The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 29, 1934, Page 1

NO MATTER HOW SMALL! Order a Daily Worker Bundle for Sale To Those You Know 128 <-> * New York, N. ¥., Daily QWorker Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at under the Act of March 8, 1279, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1934. CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) AMERICA’S ON LY WORKING WEATHER: CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER Six Pages) Price 3 Cents SPREAD OF TOLEDO STRIKE IS SLOGAN OF UNITY MEET Youth to Demonstrate Against In Imperialist War May 30th — "Protests from the American Legion and fascist groups spurred police To Hit War, Fascism in Parades in Many Cities Thousands Throughout Country Will Mass | Wednesday PERMITS FORCED N.Y. Demonsirators Will Hit Navy Maneuvers Scheduled Thursday NEW YORK.— While gen- erals, civic leaders and pa- triots celebrate “Memorial Day” with a greater drive toward military preparedness and war, young workers and students throughout the coun- try will rally in mass demonstra- tions and parades to protest against imperialist war and fascism. A particular point of protest will be the review of the U. S. fleet in the N. Y. harbor Thursday by Pres- ident Roosevelt. Both the Atlantic and Pacific sections are to display their deadly strength as the N. R. A. president stands by and ap- plauds. The New York paraders will mass from ail parts of the city at Tenth St. and Second Ave., at 12 noon. At. ene o'clock the march will start. The route of the parade is as fol- Second Ave. north to 12th ris. to Grand, to Madison, to Broome. to Essex, to Ave. A, to Seventh St. At Ave. A and E. Seventh St., there will be a mass meeting. Before the parade starts, groups will line up facing Second Ave. at 12 noon in the following order: Anti-war groups, Women’s Councils, “Y's,” settlement houses, church groups. etc. on Tenth St. west of Second Ave.; trade union groups, 11th St. west of Second Ave.; Young Communist League and Communist Party, 12th St. west of Second Ave.; I.W.O. and Young Circle League, 12th St. east of Second Ave.; Young Pioneers and student groups on 13th St. and Second Ave.: Labor Sports Union, workers’ clubs on Tenth St. east of Second Ave. Each organization must appoint marshels who will meet on Tenth St. and Second Ave. at 12 noon for} final instructions. Separate Demonstration for YPSL The Socialist leaders of the Y. P. S. L.. insisting that the name, Na- tional Youth Day be prohibited from anv seetion of the parade. have called their own demonstra- tion for Wednesday at 110th St. and Fifth Ave. They will be joined by the Lovestone and Trotzky group- lets. In spite of this, many young So- cialist workers are expected to join the N. Y. D. parade downtown, Six branches of the Young Circle League have already endorsed the N. Y. D. parade. Demonstration in Brooklyn Tonight Ces ar BROOKLYN.—The Bensonhurst Committee Against War and Fas- cism, representing 14 neighborhood organizations, will hold a mass rally tonight, 9 p.m., to prepare for National Youth Day demon- stration. The demonstrators will mass on the corner of Bay Park- way and Cropsey, Ave. e708 8 Demonstration in Youngstown YOUNGSTOWN, Pa., May 28.— The National Youth Day demon- stration will be held here Wednes- day, 3:30 p.m., at Watt and Fed- eral Sts. The protest of youths against war and fascism comes in the midst of preparations for strike by steel workers. An indoor rally and dance will be held in the evening at the Central Auditorium, 225 W. Boardman St. cea NS Paterson Workers Force Permit PATERSON, N. J., May 28.—Pres- sure fer workers and organizations from all over New Jersey, forced city officials to grant a permit for the National Youth Day parade Wed- nesday, the Arrangements Commit- tee announced today. Workers will mass at 6th Ave, and Butler St., ‘Wednesday, at 1 p.m., and march to Sandy Hill Park. No permit has been issued for a meeting at the park, The Commit- tee is negotiating with city officials for a permit. Workers are asked to ‘keep up their stream of protests and demands for a permit to meet. ane oes Rescind Permit in Union City UNION CITY, N. J., May 28— als to iscind the permit they granted for a National Youth Farewell Banquet i in His’ Honor Scheduled for | Tomorrow Night | NEW YORK.—Back in New York again after a two-month speaking tour which included Boston, Provi- dence, Portland, Me., Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, | Akron, Detroit and Chicago, Sean) Murray, leader of the Irish Com- | munist Party, yesterday recounted | his impressions of the trip. Murray is here to fill his final two speaking engagements in this city, and to attend the banquet which the Central Committee of the Communist Party and the N. Y. District of the C. P. are tendering in his honor at Irving Plaza, Irving Pl. and 15th St., at 8 p.m. tomorrow. He will be greeted by James W. Ford at this banquet, speakers at which will include, besides Sean Murray: Earl Browder, Max Bed- acht, Charles Krumbein and Carl Brodsky. Aroused Interest of Irish Workers “I found very keen interest, gen- erally,” said Murray, “amongst the workers with whom I spoke on the Irish situation. In