The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 18, 1934, Page 1

i, The Herndon-Seottshoro appeal and defense expenses continue to increase at a rate far more rapid than the con- tributions to the fund) which so far totals $8,034. Rush your contributions to the $15,000 fund to the International Labor Defense, 80 E. 11th St., N. Y. C. Bntered as second-class Vol. XI, . 224 26 New York, M. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879 aily .<QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) matter at the Post Office at NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1934 WEATHER: Showers. Needed—$625 Yesterday's Receipts Total te Date Press Run Yester (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents ‘STRIKERS OUTFIGHT MILITIA: DEFEAT MOVE T0 OPEN MILLS JOBLESS STORM Arms Sales USSR Joins TERROR USED TO BAR ‘DAILY’ AS GANGSTERS FOLLOW WRITER: | STATES CALL MORE GUARDSMEN Pickee: With ‘Daily’ Defy Machine Guns RELIEF BUREAU IN NEW YORK Belegation in Marlom, ees Forees Withdrawal ‘Auto Locals of Police | Hold Parley NEW YORK. Saeior LaGuardia | In Cleveland yesterday instructed Welfare Com- | Missioner William Hodson to re- Work Towards Building | of One Industrial lease for payment all checks for unemployment relief which have | been held up since last Friday, fol- lowing the refusal of the Board of Aldermen to vote the LaGuardia one-half of 1 per cent business tax | to provide unemployment relief. This action followed a conference | betwen the heads of ten N. R. A. code administrators and LaGuardia at City Hall yesterday, where an agreement was reached to launch a municipal lottery and tax meas- ures for relief. The other two fea- tures of the plan are a city income tax equal to 15 per cent of the Fed- eral Tax, and a gross business tax of one-tenth of one per cent on yearly receipts above $15,000. Meanwhile unemployed and relief workers stormed every Home Relief Bureau throughout the city immediate picket lines were thrown around the sta- demanding of relief. yesterday payment Mass tions in defiance of the large mobi- Union Stressed (Special to the Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 17.— Although reporters were barre |from the rank and file preliminary National Auto Workers’ Conference, held here yesterday, your corre- spondent through inquiries of the delegates is able to give the sub- stance of the deliberations. The conference was held here upon the | call of nine Cleveland American Federation of Labor auto and auto parts federal local unions. Fifty delegates were present from locals in Cleveland, Ashtabula, Flint, etc., with groups of delegates from | |several other locals in Detroit and | Wisconsin, The latter received the | To Strikes | Senate Bue To Inquire | Into Arms Used Against Striking Workers By Mancicrite Young (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—The Senate munitions inquiry is set to ingfiire tomorrow where the muni- | tions and gas now being used to| |murder and terrorize textile strik- ers came from, and something about the link between the Govern- | |ment-aided arms makers and their |use of arms in strikes. Sit Are Linked League To Block War But ‘Iavestie® Warns That “Only Masses Can Insure Peaee” (Special to the Daily Worker) | MOSCOW, Sept. 17 (By less).—Commenting on the | tation of the Soviet Union to join the League of Nations, | official organ of the USSR, to- day states that this is an event of extraordinary importance. A lead- ing article today declares: “Undoubtedly the invitation of the Soviet Union to join wire- invi- | “Tavestia,” | the | | Dye, Rayon and Carpet] Workers Due To Be Called on Strike | By Seymour Waldman (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—The) militant voices of those many| | thousands of textile workers who are impatient to join the picket| |lines today succeeded in obtain- | ‘ , ~|ing at least a promise of strike | League of Nations by a Masocity) i eBy ihoe Raymond (Special to the Daily Worker) CHARLOTTE, N. C., Sept. 17.—Bayonets ringed every | Senator Bone (Dem., Washing- | tion said late today that he is|of its members, and also the con-| tively in conflict with the workers’ | sent of the Soviet Government to munitions—and of course in that|accept this invitation, represents picture there is the question of the/an event of tremendous political use of these materials in strikes.” | significance. | This development occurred as the| “The League of Nations arose} committee heard tales of bonanza|as the victorious powers took upon) profits in the war industries that/ themselves the organizing of a} sweat their workers and receive; world basis for their will. Its tremendous subsidies from the Gov-| pointed edge was directed not only ernment. In the case of one com-|against the countries defeated in pany these profits towered to|the war, but also against the first; 1,143,725 per cent in eight years.