The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 10, 1934, Page 1

Rally Against Nazi NO MATTER HOW SMALL! Order a Daily Worker Bundle for Sale To Those You Know Vol. XI, No. 112 > * Terror In Yorkville Tonight at Daily, <QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879 EGRO ORE STRIKERS KILLED ON ALA. PICKET LINES NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1934. 2N Vets Clash With Police To Wash Cleveland Men Board Train; Win Release After Arrest 2,000 ARRIVE Full R ank.& nd File Control of Camp, Registration (Daily Werker Washington Bureau) CLEVELAND, May 9.— After a fight with city police, hundreds of vets in the Cleve- land contingent going to Washington for the National Convention on May 10, board- ed a train of the Pennsyl- vania Railroad going to Youngs- town. A special mobilization of Erie R.R. police seized the group at Youngs- town for arrest. The militancy of the men forced their release, as well as transportation to the State line. The men are now marching on to Washington, via Pittsburgh. ees TENTS UP IN CAPITAL WASHINGTON, May 9.— Tents were set up today, nearly in the shadow of the Capitol Dome, in pre- paration for tomtrrow's first” regis- j trations of the Veterans National Rank and File convention delegates, close to 2.000 of whom have already arrived. The convention, which will meet on May 16 or 17 in Fort Hunt, Va., will act on the veterans’ three- point program—it includes payment. of the bonus—and the Workers Un- employment and Social Insurance Bill (HR, 7598). Twenty-seven Negro and white Pittsburgh veterans, led by Fred Carreno, arrived here this morning. Fifty more are expected by freight. They announced that they distrib- uted 3,000 copies of their own news- paper, “Us Veterans,” along the Toad. C. B. Cowan, of Cleveland, Ohio, is expected tonight or early tomor- row morning. Though Louis Howe, political ad- visor and secretary to President Roosevelt, and a special rank and file committee drew up a joint statement upon the completion of the arrangements for the veterans camp, the Administration backed down and referred the matter to the Federal Relief officials. Thereupon the Relief Officials pre- sented a statement to the committee “which included a clause declaring that this is the last time the Ad- ministration will promise care and maintenance for such meetings. The Veterans Committee, which consisted of James J. Beatty, George Alman, the well-known bonuseer, who led the 1932 Port- land, Oregon contingent, and Harold Hickerson, secretary-treas- urer of the National Rank and File Committee, refused to sign this statement. They declared that the future prohibition does not come within the province of the discussions and that “when we come to that bridge we'll cross it.” Hickerson’s subsequent announce- ment that “no understanding was reached” contradicted printed re- ports of an agreement between the veterans and the Hopkins staff. “Other conventions have elected committees but we have actually succeeded in placing the complete control and management of the camp in the hands of the veterans themselves,” Hickerson told the Daily Worker. The registration will start at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning at Con- sas Avenue and John Marshall ace. Open Most Northerly Hydro-Electric Station (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, May 9 (By Radio).— In the extreme north Leningrad re- gion, beyond the arctic circle, the construction of the most northerly hydroelectric station in the world has been completed and operation has begun at Nivgres. The test of the station and of the 74 kilometer transmission line to the Hibinigorsk industrial dis- trict gave excellent results. The Station was constructed in record time—a year and a half. In sending ir new subs to the “Daily” please write the name and address of the new sub- seriber clearly, on Way ington OBE Se ah ‘Workers Have Blood In Their Eyes,’ Says Birmingham Worker (By a Worker Correspondent) ENSLEY, Ala.—I just want to inform you of a little of what is going on in Birmingham. Yesterday about 6,000 or 8,000 ore miners, members of the In- ternational Union walked out on strike in support of their de- mands; for recognition of the union; higher wages and shorter hours and so now the steel plant is expecting to come out Mon- day. The company has carried beds and carts in the plant for the scabs to stay in and work when the strike breaks out. I tell you the truth. The work- ers has got blood in the eyes. All they need is the Communist Party to continue to push them on, so this is all. I will let you know the early part of next week how. the plant turns out. | | 3000 Cheer NY ‘Vets Leaving For Capital | LaGuardia Refuses Vets Permit to March in City | NEW YORK.