The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 25, 1934, Page 1

| Free Tom Mooney and the Scottsboro Boys! Down Tools May Day! CIRCULATION DRIVE NEW SUBS RECEIVED YESTERDAY: Daly 41 Total to date ....3,671 3 Saturday . Total.... » 2,597 } Vol. XI, No. 99 => «6 New York, N. ¥., under the Daily,QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Act of March 8, 1879 NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1934 WEATHER: Fair, colder. AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents 21,000 ALA. MINERS STAY ON STRIKE, DEFY ROOSEVELT Call All Out! Today For Scottsboro 9 Boys Tortured! Lives in Danger! Join Mighty Protest NEW YORK.—The streets of Harlem will resound this afternoon at 5 p.m. with the demand that the Alabama jailers stop their systematic torture of the Scottsboro boys, as Negro and white workers from all sections of the city join in a tremendous demon- stration for the immediate, uncon- ditional and safe release of the nine innocent boys now held in Jail for over three years. The demonstration, which is ar- ranged by the International Labor Defense, will take place at 131st St. and Lenox Ave. Similar demon- strations are being held throughout the whole world today—Interna- tional Scottsboro Day. The district International Labor Defense issued a warning yesterday that the lives of the boys are in danger, through brutal torture and starvation. The statement declares, in part: “The boys have been thrown into solitary confinement. Warden Rogers has made threats upon their lives. On one occasion he brandished a loaded revolver at one of the boys, threatening to kill him. “We must raise our voices in a mighty protest against this brutal treatment of the Scottsboro boys. We must unite our ranks and spread the fight to free the Scotts- boro boys. Only the mass protests of workers all over the world has stayed the murderous hand of the Southern white ruling class. Only the organized power of the Negro and white workers united in a mighty protest will be able to free the 9 Scottsboro boys. “All out today, 5 p. m, in a mighty protest demonstration!” ee ee” NEWARK, N. J., April 24—The first Scottsboro protest meeting to be held in this town is arranged by the International Labor Defense for Friday, 8 pm., at the First Baptist Church, Franklin and Montgomery St. Speakers include Sam _ Strong, New Jersey organizer of the ILD., and Rey. C. H. Groce, pastor of the church, Longshoremen of Norfolk Prepare To Act under M.W.LU. Set Up Dock! Commit- tees; Ford To Speak on May First (Special to the Daily Worker) NORFOLK, Va., April 24—A mass meeting of three hundred coastwise lJongshoremen, representing seven docks, last night unanimously voted their willingness to take action for the demands of the Marine Workers Industrial Union. It was decided to call special dock meetings and elect action committees on each dock, to prepare for immediate action for the demands for higher wages and rec- dgnition. Three dock meetings are scheduled to take place tonight. The sentiment and spirit of the workers for action is good. The longshoremen voted to rush preparations for the May Day meeting, at which James W. Ford, prominent leader of the Negro work- ers, will be the principal speaker. Roy Hudson, national secretary of the Marine Workers Industrial Union and Wright of Baltimore, pledged the support of the Balti- more unemployed seamen in the action now being prepared by the Norfolk longshoremen, Lerroux Cabinet Likely to Resign MADIID, April 24—The cabinet of Alejandro Lerroux is expected to resign very soon, perhaps tonight, This regime, placed in power by the Spanish ruling class to break with a strong hand the growing revolutionary front of the workers and peasants, has failed in its task although it resorted to the most vicious methods of terrorism since ve overthrow of the monarchy in 931. General strikes which quickly took \\on a political character as the state \\declared them illegal, sent its mur- \derous special police force against hem, and employed the army for ab duty, are continuing in many Workers and Students Flooding Mayor Couzens With Protest OPPOSITION FLOPS Protest Meetings Being | Held All This Week DETROIT, April 24—The May Day