The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 1, 1934, Page 1

— De Your Share In New Drive | | For Our Party | An Editorial ————l| ODAY the Communist Party begins five weeks | of intensive work to re- eruit for the Party. All of Us | would like to see the Party grow. We would all be proud | of our Party if we could double the membership in this | drive. Perhaps some of us think that this is an impos- sible task. But it can be done. It can be done if we all take it upon ourselves to contribute | our share. | Is there any reason why each of us should not be able to recruit at least one new member to the Party during | the coming month? Will any one of us deny that there are at least tens of thousands of workers who, if properly ap- proached, are ready to join the Party? Can we deny that today more than ever there are hundreds of thousands of workers who are moving in the direction of Communism? And that out of these workers tens of thousands can be brought into the Party? What then stands between us and the doubling of the membership in the coming weeks? It can not be anything else but our own lack of ef- fort, lack of attention to re- eruiting, our own lack’of con- fidence in the readiness of thousands to come into our ranks, our own lack of under- standing of how to approach the leftward moving workers. This campaign is one of the most serious issues before the Party. Let us put real effort into it. We ourselves will be surprised by the results. To- day, with but little effort and the activity of no more than ten per cent of the Party membership, some 2000 work- ers join. the Party every month. Hew many times that number would join if the en- tire membership makes this effort in the coming month? The answer is clear by the very asking of the question. How shall we go about it? We all are in the midst of workers—among the exploited | and betrayed textile workers who are filled with rage against their officials, against the employers, against the Roosevelt regime. We are in the midst of the marine, auto, steel and other workers, who feel the same way. We are) among the unemployed who! suffer hunger through no fault of their own. We are) among the Negro masses who are not only exploited and oppressed like all workers but who in addition are daily discriminated against in every conceivable form. We meet} these workers in the shops, we meet them in the trade unions, in the fraternal or- ganizations, in the unem-: ployed organizations, in the streets, in the homes. Every- where around us there are workers who are dissatisfied, who are in quest for an ans-| wer as to the cause of their lot, who es for a way out. * * Ww es NOT alone among them. There are others who approach them. There are those who preach toler- ance of the present conditions. There are those who fill them} with promises that are broken again and again. There are painted before them new solu- tions that bear the same char- acter as those of Hitler. There are those who reach the workers who already un- derstand that the enemy is the whole capitalist system, with the plea that they fol- low the methods that have brought disaster to the work- ers of Germany and Austria. On the other hand behind our message we can show to the workers not only the cor- rectness of our methods of struggle for the very means! of existence, but also the ex- ample of a new life, a new world, a security, a freedom (Continued on Page 2) | trade unions, Communist Party Today Launches Intensive Five-Week Greet the New York Daily Worker! Sunday Night, October 7! Central Opera House, 66th St. & 3d Av. Vol. XI, No. 235% Batered as second-class matter at New York, N. Y¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. the Post Office at Daily <QWorker = CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) = NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1934 WEATHER: Fair, Membership Campaig n Press N eeded—$1,000 a Day Saturday's Receipts . Run $ 116.50 $19,206.09 Saturday—7 cooler, Six Pages) Price 3 Centa L,.L.A. LOCAL DENOUNCES ARBITRATION A. F. of L. Leaders Face Crisis As 54th Parley Opens UNITY AGAINST WAR IS CALL OF CONGRESS CROSS-S ECTION OF U. S. GATHERS More Than 3,000 Map|] War on Fascism at Chicago Sessions [Text of Earl Browder’s Speech on Page 3] By Joseph North (Special to the Daily Worker) CHICAGO, Ill., Sept, 30.