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

| ay { i i 1 | | Mr, LaGUARDIA, ARE YOU PLANNING TO KILL NEW YORK WORKERS? | AYOR LAGUARDIA, the workers of New York starvation policies? City demand to know your plans. berately and cold-bloodedly preparing, behind the backs of the people, to murder workers? preparing an attempt to drown out in a blood-bath the growing mass opposition to your banker -dictated, Are you deli- Are you The workers demand an answer! And frankly, Mayor LaGuardia, the answer is al- ready clear. You ARE planning, through your police, to kill workers! This can SECRET conference on W be the only conclusion from your Vednesday with the city edi- tors of New York City newspapers. That conference was to prepare “public opinion,” to prepare the white- wash for the hasty obliteration of the bloodstains after the foul murder of workers had been carried through by your police. NO MATTER HOW SMALL! Order a Daily Worker Bundle for Sale To Thoce You Know Vol. XI, No. 132 Entered as second-class => * The Daily Worker exposes your conspiracy with the hope thereby of avoiding bloodshed. We do it to forewarn the workers against provocative acts by your police hirelings, against traps that could be made the excuse for these vile murder plots. E URGE the workers, every workers’ organiza- tion, to protest vigorously, and without a mo- ment’s delay. Raise the iss: ue of LaGuardia’s growing police terror in your local lodge. Send protest resolutio Mayor. union, in your club and ns and delegations to the Above all, send telegrams THIS MORNING demanding that the police keep their hands off the workers demonstrating today at the Welfare Depart- ment, 50 Lafayette Street. Rally today at the Welfare Department for ade- quate unemployment relief ! Daily <QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1934 AMERICA’S CLASS DAILY ONLY WORKING NEWSPAPER WEATHER: Cloudy, warmer (Eight Pages) Price 3 Cents PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT MOVES T0 CHOKE STEEL STRIKE LaGuardia Secretly Plans Terror Against N. Y. Workers Urges Press to Prepare *Publie’ For Bloodshed Recent Onslaught on Jobless, Sweeping Injunc- n in Bakers’ Strike, Attacks on Anti-Nazi Meets, Pari of Open Reign of Terror NEW YORK.—New York is planned as the next city where workers and the jobless are to be shot to death by the police. This became clear Guardia called the city gether to prepare them In a secret session Tuesday when Mayor Fiorello La- editors of the capitalist dailies to- for the killing. which has not been mentioned by a single paper—even the liberal Post and World-Telegram aid- ing the plot—LaGuardia told the editors that there is im- mediate “danger of a revolution, keginning in’ New York." Cleverly, ) the unemployed. The police, he told the} editors, have about lost patience with the unemployed. The poor cops have been so aggravated with these thousands who have demonstrated for more food and clothing for their families that “there is grave danger that they ‘will shoot inte one of these demon- strations and kill several people,” he moaned. Clearly he indicated that he woul! back the police to the limit when they did kil! the unemployed or striking workers. Thus was laid the basis for ne paper support for La Guardia, Po- lice Commissioner O’Ryan and the police, when the time comes to kill. | The administration is said to be sure that the conference worked— that the newspapers will support any brutality, even to murder. Facts which make the calling of this secret conference this week of tremendous significance, national as well as local, include: 1, A demonstration of the unem- ployed has been called for today before the office of Commissioner of Welfare Hodson, 50 Lafayette St. 2. The fatal attacks on the work- ers in San Francisco, Toledo, Bir- mingham, New Orleans and Minne- apolis (where a scab was the one Killed, however), are all seen as part of a national campaign to smash the rising tide of struggle before it engulfs the power of the bosses. 