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Bnter««l as second-class matter at the Poet Office at WEATHER: Fair rising temper- Voi. xi, No. 62 New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 8. 18*18 NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1934 (Six Pages) Price 3 Cetrts 'HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES PASSES VETS’ BONUS BILL Daily Worker Will Print a Half Million Copies of the 24-Page May Day Edition Cab Drivers Plan to Spread | LeadingCommunists Will Thousands in N.Y. Veterans Fight Forces Hand to Write Articles, Features Strike Other Companies To Get No Relief Os Congress Five hundred thousand copies of the special May Day edition of Longshoremen Offer to ; the Daily Worker will be printed this year, to reach workers in every big Congressmen Must Help Drivers industry, every city and farm area in the United States. This edition, which will appear in at least 24 pages (large size), will After First Come Before Voters, Stop Cabs be the biggest the Daily Worker has ever printed, and will contain a April Fear to Oppose Bill wealth of historical, feature and political material by leading Communist HEARING writers here and abroad. START JNRA m W ill Thomas Back Out? BULLETIN > The print a copies the Day edition Agreement With Bank- • mr 1 JBrnßk-wMj L decision to half million of May Gilbert Assails Plan of was based in large measure on the success of the 250,000-copy Tenth Billed With Communist ers To Give Only 3 WASHINGTON, D. C., Anniversary edition. But so huge a distribution will only be justified, In March 12.—The House of can only successful, proper organ'ation co-operation Boston Talk on War Million Relief Labor Board be if the and full Representatives voted to- tlmt of the districts is forthcoming. BOSTON, March 12 —N. Sparks, Steps day for cash payment of NEW YORK.—The strike ■ should be taken in all districts to insure the widest possible District Organizer of District 2 PROTEST MARCH 18 of the Parmelee taxi drivers share toward making the May Day Daily Worker a landmark of of the Communist Party, will Patman $2,200,000,000 sol- against a company union en- share toward making the May Day “Daily Worker” a landmark of speak on the Communist Party’s LaGuardia's diers’ bonus. Continuous achievement in the paper's history, by sending in their May Day greet- attitude toward war, and Norman pressure by rank tered its third day yesterday, Thomas Party’s and file ings without fall. Every single greeting will appear in the special edi- on the Socialist Would Tax Workers at a meeting by veterans forced the House with leaders of the Taxi Driv- tion. If necessary, additional pages will be added to the proposed 24 arranged the Harvard Liberal Club for Wed- pass the measure. ers Union of Greater New York pages in order to include every individual and organization greeting. to of nesday, March 14, at 4 p.m„ in NEW YORK. The La- * * * taking up the question spreading Not a single district can afford to neglect the to the strike to other companies. opportunity reach room 10-250 of Massachusetts WASHINGTON. D. C. March 11. newer sections of the with the Guardia administration plans While the hackmen were working-class message of proletarian Institute of Technology. picket- solidarity —The House today approved im- ing the garages, the Regional and struggle which the huge May First edition will embody. The meeting arranged to keep off of the relief rolls Labor was be- mediate consideration of the Pat- Board, with Mrs. Elmore Herrick Not a single individual, mass and fraternal organization, youth and fore the recent Socialist Party many thousands of C. W. A. greenback bonus bill by acting as chairman, continued Workers’ Club, can fail. decision to forbid its members to man a to the call vote of 313 to 104, more than the maneuvers have men off All out to insure an unprecedented circulation for the 24-page May speak on the same platform as workers who have been fired, strike and then vote on the question First Dally Worker! i Communist speakers. It is not necessary two-thirds required to of the company union. This plan ft was admitted by La Guardia’s ! yet known whether Thomas will override a presidential veto. The wa.s once more flatly rejected by take of this Commissioner of Public Welfare, [ advantage ruling to Patman bill was to be the union men. Sam Orner and back out. William Hodson. in a statement is- expected Joseph Gilbert, militant spokesmen sued Sunday. Hodson also stated voted on momentarily as the Daily for the drivers, told the press that I openly that those lucky enough to Worker went to press. Debate was Auto Union Special Page on Co. limited to two Mrs. Herrick’s proposition was en- CABMEN AT CITY HALL HEARING i | get back on the relief rolls will be hours to secure an tirely out of the question. Unions Will Appear i taken at a greatly reduced wage. early vote. “This designed Protest Cuban plan is to break 9 This is in line with the policy of The House was expected to pass the strike,” said Gilbert. "The Delegates