The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 22, 1934, Page 1

) V— sienna CULTURAL ORGANIZAT! IONS: — INCREASE ACTIVITY IN $60,000 DRIVE Yesterday’s Receipts . Total to Date Press Run Saturday—70,700 8 520.15 $20,641.02 = Vol. XI, No. 252-<a> % Entered as second-class matter at New York, N. ¥., under the Act Daily,<QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) , OCTOBER 22, 1934. the Post Office at of March 8, 1879. NEW YORK, MONDA NA EDITION (Six Pages) TIONAL Price 3 Cents F.D.R. PACT WITH BANKS REVEALED 29,000 SILK DYERS STRIKE THURSDAY 2,000 MARCH FOR STRIKE IN PATERSON Meeting at Peerless Oval Shows Workers | Ready to Strike | BLOW AT GORMAN | | Employers Deny Union| Recognition; Declare) They Will Use Scabs PATERSON, Oct, 21—A parade of 2,000 silk dyers in this region,) starting at the union headquarters and ending at the Peerless Oval, gave a clear indication that there will be a 100 per cent walkout on Thursday morning. Twenty-five thousand dyers, of whom about 85 per cent are reported in the union, will be affected by the strike deci- sion. ° On the other hand the employers flatly refuse to accede to the de- mand for a union shop, and declare that plans are being made to pro- tect plants operated with scabs, This leaves very little possibility that the strike may be averted by a last minute maneuver, as the} workers at the Peerless Oval dé- cided that unless a union sHop is granted by Thursday the strike is on. This will mark the firs major blow agains Gorman’s six-monhs “no-srike” agreement. At the Peerless Oval all speakers called upon the workers for a 100 per cent strike for the union shop. One of the oustanding speeches was that of Anthony Ventura, a shop chairman, who was fired from his job for union activity. He urged the workers not only to strike for the union shop but for the other demands for the 30-hour week for $1 an hour and no discrimination. Sing Internationale One of the shops, in holding a strike preparation meeting, con- cluded by singing the “Interna- tional” in Italian. These workers distributed pieces of red. cloth, which they hung from their pockets during the parade. Strike enthus- iasm is running high, and last min- ute efforts on the part of Haskell, representative of the Dyers Code Authority, to postpone the strike will undoubtedly prove futile. The demands of the dyers are: (1) A closed shop; employers to agree to hire only union men. (2) Thirty hour week, 5 days. (3) Minimum pay for male workers, $1; for female workers 731-3 cents per hour. (4) No discrimination in distri- bution of work. (5) No discharge without cause; the right to appeal within four days. (6) Trial period for new work- ers shall be two days. (7) No plant to operate more than two shifts of 6 hours each. (8) No employer shall accept work from any non-union con- cern or such as with which the union is having trouble. (9) One man shall operate one dye box from 1 to 8 feet. For~ every 8 feet or fraction thereof over the first 8 feet there should be an additional man, The main force in arousing the worke''s to strike action is the Dye Workers Club of Paterson, which for the past few weeks has been (Continued on Page 2) Legion Head Proposes Universal Military Draft, Calling It “Major Issue” | MIAMI, Florida, Oct. 21.—Declar- , ing the quesiion of universal mili- tary draft “will unquestionably be- | come a major issue in the 74th. Congress,” Edward A. Hayes, Na- tional Commander of the American ' Legion, will propose tomorrow that Fi the Legion endorse this military | Measure as part of the necessary |: measures of “clefense.” Indicating the increasing use by the Roosevelt government of the Legion officials as part of its reac- tionary war machine, Hayes de- clared that he considers it one of the major tasks of the Legion to support the Roosevelt preparedness program, > Communist Party Lists 8 Demands in Election Following are the eight demands on which the National Con- gressional Election platform of the Communist Party is based: 1—Against Roosevelt’s “New Deal” attacks on the living stand- ards of the toilers, against rising living costs resulting from monopoly and inflation, for higher wages, shorter hours, a shorter work week, and improved living standards. 2.