The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 2, 1934, Page 1

| i — SS CIRCULATION DRIVE NEW SUBS RECEIVED YESTERDAY Daily .. 69 Total to Date .3,813 » Saturday...... 9 Total ........-2,673 Vol. XI, No. 105 > 6 Entered as second-class mat Daily QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) ter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1934 WEATHER: Fair. AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents MILLIONS MARCH IN WORLD'S MIGHTIEST MAY DAY; Nazis Burn Big Hall In Frame-up, Terror TInt] May Day Turn-out! Largest World Has Ever Seen GUNFIRE IN CUBA | Japan, Spain, France| See Workers’ Will | To Struggle | BULLETIN HAVANA, May 1—One worker was killed here, when soldiers on a roof fired at one section of the | May Day demonstration. Seven | othars were wounded. One po- | liceman received a bullet wound. The demonstration was under | the leadership of the Communist | Party. Communist Party leaders declare that Wall Street-financed members of the A.B.C., a reac- tionary organizations, together with soldiers, opened fire on the orderly and peaceful parade. VIENNA, May 1.—The Dollfuss government’s official May Day eclebrations were a failure, being poorly attended throughout. De- spite the raids by the Heimwehr and police on Communist head- | quarters, and on homes of So- cial democratic workers, dem- onstrations were held by the Aus- trian workers. One of the out- standing ones was that in Wagna forest, which defied the ban of the fascist government. wee By HARRY GANNES Faced with the growing| danger of war and fascism, | the international revolution-| ary working class yesterday massed its forces in the mightiest working-class demonstra- tions the world has even seen. In the countries where the fas-| cist grip is the bloodiest, Germany, | Austria, Japan, Cuba, despite the) most formidable array of armed) forces and terror, the Communist | Party mobilized revolutionary ac-| tions of the working class to express | their international solidarity. In every demonstration through- out the world the slogan, “Free Our Comrade Thaelmann,” rang from the throats of millions of workers. The fascist bloodhounds of the Hitler regime was forced to resort to another criminal incendiary act, | in an effort to prevent a Commu- nist demonstration in Augsburg,) and to open the way for a more} ferocious campaign of terror. Another Reichstag Fire Provocation In the manner in which the Nazi May Ist Radio Commission Bans Anti-Nazi Program on WBNX NEW YORK, May 1. — Two anti-Nazi programs have been denied the air by Station WBNX. Theodore Nathan, director of the programs, disclosed a letter yesterday from Edward Ervin, production manager of the sta- tion, informing him that the suppresssion of the programs was “due to specific instructions from the Federal Radio Com- mission.” All Moseow ® As Mighty March Began es ag WAT, Celebrates -May First | Stalin aa Dimitroff Review Marching Legions By VERN SMITH Daily Worker Moscow Correspendent MOSCOW, May 1 (By |Radio). — Veterans of the} ‘class struggle on hundreds of | \fronts — George Dimitroff,| Uptown contingent of paraders, with the ban- ner of the Communist Party held aloft, beginning the greatest May Day march in the history of the United States. demonstration Worker Tomorrow). J (More pictures of the parade and will be published in the Daily One ‘Killed When Armed Thugs Fire On Strikers at Latrobe Steel Mill | 4000 Dock Men Strike in Houston; Tron Workers Out On Sympathy Strike With Steel Mill Men LATROBE, Pa., May 1— La. Docker Is Shot Armed strikebreakers, clad in khaki uniforms, opened fire 308 Austrian barricade fight- National Guardsmen! from inside the gates of the jers in the uniform of the Schutz- | Out in Missouri Coal Strike bund, workers from the capitalist | nations of the world—revolutionary | leaders of the world proletariat— ee the marching millions ot workers and Red Army men at! poUSTON, Tex. Moscow today. Y | thousand longshoremen struck at Already at mid-afternoon, hun-|midnight yesterday, paralyzing dreds of thousands had passed} Texas shipping ports, The strike through Red Square. On the tribune | affects Houston, Galveston, Corpus were Dimitroff and his- mother, | Christi, Texas City and Sabine, dis- Maxim Gorki, Stalin, Kalinin, and trict ports. The workers demand other leaders of the revolutionary | that the Sabine district ports be in- workers and their Communist | cluded in a new wage contract and Party. demand an increase from 70 cents In the special front row section | to 85 cents an hour for dock hands. near Lenin’s tomb, were numerous | Miyata ae beciaty eles enes and the 308| Worker Shot at Strike Rally ustrian § barricade fighters in| LAKE CHARLES, La. May 1—A Schutzbund uniform. As the massed | worker was shot en ie workers passed the reviewing stand, wounded today when fifteen shots oe fae cheers greeted the| were fired into a meeting of 300 a ustrian fighters. The Aus-| gathered to discuss the longshore- lan Schutzbunders answered with| men's strike at the Texas and the Red Front: salute. Sabine district ports. Greatest of All Celebrations mae The May Day celebration this | Mobilize National Guard year was unsurpassed in color, en-| LAMAR, Mo., May 1—Four bat- thusiasm and exhuberance of the i ries of National Gu: . workers. Hundreds of thousands fe the limit, were edi uans lia assembled at the factories and today, ready to suppress the planned * May 1.