The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 5, 1934, Page 1

~ Yightfully belongs on the wealthy ———————————————— HENRY FORD’S KINGDOM Read Erskine Caldwell’s Series on Detroit on the Feature Page! Daily .<QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTER NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1934 ATIONAL) WEATHER: Fair, moderate temperature. AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER FR SS EEE (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents JOHNSON AND U.S. STEEL HEAD MEET TO BLOCK STRIKE z Tol edo Strikers Prevent Signing of A.F of L, AtlantaCops Make"! Am Being F logged, ” Thaelmann | Tells First Workers’ D Raids; Prepare for “Atlanta 6” Trial Hudson Quizzes Negro | Workers on Knowledge| of ‘“‘Red Meetings” RAISE “RED SCARE”, aan | Threaten Arrest of Ben| Davis, LL.D. Attorney ATLANTA, Ga., June 4.—} In a studied attempt to whip) up an atmosphere of lynch hysteria in preparation for | death trials of the “Atlanta! Six,” planned to take place} within the next two weeks, police squads led by the Rev. John A. Hudson, Assistant Solicitor Gen- eral, carried out another series of raids on the homes of Negro and white workers yesterday, while the boss press played up the “Red Men- ace.’ No one was arrested. Forcing his way into the homes of several Negro workers, Hudson de- manded whether they knew of any “red meetings” in their neighbor- | hoods and offered to pay them well | to act as stool pigeons and inform | on all Communist meetings. They | were asked if they knéw Ben Da- vis. Angelo Herndon’s defense et- terney, and if they were members of any organization with which he | was connected. Hudson informed | ie Negro comrade that he had a} arvant for Davis, who was one of hem Reds,” as well as for Don} native white organizer. It is clear tl Hudson's threat to ar- | rest Da is pure bluff, as Davis’ where2bouts are well-known to the ertire Atlanta police force. Two days ago, Hudson raided the homes of several Jewish members of the International Workers Order, ng to know whether they subscribed to the Daily Worker, how they got it, who collected for it. who vas section organizer of the Com- hunist Party, who was head of the ternational Labor Defense and ther questions. It has been definitely established that the young white attorney, A. W. Morrison, who volunteered his services in the Herndon defense, and turned out to be a stool-pigeon, together with Willie Leathers, agent provocateur and spy, expelled from the Communist Party, are working hand in hand with Hudson and are Tesponsible for the raids on the hhomes of Negro and white com- rades. Police Spy Revealed in Anti-Communist Provocation in Conn. THOMASTON, Conn.. June 4.— Raymond Healey, who was expelled from the Younz Communist League in 1931 as a provocateur and police spy, was arrested while cooking uv an anti-Communist provocation in the ©.C.C. Camp here. Officers of the camp claimed that Healey was believed to be distribut- ing Communist literature. Follow- ing his arrest, however, Healey ad- mitted tnat he was an officer in the Silver Shirts, was a member of the Brown Shirts and was also active in the Khaki Shirts and an anti- Jewish organization. 132 Win inSweepstakes ~But How Many Lose? NEW YORK.—Approximately 132 persons in and around New York won prizes in the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes cut of the many thou- nis that paid $2.60 each for a ance of picking a horse in the famous Epsom Downs derby ‘land. The fortunate 132 are assured of 42,608.50 each. Those holding the winning horse will win $152,100, Second $76,050, third $50,700, ‘The allure of these prizes is held out to the workers and middle classes in England, Ireland and America in order to make them bay for the maintenance of the Trish hospitals —a burden which italists and landlords of Eng- and and Ireland. SCRAP IRON CARGOES FOR JAPAN IN MONTH PANAMA.—Thirty-two cargoes of Scrap iron from Atlantic ports Passed through the Panama Canal enroute to Japan in May. POLICE ATTACK BULGARIAN DEMONSTRATION SOFIA. June 4—Police charged in) eS | LaGuardia admitted, proposing two | Prague Conference Adepts Protest | ‘ation ‘as Te-| } one injur to police headquarters, Itant Fascism,” say, Mayor LaGuardia of New York, who wants to put the burden of relief on the employed workers and starve the jobless. ‘Mayor Plans to ‘Make Masses for Relief Tax on Employed Is Proposed at Banker Meet in City Hall NEW YORK.