3. Two great new strikes, in steel and textiles, have Wall Street in a new panic. New Stage of LaGuardia Terror Last Saturday, which witnessed the bestial attack of New York police on a gathering of workers before the Department of Public Welfere—workers demonstrating fcr the “criminal” right to food to ap- pease their hunger and a roof over their heads—marked a new and completely open stage cf the terror which the LaGuardia “progressive” administration has been carrying (Continued on Page 2) AFL Workers Protest | Pelice Clubbings: De- mand Release of 10 ‘ “NEW YORK—A._ F, of L. work- | ers in locals 10 and 176 of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America today protested to Mayor LaGuardia against the brutal clubbing of unemployed workers. Their message to LaGuardia states: “We a group of workers, locals 10 and 176 of the Amalga- mated Clothing Workers of America, vigorousiy protest against the uncalled for brutal attack of the police on the unem- ployed who came to present in a peaceful way for their just de- | mands to the commissioner. }° “We want you to know that many of us supported you in the } last election. We did not exvcct such action on your part and do- mend the immediate. release of ‘those arrested.” then, he laid the basis ae a ee attack on Cops Fill Court ‘At Trial of 10 Jailed Jobless Lodge ‘Additional Charges Against Two; $1,000 More Bail NEW YORK.—Surrounded with police, in a court room packed with cops, while other police barred all workers from entering the court room, with a cordon of mounted police stationed around the building, firemen in raediness and detectives mingling with the workers who at- | tempted to enter the building, hear- ings were held in the case of 19 workers sarrested at the May 26 demonstration and after. A parade of police and members of the rad- ical squad were called by the dis- trict attorney, After adjournment for the day, Jerimiah Lynch, who was brutally beaten by the police, and David Jenkins, whose testimony about the assaults upon the prisoners was printed in Thursday’s Daily Worker, were seized by the police, and additional bail of $1,000 was placed on them in order to keep them in the hands of the police and prevent any additinal testi- mony from being given by them about police brutality. Joseph Tauber, I. L. D. attorney, demanded that the police be re- moved, stating that the place was an armed camp. Magistrate Dryer refused the request. Si Gerson, city editor of the Daily Worker, called by the District At- torney as a witness to “explain” an article that appeared in the May 26 edition of the Daily Worker, call- ing upon the workers to demon- strate at 50 Lafayette St., was the first witness to appear. Gerson clearly stated the policy of the Daily Worker in printing all material in the interests of the working class, Gerson said: ‘The article in question, which appeared in the May 26 edition of the Daily Worker, Detroit: The Kingdom of Henry I. | By country’s best known author, contributions to the Daily Worker. in Detroit. The second article, “Detroit, The Eight- Finger City,” ‘will appear Monday. 4 > ee ENRY FORD is the father of many things, and he is proud of them all. He smiles from ear to ear, and chuckles from deep in his chest, when he is called the father of the automobile in- dustry, the father of modern De- troit, and the father of seventy thousand men. Catching Henry Ford in this mellow mood may win for yourself a brand-new Ford car, delivered with compliments at your door. But mention of Bloody Monday, the March day in 1932, when five thou- sand unemployed and hungry workers, led by the Auto Workers Union, demanded recognition of his paternity, will prove that Ford is an Indian-giver, and you sud- denly find yourself being booted out of the throne-room. If you object to being hustled so roughly from his presence, you may be how to be tough mugs. The Ford Motor Compeny, a cl: and trucks each twenty-four hour facturing is done at River Rouge in * joining suburb of Detroit. The pla: EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first of five articles on Detroit by Erskine Caldwell, one of the His play, Road” is now piaying on Broadway. not a Communist, and these articles are his first on Caldwell’s personal investigation of conditions knowledge that your bouncer is no less than Kid McCoy himself, the prizefighter who was sent up for life in California for murdoring his sweetheart and who was parolled to instruct Ford detéciives owned by Henry Ford and his son, at the present time about four thousand mctor cars acres, and approximately forty thousand workers ERSKINE CALDWE “Tobacco Caldwell is asking for only cup of Michigan | They are based | HENRY THE FIRST newspapers, and consoled by the losed corporation, Edsel, produces breaking the do | fraining all day day. The manu- | Dearborn, an ad- nt occupies 1,096 | plant, , are employed. Ford's