The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 25, 1935, Page 1

| | —_— the Fatherland of the to the Teachers: The Daily Worker Fights For Your Rights. Subscribe workers of the world. As the workers and farmers of the U. S. S. R. Paper! Entered a: New York, N. ¥., under > * win one glorious victory ai ing of a new Socialist so fter another in their build- ciety, the imperialists and war makers, made desperate by the crisis which they have made and cannot solve, begin to plot for war against this new social order. In our country, Wall Street is supporting this tightening ring of anti-Soviet war mongers. Hearst’s anti-Soviet lies find their echo in Roose- velt’s State Department, with Secretary of State Hull provocatively breaking off debt negotiations with the U.S.S.R. Against this increasing growing fascist menace, t war menace, against this which looms against the whole American labor movement, and the American people, we must unile our forces. ALL OUT TONIGHT AGAINST WAR PLOTS OF SOVIETS’ FOES, URGES BROWDER By EARL BROWDER The demonstration at Madison Square Garden tonight is a protest and a mobilization against the rising menace of imperialist war, a war whose sinister objective will be an attempt to crush the Soviet Union, The Hearsts and the w lenged us. every supporter of peace. It is the duty of every worker, every opponent of fascist war plans of the Hearsts and the Hitlers to raise his voice at tonight’s Madison Square Garden demonstration. Daily .& Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) jond-class matter at the Post Office at the Act of March 8, 1879. NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1935 They have challenged every anti-fasciat, ar mongers have chal- | NATIONAL | EDITION (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents ‘SERVICE STRIKE OF 20,000 LOOMS TODAY Voroshilov, , Stressing Peace Policy, Warns Foes of U. SS. RED ARMY CELEBRATES ITS 17th ANNIVERSARY; GARDEN RALLY TONIGHT Ready to Defend the| Cause of ‘Whole of Toiling Humanity’ (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Feb. 24 (By Wireless). —‘The Red Army has all that is|: necessary for the defense of the workers’ fatherland,” K. E. Voro- shiloy affirmed today in an inter- view with the Soviet press on the 17th anniversary of the Red Army’s organization. Ppleting a new bright socialist life, continued the Soviet Commissar for Defense, will be well protected. In congratulating the Red Army men—the term “soldier” is not used in this workers’ army — Voroshilov not only stressed that “our fighting weapons have become still more numerous. better manned,” but “the cultural level of all our men is steadfastly rising as our fighting ranks self-sacrificingly learn to de- fend the great cause of the whole of toiling humanity, the cause of Lenin and Stalin.” He continued: “The gigantic successes: of technical reconstruc- tion of Soviet industry and agricul- ture, the yearning, the like of which has never been seen or heard be- fore. towards culture on the part of the millions of the toilers of the Soviet country, the irrevocable victory of the socialist system of the U. the love and care of the Sor in the world has ever known—this | is the source of the great power of the workers’ and _ peasants’ Army. “If during all the years of its life the Red Army has been strong by virtue of its preparedness to defend | to the end the cause which is near and dear to it, now, when its fight- ing revolutionary spirit is multiplied by the best technique, knowledge and wealth of our country, we stand guard on the proletarian frontiers more confident than ever before. “Let us with even greater per- sistence and skill, without rest, work over the further consolidation of our ranks and our forces. The U.S. S.R., untiringly and insistently. is waging a struggle for peace. But wherever new thunders of war may burst out, the peoples of the great boundless Soviet country may be assured, the Red Army has all that is necessary for victory, and under the leadership of the Party of the Bolsheviks, headed by Stalin, we will crush any enemy in defense of the fatherland of the workers of the entire Worl 118 ‘litwah Pickets Held One hundred and eighteen pickets were arrested in front of Ohrbach’s denartment store on Union Souare, Saturday afternoon, in one of the largest picket demonstzations since the strike was called. For several hours traffic on Four- teenth Street, between Broadway and Fourth Avenue, was blocked as over 100 policemen, many mounted, tried vainly to suppress the large crowd of sympathizers, which at times grew to 5,000. Among those who took a leading part in the dem- enstration were the Youth Section of the International Workers Order, members of the Associated Workers Clubs and the