strategy is to end |mass picketing as soon as they can. | They have ordered only six pickets ® iment of the rank and file of the! | to consider the question, and | against mass picketing today Gover- | |nor T. F. Green of Rhode Island is- | must be limited and “peaceful” and | Lowell and today throughout Rhode | § i Resolutions, Brought to File Committee, Attack N by dozens of resolutions alrea of October, the A. F. of L. Rank and File Trade | Union Committee stated here yes- terday. The committee, which has been | an active force in organizing the opposition to the policies of the William Green and the A. F. of L. Executive Council, has circulated a| series of resolutions to local unions dealing with quesfions that will arise before the national convention of | the federation. The resolutions con- demning racketeering in the A. F. of L. and the attitude of Green on the San Francisco general strike | have been heartily received by the local unions, the Committee stated. The resolutions follow: Resolution to Eliminate Menace of | Racketecring and Gangsterism Whereas: In the American Fed- | eration of Labor unions, gangster- ism and racketeering are rampant, | the numerous trials of union offi- cials on charges made by the dues paying membership reveal only to a small extent the scope of this corruption; and Whereas: Exposures by rank and | prisalsorganized by gangsters paid by corrupt officials from union funds, in which union members are | killed and maimed, and | Whereas: The tremendous senti- unions forced the A. F. of L. in} the 53rd Annual Convention in 1933 | Whereas: The formal statement | of the 53rd convention which was | circularized in the unions has re- sulted in no effective action against this disgraceful condition of af- fairs either by the International | Unions or the Executive Council, be it therefore Resolved: That the delegates as- | sembled at the——————________ pledge to do all within their means to organize the membership in the trade unions to fight racketeering and gangsterism and for the elmi- nation of this menace from the unions in whatever form it appears. | EW YORK. — The growing resentment within the American Federation of Labor membership against Executive Council of the organization is being manifested | file members are followed by re- |i the Fore by Rank and Green’s Stand on West Coast Strike, Flay Racketeering the dy adopted in preparation for the A. F. of L, Convention in San Francisco in the first week an announcement of © Resolution on Wiliiam Green's Strikebreaking Action in the West Coast Strike Whereas: The great San Fran- cisco general strike was called to aid the cause of the marine work- ers who have been fighting against an infamous blacklisting system and discrimination carried on through company controlled hiring halls and have been waging a strike since May 8 to abolish this com- pany control and improve their wages and working conditions and Whereas: 140,000 members of the A. F. of L. joined the strike in one of the greatest demonstrations of unity ever seen in American labor history, and completely tied up the city, and Whereas: It was the duty of the President of the A. F. of L., who is a paid official of the membership, to support this strike both morally to company unionism and the open shop and to help raise the standard of labor throughout the country through a victory of the general strike, and Whereas: William Green instead ued a public statement declaring, he strike in San Francisco is local in character, possessing no national significance,” and that, “It origi- |nated with the workers directly in- volved” . + and that .... “their representatives ordered the strike and must accept full responsibility for this action,” ...and that the “A. F. of L. neither ordered the strike nor authorized it,” and Whereas: William Green also wired the Seattle Central Labor Council warning them against call- ing a general strike in support of the marine sirike; both actions Serving to sanction the breaking jof the strike, be it therefore Resolved: That = go on record as condemnihg this strikebreaking action of William Green and calling all affiliated locals to send letters of protest to the Executive Council of the A. F. of L. to notify the A. F. of L, Committee of their action. these must have arm bands. The U.T.W. leaders carry out these or- | ders without even protest but mass | picketing comes from the militant | workers themselves who crowd! around the mill gates, as near as | Police let them come, by the thous- ands, it is these crowds of strikers who have spread the strike. Following on last week's message of Governor Ely, of Massachusetts, to the union threatening force sued a similar attack on the strike. Green emphasized that picketing | “intimidation, coer- Strikers Organize Reiief (Special to the Daily Worker) LOWELL, Mass., Sept. 10—The Lowell Protective Union Rank and File Relief Committee of Twenty will be enlarged to fifty. A united front relief and soup kitchen for all organized and unorganized strikers has been proposed, This plan is on the largest scale ever attempted and the kitchen crew is anticipating a patronage of 20,000 daily. Strikers Cheer Burlak (Special to the Daily Worker) FALL RIVER, Mass., Sept. 10.