The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 15, 1934, Page 5

| | H | 1 { ' 7 DAILY WUKBEK, NEW YURK, THUKSUAL, NOV Baise 15, 1904 Page 5 <==? RELIEF WORKERS CALL COUNTY STRIKE ON WEST COAST FLYING SQUADRONS Old Market SWEEP PROJECTS | AS TIE-UP SPREADS Strikers Demand 50 Per Cent Wage Increase, Union Conditions on Jobs and Enaciment of State Workers’ Bill lief Workers. Flying squadrons were i every relief project and drew the¢e————-__-—— workers out on strike. Motorcades today started a tour of each project and active mass picketing was es- tablished. The demands of the strikers in- clude an immediate 50 per cent increase in all work relief wages with union conditions at a guar- anteed six-hour day and thirty-hour week, union rates to apply. Abol- ition of the stagger system by which the relief workers are placed on a budget basis is also demanded. Central in the strikers demands is for the endorsement of Initiative Four, the State Workers Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill. Under the initiative laws of the State, the un- employed organizations here recent- ly started a campaign to obtain 50,000 signatures to a petition. The petition, already filed at the State Capitol, will place the Workers’ Bill on the first order of business when the State legislature convenes. Should it fail being passed, it then becomes a State-wide referen- dum at the next general elections. Unions and workers’ mass organiza- tions are actively supporting the measure. Metal Union Aids Paterson Dye Strikers ‘Rely on Own Strength,’ Letter from Newark Group Advises NEWARK, N. J., Noy. 14—The Steel and Metal Workers’ Indus- trial Union, 164 Market Street, has sent a letter of solidarity with a $5 donation to the striking dye work- er’. ; ‘Thousands of workers are ad- miring your determined and heroic battle for just demands,” says the letter, signed by J. W. Blumen, financial secretary. “Continuous determination, such as you are dis- playing, united, solid ranks and support from the working class will win your demands. “Continue to rely on your own organized strength and the support of the working class and beware of arbitration and ‘impartig] boards,’ which are instruments in the hands of the bosses. “Please accept this small con- tribution ($5) from our members as an expression of solidarity and of our sincere desire to help you win | your strike. The sentiment of or- ganized labor in Newark and vicin- ity is behind the strikers. We are certain that an official appeal from you will meet with splendid re-/ sponse, which will enable the strik- ers to strengthen their position on the battle front.” Lynn Stitchers Pick Commitiee to Probe Persecution of Militant LYNN, Mass, Noy, 14. — Stitchers’ Local 12 of the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union here is be- ing flooded with protests from lo- cals in New England and New York against the action of the local’s of- ficials in moving for the expulsion of Vera Nabeshka, militant worker. Miss Nabeshka was ordered ex- pelled by the local union officials on the ground that she refused to salute the flag at the opening of the local meetings. She declared she would not salute the flag as Jong as the government deprived her and her family of work or ade- quate relief. The Lynn local of stitchers has now elected a committee of three to investigate the case further and report back to the local, Communist Ballots Double Socialist Vote In Wakefield, Mass. WAKEFIELD, Mass. Nov. 14— The Communist ticket ran far ahead of the Socialist ticket in this small industrial community. The Communist candidate for Governor, Edward Stevens, polled 46 votes as against 21 for Alfred Baker Lewis, Socialist, Other results were 103 for Com- munist Attorney General compared with 55 for the Socialist candidate; 56 for Communist Treasurer, com- pared with 37 for the Socialist can- didate. ‘The votes for the Democratic can- didates varied above 3,000. Los Angeles Union Officials Postpone Streetcar Strike LOS ANGELES, Cal., Nov. 15.— ‘The deadline of Nov. 7 for the strike of Los Angeles strestear men was postponed until Nov. 16 by the | union officials, who co-operated with the Regional Labor Board and the company to postpone the date. (Special to the Dally Workez) BELLINGHAM, "Wash, ‘Nov. 14.