The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 4, 1934, Page 1

12,000 Join in Paterson Vic e bn ASK YOUR SHOPMATES TO JOIN YOU IN RAISING “DATEY” FUNDS Press Run Yesterday—43,200 SAN Sama anler aha alba rete naa Vol. XI, No. 269 DYE WORKERS CELEBRATE WITH MARCH Threngs Fill Paterson Stadium in Victory Celebration PATERSON, N. J., Dec. 3— There were 12,000 in the Hinch- cliffe Stadium when the dye work- ers marched in today to celebrate their strike victory. When Charles Pirolo, business agent of the Pat- erson Local, opened the meeting he introduced Charles Viorito as the speaker. Vigorito, greeted by tremendous applause and cheer- ing stated: “We congratulate every worker upon our victory. Let it be known that the credit for the victory belongs to the strikers for taking care of the factories and keeping out all scabs. “Now we go back to the plants te work, but we must guard against every violation. I must remind you that we have the privilege of striking against any manufacturer who violates the agreement. If we show them we mean business the manufacturers | will respect us. It depends upon | us. PATERSON, N. J., Dec, 3.—All Paterson took on a festive appear- ance as striking dyers marched through the main streets to Hinch- cliffe Stadium celebrating victory after more than 5 weeks of strik- ing. More than 8,000 mobilized at Sandy Hill Park which was the starting point of the parade. Thou- sands lined the sidewalks, and thou- sands more joined the march, swell- in the parade to at least 12,000 by the time the workers neared the Stadium. ‘The parade included many women, children and young people. Heading the parade was the settlement com- mittee of which Charles Vigorito is chairman. The committee was chiefly composed of rank and file representatives elected by the work- ers, which had an important part in achieving the gains for the work- ers. Following them and the union officials was the band of the Pater- son post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the same post which de- nounced the call of the Chamber of Commerce to all service men to be- come protectors of scabs. The procession was divided ac- cording to shops. Signs bearing the name of the shop were usually ac- companied by the information “We go back to the shop 100 per cent union.” The celebration was marked by an enthusiasm, cheering and singing such as finds no precedent in the history of Paterson labor. Occasionally paraders would jump out of line and dance and jigg. The songs “Solidarity” and “On the Picket Line,” were heard in many parts of the city. ‘This morning, although the strike was actually at an end, the workers reported for the usual picket duty at the shops, determined that the return should be in a thoroughly organized manner. During the last two days shop chairmen and active strike leaders have been pointing out to the workers that the signing of the agreement does not mean that the workers can cease their vigilance. The shop committee and chairmen will have to continually be on the watch aaginst chiseling and trickery on the part of the bosses of each shop. Before a large audience which jammed Oakley Hall to the doors, James Casey, managing editor of the Daily Worker, spoke last night on the “Strike Wave and the Press,” He reviewed the conduct of the strike and told the workers that they owe their victory to the splen- did rank and file leadership and militancy. Correction A number of errors appeared in yesterday's story of the dye strike. In the second paragraph, “provi- sional union shop agreement” should read “preferential union shop agreement.” At the end of the story on the silk workers’ situation, where it read, “the meeting like- wise voted to hold no election” should read, “an election.” In the editorial on the dyers’ strike, Charles Vigorito was referred to as Thomas Vigorito. Dressers’ Strike May Close Cotton Mills MANCHESTER, N. H., Dec. 3. — A strike of dressers is threatening 2 shut-down of several of the Amos- ‘keag Company's cotton mills. Uniess the strike is settled today, mills employing five thousand workers would be Glares. closed the company de- >* Daily .Q Worker COMTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF CORMUNIST INTERWATIONAL) Entered as sevohid-cless matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥, under the Aot of March 8, 1879. -F.D.R. SPEEDS GUTS FOR JOBLESS NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1934 ae SEE see ea Was Burning Tribune of Revolution and Leader of Party (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Dec. 3. Jess).—In order to make all coun- ter-revolutionary acts of sabotage and assassination subject to the swiftest and most stringent pun- ishment the Central Executive Committee of the U. 8. 