The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 6, 1934, Page 1

| | | e Seamen! Close All Shipping Halls! An Editorial DAY the seamen and other maritime workers along the entire Atlantic Coast will commence closing down the shipping halls and shipping shark agencies as/ the first step in the marine! strike which will begin on Monday under the leadership of the Joint Strike Prepara-| tions Committee. The question arises, there- fore, in the minds of all workers —- marine workers, | workers in all industries, or- ganized and _ unorganized workers — as to what they can do concretely to bring about the strike and make it successful. First of all, every seaman, licensed officer, radio officer, longshoreman and _ harbor worker in the Atlantic and Gulf ports, who are inter- ested in improving the condi- tions on the ships and docks, should rally to the strike halls of the Joint Strike Preparations Committee early this morning and march out in mass formation to close all the shipping halls and demand that rank and file controlled centralized shipping bureaus be set up to take charge of all ship-| ping. The key port in the strike will be the largest one—New | York. All activities today will be directed from the tem- porary strike headquarters at 140 Broad Street. Every marine worker on the New| York waterfront, regardless | of his union or political affil-) iation, should rally at this) headquarters today to join) the mass marches to close the | shipping halls. Workers from other indus- tries, those not connected directly with the shipping} industry, should understand | that this fight of the mari- time workers is also their} fight. All workers should) unite with the marine work-| ers this morning in the task} of closing the halls. Workers in all unions should contrib- ute all the funds possible to the Joint Strike Preparations | Committee. | The unemployed have al special role to play. Their voices should be the most militant on the question of abolition of the shipowner- controlled hiring halls. A centralized shipping bureau will mean a rotary system of hiring—jobs for the jobless. The unemployed must be in the forefront of the struggle} to close the halls. Officers and radio men, who do not hire through the! shipping bureaus, but get berths on ships through the company offices and the “static” halls, should raise the slogan of boycotting the company offices and the “static” halls and set up picket lines in front of them. These are the major tasks confronting the workers in the ports today. But in the) very forefront of this strug- gle to close the bureaus, giv- ing guidance, leadership and physical assistance, must be members of the Communist Party. The Communists must be the first ones on the picket lines. The main task of the Communists in the ports is to see to it that the shipping halls are closed today. There is a _ tremendous number of leaflets and strike bulletins to be distributed to the maritime workers. Com- munist Party members must work most actively in plac- ing this literature into the hands of the marine workers. And, above everything, Party members must spread the Daily Worker in every section of the waterfront. Thousands upon thousands of copies of the Daily Worker, which will concen- trate its major attention to the maritime strike, which will give organizational di- rectives to the strikers, must be placed into the hands of the marine workers. The Daily Worker must Thousands Will Greet the N. Tomorrow Night at Posi ide Strike Set For Monday Mass Meetings in Every Port Are Planned for Sunday NEW YORK—All stewardesses of the S. S. Virginia, passenger ship of the International Mercan- tile Marine, a Morgan controlled line, walked off the ship yester- day. They left, they said, because after watching life-boat and fire drills at sea, they felt they could not trust their lives on the vessel, NEW YORK.—Mass meetings of maritime workers will be held in ever port on the Atlantic Coast on Sunday afternoon where the final vote on strike action will be taken, the Joint Strike Prepara- tions Committee announced yes- terday. NEW YORK.—Temporary marine strike headquarters at 140 Broad St. veritably hummed with activity yesterday as seamen, firemen, stew- ards, ships’ officers and radio opera- tors prepared to open the first major offensive in the Atlantic Coast strike scheduled to begin on Mon- day. The Joint Strike Preparations Committee, under whose leadership the strike is being prepared, an- nounced that everything was ready and all the forces were mobilized to commence closing the shipping halls and crimp agencies along the Atlantic Coast today. While the Joint Strike Committee was meeting yesterday morning in an office upstairs, the Broad St. Strike Hall downstairs was crowded with men from the ships and docks who declared their readiness to join the strike, to close the shipping halls and set up a centralized shipping (Continued on Page 2) Philadelphia Furriers’ Strike Ends in Victory PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 5.