The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 13, 1934, Page 1

What Do the Sailors of “BRAINS ON BARBED WIRE” Series on Culture Under the Nazi Rule Begins on Page 5 Tomorrow aily QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Vol. XI, 141 Cleveland Jobless to Answer Cut -—* Entered ag second-class matter 5 Sailors of Flagship || Pennsylvania Demand || Thaelmann’s Release | NEW YORK.—Five American || sailors of the flagship of the U. S. fleet, the U.S.S. Pennsylvania, demanded the immediate, safe release of Ernst Thaelmann in a German Consul yesterday. .-“"We call upon all workers and In R e i] i e i resolntion sent to the New York Councils Call June 15 City-Wide March and Demonstration RELIEF SLASHED Relief Strikes Spread in N. J., Workers Set Up Organization BULLETIN PATERSON, N. J.—Striking re- Nef workers here officially organ- | ized themselves under the Unem- ployed Relief Workers’ Associa~ tion, an unaffiliated organization, and laid plans for spreading the strike throughout the entire state. Already several thousand are out on strike throughout the state. Strikes have been called in the past cight days in Paterson, Passaic, Clifton, Hackensack, Perth Amboy, Linden, Elizabeth, Belleville and Newark. At the Paterson meeting yes- terday, a broad strike committee of 25 was elected, which includes the ten on the original strike committee. Plans were made to again petition the State Relief Board and to call a city-wide demonstration for Saturday at 10 a.m. CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 12.—Answering the drastic 22 per cent relief cut an- nounced by the Cuyahoga County Relief Administration here, the Unemployment Councils and the Communist Party have issued a call for a city- wide demonstration at the Public Square on Friday, June 15, at 1:30 p. m. From the Public Square, the assembled workers will march to the County Court Hotise where the Re- lief Administration will be in ses- sion at 2:30 p. m. The County Relief Administra- tion yesterday announced a 22 per cent cut in relief allowances on food, milk and clothing, claiming a $150,000 shortage in the May reliet appropriation. The Unemployment Councils ana the Communist Party are issuing thousands of leaflets calling all workers to the demonstration. W. I. Ford, Communist Party can- didate for governor in the past elec- tions, in a radio speech called upon all Party members to mobilize the broadest numbers of workers to the demonstration. ‘The Cuyahoga County Relief Ad- ministration, in a letter to all re- lief stations, stated: “Under the present conditions it isedoubly im- portant that relief be given only to families whose need has been es- tablished.” Under such limitations, “need” will be arbitrarily established by the relief authorities with the (Continued on Page 2) Vets Call for New Demand on Senate For Vote on Bonus Set Up Washington Of- fice on Disability Claims NEW YORK.—The National Ex- ecutive Committee of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League today called upon all posts of the W.E.S.L. and all Veterans Committee to increase the struggle through street meet- ings, demonstrations, independently and jointly with relief organiza- tions of the unemployed for the passage of the Veterans Bonus Bill before the adjournment of Con- gress, and for the passage of the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598). eee haat MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Bonus marchers, members of Post No. 19, Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, who have returned here from the Veterans National Rank and File sailors to help the fight for the release of our brother seaman,” the resolution stated. The sailors contributed $1 for the Daily Worker. Farmers Face Banker-Court Framed for Activities in Smashing Recent Foreclosure Sales By BILL ANDREWS (Special to the Daily Worker) SISSETON, S. D., June 12.— Seventeen militant farmers faced a bankers’ court here yesterday on charges of rioting, growing out of their activities in smashing recent foreclosure sales. The court room was packed, and crowds were con- stantly increasing as farmers and workers mobilized in support of their comrades who are being vic- timized for their militant activities in this region. The mass pressure and able legal defense of Henry Paull, Interna- tional Labor Defense lawyer from Duluth, forced certain concessions from Judge Fleeger during the first day’s session. Changes in the in- formation, making it different from the original complain, were éxposed by the attorney. Two indictments were quashed, but the Judge refused | to quash the fake charge of rioting. The defendants were confident that the massing of farmers would force the court to release them. A motion for a separate trial for the defendants was refused on account of expense, in spite of the statement of Paull that “the homes of South Dakota farmers are at stake and this is more important than a couple of hun- dred dollars court expense.” In spite of a sweeping injunction forbidding the distribution of the Daily Worker, The Farmers Na- tional Weekly, and other militant literature, copies of the Weekly were openly sold in the court house dur- ing the trial. 