The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 7, 1934, Page 1

BARBUSSE ON THAELMANN! “Do You Know Thaelmann?” Begins on Feature Page This Saturday Vol. XI, N _136 a Entered as second-class matter New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 187% Daily .QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. at the Post Office at NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1934 (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) WEATHEE: Fair a ———————S ee AMERI CLASS DAILY CA’S ONLY WORKING NEWSPAPER (Six Pages) ind Cooler Price 3 Cents ‘STEEL STRIKE BREAKS OUT IN CHICAGO REPUBLIC MILL Nazi Agent Here Nazis Plot Death for Thaelmann to Stop Wa | Was Co-Worker Anti-Fascist Upsurge Of Matthew Woll cS Byoir Got $104,000 in Railway Bonds from German Gov’t QUIZ IN CAPITOL Woll Aided Byoir on Parties for President NEW YORK.—Revelations in Washington yesterday that Carl Bycir and Associates, 10 E. 14th St., were paid public- ity agents of the Nazi gov- ernment hired to disseminate anti-semitic propaganda in the! United States, recalled the fact that Carl Byoir was associated with Matthew Woll, vice-president of the American Federation of Labor, in publicizing the recent Presidential Balls throughout the country in honor of Franklin D. Roosevelt. In Washington yesterday Carl A. Dickey, one of Byoir’s press agents testified that the firm had received $108,000 from the German Federal Railways as payment for their Hitlerite propaganda in the United States. The sum of four thousand dollars in cash was paid the firm, Dickey testified, by Dr. Otto Kiep, at the time Ger- man Consul-General in New York. On Monday witnesses testified that Hans Luther, German Ambas- sador in the United States, had p nally paid for Nazi propaganda h Anthor of Presidential Ball Ballyhoo It was Byoir who conceived the idea of the Presidential Balls as a ballyhoo stunt for the “New Deal” program. This project met with the greatest enthusiasm among A. F. of L. leaders, particularly Woll, and the latter worked hand-in-glove with Byoir. Byoir’s role as a paid Nazi prop- agandist and his collaboration with Woll is particularly interesting in view of the bombastic displays of oratory at the recent convention of the’ A. F. of L. when William Green| and other A. F. of L. leaders en- gaged in verbal attacks against the Nazi governments, and urged adop- tion of a resolution calling for boy- cott of German goods. Besides working with Matthew ‘Woil and others in preparing publi- city for the Presidential Balls, Byoirs has served the bloody butcher Machado who was recently driven from Cuba by the revolutionary workers on the island; he aided Machado as an “advisor” while publisher of the Havana Evening Telegram and the Havana Post. During the imperialist war he served as associate chairman in George Creel’s Committee on Public Infor- mation, Woodrow Wilson's war- propaganda machine. Creel, until recently chairman of the Regional Labor Board in Cali- fornia which helped break the Imperial Valley strike, is now can- didate in the coming primaries for governor of California. Rabbi Stephen S, Wise and other leaders of professional Jewish activ- ities yesterday asserted that Byoir, Nazi propagandist, is a Jew “by race and blood, by the definition used by Hitler himself.” Used Ford Anti-Semitic Lies At the same reports from Wash- ington announced that Henry Ford’s anti-semitic campaign of several years ago is being utilized by the Nazi murder regime to whip up anti- semitic frenzy. At that time Ford publicized the notorious “Protocols of Zion” and carried on a venomous anti-semitic campaign in his paper, “The Dearborn Independent.” Ford’s office in Detroit, however, declares that it has protested the use of this material to the German government. The “protest” is said to have been transmitted by Harry Bennett, chief of the Service De- partment of the Ford Motor Com- pany and instigator of the Ford Massacre in 1932, Mob Led by Police Chief Drives LL.D. Attorneys From Hilisboro, Il. CHICAGO, June 6.—Mob violence was used to drive defense attorneys and representatives of the I. L. D. out of Hillsboro, Illinois, Tuesday, when first legal moves to free the ten arrested workers held there on framed up charges of conspiracy to overthrow the government. Andy Neuhoff, District Secretary of the I. L. D., and two lawyers were surrounded by a mob of mem- bers of the Anti-Horse Stealing As- sociation and the American Legion, led by Dr. Hoyt and the chief of lice, when they attempted to see e original complaints filed against the arrested workers, Judge Andrew J, Jayne refused the lawyers access to the documents and the mob lead- ers forced the group to leaye town under threats. 