The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 24, 1934, Page 1

| | LLL MORE FUNDS MUST BE SPEEDED TO COM- PLETE THE $60,000 Yesterday's receipts . Total to date QUOTA BY DEE. 1 $586.28 $41,078.24 Press Run Yesterday—47,300 Vol. XI, No. 281 > Mew York, N. Y. under the Emtered a6 second-class matter at the Post Office at Daily .Q Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONAL ) Act of March 8, 1079. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1934 NATIONAL EDITION (Eight Pages) Price 3 Cents GREEN ENTERS U.S. WAGE CUT DRIVE 29,000 MARCH IN DYERS’ ST MADRID GENERAL STRIKE | OCT. 5 PROVED EFFECTIVE ANSWER BOSS SCAB THREAT IN PATERSON Cheering Masses Surge) in Demonstration of Solidarity ONE SHOP SETTLES Ranks of Bosses Split as Many Wish to Make Terms PATERSON, N. J., Nov. 28. — ‘Twenty-five thousand dye strikers and sympathetic workers paraded through the streets today singing and cheering, in answer to the threat of the manufacturers to open the mills on Monday. The workers sang Solidarity and shouted slogans expressing indigna- tion at service clubs and the local Chamber of Commerce which early this morning issued statements in| the local scab papers threatening to carry through a secret ballot in spite of the wishes of the workers. The demonstration is also an an- swer to the threats of the manu- |} facturers to use armed thugs and police to vrotect scabs Monday . The demonstration ex- d the solidarity of the Pater- son workers. with the strikers. Sesk fo Enlist Veterans The Paterson News this afternoon published an appeal of the manu- fecturers to the Veterans of Foreign Wers to come out Monday morning and help protect the scabs. Tf the solidarity expressed at the demonstration is carried out into action again Monday morning, not a mill will open. All Paterson work- ers have been urged to be on the mass picket lines Monday. The Communist Party issued a statement of greetings and solidar- ity with the strikers, calling upon the veterans and workers of other unions to turn out in mass to help picket and to keep the mills closed. The first break in the ranks of the employers came as the William Wilheim Co. of Passaic, which in the first week of the strike announced it is moving out of town, capitulated to the 100 per cent union shop de- mand. The plant which employs 500 workers agrees to pay 68 cents per hour, at 36 hours per week. The last offer of the employers, which was rejected, provided for 66 cents per hour. Agreement Not Voted On While the shop settlement consti- tutes an important victory, and shows the strikers that determina- tion and solidarity will bring such victory on a general scale, many active strikers expressed very much dissatisfaction when it was learned that this settlement was declared in effect without it first being sub- mitted to the Settlement Commit- tee. The officials have been warned against repetition of such procedure. It is further reported that there is a wide split in the ranks of the employers on the 100 per cent union shop issue, with many ready to sign an agreement similar to that of the ‘Willheim Company. The main pres- sure against settlement comes from the largest firms, closest to Wall Street bankers, consisting of such as the Wiedman, Lodi, Internationa! and Textile Piece Dye Works. Boo Service Clubs At yesterday's meeting of shop chairmen, the workers heard rep- resentatives of service clubs through which the employers are engineer- ing the latest strikebreaking ma- neuvers. They again advised a secret ballot. But while at the start they were given a cordial reception they were booed off finally. “Where were the service clubs when the workers were working for starvation wages?” they were asked by Charles Vigorito, the strike leader. “Where was the Chamber of Commerce when we fizst pre- sented our contract?” That the secret ballot issue was raised only to pave the way for strikebreaking, and police protec- ~tion for scabs is now clear to all worker as an open announcemeni has been made by the Dye Insti- tute’s Labor Committee that the police are called upon to protect “loyal workers,” on Monday. The “Joyal” workers would be deter- mined by the poll that the service clubs will take by mail. Take a Daily Worker coilection! list with yeu when you go to mass mectines, affairs and banquets. Romenber: the $60,000 must be yaised by Dec, 1! (This is the Second of a Series City Fighting Was Restricted to Picked Shoek | ands Whereas in Asturias Workers Took | Offensive in Mass Armed Struggles By Harry Gannes of Six