Unity Committee which meets Wednesday night in the Finnish Hall will send another delegation to Mayor Couzens and Police Commis- sioner Heinrich Pickert on Thurs- day challenging their flimsy pre- text in denying Grand Circus Park! for the May day demonstration “because it is newly seeded up.” The committee will place before the mayor and police commissioner an alternative demand for Cadillac Square, where workers’ demonstra- tions were formerly held up to a few years ago. The Committee today sent a letter| to Couzens and Pickert asking a joint conference on this question. Evidence is already on hand that the police are attempting to prevent any publiicty with respect to the police ban on workers’ May Day demonstrations in this city. Police scout cars are being diverted from their regular work to pick up dis- tributors of May Day leaflets. Couzens Move for Counter Meet Flops Indignation among the workers against this arbitrary denial of their rights. of public assemblage and free speech is growing. Students of Ann Arbor yesterday sent a pro- test to the mayor. Protests are pouring in daily from various work- ers and sympathetic groups. Mayor Couzens planned for a counter meeting on May Day to detract from the United Front dem- onstration against Hunger, War and Fascism. General Johnson, N. R. A. dictator, was supposed to have been (Continued on Page 2) Police Jail Fifteen ¢. W. A. Pickets Mass Picket Line Broken by Police NEW YORK—Fifteen workers from the C.W.A. Railway Co-ordina- tion Project, part of a delegation of 50 workers who started to picket Col. DeLamater’s office at 111 Eighth Ave., were arrested yesterday when the police broke up the mass picket Tine. The workers demanded that they be paid their full wages of $21 a week at which they are listed, in- stead of the present wage rate of $17 a week. * . Win Relief for Negro Worker NEW YORK—The Women’s Coun- cil of the Bronx forced the Home Relief Bureau to grant relief to a Negro family which, although reg- istered for relief, had been put off by the H.R.B. for one year. The Women’s Council, of 951 Leg- gett Ave., Bronx, urges all working class women to join in their fight for cash relief to all unemployed. The council meets every Thursday evening. Protest Eviction The Harlem Italian Workers Cen- ter mobilized its membership to protest the eviction of Margaret Donaghey, wife of an unemployed veteran, and the mother of five JAMES W. FORD Negro Communist leader who wal eneek in Norfolk, Va., May United May Ist Demonstrations NEW York. — Union Square, 2:30 to 5 p.m., preceded by two | monster parades. Evening cele- bration at Madison Square Gar- den, 7:30 p.m. BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Capitol ane facing Jefferson County } jail, DETROIT, Mich.—Grand Cir- cus Park, CLEVELAND, Ohio. — Public Square at 4:30 p.m. CHICAGO, Ill—Grant Park. SOUTH CHICAGO.— At 90th and Greenbay Ave., 4 p.m. PATERSON, N, J.—Sandy Hill Park, at noon. ST. LOUIS, Mo—Old Court House, Broadway and Market, at 4 p.m. BOSTON, Mass.—Charles St. Mall, Boston Common at 12 o'clock. AKRON, Ohio—Perkins Square at 2 p.m. NORFOLK, Va.—At Cone Park Pavilion, East Princess Anne Road and Bolton St., at 8 p.m. SPRINGFIELD, Ill—Berger’s Park. (Continued on Page 2) Pittsbur oh, Kansas Jobless Storm Red Cross-Relief Office Demand Jobs or Relief To All Unemployed Workers PITTSBURGH, Kan., April 24.— Hundreds of unemployed stormed the Red Cross-Federal Relief Ad- ministration offices here Tuesday, brushed past the police guard, and demanded immediate jobs or cash relief to all unemployed workers. W. A. Beasley, Crawford County Commissioner, and former news- paper publisher, was knocked un- conscious when he attempted to hurl a tear gas bomb into the midst of the workers and families, Wheh the workers arrived at the building, spokesmen entered to con- fer with Beasley about the size of the delegation. He returned to the workers, and as the elected dele- gates followed him back into the building, Beasley hurled the tear gas. Pittsburgh, Kan., is an important. children, from her home at 160 E. 115th St. mining city and railroad terminal center. NEW YORK. — Workers’ organi- zations and industrial workers who have not yet placed their