4A HANS LUTHER Officially is Ambassador to the U. S. from Germany. Actually he spends a good deal of his time spreading Nazi propaganda, it was stated recently at the Senate hearing. - Toledo Pact Keeps Men Out Of the Plants Wholesale Discrimina- tion as Result of Ram- sey Agreement Special to the Daily Worker TOLEDO, June 6.—Exactly as predicted, the settlement signed by Ramsey for the strikers in the Electric Auto-Lite plant, is result- i in wholesale discrimination st the striking workers, is was reported today by the $4 strikers who returned to work on Tuesday. And only ten strikers are scheduled to return to work on Wednesday. | Protesting strikers forced Ram- sey, A. F. of L. union leader, to go to the Commodore Perry Hotel with | a delegation of 200 strikers, where | Ramsey and a committee conferred with negotiator Taft and Miniger. The Unemployed Councils, the Communist Party and the Young Communist League issued special leaflets calling for mass picketing | and immediate general strikes for original demands to strikers at the hotel and Memorial Hall. Taft promised a reply fo strikers, who paraded in the streets to the hall. shouting “Out with all scabs. For mass picketing and general strike.” The Times reporter was ejected from the hall and chased two blocks by strikers. When Taft’s proposals proved unacceptable, the strikers forced Ramsey to call for mass picketing. Ramsey refused to put to a vote a motion for immediate mass picketing to shut the plant operating with a night shift, by adjourning the meeting and calling a picket line only for Wednesday morning. Five hundred strikers in the Picket line refused to accept Ram- sey’s proposal that only strikers employed prior to February 23 be re-employed immediately. After six hours and several proposals, STATEMENT OF CENTRAL COMMITTEE, COMMUNIST PARTY, U.S.A. WORKERS AND FARMERS OF THE UNITED STATES! NEW WAVE of revolutionary struggle is rising in Fas- cist Germany. Hitler, who demagogically promised the “restoration of prosperity to a Nationalist Germany,” has cut wages to below the level of unemployed relief for most of the workers, and imposed a staggering burden of new taxation for the middle classes and agricultural masses. The Nazi “campaign for re-employment” has utterly failed. With new inflation announced by the Nazi Finance Minister, starvation faces the German laboring population. A powerful anti-fascist line-up under the leadership of the Communist Party of Germany is rallying the masses for a new revolutionary offensive: for the overthrow of Nazi rule and the establishment of a Soviet Germany. The only answer the Nazis know for the complete collapse facing them is a new and more savage wave of terror. The new law establishing “People’s Courts” is a landmark in the development of this terror. Six thousand workers, the best leaders of the heroic underground Communist Party, face physical annihilation at the hands of these “courts,” which consist of promi- nent Nazis, appointed by Hitler himself. In these “People’s Courts” the accused are denied the most elementary rights of defense—counsel, open hear- ings, and appeal. These courts sweep aside all the usual procedure for presenting evidence. They can sentence revolutionaries to death after a mock trial of 24 hours. The Nazi papers proclaim that this new law is di- rectly aimed. at Ernst Thaelmann, longshoreman, courage- ous leader of the German Communist Party and the mil- lions of the German working class, for whom Thaelmann personifies the heroic struggle for the Communist way out. In the past, Thaelmann led the revoltitionary German working class in its solidarity support of the victims of American capitalist repression—Tom Mooney, Sacco and Vanzetti, the Gastonia strikers, and the Scottsboro boys. All those found a tireless defender in the person of our Comrade Thaelmann. Today, when the American working class is fighting the growing Fascism of the N. R. A. and the New Deal— in Toledo, Minneapolis, California, and Alabama—the Ger- man workers are fighting a heroic, winning fight against the spearhead of world fascism—the German Nazis. The Nazi press is concentrating a barrage of threats and lies upon Comrade Thaelmann, whom they declare is “ripe for the rope,” as the first victim of the new lynch ener Silent ! Fight to Save Him! On Demands of Free Thaelmann! | Prison, Berlin, was taken by the Nazi authorities more than a year ago Now, when Thaelmann is subject to constant torture, kept chained hand and foot in a lightless