The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 9, 1934, Page 1

———— Needed—$6 Yesterday's Receipts Total to Date .. 25 ees +8 726.95 “$14,745.42 Press Run oe 800 BS OF Pa Vel. XI, No. 242 Entered 2 Mew York, N. ¥., v > %* Daily <QWorker TRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1934 Office at 1879. 2 Post March 8, NATIONAL E DITION (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents SOVIETS SET UP IN SOUTH SPAIN Communist Party Urges Protest on Scottsboro NINE SHIPS ON STRIKE IN DOCKERS WALK OUT; PIERS ARE Complete Tie-Up Due by Wednesday, Says Strike Leader Crews of nine ships in New York harbor and longshore- | men from Pier 2 at Erie Basin walked out on strike yester- | day in answer to the general | maritime strike call issued by the Joint Atlantic Sea- men’s Strike Committee. Pickets were dispatched to all piers in Manhattan and Brooklyn, where the struck ships were tied up, and squads of seamen were visit- ing seventeen ships that arrived in the harbor yesterday urging the men to take a strike vote. Addi- tionel chips’ crews were expected to join the strike momentarily. The first crew to answer the strike call was the crew of the S. S. Texas a steam freighter of the Line which was struck on vy at Pier 23, North River. ‘38. ett ies is now riding at | off the bo ‘eamen of the Steel Mariner, sthmian liner, struck at Pier 29} an in Brookiyn and immediately set up a picket line in front of the dock. The S. S. Lammot Dupont, a powder ship, was lying idle at Pier 2 at Erie Basin after 38 members of the crew went out on strike. Fifty longshoremen, members of Local 808 of the International Long- shoremen’s Association, downed their tools and struck in sympathy with the sailors of the Lammot Dupont. | More Ships Struck Other ships on strike are S. S. Havana, a Ward Liner, which is iied up at Pier 14, East River; the | Olympic, an oil tanker belonging to the Dollar Line, at Warren, N. J.; the Ardmore, a Mallory Liner at * Crane’s dockyard in Brooklyn; the 8. S. Haiti, a large fruit ship docked at Pier 8 on South St.; the Wind- ing Gulf, of the Mystic Steamship Line, and the Diamond Cement. A telegram arrived at the strike headquarters, 140 Broad St., yester- day morning stating that the strike was partially effective in Baltimore, where crews of five ships walked out in answer to the call of the Joint Strike Committee. Herold Baxter, secretary of the strike committee, announced that he e ted the strike to be fully effective in the port of New York by Wednesday, when 5,000 seamen who are still at sea expected to leave the ships. “There are 15,000 longshoremen in the port of New York,” Baxter said, “and we are appealing to them to join with the seamen in their fight for better conditions and hir- ing halls controlled by the rank and file. We expect many longshore- men to join the strike within the next few days.” The major lines that will be af- fected by the strike, according to a statement issued by the strike committee, will be the Isthmian, Munson, Ward, United Fruit, Bull Line, the United States Line and a number of oil tank steamship companies. Pickets Mass At Piers Every pier where the struck ships are tied up was blocked off by large numbers of pickets. Squads of seamen were being dispatched from the Broad Street strike headquar- ters throughout the day to visit newiy-arrived ships and to take a strike vote. Ten of these squadrons were active along the waterfront. Scusiderable attention was de- voiced by the strikers to the ques- tion of keeping the shipping of- fices closed. Committees were set up for the purpose of visiting these of- fices. Roy Hudson, chairman of the strike committee said that the ma- jority of the shipping halls in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Norfolk were closed. The shipping agency of the Sea- men’s Church Institute, 25 Broad Street, the largest agency in the city, was declared closed by the! strike committee yesterday. Wesley | Westerman, business manager of the! institute, told repozters that “it no’ closed and will not be closed.” Westerman let it be ‘nown in no uncertain terms that the In- , (Continues on Page 2) x PICKETED: EATING HALLS CALL FOR AID | SupplicsRunning Low as Out on Strike The Workers International Relief Marine Strike Relief committee is supplying cooked food to the seamen at four Manhattan and Brooklyn centers. They are receiving cloth- ing and medical attention. The ranks of the strikers are growing hourly as ship after ship is being struck. “Supplies~ on hand are quickly. disappearing,” Additional food, clothing, money, and volunteer as- sistance are urgently needed. Every | \effort must be exerted to keep up \the flow of contributions to relief | | Desenusciers, | “Raid your cupboards, your \closets, your pockets, These strikers | |depend on you for their meals. | | Their militant spirit is sweeping | over the waterfront like a prairie fire. Help us feed them, “Please send all contributions to W. I. R. headquarters 870 Broadway, New York City,” the appeal con- cluded. Th feeding centers are located at | | the following places: 505 West Nincteenth Street. 