The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 28, 1935, Page 1

ee} SCOTTSBORO-HERNDON FUND Only $49.35 received Saturday by the International Labor Defense $8,950.04 urgently needed for the U. S. Supreme Court appeals Vol. XII, No. 24 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 187% Ss CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST NEW YORK, MONDAY, Daily,.QA Worker TY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERWATIONAL ) \ATIONAL EDITION JANUARY 28, 1935 (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents U.S. FASCIST GROUPS PLOT MURDERS N. Y. DRIVERS’ AND DOCKERS’ STRIKE BREWS May Walk Out Against Anti-Union Injunction Issued by Humphries A strike of all truck drivers in New York, to protest the injunction issued recently against the water- front unions by Justice Burt Hum- phrey, is scheduled to take place this morning, officials of the In- ternational Brotherhood of Team- sters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers of America announced this week-end. Michael J. Cashal, vice- president of the union and Edward G. Maguire, union counsel, hast- ened to declare, however, that the strike vote was taken despite refusal of the officials to give sanction. Between 30,000 and 35,000 team- sters, they stated, will be involved. This, it was explained, will inev- itably call out as many more long- shoremen to join the strike, as no dock worker would handle scab freight. While Cashal referred to the vote for a strike at a meeting on Thursday as having been stigated by “underground radical activity,” it was found that the meeting was of one of the locals of the teamsters union where more than 800, tired of waiting for legal measures to reverse the injunctions, voted for immediate strike action. Wage Cuts, Discharges Mr. Maguire stated that since the injunction was granted, the employ- ers took advantage and have fired more than 1,000 union teamsters, | and have cut wages, in some cases by 50 per cent below the union scale, He admitted that while the policy of the officials is to appeal the de- cision of Justice Humphrey to a higher court, the rank and file of the membership refuses to await such action. He declared: “The members have swung away from the leadership and are now beyond control. Radical groups, working quietly but effectively at every dock, have stirred them up. We believe teamsters and long- shoremen in their present frame of mind will stop at nothing. We fear a situation similar to the recent one on the West Coast.” Cashal, declaring that the strike would be conducted by the rank and file, and is beyond control of the officials, expressed the hope “that hundreds of thousands of other union men and women will not catch the fever and cause a general strike.” He displayed re- cent leaflets issued by the Commu- nist Party and rank and file com- mittee in the International Long- shoremens Association, calling for mass violation of the injunction and united action of all marine workers in- | MOURNED IN USSR SACRAMENTO PROSECUTOR HITS ‘DAILY Urges Court to Cite} Reporter for Contempt By Michael Quinn (Special to the Daily Worker) SACRAMENTO, Cal., Jan. 27— es Judge Dal M. Lemmon, presiding |at the criminal syndicalism trial of | ail | 18 workers here, today took under VALERIAN KUIBYSHEV KUIBYSHEV ~ RITES HELD prosecution to cite the reporters ot | the Daily Worker and Western | Worker for contempt of court. The | prosecution alleged “contemptuous handling” by the reporters of the | fantastic arguments, re d-baiting and jury-tampering by the prose- cution, Judge Lemmon at the same | time denied a motion by Leo Gall- agher, International Labor Defense l|attorney, to cite the Sacramento | Bee for contempt of court for pub- an advisement a demand by the | Heroic Negro Worker Rescues 100 Persons In Mississippi Flood MARKS, Miss., Jan. 27.—John Little, Negro worker, is nailed here as the hero of the Misis- sippi Flood rescue work. When the water hit Crenshaw and many families faced drown- ing, the heroic Negro worker, nearing tnere was a Dig Doat | Uree miles away, took a little || Piroque and in the dead of the night and at freezing tempera- \ ture rowed through the icy wat- | ers to the spot where the big | Doat was located. He dug the | oars out of the ice with his fing- | ers and rowed the boat back to Crenshaw, where it was used to || bring out 100 persons. | ‘ Little’s hands were frozen and his clothes had to be cut from his body, the flesh of his arms cracked and his fingers tips may drop off as the result of his un- selfish heroism. AUTO MEN | | lication of a story, not justified on | the basis of the evidence, of a “Red | | plot’ to murder C.C.C. officers, Workers Throng Great | Square to Pay Last A motion by Gallagher to sus- | i pend the trial until the lynch spirit | | Tributes worked up by the local press and ‘9 ; employers’ associations had sub- (Special to the Daily Worker) | sided ‘was denied by Judge Lemmon, MOSCOW, Jan. 27 (By Wireless). | Gallagher had protested sharply —After thousands of workers and | against the newspaper campaign, collective farmers in the Moscow re- the attempt to railroad fascist-like a 2 laws through the Legislature, drill- gion had silently passed by the body ing in city parks of armed. vigil- | of Valerian Kuibyshev, which lay | antes and the placing of the Sacra- | in state all afternoon in the Hall | mento police under military rule. | | Gallagher also protested the an- of Columns of the Moscow Trade hnudneement’ Be the oourt tab the Union House, the great Soviet leader, who “with untiring hands | jury-tampering would be dropped. had worked at his post’ to the last | Testimony in the investigation minute of his life,” was laid to rest regard eect palates hind | in the walls of the Kremlin. ing the jury panels with cronies of The impressive funeral packed the | the district attorney's staff, and Red Square with sorrowing workers, | With ex-policemen, Legion officials {each one of whom had felt the and other anti-working class ele- | stirring presence of the brilliant | ments. tory. The head of the State Plan- | |made himself known and beloved of the 18 Sacramento defendants i i in his own fac- | organizer intimately in his o es dent, by: Naw. ‘Weekers ning Commission, Kuibyshev had Protests against the framed trial as their best co-worker, co-planner were sent from New York City to and fellow-builder of socialism. | Judge Dal M. Lemmon last week \ by the National Committee for the | | The entire Political Bureau of the | pefense of Political Prisoners and Communist Party of the Soviet by the Board of Directors of the Union and the members of the Cen- | tral Executive Committee of the | Soviet government, as well as the has urged all trade unions and or- best shock brigaders of the Moscow | ganizations of workers and sympa- factories, stood at attention as the thizers to voice their protest against guns thundered farewell volleys. | the criminal syndicalism prosecu- | The remains of Valerian Kuibyshev | tions and the related attempt to | Were then sealed in the black and |smash the trade union movement gold marble of the Kremlin walls. | and the Communist Party. | Members of the Central Executive | —— Committee of the Soviet Commu- nist Party spoke the thoughts of the | | workers. In the bitter cold of mid- | winter, every worker stood heavy- | hearted at this almost personal loss | and listened gladly as tribute was | Paid to their great comrade in arms, | ‘Shovel Snow Or Lose Relief’ investigation into the charges of | Utopian Society of America (East). | The International Labor Defense | to defeat it. Cashal bitterly assailed | Joseph Stalin, V. M. Molotov, K. E. the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce | Voroshilov, M. Kalinin, G. K. Ord- and trucking corporations, for tak-|jJonikidze, A. A. Zhadanov, and ing advantage of the injunction|Many others spoke of Valerian which forces union longshoremen to Kuibyshev as “one of the most ac- | | 22,000AreTold After thousands of unemployed | i | workers on the relief rolls had re- handle non-union @rucked goods, | tive participants and organizers of | Worl 3 and bringing in non-union orkaes. | the October revolution” and as “one fused to accept Mayor LaGuardia’s This, he admitted, is at the bot- | of the greatest organizers and lead- jedict that they shovel snow at 25 tom of the revolt in the ranks of |ers of socialist construction and cents an hour wages (half of their Nation -Wide Snow Storms Take Big Toll Six persons are reported to have died in a fire at Greenwood Lake, New York, last night, when a cot- tage burned to the ground in a region surrounded by huge snow drifts which prevented rescuers from saving the house and its oc- cupants. The tragedy raised the death toll due to the snowstorm and bitter cold of last week to 39 in New York State and approximately 200 throughout the nation. In New York suburbs streets are so blocked with snow that fire apparatus and ambulances will not be able to pass in case of fire or other emergencies. The suburbs are still digging themselves out of the storm. In the lower Mississippi valley serious floods have