The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 27, 1935, Page 1

| Meanwhile, American Federation “ \the ore-—2ation committee stressed AIDE ADMITS HEARST | Arrange for Wide Worker at Anti- Press Run Yesterday—48,200 Vol. XII, No. 50 Sales of the Daily Hearst Meetings > * New Yo: Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at , N. ¥,, under the Act of March 8, 1879. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1 Daily .Q Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTIOM OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONAL ) 935 NATIONAL EDITION (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents Manufacturers Spur Hunger Wage Plan A. F.L, daadons Hold ‘Secret’ Conference on Measure By Marguerite Young (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D, C., Feb, 26.— While Roosevelt, Congressional leaders stood with .oxlike stubborn- | ness for the “security wage” on work relief, the spearhead of the employers’ wage-cutting drive, Pat McCarron (Dem., Nev.), today told the Daily Worker that the National } Association of Manufacturers, the | | Chamber of Commerce of the United States and the National Economy League are behind the opposition to the “prevailing wage” | amendment. | The “prevailing wage,” while not | the union wage for which union labor and fighting. unemployed or- | ganizations seek, is opposed by the | Roosevelt government as a first step to open the way for slashing the meager scales now existing. Reminded that government offi- cials , from President Roosevelt down, suggested that work-relief | wages must. be “adjusted” soon after | the open-shop~ trade associations Jeveled an open propaganda bar- rage at the current low wage struc- ture, McCarran said to your corre- spondent: Cites Economy League "That is right. I distinctly re- call it. Tnat is behind the opposi- tion. And there is something more also behind the opposition to the iling wage’ fight. There is the National Economy League. All these people have gone into hiding. But, in my judgment, it is they who are the center of the drive against the effort to prevent government wage-cutting as a prelude to gen- eral wage-cutting.” | of Labor leaders, refusing to take notice of the National Unemployed Council’s telegraphed proposal for joint action of the unemployed and employed to meet the Roosevelt workers’ “living “confer- challenge to all standards, held a_ secret ence” on the situation. Waiting for Pressure The Roosevelt leaders recommit- ted the $4,880,000,000 work relief hill to committee lest week when | the “prevailing wage” amendment by Senator McCarron was attached to it by a Senate vote. Administra- | tion leaders threateningly an- nounced they would wait for “the country” to exert pressure on the Senate to force them to support the President. This strategy, however, had failed (Continued on Page 2) Green Presse On Steel Stand By Tom Keenan (Special t: the Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Feb. 28,— Rank and file steel workers in the Amal- gamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers today demanded of William Green that he take a definite position on their organiza- tion drive and on the expulsion poli- cies of Michael Tighe, president of the union. Tighe is attempting to block the organization campaign of the lodges. Because Tighe has claimed Green’s support in split- ting the steel workers, the following wire was sent today to William Green by Clarence Irwin, speaking for the organization committee of the steel union lodges. “Tighe continuing expulsion at- tempts. He issues statements claim- ing your endorsement and that of the American Federation of Labor Executive Council in this union- busting action. Steel workers de- mand to know where you stand. Silence on your part aids and absts attempt to destroy our union. Thou- sands of steel workers enrolling as organizing drive gets under way. Impecative you take stand now and clear road, for mass fighting union in steel industry, the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. Do you support Tighe’s disorganizing expulsion drive or steel workers’ organizing drive? * Wire answer. Clarence Irwin.” In 2 “atement to the press today Cloak Union Assails Writ Against Strike The decision of State Supreme Court Justice Salvatore Cotillo, an open fascist supporter of Mussolini, prohibiting picketing in any form of striking employes of the Freed Department Store, was character- ized as “an outrage attacking the very fundamental rights of labor” | by Harry Nemser, attorney for the Retail Cloak, Suit Dress and Fur Salespeople’s Union Local 107, against which the union-smashing injunetion was issued. The ruling of Cotillo is the most far reaching ever issued in the city, declaring that white collar workers have no right to demand the closed shop or effective union recognition, and enjoining the strikers from any form of picketing of the store. The decision in part states, “The evidence before me bears out the| - allegations in the complaint that defendant Union.has .been guilty.of.. acts of intimidation which are F.D.R. WORK RELIEF. PROPOSAL OPENS WAY FOR NEW PAY SLASHES = HEARST AND HIS NAZI PALS IN BERLI Here is a picture from Fascist Germany that Hearst never published, It shows the chief American yellow journalist after his con- ~-ference"with Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi newspaper Ozar and foreign Nazi propagahda chief. At this conference Hearst agreed to support Hitler MOSCOW (By Cable), Union. Covering the very Judge Bonds | Miners’Chiefs te, ~ |CHIEF OF PUBLISH BUREAU IN MOSCOW ~ SAYS TOILERS PROSPER | Lindsay Parrott, After Long Trip Thru Ukraine, Reports All Farmers Are Well-To-Do—They Send Nazi ‘Relief? to Anti-Fascists iground for enjoining all picketing. | |It also justified, from the nature \of plantiff’s business, a decision to the effect that defendant should be | | enjoined from all acts which would | force a closed shop upon the plain- | tiff, or from persuading employes jto join the union by intimidation |or coercion, While there is nothing to hinder defendant Union from seeking to increase its membership, such efforts must be the ordinary | | peaceful ones, AND NOT COUPLED WITH PICKETING AND THE IM- |PLIED THREAT THAT SUCH CONDUCT CARRIES WITH IT. There will be judgment for the plaintiff.” The decision, if not smashed by | |the broad united front protest of | New York labor, would deny the | right to organize, to strike and to | picket, to masses of white collar | workers, especially clerks. All local unions are urged to pro- test against this anti-union in- | | junction of the open fascist Cotillo. | Theatre Gives | Union Benefit | By C, A. Hathaway Tonight the Civic Repertory is | being turned over to the Marine | Workers Industrial Union. ‘‘Sail- | ors of Catarro” will be performed | for the benefit of this sturdy young | organization of the sailors of New | York, the longshoremen of Norfolk, _the marine transport workers of ; the whole country. This is the last | | week that it will be possible to see | the best play in the city. Every nickel of profit that the | Marine Workers Industrial Union | will receive will go for the needed organization work among seamen and longshoremen, How necessary that is, every worker and every sympathizer of the labor movement understands. | I urge all of you who can do so, to} attend tonight's performance at the. Civic Repertory and aid the union. | It will be a pleasant duty for the) | working class. in his war drive against the Soviet Union. Coupled with his slanderous attack on the Soviet Union, and the re-printing of all the vile fascist lies about the Workers’ Fatherland, Hearst leads the drive against the American workers’ living standard. He, in true Nazi fashion, supports Roosevelt's program of the $50 maximum wage scale on public works. Union Forces Concessions In Buildings Close to 20,000 building service Huge Rally Condemns Breaking of Trade workers in 640 buildings in the gar- ment, fur and millinery district won substantial gains when a wage and hour agreement was reached at 2:30 o’clock yesterday morning in a conference between realty owners and the Building Service Employes International Union. The agreement is to remain in effect until Jan. 31, 1936. The conference was held through the night, starting at 730 Monday evening, in Hotel Commodore, Lex- ington Avenue and 42nd Street. Readiness of the building workers to strike at a moment’s notice and the ability of the union to aftect | a complete tie-up, supported by the workers in the highly unionized garment center, were held largely responsible for the willingness of the building owners to concede many of the union’s demands. Men for Strike Workers in the buildings felt that a much better settlement could have been reached had the union leaders not prevented the strike, as | voted by the membership. ‘The conference was presided over by Jeremiah T. Mahoney, chairman of the Regional Labor Board and formerly a Supreme Court Justice, who acted on behalf and at the jrequest of Francis J. Biddle, chair- man of the National Labor Rela- tions Board. Others at the conference included | Ben Golden, chief examiner of the Regional Labor Board, Benedict (Continued on Page 2) Reading from left to right: Mr. Rocker, Hearst's private secretary; Nazi leader, Alfred Rosenberg; William Randolph Hearst; Dr. Karl Bomer, chief of the Press Division of the Nazi Foreign-Political Bureau, and Thilo von Trotha, Alfred Rosenberg’s lieutenant, 25,000 S core Hear Anti-Soviet Propaganda tiations With U, | By Milton Howard Nego- S. S. R. by Hull | More than 25,000 persons of every political group and affiliation, packed the Madison Square Garden to the rafters Monday night and roared back into the face of William | Randolph Hearst, arch plotte i} Possants Aid Cuban Strike Ot 350,000 HAVANA, Cuba, Feb. 26. Pledges of support from peasant or- ganizations and trade unions, and the formation of a broad united front yesterday further strength- ened the general strike of 350,000 Cuban students, teachers and pro- fessors against the Mendieta- Batista-Caffery regime. r of war against the Soviet Solidarity greetings and _ the Union, a defiance and a challenge such as New York City has rarely seen. $ | Outside, more than 5.000, unable to get in, listened to speakers in the street. Tremendous applause greeted | Representative Exnest Lundeen of Minnesota, sponsor of the Workers Unemployment and Insurance Bill, H. R. 2827, presented to the audi- ence by the Chairman Corliss La- | mont, as he declared: “I warn them that when they plunge this country into such a war against the Soviet Union, that when this war is over these people will no longer have any | say in the government. After the, storm, there may be no capitalist nations left.” | “U, 8, S. R. Not Cuba” | | The Garden rocked with cheers | and applause as James W. Wise de- | clared: “In the name of the millions | |for whom this meeting speaks, we | Warn Hearst that the Soviet Union | jis not Cuba, and 1898 is not 1935. | | We propose to begin our fight aagins