National Students League. Of those arrested, forty- one were women, chiefly youth. The demonstration of the pickets was transferred to the jail and night court. So loud was of the Internationale by the prisoners that the court hearing could not proceed. Every attempt of Magistrate Cap- shaw to silence the prisoners was greeted with jeering from the packed cou:t room. The Magistrate finally called in a Jarge police-detail from the 47th St. Station and the court rcem was (Continued on Page 2) The right, won with |” such sacrifice by the workers of the|'— Soviet Union, of building and com-|' t nation, which no army | Red | Stresses Peace | | | K. E. VOROSHILOV Build Trade Unions, Urges Amter, New Organizer Pending Return of Krumbein, Is Hailed “Make New York a union town!” This slogan, announced by Rose | Wortis, reporting for the District | Committee to a district conference | Saturday, of the New York organ- ization of the Communist Party, evoked tremendous enthusiasm from |the more than four hundred dele- |Sates present. The conference, | which ended late last night, placed |as the central question before the Party the work in the trade unions, | particularly the American Federa- tion of Labor unions. The conference unanimously en- dorsed the resolution and decisions of the recent meeting of the Central Committee of the Party in which the building of a mass Labor Party | based on the trade unions, the Negro people, the unemployed, was | stressed as one of the main tasks of \the Party. Almost sixty delegates, many of them active union leaders, and others from important shop units of the Party, took part in the discussion. A large representation of Negro Party members was one of the features of the meeting. Amter Made District Organizer A rising ovation was given I. Amter, when it was announced (Continued on Page 2) as favoring the company unions. recentiy by President Roosevelt. rule. These militant words of Green auto workers against Roosevelt's GiF, Parley The representatives of the A. F, unions have voted for strike preparations. But William Green, in spite of his militant words, is now in Detroit once more ‘attempting to sidetrack the strike sentiment of the auto workers. William Green in his speech on Saturday de- nounced the Auto Labor Board as an anti-labor body. He branded the elections held by this board that labor will not accept the auto code extended | proportional representation and demanded majority of the seething resentment among the masses of ‘Thousands of: New York Workers to Join | in Demonstration | George Bernard Shaw, inter- nationaily famous author and dramatist, added his voice yester- day to the world-wide protest against the breaking off of Soviet- American trade negotiations by the State Department. In a cablegram addressed to Herbert Goldfrank, national sec- | retary of the Friends of the Soviet | Union, Shaw said: “Cannot understand America | breaking negotiations, but know Japan will be greatly pleased.” Thousands of New York workers are expected to pack. Madison ; Square Garden at 7:30 o'clock to- night in a mighty demonstration for the dtiense of the Soviet Union. This demonstration, called by the Friends of the Soviet Union to pro- test the breaking off of United States-Soviet trade negotiations, will hear Representative Ernest Lundeen of Minnesota, sponsor of the Workers Unemployment Insur- ance Bill, H. R. 2827; James Water- | man Wise, writer and editor; J. B.| Matthews, of the Socialist Party; Professor Charles Kuntz, national secretary of Icor, and Dr. Reuben | Young, outstanding Negro member | of the F. S. U, and of the League | of Struggle for Negro Rights. Cor- | |liss Lamont, author and authority |on the U. S. S. R., will be chairman. | Commenting on tonight's mass demonstration, Alexander Trachten- berg, member of the National Ex- ecutive Committee of the F. S. U., said yesterday that it would not| \only rally the masses of New York | City in defense of the Soviet Union, | but also serve as the signal for a | nationwide mass campaign to an- | swer to the new attacks on the U. S. |S. R. and the slanders circulated by Hearst and the entire capitalist | press. | “The Union,” Friends of the Soviet) Trachtenberg said, “has al- | (Continued on Page 2) Italian Troops Sail tor Africa ROME, Feb. 24——The Mediterra- nean Sea tonight bore an imperial- | ist armada toward Africa as six | more ships, bearing 10,000 colonial | troops, left various Italian ports to- day. Simultaneously, in a brazen- faced time-saving manner, Musso- lini issued a hypocritical statement that “a neutral zone was established between Ethiopia and the Italian Somaliland.” Both the Vulcania and the Bian- camano, which are large transat- lantic liners, have been especially refitted for the