The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 21, 1934, Page 1

| | blow at the strike. Murde: “arbitration” trap. The textile strike is now at a decisive point. The strike is now powerful and steadily gaining in strength. But, at the same time, the employers and the Roosevelt government are clearly getting ready to strike a new r and terrorism are increasing. And Roosevelt is intervening openty to set his notorious It is now a question of who will strike the next pow- erful blow. This blow may the victory. be the decisive blow deciding Therefore, the Communist Party proposes that the American working class now come to the aid of the tex- tile strikers with GENERAL STRIKES set for a definite time and a definite objective. We propose a series of general strikes in the strike centers with the folowing objective—a 48-hour general strike of all workers im every trade, to force the with- drawal of the armed troops from the strike area! Hazel- ton workers shut the whole town for 24 hours, showing us a splendid example. Paterson and Passaic are already considering similar action. Let every trade union local take up the plan—general strike in textile strike areas for the strengthening of the strike. to begin at once in an organi. locals with this proposal. strength to the textile strike. American working class. Let ward general strikes! ORGANIZE 48-HOUR GENERAL STRIKES IN ALL TRADES TO AID TEXTILE WORKERS! The Communist Party pledges ali iis aid, and calis upon iés members, upon every militant trade unionist, ized way to visit the union General strikes at this moment will give enormous This serious duty faces the us begin te act now! To- Yesterday’s contribution of $167 to the Herndon-Seotishore Defense Fund breught the total to $8,336. Send con- tributions to the International Labor Defense, 80 E. 1 Vol. XI, No. 227 1th St., New York City. Pu New York, N. ¥., Daily .QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1934 Bntered a sccond-cinss matter at the Post Office at the Act of March 8, 1879. Festerday’s Receipts Total te Date . Needed— $625 2 7 Day $108.08 96,464.43 Press Run Yesterday—50,000 WEATHER: Fair, warmes, (Six Pages) = sia = Price 3 Cents ‘RALLY FOR STRIKE TONIGHT f 20,000 Dyers Get Strike Call as Roosevelt Openly Intervenes Ava Sold For Terror In India Indian People’ s Friend’ Sold Tear Gas To Crush Natives By Marguerite Young (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—An American woman, internationally famous as a “friend of the Indian people,” is selling American tear gas to British imperialism’s pup- pet authorities in India to crush Indian workers’ demonstrations for bread and independence, it was shown today in the Senate muni- tions investigation. Evidence also disclosed that an American missionary recently acted in the dual capacity of Christian gospel-preacher to the Indians of Equador and salesman of tear gas to that government for use in putting down Indian labor dem- onstrations there. Thus the official proceedings of a United States Senate Committee demonstrated that captalism’s “so- ciety” figures and Christian insti- tutions serve the war-making, Jabor-quelling demands of impe- rialista as readily as government officials and professional spies, Senators Pull Punches This testimony and evidence fur- nished the high point in a ses- sion of obvious dawdling by the Senate Committee. Spectators again freely asked whether the Senators weren't pulling their punches, as they filled hours With haggling with Federal Laboratories, Inc., officials over trivial ques- tions as to how many bribes, how much corruption, is upon this essentially and recog- nizedly filthy business. Todays proceedings served only to re-emphasize that the Senate Committee, while of necessity bringing forward a volcano of im- portant official proofs of circum- stances known before, but not recognized officially, is limited to picturing the evils of the “muni- tions racket’—and in doing this is actually concealing the funda- mental ties between the evils in this and all basic capitalist in- dustries, and is building the false | suggestion that munitions is dif- ferent from other industries, Neither did the Senators ask the munitions men anything about tie connection between their war- making and their strike-breaking activities—something that will be examined by trade unionists, pro- fessionals, farmers, and other anti- war leaders at the second Amer- ican Congress Against War and Fascism in Chicago next week. Workers Are Denied Mass Picketing Right By New Police Order NEW YORK.—A sweeping order denying all workers the right to mass picketing was issued yesterday by Police Commissioner O’Ryan as “an amendment to the Police De- partment Manual of Procedure.” The new order, which completely nuili- fies the “oral order” issued last month permitting mass picketing, leaves the number of pickets en- tirely up to the whim of precinct captains. The order provides that no group of pickets is to be permitted to “in- terfere with the free passage of pedestrian or of vehicular traffic,” and adds “nor will intimidation be permitted by an unreasonable num- per of pickets nor by the acts or demeanor of the pickets.” The number of pickets to be al- Jowed in any specific case, the or- der states, is to be determined by the local precinct captains. attendant | C. P. Urges Protests On New Provocation Against N. Y. Jobless The New York District Com- mittee of the Communist Party most emphatically protests the new LaGuardia police provoca- tion in denying the New York unemployed the zight+o parade and demonstrate this Saturday for an immediate adequate relief appropriation by the city. The Communist Party brands this ac- tion as another LaGuardia attack on the fundamental rights of the masses. It is further evidence of the conspiracy of the LaGuardia administration to starve the un- employed, to prepare for drastic reduction in relief allowance, for higher fare and wage and sales taxes, The Communist Party calls upon the workers of New York to raise a mighty storm of pro- test against this LaGuardia po- lice provocation, to demand the rights of the unemployed to march, to demonstrate, to pre- sent their demands to the city administration. All organizations rush protest telegrams and dele- gations to city hall. Defeat the hunger police terror cgyspiracy of La Guardia! The demands of the unemployed shall be heard. 