the cities where we properly carried out the work of organizing the meetings, we were able to draw to us large numbers of politically organized Irish work- ers, followers of the Irish Republi- can movement. This was so partic-;| ularly in Providence, Boston, Detroit and, to a lesser extent, Cleveland. “We found men who had been through the Black and Tan fight Murray, Irish Workers Leader, Describes Tour SEAN MURRAY (1919-1922) in Ireland, and who were now facing all the severities of insecure unemployment and other misery under American imperialism. These men and women had not yet come to the point where they were able to relate our fight in Ireland with the fight of their class in America. But in bringing into being the Irish Workers Clubs, the work- ers took a big step forward in this direction.” Irish Workers Clubs were estab- (Continued on Page 6) High. Nazis to “ Judge” Thaelmann Rush Death Sentence to Head Off Protests in Germany, World PARIS, May 28.—The Hitler gov- ernment is rushing plans for the trial of Ernst Thaelmann for “high treason’? by the so-called People’s Court, recently established by Nazi decree, according to word received here from Berlin. There is no ap- peal from the verdict of this court, which is packed by having three out of the five judges réliable, highly- placed Nazis. The Hitlerites want to “get Thael- mann out of the way” before the rising tide of indignation among the German population becomes too menacing for the Nazis to dare to place Thaelmann on the execution- er's block. Reports in the leading capitalist papers of Europe admit that the situation in Germany is “growing more alarming every day.” The Paris “Temps” writes that “The national socialist regime is en- tering a grave period... . The diffi- culties it confronts grow more seri- ous day by day....The Communist opposition, moreover, although hid- den and underground, penetrates deep and is incomparably more ef- fective than is thought. Order Suppression of Communist Party in “Free City of Danzig” FREE CITY OF DANZIG, May 28.—The Nazi chef of police here today ordered the dissolution and suppression of the Commu- nist Party of Danzig. Danzig is a “free city,” established by the Versailles peace treaty, where the Nazis have been increasing their power, iDePriest Took Insull Money to Fool Negroes Chicago Negro Workers To Oppose Traitor in Coming Elections WASHINGTON, May 28.—Oscar De Priest, Negro millionaire Con- gressman, accepted thousands of dollars from the Insull utility inter- ests as bribes to line up the “Black Vote” for Insull candidates, accord- ing to evidence placed before the Federal Commission today. Charles Weinfeld, partner in the Chicago law firm of Schuyler & Weinfeld, and an agent of the In- sull interests, testified: “We gave Oscar De Priest a lot of money in connection with cam- paigns. He would line up the black vote in connection with some special candidate that we happened to be interested in. Some of De Priest’s fights have cost as much as $10,000 or $15,000.” imetele te (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, May 28—Oscar De Priest is well-known to Negro work- ers on the South Side for his “arbi- tration” policies and his attempts to sell out the workers during the Sop- kin Dress Shop strike. South Side workers in the First Congressional District are putting up their own working-class candidates for Congress. There is very strong support for the candidacy of Her- bert Newton, militant Negro work- er and a member of the Stock Yards Labor Council, who ran once before on the Communist ticket against De Priest. A conference to nominate candi- dates will take place this coming Sunday at 2 p.m., at 3847 So. State St. All workers organizations are asked to send delegates. Women’s Peace League Meet Votes to Stay in United Front (Special to the Daily Worker) MILWAUKEE, Wis., May 28—The united front against war and fas- cism scored an mportamt achieve- ment as the National Convention of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, meeting in its annual convention in Milwaukee May 23rd, 24th and 25th, voted 39 to 12 to continue affiliation to thé American League Against War and Fascism for another year. One atter another, rank and file dele- gates from Chicago, Milwaukee and other parts of the country rose to defend the united front with the Communists and all others who are showing, by their actions, a desire to fight war and fascism. Rank and File Want Unity Mrs. Lola Maverick Lloyd, Mrs. Rae Hamburger, Miss Julia I. Fel- senthal of Chicago and Miss Dorothy (Continued on Page 2) Detzer spoke for united action. As @ rank and file Socialist from Chi- cago said, “We must unite with the Communists and every other force fighting against war and fascism or we will have fascism here in America.” After the resignations of J. B. Matthews and other socialists from the National Executive Committee of the American League, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom became inactive due to the hesitancy of the national leadership to continue while the American League was under attack by the So- cialists. However, during all this period, many local branchés of the ‘Women’s International League parti- cipated