140 Broad Sireet Twenty-fifth Street and Eighth | Ave, 15 Union Street, Brooklyn. 16,846,322 Jobless Now Reported in U. S, SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Oct. 8.— There are 16,846,322 persons in the United States wholly or temporarily unemployed, estimates based on application of figures of a state- wide survey by the State of Mass- achusetts to the entire country re- veal. These figures, showing that the estimates of the A. F. of L.} Executive Council of 10,000,000 un- employed are far too low, were to be presented today to the A. F. of L. convention here by Robert J. Watt, of the Massachusetts Federa- tion of Labor. | The survey of the state shows that based on the 1930 U. S. census figures of 43,829,920 employable per- sons, if applied to the country, more than sixteen million are jobless. The survey excluded housewives, students, persons unable to work, retired and aged persons or those not seeking employment. The Massachusetts state figures, as of June 13, show that in the state there were 1,808,840 employ- able persons. Of these, 624,526 or only 34% per cent were wholly or More Seamen Come | jcisco Cal, AFL. BULDING Justify Sellout of the Textile Strike Hails ‘Victory’ Which | | Surrendered All the Workers’ Demands By Bill Dunne (Daily Worker Special Correspondent) CIVIC AUDITORIUM, San Fran- Oct. 8—An open threat of a split and the formation of a new building trades grouping with! organization would be out of the A. F. of L. proper as well as out of the Building Trades Department has been made as the latest de- velopment in the fight for official Positions at the A. F. of L. con- vention here. The stakes involved are not what they were in the dear days of the boom, but whoever contréls the! Building Trades Department will deal officially with the nationai construction and planning board with government millions at its dis- posal, therefore the possibility of |some rich pickings that would help to get through the long lean days. It is stated here—and McDon- |ough, present department head who | comes from across the Bay in Oak- | land, is credited with the statement |—that a name has even been chosen for the seceding group if the con- vention decides against the McDon- ough appeal and reaffirms its sup- port of the Carpenters, Electrical Workers and Bricklayers Union as it probably will, The name selected is the Struc- tural Construction .Alliance. Since the decision of the executive coun- the support tentatively at least of the teamsters, the operating en- gineers and marble workers and some other smaller unions, it is difficult to see where the McDon- ough support for the new organ- ization would come from unless there is some assurance that the fight in the Building Trades De- partment will result in some splits in all or most of the big unions now challenging its present officials. In the opinion of the rank and file delegates to the convention and that of Louis Weinstock, secretary of the Rank and File Committee for Unemployment Insurance and Re- lief, there is just one thing for the junions to do—kick out both groups of warring officials and elect a new leadership directly from the local unions. This proposal will be made if rank and file delegates find it possible to get the floor under the barrage of speeches of officials furiously de- nouncing each other. Francis Gorman, leader of the United Textile Union, spoke this afternoon, brazenly justifying his betrayals of the textile strike. Gor- man said, “Ending our sirike in which a half million men and women stopped work, the workers went back into the mills on the temporarily employed. Union to halt it. International Longshoremen’s lyn. Reports from other Atlantic ‘ng there also. | Out of three ships in port in gaining momentum from day to di the Joint Strike Commitiee, are IHE strike of the Atlantic maritime workers went into effect yesterday, despite frantic efforts of the shipowners and leaders of the International Seamen’s Crews of nine ships are out in New York harbor. Fifty longshoremen, members of the Association, joined the seamen in a sympathy strike in Brook- Norfolk and Eoston—show that the strike is spread- two struck. This is a splendid bez’ that the strike has every possibility of rapidly Spreading, str:king the ships as they come into port, The s-smen, fighting under the lea¢c (Continued on Page 2) overtime after have born seamen. ports—Baltimore, Boston yesterday, nning, and shows seamen, are de! day; time and men. ey. » of striking for the UNION HEADS: SHIPPING HALLS SHUT ALR SPLIT SEA STRIKE Gorman Attempts to 'SPEAKS AT SESSION) the probable result that such an! cil to seat the three big unions has| membership of the building trades| In order to win these urgently necessery