The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 14, 1934, Page 1

X ‘Communist Party, are as fol- The NRA Policy of Starvation Again Revealed An Editorial HE relief crisis is growing. It is growing in the sense that the government and the employers have openly ex- pressed their determination that. the millions who now face the approaching winter, jobless, hungry, and home- less, will not get any ade- quate cash relief. The recent speech of Hop- kins, the new forced labor plan of the FERA, the La- Guardia program in New York City, are all evidences of the capitalist policy toward the jobless—to keep them as close to the starva- tion line as possible. But it is not only that the Roosevelt government and the capitalist class refuses the jobless any immediate cash relief. The Roosevelt government and the employers act on the principle that the Federal government has no responsi- bility in guaranteeing work- ers and their families any protection against the curse of insecurity and unemploy- ment. Roosevelt and his whole class act on the principle that the capitalist class is fully privileged to fling 18,- 000,000 people into the streets if they are no longer profitable to the employers. This insecurity, this hor- rible abyss of unemployment which lurks at the feet of every worker in the United States, is one of the great curses of capitalism. Tt is against this Roosevelt- capitalist program of hor- rible insecurity which the ap- proaching Washington Na- tional Congress for Unem- ployment and Social Insur- ance is mobilizing its forces. This Congress, to be held on January 5-7 in the capital of the country, will be the organized and militant voice of the masses of America demanding that the Federal government and the employ- ers assume the full responsi- bility of providing a mini- mum standard of decency and security for every work- ing class family in the coun- try. HE capitalist class,through its legislative agents, will no doubt offer many “unem- ployment insurance” plans to the masses this winter. | The hunger and unrest of the jobless is something that they can no longer ignore. _ But these plans are only traps for the jobless. They give nothing to the masses. However they differ in de- tail, they all are built on the same plan, They all make the workers slash their own; wages to pay for their “in- surance.” They all apply to workers who will be fired sometime in the future, at least one year from now. They do not apply to mil- lions of migratory and agri- cultural workers. They create reserve funds which become a means to tie the workers to their jobs; these funds are strike-breaking weapons. They are, in short, fraudu- lent schemes to make the working class shoulder the burdens of the crisis in order to conserve capitalist profit. The Workers Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill, which will be the main platform to be discussed at the Wash- ington National Unemploy- ment Insurance Congress in January,.presents a program directly opposite from these sapitalist “insurance” plans. The leading planks in this Bill, first proposed by the lows: (1) $10 weekly to all unem- ployed without any discrim- ination whatsoever. This to ee ee oe THE $60,000 FUND! Yesterday's receipts WORKERS’ CLUBS, HOLD BAZAARS FOR Press Run Yesterday—41,900 - $252.04 -836,247.52 Vol. XI, No. 272 <p | ® Daily .Q& Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) —t ; | H ' NATIONAL EDITION Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. Home Loan Program Suspended NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1934 (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents U.S. DECLARES APPLICATIONS EXCEED FUNDS Big Subsidies Are Being Handed to Railroads and Bankers | WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 18.— Alarmed by the demand by mort- gage-burdened small home owners for loans, the recently created Fed- eral Home Owners Loan Corpora- tion issued a statement today an- nouncing a stoppage to all further loans. ‘ The corporation has loaned out $1,873,000,000 against an original authorization of $3,000,000,000. This announcement contrasts with the report of the R.F.C, made public today revealing dealings with banks, railroads, mortgage companies, and other capitalist in- stitutions totalling the enormous sum of $8,500,000,000. Of this huge subsidy to private capital, banks and trust companies alone have received close to two billion dollars, | with mortgage companies and land banks having received more than half a billion dollars. Of the millions of small home-| owners whose life savings, in- vested in homes, are endangered by mortgage debis, only 622,553 have had their applications acted upon favorably. More than 1,745,000 home owners applied. Thus about one in three applicants got any results. The loans are made only on the basis of current earnings of the applicant and his security. While giving temporary relief, the Federal home loans actually add to the al- ready too great burden of mort- gage debt which is crushing thou- sands of small home owners. The latest announcement of stoppage of these loans makes the immediate status of thousands of small homes doubtful. a Navy Contest | _ Reveals New _ WarAlliances LONDON, Noy. 13.