The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 30, 1934, Page 1

AT SYMPOSIUMS, LECTURES, DISCUSSIONS, CALL FOR “DAILY” Yesterday's Receipts ....... Total to Date ..... Press Run Yester COLLECTIONS seeeeneees BS 1,436.82 seeeeees - $28,270.52 day—48,500 Vol. XI, No. 259 <q» x Entered as second-class matter at New York, N. ¥., under the Aet Daily ,<QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTE the Post Office at of March 8, 1879, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1934 WATIONAL) NATIONAL E DITION (Six Pages) Price 3 C PICKET LINES KEEP DYE SCABS OUT MINISTERS BAR SCOTTSBORO MOT NEGRO CHURCHMEN AID PROTESTS HIT ‘LEIBOWITZ MANEUVER STATE AID TO LYNCHING Workers in 3 Departments | Of Daily Worker Give $825 | To Help Sa Save 8- 8-Page Paper Giving $825 to save ies tie ayew York Daily Worker, the TO DISRUPT DEFENSE |Demand Arrest of All Who Aided in Murder Mass March T To Protest State Hunger March Of Florida Youth Scottsboro Verdict | Conference Pleads Bras In N. Y. Saturday WOMEN IN DANGER The Need for Funds | Immediate financial aid must be forthcoming if the State Hunger March to Albany to de- mand Winter relief and the enactment of the Workers Un- employment Insurance Bill is to be carried through successfully, the United Action Conference on Work, Relief and Unemployment announced yesterday. A telegram, received yesterday from the marchers, setting forth the urgent need for funds, reads By Sender Garlin Four of the Scottsboro mothers, | here to expose tne conspiracy of | Samuel Leibowitz and Negro mis-| leaders and to mobilize mass senti- | ment for their framed-up sons, were | yesterday barred from addressing a/| meeting of the International Min- isters’ Alliance held in the Salem M. | E. Church, 129th St. and cera Ave. Escorted by Ben Davis, Jr., at-| torney for Angelo Herndon and ed-} itor of The Negro Liberator, the | ILD in Mass Protest Against Lynching A wave of flaming mass protest | Swept the entire country yesterday as the details of the connivance of the state and country governmenis of Florida and Alabama and the! |Federal government in the horrible | lynching of the young Negro work- |Harlem Chevdie Join| | trict,” they declared. “We must not allow the discontinuance jtwo days’ pay. The money came from the composing, mail- workers in the composing, mailing and stereotyping rooms of the “Daily” yesterday called upon their fellow printers to rush contributions to the $60,000 fund! “Especially do we appeal to those in the New York dis- of the eight-page paper. But to every Party member, every sympathizer, every workers’ organization in the country we say: “Don’t wait! Give your support now to the $60,000 drive! The future of the new Daily Worker hangs in the balance!” Eight workers gave their entire week’s salary to the collection. Substitutes, working only two days a week, gave ing and stereotyping rooms. SOVIETS NAME MANY WOMEN FOR ELECTION | Working Women Take. Energetic Part in |= Ballot Campaign | REAL SEX EQUALITY Position Caliatediies With That of Working Sisters in U. S. MOSCOW, Oct. 29 (By Wireless). —Women in the U. 8. S. R. are well | aware that their sister workers in| |America have been the first and | |worst sufferers in the devastating | effects of the economic crisis. As married women they bear the bur- CORMAN IN THERS ATTEMPT TO REPEAT SELLOUT _OF TEXT Daily Worker Staff Challenged in Drive By Finnish Editors The Daily Worker staff was challenged yesterday, in the “Daily's” drive for $60,000, by the workers and editors of the Fin- nish Federation, Inc., publishers of Eteenpain, Viesti, Tyolais- nainen and Punikki. The Finnish Federation started off with a contribution of $100! The $100, furthermore, the Finnish writers stated, was an answer to the challenge of Tyo- mees Employees, who have chal- ILE STRIKE (Strikers Mass Before Plants As Leaders Confer Alone By George Morris PATERSON, N. J., Oct. 29.—The splendid strike of 30,000 dyers re- mains solid today with mass Picket> ing keeping out all scabs. The striki faces a very serious threat as news comes from Washington that Frane cis Gorman, who sold out the gene eral textile strike, has injected him= self into the negotiations It is likewise believed that he was chiefly responsible for the points , Ministers’ conference went into ex- mothers appeared at the conference only to be insultingly informed that | the ministers “prefer to listen to an} intelligent report from authorized | counsel of the boys,” referring, ap- | parently, to Samuel Leibowitz and| the group of Negro misleaders who | are seeking to wreck the Scottsboro | defense. Vhie virtually