orders for the 24-page May Day edition must rush their orders by wire to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York City. In New York City, orders can be Placed at the District Daily Worker Office, 35 E. 12th St., or at the fol- lowing section headquarters: Manhattan: 96 Ave. C and 58 W. 25th St.; Harlem: 27 W. 115th St.; Lower Bronx: 699 Prospect Avenue; Upper Bronx: 2075 Clinton Ave. and Room 3, 685 Morris Park Avenue; Brooklyn: 132 Myrtle Ave.; South Brooklyn: 1280 56th St., Boro Park; of the country, 61 Graham Ave., Williamsburgh; 1813 Pitkin Ave, Brownsville; Jam- Orders for May Day Issue of Daily Worker Must Be Wired Detroit Meeting Tonight to Fight May Day Ban; Scottsboro Mothers to Lead N. Y. Parade N.Y. Werbun to Greet 5 Scottsboro Mothers Arriving Saturday PROTEST FRAME-UP Freedom of Boys To Be One of Central Slogans NEW YORK.—Five of the Scotts- boro Mothers will march at the head of the giant United Front May Day parade into Union Square next Tuesday. They will also be pres- ent at the evening celebration in Madison Square Garden. The five Scottsboro Mothers who will arrive in this city on Satur- day are coming up from the semi- feudal South to join in the protest of the tens of thousands of New York workers who will thunder their demands against Hunger, War, Fascism, wage cuts, unemployment, increasing attacks on their living standards and for the freedom of the 9 Scottsboro boys, Angelo Hern- don, Tom Mooney, Ernst Thael- mann, German Communist leader, and other class war prisoners in capitalist dungeons throughout the world. The mothers are: Mrs. Viola Montgomery, mother of Olen Mont- gomery; Mrs. Josephine Powell, mother of Ozie Powell; Mrs. Ida Norris, mother of Clarence Norris, Mrs. Janie Patterson, whose son Haywood Patterson has been three times sentenced to burn in the elec- tric chair by the Southern lynch courts. “Freedom of the Scottsboro boys” is one of the central slogans around which tens of thousands of work- ers are rallying. “Fight Against Lynching; Against Jim-Crowism and Segregation; Death Penalty to the Lynchers,” are other demands which will be carried by the march- ers. The Scottsboro Mothers will ar- rive from the South at 4:17 p.m. at Pennsylvania Station this Sat- urday. Thousands of white and Negro workers will greet them at the station. On “Mothers’ Day,” May 12, the five Negro mothers plan to arrive in Washington, D. C. They will demand of President Roosevelt that he immediately free their sons. Roosevelt Rushing Anti-Labor ‘Crime’ Bills Thru House Uses Dillinger Case to Spur Secret Police Bureau WASHINGTON, April 24—That the Roosevelt administration is using the Dillinger escape to press the Copeland so-called anti-crime bills was revealed today by the ac- tion of the House Judiciary Com- mittee which today approved two of these bills, These bills, alerady approved by the Senate, are ostensibly aimed at “crime.” Actually, they are aimed at the creation of a nation-wide secret service to be used against the militant fighters of the labor move- ment, Recent speeches by prominent reactionaries in support of the bills make clear that this is the real purpose of the Copeland measures. Roosevelt has issued a personal statement requesting the extension of large Federal police powers “against crime,” actually to be used against the revolutionary labor movement, Arrest 2 Workers in Chicago; Cops Try to Stifle Mass May Day (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) aica: 148-29 Liberty Ave.; Mineola, L, L.: 80 Main St.; Long Island City: 4206-27th St. Red Weekend April 28 and 29 will be Red Daily Worker Days throughout the coun- try. Every class conscious worker is called upon to volunteer his or her revolutionary service for spread- ing the May Day edition of the “Daily” on these two days. Sell the Daily Worker in your neighborhood, in your shop, in front of factory gates, at every intersec- tion where workers pass to and from work. Help .deliver a power- ful blow at the wage-cutting Roose- eae R. A. administration by spreading the May Day edition of the Daily Worker, a CHICAGO, April 24.