The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 10, 1934, Page 8

Page Eight DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1934 Daily .<QWorker TEHTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST Pan (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTEREATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC,, 3 E. 13th Street, New York, N. Y. ALgonquin 4-7954. Daiwork.” New York. N. ¥ Bureau: Room 954, National St., Washington, D.C 101 South Wells St Address Press Builds ng, Room 705, Chicago, Til. Subscription Rates: 4 Bronx Canada: 1 MARCH 10, 1934 | SATURDAY, Fisher Body overs s! ibaa aia BODY C a union recognition, f the greatest betr: by their A. F. of L. leader: the help of the Nation Labor Board, | these leaders are doing everything they can to | n, which is the only way now of | kers’ demands. nt of the A. F. of L. leaders is to heir demands without the intervention of the National La- was done to the Nach Motors ha. But after a long wait these workers found that none of r demands were met, and they are now out rike over the heads leaders. cnal Labor fall, when { Ford Workezs on strike in v. J., and Chester, to maneu- the strike. the National La- but 0 workers he National Labor Board. A. ¥. of L ; The same tate et the workers on the Budd Auto Body plant in Philade and Steel a of L. submit to the The 14,900 workers, fooled by | back, only to find that every promise of tional Labor Board had been broken. They were d with a company union and their condi- worse they appealed to Presi- velt, he again filled them with promises, ng has been done. Company workers in Cleve- ould learn from these experiences, and this ge will lead them to the proper action which will insure .victory of their demands. The workers are overwhelmingly for action. should immediately go out on strike to demand a 20 per cent increase in wages, the right to or- , and recognition of their union. Once on with every worker out on the picket lines, | should not allow the A. F. of L. leaders to the negotiations in their hands in Washing- It is necessary at Sunday's meeting to elect a strike committee which represents all depart- ments and all worke! This is one of the best guarantees that the strike will be conducted in the interest of the workers and that negotiations will be carried on by the workers’ themselves through their own elected representatives. Regardless of what organization the workers belong to. regardless of whether they are organized or not, all those working at the Fisher Body should have a voice in electing the strike committee, and participating in all strike actions. * * The: they (Ff THE DEMANDS are not granted, a strike should immediately follow. This should be the unanimous decision of the workers. At New Kensington, Pa., over 4,000 workers in the Melion-controlled Aluminum Company of Amer- set an example for all workers when they rejected the sell-out “agreement” worked up by the A. F, of L. leaders and the N.R.A. Regional Board. They are out solidly, fighting to win their demands with united strike action. The leadership of the strike should rest in the hands of your shopmates, whom you know and trust; it should be in the hands of your mili- tant fellow workers, and not in the hands of the A. F. of L. leaders who have shown such great skill in betraying strikes. Fisher Body Company workers! Do not let the bosses or the A. F. of L. leaders snatch vic- tory from your hands. Mobilize your forces to win your demands. Altogether, if our demands | are not granted, immediately strike. ica “Limited Capitalism” Which road out of the crisis? That is the ques- tion that rises higher every day in the political consciousness of the toiling masses throughout the capitalist world. That explains why such a newspaper as the New York Evening Post, for example, in a recent editorial comes before the workers with the theory that terrible curses of capitalism can be overcome by a new form of capitalism—‘limited capitalism.” Tt will not be the capitalism we have known in the past,” says the Post. “It will be consti- tutional capitalism as unlike the old absolute capitalism as the constitutional monarchy of England is unlike the absolute monarchy of Abys- sinia.” And as evidence that we are already on the road out of the “old absolute capitalism” to the new “limited capitalism,” the Post gives the recent State Court decisions, declaring a moratorium on farm foreclosures. By this decision “rugged individualism has suffered a death blow,” declares the Post proudly Under a system of capitalist exploitation of prop- ring, no court decisions can ble development of monopoly capital with its steady and remorseless tightening grip on the whole economy and the State power. “Given the commodity system of production,” Marx declared in his Critique of the Gotha Pro- gram, refuting the utopian hopes of the oppor- tunists in the Social-Democratic Party, “the system of distribution and all its consequences must inevitably follow.” The whole sevelt New Deal is a. living proof of that. The ew Deal” was palmed off on the American me. as some kind of anti-capitalist step forward. Roosevelt, let it not be forgotten, always inveighed gainst “the