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

——————EE AT SCOTTSBORO CONFERENCES ASK SUP- PORT FOR THE DAILY WORKER Yesterday's receipts Total to date .. $565.17 40,183.27 Press Run Yesterday—42,400 SER TT Vol. XI, No. 279 <i New York, MN. ¥. under the Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office st Daily,Q Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERWATIONAL ) Act of March 8, 1078. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, | OVEMBER 22, 1934 NATIONAL EDITION (Six Pages) Priee 3 Cents BUTLER PLANS FASCIST UNIONS Madison A.F.L. Votes to Take Part in Anti-Fascist Parley INEW ANTI-STRIKE CLAUSES FOR N.R. A. BOSSES’ PLAN INJUNCTIONS Manufacturers Propose) To Place Disputes in Hands of Court FOLLOW BANKERS Is Part of Monopoliste’ Move to Bolster NRA Strikebreaking By Sevmour Waldman (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 21.— The Board of Directors of the Na- tional Association of Manufactur- | ers, one of the chief sponsors of the | National Industrial Recovery Act and of the present employers’ drive to cut wastes. tonight recommended that the “labor provisions” of the N. I. R. A. be extended by Concress for one year from next June 16, its expiration date, under the admin- istration of the anti-strike Depart- ment of Labor. Using guarded language concerning the enforce- ment of the desired new legislation, the Association moguls reveal that they want these “provisions” strengthened by anti-strike injunc- | tion clauses. “Enforcement of the proposed act should be through a court of com- petent jurisdiction on the basis of fact as well as law, enforcing its de- cisions through enjoinment and subsequent penalties in case of con- tinuance,” . the Manufacturers’ Board declared. The legislative recommendation } for cementing the low-wage and open-shop labor provisions of the codes, under the auspices of the red-hunting and chauvinist Labor Department, is part of a “state- ment of principles for legislation” recommended for ratification at the congress of American industry, to, be held in New York City Dec. 5 and 6 in connection with the asso- Ciation’s annual convention. The association, whose recommendation ts based upon the report of its “special committee on future rela- tions of government to industry,” peared by James W. Hook, presi- lent of the Geometric Tool Com- pany of New Haven, characterized proposal for the replacement of | she present N. I. R. A. as a “‘sep- ration of labor legislation from in- dustrial measures dealing with fair trade practices.” For “Natural” Recovery It is significant that the indus- frialists chose to announce their ‘open cooperation with the dominant (Continued on Page 2) Anti-Fascists Demonstrate In Paterson (Special to the Daily Worker) PATERSON, J., Nov. 20.— Paterson workers and other anti- Fascists demonstrated for two hours Monday night before the East Side High School here against the official welcome accorded by the local Board of Education to the Black Shirt Band of the hated Fascist dictator of Italy, Mussolini. A united front of Communists, Bocialists, hosiery workers, striking printers, dye strikers, students and professionals, youth and adult, was ystablished as close to 3,000 persons answered the call of the Paterson Branch of the American League Against War and Fascism and the anti-Fascist leagues of Paterson Haledon to picket the East Side School. The large crowd marched up and down before the trance of the school, shouting wn with Fascism!” “Out With Mussolini's Fascist Band,” and arrying placards exposing the barbarities of the Fascist regime. brutal suppression of labor, Washing of wages and denial of the right of workers to organize ind strike for better conditions. | Slow Response In Drive CALLS FOR Places The Daily Worker JOINS LEAGUE, In Dangerous Position On Monday the Daily Worker pointed out that the slow response to the $60,00) 0 drive during the past two weeks is placing the paper in a dangerous position. With $20,000 to raise by Dee. 1, no district can afford to let down its activity for a moment! But this week has brought-no change for the better. Only $1,482 has come in since Monday. New York contributed almost two-thirds of this. Twenty-five districts sent in only $465 during the last three days! In view of the fact that New York still has to raise $9,000, its average of $300 a day is decidedly insufficient. Cleveland sent only $4; Detroit, $16; Pittsburgh, $52; Chicago, only $60. Cleveland sent nothing Tuesday and yesterday. Chicago sent nothing Tuesday. This situation must be overcome at once! Without the fullest support of every district—particu- larly the large districts—the very existence of the Daily Workers is threatened. New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Cleveland, must not let the rest of this week go by without showing by major contributions that they intend to carry out the decision of the Central