The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 6, 1934, Page 1

HENRY FORD'S KINGDOM Read Erskine Cal Detroit on the Idwell’s Series on Feature Page! Vol. XI, No. 135 <&* Daily QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Entered as second-cleas matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1898, ‘YEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1934 WEATHER: Rain, sligi y warmer AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING ASS DAILY NEWSPAPER (Eight Pages) Price 3 Cents 'NO “ARBITRATION,” STEEL WORKERS TELL SEN. WAGNER Many OrganizationsBehind (Powerful Drive In the U.S. To Free Ernst Thaelmann Broadest United Front, Under Way Against | Hitler Fascism HOLD MASS TRIALS Stream of Resolutions, Meets Against Fascism NEW YORK.— A stirring, | nation-wide campaign to save the life of Ernst Thaelmann, imprisoned and tortured lead- er of the Communist Party of Germany, as the spearhead of the widest united front struggle in the United States against bloody Hitlerism, is now under way in the United States. The impressive and far-reaching drive has been organized by the Committee To Aid the Victims of | German Fascism, the International | Labor Defense, Workers Interna- | tional Relief, American League Against War and Fascism, Trade Union Unity League, Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners. and the Marine Workers Industrial Union. Supporting to the fullest extent all of the measures of this united front action against Nazi rule in Germany, and against the threat- ened ex2cution of Thaelmann, will) be the Communist Party, with all of its forces. Mass Trials One of the outstanding features | of this huge campaign will be the} conducting of mass trials of the Nazi rule in Germany to expose the frame-up torture and execution methods of the Hitler regime. Besides a flood of resolutions, which will be presented at every meeting, at every strike, at every: workers’ gathering, a stream of del- | egations will be sent to all German tse) tes throughout the United States. Special efforts will be made to obtain delegates from A. F. of L. locals and cultural orgenizations. Copies of all protest resolutions, cables and telegrams should be sent to the Committee to Aid the Vicifms of German Fascism, 870 Broadway, New York City, in order that they should be given the widest publicit It is significant to remember that the recent Nazi secret: police report | on anti-fascist activity paid the e . | tions: ERNST THAELMANN Pilla Sivike Meet to Fight for Thaelmann N. Y. Workers Continue to Flood Nazi Consul With Protests PHILADELPHIA, June 5.—Swell- ing the growing thunder of world- wide protest against the Nazi plot to tush Ernst Thaelmann, German Communist leader, to a speedy trial and the executioner’s ave, Phila~ delphia workers will hold a mass demonstration on the waterfront at 7 o'clock this Thursday morning for the release of Thaelmann and sup- port for the strike preparations of the longshoremen. Speakers, including’ H. Wickman, Mac Harris, E. Bender, A. W. Mills and H. M. Wicks, will deal with the similarity between the violent sup- pression of workers’ rights and trade unions, and persecution of the Jewish people in Nazi Germany, and the use of troops and injunc- under the Roosevelt “New Deal” to crush the strike struggles of American workers, smash their unions, and the murderous lynch terror against the oppressed Negro | ‘Fascist Plots Financed Here By Nazi Envoy | Hitler Ambassador in Washington Pays for Propaganda Confirming the charges made by the Daily Worker in its exposures |of Nazi activities in this country, it was revealed today before a Con- | gressional Committee that Hans/ | Luther, German Ambassador to the | United States, has been financing | the spread of Fascist propaganda here. The revelation was made by Rev. Frances Gross, Hungarian Mihister of Peth Amboy, N. J., who described how Luther had paid him for the | printing and publication of a Fas- | cist pamphlet to be distributed to |members of Congress. ; | The minister received $600 on one | occasion, he testified. The New} | York German Consulate office also | figured in the negotiations for the | pamphlet, it was testified. The German Ambassador Luther, has thus far refused to make any comment on the above testimony. Recently the Daily Worker made | public authentic documents con- | taining proof that the Fascists were | carrying on organized activity in this | |country. In addition, the Datly | Worker published the full text of a | | letter describing a plot of the Nazis to murder Van der Lubbe, the wit- | ness in the Leipzig arsom trial, and to inoculate the Communist pris- oners with syphilis germs. This | evidence has never been denied by | the Nazis. The evidence is growing to show that the Hitler government is en- gaged in a widely-ramifying net of Fascist activity in this country cal- culated to stir up race hatred, anti- | semitism, and a terrorist campaign | against the revolutionary move- | ment. Police Help Nazis Here Beat German. | \ Long. Over 8,000 striking San Francisco longshoremen and sympathizers parading up Market Street to the Civic Center Sunday, where shoremen Take Frisco Streets + moctanaia df & Bier they roared down the shipowners’ plan to call off the strike. Another N.Y. Ship’s Crew Walks Out 15,000 Cheer General Strike Proposal in San Francisco BULLETIN HOUSTON, Tex. June 5.