The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 14, 1934, Page 1

A SOCIALIST ‘Sidelights on S. CONVENTION P. Convention” By A. B. Magil on Page 5 Tomorrow Vol. XI, No. 142 <> * New York, N. ¥. Entered as second-class matter at the Post , under the Act of March 8, Daily,QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Office at 1379 NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1934 WEATHER: Generally F AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING | CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents | TIGHE RAISES RED SCARE TO HEAD OFF STEEL STRIKE Hathaway, Raymond Indicted By New York Grand Jury ‘Call N. Y. City Demonsiration For Thaelmann Workers Will Mass in Defense of German Communist Leader PICKETS ARRESTED Downtown Demonstra- tion in N, Y. Tomorrow NEW YORK. — A central- city-wide demonstration to demand the release of Ernst Thaelmann, German work- ing-class leader, will be held Saturday, June 23, at 9:30 a. m., it was announced yester- day by the Anti i Federation. The demonstration will include a parade to the Nazi Consulate, 17 Battery Place, where demands from many organizations will be pre- sented. The place where workers will congregate will be announced later, Meanwhile picketing by before the Nazi consulate still going on. The Fur ‘Workers In- dustrial Union has called a mass open-air meeting at noon today at 29th St. and Seventh Ave. to protest the imprisonment of Ernst Thael- mann. Demonstration Tommorw Thousands of workers mobilized | by the Downtown sections of the International Labor Defense, Com- munist Party, Unemployment Coun- cils and other organizations will march through the lower East Side demanding the freedom of Thael- mann and the Scottsboro boys. The parade will start at Union Square at 7 p.m. John Howard Lawson, well-known writer; Richard B. Moore, national organizer for the I. L. D.; Louis Hyman, President of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union; Hans Baer, a young German refu- gee, and others will speak at Union Square. oe Ma CLEVELAND MARINE WORKERS’ PICKET Special to the Daily Worker CLEVELAND, Ohio. June 13. A picket line of the Marine Work- ers Industrial Union demanding the freedom for Ernst Thaelmann at the German Consulate was broken up by the police today. The pickets were stationed at the Midland Bank Building where the consulate is lo- (Continued on Page 2) White House Bars Paymentin Kind to Pay for War Debts Was Only a Bargaining Point to Britain, and Is Rejected WASHINGTON, June 13. — To ward off possibilities that various countries would attempt to use the war debt note to Great Britain to pay debt installments by goods or Services, a warning was sounded at the White House against any such interpretation. This offer was originally made to and rejected by Great Britain. Officials at the State Department now indicate that this was only a bargaining point in order to force discussions with Britain on the war debts, when the British had already declared that they- refused to pay the war debts in any form, Roosevelt Senators Block New Action On Bonus Measure (Daily Worker Washington Buro) WASHINGTON. June 13— Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Roosevelt leader in the Sen- ate, blocked action on the Pat- man bill to cash veterans’ ad- justed compensation (bonus) cer- tificates today. The committee of three named by the recent veterans’ rank and file convention—J. O. Eaton, J. R. Wholley and Harold Hicker- a eS workers | ERNST HANFSTAENGL “Drive Nazi Hanfstaengl | Nazi Pick New Victims \In H Wessel C: Out of : P Si rf Keone. ake els efforts of Mobilize Mass Protest} Saturday Against Hitler’s Agent NEW YORK, June 13.—One of the most rabid of Hitler's poison propaganda agents, Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengel, arrives in New York on the Europa, Saturday, June 16, on invitation of President Conant of Harvard University. Hanfstaengel’s chief duty for the Nazi butchers is to justify, in En- glish-speaking countries, the slaugh- ter of Communists and anti-fascist fighters. His hasty decision to come to the United States, after at first cancel- ling his trip, is undoubtedly Hit- ler's answer to the growing anti- fascist campaign in this country, and especially the rising fight here against the threatened execution ef Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the Communist Party of Germany. The New York Anti-Nazi Federa- tion is calling upon all workers’ or- ganizations, upon all anti-fascist groups and sympathizers, as well as upon all Jewish bodies, to mobilize their forces for a gigantic protest demonstration against this foul ac- -complice of the Hitler murder re- gime, when he arrives in New York. Thousands of workers shotild mass at Pier 86, at the foot of West 46th St. Saturday, when Hanfstaengel arrives, as a protest against his ar- rival and to demand the freedom of Ernst Thaelmann and other im- prisoned anti-fascists. The exact time of the arrival of the Europa is not known, but will be published |three more workers before the Ber- Lawyer Goes To Hungar To Aid Rakosi | Communist Leader Has Served 8-Year Term; Kept Imprisoned MOSCOW, June 13.