—In an atmosphere outwardly calm, but surcharged with an inner tension created by the growing momentum of the un- employed workers’ struggles for ade- quate relief, Mayor LaGuardia ed- dressed a group of almost 100, among whom big bankers and poli- ticians predominated, “to discuss ways and means of financing relief work when the present city fund is depleted.” Police in groups and in rows guarded all entrances to City Hall Park, permitting no one to enter— Pay | ample proof of LaGuardia’s fear of another demonstration such as those of last week, which forced the Board of Estimate to appropriate $17,750,000 for relief on Friday. In his half-hour address, La- | Guardia further revealed this fear by stressing the fact that “it is economical to provide*for the un- employed in a proper manner,” in order to safeguard the security of the banker-rule of the city. “A large unit of the unemployed will be on our hands for some time,” alternatives for the raising of re- lief: long-term borrowing—or the “pay-as-you-go” system. He immediately declared his preference for the latter method, (Continued on Page 2) I Died Every 62 Hours of Hunger in New York in 1934, Says Report NEW YORK.—A study of th of the largest hospitals in the city reveals that 139 starved or died of malnutrition in 1933, one every 62 hours, according to a survey made by “Better Times,” a@ publication of the Welfare Council. In all, 697, cases were treated at the ten hospitals. The majority of the 139 who died, the report states, were la- borers. There were also artists, newspaper men, actors and teachers. The majority of the men were in their forties and’ fifties, but some were not more than 20 years old. N, Y. Seansen, To Picket Nazi Consulate on ‘Wednesday Noon Over Europe | hundred seamen, meeting at |day night under the auspices trial Union, voted unani- mously to picket the German | Consulate, 17 Battery Pl. at noon | Wednesday to demand the release |of Thaelmann, Torgler and other |leaders of the Communist Party of | Germany whom the Nazis are pre- tioner. | Picketing of the Consulate, which began May 23, has been partici- | pated in by thousands of New York | Trade | | Workers and intellectuals. |unions and other mass organiza- 2S sap DELEGATIONS GROW | | Protest Actions Spread | NEW YORK. -—Several| | South and Whitehall Sts. Sun- | of the Marine Workers Indus- | Nazi Paper Asks waelf fi | R | Heithies Ghuidkenty in SRE MELEter ates, of May 19, 1934, Goering, who fa’ Dimitroff, must find Ernst Thaelm: By VERN SMITH Daily Worker Moscow Correspondent MOSCOW, June 4.—A_ second group of 230 members ofthe Aus~- trian Schutzbund, the Republican Defense Corps, arrived in Moscow ; tions have sent delegations prctest- 1 from Nego- | ing the Nazi conspiracy to rus! se i pepe ere s Thaelmann through a sneedy trial They were joyfully welcomed all to the executioner’s block, and de- manding the release of Thaelmann and other anti-fascist fighters. eee ie ; ISTANBUL—Athens workers j welcomed Goering’s arrival there | with a roar of protest against the Nazi atrocities and demands for the release of Ernst Thaelmann and cther anti-fascist fighters. | Indignation against Goering and |the Nazi regime was exoressed not |only by the workers, but among | broad strata of the middle classes. The newspaper “Anarxartikos,” |made a sharp attack on Hitler and Goering, and printed a caricature |of Goering with the caption: “Any- | one following me should bring his gallows with him.” The paper reported that the gov- jernment took extraordinary mea- sures for the protection of Goering jond that he was kept surrounded by a cordon of police “as if he had jthe plague.” When Goering visited jthe grave of the Unknown Soldier on May 19, and laid a wreath on it, he was guarded by several hun- ;Gred police. On the same day a | demonstration against German fas- |cism was organized by the workers Athens. | The Greek Anti-Fescist League |has issued an appeal to the toil- ‘ing masses of Greece to protest jagainst the Thaelmann “trial” and jto agitate for the struggle for Thaelmann’s release. PRAGUE, June 4—The illegal National Conference of the officially | Prohibited National Congress jAgainst Fascism unanimously edopted a resolution demanding the \freedom of Thaelmann, and re- | Solved upon a manifesto for Thael- ‘mann and Rakesi, Hungarian Com- muniat leader, and a message to the Paris World Conference Against War and Fascism. The conference (Continued on Page 2) SAAR PLEBISCITE JAN. 13 SAARBRUECKEN.