— Strikebreakers fired 75 shots into the longshoremen’s picket line here, killing one of the pickets, W. A. Swann. * . NEW YORK.—Seamen of the S.S. Missourian, an American- Haweian liner, walked off at Pier 6, . Mass Picketing to Force Shipowners to Pay Crew's Wages NEW YORK.— Because the crew of the S.S, Texan walked out on strike, the United States Shipping Commissioner refused to order the American-Hawaian Green Signs Infamous Pact With Oil Corp. Pledges “No Strike,” Steamship Company to pay Accepts Company wages due to the seamen. | Gani is To force the company to pay || nions the men, the Marine Workers arr WASHINGTON, D. C., June 5.— The Sinclair Oil Company has “recognized” the Oil Field, Gas| Well and Refinery Workers Union | (A. F. of L.) in a one-year agree- ment whose provisions mark the rapid approach of the A. F. of L. | bureaucracy to open fostering of company unionism. Industrial Union is setting up picket lines in front of the American-Hawaian offices, at 90 Broad Street, and at the office of the U. S. Shipping Commis- sioner, at South Ferry. The pick- || etnig will start at 7 o’clock this morning. Workers in Mills Ready to Strike, _ Steel Union Says ] | Milk Cost to Rise One Cent a Quart | Beginning Monday | oon | ALBANY, N. Y., June 5—The | price of milk throughout New | York state will be increased by one cent a quart beginning Mon- | day. The rise, which comes at | the opening of the hot summer | season, when milk is more than } ever needed by poor families, was ordered today by Agriculture Commissioner Charles H. Bald- win and the State Control Advi- sory Committee. AFL Leaders Force Toledo Strikers Bac Scabs Get Preference; Company Union Is Recognized TOLEDO, Ohio, June 5,—The A. F. of L. leaders have finally forced the sell-out agreement over on the |Electric Auto-Lite strikers and driven them back to work, after |a stormy four-hour session of the Strikers last night. | The strikers, victorious on the ;mass picket lines, were defeated | by the maneuverings of the A. F. of L. leaders, who succeeded in | their strategy of splitting them up jand blocking a general strike for their demands. Under the agree- ment only 94 of the 800 strikers are | permitted to return to work when |the plant re-opens Tuesday as scabs are given the ‘preference in the re- hiring. The scabs are given recog- nition of their company union. At Monday night's session in Memorial Hall, Thomas Ramsey, head of the A. F. of L. auto union, and the other A. F. of L. leaders divided up the strikers for the first time, into three ‘meetings. These leaders forced the workers of each factory on strike, all of which are | A, A. Committee of Ten | Admits Backing | Mike Tighe STEEL TRUST ARMS | Roosevelt Aims at 2nd Auto Sell-Out By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker Weshington Bureau) WASHINGTON, June 5.— From President Roosevelt down, government officials |today worked toward a steel |sell-out just like that forced Jupon automobile workers — but 18 delegates representin |the Steel and Metal Wor tr |dustrial Union's 15,000 memb: from many points, warned ther: this will not work in the scheduled tional steel st: 5 ‘We are making every effort. to | unite with the ran nd file cf the | Am: mated Association (A. F. of L),” the S. Mi W. I. U. told Chairman Wagner of the National Labor Board in a prepared sta jment. They added that the s jtion cannot be met “ | steel labor boards” nor thr “fair elections promised | dent Roosevelt.” | Committee of Ten “Back of Tiche” | The rank and file commit the A. A. also declared ti “would not accept’ any board settlement. They confessed jin a general press conference, how- ever, that. they are ‘working with Mike Tighe, International President of the A. A., whose strike-stalling | tactics were responsible for the A.A. |convention’s electing the committee jof ten to guard the membership's interests. Jake Entinger of the A. A. told by |the press: “We are back of Tighe |100 per cent. We are not here to | fight Tighe.’ The S. M. W. I. U. delegates sought to meet the A. A. representa- | tives to renew united front strike | movement proposals after a morn- | ing conference with Rey. Francis J. | Haas of the National Labor Board. | Haas was especially interested in | the S. M. W. I. U's united front activities. He attempted to pump OE jon to the flood of |Bush Terminal, Brooklyn, yesterday C ke P OK. owned by the same company, to ee peetean pouring into} people in this country. Sailor: Shoot On | morning following the alee of the our t uts | The agreement, engineered per-|meet separately. Ramsey further | (Continued on Page 2) Germany from all over the world. * * * ? e@ \crew of the S.S. Texan of the same | sonally by William Green and split the were vy cree cared ” SLOGANS Protests Pouring in on Nazi's | Pa ae line, which walked out Saturday = On NY Bakers Harry Sinclair, outlaws all strikes, | V@8* increases e women, At Pl i W k Q . ss | the Auto-. vorkers The central slogans for the Consulate Albert Ballin Seaman in fueebwnkes ee by the Mane refers all disputed grievances to:| Geer tiene tmnt ta sear tl 1a. orkers campaign worked out are: (1) NEW YORK.