—Whatcom County re-} lief workers yesterday declared a county-wide strike under) the leadership of the United Front Strike Committee of Re-| mmediately organized to visit Bronx Drivers To Hold Auto Parade Today Laundry Teamsters Get Run-Around From City Officials After going from office to office, seeing eighteen different city offi- cials, members of Local 810 of the International Brotherhood of Team- sters, yesterday got permission for an auto parade in the Bronx tonight. Composed of laundry drivers, the unionists are on strike for a wage that will average at least $25 every week and for union recognition. The men had been shunted from one police officer to another in their attempt to get a parade per- mit, Captain Farley, of the 40th Police Precinct, Alexander Ave., the Bronx, being the first to disapprove the request of the strikers. Appeal to Inspector Reynolds of the Bronx police also proved of no avail. Strikers also saw Bronx borough officers, but the latter refused to help them. The strikers charge that the attitude of the Bronx police and other officials is intimately bound up With the fact that the laundry owners’ association has been spend- ing thousands of dollars to break the strike. Cops Blind to Thugs A glaring example of the attitude of the police is given by the action of patrolmen who were inside the Cashman Laundry, at 340 Gerard |Ave., the Bronx, when thugs brutally assaulted pickets last Mon- day night, strikers charge. Although they appealed to the policemen to protect their right to picket, the latter were conveniently blind to what was going on. A mass meeting of the drivers | and their sympathizers will be held tonight at Royal Mansion, 169th Street and Boston Road, Getting “Run-Around” Strikers are particularly resentful \of the fect that public officials, who {promised much before elections, j have been giving them what they describe as “the run-around.” Ac- | cording to George Ackerman, assis- tant shop steward of the Cashman | Laundry, and Nathan Schuster, an- other striker, of the De Francis Laundry, there has been continual violence against the drivers. Five strikers were released yester- day on bail from the County Jail orderly conduct,” although their sole crime consisted of distributing circulars calling on drivers to or- ganize. Employers are using strikebreakers from the Burns Detective Agency as drivers, the teamsters report. The strike is a revolt of the men against the miserable conditions under which they slaved. Drivers received on the average of about $10 a week ahd 15 per cent com- mission. The men are striking for a $15 weekly wage and the same commission, both to total a min- imum of $25 weekly, and union recognition. Transformed In Moscow |Site Now Called Col- lective Farm Square By Vern Smith (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Nov. 14 (By Wireless). —Suharev Square in Moscow, which with its market used to be the cen- ter of speculation and shady deals and which now has been trans- | formed, with a garden in the middle | Actions to win. immediate ade- and by being covered with asphalt, | quate supplies of winter clothing, was recently the scene of a really lines per jpaweeed oot Sie ances, centralize ipping bureaus usmneuad:: oslebration, jand seamen’s control of all relief By a@ resolution of the Moscow projects, were outlined at the con- Soviet that site is now named “Col- | ference, lective Farm” Square and a marble | 2 Will Oppose “Projects” column has been erected in the| The conference went on record as ployment Councils of Boston, middle, where the names of the best collective farms of the Moscow | opposed to labor projects but urged region are inscribed. The unveiling |seamen to fight for control of such Opposition to all forms of forced labor disguised under the name of relief projects wa: at the recent conference of delegates representing the Ma-|11 A. F. of L. auto lo rine Workers Industrial Union and the Waterfront Unem- |‘ities. The conferenc | Baltimore, which met in New York. at 161st Street and Brook Avenue. | The men were charged with “dis- | of this board of honor has been turned into a true celebration of the birth of new Socialist rural dis- tricts and of the growth in the wel- fare of the collective farmers. Along the streets through the fes- tive holiday crowds moved columns of trucks carrying people bearing banners and posters. .The best col- lective farmers of the Moscow region demonstrated all the fruits of their labor in the fields and the vegetable gardens in this march to former Suharovsky, now Collective Farm Square. In the presence of thousands of collective formers and workers the first list of the collec- tive farms henceforth occupying an honorary place on the board was read, and the best farmers them- selves stepped forth to tell about their achievements and to raise the call for a new opulent cultural life. The Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the U. S. 8. R., Kaganovitch, then made a speech, pointing out the great importance of the honor- ary board. “That board,” Kagano- viteh declared, “made of marble and granite and erected in the center of the proletarian capital, on the site of the activity of former specula- tors, is the proof of the consolida- tion of the collective farms andthe stability of the collective farming system.” A hammering sound announced the erection of the first boards and the proclamation of the names of the best collective farms. The dem- onstrating columns from the are and. the nearby streets, bands play- ing, marched past and were. hailed from the tribune with shouts of, “Glory to you, best workers of the collective farm fields!” They march on, the echo of their songs still lin- gering in the air, leaving behind them a reflection of their triumph. Protests To Campbell On Humiliating Drives For Money in Schools Protest against the practice in the schools of intimidating poor chi!