already taken the lives of 27 people and made 25,000 homeless. Flocds have been reported in the Pacific Northwest which have taken 25 lives. The intense cold has caused severe suffering for hundreds of thousands of homeless, with little effort being made by the author- ities to help them. The unemployed. with insufficient clothing, and often without shoes, have been the worst sufferers. Although forecasters predict more cold and storms, the relief authorities are making no wide-scale preparations to prevent a repetition of last week’s hard- ships. | ” ed economy in the U. S. S. R.” | Pay to be applied to their regular panne Bee has einera an in- |Yelief budgets), 22,000 home relief many | Communist Party today declared. “Death has torn one of the most Prominent leaders, finest comrades and closest friends from the fight- ing staff of the Party. Valerian Kuibyshev founght from his earliest. years under the great banner of Lenin.” With untiring hands he worked stubbornly both when the Bolshe- viks were an underground Party and at the front in the Civil War, as well as later in every important sector of socialist construction. He gave all his life, all his being to the cause of the working class, to the cause of our heroic people.” '4,000 Pittsburgh Glass Workers Go on Strike PITTSBURGH, Pa. Jan. 27.—Four thousand flat glass workers went on strike yesterday at the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company plants in this area. The strikers, organized in the Federation of Flat Glass Workers (A. F. of L.) are demanding wage increases and union recognition. Picketing is being carried on. Eight thousand flat glass work- ers throughout the country voted to strike at midnight Friday night. The strike is expected to effect auto- mobile production, WORKER ON BAIL CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 27.— Fred Werman, held for deportation to Hitler Germany because of his working class activities here, has been released on bail following a Mass protest campaign organized by the International Labor Defense. ‘Werman was so badly beaten up at the time of his arrest three months ago that upon his release he had to be put under a doctor's care, expressible loss,” a statement issued | Workers were yesterday mobilized by the Central Committee of the |for the job to supplement the mem- bers of the Saniation Department and the small crew of unemployed. While the under-clad army of the jobless, who had been brow-beaten into accepting the jobs under penalty of being cut off relief en- tirely, worked on the wind-swept avenues, dirt-spattered snow, sprinkled with garbage and refuse, choked the streets of the lower East. Side. In the business thoroughfares and on the residential avenues, ample crews were put to work clearing the ice-coated streets. Through the action of the Un- employment Councils, many of the (Continued on Page 2) Developments among the workers on the New York waterfront show clearly that the re- cent injunction handed down by Justice Burt Humphrey of the Supreme Court of Kings County is aimed to smash the unions on the waterfront, and as a signal for wholesale wage cuts. Events following the injunction have fully borne out the prediction of the Party as to its effects. The injunction ruled that longshoremen could not refuse to handle scab goods; that joint action between unions in the same in- dustry is illegal. Following the injunction, trucking corpora- tions and shippers have been firing union truck- men wholesale. Wages have been many cases to half the union scale. The workers in the locals of the Interna- tional Brotherhood of Teamsters and the In- ternational Longshoremen’s Association feel the danger of the injunction to the very existence SEEK STRIKE Rising Tide of Action by Workers Points to General Strike By Nat Ganley DETROIT, Mich. Jan. 27—Strike clashes are on the order of the day in the auto industry. What are the signs of the growing strike senti- ment of day in the auto industry. | What are the signs of the growing strike sentiment of the auto work- ers? The eighty locals of the automo- bile workers in the American Fed- eration of Labor have declared cate- gorically they are opposed to ex- | tension of the present agreement, | Signed by William Green and their | national officials.on March 25, 1934. | The pressure of the members has forced Green to announce that the | union ‘has withdrawn from the pact he himself signed and from the | Auto Labor Board, which he him- | self helped create. A conference of | rank and file workers in the Ameri- | can Federation of Labor