The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 17, 1934, Page 1

The Herndon-Scottshboro appeal and defense expenses continue to increase at a rate far more rapid than the con- tributions to the fund which se far totals $7,592. Rush your contributions to the $15,000 fund to the International Labor Defense, 80 E. 11th St., N. Y. C. Entered as second-class Vol. XI, No. 223 <=» ; Socialist Conference In Illinois Endorses Anti-War Congress New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, TROOPS INCREASED 10 BATTLE PICKETS — AS JOHNSON PLEADS FOR MILL OWNERS CHARLOTTE WORKERS LED BY CP. Unemployment Body FIGHT FOR RIGHT TO ASSEMBLE; MORE MILITIA CALLED IN AREAS | Communists Take Part in S. P. Parley by Delegates’ Vote SPRINGFIELD, Ill. 16.—The conference on con-| stitutional rights in Illinois called by the Socialist Party | and its supporters, also en- dorsed by the Progressive Miners of America and the Illinois Work- ers’ Alliance, by vote of 57 to 43, endorsed the Second Congress Against War and Fascism and elected one delegate. The confer- ence umanimously endorsed the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill and adopted a solidarity reso- lution with the textile strikers, de- manding withdrawal of troops. The conference was represented by 154 delegates from 70 organiza- tions, Original sponsors of the conference decided to exclude from the conference delegates from the Communist Party, Unemployment Councils, I. L. D., ete. By the action of the delegates, | the conference seated a delegation from the Communist Party, I. L. D., Unemployment Councils, I. W. O., and from the Chicago arrange- ments committee for the anti-war congress. The conference adjourned, elect- ing a committee of 23, including one representative from every organiza- tion, which includes all the above- mentioned left-wing organizations. The purpose of the committee is to organize a local united front movement for the repeal of the criminal syndicalist law, for the defense of the Hillsboro boys and for the protection of the civil lib- erties of the workers. Dyers Demand Strike Today In Paterson (Special to the Daily Worker) PATERSON, N. J., Sept. 16.— Members of the Dyers Local 1733, A. F. of L., packed the Junior Order Hall here to overflowing Saturday. “We want to go on strike,” could be heard from many workers Anthony Ammirato, pr ent ot | the local, opened the meeting an- nouncing that the agenda will in- clude the general strike situation. Motions were made from the floor that a wire be sent to Francis Gor- man demanding a dyers’ strike order by Monday or that dyers will walk out on Tuesday without sanc- tion, The membership demanded a vote on this motion but the chair- man refused. The rank and file then demanded the floor and forced Vigoritto to let them speak. All speakers called for a strike on Monday. Earlier in the meeting the A. F. of L. union leaders tried to scare the workers with the bosses’ injunction. The workers answered with shouts: “We will smash their in- junction. There aren't enough jails for all the 15,000 dyers. If they ar- rest one they will have to arrest all) of us.” The Daily Worker and a special appeal to the dyers, issued by the Communist Party and the Y.C.L., were distributed widely among the workers. Rank and file committees are ex- pected to spring up during the week and unite the dyers for their strike. The Communist Party and the Young Communist League are mobilizing all their forces for picket lines on Monday and all through the week. The Communist Party sent a com- mittee on Saturday to the local Socialist party for united action in support of the strike and against terror. Local union leaders maneuvered against allowing the Communist Party Committee to have the floor, although many rank and file mem- bers voted for it. At the Friday meeting, called by the Communist Party, Jack Stachel, who spoke, was cheered by a packed hall, and a number of workers joined the Com- munist Party. On Saturday the Y.C.L, shock brigade from Newark, together with the Paterson Y.C.L. sold 350 issues of the Young Worker special textile issue, ‘The Daily Worker can Better Aid Your Struggles if You Build its Circulation, tet Sept. | | Data on Aid To Nazis Held By Marguerite Young (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 16.