5,000 Handbag General Strike walkout yesterday of 5,000 pocket- book workers from 200 shops here, | marked the beginning of the gen- eral strike in the handbag indus- try. The strike was called by |unanimous vote of the member- |ship of the International Pocket- book Workers’ Union, A. F. of L. | The union office is at 53 W. 2ist | St. and strike headquarters have been established at Irving Plaza, The strikers demand a 36-hour week, a 10 per cent wage increase and the absorption of unemployed pocketbook workers, to the extent of 10 per cent of those présently jemployed in each shop, The striking workers jammed two large halls at the strike head- quarters, to hear the General Strike Committee report and to receive instructions for setting up picketing committees and other strike machinery. The strike call also included out- of-town shops. Representatives were sent out to out-of-town shops by the union. Wednesday to insure the success of the general strike call. The decision for the general strike was adopted at a meefing of more than 2,000 pocketbook workers last Monday night on the recommendation of the Joint Council and the United Front Conference Committee, ‘You, 500,000 textile workers, strike, are receiving a political ers, Workers Begin | NEW YORK.—aA 100 per cent} nature and deeds of capitalist government, of the Roosevelt hunger regime, such as you never before experienced. Your teachers, provided by the em- ployers, are the bayonets of the National Guard. Your class rooms are the picket lines, the mass demonstrations, the flying squadrons, the bitter battles to win your demands against the mill own- In this situation, as in every strike struggle, be- fore every factory gate where the workers are seeth- ing with discontent against rotten conditions, R. A. slave codes, company unions, the Communist Party election program must be brought forward boldly to give conscious expression, guidance, force Parade Set Over Ban Of Police |Unemployed Will March to City Hall for Adequate Relief NEW YORK.—The United Action Committee called upon all working class organizations yesterday to send immediate protests to Mayor LaGuardia and Police Commissioner O’Ryan against the police ruling that no march by New York's un- employed to City Hall will be per- mitted tomorrow. Captain Dorchell of the Thir- teenth precinct and Inspector Nydig of the Fourth division informed the Unemployed Council yesterday that the parade permit had been re- fused. When questioned, the police stated that the order had come through Deputy Inspector Pierne of the Seventh precinct. Calls by the Daily Worker at the Seventh precinct were answered by Deputy Inspector Wall, commander |of the Second Division, who stated | that the order to stop any parade route between Union Square and City Hall had come from “head- quarters.” “This did not bar the workers from assembling in Union Square,” Inspector Wall said. At the office of the Unemploy- |ment Council it was emphatically declared that no amount of police | intimidation would stop the unem- | ployed from marching tomorrow | | against the starvation program of | the city, state and Federal admin- istration. Browder Will Speak On the Textile Strike In New Bedford Tonight NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Sept. 20. | —Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party, will speak here on “How the Communists | Would Settle the Textile Strike” at} two mass meetings tomorrow. One meeting will be held at three | | Water and Cove Sts. The other will be held, at seven p. m. at the Mount Royal Hall, Kenyon St. and Acushnet Ave. Both meetings are under the | auspices of the Communist Party units of New Bedford. PAINTERS STRIKE AT SHOP NEW YORK.—Bronx Local 1, of the Alteration Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers Union, with headquarters at 1472 Boston Road, has declared a strike in the Sol} Cohen shop. The workers demand | union conditions on the job, the 7- calls on all painters, including former union men to leave the jobs and help organize the shop by par- ticipating in the picketing. who are out on education on the on the side of N. p. m. at the Colonial Theatre, So. | hour day and $5 a day. The union} Republican or Democratic Parties. politicians do not hesitate for a moment to attempt to utilize the discontent, the militancy of the work- ers for their own political ends, for the ends of | the capitalist government. Yet the outstanding fact of the textile strike | Sharp Clash Occurs as Police Attack Pickets at Maine Mill By Carl Reeve LEWISTON, Me., in the last outpost of the textile employers, the textile strike is be- ginning to break through the ter- rific terrorism and pickets are be- ginning to form. The eight large mills are sur- Guardsmen and hired thugs. correspondent was stopped and sub- jected to a severe cross-examination as he was