The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 20, 1934, Page 1

ANSWER EMERGENCY APPEAL—RAISE FUNDS AT WEEK-END AFFAIRS! Yesterday's Receipts ... Total to Date ........ Press Run Yes' -$ 822.88 $20,120.87 y—48,700 Vol. XI, Nor 281_ >_> New York, N. Y. under the Act of March 8, Daily <QWorker 1871 CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Entered ae second-class matter at the Post Office at NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1934 NATIONAL EDITION (Eight Pages) Price 3 Cents ALL OUT FOR SCOTTSBORO MARCH! JOBLESS WILL BE IN CAPITAL IN JANUARY Leeal Groups im All Cities. Will Elect Delegate Bodies APPEAL TO UNIONS) | Will eke: Insuranee | Equal to Average Normal Wage Calls to a National Congress for Unemployment and Social Insur- ance to be held in Washington, D. C., on Jan, 5, 6 and 7, 1935, were yesterday addressed to all trade unions, workers’ organizations and individuals by a wide group of sponsors for genuine unemployment and social insurance. The call sets forth four provisions which any genuine unemployment insurance drafted in the interests of the working population must embrace. These provisions are: “1—Compensation must be at least equal to the average wages which workers could earn if per- mitted to work in their normal oc- cupations and localities. It must in no case be permitted to fall be- low a fixed minimum of health and decency. “2—Such compensation can and must be provided by and only at the expense of the government and the employers. No contributions in any form should be levied upon workers and other low-income groups. “3—All workers, regardless of age, occupation, race, color, sex, nationality, citizenship, religious or political belief, must be assured such compensation for all time lost because of involuntary unemploy- ment, old age, industrial accident or sickness, and maternity. “4Representatives directly elect- ed by the workers should admin- ister the social insurance system so that it would be operated in ac- cordance with their conditions, in— terests and needs.” Wide Support All of these principles are em- braced by the Workers Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill which has been endorsed by millions of workers (Continued on Page 2) F.ER.A.TO BAR NEGROES IN LAND PROJECT (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct, 19.— “This is only for white families,” Harry L. Hopkins, Federal Emer- gency Relief Administrator, declared today in explaining the Roosevelt Administration’s action in making loans available for the settlement of about 1,100 selected stranded in- dustrial families in West Virginia, Arkansas, and Texas. Though placed by the Federal Government under the supervision of State authorities, this stranded community project, a drop in the huge bucket of destitute families, is an attempt to isolate the unem- ployed while creating a “showcase stunt” which the New Deal govern- ment hopes will sidetrack or slow down the rising mass sentiment for adequate national unemployment in- surance such as is proposed by the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill, It is also a step in the plan to cut down the relief rolls from which most of these families come. Hopkins, who is also a key figure on the President's Committee on Economic Security, which is con- sidering a so-called unemployment insurance plan to substitute pay- ment of overhead expenses for genuine unemployment insurance contributions, announced that 12 more such communities will be built in various parts of the country. Hopkins announced also that a revival of the C.W.A. is out of the picture. “There’s going to be no C.W.A.”, he sang out. “Anything to take its place?” a reporter asked him. “We're going to run, relief organization,” he replied sharply. “What have you in mind for gen- eral work relief this winter?” an- The following telegram was sent yesterday to all large districts of the Communist Party by the Management Committee of the Daily Worker. DAILY WORKER MUST HAVE HELP FROM YOUR DISTRICT STOP WIRE ALL FUNDS AT HAND AT ONCE STOP FOLLOW UP WITH EMERGENCY APPEAL THROUGH- OUT DISTRICT FOR IMMEDIATE TIONAL COLLECTIONS BY PERSONAL VIS- ITS TO MASS ORGANIZATIONS, TRADE UNIONS, ETC. STOP DRIVE RECEIPTS MUST BE DOUBLED AT ONCE TO INSURE NEW DAILY WORKER! An hour before the “Daily” went to press $312 was received from Section 2, New York! “Section 2 challenges Section 1 to complete quota first,” Sam Brown, Section Organizer, wired. C.P. Districts—Attention! ADDI- ‘Indusirial Adjustment’ Agencies Uncovered As Network of Stoolpigeons By Edward Newhouse Article Four “The gaudier the patter, the cheaper the crook” is an underworld maxim never so vividly borne out as in the cases of two great labor spy agencies, the Sherman Corporation Engineers and the Corporations Auxiliary Co. cheap is not used in the sense of eer They occupy flashy central of-*- 3 fices in two New York sky-scrapers. They advertise in the New York Times and print elaborate prop- aganda for prospective