- dren into “plaguing their parents |for sums of money which they can |ill afford to give’ was made to | Superintendent Campbell by the | Federation of Parents, Teachers and Students, which utged an investiza- tion of the financial drives in the schools, Campaigns for Red Cross, school organizations and school news- papers, and school charity funds are whipped up frequently in the schools. “Teachers, very often against their better judgment, are urged to attain 100 per cent in these campaigns,” said Mrs. Lawson, the president of the organization, This pressure upon the teachers for a 100 per cent record resulted in students being praised for co- operation merely because they could better afford to contribute. Such money drives were “a drain upon the students and a humiliation to parents, teachers and students,” said Mrs. Lawson in making the protest. |projects wherever government offi- cials succeeded in forcing them on the jobless. The conference went on record as opposed to projects, but decided that where the government insisted on putting in a project, the seamen should fight for control of it. The major demands of the seamen, for immediate action, were laid down as: 1—Adequate winter cloth- ing. 2—25 cents minimum per meal for food and 25 cents minimum for a bed, the seaman to be allowed to eat in any restaurant and to sleep where he chose, 3—10 cents |carfare per man per day, to enable the seaman to look for a job. 4— |Cash relief instead of the present |system of feeding and housing in |religious, semi-religious and other | private flop houses, 5—A Central- lized Shipping Bureau, run by the |seamen themselves. 6—Recognition of seamen’s committees, and sea- {men’s control of any project the | government set-up. To put this program into action, the conference proposed that every | Port immediately set to work devel- Joping a series of actions for better ‘relief, on these demands. The con- ference proposed that mass delega- |tions visit the relief officials, cons- | tantly, and that mass actions be de- | veloped in protest against the rot- |ten food and housing, for cash re- lief. A mass delegation from all ports is to go to Washington, and to de- mand a conference there with the jTelief officials of all the various ports. Such a delegation will go to Washington in a few weeks, and if 8 vigorously determined upon | New York, Philadelphia and | necessary, it will be followed by a mass march of hundreds of sea- men from all ports. The fascist character of the pres- ent relief system was a major point of discussion. The government's present efforts all tend toward a scheme of forced labor in all relief | projects. The seamen have so far been able to defeat every effort at | forced labor but the government has not stopped its efforts along those | lines. | The projects were analyzed as the | | government's effort to put over the cheapest and worst form of relief, with the seamen housed in huge barracks, and fed bad food in huge eating rooms, at periods of time so limited that the seaman had no time to look for a job or anything else. The system of “deporting” :mili- tant workers to places far distant from the waterfront was condemned. This system has developed largely in New York, at the instigation of the Seamen’s Church Institute. It was denounced as part of the gov- | |ernment’s effort to isolate the mili- tants from the mass of the seamen, | and to drive them out of the indus- try. The conference also opposed the “projects” on the grounds that, while they provided a good place for organization work where seamen controlled them, they became, in the hands of the government officials and religious racketeers, a place where seamen are spied upon by goverhment dicks, private stool pigeons and religious fakers, to} blacklist the militants, to lower the standards of the seamen, and to build up fascist groups among the seamen through manipulating relief and dispensing favors to chosen in- dividuals, The seamen also discussed the im- mediate possibilities of Unemploy- ment Insurance and decided to push the campaign for H. R. 7598 and the Unemployment Insurance Con- gress that will be held in Washing- ton, January 5, 6 and 7. Eviction Fight Leader Gets 3-Day Term PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 14— | Harry Bismark, section organizer of the Unemployment CounciJs here, who