Articles on the Situation in. Spain.) In Madrid the general strike of October 5 was com- FASCIST TERROR IN SPAIN |and increase the confusion and} |weakness of the precariously or-| forces poured into the plaza there pletely effective. While the Asturias workers went over into the offensive through mass armed struggles, seizing power | and setting up a workers’ and peasants’ republic, arousing | the greatest initiative of the masses, inspiring them to the| most self-sacrificing and heroic deeds, the Madrid fighting was largely sporadic. It was restricted mainly to picked shock bands. They struck with extreme rapidity and sur- prise, and retreated almost as quickly. But the great mass | reserves of the proletariat were not led to storm the heavens | of capitalism. The fighting in Madrid far surpassed the strategy in Vienna, as the | ” picked bands carried the attack into the strategic centres of the enemy. | The workers were on strike, prepared to fight. But the assault of | the great mass of workers -was directed mainly against strikebreakers, | while the specially picked shock troops tried to harry the government i break thei orale + sep oh forces, hoping-ta break thelr morale? or the mterlob ts situated, Assault | Photo shows a revolutionary leader being led to prison—or execution. LL.D. URGES SOVIET ARMY | | | urged a mass MASS RALLY | OF JOBLESS INN.Y.TODAY Demonstration To Raise | City-wide Demand for | fl More Relief UNIONS FIGHT BACK) Will Demand Passage of Workers’ Social | Insurance Bill | The Unemployment Councils, in a. last minute appeal to all workers, turnout at Union| Square today at 10 am. in support of the city-wide demonstration for increased relief, jobs for all unem- ployed at trade union wages, and | passage of the Workers Unemploy- | iment Insurance Bill. | | While the Arrangements Com- Chicago Launches Drive to Raise Quota Of ‘Daily’ in Week CHICAGO, Nov. 23.—The Dis- trict Bureau has taken drastic measures to reinforce its deci- sion that Chicago go over the top within the next seven days in the Daily Worker Fund Drive. As Language Buros, with large mass followings, are holding back the district, leading com- rades have been mobilized to help them carry through their work by the time of the city- wide mass affair for the Daily Worker, on Dec. 1. The Czechoslovak Buro has pledged to fulfill its task by next RIKE PARADE ROOSEVELT GAVE ORDER FOR ATTACK AFL President ‘Glad io | Consider’ Proposal To Slash Pay TAKE UP ICKES PLAN ‘Guaranteed Wages’ Is FIGHT URGED == Tuesday. Six sections have already com- Pleted their quotas and Sections 7 and 11 have pledged to finish Made Slogan for Asault at Banks’ Orders within ‘the: week. By Marguerite Young (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 23.— William Green of the Federation of Labor said today he would be “very glad to consider” the wage-cutting proposal announced yesterday by high Roose- velt officials if it would guarantee a higher yearly income. President TO LIBERATE mittee, which is sponsoring the demonstration has ruled that the The Daily Worker learned today Councils shall have no representa- that the wage-cut announcement tion on any committees or as| tby the Relief Administration was speakers, it has agreed, however, | —— made upon direct orders by Presi- to the mobilization sponsored by the Councils. Under the banners | of the Councils, all workers thus | ganized fascist regime. ‘The great masses, ready for action, were not drawn into the fighting |to the fullest extent because of the | basic failures and yacillations of the Socialist leaders. Largo Caballero: and ‘Prieto, Socialist leaders, from their secret headquarters directed | the fighting, but they had no clearly | defined objective and had not pre- viously prepared for mass struggles, the establishment of Soviets, for arousing the peasants into simul- taneous action, which could have led to a victorious revolution. Workers with machine guns and rifles made repeated sallies on such central buildings as the Cortes (parliament), Bank of Spain, cen- tral police headquarters, Ministry of from five arterial streets, a veritable army appearing to converge upon a strategic center down the spokes of a wheel. . . . In one district the revolutionaries captured a score of Civil Guards and held them as prisoners. ..,., Troops began moving FUND IN SPAIN | assembled have been urged to form | orderly ranks at the North End of | Union Square between the North side of Seventeenth Street and} |the grand-stand in Union Square | Park. BID’ ADMITTED ASDISTORTION Stress Discipline | ent icable yesterday F oremost I eader of j dent Roosevelt, specify | to be no discussion of i Finnish Workers in Prison within the Relief Administration, This and other indications pointed to the fact that the whole series of |yesterday's announcements were NEW YORK.