2 Held on High Bail in Jersey For Picketing Furniture Union Opens Mass Campaign Against Anti-Strike Edict JERSEY CITY, June 12—In an attempt to take away the right to strike and picket, police are con- tinuing a reign of terror against strikers of the Miller Parlor Fur- niture Co., 261 Orient Ave. Yes- terday two workers, Abraham Roth- baum and Able Handy, the latter a Negro worker, both members of the Furniture Workers Industrial Union, were held for trial under $1,500 bail each, following their ar- rest on the picket line Monday. The fight for the right to strike and picket in Jersey City, con- ducted by the Furniture Workers Industrial Union, is a vital issue and is attracting the support of broad sections of the labor move- ment. One hundred and nine dele- gates representing 200,000 organized workers met in conference at Kreuger’s Auditorium in Newark last Sunday and elected a per- manent committee to fight against the New Jersey terror. The drive against picketing is be- ing led by Mayor Hague. In fact, Chief of Police Casey told a rep- resentative of the Furniture Work- ers Industrial Union that the city government had eliminated strikes and picketing in Jersey City. The case of the anti-picket edict comes before the National Labor Board in Washington on Thursday. The New York branch of the union is picketing the homes of the owners of the Jersey shop at 98 aah Ave. and 510 Crown St., lyn. Convention in Washington are rally-| Broo! ing veterans in the American Legion and other organizations to tush telegrams to Senator Ship- stead and to President Roosevelt, demanding passage of the Veterans Bonus Bill. The bill has been passed by the House of Represen- tatives, and was forced out of com- mittee by the actions of the Vet- erans National Rank and File Con- vention and widespread working- Daily Worker Readers! Give This Copy to a Sailor or Marine to Read class movement for a vote in the Senate. The league has established headquarters in Room 7, 10 South 3rd St., and calls upon all veterans in the near vicinity to get in touch with the Post. BRE ee : WASHINGTON, D.'C.—The Vet- erans National Rank and File Com- mittee, 1410 “G” St., N. W. Wash- ington, D. C., has established a committee to adjust and fight for the adjustment of disability claims of veterans at the United States Veterans Bureau here. All veterans having disability claims should communicate with the committee, & In ‘Riot’ Trial at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879 Darrow Release SINCLAIR LEWI: Well-known writer who, with other public figures, signed his name to a resolution demanding the release of Ernst Thaelmann. Chicago Cops Arrest 11 At Nazi Consul Delegations, Demanding Thaelmann’s Freedom, Beaten by Police | BULLETIN BOSTON, June 12. — Two more | pickets, Elizabeth Stuart and Bald- win Anciaux, were arrested today while marching in front. of the Nazi Consulate demanding the immedi- ate release of Ernst Thaelmann, Picketing is still going on. The trial of workers arrested in a demonstration before the Nazi ship Karlsruhe was postponed until Fri- day, Witnesses are urged to ap- pear then, (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, June 12.—Police ar- rested twelve workers from several delegations who came to the Nazi consulate here yesterday to demand the release of Ernst Thaelmann, Communist leader imprisoned in Moabit Prison, Berlin. Several workers were beaten. Nine workers from the Interna- tional Labor Defense, Jhicago Com- mittee to Aid Victims of German Fascism, Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union and American League Against War and Fascism, were arrested when they came in delegations to demand Thaelmann’s release. Police attacked the dele- gates before they could get near the door of the office. Returning to the German Con- sulate after the first delegations were broken up by police, 11 work- ers evaded the squads of dicks and forced their way into the office, demanding the right to present a protest against the imprisonment of Ernst Thaelmann and other