was arrested last week with a number of other workers massed before the home of John Sutko to stop an impending eviction, was sentenced to five days in jail for “perjury.” Bismark, who was at first released, was immediate rearrested on the second frame-up charge. The eviction of Sutko and his wife ahd seven children was at- tempted two weeks ago by police, who hurled tear gas bombs into his home and severely gassed the young- er children. They fied before the aroused neighborhood arrived. Sutko has been arrested and charged with “attempting to kill a constable.” A united front con- ference in his defense was held by workers in the North Side on Mon- day. Six hundred dollars bail bond was immediately raised by the work- ers for his release. His wife was also released on bail raised by the workers, Mill Hands Win ‘Court Struggle In Worcester SEAMEN PLAN FIGHT Militant Union| ON FORCED LABOR Plan Discus sed! Men from Auto Locals | Industrial Union FLINT, Mich., Nov. 14—A step| forward in the movement for a mil-| itant international indus' in the auto industry conference here of 43 a rank and file movement in tl locals, was held in Painters H: the Pengelly: Bui! ig, of the A. F. of L. The conference was open only to members of A. F. of L, auto locals. The Daily Worker has learned from one of the workers present the de-| tails of what took place. For Industrial Union rters | Ts | | The main resolution adopted} reiterated the a A previous confe: eland, | Sept. 16, for an t | dustrial union under r: | control, and decided to petition zhe | af Executive Council of the A. F. cf L, to call a constituent convention foz | this purpose on or about March 1.| The conference, however, in oppo-| sition to the decision of the A. F. of L. convention in San Francisco, demanded that the international union be truly industrial, embrac- ing all crafts in the auto plants. The resolution further asked the Executive Council to call an im- mediate conference of all auto locals | for the purpose of setting up an organizing committee. The resolu- tion demanded that the union be controlled by the rank and file and that it be given all rights and priv- fleges of international unions such as the right to choose all officets, | to handle its own finances and to/ conduct all activities without in-| terference of the A. F. of L. Execu- tive Council. The Executive Committee of the rank and file movement was em- powered to prepare a Workers Auto Code for presentation in Washing- | ton and to call another conference | at a suitable date. Assails Misleaders In the discussion Clark of the} Flint Buick Local attacked the A. F. of L, leaders and told of the betrayal of the general strike in March. “The next time we have @ strike situation,” he said, “we should kick out these organizers and run things ourselves.” He was backed up by a delegate from the Kenosha Nash plant and by the financial secretary of the Cleveland Fisher Body Local. The latter declared that before the Fisher Body strike, he used to col- lect $5,000 a month in dues, but the month after their struggle was be- trayed he collected only $50. The membership of the local, however, is now once more on the increase, he stated, as a result of the activity of the rank and file movement. Two members of the renegade Lovestone group, Lipson (Lischitz) WORCESTER, Mass., Nov. 14.—| ternational Labor Defense, won a/ signal victory last week when aj jury here returned a verdict of not, guilty in the case of four workers | arrested on Sept. 14, during the! textile strike. They are charged; with “speaking without a permit.” Two of the four, Evelyn Wellin and Sidney Allen, who were beaten | by the police, were also charged with “assaulting” a police officer. | Two others, Henry Grossman and Joseph Sacalaski were declared “guilty” of speaking without a per- mit. So great was the mass pro- | test, however, that the judge only | imposed small fines on the two. Donald Burke, District Secretary of the International Labor Defense, led the defense, assisted by Attor-| neys Oroteau of Worcester and} Aaron W. Warner of Boston. The arrests of the defendants followed the revoking by police of a permit | for a meeting when it was learned that Ann Burlak, textile workers’ leader, would address the meeting. By Milton Howard a hes biggest Well Street capitalists are not fooled by the results of the election, They have no fears or doubts as to what the Roosevelt New Deal will mean for them in the face of the overwhelming popular mass vote for it. In its recent analyses of the elec- tion results, the Daily Worker stated that the American working class supported Roosevelt because they still look upon him as an opponent of the Wall Street industrial and banking interests, they still expect from him “leftward” moves in the direction of a “social” program, as against the reactionary program