in the various city and neighborhood committee activities. The Women’s International League is one of the largest pacifist organizations in the world atid has @ very large following in the United States among professional and ba dle class women, A ‘Soviet and League Is Discussed By “Pravda” Editorial Takes Up Franco-U, S.S.R. Relations (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, May 28 (By Radio). — “Franco-Soviet relations and the struggle for pease,” is the title of \the leading editorial in today’s is- sue of “Pravda,” official organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Urion. “Pravda” comments on Foreign Minister Barthou’s last speech in the French Chamber of Depu- ties, and the numerous comments of the world press, saying: “There is hardly a clearer ex- ample of the rapid, striking changes in the relations of the USS.R. and the big capitalist European powers, proceeding from the growth of the internal and in- ternational power of the Soviet Union, than the history of the de- velopment and consolidation of Soviet-French relations during the past two years,” “The signing of a non-aggres- sion pact, trade agreement, and leading political and scientific Frenchmen coming to the U. S. S. R., were landmarks of a change in relations to the Soviet Union among leading circles in France. This changé is not accidental. It coincided with the successful com- pletion of the great works of the first Five-Year Plan. This change 4 is all the more significant, inas- much as it is being strengthened in a very complicated and alarm- ing international situation, when aggressive forces are growing, and groupings are placing war on the order of the day. Forced to Recognize U.S.S.R. Peace Policy “Numerous international com- ments on Barthou’s speech show that such speeches of authorita- tive leaders of foreign policies of big capitalist powers favor rap- prochement with the U.SS.R. as @ powerful champion. of peace, which immediately activizes all forces working for the preserva- (Continued on Page 2) Eight Strikers Are Wounded on Picket Line in Carolina More Troops Sent in to Alabama to Move Ore Trains LAURINBURG, N. C., May 28— Eight strikers were wounded on the picket lines here at the Prince Mill. Two pickets were shot, and one is in a critical condition, from a bullet wound in the chest. The Prince Mill is in the Waverly chain of mills, where the workers have been carry- ing on a series of strikes for union recognition and higher wages. rey eis BIRMINGHAM, Ala. May 28.— Two hundred more national guards- men were sent into the strike area, where 8,000 iron ore miners are striking, ordered to guard moving trains carrying the ore from the mines to the plants. Governor Miller, in calling out the guardsmen, said that “the things that count are the preservation of human life, the protection of prop- erty and keeping men employed.” The thing that counts now is to use the national guardsmen to break the strike by moving the ore, and now the workers can see what Gov. Mil- ler meant. Frances Perkins is here today, conferring with the A. F. of L. lead- ers, in an attempt to end the strike through arbitration. “Steel, Metal Worker” Prints Strike Issue Of 50,000 Copies NEW YORK.—The Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union is issuing a special strike edi- tion of its paper, the “Steel and Metal Worker,” and will dis- tribute 50,000 copies among the steel workers. Orders should be sent in at once for this spe- cial edition to the business of- fice of the paper, Room 238, 80 E. 11th St. The special strike edition will contain the program of action of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, for the com- Ing strikes s| Attempt to Get Scabs Flops One Shot in NewOrleans) Mass Strike West Caist Strikers Break Police Lines; Drive Off Scabs NEW ORLEANS, La., May 28.— Police guns blazed again on the| docks here and J+.mes Washington, a striking Negro longshoreman, was Shot through the arm. The attack followed a meeting in which the strikers voted to mass Picket the waterfront. Twelve strik- ers, including Washington, were ar- rested. Meanwhile leaders of the Interna- tional Longshoremen’s Association are attempting to keep the strike from progressing. No strike commit- ttee has been formed. Pickets are improperly handled. Only four in| one group are allowed by the offi- | cials. | Following a meeting of rank and file membérs of the I.L.A. and the| Marine Workers Industrial Union, Plans for a rank and file strike com- mittee to lead the struggle were be- ing worked out. The Marine Workers Industrial Union has set up a kitchen to feed the striking seamen and longshore- men, Pai pie NEW YORK—Frantic efforts have been made by the New Orleans ship- ping bosses to recruit Negro scabs in Harlem. Two meetings have been held, but Negro workers showed they have no intention of returning to the lynch terror ofthe south to scab} m on the striking Negro and white longshoremen of New Orleans. Only @ few recruits were obtained. It was rumored that the local Home Relief Office was acting as Scab-hered, but their central office said they “could hot make that in- formation public.” Strike Strong in Frisco SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., May 28— Longshoremen here continue to strike and say they will keep up the fight until all demands of both sea- men and dock workers are met. Police terror is increasing in Oak- land, Pickets have been ordered to (Continued on Page 2) Threaten Troops in Strike of 1,000 Distillers in Il. Unemployment Council Helps on Mass Picket Lines PEKIN, Ill., May 28.