Ger- man working class prisoners per- sonally to the Consul. Sluggers of the “red squad” en- tered the office and drove the work- ers out. The delegation was driven down seven flights of stairs, with the dicks beating them all the way to the street. Three members of the delegation, Bill Glenn, Eric Becker, and Ben Ruben were arrested and held with- out being booked. Dr. Martin Zeisler, who was ar- rested with the first delegation earlier in the day was viciously beaten at the Chicago Ave. Police Station. One of the cops beating him shouted: “What we need in this country is another Hitler to put you guys where you belong.” NEW YORK, WEDNES of Ernst any Noted Persons in| Protests; Picketing at | N. Y. Consulate on | oar ge | NEW YORK. — Clarence} Darrow, noted liberal lawyer, | added his voice against the} imprisonment of Ernst Thael- mann, leader ,of the German Communist Party when, to-| gether with other prominent | liberals, he signed a letter of pro- | test to Hans Luther, Nazi ambassa- dor in Washington. The letter was sent by the In- ternational Committee for Political Prisoners and was also signed by Roger Baldwin, Rev. John Haynes Holmes, Robert Morss Lovett and Charles Edward Russell. Tne letter protested “against the treatment of two internationally known political | prisoners, Ernst Thaelmann and | Ernst Torgier, leaders of the Ger- |man Communist Party.” In the case of Thaelmann “we are reliably informed that he has not been accorded the ordinary rights of a defendant in the choosing of counsel or in communicating with his witnesses and defenders,” the letter says. “Particularly do we protest against his proposed trial under an ex post facto law, con- trary to the practice in all civilized countries. , Protest Torgler Imprisonment “In the case of Ernst Torgler, ac- quitted in the Reichstag fire trial, we enter our earnest protest against | his continued imprisonment with- out trial and without charges. “We add our voices to those of many others throughout the world. (Continued on Page 2) Britain Gets Blunt U. S. War Debt Note Roosevelt Overlooks Wall St. Arming for War WASHINGTON, June 12. — A blunt note demanding that Britain pay $85,670,765.05, war debt install- ment, on June 15, or be considered in default under the Johnson Act, was handed to the British ambas- sador, Sir Ronald Lindsay, today, by Cordon Hull, Secretary of State. The brief note bristles with facts of the sharpening contradiction be- tween Wall Street and its chief im- perialist rival. While overlooking its own huge war expenditures, the Roosevelt government points out to British imperialism that it is “sensible” of the “heavy war ex- penditures in its own behalf, and in behalf of its allies,” but that it cannot accept this as an excuse. The way, however, is left open for bargaining and haggling over con- cessions in return for scaling down the total sum of the debt. The bitter tone of the note, commented on by all capitalist newspapers, will still further sharpen the conflicts between British and American im- perialism. MUSSOLINI’S NAVY PROGRAM ROME, June 17—The announce- ment that Italy will build two 35,000-ton battleships to cost around $90,000,000, revealed that since 1922 she has built the following ships: Seven 10,000-ton cruisers; six 5,000- ton cruisers; 15 1,600-ton scout- ships; and 24 submarines, There are now six 10,000-ton cruisers under construction as well as four destroyers, four gunboats and 12 submarines, Four old battleships, two of which are being refitted, add to the Italian naval armament, DAY, JUNE 13, 1934 CLARENCE DARROW Noted lawyer who protested against the imprisonment of Ernst Thaelmann, German Communist leader, in a letter to Hans Luther, Nazi Ambassador in Washington. | Darrow Board Again Assails N.R.A., Trusts NRA Can’t Exist Without Strengthening Trusts, Board Says WASHINGTON, June 12—In a second report issued today, as sharp but Iess sweeping than their famed | previous one, the N. R. A. Board of Review, headed by Clarence Dar- row, again repeated their original contention that the N. R. A. strengthened monopoly and was Squeezing the small business man out of existence. This report, as did the original one, confirms to the hilt the con- | tention of the Communist Party from the very inception of the N. R. A. that the Blue Eagle was a method by which monopoly would be strengthened, prices raised, the purchasing power of the masses slashed, and business still further trustified. Attacking specifically the lumber, oil and cement codes, the Board's report states that the present N. R. A. set-up “cannot exist without tending to multiply the ascendancy of large enterprise.” Implying the demand for John- son's resignation, the Board states that the General has exercised “ir- responsible dictatorship” over the N. R. A., making thousands of small business men suffer as a result. 