The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 16, 1934, Page 1

fy | ‘LESSONS OF THE Series of Articles TOLEDO STRIKE’ in this Important Struggle Begins Vol. X°, No. 144 <>” Daily QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIOMAL ) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of Mi ch 8, 1879 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 193 1 WEATHER: Generally errr ee te em j AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING ae ASS DAILY NEWSPAPER | (Eight Pages) Price 3 Cents GREEN SEEKS T0 SPIKE STEEL STRIKE BY 10-DAY DELAY GENERAL STRIKES LOOM IN FRISCO, MILWAUKEE, BUTTE Oust Nazi Agent! Demonstrate 4 P. M. at W. 46th St. Pier Mobilizi General Strike At Three Points Siipowners Call for the Federal Troops to | Break Dock Strike | STRIKERS — GASSED Seattle Mayor Orders. Cops to Open Piers | SAN FRANCISCO, June} 15.—Reliable reports that the Industrial Association of San Francisco and a number of | the large shipowners have ap- | pealed to President Roosevelt | for the use of federal troops | to break the maritime strike persisted here today. The or-| ganized labor movement has declared that a general strike will be called if troops are | breucht in. SAN FRA CISCO, Cal.. June 15.— The. strike the maritime work- ers on the Pacific coast reached a point where a general strike loomed aficcting every impor‘ant Pacific port when California’s new Gover- ner Jaunched a vicious attack) against the strikers. | | Governor Frank B, Merriam is- sued a diatribe against San Fran- cisco local of the International) Longshoremen’s Association in| which he called the strikers a, “horde of professional agitators and | alien Communists” and threatened to use the full power of the state} to smash both the marine aaa agricultural strikes. Ready to Call Out Troops This was seen as indicating that he is ready to call out the troops on the waterfront, that he would sup- port state police in the recent de- portation of 200 farm strikers from Contra Costa county. The tongshoremen’s strike com- mittee has already asked for a general strike in the bay district and the unions have indicated that they will walk out if troops are sent to the docks, Tacoma and Portland entral labor bodies have also voted a general strike if troops are called to open the ports. President Maillard of the San| Francisco Chamber of Commerce indicated that he was working in close alliance with the governor by demanding of the Industrial Asso- | ciation that it “open the port,” that radicals had seized control of the union, “Paralyzing activity and planning a general strike.” International President Joseph P. Ryan of the International Long- shoremen’s Association joined the attack on the local by saying it is “out of hand” and threatening to deal with the company union set up by Lee J. Holman, the former president of the I. L. A. local. who was expelled by the membership for blocking a strike in the early spring “after it had been voted by the -membership. Ryan’s statement caused a storm of protest among the strikers. Strikers on the Oakland waterfront: were soaked with tear gas. SEATTLE, Wash., June 15.—Ef- forts to bring about a general strike of all union labor in sup- port of the longshoremen and seamen were being made here to- day, following the massing of po- lice on the waterfront to carry out Mayor Charles L. Smith's “emergency” proposal for opening the port and breaking the strike. Mayor Smith took personal com- | mand of the police department today and declared the port are patrolling the strike area. New Cartoon Strip To Begin on Monday The life of the Red Builder, who carries the working class newspaper to the masses, will be the theme of a cartoon strip - Which starts in the Daily | Worker on Monday — Don't miss it. |for either of these strikes as yet.; ' ganizing, preparing for a strike for | ever, has not changed the situation land the company union still exists. ng For Milwaukee Feder ation) Foreed to Endorse General Strike | STREET C ‘ARMEN OUT. To Vote on General) Strike in Butte MILWAUKEE, Wis., June| 15. — Under pressure of the | rank and file of local unions, ! leaders of the Wisconsin Fed-| eration of Labor and the Mil- waukee Federated Trades Council have been forced to issue a statement threatening a general strike in support of the} street car-men. A special meeting | — of the State Federation has been| called for Sunday to make final de- | | cisions on this question. The proposed general strike is to }last 24 hours to begin simultane- ously with that of the street car- men, No definite date has been set The street car-men have been or- months, but officials have succeeded in holding them back, placing the entire case before the Labor Board. The Labor Board refuses to give a decision or order a yote. The com- pany has ignored the decision of the Labor Board to reinstate some of the men fired for union ativity, and as a result has lost the Blue Eagle. Loss of the Blue Eagle, how- of the men, Wages still remain low The strike of street car-men is (Continued on Page 2 General Strike Is Planned in Butte To Aid Copper Men Miners Demand Better Wages, Shorter Mours at Anaconda Co. BUTTE, Mont. (F.