The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 6, 1935, Page 1

VAN KLEEGK GIVES VIEWS / ON INSURANCE | House Cosamalibos Told | Bill H.R. 2827 Will | Secure AH Workers By Seymour “Waldman (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) | WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. — Mary 4) Van Kleeck, the brilliant and mag- i | netic chairman of the International Association for Social Insurance, and one of the world’s most famous industrial research authorities, elec- trified today’s Labor Sub-Committee hearings in describing the economic situation necessitating the passage of the Workers Unemployment, Old Age, and Social Insurance Bill, H.R. 2827. She spoke to a committee before whom workers from nearly every mass industry, agricultural laborers, and professionals and technicians of all sorts will appear within the next ten days in support of the Workers’ Bill. This measure was initiated by the Communist Party and intro- duced in the House of Representa- tives by Ernest Lundeen, Farmer- Laborite of Minnesota. Security For Workers “Security for all who work for their living in the United States is the primary and all-important obli- gation on which the 74th Congress is called upon to act,” Miss Van Kleeck, who is also director of in- dustrial studies of the Russell Sage Foundation, declared at the outset | of her testimony. Her association {s supporting the Workers Bill, she {nformed the sub-committee, “be- cause it undertakes to provide com- pensation for insecurity for the rine of the unemployed and, as such, is the first step in the com- prehensive program which the es- tablishment of security for the American people will require in the next few years.” She recommended also “the necessity for stability in the dollar paid to workers either in wages or salaries or insurance.” This could be done, she stated, by de- veloping a ‘workers’ index’ which will currently inform all who work for their living as to the effi- ciency of the instrument of ex- change which money represents. The insurance dollar must be kept stable by some such workers’ in- dex.” Elmer Rice, the representative and member of the executive committee of the Authors’ League of America | and Pulitzer Prize winner play- | wright, testified that “... the bill | has the whole-hearted support of ESR SES the authors of this country.” “The | Authors’ League,’ he said, “speaks | officially for practically’ all the authors of this country” and “has endorsed H.R. 2827 because it is the only pending bill which offers au- thors protection” from “the haunt- ing spectre of insecurity,” Transients Support Bill Joseph Murray, the spokesman for the transient Rank and File Com- mittee of Washington, D. C., de- clared that on January 29, 1935 “the transients assembled at the Boy’s (Continued on Page 2) Militants Gain In Union Poll SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 5.—That the betrayal of the San Francisco General Strike by the reactionaries in the Central Labor Council here was not forgotten by the workers in the unions, is evident from the rank and file vote cast in election of officers of the council here re- cently. Harry Hook, candidate for vice- president, drew eighty-one votes against Anthony Niriega, machine man, who received 246. Harry Bridges, leader of the recent marine strike, received sixty for president against 246 for Edward Vanderleur, incumbent. John McKelvey re- ceived sixty-two for secretary- treasurer against 264 for the old reactionary, John O'Connell. Votes for the rank and file candidates for the executive board and committees averaged above sixty. This was the first time in the his- tory of the council that a slate was run against the reactionary ma- chine. That the officials of the council see the large vote for the rank and file as a threat to their control, is evident from the way they rushed to the Hearst papers with statements about the need of expelling all Communists in the council. Immediately following the elec- tions, Harry Bridges declared: “The Labor Council belongs to the work- ers, and we are going to give it back to the workers. The fight is just beginning.” Most delegates at the council con- sist of union officials or their ap- pointees. Never in the history of the council were as many mobilized by the machine to attend. nen nn ee Aaa aI tate nites cementite: "bination Vol. XII, No. 32-<4— x Push Circulation Drive Press Run Yesterday — 45,400 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office st New York, M. ¥., under the Act of Mareh 8, 1672 Daily QD orker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMBMENIST IFTERMAPIONAL ) Hitler Admirer Leader In ‘Nation Committee’ Frank A. Vanderlip, Active in