clients. They maintain industrial bulletin services and have irons in most union locals. Time and again they have been uncovered only to switch their tag half a dozen times since the war period when John F. Sherman weighed in which a net income of $22,000,000. Under each new title their methods haye remained sub- stantially the same. Workers’ organizations will never be really safe along their slimy trail until such time as there will be no papers to take their ads and no employers hire them. But with vigi- lance and care we can weed their agents from our ranks and expose them to that particular shuddering but vengeful hate reserved for the stool-pigeon. These are not Bergoff thugs or Manning sluggers. Sherman's spat- wearing salesmen address classes at Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology and Case Busness College. Dead Rat John himself had written articles for Printers’ Ink, Manufac- turers’ Record and a score of other classy journals. See the photostat on page two of the confidential pamphlet which employers are re- quested to send back after perusal; read how Sherman boasts of his own sweet method of putting over a wage cut. Let Mr. Thomas P. McGuire, vice- (Continued on Page 2) o°= of the magic hat of the New Deal, Roosevelt has drawn four rabbits to distract the attention of the toiling masses from the real issues confront- ing them in the forthcoming elections. After long conferences with leading Wall Street bankers, after fulsome praise from the Chamber of Commerce, as well as from the A. F. of L. officialdom, Roosevelt comes out with four new tricky schemes to befuddle the workers, Let us see the background of Roosevelt's chief Lately, a heavy barrage of propaganda has been let loose by the leading bank- ers and industrialists, insisting on cutting down of unemployment relief, of scrapping Federal relief jobs. Because Roosevelt recognizes promises of ending unemployment through the N.R.A. have been completely exploded, that the need for relief is mounting every day, he has hit upon new schemes to fool the masses while carry- ing through the wishes of the bankers and other campaign promises. exploiters. And the word Central rury, Council Backs Tammany Slate Labor Council of New York, with few exceptions, en- | dorsed the entire Tammany slate in the. present election campaign. The notable exception was the en- dorsement of the Republican- Fusion candidate for controller, D. McGoldrick. Sascha Zimmerman, Lovestonite delegate from the dress branch of the I.L.G.W.U., was also present at the meeting. During the discussion, Zimmerman did not take the fioor in order to state his position. He did not speak against the regular slate proposed by the Central Labor Council officials. The only time Zimmerman rose to object to any of their proposals, was during the very end of the session, when a list oe judges to be endorsed was read off. Zimmerman rose and opposed, saying, “I cannot face the dress workers and tell them that the Cen- tral Labor Council supports Judge Rosalsky’s canddacy.” Thereupon Ryan, president of both the Coun- cil and the International Long- shoremen Association, rose and agreed to withdraw Rosalsky’s nomination. Rosalsky has sentenced many pickets to jail. Zimmerman knew that Rosalsky’s endorsement The Central would never pass unnoticed among the garment workers, tion, the capital: to ram Roosevelt’ of the workers, Roosevelt's latest Wages were to right to organize What actually that his the textile indust Now Roosevelt Before dealing specifically with each point in up his attacks on relief payments, for the benefit of the bankers, we must recall certain facts in the passage of the N.R.A. Then, too, Roosevelt opened his drive with an orgy of promises. recognized, and the workers were to be insured the force for the development of company unions; became an excuse for militia in strikes against the workers. The standards of living of the workers were driven down terrifically, workers went out on strike against it. DYERS VOTE TO STRIKE NEXT WEEK Will Mobilize Today| in Paterson to Make | Final Preparations MASS MARCH CALLED | — | Lovestone’s Henchman | Attempts to Disrupt Rank and File Meet PATERSON, N. J., Oct. 19,—Last | night at a meeting of 200 shop chairmen and delegates of the United Textile Union dyers’ ‘locals, the decision was again reiterated for a strike of dyers Wednesday | if the demands for a union shop are not met by the employers. The negotiations were broken off and no other demands were discussed, because they were stumped on this first demand. There are 25,000 dyers in this area. Tomorrow there will be a mass} parade beginning at the headquar- ters of the dyers at 203 Paterson Street which will proceed to Peer- Jess Oval. There, the final mobiliza- tion for the strike will take place. The sentiment seems to be defi- nitely for a strike, and unless some | last minute trick is pulled the strike is inevitable. This morning, when silk workers announced on the union bulletin board that a meeting