trying to get near the mills. The press here, and this is typical of the entire New England press, is trying to split the strik- | ers by poisoning the New England | workers agdinst the Southern | workers, hinting that the Southern | workers are going back to work, deserting the Northern strikers. The Lewiston Journal carries big headlines announcing that the Southern workers are “Going Back | on the Job.” This vicious lying is | intended to break the spirits of the workers here. Waterville, the near- | by center, is rapidly closing down. PORTLAND, Me., Sept. 20—The strike is effective in Maine accord- ing to a survey of the Saco-Bidde- ford and Portland and Lewiston areas. In Waterville, Me., police attacked the pickets with tear gas last night. | A sharp clash took place, in which a number of workers were arrested, | and the picket line was broken up | only after the re-inforcement of troops were called out. | I was in Saco-Biddeford this | morning, around the Pepperell Mill, which covers a large area and em- Ploys 4,000 textile workers. There is a large group of National Guards- men around this mill, which is com- pletely shut down. The York mill, employing over a| | operating the mill this morning. | There were more troops and private | detectives around it than at the Pepperell Mill. But less than 100 workers out of a thousand went into the plant. The following statements were |made by workers upon being in- | terviewed: . Since the N. R. A. it is much worse. ¥) “. «+ They work us too hard.” “, .«.In one department we have (Continued on Page 2) AN William Green, the parties of the bosses, for the ‘The capitalist Sept. 20.—Here rounded by hundreds of National Your thousand workers, tried to resume | EDITORIAL and leadership to this tremendous political ferment. among the ranks of the working class. The capitalist politicians are doing everything possible to hide the real class forces, the role of the government, in the strikes. President of the A. F. of L., has already issued his | usual statement in the elections of “Vote for your friends and against your enemies.” In short, despite all talk of “no politics,” the A. F. of L. leaders are head over heels in politics | i |Workers Also To Pa.’ | Priday September t Meeting i in Coliseum to Show Solidarity With the Strikers; Gorman Invited as Speaker test. Terror Against || C: P- Unit and S. P. Branch Hold Joint Rally; Joblessin Parade Ban Protest the Use of Troops Against Strikers NEW YORK. SA Communist Party banner and a Socialist Party banner stood side by side at an open air meeting in Brooklyn, Wed- nesday night as a Communist and a Socialist spoke on the need for united action in the textile strike. The joint meeting was held on the corner of Gates and Summer Avenues by the Socialist Party branch in the neighborhood and NEW YORK—The big celebra- |tion of the fifteenth anniversary of | the Communist Party to be held at | the Bronx Coliseum tonight will be not only a commemoration of the Party’s history but will be turned into a great mass meeting of solid- arity for the textile strike and a protest against the government murder of 15 striking textile work- | ers, the New York District of th Communist Party announced terday. In accordance with this plan of making the Party anniversary cel- | ebration a dedication of support for the textile strike, Charles Krum- | bein, District Organizer of the | Communist Party, yesterday issued | a statement inviting Francis W Gorman, head of the U. T. W.) strike committee, to speak from the Unit 5, Section 18 of the Communist Party. ‘The united front meeting was a spontaneous one. The Socialist workers, finding themselves without a flag for their open air meeting, approached the Communists and it was decided to hold a joint meeting. A telegram protesting the use of armed troops in the strike was dispatched to President Roosevelt signed by the Socialist Party branch and the Communist Party unit. Both organizations are arranging further united front actions. General Strike 2,000 at Burial ‘Plan Advanced Of Mill Striker et ero a i tt Paésat eSlain in South achievements and new struggles of the Communist Party. | The telegram to Gorman from Krumbein follows: “We learn from the press tha you are seeking hall for textile strike support meeting in New York City stop The Communist Party which as you must know comma has been giving and will continue to give the fullest support to heroic national textile strike comma has decided to use a previously | arranged meeting also for mobiliza- tion in support of the textile strike stop We herewith extend to you or your designated representative an invitation to address the expected fifteen thousand attendance at this meeting to mobilize support of the textile strike stop The meeting will take place at Bronx Coliseum twenty-first at | (Continued on. on Page 2) yes- (Special to the Daily Worker) PATERSON, N. J., Sept. 20.