—Charged Workers’ Unemployment and So- cial Insurance Bill (H.R. 7598), which is pending in the U. S. Congress, two workers are be- ing held for deportation by Fed- eral authorities. The workers, John Berg, 34, and Uno Paivio, 32, were ar- rested Saturday night, suppo- sedly on a charge of violating a city ordinance. The Interna- tional Labor Defense will de- mand their immediate release. Police are using every means to stifle the mass turnout of tens of thousands on May First in a march for which no permit has yet been granted. Workers outside the Fisher Body plant picketing on Monday morning, April 23. P.S. NO SCABS GOT IN THERE! | The day and | night shift are now both out, while the Automobile Labor Board is working to break the strike. Hartford Aero) Attificial Silk Strike Labor Board | Strike Is Solid; 1,000 in Meet 600 Arrow Strikers Mass Before Plant (Special to the Daily Worker) HARTFORD. Conn.,. April 24.— Over one thousand of the 1,500 Pratt-Whitney aircraft workers con- tinuing on strike, met last night to hear the report of the committee meeting with the boss. The continu- ance of the strike means the hold- ing up of orders for air mail and war planes. The bosses refused the workers’ demands. The A. F. of L. has a small group of polishers and machinists in the plant and the Communist Party warned the strikers that a group of A. F. of L. leaders may be used in trying to put over a sell-out. The A. F. of L. members are also on strike. The strike is led by the In- dustrial Aircraft Workers of America (independent) and the strikers are demanding increased wages and union recognition. 1,500 strikers of the Arrow, Hart and Hageman Electrical Co., ducted militant mass picketing in front of the plant, with over 600 on the line today. There are over 900 women in this strike and the women were active in the mass picketing. Trucks have been stopped by the militant picketing. The Arrow strik- ers are now meeting to hear the report of the strikers’ committee's meeting with the boss. The speech of Earl Browder, general secretary of the Commu- nist Party, last Friday, is still be- ing discussed on the picket lines, in the streets and elsewhere. “A great speaker .. . a real organizer ... the Communists are 0.K.” are the comments of the workers on Browder’s speech, ‘Yesterday Mayor Beach instructed over 100 police and plainclothesmen to break up an unemployed demon- stration at city hall, and refused to see the workers’ delegation. The police attack was brutal, many workers being clubbed. The Unem- ployment Councils are preparing a mass march on City Hall for relief. They pledge solidarity with the strikers, May Call Out 20,000 MARCUS HOOK, Pa.—Demand- ing a 20 per cent increase in wages, the workers in the Lewistown and | | Marcus Hook plants of the Viscose | Company, makers of artificial silk,| threaten to spread the strike to a five plants of the company unless their demands are met. | Should the strike spread to the} Meadville, Pa., Parkersburg, W. Va.,| and the Roanoke, Va., plants, 20,000 | workers involved would tie up more than one-half of the artificial silk | production in the country. Nazi Blast Is Broadeast in Washington Correspondents Given Fascist Propaganda Memorandum By SEYMOUR WALDMAN (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, April 24—In one of the boldest propaganda efforts made in the United States since the Axeman’s Swastika was em- broidered on the beak of the Prus- sian Eagle, Hitler forces here launched a barrage today which screams abuse and wild lies against the Jews, the French government, the Soviet Union, “Communism and Bolshevism,” the millions of work- ers who refused to swallow Herr Goering’s fairy tale about the Reichstag fire and nearly every- thing else that conflicts or appears to conflict with what is described as the “self-assertion of Germany.” ‘The latest Hitler publicity also emphasized the Nazi policy of bracketing their program with the Roosevelt New Deal. Berlin proudly and correctly infers fundamental similarities. Today's Hitler morsel is known as “Memorandum No. 5,” by Dr. Otto H. F. Vollbehr, Nazi propa- gandist operating out of Washing- ton, who was the recipient of $1,- 500,000 given him by Congressional Act in 1930 for his collection of about 3,000 books, including the famous Gutenberg Bible. The (Continued on Page 2) Acts Against Auto Strikes Continue Strike in § of Betrayals | DETROIT, Mich. April 24 —The | Automobile Labor Board has swung) into action in an effort to break the! strike of over 8,000 workers at the/| Fisher Body plant in Cleveland and} the walk-out of over 3,000 at the! St. Louis Fisher Body and Chev- rolet plants. These plants are all| General Motors units. The board held long conferences yesterday and today with General Motors officials and A. F. of L.