slamming the door in the faces of the Scottsboro moth- | ers, the Negro ministers took time | to listen to a campaign speech by | J. Dalmus Steele, Republican can- didate for Assembly in the 221st A. | D., Harlem. Later, after excluding |/}—. the Scottcaoro. mothers as well as representatives of the press, the ecutive session to listen to an at- tack upon the International Labor Defense by George W. Chamlee, who has lined himself up with the; Leibowitz gang. When the Scottsboro mothers ar- rived, they were given seats near the chairman who, from the first, displayed considerable embarrass- ment at their presence. No sooner | did the Negro women find seats than Rev. L. H. King, the most viru- lent enemy of the I. L. D. in Leib- owitz’s so-called “American-Scotts- boro Committee,” arose to move that the executive commiitee of the Min- isters' Alliance to rule upon the ad- | visability of permitting the mothers to speak. It was Rev. King and Rey. Bolden who had recently made the trip south to disrupt the mass fight for the Scottsboro boys by at- tempting to persuade the boys to repudiate the I. L. D. and place themselves in the hands of the Tammany politicians, Leibowitz and his cronies. Asked Mothers To Leave The chairman thereupon ruled that the Scottsboro mothers be asked to leave the conference and be “questioned” by Rev. A. C. Gar- ner, representing the executive | committee of the Ministers’ Al- liance. In an ante-room Garner was joined by Dr. George H. Haynes and three other ministers, who proceeded to butiyrag the har- tassed mothers with a series of hos- tile questions. Typical of these was: “Do you know that the I. L. D. has collected hundreds of thousands of dollars and has made no ac- counting?” When Ben Davis objected to this star-chamber proceeding, he was informed by the committee that he had no right to be present at the question‘ng. When Davis also ob- jected to the presence of Haynes, the chairman of the committee suggested to the latter. that he leave, at the same time ordering Davis to depart, also. A few minutes later Rev. Garner returned to the meeting with the “recommendaticn” that the body declined to hear the Scottsboro. mothers. Fearful of the public re- action to this step, Rev. Johnson said it would be “unfortunate if werd went abroad that this con- ference refused to listen to these ‘women, for whom we all of course have the most hearifelt sympathy.” Rey. King thereupon moved—es an obvious maneuver to conceal their antagonism to the Scottsboro fight —that “the way be left open for these women to appear before this body,” providing, of course, that the Executive Committee should so de- cide, To Save Their Faces 1 Supporting King’s motion, Rey. Johnson was tactless enough to blurt out that “this procedure is ab- solutely necessary in order to save our faces in this matter.” Johnson's remark upset Leibo- | witz’s “Man Friday,” Rey. King, to such an extent that the latter im- mediately moved that the gathering “go into executive session.” This vroposal was unanimously adopted and Ben Davis as well as the sev- | ‘ral reporters present were ordered to leave the conference. Following the virtual ejection of (Continued on Proo> | cutters of the Kroger and E. as follows: Heavy snow forced marchers to stay behind schedule. Serious shortage of blankets. No funds. No food provided in Poughkeep- sie. Rush funds or march can- | not continue, All determined. Good spirit. All outstanding funds collected for the Hunger Marchers, and all funds raised in response to the marchers appeal, must be turned over to the United Action Conference, 11 West Eighteenth Street, at once. A&P STRIKE IS EXTENDED TO WISCONSIN 300 More St Stores Shut As Meat Cutters Aid Cleveland Strike MILWAUKEE. Wisc., Oct. 29— The strike of the A. and P. chain | store employes in Clevelahd spread to this district today, when meat cutters of 100 A. & P. chain grocer- ies in Milwaukee and Racine went out on strike. in protest against the closing of 300 Cleveland A. & P. stores by the | | company in the face of a strike of | its employes for union conditions. | Twenty-six stores are affected by | the meat cutters walk-out two Wisconsin cities. The meat | Shinner Co. chain stores are ex- pected to join the walk-out In voting to strike, the employes of nine Kroger meat stores and five Shinner meat markets demanded a minimum wage of $30 for managers and $27 for assistants. Strike Spreads in Ohio CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 29.