— Three thousand strikers enthusias- tically cheered Ann Burlak here on Liberty Lot. She spoke on strike unity and how to win this strike. The workers foiled a U.T.W. at- tempt to break up the meeting and mass picketing. An attempt is be- ing made to open Luther mill, but the strike front is solid and the attempt will be defeated if made. §, P. Leaders Aid Against Unity (Continued from Page 1) if he thought the workers were fighting for themselves he might have stayed home. He declared his unity with the top leadership of the A. F. of L. by saying that “anyone who issues leaflets which disagree with the national leaders of the strike are betraying the textile strike.” Like Gorman he tried to confuse the workers by making them think for something different than the strike demands. Several hundred Paterson silk strikers swooped down on_ the Botany Worsted Plant in Passaic in “flying squadrons” which were or- ganized here this morning. This was the first attempt which had | been made to bring out the Passaic Plant since the historic strike in 1926. Throughout the late morning and noon hours the Botany workers | heard the militant yells and sing- |ing of the picket line. Many unemployed Passaic textile | workers joined the strikers on the jline. The strikers lefi the Botany plant several hours and marched to the Polish Hali, where a brief meet- ing was held and arrangements made for further picketing in Pas- in front of the mill gates, And that the Communis‘s were fighting | Sailors Brand Lite Of Ship Owners (Continued from Page 1) man continued. “We made our way on deck and grabbed for the hoses. Somebody shouted that there was no water pressure. There was only a little water coming out of some of the hoses, whether because of lack of water pressure or because the valves were’t opened, I don’t know. “At any rate, there wasn’t much use in manning the fire hoses and we started making our way to the boat deck. We saw three passengers and pushed them up to the boat deck ahead of us. They couldn't find their way, of course, since it was with the passageways, pitch dark and they weren’t familiar “When we hit the boat deck we got into one of the lifeboats—there were forty-five of us, including the three passengers. The boat got stuck in mid-air while being lowered and one of the men climbed up and cut the rope. He fell into the sea and was drowned.” “We drifted around for a little while in the darkness, The sea was fierce. After about four hours—this was about eight o’clack—we finally beached at Spring Lake, near As- bury Park.” Asked about the charge that the crew showed cowardice, the seaman said bitterly: “Why, Miss Capote’— daughter of a Cuban official— “couldn’t have been saved if it were not for a member of the crew who showed her how to crawl out ‘of a porthole. Some of the passengers had to be lifted overboard with life- belts. The crew, as far as I could see, did everything possible for the passengers. The only reason so many of us were saved is because our quarters were up forward, away from the flames. That was our good break,” “As a matter of fact,” he con- tinued, “no watchman came to wake us up. If one of our boys hadn't awakened the flames would have reached us, too.” | Confirming the negligence of the _company, William O'Sullivan, deck storekeeper of the vessel in a copy- righted story in the Associated press | yesterday stated that in the fire | drill on Sunday afternoons, only two | stations took part, both “where | passengers could see and be im- | Pressed.” | O'Sullivan also charged that no | water came from the hoses and that the alarm was not sounded uniil the fire had spread over the mid- ’| ship section. I. J. MORRIS, Inc. GENERAL FUNERAL | DIRECTORS 206 SUTTER AVE. BROOKLYN Phone: Dickens 2-1273—4—5 Night Phone: Dickens 6-5369 For International Workers Order saic, and financially to help deal a blow | Many Mass Rallies PRECONVENTION DOCUMENTS SHOW Planned to Boost OPPOSITION TO A.F.L. LEADERSHIP Congress in Chicago Nine Negro Organizations in Detroit Agree to| Local Conference Against War and Fascism, Arranged by Yo © Roosevelt May Call Sell-Out Parley (Continued from Page 1) | Gorman’s proposal to constitute the Winant bosrd an arbitration body | whose decision would be binding on | both employers and workers. Late last night, after receiving word of Sloan’s rejection of the U.T.W. leadershiv’s arbitration of- fer, Gorman stated: Gorman Anxious for Board Ruling “The United Textile Workers stand by our proposal that the me- diation board named by the Presi-+ dent be constituted an arbitration board. | “Mr. Sloan has much to say about lack of authority on both sides. We have the authority and we have demonstrated it by the | closing of the mills. The workers will accept and abide by an arbi- | | tration award handed down by the board presided over by Governor Winant. Mr. Sloan seems to have sufficient authority to now state j the employers’ case. But much ;more important than that, he had the authority necessary to pledge the employers to agree to accept |the General Johnson agreement of jJune 2. [The Gorman-Johnson- Sloan agreement, which prevented a strike by launching the “investi- gation” which resulted in recom- mending that no wage increases be granted.—Ed.] | Ready for False “Elections” “I believe the Winant board | should summon Mr. Sloan and de- mand from him that he act in his capacity as head of the Cotton Tex- tile Institute. The strike chairman can speak for the textile workers, The board, I believe, should do likewise with the heads of the em- ployers in wool and worsted, silk jand the other divisions of the in- | dustry.” “Sloan represents a crowd that never intended and never will | do the right thing,” Gorman said ; during his press conference. Referring to Sloan's mention of “elections” to decide whether the U.T.W. represents the workers, Gor- |man declared emphatically, “We're ready for elections under the su- verviston of the National Labor Re- lations Board.” “Call off the strike” during these elections if they should be held. Ranks of Strikers Grow Gorman’s formal morning state- ment said: “George A. Sloan is, I presume, at this hour before the President's | mediation board, either explaining his refusal to accept our proposal of arbitration, or finding a way to | make use of the peaceful machinery to which we have pointed. “In all divisions, wool and wors- ted, cotton, silk end on into the other divisions, the ranks of the strikers grew, demonstrating that if by 6 o'clock