old deal of the laisse: Today, attes twelve months of this “! of the Wall Street "been tightened, their profits have ine d, while the lot of the masses has been driven down below the Hoover level. In the editorial column adjoining the one on “limited capitalism,” the Evening Post, itself, as the gesture of its liberalism, gives the figures of the twelve months of the New Deal: An increase of $440,000,000 in profits for the {| 810 Wat Street menenol‘es, compared with a defi- cit of $4,000,000 last year. And a slash of 11 per cent in the real wages of the working class since the Roosevelt N.R.A. New Deal began to send prices upward. E road out of the cr and its misery is the road of revolution. It is only by ending capital- ism, by seizing power from the capitalists and plec- ing it in the hands of the working class can the crisis be ended. This can be accomplished only by setting up the dictatorship of the working class over the capitali instead of the present dictator- ship of Wall Street capital over the majority of the population, the working class. This .can only be done by smashing the Wall Street dictatorship by the revolutionary force of the proletariat, to- gether with all the toiling sections of the popula- tion.. History shows that only in this way does one class end the power of the class that oppres- ses it. The Post seeks to blind the masses to the revo- lutionary road out of the crisis by its talk. of “limited capitalism.” Let it be remembered that fascism also talks of “changing” capitalism, also comes before the masses with anti-capitalist phraseology about a “new system,” while it ushers in the open, brutal dictatorship of the most powerful sections of monopoly capitalism, and strives to fasten the chains of wage slavery still tighter about the necks of the masses. The Eve- ning Post is thus playing its part in paving the way for American fascism, as it strives to trick the masses away from proletarian revolution with its “anti-capitalist” phraseology. E sacred capitalist trinity of rent, interest and profit must be destroyed. Only the revolutionary power of a Soviet America can do it. A new form of government must be set up, the proletarian dic- tatorship of the working class over. the exploiters —a Soviet government. Such a government would immediately expro- priate all the billions upon billions in the hands of the capitalists. It would open the factories, put everybody to work, start the whole. country humming with activity. For, under a Soviet govern- ment all production will be for the use of the producers and their own government, not for the profit of a handful of Wall Street capitalists. Not the fake of the “New Deal,” or “limited capitalism.” But the revolutionary road to Soviet power, to the revolutionary overthrow of capitalist rule. That is the way out for the majority of the population, the working class. “The idea of storming capitalism is ripening in the consciousness of the masses,” Stalin declared before the recent Party Congress of the Soviet Communists. Every day brings new evidence of it. The job of the Post is to sidetrack the historic locomotive of the revolution. It will not succeed. & |be sentenced to no less than | months in prison. Those who have | committed Cleveland Workers Demand F reedom for Thaelmann Freed Pitaiees _ Report Tortures In Vienna Prisons Six Months Is Minimum | for General Strike | Agitation VIENNA, March 9.—Prisoners re- jleased from the fascist jails after | having been able to prove they had | nothing to do with the recent strug- |gles, are reporting frightful details cf the tortures inflicted on the thou- sands of remaining prisoners, both in the police stations and in the; prisens, It is nothing uncommon for a prisoner to have his teeth knotked Jout with blows from a rifie butt |they report. A mother who visited jher son in prison, a Schutzbund member arrested in the Goethehof, saw the lobes of his ears were torn When she shrieked at the sight, the officials threatened to arrest her if she did not declare at once that her |son had injured himself during the fighting, before being arrested. The program of revenge of the government is reported as follows: | Those who did not participate in, the general strike and did not res’ the government forces shal! be} freed, provided “there are no other reascns for their further detsin-|} ment.” Those who took part in the agitation for the general strike shell “grave crimes” or were found with arms in their hands or are otherwise considered as respon- | sible for the workers’ resistance, Wwi'l be prosecuted on charges of high treason. Those labor and Socialist | leaders who cannot be convicted of | any active partitipation in the e¢n- eral strike or the civil war will be sent to a concentration camp. 3 Cabinet Mem mber. ‘For Tariff Weiten | Ask Monopoly Powers Antifaschistiche | | struggle for trade, he declared. | ‘In Huge Trade War for Roosevelt in Tariffs WASHINGTON, March 9. — Al Plea for absolute power to negotiate | | tariffs and trade agreements to be) | given to Rooseevit was made yes-| | terday by three of Roosevelt's lead- | | ing Cabinet members, Wallace, Hull) and Roper, before the House Ways) | adn Means