—David Lev-| inson, International Labor Defense attorney of Philadelphia, is on his way to Hungary to act for the re- lease of Mathias Rakosi, leader of the Communist Party of Hungary, who, though he has completed an | 8-year prison sentence, is still kept in jail. Comrade Rakosi was arrested in} 1924, when he returned to Hun- | gary, and after being tried on every charge the prosecution could imag- ine, he was sentenced and served his time in full. Despite this fact, the Hungarian government is keep- ing him confined, and preparing a new trial to cover the original charges in which he served his sen- tence at hard labor. Rakosi was one of the leaders of the Hungarian Soviet Government in 1919. A world protest campaign has been started to force the release of this heroic Hungarian Communist, Attorney Levinson’s trip to Buda- pest should be accompanied by a stream of protest telegrams to the Hungarian embassies and consuls in all cities. Rakosi has served his time on framed-up charges. De- mand he be released immediately. !the Nazis to increase the number { of victims framed-up for the killing | of the. Fascist degenerate, Horst’ Wessel in 1931, resulted yesterday in a murder accusation against lin Criminal Court. The worker originally accused with shooting the pervert Wessel was tortured to death in a Nazi prison, The three now facing exe- cution are Peter Stoll, Hans Ziegler and Sol Epstein. Their “crime” con- sists in the fact that they are al- leged to have frequented a cafe where Communists met before the Hitler regime came to power. FRENCH WAR BUDGET PARIS, June 13—Ppward revi- sions were announced yesterday in the military appropriations de- manded by the Doumergue Goy- ernment, One hundred and forty million tranes are added to the demand, bringing the total to 3,120,000,000 francs or nearly $210,000,000. in Saturday's Daily Worker, or should, be obtained from other papers. Telegrams of protest should be sent immediately to President Roosevelt against Hanfstaengl’s landing in the United States. Let- ters and telegrams of protest should be sent to Dr. Conant, president of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, against the invita- tion of the alumni association, which is the excuse for this Nazi scoundrel’s entry into this country. Drive the fascist executioners’ agent out of the United States! De- mand the freedom of Thaelmann! HARRY RAYMOND CLARENCE A. HATHAWAY kditor, Staff Writer Face 3-Year Term for Exposing Scab Agency Prosecution Is Part of LaGuardia Drive on the; “Daily” ; Defendants Appear This Morning NEW YORK.—As part of the La Guardia campaign of terrorism against the fighters for relief, led by the Com- munist Party, Clarence A. Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker and Harry Raymond, staff writer of the indicted Tuesday afternoon by by the strike-breaking Sher- wood Detective Bureau of 1457 Broadway. They have both been summoned to appear this morning at 10 o'clock in the Court of General Sessions on Center St., between Franklin and White Sts. Joseph Brodsky and Edward Kuntz of the International Labor Defense are the defending attorneys. The basis of the charge is a se- ries of articles written by Raymond during March and April exposing the strikebreaking of detective agencies in the city. The exposures grew out of activities of the agen- cies in the strike of the New York taxi drivers, Three Year Penalty The penalty for criminal libel is up to three years in the peniten- tiary, The specific article upon which the charge is based is an exposure of the activities of George Wil- liams, who was for many years a close associate of Max Sherwood, who in turn had connections with the notorious Nosovitsky forgeries purporting to prove mythical plots of the Communist Party of the U. S. in Mexico. Williams, an employee of the Sherwood Detective Bureau, has a long record of anti-working: class activities, including strikebreaking and thuggery against picket lines. Working for Williams and Sher- wood in the taxi strike were the Cuban General Strike Called for June 16 Against Fascist Group HAVANA, June 13.