tonight our proposal is not accepted the strike will go on until arrogant management is compelled to yield to the just de- mands of the workers, | Fails to Clarify Demands Gorman failed to say whether the “equitable wage adjustments” meant |the specific wage differentials for |unskilled, semi-skill-* skilled and highly skilled—running from $13 to $30 a week—which were listed by | the U.T.W. convention. Nor did he explain whether the “stretchout” meant the categorical loomage divi- sions listed by the same convention. The U.T.W. strike chairman an- nounced that “tonight I shall in- form the country as to the outcome of the day's developments in a Coast-to-Coast broadcast over the Columbia network.” Mill Owners Offer Aid to Scabs H. W. Pittman, factory manager of the Bibb Manufacturing Co. of Macon, Georgia, on Sept. 7, sent circulars to employees offering “food, medical, or financial assist- ance” to those who do not approve of “this foolish strike” and there- fore “want to work and want pro- tection.” The circular was exhi- bited at strike headquarters the last sentence threatens “If we do not have a reply from you by Sept, 12 we will understand that you do not want to hold your job.” The enclosed card showed postage was prepaid. The Daily Worker can Better Aid Your Struggles if You Build its Circulation. Classified | COMRADE going to California. Cen take four people. Share expenses. Box 1 Daily Worker. YOUNG lady comrade wanted to share apartment centrally located, $18 month. 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Five farmers, Floyd Booth and his wife, Negro organizers, and Mother Bloor were sentenced in June because they helped to or- ganize and also to make public the terrible conditions women were forced to work under in the Fairmont Creameries in Loup City. At the meeting a group of thugs brutally attacked the farm- ers, almost killed Burt Snell, a farmer who is now workers’ can- didate for Congress, and injured scores of workers. | (on P. Calls Workers To 15th Anniversary Celebration Sept. 21 Attend Bronx Coliseum Rally with Full Memberships—Hathaway, Kingston To Speak NEW YORK. — All working-class organizations ¥ membership to celebrate munist Party, in a statem York District Bureau of ion has been arranged for F ——-—-——€ day evening, Sept. 21, at the Bron |Coliseum, 177th Street and Wesv Farms Road. A motion picture illustrating the 15 years of growth and struggle of |the Communist Party will be shown |for the first time. Earl Browder, |national secretary of the Party, will |be seen and heard in the picture. Four Speakers at Rally There will be four speakers at the |celebration—Clarence A. Hathaway, leditor of the Daily Worker, I. Am- \ter, candidate for governor of New York in the coming election and national secretary of the Unem- |ployment Council, Charles Krum- bein, district organizer of the Party, and Steve Kingston, District Bureau member, ‘The International Workers Order |Orchestra, under the direction of |Irving Korenman, and the Workers International Relief Band will play. “This date is of great political significance to the entire revolu- tionary movement,” the District communication to working class or- ganizations states. “It marks 15 years of ceaseless revolutionary ac- | tivity, 15 years of the leadership of |mass struggles, of many historic battles of the American proletariat, '15 years of growth and develop- Hosiery Walkout Looms in Carolinas {Continued from Page 1) the basis of baseball games and “af- fectionate nicknames.” “We've got to get more money to feed our children,” he said. Union activities have increased throughout the strike area despite Governor Blackwood’s proclamation against “unlawful obstructions and assemblages” in South Carolina and his threat to declare a “state of insurrection.” They have also in- creased in North Carolina where Governor Ehringhaus has called out additional troops. New U.T.W. Local Formed In Rockingham a new local of the United Textile Workers of America was organized at a mass meeting which was attended by more than a thousand workers, The new local will make a concerted drive to close all mills, now operat- ing in the area. The first big public meeting of union workers was held at the Court House at Chester. Local speakers deplored the calling of National Guerds. A¥bemarle, North Carolina, ex | perienced its first concentrated union drive yesterday when local leaders addressed a mass meeting of workers at the Court House. Military Grip Tightened ‘The military grip has been tightened considerably over the two Carolinas over the week-end. Greensville, S. C., was under a virtual military dictatorship today, with troops even patrolling the downtown business district. At Kingsmountain, North Carolina, troops under the command of} Captain Morgan, an avowed red baiter, hold forth in the school house. Mills in Annapolis and Concord were operating today with skeleton erews, each plant being encircled by a heavy armed guard. Plan To Spread Strike In Shelby, where all the mills are owned by former Governor O. Max Gardener, not a loom is run- ning. O. P. Allen, President of the Shelby local of the U. T. W., an- nounced that squads of pickets would attempt to spread the strike to Kings Mountain and even to Spindale, the company town where even newspaper men are refused admittance, Throughout the Caro- linas the guard forces have been augmented by thousands of special officers and deputy sheriffs. | A Congenial Place to Eat EDEN ROCK CAFETERIA 102 West 14th St., N. Y.C. WHERE Our Comrades EAT RAPOPORT'S DAIRY and VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT 93 Second Ave. N. Y, City WORKERS WELCOME NEW CHINA CAFETERIA Chinese Dishes —___ 2¢ |! American Dishes — Me 848 Broadway bet. tan @ ttn 8. Williamsburgh Gomrades Weleome De Luxe Cafeteria 94 Graham Ave. Cor. 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