Committee to finish their quotas next week! SHOE MEN PLEDGE FIGHT ON WAGE-CUT HAVERHILL, Mass., Nov. 21— More than 3,000 shoe workers jammed the City Hall last night for a union meeting called by the Dis- trict Council and rejected the de- mand of the manufacturers for a 20 per cent wage cut and a 50 per cent lay-off of workers. - After Alfred Porro, business agent of the lasters’ local, exposed the whole plan of the Emerson Shoe Company, which threatens to move to Manchester, New Hampshire, un- less the workers agree to the 20 per cent cut, the workers displayed their determination to fight the pro- posal. Mackesay, president of the shoe workers union, was forced to admit that his failure to ask for an increase last August was no help to.the workers in the present situa- tion. Marino Brandolini, of the District. Council, carried the meet- ing, and the workers applauded him roundly as he answered the “red” scare being raised by the bosses through the local Gazette. Brandolini especially exposed the city administration, which sent po- lice to break up picket lines in front of factories being struck for union conditions. So great is the indignation of the workers against the propcesed cuts and the shop moving campaign, that thus far none of the cuts was put over. The local press openly credits the Communists for the fail- ure of the bosses to impose the cuts upon the workers, and the names of Porro, Brandolini and Costello as leading Communists in the union are cited in editorials. ‘The effort is directed toward splitting the workers on the basis of the red is- sue. 17 Detroit Fur STRIKE MARCH TOMORROW IN PATERSON PATERSON, N. J., Nov. 21—The mass solidarity parade being ar- ranged by the striking dyers will start from Roseland Ballroom at 2 p.m. on Friday, and will proceed through the main streets. It was originally scheduled for Thursday, but a permit could not be obtained for that day. All workers’ organiza- tions, unions and supporters of the strikers are called upon to partici- pate. At the largest mass meeting of strikers that has yet been seen since the start of the strike four weeks ago, the workers unanimously re- jected ‘the “verdict” of the hearing arranged by the Chamber of Com- merce and service clubs, that a se- eret vote be taken in each shop on the rejected settlement proposal. The workers again declared their readiness to renew negotiations with the employers, but stated that the rejected two-year, no-strike con- tract does not even deserve consid- eration. Representatives from Lodi and Passaic at the mass meeting as- sured the workers that strikers there will stick 100 per cent behind the Paterson strikers. Solidarity greetings were likewise delivered by a@ representative of the Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. Business Agent Parola reported that many strikers who applied for relief at the E. R. A. were advised to scab. The workers decided that just as soon as the cases are con- firmed a delegation of the strikers [sae go to the relief authorities and demand removal of the people (Continued on Page 2) Shops Settle, 22 Continue General Strike (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., Novy. 21—An- other shop today joined the general strike of the Detroit fur workers, while one shop settled, granting all the demands of the workers. This makes the 17th shop that has signed an agreement with the mili- tant Fur Workers Association, af- filiated to the Trade Union Unity She anti-Fascists militantly bat- fled Paterson police in defense of their rights to picket and_protesi, when the police unleashed a savage on the demonstrators, a League, which is leading the strike. ‘Twenty-two shops are still out. “The general strike, entering its second week today, is more solid than ever and the spirit of the workers is high. Only 11 scabs are working in the struck shops. The demands, including wage increases ranging from 45 to 100 per cent for varicls categories of workers, a five- day, 35-hour week, time and a half for overtime, legal holidays off, equal pay for equal work, equal divi- sion of work, and recognition of the union. Police today entered the situation , on the side of the bosses, arresting ,Louis Annison, a striker, on a framed up charge of having as- saulted a scab at the Annis Shop. He was released on $500 bail. URGES UNITY Federation Unanimously | Backs Conference in Milwaukee SENDS 2 DELEGATES |Dane Co. Socialist Local Urges United Front on Central Body | (Special to the Daily Worker) MADISON, Wis., Noy. 21. — The| Madison Federation of Labor, by unanimous vote, decided to send two delegates to the Milwaukee |conference against war and fascism, called by the Milwaukee branch of the American League Against War and Fascism, for this Friday. Henry Croft and Ruth Gordon were jelected as the delegates. The conference was endorsed by the Federation following a plea by Marjorie Johnson, delegate