—T he a n- nouncement that the Council of the | League of Nations today approved | mittee of Three, Setting the date of j the Saar Plebiscite for Jan. 13, 1935, provoked no surprise. | | in front of the German Embassy in | the recommendations of the Com-' | the way to Moscow. Men and wo- men workers in the Soviet plants | saluted the Schutabunders with up- ‘raised fists and “Red Front” as the festively decorated train passed through. As the train slowed down in the Moscow station upraised fists jand flying banners appeared from the train windows. | At the station were representa- tives of the Central Executive Com- mittee of the U.S.S.R., the Red Aid |and the Central Council of Trade Unions. With these’ were the first |group of Schutzbunders, previously | arrived. With the band playing the | “International,” the Schutzbunders ; jumped from the train, and greeted ; With handshakes and hugs their comrades of the/yarricade fights in Austria. | They had last been together when /under arrest in Ozechosloyakia; now | they were met again as. free cit-| went to their hotel in special motor | y by the} izens in a free country, the country which had not only given them a | refuge but also was giving them the ‘ope for Thaelm ee en t den Strang Satigteit Shilmanns “Ripe for the Rope—Reyelations of Thaelmann’s Activity in Mos- cow,” is the lynch headline in General Goering’s “National-Zeitung” by the united power of the international working class, | M scow Welcomes 2nd | Schutzbunder Group ; Paring to turn over to the execu- | ann {n Stesten 2er Hern MeIDOD Ian tne hae MSM et ones. + ited in his satanic effort to behead ann torn from his murderous grasp | chance to participate in the great task of socialist’ construction with | the toilers of the U.S.SR. Schutzbunders Class-Brothers A huge meeting, under the chair- German Communist! Defies Nazi Police; Tells of Torture |HIS FOOD STOLEN | Saar Delegation Breaks Through Isolation | SAARBRUECKEN, June 4. |—“TI am and have been beat- en!” Ernst Thaelmann, im- prisoned leader of the Ger- man Communist Party, told the first delegation to see him since his arrest by the Nazis more than a year ago. | The delegation of three; Saar coal miners, one a member | of the Communist Party, one a So- cialist Party member, and one un- organized politically, all elected by shaft meetings of their mines, suc- | ceeded in breaking through the wall of isolation and silence that the Nazis have built up around the he- | STORM manship of the representatives of the Central Executive Committee jand the Red Aid, took place in the| enormous station square, filled with delegates from plants and factories | in the proletarian capital. Speakers | represented the Central Executive | | Committee, the Red Aid, the Trade| Unions, the foreign workers in Mos- | cow plants, and the first and second | Sroup of, Schutzbunders. | All the speeches emphasized that |the Schutzbunders were not guests | but class brethren of the workers of | the Soviet Union, joining hands| | with them in the building of so- | | clalism. | Representatives of the Schutz- bunders stressed the fact that the defeat of the Austrian proletariat | was due to the lack of revolutionary leadership with a definite object. Victory, they emphasized, would have been possible only under the |leadership of the Communist Party of Lenin and Stalin. Afterward, the busses, hailed on the wa toilers of Moscow, who lined streets to greet them, the ‘US. Leads Fight on Litvinoff Peace Plans at Geneva | Roosevelt’s Ambassador Blocks Plan; Aids Hitler Gov't |personal Ambassador, Norman Davis, today took up the leadership ‘of the fight against the proposals of Maxim Litvinoff, Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union, for establishing machinery to guarantee peace, Davis, supporting Chairman Ar- | journment, which were supported by the British representative Eden, jsought to block consideration of | Litvinoff's proposals that pacts be | made for “mutual assistance” of na- |tions, for transforming the arms | conference into a permanent peace conference, and for the study of the Soviet definition of what constitutes “an aggressor nation.” Litvinoff’s proposals were made after his proposals for universal dis- | GENEVA, June 4.