is taking place tomorrow, called by the rank and file committee of 25, Eli Keller, the Lovestone agent and secretary of the Associated Silk Workers Union, erased it. The workers again put the notice up on the board, which was again erased by Keller. This went on until an argument started, with quite a number of workers be- ing involved. At first Eli Keller tried to use his deputized men, union members, in order to disperse the workers in the hall. Keller has | quite a number of actually sworn deputies, union men, who are sup- posed to be stationed in the union headquarters to keep order, Neither Keller, nor his deputized men could do anything about it. Suddenly nine policemen, headed by (Continued on Page 2) Troop Concentration In Yugoslavia Speeds Danger of World War MARIBOR, Yugoslavia, Oct. 19— With Yugoslavian troops concen- trating along the Hungarian border, according to a report coming from a usually dependable source, the imminent outbreak of war today overshadows all maneuvers and professions of “peace.” The actions of Italian authorities | indicate their hesitation on whether to extradite the two accused “direc- tors” of the Marseilles assassina- tions, acceding to the demands of French officials, or to refuse to ex- tradite them, which would lead to a sharpening of relations. Local embassy officials in Hun- gary state that they regard ‘the massing of troops and the height- ening of the general war atmos- phere in central Europe as extreme- ly grave. AN EDI list press is enthusiastically trying ’s “new” program down the throats demagogic trickery aimed to cover Unemployment was to be ended. go up. Trade unions were to be into unions of their own choice. happened? Section 7-a became a it as Code No. 1 in ry so glaringly proved when 500,000 drapes his new program with even | dependent on relief, Harry Hopkins DEMOCRATIC FAKERS BARED BY LAMTER Gomaninist © Candidate] for Governor of N.Y. Analyzes Platform | MASS MISERY RISES | C.P. Leads Struggle of, Masses Against the Bosses’ Program By I. AMTER Communist Candidate for Governor of New York In his keynote speech at Buffalo at the New York Democratic Con- vention, Senator Wagner issued the challenge that “the single issue in} this campaign, State and National, is the New Deal.” Following out this callenge, the State Democratic Platform says, “the platform of the wage earners and the salary man has been advanced. The resources of the nation have been marshalled for relief of the unemployed and distressed. Chaos and panic have been banished, fear dispelled, hope and) confidence restored.” We Communists accept the chal- lenge of the “New Deal.” William Green, who is not a Bol- shevik, in his Labor Day address | declares that there are 10,800,000 unemployed in the U. 8. (an in- crease of more than 500,000 over October of last year) and that these people with their families consti- tute a mass of forty million people who are dependent on relief. This means that one third of the population of the United States is! federal relief director, states that sixteen million people are on relief in the country. This means that there are twenty-four million people in the United States without relief. | William Hodson, Commissioner of the Department of Welfare, in his report submitted a few days ago, declared that more than a million “normally employed” workers are) jobless today in the city of New York. This demonstrates clearly that a third of the population of New York City in dependent on relief.| However, William Green's esti- mate is incorrect. At the A. F. of L. convention, Robert J. Watt, a dele- gate from Massachusetts, declared there are “17 million workers in the U. S. without steady employment.” Watt's estimate is far more correct. Green’s calculation does not include (Continued on Page 5) Another A. F. L. Local Rejects Green’s Plan To Expel Communists PADEN CITY, W. Va., Oct. 19.— Another A. F, of L. local has joined the growing number of trade union bodies who are rejecting the instructions of William Green to expel all known Communists from the American Federation of Labor. In their meeting held in Paden City on Oct. 6, Local No. 15, of the American Flint Glass Workers’ Union, unanimously threw Green's ukase into the waste basket. An- other repudiation of Green’s class collaboration policies was given in the taking up of a collection for Tom Mooney, whom the labor fak- ers of the A. F. of L. refuse to support in his fight for freedom. TORIAL together with subsistence homesteads, All sorts of wild statements, of from $1,500,000,000 to $2,000,000,900 to be used for these projects, are be- What became of the $3,000,000,000 that Section II of the N.R.A. said would be used main- The greatest portion of this sum was used’ for the Army and Navy in preparation for a new war. This new scheme, which Roosevelt says will be finished mainly by the banks, will be used in the interest of the bankers, the landlords, the big building corporations, not for the ing made. ly for “slum clearance?” use