remaining children are now bums, beggars, LL thirty thousand and panhandlers three cents with which to buy a Avenue coffee. After bringing the assembly line to its present high-geared speed, Ford installed in his plant what is perhaps the most thorough spy system in exist- ence. This is known as the muitiple service department, and is ruled over by Harry Bennett. For every ten workers empioyed there is a serviceman. A Ford serviceman performs the duties of a stool-pigeon. He may be a uniformed guard, depu- tized by the city police depart- ment; he may be an ex-chaingang captain, brought up from Georgia and shaved until his jowls are the tint of a scalded pig; he may be a seab, who, during periods of no strikes, poses as a worker in order to gain confidences; he may be a Ford trade school graduate who has been well trained in pushing and speeding-up fellow workers. No nation at war ever boasted of such a perfected spy system as honeycombs the River Rouge Plant, the city of Dearborn, and the homes of Ford workers. Henry Ford's fear of the worker—the fear that the worker, goaded and speeded up on the assembly line beyond human endurance, may turn as he did on Bloody Monday —sends servicemen scouting day and night. Not content with searching dinner pails, clothing, and hollow teeth for trade union leaflets, workers’ working-class literature, Ford at- tempts to segregate workers in nearby districts, such as Dearborn, Garden City, Lincoln Park, and Inkster, where he and his servicemen can keep an active eye cn any movement one is likely to make. If a worker is lucky enough to have escaped not rules inside the plant, after re- from no smoking, no chewing, no talking, he must watch his step when he leaves the If he forgets to cross Miller Road by use of (Continued on Page 7) Workers of 114 Organizations To Attend ICOR Meet NEW YORK.—Jewish and Amer- ican workers of 114 mass organiza- tions and others will rally to the ICOR meeting in Madison Square Garden to celebrate the granting of autenomy for Biro-Bidjan by the Soviet government. Carrying banners and placards hailing the events, the workers will march into the Garden where Earl Browder, senerel secretary of the Communist Party; Williem Weiner, Reuben Brainin, Charies Recht, Moishe Katz, R. Saltzman. Louis Hyman, H. Goldfrank, and H. Cas- (Continued on Page 2) trell will address. S. Almazoy will be chairman, Communist Intl Announces Agenda for 7th Congrses By VERN SMITH (Mescew Correspondent, Daily Worker) MOSCOW, May 30.—In fulfillment of the decision of the 13th Plenum of the Executive Cornmittee of the Communist International, the Pres- idium of the E. C. C. I. in its ses- sion yesterday decided upon the tol- lowing agenda for the coming Sev- enth World Congr: of the Com- munist Intornat! | 2, Offensive of Fascism and the tasks of the Communist Interna- tional in the struggle for the unity of the working class against fas- cism; reporter, Comrade George Dimitroff. 3. Preparations for a new im-)} perialist war and the tasks of the Communist Party in the struggle againct imp: ‘list war; reporter, Comrade Erso! 4, Rosults of the building of So- cialism in the Sov To- revtes, Comz3d> M §, Election of 1 sading ergens of the Communist International. e Negroes Conspicuously Absent; ‘Left’ Groups Want Control (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., June 1.— The lutionary. struggles of American workers and the collapse of the poli- cies of the International Social- Democracy beat at the doors of the Socialist Party convention, whose business sessions opened this morn- ing at Fort Wayne Hotel. But the delegates were too en- grossed with the parliamentary technicalities—with a major battle centering around the question of whether 25 or 59 delegates shall be sufficient to force vote by roll call— to Yet the echoes of these world- shaking events sifted. through speeches today and last night, when a public mass meeting was held, finding expression in radical phrases, all sorts of pseudo-revolutionary ex- hortations by reformist leaders in conformity with new “left” maneu- vers of the Socialist Party leaders in an effort to prevent radicalized workers and farmers from moving toward Communism. One hundred and fifty-six dele- gates and 53 alternates were present. Mest of these are evidently party functionaries and other dependables. Proletarian delegates are so few, micdle class peopte. | correspondent has jmeke a final check co far secon Frank