him with a nation-wide boy- cott of his papers.” i “The Soviet Union is writing a) ‘glorious page in history,” Lundeen continued. Telling of a recent visit to the Soviet Union, Lundeen quoted a Red Army commander who told him: “We do not wish an inch of anyone's soil, but if any one in- vades us we will break their teeth on our swords.” “The U. S. S. R. has never de- faulted on a single penny of its statement, “We are always on a war footing” from a peasant delegate from Realengo 18, received loud and prolonged cheering from a monster mass meeting of strikers and pathizers in Havana yesterd: These revolutionary peasants of Realengo 18 have by force of arms defeated every attempt of the Cuban government and Royal Bank of Canada to evict them from their peasant holdings, and have set up debts,’ Lundeen continued, “T say ‘heir own revolutionary govern- that those who gambied on the ent. Czar’s debts should go down with The whole strike movement is in- the Czar.” creasingly assuming the character Discussing the Workers Bill which he is sponsoring, Lundeen aroused tremendous enthuiasm by declaring: “During the last war they told us to give till it hurts. Now we say that to finance the Workers Bill shall make them pay till it hurts.” “The Workers Bill is different from all the camouflages and fakes masquerading as insurance,” Lun- deen continued. “It provides for the immediate care of every single jobless worker in the country. It doesn't wait for three years to pass. (Continued on Page 2)! of a popular mass movement for “democratic rights.” * . . | Immediate steps must be taken | by all workers’ organizations in the United States to support the struggle of the Cuban people against the Mendieta-Caffery re- gime controlled by American im- perialism through U. S. Ambassa- dor Caffery. Send resolutions to the State Department stating your determined oppesition to any armed intervention by U. S. im- perialism. (Special to the Daily Worker) WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Feb. 26.— Judge Valentine of Luzerne County Court has placed fifty-one officials of the United Anthracite Miners of Pennsylvania on a $50,000 bond, in cash, to serve as a gurantee to compensate the Glen Alden Coal Company in event it suffers damage attributed to the strike Meanwhile hearing on the com- pany’s petition demanding that the 52 district and local officials should be cited in court for refusing to call off the strike, as ordered by Judge Valentine, was postponed to Mon- day. The company’s strategy in | For $50,000 having a bond placed is to have it) serve as a club over the union of- ficials to curtail their strike activity. | All the Glen Alden mines with the exception of the Audenreid were idle today. There was increased picketing yesterday and the strik- | ers are asuming a more militant attitude. While the mines are idle company employes are going to homes to persuade strikers to re- turn. day that the collieries will resume operations tomorrow. The officials of the Anthracite Miners locals have declared that they will rather go to prison than accept the pronosal of Judge Valen- tine. Several locals have held meetings and pledged full support | for the fight. Among them is Pitts- ton Number 9, of the Pittsston Coal Company, which declared that its members will go to the limit in sup- port of the strikers if the leaders are arrested. Striking locals of several mines have held meetings this morning to arrange strengthening of picketing and to stop recruiting of breakers from the farming regions. New Wage-Cut Plan | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Feb. 26. —All able bodied persons who re- fuse offers of employment in in- dustry or agriculture at subsistence wages will be cut completely off the relief rolls, according to a re- “cent decision. The company announced to- | strike- | [8 The injunction issued by the open fascist, State Supreme Court Judge Cotillo, prohibiting any form of picketing, aims at the right to strike of millions of white collar workers throughout the country. Cotillo, an open disciple of Mussolini, in prohibiting picketing of the Freed Co. store rules that employes of retail stores have no right to fight for the closed shop or effective union recognition. This sweeping injunction is the most far-reach- ing of the many injunctions issued in New York City under Mayor LaGuardia’s administration, and aims to set a precedent to outlaw strikes of all white collar workers. It follows on the heels of the in- junction against the teamsters and longshoremen, aimed against sympathetic strikes. No more brazen anti-labor document has ever been issued in the interests of the employers than ‘phe fat that it is only the co- rdinating body for the national \drive, Cotillo’s injunction against the Retail Cloak, Suit, Dress and Fur Salespeople’s Union, Local 107, A. F. of L., ordering them to cease all picketing, The injunction goes even farther than the in- | junction issued against the Ohrbach strikers, which limited the number of pickets to two. Again the courts of New York, under Lehman- LaGuardia’s regime, lead the way in union smash- | ing, anti-strike deczees, which strike at the con- | stitutional rights of the workers to organize, to strike and to picket. Again the government attempts to enforce star- vation wages and non-union conditions, and at- tempts to stifle the rapidly growing strike wave of | the workers of New York City. It is significant that two of the signs carried by pickets, to which the company objected, which are mentioned by