of workers in slums. The “subsistence homesteads” driving the workers into segregated the industrial centers, to eke out a slave existence. While using the A.A.A. to cut down farm produce, Roosevelt has the gall to talk of -on homesteads to produce more for thomseives. Above all, it is no accident thet the Wall Streat organ of the big bankers, and stock gamblers, enthusiastically endorses Rocse- Journal, MASS PAR ADE BEGINS 11 AM. TODAY: MANY GROUPS TO SEND DELEGATES TO EMERGENCY PARLEY TOMORROW 'Cinteemes © Will M | Plans to Spread Mass Defense a P| /LEADERS TO ATT ND cheer to Tell Facts of Leibowitz Maneuvers Against I. L. D. Preparations for the Emergency | | Scottsboro Defense Conference to be held at St. Luke's Hall, 125 W. | 130th St., tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock, were completed yesterday following the endorsement of the Conference Call by 44 prominent) Negro and white persons, including William N. Jones, of the staff of | the Baltimore Afro-American; Aaron | Douglas, noted artist; Angelo Hern-| don, Eugene Gordon, Dr. Vernon Du Bois, Dr. J. J. Jones, and many | representatives of mass organiza-| tions, unions, lodges, etc. | ‘The conference, called jointly by | the International Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro) Rights, will formulate plans to spread far and wide the mass fight to pfevent. the legal murder of the Scottsboro boys on Dec. 7.. William N. Jones, chairman of the Provi- sional Emergency Scottsboro De- fense Committee, Organized last Wednesday night at a meeting at | Lafayette Hall, will make a special | trip from Philadelphia to participate | in the conference. Ben Davis, Jr., editor of the Negro Liberator, who, with Mrs. Ida Norris, mother of was present at | Kilby prison, Mantgomery, Ala. when Norris and Haywood Patte! son repudiated Samuel Leibowitz for his attempts to split the ranks | jot their defenders at this critical! | moment, will report to the confer- | ence. Davis is in possession of full} information of the methods used by | Leibowitz and his agents in the at-| | tempt to drive a wedge between the | boys and the ILL.D., and will fully expose Leibowitz’s maneuvers. | Members of the newly-organized | Emergency Scottsboro Defense Com-| mittee have been active during the| past few days in visiting organiza- tions, urging the election of dele- gates to tomorrow’s conference. In- dividual friends of the boys are also invited to attend. | Clarence Norris, State Hunger Marchers) Win Transient Relief) | | NEW YORK.—A committee from | the United Action Conference on Work, Relief and Unemployment yesterday - wrung from Homer Borst, State Transient Relief | Director, the promise that the) State Hunger Marchers would be fed and housed at Transient Bur- eaus located in Rochester, Geneva, Utica and Syracuse, stop over cities of the Northern New York con- tingent of the New York march. To their demands that the Tran- sient Centers be opened without the} formality of resistering, Homer] Borst promised to inform these cen- ters that the marchers should be provided for after simply giving their names and addresses, I even the marines he Wall Street Ji emerging as its {When the Wall cut of it.J. . In la Point 2. are a means of areas away frcm | trolling the whole In short, the e and the bo payrolis, unemployment ins by the Federal G: putting workers huge trusts, Pariy eie: | mothers, | kel, Against this missrable scheme, fon program warned the work New Terror Drive Launched in Atlanta With Inquiry Plan BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. 19, —In a new campaign of terror against the militant workers which has already resulted in the arrest of four workers on the charge of “inciting to riot,” the authorities of Atlanta, Ga., have announced the launch- ing of a “grand jury investiga- tion of Communist activity.” The announcement followed the receipt by Solicitor-General Boykin of a letter from 100 work- ers declaring that “we intend to smash your campaign of Fascist terror.” Mrs. R. W. Alling, Alex Rack- olen, Nathan Yagol and Clarence Weaver, have ben held for the Grand Jury. Bail has been set at $5,000 each for Rackolen and Weaver, $1,000 for Mrs. Alling and $300 for Yagol. Their arrests were explained by authorities to- day as part of the “general in- quiry into radical plotting.” {LD BACKED, LEIBOWITZ IS REPUDIATED “We want our boys to stick by the I. L. D., the organization which | has kept them alive for more than three years,” Mrs. Janie Patterson, Mrs. Ida Wright and Scottsboro wrote in a letter received yesterday by the International La- bor Defense, adding their repudia- tion of Samuel Leibowitz to those announced by the other mothers and the boys. The letter follows: Montgomery, Ala., Oct. 16, 1934. To the International Labor Defense, 80 E. llth Street, Room 610, New York City. We, the undersigned mothers of the Scottsboro boys, want the In- ternational Labor Defense to con- tinue its fight for the lives and freedom of our boys. We want Mr. Joseph