| leaders in an effort to devise some scheme for sending the men back. } The Board, which in its short existence has revealed its strike- breaking role, also conferred yester- day with officials of three Toledo auto parts plants where workers} have been striking for the past two | weeks, and with A. F. of L. leaders,| headed by Thomas Tamsay, who} broke the Toledo auto parts strike in February. Three thousand Detroit tool and die makers and about 1,000 workers of the Michigan Stove Co. are con- tinuing the strike under the lead- ership of the Mechanical Educa- tional Society of America despite the fact that the ranks have been split and demoralized by the tactics} of Matthew Smith, General Secre- tary of the organization. The mili- tancy of the strikers was demon- strated by the splendid picket line at the Michigan Stove Co. yester- day, despite armed gangsters hired by the company and protected by the notorious strikebreaker, Police Commissioner Pickert. The criminal character of Smith’s tactics was revealed in a statement in an article in the current issue of} “Automotive Industries,” manufac-| turers trade organ: “A virtual col- lapse of the tool and die strike is| foreseen in the failure of the M. E. S. A. to vote on the question of calling a walk-out affecting all piants in the Detroit area.’ A general strike and the spread- ing of the walk-out to production workers was demanded at the very beginning by militants in the M. E. S.A, Fisher Men Halt Secabs In St. Louis, Cleveland Alabama Ore Miners and Steel Workers Threaten Strike BRASS MEN OUT Auto Parts Strikes Are Spreading BULLETIN TARRYTOWN, N. Y. April 24.—Seven thousana Fisher Body workers voted to walk out on strike here | this afternoon, demanding higher wages, it was re- ported to the Daily Worker By PAT TOOHEY (Special to the Daily Worker) BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April —The 21,000 striking miners of Alabama rem on strike today, Pres. Roosevelt’ return to \ rejecting roposal th: of 8,000 iron ore mi The ore miners ing recognition of tt Jnion of Mine, Vorkets (A. F. of L.). Three ore mines of the Ten- nessee Coal and Iron Co., and the Raimund ore mine of the Repub- lic Steel Co., voted to strike unless their demands are granted. The | steel workers of the Thomas Blast Furnace of the Republic Steel Co. met today and put 18 demands before the company, threatening strike. The coal operators are trying use the tonnage rate of pay t the increase in wages conceded them cut down to 10 per cent. The Roosevelt decision maintains the wage differential, the lower wage scale, for the South. The deciston of the N. R. A., setting a wage scale of $3.80 a day, is $1 below the scale for the coal fields of the North. Yesterday deputies and thugs prevented a march of strikers on the Overton Mine of the Alabama Fuel and Iron Co., 12 miles from Birmingham. This was after the N. R. A. order came through or- dering the miners back to work, Picketing forces have been in- creased everywhere. The National Guard is still on duty. The slogans of the Communist Party are taking effect and the sen- timent of the miners is against ac- cepting lower wages for the South. Robert Gregg, president of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Co., spoke to the T. C. I. strikers and de- nounced the Communist Party. The T. C. I. put 84 extra deputies in on duty, fearing a steel strike. Four successful united front May Day conferences were held last Sunday. A large turn-out of coal and ore miners and steel workers is expected, to hear Clarence Hath- away, editor of the Daily Worker, speak at the May First meeting. (Special to the Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 24— Massing around the Fisher Body te (Continued on Page 2) How Liebknecht