The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 21, 1935, Page 1

Hearst Photos Proved Fakes--Spike His N Canvass Your Nei Steady Daily W ighborhoods for orker Readers Press Run Yest: erday—44,800 Vol. XII, No, 45 Entered as second-¢lass mi > * New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. Daily, Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIOWAL ) atter at the Post Office at NEW YORK, THURS DAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1935 NATIONAL EDITIO? (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents BIG BUSINESS DEMANDS PUT INTO MESSAGE 2-Year Extension With) ‘More Flexibility’ Is Called for By Marguerite Young (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 20.— President Roosevelt, today recom- | mended extension of the N.R.A., the New Deal mechanism which lowered ANTI-LA \Gives $60 of Savings tothe I.L.D. “To properly celebrate my 60th birthday I contribute $60 to the I. L. D. This is part of my life savings for old age. “Our class war prisoners are giv- ing their freedom and even their lives for the great cause of labor. Let’s protect and defend them. Let's do everything in our power to set them free. But it is also our duty to help ease their burden by encouraging and supporting them and providing for their fami- lies.” (Signed) 5. W. This is a letter received by the International Labor Defense, now wages, stacked up corporation profits and legalized company unions, for} two years beyond next June 16, the! day when it expires. H Toeing the mark drawn by leading open shop industrialists and finan- | ciers in their recent White Sulphur Springs conference, the President stood pat on “fhe fundamental prin- ciples and purposes” of ‘the N.R.A.| At the same time he demanded “flexibility,” in the renewed N.R.A.} This word, “flexibility” is the ve word used by the United States! Chamber of Commerce, the National! Association of Manufacturers and their recent White Sulphur Springs conferees in stating their desire to retain a modified N.R.A. These} three trade associations are the or-| iginal sponsors of the N.R.A. as a measure to further trustify indus- try, promote company unions, and further fascisize industry. “We Need Flexibility” “Let me urge upon the Congress the necessity for an extension, of the present act (N.R.A.),” the Roose- velt message read. “The progress we have been able to make has shown us the vast scope of the problems in our industrial life. ‘We need a certain degree of flex- ibility .. .” Leading officials of the American Federation of Labor again hailed the fundamental “principles” of the N.R.A. at the moment the Pres-! ident’s message was being read in the capitol. They did this despite the fact that only yesterday one of them told a House Committee that, as now set up, the N.R.A. can only mean “increasing doses of fascism.” I. M. Ornburn, secretary of the Union Labor Trades Department of the A. F. of L., testifying before the House Labor Committee and ap- proving continuation of the N.R.A. with mpre A.F. of L. leaders helping to carry out its objects, declared: Increasing Doses of Fascism - “With the N.R.A. now headed by one of industry’s chief night riders, (S, Clay Williams, tobacco magnate), labor can expect in- creasing doses of fascism from its decisions and activities, The trend is alarmingly similar to the early stages of fascism in Europe where labor was first baited with prom- | ises such as the N.R.A, and then suppressed.” Before the same committee, Fran- cis J. Gorman, vice-president of the United Textile Workers of America and the strike chairman who co- operated with the government and employers to break the nationwide (Continued on Page 2) Shot Is Fired AtU. C. Leader (Special to the Daily Worker) WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Feb. 20.— John Muldowney, chairman of the Luzerne County Unemployment Councils, while addressing a meet- ing of the Council at Pittston last. night was shot at, the bullet barely missing his face. The shot was fired through a window directly at Muldowney. conducting a mass campaign for funds to finance the Scottsboro- Herndon appeals. The latter case will com* =p before the U. S. Sup- reme Gan ~tv in March. Pur. Scottsboro-Hern- don #\ als : be rushed to the r.