—Roosevelt’s | \thur Henderson's proposals for ad- | Cops Jail Worker _ Leaving Trial of 10 Demonstrators Workers Again Barred | From Attendance | at Trial NEW YORK. — Police seized a young worker who was leaving the preliminary hearing at the trial of the ten workers arrested after the) May 26th demonstration at 50 La- fayette St. While the young work-| ers was being taken into custody,| Edward Kuntz, International Labor | Defense attorney, | Schutzbunders roic leader of the German working class. They state: “We delegates are firmly con- vinced that the German govern- ment gave us permission to see Thaelmann and speak to him un- der the pressure of the tremen- dous campaign throughont the world for Thaelmann’s release.” The Nazi Secret Service State | Police allowed the delegation to ask Thaelmann only six questions, other questions being prohibited. “When we demanded the right to ask him whether he was man- handled or tortured, the Nazi po- lice answered, ‘That is a political question and cannot be allowed,’ “ the delegates asserted. “We were expressly warned that if we asked any questions besides those dictated to us, we would also be jailed as political prisoners. “Finally we got to see Thael- mann. We could not avoid the im- pression that they had also dic- tated the answers that Thaelmann | gave us, just as they had dictated our questions. | “But the interview proved that | Theelmann—in spite of the man- | acing situation he is in—refuses to | knuckle under, his unflinching an- | swers revealed this. | “Thaelmann said: ‘It is impos- | sible to get along on the food I get ihere. If I didn’t buy other food, | with the money my wife sends me, |I could not exist. I get mail only from my closest relatives. I know that hundreds of workers wrote me on my birthday recently, but only three were given to me.’ | “The prison officials then called on Thaelmann to walk up and down in front of us, to show us that he was uninjured. Thaelmann ignored (Continued on Page 2) SWISS POLICE ATTACK COMMUNISTS ZURICH, June 4.—Forty-one workers were arrested yesterday fol- | lowing clashes with police when) | they demonstrated in front of the) Ch Steel Union in elegation Call for United ———-* iefs’ Sell-Out Strike Action oe * Demand MassPicketing: General Strike Till All Demands Are Won EWSPAPER | Strong Group for Fight to Victory Special tm the Deily Worker TOLEDO, June 4.— With aid of a secret vote by ballot, | Ramsey, business agent of the A. F. of L, Auto Union, put his new sell-out scheme, but the strikers’ mass indignation after the meeting forced him to withhold gning of this settlement. The new” agreement calls for a 5 per cent increase, open shop, no guar- antee against discrimination, and no guarantee of employment for all strikers. This sell-out acceptance was an- nounced by the press before the union vote was taken. The Auto- Lite Company announced in the over | Sunday press that the plant is to be reopened with scabs—strikers to be rehired when needed through an employment office one week after the plant reopens. Strikers ex- présséd mass opposition to the sell- out and will meet tonight to vote down the new proposals. A strong union opposition group is prepared to fight tonight for all original demands and to call for resumption of mass picketing also to initiate. a general through a walkout of Tole“ son workers who refused their agreement until the Lite strikers’ demands are cepted. The Auto-Lite strikers’ delegation stormed the office of the Toledo Blade editor and demanded a re- traction of the fake strike settle- ment story. Steel Firms String Barbed Wire, Arm Thugs With Guns Pinchot Ready to Call Out Militia To Break Strike WASHINGTON, D. C., June 4— Steel companies are building barbed wire entanglements around their plants and arming guards with machine guns in preparations to break the approaching steel strike, it was reported here today. Gov- ernor Pinchot, who mentioned th activity, hinted that state troopers and guards would be called out, when he said “the state (of Penn- to sign Auto- ac- Observers pointed out that in|@"mament were rejected by all the demanded of | ; : ena ates Deputy Inspector J. E. Wall that) city jai . Sylvania) is ready to handle what- ' ‘: Fi y jail demanding the release of |**" ‘a a the police keep their hands off this A ever trouble may develop. The young worker. “I hold you person- thelr leaders, “ | arming of these company guards ally ,responsible for the safety of| Police had arrested leading Com-| and the wire entanglements taking this prisoner,” Kuntz said, “We are| munists earlier in the day when) piace in steel towns in Pinchot’s not