The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 19, 1934, Page 1

L New York Workers to Demand Adequate Winter Relief at City Hall Mass Rally on Saturday Only $25 was te the Herndon-Scottsboro contributed yesterday Defense Fund, bringing the total to $8,059. Al- most $7,000 is st ill needed. Send your contributions immediately to the Inter- national Labor Defense, 80 E. 11th St., New York City. Vol. XI, No. 225 Ps New York, N. ¥., Daily .QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at under the Aet of March 8, 1878. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1934 WEATHER: Fair. Yesterday's Receipts $ 162.70 Total to Date $5,426.26 Press Run Yesterday—49,500 (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents TROOPS FAIL 10 OPEN MILLS 120,000 DUE 10 STRIKE TODAY Arms Sales\N. Y. Mass March Rise During | By 1,000 Delegates |Weboter Hall Mecting||iowder ia Wie | Machine Gun and Gas Shipments Approved By Authorities (Spectel te the Daily Worker) WA’ GTON, Sept. 18.— For Reli Spurs Action Against | Mayor’s Tax Plans | John W. Young, American mu- nitions man who is supplying | arms for use against textile strikers, acted as consultant to the Cuban Government last Feb- ruary in organizing the national police force which has murdered many striking and demonstrating Cuban workers—it was disclosed officially at the Senate Commit- tee investigation hearing late to- day. Young was offered $12,000 for the job. He took a New York State police officer to Havana to help him in planning, organizing. training and cquinning the Cuban police. By Marguerite Young | (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 18.— | Since the start of the great gen- eral textile strike, one manufac- turer of submachine guns, tear and sickening gas, has increased sales to industrialists, police and Na-| tional Guard by “5 to 10 per cent,’ »| it was shown at the Senate Muni- tions Investigating Committee | hearing here today, and these ship- | ments are approved by police andj sheriffs in the territory involved. John W. Young, president of the General Laboratories Company, Pittsburgh, testified that “you bet your life” he doesn’t sell to labor unions, and that he demands per- mits for purchases by police and} sheriffs in the territory involved. “In other words, if there’s going to be a strike and the police are on the side of the industrialists, the employers can get ammunition but the workers can’t,” Senator Clark | (Dem., Mo.) commented. “Is that right?” ‘Young replied it is. Introduction of the startling | proof that big corporations making munitions gang with the owners of textiles and other industries and with state officials to crush work- ers’ struggles by murder and terror came on the heels of testimony and evidence showing that the U. S. Departments of State, Commerce, War and Navy helped and still are h American arms makers to sell Adolf Hitler's Germany enor- mous quantities of arms to further German fascism’s preparations for imperialist war as well as to hold back the German workers’ revolu- tion. An official State Department doc- ument declared that this govern- ment “is not legally empowered to prevent” military exports to Ger- many, although the same document admitted that this “would consti- tute a violation of the treaty rights of this government.” Sales of one American company totalled $1,145,- 000 during the first eight months of this year, the testimony re- corded, and. investigating Senators estimated that Nazi Germany with- in a year will have “in excess of 2,000 planes” capable of military service, something needed only for imperialist war plans. Senator Bone, the Washington Democrat, who introduced the sub- ject of the use of arms against the textile strikers, declined to com- ment upon this matter afterward, saying he didn’t want to give away the contents of the committee’s re- port. The committee will not re- port for many months. Asked by your correspondent whether they (Continued on Page 6) Chartered Train Plan For Chicago Congress Endangered by Delays NEW YORK.—The arrangements for the special train chartered by the League Against War and Fas- cism, to take delegates to the Sec- ond Anti-War Congress taking place in Chicago next week, are in| danger of falling through. Every shop delegate, every delegate from mass organizations must make arrangements at the New York of- fices of the League. 