—Protest telegrams Jail; Worker Put “ j one union representative and the Against trying Thaelmann before the special Nazi execution court, (2) free defense and safe conduct for witnesses; (3) admission of representatives of world public opinion; (4) abolition of the retro- active power of all decisions under Nazi law; (5) public pleading of the case; (6) freedom for Thael- mann, down with the fascist mur- der plans; (7) Th2elmann is fight- ing for freedom for all—everyone must fight for Thaclmann’s free- dom; (8) workers, farmers, intel- lectuals, members of the middle class, fight to save and free Thaelmann! | Efforts are being made to extend the continuous picketing now going on at the German consulate to the German Embassy in Washington, and to consulates in the leading cities of the United States. Peti- tions for the collection of hundreds of thousands of signatures demand- ing the release of Thaelmann will be circulated among all workers’ organizations. Under the leadership of the John Reed Club, special cultural groups will be organized, composed of writers. intellectuals, artists, to rally thousands of their colleagues into the service of this gigantic campaign. The cbject of the entire campaign will be to bring before the largest masses in the United States the situation in Germany under Hitler fascism, and how the Nazi rulers, faced with rising revolutionary struggles, are beginning a new cam- paign of bloody terror, to be ini- tiated with the threatened execu- tion of Thaelmann. The impetus for this energetic drive is the alarming reports that come from Germany, which show beyond question that the Nazis, in the face of their growing difficulties and the ising anti-fascist wave, are determined first of all to rush the farcical trial of Thaclmann, im- mediately followed by his execution. Only the most energetic, the deepest and broadest campaign, rallying all anti-fascist forces, can save Thaelmann from the ax-men, “and block 2 new reign of the bloody terror in Germany. Gg ER staid SSR SEIZE VIENNA C. P. PRESS VIENNA, June 5.—Seven under- ground printing plants were seized Yesterday and attributed by police! to Communists. . More than 50.900 Iscficts were and resolutions continued pouring in on the German Consulate at 17 Battery Place yesterday, denounc- ing the murder plot against Thael- mann, and demanding the release of the heroic leader of the German working class, and other anti-fas- cist fighters, and a halt to the brutal torture of Thaelmann by his Nazi jailers. In addition to protest telegrams from mass organizations, a protest was sent bu hundreds of workers (Continned on Page 2) Hold All 10 May 26 Demonstrators for General Sessions To Try Lechay, Elwell Tomorrow; ILD Ap- peals for Witnesses NEW YORK.—Magistrate August Dreyer, sitting in a court to which all workers were barred, while police surrounded the building, yesterday refused to grant a motion to reduce the charges of the ten May 26 dem- onstrators to “disorderly conduct,” and ordered all ten bound over to the Grand Jury for General Ses- sions jury trial. In summing up the defense, Joseph Tauber, I. L. D. attorney, showed how every witness called by the state had given testimony which conflicted with that of all the others, had on cross-examination given the lie to their testimony, and that the state had failed to estab- lish the charge of riot in any case. The cases of Lechay, the two workers who were clubbed and ar- rested at the May 27 hearing when Dreyer ordered the police to clear the court, and the case of Joseph Elwell, who was arrested on a charge of “disorderly conduct” at the May 26 demonstration, were held over for trial at the Tombs Court, Franklin and Center streets, Thursday, June 7, at 10 a.m. The LL.D. appeals to all witness to these two cases to see Joseph Tauber at his offices at 401 Broad- fcund in one of the plants, i way immediate!y, and to epos-r at the Tombs Court on the trial date. in Hospital NEW YORK.—Nazi thugs, assisted by New York police, in Yorkville, yesterday bru- tally beat Theodore Eggail- ing, a German sailor of the! Albert Ballin, and three of | x F | | his friends. One worker, now | Workers Industrial Union. The Texan, the first ship to strike here in support of the longshore- | men, sailed Sunday with a scab crew | which was driven aboard the vessel Saturday night at the point of guns by police. Seamen of the Missourian, upon learning. that the Texan sailed, walked out in protest against the action of the shipowners and the police. Immediately after the crew of the employer, and sets no minimum |wage standard for the workers. | Under this bogus recognition the} TUUC Issues Call To /4-F- of L. officials get a check-off, 5 fi ak |coming from the workers wages. All Unions To Unite | In a joint statement announcing i s+ |this company union agreement, To-Smash Court Writ |G oany cr decied tant | the contract “provides an amicable | Injunction NEW YORK.