The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 3, 1934, Page 1

( ee ace nnn er ern Greet the New York Daily Worker! Sunday Night, October 7! Central Opera House, 66th St. & 3d Av. Vol. XI, No. 237 @ntered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879, e.% Daily ,QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1934 Yesterday’s Receipts Total to Date . Se aETEEEEEEERESIRaRieeaEeeee eee Have You Contributed? $ 1,269.54 $12,697.80 Press Run Yes terday—46, 900 WEATHER: Fair, cool (Six Pa ges) Price 3 Cents ‘SEAMEN VOTING STRIKE CONDEMIN ‘TRUCE’: F.D.R. AIDE ADMITS SENTIMENT FOR TIE-UP Delegates HearGreen On ‘Truee’ Anti-Red Drive of A. F. of L. Head Starts Badly at ’Frisco By Bill Dunne (Daily Worker Special Correspondent) SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Oct. 2. —The drive for the explusion of “the Reds in the trade union move- ment by one means or another” got off to a bad start yesterday in the opening session of the fifty-fourth annual convention of the American Federation of Labor. There are a number of reasons for this. Slated as the high point of the President Green’s opening address, the high explosive shells Green was expected to fire into the “red camp” proved to be duds. The official family in this convention is more jittery than ever before. The internal crisis of leadership, contrary to custom, has become the common property of all delegates and, to make it still worse, of the newspapermen, quite a number of whom are members of the Amer- ican Newspaper Guild and conse- quently committed to the program adopted by the St. Paul convention, which included a number of the main points dealt with in the rank and file committee resolutions now Officially before the convention. The calling off of the textile strike without any guarantees for| some 4,000 strikers used up about all the available resources of the A. F. of L. officialdom. On top of} came the really murderous of-} th war in the building trades de- *. But the cup was not illed and all the bitterness had no’ been drained. On the evening of the day on which the convention was offi- cially opened, President Roosevelt, | the ace in the hole for the fat boys of this great parliament of labor, comes out in his radio address for a “truce between industry and labor.” This means, since these leaders have staked all on Roose- velt, that all their brave words paraded in rounded periods before the assembied delegates are just so much “sound and fury, signifying nothing.” Roosevelt Pulls Hoover Stunt What President Roosevelt has pulled on this boastful bunch of so-called recognized labor leaders is | the old Hoover stunt, with the difference that Roosevelt's proposal is called a truce, it is nothing more or less than the Hoover arrange- ment, agreed to by President Green in the first years of the crisis, that the unions would not ask for in- creased wages or better working conditions and the employers would not institute any wage cuts. Any one who is not a mental defective knows what happened: During that period American wage workers were handed out the most drastic reduction in wages and living standards ever received by a working class in the same length of time--and affecting a larger number of wage workers than any employing class had ever dared to move against in such a damaging offensive. President Green, at the time this form of surrender for wage workers in general and ihe organized labor movement in particular was initi- | ated, described the arrangement as a fifty-fifty proposition. It is the same kind of a fifty-fifty proposi- tion that Roosevelt, quickly sup- ported by the national manufac- turers’ association, which lost no time in calling upon labor official- dom to announce its agreement (Continued on Page 2) 560 Drug Clerks Plan, Sirike for Recognition | By Store Proprietors NEW YORK—More than 500 drug clerks in Bronx retail drug stores will be’ affected by a strike called for Friday morning by the Pharmacists Union of Greater New York, it was said yesterday by of- ficers of the union. The pharmacists and clerks will demand recognition of their union, and a minimum $35 wage for a maximum 54-hour week. In most retail stores the current pay is $18 to $20 for a week ranging from 65 to 70 hours. Many individual owners have al- ready signed contracts granting all three of the demands. The union has rejected an offer from the Pharmaceutical conference of $20 for a 54-hour week. The Pharmacists Union yesterday called on all workers and sym- pathetic organizations to assist in +. strike by soncling volunteer }-ckets and by sending delegations from their neighborhoods urging ‘Mass Rally to Greet The First N. Y."Daily,’ Out on Sunday Night Delegations Will Bring Contributions to the Big Welcome Meeting Addressed by Hathaway, Casey, Krumbein and Ford NEW YORK.