—More than 3,000 veterans and hundreds of workers | meeting at Union Sq., gave a con- | tingent of 150 vets a rousing send- | off yesterday afternoon as they boarded buses for the great gather- ing now mobilizing at Washington for the bonus fight and the Na- | tional Convention. Many of the vets wore medals awarded during the 1917 imperialist war. A distinctive feature of the dele- gation and the meeting was the | large number of Negro veterans with whom the white vets were meeting in solidarity in the fight against the Jnm-Crow policies of the Roose- velt government toward the Negro vets. Workers and sympathizers dis- tributed cartons of cigarettes to the vets. Hundreds of copies of the Daily Worker, which featured the meet- (Continued on Page 2) Japanese Militarists BombardPeasantRebels, Slaughter Over 20,000 (Special to the Daily Worker) SHANGHAI, May 9 (By radio) — Newsparers here report the cruel vengeance of the Japanese invaders against the peasant rebels in the basin of the Sungari River in Man- churia. According to the Central News Agency, the Japanese puni- tive expedition sent to the district a bombardment killed over 20,000 peasants. with artillery and airplanes during | 10,000 remaining out solid. Textile The mighty picket line of 10,000 textile workers of the Amoskeag Mills in Manchester, shire, who resisted the strike-breaking attempts of the United Textile Workers (A.F.L.) heads and are Workers on Picket Line i New Hamp- Letter Says | Thaelmann Is Tortured Smuggled Report from Jail Says His Life Is in Danger (Special to the Daily Worker) PARIS, May 9.—‘“Ernst Thael- }mann, leader of the Communist Party of Germany, is again being subjected to torture and the third- | degree in the torture cellars of the | Nazi Gestapo (Secret State Police),” @ report smuggled out of Moabit | prison just received here states. “This means a renewed and greater danger to the life of our Comrade Thaelmann,” says the let- ter sent out of prison. The prison comrades of Thaelmann plead with the workers throughout the world to do everything possible to demand that outside doctors be permitted to visit Thaelmann and to examine him, in an effort to save his life, as they fear he will be tortured to death, and has already been badly injured. Workers in France, Belgium and Switzerland are organizing medical delegations to go to Berlin and to demand the right to visit and make a medical examination of Comrade Thaelmann. Since the letter telling of the great danger to the life of Comrade Thaelmann was smuggled to the outside world, the chief Nazi hang- men, Goering and Goebbels, have issued direct threats against Thael- mann in their efforts to crush the rising activities of the Communist Party of Germany. Only the most immediate world- wide action gan save the life of our heroic anti-fascist fighter, Ernst Thaelman. No time can be lost! Protests should be made | everywhere! All workers’ organi- | zations should adopt messages of protest and wire them to Hitler, Goering or Goebbels, demanding the release of Thaelmann. Ger- man Consulates should be visited by workers’ delegations demand- ing the freedom of Thaelmann, demanding the right of doctors from other countries to visit and examine Th2clmann. Save the life of Comrade Thael- mann! Debit Records By HARRY [EN Boris GANNES Bakhmetieff arrived in the United States in June, 1917, to act jointly for the Czarist coun- ter-revolution, for the Ker- ensky. Provisional Govern- ment, and later for Koltchak, the American munitions manufac- turers felt gleeful. Here waS a man after their own kidney. J. P. Mor- gan and Co. took to him readily, as they were anxious to renew war transactions which they had handled for the Czar, the total of which in 1916 alone amounted to $470,508,254. The mission which accompanied the Kerensky ambassador Bakhme- tieff was welcomed in Congress as Supported by “all classes in Russia,” except a2 “comparatively small group of extremists and internationalists.” Bakhmetieff and his financial attache, Serge Ughet, assured all the, Bakhmetieff Burned Kerensky to Hide Graft State Department Ordered Payments to Czarist Agents for Counter-Revolutionary Battles bankers holding Czarist bonds (to Russian people would be bled fur- (ther to pay for the money the Russian ruling class had used to Slaughter more than 2,000,000 work- ers and peasants in the war for plunder. Bakhmetieff started off on a grand scale. Out of the $187,729,- 750 loaned to the Kerensky agents in the United States up to the time of the establishment of So- viet power, all members of the em- bassy staff were paid at least $1,000 a month each. When the Kerensky government was no more, the salaries were still being paid to Czarist agents