—Hundreds of pickets massed in front of the American Commercial Alcohol Cor- poration here, keeping out scabs. The 1,000 strikers are members of the Firemen and Oilers Local No. 8, and members of the Distillery Workers Union, No. 19538, both A. F. of L. The employers have requested na- tional guard troops and several na- tional guard officers are already at the plant, as “observers.” Nine state highway police were sent in from Peoria. ‘The strikers are demanding union | recognition, Sixty Locals for Strike; Stevedores) Workers Pack Court At Injunction Trial Nationcl Guardsmen sheoting a tear gas gun at workers, sing Toledo A beom is on, gas manufacturers haye gleefuily announced. ~ | injunction, Thousands in Union Square Hail Heroic Toledo Workers, NEW YORK.—-New York workers meeting in a united front demon- stration yesterday afternoon in Un- ion Square roared their solidarity with the heroic strikers of the To- ledo Auto-Lite Company who are fighting valiantly on the streets against bullets and poison gas. As the Daily Worker went to press there were over seven thousand on} the square, and crowds of workers with banners of their unions and labor organizations were still pour in swelling the numbers of the meeting. Earl Browder, National Secretary of the Communist Party, struck the keynote for the meeting when he declared that the strikes in Toledo, Minneapolis, Alabama, California, New Orleans, “mark. the opening of a@ new stage of struggle in the United States.” “These great strikes mark the awakening of great new masses to the falseness and hypocracy of the Roosevelt New Deal, the awaken- ing of the masses to the’ mislead- ership of the officers of the A. F. of L. who are leading the workers into collaboration with the cap- italists,” said Browder. “The time is coming in the United States, and it is not very far away, when the workers will change this attitude of the congressmen and force them to take a vote on the Unemployment Insurance Bill, H. R. 7598, by stopping every factory in the country. “The general strike is on the order of the day. “United and fighting together, we ean build real labor unions that will smash compeny unions and force higher wages. “The Communist Party is the only Party in the United States that stands uncompromisingly to win these demands. “By fighting for these needs we are only taking the first steps in the struggle for the overthrow of capitalism and the setting up of a socialist society.” |ganizer of the. Trade The demonstration was called by a committee from several organiza- tions, representing the Communist Party, A. F. of L. Trade Union Committee for Unemployment In- surance, Trade Union Unity Coun- cil of Greater New York, the Young Communist League, Unemployment Councils, International Labor De- fense and the New Masses. Besides Earl Browder, the dem- onstration was addressed Charles Krumbein, organizer District 2 of Many Speakers Others to speak were Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker; Jack Stachel, Assistant Secretary of the Trade Union Unity | Steve Kingston, from the | Negro | League; League of Struggle for Rights; Davdi Gordon, Secretary of the A. F. of L. Rank and File Com- | mittee for Unemployment Insur- ance; Irving Potash, Secretary of the Needle Trades Workers Indus- trial Union; Pauline Rogers of the Anti-Nazi . Federation, and John Little of the League. Sam Nessin, general or- Union Unity Council, was chairman Paris Flyers Forced Down at Bennett Fld. NEW YORK.—The silver mono- vlane of Captain Maurice Rossi and Lieut. Paul Codos landed at Floyd Bennett Field here yesterdey after- noon after a flight from Paris in approximately 3844 hours. A forced landing due to engine trouble halted their proposed non-stop flight to California. The plane is the same one in| which Rossi and Cox set the world non-stop flight rd from New York to Syria. By being forced down here, they lose the 1.900,000 franes prize offered by the French governnient. Minor Is by | of the Communist Party, | Young Communist | Communist Party Speaker at Demonsiration POLICE RAID HOMES (A. F. of Li Leaders Op- | pose Spread of Strike | By A. B. MAGIL (Special to the Daily Worker) | TOLEDO, Ohio, May 28.