The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 23, 1935, Page 1

I By JAMES W. FORD There is a grim warning to us, to every worker, every oppressed Negro in the country, in the way the multi-millionaire Hearst has received the obvious approval of Roosevelt in his cry for war against the Soviet Union. Teachers: The Daily Worker Fights For Your Rights. Subscribe to the Paper! Press Run Yesterday—44,200 Vol. XII, No, 47 => * Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. The war that Hearst wants against the Socialist Fatherland will unloose bloody terrorism and oppres- sion against the whole American people, and above all, against the Negro people whose chains of national oppression by the Wall Street masters will be drawn tighter about their necks. Daily QA Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) DEMONSTRATE MONDAY AGAINST FOES OF SOVIETS IN U. Roosevelt and Hearst Hitler and Japanese imperialism. What this fascist reaction means to the Negro people can be seen from the vile poison that Hitler spills about the “ inferiority” of the “dark races.” The defense of the U. abolished forever the yoke NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1935 are playing the game of forms. racial S.S.R., land which has gering! of national oppression, is URGES FORD the duty of every fighter againet oppression in ail its All out to the Madison Square Garden demon- stration on Monday, February 25! Let ua raise our strength against this vile Hearst and his wer-mon- Defend the Soviet Union! (Eight Pages) NATIONAL EDITION Price 3 Cents 1,500 BRICKLAYERS STRIKE ON RELIEF JOB Nazis’ Chief Aim Is War On Soviet Union, Says Pravda ANTI-SOVIET WAR-MAKERS AFL LEADER STRIKE CALLWALK OUT IN PROTEST IN U.S. WILL BE ASSAILED IN GARDEN RALLY MONDAY British-German Plans. Temporarily Foiled, Says Paper 6 MOSCOW, Feb. 22 (By Cable).— The danger of embroilment of all} Europe in a war touched off by Ger-| |= & man fascism makes. essential the d | speedy conclusion of regional pacis = 2 of mutual assistance and non- aggression, Pravda warned in an editorial yesterday. Pravda is the organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Mincing no words, Pravda em- phas:zed the chief menace to Euro- pean peace: “German fascism is ac- tively preparing for scizures of ter- ritory in. Eastern and. Centzal Eu- | rope in order to prepare for war in| the west by this means. That is why it opposes the Eastern Pact of security and mutual assistance. It is interested in the dislocation of any agreements whatsoever con-) | cluded upon the basis of mutual de- | pendence in the cause of the main- tenance of peace in all parts of Eu- | - CUBA STRIKE Britain and France and to upset Franco-Soviet collaboration with the assistance of Britain. . SS. R. for Real Pact Students Demand Ouster of U.S. Ambassador and Mendieta | | | sams Wi meymnan Wise “The Soviet government, on the contrary,” Pravda cot-tinues, “is ac- | tively struggling for a strengthening of the security of all states in Eu- rope, as well as the organization of peace, with the assistance of a em of regional pacts. The Soviet | government is ready to welcome the | London agreement, on ey of | its absolute indivisible fulfillment. | : “Such are the two answers. Which) HAVANA, Cuba, Feb. 22.—The | of these corresponds to the interests powerful general strike of students, | 1 of the laboring masses—this is clear | teachers and professors today in- | to everybody. For fascist Germany | 'Lundeen, Wise to Speak | Minnesota will arrive in New York | City on Monday to be the main | speaker | Garden demonstration at 7:30 p.m. that day United States government’s break- ing off trade negotiations with the Soviet Union. | to thousands of American workers as the sponsor in Congres Workers’ Unemployment In: | Bill, \ithe Friends of the Soviet Union, | under whose auspices the demon- stration in defense of the Soviet Union will be held, Congressman | Lundeen, referring to his stand on the US.S.R., wrote: Dillon Talks of Walkout Bronx Leaders Also An- After Unions Vote At Demonstration for One for U.S.S.R. | Representative Ernest Lundeen of | DETROIT, Mich., Feb. 22.