The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 5, 1935, Page 1

Puch Cireulation Brive Press Run Yesterday — 48,000 Vol. XH, No. 31 <=> Entered as second-class matter 2s New York, N. ¥., under the At Daily QA Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) at the Post Office at et of March 8, 187% NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1935 (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents STEEL WORKERS ACT TO PREPARE STRIKE U.S. Imprisons Krumbein, C. P. Leader JUDGE GIVES ORGANIZER 18 MONTHS Sentenced for Technical Vielation of Passpert Regulations Charles Krumbein, organizer of the New York District of the Com- munist Party, was sentenced yes- terday by Judge Henry W. Goddard n the Southern District of N. Y. Federal Court to serve eighteen months in a federal prison on a charge of a technical violation of he U. 8. passport regulations. This s to be followed by a probationary oeriod of four years upon his re- lease. This vicious sentence was passed ipon Krumbein by Judge Goddard upon the recommendation of As- sistant U. S. Attorney Murphy, who made a venomous attack upon Krumbein for his working class ac- tivities. When first arrested nearly a year ago Krumbein was led by the au- thorities to believe that he would receive a mild sentence, and there- fore pleaded guilty to the indict- ment, However, when the U. 8. attorney familiarized himself with Krumbein’s conspicuous activities in the revolutionary movement he appeared in Federal Court with the demand that Krumbein be given a stiff sentence. Arrested After May Day Krumbein was arrested almost immediately following the great May 1 demonstration in New York last year, when more than 50,000 workers gathered at a huge united front demonstration in Union Square. In demanding that Krumbein he | severely dealt with, the federal | prosecutor cited Krumbein’s con- viction in Illinois on a charge of | criminal syndicalism, thus seeking | 2S to picture Krumbein as a “danger- ous” individual. Joseph R. Brodsky, chief counsel for the International Labor De- fense, appeared as Krumbein’s at- vorney. Krumbein, who is 45 years old, is a steamfitter by trade, and has been active in the revolutionary | movement since the days of his vouth. He joined the Socialist Party in 1912, and was one of the founders of the Communist Party in 1919. He was arrested with C. E. Ruthenberg, William Z. Foster and other Communist leaders in the fa- mous Bridgeman, Mich. raid in 1922. After several years the indict- ment was dropped. Previously he} had been convicted in Chicago and sentenced to serve ten years as a result of his working class activi- ties, but mass protest forced the Governor of Illinois to issue a par- don for Krumbein and his co- defendants. As he left the court room to be taken to jail yesterday Krumbein asked Max Steinberg, organization secretary of District 2, to convey the | follwing message to the member- ship of the Party and to the thou- sands of left wing workers in the mass organizations: “Tell the comrades to dig deeper into the work. I will be back at my post to fight harder than ever in the front ranks of the working class.” Georgia Scab Kills Striker | ROSSVILLE, Ga., Feb. 4.—“Pink” Walker, one of the most active work- ers in the strike of the Richmond Hosiery Workers here was killed, and Corbet Davis, another active striker, was seriously wounded. by a strikebreaker yesterday. ‘The strikebreaking murderer, Tal- madge Lindsey, had been working in the mill since the strike was called, six weeks ago. The murderous attack has aroused general indignation and is con- sidered a Geliberate provocation by the company in an attempt to in- crease the reign of terror against the strikers, who are holding firmly. Since the withdrawal of the Na- tional Guard, forced by protests from all parts of the country, police and deputies have been increased and an injunction against picketing aas been granted. The Rossville Mill was the first. of the, four plants to come out. Now all the four mills on the Tennessee and Georgia side of the State Line, employing about 1,500 workers, are quit. The strikebreaker, murderer told he police a story of his having been attacked Saturday on the street, and that he shot in self defense, _— U. S. PLOTTERS’ Secret Menkes of | 2,000 Links Many Anti- Labor Groups By Marguerite Young The Committee for the Nation is now actively directing the main plays and players in a prelude to American Fascism. A Wall Street- dominated group, nationwide and highly organized, it has already be- come in effect a