—Receiving an urg-|Planned to launch an immediate from 0. V. |wage-cutting drive. President Kuusinen, member of the Execu-|Gteen’s endorsement of it today— tive Committee of the Communist #¥ing nothing about the fact, well |into Madrid, concentrating at stra- | tegic points from nearby barracks. ‘They had full war-time equipment. FOR WORKERS National Week Set for French Deputy’s Report: The Unemployment Councils have asked for the most rigid dis- cipline in all ranks and firm resis- Meanwhile, Madrid was virtually isolated from the provinces with communications severed and the only open channels being used for The government was slow to| A national week of collections for | move troops against the workers, | the victims of the fascist terror in fearing mutiny. Special regiments | Spain) in which scores of trade were picket to go into action. Or- | unions and other organizations all ders_were immediately given for |over the country will participate, the Foreign Legion at Ceuta, Africa,|has been called by the National Collections To Aid Terror Victims | | tance to all provocations. At the present juncture, the Councils pointed out, nothing must show to |the LaGuardia regime any disunity PARIS, Noy. 23—French govern- |in the ranks of the unemployed. jment officials admitted that the} The Councils further called upon ‘claim of Leon Archimbaud, re-| all workers not to permit any dis- |porter for the Finance Committee!turbance which would prevent the \before the Chamber.of Deputies to- speakers from the Workers Unem- {day, that the Soviet Union has! ployed Union from being heard. Attempt To Put Over Big War Budget |to him but to other imprisoned} to proceed to Spain for counter- revolutionary service. These troops were sent chiefly to Asturias. In the workers’ districts in Ma- drid, the fighting continued long the Interior, Ministry of War and/ Ministry of Communications. “Wherever employers tried to re-| place striking leftists with strike, | breakers, armed bands of rebeis} Executive Committee of the Inter- |national Labor Defense for Decem~ ~|ber 10 to 16. |. Funds are now being collected by the I.L.D. organizations in scores appeared. In almost all instances there were sharp brushes with gov- ernment forces protecting the strike- breakers. It was almost as though the rebel strikers had taken up the gauge of battle flung down by the two-day old cabinet of Premier Alejandro Lerroux at an emergency meeting yesterday.” (Frank Gervasi, N. Y, American, Oct. 8.). Description of Attacks A description of the strategic at- tacks of the picked shock forces is given by the Associated Press cable from Madrid on Oct. 7: “Heavy firing broke out at the famous Puerta del Sol, where the Ministry after the central drives were beaten |of countries, and transmitted to | back, but lack of weapons prevented | the Spanish I.L.D. which in spite \a development of the battle to a of the terror and illegality is or- | greater offensive. he capital, not |ganizing the work of relief to the | falling into the hands of the re- | victims of the fascist terror while | | stricted armed groups, the -Cata-| the Communist-Socialist united |lonian debacle (which we will treat | working-class front continues to |with later) giving heart to the battle for liberation. | bourgeoisie, the fighting in Madrid | dwindled and died. The political and organizational |preparation for the armed insur- | rection was insufficient and was gauged to the conditions laid down by the fascist forces who picked the time for a test of strength in (Continued on Page 2) Transit Strike In Los Angeles Set for Today LOS ANGELES, Nov. 23.