—¥Four; scum set fire to the Reichstag, on May First they ignited the great Singer Hall at Augsburg in five ‘other centers early in the morning i i march of deep pit coal miners from and began the march through the | Kansas, The troops were mobilized |streets and to the Red Squa Vitality: “and “overflowing 40 til late yesterday upon the news that places and burned it to the ground. A United Press dispatch from Berlin, carefully censored by the Nazis in order to soft-pedal the real forces of the tremendous May Day activity of the Communist Party of Germany, declared: “Secret police raids throughout the country in anticipation of May Day had seized quantities of Communist propaganda, and it was known that Communists, though hunted and subjected to summary punishment for their views, were active underground in many places.” Especially in Augsburg, where tens of thousands of leaflets and pamphlets were distributed by the Communist Party for May Day, the Nazi executioners feared an open May Day demonstration by the rev- olutionary working class, and again resorted. to a criminal incendiary deed in order to inaugurate more vicious terror and to concentrate all of their fury against the Commu- nists. In Havana, the Mendieta Wall Street-supported government, un- able to prevent the May Day dem- onstration, the largest Havana has ever seen, on the night of April 30 declared that May Day would be a legal holiday. When 25,000 work- ers at one point massed in the streets of Havana, the Roosevelt- financed Mendieta troops and po- lice fired at the demonstration and ‘wounded eight workers. Two police were shot. Several of the workers at the time of going to press are reported dying. Latest reports from Havana de- clared that 200,000 workers were expected to be in the demonstra- tion under the leadership of the Communist Party of Cuba, and the revolutionary National Confedera- tion of Labor of Cuba. Cables from Paris on the demon- (Continued on Page 6) spirit were manifested throughout the city, as the workers on their march held impromptu demon- strations, pausing frequently on the way to the Square, dancing and Singing as the throngs hiked the streets. Truckloads of actors pre- sented plays enroute, and other (Continued on Page 6) the miners intended to bring about the closing of two strip mines near Minden, Mo. we ee 2,000 Strike in Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, May 1, — De- manding an increase in wages from $1 to $1.37 and a half an hour and a shorter work day, 2,000 carpenters, most of them employed on Govern- ment buildings, went on strike today. Latrobe Electric Steel Com- Buffalo Seamen Refuse Forced | Labor Relief Plan Demand Rank and File Control; In May Ist March pany, where 600 workers are on) strike. One bystander, Paul Me-| halic, 17, was dead from bullet) wounds. Incensed at the attack, all) the workers of the Vulcan Mould) and Iron Co. joined the Latrobe! strikers in a sympathy strike, com- Bache ace ae nes, ce pletely closing down the Vulcan called by the Emergency Relief Ad- plant. | ministration, refused the proposed The murderers, dressed in khaki) forced labor “work relief” plan, and uniforms, were imported by the| endorsed the proposals for cash steel company from Fayette County | payment for all work, made by the to break the strike. pater Workers’ Industrial Union. Sheriff Humes, who refused to! ‘The meeting called © reli swear the thugs in as deputies, caid | aqminicnetine (ue taken ave te that the shot which killed the! the rank and file seamen, and rec- young worker was one of several! ocnition of the elected rank and file fired from inside the factory gates.| committees forced the calling of an- Many other strikers and sympa-| other meeting for Thursday to def- thizers were injured by bricks and initely establish committees. iron bolts hurled from inside the| He entire assembled group of Ls seamen endorsed the May Day call, and several hundred seamen marched today. News F lash CHICAGO, Ill, May 1.—Thou- (Special to the Daily Worker) 10,000 Massachusetts Leather Work- ers Out In General Strike PEABODY, Mass., May 1.