—A general strike as a counter-demonstra- tion to the fascist demonstration called by the A.B.C., a reaction- ary Wall Street supported or- ganization in Cuba, hes been called by the Cuba National Confederation of Labor to last from June 16 to June 17, Chas. Rinda, recently arrested in Philadelphia and held on $3,000 bail each, for defiling the homes of strikers of the S.K-F. industries. While on the Philadelphia job, the | thugs were said to be working for the Bergoff Detective Agency, 2 Co- | lumbus Cirle, New York. This prosecution grows out of a | determined campaign on the part of the LaGuardia administration against the Communist Party. The persecution of the Daily Worker is obviously a part of the drive of ter- rorism and suppression which La Guardia inaugurated last week in a secret. press conference with the capitalist press. The latest pro- nouncement .of Police Commission- er O’Ryan urging police brutality against the jobless and the Com- munists is also an integral part of a concerted drive by the city ad- ministration to suppress all resist- ance to the growing ruthlessness of paper, were | the New York County Grand | Jury ona charge of criminal? libel on representations made | AN Steel Workers, Decide On Strike Action! pee TEEL workers attending the Amalgamated Association last convention. Union. against the robber steel barons. | OW, not only the reactionary Committee of Ten, elected by the workers to prevent Tighe from selling them out, proposes to abandon, these seyer) demands, and the recognition of mill and de- These are the demands of the steel worker: members of the A. A. and of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial These demands are the agreed-upon basis for united action Mike Tighe, (Continued on Page 6) convention in Pittsburgh today must be on guard against any proposal that abandons the fight for the seven basic demands drawn up, over the head of Mike Tighe, at the Steel workers not present at the convention should bombard the convention with the demand that the fight | be begun on June 16th (Saturday) for the following seven-point pro- | | pany, H. R. gram: 1) The six-hour day, five-day week. 2) $1.00 an hour minimum wage for common labor, other trades to receive increased wages in proportion. 3) Abolition of the differential between North and South. | 4) Equal right for Negro workers. 5) Recognition of the union, partment committees to adjust grievances. | 6) Adoption of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, 7598, now before Congress. 7) Against the speed-up. . of the rank and file | but also the so-called | They | A. A. Convention Gets Call for Unity and Strike Préparations Special to the Daily Worker PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 13.—On vention of the Amalgamated Asso- ciation in Elks Auditorium tomor- tow, the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union issued a statement to all delegates again proposing unity of all steel workers in strike preparations. The statement. signed by Pat Cush and James Egan, says in part, “We again propose united action be- tween the S. M. W. I. U. and the A. A. Steel workers have everything to gain through trade union unity, and everything to lose if the ranks well-known thugs Eddy Gatti and For United Action Against LaGuardia AN EDI the LaGuardia administration. 9 TORIA (Continued on Page 2) the eve of the opening of the con-| SMWU Issues Unity Call; Congress Gets Bill To Break the Steel Strike $ ‘Economy’-F ascization Program Roosevelt Measure Is Rushed; Sets Up Strike Barriers | By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, June 13. — The! Roosevelt. legislation to put down the scheduled national steel strikes | © and those that follow—a measure to | set up one or more boards “to in-| vestigate issues, facts, practices or | activities of employers or employes | in any controversies”—came to Con- gress in secret and promptly leaked out today. The effect of the proposal, as pre- dicted by the Daily Worker, would be to shackle labor with further negotiations in mediation and con- (Continued on Page 2) - | 13.