—A cross- section of America is here and it is hammering away irresistibly at building the united front; already more than 3,000 delegates from every part of America have registered at this historic Second U. S. Congress Against War and Fascism. The men of the foundry and from the fields are here; mothers and wives who do not yearn for the glories of the gold star; professionals and middle- class men who understand that there is no way out except to fight; and they are mapping their strategy with an enthusiasm and clarity that augurs bad luck for the duPonts and the Morgans. Everybody here realizes the tre- mendous resentment throughout the country at the war program of the ruling class. Everybody here recog- nizes, too, the paramount import- ance of organizing, crystallizing this anger into a form which can be welded into decisive action now. It is already evident tha the congress of 1934 will advance greatly over that of 1933. Then 2,600 delegates assembled in New York, The begin- nings of a genuine united front were made there. More Unions Represented At this writing, and all the credentials have not been counted, | more than 3,000 are on hand. Last year the principal weakness was the lack of organized support from the from the strategic | sectors of the working-class front. | Today this representation is much improved, although it continues to constitute the chief weakness of the anti-war and anti-fascist movement. Many more workers are here; many more intellectuals; more Socialists have entered, although individually, into the United Front. The great pressure of the events in France, where the Socialists have joined forces with the Communists in the common struggle, is exerting its influence across the Atlantic. The presence here of Louis Perri- gaud, one of the editors of Le Popu- laire, the Socialist Party's official organ in France, is highly signifi- cant. The presence too, of Mrs. Victor Berger, widow of the well known Socialist, and her plea for united front, is of greatest signifi- cance. The powerful cry for united front was typified when Mrs. Ber- ger said, “I am sorry I am not here as a representative of the Socialist Party. I expect to be in that posi- tion at your next Congress.” She was interrupted by a torrent of applause, Socialists Seek for Unity “This doesn’t mean that I am committing the Socialist Party,” she continued, “It merely means that I know that our intellectual honesty and our emotional reaction will lead us to the united front.” Mrs. Helen Barr, a prominent So- cialist and member of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, delegate from Wisconsin to the Women’s International Con- gress Against War and Fascism in Paris last Summer, continued on the same tack. “If you don’t unite against war and fascism,” she quoted a German woman whom she met in Europe, “you people of the United States, you will get the united front we have here, a united front in prison and concentration camps, and that is what you will deserve.” The principal weakness at this Congress remains the representation from the working-class, the trade unions. This point was hammered at by most of the speakers, from Clarence Hathaway who greeted the convention on behalf of the Cen- tral Committee of the Communist Party, to Harry F. Ward, National Chairman of the American League | Against War and Fascism. Hatha- way hailed mest emphatically the trade unionists present: the mem- bers here of the Socialist Party and the Young People’s Socialist League, TO PLAN FIGHT USSR ‘Marks Founding of International (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Sept. 28. (By Wire- less.).—The 70th anniversary of the First International was marked by widespread tribute throughout the Soviet Union and the Soviet press. An editorial in Pravda writes con- cerning the birth of the First In- ternational and its struggle against capitalism: “The First International origi- nated and struggled in an epoch when capitalism was developing tempestuously, ever subordinating to itself new spheres and countries. The workers, striving to unite in their common object of’ struggling with capitalism, sent their repre- sentatives to that significant meet- ing in London on the 28th of Sep- | tember, 1864. “The First International laid the foundations of international pro- | letarian struggle for socialism, the struggle for overcoming sectarian- | ism in the labor movement, for | combatting various forms of petty- bourgeois and bourgeois socialism (Proudhonism, Lasallianism, etc.), the struggle for educating the masses in the spirit of proletarian intervationalism, the struggle for dictatorship of the proletariat as the main aim subordinating everything else—such were the tasks which the leader of the First International, | Marx, set to the First International. “Dictatorshi the expropriation (Continued on Page 6) New York Textile Men Win Wage Increases After 4-Week Strike NEW YORK.