of the Wall Street monopolists. The “Daily” also stated that these hopes of the masses are an illusion which the masses themselves will quickly find out in the coming months when they demand the ful- filment of their hopes excited by the promises of the Roosevelt gov-~ ernment. The “Daily” concluded, finally, that the Roosevelt government will take the popular vote to mean that. it can move forward to new capi- talist attacks against the masses, to new capitalist measures in the interests of the biggest Wall Streot monepolies. This analysis finds confirmation in the editorial comment of the Wall Street Journal, which evalu- ates the elections as follows: Wall Street Has No Illusions On Meaning Of Recent Sweep for Roosevelt ‘New Deal’ “Why so little immediate reac- tion to a triumph at the polls of @ government-in-office which business men have so often and so vehemently declared to be the one impediment to the “natural” recovery of private industry? This newspaper ventures to believe .. . that the explanation lies in the manner in which the Administra- tion has itself reacted to the elec- tion returns, “Disregarding the usual first- minute exaggerations of their meaning made in the monetary Political mood, no responsible member of the Administration has | attempted to read into the elec- | tion its license to add new experi- | ments to those already in progress, to carry further the substitution of public for private activities un- der which trade and _ industry carry on. So far, at least, the election victory seems not to have enlarged the familiar outlines of the New Deal. “On the contrary, official Wash- ington appears to be more than ever interested in ways and meats of enccuraging private enterprise to function more freely.” ‘The emphasized concluding sec- tion gives the key. Not only is big business aware that the huge pop- ular vote for the Roosevelt New Deal does not contain any menace to them in “leftward” moves of the Roosevelt government, but, on the > contrary, the Wall Street monopolies at Roosevelt will now ad- vance “to encourage private enter- prise to function more freely.” Driving for Profits “To function more. freely”—what does that mean? It means a more Tuthless drive for fits. And in conditions of di ig markets, shrunk by crisis, what does that mean? It means an intensified sweating of every worker in the country, a grinding of profits by the smashing of the wage levels, the crippling of the unions, the breaking of strikes, and the intro- duction of the refined cruelty of more speed-up. Thus what the masses will get from the New Deal in the coming months is not what they expect, or what they thought they voted for. What they will get is expréssed in the above quotation from the Wall Street Journal. The fact that the masses gave Roosevelt his overwhelming man- date does not mean that Roosevelt's position is now impregnable. On the contrary, the very sweep of his mandate, the very in- tensity of the hope with which the masses look to him, will make the inevitable disillusion with his pro- gram all the more far-reaching. It is the essential trick of the Roosevelt trickery to pretend that it is the Government which has suc- ceeded in forcing its will upon busi- ness, that it is the state which is extending its sway over the econ- omy. In this le, the Roosevelt govern- ment is aided in one way or another by the whole chorus of political theorists, from the liberals of the Nation, through the editorials of the Socialist Party New Leader. But the comment of the Wall Street Journal on the political meaning of the recent elections is supplemented by the remark made by a utilities magnate incorporated in a study of utilities submitted yes- terday to the Senate, “American business has captured the government, and no other gov- ernment has been put to the service of business as ours has,” stated Mr. E. F. Stone, of the ColoraGo Public Service Corporation. And how does this frank admis- sion by an American capitalist dif- fer from Stalin’s recent remark in his interview with H. G. Wells, on the United States that “it is not the state which has taken over the economy, but rather the economy which has taken over the state”? It is the results of this process which the American masses will secon discover in their daily life. Thon they will proceed to act in demand of the things they need. A new wave of mass actions, of and Miller, managed to get into the conference and tried to discredit it, Mass pressure, organized by the In-| thus giving aid and comfort to the |revision of the sabbatical leaves A. F. of L, bureaucrats. Lipson spoke against a Workers Code despite the fact that the companses are do- ing all in their power to prevent any reopening of the code, realizing that the auto workers are ready to put up a fight for their own de- mands. Cook, an A. F. of L. organizer, also