Defied the Kaiser on May Ist, 1916 In the very shadow of the thun- dering cannon of German im- perialism, Karl Liebknecht, heroic leader of the German workers delivered a stirring speech in Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, on May First, 1916. For calling on the in- ternational proletariat to unite against the imperialists, he was sentenced by a military court, on August 23, 1916, to four years and one month in prison. His famous May Day speech follows—Editor. Comrades! May First appears for the second time above the bloody sea of mass butchery. For the second time, the day of worldwide demonstration by labor finds the proletarian inter- national smashed into fragments, while the battle corps of Socialism, the emancipator of the nations, are killing one another off, serving without resistance as the cannon- fodder of imperialism. The Socialist International has now lain prostrate for two years. And what have the workers of all) countries, what have the pecple gained? Millions of men have al- ready given up their lives at the cgmupand of the bourgeoisie, Mi- ® lions have been made into helpless | cripples. Millions of women have | been widowed and their children | orphaned, to millions of women there has come unquenchable grief and suffering. Not enough! Misery and deprivation, famine and star- vation, rule throughout Germany, France and Russia. Belgium how- ever, and Poland and Serbia, whose blood and marrow have been sucked out by the vampire of German militarism are like vast cemeteries and heaps of ruins. The whole world, the vaunted civilization of Europe is being destroyed by the unleashed anarchy of the World War. Capitalists Profit And for whose benefit, for what pul are all these terrors and bestialities? So that the Prussian junkers, and the capitalist profit- takers who are joined with them, can fill their profits by the sub- jection and exploitation of new lands. So that the intriguers of heavy industry, the exploiters of the jarmy, can take a harvest of gold | from the bloody fisl¢ corpses. So that food speculators can fatten themselves at the cost of the starv- ing people. So that militarism, monarchy, the blackest reaction in Germany, can attain a power greater than ever before, an abso- lute mastery. The working-class lets itself be driven to the slaughter like a herd} of sheep, in order to make its worst; enemies strong and arrogant . . . Workers! Party comrades! You women of the people! How long will you look on quietly and unperturbed at this phantom of hell? How long will you endure the crime of mass butchery, deprivation and hunger? Think! As long as the people do not stir, to make their will known, the murder of the masses will not cease... . The rich can “hold out” for a long time yet. . . .. But we, the working people of all countries, do we want to go on forging stronger chains for ourselves with our own hands? Workers! Party comrades! Enough of fratricide! The first of May comes i in your 3 ssience, The betrayals of Socialism, of the inter- plunged the nations into the destruc- tion of the World War. . . . Prove to the ruling classes that the Inter- national, that Socialism is not dead, that it rises with new strength like a phoenix from the ashes! . . . For Solidarity of all Wor! On the First of May we stretch a hand of brotherhood across all boundaries and battlefields, to the people of France, of Belgium, of Russia, of England, of Serbia, of the whole world! On the first of May we cry out, with the voice of many thousands: Away with the infamous crime of mass murder! Down with those who are responsible for its making, with the inciters and_the profiteers! Not the French and Rus- sian people are our enemies, but the German junkers, the German capitalists, and their business execu- tive, the German government. Rise | to the struggle against these deadly enemies of every freedom, to fighi for everything that means the well- being and the future of the workers of mankind, and of civilization! An end to the war! We wani peace! Long live Socialism! Long live thr Workers’ International! So that the money-j rs can do @ usurious business in was deans. national Solidarity of the workers, Proletarians of all lands, unite {