transport of troops. They will be used until both the | 29th and 30th division, comprising about 35,000 men have been trans- ported to East Africa, of L, auto local ers. Green declared | He condemned plans. We are th are a reflection season ends, but recent attacks. But what are Green's proposals for bettering the unbearable conditions now prevailing in the auto in- dustry? Green, it is now revealed, has not one whit changed his time-honored policy of cooperation with the employers and their Politicians, of preventing strikes, and of stifling the will of the union mem- bership for struggle for their demands. Green declared in Detroit: “We are not talking about pulling a strike. We haven’t made any such | The need of the hour is the building of the union and the prepai to steer the union away from effective action to build the union and win the workers’ demands. Sigil ris Decisi sion Sonn: Protests Will Save Boys | Capitalist Press Wa as Silent on Appeal to Supreme Court— Mass Pressure Needed Now By Louis Colman “The plutocratic press be deceived by the actual apparent calm. The enemy is at work day and night—the press knows the Proper time to use the noise or the} silence against us. . Let none of | you be deceived by the sneaking, | mortal enemy. .. .” Bartolomeo Vanzetti wrote this in a letter to the International Labor | Defense in 1926. In 1935, the same maintains the most utter silence in regard to the fate of nine Negro | Scottsboro boys, argument in the cases of two of whom, against lynch- verdicts of death, were heard a | week ago in the same U. S. Supreme Court, which found every excuse— even the most ridiculous ones—to help send Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco to their deaths. A Dramatie Story Saturday, after the. first part. of the hearing, most of the metropoli- tan dailies in New York had not a word to say about it. The New York Times had two and a half inches of garbled report. The press of the country, as, a whole, including the “liberal” weeklies, took this cue. There could not be the excuse that this was not “news,” for the hear- ing, as reported in the “Daily Worker” at the time, was probably the most dramatic ever made in the holy of holies of capitalist justice. Tuesday, after the end of the Birthday | hearing, is silent | in our case. Let not one of you! venal press} To William Z. Foster' STATEMENT OF CENTRAL The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the United the press was uniformly | silent. It is no accident, either, that the “Pittsburgh Courier,” biggest of the Negro weeklies, owned by an as- Sistazt attorney-general of the United States, Robert Vann, and one of the bitterest enemies of the | Scottsboro defense for four years was the one which took its cue from the white bourgeois press without any dressing, and mentioned not a |single word about the hearing. Garbled Stories The other big Negro weeklies gave garbled and lying stories about the stories merely, but they had to sa: something about it. The same pres |sure that made the U, S. Suprem Court hear the case, made them report, something, anything but the truth, of course, about it. Vanzetti knew—‘the press knows when to use the noise or the silence | against us.” ‘The United States Supreme Court, | which once decided (in the “Dred | Scott” case) that ‘ rights a white man is bound to |for the first time in 70 years, a case in which a point-blank reversal jof this dictum is demanded. Masses Forced Appeal It was “noise’—the noise of mil- lions of Negro people, and hundreds of thousands of white workers and (Continued on Page 2) Greetings COMMITTEE, C. P., U.S. A. States conveys its warmest fraternal greetings to Comrade William Z. Foster, chairman of our Party, on his fifty-fourth birthday. Central Committee expresses its deep gratification because of Comrade | Mobil The Foster's gradual return to health and activity after a long and painful illness brought on by ceaseless work in the cause of the working class, by his unselfish devotion to the arduous tasks that fall upon those who, like Comrade Foster, are in the leadership of the revolutionary struggle and to whom hundreds of thousands of workers look for direc- tion and inspiration, On his fifty-fourth birthday, the background of the breakdown Comrade Foster sees maturing on of capitalism a new and powerful American labor movement whose rise he foresaw and which he took the lead in building—a movement in which the C.P.U.S.A, takes every day a more important part. The unprecedented size and militancy of the organization and strike wave of last year directed a: gainst many of the most powerful groups of monopoly capitalists, and which brought into the arena of the class struggle huge new contingents of workers in basic industries, also