—After most of the A. F. of L. auto unions had already voted for strike, Francis J. Dillon, American Federation of Labor organizer, today threatened a walkout of the automobile work- ers, Dillon, who replied today to manufacturers’ criticism of the Na- tional Industrial Labor Relations Board findings of deplorable con- ditions in the industry, said that the national council of the federa- at the Madison Square in protest against the Congressman Lundeen is known of the rance a strike at a meeting in Detroit to- morrow. “received: yesterday bye}~ ‘Workers “Ask ‘Yor Strike industry. overwhelmingly must be taken at once. j ized wo:kers must be drawn into the unions and more organizers must be thrown into the field, it is felt. The recent meetings in Cleveland, Detroit and other auto centers are not enough, workers point out; action must be taken at once while the busy season is on “I will refer you to my speech in the Congressional Record. of January 4, 1919, in which I first demanded. the recognition of the Soviet Union, and in which I also demanded the withdrawal of the American troops from Soviet soil. “In this speech I made the state- ment that President Wilson made himself liable for impeachment and removal from office by his illegal, unwarranted and uncon- stitutional sending of troops into the territory of a friendly na- tional, without a declaration of war by Congerss. “I served in Congress during the 65th (War) Congress and voted against entering war; against conscription for foreign service and all espionage laws.” Many Telegrams of Support his statement. He pointed to the auto barons and said that “unless Alfred P. Sloan and the’ automobile | industry comes to a realization of | Ployers, I will advise a strike vote at the Council meeting.” In a prepared statement issued to- (Continued on Page 2) their duties as citizens and em-| tion would consider the question of | 3 nounce Ten-Day Truce | Strike calls of building service workers were again postponed yes- terday in Manhattan and the Bronx by officials of the Building Service Employees’ Union despite |the breakdown of two conferences | between representatives of the | union and realty groups, and in the face of the mounting anger of the workers at the protracted dilly- dallying of their leaders. James J. Bambrick, president of 2-B, Manhattan Local, mitting that “the negotiations have | been deliberately sabotaged by the | falty owners,” declared; “we will Strike action, the workers in the | do our best to prevent a strike.” declare, | Unorgan- | Proposed Arbitration In a letter received by Bambrick from the Pennzone realty owners yesterday, they proposed an end to all conferences and the throwing of all “disputed questions” into the lap of the LaGuardia arbitration board. Bambrick countered this proposal with another one that the | landlords signify their willingness to Dillon left every loophole open in| allow the Regional Labor Board or |the State Labor Board to arbitrate all the demands raised by the union. Failing this, Bambrick said, he would call a strike in 640 buildings in the garment, fur and millinery sections of Manhattan. A meeting of shop stewards will take place at (Continued om Page 2) Hitler Court U. S. Army (eas while ad- | THREATENS PUTOFF AGAIN AGAINST F.E.R.A. WAGES; AUTO STRIKE BY BAMBRICK ~ RELIEF OFFICE STORMED Bitinios of Speiabues Boys Lie About High Court Hearing Associated Negro Press dail Asides News At- tempt to Hide Leading Role of I. L. D. A barrage of venomous lies about the Scottsboro defense, and about the hearing on the Scottsboro case before the United States Supreme | Court, which was held Feb. 15 and | 18, has been let loose by the ene- mies of the Scottsboro defense among the Negro newspapers, con- trolled. in. behalf of white bosses, | during the past week. The Associated Negro Press and the Amsterdam News, Harlem news- paper which has consistently sought to prevent a united defense for the boys, have led the attack with lies and distortion. The “Amsterdam News,” whose general manager, Wiliam bie (Kid) MINE LEADERS THREATENED Coal Company Asks | Court to Jail Heads of Union Davis, was in the courtroom and knew the facts, stated that Attorney Samuel S. Leibowitz presented argu- ment on behalf of Clarence Norris, on Feb. 15, and that “after the oral arguments on the Norris case the U. S, Supreme Court reserved deci- sion,” and that “it is believed that I, L. D. attorneys will argue the Patterson U. 8, Supreme Court ap- peal.” At the time this was written, At- torney Leibowitz had presented the facts in both the Norris and Pat- terson cases to the court, and At- torney Walter H. Pollak, constitu- (Continued on Page 2) ACTS 10 SPIKE WAGE FIGHT Senate Will ‘Refuse to Accept Prevailing Wage Proviso,SaysRobinson WASHINGTON, Feb. 22——The | Roosevelt machine today moved to spike any attempt to over-ride By George Morris (Special to the Daily Worker) WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Feb. 22.— SEIS Toledo Building Trades Fight Roosevelt Wage Program (Special to the Dally Worker) TOLEDO, Ohio, Feb. 22.