—Against capitalist terror and the growing trend toward fas- cism; against deportations and oppression of the foreign-born; against compulsory arbitration and company unions; against the use of troops in strikes; for the workers’ right to join unions of their own choice, to strike, to picket, to demonstrate without restrictions; for the maintenance of all the civil and political rights of the masses. 3.—For unemployment and social insurance at the expense of the employers and the state; for the Workers Unemployment Ingur- ance Bill (H. R. 7598). 4.—For the repeal of the Agric ultural Adjustment Act; for emer- gency relief to the impoverished and drought-stricken farmers with- out restriction by the government or banks; exemption of impov- erished farmers from taxation; camcellation of the debts of poor farmers; for the Farmers’ Emergency Relief Bill. 5.—Against Jim-Crowism and lynching; for equal rights for the Negroes and self-determination for the Black Belt; for the Negro Bill of Rights. 6.—For the immediate payment of the veterans’ back wages (bonus). 7.—Against the sales tax; no taxes on persons, or their property, earning less than $3,000 per year; steeply graduated and greatly increased taxation on the rich. 8.—Against Roosevelt's war preparedness program; against im- perialist war; for the defense of the Soviet Union and Soviet China, WAR D NOW GRAVER IN BALKANS | BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Oct. 21. | —The dangerous developments, io | which European imperialists are adding hourly, have piled up the dynamite in Central Europe to the | Unions was denounced before the | cities and villages by fasc’ ANGER. GREEN. LETTER IS DENOUNCED INLABOR BODY ST. LOUIS, Oct. 21—The letter of William Green, president of the of Communists from A. F. of L. ‘SCORES FACE “EXECUTIONER IN ASTURIAS |Spanish Workers Shot | on Orders of Fascist Military Officers 1,000 ARE DEAD ‘Capitalists Are Raising | Funds to Pay Reward to Generals | MADRID, Oct. 21.—While in |Madrid, Oviedo, Gijon, Barcelona jand Alicante, the fascist Lerroux- | Robles regime has ordered the ex- ecution of scores of Socialists and |Communists, the government an- |nounced today it has defeated the | 40,000 miners in the mountains of | Asturias who had continued to bat- | the against a heavy concentration of government forces raining fire and bloodshed from the air. The grateful landlords and capi- | talists of Spain are raising a huge |fund for the reactionary officers credited with leading the fascist forces to put down the workers’ up- \rising. Especially the wealthy bank- | ers and landlords of Barcelona are | contributing to the “gratitude fund” to those who were most determined {in slaughtering the workers. General Batet, who commanded the troops in Barcelona, was given |a@ handsome cash present for his | counter-revolutionary activities. | 1,000 Dead | In Asturias, workers are executed j at the dictates of the military com- manders. The dead are estimated at | A. F. of L,, calling for the expulsion | more than 1,000 in the fighting and | those slaughtered after seizure of forces. point of near explosion. The same | St. Louis Central Labor Council) Im Madrid and Barcelona, how- hurried conferences, cabinet upheavals, and cross-cur- rents of political intrigue charac- | terize the present situation as led to | the outbreak of the last war. | Identically worded protests, the | last paragraph of which reads as an ultimatum, were dispatched from here to Hungary, one forwarded | from the Little the other from the | Balkan Entente. Czeckoslovakia, | Rumania, Turkey and Greece, com- posing the Balkan Entente, entered the war arena with the pronounce- | ment that they “solemnly declared | their absolute solidarity with Yugo- | slavia.” The paragraph which =| cludes the protest ends with the) menace and ultimatum that “if| those measures (of preventing as- | sassinations) are not taken, and if} they are not applied with the good | faith and loyalty that they require, the permanent council (comprisin; the foreign ministers of the two} ententes) considers that the gravest conflicts will arise.” Meanwhile here in Yugoslavia a concentration of the fascist dicta- torship has followed the forced resignation of the Yugoslav Cabinet, order