—The hurried Personal statement issued today by Prime Minister MacDonald, in which he denied that secret oil and textile concessions were offered by Japan, clearly indicates how ‘American imperialism has been ‘using the support of France and Italy in favor of the 5-5-3-1%-1% naval building ratio as a maneuver to place the United States govern- ment in the most advantageous position to outstrip all other cap- italist nations in the naval arma- ments race for the next war The imperialist rivalry between Britain and the U. S. has been the basis for the former’s support of Japan’s demands for naval parity with the United States and herself. French and Italian imperialism, within the clash of their own spheres of rivalry, have always been restless under the limitations of smaller ratios, and are now de— manding that their ratios of naval building be increased. While the war preparations of the United States and Japan are not directly threatened by these French and Italian demands, they do affect the comparative naval strength of nearby Great Britain, whose cap- italists have always desperately adhered to the superiority of Britain's naval armaments over the navies built under the ratios assigned to France and Italy. Foster Congratulates Action of U. S. Supreme Court Is Result Of| forcing his case to the attention | of Court were sent yesterday to Tom Mooney in San Quentin peniten- | frame-up by which he was buried tiary by William Z. Foster, chair- | alive in San Quentin. man of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the U. S. latest victory in the fight to bring about. the first time in nearly three years Foster was well enough to visit the office of the Daily Worker yes- terday. | telegram to Mooney, “can only be understood as a result of mass pressure and the almost unanimous opinion of the whole of the coun- try that you have been selected for persecution for your service and loyalty to the working class.” in the legalistic wall against Tom Mooney,” he said in a statement for the Daily Worker. action is not due to any growing sense of justice on the part of the capitalists. pelled to retreat in the face of mounting mass pressure, the long struggle for Mooney in which the Communist Party and the revolu- tionary have been the backbone.” Mooney follows: Tom Mooney, 31921, San’ Quentin, California: in forcing your case to attention United “States Supreme Court stop This action can only be understood as a result of mass pressure and the almost unanimous opinion of the whole of the country that you have been selected for persecution for your service and loyalty to the working class stop The capitalists of the country desire to keep you in prison as a means of intimidat- ing the working. class but the masses have never stopped fighting for your freedom stop Mass pres- sure is needed now more than ever for your freedom and that of Bil- lings which would be hailed as a tremendous victory for all labor. Worker, Foster declared: in the legalistic wall against Tom Mooney. brought about Mooney’s conviction as a result of the most cold-blooded frame-up in American history. The capitalist class of California would have hanged Mooney had it not been for the thunder of world pro- test inaugurated by the Russian workers back in 1917. Mooney on Writ Victory WILLIAM Z. FOSTER TOM MOONEY Unceasing Protest, Communist Leader Says in Telegram Con,-atulations on his victory in “For 18 long years the whole capitalist judicial machinery acted | as a solid unit to prevent Mooney from in any way exposing the the United States Supreme. | “The present action of the U. S. |Supreme Court is not due to any growing sense of justice on the part of the capitalists. Rather, they |are being compelled to retreat in tee face of the mounting mass | Foster, slowly convalescing from long ilIness, was cheered by the For Mooney’s liberation. pressure, the long struggle for | Mooney in which the Communist Party and the revolutionary organi- |zations