—De- manding a 25 per cent wage in- crease after having won their fight’ for a closed shop, 10,000 leather} workers began a general strike to- | day, closing some 30 factories in| five cities, and crippling the entire | industry in Massachusetts. Tan- meries in Peabody, Lynn, Salem, Danvers and Woburn were shut down by the walkout. The strike affects new buildings for the Post Office Dept., the Dept. of Labor, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Dept. of Justice and the Archives Building. sands of workers are now massing in Union Square for the United Front May Day demonstration. New masses of workers are constantly pouring in both as individuals and in marching columns. Hundreds of banners and red flags are flying, representing revolutionary organi- zations, as well as A. F. of L. locals and locals of the Chicago Workers Committee on Unemployment. 300,000 N.Y. WORKERS IN HUGE DEMONSTRATIONS , United Front Parade of - 100,000 Largest May Ist _ Mareh Only Red at S.P Spea Stand is in | MANY GOTO SQUARE Renegades Make United Front with Reformists | U.S, Flag ROLFE NEW YORK.—Before the largest red - white-and - blue bedecked grandstand of the Socialist. Party on the East Side of Madison Square, people milled about, arguing, r: ing their voices occasionally. Madi- |son Square was calm. It was noon. and although the police had thrown a cordon around Union Square just six blocks south, where the revolu- tionary workers were to pass in re- view, they were more considerate toward the S. P. leaders. They al- lowed access to everybod | Despite this, however, never at| any time during the day did Madison Square look more than a third filled. Union Square, however, was surrounded by workers lining the} surrounding strects and sidewalks ten deep up to the time when the} police broke up their blockade. Then they surged on to the Square, } in steady never-ceasing streamis.| | Late in the afternoon thousands of} other workers, aside from the thou-| sands who entered the Square with the regular battalions of marchers, surged into the historic square, a square which for almost fifty years; has witnessed thé vast outpourings of New York workers on this, our international day of celebration. One worker standing near the S. P. grandstand patiently explained} to a group of companions: “Yeah, most of the people here, they are here everyday. They eat lunch from the Metropolitan Life Insurance, then they hang around the square for a half hours But! tomorrow, wait you see, the Social- ists will come out with a statement that there was—oh, a half a’million people here!” He ended with an expressive shake of his head and shrug of his shoulders and a some- what more expressive but inex-) perienced epithlet meaning, in more! polite parlance, “boloney!” As he walked away, another er approached your reporter. many ya figure they got here?” asked, and, without waiting for a reply, went on: “Not much now, maybe they'll have twenty to thirty thousand before the afternoon’s over.” | “That's not so much,” we said. “It’s lousy,” he said. “But” and his face brightened, you oughta see Union Square. The cops aint lettin’ anyone in yet, but the place is jammed already! Gee, they oughta half at least a hunerd thousand down there!” “I’m only waitin’ around here for) a while,” he explained in answer to a question. “Wanna see what they try to pull off hére. Then I’m headed for Union Square.” “With the reds?” “Yeah,” he replied. “You bet your By ED (Continued on Page 2) | 8-hour | May Day parade today. Th ©/towns joined the Pittsburgh dem- | Ever Held in U.S. Scottsboro Mothers Get Tremendous Ovation from Throng CHEER ELLA BLOOR Pa- Thousands Wait for rade at Square By CARL REEVE NEW YORK. — Two hun- dred thousand worl massed in Union Square, yes+ terday pledged their working class solidarity in the great- LUCY PARSONS Widew of Alfred Parsons hanged by boss-class justice the famous Haymarket riois in 1888. May Day was declared an inter- national labor holiday after this | movement. Mrs. Parsons spoke yesterday at the great Chi- cago May Day demonstration. | ly four miles hours to pass . one hundred jer a sea of red ith numer- ed from across h St.. arriving in Union Square at two o’cleck. i workers lined the sidewalks over the 7 of march thousand U.S. Workers in ce t! by en army of police, before the paraders began to al May 1 Parades “Red Front!” | With clenched fists upraised, two hundred thousand men women and ildren, white and Negro, repeated after Carl Brodsky, chairmen of the Union Square meeting, the Red May Day Oath of working class arity, ; “Long live the united fr of the workers,” came the tumultuous roar from two hundred thousand throats, “Against the United front of the bosses and their agents, Class Against Class Red Front.” “Anna Schultz Speaks