— |How American arms makers secretly put into Adolf Hitler’s hands part jof the military wherewithal to maintain the Nazi terror reign—and did it with the approval of Roose- velit Government officials, probably in violation of the sacroscant treaty of Versailles—is scheduied to be nitions inquiry. Sources close to the Nye-Vanden- berg committee informed your cor- respondent that this subject is slated to be a high point in the jexamination tomorrow of officials jof United Aircraft controlled by the National | Bank interests. It remains to be seen just how far this line of investigation will | get, City have put great pressure on the. committee to suppress certain docu- |that the open dictatorship of | |finance capital to stave off a vic- jtorious workers’ revolution in Ger- | {many has long had the active sup- | port of imperialists here. In fact, British, French and other arms makers also are involved in this, but the Senate Committee has not yet even indicated whether it possesses the evidence to prove this, much \less whether it will make it public, Chairman Nye hastened to prom- ise “sweeping and complete” dis- closures- ot the war-making doings (of the arms monopolists. Exhibits now in the committee’: hands, letters and official docu- ments taken from the field of the} {arms manufacturers and of the} Roosevelt departments of Commerce and State, conclusively prove that! tremendous orders of airplanes have | been sold recently in Germany. 'Germany is prohibited from im- |porting “military” supplies under the treaty of Versailles which was the allied imperialists’ own mechan- jism for preserving the status-quo at the end of the World War. Should evidence of the imperial- | |ists’ violation of their own instru- ment come out, the airplane com- panies no doubt will contend that the material sold was for “commer- | cial” purposes. That, however, is an ancient dodge, particularly thin when evidence now before the com- mittee demonstrates that the par- ticular “commercial” supplies ac- tually are in military use. Other evidence shows that American offi- cfals here and in Germany were in on these sales. Another phase of the investiga- tion, to be developed later, deals with how the Nationaiist govern- ment in China, loaned millions by the Reconstruction Finance Cor- Poration, supposedly to buy Amer- ican wheat to feed Chinese workers, actually used the money to buy mil- itary supplies (which most likely were used to shoot Chinese workers and farmers in the Chinese Red ‘ Army.) Chairman Nye (Rep. N. Dak.,) divulged this last week to the Associated Press. The Chinese Nationalist Government promptly | (Continued on Page 6) By Senators | |shown tomorrow in the Senate mu- | | Corporation, | however, in view of the fact | that high Roosevelt officials already | ments which would make official | proof of what anyone can deduce— | Daily ,QAWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTE matter at the Post Office at 1879. Main Demands In the Strike 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 convention of United Textile Workers’ Union: (1) Hours: Two shifts of 30 hours per week with no exemp- tions. (2) Differentials: The estab- || lishment of four minimum wages: Unskilled, $13 per 30- || hour week; semi-skilled, $18 per 30-hour week; skilled, $22.50 per || 30-hour week; highly skilled, $30 || per 30-hour week, (3) Machine Load: The revi- sion of all work loads on the basis of reason and ordinary common sense. (4) Reinstatement of all Recognition of the Union: workers victimized because of union membership. (NOTE:—For detailed statement ‘of demands for each category of workers and machine loads in each department see the Daily Worker of Tuesday, September 4.) Mill Strikers Are Assailed By Johnson NEW YORK.—The position of} the Reosevelt government in the textile strike has been made clear | by Roosvelt’s personal spokesman, | | General Hugh S. Johnson, N.R.A.} | administrator, | Johnson publicly denounced the strike as a “breach of faith,” as “un- | justified,” and as “releasing riot} and rebellion.” Giving full support to the textile | employers, Johnson said, “Whenever I think of George Sloan, my heart weeps.” This flaying of and overflowing textile employers was made public | by Johnson at a meeting of 1,500 N.R.A. Officials, at Carnegie Hall, on Friday evening. | Through Johnson the Roosevelt N.R.A. administration is thus pub- | licly committed to an outspoken policy of strike-breaking in sup- port of the textile employers. Complaining that the U.T.W. offi- cials were no longer able to hold back the workers in their union from militant struggle for better wages, Johnson revealed once again that the hated and tyrannous