to rally at once all available forces to spread the strike to every ship that comes ational Guardsmen Are Being Prepared Against Picket Lines The 212th Regiment. of the tionel Guard is being pre- red for duty against s‘rikers, it was learned here today. For the first time since the war the men are being taught the use of gas masks, members of the regiment say. They are put into chambers filled with tear gas. The masks are of an obsolete type and many of the soldiers have suffered as the re- sult of gas poisoning. The men are also being taught tactics in smashing picket lines. The officers term the picketers as “troublesome strike rioters.” The flying wedge formation is the one commonly taught. The men will be given clubs and pis- tols, TIE-UP NOW 18 TIGHTENED HAVANA, Oct. 8. 8. — With only seventeen out of 400 street cars loperating this morning and prac- tically no taxicabs or buses on the istreets, the general strike in Havana as throughout the provinces, moved \toward complete effectiveness. Even the few street cars running -|were filled with soldiers for pas- |sengers, and the management, giv- jing up in disgust, said that all cars jwould soon be withdrawn. Omnibus, ice, coal, textile, tobacco jand other groups of workers are joining the strike throughout the jisland. dieta government issued orders for \the arrest of over 400 I-‘or Ieeders. and eighteen armored tanks were jheld in readiness to leave Camp |Columbia. The strike, which was effectively started days before in some prov- inces, notably Oriente and Havana, is being organized on such a large scale by the National Confederation of Labor and the Communist Party of Cuba that preparations are now going forward to prolong the strike beyond the 24 hours originally specified. One of the marked points of strength in the strike is the com- plete support of the walkout by the ‘petty-bourgeoisie who, no less than the Cuban workers and peasants, hat2 and oppose the terrorist Men- dieta administration. French United Front Gaining in Elections Against Reactionaries PARIS, Oct. 8. — The electoral Doumergue government and the So- cialist and Communist united front resulted, according to incomplete re- turns, in widespread left gains for the lower general councils and coun- eils for arroundiss>ments. — Votint from the 1,518 elections held. AN ED following demands: The eight-hour day on all ships and depart- ments, and the 44-hour week. The 1929 wage scale; 75 cents an hour for all eight hours. For a 33 per cent increase in the present Ship- ping Board manning scale. For a centralized shipping bureau controlled by elected committees of seamen. Against discrimination of Negro and foreign- Reeognition of the ship committees and unions of the workers’ choice. Longshoreme! n, striking in sympathy with the manding a doliar an hour; six-hour a half for overtime; control of the hiring halls by elected committees of longshore- demands it becomes IN HAVANA With typical terrorism the Men- | struggle between the reactionary| has not yet taken place in Paris A small gain for the Doumergue government and a slight loss for the Socialists are scattered through the 967 cantonal returns so far received ‘MASS DRIVE URGED TC SET 9 BOYS FREE |Says the Lynch Bosses Are Determined to Kill Negroes CALLS FOR FUNDS) Mass Rallies Seen As| Blow to Verdict of Lynch Court The local District Committee of he Communist Party yesterday is- sued a statement calling for wide mass protest against the Southemn lynch court’s decision to execute Clarence Norris and Heywood Pat- terson, two of the nine Scottsboro boys, on December 7. The statement follows: “The Alabama Supreme Court/| has denied the appeals of Clarence Norris and Heywood Patterson, two of the nine Scottsboro boys, and set the date of execution for Dec. 7. | At the same moment, two lawyers are arrested and framed up on the charges of attempting to bribe Vic-| toria Price, star witness for the| State of Alabama in the Scotts-; boro frame-up. At the same time,| also, Samuel Leibowitz, chief trial | The main points in the program of the Communist Party of Spain| for the carrying out of the revo- lution against the Fascist regime and the institution of a workers’ and farmers’ government adopted struggles, are as follows: 1, Confiscation without right of | repurchase of all lands belonging! to landlords, the church, monas- teries, the state and municipalities, together with all movable and im- movable stock, and their transfer| without compensation to and divi- sion among the toiling peasantry | and agricultural laborers. | 2. Abolition of all peasants’ debts, | of all feudal and semi-feudal op- | pressions (foros, rabassa morta, etc.) of all the taxes of the ROUTES landlord regime. 