of the Vocational Teachers Union, who told of her experiences in fascist Germany and Italy, where the trade unions were among the first organ- izations to be crushed. The first step of a Socialist local in Wisconsin toward the united front with Communists and non- party workers was taken last Sun-j| |day here when the Dane County |Socialist Party adopted a resolution favoring participation in the Amer- jican League. L. Van Bossch, sec-~ lretary of the Dane County Social- ‘ist Party, said that the National Executive Committee of the Social- ist Party would be asked at its Dec. 1 meeting in Boston to decide in favor of united front action between the Socialist Party and the Com- 'munist Party. He stated: | “We are convinced by the work- ing-class defeats in Central Europe, by the growing unity of workers in France, and above ill by the trend} of events in the United States that solidarity of the working class is \required for the introduction of so- cialism. Such solidarity can only be brought about through united jfronts from above and below on ; Specific issues, with full liberty of criticism by all contracting parties.” A resolution sent by the Dane jCounty Socialist Party to the Bos- ton conference of the National Ex- ecutive Committee of the Socialist |Party warns that failure to form ‘the united front would strengthen the forces of reaction in this coun-' try. At your next membership meeting of your trade union, fraternal or- | ganization, or workers’ club, raise | the question of the Daily Worker. Call for a collection for the $60,000 fund. COUNTY S.P.SCOTTSBORO Pr ACTION WEEK PLANS MADE Be Held Throughout the U. S. A. | FUND DRIVE PUSHED Big Conferences Set for| Brooklyn and Bronx Preparations for National Scotts- | boro Protest Week, Nov. 26 to Dec.| 2, and the raising of funds to de-| fray expenses of the appeals for Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris, two of the Scottsboro boys, will be pushed at a United Front Scottsboro Conference, to be held in New Haven, Conn., Thursday | evening, Nov. 22. at the Scottsboro Hall, 142 Dixwell Avenue. The conference will mark the official opening of the new Scottsboro Hall, a neighborhood workers’ center. Delegates to. the conference have been elected by many Tocal mass organizations and Negro churches, and the conference is expected to mark a new high level in the devel- opment of the united front fight for the lives and freedom of the nine boys and the rights of the Negro people. In Brooklyn, New York City, this Friday evening, a Scottsboro-Hern- don defense rally will be held at the Premier Palace, 505 Sutter Ave., Brownsville section, under the aus- pices of the Brownsvillee Section of the Young Communist League. Richard B. Moore, National Field Organizer of the International La- bor Defense, will be the main speaker, Plans were announced yesterday for a conference, Nov. 30, at the Carlton Y. M. C. A. 405 Carlton Ave., Brooklyn, for the defense of the Scottsbero boys, Angelo Hern- don and Clyde Allen, Brooklyn Ne- gro worker, framed up by the police 'tj,ships by Great Britain, the United as the mythical “Hammer Man” held responsible for attacks on sev- eral white women. Allen was de- clared guilty by an all-white jury, despite violent contradictions in the testimony of police and the alleged victims and the testimony of Al- len’s employer that he was at work at the time of one of the attacks with which he is charged. The conference is being arranged by the Brooklyn Provisional Scotts- boro-Herndon-Clyde Allen Action Committee, which has addressed an urgent appeal to all Brooklyn or- ganizations and churches to support the action and strengthen the mass defense campaign which alone can (Continued on Page 2) ‘Legal Lynch Plans Pushed In Virginia CLIFTON FORGE, Va., Nov. 21. —-Preparations for the legal lynch- ing of a Negro woman and three Negro men arrested in connection with the murder last Sunday of two local white girls, were being pushed through rapidly today, de- spite the previous announcement by local authorities claiming they had obtained a confession from one of the men, in which he exon- erated the other three defendants of any connection with the crime. The alleged confession is said to have been made by Philip Jones, tenant farmer, who was originally accused of waylaying the two girls iNews Writers’, Strike Closes Newark Paper NEWARK, N. J., Nov. 21—With the Newark Ledger suspended as a result of the strike of the majority of its editorial staff, the striking members of the Newspaper Guild today announced they will issue a morning four to eight page paper, to be known as the Reporter. Robert Ring, vice-president of the Newark Guild, said that it would be printed in 40,000 copies, Editorial plans at the Guild’s headquarters are reported almost completed, and tomorrow all me- chanical requirements, it is ex- pected, will likewise be ready. | Nationa! Protests Wil]! oposed