Group Behind In- flation Measures, Student of Methods Of Mussolini and Nazis By Marguerite Young The Committee for the Nation, potential grand council of American fascists, is driving ahead on a “Support the President” propaganda campaign designed to prevent strikes against the price-raising, wage-reducing effects of a new inflationary program. The Roosevelt government is now making the first moves to execute the committee’s new inflation measures, It was for the purpose of “sup- porting the President” by open fas- cist. dictatorship when the people could no longer be swayed by dema- gogy that Wall Street’s fascist-army Plotters sought 500,000 storm troops. Inflation is one of the capitalists’ ways of making the working class foot the bill for a “shot in the arm” for capitalism. The new indirect inflation program is a continuation of five inflationary steps carried out by the Roosevelt government after Committee for the Nation leaders worked them out in secret conferences. In these conferences Committee for the Nation capital- ists proposed inflation to answer working class struggle for work and food both on the farms and in the factories. Vanderlip Studies Nazis A prime mover in these secret conferences was Frank A. Vander- lip former President of the National City Bank, director of the Bendix Aviation Corp., special partner of Baker, Weeks & Harden of 52 Wall Street, member of the Council of New York University, and once the “angel” of the Technocrats. Frank A. Vanderlip, Jr., speaking for his father, informed the Daily Worker that Banker Vanderlip, Senior, Father Coughlin spent many hours studying the structure of Hitler Fascism in the libraries of Germany last summer, and is a close friend of and usually agrees economically with Gerard (Continued on Page 2) Series on Hearst To Begin Saturday The Daily Worker will begin a series of articles on Saturday giving the inside story of William Randolph Hearst, These articles, written by James Casey, Managing Editor of the Daily Worker, expose Hearst as a liar, a faker, a blackmailer, and the receiver of money for fighting with big monopolies against the workers’ interests. The series, which traces Hearst's career from his boyhood days, reveals his work with Wall Street money lords in planning im- perialist war, Order your extra bundles of the Daily Worker at once, to be sure and not miss this series. Speed Scottsboro Defense “I didn’t work for a long time, wife was sick, so the funds all disappeared slowly. was laid off for about five months, I couldn’t give any- thing before so, now I’m making up my workers’ duty by sending in a day’s wages, four dollars. “Will try to send some more later.” This is a message accompanying a donation to the Scottsboro- Herndon defense received by the national office of the I.L.D., from a worker in Battle Creek, Mich. It is countersigned by his wife. Only $129.84 was received Tuesday for the Scottsboro-Herndon Defense Fund. A total of $8,110.16 more is needed immediately to carry through the appeals now before the U. S. Supreme Court, Rush funds for the Scottsboro-Herndon Defense Fund to the national office of the LL.D., 80 East 11th Street, New York City. COURT CLERK SUICIDE STOPS TRIAL OF 18 Defense thaw s That Spy for Employers Got Three Salaries By Michael Quinn (Special to the Dally Worker) SACRAMENTO, Calif., Feb. 5.— The county clerk hanged himeelf yesterday, with the result that open- ing of the court was postponed until 2 o'clock in the trial of the eighteen worker - defendants charged with criminal syndicalism for their suc- cessful leadership of strike struggles of the impoverished, brutally ex- ploited agricultural laborers of this | state, The court and the prosecution continue to throw every impediment in the path of the defense, Special Prosecutor McAllister refusing to produce the correspondence con- cerning the fantastic tale of the “kidnaping” of William Hanks, labor spy and star witness of the prose- cution. Hanks, who has been on the witness stand for six days and was cross-examined today by Caroline Decker, Albert Hougardy and Nora Conklin, three of the defendants, who questioned him on the contra- dictions between his testimony be- fore the grand jury and his present testimony. The defendants also con- ities of the Communist Party with the lies told by Hanks. Hanks Got Three Salaries Today's examination of Hanks} brought out the fact that he had| been receiving incomes from three| sources simultaneausly, payments by the State, payments by employ- nery plant, and groceries from the relief bureau. Gallagher won a point on his de- mand that subpoenas be issued for reporters and others who had been given information by the prosecu- tion that Hanks had been