generally have been the | backbone. This mass agitation has | finally raised such a stir among the | | masses that the capitalists are find- | ing it increasingly difficult, if not impossible, to keep Mooney in jail any longer. “The action of the Supreme Court has been compelled by this grow- irig mass pressure. “Mooney’s long fight and his in- domitable spirit—the same fighting spirit that caused the capitalists of California to put him in jail—has been manifested in his long years of struggle on behalf of the work- ing class. “Tom Mooney is innocent. It is safe to say that 10 per cent of the people of the United States know this to be a fact. His continued im- prisonment, in spite of this wide- spread conviction that he is inno-|} cent, constitutes the greatest ex- posure of capitalist justice in the history of the country. “The capitalists have made Tom Mooney pay a severe penalty for! his loyalty to the working class, but their courts have had to pay far more in loss of prestige and con- fidence among the masses in their) institutions. The Mooney case has) been an expensive piece of tyranny by the capitalist class, but the end is not yet.... “It would be folly to rely upon the Supreme Court and any other capitalist court to free Mooney— unless they are compelled to do so. Now is the time for the masses to make their voices heard—louder than ever before—in the demand for the immediate liberation of Tom Mooney. Only intensified mass pressure will free Mooney and the ‘forgotten man’ in the case—War- ren K, Billings.” “This action,” Foster said in his “At least a breach has been made “But this Rather, they are com- organizations generally The text of Foster's wire to Nov, 13, 1934. Congratulate you on your victory In his statement to the Daily “At last a breach has been made Roosevelt To Reappoint War Chief (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 13.— Acting on newspaper reports that The California «courts To Speed Daily placed the Daily Worker drive on the be paid for by the Federal! government and the employ- | ers. Workers to be exempt. (Continued on Page 2) plies especially to every Party section. in the vanguard of the supporters of We call upon every C. P. unit, upon every sympathizer, every trade union and mass organization to pour in their contributions to the Daily Worker. There is no time to lose! Send in your contributions TODAY! DISTRICT BURO, Chicago, Special Committee Is Formed CHICAGO, Nov. 13.—The District Buro, at its last meeting, again measures, A special committee has been set up not only of the District Buro, but also of representatives of the mass organizations. Our ob- jective is to close the campaign on Dec. 1, on which date there is a city-wide affair for t.e Daily Worker. The drive must not be. prolonged. The critical situation of the Daily Worker demands that the dec‘sion of the Central Committee, that all quoias be filled by the end of November, be fully carried out. This ap- Secretary of War Dern plans to recommend the reappointment of Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur, the Hoover military leader of the 1932 bullet and tear gas attack on the veterans en- camped on the Anacostia Flats, the national resident committee of the veterans national rank and file! committee today protested to Dern | thaé such action “would shatter the Army tradition that the Chief of Staff be a one term post.” The veterans urged that the re- ported Dern plan “be dropped im- mediately.” They offered “the al- ternative” of having the rank and file in the Army elect the Chief of Staff, “On the precedent es- tablished in 1861 by certain regi- ments in the State of Michigan, who refused to accept the ap- pointees of the Federal Govern- Worker Drive agenda and has taken emergency The Party membership must be the Daily Worker. | | broken off last night in less than DYE STRIKERS HALT PARLEY Owners Refuse Union| Shop Demand—U.S. Mediators Leave By George Morris (Special to the Dally Worker) PATERSON, N. J., Nov. 13.