—That Tighe Assails Militants; Workers Urge Disarming Of Company S Gangsters SMWIU Calls Open Air Meets to Prepare for Strike URGES STRIKE VOTE A. A. Officials Invite Coughlin to Speak By CARL REEVE Special to the Daily Worker PITTSBURGH, Pa., June leading members of the Committee of Ten of the Amalgamated Association |are going along with the cam- paign against “Reds,” now launched by Tighe and Com- een in a repoit given to the Daily Worker by a delezate who attended the District Conference of the A. A. this weck in Homestead. At this district. conference, which voted to stick to the demands of the last A. A. convention, and therefore for strike action, Forbeck of the Committee of Ten made an attack on the Steel and Metal 1 Union and Com- ble makers.” Calls fo Expulsion of “Reds” Secretary-Treasurer Leonard was introduced to make the leading re- Port,.and agreat portion of it was devoted to a vieiousemttack on the S. M. W. I. U. and “reds.” Leonard called for the expulsion of all Com- munists from the A. A. Forbeck, this delegate said, pledged his loyalty to the A. A.’s international offic Father Coughlin was brought for- ward at this district conference as one who will speak at tomorrow's national convention. It is obvious from Leonard’s re- port and from Tighe’s vicious at- tack in press statements today on Communists, that these interna- tional officials, in their campaign |of expulsions now being launched, are following the old “Red scare” line of making no distinction be- tween the organization itself and international officia The charges were made that the Communists and the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union “want to de: the A. A.” e' Leonard hea praises on s fight in Wash- | ington.” He said “propaganda against Tighe and Leonard is aimed a venting workers from~ or- ganizing into a real fighting union.” He praised Coughlin highly. Bur- gess spoke five minutes. Forbeck in his speech attacked the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, the delegate reported, and declared the Communists are “tricky” and will not get hold of him, S.M.W.LU. Calls Open Air Meet The locals of the S. M. W. I. U. of Jones and Laughlin on the South Side and Hill. and S. M. W. I. U. locals in McKeesport are meeting today and tomorrow. An open-air mass rally is to be held Saturday, June 16, at 8 o'clock at 25th and Sarah Sts., one block from the J. & L. plant, to take up the strike situation, called by S. M. W. I. U. Permit for a parade in connection with this rally has been denied by the police. 2 son—called for immediate re- newed demands for action by this Congress. They said, “There is still time to force a vote be- fore Congress goes home. We will not relax our campaign, but rather we must redouble our ef- forts.” Gesets and A. F. of L. workers, what do you think of LaGuardia? What the German and the Austrian Socialist leaders told the workers, the Socialist leaders also tell the workers here in America: When fascism comes, they declare, then we shall fight. But the latest events in New York, Toledo, Minneapolis, in the steel centers, in Alabama, Cali- fornia, and hundreds of other cities, prove clearly and beyond doubt to the workers that there is no sharp demarcation between bourgeois deniocracy and fascism. The “liberal” and “progressive” LaGuardia and his Police Commissioner, O’Ryan, are training the police against the workers of New York just as bloodhounds are trained. Under threat of dismissal and disciplinary action, the police are incited to club workers’ heads. The more brutal a policeman is against the workers, the greater his chances of promotion. Arrested workers are tortured in the jails by the same methods the Nazis torment the German workers in the Brown Horror chambers. LaGuardia and O’Ryan train the police against the workers in the same spirit in which) Hitler's storm troopers are trained. Hitler's slogans are alse LaGuardia’s and O’Ryan’s slogans, Just as Hitler wants to sav2 Germany from Communism, so LaGuardia and O’Ryan want to save New York from the Commu- nists. With the same methods the Ku Kluxers, the White Legionnaires, the bandits of the Steel Trust in Birmingham, save the South from the Com- munists. Thus the rich planters save California from the Communists. Thus the National Guards in Minneapolis and Toledo, under orders of the bosses, save “democracy” from the Communists. Thus the steel magnates are preparing with thousands of rifles and machine guns, with strike- breaking guards, to save the steel mills from the Communists. The liberal $25,000-a-year Mayor and the gentle- man O'Ryan repeat the usual police phrases which reaction has for tens and hundreds of years re- Peated against every revolutionary movement. * * * FE IS evident that the terror is directed particularly against the Communists. That a “liberal” Mayor is at the head of the city, at $25,000 a year, is undoubtedly an advance for the family of the honorable gentleman. But this does not give the LaGuardia and an O’Ryan will not stop the course of history. The working class of New York is, united, strong enough to put up an impregnable dam against the fascization of New York by O’P-yan and LaGuardia. The workers of