M ilitary Tie- Of New Trade Union Group With Reactionary Cliques Testimony revealing that had passed actual funds the hands of Gerald C. MacGuire, Wall Street broker named in General Smedley Butler’s charges of a se- cret fascist-military plot, yesterday through removed the last doubts as to the indisputable authenticity of the charges. Moving hastily toward counter- acting the tremendous impression which these revelations have made on the masses of the country, the Roosevelt government, acting through its Army and Navy Cab- inet officers, Secretary of War Dern and Secretary of the Navy Swanson, asked for an investiga- tion of the charges in an attempt to conceal the fact that the entire Roosevelt government is actively involved in organizing fascist re- action. These were the two outstanding developments yesterday in the MacGUIRE HANDLED SECRET BANK FUND, EVIDENCE REVEALS unfolding of the fascist plots re- vealed by General Smedley Builer, The testimmony of MacGuire re- vealed that he had actually handled som of the funds of the $3,000,000 fascist fund of which Butler had Spoken in his first sensational statement. After the hearings yesterday of the Dickstein Committee which is investigating the charges at a spe- cial session in New York, Dickstein declared that there could be no longer any doubt of the fact that MacGuire whose financial connec- tions tie with the J. P. Morgan, ‘has been one of the cogs in the newly formed seeretmfaseist-military,.ma- chine. MacGuire,” Dickstein stated cat- | egorically,” handled a lot of money, | and it was more than $18,000.” | Continuing his remarks on the} (Centinued on Page 2) U.S. REFUSES TO CURB NAVY BUILDING LONDON, Nov. 21.—To the pro- Posal of the Japanese delegation that the building of first line bat- States and Japan be held to the ratio of 5-4-4 the American group answered with two belligerant at- titudes: Firstly, that American imperial- ism would take no suggestion from any other imperialist power to yield | first place in war and naval prepa- rations; secondly, that these powers had better not wait for any call on] her part for another arms con- ference in 1936, when the Washing- ton Arms Treaty of 1922, lapses. American industrialists are bent on an armaments race to the finish, they indicated. | The naval conference will melt away within a few days, it was re- ported here. The sole results ac- complished are a greater aggres- siveness on the part of the United States in maintaining its lead in war preparations and a victory for British imperialism in having ef-| fected a treaty of alliance with Japan. This treaty provides that England and Japan together guard the “intergrity of China,” ite. co- operate in the further exploitation | of its resources and territory and shut out the competitior of Amer- ‘ican imperialism, Such an alliance is rapidly dissolving every formal agreement among the competing powers and leading straight to another world war. | terrorism FARM LEADER ON HUNGER STRIKE IN JAIL (Special to the Daily Worker) VINELAND, N. J., Nov. 20. — The | which was launched | against the strikers who recently tied up the large Seabrook Farms near here has again broken out with the jailing of William O’Don- nell, leader of the unemployed and active in the strike, and an attempt to jail eleven others of the active; strikers. O'Donnell has now entered on the sixth day of a hunger strike in pro- test against the sentence*which has been imposed upon him for taking an active part in the strike and the struggles of the unemployed. He is weak, but he is determined to con- tinue his hunger strike until re- leased. Intense indignation has been aroused among the workers here, Lief Dahl, organizer of the United Farmers’ League, and Mrs. Seegers, were arrested while distributing leaflets demanding O'Donnell’s re- lease. Mass protest forced their release. Thousands of leaflets on the O'Donnell case have been distrib- uted and petitions are being cir- culated day and night for his free- | dom. To save the life of this work- ing class leader mass protests are needed, They should be sent to, Recorder Pennington Creamer, First National Bank, Vineland, N. J. Coast Longshoremen Vote To Form Marine Federation (Special to the Daily Worker) SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 21—At a while they were returning from delivering a message to his home. The new version concocted today by local authorities is that the two girls were murdered in Jones’ home, by the “gin-mad Negroes.” In addition to Jones, those threat- ened with legal murder through a vicious frame-up, are his wife, Chester Smith and John Pryor. Several attempts have been made by gangs to lynch the defendants, who were removed to the county jail at Richmond, Va., after armed bands attempted to take them out of the local jail at Roanoke, Va. Strike ranks today were increased | SPecial meeting of the San Fran- when Joe Donovan, city