N.R.A. textile code against which the textile workers are now striking | was secretly arranged and approved by Thomas McMahon, present presi- dent of th U.T.W., before the code was made public. “McMahon sat in on the discussions and agreed,” Johnson stated. Johnson, after his strike-breaking pronouncements, praised Gorman, U.T.W. strike leaders as a “conscien- tious patriot,” but warned Gorman that the militancy of the workers under his jurisdiction in the U.T.W. mene be too great for him to con- rol, the textile strike support for the + - ij All Workers’ Organizations! Send Delegates to Emergency Mass Conference on Relief Tonight NEW YORK, MOND a ,» SEPTEMBER 17, 1 a Needed—$625 a Day Saturday's Receipts $ 112.47 Total to Date . 4,517.78 Press Run Saturday—71,300 NATIONAL) 934 WEATHER: Showers. ix Pages) Price 3 Cents | | Acts to Rally Support | ev, Relief Struggle Federal Administratoa \Gorman Praises Roose- Intensified Terror Is | ‘Relief Groups | down of mills.” | the strike call to the rayon and) | picket lines, velt Board and Opposes Mass Picketing By Seymour Waldman (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 16.— While rejecting last night’s proposal of Peter Van Horn, head of the Em- ployers’ Silk Institute, that the “strike issue in that industry be taken to N.R.A. for public hearing,” Strike Committee Chairman Francis J. Gorman, of the U. T. W., repeated yesterday's demand for the resigna- tion of N.R.A. Administrator Gen- |eral Hugh S. Johnson. Gorman’s de- | mand on Johnson followed the lat- | |ter’s attack upon the textile strike, before N.R.A. Code Authorities (em- ployers who formulated the codes), as representative riot and rebellion.” In his answer to Van Horn, how- ever, Gorman continued to uphold before the determined textile strikers the Roosevelt big business, N.R.A. and textile inquiry board, headed by banker-Governor Winant of New Hampshire, which consists of a banker, a Southern lawyer—N R.A. Regional official and a Fusion Party chieftain, Desipite Gorman’s discouragement of mass marches, mass picketing and the effective flying squadrons, U.T.W. strike headquarters admitted yesterday that “more workers are out today, on Monday there will be a@ substantial additional shutting It is expected that carpet workers will be dispatched at the beginning of the week. The A. F, of L. textile strike| leadership indicates, with increas- jingly significant clarity, that it will intensify its plan to build up the prestige of the President on the That that Johnson the Winant Board, and that the, shooting, bayonetting and gassing | serve as the manner chosen by “re- actionary” governors and employers, in violation of the New Deal, to keep workers enslaved. “We will not join in submitting any issue to N.R.A. as long as Gen. Hugh S. Johnson is administrator, ing influence in the Recovery Ad- ministration,” he said. “We said yesterday that he ought to resign and we mean it. Since that is our view, we could not join in any sub- mission to N.R.A. while he has the power to make N.R.A. decisions,” Gorman explained today to Van Horn. He added: “The President has appointed a special board to deal exclusively with the textile strike in all its divisions. “That board is competent. The President would have said so if he had wanted the strike to go before any division of N. R. A, Mr. Van Horn is not willing to follow the course desired by the President, which doesn’t speak very well for his confidence in the President.” New Jersey Groups resentatives of mass organizations from Passaic and Bergen Counties met here last week to form a united front organization for support of the Communist candidates in the elec- tion campaign, AN EDI of “the forces of | or occupies a position of determin- | To Aid C.P. Campaign PATERSON, N. J., Sept. 16.—Rep- | Planned To Open New England Mills BOSTON, Mass. Sept. 16.— Twenty thousand workers at- tended the funeral today in Cen- tral Falls of Charles Gorcynski, 19-year-old textile striker, who was shot down in a recent at- tack by National Guard troops on strikers. By Carl Reeve (Special to the Daily Worker) BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 16.