—When workers and delegations from working-class organizations come together on Sunday night at the Central Opera House, 65th Street and Third Avenue, they will gather not only to greet the new two-edition, eight- page New York Daily Worker, but to bring funds raised by their members to insure the con- ®— tinued growth of the new and en-| tant class action. James W. Ford, larged paper. member of the Central Committee The rally will inaugurate a new of the Communist Party, will be period in the ten-year history of | chairman of the meeting. Cabs Labor Prepares To Strike Plans 24-Hour Walkout to Protest Martial Law Decree (Special to the Daily Worker) HAVANA, Oct. 2, (By Cable).— Preparations for a national 24-hour strike called by the Cuban National Confederation of Labor, following a | presidential decree signed two days | ago revoking all constitutional | guarantees and establishing martial law throughout Havana and Oriente provinces, is rapidly gaining mo- mentum. The main demands are: against the terrorism of the Mendieta regime, in support of the telephone strikers and Havana harbor work- 17,000 SEAMEN READY TO GO OUT; LICENSED OFFICERS VOTE TO JOIN; OLANDER MAKES NO-STRIKE DEAL Walkout Preparations | j Are Speeded to Back Marine Demands BULLETIN | NEW YORK.—Two hundred licensed ships’ officers—captains, mates, pilots and engincers—met in conference yesterday afternoon in the headquarters of the Marine | Workers Industrial Unicon, 140 Broad Street, worked up a series nist Party, evening. NEW YORK.—Farl Browder, and Clarence Hathaway, will address two meetings of seame Browder will the Support of the Marine Workers Industrial Union for 8 o'clock at Irving Plaza Hall, || Browder and Hathaway Speak Tomorrow at Meetings of Seamen and Longshoremen general secretary of the Commu- editor of the Daily Worker, and longshoremen tomorrow speak at a meeting called by the Coi ittee for Irving Place and 15th Street. Hathaway will the Daily Worker. The speakers— A. Hathaway, editor-in-chief; James Casey, managing editor, and Charles Krumbein, Communist Party organizer of the district whose workers are to benefit from the enlargement of the paver— will describe the new Daily Worker and its added power in organizing the workers of this city for mili- |solely to covering New York trade The New York Daily Worker, for which final plans are being com- pleted this week, will present a greatly increased local news coy- erage. A new writer hes been added to the staff who will devote himself ers, and in support of the peasant struggles for land, and for the de- mands of the students. Transportation throughout the is- land is coming to a standstill, and in the capital and Oriente province is completely paralyzed. The rail- roads in Matanzas and Santiago have accepted the strike call, and’ all trucks and auto drivers in Santa union news and problems. Another (Continued on Page 6) Textile Striker' Gets Ten-Year Jail Sentence KOSCIUSKO, Miss., Oct. 2—A |young cotton mill striker, Pearl) Odom, has been sentenced to ten years in the Mississippi penitentiary | because of his activity in the gen- | eral textile strike, Odom was employed at the Aponaug Manufacturing Co. plant. He was charged with taking part| \in the disarming and robbing of a {night watchman. More than 30 | witnesses testified that Odom was attending a union meeting when the robbery and whipping of the | watchman allegedly took place. “The jurors tell me that they are afraid to bring in their verdict with the crowd in the courtroom,” |Sheriff W. T. Blanton of Kos- ciusko informed Judge J. F. Allen | and Maj. T. B. Birdson of the mili tia, when the verdict was ready. After his conviction, the prosecu- tion agreed to a continuance of the trial of President M. L. Ritchie of the Mississippi Federation of Labor, who faces two indictments charging him with malicious mischief. The defense requested that the case be postponed until the March term when two material witnesses may be on hand. A large detachment of militia has been brought in for guard duty at the cotton mill. | a court martial for having taken | cles in the United States said in | | part that, “in its hour of death, the face the mask of democratic and | Clara are off the streets. The auto strike, called in protest against taxes on motor vehicles and against the high price of gasoline, is evi- dence of the intense resentment of} the petty-bourgeoisie against the| tax policies of the present adminis- tration. 