The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 27, 1934, Page 1

| EE TY SEND TODAY WHATEVER YOU COLLECTED ON LISTS, COUPON BOOKS Yesterday's Receipts . Total to Date .... 8 567.40 $25,575.08 Press Run Yesterday—47,400 tn ren a renee Vol. cand No. 257 <> *%* a Mew York, N. ¥., Entered as second-cisss matter at the Post Office at under the Act of March 8, 1878. Daily .QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTER NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1934 ATIOWAL) NATIONAL EDITION (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents 5,000 PICKETS CLOSE DYE PLANT ILLINOIS SET T0 STOP JOBLESS CONGRESS PATERSON SILK UNION STATE HEADS IN HEADS IN FEAR, "PLOT. T0 BAR CAPITAL AGAINST UNEMPLOYED Secret Plans Revealed As 1,000 Delegates Prepare to to Meet SPRINGFIELD, Ripe Oct, 2%.— “We cannot afford to have a dem- onstration of unemployed—not at this time.” This decision was reached at a closed meeting of high officials of the State of Tllinois, in- cluding the Governor of Iilinois and the mayor of Chicago, it was learned from an authoritative source today. This secret conference decided to use all means to stop incoming delegates to the State Congress for Unemployment and Social Insurance to be held in Springfield on Monday, Oct. 29. They decided to establish a ring of 50 mile radius around Springfield and not to permit any delegates to pass through to the State capital. Mayor Kapp of Springfield had previously denied a permit for a parade from the Congress hall to the State Capitol to present de- mands of the Congress to the Gov- ernor. Application for the use of the state fair grounds likewise has been denied, although the same fair grounds were given free of charge for the use of the State Conven- tion of the Republican Party held recently. According to authoritative infor- mation the meeting was held in Chicago on Wednesday, Oct. 24, at- tended among others by Governor Horner, Mayor Kelly, Dunham, Chairman of the Illinois Emergency Relief Commission; Lyons, Admin- istrator of Relief in Cook County; Burns, Relief Committee Represen- tative to Knox County, and at- torneys Holliger and Muscol. They discussed in detail how to launch a terroristic campaign against the 1,500,000 unemployed workers and impoverished farmers in the State of Illinois. Among themselves they admitted that the additional $1,000,000 granted Illinois for the month of October by Wash- ington authorities was due to the increased activities of “Reds,” mean- ing the Unemployment Councils, and militant leadership of the Il- | (Continued on Page 2) WAR PLANS ARE INVOLVED IN OIL FIGHT i WASHINGTON, Oct. 26. — The protest of British and American im- Uperialism against the recent threat of a Japanese oil monopoly in Man- chukuo is involving Japanese war plans to the point of having reper- cussions at the naval conference in London. Long in brewing, the oil conflict, from having been uncovered to the public view two days ago, is now assuming intensely significant pro- portions. Following the protest of the United States Government to Japan in the interests of the Stand- ard Oil Company, an official state- ment declared that objections had been strongly raised, not only against a Japanese-controlled oil monopoly in Manchukuo, but: against the regulation covering Ja-! pan itself, which demands that foreign oil interests keep a six months supply of oil within the country. The American oil trust is threat- ening to close down all its business in Japan, which would signify a eavy blow to the efficiency of the japanese navy. At the same time fficial observers here say that Ja- hopes to use her position in the oil question as a means of securing naval parity at the London confer- ence. On the other hand the in- tensive war preparations of the Roosevelt government may include plans of sacrificing its oil holdings in Japan, if by doing so it can deal a blow at Japanese naval strength. It is conceded here that England might easily upset such a scheme. A cable from London quotes the “Fin- ancial News” as saying that the British will clinch a sudden all- inclusive agreement with Japan on | the naval conference, mutual assist- | ance, economic alliance, such as in- creasing the Oriental market for the British Petroleum, Ltd, and so ‘Daily’ Begins Today With Two Editions, City and National The Daily Worker begins with this issue to publish two edi- tions, the national and the New York morning editions. This change, which combines the ear- ly city and the late morning edi- tions of the New York Daily Worker, is designed to reduce expenses made necessary by the slowness of the drive. To facilitate the handling of the news, the morning edition of the New York Daily Worker will go to press at 9 o'clock. STATE HUNGER MARCH GAINS WIDE BACKING (Special to the Daily Worker) HUDSON, N, Y., Oct. 26.