3. Rendering of immediate as- lawyer for the defense, deserts the struggle, slandering the I.L.D., and| the mass defense movement sup-| ported by the Communist Party which, even as Leibowitz himself admits, has been the sole force which has so far saved the lives of | the nine boys. Determined to Kill Boys | “It is clear that the Alabama | lynch bosses are determined to burn the innocent Scottsboro boys, jas the concrete exoression of their | determination to force the Negro} people to accept the starvation conditions, lynchings, Jim-crowism, worse slavery and increasing op- pression. This brutal legal lynch verdict is their attempt also, to break the growing unity of the Ne- gro and white workers in their struggle for their needs. “In order to achieve this and to divert the attention of the masses from their vile aim, the Alabama lynch rulers are spreading lying stories of attempts to bribe Victoria Price and other malicious slanders. In this they are aided by Leibowitz, who is showing his true colors by deserting the struggle at this crucial moment and viciously slandering the I. I. D,, loyal leaders of the mass defense, while maintaining that he is still in full sympathy and will | support the Scottsboro boys. Calls for Protest Actions “Send resolutions and telegrams of protest to Governor Miller of Alabama, President Roosevelt, Washington, D. C., and to the US. Supreme Court, Washington, D. C. “Demand immediate, uncondi- tional and safe release of the Scottsboro boys. At every indoor or open air meeting or election rally, adopt and send a protest res- olution or telegram to the above named governmental authorities. “Organize mass meetings and demonstrations of protest in every neighborhood, shop or factory. Con- NTWIU CALLS MEMBERS TO RALLY TODAY NEW YORK,—Greeting the rev-| olutionary actions of the Spanish workers and peasants, the Needle) Trades Workers Industrial Union here called upon all its members | to support and participate in the) demonstration called by the Com- | munist Party to be held before the | Cpanish Consulate, 53rd Street and Madison Ave., today at 12 o'clock | noon. In a call sent to all its members the Needle Trades Workers Indus- trial Union declared: “To all Needle Trades Workers: “Rally to the support of the! Spanish revolution! | “The workers and farmers of| Spain have risen in revolt aga ainst | their fascist oppressors. They are} of every Spanish city and village against the armed forces of the fas- | cist government. } “It is the supreme duty of every | working man and working women to support in every way possible our sisters and brothers of Spain who are sacrificing their very lives for the liberation of the workng class Communists, Socialists, Syndicalists, and all trade union members in Spain are united in this struggle against the fascists. Let us unite here, all workers, regardless of trade union or political affiliation, and demonstrate our solidarity and sup- (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 2) fighting with arms on the streets/ live Main Points in the Program Of Spanish Communist Party For Carrying Out Revolution sistance to the peasantry by the workers’ and peasants’ government | with credits, seeds and machinery. 4. Far-roaching measures on t! part of the workers’ and peasants’ government for immediate decided sometime before the present armed! improvement of the material condi- | tions of the agricultural laborers. 5. Confiscation and nationaliza- tion of enterprises of large-scale trustified production; Soviets over production and di tribution; nationalization of banks, railways and all large-scale capital- ist means of transport and commu- nication (autobuses, tramways, ships, | tad concealed in the bu aviation, telephone, radio). (6) General introduction of the T-hour working day and raising of the living standard’ of “the toiling masses... Measures for assistance to (Continued on Page 2) TURKS FIRE ON 2 FRENCH WAR BOATS: ISTANBUL, Turkey, Oct. 8—An attempt on the part of France to/J encroach on the national indepen- dence of Turkey led yesterday to an exchange of artillery between} Smyrna forts and two French de- stroyers. The request of the French author- | ities for permission for the destroy-| ers to visit Istanbul and Smyrna was answered by the Turkish Gov- ernment’s consenting to a call at Istanbul but absolutely refusing any stopping at Smyrna. Ignoring the Turkish reply, the destroyers Cassard and Guepard en-| tered the Gulf of Smyrna, Where- upon shore batteries fired four blank rounds, and then, when the destroy- ers continued on, the forts fired a destroyers. They withdrew afterward and ap- proached the coast of Foca, where coast guards fired rifles. The de- stroyers returned the fire and then steamed in the direction of Myti- lene. The French Government, sur- prised that its “saber-rattling” had| not awed Turkey, made renresenta- tions of protest that her destroyers had been fired upon. The success of the Daily Worker | $60,000 drive means a better, larger newspaper. Donate and get dona- tions today. mediately to the “Daily.” ITORIAL into the harbor. Committees must cut to see that none of the