8. R. to- day passed the follewing deci- sions: Addressed to the judicial exam- ining authorities, one resolution recommends that the conduct of those cases accused of preparing or committing terrorist acts be im- mediately accelerated. A second resolution recommends to the court organs not to delay the ex- ecution of sentences of capital punishment over appeals concern- ing the pardon of criminals of these categories, because the Pre- | sidium of the Central Executive Committee of the U. S. S. R. does not consider it possible to accept such appeals for consideration. A third order sent to the Home Af- fairs Commissariat suggested the immediate execution of those sen- tences of capital punishment re- (By Wire- | \Kirov an Outstanding Leader of Leningrad Workers, Pravda Says Sergei M. Kirov garding criminals of the previ- ously named categories, MOSCOW, Dec. 3 (By Wireless). —All today’s papers have black borders and deal almost entirely with the memory of Kirov, showing pictures of his life. There are many articles by his friends, fellow work- ers and fighters, and comrades, The numerous factory organizations, the (Continued on Page 2) ‘OVER PROTEST OF FASCISM (Special te the Daily Worker) BOSTON, Dec, 3.—Nine of the 18 |young anti-Fascists, arrested in jconnection with the demonstration last Spring against the propaganda visit of the Nazi warship “Karl- sruhe,” were fined $20 to $50 and sent to the Charles Street Jail to- day by Judge Hobson upon their re- fusal to pay the fines. Alarmed by the flood of protests he has received against the frame- up and victimization of the anti- Fascists, Judge Hobson offered the pretext that he “didn’t want to send these people to jail,” but if they refused to pay the fines “they were jailing themselves.” The cases of two others, Albert Nadler and Samuel Sax, were placed on file, While hailing the partial victory won by the mass protests through the complete release of seven of the defendants and great reductions in the sentences six, seven and eight months imposed by the lower court in the cases of the nine fined to- day, the International Labor De- fense is urging all workers’ and sympathetic organizations to send protests to Governor Ely of Mass- achusetts demanding the release of the eleven now held in the Charles Street jail. The nine who were today ordered to serve out their fines at the rate of 50 cents a day, are Albert Mal- linger, fined fifty dollars; Alice Burke, Belle Lewis and Mary Sellin, twenty-five dollars each; Bernice Frazier, Charles Gilman, Abe Kline, Leon Lapin and John O'Flaherty, twenty dollars each. To celebrate the victory achieved in winning the complete release last week of seven of the defend- ants, the I. L. D. is arranging a Victory Ball at the Ritz-Plaza Hall, 284 Huntington Ave. for Friday evening, Dec. 14. Cotton Garment Trade Starts 36-Hour Week; Injunctions Are Filed WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 3.— Cotton garment workers are to work not more than thirty-six hours per week, according to instructions is- sued by Sydney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers and member of the National Re- covery Board. The order for a thirty-six hour week without reduction in pay was signed by President Roosevelt last spring, but thirty-one firms have filed injunction proceedings to re- strain enforcement of the presi- (dent's order in their plants, SAAR MINE PACT SIGNED BY POWERS ROME, Dec, 3.—A general agree- ment was signed this afternoon {through the French and German Ambassadors to Rome concerning the disposal of certain properties and coal mines of the Saar Terri- tory in the event that the Jan. 13 plebiscite votes for the return of the Saar to fascist Germany. Although details of the pact were not announced, and will not be known until their submission to the Council of the League of Nations on Dec. 5, it was declared by re- liable sources that .the principal plank in the arrangement was the sum of money to be paid by the Hitler government for the mines now owned by France. It was agreed that Germany would pay for the Saar coal mines by collecting French francs circu- lating in the Saar, exchanging marks for them and turning the francs over to France. The round sum of 800,000,000 francs ($52,000,- 000), it was understood, was agreed upon for this purpose. That this pact will in no way lessen the Nazi preparations for the armed seizure of the Saar or the fascist terrorism and fraud now taking place, observers here com- monly agree. Far from decreasing the aggression of Hitler propaganda and the “hook or crook” methods of the Nazi “Deutsche Front” of the Saar, German industrialists will make every effort not merely to swing the plebiscite into returning the territory’s war utilities to them but will even set the German war- machine in motion in order to seize the Basin should there be any ques- tion of an unfavorable vote. RELIEF CUTS IN DETROIT Broad Conferenee Held With Militant Spirit —aAnother Called (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, Dec. 3.