— jattempt to open key textile mills in |New England with sharper terr by National Guard troops and a rapidly increasing army of armed | guards, is scheduled for tomorrow morning, the third week of the gen- eral textile strike. | The strike enters the third week | strong and effective, with the spread | of the strike advancing into such weak areas as Lewiston, Me., and mass picketing and flying squad- | rons of pickets closing down mills even in small communities. | The United Textile Workers’ lead- | jers are now setting the stage for | their biggest effort so far to break up the strike front and send the strikers back to work without win- ning their demands. The newest | efforts of these leaders to break up the ranks of the str i attempt to secure indi’ ment with individual mills, not on |the basis of the national demands, but on the basis of separate de- mands under the national demands. Not only is this seen in the attempt | of U.T.W. leaders to send the silk| workers back on a 36-hour week} basis, but it is also being prepared | in New England. From Providence, | where Thomas MacMahon has been | | stationed as well as J. Sylvia, New England strike organizer, comes the and other Roosevelt lieutenants | report that the meeting of the U.| don’t speak for the President, that T. W. council in Washington will |the workers should have faith in decide on instructing all its locals to secure any setilemen: they n | with individual mill-owners. he capitalist press of New Engiand | contains stories that the U.T.W.| leaders are already secrtly confer- jring with some mill owners re- | garding individual settlements. C. P. for Mass Picketing N. Sparks, New England district organizer of the Communist Party, in a statement, called on the textile fears to answer these splitting | tactics of the U. T. W. leaders by mass picket lines and marches which will close down those few| | mills not yet closed, and to spread | | and solidify the strike. “The strike | is solid in spite of the daily in- crease in terror,” Sparks said. “The | workers should reject any attempt | on the part of the U. T. W. lead- ers to negotiate individual settle- | ments which give up the national |demands. These demands include the rayon workers’ demands for wage increases, against the stretch- out and for the rayon union recog- nition, as well as the demand for shorter hours. The workers should | not allow themselves to be driven back to work until the demands) are won. The sirike is solid and strong and the workers, through their splendid mass picketing and solidarity, can win their demands. | 'To do this, they must set up rank and file strike committees in every |mill. The solidarity of the mill) | workers, on the basis of the united |front of all the workers in the | mill, will defeat any splitting tac-_ |Reds announce they The N. Y. Relief Situation YORK.—Welfare Com- missioner Hodson orders all re- || lief checks stopped to the 300,000 || NEW families in work and home relief. National Unemployment Coun- cils in a letter to the Fedeval Re- lief Administration protests star- vation plans and announces it is || mobilizing workers throughout || the country in support of New || Yorks’ jobless. Home relief checks totaling 35,000, scheduled for issuance to- || day and tomorrow, will not be |/ paid. | Hopkins refuses any relief funds to New York City “until the city’s share is met.” Vouchers “payable if and when money is available,” to be issued, Hodson says. Admits youchers are worthless. Workers’ Emergency Confer- ence on Relief to meet tonight at Webster Hall, 119 E, lith St. All organizations will mass at Union Square Saturday at 10 am. and march to the City Hail. United Action Committee calls for mass demonstrations at the homes of all aldermen and dele- || gations and protests to La- Guardii New Militia | UnitsOrdered | ToN. Carolina By ary Raymond (Special to the Daily Worker) CHARLOTTE, N. C., Sept The calling of four additional tional Guard units into the G tonia, Belmont and Concord area the most militant centers of the textile strike in North Carolina, | land the denial of a permit for the} Communist Party to hold a mass meeting tomorrow in support of the strike on the Court House steps in Charlotte—these were the chief moves made over the week-end by | the Southern mill owners against 250.000 textile strikers in these dis- tricts. For the past two days the front pages of the local newsvapers and the editorial columns have been | sizaling with high-pitched hysterical | attacks against the Communist | Party. | The Communist Party has an- nounced it would hold a mass meeting on the Court House steps on Monday evening to protest against the use of troops and armed deputies against the strikers. Today the Charlotte News, in a two-column front page story, an- nounces that local police will be | used to stop the Threatens “Communistic agitation and Mecklenburgian conservatism will | face each other for a show-down | on the Court House steps Monday | evening at 7:30 o'clock, when the | will speak | there and the county government | announces they will not,” says the “News.” Threatening violence to the work- ers if they dare to exert their legal 16.