headquarters for representatives of almost every im- portant Fascist force in the United States. These include groups now plotting to put storm troops in the field as well as those now carrying on an intensified and typically Fascist drive against the civil rights and living standards of labor, poor farmers and political dissenters. This two-year-old Committee for the Nation is composed of more than 2,000 business men, bankers and big farmers. It wields an un- suspected power over workers and farmers throughout the country. | Many of its own members do not know all it is doing. Leaders Work Secretly Its leadership, an acutely class- conscious aggregation, including known conscious pro-Fasciste, is | working secretly as well as openly, |to preserve ce apitalists interests lagainst mass struggle. It has di- vided its own following into cate- gories, and sometimes activities dis- closed to one or more groups of | Committee for the Nation mem- | bers are kept from other classes of \the same membership. It is now keeping secret the names of its | members. (The Daily Worker has a list of about 1,500 of them). Though organized originally, sup- posedly, to “Rebuild Prices and | Purchasing Power,” the Committee | has recently added the slogan, “To Preserve Rights to Profits and | Property,” to the official stationary on which it sends confidential in- | formation to certain groups of its |membership. It has, likewise, ini- | tiated a broad expensive prop- aganda, campaign — against strikes _HEADQUARTERS, HENRY A. WALLACE its oppressor-employers. In short, it is attempting to build mass sup- port of the idea that labor must remain passive and it is organizing thousands of small capitalists and so. In arguing for these steps, it is employing Communist language— | the words of Karl Marx himself!— to bring about support of its pro- gram to prevent “the masses’ tak- ing things into their own hands.” Back of Roosevelt Acts Evidence in the hands of the of the Committee for the Nation, as long ago as January, 1933, were meeting secretly and discussing “monetary reform” measures later executed by the Rooseevlt Adminis- tration. The inflationary “mone- tary reform measures” in them- selves an anti-labor move, were put over un#er the “Rebuild Prices and Purchasing Power” slogan, but evi- dence in the possession of the Daily Worker shows that they were in- spired by these individuals as a measure to preserve the general, fundamental class interests of cap- italists consciously seeking a way to (Continued on Page 2) and for “cooperation” by labor with | big and middle farmers to keep it | Daily Worker discloses..that leaders | preserve their profits during the | economic crisis which, they acutely | realized, was bringing mass misery | Leader of U. S. Fascism WORKERS BILL COMMITTEE FOR THE NATION 18 SUPPORTED AT HEARINGS Defense of H. R. 2827 (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, -Feb. 4—A new page in the long struggle for ade- quate unemployment and social in- | |surance was begun today with the opening of public hearings on the first genuine Workers’ and Farm- ers’ Bill—The Workers’ Unemploy- }}ment, Old Age and Social Insur- ance Bill, H. R. 2827. The bill was initiated by the Communist Party and introduced in the House of Representatives by Ernest Lundeen, Farmer-Laborite of Minnesota, Matthew A. Dunn, Democrat, of Pennsylvania, chiarman of the sub- committee of the House Labor Committee appointed to hold hear- ings on the Workers’, Bill, opened the sessions at which workers from |nearly every industry, agricultural laborers, professionals, artists, weeks period. “Printers For It” Elmer Brown, chairman of the National Sponsoring Committee of ployment Insurance and a member | of “Iternational” ‘Typographical Union No. 6, told the sub-commit- tee, “the workers in the printing industry see in H. R. 2827 the cor- rect principle of unemployment in- surance. We vigorously oppose the | Wagner-Lewis Bill. We will insist | that H. R. 2827 be enacted and the (Continued on Page 2) ‘Rakosi Trial | Stirs Workers PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Feb. 4. (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Feb. 4 (By Wireless). fort has been made by the state col- | |lective farms and the government to increase the number of cattle and | horses were outlined today by Cher- noy, People’s Commissar of Agricul- ture, who reported to the session of the Seventh All-Union Congress j of the Soviets. Unlike those countries where the | government gives no aid to farm- ers during drought periods, or even, as in