—Mayor Frank Wise today refused to grant permission to the Hunger March- ers to pass through the streets of this city declaring that he is “op- posed to the efforts of the hunger marchers to embarrass public offi- cials.” All organizations and in- dividuals in the State were urged to send protests to the Mayor at once demanding that he abandon his at- tempt to abrogate the right of peti- tion by preventing the hunger march from reaching Albany. Mass pressure has compelled Mayor Carter of Amsterdam to grant a permit for the passage of the march through this community and he has promised a police escort. 380 Relief Men Fired SCHENECTADY, Oct. 26.—A total of 380 workers were discharged this morning from local work relief pro- jects. The dismissal notices stim- ulated a spontaeous mobilization of the discharged workers at the head- | quarters of the relief administra- tion. The workers were lured from there by the offer of a vacant fire house in which to meet. Phil Bard, organizer of the Al- bany Hunger March in the capital district, spoke at the meeting and exposed the conduct of the relief officials and urged the workers to elect a committee to present their demands for resumption of the pro- ject to relief officials. Mr. Rugan, a relief official, sought to pacify the men by a speech of demagogic sympathy. When Bard took the floor to reply to Rugan’s speech he was assaulted by police- men and thrown bodily from the hall. The United Action Commit- tee here has called a meeting for tonight to protest against the mass layoff and to elect delegates to the hunger march. A mass meeting in Gloversville has elected two delegates to the march. A committee has been set up to aid the marchers. Local United Action Committee head- quarters have been established at (Centinued on Page 2) 'HIRTY THOUSAND silk and rayon dye workers in New Jersey, New York and striking for higher wages, the 30-hour week, against Darey Points Out C. P.| Champions Cause of Foreign-BornW orkers DENOUNCES PERKINS | LL.D. Reports Number | of Arrests Concealed | by Authorities WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct, 26.— Fourteen workers arrested in the raids on workers organizations dur- ing the San Francisco general strike, have been deported, accord- ing to Secretary of Labor F. Per- kins. These deportations, the most brazen, fascist measures yet taken by the New Deal in using the de- portation weapon against strikers, occur in the final stretch of the election campaign. Sam Darcy, Communist candidate for governor of California, in a statement has | pointed out that the Communist | | Party is the only Party in the elec- tion which champions the cause of the foreign-born workers. | “Mrs. Perkins states that of the |373 arrested in these raids, 101 | were found to be of foreign birth,” | Darcy declared. “But only four- ieen-are,non-citizens and are. there— fore ‘deportable. ‘The ‘Roosevelt government is continuing the strike- | breaking policy it pursued against !the West Coast marine strike and the San Francisco general strike. It is inereasing its open fascist | measures against workers who strike | against starvation conditions.” Mrs. Perkins said, one was de- ported for belonging to an orgeni- zation advocating the “overthrow of the government by force and violence,” while ‘the others are sea- men who “overstayed their legal Period in the United States.” | Thus far most deportations, es- pecially of thousands of Mexican and Spanish workers in California and Southwestern states, have been carried through in a quiet manner, hiding the fact that the workers took an active part in the agricul- | tural strikes. The International Labor Defense, | on the Pacific Coast, reports that) | the number of arrests reported by | Perkins is far below the actual number made. Admission by Per- kins that less than one-third of those arrested are of foreign birth, gives the lie to the intense pub- licity campaign engineered by the Hearst newspapers that a majority of those jailed were deportable for- eign-born workers. At the recent California conyention of the Amer- ican Legion, resolutions were in- troduced condemning Perkins as a “radical” charging that she refuses to deport the “Reds.” The Labor Department has thus far not revealed the name of the organization which advocates “over- throw through force and violence.” But throughout the whole California anti-Red drive the Communist Party was the chief target and a specific clause in the immigration law designed to deport militant workers on such “grounds” was ap- plied in this case. A Vote for Communist Candi- dates Is a Vote against Company “Unions.” Pennsylvania, are hi 4 EARL BROWDER General Secretary C. P. to Culminate Cleveland Campaign CLEVELAND, 0O., Noy. 26- Browder, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the U. S., will be the principal speaker at a com- bined final election rally and 17th anniversary of the Bolsheyik Revo- lution at Masonic Auditorium, 3615 Euclid Avenue, on Sunday, Noy. 4, at.2 p.m, rs Of | Editor 14 IN COAST Browder and Hathaway JONES BACKS STRIKE RAIDS Zo Lead Big Mid-West|| IN FIGHT ARE DEPORTED * «lies for Elections FOR NINE BOYS | Cc. A. Baemawar } of 4 ‘Daily’ to | Speak in Chi. Coliseum | -Earl | | bash Aye., Sunday, Noy. 4 at 2 p.m. Following the meeting the work- ers will join in an election parade through the heart of the city. Besides the principal speech by Browder, short talks will be made by leading Communist candidates. | While the Cleveland meeting is expected to be the largest in the district, other election rallies in various parts of the state will un- doubtedly draw /large crowds workers. Some of the other meet- ings scheduled include: Youngstown, O.