—After being out on strike for eight weeks the Philadelphia Fur Workers’ In- dustrial Union reached a settlement, with the Fur Manufacturers’ Pro- tective Association yesterday. The unfon gained the 36-hour week, 114 percent of the weekly payroll for the Unemployment In- surance Fund to be paid by the bosses and administered by the workers, beginning April 1, 1935, and other improved conditions. The shops of Mawson-DeMany, 1115 Chestnut Street; House of Wenger, 1227 Walnut Street; Cor- lies, 2734 West Girard Avenue, and Finkel, 2051 Walnut Street, are still on strike. The workers have pledged moral and financial sup- port to the strikers. Readers: Greet the New York Daily Worker! Gentral Opera House, 67th St. & 3d Aw eee Vol. XI, No. 240 <> 8 P.M. Cards Win SPORTSMANS PARK, St. Louis, Oct. 5—The St. Louis Cardinals won the third game of the World Series from the Detroit Tigers here today by a score of 4 to 1. Paul Dean, the lesser half of the Dizzy- |Daffy Dean combination, followed up his brother’s first game win and allowed the Tigers only eight hits to give the Cards a two-to-one edge in the three games played so far. The fourth game will be played here tomorrow. The box score: DETROIT AB. R. H. P.O.A. White, cf Cochrane, ¢ Gebringer, % Greenberg, 1b |Goslin, If Rogell, ss | Owen, 3b Fox, rf Bridges, p Hogsett, p Total ee on ei e@e205e505H SoH ote woD SoHE Hwawae Heosercscune ST. LOUIS Martin, 3b Rothrock, rf Frisch, 2b Medwick, if Collins, 1b Delancey, ¢ Orsatti, cf Durocher, ss P. Dean, p ° seecHtoonnyn seoornwewnw evrowunvun® & Total HE. 8 2 91 Big Employers Launch Drive To Cut Wages By Carl Reeve NEW YORK.—A concerted drive of the big employers to cut the wages of the workers is now glar- ingly revealed to be one of the main purposes of the Roosevelt “no strike” program as was charged by the Communist Party immediately after his speech. Following up in- timations by the U. S. Steel Cor- poration that wages of their steel workers would be reduced, Thomas Girdler, president of the large Re— public Steel Corporation, announced Thursday night that his company and the steel employers as a whole plan to cut wages. “The steel in- dustry in its endeavor to cooperate with the government’s program, has been paying higher wages than the industry can afford,” Girdler said. ‘The speech of Girdler, coming at a time when the Roosevelt govern- ment is “re-organizing” the N.R.A., clarifies the portion of Roosevelt's radio speech which advocated doing (Continued on Page 2) linotype machines and new type, the Bertered as second-class matter st tis Post Office st How York, K ¥, under the Act of March & 1673. Force Vote Over Heads Of Leaders Convention on Record | to Oust Unions for Discrimination By Bil Dunne (Daily Worker Special Correspondent) SAN FRANCISCO, Cal,, Oct. 5. The Negro question surged into this | session of the 54th annual conven- tion of the A. F. of L. and shook the whole official set-up right to its heels. Three resolutions on the Negro question that precipitated the demonstration, amazing the en- tire officialdom and all observers, were reported out by the organi- zation committee. The rank and file A. F. of L. committee has introduced resolu- ‘tions against the long-established discrimination against workers by many National and International unions affiliated to the A. F. of L. But the resolution on which the discussion hinged, is known as No. 141. The delegate body overruled the report of the organization com- mittee on this resolution and forced its adoption, This resolution called for the ex- pulsion of all unions by the A. F. of L. Executive Council if they do not comply with the demand for the discontinuance of all discri- mination against Negro workers, The tremendous pressure on re- formist’ Negro leaders by the mass campaign around the Scottsboro issue, the pressure resulting from tremendous popular support of such struggles as those of the Tuscaloosa sharecroppers and the militant battles of Negro metal miners in Alabama, all of which are recent enough to retain their influence among the rank and file from which many of these delegates come, compelled A. P. Randolph of the Sleeping Car Porters Union to arise and make what can only be called an eloquent and passionate speech in favor of resolution No. 141, Resolution Carried The reception given Randolph's) speech by the delegate body was! such that Hutchinson, head of the Carpenters Union was impelled, of course because he is engaged in a bitter official battle with