by the Regent Paul. A gov- emment of “national integration,” headed by Foreign Minister Jev- titch, will probably be formed. A strong tightening of news censor- ship was initiated yesterday with an order for the immediate expulsion of a British journalist, Selkirk Pan- ton, of the “Daily Express.” Following on the news from Tur- in, Italy, that Italian police re-/ fused to allow any questioning of the alleged directors of the Mar- seilles assassinations imprisoned there, Premier William Goering, | now in Belgrade, immediately set about seeking to strengthen Ger- many’s connections with Yugoslavia. | A conference with the Yugoslavian | War Minister, several meetings with generals of that country and an audience with Foreign Minister Jev- titch took place in quick succession, A canard spread by German offi- cials that Soviet Russia was impli- cated in the assassinations was an- swered by an article in Inzvestia, which pointed out, not only that the whcele wozld was aware of the severe | attitude of the Communist Parties toward individual terrorism, but what was not so well known, that the European headquarters of Usta- sha, the Croation nationalist organ- ization, as well as its publications, were located in Berlin, under the nose of Premier of Prussia, Goering. France, beyond supporting and directing the political moves of the | Little Entente, has expressed no open opinion of Italy’s attitude of refusing any questioning of the Croatian prisoners, | was passed, | thumb, Moulders’ Union. “Thousands are in favor of a new society and should no: be hampered in an attempt to get it,” he de- clared. “Instead of fighting Com- munists, the trade union movement. had better start action against the open shoppers.” A motion “that the communica- tion be received and contents noted” CHICAGO, Oct. 21.—Chicago Lo- cal 637 of the Brotherhood of Paint- ers, in a let‘er to William Green, expressed opposition to his order for expulsion of Communists. Se- verely criticizing Green’s statement regarding the San Francisco Gen- eral Strike, the local said that ex- pelling Communists and militant | workers from the ranks of organized labor will weaken it and play into| she hands of the employers, ultimatums, | Meeting by a delegate of the |cyer, the Lerroux-Robles regime tries | to have the executions follow “re- publican” procedure. Thirty - four | death sentences have already been | meted out to workers, including So- | cialists, Communists and Syndical- | ists, Houses of workers are con- stantly being raided by Civil Guards. Resentment Mounts Because the executions are arous- ing growing resentment among the workers and peasants, and because the government fears a new flare- up of the armed struggles because tens of thousands of workers still retain their arms, President Niceto Alcala Zamora is provosing that the death penalties be confirmed by the Supreme Court. Capitalist Politicians Pass Laws Destroy Food. Communist Public Officeholders Will Fight | to Destroy the A. A. A. NYGARD PUT OFF BALLOT FOR CONGRESS Former Red Mayor Is Ruled Out by Arbitrary State Decision PROTEST ORGANIZED Farmer - Laborites’ Fear of Communist In- fluence Shown CROSBY, Minn.. Oct. 21.—Fear- ing the growing influence of the Communist Party in the present election campaign, the officials of the State Farmer-Labor adminis- tration have just issued a ruling barring the nate of the Com- munist candidate, Emil C. Nygaard, from the ballot in the Sixth Con- grecsional District. Nygaard was the Communist Mayor of Crosby for one year and is tremendously popular with the workers in the Sixth Congressional | District, where he stands an excel- lent chance of being elected Thervling against: Nygaard, made by the Farmer-Laborite State ma- jchinery through the Attorney-Gen- eral, was made in direct violation even of the. election laws of the State. since the Communist, P; had fulfilled: all of the exacting Jegal requirements. to place its can- didetes onthe ballot. All the necessary signatures and filing feés had been sent to the proper offices long before the time required by the law. At first the Farmer-Labor officials tried to rule many of the names off as being illegal. When this trickery still failed to keep the Communists off the ballot. the