tried to worm his way into the conference. He was kicked out by the investigating committee. Wing for Overcrowded School in Long F in a two truction of P.S Brooklyn. the Bri dex ions, parents, s been by mass parades, and frequent vi yy egations to the Board. vo puni tive transfers of substitutes who led the struggle togethe: ith rents marked a c in the campaign for the new w The Oc Board 8 J, Weber, Agreement of the city and the P.W.A,, approval by the Board of Estimate and approval of the con- tract must take place before actual | construction begins. es | More Consolidations Is Campbell’s Reply to Listed Eligibles Although the presence of classes of | 50 or more children in the tary schools has never been at the Board of Education, old G. Campbell, superintendtin of | schools, defending the Board’s | policy of continued overcrowding, | last week, in answer to the flood of resolutions from 22 different faculty | groups and organizations demanding | the appointment of the 310 eligibles | on the License No. 1 list, offered the | excuse that there were more teach- | ers than were needed. Dropping completely all pretense | of sympathy with the eligibles, Dr. Campbell stated that 89 more ele- mentary school classes were to be} dropped before December 31; this) will bring the total of teachers “in ss” to 439 of whom 350 are still working only because of the vacan- | {cies caused by teachers on leave of absence, | Frankly aligning himself with the bankers, who have hard for the last two years to re- duce further the educational stand- |ards as well as the standawd of liv- ing of the teachers, Dr. Campbell “reasoned” that the situation of the | eligibles ‘was practically hopeless, be- | cause there was no money for ap- | pointments. Close to $180,000,000 has been appropriated in the 1935 budget to be paid to the bankers. | i SORES | CLASSROOM GROUP MEETS TONIGHT A meeting to act cn the proposed | | regulations will be held tonight at 7:50 o'clock under the auspices of the Classrcom Teacher Groups at/| 156 Fifth Avenue. | Further action on the drive for) full sick-pay will bs planned at the| meeting, as well as the initiation of | a campaign for the return of the 1932 salazy scale. Miss Blanche Horichter will report on the budget hearing to be held before the Board | of Aldermen next month. if At Auto Parley | prighton Parents Win AT COAST PARLEY Outline Fight for Cash Relief, Increased Food| Launch Campaign for Allowances and Unemployment Insurance; to Fight for Centralized Shipping Bureau | the upgrade, fo: |to the communities involved, whicr jan ex been driving | Ww! School News -:- po ee ee N.E.A. Report ‘Shows Schools Closing Doors Government Loans Add Buildings But Burden with Interest lete sure finance, have vic dren the dre: 1 ern States and the drought-stricken ereas of the West will have less schooling this winter than they did last unless the Federal Government comes to their aid.” Appropriations Still Low The gain to the schools of $100,- 000,000 for capital chiefiy eral loans, which the research h has since 1930. Nor can regarded in ar cation that appr represents a loan have been forced to include a new item of interest in their budgets. The National Education Associa- tion with about 200,000 members has followed a policy of investigations and “deploring” conditions to such ent that today it must report that, “Fifty thousand children ir one state found the school door: closed against them this year...’ and that “in one sta of only 51 days of possible this year unless measure: are taken by the Federal Govern- ment to provent this injustice.” Militants Demand Action Awakened by the continual re- fusal of the supervisors, who domi- nate the organization, to take mili- tant action on behalf of the chil- dren and teachers, the militant: in the orgar m are begin- ning to demand action. The las | convention held at Washington, un- der pressure from the militants passed a resolution urging all divi- sions to hold demonstrations in be- half of the schools during the week of Nov. 8. While federal loa: the per capita oi by. $1.13 in the last have increasec for educatior salaries, the than it wai ation is even _ there have beer almost no zses In the actua, appropriations for education. Tht net result of these loans will un- doubtediy be to deepen the crisis ir education bp packing the loca’ sine | budgets with further obligations to the bankers. Unit 2, Section 3 (District 2), raised $70 out cf $100 for the Daily Worker $60,000 campaign. “We challenge the rest of the units in the section to raise $30 before we reach the $100 mark.” Please mention the Datty Worker when patronizing advertisers pp This Week ONLY at ail $P Stores This Seal is Your Protection PURE CANDIES ALL MADE WITHOUT GLUCOSE strikes and struggles, is close. 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