the Building Trades Department leader- ship to speak in favor of this} resolution. By a viva voce vote the resolu- tion carried. What the official de- cision in regard to its being car-| ried will be remains in doubt. But there can be no question that today for the first time in all of its fifty-three previous conventions the officialdom of the American Federation of Labor had to take the (Continued on Page 2) | Norris. |by vicious, slanderous attacks upon Hay Total to Date Yesterday's Receipts Y. ‘Daily’ at Central Opera House Tomorrow Night Daily <QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONAL ) e You Contributed? Press Run Yesterday—47,500 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 64, 1934 sh Ch 4 Soviet Glider Sets New World Record in Duration Flight (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Oct. 5” (By Wire- less)—At the All-Union glider contest in Crimea, the Soviet glider Sukhomlinov made a world record duration flight in a two- seater glider, remaining in the air with a passenger for fourteen hours and twelve minutes. The previous world record for duration flights in a two-seater glider was held by Soviet glider Gavrash, w'f) remained in the air thirteen hours and seventeen minutes, Liebowitz Out of Scottsboro Defense Staff NEW YORK.—Samuel 8. Liebo- witz, chief trial counsel for the In- ternational Labor Defense in the Scottsboro case, has withdrawn completely from the case, following the announcement that Walter H. Pollak, noted constitutional au- thority, would take the appeals in the cases to the United States Su- preme Court, the LL.D. announced yesterday. The decision to accept the offer of Mr. PoPllak, who brilliantly con- ducted the first successful appeal to the U. 8S. Supreme Court in 1932, was communicated to Mr. Liebo- witz on Oct. 1, the I.L.D. said. Mr. | Liebowitz, whose ambition it was to have his name on the appeals— even though he is in no sense a constitutional attorney — was ex- tremely angry at that time that he |had not been chosen for this work, for which he is totally unfitted. He ‘has never in his whole career con- ducted such an appeal. His announcement of complete withdrawal from the case was timed to come with the announce- | ment by the Alabama Court Oct. 3 of its refusal to entertain a motion for rehearing in the cases of Hey- wood Patterson and Olarence It was accompanied the International Labor Defense, which for three and a half years has saved the lives of the Scotts- boro boys—a fact which Mr. Liebo- witz has been forced time and again to admit. The LL.D. engaged Liebowitz as the best available law- yer at the time for the Scottsboro trials, and is now continuing the legal and mass fight for the lives and freedom of the Scottsboro boys. engaging the best available constitutional attorney for the le- gal end of the fight in the “court of last illusions,” the U. S. Supreme Court. Personal Ambition Scored Under no circumstances, the LL.D. statement stressed, would the personal ambitions of any at- torney be put ahead of the inter- (Continued on Page 8) it is vital for the “Daily” New Aid in NRA Policy | Richberg Removes Code Restrictions from Wall Street Trusts WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 5. the largest Wall Street monopolies, the Roosevelt government yester- day, through Donald Richberg, chief |NRA adviser, announced that it will |permit revision of the NRA in the |direction of discarding price-fixing in cases where “it seems to be re- | quired.” | Under the guise of a return to \“the system of competitive prices,” |Richberg informed the monopolies Reece if their fight against the non- |monopoly producers requires an end |to present price restrictions then jthe Roosevelt yovernment is pre- Responsive as ever to the wishes of | WEATHER: Rain | | pared to remove the restrictions. | | Contrary to the impression Rich- | jberg tried to give in his speech that |the Roosevelt government is turn- |ing away from monopoly, the pres- jent revisions on NRA policy are be- jing made to suit the needs of the | Wall Street monopolies at the pres- ent moment, with the monopolies more in the saddle than ever be- |fore. Whereas, in the first stage |of the NRA the monopolies re- \quired high, fixed prices to war jagainst the non-raonoply pro- iducers, at the present moment, with |the price structure sagging due to |the shrinking market, the monopo- | Hes require greater flexibility in \their price structure to meet non- |monopoly production. This is just | what Roosevelt. through the revised |NRA is giving them, Open Shop Drive. Continuing his speech, Richberg jadded another point which aids th |monopolist groups at the presen’ (Continued on page 8) | |Drug Clerks Strike in Fifty N. Y. Stores NEW YORK.