revived and gave new life to the splendid traditions deriving from the heroic struggle of the steel workers, the packinghouse workers, etc., in 1919, which were organized and led by Comrade Foster, Millions of workers are now becoming disillusioned with N.R.A. and among millions more disillusionment with the Roosevelt demagogy is beginning. For this all-importa: credit. upon the working class. int fact our Party can take much From its inception it branded N.R.A. as a cruel fraud foisted On this fifty-fourth birthday Comrade Foster sees those A. F. of L. leaders whose anti-working class program he exposed and fought for years being called to account for their espousal of N.R.A. by a militant rank and file movement in the unions, in the basic industries, that within a year has become a tremendous power (Continued AN EDI Green wants to keep leadership of the auto work- inking in terms of peace.” tion of strike before the Green makes it clear he is trying | on Page 2) Auto Workers Must Build Union, Prepare Str TORIAL Second, Green is attempting to hide from the workers the true role which Roosevelt has played in putting over and leading the open shop drive against the auto workers. Roosevelt is the represen- tative of big business, und is carrying out every plank in the program of the manufacturers. velt signed the auto code, set up Labor Board, backed the infamous clause, wrote into the March 1934 zation of company unions and the works’ council idea, which Roosevelt went out of his way to praise. But Green, in the Feb. 23 issue of the A. F. of L. Weekly News Service, attempts to bolster the waning faith of the workers in Roosevelt, in an editorial entitled, “Tools of declares, “Labor still looks to the President with faith and confidence,” and claims hearing, some of them misleading | DISCUSSIONS DEADLOCKED; GREEN IGNORES DECISION OF AUTO MEN FOR ACTION A.F.L. Chief hissed | Another Request for Negotiations By A. B. Magil (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, Feb. 24. — Overriding the decision for immediate strike | Preparations made by the elected | representatives of thousands of members of the Federal Automobile locals, the top leadership of the | terday indicated that it would con- tinue the diseredited policy of beg- ging the companies for negotiations eee attempting to pin the hopes of the auto workers on some new Labo> employer-dominated Board. Auto | ‘This move came in the form of | “a Negro has no| an official statement to the press | issued yesterday afternoon by Fran- respect,” has had thrust before it,|cis J. Dillon, A. F. of L. national | at | organizer in the auto industry, the end of the first session of the National Council of the United Automobile Workers. It was re- peated in the eyening by William | Green, President of the A. F. of L. in a speech at a mass meeting in | Light Guard Armory attended by | about 1,200 workers. | Membership For Strike Dillon's statement declared: wa. | liam Green, president of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, today | received notification from the or- | | ganized automobile workers of their | ‘action empowering him to act as their representative and directing him to immediately proceed in re- | questing of the proper executives of |the automobile industry a confer- }ence for the purpose of negotiating &@ mutually satisfactory working agreement relating to wages, {and conditions of employment, to | |be approved by the executives and membership of the United Auto- Workers.” | This statement is a delibe: ate distortion of the facts. The hand- Picked National Council is only an |advisory body, with the sole auth- | (Continued on Page 2) Dyers Favor Labor Party (Special to the Daity Worker) PATERSON, N. J., Feb. 24—The national conference of all locals of jthe Federation of Silk and Rayon | | Dyers held here Saturday, went on |record for a mass Labor Party and | in support of the Workers Unem- ployment and Social Insurance Bill H. R, 2827. In adopting the motion for a jLabor Party, the discussion at the | conference made clear that a Labor | Party must be such as will fight and will mean a break with the | bosses’ parties. A decision was also made for a} (Continued om Page 2) ike, To Win Such attemp' Roose- the hated Auto anti-union merit September, and pact the legali- can only defeat and preparing t Green proposes Green ‘Big Business’” negotiations wit that Roosevelt's merican Federation of Labor yes- | hours | for the demands of the trade unions | Greeted on Birthday | | \ WILLIAM Z, . FOSTER Min ine Stri i e Heads Called | To Face Court Fifty-OneUnion Officials Cited for Contempt of Injunction | (Special to the Daily Worker) WILKES BARRE, Pa., Feb. 25. Fifty-one district. and local officials of the United Anthracite