kidnaped by Communists, but was promptly blocked by the court, which raised issuance of the subpoenas. This | constant blocking of the defense elicited the query from Gallagher: “Ts this a chess game or are we trying to find out the truth in these cases?” on the stand. He is Louis Hen- ninger, a stool pigeon employed by the Parise Detective Agency. Posing as an unemployed worker, he joined the Communist, Party last year. trasted the real teachings and activ-/| ers for his spy activities in a can-| new technicalities to prevent the | A new prosecution witness is now) BARRICADES SET UP BY 125 Unemployed Y Workers Demanding Relief, Hold Precinot Office One hundred and twenty-five hunger-driven unemployed Bast Side workers barricaded themselves inside the Fifth Precnct Home Re- Nef Bureau, at Spring and Fliza- beth Streets, yesterday and de- manded that their relief needs be met at once. Every effort to get the news of the workers storming the welfare station was met with blank and stony silence on the part of the re- lief administration at the bureau, as officials, staff employes and re- ceptionists, in fear of their jobs un- der Home Relief Bureau Director Edward Corsis, gag rule, refused to give out any information, The workers, who took over vir- tual control of the relief station, entered in groups of ten or a dozen at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. They set forth their demands— Winter clothing and shoes, in- creased relief, and that the Admin- istrator meet with the workers’ full committee in the presence of the assembled workers. Their few simple demands were met with a blank refusal, Take Over Reception Room Determined to win their de- mands, the desperate workers took over the reception room and barri- |caded the doors, Benches were piled high before the windows and doors. Every half hour, the workers, who commanded complete freedom of egress and entrance, sent commit- tees to place their demands before the Administrator. With spirit running high, the as- sembled workers, many of them from the youth section of the Un- employment Councils, shouted their slogans and thundered working class songs. Committees were later sent out to mobilize other workers and by nightfall supporting groups had arrived and gathered about the relief station entrance at 201 Eliza- beth Street. One of the delegations. part of the whole group, representing Ital- }ian unemployed from the lower West Side, wrung from the relief | bureau an Italian-speaking recep- | tionist who will hereafter handle jall cases of Italian workers. They (Continued on 1 Page 2) Death Begideil In 5 Minutes. CLEVELAND, Miss., Feb. 5.— James H, Coyner, Negro, was in- dicted, tried, convicted and sen- being brought here under heavy guard from Jackson yesterday. An all-white jury returned a verdict of guilty in less than five minutes. Execution has been set for March 5. Coyner was sentenced on the charge of killing a white couple last December, to which police claimed he confessed. The trial was further colored by unproven accusations | that the defendant was a grave robber and had cut up several bodies, which, if true, would indi- tenced to die all in one day, after) Nazis Set New Murder Trials BERLIN, Feb. 5.—The barbaric severity of sentences now being |handed down by the “People’s Court” here for the most trivial “offenses,” in addition to certain hints by the judges, indicate that Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the German workers, will soon be brought before this tribunal of fas- cist executioners. Three Esse workers were sen- tenced yesterday to terms of hard labor consisting of 15, 14 and 13 years, The three men were accused of having injured a member of the Storm Troops in the course of a AT BUREAU NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1985 STAY Price 3 Cents (Six Pages) COURT SIGNS WRIT AGAINST TEAMSTERS GRANTED TO DAM MOVE TO STRIKE ACTION; 21,000 COAL MINERS OUT 2,100 of M.E.S.A. an Two Workers Injured =| Ward Line in Move In Railroad Collision PHILADELPHIA, Pa,, Feb, 5.— (U.P.) —Several persons were re- ported injured today when the Miami Gulf Coast Limited train of the Pennsylvania Railroad, enroute to New York from the South, was struck by a freight train near Edge- wood, Maryland. The passenger train had stopped for a signal when the freight crashed into the standing train. Two men, said to be employes of a dining car, were taken to a hos- pital at Havre De Grace, Maryland. A number of passengers on the train were badly shaken. To Dodge Liabilities NEW YORK.—(U.P.)