| state where workers were material- The committee also heard, today, sete Nee . jizing the socialism which then further evidence that the American | ¢ ‘ormed. Its attempt to force the Sa Metin Weuagan tt seer | the | seit of the victorious capitalist munitions men to suppy death ma-| chines to Chinese governments ac- | tively. in conflict with the workers | powers upon the Russian working |class and peasantry was defeated lization of police. |calls late and were unable to take | In upper Harlem, 500 Negro work-|up the call at regular meetings. | ers, led by the Harlem Unemploy-|The conference was convened ment Council, massed before the re-/| through the previous action of the | lief station at 181 W. 135th St, Two| Cleveland locals which were dis- radio cars and a number of police} satisfied because of the conditions responded to a call put in by the|in the industry and the betrayal of yelief official. A mass delegation| past strikes on the part of the A. of seventeen workers elected at the|F. of L. leadership. The present meeting pushed through the police | ineffective form of the union was cordon and forced Lillian Mason, | also a source of dissatisfaction. The relief administrator, to order the|call favored an international, in- withdrawal of the police. dustrial militant union controlled by The New York District of the/the rank and file. Communist Party, exposing the La Yesterday’s conference discussed | Guardia tax maneuvers as an at-|Seriously all problems of the work- | tempt to bludgeon the unemployed | ers of the industry and the nee and employed workers into accept- | for a fighting program against the ance of. new toxation unc the manufacturers and the sabotaging working masses. yesterday efforts of William Collins and for an increased struggle aesite William Green, who are preventing the LaGuardia schemes. The Cc: suecessful strikes although the time munist statement follows: is most opportune. The conference “The warning of the Communist | Spoke of the fight against the Party that the LaGuardia admin-|Collins-Green acceptance of the istration, in behalf of the bankers, is maneuvering to cut relief, to put through the fare tax, wage and sales taxes, is being borne out in life. It is now evident that the original LaGuardia tax proposals and the Whalen, business men, Board of Aldermen revolt was cleverly staged by LaGuardia to deceive the masses. The LaGuardia plan was never meant to be car- ried through. The whole thing is a criminal conspiracy to give the masses of the unemployed the hun- subsequent unionism, Against Structure ef Union The conference expressed its dis- satisfaction with the present struc- ture of the union, the dividing of the workers through federal locals and the further efforts to split the federal locals into crafts, growth of affirmed the policy of working for dustrial lines, on a basis of an ef- Washington agreement and the| company | After a discussion the conference | an international union based on in- | \and farmers’ Chinese Soviets as well | as with Japan. | Scheduled disclosures of how gal Roosevelt Government and Amer-| | ican imperialists supplied Adolf Hitler with arms were crowded out. Chairman Nye of the Committee |declared, however, this was the re- |sult merely of the pressure of time. He said he wanted “ample” time. and that if this were not available after completing the Chinese phase, |he would take up the Hitler ques- |tion first thing tomorrow. | Senator Bone said he “didn’t |know” how much evidehce could be | obtained from witness now on the |stand on the use of munitions in |strikes, but that he would obtain all possible. The witness sched- uled for this week are chiefly air- plane manufacturers. Last week the Committee had on the stand the duPont dynasty, makers of enor-| |mous amounts of powder, bombs, etc., which are used in strikes. The connection between ‘these powder | makers and the textile strike was |brought to the attention of the |Committee at that time, but no questions about it svere asked. taken in eight years by one com- pany under consideration today. This airplane motor manufacturer, Pratt and Whitney, subsidiary of United Aircraft, which was heavily subsidized by the United States Government, paid its employes as little as 40 cents an hour, Spec- A 1,143,725 per cent profit was | ger cure, to prepare for