auto locals | took place in Detroit over the week- | end to counteract the growing com- Pany union menace and to lay the basis for strike action. The Flint City Council of the auto locals had voted in favor of preparing a general strike. Cleveland Locals Act The Cleveland auto locals of the They are getting behind the rank and file conference in Detroit. strike in auto was defeated by only | one vote. in the Detroit City Coun- | cil of the American Federation of Labor auto unions. The council is | nevertheless drafting a program of strike demands. The Dingmen’s Club (indepen- | dent craft union in Detroit with | over 200 members has sent an ulti- | matum to the companies demand- ing that their wage be increased from $1.25 to $1.50 per hour, that their union be recognized and all hiring should be done through their union. The employers admit the grow- ing strike sentiment in the Jan. 19 issue of Automotive Industries | which declares: “Are we to have a general (Continued on Page 2) Browder Will Speak In Chicago Wednesday CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 27. — Earl Browder, gencral secretary of the Communist Party, will speak here Wednesday night at 8 p.m. at Alvin Hall, Fifty first Street and Michigan Boulevard, on the subject of “Forced surance.” AN EDI Communist | confined the fight to wrangled with the corporations and the Brook- lyn Chamber of Commerce in the boss-con- trolled court. They cited the futile Norris-La- Guardia anti-injunction law, and brought in Senator Burton K. Wheeler to argue the case of the union, They blocked any mass campaign of labor against the injunction. But that did not stop the bosses in their determination to smash the waterfront unions, and cut the wages of the workers, Now, when the injunction is already in ef- fect, these officials could find no other solution than an appeal to a higher court, In the mean- slashed, in N.B.C.Struggle Evansville ‘To Hit Plants | In 40 Cities. Men Strike The strike will affect plants in 40) cities. refuses to take any measures for 4 “WE ARE SEEKING A REAL LEADER” EY MEN OF AMERICA fe Me lager Sanat od Seri ote Executive Ofces 1116 VIBMONT AVON WASHINGTON, D. ¢. | July 13th, 1932. | General Smedley D. Butler, Newton Square, Penn. Dear General Butler: Pursuant to our telephone conversation I an anelosing @ oop: the announsenent of KFY WSN OF AMBEIOL. After you have read this I an sure you ¥ orpaivation ie not only timely but that it is highly desire. able and will provide the answer to the prayer in the heart of every American, "*hat are we going to do about it” eeking @ real iesder who will grasp the Preceples ibet existing intolerable abuses ive to the mas portunit, We are not seeking to use your namé,es great as it ie. ¥e want you to sgtually direct this movement which we expect | to eweep the Nation and save an unorganised, shackled and help- | ee people from the dictatorship of special interests. ur P a1 unit of th t then County lender, tl These leade: mt ation, its Government og ell ar the just a8 aby To organise 426 Con- it ie to organise one, to the Milits who have the people ready, way. z months end J £ nd people a: or some organization to show the Your immediate reaction in this matter will be appre- elated, Our office telephone is Bational 2864. Yours very truly, XSY LGN OF AMBRICA lant Thos. \. grrell, bxeoutlve Director, Tho the sn ded a ha +n tev de a ern oe pal pl eb al wa pr Pom na — SS = wen cad oat 3 Letter from Thos. N. Jarrell, Executive Director of the “Key Men of America” to Gen. Butler infofMing him that they “are seek- ing a real leader who will grasp the demand of the people .. . one who is dynamic, fearless, strong, determined and knows his own mind, and who can help... form a new center of Political action and national affairs.” | Furniture The strike of the National Biscuit! EVANSVILLE, Ind. Jan. 27.— | American Federation of Labor union Company: workers will be brought | Over one hundred employes of the are adopting a program of demands. | before the entire country, with a | general call for a boycott of Nabisco | t] Natit ‘A motion to threaten a general Saeed a mass meeting was told | the ‘ational |Karges Furniture Co, are on strike here under the leadership of Furniture Workers Union. The strike followed an at- tempt of the company to install a company union and smash the bona-fide organization of the men. The strike occurred after Curtis union officials this week-end. | The National Biscuit Company | settling the strike, determined to end the strike only by smashing the | | union, William Galvin