213 Fourth Av on or before next Monday. Sept. 24, the League has announced. Otherwise it will be impossible. to| secure the train. and hundreds of] delegates who are relying on this means of transportation to the Con- gress will be kept from attending. \tional Leaders Association, whose | }and join the march to City Hall. | Avenue and Bleecker Street at 6.30 NEW YORK.—Nearly 1,000 del- | egates and members of unemployed | and relief workers’ organizations | filled Webster Hall Monday night to | plan action against the LaGuardia | relief tax schemes and to prepare | the mobilization of their members | for a mass march to City Hall Sat- urday to demand adequate appro- priations for winter relief. Emanel Levin, organizer of the United Action Conference on Work, Relief and Unemployment, in the main report outlined the present plans for Saturday’s march and exposed the LaGuardia tax pro- gram as one which prepares the way for future relief cuts by the very inadequacy of its scope, and at the same time lays the basis for further taxation of the masses. Council Reports on Rally While Levin was concluding his report, nearly a hundred members of the Thirteenth Street Unemploy- ment Council, just returned from a demonstration of more that a thousand workers at the home of Alderman Fassler, filed in amid tumultuous applause. Julia Miller, member of the local, reported on |the demonstration and outlined the |plans for a torchlight parade and mass meeting for tomorrow night. The march will assemble at Seventh Street and Avenue A at 8 o'clock, and march to Avenue D. Representatives of the Recrea- | members had already voted to par- | ticipate in the Saturday march to City Hall, reported that at the Henry Street Settlement House, members of the Association who are | also members of the Fourth As- sembly District Fusion Club, Mayor | LaGuardia’s own political machine, would assemble in a body Saturday | Delegates Pledge Support Delegates elected at an earlier meeting of the Associated Office and Professional Emergency Em- ployes pledged the support of their membership in the march to City Hall and announced Plans for & stoppage on all organ- ized projects. One of the high points of the conference was reached when a twelve-year old boy, from the Grand Street Settlement House, speaking to the assembled delegates said: “We boys and girls in my neighborhood will form in line at Rutgers Square Saturday and join the parade with your boys and girls.” Plan Torchlight Parade Another torchlight parade for to- morrow night, to assemble at Sixth o'clock and march to Assemblyman Pelegrino's home to demand ade- quate relief was announced. The parade will demand that he bring all possible pressure to bear for providing adequate winter re- lief, and will mobiilze the work- ers in the neighborhood for Satur- day's march, Plans for the march to City Hall Saturday call for the mobilization | of all working class organizations | and unorganized workers in the (Continued on Page 2) AN APPEAL TO DYE WORKERS: JOIN TEXTILE STRIKE!) 4 leg Daily Worker endorses the Dye Workers’ Club of Local 1733, erson, calling upon all dye workers to join the tex- tile strike. ‘The New Jersey dye house bosses have secured an injunction in the courts prohibiting the dye workers from striking or picketing. The leaders of the U. T. W. dye are delaying action, advising the workers to await orders from Washington, where action is being sys- tematically sabotaged. Such policies contribute toward the defeat of the textile workers as a whole. Certain) action by the dye workers at a together with the other workers in dustry, they have the greatest chance to force the granting of improved conditions, The Communist Party urges the New Jersey to heed the following call of the mili- ef Is Set Denounces Murder Of Manila Workers NEW YORK.—A telegram of protest was sent yesterday by Earl Browder in the name of the Communist Party, U.S.A., to the Governor General Murphy of the Philippine Islands, denounc- ing the shooting of cigar strikers by government troops. The telegram follows: “Governor General Murphy, ‘Manila, P. I. “Indignantly protest murder three strikers wounding dozens more by armed forces under your direction stop miserable starvation wages 23 cents per day forced upon Filipino work- ers by rule U. S. imperialism equally strikes at conditions American workers stop we arc calling upon workers to de- Ward Line Guilt Shown At Inquiry 1,200 Hear ar Indictment, In N. Y.—Browder | Speaks for C. NEW YORK.