—Nearly 3,000 unemployed workers, gathering in Arena Gardens yesterday afternoon |from all parts of the city, thun- |dered their protest against the 10 to 30 per cent reductions in relief hat have been put over in the last ix weeks, and unanimously decided |on a mass march to the county re- lief office on Dec. 18. A spirit of grim determination |pervaded the meeting, which was called by the Detroit Conference for Unemployment Relief and Insur- jance, representing 38 trade unions, ten unemployed organizations and 46 other workers’ groups. United militant action against the cuts and for adequate relief for the 66,000 families on the Wayne County Re- lief rolls—this was the keynote of the meeting. Second Conference Sunday The meeting endorsed the call- ing of a second conference to broad- en the fight for relief next Sun- day, Dec. 9, at 11 a.m. in Danish Brotherhood Temple, 1775 West Forest Ave. The two main speak- ers were Earl Reno, of the Mich- igan Unemployment Councils, and Herbert Benjamin of New York, National Organizer of the Councils. Joe Friedman, business agent of Local 42, of the A. F. of L. painters union, acted as chairman. Other speakers were Alfred Macknik of the Forgotten Men’s Club, J. Nel- son, a Negro representative of the workers at Fisher Lodge, municipal flophause; Richard Kroon, Secre- tary of the A. F. of L, Trade Union |Committee for Unemployment In- surance and Relief, and Mary Him- off, of the North Detroit Unemploy- ment Council. John F. Ballenger, Wayne County walfare administrator, and the Wel- fare Commission, who had been in- vited to speak in defense of their Policies, failed to show up. Demonstration Dec. 18 In an eloquent speech, frequently interrupted by applause, Reno ex- posed the maneuvers of the relief Officials in the face of the steady increase in unemployment. He an- swered the question of where the Welfare Department can get suffi- cient funds by pointing to the $13,- 000,000 that the city of Detroit had appropriated for payment of in- terest to bankers, and proposed, in addition, a tax on the swollen prof- its of corporations. Reno called for demonstrations at all local welfare stations and the building of unem- ployed organizations in every neigh- borhood, with a mass march of thousands on Dec. 18, as the only way to force restoration of the cuts. Benjamin exposed the Roosevelt “security” program as a program to cut relief and forestall real unem- ployment insurance. He called for intensified relief struggles in prep- aration for the National Congress for Unemployment and Social In- surance in Washington, Jan. 5 to 7. Resolutions were adopted de- manding rescinding of the cuts, en- dorsing the county march, support- ing the Fisher Lodge men, who went out on strike today, endorsing the National Congress and the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill and demanding that the Com- mon Council increase relief appro- ee and endorse the Workers’ NATIONAL EDITION (Six Pages) Priee 3 Cents tory Parade 3.000 FIGHT (ndustrial Chiefs in National Parley“AI)PRORRAM' Lay Plans for Vast Open-Shop Drive COVERS PLANS Through Use of N. R. A. Machinery FQR ATTACK | 9 Manufacturers Hail| Strikebreaking Labor ‘Truce’ By Milton Howard Close cooperation with the Roose- | | velé government and the hearty ap- |proval of the extension of the |strikebreaking “truce” was the key- | |note sounded yesterday by C. L. | Bardo, President of the National As- sociation of Manufacturers, before | the executive session of the annual meeting of the National Industrial Council at the Hotel Waldorf-As- | toria. | “Cooperation is clearly contem- | plated in the platform of industry | now before us,” said Mr. Bardo. “We | | thoroughly approve the President's urge its extension. We are strongly | | opposed to the 30-hour week. It is economically unsound. The only jcure for unemployment is employ- ment, and this raust come by stim- | ulating private industry.” Moving constantly ahead, with the certain cooperation of the Roosevelt government, the country’s | leading industrialists discussed their | anti-labor policies. Program for Monopoly Capital This Council, a subsidiary of the National Manufacturers Association, powerful organ of Wall Street mo- nopoly capital, is discussing what is planned to be @ program of re- covery, that is to say, a program for expanding monopoly profit. The Plans of this proposed program of; recovery were already made clear this morning in an address delivered by James A, Emery, General Coun- sel of