—At | a meeting of delegates of the local} | Dyers Cagnuniities elected by shop| MOUNT HOLLY, N. C., Sept. 20. chairmen of the American Federa-|—Ernest K. Riley, striking textile tion of Silk Workers, all applauded | worker and father of seven children, | when Valgo and Philean brought| who was brutally bayonetted to forward a proposal of silk workers| death by National Guardsmen in for a dye strike. front of the Knit Products Mill at Union officials, however, side-| Belmont Tuesday night, was buried tracked the motion to strike and|in the red clay of North Carolina now the dyers are awaiting Ammi-| this afternoon following a mass rato, president of the Dyers’ Local,| funeral, which was attended by| who is returning with instructions} more than two thousand workers. from Gorman. | The workers came from four Although many throwing pl: lants| states in hundred of automobiles in this vicinity have locked out their| and trucks bearing banners of the workers, the militant young silk/ local union organization. Many of workers are continuing their efforts | them arrived at the open field where to close down the throwing plants | the funeral was held after walk- still running. ‘ing distances of more than ten miles. | This morning a militant young | Every local in the North Carolina By Harry Raymond (Daily Worker Staff Correspondent) (Goutal Guage ay 1 | o(Conteued sone Bove 4) THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN AND THE TEXTILE STRIKE} establishment of a workers government. Tut this program, which meets the needs of the workers, for which they are being educated on the picket lines, in the bitterest battles, will not reach conscious expression or approval and support from them unless the Communist Party and its sym- pathizers bring it to them. On the picket lines, while marching with the textile workers, in their meetings while discussing the best ways of winning the strike, is the time to discuss the question of the elections and the role of the Communist Party. The cry of “no politics” in the strike is always the shield of the capitalist pofiticians and their A. F. of L. bureaucratic supporters to keep out the independent political struggle of the workers, to is that Republican and Democratic governors, Re- | and the publican and Democratic Congressmen, and state | legislators are united in their insistence on the use | of the armed forces of the state to smash the tex- tile strike as a “danger to recovery.” In the bitter class battles Green's “friends of labor” are on the side of the bayonets, the machine guns, the clubs and poison gas of the employers. Only the Communist Party, which fights on the picket lines with the workers, whose official organ, the Daily Worker, is the most powerful weapon for the winning of the strike, presents to the workers an election program 100 per cent in the interest not | only of the highest and best immediate needs and | demands of the workers but for the ultimate solu- | tion of their misery, hunger and oppression—a revo- lutionary program for the overthrow of capitalism (Continued on Page 2) THOUSANDS FROM FOUR STATES ATTEND BURIAL OF SLAIN PICKET; STRIKE BROADENS IN ALL AREAS ; oer Gets Report of Winant Board at Hyde Park By Seymour Ww aldman (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. — While awaiting the much-desired call from President Roosevelt to join presidential textile medi conferences now going on at Hyde Park, Francis J. Gorman, U.T.W. strike chairman, this afternoon coupled his strike call to 20,000 eager dyers with strong intima- tions that the U.T.W.-A. F. of L. strike leadership is still willing to “trade” with the employers and the Federal Government. In other words, Gorman is willing to make a deal, despite his boast, “the truth is that at this moment we have this strike won.” | The U.T.W. strike leadership, | Gorman told the press, “is in con- tact with the carpet and rug mak- ers (about 50,000), who may go ont at the same time.” (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 20. —Fully aware of the militancy and restiveness of the striking textile workers, who are growing increas- ingly impatient with the United Textile Workers dilatory tactics, | President Roosevelt openly inter= vened today in the strike situation, He received the first draft of his corporation-tinted Winant Textile Strike “Inquiry” Board. It was | brought to Hyde Park this morning by Winant, Governor of New Hampshire and investment broker, and Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, of San Francisco strike- |breaking history. The information ;given the press today by the Labor | Department that the Winant re- |port is “incomplete.” leaves no doubt that the final draft will rep- |resent Roosevelt's wishes in the mater. With Roosevelt finally interven- ing openly, U. T. W. strike chair- man Francis J. Gorman attempted to allay the spreading picket line belief, that he and the A. F. of L, chieftains have been and still are pulling their punches, by announce ing a strike order calling out 20,- 000 dyers. The 100,000 synthetic rayon, carpet and rug, and allied trades workers were ignored. This order, however does not become ef= fective until Monday morning, | thereby giving Roosevelt and his | conferees plenty of time to arrive at a “settlement” formula before |the picket lines are strengthened | (too much for A. F. of L—N. R. A. control) by the strategically placed dyers. In addition, Gorman keeps ; the Hyde Park door open. “If we're called to Hyde Park, we will go,” he said. | Pickets Oppose Relay Gorman is aware of the fact that the picket lines are beginning to | realize that his delaying tactics are motivated by a desire to conciliate the employers rather than defeat them by obtaining the granting of all the demands as quickly as pos- sible. He made this quite clear to= day by th manner in which he | clothed his rejection of the Come |munist Party's proposal for a 24 | or 48-hour general strike of the en- j tire working class, the definite ob- | jective of which would be to gain the withdrawal of the troops and the armed company guards and | the establishment of the workers’ |richt to strike and to picket. | Gorman, two weeks ago. barked: | “The general strike is out. I'm a (Continued on Page 2) New York Workers Will March in Thousands to City Hall Tomorrow. Despite Police Terror y