the United States, goes so) far as to destroy cattle, in the Soviet Union the government has offered a special decrease in taxes | to the individual peasants who raise calves and colts. A special cam- |good stabling for the cattle during the winter. In addition to the in- stitution of a propaganda campaign against the slaughtering of young animals, impetus has been given to the raising of poultry and rabbits to be used as a substiute for veal, during the process of upbuilding Steel and Tin Workers (A, F. of zation drive to build the A. F. in preparation for a steel strike, tion of lodges taking part in the This significant conference the steel workers are aware that nothing from the Roosevelt gov N. R. A. Boards, The A. A. lodges, displaying convention, ' |The methods by which every ef- | | paign has been organized to provide | Four hundred delegates from seventy-eight lodges of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, burgh on Feb. 3, and launched a national organi- Less than 24 hours after the conference ad- journed, it was reported that the Tighe-Leonard machine heading the A. A. has announced a cam- paign of wholesale expulsions and charter revoca- needs and wishes of the majority of the workers ni the steel industry. The decisions showed that for a unified fight of all steel workers for their demands, which were presented at the 59th A. A. with enthusiasm and fighting spirit decided that only through their own organized Soviet Congress ‘Hears Report On Livestock Breeding Growth | the herds. Prizes will be given to the collective farms which take un- usually good care of their cattle. The village Soviet chairmen have been instructed to make special pro- | vision for horses in the fields. The number of incubator stations ada be increased, to develop a local | Supply system to provide sufficient eggs. The state now provides the | and pigs, | Chernov cited for approval a par- ticular collective farm which did not slaughter a single calf last year, but added all to the herd, or dis- tributed them among the members to be raised, Delegations continued to arrive in honor of the Congress, and to pledge their support. Today the Tashkent textile workers and Tula Metal workers reached Moscow. The Tula workers brought their banners with them, together with gifts of their tools, implements and cutlery. (Continued on Page 2) tions. L.) met in Pitts- of L. steel union steel workers. conference. represented the they can expect ernment and its a determination farmer with many chicks, calves, | Simultaneously, locals of the United Mine Workers met and mapped their fight for their demands and pledged joint action with the steel workers. The resolutions of the steel conference unani- mously denounced the disruptive tactics of Mike Tighe, president, Louis Leonard, secretary, and the other international officers of the union. national officials have already launched a cam- paign of expulsions, and threaten to revoke the charters of all participating lodges. on this splitting work by raising the cry “dual unionism” and by means of the Red scare. in reality this is an open attempt to stop the or- ganization drive and prevent a steel strike. fully in line with Rooseyelt’s action in the auto | industry, as decided upon at the last A. F, of L, ‘Demonstrations and protests de- |manding the release of Matthias Rakosi, Communist leader of Hun- garian workers, are taking place | here almost every day. At a meet- ing of 600 workers of Bardeyev, a protest was drawn up and sent to the Hungarian Embassy stating that | | in again trying Rakosi after he had served his sentence “the Hungarian counts and barons are offering a provocation to the Slovak workers,” Two large demonstrations, shout- ing “Freedom for Rakosi, death to fascism,” gathered in front of a downtown theatre and at the Hun- garian Consulate in Bratislava, Negro Slain by Officer OXFORD, Miss., Feb. 4.