—The strike of employes of 300 Atlantic ; and Pacific chain groceries here | was exvected to spread to all Ohio cities, following the closing by the company of its Cleveland stores in the face of the strike of the em- ployes. A convention of the Amal- gamated Association of Meat Cut- ters and Butchers (A. F. of L.) has been called in Columbus for next Sunday, where a state-wide strike will be discussed. Michael Schuld, (Continued on Page 2) |mear Marianna, Fia., | izations er, Claude Neal, last Saturday night | leaked out. To the vigorous protest telegrams jot the International Labor Defense, | the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and other militant organ- actively organizing and leading the fight against lynching and for the constitutional rights | of the Negro people were added | scores of protest messages to Pres- ‘ident Roosevelt and Governors | Dave Sholtz and B. M. Miller of Florida and Alabama from various | POLICE FORMMILITANTS LINES AGAINST PICK BRIDGES STATE MARCH AS PRESIDENT ALBANY, N. ¥., Oct. 29.—Police | By Tom K Keenan \continue to mobilize throughout the! PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 29.— |capitol area as three columns of The real convention of the Amer- Hunger Marchers move closer to| where, after a ican Federation of Labor, repre-| den of sharing the lowered famil; |income, of illness, drudgery, blighted | |lives; as single workers American |women face the indiscriminate ex- ‘ploitation of factory and office and he impossibility of leading normal nfes and establishing homes and | | families. Soviet women take a special pride lin their changed role in the world. |Entirely taken up with the forth- | jcoming Soviet elections and the jpart which the toiling women as- |sume in the work of Socialist con- struction, committees of women and liberal organizations, south and | the State Capitol, The strike was called | in the | | Alabama ‘north, Harlem Churches Send Protests Protest telegrams were sent to the officials named, by the I. L. D, both before and after the lynching. Fifteen Harlem churches last night sent telegrams to President Roose- velt and Gov. Sholtz denouncing {the lynching and demanding arrest and punishment of the lynchers and Florida and Alabama officials who | aided them. A moyement was | started by the League of Struggle for Negro Rights to get all Negro |and white churches, all organiza-! tions of workers and intellectuals, | to send protests voicing the de- {mands of the League and the I. |L. D. for the arrest and prosecu- |tion of the lynchers and officials, including Sheriff W. F. Chambliss | of Jackson County, Fla., and Sheriff |G. S. Byrne, jailer at Brewton, Ala., | who turned Neal over to the lynch death penalty. Among the liberal organizations | sending protesis are the Association | of Southern Women for the Preven- | tion of Lynching, the Commission , jon Inter-Racial Co-operation and the American Civil Liberties Union. | All point out that the Florida and authorities had ample | notice of the plans of the lynchers | and failed to lift a finger to protect the Negro victim. The demand for Federal prosecution of the lynch- ers on the basis of the Federal kid- naping statute was raised by most of the protesting bodies. They all agreed that the lynching will go ernment is forced into action, which can be brought about only by the most terrific mass pressure on the; Roosevelt’ administration and the Democratic Party—the party of the lynchers. Roosevelt Paper Admits Crime The New York World-Telegram, an ardent supporter of the anti- working class N. 2. A. policies, yes- terday admitted in an editorial (Continued on Page 2) gang, and the application of the) two-day conference, they will pre- sent demands to Governor Lehman, calling for a special session. of the State Legislature for the immediate appropriation of $200,000,000 Win-| ter relief and the enactment of the Workers Unemployment’ and Social Insurance Bill and the Small Home and Property Owners Relief Bill. | In Hudson, a city 32 miles from here, today’s edition of the “Hud- son Star” quotes Mayor Frank W. Wise as being “definitely opposed to | the purpose of the march,” and states that he does “not believe any | Person or group of persons should attempt to embarrass public offi- cial at sucha time. If the march- ers intend to come through Hudson, The United Action Committee of the up-State area yesterday urged immediate protests to Mayor Wise, demanding that he instruct his po-| lice to keep their hands off the marchers and not to molest them | in any way. be addressed to Mayor Thatcher and Police Chief Smurl of Albany. Richard Sullivan, secretary of the | New York Unemployment Councils, jnow enroute to Albany with the New York City contingent of the) Hunger March, in a