Thousands upon thousands of workers, unable to get into the -—— square because of the tremendous (Special to the Daily Worker) |throngs, listened to the speecRes PITTSBURGH, May 1—Eightjand slogans carried through the thousand workers from unions, un-/| microphones. A high point of the employed councils, veterans’,;meeting was when Anna Schultz, women’s and children’s organiza-| representative of the Central Com- tions marched thrcugh the Hill} mittee of the German Communist district down Fifth Ave., through; Party, gave greetings see the the South Side, converging on West | heroic German Communist Pari Park on the North Side, in a giant} declared that today in fascist Ger- parade | many, the illegal German Commu- {nist Party is leading May bra Bi \ a ey base ions fi surrounding |onstrations in spite 0 itler’s ke aay eae eee butchers. Comrade Schultz called |for a world wide fight of the work- onstrations in the morning. Thou- | ¢'S pelea aie and against im- sands of “Daily Workers” were sold|Perialist war. to eager workers along the line of} Greatest in U. S., Says Bloor March. | “This is the Lbgoaatts ia ae The parade was led by a con-|demonstration ever carried out by tingent of war veterans, and carried |the workers of the United States, slogans for payment of the soldiers’ | said Mother Ella Reeve Bloor, as bonus by May 10, for enactment of | the baie pay ie eae ed ae the Workers’ Unemployment andj 72-year-ol leader of many cla: Social Insurance Bill (H. R. 7593), | battles. “I have just received a tele- for a six-hour day and five-day | stam that the ee aN west, ret vi juction i ay, | ebraska and other states, are Enee Pariah ane Wan iend Lendl eter today in the villages. We the freedom of Thaelmann and pledge today we will not forget the other an‘i-fascist fighters, the | Scottsboro Boys, we will not. forget Scottsboro boys. Tom Mooney. |the heroic leader of the German Speakers at the West Park dem-/ Workers, Ernst Thaelmann and the onstration included E. P. Cush,/thousands of Communists who are {fighting against fascism in foreign lands. We pledge that we will Te= main true to these fighters under 8,000 Out in Pit burgh; 2,000 March in Paterson TERRORIN MISSOUR Chicago, Cleveland Re-, port Workers Assembling tied up traffic for two ho’ onstrations after their local dem- (Continued on Page 2) The Marching Thousands NEW YORK FLARES RED AS WORKERS POUR INTO THE co By SENDER GARLIN NEW YORK.—It was like a red tidal wave, this great May Day parade yesterday. They marched and march- ed, the lines swelling as work- ers, Negro and white, poured from the flats and fire-trap tenements of the city to join in the giant dem- onstration—the greatest May Day demonstration in the city of New York. They answered the call to “Down Tools” and all morning and after- noon these tens of thousands surged over Lower Manhattan and pressed against the powerful police lines of the LaGuardia fake “liberal” admin- istration. a The capitalist press—truly called the “reptile press’—whined and screamed; it carried threats, some implicit and some direct; it printed seare-heads telling how many guns and clubs the police had. They sought to frighten the workers away from the demonstration. Fling the Words, “May Day Is OUR Day!” STREETS IN GREATEST MAY FIRST IN CITY’S HISTORY the banner of the Communist In- j ternational, and carry on the fight until the day when we free the workers and farmers of this coun- try and establish a Soviet of the United States.” Mother Bloor re= ceived a rousing ovation. “Hundreds of thousands of work- ers and farmers are demonstrating | poured out into the streets. “Into the Streets on May Day” was a liv- ing, vibrant call to them. May Day was OUR DAY, and we took not only Union Square, but the proletarian hearts of the tens of thousands of working men and women—many of whom for the first time—raised up- lifted fists as they sang the ever- stirring “Internationale.” The parade began from the south- ermost tip of Manhattan Island, the richest island in the world and of the most horrible poverty. From the Ferry House to the Aquarium, where the unemployed seamen “are on the beach,” eyes were dazzled by the bright, myriad colors as the march- ers, wearing red caps, belts, blouses, ties or hats, held their banners and placards aloft as they waited for the parade to commence. COPS GET THICK Lower Broadway, too, the sinister center of capitalism, was a mass of color, mostly red, which predomi- nated in the marchers’ attire. Up Broadway they came, and the deep canyons lined by the towering office “Our Day!” But the workers came out, they buildings seemed to have been taken over by the marchers, Office workers, less diffident than others, threw confetti and paper-bits down at the demonstrators. “I don’t agree with their