In ‘Daily Tomorrow the Roosevelt government of “de- the Patman “bonus” bill over the drivers are prosing by their strike 4 Scottsboro British Government mobilizing” the C. W. A. in such a insistence of President Roosevelt act'on what organization Scab at way drastically cut down re- that he any they to A special page on company Cargo as to will veto measure al- w !sh to belong to.” Demands Navy Up to Go Capital unions and the N.R.A.. as well lief appropriations as well as to do lowing veterans compensation or Yesterday the union received a as the fight against them, will away with C. W. A. jobs. bonus. The Patman bill does not communication from longshoremen Boys Are Put Full Treaty Limits call for of the cash appear in tomorrow's Daily N.Y.PierToday “We are going to h*re to go j payment full of the International Longshoremen's To Hit Green Betrayal; Worker. Among the on back to a relief wage instead of a bonus but calls for payment in LONDON, features Association, declaring their sym- In March 12. —T h e Form 10 Locals this page will be a report of the working wage,” Hodson said, "and , greenbacks, accelerating inflation. pathy with the strike. The long- "Solitary’’ i British Government intends to in fake company union referendum Cuban Dock W orkers to we are only going to be able to give However, even this modified bonus shoremen said thev will support the bring its navy up to full treaty ! in the United States Steel Cor- this to the destitute.” bill is being fought strenuously by strike scab Largest Plants the Roosevelt by preventing Parmelee j strength by the end of 1936. when poration subsidiaries in Gary and Resist Order to Hodson said he “doesn’t administration. rebs from picking up passengers at Letters Are Withheld in treaty know” | the expires, Sir Bolton South Chicago. Do not miss this ' what relief the jobless will get after The Patman bill was assured of the docks. DL't'KUIT, Mich., Smash Union Evres-Monsell, First Lord of the March lk— report Os the struggle against the ! April Ist or how many will get re- passage by the house as all Con- Hackmen at Code Hearing. Effort To Break Workers in three departments of j Admiralty, announced in the company union. A feature ar- i lief. “A good many people are go- j gressmen come up for re-election A number of hackmen were pres- Their Spirit House of Commons today. the Plymouth anto plant won a ticle by Marguerite Young, Daily j NEW YORK. Workers led by ing to be pretty bitter,” Hodson ad- this year and are afraid to face the ent at the taxicab code hearing This is Great Britain's answer victory today under the leader- Worker Washington Correspon- thej Marine Workers Industrial mitted, "It’s going to be very dif- voters with the record of voting opened which at City Hall in the to the Vinson Bill, designed to ship of the Anto Workers Union dence, on the Bosses Congress Union will demonstrate against the ferent after April 1. We’re going j against the veterans. The Roose- morning. Only representatives of BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. March 12. when the company was forced to and Company Unions will ap- landing of a scab cargo from Cuba, velt leaders, including of boys bring the U. S. fleet to the top right back where we started from I Speaker I the fleet gentlemen Four the Scottsboro here the per Besides, of owners and of increase bonus to 144 cent pear. there will an in front the Ward Line on Rainey, let it be known that the put of treaty strength in the same be pier before the C. W. A. was begun, on the stripe pf Morris L. Ernst, who have been in solitary confine- and guarantee 150 on next pay. article by Bill Gebert South St., at the foot of Wall St., administration will try kill ment, in attempt period. on the a work-relief basis. That means a now to aided in the betrayal of the an to break their The struggle started Saturday at 9 p. m. today. the in the senate. first The estimates, Struggle Against Company minimum subsistence basis for the bonus bill strike, were allowed to speak in militant spirits, it was revealed to- government as when Department 96 It Unions; How N.R.A. and A. amendments to the Inde- the Haywood previously reported, struck. the This cargo destitute only.” The first session. No representatives of day. Meanwhile, Patter- call for $286.