cell—when the world-wide mass demand for his release is reaching thunderous proportions—the Nazis have broadcast this picture as an attempt to give the impression that Thacl- mann is well-treated. of his fellow prisoners in the Nazi jails—wherever they come together: in their strike struggles, in their shops, This picture of Ernst Thaelmann, walking in the yard of Moabit | Steel | Committee ee 10 | Surrender, Has “No Plans” NRA MEETS OWNERS in |Second Auto Sell-out Is Planned, Say: By MARGUERITE YOUNG | (Daily Worker Washington Bu.) WASHINGTON, June 6. — Steel and Metal Workers In- |dustrial Union leaders 'home “to renew our prepara- tions for strike” today while members of the Committee of Ten of the Amalgamated As- sociation (A. F. of L.) silenti cooled their heels in a hotel, say- ing they had no plans, Government officials stood pat on the proposal to set up a steel labor board duplicate of the auto sell out. N.R.A. Administrator Hugh S. Johnson, after talking | things over with President Roose- velt, went to New York to confer with the Iron and Steel Institute }on procedure. With him went | Donald R. Richberg, N.R.A. Coun- | Sel, and Leon Henderson, Statisti- cal Director of the N.R.A. President Roosevelt informed the press he didn’t know anything about it except that Hugh John- | son was still negotiating. | ‘The Committee of Ten vehe- mently denied persistent rumors | that some kind of mediation board similar to the Auto Labor Board has been agreed upon. The S.M.W.LU. delegates de- clared in a statement issued as they left a two and a half hour went not terrified by the mobiliza- tion of more private armies, the conversion of certain plant de- partments into ice-boxes for food for strike-breakers, the | laying of barbed wire and the pesting of machine guns. These tion of the workers and their determination to siruggle—to or- SMWIU conference with National Board | members: “The steel workers are | “People’s Courts.” We have received from our German brother Party extremely alarming reports of imminent danger to Thael- mann’s life, together with urgent appeals for immediate action to save him from the Nazi hangmen. We call upon the workers of America to make the fight for Thaelmann’s freedom a vital part of all their daily struggle. Unless the workers raise the demand for the liberation of Thaelmann and of the tens of thousands Ing class! off 350 scabs and rehire all strikers on the picket line. Many scabs walked around the block and re-entered the plant. The Ramsey agreement still holds, with the strikers insisting upon dis- placing all scabs despite agreements. The scabs who were promised steady work are fighting the pres- ent layoff. The Bingham Stamp- ing and Logan Gear strikers are also discrimina‘ed against, but Ramsey’s splitting tactics have pre- vented mass picketing at these plants. The American Workers’ Party meeting Tuesday night, addressed by Muste, set an attendance rec- strikers forced the company to lay ord of eight. Writers Arrested Picketing Macaulay Publishing Offices By JOHN HOWARD LAWSON NEW YORK.—La Guardia’s po- lice thugs broke up a picket line of authors and office workers yester- day afternoon in front of the Mac- aulay Company, publishers, 381 Fourth Ave. Eighteen writers were herded into a patrol wagon and rushed to the police station, where A. L. Wirin, attorney for the Civil Lib- erties Union, was ejected bodily when he tried to safeguard the in- terests of the prisoners. Magistrate Jonah Goldstein tried to exact promises from the de- fendants that they would refrain from further picketing. When the defendants pointed out that the magistrate’s demand was an in- fringement of their constitutional rights, the court insisted on imme- diate trial. The vigorous defense quickly ex- posed the prejudiced attitude of the magistrate and forced’ uncondi- tional release. Those arrested were Eaward New- house, Susan Jenkins, Edward Dahlberg, Isidore Schneider, Albert, Halper, Malcolm Cowley, Nathan Asch, Thomas J. Brandon, Michael Gold, Edwin Rolfe Tess Slesinger, Leon Dennen, Herbert Kline, W. D, Gelsleicter, Frances Ellis, Leon Herald. They issued the following state- ment: “We the undersigned writers and professional people were peace- fully picketing . . . we were not obstructing traffic. Any such ob- struction can be laid directly to the police, who interfered with our constitutional rights of peaceful as- semblage. We condemn this high- handed action and call upon all public-spirited citizens to join us in our demands.” The authors announced that they will redouble their fight for the right of the Macaulay employes