-P.)—Support- ing a strike of 5,000 copper miners, engineers and allied workers, the unions of Butte have called a con- ference which may vote a general strike of the 15,000 union members in the area. The miners are striking against the anti-union Anaconda Copper Co., demanding better wages and shorter hours. Unemployment is widespread but the other workers are strongiy supporting the strike. Because of the bitter attacks on the strikers carried in the Ana- conda-controlled daily newspapers, the members of 30 unions have voted to boycott all firms advertising in those papers. The retail clerks’ union has voted to refuse to sell goods to the families of the 215 strikebreakers now working in the mines. The strike, which began in late April, has the solid support of the workers of the whole area. (Left to Right) Hanfstaengl, Hitler and Goering—three fascist chiefs of the Nazi murder machine in will be given a fitting reception by thousands of anti-fascist St. pier at 4 p.m., demandirtg the freedom of Ernst Thaelmann, Germany. German proletarian leader. Hanfstaengl, who arrives today, workers and intellectuals at the West 46th Raise Cry of “Free Thaelnakn”’ As Fascist Hanjfstaengl Arrives Today Nash Consul Flees Demands for Thaelmann| Nazi Leaves Building as Pickets, Wires, Demand “Free Thaelmann” NEW YORK.—Faced with growing protests of many trade unions and antifascist organizations, driven frantic by the steady picket | line in front of his office building | and flooded by an ocean of demands in every possible manner for the} release of Ernst Thaelmann, leader | of the German Communist Party, | the Nazi Consul and his assistant here have fled their offices and will! be away indefinitely. The announcement that these Hitler agents have gone out of town indefinitely, told to the delegations | visiting the consulate daily to de-| mand Thaelmann’s release, was| made by a private detective sta- tioned outside the door and con- firmed by a clerk in the Consul’s office. Yesterday a delegation from the Workers School headed by Dr. A. Markoff, director, visited the con- sulate, but was refused admission. Markoff, however, was allowed in after vigorous protest from the del-| egation, but the clerk refused to ac- | cept a statement of demands. Intellectuals Protest Another delegation of 12 artists, actors, writers and scientists from the National Committee for the De- fense of Political Prisoners visited the consulate yesterday, but they, too, were refused admittance, be- cause “the Consul is out of town (Continued on Page 2) Report Wall St. Puppet in Cuba, Mendieta, Hurt HAVANA, June 15.—The Wall Street-supported president of Cu- ba, Carlos Mendieta, was reported wounded today by a bomb which exploded at a luncheon in Casa Blanea, across the harbor from Havana, Canadian Labor Defense Hits LaGuardia Attack on “Daily” NEW YORK.—The Canadian La- bor Defense League, defense organ- ization of the Canadian workers, yesterday protested the indictment against Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, and Harry Raymond, staff writer, on a charge of “criminal libel.” In a telegram to Mayor La Guardia, the C. L. D. L. promised to rally thousands of Canadian workers to the defense of the only daily working class newspaper in America. gu complete message signed by A. E. Smith, secretary, follows: , ri Cans nse League, representing 40,000 mem- bers and hundreds of thousands sympathizers, protests against the fascist policies of your admin- istration in smashing strike strug- gles and struggles against fascism, hunger and against your latest at- tack in the indictment of Clarence Hathaway and Harry Raymond of the Daily Worker on charges of criminal libel for exposing ruth- Jess terrorism en your detective agencies. “We demand immediate squash - ing of the indictment and an end to terror policy. We will mobilize the whole Canadian toilers on be- half of Hathaway and Raymond and the heroic struggles of United States workers.” Minor Speaks at iieier: Pier as Thousands Will Protest NEW YORK. .—“Drive the} Nazi agents from the U: ipiay | States!” [Nazis Behead | 3; Plan Mass | Murder Trials: That will be the ee Prepare Surprise Trial slogan greeting Ernst F. S.