- was joined by two other depart- P. of L. Leaders was loaded by scabs Olfices Bill which Fostered Com- at Havana, under the protection of pendent grant the drivers got the floor. The meet- son and Clarence Norris, held in 849,875, to build 17 new big war- ments today. The committee of pany Unions, by Harry Gannes. Bankers Get Their Money. the disabled veterans some com- the in Prison, and Cuban army machine guns, in the ing was presided over by William death cells Kilby ships a number of smaller nine representing three shifts went Hodson admitted that the agree- pensation are also expected to be Allen, deputy N. R. A. administrator, Montgomery, are deprived of letters craft, and to add 2,038 men to to tne company demanding an Wall Street-Mendieta government's voted on this week, and the Roose- sent them bloody drive to smash the Cuban ment of La Guardia’s administration who is responsible for the textile by workers throughout the navy forces. One of the new increase and reinstatement of an bankers allows the city velt administration is trying to kill code, the country. workers’ unions. Since this scab with the which reduced the wages of ships is to be an aircraft car- Auto Workers Union member fired to spend only three million dollars these amendments as well. the textile workers in all rier of more than tor organising the men. The Italy Moves for cargo was loaded, the Cuban gov- sections Roy Wright, Eugene Williams and 20.000 tons. a month on unemployment relief. country company ernment announced it will dis- the to a starvation level Willie Roberson have been put in said it would take up has The rest must come, he said, from Will Fight question solve the union of the striking Code. solitary because a Negro stool- the of reinstatement to- Treaty Against the federal government. The La- Prior to the meeting Joseph Gil- pigeon picked a fight with Roy morrow. Iwo departments re- Havana dock workers. insists on bert, speaking Dividends Assured, Guardia administration Postal Workers lof for the drivers, said. Wright, and Ro.v defended himself. fused to work. If the worker is The Marine Workers Union. 140 maintaining, his agreement to pay "The proposed code is entirely un- One of the turnkeys has admitted Sloan Tells General not reinstated tomorrow all will Expansion Broad St., has issued a call to all the bankers millions in interest and satisfactory and means nothing that the whole affair was a frame- strike. German New York workers to mass at the old debts, no more for re- more and give Protest Against than a further reduction of up. Motors Investors The Auto Workers Union, Ply- pier this morning, in solidarity with lief. This agreement runs until the living conditions of mouth Local, the men.” Andy Wright has been in solitary- is leading the Calls Three-Power Con- the Cuban workers. September. confinement for NEW YORK. A struggle, rallying the workers on • * * Speaking in the afternoon two weeks because statement by the ference; 40,000 At the same time La Guardia is- Starvation Order ses- he refused to obey Dan basis of the united front. Troops HAVANA. March 12.—The Caf- sion Moris M. Katz, of the an order by Alfred P. Sloan, president of Gen- workers sued a statement again advocating Queens Rogers, one of the wardens, to go Many are joining the fery-Mendieta government’s armed Taxi Cab Service, who eral Motors, J. P. Morgan-controlled union. at Austrian Border an “unemployment insurance” plan declared out into the cld and warfare against the Cuban workers Mass Demonstration To that he represented sleet inade- * * * whereby not the bankers or the gov- the owners of dressed. While holding company of automobile ROME, March 12. lntent is approaching a climax in Havana 6,000 cabs, made quately in solitary, on ernment would supply funds for the Be Held known his opposi- the are not to companies, DETROIT, Mich., March 12.—A German capitalism from today, folowing a government an- Today tion to even the boys permitted have manufacturing assured of keeping unemployed, but where all workers miserable minimum baths or of stockholders delegation the Auto Workers its influence de- nouncement that it. would dissolve sl2 a week wage of the change clothing. today that they would Union, Pord, expanding to the would be taxed to secure funds in N.Y.C. projected Charlie Weems is from collect their usual representing Chevrolet, triment of Italian imperialism, Mus- the dock workers’ union. code. suffering quarterly dividend other The cost to the city and federal pains in chest, and has this year. Murray Body and auto plants has just arranged Guardia “I am in severe the will appear solini a confer- Sharp clashes between the strik- government of this plan. La BULLETIN favor of the theory of received no medical what- Wednesday in Washing- ence with the of and reduced attention “It is impossible to make any ton rulers Austria ing dock workers and the 200 scabs said, would be even less than the hours for people employed soever. at the National Labor Board Hungary, Dollfuss and CHICAGO. March 12. The at ' statement at this moment in Premier who are working under the protec- relief now given. The workers con- a salary,” Mr. Katz said, but I Hearings on the auto situation. Goemboes. United National Association of am Protests against the inhuman respect to earnings,” Sloan de- tion soldiers armed with machine tributions would undoubtedly make opposed to reduction of hours Workers in various shops have The conference a of Post Office Clerks (Regulars), when treatment of the Scottsboro boys clared in his letter to all stock- will discuss guns have already occurred One up the difference. men work on a commission elected delegates over the week-end these three powers Chicago Local, voted to support the should be sent to Gov. B. M. Miller, holders,” but