Committee. Secretary of State Hull was as par- | | ticularly emphatic in warning | Roosevelt must be given this power to bargain with other powers for trade if American imperialism is to| beat its imperialist rivals in the present intense world fight for! trade. Other countries are “out-) bidding” the United States in the! His statement implies that the | Roosevelt. inflationary devaluation of the dollar is not having all the effects anticipated in bringing new trade to American monopolies. This portends a renewed drive of the Roosevelt government for trade agreements against its imperialist rivals, Britain and Japan, as well! as further inflationary devaluation) of the dollar. | Wallace contended before the | Committee that the necessity for |more markets for Amrican goods carries with it the necessity for destroying about 50,000,000 acres of farm land, especially the small! farmer crops. The bill to give Roosevelt bar-| gaining power with other countries, without having to place the trade) | treaties before Congress, will be soon passed, it is expected. Amer- ican imperialism needs it in its fierce struggle to wrest trade from) and Means Committee. \ |**Put Away Your Gats Boys, These Are Right | Guys.” 2 ONE Teens —By Bard Will Form Newark |Ant?-War Groun at Conference Sunday. Jersey City Colts ISS Mecting to Fisht | ar, Fascism | NEWARK, N. J—The permanen’| | Newark organization of the Amer- liean Leecue Against War and Fas- | cism will be formed at a mass con-| ference Sunday, March 11, at 1:3 p.m, at Krueser's Auditorium, N ark. A call various gtoups, Essex Trade Council, Socialist Part: Aktion, Deutscher! | Arbeiter-Organisationen, Communi: Party, Brith Sholom, Nations] As- sociation for the Advancement of Colored People, and locals of” the American Federation of Labor, hac! been sent to unions and orga tions throughout Essex County. | War industries are going full} blast in this section of New Jersey. The Crucible Steel Co., the Pollack | Manufacturing Co., DuPont and the! | Hercules Powder Co. are leading. among many others, in the manu- facture of death-dealing cases, mu- nitions and armaments. The Cellu- loid Co. of Newark, one of the larg- est celluloid plants in the world, is constantly producing nitro-cellulose for the manufacture of TNT. C.W.A. med by member: and inelu of the iza- improvements have been made in | Hav ve agreed to accept the authority | ous benefits to presumptive dis- Port Newark to increase the effi-| ciency of this port as a war base. Barges are load@ there and on the Passaic River with scrap iron for shipment to Japan and the Far East. | national offices, and accept a gover- | Offices Bill are to be voted on next Due to these extensive war prep- arations in and around New: and the grave war situation, it important that every organization and group be represented by two! delegates. The conference itself is| open to all workers, students, vet- | erans—victims of war and fascism. | The temporary Newark Committee | can be reached at Room 510, 40 Clinton St., Newark. Firat: 36: | JERSEY CITY.—A mass meeting! under the auspices of the Commu-| nist Party, for support of the Aus-| trian masses and for struggle| against war and fascism will be held | at Labor Lyceum, 94 Belmont Ave., Monday, March 12, 8 p.m. “| Local Boy Makes Good —frem Russian Prince | to a Street Cleaner | BUC: HAREST, R Roumania, — Prince Sergei Vladimirovich, who as a member of bloody Vienna’s Soviet army which mur- the Allied intervention of 1918, has come to better times after taur after the de- feat 's army, the prince sold matches on. the and did odd jobs. Re- ame a part time : in Bucharest. He promoted to full- “efficiency and poiite- Canten Reported In Surrenter to Nanking Regime : To Accept Kuomintang Governor, Says Annonneement CANTON. Mar. Following the revelation by members of the South- | west Political Council of Nanking’s deal with Japan to give up Man- churia in exchange for aid against | the Chinese Soviets, the Can‘on political organization is reported to of the Kuomintang of Nanking, It is reported that the Canton Ree leaders will abolish their nor appointed by Nanking. pisceariceahonnt otk ub duchite ane tot Statement of Austrian C.P. | On Uprising to Appear Mon. | Monday’s 8 page issue of the public statement of the Austrian Austrian uprising. There will also be an analysis of Otto Bauer's pamphlet, which was recently issued in which he tries to cover up his treachery. A number of articles on the aration for the 8th National Convention of the Communist Party will also appear. Veteran Bills Face ' Roosevelt’s Veto If ‘Passed by House | |\Congressmen, Facing) Voters, Would Give Concessions NEW YORK.