the National Association of Manufacturers. In his address, entitled “Industry | and the 74th Congress,” Mr. Emery emphasizes that the major ob- jective of the Roosevelt government and the country’s leading indus- trialists in the coming months, will | be a drive against the labor move- ment, particularly against the trade unions, with the idea of smashing whatever standards have already ‘been achieved by the working class through strikes. Affirming support of the N. R, A., Mr. Emery stated: “It is inconceivable that this structure will disappear in June. It is incredible that it can just even temporarily continue without mod- | ification.” Instructions for Roosevelt Thus, it is clear that the indus- triakists of the country are now lay-| ing down in executive session the | specific changes which they desire Roosevelt to make in the N, R. A. set-up. The direction of these re- visions is indicated by the slogans proclaimed in Mr. Emery’s speech, “self-government for industry.” On the question of the open shop, | Mr. Emery quoted as his authorities, | Mr. Donald Richberg and Supreme Court Justice Brandeis. Mr, Emery | quoted the following words from) Richberg’s speech on the labor policy of the Roosevelt government: | “When labor leaders seek to use the employers as the means of) coercing men to join their organ- ization, they are not only creating | thus show that they are in full sympathy with the spirit of our peo- ple whose political system rests up- on the proposition that this is a (Continued on Page 2) DEC. 15 FINAL DATE FOR ‘DAILY’ DRIVE The ‘Daily’ Managemen t Emphasizes Danger of Delay in Fulfilling Campaign Quota Comrades: The Daily Worker is still confronted with financial difficulties! serious Although the workers of America have shown their determination to keep the paper alive, by their contributions during the last three months, more s—— proposed industrial-labor truce and| than $11,000 is still urgently needed | “Dail to adequately provide for the “Daily.” We asked for $60,000 because it is the absolute minimum that is re- quired! As we’ stated in our opening an- nouncement of the drive, $10,000 of the money that is raised must go to 's” condition. | But only four districts—Philadel- phia, Boston, Connecticut and New Jersey—have completed their quo- tas. New York, Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland have still not reached the | top. Such large districts as Pitt burgh, Seattle, California, Milwau- | kee, Minneapolis and Buffalo are far Forced Labor Prepared Under Barrage of ‘Security’ Talk By Seymour Waldman (Dally Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—Detere mined to substitute so-called work relief for the skeleton minimum | now being granted to those still on the rapidly thinning relief rolls, the Roosevelt Administration is quite obviously making every effort to keep its ear close to the pulse of the unemployed and the. destitute while it out the details of the vario construction, housing and subsistence projects which are expected to letrack the rising mass sentiment for adequate direct relief and genuine unemployment insurance. The administration, from all in- dications, hopes that the general | barrage of demagogy about general and economic “security” will revive jthe widespread illusions which the the Central Committee, to enable it| from sufficiently accelerating their|PoPUlarly phrased Roosevelt radio to carry out and extend its revolu- tionary activity. Our call for the districts to fill their quotas by Dec. 1 was no arbi- trary decision. It was dictated by the burning necessities of the paper. That the major districts have rushed every available penny is proof that they have recognized the | activity. The lack of intensified ef- | fort is also the case in most of the | small districts. | _ Every district must fill its quota! | The major ones must carry out their | pledges to go over within the next | few days. The lagging districts must (Continued on Page 2) HILLSBORO 15 ENTER PLEA OF NOT GUILTY HILLSBORO, Ill., Dec. 3. — The fifteen leaders of the unemployed | who were brought to trial here to- day under the infamous State criminal syndicalism law, won a postponement until Friday. All pleaded not guilty to the charge which was specified as “conspiracy to overthrow the Government.” Judge McWilliams, after granting the postponement, set Friday for the hearing of defense arguments. The International Labor Defense today called on workers through- out the country to lay down a bar- rage of protests by mail, telegraph and telephone against the intended railroading of the fifteen working class fighters to jail. All protests should be addressed to Judge Mc- FISHER LODGE “MEN STRIKE IN DETROIT | | By A. B. MAGIL (Special to the Dally Worker) DETROIT, Dec. 3.