to organize and to decent working con- ditions. Among those picketing outside 381 Fourth Ave, have been four Mac- aulay authors, Robert M. Coates, Marjorie Smith, Grace Lumpkin and Edward Newhouse, Workers to Protest N. asi Film Tonight; Mass Fight For Thaelmann Grows Marine Workers, Ship Strikers Picket Nazi Consulate NEW YORK. — Thousands of anti-Fascists, workers and intel- lectuals are rallying for a city- wide Thaelmann-anti-Nazi de- monstration tonight at 8 o'clock at 96th Street and Third Avenue, Yorkville. The demonstration will protest the continued show- ing of the lying Nazi propaganda film “S. A, Mann-Brand” at the Yorkville Theatre. The demonstration is called by the Anti-Nazi Federation of New York and the Film and Photo League—two organizations which have en the initiative in ex- posing this Hitler film and have already held several protest meet- ings in front of the Yorkville Theatre. oe NEW YORK.—Shouting demands for the freedom of Ernst Thael- mann, heroic German Communist leader, fifty marine workers and striking sailors from the “S. S. Missourian” picketed the Nazi Con- sulate at 17 Battery Place yesterday noon, while sympathetic workers line the sidewalks. Yesterday's picketing was organ- ized by the Marine Workers Indus- trial Union, one of many organiza- tions participating in the daily pick- eting of the Consulate which has been going on for the past twelve days as New York workers and in- (Continued on Page 2) ‘St Louis Workers Smash. Welcome To Hitler’s Envoy Protest Meeting Greets Hans Luiher at City Hall ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 6.—In- stead of an official reception to the Nazi Ambassador, Hans Luther, an anti-Nazi protest meeting of some 300 people was held at the City Hall steps at the scheduled hour for the reception, when he arrived for the annual Saengerfest. The local capitalist press found it important to remark that the dem- onstrators were mostly Negroes. Thunderous shouts of “Free Thael- mann” echoed at the City Hall as Earl Pulley, Organizer of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, and other speakers pilloried Nazi persecution of the Jews and other minorities and of the revolutionary workers of Germany. Protest delegations, organized chiefly by the St. Louis Committee to Aid the Victims of German Fas- cism, created a virtual panic at the City Hall. Mayor Dickman, center of the indignant protests, was forced finally to issue an apolo- getic statement, and to admit “the injustices committed by the Hitler regime.” their unions, their fraternal organizations, and their neigh- ‘ borhoods—the Nazi gunmen will behead the German work- ing class by slaying Thaelmann. There is no time to lose! Fight for Thaeimann as he fought for us! Demonstrate the international solidarity of the w COMMUNIST PARTY, U.S. A. CENTRAL COMMITTEE ganize a winning strike.” And the S.M.W.LU. leaders are re- doubling efforts to mobilize the rank and file not only in their | own branches, but in the A. A. (Continued on Page 2) Butte Unions Take General Strike Vote; 1,000,000 Out in Spain Agricultural Strike; 3 Are Dead in Fighting| (Special to the Daily Worker) BUTTE, Mont., June 6—The Great Falls Local of the Interne- tional Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers voted to’ strike Thursday, which will close all pro- duction units of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company state of Montana. Three attempts at arbitration have failed. The Silverbow Trades and Labor Council asked all unions for a general strike, each union to take a strike vote this week. If called, the general strike will tie up the entire city of Butte, including Street railways and all building trades. It is expected Great Falls and Anaconda will do likewise. The Montana State Federation of Labor is besieged with appeals for a state-wide general strike. only smelting unit left working is the American Smeiting and R: fining Co. at East Helena. The: workers are also organized in the IUMMS.W., but have not been called out. MADRID, June 6.—Two strikers | and a civil guard were killed to- day when the civil guards at- tacked agricultural strikers at Al- conchel. Two guardsmen tried to} drive off pickets, and when they failed, shots were fired at the workers. Farmhouses were burned | at Jerena. The officials of the Land Workers Federation claimed nearly 1,000,000 workers were on strike for higher wages. Newark Butchers Strike NEWARK. — Two hundred and fifty butchers are striking here at Fink and Sons, 810 Frelinghuysen Ave., for increased pay and recog- nition of the Butchers (A. F. of L.) | Union. Workers; C. P. to Investigate By A. B. MAG™L Specie! to tha Daily Worker DETROIT, June 6.