—Saturday, Nov. 3; main speakers, Earl Browder and I. O. Ford, Communist can- didate for governor. Akron, ©O.—Monday, Nov. 5, John Williamson, district organ- izer and Ben Atkins, candidate for Congressman-At-Large, main speakers. Toledo, O.—Sunday, Nov. 4, C. W. Sandberg, candidate for U. S. Senate and Ken Eggerth, main speakers. Canton, O.—Sunday, Nov. 4, Yetta Land, candidate for At- torney-General. Cincinnati, O.—Sunday, Nov. 4, John Marshall, candidate for U. S. Congressman-At-Large. Other rallies in Columbus, Day- ton, Steubenville, Dillonvale, Adena, Mansfield, Alliance and Erie, Pa. to go over top. N. SPARKS District Organizer AN tile workers to the sharpened wage cutting, anti union drive of the textile manufacturers. tile workers are increasingly aware that the “no The tex- the stretch-out, and for 100 per cent union recog- nition, A new wave of strikes in the textile industry has begun, for the same demands that the workers put forward in the general textile strike. Strikes are beginning in the South, in New England, and Pennsylvania textile centers. The textile workers are preparing mass struggles now, of which the general dye strike is just the beginning. These strikes are directed against the decisions of the Roosevelt textile boards and against the “settlement” by these boards, which the U.T.W. leaders enforced on the workers in selling out the general textile strike. They are striking over the heads of the U.T.W. leaders, and in violation of their wishes. This swelling strike wave in the textile industry is the workers’ answer to the attempt of Roosevelt and the Gorman-Green-A. F. of L. leadership to enforce on them a six months “no strike truce.” forth, The growing strikes are the answer of the tex- Strike truce” proposed by Roosevelt and readily ac- cepted by Gorman, means an agreement not to strike while the employers carry through their wage cutting and union smashing. This anti-union drive of the textile employers, based on Roosevelt's no strike “truce,” is frankly put forward in the joint statement of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers and the Amer- ican Cotton Manufacturers’ Association, made public Thursday. This ten-point program, calls for the outlawing of strikes. “Strikes or lockouts should be illegal when they are designed to coerce the government either directly or indirectly, by in- flicting hardships on the community,” say the tex- tile barons, They also stand on a program of in- creased stretch-out, declaring that the industry “must avail itself of the developments of science and invention.” This program of increased attack on the workers’ living standards and the unions also demands that the Federal Government shall give no relief to strikers, and that the company union of | Boston Makes Pledge! (Special to the Daily Worker) BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 26.— Financial drive being in- tensified by affairs in sections, house parties and collec- tions stop Sections One and Nine and Quincy are over top Norwood Maynard and all mass organizations especially Finnish and Lithuanian very backward stop Pledge to pass seventy five percent of district quota through affair this Saturday evening Dudley Street Opera House and continue On November 4 | CHICAGO, oct. “26.—C. A. Hath- away, and member of the Central Com-) mittee of the Communist Party, will} be the main speaker at a combined | effort of a group of New York men | final election rally and celebration | to help Samuel Leibowitz oust the | - of the November Revolution at the large Coliseum Hall, 15th and Wa- ‘This meeting will also mark the opening of the city campaign for the spring elections for Mayor and City Council. The primaries will take place on February 26 and the final elections in April. The Com-| munist Party calls upon the work- | ers not to vote in the primaries and reserve their right to sign petitions | of the Communist Party to place it on the ballot, | The minimum number of signa-| tures required to place the city can-| didates on the ballot will be over | 85,000. | The November 4 meeting will serve | to mobilize the Chicago workers for | gigantic demonstrations for the} Unemployment Insurance Bill and | immediate winter relief as well as| other demands of the unemployed on Noy. 25. The organization of this demonstration will be of a/ united front character, involving all! organizations of the unemployed, | trade unions, | B. K. Gebeft, District Organizer, ; states that “it is the duty of every Communist, every sympathizer of | the Party to bring to the Coliseum | meeting