Farmer-Laborites then resorted to the blunt ruling off decision of the Attornev-Gen- eral. The pretext given is the in- terpretation of an obscure election clause. Incensed at the action of the state officials in their violation of ail democratic rights. the workers of Crosby have sent the following wire of protest to the Farmer-Labor Governor Olson and his Attorney- Gereral: “Stick to the issues involved. Petition filed in home county October 6th. Why not rule on Section 348, Mason’s Statutes, for the blue ballot. Fifteen hundred electors vigorously protest this undemocratic and uncalled-for atternt to muzzle the voters of this District.” No answer has as yet been re- ceived. The Communist Party is proceeding to organize a mass cam- paign of protest, and is taking emergency measures to get the workers of the Sixth District to write Nygaard’s name in on the ..| ballot. The The Daily Worker Call! Management Committee yesterday received the following telegram: Daily Worker, 50 East 13th Street, New York, N. Y. PHILADELPHIA DISTRICT REMITS ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS AT MASS MEETING WORKERS HELD FRIDAY ARENA STOP MASS MEETING UNANIMOU WHICH WAS RAISED OF TWO THOUSAND AT BROADWAY LY VOTED TO RAISE ONE THOUSAND OVER QUOTA STOP MASS MEETING CALLED ON ALL OTHER DISTRICTS TO FOLLOW PHILA- DELPHIA’S EXAMPLE THE DRIVE OF DAILY AND TO WORKER. A. W. MILLS, SPEED UP DISTRICT ORGANIZER, C. P. DISTRICT 3 3,000 in Parade Demand reedom: of Thaelmanr And Scottsboro Nine | Three thousand persons in march formation and an additional 2,000 | along the sidewalks swung through the streets of Harlem Saturday af- ternoon in a demonsiration for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys and | Ernst Thaelmann, German Com- munist leader; cheering the Inter- national Labor Defense and the Communist Party, the organizers and leaders of the world-wide mass fight which four times have wrested the boys from the electric chair. The cheering changed into boos and angry imprecations as the marchers passed the offices of the Amsterdam | News, whose publisher, William H. (Kid) Davis, has joined forces with Samuel S. Leibowitz in the latest | attempt to disrupt the fight for the | boys. Herndon, Haywood, Ford, Lead The parade was led by many vet- | erans of the three and a half long | years’ fight against the Alabama jlynch_ yerdicts, including Angelo Herndon, hero of the Atlanta “in- surrection” trial, Harry Haywood, | National Secretary of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and Com- |munist candidate in the 19th A. D.; James W..Ford, Communist candi- date for Congress in the 2Ist Dis- trict; Pedro M. Uffre, Secretary of ‘Lepke’ and ‘Garrah’ Strikebreaking Mob Found In Control of Union Rackets in New York By EDWARD NEWHOUSE Underworld characters and in-| dividual policemen may speak of | “Lepke” and “Garrah” with emo- tions ranging from ha‘red to awe, | but they will all agree that the two | gruff chieftains of the mob which | bears their name have most of Manhattan's rackets under their | in their vest pockets, | wrapped up and ready to ship if | you can lay enough dough on the line. | Lepke and Garrah are the suc- cessors of the late Little Augie, whose name has a more familiar ting. Their front is in the Gar- ment Center, where they posture as clothing manufacturers and opera‘e some of their largest unions. Lepke has masqueraded under the name of Louis Kawer, Louis Cohen, Louis Buckhouse and Louis Buchalter. Garrah is actually Jacob Shapiro alias Morris Friedman, alias Sam- uel Dishuse. They have had a number of occasions to put these complicated identities to use. In 1927 they helped Sigman carry through his “reorganization.” In the Amalgamated they were the power behind Abe “Knockout” Beck- erman. In 1933, as active members | of the Fur Dressers’ Factor Corp. they were indicted for coercion, to- gether with the same Knockout Abe, Morris Kaufman, Sam Mittel- ists. This brilliantly conceived Fur Dressers’ Factor Corporation typi- fies their methods. When ~ Lepke and Garrah organized it, the A. F. of L. International in the fur trade wasn’t going so good and something had to be done. The Fur Dressers’ Factor Corp. was got'en up to snatch control of the industry by various means. It