the in- creased fare, to guarantee the pankers’ interest through forcing the unemployed on private charity institutions and foree the entire burden of unemployed relief upon the dwindling incomes of the em- ployed. tators gasped at the story of how Pratt and Whitney, organized in 1925, with exactly $1,000 worth of common stock, made a total return of $11,437,230 in eight years. The latter figure was pure profit — the cash returns upon the $1,000 in- vestment, not including the increase fective struggle program and rank and file control, The meeting | called for a national conference on Noy. 10 in Michigan and elected a committee to further its work. Proposals were adopted calling for united action of all local unions on the basis mainly of shop grievances, “The criminal stopping of all re- |in value of the capital structure of | by the united efforts of the masses | of the former Ozarist. empire. Proletarian Victories “The victors of the World War jfailed to subdue the USSR. to their will. The Soviet government, surrounded by the general hos- tility of the capitalist world brought out the country from the ruin created by world war, and the country forward to the con- struction of socialism. “Seventeen years of history after the proletarian revolution have led .R. to enormous econom- al and cultural growth in the country of socialism. Upon | the basis of this growth, the U. S. 8. R. has created the Red Army, capable of defending it from any j attack. | “The growing power of the So- | viet Union not only did not push it | along the road to military adven- tures, along the road to the “red militarism” spoken of by capital- ist slanderers, but the US.S.R. be- came the center for the struggle for peace. It not only held an out- stretched hand to its nearest neighbors and concluded pacts of | | non-agegression with them, but also tions, notwithstanding the latters’ | hostile attitude toward the country of the Soviets. Peace Policy disarmament and the economic conferences organized by the League of Nations. The USSR. proposed the most radical plan for complete disarmament, proposal was not accepted. The actions of the U.S.S.R, at the dis- intensified by intervention, and led | took part in all peace conferences | jconvoked by the League of Na-| “Representatives from the So-| viet Union participated in both the| but this; Nef payments is the black-jack La- Guardia is wielding for the bank- ers in order to bludgeon the em- ployed and unemployed masses. There are plenty of funds in the hands of the city to continue and increase cash relief payments for all unemployed. LaGuardia would rather starve the unemployed, and drive still lower the incomes of the employed workers and small con- sumers rather than touch a single penny of the bankers’ loot. “The Communist Party calls upon the workers. employed and unemployed, to rally at each home relief bureau, and the homes of their aldermen, to drown the Board of Aldermen and Mayor LaGuardia with a tidal wave of protests. De- mand thet eash relief payments be restered immediately. Ficht against fare, wage or sales taxes. Demand from the city administration—tax the rich. Tear up the bankers’ agreement. “The Communist Party endorses and fully supports the call of the United Action Committee and the Unemployment Councils for a mighty mass demonstration at City Hall on Sept. 28 for immediate adequate appropriations for winter relief to all unemployed.” CHRYSLER THREATENS WORKERS LOS ANGELES, Calif., Sept. 17— The Chrysler Motor Co. has issued an order to the employes of its as- sembling plant on Slauson Avenue here, demanding that every worker, who owns a car of any make other than Chrysler, must dispose of it against company unions and the Washington agreement. the company, and based upon their| armament conferences, however, before Oct. 15, or face the problem of looking for a new job. \ | own valuations. Alger Hiss, committee investigator, It appears that at the beginning of the conference a sharp struggle (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 2) played their role. “The U.S.S.R. has proved that it (Continued on Page 2) action from Francis J. Gorman, textile mill in the Southland this morning. But outside the Se, bas ig Be ita ae circles of cold steel stood thousands of working men and | Workers of America. Gorman, at) women on picket duty. Boasts of the mill owners that they dart aria Hensel ait haat would open the mills and crush the strike today turned out reporters th “un- |doubtedly the U.T.W. executive| to be nothing more or less than @———————— oo committee will recommend the| Pious wishes. I found every