—President Roose- | velt continued his fight against the soldiers’ bonus and disability pay- | ments when administration leaders | |attempted unsuccessfully to bind | democratic Congressmen by caucus | |rule to vote against the veterans’ amendments to the Independent | | Offices Bill. These amendments do not re- store to the disabled veterans the jcuts in allowances taken from | them by the Roosevelt Economy | Bill, amounting to $300,000,000. | But they do grant the disabled ex- soldiers and government employes some benefits. The Congressmen all face re-election and ‘they are | afraid to go before the voters with the record of voting against any benefits to veterans. The amend- ments do not grant cash payment | of the bonus. The democrats voted to send the Independent Offices Bill to confer- | ence with the Senate, with provi- |sion for the amendments benefit- ting the veterans. Roosevelt has | announced he will veto any bill giving the veterans added compen- sation. The amendments passed | |by the democratic caucus favor} payment of 75 per cent of previ- cases to veterans of the and Spanish-American The bonus bill and the to the Independent | ability \ | World wars. amendments | week in the House. Daily Worker will carry the first Communist Party on the recent pre-convention discussion in prep- |German Commut | treason.” | Ernst Thaelmann, Chicago. Plans ito Demonstrate Next Saturday Take Part. in World Wide Demand for Free- dom of Red Leader CLEVELAND, March 9.—Thou- sands of Cleveland workers demon- strated at 1:0on today in Public Square, and marched to the German consulate to demand the release of rnst Thaélmann, leader ef the ist Party, who soon to face “trial” for his life in Nazi court on a charge of “higi . . CHICAGO, March 9.— Prepara- | tions are being made for a powerful |mass demonstration in defense of to be held in Washington Square. 900 North Clark St., on Saturday, March 17, CCC Camp Workers ‘Found Maltreated ‘By Youth th Delegate NEW YORK—On Sunday, March 4th, eighteen young workers, dele- |gates representing the National Student League, the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, the Food Workers Industrial Union, the Taxi Workers Union, the | Furniture Workers Union and the | Young Communist League visited C.C.C. camps 45 and 46 in Bear Mountain, to investigate working conditions, food, housing, and re- creational facilities. In a statement issued yesterday, the delegation reported: “The main grievances of the boys at the camps were over the food. In camp 46, the boys said that the meat ‘was not fit | for dogs.’ Such food has been given out for the past three months, Medical facilities are totally in- adequate. One boy, after being in the camp hospital for 13 days, was removed in a dying condition. “The boys ate forced to work in sub-zero weather, and are»fined for the least infraction of rules. They are working on dams, roads and cleaning projects, work which for- merly paid seven to eight dollars a day. The officers are surly, often drunk, and thoroughly disliked by the boys.” On March 11, the delegates will visit Mayor LaGuardia to protest against these conditions. Mass Arrests of Spanish Workers As Strikes Grow ' MADRID, March 9.—More than 300 workers’ leaders, many of them Communists, have been arrested since yesterday in Premier Lerroux’s drive to smash the widespread strike actions which have greeted the reactionary program of the government, tion of Labor, the Communist Party, The headquarters of the ref the Socialist Youth, and of a fascist organization were raided and closed. More than 100,000 workers are on strike in various parts of the coun- try, the largest strike being that of 80,000 building trade workers in Madrid. A large number of new strikes have been voted. The government's fear of the fast- spreading working class and | peasant resistance to its reactionary program is indicated by the decision to increase the civil and assault guard forces by 27,000 more men, How w Thaelmann Led Hamburg Strike; And 1 How He Mobilized Women Workers BERATED BY A PART ICIPANT IN THE STRIKE, ANNA SCHULZ, WIFE OF JOHN SCHEER, GERMAN COMMUNIST PARTY LEADER MURDERED BY THE NAZIS By ANNA SCHULZ There wes a strike in Hamburg Harbor. Twenty thousand long- shoremen had stopped work in pro- test against a wage-cut. A bitter) feeling prevailed amongst the long- shoremen. There was but one de- termination: Strike! The united front of action through the unani- mous stopping of work by the strike | of the 20,000, had come to life. The) reformist and social-fascist lead- | ers, the Ehrenteits and their kind,| had been unable to prevent the| strike. Over their heads the long- shoremen had followed the call of | the revolutionary trade unionists and the Communist Party to strike. As the maneuver of the Socialist Party leaders to betray the workers | by accepting arbitration with the) Harbor Association, and if no agreement could be reached there | to call the Reichs Labor Board (the high German tribunal to settle} labor disputes) did not succeed, they tried by other methods to split the United Front of the work-| ers. Social-Fascists Try to Break Strike | It was the aim of the reformist | fakers to prevent the election of a_ strike committee on a democratic basis by the strikews themselves. They threatened that if the. long- shoremen were not ready to accept | the strike leadership imposed upon them by the trade unions and the S$. P. Shop Council of the Harbor Association, they would declare the strike of these 20,000 “illegal” and | would refuse to pay the workers} any strike benefit out of the trade union treasury. The Longshoremen yelled back. “Do you want to force a dictator- ship on us? We will not allow you | pA to tell us. what