—A strike of all workers on Los Angeles inter- urban and street car lines is called | for tomorrow at 2 p. m., as employ- ers refuse to concede demands for wage increases or even to submit them to arbitration. The two lines employ 4,200 workers. The strike on the interurban Pacific Electric Railway lines, af- fecting a daily average of 150,000 passengers, is called by the Brother- hood of Railway Trainmen. The 1,200 workers of the company de- mand wage increases which would bring scales to run from 59% to 89 cents per hour and a forty-eight hour week. The company offers rates from 52% to 57 cents depend- ing on length of service. The P.E.R. is the worlds’ largest interurban line, and links the vast area within the city limits of Los ngeles. Three thousand workers on the Los Angeles Railway Co. trolley lines which serve an average of 200,000 passengers daily, are demanding in- creases ranging from ten to fifteen percent. Their present wage rates Tun from 43 to 56 cents per hour. The strike will mean a tie-up of many factories in Los Angeles County whose workers use the lines. The city administration is very much alarmed, fearing that soli- darity from most of the County's population will mean a_ virtual paralysis of many important indus- tries. Mayor Shaw declared, “If the strike appears telegraph President Roosevelt to intervene.” inevitable I shall! Jindividuals, ToBe Planning Split in S.P. (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 23.—The “old guard” of the Socialist Party, the group headed by Waldman, Oneal, Solomon, Panken, etc., ap- | pears to be carrying its fight against | the Declaration of Principles adopt- ed at the Party’s Detroit conven- Old Guard Said. More than 60,000 prisoners are in Spanish jails, prison ships, ware- | houses, bull-rings, and every other place where they can be confined. jand orphans, children left without fathers and meshers, whole fami- lies deprived of their support, by the fierce reaction which has slaughtered more than 16,000 and wounded more than 40,000 men, women and children. The drive is especially important |to American workers, it was pointed jout, in view of the active partici- pation and support of the murder- ous reaction which has been given by such American capitalist insti- tutions as the International Tele- phone and Telegraph Company and the National City Bank, which have made heavy direct contributions for bonuses to the Spanish soldiers and police who have been most active in the slaughter, as well as indirect ones to the Lerroux - Gil Robles government which is direct- ing the attack. Contributions for this fund should be sent directly to the national of- fice of the International Labor De- tion to the point of active prepara- tions for a split. This is borne out by @ report circulated here, emanat- | ing from very reliable sources, of a secret conference between Charles” Solomon of New York, representing the “old guard,” and John Fitz- patrick, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, where such a split is reported to have been dis-— cussed, | Solomon, your correspondent has learned, speaking for his reaction- | ary Socialist Party group, informed Fitzpatrick that the “old guard” is ready to split off from the Socialist Party if the Chicago Federation of Labor and similar central labor bodies throughout the country are willing to enter into a campaign together with his group to form a | new third party, one that would be labelled a “Labor” party. Fitzpatrick, it is. understood, in- formed Solomon that he was not yet ready to commit himself for ‘such g new party, Furthermore, he | declared that even if he were for | such @ party he would not agree to | ; deal with the old guard in the | Socialist Party as a group. He in-| formed Solomon, it is stated, that his group would be dealt with as ; Hungarian anti-fascist lead: fense, Room 610, 80 East llth St., New York City, for direct trans- mission to Europe, | Hundreds of thousands of widows | |“offered its army to France” in the jevent of war by German Fascism | on France, is a distortion of facts. | The Soviet Union, in its peace policy, has joined the League of | Nations, cooperating with all forces {working for peace and against the ; threat of war by Japanese imperial- jism and German fascism. { | Archimbaud’s purpose in making | jthe statement was to try to force |through the passage of the huge} {French armament budget, against | ithe opposition of the united front lof Socialist and Communist depu- ties, and the, mass struggle against ‘increased war expenditures. In his speech, Archimbaud ac- jknowledged the fact that the main jaim of the Soviet Union in all its irelations with France, and other |countries, was to preserve world jpeace. He and Louis Germain- | Martin, French Minister of Finance, ‘declared that the Soviet Union haa been most active in reporting the rapid war preparations of the Hitler government, making public figures | land facts of the Nazis’ huge air | \ armaments, Farm Leader Is Taken To Jail Hospital After 9-Day Hunger Strike | BRIDGETON, N. J., Noy. 23. — William H. O'Donnell, one of the leaders of the recent Seabrook Farms’ strike, was