—An inquiry com-} mission, selected from organized | | and unorganized, employed and un- |employed groups of seamen and radio operators, meeting at Irving | | Plaza Hall, Monday night, placed | full responsibility for the Morro | Castle disaster, which cost 134 lives, | | upon the Ward Line. They charged | | that the life-saving equipment on | the line was defective, that there| was no constant night watch, and | that Acting Captain Warms did not) send out an 8, O. 8S. call until the | fire was beyond control. |__More than 1,200 workers, at least 75 per cent of whom were seamen, crowded the auditorium to hear members of the crews of the Morro | Castle and the Andrea F. Lucken- | back which went to her rescue, give | testimony at the open hearing con- ducted under the auspices of the nounce your criminal oppres- sions and support heroic fight of Filipino workers for better wages conditions comma a fight which must finally lead to inde- pendence ujnder_ leadership working class as only guarantee against such crimes of which you are guilty. “EARL BROWDER, “General Secretary, “Communist Party, U.S.A.” ‘Peace Policy Wins in USSR League Entry (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Sept. 18.— Regarding the League of Nation's invitation to the Soviet Union, Bela Kun, mem- ber of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, today | published an article in which he| states that the U.S.S.R.’s entry into! the League will “strengthen the struggle against imperialist war.” “The Soviet Union has accepted the invitation of 34 states who hold membership in the League of Na- tions. The world’s first Socialist | state, against which 18 states under) the leadership of the chief impe- rialist powers in the League of Na-| tions carried on interventionist war to drown socialism in blood, has now entered the League as a vic- torious Socialist state of great power,” Kun declares. “The proletariat of the Soviet Union is the vanguard of the world | Owning possession of | proletariat. the power of government, the pro- letariat has become a factor in world policy, the strength of which must be reckoned with, although with the deepest hate by world imperialism,” Kun adds. U, S. S. R. Is Greatest Nation “Would imperialism must reckon with the Soviet Union because it possesses resources and power such as have never been possessed by a single capitalist state. The work- er's and peasant’s Red Army, under the guidance of the Soviet Govern- (Continued on Page 2) appeal of the U. T. W., Pat- tant rank and Dye Workers’ C! T OUR last we were set tion. At this local voted for workers’ locals Who is holdi ly they prevent General Strike? moment when, the textile in- clearly that our dye workers of over? Are we ready to become a part of the General Strike and to carry out the decision of the last U.T.W. conven- started September 1, Who is violating the convention decisions? The meeting held on Saturday showed very officials made four trips to Washington—for what? To stand-by and wait until the general strike is | American Radio Telegraphists’ As- | sociation and the Marine Workers Industrial Union. Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party, was heart- ily applauded when he charged the | official government inquiry with try- | | ing to cover up the guilt of the | ward Line and making an unwar-| | ranted attack upon Communists. | Boat Carried Explosives | The testimony upon which the | commission based its decision in- cluded the charge that the Morro Castle frequently carried explosives | | in storerooms near the crew’s quar-| ters where smoking was permitted. | | William O'Sullivan, deck store-| | Keeper on the liner, charged that on a previous trip to Havana the ship carried 3,500 pounds of gun- | powder in fifty-pound cannisters in the storeroom. This was a direct violation of the law passed in 1915 | which permitted the shipment of | munitions only in specially con- | structed compartments. At the time of the disaster combustible | paints were carried in a store- room which was in the middle of | the crew's quarters, | The decision of the commission | indicted the Wark Line on ten | counts, charging that: | Ten-Count Indictment |. 1—The life-saving equipment on} the Morro Castle, including fir |hose and lifeboats, were defective. | The buoyancy tanks on the Hoste | Were rusty to the point of being | unseaworthy, The releasing gear on the lifeboats was broken with | Tust, They were merely painted | over to hide the corrosion. 