—The Ward Line yesterday applied in Federal Court to have its Mabilities in the Mohawk disaster, in which 45 lives were lost, limited to $10,000, al- though more than $1,000,000 in claims already have been filed. The petition laid the blame for the collision off Sea Girt, N. J., on the “incompetent” master of the Norwegian freighter, Talisman, and the failure of the Mohawk’s tele- motor steering gear. Capitalists Demand Drastic Immigration Laws, Group Told WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 5.— Powerful groups of industrialists are constantly making protests against militant workers and demandipg more drastic deportation laws against foreign-born militants. Commissioner General of Immi- gration Daniel W. McCormack told this to a delegation which visited him in the U. S. Labor Department offices yesterday to protest the de- Portation drive against the foreign born and the use of the deportation laws to break strike struggles of native and foreign-born workers. Only a few evenings ago he was taken from his dinner, he stated, by representatives of two of the most powerful corporations in the country who held him in confer- ence from 7 o'clock in the evening to one o'clock in the morning with proposals for more drastic deporta- cate a pathological condition famil-| quarrel on Feb. 1, 1933 (two days iar to students of sexual aberrations.| after Hitler's advent to power). The Injunction Must Be Smashed An Editorial Signing the injunction against the teamsters and longshoremen by Judge Humphreys yesterday (and then trickily “staying” its execu- tion) was a maneuver of the employers. The injunction, restraining the truckers’ union from interfering with the movement of trucks by seab drivers, is now stgned and sealed in the hands of the bosses. The fear of an immediate strike forced the employers and their tool, Humphreys, to maneuver by granting a stay of the injunction “pending the hearing of an appeal.” The strategy of the Chamber of Commerce in handing down this tricky decision is clear and is openly stated—to forestall the strike and at the same time hold over the heads of the teamsters and long- shoremen a powerful scab injunction already signed. Without a doubt, the first moment that the employers feel able to do it, they will with- tion measures and for hastening de- portation proceedings, without giv- ing the deportees the right of ap- peal, 3,600 Reasons Revealing his own stand on the question, the Commissioner of Im- migration told the delegation that W. W. Brown, Assistant Commis- sioner, had estimated there were 3,600 reasons for which militant workers can be deported under the present laws, and that he, himself, was planning to propose to Con- gress that immigration agents be empowered to make arrests without warrants. He justified this sum- (Continued on Page 2) draw the stay and speed up their union-smashing and wage-slashing on the waterfront. Only the mass pressure of the workers, only the threat of an immediate strike, over the heads of Cashal, Ryan and Co., forced the employers to accept the temporary stay. The employers have the signed injunction in their hands. The stay of appeal gives them time to organize their strikebreaking appa- ratus, This is what they bargained for and this is what they got. Only the one day protest strike, and the threat of re-strike staved off the injunction. And only similar action now can smash the in- junction which the bosses, with the help of the court, holds threaten- ingly over the workers’ heads. The teamsters should prepare immediately to strike, the minute the bosses, with the injunction in their hands, act against union condi- tions on the docks, Only mass pressure will smash this injunction. Prepare for action on every dock and in every garage, d A.F. of L. Win Pay Increase by United Strike Threat in Toledo-Police Mie i in Luzerne County; 6,000 out in eeemeuemines The strike wave in adie industries is rapidly ee as miners, auto workers bigger walkouts. Fifteen Alden Co. mines and 6,000 in Shenandoah, in northeastern Pennsylvania. are directed against the sharper attacks of Roosevelt and the N.R.A. boards on the workers’ living standards and on their unions. New York City face strike action againstthe union smashing injunction signed by Judge Humphrey yesterday. timent, and the A. F. of L. Silk local unions of the pare strike action. TOLEDO, Ohio, Feb. 5—Twenty- one hundred workers of the Spicer Mechanies Educational Society and the American Federation of Labor, by presenting a solid united front, demands for a 10 per cent wage increase. A combined meeting of workers tonight will vote on the Proposals of the company, ‘The decision to strike today was taken by M. E. S .A. members last | Sunday, The M. E. 8, A. has a majority of workers in the shop organized. At a combined meeting of the M. E. S. A. and the United Automobile Workers Union (A. F. of L.) the proposal of a common strike with the M. E. 8. A. was en- thusiastically accepted. A. F. of L. officials of the union refused to} attend the meeting. The rank and file of the A. F. of L. local voted to strike without them. A leaflet of the Communist Party to the M. E, S. A. members, calling tor strike Tuesday, was met with an enthusiastic response by the rank and file, Workers in three plants of the Metal Wheel Company voted to strike next Monday if their demands are not met. The 4,000 glass work- ers of the Libby, Owens, Ford Plate Glass Co. won a 5 per cent increase in pay after they voted for strike. Mooney Files For Rehearing WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.