<//onal office “he I. L. D. Room 610, 80 East “*reet, New York City. 5 KILLED IN YUGOSLAVIA BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Feb. 20. —Five peasants were killed and three wounded today when police at Brod opened fire on a crowd demonstrating in protest at the murder of seven workers by gen- darmes yesterday. In addition to See TWO SECRET ORDERS LINK ATTACK ON USSR TO DEAL WITH HITLER / Publisher Gives New | Instructions Against | Labor Movement | ensure Sent to Cummings |by the F.S8.U. The Friends of the Soviet Union yesterday dispatched a sharp tele- gram of censure to Attorney General Cummings at the Department of Justice in Washington, protesting against the seizure by Government agents of 2,000: copies of a special issue of “Soviet Russia Today” and a bundle of its regular current issue in Oklahoma City. The seizure of the papers and magazines occurred when Federal agents raided the home of Mrs. Marshall Lakey, Oklahoma City F. 8. U. organizer, after ker hus- hand, a well-known sculptor and professor, was arrested for protesting the imprisonment, of .a group of un- employed workers. The telegram was signed by Her- By James Casey William Randolph Hearst has issued two new secret orders to | his high executives, These latest instructions to his lie-factory supervisors show Hearst at his best as the most shameless and most unprincipled exponent of printed garbage in America. The first of these orders is linked directly to Hearst’s big business deal with Hitler, nego- tiated last Fall when the fascist publisher visited Germany. The second order, involving a fierce attack against the entire ‘merican working class, gives ssarp emphasis to the movement of Wall Street bankers. and in- dustrialists for a fascist dictator- ship in America. | One immediate outward result of | Hearst’s deal with Hitler is the ap- | pearance simultaneously in the | newspapers of Nazi Germany and 4 jin the fascist publisher's chain of | Attorney W. C. Lewis and U. S. |the same vile illustrated slanders | Commissioner George W. Eacock, against the Soviet Union, IT WILL | both of Oklahoma City. : BE RECALLED, AS POINTED| This attack on the only paper in | of the F. 8. U. Two other sharply-worded tele- | grams were sent directly to U. S. bert Goldfrank, national secretary | OUT IN THE DAILY WORKER A slavian fascism, ten were critically MARKS A YEAR AS HIS PART wounded when peasants met be- IN THE PLOT. fore the jail and called for the re-| Tht plot has two principal ob- lease of three fellow-farmers who /| Jectives. had rebelled against fascist tax- collectors. Officials here feared that the Slaughter caused by the police would result in widespread revolt against the government and have issued First, it is calculated to rouse sen- timent for the Nazi butcher regime in America and at the same time stir up antagonism in Germany against the Soviet Union, thus orders for a series of arrests and Suppressions directed particularly against the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. A Catholic priest, Michailoff Praskivic, one of the leaders of yes- terday’s demonstration, was im- prisoned by the authorities. In- furiated at the wanton slaughter by the police, peasants gathered in front of the villiage cemetery and bitterly fought off attacks of the gendarmes. 1,000 Strike In Haverhill (Special to the Daily Worker) HAVERHILL, Mass., Feb, 20. — More than a thousand shoe work- ers came out on strike Monday in Lowell, Mass., in solidarity with the workers of the Laganas Shoe Com- pany who have been out for six weeks as a result of three union members being fired. Two workers were arrested at a mass picket line yesterday. Mayor Bruin issued an order against mass picketing. The Police Department signed up seventy-five strikebreak- ers as deputies to help crush the walkout. One hundred and seventy State Troopers are being sent to Lowell. At a strikers mass meeting many workers spoke for a city gen- eral strike, calling upon textile work- ers to come out too. Muldowney led a committee of the Unemployment Council to the Pittston Relief Board last week in Behalf of discriminated workers. Biss Grawl, of the Relief Board at Pittston sought to intimidate the foreign-born workers by a threat that non-citizens would be de- ported. To one of the committee T building service workers in all York, shows that these workers Guardia. she stated: “Remember what hap- pened to Campbell and Reilly.” Muldowney was explaining to the workers the meaning of this re- mark by Miss Grawl when the shot came through the window. Camp- bell and Reilly were two militant miners shot by gangsters of Cap- pelini who once controlled the ora not yet been discovered. \ \ they are having difficulty in sitting The “truce” of La Guardia those buildings which come under the Mayor's ar- bitration board “award” would be forced to accept a minimum wage as low as $70 a month. In other union in this region. The assailant | buildings, also the same non-union starvation con- ditions vrevatl as before, quickly opening a way for Hitler to | the United States devoted entirely | | to the interests of the Soviet work- | ers and farmers wil! be answered at | the mass demonstration at Madison | Square Garden next Monday eve- ning at 7:30, called by the F. S. U. to protest against the breaking off of U. S.-Soviet negotiations, ITALY SPEEDS ee MAY THAT 9-CENT’ BEFORE NEW STRIKE LOOMS IN BUILDINGS Lies at Garden Meeting RA T0 GO ON, F. 0. R. ORDERS ORHINTS MEETINGS PLACE ISSUE UNION MEMBERS; | FARE MAY GO ACTION IS DEMANDED | B.