2—The liner was so undermanned that there was no constant fire| patrol at night. 3—The U. S. Shipping Commis- sion permitted men to sign on as seamen who didn’t have the re- quired A, B. tickets, | 4. The seamen were not assigned |to fire stations, and the fire and |boat drills were never carried out. | Passengers Not Instructed 5. The passengers were never given instructions on what to do in} case of accident or fire. | | 6. The captain did not send out an S.O.S. call until the fire was beyond control. This was a major (Continued on Page 6) AN EDI file dye workers, organized in the lub: * membership meeting on Saturday for strike action. We were all set convention 17 delegates from our the strike. The General Strike But we are still working. ing back the dyers from joining the officials are against the strike. Our to strike? The last meeting proved Riaz ¢ Mass Picket Lines Defy Machine Guns; Strikers Cow Lynchers at C. P. Rally; New England Officials Press ‘Red Scare’ Gorman To Ask Shien Board To Supervise % Textile Election By Seymour Waldman (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 18.— U. T. W. strike headquarters in- timated strongly vhis afternoon that the strike call to about 120,000 dye workers, synthetic yarn makers, carpet and rug, and allied trades workers, will not be issued until sometime tomorrow, The Executive Council of the U. T. W. is expected to close today’s meeting with a gen- eral announcement on the extent of the general textile strike. Strike Chairman Francis J. Gor- man will soon ask for the Garrison National Labor Relations Board to supervise a general election of the textile workers on a whole industry basis rather than by mills, U. T. W. headquarters an- nounced here this afternoon. Re- porters were surprised to hear the U. T. W. leadership wanted an election when it has been dem-| onstrated that the overwhelming | | majority of the workers have closed | the mills, individual | ~TEXTILE WORKERS P ANSWER CHALLENGE OF MILL OWNERS By Harry Raymond (Daily Worker Staff Correspondent) CHARLOTTE, N. C., Sept. 18— The “big push” of the Southern textile mill owners, which included the establishment of martial law in Georgia, the internment of 128 strik- ers in a military camp, near East Point, the setting up of a drum- head court's martial and an offi- cially organized attempt to lynch} Paul Crouch, Communist Party or- ganizer in the Southern area and his subsequent arrest in Charlotte last night, turned out to be a big flop. |. The strikers in the Southland | | held their own today and all along} | the strike front taey scoffed at the employers’ reopened” in the Gaston sector. | Picket lines held forth in face of tonia Weaving, Trenton Ratan, Threads, the Dorothy, Belmont Hos- iery and Osage. It was admitted by the manufacturers that these mills were “operating with _ skeleton crews” and “with one shift.” Down in Belmont the Hatch Hosiery Mill, which is located on the broad highway between Char- lotte and Gastonia, was picketed by the usual full force of 1,000 strikers. The presence of a specially trained strike-duty company of National Guard, equipped with machine guns, automatic rifles and the latest type of gas bombs was no more effec- tive today that it was yesterday when pickets surrounded and iso- lated two squads of charging troops | claim that “nine mills|@Nd compelled them to return to} their position across the road. The |Hatch mill is still struck 100 per The A. F. of L. leader-| fixed bayonets and machine guns in|cent and will stay struck until the ship with such a proposal is offer-|the Gastonia region, key strike cen-| Union demands are won. |ing the employer group an oppor- tunity to save their faces, as a step to arbitration by President | Roosevelt, (Daily Worker Washington Burean) WASHINGTON, Sept. 18. — Fi- nally responding to the cataract of strike demands made by more than 100,000 textile workers who are im- patient to leave the mills for the | | picket lines, Francis J. Gorman,| Special Strike Committee chairman | and first vice-president of the United Textile Workers (A. F. of L.), declared here this morning that the dyers the rayon synthetic yarn| makers, the carpet and rug makers, and others in allied textile trades, will be called out either late today or tomorrow, This victory of a determined and desperate rank and file over the| hesitant and conciliatory A. F. of L. strike