Brodsky, chief counsel for the I. L. D., Mr. Walter Pollok, great constitutional lawyer, and Mr. Osmond K. Fraen- noted attorney, to handle cur boys’ present appeals in the United States Supreme Court. We will stick by the I. L. D. and |its lawyers, Mr. Brodsky, Mr. Cham- | ROOSEVELT lee, and whomever the I. L. D. selects to handle our boys’ cas We want our boys to stick the I. L. D,, the organization which has kept them alive for more than three years, (Signed) Janie Patterson Ada Wright Witness: Ben Davis. Vote Communist against N.R.A, Attacks on Living Standards. WORKERS! LOOK AT WHAT ROOSEVELT NOW OFFERS YOU! will believe that. We quote from ournal of Oct. 19: “The administration’s housing program is most successful recovery effort. Street Journal talks of “success- ful recovery effort,” they mean, of course, suc- cessful in the amount of profit its readers make itge part, the success of the hous- ing drive thus far has been due to the enthusiastic cooperation of big corporations.” Unemployment insurance to be paid for by the workers and employers, with the gov- ernment pzying only administrative cost and con- scheme, mployed workers are to be taxed, s are to contribute from their total at the expense of the work ‘urance scheme to be administ overnment. the Communist e in the rs | Hathaway, H Haywood and Other Leaders To Be Among Speakers BEN DAVIS TO SPEAK Marchers Will Converge at Lenox Avenue and 126th Street Calls for the full mobilization of their membership for the Se: boro-Thaelmann protest demon stration and mass march through the streets of Harlem this after- |noon were issued yesterday by the | New York Council of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League, | and the Harlem Unemployment Council. | Members of the LSNR. will | @ather at 2162 Seventh Avenue, at 11 am,, members of the WES.L, and the Unemployment Council at | 109 West 133rd Street, at the same hour. | Other organizations tached individuals are asked to mobilize with their banners and Slogans at 126th Street and Lenox Avenue, at 1 o'clock. A meeting at that corner will start promptly at 2 o'clock, with a number of prom= inent speakers who will briefly out- line the present status of the Scottsboro case, the appeals filed with the U. S. Supreme Court for Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris, and the history of the world- wide fight for the lives and free- dom of the nine Scottsboro lads and of Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the German working class, now facing death before the Hitler lynch courts. Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker and Communist can- didate for Congressman in the Seventh District (Brooklyn), will be the first speaker at the 126th Street |meeting, taking the platform promptly at 2 o'clock in order to fill engagements in other parts of the city this afternoon. James W. Ford, Communist can- didate for Congress in the 2st District; Harry Haywood, National Secretary of the League of Struggle for Negro Rghts, and Communist candidate in the 19th A. D., Ruby Bates and Lester Carter, star Scottsboro defense witnesses; Merle C. Work, Communist candidate in the 21st A. D., Anna Damon, Act- ing National Secretary of the In- ternational Labor Defense, William Fitzgerald, Louis Sass, Louis Camp- bell, Unemployment Council, and Mike Walsh are maong the other Mike Walsh are among the other the meeting. tse and unat- SPEECH RAPS VETS’ BONUS By Marguerite Young (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) | WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—With- out even gesturing toward the mass drive for cashing Veterans’ Service Certificates, President Ri velt to= Gay dedicated an ex-soldiers’ hos- pital with a warning that they must help eli: ate “drags on pros- perity.” Speaking before a building that will house a few hundred of the thousands of mental cases caused by the World War, the Pr announced that veterans hay ceived “many privileges not orded to other citizens,” and are “better off ... than the average of other great group of our citi- | zens.” Harold Hickerson, Secretary of Rank and File Com- ay assailed the Roose- ch as “an echo of the Na- tional Economy League's mislead ing, anti-veteran propaganda. “It is, on the w: tion of continuing op) of the bon’ declared, tack upon the whole h of the peyment of pensicns to war | veterans. It can only cry. e@ sen= mittee, velt s ‘other reporter asked. “Nothing new In fact, a campaign is now under way in the | more shameless promises, 1 velt’s so-called “slum clearance” and housing project. | followi Ly: “Re ised social insur- timent in the mass movement of te capitalist press, similar to that which preceded the Here are his new trick promises: Are these bankers in business to take workers trom Bais eet cae (Cont:.. ed on Page 2) passage of the N.R.A. This time without excep- Point 1, Slum clearance and housing projects; | their slums and put them in decent homes? Not (Continued on Pa 2) (Continued on Page 2 ; t t 5 t Ms at