-M.T. Purchase Paves Way for Higher | | Subway Rate The purchase of the B.M.T. by the city at a figure of $186,000,000— @ preliminary to “unification” of the city’s subways—definitely paves the | way for an increased fare, in the opinion of well-informed sources. The 5-cent fare is on the way out unless the subway-riding population of the city develop a powerful mass protest movement. That seemed clear today after reporters attempted to pin Mayor LaGuardia down to a definite answer on the matter. Mayor LaGuardia would not say whether the 5-cent fare would be guaranteed. He parried and evaded. “Is the 5-cent fare in jeopardy?” he was asked bluntly at a press con- ference yesterday, “That depends on what we can run the system for. I don’t know,” the Mayor answered. | Later in the course of the inter- view he admitted “the fare might jump.” “We have a law now which calls for an increased fare on the inde- pendent system after 1936 if | they don’t earn their operating and fixed charge expenses. Unless the period of grace is extended the fare might jump.” Text Opens Way This belief is strengthened by the text of the report of Samuel Sea- bury and A, A. Berle, representa- tives of the city in the negotiations with the B.-M. T. According to their report, the “fare will be subject to {change in the joint discretion of the Board of Estimate and Board of | Transit Control only.” | The tentative agreement reached ‘by the city and the B.-M.T. and Summary yesterday. In Fayette County, Pa Vesta Coal Co., captive mines. In garment workers was announced, to drivers are already out !n Chicago. In New York City thousands of of James Union. The 900 employees of the Ohio Ohio, are striking. In Decatur, Ill ; tized against 300 garment, strikers. Company at South Bend, Ind., violent red scare. in California. Bambrick, president of Gold miners an if their demands are not met. at a demonstration in front of the By Tom Keenan | PITTSBURGH, Pa. Feb. 20.— Three thousand miners of the Vesta Coal Company went on strike yes- terday when the sentiment for ac- tion which has been growing steadily under an accumuiated burden of grievances during the past two ‘The strike wave was developing rapidly in a number of industries cially in the Bronx and Brooklyn, threatened to strike over the head The employees of the Oliver Plow continue on The match workers at Akron and elsewhere have voted to strike At Lowell, Mass., more than 1,000 shoe workers struck, led by the United Shoe and Leather Workers’ Union. Strike Call Is Now Expected Momentarily in Bronx Borough on Strikes The conference in the Hotel Holland hetween representatives of the Building Service Employees Union and the landlords broke up late last evening when Walter Gordon Merrit, representing the Pennzone and Midtown realtor groups, announced that the groups he represented refused to yield an inch beyond the miserable Curran arbitration award. The union demands were a $22 minimum for workers ™ the smallest buildings, a forty-hour | week for all building workers, one week's vacation for all workers and | time and one-half for overtime, | Sundays and holidays. 3,000 miners walked out of the Chicago a strike of 10.000 cotton begin at once, Nearly 3,000 truck building service employees, espe- the Building Service Employees Rubber Company at Willoughby, || , National guardsmen were depu- | strike in the face of a id lettuce workers continue strike With a borough-wide strike call expected momentarily in the Bronx, and with an increasing demand }among Brooklyn building service !| workers for a walkout and of Man- | hattan workers for a re-strike of all Mi | N FRS 4 FLD buildings which have not signed Two strikers were arrested Laganas Manufacturing Company. agreements with the union, three locals of the Building Service Em ployees Union were holding mas membership meetings last night. Sentiment for a general strike signed by Seabury and Berle for the months suddenly crystallized in a (Special to the Daily Worker) WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Feb. 20. ‘Six striking miners, members and the United Anthracite Miners local at No. 20 Tunnel Glen Alden Coal Company were arrested yesterday on framed-up charges of officers of pleaded not guilty this morning at a hearing before Judge W. S. Mc- They were promptly placed Lean. im the Bronx is so strong among the membership of Local 19B of the union that Louis Cooper, pres- | ident of the local, admitted to the | Daily Worker that he and George Scalese,international vice-president of the union, “had to exert every bit of pressure at our command to prevent men from walking out of their buildings.” Not less than twenty strikes in thirty-six build- ings have been called off im the last forty-eight hours because they were not “authorized” by the ex~ dynamiting company property. They Sweeping sentiment for strike among the strikebreaking “truce” which was engineered by La So great is the sentiment for strike that some of those leading officials of the Building Service Employes Union who oppose strike admitted that carry out his plans for an armed | attack upon the U.S. S. R. (Hitler’s | | foreign office spokesman, who dis- | | closed the Nazis’ desire to move | jeastward, has