| | Hanfstaengl, Hitler's personal | propaganda tool, when Europa at 4:30 p.m. today. The voices of thousands of New York work and students, indig- | nant at the tortures imposed by | the bloody Hitler regime on | Thaelmann and other anti-fascist prisoners, will echo and re-echo that | ery when they gather at Pier 86, West 46th St., at 4 o'clock this after- noon. The reception to this fascist is called by the Anti-Nazi Federation and is supported by many workers, intellectual and student organiza- tions in New York. Many thou- sands of workers are expected to participate in this reception as an expression of their hatred of Hitler and all he represents. Minor to Speak Robert Minor, veteran Communist leader, will speak at the demon- stration this afternoon, Other speakers will be Pauline Rogers, from the Anti-Nazi Federation and} others from the National Commit- | tee to Aid Victims of German Fas- cism, German Anti-Fascist Action, Jewish and Peoples’ Committee (Continued on Page 2) Britain To Seize Germany’s Credits As Payments Stop LONDON, June 15—The fascist moratorium on all foreign obliga- tions has already evoked drastic counter-measures here. Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Ex- chequor, declared in the House of Commons today that steps would be taken to seize all German credits in England and apply them on the un- paid loans. maneuvering by withholding the carrying-out of this scheme until July Ist. The British action was inter- preted in financial circles here as definitely against the interests of U. S. holders of German bonds be- cause it ties up the largest available source of German credit applicable to bond payments for the use of| British holders. Similar action is being considered in France. It is stated in Paris that the French government will act in cooperation with the British in establishing a clearing-house to seize all German credits, These steps are only the begin- ning as-the full effect of the mora- torium has not been felt. The re- sult will be a tremendous under- mining of the already steeply re- duced German foreign trade, and especially the import of raw mate- rials and foodstuffs into Germany. In Germany, prices on all neces- sities of life are shooting up daily in anticipation of the inevitable in- flation that will result, and the cer- tainty of higher food prices to cur- tailed imports. Neville | A way was left open for | he| the| Steps from the gangplank of the | i | | before Hitler came to power. and Quick Death for Thaelmann BERLIN, June 15. — The Nazi| jpiurder courts are being speeded up along with the intensification of the| | crisis of fasc Yesterday three | | Berlin communists were beheaded | by Nazi axmen. With faces turned| upward, their heads were severed) from their bodies on orders of the} Hitler court. One had been con- | victed of an alleged killing of a Nazi| Two! | asked whether he were doing an: | thing about the steel situation. He} | replied “It's not in my lap—yet.” | | | without a record vote / ¢ |A. F.of L. Leader Otters Strike; Rush By MARGUERITE YOUNG | Daily Worker Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, June 15.—An in- dication that the Department of! Justice might step into the steel-| strike came late today when At-| torney General Cummings, leaving a meeting at the White House, w: Roosevelt Rushes Measure At President Roosevelt’s personal.| | direct insistence, Congress labored | | today for an agreement to pass the| [aig ee compulsory _ resolution The Presi-| }dent stepped in, calling Senate | |Democratic leader Robinson and| Senator Wagner of New York to the| White House and ordering them to hold Congress in session until the bill is passed, after the measure was assailed so bitterly that even} William Green of the American Federation of Labor had to oppose it. | Establishes Compulsory Arbitration | The American Civil Liberties | Union issued a statement declaring |the resolution “a weapon in the hands of employers to crush organ- Hint Gov't Action Against Rooseve lt Bill pulsory arbitration and with it inevitable denial of the right of labor to strike and picket.” 2, “It will tend through ‘The broad powers of investigation of activities of employees,’ to out- Jaw all militant labor groups critical of Governmental policies or desirous of any change in the economic status quo. 3. “The right to collective bar- gaining is ignored.” 