—Fifteen hundred building trades workers walked out on strike here today | against the slave wages paid on local F. E. R. A. projects as the protest movement against the Roosevelt $50-a-month-relief-wage program begins to take on the pzo- portions of a tidal wave. The strike is under the auspices of Local 3 of the Bricklayers Union, A. F. of L. A further walkout of 1,400 at the end of work today will tie up every relief job in the city. ‘The men, now working on a sub- sistence level budget; are demand- ing a five-day, thirty-hour week with full trade union scale wages and conditions. The strike wave here has grown in the past week, Between three and four hundred workers led by the United Automobile Workers Federal Union walked out Wednes- day afternoon 5 a result of the re- fusal of the Myers Regulator Com- pany, an auto parts company, to keep an agreement on wage in- creases entered into three weeks ago after an earlier strike. Police were called and three pickets arrested in an unsuccessful attempt to smash the picket line Calls for a mass picket line brought support from the Young Commu- nist League and the Unemployment Councils when Samuel Solomon, president of the firm, announced that hundreds of scabs would be hired. Workers were mobilizing to- the very fact of the French, and particularly the British, govern- ments addressing themselves to the government of the U. S. S. %. must | serve to recall that Germany's ad- venturous plans will not be so easily | realized even with the hope of sup- port from without. British War-Makers Checked “We can only repeat,” Pravda stressed, “that the fate of European peace in no way depends only upon the external political maneuvers of German fascism and its advocates. The British bourgeoisie is forced to reckon with the fact that the wid- est masses of the toilers of Britain do not desire war and also do not approve of encouraging the adven- turous plans of German fascism. ‘The British government is there- fore obliged to resort to complicated maneuvers and these maneuvers have not as their realization the plan of fascist Germany to set Eu- rope against the Soviet Union. The volved more than 325,000 persons in| 0. The Cuban Confedera | tion of Labor, the militant organ. | ization of some 325,000 workers, yes- As the date of the Madison | Square Garden demonstration ap- proached, hundreds of telegrams and letters of support were received | terday issued a fervent appeal to by the F. S. U. the working class of Cuba and to} Among these statements was one | all exploited’ strata of the Cuban! from James Waterman Wise, who, | Population to supvort the demands | together with Corliss Lamont, Con- | of the students and teachers, and | gressman Lundeen, Professor is striving to spread the strike | Charles Kuntz, J. B. Matthews and | among the broad sections of the | Dr, Reuben Young, will speak at Cuban proletariat for their own de- | Madison Square Garden. Wise, who | mands, | Tesigned as efitor of “Opinion” | The murderous government of | Thursday, wrote in part: | Mendieta-Batista-Caffery is being} “Recent attacks on the Soviet | shaken to its very roots by the! Union, coupled with attempts of | strike, and it is reacting accord-| powerful interests to secure the | ingly. By means of martial lew, | withdrawal of American recogni- | suspension of all constitutional| tion of Russia and to hostilize the guarantees, special emergency) American and Russian people, con- courts, and the cold-blooded mur- | st:tutes a national menace and an der of militants without trial, the | international peril. The inflamma- | Mendieta lackeys of Wall St. are | tory propaganda unleashed by the | attempting to force through the | Hearst vress and other reactionary — sugar harvest (the zafra) under} groups is part and parcel of the conditions of unprecendented slav- cynical attempt to fascize Amer- | | To ‘Try’ 200 $378, 000,00 Communists From Congress | BERLIN, Feb, 22.—The barbarous “People’s Court,” with its bloody | record of executions and vicious prison sentences, will soon try about | 200 Communists on charges of anti- | fascist activity, if was announced | | here today. | Arrested in Hamburg last year, | they are now facing death and im- ie ae prisonment. Three leading members In its present form, the vill con- of the Communist Party of Germany | tains large appropriations for the have already been sentenced from | National Guard following the rec- | three to four years each. One of ommendations of Brigadicr General | | them, Karl Rattai, who returned to| Howard on the “strike situation.” |Germany on Hitlers accession to | Thirteen million dollars are pro- power in 1933, was arrested while | vided for the immediate construc- | carrying on an illegal news agency | bp of combat planes and equip- for the Communist Party. ent. |~ The “People’s Court” is the court before which Ernst Thaelmann, the | WASHINGTON, D, C., Feb. 22. — The Roosevelt war program took another step forward as Congress passed the $378,000,000 war depart- ment appropriations bill. An attempt to reduce the swollen war budget by 20 per cent was de- | feated as the administration whip cracked, Strikers Shot Down |In one of the most dramatic strike- breaking measures ever taken, the Glen Alden Coal Company insti- tuted court proceedings’ against fifty district and local officials of the United Anthracite Miners of Pennsylvania for failing to carry out the order of Judge Valentine to call off the strike of its workers. The strike is still solid despite the injunction. ‘The petition of the company be- fore Judge Valentine, who is a director of the company-controlled Wyoming National Bank, charges that although two meetings of the | general grievance body of the Glen Alden miners were held, the order to call off the strike was not issued, The company cited a series of dyna- | mitings, which form the basis for | the framing of seven active strikers | jand the recent murder of two pick- | ets as the basis of its contempt pro- day to add more support to the picket line, which time after time has repulsed police attacks. M. E. S. A. Strike Looms Six hundred workers led by the Mechanics Educational Society of America issued an ultimatum to the Mather Spring Corporation against discrimination of the firm toward union employees and for a return of 250 who were laid off at that plant. The workers were discha:ged Roosevelt's demand that slave wages of not more than $50 a month on the average be paid on relief jobs under the administration's $4,880,- 000,000 relief bill. After its passage in the Senate yesterday by a margin of one vote, the bill was returned to committee today. Speaker Joseph W. Byrnes, an administration leader in Congress, | said today that the House would | refuse to accept the “prevailin wage” amendment to the work re. Without notice on Wednesday. The lef bill. “If the Senate sends the Ultimatum states that unless com= bill back with that amendment,” plete satisfaction is rendered by two o'clock Sunday afternoon, strike ac- tion will be taken. Byrnes said, “the House will stand the President,” and write his slave wage demands into the bill. Roosevelt, it is reported, will veto the entire bill unless his slave wage is carried. Not Union Wage The “prevailing wage” in no sense implies the union wage which is de- manded by organized and unorgan- ized labor throughout the country. Jobless Storm Relief Office (Special to the Daily Worker) |. TOLEDO, Ohio, Feb. 22. — Two hundred unemployed workers led by the Northwestern Ohio Unemployed Council and the Ohio Farmers League stormed the Lucas County Relief Administration headquarters ery. Ask Mendieta Ouster To their original demands more aid to needy students and a/ ruling circles of British imperialism must reckon with the position of France and remember the extent of the risk which they take upon themselves in encouraging fascist adventurers. Fascists Foiled “That is why they do not decide immediately and openly to break the London agreement as German fascism is trying to get them to do by offering to realize only one clause of the proposal—the air convention. “Thus the plan of fascist. diplo- macy—to dislocate all at once the system of peace and security in Ecstern Europe which, is being fermed and which conssquently is affecting the whole continent—fails. ‘This, however, does not signify that German fascism is renouncing its aims. Only one conclusion can be made: It is necessary to hasten by all possible means the conclusion of regional pacts of mutual assistance, and in the first place, the Eastern Pact, The governing circles in Brit- ain especially must draw this conclusion.” “(Continued on Page 2) ing on “arbitration,” which James the building owners. refused to sanction a general strike. Anti-Fascists Sentenced unten ROME, Italy, Feb. 22—Nine per- sons have been sentenced to from three to twelve years’ imprisonment by the special tribunal for the de- fense of the fascist state in Rome, because of carrying on anti-fascist rropaganda in the province of Istria. a strike of their employes. aides. victimizing union members. y minimum of $100 a month for tain world peace, this guerilla war- The policy of retarding the strike, and of rely- sues in the Building Service Workers Union, is al- ready bearing fruit in the sharpened attacks of Bambrick and some of his lieutenants leading the Building Service Employes International Union LaGuardia’s arbitration board “awards.” What has been the result? Now, the building owners, believing they no longer face the danger of a strike, are arrogantly walking out of confer- ences, and are even refusing to confer with the The building owners fear only one thing now— They feel that the danger of a broad building service strike is past, because of the past deeds of Bambrick and his Thus, the landlords are going ahead with their next step—refusal to deal with the union, and “For cur own sake and to main-— | (Continued on Page 2) stroy Thaelmann. The Daily Worker predicted in the beginning that if Bambrick prevented a city-wide building service strike and cooperated with the employers to keep the men at work, the demands of the