— (Continued on Page 2) TORIAL— GRANT STRIKERS’ DEMANDS AND STOP KILLINGS! (Continued on Page 3) |class organization has been wi Meet Tonight tion To Plan Ac NEW YORK. — Every workin to send delegates to an E Mass Conference on Ri Firm in Refusal of Funds to Jobless NEW YORK.—Fol Commissioner Hodsor order to stop all the 300,000 familie: held tonight at 8 o'clock at Web-|ih ster Hall, 119 W. 11th St. (near 3 Ave.) where plans will be m: immediate action to force paymen of relief. In the absence of regu- larly elected delegates, every offi in each organization has been u to be present and all members of trade union: employed grow | Council locals, veterans, r women, youth, n and fraternal organizations are asked to attend The United Action Committee of the United Action Conference Work, Relief and Unemploy especially appeals to the member- ship of the Workers Unemployed Union, to whose executive commit- tee repeated united front appeal: have been sent, to be represented at the conference. Home Relief Bureau workers on’ the jobs and relief pro- jects were asked yesterday to elect delegates on the job today, and if not working, the action committces nent, sheuld constitute themselves as delegates. The United Action Committee yeserday called upon the unem- ployed to mass at the relief bureaus today and refuse to leave until im- | mediate relief is granted. Relief Pye are urged to report on the job, check in, refuse to work, and hold immediate meetings to decide on local action at once, elect dele- | gates to tonight's emergency con- ference, and march in a body to the Saturday by Work Relief Director W. J. Wilgus. All other relief work- ers have been told in the same |statement that “they will be paid for the time so worked if and when funds become available.” The United Action Committee 1 ad to mar and de- workers on all the projects to their lecal pay offices mand immediate pay. Mass demonsrations at the homes of all aldermen in support of the | unemployed workers’ program) adopted by the fourth session of the United Action Conference have been called. This relief program calls for: 1—Immediate appropriation of adequate funds for relief. 2—The $23,000,000 now used to | guarantee payment to the barkers | shall be reserved as a guarantee of relief payments. 3—Against the LaGuardia the Whalen relief tax | which will place the burden of un- employment relief on the backs of the working population, the small pusihess men and the professional workers. 4—An immediate moratorium on | the payments on the debt service. This will immediately release $16,000,000 monthly for relief. on employes and | ms | [AT the textile barons are becoming hysterical in the face of the militant solidarity of the tex- tile workers, and of the effectiveness of their strike, is evident from the statements of Governor Green, of Rhode Island, and the speeches made on Thurs- day in the State Legislature. The Democratic Governor declared: “The State is confronted by a Communist insurrection and not a textile strike.” The Republican floor leader of the State Senate, Harry Bodwell, waxed still more oratorical, “The very pillars of established society are being seriously threatened by flares of Commun- ism, under the Red banner of destruction,” he | shouted, “the safety of our homes, of our property, | of our lives are threatened by this extreme emo gency. This is n-* 2 strike, It is an i jon. Tn the face of every patriotic American | can take but one stand,” Te is how the textile bosses and their hirelings in the State office feel when the workers asked for only slightly improved conditions. Just look at what the workers are demanding: (1.) Hours: Two shifts of 30 hours per week. (2.) Differentials: The establishiment of four minimum wages: Unskilled, $13 per 30-hour. week; semi-skilled, $18 per 30-hour week; skilled, $22.50 per 30-hour week; highly skilled, $30 per 30-hour week. (3.) Machine Load: The revision of all work leads on the besis of reason and common sense. (4.) Recognition cf the union; renstatement of all workers victimizcd because of union activities or membe These domands, boiled dove mands for sho-ter hew up, for vo “abt ins Tecognition