in the Cumber- Jand-county jail hospital today in a dangerous condition following a nine days’ hunger strike. Protest should be sent at once to Recorder Pennington Cramer, First | National Bank, Vineland, N, Y. | Rakosi Trial Release Report Was False The reports that Matthias Rakosi, was about to be exchanged for a coun- ter-revolutionist imprisoned in the Soviet Union, are now fully exposed as a fraud perpetrated by the ter- rorist Hungarian dictatorship in or- der to quiet the international pro- test against the impending trial of Rakosi. Imprisoned and tortured for over eight and a half years, Rakosi now stands in the greatest danger of being murdered by the fascist Gomboces government. The following radiogram, received yesterday from Rakosi’s brother, Zolian Rakosi, emphasizes the ex- treme peril of the great working Begins Soon; that world opinion had forced the fascists to negotiate Rakosi’s re- lease. Dated from Moscow, the wire states: “Information concerning the al- Jeged exchange of Rakosi is com- pletely false. A correction is neces- sery. The indictment is ready and his trial is expected any day. Please undertake the strongest action to save my brother. “(Signed) ZOLTAN RAKOSI.” The lengths to which the Hun- |garian bourgeoisie has gone in at- tempting to assure themselves that Rakosi will never again lead the workers against its fascist dictator- ship is the strongest proof of what Leaflets explaining the reasons | for the full support which the Councils axe giving the demonstra- tion at which they have been re- fused any official representation will be distributed at the demon stration. | The unity of the unemployed | must not stop at today’s demon- | stration, the Councils stressed, but should be carried into practice in | the day to day struggles in the | |neighborhoods. Joint demonstra- | tions and committees should be |formed at the local Home Relief | Bureaus. and mass meetings ar- ranged in the neighborhoods. Needle Workers Back Rally The Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union, in endorsing the | call for a joint demonstration is- | sued by the Unemployment Coun- cils, to which the union is an af- filiate, urged its members and all needle trades workers generally to rally behind the banners of the Councils, The union, in joining the dem- | onstration as a mark of unity of | all workers in the fight for unem- | ployment insurance and relief, stressed the need of the strictest discipline, and for no disturbances whatsoever, regardless of any prov- ocation. To Assemble in Harlem Post 2 of the Workers Ex-Service- men’s League and the Upper Har-| lem Unemployment Councils will | assemble at their headquarters, 109 | West 133rd Street, today at 9 am. and proceed in a body to the mass demongtration at Union Square. Both of these Harlem groups, in a joint statement called especial at- tention to the vicious discrimination | that is practiced against Negroes | on relief and work relief jobs by the | relief administration. The Downtown Unemployment Councils have called upon all or-| ganizations in the Lower East Side | and all unorganized workers to mobilize today at 9:30 am. at Seventh Stzeet and Avenue A, and march under their own banners to Union Square. Hunger Marchers Meet Today All delegates on the Hunger! March to Albany last month have; been asked to attend a meeting to- day at 3 p.m. at the offices of the Unemployment Councils, 11 West 18th Street. Important matters of organization will be discussed, Even poor farmers manage to send contributions to the “Accept our family’s bit of $1 to keep the Daily Worker in the hands of the workers. Conditions arc class leader's position. particularly ;tremendous efforts must be made to| hellish and among the farmers in this locality,” in view of the universal impression save Rakosi, * ‘ r |known in Washington, that it is the ent ae eae dp delay {Pe lbeginning of a concerted wage-cut~ kainen, anti-fascist leader now in| ‘ing, relief-restricting drive—lined the hands of the secret police of [him up squarely with those back of Finland, might prove fatal not only the drive. Many indications today empha- anti-fascists as well, the Finnish |sized that “guaranteed wages” will Bureau of the Communist Party,|be the demagogic slogan for the U.S. A., called for the immediate |fast-moving drive by big business broadening of the movement to|and the Roosevelt government, with save Antikainen. 