—Henry Carrothers, Negro, was shot to death here by Night Marshal McNeely while buying gasoline for his landiord’s truck at a filling station. McNeely, has established a curfew law for Negroes on his own author- ity and he killed Carrothers to carry out a threat that he would shoot any Negro he saw at large on the streets of Oxford between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m. AN EDI strength and action can they better their condi- The decision of Roosevelt, extending the anti- labor auto code and denying all the auto workers demands, brought strikingly home to the A. F. of L, steel lodges the fact that Roosevelt and the Labor Boards are sharpening their attacks also on the delegates from one hundred These They carry But It is Socialist Leader Joins ia and | technicians will be heard over a two | |the National Congress for Unem- | | burden of unemployment and social | In Mississippi Town) AH Workers Invited To C.P. Open Meeting On the Labor Party The District Bureau of the Communist Party yesterdaly called upon all its New York membership and urged all sym- pathizers and members of the Socialist Party and the American Federation of Labor to attend a special open meeting of the Com- munist Party, where its general secretary, Earl Browder, will re- port on the Communist position on the Labor Party. This open membership meeting will be held Sunday night at 8 o'clock at St. Nicholas Palace, "| West 66th Street, SPLITS FIGHT TO FREE 18 \Trotzkyite Lawyer Aids Sacramento Judge Dis- rupt Defense By Michael Quinn (Special to the Daily Worker) SACRAMENTO, Calif. Feb. 4.— The Trotzkyites carried their dis- ruptive activities on trial here into the court last Friday when Albert Goldman, Trotzkyite attorney for Norman Mini, sided with the pros- |ecution in a vicious attack on Leo | Gallagher, International Labor De- | | fense attorney representing 17 of | }the defendants. For four days Gallagher had been questioning William Hanks, notori- |ous labor spy, under extreme diffi- | culties raised by the prosecution and |the court in their attempt to pro- tect Hanks, with the result that |there were frequent clashes. Dur- ing all this time Goldman had sat | silently, not aiding the defense. Fri- |day| morning a reactionary juror |complained that Gallagher was shouting at Hanks. Special Pros- ecutor Neil McAllister seized this cue to accuse Gallagher of “turning the court into a rough house.” Judge Dal M. Lemmon rushed into the |breach with a sharp reprimand to Gallagher. It was at this point that the Trotzkyite attorney, Goldman, broke his long silence, rising to sup- port the court with the statement, | “T am not at all in sympathy with | Mr. Gallagher’s methods. In fair- ness to my client, I want that to ve | | made clear.” Tried to Split Defense Goldman was well aware that the | attack on Gallagher was a planned | | affair, concocted by Special Pros- | |ecutor McAllister; but he seized on | the occasion to split the defense in the hope of winning leniency for Mini at the expense of the 17 other defendants. At a meeting after court ad-| journed for the day, all of the de- fendants with the exception of Mini sharply repudiated Goldman, and | accused him of attempting to dis- rupt the defense. They declared | their full endorsement of Gallagher jand his stern fight against the use of the trial by reactionary employ- ers and their puppet officials as a springboard for an attack on the whole working class, and first and foremost the Communist Party. Sabotage United Fronts The action of Goldman followed the attempts of Trotzkyite dele- gates from the Workers Party and the so-called Non-Partisan Defense League, to break up the united front movement started in San Francisco for the defense of the eighteen de- GLEN ALDEN (Lammove] PARLEY PLANS STRIKE SHUTS COLLIERIES Pickets Are Attacked by Police on First Day Of Walkout WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Feb. 4.— Most of the Glen Alden collieries were tied up as the strike of all the company’s miners called by the | United Anthracite Miners started | today. Large numbers of state and local police guarded all mines, club- | bing and dispersing pickets. The strike was caused by the ef- | fort of the officials of the United ;Mine Workers to smash the in- | dependent Union of Anthracite | Miners and force its members to | | join the American Federation of Labor union through intimidation, | aided by the Glen Alden Company. The company has applied for an injunction against picketing. Hear- | ing on the application has been set for Wednesday. A mass meeting has been called tonight of miners belonging to both unions at the Lance collieries. The correctness of the policy of | the rank and file. in the anthracite, for unity of both unions for the enforcement of the agreement with the company, in placing of fighting against each other, is now especi- atly “Apparent to the workers. The Unemployment Councils have is- sued a leafiet to all unemployed miners, calling upon them to stand solidly behind the strikers. plication for an injunction against picketing is a declaration that the | strike is illegal, and all questions tion, New Deal Hit By Methodists, The Methodist Federation for | Social Service yesterday