telegram to the United Action Conference yesterday urged all organizations to wire Gov- ernor Lehman demanding that no| parades and demonstrations be in- terfered with, tingent of the Hunger March moved toward Gloversville, where Clarence | Carr, president of the Independent Leather Workers Union will address unpunished, unless the Federal g0v-4them at a mass meeting. They will be joined by the Gloyersville dele-| }gation tonight, and after a stop- over will continue the march to Albany. The delegates from Troy, Amster- dam, Saratoga and Schenectady will join the Buffalo contingent of the | Hunger March at Schenectady Tues- day. Communist Candidates Are | Leaders in the Fight for the | Right to Organize, Strike, Picket. the police will be ready for them.” | From Syracuse, the Buffalo con-| | Protests should also | senting the interests of the broad-| conferences of women met in great | tively, of the National A. F. of L. | bakers, painters, paper bag-makers, | control of their union. | forces in the union who reject class est sections of the American work- ing class which are organized in the A. For L., ter- | day after a two-day rere oy aitry Bridges, militant leader of the Frisco longshore strike, and Louis, Weinstock, veteran of the A. F. of L. rank and filers, were elected as president and secretary, respec- Rank and File Committee. One hundred and sixty-three delegates participated representing a total of 69,894 workers in A. F.| of L, unions in mining, steel,| building trades, auto, rubber, ma- chine building, textile, printing, | needie trades, metal manufactur- ing industries and in miscellaneous trades such as hatters, coopers, | Hold Conferences | The delegates had gathered from | eleven states, bringing to the con- ference a wealth of experience in their various union struggles against the A. F. of L. bureau- cracy and traitorous class col- | laboration policies of Green, Lewis, Berry, Hutchison, Tighe, Gorman, | Zausner, and the other misleaders. During the entire morning ses- sion of the second day delegates from each industry gathered in sub-conferences to consider next steps in the fight for rank and file In the miners’ conference the question was taken up of the com- ing international and district elec- | tions, the fight for autonomy in! provisional districts which are un-| der Lewis appointees, to prevent Lewis from excluding Sloan and Guynn from the ballot; and the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. The steel conference took up the fight against Tighe, head of the Amalgamated Association and his strikebreaking policies and the need for the organization of a co- ordinated opposition from the (Continued on Page 2) numbers. There were women mem- bers of the Central and Republi- | can Governments of the Soviet Union, activists from the Moscow factories, ang other working women and peasant women occupying re- sponsible posts in political, social | economic and cultural institutions | and organizations. | On the general background of the | growth of the country and the con- | struction of socialist society the growth of the toiling women is es- pecially astonishing. With full right |they claim a place in the Soviets worthy of their increased role in the life of the country. The Secretary Jof the Central Committee of the U. S. S. R., Yenukidze, speaking at one meeting stated: “The course of the election cam- paign allows us to hope that this year the Soviet elections will take place more actively then ever be- fore. This is certainly to be ex- | pected. In the years after the Sixth Congress the country obtained enormous national, economic and foreign political successes. The po- litical activity of the broadest masses has grown very greatly. During this period the country has produced an enormous number of intellectuals from among the toilers themselves. The masses have learned to work better. The mate-| rial standard of life of the toilers | of the U. S. S. R. may be judged from the following figures: The na-| tional income of the Soviet Union | increased from 2944 billion rubles | in 1930 to over 50 billions in the present year. “The working women and peas- ant women played a great part in these productive and cultural achievements,” said Comrade Ye- | nukidze. | “As a result of the elections the toiling women must occupy a worthy place in the Soviets. Women must be worthily repre- sented in every organ of the | workers’ and peasants’ govern- ment from the village Soviets to the Central Committee of the So- viet Union.” C.; in the tentative proposals for_sete lenged all the other language ||tiement made public last Friday, newspapers. The