—Workers of Fisher Lodge, where over sixteen! hundred single men are quartered, struck today on three projects, de- |manding eight dollars a week cash relief and the right to live where |they please. The walkout today, or- ganized by an elected committee junder the leadership of the Unem- |ployment Councils, marks the be- ginning of a movement that is ex- pected to involve all of the men at |the Lodge. A squad of twenty-four was also sent to picket the building of the County Welfare Commission at 176 |East Jefferson Avenue. | The strike marks the culmination speeches raised shortly after the inaugural ceremonies and during the honeymoon p of the Na- tional Industrial Recovery Act. Vague “security” is the grease with which the administration, gener- alled by the manufacturers and bankers, will use in the attempt to |slide virtual forced labor or sub- |Sistence relief down the throats of jthe unemployed. | Needs Barrage of Demagogy | It is significant that although the administration has marched jOpenly anc ly on the road |Pointed out to it by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States and other employer bodies, by essing profits and by supporting the wage-cutting drive decided upon by the manufacturers and bankers, it still finds it necessary to coat its pills with demagogy. What is perhaps more important, it apparently has convinced the dominant bankers and industrialists who opposed the thin illusory phrases in the proposed compulsory arbitration Wagner Labor Disputes Bill because they preferred their |open machine gun policy, that an offensive against the working class can only be made under present conditions under a barrage of il- lusion-breeding speeches and con- ferences. Meanwhile, it is also ex- pected that this barrage will pro- tect the manufacturers delibera- tions over the precise permanent fascist mold into which they de- jsire to place the N. R. A. | The Administration and big business have used their tremend- Williams at Hillsboro, Illinois and |of a long series of struggles against |ous relief machinery to gauge the to Governor Horner, at the State Capitol, Springfield, Mlinois. Negro Beaten to Death in Dannemora Hospital ; Heads Conceal Murder pended three attendants, pending “investigation,” but refused to re- veal their names. Dr. Webster would not comment on how Jones received the injuries which caused his death. Paper Read at Economic Parley by Obolensky- Ossinsky The first comprehensive report on the First and Second Five Years Plans ever deliverey outside the So- viet Union was made here yesterday by V. V. Abolensky-Ossinsky, vice- chairman of the State Commission and director of the Central Ad- ministration of National Economic Planning. He spoke at the Conference on Social Economic Planning of the International Labor Relations In- stitute, held at the Russell Sage Foundation, and presented a paper on “The Place of the First and Second Five Year Plans in Socialist Construction in the Soviet Union.” His report was divided into three Soviet Economist Reports Gains of parts. The first gave a balance sheet of the First Five Year Plan. Against the background of the ac- complishments of the First Five Year Plan, Ossinsky outlined the objectives of the Second Five Year Plan, and in conclusion he gave the very latest data on the accomplish- ments of the Second Five Year Plan. For the basis of his report and for the purpose of contrasting the achievements under planning, with the conditions under the Czarist regime, Ossinsky stressed some of the following accomplishments of the First Five Year Plan. The in- dustrial output of the country rose 133 per cent from 1928 to 1932. The net value of this output increased from sixteen billion rubles in 1928 to thirty-seven billion rubles in 1932. Ossinsky pointed out that the First Five Year plan which was 4 accomplish in four and a half years attained a fulfillment of 96.4 per cent. It transformed a barely in- dustrialized country into a nation that was highly industrialized. The accomplishment of the ad- vance was based on_ socialized planning, Ossinsky said. This meant that in place of private profit a higher cultural and economic standard of living was attained for the ‘working masses. Among the outstanding features of the plan was the fact that while the capitalist world was in the midst of an intensive crisis, unemployment was abolished in the Soviet Union. Ossinsky pointed to other achieve- ments under the First Five-Year Plan. He pointed to the collectivi- zation of agriculture which by 1933 has become an established fact and enabled the collectivized peasants to achieve a record harvest in 1933, 5-Year Plans Pictures Vast Cultural and Social Advances for Working Class In 1934, despite the drought which | affected the wheat crops, the total crop was only two per cent less than the record crop in 1933 because of more intensive cultivation and be- cause there had been an increase of 7,000,000 acres which was sown with wheat. For the workers, the First Five Year Plan saw the general estab- lishment of a five-day week and a} seven-hour dey. Wages doubled, and in addition to the money wage, the workers received considerable | more in the form of social wages, such as social insurance, free med- ical treatment, and the like, Os- sinsky reported. |the vile food and forced labor con- |ditions at Fisher Lodge. The men |work one day in every two and a half weeks, cleaning alleys, for which they receive, in addition to so-called food and lodging, only one |dollar. Besides this, they must put in one day’s work inside the lodge for which they get no pay. Despite the fact that John F. Ballenger, a poor organization, but they are | PLATTSBURGH, N. Y., Dec. 3— County Welfare Administrator, told also violating the fundamental prin- | Sam Jones, 43-year-old Negro in- | your correspondent in an interview ciple of Section 7a of the N.R.A.” | mate of the Dannemora State Hos- October 19 that the men get their Quoting from Supreme Court pital, died last Wednesday night as!fooq and board whether they work Justice Brandeis, Mr. Emery said: | the result of a beating by attend-|5, not, the card each inmate re- “Unions should take the position | ants. News of his murder was con- | ceives states specifically that failure squarely that they are amenable to/|cealed until last night, when Dr. | to report for work will mean the law, prepared to take the con-/| Blakely Webster, superintendent of immediate cutting-off of food and sequences when they transgress and | the hospital, announced he had sus- | jogging. Only a small proportion of the |men work each day, and the rank and file committee plans to strike the projects day by day. The men |were voting amid the rousing sup- |port of a meeting of nearly three |thousand unemployed workers in | Arena Gardens yesterday afternoon, |Strike headquarters have been es~ tablished at the Greek Workers Ed- Jucational Club, 1413 Randolph | Street, | The Unemployment Councils ap- |peal to all workers - organizations \to help in providing coffee and sand- |wiches for the men. | Nine Glinese Scamen Hurt in Fall on Vesse ABERDEEN, Wash., Dec. 3.—Nine Chinese seamen brushing down the received serious injuries when the scaffolding broke loose in the hold, falling 33 feet to parallel pipes. The ship's officers took no notice of the accident and only started work to get the men out of the hold |of the ship when a committee of longshoremen protested the callous | accident before the men were finally | hoisted out and taken in ambulances to the hospital, where they were found to be in serious condition. bulkheads on a Norwegian freighter} treatment. It was an hour after the} sentiment of the people. Realizing |that many thousands of militant jand conservative employed and un- employed workers and many thou- sands of intermediate bodies have expressed a desire for federal un- employment and social insurance as provided for in the Workers Unem- ployment Insurance Bill, and fully aware of the determined protests against relief cuts which were made from Colorado to New York, the Administration in all probabil- ity will go full speed ahead with the plan to clamp its subsistence program on the country. It hopes to accomp.«sh this before what the conservative newspapers call “so- cial risk” increases, that is, before mass sertiment can block the at- tack. | Unemployment Insurance Congress | The fact that the subsistence of- | fensive will coincide with the ses- | sions of the National Congress on | Unemployment and Social Insur- | ance, which will be held in the | capital from Jan. 5 to 7, has not | been missed by Administration and | business bodies. It is no doubt con- | sidered a challenge to the entire | administrative and legislative pro- | gram on relief, employment and | billion dollar war preparations, The simultaneous wage-cutting announcements from Hopkins’ Re- | lief headquarters on the elimination of the 30-cent minimum, and from | Public Works Administrator Ickes | office on the necessity for wage cuts starting with the building | trades, illustrate the close working arrangements betwen the adminis- tration and the big money boys, the |sponsors of the company union | Wage-slashing N. R. A. and the ; Open judges and planners of na- tional industrial policies. The re- | cent big business proposal for giv- ing Roosevelt complete control over budgetary matters is a straw in the fascist wind. Functionally, the pro- | pesals to use the unemployed to build grade crossings for the raile | (Continued on Page 2)