20 Cents a Day Relief Per Family in South, U. S. Report Shows WASHINGTON.—Relief pay- ments as low as $6.05 a month (20 cents a day) for entire fam~- ilies are revealed in the monthly report issued on June 11 by the Federal Emergency Relief Ad- ministration. The highest average relief pay- ments were in New York State, which averaged only $33.19 a month to a family for the first part of the year, In the South- ern States relief payments ranged about $6 a month; $6.05 in South Carolina, $6.55 in Ar- kansas, $6.58 in Louisiana, and $6.67 in North Carolina. ‘The average payments through- out the country dropped from $12.95 to $11.84 per family be- tween January and February. AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER the U. S. Fleet Really Think? ~— (See Page 3) WEATHER: Generally Fai uns As Entire Crew Strikes| in NY Harbor; Weren’t Paid in 7 Months | | aSSCER | NEW YORK. e entire crew) jof the S. S. Virginia Nicklou, in-| cluding deck and engine room of-| ficers, struck yesterday for wage in- creases and for payment of back | wages at the National Sugar Re-| fining docks, Long Island City, un- | der the leadership of the Marine Workers Industrial Union. The ship, a 12,000-ton freighter, | arrived here from Rotterdam, Hol- | |land, flying the Panamanian flag, | but the strikers say that the Pan- }amanian Consul does not recognize | |the ship as one registered by the| |government of Panama. | Five days ago the crew message to the Marine Worke: dustrial Union telling of terrible | conditions existing aboard the ship and that the men had seven months | |wages coming. Union delegates | went aboard the Virginia Nicalou |yesterday, held a meeting and | elected a committee to present de- mands to the captain. Immediately nine detectives and 15 uniformed policemen with sawed-off shotguns |came aboard, questioned the dele- gates and drove them off the ship. The union has issued an appeal to the longshoremen to support the | strike by refusing to load or unload the Nicalou. A move was made yesterday by | the union to place a libel against the ship for the back wages of the |men, a ak | |Holman Fires On Strikers SAN FRANCISCO, June 12.—Lee J. Holman, organizer of the new | longshoremen’s union which has of- fered to go back to work and ar- bitrate afterwards, has been arrested }on the minor charge of carrying a | pistol without a permit and dis- |charging firearms within the city |limits, He fired from his car at a group of strikers in another car. | No one was hurt, and Holman de- |scribed the strikers as “some of the | Communist gang from the I. L. A.” | Holman was released on bail. Roosevelt in ‘Confab to Put Over New Bill SummonsChief Advisors To Draft Measure | Against Strike | | By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, June 12.—Presi- dent Roosevelt summoned his chief Cabinet, Congressional and’N. R. A. henchmen today to perfect the Wagner bill substitute—an arbitra- tion measure designed to put down strikes—designed to abort the scheduled National Steel strike specifically and later strikes in gen- eral. N. R. A. Administrator General Johnson today confirmed the fact that the bill is being worked on. Asked to describe the measure, he | replied, “It'll have to be given out at the White House.” Johnson said he would not go. to the Amalgamated Association (A. F. of L.) steel union convention in Pittsburgh on Thursday, and that he hadn’t made up his mind about sending anyone. A few days ago he said he personally wouldn't go because he “didn't know what the atmosphere would be.” His inde- cision about sending anyone else to- day indicates that the* legislative measure now being concocted or (Continued on Page 2) Violence A By EDWIN ROLFE HE letter of Police Commis- sioner O’Ryan to William Hodson, Commissioner of the Department of Public Wel- fare, in which O’Ryan openly commands the police to use all brutal means at their dis- posal in suppressing jobless demon- strations, follows closely upon Mayor La Guardia’s conference with the press on Tuesday, May 29. At this conference, the progres- sive Mayor, discarding for the mo- ment his many-colored coat of de , announced that violence and bloodshed on the part of police would be necessary soon, and urged the accurately-named “kept press” to “prepare the public for blood- shed.” And last week, when Magistrate Dreyer pronounced sentence on momentary ‘| individual in the city