through with your department|Socialis.s called an Anti-Fascist state are continuing without any yet. Let me remind you that the) meeting. | steps by Pinchot to prevent them. American Civil Liberties Union is}; Communists attended, but when! In some steel towns additional conducting an investigation of po-| permission to speak was denied to| guards are being hired and large | inal proceedings against the police| Struggle Against War and Fascism | built inside the mills. lice brutality and will institute crim-| the representative of the League for | bunkhouses and kitchens are being) spite of the opposition of the Com- | , Munists, who polled 60,000 votes in ‘the last Peopie’s Council elections, the victory of the Germans was a | foregone conclusion, but the League | Council is not absolutely bound by the plebiscite vote. Nazi Militia Hears Rosenberg Demand Conquest of Soviets Special te the Daily Worke> MOSCOW, April 4 (By Radio). — Under the heading, “Fascist Provo- cateurs,” “Pravda,” central organ of the Communist Party of the So- viet Union, exposes the real sub- stance of the speech of Alfred Ro- senberg, Hitlers personal repre- sentative for foreign affairs. Rosenberg spoke at Lubeck, out- lining Fascist Germany’s program of imperialist expansion toward the East. “While the British advocates of Fascist Germany proclaim Ger- many’s ‘peaceful’ tendencies, at the Geneva Conference and in the Lon- sretion 0 “In the public square at Lubeck, and at the congress of the ‘North- ern Society,’ the unchanging Rosen- berg, faithful shadow of the most responsible leaders of official Ger- many, delivered a speech before the regular troops and detachments of Police and storm troopers, the extensive plans of the ‘inten- translated into ordinary human language, is the program of the (feizure of the Baltic countries and “the Danube territory, “This program is supplemenied by the usual vulgar ‘philosophy’ ex- (Continued on Pane §) “Rosenberg once again outined sive race of Europeanism,’ which, | capitalist countries. His proposals for partial disarmament were also rejected. Davis’ actions against the Lit- | vinoff proposals leaves the way open | for the return of Hitler Germany. | to the discussion. Hitler is striv- \ing to cement a united anti-Soviet front in Europe, lf || Communist Organizer in So. Illinois Is Held for Aiding Strikers || CHICAGO, June 4—Ralph Shaw, section organizer of the Communist Party in Southern | Illinois, is being held in Belle- | ville on a frame-up vagrancy charge. His arrest comes as a direct result of his militant ac- tions in the Knapp - Monarch strike in Belleville. The Com- munist Party and the Young '| Communist League members have been among the most active on the picket lines there. The arrest follows closely on the framing of eleven workers in Nokomis last week-end and is part of the same genera] cam- paign of terror against the | struggling workers of Southern Tilinois. \ H Party, the workers are more than’ Washington and First Ave, (Continued on Page 2) they organized a jail demonstra- | tion. Mills are increasing their output, | it was openly admitted, in order to fill orders on their books, and build reserves in view of the strike. The statement in New York of Browder Will Speak on Toledo, "st Yon 190" ses Minneapolis St } | | TOLEDO, Ohio, June 4—Hun- dreds of Auto-Lite and Bingham Logan Gear strikers are expected to |attend the mass meeting Wednes- | (day when Earl Browder, General, 'Secretary of the Communist Party | will speak on the lessons of the | Minneapolis and Toledo strike | struggles. . The meeting will be held in the Moose Temple, corner of Cherry and | Ontario, at 8 p.m. Since Friday’s “meeting called by the A. F. of L. where 20,000 | workers heard John William- son, district or- | ganizer of the ‘Communist Earl Browder stitute, which claims that the over- whelming majority of the 430,000 steel workers want the company union, shows that the U. S. Steel corporation and other companies ever anxious to hear the Communist | the A sures pt me aoe fis ere EL ie as toa situation. | inion on the steel workers. The Shopgate meetings are being held at/ steel institute declares that “col- the Chevrolet, Overland, Dura,! American Can, plants. Twenty thousand leafets have been distributed to popularize) the meeting. * f 4 Detroit Meeting Thursday DETROIT, June 4.—Earl Brow- der, general secretary of the Com-| munist Party, will speak on “The) OTTAWA, Canada (FP).