—Two worke! at the Dow Chemical Company and failure of the company to pro- vide proper safeguards have re-| sulted in serious injuries and death | to many workers. The company, | = t| however, which controls officials | gases andjand press of the town, generally has succeeded in suppressing this | news. Last year, Workers’ Industrial Union, ated to the Trade Unit Unity. League, began to organize Dow workers against these conditions, eoempany agents and the pre: raised the red scare, blacklisted several workers and with tho aid of A. F. of L. leaders, smashed the | union. manufacturers of Ww materials for war gases in the coun- try, have been killed by a mys- terious chemical, it has just been revealed. One worker, A. V. Thurs- ton, 56, died last Tuesday, and the other, Bernard Failowitz, day later. Both men working in the phenol division of the plant, collapsed on the job and died within a few min- utes. The auto failed to disclose eny in‘ernal injury. This is not the first time work- The Communist Party is planning ers have died on the job at the Dow] to conduct en inves'igation into the Chemical Co. Speed-up conditions | killing of the two workers, 19, one All Smelters Shut |) in the} The | i yet} Mysterious War Gas Kills Two. | when the Chemical H affili- | Union ‘Take Action To Spread Walk-out to the Entire Plant TIE UP PRODUCTION Strike Is Led By an Independent Union Daily Worker Midwest Burean CHICAGO, Ill, June 6..— |Roll turners of the Republic |Steel plant in South Chicago |walked out on strike today, 'TI |dependent union. he strikers belong to an ine Action was | immediately taken by the read the thru- jout the entire plant. The Republic is one of the biggest steel com- panies in the country. N.Y. Seamen Picket Ship Co. Offices |Ryan on West Coast | Maneuvers To Split Strikers’ Ranks BULLETIN | _ SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.—John | Knudson, striking longshoreman, | who was shot when police and gangsters attacked pickets in San Pedro, May 15, died in Los An= geles as a result of the wounds. NEW YORK.—Seamen of the American-Hawaiian Line ships Texan and Missourian picketed the office of the company, at 90 Broad |St., and the office of the U. 5S, Shipping Commissioner at South Ferry all day yesterday demanding | that $1,000 wages withheld from the things only increase the indigna- | crew of the Texan, which struck |here in support of the west coast longshoremen, be paid. The picketing will be continued {under the leadership of the Marine | Workers Industrial Union until the | wages are forthcoming, said a state- ment issued by the union yesterday, | A committee of seamen, which | went to the headquarters of the |International Seamen’s Union to | Propose that all marine unions unite |in striking intercoastal ships, was |refused a hearing and told to get | out of the office. Special to the Daily Worker SAN FRANCISCO, June 6.—The latest proposal coming from the |government for settlement of the longshoremen’s strike is a plan to settle on the basis of federal hiring halls, which the workers rejected during the early stages of the strug- gle. Although Joseph P. Ryan, pres- Jident of the International Long- |shoremen’s Association, is silent on the strikebreaking ‘proposal, he has intimated that he looks upon it favorably. |, Ryan is maneuvering to release the Alaska cannery boats trom the | northern ports and thus open the way for separate agreements with each company. The rank and=fite are fighting hard against this plan jand demand that all ports be rep- | (Continued on Page 2) —— Hope for Bosses, Says Perkins After a Hard Day’s Strikebreaking (Daily Werke Washington Bure) WASEINGTON, D. C., June 6.—Secretary of Labor Perkins, heavy-lidded from a_ sleepless night spent in a long-distance telephone effort to break the || Pacific longshore and Toledo | strikes, today expressed opti- mism over both situations. First she thought the Pacific strike all fixad, then she thought a moment and added, “Well, I should say the patient has a chance to live, but the strike is not settled yet.” The “patient”. to her, apparently, meant the shipowners. - The new idea is to have hir= ing halls “more nearly” jointly. controlled by the I.L.A. and the employers, with perhaps the U. S. employment service as the “{mpartial third party.” |] Miss Perkins declared Toledo workers are now satisfied with the promise of the Auto-Lite Company to take back all work- ers with “senicrity” rights be= | fore employing “those who |] Worked during the strike.” |