charged | President Roosevelt with breaking his promises. Two years of the | New Deal have increased unem- ployment, decreased the purchas- ing power of the average person, and brought “a top-heavy advan- tage for the special privileged | class,” the findings of the organiza- | tion composed of ministers and churchmen disclosed. The New Deal was indicted on | the following grounds: | It redistributed wealth upward instead of downward. Unemploy- | ment increased 5.4 per cent, and in- | | dustrial wages fell 2 per cent. Col- lective bargaining has been “almost completely nullified.” Prices have gone up as the result of the A. A. A, crop reduction program. Instead of driving the money changers out of the temple, Roose- trench them,” Federation Pointed out. This is the Federation’s second indictment of the New Deal. Last. December it charged that Roosevelt had “betrayed” the forgotten man. the Pennsylvania Relief Parley HARRISBURG, Pa. Feb. 4— March 24 and 25 have been tenta- tively set down as the dates on which a state-wide congress for un- employment and social insurance (Continued on Page 2) TORIAL drive to build the A. A. Tighe is tell in words. The conference denounced Mike to prevent strike preparations and drive to build the A. A., Tighe is tell to continue to have faith in the Roosevelt Labor Boards and the N.R.A., which have al their conditions and strengthened unions. Tighe continues his traditional ing the A, A. a small shell. He bet workers last June when he helped prevent their strike and approved the Steel Labor Board, which has carried out every wish of the steel corporations. The delegates gave an aggressive answer to Tighe’s expulsion policy. The conference went on record ing of the A, A. into a mass union, into one of the biggest of the A. F. of L. unions. The confer- ence sent demands to Green and financial and organizational resources of the na- tional offices of the A. A. and the thrown into the organizational dri will be held here, Build the AFL Steel Union! Prepare for Strike! Defeat Tighe’s Expulsions! ling the workers now in the A. F. Tighe’s attempt to disrupt the ling the workers lready worsened the company to resist Tighe’s charter revoked. policy of keep- trayed the steel the overwhelming ers’ demands. for the build- Organize the Tighe that the workers! A. F. of L, be ve in the steel erful mass union! The basis of the company’s ap- | should be settled through concilia- | velt’s measures have “served to en- | CHARLES KRUMBEIN AUTO STRIKE RANKS SOLID Detroit Workers at Murray Plant By A. B. Magil (Special téothe Dally Worker) DETROIT, Mich., Feb. 4—While | automobile locals was preparing to |meet tonight to take up the devel- oping strike situation, the strike at |the Murray Body plant here, whith |started Thursday, continued solid. About seven hundred workers are out, mostly maintenance men, but | also some from the trim shop, as well as electricians and welders. Wage increases and equal division of work to cut down layoffs are the chief demands. The strike is being |led by the Murray Body Local of the United Automobile Workers, af- filiated to the American Federa- ‘ion of Labor. “Indications are that other de- | partments will be out today,” Rod- | erick MacDonald, A. F. of L. or- ganizer, stated. He said that the | metal finishers and trim shop men were holding a meeting this after- |moon to take up the question of strike action. Nearly five thousand were employed at the plant when the strike started. C. P. Unit Active The Murray Body Unit of the Communist Party has issued a leaf- \let calling on the workers to make it a hundred per cent strike and urging them to join the A. F. of L. union. Your correspondent was in- formed today that an official of the Murray Body Local has asked for | the co-operation of other labor or- | ganizations in picketing. MacDonald, however, declared that no appeal to other organiza- tions has been issued. ‘The employers are trying to break \the strike~ by importing outside | scabs. MacDonald told your corre- spondent that several A. F. of L, members were sent to the Detroit Employers’ Association to ask for jobs. They gave fictitious names and pretended to have come from outside cities. given passes for employment as maintenance men in the Murray Body plant. The A. F. of L. leaders are try- (Continued on Page 2) national convention. It is Tighe and Co. who are of L. national convention. It is Tighe and Co. who are now trying to split the unions in order to serve the steel barons. true of the whole policy of Tighe and Co. The conference called upon