in my judgment and treaty bringing scab was reported killed and nine jobless basis.” No less than a 60-hour have raised funds to finance into an alliance against Hitler Hundreds of men waited demonstration and march called and Attorney-General Thomas E you may consider that this divi- the injured in clashes at the Ward Line night week would be aceptable to him, he their trip. Phil Ravmon. National government. Mussolini fears the all Saturday for jobs shovel- for March 19 through the Loop by Knight at Montgomery, Ala., and dend will have been fully earned.” docks today. snow, shivering in the cold in stated. Secretary of the union, is on the expansion of German capitalism ling the National Association of Sub- the warden of Jefferson County General Motors controls - Morris Ho’chner. oily-mouted to more delegation. front of the Department of Sani- jail. Birmingham, Ala. than 40 per cent of the automobile down to the Southern Balkans Despite the government decree stitute Post Office Employees counsel for the National The which tation offices. But not one job was Taxicab Protests should also be sent to industry, and is in turn controlled Washington hearing was through the proposed Nazi anschluss which illegalizes even’ union asainst the layoff of all Chicago Association and representative of called by the National Labor Board, (union) with Austria. does not immediately quit its strike, given out. the of Kilby Prison against by Morgan It * * * •lihs last week. The work of the the United Taxicab Trade, warden banks. controls such Board of companies as Chevrolet, Fisher with the help of William Green and Meanwhile, Italian imperialism is more than 200.000 workers are «übs has been added to that of the was as emphatic Conference March 1? Just in his opposi- Body, Plymouth, etc. Detroit A. P. L. misleaders in an concentrating its troops on the Aus- still solidly out. The striking print- regulars in the Post Office. tion ot the (Continued on Page 2) strike to principle of the mini- effort to block the rising demand trian borders. More than 40.000 ers decided to remain on NEW YORK.—There will be a The action of the regulars was mum wage. gist of for strike, among already of their if of C. W. The Hotchner’s particularly auto troops have been stationed force recognition union united front conference taken after a committee of subs remarks was that workers In Buick, dissolved the and un- conditions ought Chevrolet and ready for immediate action at the it is by government. A. workers, unemployed visited th’eir meeting. The march- to be allowed to remain as Fisher Body. The Soldiers fired into a crowd of at one they are conference is set Austrian borders. Mussolini has al- employed organizations, ers will mobilize at Liberty Square, while “we wait until Paterson NRA Board Cuts for March 14th. ready intimated that if Hitler takas workers at Camaguey, killing one. o’clock next Sunday at Irving prosperity Pay Congress and Michigan Boulevard. comes back.” Strikes are continuing in many any steps "against the independ- Two of the soldiers were injured Plaza. 15th St. and Irving Place, Company Union Man ence” of Austria, it will be con- when the workers defended them- lo plan city-wide action for Speaks auto plants. The Auto Workers Jobs (Continued on Page 2) Gerald E. Kamm, chairman of With Aid A. F. L. Union is making big progress In sidered as a war provocation. selves. and relief. the Terminal System Drivers’ Asso- of Officials organizing the workers on a united ciation (a company union), agreed front basis. During the past week with all the anti-labor remarks of By JOHN' J. BALLAM members. The other A. F. of L. ten new locals of the union were union members of the Katz and Hotchner. PATERSON, N. J„ March 11.— board voted established in ten of the biggest for Elias’ plants. oi The Taxi Drivers’ Union will Right after Roosevelt's recent motion. Coliseum Meet to Open N.Y. Convention Party Here is the motion taken present their code, which demands about hours and from the speech “reducing minutes of the a minimum wage of $22 a week for wages” the Paterson Indus- Industrial Relations raising Board of meeting Satur- day drivers and $25 for night men, trial Relations Board forces a wage its held formism and its petty bourgeois by the social-fascist leaders (So- Section Conventions day, March 3, 1934: unemployment insurance and rec- cut on 9.000 broad silk workers to Car Men, Printers Browder and Krumbein nationalist influences in our party cialist Party and A. F. of L.) as a ognition of the union. take effect at once. “Upon motion made by Mr. in Harlem. result of the radicalization of the Held Last John Elias, Elected to Dist. Con- t M" The Paterson silk workers after a and seconded bv Mr. The growth of Negro reformism Negro masses and the growing in- Sunday 14-week strike were tied up to a Charles Kapanjie. it was decided, Strike in Spain; vention from Harlem and the spread of white chauvinism fluence of the Communist Party by unanimous vote that the re- no-strike agreement signed by the among Negroes In the Daily Worker adjustment of wages, as provided call for a strength- Silk Manufacturers' Association fronts, for under the agreement, and sub- NEW YORK. Section conven- ening of our struggle on two Today and the Associated-United Textile Troops in Streets; make against these mitted at the of the In- tions of the Communist Party were to a strong fight (A. F. of L.) local union. This meeting Workers to Greet enemy dustrial held Sunday throughout New York Cleveland influences in the working PAGE 2 agreement establishes the Indus- Relations Board on heighten struggle Thursday. 