—Drug clerks of fifty Bronx stores struck yesterday under the leadership of the Pharmacists Union of Greater New York. The strike was called for Thurs- day midnight. As we go to press, | 60 per cent of the drug stores in| |the borough have signed up, ac- cording to the report of the union. | The agreements include a minimum | wage for licensed pharmacists (with | proportionate increase for junior | help), of $89.50 for a fifty-four-hour and a closed shop. | headquarters, 4177 Third Avenue, to help in picketing duty. to keep step e | aging editor of the paper; | Krumbein, _Communist Party dis- moment, a drive against the trade ‘Tict organizer, and Louis Hyman, lunfons and the organized actions | Chairman of the general executive | DAILY WORKER MUST HAVE FUNDS AT ONCE! (Bight Pages) Priee 3 Centa Red Flag Flies Over Man ~< SPANISH WORKERS SEIZE TOWNS A. F.L. Delegates Sma SEAMEN TO CLOSE ALL SHIP ¢ Jim-Crow Policy G HALLS TODAY ‘Trusts Get Fierce Battles Rage As Fighting Spreads Against Fascist Rule y Official Buildings—~ Revolutionists Capture Eibar, Large Munitions Center, Distribute Arms MADRID, Spain, Oct. The red flag of the proletarian revolution today flew over many towns in Spain as the gen- eral strike against the Lerroux Fascist regime reached tree mendous proportions of an a whole land. The severest fighting ix Rally to Greet N. Y. ‘Daily’ Set For Tomorrow NEW YORK—Thousands of work- ers and delegates from local or- ganizations will attend the mass rally to greet the New York Daily Worker at the Central Opera House, 67th Street and Third Avenue, to- morrow night. The eight-page paper will be out on the streets when the meeting | starts at 8 o'clock. The first city edition will be ready for sale at 7 o'clock in the evening and the sec- ond will come off the press for early morning buyers. The national edi- tion will go to press in time for the early mails. Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker; James Casey, man- Charles board of the Needle Trades Work- ers Industrial Union, will be the speakers. James W. Ford, noted Negro organizer and member of the | Central Committee of the Commu- nist Party, will be the chairman. The city office of the Daily Worker yesterday announced that although orders are being received in huge quantities, many groups have not yet been heard from. The city of- | fice stated that it will continue to accept orders until 2 p.m. tomorrow. Mass organizations, trade unions, workers clubs and all other organi- zations should send their Red Builders to the section headquarters in their territories, tomorrow night, at 6:30 o'clock to pick up their bundles of the first edition of the week, one weeks’ vacation with pay, | New York Daily Worker. Charles Krumbein, District Or- The union has called on labor | ganizer of the Communist Party organizations in the Bronx to have | said yesterday that the two New their members report to the sirike York editions of the Daily Worker (Continued on Page 2) ratus is really set into motion; if money How can the Daily Worker, constantly facing financial crisis, and already oper- ating with a $1,000 weekly loss, boldly treble the number of its editions and launch a New York Daily Worker with eight pages? The answer is another question: How can the “Daily” lead the working class and fail to build its power at the very moment when the need for it by the struggling masses has increased tenfold? Our struggle to get along with six pages has been hard. We have been forced to deal inadequately with stories which cried for more space. We have been forced to postpone and even leave out important stories. We must have more space! To get more space, to have the three- edition “Daily” exactly how much addi- ber 2 the {cs --o3t leader and organizer of the strike, tional expense will be involved? _... Besides an initial outlay of $6,000 for - is an additional $986 required each week. three-edition Daily Worker will cost us the following additional amounts each | week: For composition, stereotyping and press work, $536; for editorial depart- ment, $150; for news service, $50; for paper, $150; for engraving, $50; for added help in the print shop, $50. This The deficit, already $1,000 a weck, is therefore greatly‘ swollen. Increased costs will be partly met by an immediate increase in circulation. The successful raising of the $60,000. fund will not only lift the “Daily” out of its present crisis and enable it to appear through the pres- ent period, but it makes possible the improved “Daily,” which will reach out into working class sections in every corner of the land for new circulation, and this, in turn, will more deeply slash into the deficit. However, at the very moment when | with the quickening demands of the polit- ical situation, the drive