—Under the leader- ship of the newly-formed Textile Trimming Workers Union, an inde- pendent union, about 2,000 textile workers in forty shops in the New York area have won a 35-hour week, wage increases of from four to ten dollars a week, recognition of the) union, control of hiring and recog-| nition of the shop committees. The agreement concluded between the workers and the employers call for the following wage minimum Scales: Effective Effective Oct.1 Feb. 1, 1835 Knitters $31 $32.00 Winders 21 22.50 Doublers 21 22.50 Mechanics 45 50.00 All piece workers will be increased 15 per cent, and all other workers hired on a weekly basis will receive a 10 per cent wage increase effec- tive today, plus a 5 per cent increase effective Feb. 1, 1935. In addition, the agreement provides for full pay- ment of wages for seven holidays} @ year, including May Day. ‘Only 90,000) Pay Dues in 1800 Unions Less Than Half-Million Workers Joined Since 1933 Convention | By Bill Dunne | (Daily Worker Special Correspondent) SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 30.—| Overshadowing even the internal | official war in the Building Trades | Department, which is getting the | main attention from the capitalist | press, is the fact that Secretary Morrison’s report on membership, a part of the Executive Council's re- port to be delivered tomorrow, shows that estimates of workers organ- ized in the affiliated unions since | the Washington Convention must be revised sharply downwards. The total of new membership will not exceed according to reliable sources, 500,000 and may be even somewhat below this figure. 2,500,000 Members In all local unions of the 109 Na- tional and International unions which in round figures include some 33,000 local organizations it will not) | be possible to show more than some | 2,500,000 members. In some 1,800 Federal Labor | Unions there will be shown not more | jthan a dues paying membership of | Last year the grand total| |of dues paying membership of all| | organizations in the A. F. of L. was |2,127,000. Even if one allows some- | thing for the obvious effort to keep {down the convention voting strength of the unions with industrial char- ters like the U. M. W. A. and the U. T. W., the Garment Trades Unions and other organizations whose delegations are believed to be committed to support of the pro- posal to enlarge the Executive Coun- cil and in this way strip the old} craft unions of their authority to some extent, the estimated member- ship figures outline a sad picture of the sincerity and ability of an ot ficial leadership In its basic task of | organizing American workers. It should be remembered in this| connection that a year ago Presi-| dent Green in one of his visions) predicted a membership of some. 10,000,000 for the A. F. of L. within |the coming 12-month period. Company Unions Doubled ‘When one compares the estimated | actual membership with almost | double the number of workers forced | into company unions in the same length of time, while the official family of the A. F. of L. was bally- | hooing the benefits of N. R. A. for wage workers, there is to be seen in bold relief the proof of the dis- | honest bankruptcy of these chiefs) of the trade union movement in| the greatest industrial country in| the world—a country in which they | themselves estimate the number of | workers at 40,000,000. Here is the real basis for the crisis in the A. F. of L. leadership that allows McDonough, head of the Building Tradés Department’ and the offical leader of a huge ‘army of workers unemployed in an industry that has practically dis- appeared in what these labor lead- ers still call “the depression,” to defy boldly the official ukase of the executive Council of the A. F. of L.| and laugh in President Green's face | while this stuffed shirt is making | (Continued on Page 2) 9 ‘Daily’ Will Publish Full Page on Events At Anti-War Parley || Tomorrow's Daily Worker will carry a full page on the proceed- ings of the historic Second U. S. Congress Against War. Speeches by Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker; Dr. Harry F. Ward, General Yakhontoff, Mrs. Barr, socialist delegate, and Louis Pergaud, an editor of the French socialist paper, “Le Populaire,” will be published. All workers are urged to ar- range for their copies in ad- vance. Organizations are asked to obtain special bundle orders for this special issue. ‘Daily’ Wires Nye on Morro Fire Exposure NEW YORK—Having presented undisputable proof of the fact that| the ill-fated Ward Line vessel, Morro Castle, had over three tons of explosives in her hold when she left New York harbor on Sept. 1, never to return, the Daily Worker yesterday wired Senator Gerald P, | Nye, head of the Senate