—The | conference between the employers | and striking dye workers was| an hour, when the employers re- | fused to concede the workers’ first | demand for a 100 per cent union shop. The Labor Board mediators, | Dr. Benjamin Squires and Nathan | Shefferman, left for Washington, | after failing in their attempt to| foist a two-year no-strike agree- ment upon the workers. At a well-attended mass meet- ing this morning at Roseland | Ballroom, the workers, after hear- ing a report, arranged to intensify their fight as the only means to make the employers come to terms. ‘The strike is 100 per cent effec- tive and the enthusiasm of the workers is at the highest pitch. Charles Vigoritto, was chairman | of the meeting. The workers gen- | erally regard him as one of their best fighters. | He opened with a rousing speech. “The bosses are spreading stories,” he said, “that I am putting Com- munist ideas in your head. If fighting for workers is being a} Communist, then I am proud. to | say that I would rather be Red) than yellow.” The applause and | cheering to this was a record, since the strike began. Relief Issue Won Poralla, Business Agent of the Dyers Union, reported that the re- | lief authorities have agreed that | every striker is entitled to cash, clothing, rent, a half ton of coal, gas and light. All strikers should register with the union relief com- mittee, stationed at the Roseland Ballroom, and directions will be given. It was quite obvious that An- thony Ammirato, president of the Paterson local, and George Bal- danzi, President of the Federation, | | are now quite careful not to be booed off the stage again. They spoke about the importance of | coming out on the picket line and staying out. It was apparent that | they were working hard to gather | their shattered prestige. Squires Fears Strike Spread The workers decided to send a large number of flying squads to Union City tomorrow morning at 5 a. m., as a few scabs are reported working at the Warren Piece Dye Works. Last night, in his concluding re- marks before the shop chairmen and delegates meeting of the strik- ing dyers, Benjamin Squires of the Textile Labor Relations Board stated that “the board is now very much interested in the immediate termination of the strike, as the entire industry is affected, and al- ready reports have been received of many centers also ready to come out on strike.” Most of his and Shefferman’s speeches were de- voted to trying to gain some con- fidence in the Government N. R. A. scheme, which has been so em- phatically rejected as a_ strike- breaking dodge. Their talk did not make the slightest impression on the workers. Among the workers there is the unanimous opinion that the gov- ernment Labor Board was merely an instrument in the hands of the employers to fool them into ac- cepting the two-year no-strike agreement. Prior to the arrival of the gov- ernment officials to the workers’ meeting. Ammirato pleaded that the workers give them a cordial reception. “You can boo me, you can boo Joelson,” he said, pointing to the former police recorder, now paid attorney of the union. “But these are government officials.” Squires tried to review the con- tract point by point, but went no further than the first three. The workers rejected them unani- mously. These revolved around the 100 per cent union shop, Labor Rela- tions Board, and the no-strike question. There was much discus- sion and the Board heard a great deal on how the workers always got a raw deal out of arbitration. Squires then promised that an- other conference with the employ- ers will be arranged. Efforts of the Daily Worker rep- resentative to obtain an official) statement from either the officials | of the Dyers Federation or the Paterson local office were agein un- successful today. They refused to ment in Washington and instead elected their own officers.” \“factory” plans, the unemployed | by the relief administration at $60,- talk, although the capitalist press are given such statements daily, Huge Force F.D.R. SOCIAL’ PLAN EXPOSED | d Labor Program AND BOSSES Announced As Perkins Admits Conference Today Is Ballyhoo FERA Factory Scheme Would Work Millions on Dole Wages WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 13.— F. E. R. A. plans yesterday took a further step in the direction of nation-wide regimentation of the unemployed into forced labor jobs with the announcement of projected “factories” for the unemployed in all sections of the country. | The plan for the establishment of “factories,” a forced labor scheme in which the unémployed are hired for mere subsistence wages, while tending to drive still lower the liv- ing standard of all the working. pop- ulation and reduce wages of the employed workers in those indus- tries covered by the F. E. R. A. factories, holds out luscious plums in the form of profits and graft in the buying of materials. Briefly, the plan announced yes- terday one closely analogous to the so-called “Ohio Pian,” called upon relief project engineers as being charged “with the responsibility for planning and promoting, in vari-| ous States, work relief projects for the production and distribution of goods needed for relief purposes.” Vast Prison Labor Project