4. “The menace to organized labor of the company-dominating union is not even considered.” “In exchange for robbing labor of what few hard won rights it now has.” the statement added. “The bill gives labor exactly nothing.” Democratic leader Robinson of |the Senate announced late today that he would immediately formally introduce the Roosevelt compulsory mediation resolution—thus indi- cating that an agreement to rush it through has been reached. However, when he was asked what about representation of minorities in collective’ bargaining, the Presi- dent declared this was ‘a mere detail which would have to be worked out vee labor.” The union denounced he measure on four counts: I" 1, “It virtually establishes com- ‘TCI Officials in| Birmingham In New Terror — | But Workers Are Ready | To Go Out When Call for Strike Sounds others were charged with killing a] stool-pigeon. | Today Hans Ziegler and 8. Ep- stein were condemned to a similar) death by the Moabit court in a trial marked by such open prejudice as to occasion surprise, even among | the hardened foreign correspondents, | Both: accustomed to such scenes. were accused of being implicated in the murder of the Nazi pervert, Horst Wessel That these hurried executions are the prelude to a new murder attack on the Communist Party of Ger- many, especially against its im- prisioned leader, Ernst Thaelmann, | is shown by the fact of the mass! trial of 80 communists -vhich started today in the Reich Supreme Court in Leipzig, the same court which tried Dimitroff and the four other defendants in the Reichstag fire trial. F orce St. Louis, Mo. Aldermen to Act on Social Bill HR 7598 Jobless Pack City Hall: Demand Workers Relief) Ordinance ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 15—St. Louis, the sixth largest city in the country, with a population of 821,- 960 by the 1930 census, today en- dorsed the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill (H.R. 7598). The Board of Aldermen was forced to endorse the Workers Bill asa huge unemployed delegation fought militantly inside the alder- man chambers and packed the gal- lery while other hundreds waited outside the City Hall. Seven hun- dred demonstrators enthusiastically greeted the delegation when the re- port was given from the City Hall steps. The passage of the St. Louis Workers’ Municipal Relief Ordinance was again demanded. Samuel Dukes, Communist Party candidate for Congress and organizer of the local Unemployment Council, and a mother with an infant in her arms erarhically depicted the mass misery of the city’s 100,000 jobless. (Special to the Daily Worker) | BIRMINGHAM, Ala., June 15.—| | All reactionary forces here are now | by means of terror, arre: intimi- | dation, lies and fake promises. Aj headline in the “Age Herald” de- clares that 10,000 have voted “No” [on the steel strike in the Birming- jhamt area. The facts, however, are |that the workers were forced to} vote for the company union and ¢! against the strike on the threat of | being discharged. | President Gregg of the Tennessee | Coal and Iron Company has issued | @ press statement to the effect that there will be no strike. Gregg also sent a 4-page letter to all employe dated June 7, appealing against the strike and praising the “democrati- zation” of the company union with its home owning, stock owning, (Continued on Page 2) later. This mere detail is the door |through which company unions| get in. South Chicago ‘Tense As Steel Strike Looms inate Police Imported from Chicago; Police Enter SMWIU Office By BILL ANDREWS (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) SOUTH CHICAGO, June 15. — town, men, women and even children, is on edge, waiting tensely for a strike decision by the ittsburgh convention. Strike sentiment has risen to a higher pitch in South Chicago than at any time in recent years. Work- ers from the Republic Steel mills| report that they will go out to- morrow morning at 7 their leaders’ maneuvers. | Tighe mobilized to prevent the steel strike! The whole working population of | | this steel regardless of |led by “Plan” Like Johnson’s Convention Tense, As He Protects the Trusts With “P Plea PRAISES NRA CODES eace”” Machine Trying Choke Strike Sentiment Feverishly to BULLETIN PITTSBURGH, Pa., Following numerous questions put to President Green of the A. F, of L., by A.A. convention delegates, the convention elected a comm tee of sixteen to consider what action the convention will take on Green’s proposal. This is practi cally a duplication of Johnsor Plan providing tor a Doard arbitration of three with power to be appointed by velt and to call and su elections and arbitrate. The com mittee of sixteen includes eight of the original committee of ten and is now mocting to decitte what recommendations will be made to the convention regarding disposition af Green's proposal to call off strike and communicate | with Roosevelt. This steering committee includes some of Tighe supervisors and some district leaders who opposed Tighe at last convention. The committee in- cludes Earle Forbeck, George W liams, Mel Moore, William Long, J. E. Bye#s, L. F, Kerns, Roy Kil- sey, C. E, Allen, William Hob J, W. Grazeias, Clarence Irvin, J. A. Milnes, W. Walcott, Johr Powell, H. A, Rasmussen, W. H Williamson, Jone 15.