C: bea unzble to rp yet, ko hae eae © economic crisis,. the growing TeVO>)) that they are lost in the great mass; ef well-dressed, comfortable-iooking | Attacks on USSR, Inner Disputes, Mark Socialist Nat'l Convention | Nazi Forgeries Mark Plot To Kall Thalmann “Pariser Tageblatt” Re- veals Plot To Forge Comintern Minutes PARIS, June 1—The Nazis are building up their death sentence “case” against Ernst Thaelmann, imprisoned leader of the Gorman Communist Party, on forged min- utes of an allezed session of the Executive Committee of the Com- munist International, which were fabricated by a certain Kerody, who is in the pay of the Sccret State Police as a spy and agent-provcca- teur, according to disclosures in the Pariser Tageblatt, a democratic paper published here. The tactics of the notorious forged “Zinovieff letter,” which the British diehards launched to over- throw theLabor government in 1924, are being revived ten years later to sentence Thaelmann to death by the “People’s Court,” the newly es- tablished fascist lynch tribunal. The Deutsche Wochenschau, the orgen of the Nazi police, features | new “revelations” against Thacl- mann. It cites a paszage from Though your | Theelmann’s speech at the Tw: elfth Plenum of the Exccutive Cor ef the Comintern, -i speaks of the int t (Continued on 1 Page 2) S.M.L.U. to Face Wagner; Situation |HOLD STORMY EE Are Key to the | "| | Meeting of, Loos Lead- ers Votes to Avpeal to Row sevelt | By JOHN WILLIAMSON (Special to the Daily Worker) TOLEDO, Ohio,June 1. — | ation here is the effort of the employers, the government and especially the A. F. of L. officials to prevent a general strike. This, for the moment, overshadows the Auto-Lite situ- ation. The key to the situation are the electric power men. Last night the International organizer, Bennett, and the lo- | cal business manager of the elec- tricians, Oliver Myers, a “left” phrase-monger, and Central La- bor Union officials pleaded, threatened and cajoled at a union meeting to accept | sell-out proposal which called for ja return of one of two succes- general strike. The meeting was stormy. My-| ers spoke three times, finally | proposing postponement for an- other 24 hours, until Coates, president of the Toledo Edison, arrives, stating: “Coates is my old friend, and it is to your ad- vantage to wait. You can get more than a wage increase. In fairness to yourselves and to your city, wait for Coates.” Finally the vote to postpone was carried by 175 to 135. A meeting last night of e: ecutives of 93 locals that w: supposed to set a date for a gen- | eral strike and make prepara- tions for it, instead voted to ap- | peal to President Roosevelt to (Continued on Page 2) Electric Light Workers) ‘The center of the strike situ- | the | sive 10 per cent wage cuts, on | the condition that the power | men do not participate in the Republic Steel Corp. Hires Cops, Beds To Prepare for Strike By a Worker Correspondent CHICAGO, IL, June 1.— The Republiz Steel. Corporation, at 106th Street, has increased its police force, beside stool-pigeons, from two to 48. Rumors from the Illinois Steel of South Chi- cago say that this corporation has been supplied with 6,000 beds and all provisions for the future strike. During the past three. to four weeks they have Hired:all-young workers to break the strike. ‘UT W Leader, McMahon, in Strike Stall Nat'l Textile. Workers’ Union Calls for a United Struggle WASHINGTON, D. C., June 1. mie | | With the 25 per cent curtailment of | hours in the cotton mills going into; effert pe | N. R. A. official: in the plants | against the edict per cent cut in pay, Thomas F. Mc- | Mahon, President of the United | | Textile Workers Union, who has | been talking so boisterously about | ue: has failed to issue the strike | call. Meanwhile the National Textile | Workers Union is going ahead pre- paring the workers to struggle | against the new cut and for the | code of the union and is calling on! all cotton textile workers of the | United and National unions to| unite in the fight. The National Textile Workers Union is demanding that the cut be rescinded and a minimum wage of 60 cents an hour be guaranteed in the cotton mills, with the 30-hour weck and 40 weeks a year for every worker. “Soviet Union Has Only Peace Plan Against War Makers” (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW (By Radio)—Maxim Litvinoff, chairman of the Soviet delegation at Geneva, in his speech summarized over two