every steel worker This is expulsion policy—to allow not a single A. A. member to be expelled and not a single The conference was called accord- ing to the constitution of the A, A., for the purpose of building the union, of expressing the will of majority of the A. A, member- ship, and to prepare the struggle for the steel work- The steel workers must now, in every district, in every lodge and mill, give their answer to the steel bosses and their company unions, and to the Tighe expulsion policy. hundreds of thousands of steel Build the Amalgamated Association into a pow- Prepare for strike to enforce the demands of the Fifty-ninth Convention! y Wage Increase Asked by! \ the City Council of the A. F. of L. | They were at once) FOR ACTION ON DEMANDS Campaign of Leaders Fails To Stop Action Of Rank and File PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 4.—Four hundred delegates representing seventy-eight lodges of the Amalga- mated Steel, Tin and Iron Workers Union from practically every dis- trict of the national organization here yesterday at the Moose Temple, in an effort to develop a nation-wide organization campaign nm preparation for a strike as the only means to win the economic de- mands and recognition of the union adopted at the 59th regular conven- | tion of the Amalgamated last April, | aes were also present 130 dele- local unions of the Snited ‘Mine Workers of America who aside from participating in the steel conference held a session of iners’ delegates separately. The conference was called on the initiative of the Pittsburgh District jof the A. A. and was decided upon |at a preliminary conference repre- | Senting five districts of the A. A. on ieee 30 at which most of the lead- | ing officials of the A. A. were pres- |ent and took no exception to the calling of the conference of the va- rious districts which is a tradi- tional practice of the union. For Rank and File Action Despite this, however, Mike Tighe carried on a vicious campaign against the conference. That excel- lent attendance at the conference was achieved despite the attacks and threats of Tighe is an indica- tion of the growing feeling among the steel workers that their only hope of realizing their demands lies through struggle and that the N. R. A. has only brought chains of slavery to the steel workers in the form of the company unions. At the same time the conference was an expression of understanding among the steel workers that they cannot rely on the top leaders of the A. A. to organize the industry and prepare for the strike—that this task must be carried through by the steel workers themselves despite the sabotage of the Tighe machine. Attack on Workers The Roosevelt decision in the auto industry, which was an open attack |on the workers, a slap in the face of all organized labor, and which is freely admitted to be symptomatic of the line of the administration for all industry, was furtehr proof to the delegates at the conference that they must take matters in their hands and act quickly. The conference in the midst of the greatest enthusiasm decided | unanimously to undertake in each district and in each lodge the or- ganization of the unorganized steel workers in preparation for strike, The delegates decided to call upon Mike Tighe and the A. A. Executive | as well as the A. F. of L. Executive Council now in session in Washing- | ton to support in every way include ing a financial and organization drive. At the same time the cone net (Continued on Page 2) Anti- Union | Writ Held Up After a conference lasting from 11 yesterday morning until 5 in the evening between Justice Burt Jay Humphrey and representatives of | the shippers and trade unions, pro- |ceedings were adjourned until today at 10:15 with the injunction against the Teamsters’ Union still unsigned. |No representatives of the public or |press were permitted at the con- | ference, nor were any details made | known. | Prior to the opening of the con- ference Justice Humphrey again re= | peated his determination to sign |the writ which would bar united |action between longshoremen and jteamsters. A number of times dur- | ing the week he stated that the con- |ference is a mere formality, and |that his mind is made up. Long- |shoremen and teamsters had made Hit known that the signing of the injunction will be a signal for a | general strike of all teamsters and longshoremen. The statement is- sued by the judge following ad- | journment of the conference was as follows: “Justice Humphrey has been working all day with attorneys for (Continued on Page 3)