5,000 Peasants Defy Soldiers Five thousand peasants of the| Chicago Parley CondemnsU.S.' Fascist Trends Realengo region, near Guantanamo, CHICAGO, Oct, 2—Prior to”the | under revolutionary leadership, de- closing of the second United States | fed the government's attempt to Congress Against War and Fascism | ¢xpel them from their lands, | here cn Sunday resolutions were ; claimed by the Royal Bank of Can-/| adopted condemning fascist, da. tendencies in the United States,| The peasants drove away a sur- the spread of tascism in Europe, |veying party and detachments of | the California cri syndicalism | Soldiers sent to carry out demar- law, and one dealing sith the Far|cation plans. They established Eastern situation, armed guards which patrol the | The Congress aiso adopted a limits of the region, and prohibit resolution demanding the freedom |®"¥Y entrance to government men of 150 Bulgarian soldiers who face | 224 to individuals not approved by death sentences at the hands of | ‘he Committee of Struggle. Revolutionary Spirit High The revolutionary ferment of strikes and uprisings is particularly strong in the provinces of Oriente and Havana, where the Central “Soledad,” organized in the revolu-| Honary National Industrial Union (S.N.O.1.A.), the} striking coffee-pickers (Oriente), and the revolutionary port workers ; of Manzanillo—all led by the Con- federation and the Communist Party of Cuba—are up in arms in) strongly united militant struggle. Hathaway Will Speak at 3 Brooklyn Rallies part in a demonstration against war and fascism, The resolution on fascist tenden- capitalist system is tearing from its Sugar Workers’) humanitarian hypocrisy and e- | vealing itself as the brute explciter and self-seeking tyrant it really is. The resolution on European fas- cism called “for solidarity and sup- port of all to our brothers in pris- ons, torture chambers and concen- tration camps in Germany, Italy and other European countries where fascism rules.” The Far Eastern resolution en- }and the Joint Strike Preparations | unions on the East Coast was eli- | Monday evening to protest against |the holding of secret conferences 17,000 Seamen Ready To Strike NEW YORK.—Seventeen thou- sand seamen of the Atlantic ports | will strike on Monday despite as- surances of Victor Olander, secre- tary of the International Seamen’s Union, that there will be no strike, Roy B. Hudson, chairman of the Joint Strike Preparations Commit- tee for the Atlantic Coast, an- nounced yesterday. Maenwhile preparations were speeded along the entire coast for the scheduled walkout. The move to halt the strike was brought to light Monday night when Lloyd Garrison; “chairman -of the National Labor Relations Board, issued a statement to the press ; saying that Mr. Olander had agreed | File Action Committee of the Inter- to call off the strike and to throw | national Longshoremen’s Association |the demands of the seamen into | yesterday issued a call to all long- the laps of arbitrators. Garrison | snoremen on the East Coast to de- | claimed that twenty-eight major|feat the strikebreaking truce of | shipping companies had agreed to | Joseph P. Ryan and to demand a negotiate questions of wages, hours | united strike th th |and conditions with officials of the| Belem tie rian Sa |I. S. U. The plan, an out and out | Oct. 8. The call, which is addressed strikebreaking maneuver, does not |‘? “Brothers of the I.LA.,” says: guarantee in the slightest way that| “Again Ryan has maneuvered to the demands of the seamen will be| betray us. “Last Friday Ryan signed a truce granted. All negotiations for the strike- | with the ship owners. He pledged |us to continue working under the breaking agreement were done be- hind closed doors with officials of ie i present agreement until the West the International Seamen's Union,| Qoa.