leadership recalls earlier strike calls. It means that about 120,000 additional workers wil] | stream into the picket lines, The dyers, who will strengthen the strike lines enormously be- cause of their vitally strategic po- sition in the industry, total, accord- ing to Gorman’s estimates, about | 20,000, the rayon synthetic yarn workers about 50,000, and the car- pet, rug and allied trades approxi- mately 50,000. Will Draft Strike Call Gorman’s announcement of his capitulation to the general strike- minded membership preceded the noon meeting of the U.T.W. Execu- tive Committee, which is to draft the formal strike call to most of | those workers still chained to their | machines. In addition, said Gor- man, the council will “hear reports of the National Strike Committee | and make plans for the further ex- tension of the strike.” Meanwhile, despite an Intensify- ing government-employer fascist terror that continues to shoot holes (Continued om Page 2) TORIAL it. are on strike. The dyers in Pen New England are out on strike, in Paterson are on strike; they are calling upon us to join the strike and help fight f for silk and dye workers to expire . * . IOW we are working on scab brothers are killed on the picket lines fighting for better working conditions. that the bosses have refused our last conference, What chance have we to win the New Agreement in October when the General Strike is over? Injunction? We are still free men and not slaves to be ordered to work or threatened Every time mention of immediate strike was , made it was greeted with big applause. the motion for strike not put to a vote immediately? The three National Silk Dye Shops in Paterson ter of the South. The nine mills which were re- ported to have opened today were | all small ones—the Parksdale, Gas- Police, Thugs| Attack Pickets ‘At Passaic Mill in Philadelphia (Special to the Daily Worker) PATERSON, N. J. Sept. 18— Several hundred striking silk work- ers, including many women, were | brutally attacked by Botany thugs and Passaic police when they be- | gan to picket at the Botany Wor- | sted Plant in Passaic today. Silk | workers who at their mass meeting learlier in the morning had de- |manded that the Paterson dye | shops be picketed were ordered to Passaic by Eli Keller and other of- ficials. in Passaic was placed by workers on j Bl Keller, manager of the A. F. of S. W. and leaders who, after calling on workers to picket the Botany plant in Passaic, provided only one truck and several small cars for transportation. Hundreds of Pat- erson silk strikers were unable to | join the picketing because of this sible for police to attack the work- After mobilizing the few hundred workers when they arrived in Pas- saic, they marched to the Botany | plant, where they were met by a number of armed deputies and local police. | Police and Thugs Attack The picketing in front of the plant had been going on for about ten minutes when police, together with many thugs who had been (Continued on Page 2) with jail! Why was | ers. nsylvania and in The silk workers or one agreement at the same time, Fellow goods while our | eral Strike! The newspapers say | While the demands at our strike, ders. We our demands in | Union. mela | committee, Responsibility for what happened | and the size of the line made it pos- | ers and break up the picketing. | While skeleton crews were put to work behind National Guard lines (Continued on Page 2) A Knitgoods Shops Closed (Special to the Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 18.— Five thousand knitgoods workers were called out on strike here this morning, and picket lines, aug- mented by textile strikers, were thrown about 51 mills, Bernard Levinson, spokesman for the strike said most of the shops would be closed by Thursday. At the Superior Mill, a riot squad ap- peared, allegedly responding to a call from scabs. No pickets were arrested. Last night police arrested two workers near the Parker Wylie Car- pet Mill, charging them with at- tempts to injure the plant. A state- ment by Colonel Millard Brown, president of the Philadelphia Tex- tile Manufacturers’ Association, in- dicated this morning that this was but the beginning of a reign of terror. “From now on we will assume aggressive tactics,” Brown said after a meeting of manufacturers in the striking divisions of the textile in- dustry. With the strike in its third week, and no relief received from national strike headquarters, local