to do. We, the | had worked many years im the workers, are the trade unions, we} harbor in Hamburg). are the ones to decide, we are going | The first question he asked was: to elect our own strike leadership | “What's new in the strike, what on the basis of a real proletarian democracy at our own strike meet- ings. We will never allow you to destroy our united front so that you could force on us this new wage robbery.” This was the manner in which the workers expressed their senti- ment. The social-fascists were un- | able to withstand this mass pres- | sure of the workers and over their heads, a strike leadership on the basis of a united front from below, disregarding all political affiliations, was elected and announced as the Central Strike Committee. But the majority of this committee at that time, it was in the year of 1926, were the so-called radicals, the left | Socialists. The strike had been on two days and all was quiet at the harbor. Mass-picketing, meetings, distribution and the selling of a special strike bulletin, had been or- ganized. In the workers quarters groups of workers organized in a speaking chorus, would recite: “Against wage-robbery and capital- ism the longshoremen are striking,” | “Help the United Front of Action,” “Show your solidarity and give what you can,” Long Live the United Front and the Strike.” Thaelmann Comes to Hamburg On the evening of the second day, Comrade Thaelmann, leader of the Communist Party and the German Proletariat came from Berlin to | Hamburg. Suddenly, without any leaflet | kind of leadership do you have?” He wanted to go to the harbor at once. We could not reply quickly enough. Although we were very tired, for we had not slept for three nights, now that “Teddy” (this was the nickname applied to our be- loved leader Thaelmann) was here, all traces of fatigue had disap- peared. We were put through a regular cross-examination: ida had we done to prepare the st Had we considered the propo \ the Central Strike Committee _os- sible of fulfillment? What would our next steps be? What conditions and sentiments were prevailing amongst the strikers? Had we pro- posed a real fighting program in opposition to the one of the strike committee? Had we aroused the workers in the factories to actions in solidarity with the strikers, not only for financial assistance, but for sympathetic strikes and an in- crease in wages in other industries such as textile, chemicals, food, shipbuilding and especially metal? Thaelmann Gives Directives Seated at a table, he earnestly jots down notes of our answers. ‘When we told him that the strikers had unanimously refused to submit to the dictatorial methods of the reformists, to accept their Strike Committee, but had elected their own strike leadership on the basis of the United Front, Thaelmann vehemently struck his hand upon the table, walked to and fro, comrade knowing about it, he came.| laughed awhile and said: The strike was the reason for his appearance. (Thacimann himself “Yon see, that’s our work, that’s our success, because we learned in Hamburg to do real mass work on | the basis of the United Front from below. That’s the realization | of the united front of action, for | united front spells fight,—fight means strike, mass strike. The longshoremen of Hamburg gave the first example to the German workers, that the time has come that they must disassociate them- selves from the old tradition of allowing the reformists and social fascist trade union leaders to sup- ply leadership, and that the work- ers themselves, as fighting prole- tarians, on the basis of proletarian democracy, elect collectively to the strike leadership the most capable workers out of their own ranks. “But watch out,” he said, “by to- morrow Ehrenteit (the social fas- cist) will mobilize his party mem- bers, the police commissioners of Hamburg, Schoenfelder, and Egger- | stedt of Altona Elbe, and during| the nighy the police, armed with) machine guns, will attack the pick- ets.” At once we discussed all possibil- ities of mass mobilization. Special couriers were sent to all city dis- tricts. Thaelmann himself, in the middle of the night went to see the strike committee at the harbor. Quick action was necessary to in- form all workers of the imminent danger, that attempts would be made to break the strike by armed force, and to urge the workers to resist. It was for definite reasons that Thaelmann laid so much stress on this fact, for it had been a prac- tice for a long time that even the smallest strikes were most brutally attacked by the Prussian police, led by the Socialists | ance will issue a short and precise | leaflet and we will help to distri- When we informed Thaelmann | that we had already issued a leaflet | in. which we had called the strikers’ | attention to this danger, he said that is not sufficient. “You must at once go and talk with the workers, and explain the attempts which are being made to split their united front which they have defended so heroically against the trade union dictators.” Immediately, during the night, we must set to work to popularize this important matter. The Strike Com- mittee must meet during the night and must be informed of every- thing; early tomorrow morning the strike committee with our assist- bute it; Thaelmann, interrupting himself, glances at the paper which carries the names of the Strike| Committee. His features darkened. he reaches for the paper, hands it over to the political secretery and says: “Where are the women in this committee? Do you think ycu can win this strike without the prole- tarian women—are you trying to convince me that there are only men employed at the harbor? Do you think that we only agitate the slogan: ‘The wage question is the bread question of the family?’ Where is the woman organizer? Bring her here immediately.” What work was carried through in preparation for the strike among the woman workers at the harbor? What proposals did the women or- Ranizers make? Has the party lead- ership taken up the proposals and helped to carry them through? What had we done to bring out, the women coffee pickers in sym- pathy strike? Comrade Thaelmann asks not only the women leaders but the comrades in leadership. The wo- man-leader reported: “The women’s section, of its own initiative, has organized a conference of the women workers at the harbor. But it was not good because the party as a whole did not help along. The women organizers made small illustrated leaflets and distributed them be- fore the factories and on the markets. Oniy very few women went on the picket line. In a harbor workers mecting, where only men were present, Gerda, whose husband was a longshore- man, wanted to speak, but the chairman, a Party member, de- clared women had nothing to do in this mectirg. Yes, the plea that the wemen’s leaflet be sis- tributed to the men to be given to their waves was tucned down, because this is a matter ef the living quarters.” Thaclmann listens very earnestly and attentively. Every now and then one of the comrades wants to interrupt the report because it is so late in the night, but Comrade Thaelmann waves him aside and says: “Gerda, speak on.” Then he gives the woman leader and the Party leadership his direc- tives. He says all the efforts made by the women comrades were cor- rect and good but we must discuss this further in order that this op- portunistic underestimation of draw- ing the women into the struggle of their husbands be liquidated, and that we must learn to recognize that ! women workers are an important part of our entire work. Thaelmann states: “We must immediately organize in all parts of Hamburg conferences of wo- men workers at the Harbor. The Party leadership is responsible for this and not the woman leader alone, The women organizers must make concrete proposals before tomorrow morning and formulate slogans. In the next strike meet- ing a woman worker should take the fiecr, Masses of women must be mobilized for the picket line. “We must not forget the tre- mendous infiuence the women have upon the youth. And, when we, in this strike, similarly make our political demands, besides fighting against wace-robbery, Iengthening of the hours of work, fight for the defense of the Chi- nese Revolution, stop the trans- port of guns and ammunition to China and poison gases to Japan, we must, with all our strenvth, net on'y mobilize the women and youth, but organize and win them for the active struggle against war, fascism and wage-robbery. “The strike committee must call a women’s mass meeting, organ- ize strike kitchens, and here we have a good chance to appeal to hundrezs of women who other- wise stand ov*side of the struzgie, but who will be ready to help in the werk they understand, the cooking. And not the last must the thought of strike be brought into the tex- tile factories. Show the women workers by the example of the united front at the harbor how we must fight and how the united front can be successful, This is the way you should work in order that the united front as a help for the strike of the harbor work- ers be spread and lead the strike to victory.” At 4 o'clock the next morning hundreds of harbor women workers stood at the harbor, building a liv- ing chain against those of the so- cial democratic police protected strike-breaking cordons. At 5 o'clock huge demonstrations arrived from all quarters of the harbor, from Baumwall, from Millerntor, from Altstadt, to the gangway-quarters streamed the Hamburg harbor pro- letarians together with the unem- ployed and suddenly a working wo- man shouts: “See, there marches Thaelmann, he is with us! Hurrah for Thacl- mann, Hurrah for the strike, Hurrah for the United Front!” Women and Workers Fight to Free Ernst Thae!mann That the teachings and the fight of Thaelmann are not forgotten, evcn today, under the blocdy Hitler dictatorship, is illustrated by the fact that in Hamburg the Social Democratic and non-party workers, together with Communist workers, issued a call in which they declared the following: “Thaelmann is blood of our blood. ““baelmann is not only a worker, but one of the best lead- ers of the German Join with us proletarians, men and women alike, to strengthen the fight against the Hitler dictator- ship and to free our leader, Ernst Thaelmann, the transport worker, from the Hitler dungeon in Fascist Germany! Raise high the banner of Proletarian Internationalism!