of the uni ¢ are merely de- , for the enc of the speed- es in wages and for the Yet, in the eyes of the bosses, the fight for these elementary demands constitutes “insurrec- tion”! All the armed forces of the State are mobilized. Workers are killed and _ seriously wounded. Federal troops are asked for. The bosses shout about “the safety of our homes, of our property, of our lives.” What hysterical nonsense! . « | ]F THE situation is so serious, if “the very pillars of established seciety are threatened by flares of | Communism,” why don’t the mill owners do a very | simple thing? | Let them grant the demands of the textile workers. Give the workers the 39-heur week, the minimum woges they ask for, slow down the vicieus speed-up, and recegnize their unien. The werkers would then return to the mills, “the pillara ef estab'iched society” would remain, the | bosses’ “homes” “property” and “lives” would be * ee ) saved—for the present, at least. | And the mill owners could well afford to do | this. Their profits during the past year under | Roosevelt’s N. R. A. have grown rapidly. Their | position at this moment is such that they could | well afford to give greatly improved conditions to | even much more than the workers ask. Party, against which t proposes that the worke: That is what the Cc tegether with the the worke: | The Communist | , seriously nists te workers, i | We have staicd repeatedly, from the v the : the demand by thee> r stated thet granted we would ant : s We hove 1 themecycs, these demands are uncend'tien2 (Continued on Paye 6) —~encncetnnsenesenetenatnen ntesnnianstnspat for the New nal Unem- tday tele- of these read, that this will to he fight uner: be mobili to support the New York jobless. | No Checks to Be Issued Welfare Commissioner Hodson t his order to stoo ments would’ Hit aid th lief pa tribution of at least 5 daily. Each check | two-week ily on re! rents, the in vouch: in home and he said. Meanwhile, W. J. Wilgus, up daily work relief payments, relief ail works director, in a letter to Lao haa supervisors, ois and borough engineers said ¢ until further notice no checks issue wages His state= ‘if the men co |nearest Relief Bureau and join with the other unemployed in de- No 0 ng immediate payment Of} would be wages or emergency relief. The ord bags On the relief yrojects, 25,000 re-| ments we B fe on lief workers, who are scheduled to| Saturday a conference with receive pay checks today, and an-|*73 I ia, following the | other 26,000 tomorrow, will not be|Tefusal of the Board of Aldermen paid, according to an order issued to Dass the LaGuardia relief tax schemes Adults Vouchers Are Worthless Hodson, who has supported the LaGua rai a relief tax scheme to tax the working population, yesterday attacked the aldermen for failure to pass the tax plan ing all cash relief in stopped, Hodson annou were under vouchers. “Thi son announced, While order- every f “will |‘valid when and if relief funds are be | available. Whether the unem- ployed will be able to use them will depend upon the willingness of the {grocers to accept them,” he added. | LaGuardia admitted that they were worthless, saying, “the grocers | would probably discount them im- | mediately.” | Just as the Federal Relief Administration has I to advance funds to the c lief, the State Temporary gency Relief Administration announced that it will not provide funds for the present period “unless jthe city meets its share. Under the present set-up the city pays 25 per cent, the state an equal amount and the federal government pays the balance, 50 per cent. Money “For Other Purposes” City Comptroller McGoldrick, who insisted that the city has no money with which to meet present relief obligations, later admitted that the money was on hand, “but is ear- marked for other purposes.” Still later, he said that “if it becomes absolutely necessary, and there isno Emergency efust (Continued on Page Six) FUNCTIONARIES TO MEET | NEW YORK.—Charles Krumbein, |dstrict organizer of the Communist Party, will report on the election ‘campaign at a meeting of all trade union functionaries and actives, Party and non-Party, tonight at 7 jc’clock in the Main Hall of the Workers Center, 50 E. 13th St. Full attendance at the meeting has been urged by Carl Brodsky, election campaign manager. CTION BOXES WANTED ¥ ORK.—Carl Brodsky, Communist election cam-= ued a call yes- < Party sections tions urging them in their tag day collection immoedistcly to campaign headquarters, 79 Broadway. Room 541,