¢ arbitration committee an- nounces its decision. Then negotia- | tions for a new agreement are to be | | renewed. “What is the real purpose behind this ‘truce’? Why did Ryan ‘sud- denly’ drop his threats of strike, his demands for $1.00 an hour, etc.? The answer is that Ryan is carry- t jing out the wishes of the bosses— be present and be given full rep-|he is doing everything he can to resentation in all negotiations. i) h Despite the fact that Mr. Garri- | Nelp te ship owners out of a tous |son had already issued a statement | “« ipping i |to the press announcing the calling | Rae AO een Ane Cee Rank and File Ryan Strikebreaking “Truce” Deal NEW YORK — The Rank and Committee which represents the rank and file of all the sailors’ minated from the discussions. The Joint Strike Preparations Committee met with Mr. Garrison and to demand that the committee Longshoremen Expose | Group of ILA and Joint Strike Committee : Call for United Sirike Oct. 8 Seamen Urge Rejection | of L.S.U. Betrayal of Demands NEW YORK—Urging the seamen to reject the plan of the National Labor Rela‘ions Board and leaders | Garrison Tells of Secret Deal of Olander | with Owners By Marguerite Young (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., ¢ Recognizing waterfront strik ment at present still su “result in paralysis, a con up of the x of demands to present to the address the meeting, arranged by Section 1 of the Communist Party. || along the “atinti shipowners, and elected a dele- at 7 o'clock at Sor and Whitehall Streets, on the subject, “The || coast hair gate to the Joint Strike Prep- || Sommunists and the Marine Strike.” st ft son, of arations Committee. The officers Among other labor lead 5 7 x 1 Boar aisle <diiats tiny were ceady” te ; Among oth labor leaders who will speak at the Browder meet- || gies Bee answer dhe’'at call ‘on WKGRe ing will be: Jack Stachel, acting national secretary of the Trade ||€S of day and would unite in a solia || Union Unity League; Roy Hudson, national secretary of the M. w. || UBion (A. F. fighting front with the unlicensed || I. U.; Edward Russell, member of the West Coast Rank and File |) 9szeed with s men, |] Strike Committee, and Hays Jones, editor of the Marine Workers ||" Oct: 8 st pt | Voice. Gar: y pointed o however, that stri a1 | soing right ahead under the lead- jership of the Joint Strike Pre: tions Committee cor d of jrine Workers Industrial Union, I. S, |U. rank and file and other men’s representatives. it “Labor Relat clined to predict how m I. S. U. membership w the no-strike agreements | what he thought woul _be th development, he m said don’t know. I’m through.” “The shipowners didn’t agree to | anything specifically,” Garrison said \Seelke asked about the seamen’s strike demands.. They merely prom- ised to “negotiate” with the I. S. U., he added. Asked what his own scouts have told him about strike sentiment at the present moment, of the International Seamen's : Union to call off the Atlantic | °° S¥d: ‘ . ie Coast strike, the Atlantic Joint| , Shows Strike Tide Rising Strike Preparations Committee yes-| “The grievances of the men are terday issued a call to all seamen | Cert2inly deep-sea‘ There is a to smash the I. S. U. betrayal and strike for their demands Oct. 8. The call issued by the committee said: “To all Seamen! “Brothers: “Your demands have been pre- sented to the ship-owner Thou- sands of seamen, organized and un- organized, have pledged support to these demands. You must back up these demands with s‘rike action on Oct. 8 if they have not been met by them. Be prepared! Accept no delays! Do no lket the ship- owners and the I. S. U. confuse you! Strike Oct. 8 if the demands | are not met. “The labor fakers and the N. R. A., through Mr. Garrison, are work- ing hand-in-hand to betray and prevent the struggle. Ryan of the I. L, A. has declared a truce you | dorsed the policy of Nme. Sun Yat Sen, calling on the masses of the Chinese people to organize a united | NEW YORK.—Clarence Hatha-| way, editor of the Daily Worker | and Communist candidate for Con- off of the strike, he said not a word | to the committee about the secret are afraid of three things: strike of the seamen; (dd) a ii i} 5 (ay ae stiike. with the shipowners. U. Now the I. S. strike-breakers have cancelled sell-out agreement \of the Atlantic coast longshoremen. NORRISTOWN, Pa. Oct. 2.— |Three persons were injured today} in a demonstration of more than 1,500 textile workers and sympathiz- ers protesting against the refusal of the Lees woolen mill at Bridge- port to rehire those employees who took part in the general textile strike. One of those injured was | Walter Hoeppner, a special police- man. $60,000 Drive Tables on Page 4 armed struggle against Japanese gress in the Seventh Congressional imperialism. District, will speak at three open- air meetings in Brooklyn this week. | He will report on the Second United States States Congress Against War and Fascism in Chicago, which he attended, The meetings will be held as fol- lows: tomorrow at 7 p.m. at Broad- way and Havemeyer Street; Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Broadway and Marcy Avenue, and at 8:30 on the same Y.C.L. WILL MEET TONIGHT All Young Communist League members of Sections 1 and 2 will attend a joint