—Attor- neys for Tom Mooney, heroic class war prisoner, filed today for a re- hearing of Mooney’s motion that he be allowed to file a petition for a writ of habeas corpus for his re- lease from San Quentin Prison. Mooney has completed eighteen years of a life prison sentence de- spite the fact that the testimony on which he was convicted has been proved several times to be perjured. ‘The original hearing of Mooney’s application for a writ of habeas corpus was denied by the Supreme Court on the pretext that he failed to show that he had been denied relief by the California courts. Birth Control Bill Killed WASHINGTON, Feb. 5, (UP).— Birth control advocates lost a point today when the House Judiciary Committee voted fifteen to eight to table a resolution which would have permitted birth control information to be sent in the mails. Manufacturing Co., organized in the | forced the company to grant their | the M, B.S. A and A, F. of L.! and metal workers walked out and textile, steel and auto workers are preparing for thousand anthracite coal miners are striking in the Glen These strikes The teamsters and longshoremen in In Detroit, following the extension by President Roosevelt of the anti-labor auto code, seven hundred are on strike at the Murray metal plants have voted for strike. Body plant. Workers in Toledo The auto workers are seething with strike sen- leaders are trying to hold them hack. United Textile Workers met in Allentown and voted to pre- The A. F. of L. national leaders are attempting to stifle the strike preparations of the steel workers and bituminous miners by launching a campaign of expulsions. pe ‘3 TOLEDO be WILKES-BARRE | NEW YORK (Special to the Dally Worker) (Special to the Daily Worker) Justice Burt Jay Humphrey yese ae ae ae ae bane body | terday signed the injunction pre- |of the Glen Alden miners has shut Venting the International Long down all but two mines of the Glen| shoremen’s Association and the In- | Alden Coal Co., in Luzerne County. | ¢, ¢ z It is estimated that 15,000 miners | ‘°™PStional Brotherhood of Team of the total of 17,000 are out on| ters from uniting to unionize the | strike. The men are striking for| New York waterfront. iiotl right 4 heaved the noe of| The injunction means that long- tmldatea? aie preter ane me | shoremen must not refuse to handle the right to take up their griev- | cargo trucked by non-union team- ances in the manner they choose. | sters. It sets a precedent which if This strike came because of 4! successful will be applied in every United Mine Workers of America | instance where unions in the same ‘Button Committee” who wanted to| industry join to organize the work- | force the miners organized in the | ers, | Anthracite Miners Union of Penn-| sylvania, back into the U.M.W.A. or stop working. The coal company | ever, Justice Humphrey granted a and the local police force and State | Stay Pending appeal to a higher Troopers had full knowledge of the| Court. The stay is an attempt to planned attack by the “button com- | forestall a strike. The judge him- mittee.” Ambulances came to the | Self explained later, however, that Woodward Mine before the miners |O0n-union trucks must be allowed of the new union had any knowl-| to get on the piers. The stay simply | edge of the impending fight. The | means that if in the opinion of any |“button committee” swooped down | of the shippers or trucking com- while the police stayed in the back-| panies the unions have interfered ground and looked on, with the movement of freight writ Asked For trucked by non-union men, they The coal company has taken out | need only cite the cases to Justice an injunction against the leading| Humphrey and the stay is lifted, members of the new union and its| nd the injunction becomes opera~- executive board prohibiting the new | tive. The stay remains in force union to strike and picket. The|only as long as the truckmen and hearing on the injunction will take | longshoremen do not use their joint place Wednesday in Luzerne County | power to unionize