one of these mills calling out of all the rest of the| _ The textile workers were not | closed as tight as on the first day Neeseiipsecrkcens | driven back to work by the Na-|of the strike This call will include the dye tional Guard. Two machine guns were on the sree. I arrived at Belmont, N. C., at| roof of the Hatch mill and a com- rayon, carpet and rug workers, he added. But no workers will be | called out of the mills until after the executive committee meeting tomorrow. Awaits Roosevelt “Settlement” ’ Gorman, however, made it clear that the withholding of the new) strike call is contingent -upon the familiar last minute Roosevelt ar- | bitration “settlement,” the impo- | sition of which has always mili- tated to the advantage of the em-| ployers. In fact, privately, he has/ made no secret of the fact that he| }is banking on Roosevelt to inter- vene openly by calling him and |the employer group to Hyde Park. | | He said: “Unless the strike is settled this week, the whole industry will be| out by the end of the week. No more will be called out until to-/| morrow. Undoubtedly the U.T.W. executive committee will recom- mend the calling out of all the rest of the textile workers. Yes, | that includes the dye, rayon, car- pet and rug workers.” Strike Still Grows Gorman’s announcement today | that “the strike is bigger than it was on Saturday despite” the Te-| fusal of the relief authorities to| feed strikers families unless they | |scabbed on their fellow-workers, | shows how deep-going is the strike | sentiment of the workers. | ‘The massing of additional mili- | | tia units and more deputized strikebreaking forces in the North| | government forces in all of my| experience. I've never seen such a vicious campaign against the work- ers, with the state apparatus lined up against the pickets.” Despite all this, reports to strike headquarters reflected a mounting worker mili- tancy on the picket lines, Relief Problem Grows ‘The question of relief was tossed | into the lap of the A. F. of L. strike |leadership today by numerous press | dispatches that the relief author- \ities, carrying out N-R.A, policy, (Continued on Page 2) 6 o'clock this morning. This is the | pany of National Guard stood with tensest spot in the whole Southern | fixed bayonets on the roadway in strike area. National Guard of-|front of the plant. Motorcycle po- ficers and the local press had as- |lice and deputy sheriffs augmented serted that the Hatch Hosiery Mill| the forces of the mill owners. But |and the 18 others in the region would begin operations today. But (Continued on Page 2) Mill Adten Georgia Ade Press Fight Placed Under In Paterson Martial Law (Special to the Daily Worker) PATERSON, N. J., Sept. 17.—The | | spirit of the silk strikers here was more militant than ever as they en- | tered another week of struggle to- day. Workers packed Roseland Hall and cheered the announce-| ment that Paterson mills, except for | vation.” a few “cockroach” shops, were closed down 100 per cent. Only the continued delay in calling the dye | strike, the coming out of the throy sters and the Passaic woolen work- | ers hinder a complete shutdown all textile operation in Northern New Jersey. Eli Keller, manager of the American Federation of Silk} Workers, was forced to admit to- day that the dyers have been wait- ing and waiting for the strike call. He tried to “pass the buck” the National Strike Committee for the delay. Workers know, how- | ington and then by further ferences” “con- of| Wire in Atlanta. and delays in Paterson.) giary (Special to the Daily Worker) BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sept. 17.— Martial law has been openly de- | clared by Governor Talmadge “all over the State of Georgia wherever there are disorders and the local authorities cannot handle the sit- Talmadge admits that martial law has been in efiect since last Friday but he kept it secret. Simul- taneously a concentration interment camp is being erected with barbed A special flying squadron of guardsmen in autos heavily armed and led by Adjutant General Lindley Camp led attacks on pickets at Newnan, arresting 150 strikers. The arrested pickets are now on the way to the internment camp. Among the 150 are about to! twenty women and fourteen Ne- groes. and South, moved Gorman to ex-| : Meanwhile Annie May Leathers |claim, “Iwe never seen such a Tea the aecion taye pus ee ee and Leah Young are still in jail demonstration of strikebreaking | Ske first by “conferring” in Wash- | because they lack $5,000 bond each, on a charge of di literature buting ince: including Now that they ne faced with | Workers on