union would be defeated. The building owners are well organized. They will follow up their victory in preventing a strike by discrimination against union members. They will now launch a vicious attack on the union and attempt to destroy it. The building service workers have won substan- tial concessions in many buildings only because of the threat of a general strike and because of the strikes that were actually called in key buildings in Manhattan, especially in the fur district. It was because of the threat of a city-wide strike, and because of the strikes actually called, that some buildings signed up with the union, that better eco- nomic conditions were won in some buildings, and that the ‘union was strengthened. Bambrick now says, “The negotiations have been « Bambrick pur- They accepted |to other active anti-fascisis are) Richmond Hosiery Mill “known to be only a | relude to a sud-| wounded late today when a fusillade nounced that it will take court ac- den move by Hitler fase'sm to de- | of rifle fire ended a parade in front were of the mill. deliberately sabotaged.” the resulting loss to everyone.” It is the policy which Bambrick followed which placed the union in its present position. building service workers voted to st mobilized his entire administration to smash the threatened walkout, LaGuardia mobilized his police, firemen and heath officers to act as scabs and pro- tectors of scabs. And Bambrick, in the face of this strikebreaking terror of LaGuardia, signed LaGi together with Joseph Ryan, head of the Central La- bor Union, agreeing not to strike. lowed this up by preventing borough-wide strikes. The building service workers were kept at work mainly AT THE EMPLOYERS’ OWN TERMS AND. | WITH THE WORKERS’ DEMANDS DEFEATED. If the building service workers enforce a militant, fighting policy in the union, they will face blacklist and discrimination, as well as But ‘Bambrick again adds, “We will do our utmost to prevent the strike and ican life and institutions. Un- | most beloved and militant leader of | CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Feb. 22. j ceedings. Judge Valentine stated tm some sections, especially the | checked, it would inevitably plunge | the German workers, is awaiting| (yp). — Three strikers and one he Will decide tomorrow. | South, $50 a month, which Roose- of | the United States into war. | trial. The severe sentences dealt! worker in the Daisy branch of the! In face of this threatened arrest velt demands as an “average” is of all leaders the union only an- equal or more than the “prevailing | wage.” Roosevelt's demand would iGontened on Page 2) (Continued on Page 8) Only a Fighting Policy Can Win the Building Service Workers’ Demands AN EDITORIAL slicing down of the demands. The Building Service Employes Union above all must be strengthened, and built up, All unorgan- | ized service workers must be brought into the union. | Above all, the vacillating policy of Bambrick, of rely- ing on the good will of the employers and their Politicians, must be rejected inside the union. The membership demands a fight. They have voted for strike. The rest of New York labor favors and backs the demands of the building service work- ers. The building owners’ refusal to negotiate must be met by the striking of those buildings in the city where the employers refuse to meet the union's demands. The policy of endless delay and accommodating cooperation with the employers and their politicians must be ended at once. STRIKE EVERY BUILDING THAT DOES NOT MEET THE UNION'’S DEMANDS, After the trike, LaGuardia uardia’s “truce,” Bambrick fol- are not able to here today. At fizst J. S. Thompson, relief ade | ministrator and officer of the Nae tional Guard, refused to see the committee of nine headed by Ken- neth Ostheimer, but after two hours, during which time the workers | effectively brought all office routine | with the County Commissioners. to a complete standstill, Thompson withdrew his demand that all dem- onstrators leave the building before he would see the committee. Meet- ing with them, he endeavored to pass the buck by stating that he was only “cazrying out his orders,” end was powerless himself to ine crease relief. March on Relief Office The workers marched from the relief headquarters to the Lucas County Court House shouting slogans and there won an audience A | resolution to carry on the fight with another demonstration Tuesday and | | | water | throughout the city. another resolution to support the striking workers at the Mye:s Regulator Company were adopted. Power Strike in Brazil NATAL, Brazil, Feb. 22.—A strike in the American-owned Light and Power Company of Northeast Brazil has paralyzed street-cars, light and and telephone services The strikers |are demanding higher wages. Po- licemen were detailed to guard the properties of the company.