ideas,” one pallid clerk on the sidewalk told me, “but T like their grit.” Traffic was halted further up Broadway, and cops, mounted and on foot, became thicker. Up Broad- way the marchers went, to Houston, Varick and Greenwich Sts., up 8th Ave. to 38th St., in the heart of the garment center — scene of many a stormy strike struggle — and then east to Fourth Ave. and south into Union Square. Fire and Militancy There were mighty numbers in that parade. And there was a fight- ing spirit—fire and militancy. And color! . They marched with a steady, de- termined, defiant step. It was May Day, and into the streets they went. You saw the rolling gait of the marine workers of the Marine Work- ers Industrial Union, which has been winning victory after victory from the ship owners, The metal work- ers, the food workers; gay, youthful contingents of the Young Commu- | nist League, the future leaders of the American proletariat; the wo- | men of the United Council of Work- ingclass Women; hundreds and more hundreds of college and high school students with their National Student League pennants. Your heart skipped a beat as the veterans came: the members of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, wearing their service hats, and carrying placards demanding the immediate payment of the bonus. Directly behind them the comely nurses of the Medical Workers League. “Join Our Ranks!” A scene at Sheridan Square: the parade is passing St. Vincent's Hospital, and the doctors and in- ternes have come out onto the streets in their white uniforms to see the marchers. A nurse dressed nattily in white, and wearing a perky blue hat, shouts out toward |the doctors: “Join our ranks! We're working 12 hours a day in the city thospitals for practically nothing! Help us in our fight!” How will the capitalist press laugh this off, I wondered. Here comes the contingent from the Irish Workers Clubs, dressed in green | . They carry a placard: | “Down with O'Duffy's Fascist Blu shirts! Down with British Imperi- | alism!” | More hundreds follow, the young | fighters from the countless work- | ers’ clubs and cultural organizations | throughout the city. And many of them, like the Prosvect Workers | Club, with their own bands. Chinzse Werkers March The Lithuanian workers are rep- | resented in a body; the Polish) workers march too. The little band of the Lithuanian workers plays | the “International” on accordions. | Their music sounds somewhat quaint, but the words on their placards are familiar and native: | AGAINST THE SLAVERY OF THE N. R. A! FREE THE SCOTTS- BORO BOYS! The Chinese workers march, | carrying placards and shouting slogans, and on the sidelines a Chi- | nese proletarian gir] sells the “Van- | |guard,” the paper of the Chinese Communists in America. | | The Chilean Workers contingent | legend, |yellow dragon today throughout the United States against hunger, fascism and war,” (said Harry Haywood, representing the Central Committee of the Com- munist Party of the U.S.A. “We are demonstrating today for the revolu- tionary way out of the crisis which for four years has plunged masses into ever deeper misery and starva- tion.” Haywood declared that the thousands of Negro workers partici- pating in the May Day demonstza- tion was but one indication of the growing unity of Negro and white workers now being achieved in the United States.” In the “Soviet Union today,” he declared, “the millions of toilers are celebrating the building of socialism over one sixth of the earth’s surface, the es= tablishment of the workers’ dictae torship and the victory of the worke ing class over their oppressors. Here in the United States the workers and farmers are seeing more clearly that the Roosevelt government, the NRA, is a government of Wall Street, of war and fascism. Under the leadership of the Communist Party and the Communist Interna- is in the line of march and so is the Tampa Workers Club, the latter demanding the release of all class war prisoners and shouting “Hands off Cuba!” Biting Placards “Free the Scottsboro Boys!” is inscribed on hundreds of banners, and how stirring this giant demon- stration must have been to the five Scottsboro mothers as they ride past, with that brave, white girl, Ruby Bates, sitting at their side. Never before were so many im- aginative and bitingly satirical placards and caricatures seen at a May Day demonstration. Here is) the N. R. A. represented by a dour Blue Eagle defacating in the tall silk hat of the capitalist, with the “The N. R. A. Stinks.” Here are ten marchers carrying a marked fascism. Later you see the members of the| Tampa Workers’ Club carrying a black coffin marked fascism. They marched and marched.) Hundreds of thousands of workers ‘ (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 2)