strikers will face a serious problem shortly. Unemployment Councils, after forcing Governor Pinchot to prom- ise full relief to strikers without discrimination, yesterday issued a leaflet pledging support in forcing the county relief board to live up ‘to that promise. members: National Silk Dye W many of us workers are working on scab or- are all organized A defeat to the National Dye Strikers will be an injury to all of us. Let us join the General Strike. Issued by the Dye Workers’ Club of Paterson, The bosses use injunctions to scare us, from striking for better conditions. We can defeat the injunction by a picket line of all the dye work- The Dye Workers Club, members of Local 1733, urge you to act now. action from our officials to force a New Agreement. Shop Chairman and Delegates: man’s meeting into a meeting for strike action! Instruct your delegates and | shop chairmen to vote that our local join the Gen- Demand immediate strike Turn the Chair- kers are on into one Industrial elegation Demands Ely Remove Troops from Strike Area By Carl Reeve Daily Worker Steff Correspon BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 18. right to strike and picket an organize, the freedom of the and the withdrawal of armed g from Massachusetts, was urged upon. Governor Ely today by a large delee The gation of writers, professors. minise ters, actors, and leading intellece tuals, The delegation, which insist that Ely guarantee not to cal! the guard in the textile strike cluded Alfred E. Bliss, Cor tional Minister; Professor of Psy- chology G. W. Allport of Harvard; Allen Taub and Jessica Henderson of the Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, which organized {the delegation; Charles O'Flaherty, writer; William Matons. actor in As Thousands Cheer; Bob journalist; Zara du Pont, former U. 8. Senator Coleman ait Pont of Delaware; Arthur Baker Lew leading New Enzland So- Cialist, also representing Amer= }ican Civil Libert: Union; Paul Burns, American |War and Fascism; wright, poet and Socia’ Stevens,. Communist Governor; Powers Hapgood ist, now active in the s 5 W. organizer; Mary Donovan, active strike organizer; Donald Burke Wars ternational Labor Defens Rydstrom, writer for the S vian press; Mrs. H. J. Keane of t Irish Workers Club; Sidney Blo field of the Communist Party; Paul Shepard, physicist and graduate of M.LT., and Carl Reeve, 0: 2 Daily Worker. Delegation Reads Statement The statement of the delegation as a whole, read to the Governor in the same office where Governor Fuller had ruled death for Sacco and Vanzetti, declared “The Boston Herald of Sept. 7 states that about 150 armed guards —New Yorkers—have been imported to guard roads leading to the Mount Hope Mill. The Boston Daily Rec- ord reported ‘professional barricades The outside the Mount Hope Mill.’ Boston Pest of the s ports 300 imported protecting the mill at 2 ton. The Boston American of the same date said: ‘Union officials declared mill owners in Massachu- setts are breaking ing private detectives and profes- sional guards’ in violation of the law. “You have allowed mill owners of Massachusetts to import armed guards from New York and New Jersey. It is reported in the press that armed guards are now holding power in Dighton and Walpole. In Lawrence textile strikers have been restrained from persuading their fellow workers, by peaceful and ore derly means, to join the strike. Ree cently a permit for a public mest- ing in Worcester was arbitrarily re= (Continued on Page 2) Office Workers Strike at Macaulay, Charging Breach of Agreement NEW YORK.—Breach of contract by the Macaulay Company, publish- ers, of 381 Fourth Avenue, caused the calling yesterday of the second | strike in three months, by the Office Workers Union. The union charges that by discharging of Clara Kittas, Minna Kaufman, Frances Ellis and Susan Jenkins without consulting | the shop committee, as specified in | the agreement with the union signed |by L. F. Furman, president-treas- laren: of the company, Macaulay | Company broke the contract. The strike took effect yesterday | morning when a picket line of more |than 50 workers, students and aus | thors wes on duty through the day, In ad on to the workers of the Macaulav Company. employees of he Viking Press, Vanguard Press, | Covici and Friede, Modern Library, | McMillan Company, Scribners, pub= | lishing houses, and Dauber and Pine |and other bookstores were on the ' picket line, nw