years of ac- tivity of the disarmament confer- ence, declared central oon of the Communist Pariy of the torial today. “The results are deplorable,” Pravda, has completely failed cs a disarma- ment conference. In the two years since the beginning of the confer- ence the capitalist countries, espe- cially the more aggressive of them, made great successes in the field of armaments. “It is common knowledge that Japan and Germany withdrow from¢ the conference in order themselves, without being capped, for the purpose of jalist aggressions, This dealt a to the idea of disarmament. Growing Armament Race “The rece for ari said ? is openly | the columns of the fascist news- \ papers and magazines in Germany Soviet Union, in a leading edi- i “the Goneva Conference | and Japan, inspired by circles of British imp2rialis | “The danger of a second imper- jfalist war for a fresh redivision of the world is now greater then ever. i g that the of the conference is questioned. The responcibility of the fo definite m. | ta world, especially tho: lislist countries which are preparing a fresh war in the near future, or the much-suffering Chinese nation. U.S.S.R. Most Active for Peace “The U.S.S.R. was and still is the | ,;of the struggle against the dang’ jet imperialist war. She was, and still is, the consistent adherent to vniversal, complete disarmament. The toilers of the USSR. still do not doubt that ‘only one form of peace is possible, namely, disarmed peece. And, that armed peace is | Just a truce, an interval between j Wars, sanctioning we) = principle | | and practice. “It is com: of the (Continued on Page 8) | today | Association ( fate | re of the; ference fully rests on the ec carrying it on now in the land of | adherent of the most radical moans} Toledo General Strike Stalled by A.F.L. Heads Johnson Warns of U.S, Action Against Steel Strikers OPENLY HOSTILE | A. A. Committee Leaves After Conference; Looks to Roosevelt By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, June 1. — Clear ‘indications ‘that the Roosevelt government is try- jing to thwart the scheduled national steel strike by mak- jing threats and promises at the same time, were given as N. R. A. administrator Johnson bluntly declared that the “groundwork” for invoking pen- alties against denial of the right of | collective bargaining “has not aa yet been laid.” Johnson's threatening statement, designed to open the door for an administration declaration that the strike is unjustified, wes made soon after chairman Wagner of the Na- tional Labor Board had “promised” to ask President Roosevelt to step in to enforce collective bargaining. The rank and file committee of district leaders of the Amalgamated . F. of L.), played | right in‘o the h: is of this double- dealing strategy by backing dovn from issuing a militant statement. They announced insteed that they would tell Roosevelt next week that steel workers are ready to “help the President” arrange a conference between them and the steel owners, As the capitalist press headlin- ed stories declaring “strike clouds are lifting at least temporarily,” it was evident that the steel work ers’ only guarantee against a selle (Continued on Page 2) ‘SMWIU Pittsburgh Delegation Goes to Wash’ton Tuesday (Special to: the Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, June 1—A dele- gation of the Steel and Metal Work- ers Industrial Union is prepared to leave here today for Washingtomg, | where a conference has been ar=- ranged with Senetor Wagner fort | Tuesday afternoon, | The delegation will be headed by ational President, and van, Secretary of the union, e delezates from Am- burgh, Braddock, .and Plus representatives other important steel districts. oy will present to Senator Wag- | ner the propesals of the S. M. W. I, | U. for unicn recognition, a 6-hour | day; $1 an hour minimum; abolition |of Southern differentials; and | against Jim-Crow, all of which were endorsed by the last Amalgamated Association convention, the A. Fyof L. steel union. | Pat Cush said today taat the com- mittee is in full agreement with the ke action and will notify Wagner. at unless all demands are met a cannct be averted. The union president continued: “The terror against strikers in Ala- bama, Minneapolis, and Toledo can- not be sepavated from the actions of the N. R. A. and proposals for arbitration in the new steel code.” st sed among merchants ¢ string-pulling to suppres to leave | the field free for company