—Justice Leander B. |adjustment of disputes without | Faber’s vicious injunction against! strikes or lockouts.” They declared Local 505 of the Bakery and Con-/| that they hoped the “agreement fectionery Workers’ Union, which | might establish a formula for in- | in Bellevue Hospital under the | Missourian struck, a telegram was name of “John Doe, was shot in/received by the New York branch | the leg by a policeman who came|of the Marine Workers Industrial legalizes the open shop and places a ban against united struggle against injunctions, was upheld in dustrial procedure that would put | an end to industrial warfare with | its he: urdens on employers and | to the aid of the Nazi gangsters. Eggailing is in jail on a disorderly conduct charge. three workers began when they passed-a Nazi beer joint and hang- out, Schubert hall, 288 East 84th St. The bartender, a member of the Nazi Society, Friends of the new Germany, recognized one of the group passing the saloon as a member of the anti-Nazi German workers’ club of 1501—3rd Avenue, and began to yell, “What the hell are you doing here!” He then called for help from Nazi sym- pathizers inside the beer-hall. The first to come out was Willy Dreh- kopf, ex-pug, and bouncer. With him came ten others. They began to beat Eggailing and his two friends, who fought back valiantly. The fighting moved over to 88th St., where two workers joined the three being assaulted by the Nazis. A cop came to the support of the Nazi sympathizers who by this time numbered around 30. He began to beat those who were de- fending themselves from the Nazis attack. When “John Doe” tried to Tun away, the cop pulled his pistol and shot him in the leg. At the hospital it was reported he may also have a fractured skull. Johnson Slashes Pay Of Coal Miners in 4 Southwestern States WASHINGTON, D. C., June 5. —Genreal Johnson yesterday is- sued an order reducing the wages of the miners of Kansas, Mis- souri, Arkansas nad Oklahoma, under the coal code. The re- duction takes nace June 11. Jonncon reducsd wares below the seale set by the N.R.A. April 22nd, ¥ The unprovoked attack on the! | Union from the seamen’s strike (Continued on Page 2) U. S. Gov’t Sues for $500,000 for Lightship Damaged by Olympic NEW YORK.—The United States government yesterday filed suit in the Federal District Court for $500,- 000 against the White Star Liner Olympic, charging gross negligence, incompetence, inattention to duty and excessive and dangerous speed in the running down of the Nan- tucket Shoals Lightship on May 15, with a loss of seven lives. The government made no suit in the cases of those drowned. The claims that may be filed by families |of these, the Federal Attorney's of- fice said, will have to be civil ones. an ki P. For Communist Affiliation the Appellate Division in Brooklyn | employee. on Monday. | The agreement declares, “Ther This temporary injunction, issued |shall be no cessation of w upon application of the Standard| through strikes or lockouts during | Baking Co., is unparalleled in labor |the term of this agreement, which history. It not only prohibits workers |is for one year from June 1.” It | in the Standard Baking Co. plant|continues that if a worker has a from striking and picketing, but it| grievance he must first take the states that no other union can/ matter up locally with his “immedi- come to the aid of the Bakery|ate superior;” then the workers’ Workers’ Union, and makes it un-| committee should take it up with lawful for anyone to speak, write | the local superintendent. If then or otherwise communicate the idea | there is no agreement, “the chief that there is a strike in the plant. executive officer of the association ‘Phe trial on the baking com- shall have the right to confer with e 8 te the chairman of the executive com- Pany’s application for a povmanent | mittee of Consolidated Oil Corpora- injunction is still pending in the| tion.” Supreme Court. The Trade Union Unity Council has issued a call to all affiliated unions to rally into action at once and give the utmost support to the | workers in Local 505 in the fight to smash the injunction. The agreement declares that in matters affecting large numbers of kers “such dispute is re- ferred for settlement to. the chicf executive of the employer and the chief executive of the association. | In the event that they are una to arrive at a settlement, the dis- Youth Vote | Executive officer of Consolidated Oil | Corporation and the chief execu- | tive of the American Federation of Labor. If they are unable to ef- fect a settlement, they shall agree upen a method and procedure of LONDON, (By Mail).