the picket line. piace Bose Beat ee he indignantiy refused the offer of “hao WV acaane nae saying ath ye | JOHN Hudson, solicitor, to reduce | ecissiar ‘ie sina irre ie bail if they agree to cease strike | However they are still holding eRe activities. The conviction carries a h five to twenty year sentence under |conferences and preventing the) that section of the same law being |dyers from coming out. |used against International Labor | sent telegrams to o | Keller, who stated today that “we! Defense lawyer John Geer, are doing ev erything we can to] and Louis Tatham, both of | bring out the dyers” also announced | are demanding a quick trial. hese dyers could not strike until) Russellville Mill is operating un- ordered to do so by Washington of- | | ficials. | egro, tanta (Continued on page 2) DEFEAT THE MURDER DRIVE! SPREAD THE STRIKE! 'URIOUS over the stubbornness, the great and growing strength of the tex- tile strike, now going into its third week, the employers and their government, na- tionally and in every state of the strike, are mobilizing their armed forces of mur- der to terrorize and shoot the textile strikers back into the mills. Despite the act that A. F. of L. leaders such as MacMahon and Rieve in some places, acted as a brake on the strike, the militancy and heroism of the textile strikers, especially in the South, has made the strike a tremendous and powerful weapon in the fight for the workers’ demands. Gorman and MacMahon, unable to carry through their N.R.A. agreements, unable to put over N.R.A. ar- bitration, are compelled to enter into a bitter, wordy battle with General Johnson. But while they talk, while words fly, the em- ployers are girding their forces now for the most ruthless, murderous attack on the strikers, for the most determined drive to smash the strike. The real test of the strike, the fight for the workers’ demands against starvation, against the most miser- able conditions, and for union organization, are go- gates. The employe the real issues the workers for who dominate openly appealiny organ wrote: grievances or a issues having what the criti break the strike. tune of tramping feet of thousands of troops in the textile mills, Island, and the governors in other states meeting with the employers to break the strike, this bosses’ AN EDI ing to be settled on the picket lines and at the mill | rs, to justify their new murder at- tacks, are trying to brush aside the question of of the strike—the just demands of higher wages, lower hours, against the speed-up, and for union recognition. The New York Times, organ of the big employers, the bankers the textile and other indutries, is ig for the most brutal savagery to In an editorial on Monday, to the to the voice of Roosevelt in Rhode “The country is also coming more clearly to see that the strike was ordered less to redress dvance claims than to make a dem- onstration of the power of the textile workers— especially their power by strikes and intimidation to unionize the Southern cotton mills, The real thus been made plain, the people will at least know what the dispute is about, and ical test of the strike during the coming week will actually mean.” TOR ACASL down, when you strike for against starvation conditions. You They talk about a “demonstration textile workers.” conditions. make the strike effective, to win mands! need, the desire of every textile forces have girded for a mighty e: of your lives, to break your strike demands, it is more than ever ni and tighten your ranks. On your tancy, is the working class of the whole The strike must be spread n 'EXTILE workers, you see hdw the employers’ government mobilizes its troops to shoot you | your ployers’ press tries to brush aside your demand. Yes, more power of the workers is needed—more power to end the rotten, slavery | More power to build the unions, You see how they already try to justify your murder in the eyes of the public by eliminating with a wave of the hand the real demands which your convention voted on, which represents the wish, the from the most horrible conditions. Now that the employers and their government the bravery, the splendid organization, effectiveness of the strike up to now. energy than ever before, The answer to the mobili- zation of the armed forces of strike-breaking must be: Close down every mill in the country! Increase the mass picket lines, Picket every mill, Forward with the flying picket squadrons. Mass your fo: on every mill still open or partially running—and close it down! Make the strike one hundred per cent effective, and you will win your demands, despite every effort to send