Miners | of Pennsylvania, an independent union leading the strike of seven- | teen thousand Glen Alden coal min- ers, were ordered yesterday by | Judge Valentine to appear in court |next Thursday to show cause why | they should not be cited for violat- jing the injunction. The injunction issued by the same judge ordered the officers of the union to call off |the strike instantly. The order of Judge Valentine. which means that the strike leaders face arrest next Thursday, came | after he was presented with a peti- | jtion by the Glen Alden Company demanding that all the union lead- ers be cited for contempt of court. | Local company-controlled news- | Papers openly declared that if the officials call off the strike they will | not be arrested. The sentiment jamong the workers is overwhelm- ingly for defiance of the injunction. Miners Issue Leaflets Replying to the strikebreaking measures of the company, the An- thracite Miners of Pennsylvania (Continued on Page 2) Demands aides such as S. Clay Williams, and Leo Wolman are | misleading Roosevelt. ts to maintain the workers’ confi- dence in Roosevelt can only serve to place Roose- velt in a position once more to flout the demands of the auto workers as Roosevelt did in March 1934, and as he betrayed the general textile strike last the steel workers in June 1934, The chief strikebreaker of the employers—Roosevelt— the auto workers’ demands. Third, instead of immediately building the union he strike before the season ends, only another “impartial” govern- ment board, he proposes only elections and one-man h the employers. Green said in (Continued on, on Page 2) Caer eee Garmen t District Men May Be Called Out Today A strike of “20,000 building ser= vice employees of 640 buildings in the garment, fur and millinery dis- tricts will be called today if the workers’ demands are not granted, officials of the Building Service Em- Ployees International Union de- clared yesterday as negotiations re- mained at a deadlock over the week- end. At a meeting of about 400 garment. center shop stewards in the Labor Temple, 243 East 83rd Street, Sat- urday afternoon, James J. Bambrick, | Lpresident of the union, announced jthag only 42 buildings in the district | had signed closed shop agreements |on the basis of observing the hour | and wage demands of the union “If we move,” he said, “it must be rapidly, and I want you men, shop stewards, to be 100 per cent ready. | If the break comes and if they don't come through by Monday, there is |no doubt in my mind but we will | have to strike. Rather than let this dispute go to the Curran Commtitee on arbitration, I'll call a strike my- ie Expect Full Tie-up “There will be no ‘if's’ as far as a men are concerned,” shop chair- aes remarked after the meeting. All indications point to a com- plete tie-up during the first days of this week in all the buildings in the garment center, the owners of which have failed to sign up with the union, The union demands include a closed shop agreement with $26, $24, and $22 as a minimum scale in categories A, B and C, respectively for a 40-hour week. A tie-up in the garment center was considered inevitable by the union as well as by some spokesmen of the realty interests. In a statement issued Saturday, William F. McShane, executive’ sec~ retary of the Associated Merchants and Property Owners, Inc., 570 Sey- enth Avenue, declared that a strike in the garment section appeared to be certain. “This highly unionized sector of- |fers the union an exceptional op- portunity for sympathetic support and a strike,” McShane’s statement said in part. Fur Workers Offer Aid The following letter, addressed to Mr. Bambrick, was sent to the union by Joseph Winogradsky, manager of (Continued on Page 2) Store Strike _ May Spread A strike of the 2,000 employers of the Daniel Reeve chain grocery stores appeared certain as 500 em- ployees took a strike vote late yesterday afternoon. The results of the vote, together with mailed ballots, will not be known antil Tuesday, but officials of the Chain Store Executives and Clerks Union said that judging from the senti- ment expressed, a decision to strike was certain. | Employees of the Daniel Reeves stores met late yesterday to deter- |mine whether or not they would | join the strike of more than 500 store and warehouse men of the | Butler Stores who walked out on | Saturday. |. As the workers in the James But- \ler Grocery Company warehouse | filed past the paymaster’s window at 1 o'clock Saturday, they were asked by the company officials if they were coming to work Monday morning. One hundred out of the ; 120 employees announced in no un- certain terms that they were join- ling the strike that had already , closed down many Butler stores in (Continued on Page 2)