Toledo and Minneapolis, smaller in numbers, have shown that the stage is past when the workers permitted the right demonstrate, to strike and to picket, to be taken away from them without a struggle. It is a question of these elementary rights, necessary means in the struggle of the working class for the daily needs of bread. For without such a struggle the working class will not only not get one piece of bread, but even the last piece of bread will be taken away from them. The question in this situation is not, as O’Ryan’s pouce brains, under LaGuardia’s orders, try to make people believe: that the Communists are preparing a bloody insurrection in New York. Without having won the mujority of the American working class for Communism, without the sym- pathy and the friendly reutvality of the broad middle strata in city and country, ws Communists to unemployed anything to eat. And since we Com- munists—as is the duty of members of a revolu- tionary party—are mobilizing the unemployed for the struggles for their needs, he believes that the can prevent the struggle of the jobless by persecut- ing the Communists. Just as Hitler has not been able to destroy the Communists, just as the Communists in Ger- many will finally destroy Hitlerism, so the Amer- ican working class will, under the !eadership of the Communists, do away with the domination of Wall Street, of the steel and automobile kings and their politicians and lackeys, the LaGuardias and O’Ryans, The reactionary police brains of a cannot seize power. When the majority of the American working class has convinced itself of the correctness of the Communists’ views, wher the broad middle strata in city and country can see no other way out but the one which we show them, then the American working class will seize power, whether O’Ryan and LaGuardia like it or not. . . . UT this is not the problem at the present moment. We know that the majority of the workers are not yet Communists, although we axe trying to convince them by agitation and propaganda, by explaining to them their own bitter daily experience. But we Communists do not play with insurrection, as the reactionary police brains of O’Ryan try to make people believe. The problem that we have to deal with is a problem which concerns all workers, without distinction as to their political opinions; it is the problem of a piece of bread, of sufficient unem- ployment relief, of freedom of speech, of the right to strike and picket, Mayor LaGuardia could at one stroke make all unemployed demonstrations unnecessary, if he would, for instance, train his police against Wall Street, if he would force Wall Street to give up from their profits as much as the unemployed workers need for food and shelter. But since the unemployed will not starve, there will be unem- ployed demonstrations, and even nigger cnes. Socialist workers, workers in the A. F. of L. unions: the whole working class of New York must put up an energetic front against the fascization of New York. Socialist and Communist wo all workers without distinction as to their political party affiliations, have one con:mon interest en one common front. Learn that from Germany and Austria! Mobilize the trade unions, the snops, the unem- ployed! Answer every police atiack with powerfui mass protests and with protest strikes. There are many Socialist and Communist workers in most trade unions of New York. Ii LeGuardia and O’Ryan learn from the fascists in Yorkville, let us jointly learn from Germany and Austria: the united front of all workers in the struggle against fascization, in the struggle for our daily interests, in the struggh> for the most elementary liberties of the workers. It is the most burning problem before the Amer- ican working class, The International Labor Defense has. issued a_ statement. condemning | MeNair’s declaration against picket- Ing. Ignoring the heckling cries of | Pittsburgh councilmen, the Steel jand Metal Workers Industrial |Union delegation presented their | Tesolution to the council asking the | disarmament of Jones and Laugh- | lin: police. and parade permits for June 16th and 28th. Action on the delegation’s de= mands was postponed until Mon- day’s meeting when the steel work- ers will again be on hand to force a showdown. (More Steel News on Pages 2 and 3) Wife of Kingston, Of N. Y. C. P., Dies NEW YORK — The New York District Committee of the Communist Party and the office staff of the District deeply regret the death of Comrade Lucille Kingston, wife cf Comrade Steve Kings- ton, . District. Instructor and member of the District Com- mittee, and extend their sin- cere sympathy to Comrade Kingston.