the largest number of work- ers from shops, trade unions, un- |employed, Negro, youth and women | and calls upon the Party organiza- tions and organizations of the work- ing class to come en masse to this meeting.” | tional | the relief rolls. shall be legalized (against “coercion” by unions), and demands the outlawing of all picketing. The opposing forces of the employers and the ow | Says Only Mass Refewie| Tactics Have Saved Lives Till Now | NEGRO RIGHTS ISSUE | Calls Disruption Effort ‘Tragedy’ to Cause of Boys and Race The attempt to oust the Interna- Labor Defense from Scottsboro case is a tragic jagainst the fight for the lives and | freedom of the Scottsboro boys and | | the mass struggles, organized around | the case, for the rights of the op- | pressed Negro people, William N. Jones declares in his column in the | Baltimore Afro-American, issue «of | Oct. 27. Speaking with the knowledge of one who has closely followed the case and actively participated in defense activities for the boys, Mr. | Jones states: “No one who has followed the | editor of the Daily ‘Worker | Scottsboro case carefully during the | past three years could help looking | with apprehension at the recent) International Labor Defense at this crucial stage in their fight to save the lives of the nine boys and through them the Eee ri 14,000,- 000 citizens in this “No one should accuse me ae hold- ing any wholesale brief for the Communists, but I feel that it would | be a tragedy at this time to disrupt | |the tremendous influence this or- | ganization has built. up in its long and effective fight in the Scotts- | boro case.” He declares that the very tactics | (of mass pressure on the courts and | militant legal defense, boldly chal- lenging the exclusion of Negzoes from juries, etc.,) which Leibowitz and his Negro lieutenants now criticise are “the only things which have saved the Scottsboro boys so| far.” He warns that the case “is no gloved hands, pink tea and caviar affair,” and pointedly asks where were these new found “champions” (Rev. Davis, publisher of the Amsterdam News, Rey. Richard Bolden, Rev. Dr. Edward E. Haynes) of the boys during the past three and a half long years of dogged, uncompromis- jing struggle for the lives and free- dom of the boys. “Not since John Brown made his | famous raid at Harpers Ferry,” Mr. (Continued on Page 2) 40 Jobless Win Help By Picketing at Texas State Capitol Building) AUSTIN, Tex., Oct. 26.—A group of 40 unemployed men and women | from Travis County obtained promises of relief when they picketed the State Capitol yesterday and avowed their intention of “peacefully starving to death in the corridors of the State House.” Leaders of the hunger strikers stated that Travis County officials | had cut 1,700 destitute persons off In desperation they decided to starve themselves to death unless their relief needs were met by the state government. dye strikers, the | blow | Lorenzo King, William H.| MEETS TOD ON ISSUE TALKS TO STRIKERS | | S. SALLER Communist Candidate for Congress | in Bergen County, N. J. DYE STRIKERS MASS IN LODI STREET RALLY | LODI, N. J., Oct. 26.—Thousands of striking dye workers marched through the streets of Lodi, Passaic and Garfield last night to a great meeting of more than five thousand strikers at the Polish People’s home. | The parade was organized by Lodi local 1983 and Passaic local | 1983 of the United Textile Union, | dyers locals. Amplifiers carried the | speeches to the large crowd which | could not get into the hall. The speakers included Frank Banti, vice-president of the dyers federation (U. T. W.) S. Saller, who |is Communist candidate for Con- gress in the 7th New Jersey district (Bergen County); Ammirato, presi- dent of the dyers federation and | * Jack Rubenstein. When such rank and file speak- ers as 8. Saller declared the dyers | will not return to work under any “arbitration” scheme, there was tremendous applause. Banti declared, “We do not want any such settlement as was con- cluded by Gorman in the general strike.” Slipper Workers “Out On Strike in Passaic! PASSAIC, N. J., Oct. 26—More the Pacific Slipper Co. plant here came out on strike today, and the rest are expected to be out to- morrow. Cailed out by the United the workers are demanding an in- nition. SUPPORT THE STRIKE OF 30,000 TEXTILE DYE WORKERS EDITORIAL should be brought into the fight in support of the The dye house owners will begin their terror if their arbitration moves now going on in than half of the 100 employees at | Shoe and Leather Workers Union | crease in wages, and union recog- | workers are preparing their battle lines for the coming great struggles. The A. F. of L. leaders, acting as agents of the employers, are trying to prevent the workers from striking. The dye strike, centering in Paterson, should be the signal for the broadening of the fight by the textile workers. The strikers have already declared in their meetings that they will not return to work under compulsory arbitration, that they will not accept a sell-out such as Gorman