While at the present time various mattress factories, f one plants and establishments for the manufacture of clothing by the un- | employed, with wages at subsistence levels figured on the basis of in- dividual and family needs are inj operation, the new scheme, designed eventually to put “twelve million | unemployed into jobs at lathes and looms,” is intended to\embrace a, much wider section of the unem~- ployed than heretofore. Heralded in official circles as “part of the social security plans | of the administration,” it is of fur- ther significance as an indication of the schemings of the Roosevelt “Economic Security Commission” to evade the administration's prom- ises of granting unemployment in- surance, Under the projected F. E. R. A. ® Philippine Sailors Decide To Continue Strike for More Pay CEBU, Philippines, Nov. 13~- More than 1,000 sailors here voted to continue their strike to- day when the employers refused to agree to their demands for higher wages. They tied up 50 inter-island ships. The men struck on Nov de- manding a 20 per cent increase in pay, and equal pay for equal work for all sailors, Filipino, Japanese or American. The men rejected an offer of a 15 per cent wage increase. Fifty officers ac- cepted the offer, but since the sailors refused to join them, the ships are tied up tight. BiG PROTESTS PLANNED FOR NEGRO BOYS New York Conference Will Spur Campaign to Save Boys 2 An Emergency Scottsboro, Anti- Fascist Conference, will be held to- morrow evening, 8 o'clock, at the ond Ave. The call for the confer- ence, issued by the Downtown Pro- visional Emergency Committee for the Release of the Scottsboro Boys and All Victims of Fascism, urges all anti-fascist groups, all down- town workers’ organizations to send delegates: “All anti-fascist forces! © United to save these victims of fascist ter- sre isolated from the working pop-| Tor! Give clear expression to our ulation of the country under a plan | Tesolute opposition to fascism in anj which, it is expected, will operate | form. Fight Hitler terror and anti- outside the pale of the whole pres- | semitism! Drive the Nazi groups ent economic system. Thus, while|out of the U.S.A.! Fight lynching the value of all the goods produced | and discrimination! United in strug- under similar F. FE. R. A. plans,| gle against all fascist developments operating last year, has been placed | in the U.S.A.” 000,000, expansion already made will account for goods to the value Of $20,000,000 this. year. | workers and intellectuals, Negro and Takes Union Jobs Away | whi ; Operating as it does outside the! walle, wl femoneinte eae et eee te Oe ee set ad adds | the Scottsboro boys, with a parade nothing to the relief doles to the| Starting at 2 p.m. from 47th and unemployed, and belies the admin-| Prairie Ave. and ending with a istration’s avowed intentions of placing the unemployed back into private industry. Here, it will be| noted, while clothing allotments to the unemployed of goods manufac- tured in the ordinary channels of industry would account for union wages paid the workers in many instances, and at least wages better than the amounts of the hunger dole of the F. E. R, A. goods made by the unemployed are being man- ufactured at subsistence wages. In establishing this precedent for prison labor conditions, the F. FE. R. A. thereby drives still lower the wages of the employed. The plans already drafted by the F. E. R. A. instruct the work relief engineers to establish shoe factories, tanneries, work rooms for the man- ufacture of suits and overcoats and cotton trousers, saw and planning mills and brick making plants, To Parade in Chicago CHICAGO, Noy. 13. — Chicago (Continued on Page 2) 30 Nazis Are Jailed In Saar for Plotting Foes Assassination (Special to the Daily Worker) SAARBRUCK, Nov. 13 (By Wire- less)—The arrest of thirty fascists here, who planned to murder Fritz Fordt and Max Braun, leaders of | the Saar anti-fascist united front; Government Commissioner Knox and Police Commissioner Machts, as well as others, was reported to the League today by Knox. This an- nouncement, coming from the League, is expected to lead to fur- | ther concentration of the French W.L. Patterson in Cable Asks Fund to Save Scottsboro Boys From the sanatorium in the Crimea, U.S.S.R., where he is recovering his health shattered by strain and overwork in leading the International Labor Defense through the fight to save the lives of the Scottsboro boys, William L. Patterson, national secretary of the I.L.D., has sent a cable calling on} the broadest masses for support to »— i = F the defense at this