conferred with Hearst). | ROME, Feb. 20—Embarkation of Second, the Hearst-Hitler deal contingents of the “Peloritana” fits in perfectly with the campaign | ‘i ¢ ‘ of powerful Wall Street groups for | Combat division of Messina (Sicily) for East Africa is ready to begin at disruption of diplomatic relations | |and cooperation in the military of-|_ moment's notice, it was disclosed today. More and more each tactic fensive against the U.S. S. R. jot Mussolini indicates that a major By the first order, art depart- ment heads of Hearst's newspap- |slaughter is certain to take place | within two weeks, the war supplies ers have been instructed to dig up |and troops that are already on the old war and post-war pictures |way to Abyssinia being sufficiently from the files . . . pictures taken fifteen to eighteen years ago in | the war-torn areas of Europe. These musty and faded and dust- saturated pictures have been given to workers in the art and Photo departments of the Hearst | Newspapers. Some of the pictures have been retouched to look like new. In other cases, the old war pictures have been rephoto- | graphed. As a result, many of | them look like prints. | THESE RESURRECTED AND REJUVENATED PICTURES OF WAR SCENES—GRUESOME AND DESIGNED TO MAKE ONE |SHUDDER—ARE NOW BEING The transport of regular fight- ing troops, not including the re- serves, has begun. Mussolini to- day requisitioned the ocean liners Vulcania, Conte Biancamano and the Dumas, capable of carrying 2,000 to 3,000 men each. General Pavoni, one of the most | accomplished colonial butchers of Italian imperialism, assumed com- |mand of the Peloritana division and will sail with the first con- tingent. At Naples, the S. S. Mon- |tenegro took aboard 1,000 soldiers DISPLAYED IN HEARST NEWS- and several hundred auxiliary ex- LINES STATING THAT THEY |to be ready to sail at any time. HAVE JUST BEEN TAKEN IN| News of troop movements paral- THE SOVIET UNION. jlels the “truce” and “negotiations” In this frenzied drive against the stories of the Mussolini propaganda Soviet Union, Hearst has instructed | agencies. Meanwhile a fifth meet- his art department executives to jing of Italian imperialism’s su- poems. war council takes place to- jay. (Continued on Page 2) AN EDI The demands of the union for a higher minimum wage, for the 40-hour week, for classification so that semi-skilled and skilled workers have higher min- imum wages, are all denied by the arbitration “award” and by the Mayor's “truce” which allows the arbitration board’s decision to stand for six months. THE WORKERS MUST REJECT THE STRIKE- BREAKING “TRUCE” OF LA GUARDIA. This “truce,” if allowed to stand, will mean that the building owners will immediately follow up their victory with further attacks on the union. It is reported that already some of the building owners haye begun to fire active and militant union mem- bers. THE UNION CANNOT ALLOW ANY SUCH AT- sections of New understand the on the lid. means that 1 WAR PLANS |numberous to begin a ruthless of- | fensive against the Negro nation. | PAPERS WITH LYING HEAD- | perts. The officers received orders | city and Charles Hayden, chairman of the unification committee of the Soe wap nee Cove Ereo ericktown, California, and Denbo ‘ captive mines of the Jones and ra SUentennen, on \sRage,,2) Laughlin Steel Corporation in 3,000 Strike | In Coal Yards (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) | CHICAGO, Tll., Feb. 20.—Nearly three thousand coal delivery men struck here today for an increase in wages of from $6 to $7 a day. Washington County. The last straw which precipitated the walkout came in the firing of certain active union men for fail- ing to comply with a provision of the crippling, no-strike agreement negotiated by John L. Lewis last year which calls for the wearing of | goggles on the job. A meeting of the pit committees | of all the Vesta mines is scheduled | for next, Sunday afternoon in Daisy- |town at which grievances were to |The strike was called by the Chi-| be taken up and future action) |cago Teamsters Chauffeurs & Helv- | Planned. 4 | ers Union which is controlled by| Steel workers’ representatives |from the Amalgamated Association | (A. F. of F.) lodge of the Jones and | Laughlin Aliquippa works are to at- reactionaries. The strike is a result of the pressure of the membership demanding an increase of wages. Police Commissioner Allman is- te the miners’ mecting. sued an order to cancel all fur-| The militant action of the Vesta loughs for all policemen and or- | Miners is an indication of the wide- | |dered the entire force to stand spread sentiment thronehout Dis- | | ready-for an emergency call. Squads | trict Five (Pittsburgh District), not of police are circling coal yards in| only against the miserable working an attempt to prevent picketing, | Conditions and low wages in the and against flying squads of strik- | mines, but also against the vicious |ers who are stopping trucks. which | Appalachian agreement by Police claim that one hundred | John L. Lewis and his machine have tons of coal has already been | made it possible for the operators dumped on streets. States Attorney |to carry on their attacks on the | Courtney and his special squad of | living standards of the miners. | police, under Captain Gilbert, are | jespecially in charge of terrorizing cal unions have already passed reso- the strikers, Another union, also | lutions demanding that a special |controlled by reactionaries, the In- | convention be called in District Five ternational Brotherhood of Team- | to take up the stealing of the last sters, affiliated to the A. F. of L.,/ district elections by Pat Fagan.