— of full Roose- By CARL REEVE Special to the Daily Worker PITTSBURGH, June 15. ~ Summoning up trick learned in more than twe years of professional breaking, William Green, |president of the American Federation of Labor late to- day meless eu every nty strike- un= of the steel trust Rushing to the rescue of the steel barons, now feced with a wave of hatred and strike sentiment the steel c anies more po’ ny than any since the great stee William Green called for Z. Foster in 18 at least a 10-day Some confusion exists among the | further postponement of the strike, workers, due to the stalling tactics of the Amalgamated Association's national leadership and the rank sabotage of preparations by most of | the local leaders, particularly Kel |and Curtis. | The capitalist press continues to garden growing, pension relief, and|carry screaming stories about the) (Continued on Page 2y By a Steel Worker Bacicanonane ECORSE, Michigan.—The Steel workers of Ecorse are ready to strike. The village president of | Ecorse is working overtime to avert the strike, hand in hand with the bosses. Here there is a general sen- timent for the strike. Many of the workers say that they are ready to fight for their unions and for higher wages. The village president of Ecorse called a meeting for tonight in the municipal building of the merchants and business men to find a way to avert the strike, and believe me, some funny things happened there. A man got the floor from River Rouge; I was unable to learn his name, and he talked about what Ecorse ought to do, like Rouge, to stop the strike. He talked and talked, but I still do not know how it was done. After him a business- man got up and he told the meeting and the president of the village that if they want to stop the strike, to raise the wages of the mill workers, because the pay that a steel worker is getting is impossible to live on. The meeting voted on a resolution Steel Workers of Ecorse, Michigan, Ready to Strike ° ;to be sent to President Roosevelt, | asking the president to prevent the strike by xaising the wages of the | steel workers. The fun comes now. Mr. Wm. Voisine made everybody present sign their names on empty sheet of parer. proposed: that we, the business men of Ecorse ask the president to stop all. The raising of the wages, oh forget about that you are no one to bother the president with things like that. So we can see that even the busi- workers, and thet only the village want to turn them against the workers. next issue of the Ecorse Advertiser, | to see how this rotten paper will play up the above mentioned. reso- | lution, Honorable! the code ness men’s sympathy is with the, president and the steel mill officials| nz to blind and confuse the Green poured forth ftl- |some and gushing praise for Roos |velt, who at the same ~ {ing to strangle ;2 compulsory arbi “No Strike” Now Green's propos: }and an “im! bo é oe three {men to be appointed by Roosevelt, | with full powers, a propesal which in all important aspects is a dupli- cate of the company union proposal |ef Gen. Joh: id the Iron and |Steel Institute was cleverly pre« | sented h many trimmings of “ate ks” on the steel companies. Green propose that “the threate ened strike be called off,” an ime tial board of three members a ed by Roosevelt empow ve complaints and eports of complaints be ‘ployers and employees for the steel to mediate any disputes and Dp industry,” are anirange for conferences between the The people| employers and employee: signed their names and went home. j their A few men stayed behind and asked] dispute between labor and employ them to read the resolution. Some | ers, provided such disputes are vole official from the steel mill was there | untarily also, and he read the resolutions,| and “to call and hold elections, and it was the same thing a5/representatives selected by a majors ‘to offer ervices as arbitrators in any submitted for arbitration” the ity of the employees to be recoge nized as their representatives for the coming steel strike, and that’s|collective bargaining. “Any questions which cannot be determined by collective bargaining to be submitted by mutual agree- |ment to the board for arbitration.” Green made no direct attack on the progressive elements, using soft soup, beginning his speech with: “Fellow workers” and declaring, “Think of me as a miner talking to I am anxious to see the} steel workers.” Green’s hour speech was framed from beginning to end with the pure ! (Continued on Page 2)