3 |the aid of reactionary labor lead- The cable, dated from Moscow,jers, to cut wages for the employed follows: jand restrict or abolish relief to the “One of Finland’s noblest, fore- | Unemployed. : most working class fighters and| Meanwhile, the Building Trades leaders of the anti-fascist move-|Department of the A. F, of L. met ment, Toivo Antikainen, has been |Pehind ‘closed doors. They declined dragged into the dungeons of the|to comment, but it was said at secret police. His life is in danger |headquarters that they were con= and his landlady, a non-political |Sidering the so-called housing pro- anti-fascist named Lydia Rask, has|Posal made yesterday by Public already been murdered in the|Works Administrator Ickes, who an- police lock-up. jmounced that in connnection with “A special duty falls also on the|it building trades workers would Social-Democratic workers of Fin-|have to agree to a lower hourly land who still have legal mews- | Wage. papers, organizations and the right| Ickes made no reference to any of assembly, to raise their voice|“Suaranteed” larger annual return, against such rule of tyranny, which |Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins tomorrow may jump at their own|launched the slogan, however, and throats, if by silence they cover up| Green's repitition of it today clearly and permit this dark fascist work \indicated that it is the one agreed to go on. | upon—just as the “right to organize” “Rise quickly in a great unified mass force in open struggl@ against the Finnish capitalists, their police bandits and against the butcher regime of the Lapuans. Comradely and assured of the approaching victory of the Finnish working class. O. V. KUUSINEN.” Speaking of the many thousands of anti-fascist workers in Finnish | jails, the statement of the Finnish Buro gives evidence of “many of them being tortured to death by the inhuman treatment of the fas- | cists.” “The Finnish Buro,” it continues, “has launched a campaign of pro- tests to be sent to the Finnish Legation, Washington, D. C. We are drawing the Social-Democratic workers with us in this campaign However, we feel this is not suf- ficient. Also the rest of the Amer- ican workers should protest against the terror of the fascist Lupua re- gime of Finland, directed against the class-conscicus and militant workers of Finland.” “Protesting against the inhuman treatment, the political prisoners of Finland have gone through many hunger strikes and again a number of them are on hunger strike. Pro- tests against this terror should be sent to: Finnish Legation, Wash- ington, D. C. and direct to Fin!an President Svinhuvud, Helsingfo Finland and to the Ministry of In- terior, Helsingfors, Finland. 'Y.C.L. Urges Yipsels To Join Picket Line At Spanish Consulate jslogan was agreed upon as the ballyhoo to screen the launching of |the N.R.A. codes that resulted in \lower living standards and strength- jening company unions. Green at the same time took pains to declare that the aboiition of the 30-cent minimum wage for jrelief workers, announced yester= day by the Federal Relief Adminis- |tration, was not “just or right,” and | would be opposed. Back Parley On Insurance PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 23.— All language groups and federae tions here have undertaken con- ferences for the purpose of rallying jall foreign-born workers and their organizations behind the coming National Congress for Unemploy- |ment and Social Insurance which will be held in Washington on Jan, 5-7, 1935. The united front committee of Lithuanian mass organizations at ;@ meeting last week called a | conference of all Lithuanian groups in Philadelphia and vicinity next ,| Sunday, Dec. 2, at 2 p.m., at 928 Moyemansing Ave. The Greek workers’ organizations are meeting tonight at the Spar- tacus Club, 1036 Locust Street, at 8 o'clock, where the basis will be laid for wide representation at the Congress. The cultural and mass organiza- tions of the Jewish workers are now preparing for a similar conference. $50,000 | drive. E. W. S. ef Qliver, IIL, writes: | The New York District of the| Already the Italian workers’ groups {Young Communist League has called | have met and are visiting ‘ait there ee ou wen rae nak i aig career for participation y in e Nationa: ongress, Spanish consulate today at 12 noon \ Herbert Benjamin, executive sec at 515 Madison Avenue, at 53rd retary of the National Congress, |Street, for mass picketing to de-| wili meet with the local sponsoring mand the release of the imprisoned /committee on Monday at 3 p.m, Socialist and Communist workers! at Room 707 in the Flanders Build= of Spain, jing, 207 South 50th Street, 5