to build the “Daily,” to build the Communist Party, is moving so slowly that it threatens disaster. Even the very existence of the paper is threatened by the perilously slow advance of our campaign for $60,000. In the middle of the second month, less than $15,000 has been received! The management committee asks that underestimation of the importance of this campaign be done away with. We appeal to the members of the Communist Party, the T. U. U. L. unions, the independent unions and A. F. of L. unions, for support. The drive for $60,000 can succeed if every reader of this statement visits shopmates and friends for contributions and sends his own; if thousands of house-parties and affairs for the Daily Worker are organ- ized; if collections are taken at units and by mass organizations; if appeals are made at all meetings; if the Party appe- already collected is rushed to the Daily Worker. The demands of the political situation require the new Daily Worker. The revo- lutionary workers are asked to meet these demands. Will they meet them? Revo- lutionary workers the world over are meeting the demands of the political situ- ation, even with their lives. The revolutionary workers will give their hearty approval to this decision of the Central Committee to build the Daily Worker into a mighty weapon. The class- | conscious workers of America will fight to victory in the drive for $60,000! MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE OF THE DAILY WORKER George Wishnak Hyman Colodny William Blake George Hochberg rmed struggle throughout the taking place in the province of Asturias, where the workers have organized their revolutionary mi- litia, Workers with red arm bands, carrying rifles and machine guns, with belts of cartridges slung around their waists, answered the fascist threat by storming the strongholds and barracks of the hated Civil Guards. Some towns were reported recaptured by the government, | Over 50 were reported killed in the bitter fighting, growing in seri- ousness at every moment, with hun- dreds wounded. Late today the |Lerroux government clapped a heavy censorship on all news going | out of the country in order to con- ceal the seriousness of the united | revolutionary uprising of the Come munists, Socialists and Syndicalists, Heavy Fighting in Arms Center Heavy fighting is going on in the town of Eibar, munitions center in the province of Guipuzcoa, which the revolutionists captured, seizing huge quantities of arms and am- | munition. The largest munitions Plant in the town was taken over by the workers, and arms are being distributed rapidly to the workers, The general strike called at mid- night today was thoroughly ef- fective. In Madrid, the street car, taxi and railroad workers at the stroke of the gong, walked off the job, massing in the streets. Thruous the length and breadth of the land, the proletariat went into action, | erecting barricades, storming the barracks of the civil guards, forming their revolutionary militia, sweep- ing forward to the proletarian rev- olution to defeat the threat of the fascists. Martial Law Proclaimed Martial Jaw was proclaimed in Asturias, and similar action is soon to be taken throughout the coun- try. The government has mobilized its military planes in an effort to |destroy the workers’ homes, murder men, women and children to drive back the rebellious workers. The situation throughout Spain as contained in the latest heavily censored reports already indicates the tremendous sweep of the anti- | fascist struggles. | MADRID—The government hag instituted a vicious campaign of terror in an effort to nip the revolue tionary struggles in the bud. Over 400 Communists and Socialists were arrested and are threatened with |execution. Raids were made on So- cialist, Communist and Syndicalist headquarters. In many sections, the armed workers resisted the police and troops, massing their forces for a huge battle. Barricades have been erected in almost a]l workers’ quar- ters. The general strike is 100 per cent effective. | The Lerroux government, desper- jate over the growing revolutionary |action, has ordered all stores to open. It is generally expected that this order will be disobeyed, in- creasing the difficulty of the Fascist government. | POLA DE LEON.—In this mining center of the province of Asturias, |the miners marched against the Civil Guard barracks, defeated them, and hoisted the Red Flag over the town hail. They barricaded the highway to meet any reinforce- ments the government at Madrid may send against them. An appeal for government reinforcements has |been sent to Madrid from scores of towns and cities seized by the revo- lutionary forces. | LUGANOS.—Revolutionary worke ers stormed the Civil Guard garrle (Continued on Page 8).