you back into the mills under worse conditions than before. Reach the militiamen and agitate among them about your strike, how the employers are trying to use them to force you back into starvation con- ditions. Urge the militiamen not to be strike- breakers and to shoot you down. Call out every branch of the textile industry. Spread the strike! Call out the hosiery workers, the dyers, every organized or unorganized workers. Call out every branch of the textile industry in an- swer to the murder concentration of the bosses, in answer to their efforts to break your strike and defeat your demands. just demands see how the em- of power of the to the workers’ de- worker suffering ffort, at the cost and defeat your ecessary to close side is the mili- the On your side country. ow with greater The mass flying picket squadrons have proved to be the most efficient means of the workers to shut down the mills, Do not give up this weapon, but increase its power, The employers and their (Continued on Page 6) | ie Picketing Spreads Strike to Large Maine Mills LOWELL, Mass. Sept. 17.— Three carloads of hired thugs now being used to attack textile picket lines followed Carl Reeve, special staff correspondent of the Daily Worker in the New England strike area, today, as he left a Western Union office. Demanding protection against the thugs. Reeve was told by the local pelice that he would be taken out town. Whether Reeve will be turned over to the thugs or not is still uncertain. The Daily Worker has informed the local police that they will he held responsible for Reeve's safety. With Reeve at the time were three workers and a driver who were helping him to gather news. The thugs were working under the direction of the Protecti-> Union officia’ By Carl Reeve Daily Worker Staff Correspondent | LOWELL, Mass,. Sept, 17.—Picket | lines throughout New England kent all textile mills closed today and ex- tended the strike to imvortant Maine mills. The Lockwood Woolen lant at Waterville, Me., was closed y mass picket lines. and the Pep- perell Company of Biddeford, M and the York Plant at Saco, the two employing 4,500 workers, were closed as the workers left these two mills. In the face of the mass | picket lines, the threats of key mills at Saylesville, Woonsocket, Fall River and elsewhere to open under National Guard protection, was not carried out. At the mous Salem, where I lines at the noon t today. greatly affec windows in Pequot Mi we atched were from ten to thirty pickets at each gate. There are more than a dozen different gates into this giant mill. Workers said that because the loomfixers are out, workers in the other crafts have nothing to do and production is crippled. They ex- pect mass picketing around this mill, and expect it to strike some- time this weex. Many police and plainclothesmen guard the mill, Shoe Workers Back Strike The joint council of the United Shoe and Leather W in Haverhill has indo: cials protes - ing the use of guard troops, and elected a sub-committee to work out solidarity actions. This committee has decided to hold a mass mect- ing in support of the textile strike, Heavy concentrations of National Guard and thousands of armed guards continue to guard the mills in important centers. National Guard troops have been strength+ ened in Maine centers, in Bristol, Warwick, Saylesville and Woon socket, R. I, and in several Con= necticut towns. Governor Ely, of Massachusetts, in a speech at Springfield indorsed the terror measures to break the strike and gave a thinly veiled threat that the Massachusetts Na tional Guard will soon be called out, He said: “If a substantial majority of employes bring to the govern- ment a request to be allowed to work in safety, such a request must be recognized by the authority of this commonwealth.” | like Governor troops Ely, Green, of | Rhode Island, has stepped forward with the slogan of “The Right io | Work.” This is the slogan under {which the strikebreaking measures are being taken. Green spoke to ithe intellectuals’ delegation of |“frecdom and liberty” and stated |he will. protect the right “of the textile workers to work, and of the | mill owners to operate.” | The Chambers of Commerce |throughout New England and the textile manufacturers’ associations are getting out reams of propa- ganda in the press along similar The troops and guards are praised for “protecting the ht to work.” In Lowell this morning mass picket lines ranging up to 400 kept all Lowell's mills closed. The case against Sam Hartzigian, | militant rank and file leader in the | Lowell Protective Textile Union, has been postponed until Saturday, ‘