critical moment. | Sierras ps eats The text of his cable follows: and Supreme Court with protests. “Publish immediate following ap- | Smash the prison bars that hold peal to all workers Negro white all/| nine innocent Negro boys. Support lovers of justice all opposed to I.L.D. drive for Scottsboro Herndon lynching. The Scottsboro boys must | fund with immediate contributions. be freed. The lynchers holocaust set | for December seven for Haywood} “Rush all funds by airmail, t Patterson Clarence Norris must be | graph, special delivery, to the na- prevenied. Millions must be mobil- ized to stay the lynchers hand. Fighting’ fund must be obtained at once to safeguard legal and mass Labor Defense, Room 610, 80 E. 11th St., New York City, for the $6,000 Scottsboro-Herndon funds » Housewreckers’ Union. Hall, 35 Sec- | | troops on the Saar border. The at- | “William L. Patterson.” | tional office of the International | Big Business to Dictate ‘Social’ Policy, Says Labor Secretary By Marguerite Young (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 13.— Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins announced today that the “policy” in selecting the specific corpora- tion schemes, for the so-called economic security program of the New Deal will be determined in private on the advice of a group dominated by the same big busi- ness men who formulated the profit-producing N.R.A. codes. Tomorrow’s widely ballyhooed “Conference on Economic Security,” in which about 200 business men, college profes. and reactionary will participate, will to produce “a rough Zent public opin- said. The reat business of makipg policies will be handled by Roosevelt. Cabinet mem- bers and a new advisory council loaded with such figures as Gerard Swope, president of the General | Electric Company, and Raymond editor of the Roosevelt Moley, magazine “Today.” Demagogic Serg¢en Miss Perkins’ remarks Jeft no oné in doubt that the technique of Producing the “economic security” program be exactly the same | as that followed customarily by the | New Deal———a public meeting of | Supposedly scientific and liberal figures, first, to provide the screen of demagogy, and then the real show in which leading corporation spokesmen including some who lean j openly to fascism, decide matters | behind closed doors. Miss Perkins also announced that | the committee on economic security, | which is responsible for reporting a | program to President Roosevelt, will “ask for an extension of two weeks | time,” in order to allow their new | advisory council to get in its work of making the decisions which were ue to be reported on Dee. 1. Asked whether the last-moment procedure of calling in a special advisory council to work from the customary place behind the scenes without previous public announce- ment of their identity and ime portance was contemplated when President Roosevelt announced the formation of the original commit= tee of government officials, Miss Perkins replied,“ Yes.” Thus it was | | (Continued om Page 2) Report Shows Utility Trust’s Huge Steals WASHINGTON, Noy. 13.—Mil- lions of working class families are being robbed every year of $194,- 000,000 by the Consolidated Gas Company and allied Wall Street | utility companies in New York, New | Jersey, Pennsylvania and New Eng- | land, a survey just handed to Pres= ident Roosevelt reveals. | The survey, presented by the New | York Port Authority, after a study jof three years, shows that even jon the basis of capitalist valuation jof a “reasonable profit based on a six per cent return,” the New York \electric monopolies are plundering | the masses to the tune of hundreds |of millions of dollars. The Consolidated Gas Company | charges 6.1 cents per kilowatt hour | when even on the basis of swollen | profit evaluations 3.77 cents an hour would be “reasonable.” | The report showed that the utility |companies systematically add enor | mous fictitious values to their capi- talization upon which they figure their “reasonable” terms. These valuaitons are at least 100 per cent tco high, the Port Authority statisticians revealed. |. That nothing can be expected from Roosevelt in respect to mo- nopoly utility rates can be seen from the fact thet Roosevelt and |Lehman both have direct and in= \direct connections with the power jtrust in Well Strest. The leading financial figures in the Consoli- |dated Gas Company are prominent in the councils of the Democratic Party. As for Governor Lehman, to whom a copy of the report was submitted, his Wali Street banking Rouse, Lehman Bros. has direct \ connections with the utility bankers, the Morgans,