section meeting at 8 o'clock tonight, at the Spartacus Club, 25th St. and 8th Ave. Clar- ence Prince will r2port on marine Strike preparations. The strike tasks and (3) a re-strike of the West Coast longshoremen. Naturally the} bosses realize that if any one of| these three groups goes on strike | now, there is every possibility that the other groups will also swing into action, bringing about a general strike in the marine indusiry. Therefore the ship owners are des- perately working to prevent either the seamen or the longshoremen from striking—using their tool Roy Hudson, chairman of the Joint Strike Preperations Commit- tee, asked Mr. Garrison if he had suggested that the rank and file committee be invited to the confer- ences. “No, I did not,” said Garrison, | “because the shipowners did no: want to deal with this group.” “If the shipowners do not want to deal with the committee elected by the seamen there is a way to) the strike call forced by the rank and file! your enemies and what you must do to win their demands! calls have been ine Workers’ In- the Inter the sh issued dustrial Union and tional Seamen's Union, i owners have been secretly meeting | the I. S. U. leaders in meetings ar- ranged by Mr. Garrison, Chairma of the National Labor Board. The Joint Strike Prepara- Now you can see who are | Relations eat deal of unrest—there is no oubt about that. I hop, that they will be convinced now that they j are going to get satisfaction.” | “But you realize that the I. Ss. U. | leaders’ secret agreement does not | bind the M. W. I. U. nor the Joint Strike Committee, nor the seamen he was asked. He re- The nervous official's every word aware that the tidal wave “of stri sentiment is rising instead of ebd- ing, and that the seamen will strike | per schedule, refusing to accept the | bare-faced sell-out about which even Garrison was apologetic. Relating an unprecedented story of how he and I. S. U. officials got together with shipowners and de- liberately excluded M. W. I. U. and Joint Strike Committee representa- tives after the Roosevelt government personally gave assurance that all seamen’s representatives would be included in any negotiations, Garri- son also announced that he is re- signing shortly from the Labor Re- lations Board. Step by step, he ushingly betrayed a mixture of joy at the completion of his last strike-breaking job <i of wonder as to whether it will continue to work Shipowners Like Olander Garrison explained that Victor J. Olander, secretary treasurer of the \I. S. U., “made an excellent impres- See Box Score of District Competition and activities of the Y.C.L. are to evening at Moore and Manhattan on Page 4 ‘be worked out. OCSEVELT'S proposal for an “industrial truce” has been hailed by “capital and labor” in the form of enthusiastic statements by William Green, cf the American Federation of Labor, and the gen- cemen of the National Association of Manufac- turers. They both see in this proposal the opportunity to achieve their purposes. William Green, speaking in the name of the A. F. of L. bureaucracy, pledges that he will at- tempt to bind the A. F. of L. unions to the Roose- velt system of “arbitration of labor disputes,” if the employers will “pledge to do the same.” And the Manufacturers Association, representing big industrial capital, welcomes the Roosevelt pro- posal, if “labor” will agree to “maintain the status quo.” What is the situation here? Why does Roose- velt act now for “truce” and why do the A. F. of L. bureaucrats and the Manufacturers Association respond to this proposal as they do? The answer is this. Roosevelt and the employ- ers realize that they face the biggest strikes in the country’s history, particularly in basic indus- try, in marine, steel, auto, rubber. They are aware that the conditions of the workers in these in- proprietors to sign up with the ‘union, \ dusuries, c°“-c'aily where the N.R.A. labor boards succeeded in breaking strikes earlier in the year, Streets. | AN EDI are becoming altogether intolerable. They know that the N.R.A. has brought the workers to a po- sition where they are ready to strike against the intensifying misery which the N.R.A.