— Wh: norary quiet reigns in the battle zone where To- {ledo workers have for five |days fought back so hero- jically against gunfire, bombs and bayonet ges of the ional Guard, the trial of s charged with violating nection against ma picks eting at the Electric Auto-Lite plant opened this morning in the court of the judge who issued the Judge Stuart, The court room is packed with work- | ers, many of whom had to stand. At the same time the A. bee of L. leaders, who have bee: off the general strike, d | fact that 60 A. F. of have voted for it and that there is tremendous sentiment ' among the workers for. 1t, were prepar- ing to continue negotiations with company and federal mediators in an effort to devise some tricky for- mula which strikers at the Auto- Lite, Bingham Stamping and Lo- gan Gear plants could be per- suaded to accept, thus killing the general strike. The strikers are | scheduled to meet tonight to con- | sider new proposals, having re- | jected all previous ones. Militant Striker Stirs Court Room Militant organizations, including the Unemployment Council, the Auto Workers Union, International Labor Defense, International | Workers Order and Communist Party, are going foward with ef- forts to organize mass support for eee general strike and are calling a conference tomorrow at 8 p.m. at Roi Davis Building, Hall |B, 129 Michigan St. The court today was stirred by che (Continued on Page 2) Minor To Speak at Big | Chicago Demonstration To Hit Toledo Terror (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Ill, May 28.—Robert Minor, member of the Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party, who just returned from Minneapolis, where he spoke at a mass meeting of workers, and who is now in To- ledo, will be the principal speaker at the mass meeting to be held here on Friday, June 1, 7:30 p.m., at the | Coliseum, 15th and Wabash Ave. Jarranged by the Communist Party in solidarity with the strikers of | Toledo and clsewhere | The Communist Party has issued 57,090 leaflets, with special appeals |to the members of A. F. of L, | Socialist Party, workers in shops, Negro and youth. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., 28.—The Communist Party, Dis- trict 9, has issued a statement on the agreement for arbitration which halted the recent strike of the Minneapolis truck drivers. The statement follows. ee Olea Le To All Working Men and Women of Minneapolis! E HAVE just gone through the greatest struggle in the history of the Minneapolis labor movement. The truck drivers went out on strike for higher wages and union recognition. Their he- roic struggle aroused other sections ! of Mnneapolis workers. They were | joined by tens of thousands of building trade workers and of other trades. This whole struggle was leading to a general strike of all workers in Minneapolis; in fact May ag workers in many factories and trade COMMUNIST PARTY STATES POSITION ON NRA Stole Sirike Victory, Says Minneapolis C. P. RECENT STRIKE AND A.F.L. MANEUVERS unions have voted to strike in sup- port of the truck drivers. when victory was within grasp, it was snatched out of our hands. What Did We Gain? We came out on strike demand- ing recognition of the union, and | also asking a weekly minimum wage of f122.50. The so-called agreement ; put over does not provide for a wage increase nor for the recogni- tion of the union. It left the taxi- cab drivers out in the cold. It does not provide for the large number | of drivers whose employers are not members of the bosses’ trade asso- ciation. Neither does it guarantee against blacklisting; already many drivers were refused their jobs. The so-called agreement left the truck drivers to the mercy of an “arbitration board” of six, four of whom are the direct representatives of the employers and the strike- breaking N. R. A. Labor Board. The experience of the Minneapolis workers in the Dental Mechanics strike, of the upholsterers and of the Ice and Coal Drivers proves Ng But just | that we cannot gain anything ‘hrough the arbitration boards of N. R. A. Workers all over the country have learned this bitter; automobile The employers and the government use arbitra- truth: " Weirton Steel, workers and others. tion to demoraliz2 the ranks of the workers and to break strikes. The so-called agreement attempts to tie our hands by making the ar- bitration board decisions compul- sory upon the workers in order to prevent the drivers from struggling for their demands. We Could Have Won the Strike! The demands put forward did not ask too much. The employers rould | have easily granted these demands. Militant picketing plus the wide- spread sympathy and support from the entire working population of} the city paralyzed the trucking in- our the employers would have been compelled to grant Had we held out for demands, dustry. original them. But while the workers were win- ning the strike through their militant picketing on the streets, the leaders were preparing the sell- out. The strike leadership had more confidence and placed more hope on the secret negotiations with the Governor and the N. R. A. Board than in the rank and file. Instead of arousing the militancy of the strikers, the leadership did every- thing possible to keep the workers from militant picke‘ing and resist- ing the attacks of the deputized thugs: Instead of unifying the ranks of the workers, the strike leadership, during the first few days did every- thing possible to divide them by refusing the aid of the Unemploy- |ment Councils, the Communist Party, the United Relief Workers Association, and other militant or- ganizations thereby following the line of Police Chief Johams of rais- ing the “Red Scare.” And just when the strike was spreading and developing into @ general s‘rike, just when the mili- (Continued on Page 6 N / ) mre pica mw tee ne ees EVES sow eR me we