president of | |the Inside Bakery Workers Federal | | Union, conducting the strike here, | told workers assembled at Stuyves- )ant Casino on Friday night. Philadelphia Strike Solid Garwood, corresponding secretary of Local 137 of the N. F. W. I. U., and Ray Hillebrand, active union member were fired and the company tried to force the men to accept the “Amalgamated Association of Fac- tory Workers,” a company union. Karges has launched a severe terror to try to break the workers’ PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 27—/ ranks. He has spread lies that the | Labor or Real Unemployment In- | of their union, and, therefore, to their standards of living. For month the workers have been de- manding action to prevent such an injunction. The workers want to protect themselves. But what has been the policy of the higher officials of the teamsters’ and longshoremen’s unions—Ryan, Lacey, Cashal and the like? They | Declaring that their 1,100 strikers |are out solid, the strike committee of the Cracker, Cookie and Biscuit Workers, Federal Local 18660, con- | |ducting the Nabisco strike here, | issued the following statement: | “The employes of the National Biscuit Company are on strike for equal wages for equal work. This demand the officials of the union presented to the company in No- vember and has been arbitrated until Jan, 8, 1935 without satis- faction. When they refused to give the equalization of wages we were forced to go on strike. “We only ask for fair treatment | ana will ‘stay out unt a fair | agreement is made. We ask the pupic to cooperate With us m our fair fight.” Stop the Anti-Union Drive on the Waterfront! TORIAL legal dickerings, they prepare for scare? time the bosses continue wih their drive against the unions. The workers are tired of waiting while union men are being fired and wages are cut. is why at a local meeting of teamsters Thursday night a decision for a strike was taken. But do the top officials carry out the de- mands of the rank and file? Do the officials Stead they have raised a red scare, to split the ranks of the strikers. They declare that strike action is not sanctioned, and that the “reds,” through “illegal” action have aroused such senti- ment. Why do these high officials raise the red They have been shouting about the danger of the Communists taking control of the water- front ever since the injunction was applied for. | In his manner they aimed to confuse the mem- workers have gone back. The local press here has raised a strong “Red Scare,” charging that the strike is a “Communist plot” | and thus trying to defeat the de- mands of the strikers, Members of the Socialist Party here in answer to an appeal for a united front, have helped the strikers by issuing a leaflet, contri- | buting food, etc. The Communist | Party is active in support of the | strike. | Strikebreaking measures include | the importation of Edward McBride, editor of “Union,” a so-called | labor paper in Indianapolis, and | Fred E. Galloway, one time state | legislator, to boost the company | union. | That united general struggle? No! In- (Continued on Page 2) | NAZI-LINKED GROUP URGES GEN, BUTLER TO ‘TAKE COMMAND’ “When the 120,000,000 Christians Awaken,” Butler Told, “the Bloody Purge of Hitler Will Look Like a Picnic” “Key Men’ Asked Butler to “Direct Movement Expected to Sweep Nation™ Nationwide Anti-Semitic Campaign Launched by “Protestant Civic Welfare Federation”’ as the Basis for Organized Vigilante Raids By MARGUERITE YOUNG A Nazi-linked organization claiming 6.000 clergymen and more than 100,000 other members asked General Smedley D. Butler on last November 9 to “take common’” in preparation for the day when “the bloody purge of Hit- Jer will look like a picnic.” This bold Nazi overture came from the Protestant Civie Welfare Federation, 551 Fifth Avenue. One of the group’s chief speakers is former Congressman Louis T. McFadden of Pennsylvania, associate of William D adley Pelley of the Silver Shirts, and Robert Scott ¢ posed Nazi. McFadden has just announced him President on a one-plank platform, anti-Sem In his letter to Butler, Edward J. Smythe, F Secretary of the Protestant Civic Welfare Fed wrote: “They [“the International Jewish Clique”’] re-wrote the Constitution of the Republic of Germany, and jammed it down 68 million German Christians, and enslaved them, economically, socially and politically. They are trying to do the'same here, but. they will find us a much harder joh, because when the 120 million Christians awaken the bloody purge of Hitler will look like a picnic.” Butler