| who are suvported by Courtney, is Lewis-controlled president of the| attempting to supply scabs, Fifth District, ~ ¢ Building Service Men —- Reject LaGuardia’s ‘Truce’ -- Act Now to Win TORIAL TACKS. EVERY BUILDING WHERE FIRING OR | DISCRIMINATION OCCURS SHOULD BE CALLED OUT ON STRIKE IMMEDIATELY. | The Realty Board stands by the La Guardia “truce” one hundred per cent because it gives them everything they want and is a blow at the union. The La Guardia “truce” gives the employers six more months to prepare their strikebreaking forces, In six months time they will try, through their at- tacks, to have the union in a position where a strike would be out of the question. The “truce” gives La Guardia six months in which to prepare new strike- breaking moves against the workers. THE BUILDING SERVICE WORKERS MUST CISION, BREAKING LA CATION AND THE BUILD! homes and defend them. Renton, Russellton, and other lo- REJECT LA GUARDIA’S STRIKEBREAKING DE- THE RECLASSIFICATION, THE HIGHER MIN- THE CLOSED SHOP MUST BE DEMANDED AND WON NOW AND NOT SIX MONTHS FROM NOW. At the membership meetings, at shop meetings, VOTE FOR REJECTION OF THE STRIKE- VOTE FOR A FIGHT NOW FOR RECLASSIFI- NOT ALLOW THE BOSSES TO DIVIDE THEM (Continued on Page 2) on $10,000 bail each pending grand | ecutive board of the local, Cooper jury action. The only witnesses to| said. ; testify against them were state} To Place Question troopers and company police. It de-| Cooper said that the executive board of the local has already voted a strike call and that the mass meet- jing called for last night at Vasa Castle Hall, 149th Street and Mott Avenue, was to put the question to | the entire membership. Carl Iverstrom, financial secretary |of Local 10B, will be put at the head of the strike by the executive board if the strike call is issued,. it was announced at the local’s head- velops that it took three hours for local police to extract so-called “confessions.” The @ynamiting story was a signal for an outburst of hysteria against strikers in local newspapers, ob- viously a renewed onslaught to smash the strike. While such drastic action is being | taken against strikers, scab Frank Trebendas, whose cold-blooded muz- i | quarters. der of the picket, Frank Petrosky. | Warters. was witnessed by many, was releas Ninety per cent of the 12,000 on only $2,500 bail. jbuilding service workers in the Ten families in company houses | Bronx are organized in Local 10B, | Cooper said. at Wanamie received notices yes- terday that they must get out with- in forty-eight hours. Thirty other | families expect similar notices. The workers came to District. President Thomas Maloney of the U. A. M. P. for advice but were turned over to union attorneys who informed the workers that there is no legal way out. Some of the Wanamie workers came to the Unemployed Council last night and were told that the only way out is to organtze all work- ers in the region to mass ai the| Cooper sent a telegram to James J. Lyons, Borough resident of the Bronx, stating that “the responsibil- ity for any inconveniences to the general public that may ensue as the result of a strike rests squarely on the shoulders of the Real Estate Board of the Bronx, who have ige (Continued on Page 2) Strikes Close Dress Shops CHICAGO, Ill, Feb. 20.—A strike affecting more than 6,000 workers in the cotton goods industry in more than 30 dress shops began here to= |day under the leadership of Local |76 of the International Ladies Gar= ment Workers Union. The strike was called after eigh® ‘months of waiting for the code te | show any improvement in the car- |ditions of the workers. Conditions | have now become so intolerable that the workers have forced strike ace | tion. | Their demands are for the closed | shop, for a $16 minimum wage for operators, a 15 per cent wage in= {crease for cutters, and a 36-hour | week Many shops are already being picketed, with scabs being stopped, | Strikes are also taking place in some shops in Dallas, Texas; Louis, Mo.; Cleveland. Ohio; Decae tur, Ill, and Kent, Ohio, on The policy committee represent- ing five locals in that region will meet tonight and it is exvected will also take steps to defend the Wana- | mie homes. All Glen Alden Collieries are still (Continued on Page 2) IMUM WAGES, THE SHORTER HOURS AND GUARDIA TRUCE. THE OTHER UNION DEMANDS. ING SERVICE WORKERS MUST