would force all bosses to become members and pay large dues in re- turn for which the organization was to prevent new shops from coming into existence. The firms which refused to join the racket they pro- posed to drive ou* of business. Finally, they were to control pro- duction in the industry by assign- ing so many “units” per shop. An- other outfit, the Protective Fur Rabbit Dressing Association, was run that particular division of the srade. To entrench themselves the rack- eteers stopped at nothing. They bombed the Waverly Fur Dressing establishment and killed the night watchman, they bombed the Acme Fur Dressing Corp., the Hunts Point Fur Dressing Co., threw acid into the faces of Jay Joseph and M. Liebman, fur merchants, stabbed Albert Williams—one could con- tinue to the bottom of the column. There was a single, great obstacle | district, and a couple of weeks ago | organized along the same lines to) Workers’ Industrial Union. To con- trol an industry it isn’t enough to |be able to shuffle the employers’ organizations. You have to have a | union and the vast majori y of the fur workers belonged to this one. Trouble was, their leaders weren't “practical” men—they wouldn't play ball. Then the miracle occurred in the \A. F. of L.-Socialist Joint Council. | They had been breathing their jast. |There were no electric ligh's, no coal to heat up the deserted joint. jcards by candlelight. A pall hung lever the premises when it was learned that the Associated Fur Manufacturers had been forced to | negotia e with the Industrial Union. The Associated refused to give in to the demands of the Industrial and the moment the conference was broken the lights went on in the Joint Council which, according to Norman Thomas, had held no mee ings for a year preceding. The lights went on and a telephone was put in and a stenographer engaged and business started. A new man- ager receiving $150 a week was ap- pointed, too, none other than Harry | Yurman, known: as a Lepke-Garrah lieutenant up and down Seventh Avenue. Harry would have the pub- lic know that he has quit the racket | sinee and set up a poolroom in the The boys were compelled to play | | man and other well-known Social- |to their plans—the Needle Trades | he approached the Industrial Union with an offer to spill the dirt if they only laid off him—the pub- licity was bad for business. | But in 1933, Mr. Samuel Mittel- man, President of the Protective | Dressers Aszociation, called Morris | Lenger of the Industrial Union and | demanded that he put out of busi- ‘ness those firms who refused to sign with him or the Pur Dressers’ | Factor Corp. At the time Lenger | was leading a strike against A. Hol- jlander & Sons in Newark. This firm has # blocdy record, already | three workers having been killed in , Various strikes against them. Lan- ger turned Mittelman down flat. | When he started his car a bomb exploded, tearing him to shreds. | The Joint Council, Lepke and | Berean marched on. Ed McGrady, A. F. of L. organizer. now Assistani. Secretary of the Department Labor, came especially to a meeting | of the Associated Manufacturers to | encourage them in the fight agains | the Industrial. In the trade journal of the industry, Women’s Wear of | April 24, 1933, an article appeared ! announcing that “the American | Federation of Labor has definitcly | decided to enter the labor situation |in the fur manufecturing field and jenforce its contract. Just how to lenforce this agreement, of courze, becomes a problem for the Interna- (Continued on Page 2) of | the Tobacco Workers Industrial Union and Communist candidate in the 19th Congressional District; Ar- mando Ramirez, Communist candi- date in the 17th A. D.; Anna Damon, Acting National Secretary of the I L.D., and Ruby Bates, star Scotts- boro defense witnes: vho braved death at the hands of Alabama lynch rulers to testify at the Deca- jtur re-trial that the “boys never j touched” herself or Victoria Price, that both girls were forced by the Alabama officials to lie against the | boys. Workers Tear Down Jim-Crow Signs The marchers were preceded by the Young Liberztor Band, its mem- bers in uniform, with several Negro women carrying a huge red and black banner of the Young Libera- tor Sports Club. The