government, The LaGuardia-O’Ryan Regime Openly Launches gainst the Workers of New York City three jobless demonstrators, he ; Openly commended the police on their brutal actions. It can readily be seen, on the basis of these facts, that O’Ryan’s statement is not a sporadic and declaration of a single speaking for himself as an indi- vidual, It-is nothing less than the The progressive Fusion adminis- tration, which is using every means at its disposal to assure an efficient ; government and sufficient profits for the Wall Street banks, does not care if workers starve, are bestially slugged, sentenced to long terms in jail—so long as the bankers’ loans are safeguarded. This is the meaning, naked and ugly, of La Guardia’s so-called Pro- gressivism. So stark and brutal is O’Ryan’s statement—in which he orders po- lice to use “all the force necessary” or face charges for failure “to act promptly and effectively”—that even the quasi-liberal New York Post has been moved to protest. Yesterday's Post ran an editorial entitled “O’Ryan Incites Violence,” which declared: “Police Commissioner O’Ryan is inciting the police to violence. “That is the plain meaning of his statement to Welfare Commis- sioner Hodson. “If there is any ugly outbreak the guilt will be on O’Ryan’s head.” “And all this,” the Post editorial concludes after listing other bru- talities of New York's police, “un- der the administration of the lib- eral La Guardia!” LaGuardia in his conference with the press, and O’Ryan in his direo- tions to the police and his letter to Commissioner Hodson, have at- tempted to create the impression that these measures are directed against Communists, adding that such brutal attacks on Communists are “necessary and justified.” have indiscriminately attacked all workers who in any way resisted LaGuardia’s Wall Street-Hunger program—on strikers who formed picket lines; on anti-Nazi demon- strators who, unlike LaGuardia, in- sisted that Yorkville was not a Nazi autonomy; on demonstrations of employed as well as unemployed workers. Of course, insofar as the Communist Party has been in the forefront and leadership of these many struggles against LaGuardia’s anti-working-class program, they are singled out for attack. But it is (Continued on Page 2) In reality, however, the police’ FP: (Six Pages) 9 Sinclair Lewis Ask Cops Board Tighe Dr Thaelmann hip With Price 3 Cents ops All Main Demands; Pittsburgh Mayor to Try to “Talk” Earl Browder Off Platform PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 12 —Mayor William McNair, Demo- crat, today made an attack on the Earl Browder meeting, sched- led for tonight at Fifth Avenue Tigh School to discuss the steel situation. Mayor McNair declared he will come to the meeting and “talk that speaker off the platform.” A large number of steel work will attend to hear the analy by the general secretary of the Communist Party of the steel strike situation. Birmingham | Packinghouse Strike Ended \Ore Strike Is Still Solid; 13 Moulders in New Walkout (Special to the Daily Worker) BIRMINGHAM, Ala., June 12.— Strikes at Armour, Swift, Cudahy and Wilson, all Birmingham packing plants, were settled today, with the | | strikers set to go back to work this | }morning. The agreement provides for no wage increase, leaving this | |important point to later arbitration. The packers have recognized Sec-| tion 7-A of the N. R, A., but not| |the union. They also have agreed | to recognize workers’ seniority rights and no discrimination against strikers, Milton Howard, a Negro, died to- day from injuries received in one of the bombings in the ore strike district. Howard was not connected with the strike. Governor Miller has announced that he will not withdraw the Na- tional Guard from Bessemer. At a large mass meeting in Bessemer Park, the National Guard was called to “protect” the chairman, Dr. S. W. Wright, an alderman. Wright had urged the workers to refrain from violence and to protect the property of the corporations that gave them work. American Federa- tion of Labor leaders are al urg- | ing the workers to be patient. | A Vigilance Committee is being | organized in Bessemer to aid against workers picketing and meeting. The | Tennessee Coal and Iron co. has | issued a three-page letter to al workers, attacking unionism and particularly the Communists. | With 13 moulders of the Avon- dale Stove Company also out on| strike now, the strike sentiment in| the steel mills still is growing and the ore strike is still solid. Militant Negro | Worker Is Framed On Rape Charge Other Workers Have Been Jailed Since Strike | Was Won PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 12—!