1934, Workers Walk Out in City, leading up to the New' York class and to the Sports, by Sam Ross. trial Relations Board, composed of Feb. 15, become for a,ffected District Convention of the party international unity. There was PAGE 3 bosses, U. T. W. mem- operative for all shops by three three Protest at Gov’t opens with public session The Bth Convention Party •unity of opinion on this question. and the agreement, beginning with which a oj Pre-Convention Discussion. bers an “impartial” chairman. the Bronx Coliseum on the There were 59 employed, 55 unem- "Between the Lines of a Com- This is make the next day period following Actions In board empowered to evening of Friday, March 23. ployed and 5 fraternal delegates. pany Uni'-’' a survey of the two highest paying Tuesday, March 6, 1934, and shall CLEVELAND. Ohio. March 11. tance to the entire working class Further analysis showed office, food, PAGE 4 silk areas and on this basis to ad- remain in effect for sixty (60) MADRID, March 12.—A wave of Harlem Convention The Cleveland district of the Com- and to the farmers of this conven- needle, tobacco, building trades, Letters from S*"e!, Metal, Auto just wages every 60 days, without days thereafter.” strikes and mass actions is sweep- munist Party will welcome the dele- tion. The convention meets at a and paint workers, laborers, ing The Harlem Section Convention metal Workers. consulting the workers and merely These minutes are signed by over Spain. Workers engaged in Communist gates to the Eighth National Con- time when the workers are answer- housewives and domestic workers. 5 hand to hand street combat with of the Party of New PAGE by a majority vote board Benj. Kaminsky, Chairman pro York 119 in attend- vention of Party, on the evening ing the attacks of the Roosevelt There were 46 T.U.U.L. and 10 A. by the police in parts city had delegates the “Change the World!” Sender promulgates its decision. A. F. tern, Industrial Relations Board. several of the of 2, with an mass “New Deal” with increasing mili- P. of L. delegates. The as they sought to make effective ance. The discussion on the re-, April opening Garlin. of L. union representatives on the Strike Sentiment Strong port of James W. Ford, section or- session in the Public Auditorium tant strikes and and A new section committee of 15 the on street car unemployed “What's Doing: in the Workers’ cept the new wage scale estab- This proposal is for a 3 per cent strike the lines. Hall). has and 24 delegates to the district thus All and allied ganizer, reached the highest poli- (Music This large hall farmers struggles. Schools?” lished without protest. wage slash. The bosses wanted to printing trades went tical carried out in been for the time in convention were elected. Com- “What Is Bole of out in a one strike in level ever Har- obtained first At least 500 delegates are expected Intellectual?” Elias Makes Motion give a 10 per cent cut, were day today lem. of for rades Earl Browder, general secre- but protest against govern- the history Cleveland a gath- to attend the E'ghth National Con- “I am a Communist,” by Don The silk of Paterson are to give it in small doses reactionary tary of tha Communist Party and workers advised ment actions. Police Catholic That section of Comrade Stalin's ering called by a workers’ organiza- vention of the Party. All Cleveland West. incensed at the action of the A. F. every 60 days. In return the and Charles Krumbein, district organi- for students are acting as scabs. report to the 17th Convention of tion. workers' organizations are urged to leaders of the Red Arms. of L. unin representatives on the United Textile Workers’ local lead- zer cf New York were elected to PAGE * Despite all denials of the Gov- the C.P.S.U. dealing with the na- general secretary secure at once blocks of tickets to district, Industrial Relations Board. It was ers’ services in forcing this wage Earl Browder, of the convention where we ernment. the possibility of a gen- tional question w’as very useful in make the huge mass opening of the Editorials the union leader John Elias who cut down the workers' throats, the the Communist Party, will make the are sure they will be elected del- Foreign News. eral strike is strong. Government helping to clarify our line on the convention the biggest Communist gates to the national convention of made the motion to cut the wages i keynote at this troops with machine guns Negro question here an