put over in the general textile strike. A victory of the dye strike is a victory for all textile workers. Victory in the dye strike means a Serious defeat to the union smashing attack of the textile employers. Therefore the dye strike should receive the immediate and effective support of the entire working class. Especially in the textile cen- ters, united front labor conferences should be called, in which the A. F. of L, and independent unions, the Socialist and Communist party members, the unemployed organizations, the entire working class, Washington fail. The rank and file of the dye strik in order to guarantee against a betrayal, should control their own strike. Their leaders, such as Baldanzi a Ammirato, have stated that they oppose arbii tion. But the rank and file must be on guard. They must take control of their own strike by elect- ing, in every mill, rank and file strike comm: to have complete charge of the strike activities in their mill, The dye strikers, in order to insure con- trol of their strike, should enlarge the General Strike Committee by electing workers from each shop to the Committee. The General Strike Com- mittee should have charge of all negotiations and be responsible for all negotiating committees. No settlement without a vote of the entire body of Strikers. This will insure against a sell-out. In order to defeat the anion smashing drive of the bosses, united action in the dye and silk in- (Continued on Page 2) AY T0 ACT OF WALKOUT jie nd tess to Aid Walkout in Three \. J. Counties | | | | By George Morris PATERSON, N. J., Oct icket line of 5,000 today the Trio Dye nd the Victory where a number | from New Yo and 26.-— A y proceeded Piece Company Piece Dye Shop, f thugs, imported armed with pipes tioned on guard, workers were so infuriated when they caught sight of the scabs that the picket captains could hardly stop them from storming the | plants. The scabs w finally taken away in three ta after being as sured by the picket captains that they would not be molested. Both plants are now closed and the strike ers have stated very emphatically any attempt to open plants be met by the greatest mass rallies. Pi to were 3 a | The National Office of the dyers | federation estimates that in -the | y and k region s more 5 per cent altho} some of the Plants in New England and Penn- yet been pulled out. The spreading of the strike to involve all the plants in these regions, is now raised as one of the | Main tasks: A very important factor | which may prove decisive in maine taining a complete tie-up, is. the action of the International Brothers hood of Truck Drivers and Teame sters, tonight. Local 560, which in- cludes the truck drivers of Passaic, Bergen | | and Hudson Counties are to take strike action after their coitract has expired. This covers | the truckmen in the heart of the strike area Mass Meeting This Morning Saturday morning the strikers will hold another mass strike meet- ing at Roseland Hall It is exe pected that news of the nogotia- | tions going on in Washington will | be given at the meeting. Baldanzy, | General Secretary of the Union, and other important officials have | gone to W ington to confer. But the wo! seem to have little con- cern over these negotiations, as from the very outset the militancy and enthusiasm has reached the highest point. There seems to be a common understanding that the | issue will be fought out in the mass struggle. Another important- meeting take | ing place tomorrow morning, is that of the Federation of Silk Workers (U. T. W.) here. This members ship meeting has finally -been | called, after a bitter struggle waged by the rank and file for democracy jin the union. There are now 1,000 silk workers on strike, and the drive to cut wages and discriminate against those who took part in the general strike, continues. The rank Jand file group among silk workers will call for strike action at the | meeting, as a joint struggle with | the dye workers will paralyzethe (Continued on Page 2) | Strike Sweep Seen in Entire Silk Industry (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct.-26— While George Baldanzi, president of | the Federation of Silk and Rayon Dyers and Finishers of America (A, F. of L.), conferred here today with Paterson textile owners, with a view |to ending the dyers’ strike, Peter |Van Horn, chairman of the -Siik Code Authority, admitted: “If this strike continues it will involve the whole silk industry—< that is why I am here.” Van Horn sat in on the confers ence which was called by the Rooses velt National Textile Labor Rela= ticns Board. Board members mec the representatives of the workers and employers, but apparently were not active the discussion. Five Fe hours after the conferences began, one official beamed: “We'll have trike ended by sundown.” zi wes accompanied . by : Judge Harry Jolson, counsel on. The spokesmen for yers’ Institute of Dyers jand Printers were: Peter Van Viaandern, Emanuel Shavich, John J. Murphy, James Simpson, John J, Holder, Dean Lewis and Alexander Patterson.