/ Joseph Morris, 43-year-old Negro | leader of the Agricultural Workers’ Union, is in Woodbury County jail, | framed up on the charge of raping a young white girl. | Several other members of the, union have been arrested since they won their strike at Seabrook Farms | and recently a huge cross was | burned in the back yard of the| president of the union. All arrested workers have been} defended by the International La-| bor Defense, who will also fight this | latest attempt to smash the mili- | tant union of Negro and white farm.| workers. Chicago, Milwaukee And St, Paul Section Gang Out on Strike Special to the Daily Worker BELLINGHAM, Wash., June 12.—The extra section gang of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Co. struck here yesterday at one o'clock for the reinstatement of a worker who was fired, a ten-cent-an-hour increase in pay and a ten-cent reduction in the price of meals. The men on the track gang were receiving 25 cents an hour and were obliged to pay 35 cents for meals. | if the convention decides ‘Men Strike Prepares Sellout WantsOnlyRecognition; ‘Forgets’ Rest of Program MEN FOR STRIKE Mayor of Pittsburgh Forbids Picketing By CARL REEVE (Special to the Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 12.—On the eve of the A. A, Convention, Mike Tighe ise ;sued a statement which un- |der the cover of demagogi- cally “rejecting” the Johnson agreement, in reality lays thé basis for betrayal of the strike. Tighe said: “We are asking only one thing, recognition. We want only to negotiate with the employ- | ers for those men who belong to our lodges.” Thus Tighe drops all the demands of the s2ven-point program for one demand, recogni- tion. The general comment of the press here is that Tighe leaves the way open for “compromise,” since Tighe told the press that Thurs " vention “can reconsider the holiday” “it can secure recognition by some other method.” Tighe will not say whether the holiday would be “ msidered” or not. He covered ti with the tement: “I am going right down e line with the holidey resolution, and I am entirely in consonance wit Locking for Way Out Earl J. Forbeck of the Commitice of Ten was quoted in today’s press as stating there are three ways the nation-wide steel strike may be avoided: (1) by an election for em- Ployees representatives under gove ernment supervision; (2) by passe age of the revised Wagner bill; (3) by conferences supervised by Presi dent Roosevelt between union lead ers and companies. Over 200 delegates from 24 A. A, lodges of this district, at a meeting at West Homestead voted unani- mously to carry out the provisions of the seven-point program, which calls for strike now that the demand for recognition was rejected. The Jones and Laughlin company union met last night to take a forced strike vote. Company unions throughout the field are feverishly active trying to prevent the strike. Pittsburgh Mayor Forbids Picketing (Special to the Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 12.-- Mayor MeNair this afternoon issued a formal statement forbidding picketing in case of a steel strike, declaring “All the streets and by- ways of the city, whether in the vicinity of our mills or not, will be kept free of pedestrians. No group of persons, merely because they be- long to labor unions or any other unions, will be permitted to con- gregate in the vicinity of the mills or factories or to raise disturbances that may result in physical violence to the passerby.” MeNair said: “If any workmen want to enter the mills the police will give them full protection.” Po- lice will also protect strikebreakers (Continued on Page 2) Youngstown Steel Workers Risk Iohs, Hit Company Union Paste SMWIU Stickers on Ballots, Tables, Despite Spies (Special to the Daily Worker) YOUNGSTOWN. Ohio, June 12.~ Hundreds, if not thousands of Res public workers in this city today risked their jobs nasting stickers issued by the Steel and Metal Work- ers Industrial Union on ballots in the company union primaries. The stickers read: “I vote against the company union and for recognition of a real union.” This followed the appearance of local papers carrying . streamers headlines to the effect that the company unions opposed the strike, The Amalgamated Asscciation, S. M. W. I. U., and unorganized men defied the trust terror and pasted the stickers on open tables while company stool pigeons and straw bosses looked on. The capitalist press heré is cars tying on a frantic campaign against the strike and against the Stsel and Metal bass" Industrial Union and © the rank and file of the Amalgae mated Association, « se ail