out of money now charged against the Soviet Union by the Roosevelt government. Not satisfied with the sums on; hand, Bakhmetieff and Ughet be-) gan to dispose of property in the United States that belonged to the’ (Continued on Page 6) the tune of $100,000,000) that the; LAS VEGAS, Nevada, May 9. | —Fifteen hundred | Boulder Dam, government Colo- rado River Project, decided to strike Thursday morning, de- laborers at | reported. ‘Committee | Seans Nazi | Propaganda Present Hitler Paper As Evidence (Daily Worker Washington Burean) |sentative John W. McCormack, Democrat of Massachusetts, chair- man of the “Special Committee to Investigate Un-American Activi- to succeed the Dickstein Nazi Propa- ganda Investigating Committee, told the Daily Worker correspondent to- day that “the American Tlustrated News,” the latest Hitler official prop- aganda to reach thsi country, will be part of the evidence to be reviewed by his cominittee. Complimentary copies of the new “Illustrated News,” which was printed in and mailed from Berlin, ‘of United States Senators and Rep- | resentatives. . | .“Insofar as it is humanly possible and the $10,000 appropriation per- mits of, the committee intends to | ascertain the facts for the benefit of our own country and our own peo- | ple, whatever the facts may be,” the | Daily Worker, when asked for com- ment on the Hitler Government's propaganda venture. Technically elaborate and full of anti-Semitic and “anti- Marxist” barbs, the “News,” edited by Karl Bergmann of Berlin, is a bold move to enroll the Congressmen’s support for the Hitler Government and for Nazism generally in the Nazi cam- paign against “Bolshevism.” McCormack, who had not yet: seen Joseph Freeman’s ably written ex- pose of the new Hitler appeal in to- day’s Daily Worker, explained that he considered it best not to com- ment at this time because such pub- lications will be matters of evidence before his committee. ‘The McCormack Committee is not expected to open public hearings be- fore another ten days or two weeks. | dition to McCormack, consists of: Samuel Dickstein, Vice-Chairman, Democrat of New York City; Charles Kramer, Democrat of Cali- fornia; Charles Weideman, Demo- crat of Michigan; U. S. Guyer, Re- | publican of Kansas; Thomas A. Jen- kins, Republican of Ohio, and J. Will Taylor, Republican of Tennes- see. Tampa Police Charge 1,500 Children Who Demand Free Lunches TAMPA, Fla., May 9.—Fifteen hundred school children at four schools staged a militant demon- stration today, in protest against the discontinuing of free lunch tickets. Police squads charzed the dem- onstrators and made numerous arrests of parents, and of chil- dren ranging from 7 to 14 years in age. manding safety devices, etc., it is | |McCormack Says He'll, WASHINGTON, May 9.— Repre-| ties,” the body created on March 20/ were sent last week to a selected list | Massachusetts Congressman told the} | The new investigating body, in ad-| State-Wide — | Ohio Relief | | Strike Looms. AFL and Relief Workers Unite for 50 Cents Hourly Pay COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 9. — | With fully 100 striking relief work- | ers in jail, relief in the hands of the | police and the militia, and the | | Police and relief officials openly | | attempting to recruit: scabs, prep- | | arations. are being. made by strik- ing workers to call a general relief | strike in the entire state. In Butler County. some 35 | still in jail for picketing in the relief strike which is now in its) fourth week. In Meigs County, the, | strike headquarters of the relief | vorkers was raided and 11 are/| |“being held for the federal govern- | |ment.” Since all are native-born, | this is just an alibi for holding the | workers without any charge. | Indications point to a general tie- jup of all workers—unemployed | workers on relief work and A. F. of | L.’ workers getting less than 50 cents an hour—in a general state- wide strike. Manufacturers and relief heads | have openly stated that they have refused to give the relief workers a living wage of 50 cents an hour because they would be spurred on to demand wages equal at least to that paid relief workers. Law Calls for Help When W orker’s Kids Play on Park Green are NEW YORK.