Cotillo’s decision, bore the slogans, “FREEDS PAYS HIS EMFPLOYES 21 CENTS AN HOUR” and “FREEDS PAYS ONLY TWENTY- | ONE CENTS AN HOUR.” In justification of this slave wage, Cotillo declared that the company “has complied with the provisions of the N. R, A.” | Cotillo’s brief for these chiselling employers speaks of the “personal service” rendered by sales- people and white collar workers. According to Cotillo’s decision, it is necessary for white collar workers to render this “personal service” at sweat- shop wages, and without the right to organize or strike. Judge Cotillo is one of the most active fascists in New York. Until he became a Supreme Court Justice, he was Grand Master of the Grand Lodge (New York) of the Sons of Italy. Cotillo is one of Mussolini's chief supporters in New York. In July, 1930, Cotillo was one of three fascists called to Rome by Mussolini, who geve Cotilio tasks to perform for Italien fascism at that time. One of these tasks was to crush the anti-fascist sentiment in the New York Grand Lodge of the Sons of Italy and bring the lodge bagk into the national organ- ization under the fascist national leadership, This Cotillo succeeded in doing, | | | Mussoiini’s model, MASH COTILLO’S ANTI-STRIKE INJUNCTION! AN EDITORIAL Cotillo, who works for fascism in this country on in this decision, is striking a mentary civil rights of the people of blow at the el: New York ©: The workers of New York must smash this anti- strike order of the. fascist Cotillo. A wave of protest by every labor organization in the city, by every individual and organization sym- pathetic to labor, should be launched against this anti-strike injunction. Raise this injunction and the fight against it in every local union. Rally every workers’ organization to defend the right of New York workers to strike, to picket and te organize, Call on the Central Laber Union to mobilize all unions in the city against this vicious injunction. Defeat this injunction by mass violations with the support of every union and every workers’ or- ganization, Unite against the Cotilio injunction! ERS By Vern Smith | (Special to the Daily Worker) Feb. head of Hearst’s International Moscow, today vigorously refuted in toto all of Hearst’s lying, slanderous stories about “starvation” in the Soviet 26, News Lindsay Parrott, Service Bureau in territory in the Soviet Union about which Hearst is filling his press with forged pictures and concocted stories of “starvation,” Mr, Parrott declared that in the pay and service of Hearst he himself had recently traveled over the whole ground and found not the slightest ——_—____— a —trace of famine On the contrary, he says: “I am convinced that the peasants in these collective farms {in the Ukraine] have begun to lead a well-to-do life.” Interview With Izvestia After a trip through the Uxraine, Mr. Parrott, Hearst’s official repre- sentative here, in the course of an interview lasting more than an hour, with the Soviet newspaper Iz- | vestia, said: | “Nowhere in any of the towns or villages on the way did I see any signs or traces of famine about which the foreign press likes to speak. Moreover,” added Mr. Parrott, “the present is the very time of the year when fam- ine if any existed, wonld sharply appear.” He indignantly denied that he ever heard of any individual by the name of Thomas Walker, whom Hearst is parading as 4 “correspon- dent who traveled through the Ukraine.” {The People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs, which has a record of every person who enters the So- viet Union, has no record of any visitor named Thomas Walker.] | Definitely answering the lies in the foreign capitalist press about “starvation” in the Soviet Union, and particularly the slanders pub- lished by his own boss, Hearst, Par- rott declared : “Last summer I visited the Volga region—from Astrakhan to Saratov. |I visited the Friedrich Engels col- | lective farm in Marxstadt and one of the fishing collectives whose good organization, order and cleanliness astonished me. “Recently, I completed a trip to (Continued om Page 2) Butler Store Strike Spreads With the walkout of James But- ler grocery employees fully in ef- fect. in Brooklyn, efforts of strikers were concentrated upon making the strike complete in Manhattan. Workers of twelve more stores in the East side came out yesterday, Samuel Null, attorney of the Gro- cery Chain Store Executives and | Employees Association stated yes- | terday. The entire force of the company’s bakery plant at Long Island City also joined the strike. In answer to the wide publicity in the capitalist newspapers that all stores are open, the union de- clared that strikers have responded splendidly and that those in the stores now have been supplied chiefly by the O'Toole Detective Agency. Despite the difficulty of conducting a strike at so many | Widely-scattered establishments, picketing at the stores increased yesterday. Large picket lines with the assistance of neighbors took Place at a number of Bronx stores. | With the cooperation of Local 104 of the Chain Store Division of the Food Workers Industrial Union, large picket. lines in which many Negro workers took part, were ar- ranged at Harlem stores. A committee of the Food Work- ers Industrial Union appeared at the office of the Grocery Chain Union and offered every possible support of its members. At its | district convention during thé week-end, the Communist Party of |the New York district has directed all its organizations and members to give active support to the strikers, : i A