Arms Th- vestigation Committee, demanding | that the documents be included in the record of the committee. Copies of Saturday's Daily Worker | in which were published the photo- statis reproductions of the Morro Castle bills of lading that listed the} arms stowed in the hold of the ship were forwarded to the senator. The full text of the wire follows: “Senator Gerald P. Nye, “Senate Building, “Washington, D. C. “Saturday's issue of the Daily Worker, which we are forwarding to you, contains conclusive proof of the shipment of arms to Cuba by the Federal Laboratories, Inc., on the ill-fated Ward Liner Morro Castle. | Photostatic copies of bills of lading} which we publish in the issue of the same date, prove that the vessel | left New York on September 1 with | large quantities of arms in her hold. The shipment of munitions on a pleasure cruise, a fact which was not made known to the hundreds of passengers on board, certainly be- lies the vicious cries of the company concerning “arson” by Communists | or members of the crew and is cer- tainly deserving of the most care- ful investigation. These facts brought to light by the Daily Work- er should be included on the record | of your committee and should serve as the basis for calling representa- tives of the shipping interests before | | the committee. “The Daily Worker demands that | not only shall these facts be made) known but that public declaration shall be made in the future by ships carrying arms, “DAILY WORKER “50 East 13th St.” End Work Relief Today Throughout Kentucky LOUISVILLE, Ky., Sept. 30. All work relief in Kentucky will stop tomorrow, Rev. Chas W. Welch. chairman of the Kentucky Relief Commission announced yesterday after both State and Federal of- | ficials had refused to appropriate money, | Recruiting | | Campaign (Communists Winning Mass Support, Central | Committee Shows NEW YORK.—A campaign to re- |eruit thousands of new members |into the Communist Party opens | today and will continue to Noy. the seventeenth anniversary of the historic Russian Revolution which {overthrew capitalism in the old Czarist empire and established the | first workers’ republic, the Central | Committee of the Communist Party | announced yesterday. The growing sympathy of hun- | dreds of thousands of American workers with the ideas of Commu- nism and their desire to find a way | jout of the present capitalist crisis will make recruit thousands who hitherto have | |shown their sympathies in ways | other than by direct membership into the Party, the Central Commit- tee stated. The campaign will be marked by an intensive drive | every district of the Party with mass | meetings, mass initiations and other | special features, Every Party unit, section and dis- trict and fraction of the Party is | being urged to recruit members in |every union, fraternal organization | or neighborhood in which there is la Party organization. Special at- (Continued on Page 6) Workers Picket Theatre| At Which Fascist Band | of Mussolini Appears NEW YORK.—Under the leader- and the American League Against War and Fascism, mass picket lines were thrown yesterday in front of the Academy of Music on Four- teenth Street, a theatre at which a fascist band, headlined as “Musso- lini’s Favorite Musicians—Seventy- Five Ambassadors of Good Will,” were playing. | On Friday, | tended by ten thousand workers | | were held across the street from the theatre in support of the picket | line, which paced before the theatre |for four hours. Police at first at- | tempted to provoke disorder, but seeing the big assemblage with its | sentiments entirely in support of the pickets, did not dare to attempt to disperse the mass piceeae Keller Machine Oats |Valgo, Mill Militant, |From Silk Union Board PATERSON, N. J., Sept. 30. Luigi Valgo, militant textile worker, was expelled yesterday from the | Executive Board of the plain goods | | department of the American Feder- ation of Silk Workers (U. T. W.). The expulsion, part of the drive instituted by the Keller machine | to oust all militants from the union, jing. Four of the eleven members of the board voted against the ex- pulsion, Wholesale Evictions Follow Mill Sellout in South ee Militant Strikers and Families Ousted from Company’s Shacks By Harry Raymond CHARLOTTE, N. C., Sept. 30— Wholesale evictions of textile strik- ers from company-owned shacks has begun here, marking the con- tinuation of the ruthless drive which the textile employers are making against the workers whose picket lines are broken by the back-to-work orders of Francis Gorman, U. T. W. head. The first move made to oust the families was made in Spindale and Forest City, both in North Caro- lina, by