Tyomees, how- || which’ provides for an “impartial ever, sent in only $97, which |! hoard” to take up grievances of the puts the Finnish Federation in the lead. U.T.W. BOARD SANCTIONS 28 MILL STRIKES Yields to Pressure, Lets Local Vice-Presi- dents Decide The Executive Board of the United Textile Workers of Amer- ica, led by Francis Gorman, con- cluded its three day session in New York by sanctioning 28 mill strikes “at the discretion of the U. T. W. vice presidents in the field.” The workers in these mills had made it known that if the strikes were not sanctioned they would strike over the heads of the U. T. W. officials. Gorman left it to the vice presidents to try to prevent the growing strike movement in the industry. Most of the demands of local unions for strike are on the basis of the wholesale blacklisting of their members after Gorman sold out the general strike « Strikes sanctioned at the “vice presidents’ discretion,” include: Collins & Aikman, Philadelphia, Bristol, Barrington and Allendale, R. I.; Kelly, Baxter & Faust, Phila~ delphia; Rose Mills and Sullivan Narrow Fabrics, Philadelphia; Dun- | barton Mills, Sangerville, Me.; U. S. Silk Co., Westbrook, Me.; Hampton | Synthetic Yarn, Easthampton, Mass.; Lowenthal Garnetting Mills, Cohoes, N. Y. Marlboro Mills, Bennettsville, Clinton Cotton Mills, Mills, Clinton, S. C.; Lawrence Cotton Mills, Lawrence, S. C.; Jud- }son Mills, S. C.; Dunean Mills, Woodside Mills, and American Spinning Mills, Green-Rock Hill |and Whitmare, S. C.; Powell Knit- ting Mills, Spartanburg, S. C.; | Musgrove Mills, Gaffney, S. C. Lonsdale Mills, Seneca, S. C.; | Bibb: Manufacturing Co., Columbus, Macon and Porterdale, Ga.; Alex- ander Mills, Forest City, N. C.; Henrietta Mills, Henrietta, N. C. C. P. ELECTION PLATFORM IS THE ONLY ONE FOR WORKERS By EARL BROWDER General Secretary, Communist Party, U.S.A. ‘The address was following Ma oo ee ‘We are approaching Election Day. Every worker should answer the quéstions, “What candidate and what party should I yote for?” vote for a particular party or candidate?” try to answer these questions. First of all, why should anybody vote for the The Democratic Party is in charge og the government, which is carrying through Democratic Party? certain policies. Certain people these policies and with the conditions created by But I cannot understand why anyone who is dissatisfied should vote for the the Democratic Party. Democratic Party. How many reason to be satisfied? The unemployed workers? About one out of every three is spite of all the promises of the Roosevelt “New Deal,” jobs are not getting more plentiful. Those who have jobs | find that their weekly earnings are decreasing are fewer jobs every day. steadily and those few who get delivered at the of dollars*every with it. All of “Why should I Let us because they wi Why shouldn't Republicans? are satisfied with property. workers have a | out of a job. In | should vote for There yer who spends the same number the robbery of thé masses. record of this Party and its candidates. cialist candidate for governor is Mr. Solomon. Do you know who Solomon is? He is a lawyer, a law- week find that they can buy less this is a direct result of the policies of the Democratic Party. How about the Republican Party? The Repub- ican Party criticizes the Democratic Party, but only ant to make more bold and open I ask therefore again: a banker or Mr. Ford vote for the The Republican candidate for gov- ernor in New York State boldly comes out with a proposal for a sales tax as a means of raising gov- ernment finances. a way of making the poor people pay the costs of the government which protects the rich people's What is a sales tax? That is Solomon’s Anti-Labor Record There is the Socialist Party. Perhaps the worker the Socialists. Let us examine the his days carrying out legal proceed- ings for those who have money to pay, The So- | A few years ago the same Solomon got out an | injunction against the Food Workers Industrial | Union, and the police, in enforcing gotten out by Solomon, murdered Steve Katovis, one | of the workers of the Food Workers Industrial Unicn who was picketing a struck shop. This same | injunction that was gotten out by Solomon is now | being renewed in the zase of the food workers’ strike that is going on in New York City worker cast his vote for a party thi standard bearer an injunetion lawyer? It is no accident that Solomon bearer for the Socialist Party. It fits in with the | whole program of the Socialist Party. | ist Party is not embarrassed to have Solomion as | its candidate. The Socialist Party is proud of Sol- | pinally | omon. It finds nothing to be ashamed of in his Sandy's record. Can we say that, since all the pa all we can do is to pick out the good man on each ticket and vote for the good man against the bad man? The trouble is that good m in office don’t seem to make much difference. by organizations. that injunction | the interests of a now. Can any at places as its | cheirman and put is the standard The Social- | chairman said, “I it down,” the Board individ rties are rotten, en or bad men Pol- | icies are the important thing, and policies are made A political party makes policy in class or a section of a class. That reminds me of a story about a Scotchman who belonged to a Building and Loan Association. Sandy had paid his dues for a long time. he thought he ought to get a loan, especially as he was a friend of the chairman and of the mem- bers of the Board of Directors. He went to the Finally in his application for a loan. The chairman said, “Of course you deserve a loan, but you know I cannot act individually. This has to be passed by the Board. will put it up to the Board.” member of the Board and received the same answer. the Board met and unanimously denied application for a loan. | next morning and asked for I am in favor of it and I Sandy went to each Sandy came around his loan and -the am sorry but the Board turned Sandy said, “I spoke to each member of ually and each one of you said (Continued on Page 2) stn cena workers. This would virtually put the dyers in the same position -as that of the cotton textile workers, thousands of whom have been dise criminated against and left jobless due to Gorman’s treachery in sell~ ing out the general strike. Gorman, it is reported, has al= ready made a promise to Dr. V. Ny the Textile the Paes, Secretary of bor Relations Boazd, that ae would be settled by nig! fall. The leaders of the Federa= jtion. of Silk and Rayon Dyers and |Finishers (U. T. W.), who claim | to oppose Gorman’s sell-out tactics; are now placed on the “spot,” and |the strikers, who are almost unan- enraged against Gorman, own as a national sell-out artis, are anxiously wondering what the local leaders will do. Dye Houses Shut On Saturday, when one of the speakers at the Roseland Ballroom mass meeting stated that “this strike can be won because there will be no Gorman to sell out,” he drew j tremendous applause. sins Dye houses remained completely shut, except for a few small ones in Hudson County, where bitter fighting oceurred today. This was when it was discovered that twenty= four scabs were working at the Warner Piece Dye Workez A picket line of several hundred was mobilized and faced the largest mo- bilization of police since the start of the strike. The workers main- tained their mass picket lines. In Paterson, when a_ report reached strike headquarters that scabs were seen entering the Pacis Brother Plant, at least 2,000 rushed over, forming a large picket pro- cession outside of the plant, The scabs were forced out. The picket procession then moved to the Buser Plant, where a number’ of -stabs were reported working. The--silk ‘manufacture:, Buser, is also police commissioner in Paterson, and workers remarked that more police came rushing there than atcany other plant. Mass Picket Lines After a two-hour march, the plant was reported cleaned out. During the picketing, the workers displayed an exceptionally enthusiastic spirit, singing strike songs and cheering as the line was being swelled. by strikers. Conferences with strikers have not been resumed since Saturday. Ofily |the Settlement Committee of<the Dyers Federation is holding ses- }tions and is reported considering proposals to be presented to the bosses. While the union leaders keep rée | minditig the workers not to pay at= tention to newspaper stories and rumors, their own proposals for | settlement are thus far shrouded | with — secrecy. Capitalist “news- | papers have given wide publicity |to proposals reported as agreed to by union leaders, as placing. the settlement of complaints, diserimi- ; mation and firing in the hands of |a Labor Relations Beard. It=fs. re- |ported that the wage offer of $23 |fer 36 hours was rejected. The union demand is for $1 per hour, No Word from Leaders ais Attempts to obtain a statement from the union on the reports pub- | licized were fruitless and ate bringing no denial from Baldanzy, National Secretary of the Union; The suspicion of the workers is roused. They are wonders ne issue of speed-up “is i in the proposals, likewise, wondering whether one will have to g0 to @ dye house daily irrespective’ of | there being work or not. They are (Continued on Page 6)