himself was offered a presidential nomination for 1936 by the “Progressive Pa rty,” a “party of limited individualism,” as early as June 27, 1932. ng “lead- ership in boots,” the head of this organization promised to organize 10,000 to 1,000,000 voters to present the nomi- natoin if Butler would take it and, thereby, help to “get the revolution centered at the ballot box.” He said Butler was his group’s No. 1 choice. The Rev. Charles E. Cough- lin was the tenth choice. : These and other letters and literature sent by about 100 organiza- tions and individuals to the General whom Wall Street later sought to have lead a fascist army clearly establish that definite efforts by anti- union employers to organize mass groups to support employer programs against the militant labor movement were under wa as early as during the Bonus March of 1932. FLOODED WITH BIDS Butler has been flooded by c: over the country—Houston, Texas geles, Cincinnati, ete. I have exe is reproduced here. cutive tion, ‘espondence and 1 Charleston, West Vi Los An- mined a sheaf of cme of which Much of it was printed on expensive Stationery, Several groups used the names of prominent politicians who, they said, were connected with them. Some were significantly vague as to what their object was. The “Veterans National Political League, Inc,,” “to play politics with the politicians,” urged Butler to “get into direct touch with us,” on September 20, 1932, and named the following politi- cians as honorary charter members: Senators M. M. Neely of West Virginia; Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma; Arthur Robinson of Indiana (defeated since); Representatives Wright Patman of Texas, Joe Smitir of West Virginia, H. McClintock of Ohio and R. Vinson of Kentucky, and Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, then Superintendent of Police of Washington, D. C., recently a Roosevelt “labor” rep: esentative in the Imperial Valley, California, where agriciStural strikers were terrorized by armed fascist band A ‘Veterans’ Army” group, using the military form of communica tion, in January 1933, wanted Butler to “take command of the First Division,” General Glassford could not do 50, they added, but “he is ature from all organizing veterans activities which are constructive and non-violent,” they suggested entirely in sympathy and harmony with us.” For references on “our activities which are constructive and non-vigient,” they suggested Colonel Paul Werner, an officer of the Veterans Bureau in St. Louis, Missouri. This letter is reproduced on page 2 of this issue. The “American U. S. Volunteers of ‘17,” incorporated in Texas, sent a friendly bid for attention last August. On expensive stationery. they declared themselves for “conscription of all industry, as well as all man-power in any war’—the American Legion-Roosevelt dema-= gogy—although their own letter-head demanded militant defense of the Constitution—which specifically prevents conscription of proj y. They listed as chairman of their Finance Committee J. J. James, of the Houston Gas and Fuel Co. CALL FROM EX-ARMY MEN With the motto, “Be American, Buy American,” seeking to put “patriotism” to advantage in business sought Butler's cooperation. They wrote that they, “some ex-army officers,” in= corporated The American Patriotic League, in 1932, and immediately started “making contacts with leaders of industry and various trade organizations, and the response has been most satisfactory.” Their “sole purpose,” they said, was ‘meeting the economic crisis in a militant manner, and above all to take care of America and not Europe.” Another obvious Nazi-like communication, with a typewritten signature, “Spirit of 76,” declared that: “The JEWS, pure ASIATICS, not WHITE,” are responsible for “ECONOMIC WORLD unrest,” and for “STRIKES, RIOTS and Rebellion among WORKERS and Men of color.” The Protestant Civic Welfare Federation asked Butler to speak on “the Communistic trend in our Government today.” Flinging typical Hitler venom at the Jewish people, the foreign-born, and radi= cals—the characteristic Fascist effort to create a scapegoat to bear the blame for the misery of the people and at the same time to divide the working class—complained that such “Jews” as Rexford Tugwell, the Gentile Assistant Secretary of Agriculture in the Roosevelt govern= ment, and such “Communists” as Felix Frankfurter, a Liberal Roose» velt government ornament, are trying to “reconstruct” the country, “They did this in Germany,” the letter added, and “the international @ group obviously (Continued on» Page 2)