—To ef- meaning of the Class War in Min- fect a saving of $22,147,000 in op- Neapolis and Toledo,” at a mass’ erating expenses last year, the Ca- meeting Thursdey at Finnish | nadian Pacific and Canadian Na- Workers’ Hall, 5969 Fourteenth St./tional railways slashed $19,919,000 William Weinstone, Michigan Dis-| from their payrolls, the Dominion trict secretary, will be chairman. | Bureau of Statistics reports. About ea ae | 70,000 workers have been eliminated MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., June 4— from the two systems since 1928. Earl Browder, gencral secretary of |the Communist Party, will speak here on the “Lessons of the Min-| neapolis and Toledo Strikes,” on June 10th, at the Gayety Theatre, rike Struggles A. means the company unicn. Canadian Pacific Cuts Wages, Fires Workers The proletarian revolution can not take place without the forcible destruction of the bourgeois State machine and its replacement by a new machine.—Lenin, Gendron Wheel | lective bargaining” under the N. R. | S.M.W.LU. Delegates at Capital, Expose Tighe’s Scabbery SEE WAGNER TODAY Spang of Committee of Ten, Confused on NRA BULLETIN WASHINGTON, June 4.—Roose- velt, told his lieutenants in Con- gress this afternoon that the Wagner company union bill must be passed before Congress ad- journs, it is reported. Roosevelt took this action in order to place the government in a position to forcibly break the coming stee! strike, By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker Washin-ton Burean) WASFINGTON, D.C., June 4.—N. R .A. Administrator Hugh S. Johnson held secret conferences today with Wil- liam W. Irvin, president of the U. S. Steel Cornoration, and with Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward F. McGrady, | Johnson's No. 1 strikebreaker of jthe New as union repre- Deal sentatives arrived to confer on the national strike scheduled for June 16 Pat Cush, National President of the Steel and Metal Workers Union, arrived today ahead of a large dele egation which will come in tomors row, He issued a statement declar- ing that “The workers in the steel mills are welcoming the united- front strike movement.” Meet Wagner Tomorrow William J. Spang. district prest- dent of the Amalgamated Associa< tion (A. F. of L.) at Carnegie’s plant at Duquesne, declined to com- ment on the united-front movee ment. but asserted that “organiza- tionally. steel workers are in a much better position for a. steel strike today than they were at the beginning of the strike of 1919,” Cush announced that he and James Egan. national secretary of the S.M.W.L.U., and other repre- sentatives from McKeesport. Brad- dock, Ambridge, Pittsburgh and Chicago, have an appointment to- morrow with Chairman Wagner of the National Labor Board Cush also announced that the S.M.W.LU. leaders tomorrow will renew their united-front proposals to Spang and other rank and file delegates to the A. A. convention who are part of the Strike Com- mittee of Ten. He said “The S.M.W.LU. is just as de« termined as ever to carry on a united front with the organized workers in other unions as well as unorganized workers—not only for union recognition, but also for the economic demands of the steel workers.” In answer to the Iron and Steel Institute's statement of last night, attacking independent unionism on the ground that the A. A. is at- | tempting to foist itself upon steel | workers and insisting on the com- | pany union, Cush asserted: “The A. A. is not the only force that the steel barons and the government |have to reckon with. The SM.W.LU, | 88 well as the unorganized workers, and even the honest workers in the company unions, who are coerced into retaining their membership in these company unions, are forces the steel barons have to contend with. We call upon all steel workers to unite for joint strike action.” Cush aiso met flat-footedly the efforts of Michael Tighe, Internas don Page 2) CZECH GOV'T IN DRIVE ON COMMUNISTS PRAGUE, June 4—Communist headquarters were raided and. drive on Communists initiated here last week, it was revealed today. A Communist pamphlet entitled, “Not Masaryk but Lenin,” was the excuse for the repression, authori- | ties stated. \| 700 Textile Workers | Strike in Troy, N. Y.;, | Other Mills Affected | ( TROY, N. Y., June 4.—Seyen , hundred textile workers of the; Hell Hartwell Co. went on strike , today demanding wage increases. ; The strike is expected to spread , to other textile mills in the vicinity.