the Alexander Manufac- turing Co. Eviction notices were (Continued on Page 6) served on 62 families and when the eases were taken to court Magis- trate W. J. Mode ruled with the mill owners. The workers are ap- pealing the decision to the Superior Court and the union leaders mean- while are warning against any form of mass action against the order. Call Off Strike Following the instructions of Gorman, J. Dooley, U. T. W. or- ganizer at Roanoke Rapids, N. C., announced that he had called off a strike against the blacklisting of union members which was sched- uled for Monday. Rank and file workers had demanded that a strike should be called at once at the Roanoke Rapid Mills to force: the reinstatement of union men and | women who were denied work on account of militan® strike activities. | Dooley, who early last week said \that a strike vote would be taken at once, said after receiving a com- munication from Gorman in Wash- \ ington that there would be no strike “until the President’s board demonsirates whether it can act quick enough to meet the demands of the situation.” New “Red Scare” R. R. Lawrence, president of the North Carolina S:ate Federation of Labor, has added his voice to those of the vigilantes and Ku Kluxers in | attempting to raise the “red scare.” When a militant group of rank and filers appeared at Mr. Lawrence's room in the Charlotte Hotel to de- mand relief for the hungry, black- listed workers’ in Concord, he told them that he could do nothing abou: the relief, and said that he | |heard there were “reds in the Con- | cord local” and that they would be expelled. The Communist Party has issued a call to the blacklisted workers to organize mass marches on the local ‘Viton Leaders Call on Workers Not to Show Mass Opposition relief headquarters to demand im- mediate relief. | What the workers who were taken |back in the mills can expect from |the Gorman N. R. A. “settlement” was made clear in a letter by a! textile worker published in the | Charlotte Observer. The let‘er comparing budgets be- fore and after the N. R. A. said, in part: “I was operating three machines, three speeders, to be more conc’ working ten and twelve heurs daily (before the N. R. A). My weekly earnings averaged $11.50. I \ (Gontinued on Page 6) __|_ ee teense it easier than ever to] in | |ship of the Italian Workers Clubs | mass meetings at- | occurred at yesterday’s board meet- | C. P. Starts CONDEMNS. RYAN, URGES STRIKE ACTION OCT. 8 ‘Funds Needed By M. W.L. U. * To Aid Fight | ‘ By Roy Hudson (National Secretary, M. W. I. U.) The mighty West Coast strike | was one of the most militant and | |heroic struggles in the ory of the American working class. An {even greater workers‘ struggle is now brewing on the East Coast among seamen and longshore! It is to a large exient ti the initiative of the Marine Work- ers Industrial Union that the pres- fent situation has been developed Favorable opportunities for initiat- ing and carrying through a success- ul struggle now exist if the organ- izational work is intensified. In a great) measure, the outcome of the situation will depend upon the work of the M. W. I. U. The | present, treacherous maneuvers of the International and the International Longshore- men’s Association leaders place ad- ditional tasks and responsibilities |upon the M. W. I. U. Lack of finances en, is already seri- ously hindering the M. W. I. U. or-| |Sanizational preparations for the | | strike. | Because this struggle will be of | Such tremendous importance to the | American workers, the Marine | Workers Industrial Union feels that it has the right to appeal for im- | mediate support from all workers, |from other unions and from all sympathizers who recognize the role Piayed by the marine industry in the bosses’ war plans. Because previous appeals for help have met with no response, although we fully understand the burdens placed upon many workers by the various financial campaigns being conducted, we are forced to | Stress the urgency of this appeal again. We appeal for immediate financial |Support, to be given to the local campaigns being carried on in the various ports—or to be sent directly to the National Office, Marine Workers Industrial Union, which is | urgently in need of finances for the issuance of propaganda, for a spe- | cial edition of the “Voice,” to send |forces into the fleld and to give { | additional support to the weaker palsenicts. |New York City Workers Ratify C.P. Candidates at Mass Election Rally | | — |_NEW YORK—The Communist Party presented its Program and | |candidates before the workers of | |New York City at a rati fying rally | held yesterday at New Star Casino, where