sports| cisco members of the International editor, joined, announcing that he Longshoremen’s Association a res- is a striker now. The Essex County | lution was passed for the organiza- News Dealers’ Association, which] tion of the Pacific Coast Marine has 700 members, after hearing Hey- | Federation, uniting all crafts in the | wood Broun, president of the Guild, | industry. decided to notify the Ledger that; This step to unite the workers hereafter all orders for-the paper|@long industrial lines is found are cancelled unless the price is| necessary to meet the renewed at- reduced to $2 per hundred. The|tack of the shipowners, and viola- present price is $2.25. Students of| tions of agreements following the Dana College have voted solidarity! recent strike. At a special meet- | and will help in the picketing. ing to take place next Monday the Today Newark papers carried paid|!ongshoremen will name a ways —- and means committee for immedi- ate steps. A conference is planned (Continued on Page 2) j at the I. L. A. membership meet- | threatening withdrawal to which delegates from all locals | of marine unions on the coast will’ be invited, including those of Can- | ada. The Canadian West Coast | marine unions are already consoli- dated into a federation. Joseph Ryan, president of the International Longshoremen’s Union, was emphatically repudiated ing, for sending the telegram of the} charter if the San Francis20 local| does not “behave.” Opposition to the move for a federation was in- significant. When one member proposed that Communists be ex- cluded from the Federation, he was shouted down by a big majority, | } Up Dallied with Idea of Heading Veterans’ Mass Movement HAD OWN PLANS General Preferred to Play His Cards in Own Way By Marguerite Young (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) | WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 21— As significant unpublished. related facts about General Smedley But- ler's contacts with financiers plot ting a fascist coup came to light | today, the Veterans’ National Rank and File Committee challenged the former head of the U. S, Marines |to endorse the programs of the | Congress Against War and Fascis |and the rank and file veterans, | you are Sincere in opBesing fascism and war.” Harold Hickerson, Secretary of the National Rank and File Com- mittee, wired General Butler, call- jing upon him to endorse the Com- mittees’s scheduled bonus march on Washington, and adding: “What- ever your motives are, if you fail to act with the honest opponents of fascism, you will actually give support to what you say you op- This correspondent is able to re= port the following facts, some dis- torted versions of which have been afloat for some weeks: Butler Has Own Pian 1. Despite General Butler's state- ment that he refused to co-operate in the plan for a fascist coup, he actually has been promoting an “independent Federation of Labo: with a program substantially fase cist 2. It is reported that while Bute ler told the Wall Street represen- tatives whom he named yesterday that he preferred to play his cards in his own way, he has since re- ceived overtures from Philadelphia financiers who have indirect con- nections with Wall Street. 3. General Butler has put his “Independent Federation of Labor” program before members of labor organizations as well as veterans groups. Specifically, he sought support in the Philadelphia chapter of the American Newspaper Guild for preventing affiliation with the American Federation of Labor in favor of later connecting with the “Independent” Federation. 4. While making a nationwide tour at the expense of the official Veterans of Foreign Wars, Butler has been making indirect sugges- tions that he wouldn't mind marching at the head of bonus- seeking veterans in Washington. It is reported that he has directed his radically-phrased remarks— suggestions which would be frown- ed on officially by the V. F. We National leaders—toward the left= ward-moving rank and file who are opposed to the leadership's pro- | gram, Butler's Motives It appears that any or all of several motives may be behind the fiery General Butler's dramatic disclosure. It is possible that he may be taking this means of ex- (Continued on Page 2) 18-Year-Olds Called to Colors by Bolivia in War for Chaco Oi LA PAZ, Bolivia, Noy. 21.—Kight~ een-year-old conscripts, who were not to have been called to fight in behalf of Standard Oil interests by the Bolivian Government in the Gran Chaco war until 1936, wers ordered to report for slaughter on Dec. 20. A total of 15,000 Paraguayan soldiers have been killed, wounded | or captured in the last two months, it was announced today. The tide of struggle for the Chaco oil depos- its turned this afternoon in favor of American imperialism, with the report that Bolivian troops had won a victory over the British-supported Paraguayan armies in the El Care men sector