struck All activities in connection with lines should be set up in front which pers'st in shipping scabs. workers have a special role to pla; the sirike call, Ryan to keep them from striking. men will answer the call. But to there must be an intensified mass paign launched at once at every harbor on the Atlantic Coast from the docks. There must be mass picketing at all piers where the struck ships are tied up. The main slogan today is, Spread the Strike! shipping halls should be intensified and strength- ened Many have already been closed, but the sea- men can see that they stay closed. Mass picket The unemployed shipping halls and keeping them closed. Already longshoremen on one pier have answered in spite of attempts of Joseph P. be on the leok- ships pull away workers. into the struggle. closing the fink a The strike can of the agencies important one. y in closing the : in all ports immediately More longshore- bring them out agitational cam- dock in every tions, heroic strike. 4 SPREAD THE ATLANTIC COAST MARINE STRIKE! All harbor workers, tugboat men, and bargemen, regardless of union affiliation, should be convinced that this strike is for the benefit of all maritime All efforts should be made to dra them Officers and radio operators on all ships touch:ng Atlantic ports—this is your strike. Join it. be won. Its success depends upon | the ability of the workers to activize the broadest number of workers in the struggle. Small numbers of workers in action are not sufficient. The question of relief for the strikers is a most Relief stations have been set up by the Workers International Relicf. More funds, food and clothing must be to the Relief Headquarters ew York City. All workers in all trades, work workers of all political opin’ons and parity affilia- stand behind the maritime workers in their rushed at 870 kers in all unions, Spread the strike! shell ahead and one behind the} Send the money im- | Decision N.Y. HARBOR ARMED WORKERS CENTER ATTACK ON OFFICIAL BUILDINGS IN MADRID: RENEW OFFENSIVE IN PROVINCES Lerroux Cabinet Meets, Fears to Mobil Spanish Army MADRID, Oct. 8. — Soviets were set up in the Southern part of Spain today at Pardo Del Rey, out the country went into the t the Lerroux as ‘the workers thru- control of the ; ** terior buildings in the heart of drid. The nt forces fire by letting artillery The workers have heroically been directing their efforts against these {centers, including the central police headquarte: and the Bank of |Svain since the opening day of the fithting. The fact the of the worke ta-mined ~ | weakening | forces. | Fighting Spreads As the fighting spreads workers increase their g |optimistic statements of |cist government entirely | The desperate Lerroux meeting in Madrid showed its fear of and the ca late 19 . obilizing the army agai the fighting The cabinet announced it could not mobilize the t ecause military maneuvers vi soldiers have terfuge to thei tories. That this is a is clearly shown by art only so-called “loyal” troops were chosen to proceed against Oviedo, {now in the hands of the workers. the fect False Reports Nailed MADRID, Oct. 8—The tremen- dous growing sweep of the armed | Struggles of the Spanish workers |@nd peasants spreading from North |to South, throughout the entire j land today, gave the lie to the de- liberately falsified reports of the fascist Lerroux government that the “revolt had been crushed.” Great masses of impoverished reasants in Andalucia joined the ir- surgent movement against the Fas- ist regime, seizing the land of t rich landlords, arming them: s and opening fire on the Civil Guard and Fascist gangs. 500 Bombs Despite terrific bombing by army planes, the workers in O' s, entrenched them: Dropped the People, men, But the Red Flag still flies in city, killing many une women and chi this city, firmly the han the workers. The rebel forces ha: | capt ured a huge government ar- jsenel. In Barcelona, and throughout Catalonia, where the Lerroux sov- ernment had aiready announced |the docm of the autonomous re- | public, the workers went into a |tion, raking the streets with ter- |rific gun-fire. It appears that the | fighting has only begun, with \greater and greater forces entering jon the side of the werkers, against |the fascist dictatorsh: Red Flegs |_ The towns of Mat: | Badalona, on the outs! a are in the grip of the armed Red flags fly over the im- it buil In Corunna Province, where the struggle had been slight previously, severe battles have broken out, | strengthening the fight in the As- | turias, | Repeatedly, the workers in Madrid |storm central government buildings jand oven vp a withering fire, show- ing that the government has not, capital, where its forces t, been oble to beat bacic A bani of armed :30 p.m. todey opened fire on the central police headquar- Hogs The outcome was not reported. ting is going on in all sub- | urbs around Madrid, and the worke ( (Continued on Page 2)