thousands of assembled |workers greeted the candidates chosen at the State Nominating Convention. Israel Amter, candidate for Gov- ernor, reported to the assem’ workers the proceedings and resolu- tions of the United States Con- gress Against War and Fascism held in Chicago, pointing out that only the Communist Party leads fight against war and fascism. | Fred Briehl, dairy farmer from Wallkill and Communist candidate for Attorney-General, exposed the platforms of the two major parties of capitalism. The hope of the, New York State farmers, he said, lies in the Communist Party, the Party which has pu’ ferward the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill and the Farmers’ Emergency Relief Bill, and leads the mass cam- paign for their enactment. Isidore Begun, secretary of the Unemployed Teachers’ Association and Communist candidate for ;Comptroller of New York City; Williana Burroughs, candidate for Lieutenant-Governor; M. J. Olgin, editor of the Freiheit and candi- date for Congress from the 23rd Congressional District, and Rose Wortis, candidete for State Comp- troller, also spoke. Carl Brodsky, State campaign manager, reported on the activity is the State committee since its in- | ception in July, i Standard Seamen's Union | and | the | Oil Plans to Close Office; Fears Rank and File NEW YORK —Evidence of tne upsurge in the ranks of the ona! Longshoremen’s Asso nst the efforts of its o: Joseph P. Ryan, its at the lead, to spike action through arbitration, was again shown by the adoption of a motion rejecting arbitzation by the memb A 808, I. L, y , ets Cond ing the negotiation: agreement pending i the Pacific coast arbitration 1 board, the membership of the local adopted a motion to wire Ryan, demanding an answer from him not later than |today, requesting the immedi calling of a general member. meeting of all I. L. A. locals ii port of New York to prepare strike by Oct. 8. | Expose Officials’ Role Rank and file members of the |local took the floor one after the other denouncing the action of t | officials Expt ig the role of the officials in the west coast strike and | what arbitration did to the long- | shoremen on the Pacific | of the members called upon the ;men to prevent the repetition of jeer a betrayal on the east coast. While approving the demands for |$1 an hour, 1.50 for overtime and |for a 30-hour week, another mem= ber of the local stressed the im- portance of the conditions on the docks, small gangs, etc., as being of greater importance Urge Immediate Strike Action One of the men proposed that if no reply is received from Ryan to- the for a day, immediate strike action should be taken. The attempts of “Stew- 'pot” Wilson, secretary of the local, to scare the men from action by telling them that Ryan will take the charter away from the local fell on deaf ears. Longshoremen along the Atlantis and Gulf coasts are more than | skeptical about the terms of truce accepted by Ryan, and the dele- gates with him, on the proposal of Oakley Wood, chairman of the New York Shipping Association. The terms of the truce stipulate that after the west coast arbitration board | tenders is report, more long drawn- } out negotiations are to take place jon the Atlantic coast and the re- | sults of such negotiations be retro- active to Oct. 1, mean very little to | | longshoremen. = | The casual nature of dock work will make it very difficult for long- shoremen to get any increase in pay, retroactive to Oct. 1, even if they waited until the decisions of the Pacific coast boazd (which has now completed its “investigation”) will be made public. There is a ossibility that the Pacific coast dockers will not accept the deci- sions of the board and act accords ingly. Urge Special Meetings : The rank and file opposition in the I. L. A. has called on the mem- bership to force special meetings jof their locals, which the officials refuse to call, and to vote for joint strike action with the seamen by Oct. 8, unless the improvement of conditions and the wage increases demanded by the membership are immediately granted. | The rank and file of the Inter- national Seamen's Union is very suspicious over the fact that Victor Olander, secretary of the I. S. U., ;and Lloyd Garrison, chairman of the National Relations Board, have spent two days here in secret nego- tions with the American ae ;Owners Association, keeping |seamen ignérant of the = tions. Speed Strike Preparations | The Joint Strike Preparation Commitiee, ports that srike on Oct. 8 are pr top speed. The receipt of the ar lowing telegram from Baltimore js (Gontinued on Page e 2 149 Broed Street, re- preparations for oh reported by the J. 8. P. C.: “Meete i