non-union men. court, Union Chiefs Agree The new union held a number of In signing the injunction, how- mass meetings attended by men of both unions, and measures to or- ganize strong picketing were taken. It was announced that the repre- sentatives of the unions had agreed to the stay pending appeal. Following the one-day strike of e coal "s general man- al Tannen. liad a seal at 20,000 drivers last Monday, leaders telling the unemployed that they | of the rank and file committee of could hold jobs irrespective of 25 headed by Thomas Smith de- | union affiliation as long as they are | clared that if the injunction is willing to go to work now. The | Signed, a general strike of all drivers statement said that 250 men ap-| 2nd longshoremen will be called, plied for jobs the first day, which| The stay, which is no guarantee \figure even though no doubt exag-| that the unions will be protected gerated is negligible when 50,000 people live on relief in this coun- | |ty. The Unemployment Councils issued a statement declaring that inasmuch as the grievances of the |miners now on strike are justified they called upon the unemployed (Continued on Page 2) Auto Pickets strike. Troopers Shipped In State Troopers are being shipped from every part of the State. The| U.W.M.A. officials are working | overtime to smash this strike. How- | ever the men are ready to fight be- cause if they lose this strike they feel that wholesale discrimination | will follow, accompanied with more The strike is expected to spread to other mines of other companies in the county. A strike is in prog- ress in Shenandoah involving 6,000 men. The strike in Shenandoah is | in District 9 of the United Mine Workers of America. The strike is | called an outlaw strike by Martin} Brennan, _Dresident of the Aistrict. | Air Alenbes Loom Against Nazis in Armament Struggle BERLIN, Feb. 5. — Pressing for greater armaments concessions, the Hitler government this afternoon found itself threatened by air al- liances of all interested imperialist powers, unless it issued a favorable answer to the Franco-British pro- | posals concluded yesterday at Lon- don. Verbal offers of such war al- liances were made by the British government to virtually all foreign embassies. The main point in the proposals is the scrapping of the military clauses of the treaty of Versailles, which limited German armaments. | The intention is to work out a four- power pact between Germany, Bri- tain, France and Belgium in which each would pledge aid with airplanes in the event any of the powers in- volved was attacked. | The French regard the British | support to its proposals as a great) victory, and feel that the terms of | cult for Hitler to refuse without ex- posing his pretensions at favoring the peace of Europe. Though it is wage cuts and worsening conditions. | the agreement would make it diffi | clear, also, that the British im-| ni se: ut to su | ¢ it wn thin | Defy Weather | By A. B. Magil (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich. Feb. 5: | Through a driving snowstorm | picketing continued today in the strike of 700 Murray Body Corpora- |tion Workers who are fighting against conditions imposed on them by the open shop automobile code, Plants one, five and six are being picketed twenty-four hours a day. The spirit of the strikers is hign and they are determined to spread | the struggle to other departments. |The walkout started Thursday im the maintenance department; later |the maintenance men were joined by a few from the trim shop and some electricians and welders. The | Murray Body Local of the United Automobile Workers (A. F. of L.) is leading the strike. The men are demanding minimum wages of sixty-five cents an hour for elevator operators and oilers and | @ scale of from eighty five cents to |a dollar an hour for mechanics, Previously oilers and elevator operators had been getting as low as forty-four cents an hour and mechanics from fifty to eighty-six |cents. Under the code their wages were sharply reduced with the start of the new production season. In addition, the strikers are de- Pperialists are using this maneuvre | manding time and a half for the with France in their efforts to help | first four hours overtime beyond build up an anti-Soviet block by | the regular work day with aoakie offering Hitler concessions in arm-| time after that, and double time for aments, which the Fascists have Sunday and holiday work. They already built, in return for easing also want equal division of work so up the tension with France. | that each man will have at least Conflicting Lath come from ot- | twenty four hours a week instead of some working sixty, while others Continued 0 on Page 2) get nothing at all,