-Roosevelt program has brought them. ‘Therefore, Roosevelt steps in now to ward off these strike movements by means of his “truce,” attempting to play the part of a neutral force in the struggle between capital and labor, urging “both sides to mediate their disputes” before resorting to the “older weapons of industrial dispute.” Actually, of course, this “truce” is of the great- est advantage to the employers, who thus get the government protection against the resistance of the workers. . * [AT does William Green mean by his proposal to pledge acceptance if the “employers promise to obey the law,” that is, the rulings of the Roose- velt Labor Board? He means that the bureaucracy of the A. F. of L. is willing to pledge their unions to a no-strike agreement if the employers will recognize them as the union representatives cf the workers in the basic industry. The A. F. of L. lead- * ership is thus bargaining with the employers, offer- ing a no-strike agreement in return for the emolu- ments and dues that will come with the r-cognition (Continued on Page 2) GREEN AND THE MANUFACTURERS HAIL ‘TRUCE’ TORIAL The employers, on the other hand, are not quite ready to accept the A. F. of L, leaders in the basic industry, in steel, for exampie. They are fearful that these leaders are no longer capable of holding back the workers from mass struggle. That is why the employers are willing to accept Roosevelt's “truce” plan only on the basis of the “status quo,” that is, on the basis of present conditions for the workers, and an avoidance of outright recognition of the A. F. of L. bureaucracy in the basic indus- try. They prefer as yet to work through company unions. These are the maneuvers going on around the Roosevelt “truce” plan. In reality, of course, all three, Roosevelt, the employers, and the A. F. of L, Officials, admit and agree on the main purpose of the plan—to stop the rising strike wave. It is only on the precise method of doing it that they disagree. Their disagreements are only on how to break the resistance of the workers. * . * 'T IS clear what this plan means to the workers. The employers have already demonstrated what they moan by the “status quo,” a status quo which has been, under the last 18 months of the N.R.A., a continuous and ruthless drive against the wage levels of the workers and their conditions of work. of the bureaucracy in the basic industries ri Roosevelt has demonstrated what he means by (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 2) “arbitration” in the strikebreaking in the stee auto, and textile industries, sending the workers back every time without the slightest material con- cession in wages or conditions. And the A. F. of L. leade: is only seeking a face-saving device whereby it can restrain the workers from fighting for their welfare. Roosevelt’s “truce” can only meen the binding of the workers, while the employers continue to lower wages and intensify speed-up. For the American working class to accept this “truce” is to accept new slashes in real wages, as Roosevelt's inflation sends the cost of living up- ward. It is to accept more degradation in condi- tions of work. It is to encourage the employers to proceed with their new offensive. The weapon of the strike cannot be handed over trustingly to the class enemy. On the contrary, now is just the time when the strike weapon be- comes the sole bulwark between the workers and new misery. The Communist Party calls upon the workers. in the trade unions, in the Americzn Federasion of Labor, to reject this treacherous Roosevelt “truce,” and to organize themselves with greater determina- tion than ever before in new mass struggles for bread, for decent conditions of work, for unemploy- ment insurance, and for an end to the yoke of ‘ capitalist wage slavery |sion personally on the shivowners” jin secret conferences in New York | last week and yesterday. ‘Thus the no-strike egreement was |reached. He admitted frankly that these negotiations took place after government scouts found the rank and file of seamen ready to strike | virtually solid. In multiple pro- | testations that he “didn’t go to New | York to ‘sell’ the I. S. U. to the | shipowne: Goerrison actually gave | away the fact that must be obvious | to every rank and file seaman— | that the I. S. U. used the strike- sentiment of its own men to get | the “negotiation” promise and thus | defeat the men’s demands. “Don't you know that the M. W. I. U. has from 8,000 to 10,000 mem=- bers on the Fast coast, and the | | | (Continued on Page 2) | pai tae etree | 499 Longshoremen | Continue Strike On | Frisco Waterfrom: | SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Oct. 2, |—Four hundred longshoremen lignored the proposal of the media- |tion board to return to work and continued their strike today on two piers. Tre strikers are protesting the employment of non-union steve- dores and the barring of union delegates from the docks. When the strike was declared special detach= |ments of harbor police were sent to the area,