—A signal victory for those forces within the Independent Labor Party of Britain fighting for sympathetic affiliation with the Communist International was won recently, when the I. L. P, Guild of Youth Conference voted 18 to 12 to deciare its sympathetic adherence to the Young Communist International. The battle was not easily won. | Within the I. L. P. there is a) | united front of every enemy of the} | Communist Tricrnational amont | the lead “oon the ground of | | maintaining the ‘independence’ of! ¥ t ' ! arbitration for the settlement of the I. L. P. actually fight to wed bei dispute or grievance.” the mass ferment w:ihin the Party i ment mark: a from following the path st is teking,| forward in the appearance of Ure leading to the tanks of the Com-| hoe munist International. Fenner Brockway, the outstanding Green personally, as co-authors of f cut and out company union agree- member of the National Administra-| ments. The agreement robs the tive Council of the I. L. P., was/ workers of the right to win wage present at the Norwich I. L. P.,!increasss and better conditions, by Guild Conference, and used all his|denying them the right to strike efforts to threaten the youth, to/and forcing on them interminable baulldoze them and keep them from | arbitration boards and conference: voting sympatheite affiliation with|Grcen is m: a bid for th the Young Communist International | company union agresment to But to no avail, The delegates to place the egreement now in force in the largest oil com . who (all now haye company unions, (Continued on Pane &\ |pute is to be referred to the chicf | leaders of the A. F. of L, and of} re-| put up a strong opposition. Ram- Unit 2 t sey refused to allow a discussion on | A the agreement and a recount of the | e ms aims vete, which was close, The majority of the workers in| the Bingham Stamping and Logan | Gear are men and opposition was | strong. But the Auto-Lite settle-| ment was used to batter down the opposition and force acceptance of | the settlement in these two meet-| ings. Ramsey cleimed the settlement | as a victory. He said he was sur- | (Continued on Page 8) ‘Ford Fires 5,000 Workers As Auto Production Falls Militant Organizations Call Protest Meets for Monday Special to the Daily Worker DETROIT, June 5.—Ford Motor yesterday laid off 15 per cent of ts workers, over 5,000 in all. diction made by the Daily Work that the three-day Memorial Day shut-down of the Ford plant was | firmed. The layoff yesterday is undoubt- edly only the beginning of the workers as production declines | sharply. Ford, like other manu- |facturers is using the layoff threat to drive workers still harder in torrid weather. As a result, work- ers are collapsing daily on the job. |Mass layoffs at other auto fac- tories are continuing. During the last three weeks the Ternstedt Company, General Motors sub- sidiary, laid off 8,000 out of 11,000 workers in four plants. The Unemployment Council, with | { the prelude to layoffs is thus con- | discharge of thousands of Ford) ‘Labor Board S.K.F. Strikers Issue Call for Unity Against | Decision Special to the Daily Worker PHILADELPHIA, June 5.—Furi- ous at the attempt of the N. R. A. Regional Labor Board to smash the |Anti-Friction Bearing Workers | Union by a decision blacklisting 700 }men, 900 S. K. F. strikers today |called every union in the city to a united front conterence to or- |ganize effective protest action. | At a meeting last night, delegates representing 26 locals and 50,000 | workers, voted to hold a huge dem jonstration, on motion of D. Davis, @ the Tool and Die. Makers In- | dustrial Union. Immediately A. F, | L. delegates started pulling all sorts of strings to take the demonstration out of the hands of this united |front committee and turn it over jto the A. F. L. Central Labor | Union. Unwilling to give cause for ja split, ant yet unwilling to teke the committee entirely out of the picture, Mac Harris of the T. U. U. L. succeeded in carrying a motion that the conference meet again next | Monday and discuss action taken by. 0.-L. Us. During the heated discussion on | both motions A. F. L. delegates be- gan several attempts to swing the strikers. into the A. F. L. only to be met with heated opposition by several independent union delegates. “We came here to organize moral and financial support for the strik- ers, and not to listen to propaganda for the A. F. of L.” a delegate from |the Independent Industrial Marine and Shipbuilders’ Union said. Police Protect Scabs Telegrams of protest were sent lto President Roosevelt, General | Johnson, the Regional Labor Board ‘and National Labor Board. The S, K. F. workers have been support of the Auto Workers| on strike since March 12, for union Union, Communist Party end] recognition, cut in hours, and wage other organizations, are calling|increases. The police have prac- | city-wide demonstrations at relief stations next Monday, June 10 a. m. to demand adequate cash | relief for all ur red worke: and mere pay fer workers on re- lief jobs, 11,! ticed the most savage restrictions of picketing. Whole troops of them practically quarantining area of several blocks about the plent at k | Front and Erie, and conveying every | troey carrying scabs to work,