—People in Central Park a few days back were attracted | by calls for help. . The calls came from Patrolman John O'Neill: who held Arnold Totter by one arm Tt seemed that Marilyn and Phyl-| lis Totter, three and one-half years| and 19 months old respectively, had trespassed on the sacred green of Central Park. | In court Totter was asked if he was an American-born citizen. The court also wanted to know what Totter was doing in Central Park if his home was in the Bronx. The court also brought out the fact that Totter had been arrested and in court on another occasion when he 1 |Men Walk Out Despite | |dockers not to strike. WEATHER: Fair, warmer eg C4 See Story on Page Twe AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents Longshoremen Strike; Tie Up Shipping in All West Coast Ports Appeal of Roosevelt Mediation Board “OVERRIDE J. P. RYAN \Estimate That 10,000, to 15,000 Are Out (Special to the Daily Worker) SAN FRANCISCO, y 9. |—Shipping was at a stand- still here today following a strike of between 10,000 and 15,000 longshoremen in the West coast ports. The strike is affecting all ports from Canada to Mexico. The men walked out despite a telegram from Senator Wagner and} an appeal of Joseph P. Ryan, pres-| ident of the International Long-| shoremen’s Association, urging the President | Roosevelt’s Mediation Board also! moved to halt the walk-out, but| was unsuccessful. | A strike committee which was set| up before the longshoremen struck} decided to broaden itself and to in-| clude representatives from all docks, totalling 250. Picketing of the docks was or- ganized this morning at a mass meeting attended by 1,500 longshore- men, So far no ships have been loaded in this port. The S. S. City of Los Angeles, docked at the Matson| decision which provides from a five | Line pier, is preparing to house scabs. There are many Communists} and militants among the strikers| urging rank and file control of the situation. * Demand $1 An Hour SEATTLE, Wash., May 9.—Pacific coast longshoremen struck here this morning. The men walked out de-| spite orders from Joseph P. Ryan, President of the International Long- | shoremen’s Association, that the} dockers should not strike. The strikers are demanding $1 an hour and a 36-hour week, in place | of the 85 cents an hour and the| 48-hour week, * ee | Return to Work At Norfolk | NORFOLK, Va., May 9.—Unable) to keep their ranks united under} the heavy police and gangster ter-| ror and the recruitment of a large} force of white scabs, 600 of the Ne- jarbitration supervised by 3,000 Copper Miners Strike for 30-Hour W eek, MinimumW age BUTTE, Mont., May 9.—Nearly 3,000 union copper ners and allied workers struck yesterday, at three of the holdings of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co., on Butte Hill. The Anaconda Company re- fused their demands for a min- imum of $1.20 an hour and a 30-hour week. Four dollars and a quarter has been the average | wage here for an eight-hour day. Reject 5 P. C. N.R.A. Offer at Amoskeag Mill 10,000 Continue to Strike for 25% Raise (Special to the Daily Worker.) MANCHESTER, N. H., May 9— The Amoskedg Manufacturing Co., the world’s largést™ cotton mill,’ re- mained completely closed today. Ten thousand workers remain on strike against the National Labor Board to ten percent increase for 2.000 workers and nothing for the major- increase and direct dealings with company representatives instead of govern- ment boards. The strike is continuing despite the declarations of Horace Riviere and John Powers, United Textile Worker officials, that it is illegal and that the strikers must return to work. Riviere and Powers are working hand in hand with the demagogic Gov. Winant to break the walk-cut. George Berry, In- dustrial Relations’ Board labor representative, who demanded that the workers abide by the ruling of the arbitrators, has also failed in his purpose. Riviere is trying the scheme of calling department meetings and threatening the workers with “pub- The demand is a 25 per cent | 6 Workers Jailed After Raid in Birmingham Reign of Terror DEFENSE MOBILIZES Coal Miners Prom Support to Ore Men (Special to the Daily Worker) BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 9.—Two Negro ore miners, Rich Foster and Henry | Whitt, were shot and killed by agents of the companies, on the picket lines of the eight thousand striking Ala- bama ore miners. A vi been wounded. The Guard has been called out ernor Miller, jailer of the Scot boro boys, and have set up mac! guns pointed at the picket lines the strikers. A bloody riegn of t ror is being instituted. The Na- tional Guardsmen weer called out | after J. R. Moore, president of the | Alabama State Federation of Labor, jand J. A. Lipscomb, lawyer for the International Union of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers (A. F. of L.) | had asked Governor Miller to “in- | terfere” in the ore strike. Foster | and Whitt weer shot and killed at | the Raimund Ore Mine, captive mine of the Republic Steel Co. All ore mines are out solid and are determined to remain out until | the demands for wage increases and union recognition are won. The city of Birmingham and vi- cinity is seething with strikes. Meat | workers, cafeteria workers, relief | workers, are on strike, and firemen have presented demands for higher pay. Coal min steel workers and | ore miners are involved, A bitter fight occurred on the | picket line of the Thomas Blast Furnace of the Republic Steel Com- | pany. In this fight two special dep- | uties of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company were also shot when the | Steel workers defended themselves. | The officials of the International (Continued on Page 2) Roosevelt ° gro longshoremen who were striking | Hie opinion.” He has issued false | S 1 le n ic on under the leadership of the Marine| Workers Industrial Union voted to! return to work, | The strikers went back to the docks in an orderly manner under the leadership of their dock com- mittee, declaring that they will strengthen their ranks and continue their fight to better their conditions. | Meanwhile over 100 longshoremen | continued to strike on the docks of | the Southern Steamship Line. | was hauled off the picket line in| the recent food-workers’ strike. “It's all right for the dogs of the rich to race over the grass,” Tot- ter said yesterday, “but when the| children of workers play | around-the-rosey, they’re taken to| court.” ' stories to the capitalist press about the desire of the workers to return to work. But the mill is the scene | all day of thousands of the strik. ers demonstrating against the own- ers and the government board and announcing their intentions of not returning till their demands are met. EXPLOSION INJURES 15 _ ST. LOUIS.—Fifteen persons were| | injured yesterday in a fire and ex-| ing kept by the President of the | Plosion at the grain elevator of the| United States on the letters and Contenental Elevator Co., one of the largest in the world. Unconfirmed reports state that two persons were killed. More re- liable reports indicate that some of ring-| the workers are fatally injured. Over | two million bushels of grain were stored in the elevator. Invites Jewish Refugees to Fertile Land Half of Engiand’s Area By EDWIN ROLFE N MONDAY, May 7, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the Central Executive Com- mittee of the Union of So- cialist Soviet Republics issued an historic decree, transforming the area of Biro-Bidjan, in the Far Eastern Region of the Soviet Union, | into an autonomous Jewish National Region. This land, which is about half the size of England, is inhabitated today by 50,000 people, 12,000 of whom are Jews. News of the new Soviet decree, which assumes the highest interest and importance at the present time in the light of re- cent events in Germany and other fascist lands, was received in the | United States by Icor, the Assecia- | tion for Jewish Colonization in the 'U, 8.5. P 6 ——___—_— Biro-Bidjan Is Independent Jewish Region By Soviet Government Decree _ | sky, land Naticnal Jewish Region. Biro- Bidjan has an area half the size of England, Officers of this organization,world, wes proving by concrete ac- when interviewed by Worker, declared t in issuing “to receive all persecuted German; new controller's this decree, the Soviet Government, | alone among the nations of the Bire-Bidjan, the large and fertile in the Far Eastern territory ef the U. S. S. R. which, by decree of the Soviet Government on May 7, was granted independence as a (Continued on Page 2) Scottsboro Refuses to Grant Inter- view to Scottsboro Mothers NEW YORK.—Stern silence is be- | telegrams sent him by the Intere | national Labor Defense requestng jan interview for the five Scottsboro |mothers on Mothers’ Day at the | national capital. The mothers, however, will be in Washington on Sunday, May 13. and will sit on the doors he White House until they are scen. Friday night they will make their | last appearance in New York city, }at a send-off given them by the | International Labor Defense et the | St. Nicholas Arena, 69 W. 66th St., | at 8 p.m. Among lawyers in the speakers will be the in | Leibowitz; | of “To Make My Bread,” as well ar | the main speakers of the evening. | the five mothers, and Ruby Bates. McGoldrick Named New City Controller; Will | Pay Bankers 5 Million NEW YORK—Joseph D. MeGold- rick, formerly second Deputy Con- |troller, was enpcinted City Con- troller ‘yesterday afternoon by Mayor LaGuardia to succsed to the vos‘ made vacant by the death of Major W. Arthur Cunningham. ‘That no change would take place | because of this avpointment in the Fusion policy of victimizing the masses of New York for the purpose jof safeguarding the Wall Street |banks was indicated both in Le- “tribute” to McGoldrick | Guardia’s the Daily} tion the sincerity of its recent offcr and in the announcement that the first official act | would be to pay the sum of $5,000,- 1000 to the bankers