W.LR. Band led another contingent of the pa- rade, while four radio cars pre: {ceded and followed the m broadeasting a call to everybod: Join the fight to prevent the legal murder of Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris on Dec. 7. The parade swept down Lenox Ave. from 13ist St., through 117th St. to 5th Ave.. turning west through 116th St. to 8th A and up 8th } Ave. to 135th St., en to Lenox Ave. and down Lenox to 131si St. where a huge final rally was held. mt character of the © recognition by the w: ers of all the issues involved in the Scottsvoro fight. w: hown in the tearing down by groups cf marche: of several jim-crow signs ‘ White Tenants Only” alonz of march, and in their ignoring of traffic lights and police signals. Cheer Angelo Herndon | Angelo Herndon, the at the final rally, was ing welcome by Negro and w’ workers inspired by his he defiance of the Atlanta lynch Herndon, sVl weak from his jcil ordeal and his subsequent tour for the Scottsboro- Herndon defense. spoke briefly. He related how the mass fight for his defense had nro- tected him from torture while in jail and had won his release on (Continued on Page 2) Hunger Marchers Will Meet Tonight at United Action Headquarters All delegates to the State Hunger March to Albany have been csked ; to meet at the headquarters of United Action Conference on Wo Relief and Unemployment, 11 Wes Eighteenth Street, tonight at 7:30 o'clock. Registration, merch ex- penses of at least $5 for each del gate, and a report of the numb¢e of delegates elected by each or- ganiza ion, must accompany each delegate. Final plans and instructions will be made for the city-wide demon- stration and send-off to the dele- at 10 a.m, will be made. gates at Battery Park on siege Philadelphia Answers | PRESIDENT TO REASSURE WALL STREET Reports to Convention of American Bankers Groups Today FINANCIERS PLEASED Morgan Man Appointed Go-Between Afier Conferences WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 21— Moving rapidly forwerd the eren- vr. of the Ameri= Association conventich, revealed today. Roosevelt chosen head of the Reso; Finencs and his sonal Co: ne: ich brings the leading Wall S s Mhis close tie-up with the Wall Street banks has edded in the light of the been holding with Roos Mergan Man Appointed In line with his policy of re- moving whatever obstacies stood in the way of the Wall Street banks havi i vol of the government machinery, Roosevelt has jnst appointed H. J. Siettinus, J. P. Morgan representative on the of the United States Steel ‘poration, as the government's cial intermediary between Wall Street banks and the N.R.A. agen- cies. Indicating the complete domina- tion of the Roosevelt government by heard C the Wall Street ban! Francis Marion Law, president of the Bank- ers Association stated. yesterday “Perhaps in no other time in our history has there been the need of cl understanding be- tween the Federal government and the banks, 2nd IT am convinced thet our convention will be the most serviceable and constructive of the association.” Commenting on the Rosevelt agreement with the Wall Street banks, the leading capitalist organs are already speaking openly of-the which the Wall Street banks are exercising. George (Continued on Page 2) USSR Dooms Naval Spy To Be Shot MOSCOW, Oct. 21 (By Wireless), —Completing its examination of an espionage organization which had attempted to gather information ding the military and naval forces of the U. S. 8S. R., the Sue preme Court today sentenced one person to be shot and five to terms of imprisonment ranging from six to ten years. The central figure in attempting et out the plans of military tion plents at the ports-of d and Murmansk was & Germen citizen, Puchs, who had as his nearest assistant a certain Kote Sasser, an A ‘ian citizen working as an a bling technician in one of the construction organizations: of Murmansk. cated between @ secret corres s ence hn parellel codes. This espionage organization suceeeded in recruiting a few Soviet citizens, who conducted w meinly in Lenine grad andi Murmanck. One of: the agints in Leningrad was a in Bortsiko’ who was te ordered by Fuchs and Kotgesser to insert on a Leningrad map by the aid of cenditional signs the locae (Continued on Page 2)