The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 20, 1934, Page 1

‘ | i \ . ca if i | j Fascists Slate Watch This Figure Grow recs eux 38,4.00 Vol. XI, } 147 <=> * Entered as second-class mi Torgler to Die) After Thaelmann} New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, Daily .QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) at the Post on Orders Cuba Terror Both Await Trial in the|| gptire Illinois UMW Same Prison in | || Local Joins National Berlin . Unemployed Councils N. Y. PROTEST SAT. | (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, June 19.—Glen é a || Ridge, Ill, Local of the United Organizations Mass for || Mine Workers of America voted : . |] last week to affiliate with the Giant Demonstration | | The union members had re- quested the Councils to send a speaker, and, after hearing the program explained, voted to add their 250 members to the ranks. The mine in Glen Ridge has been closed for 15 days. Two hundred “Hunger Fight- ers” were sold in Glen Ridge and Centralia in the last few days. See page 3 for further news on |] cil. PARIS, June 19. — Ernst | Torgler, German Communist | leader, whom the Nazis were| unable to convict in the Reichstag fire trial, is among | those slated to follow Ernst| Thaelmann as defendants be- | fore the Nazi “People’s Court,” ac-||:unemployment in Southern Ili- nois. | National Unemployment Coun- | | cording to news from Berlin re- ceived here by the International | Committee for the Liberation of | Ernst Thaelmann. | Torgler, who ably supported se mitroff in exposing the Nazi frame- | up at Leipzig, is now confined in|} the same jail as Thaelmann—Moa- | bit Prison, Berlin—and is also be-| ing held in solitary confinement by the Hitlerite jailers, although ac- | quitted six months ago at Leipzig. Thaelmann Campaign In Milwaukee MILWAUKEE, Wis. June 19— Free Thaelmann meetings will be held here and in the suburbs this| week. The Communist Party is} mobilizing workers of Milwaukee for| Three people were killed and at| and of the Commu: a demonstration against the Nazis| and for the freedom of Ernst) Thaelmann and Torgler. The Nazis have organized a meet-| ing for Friday, at the Bahn Hall,! 12th and North Ave. The Com-{ munist Party is calling upon the| workers of Milwaukee to come to; 12th and North Avenue. asking the | workers to drive the Nazi agents out of the city. Anti-fascist groups in Milwaukee | will send a delegation to the Ger-| Cops Kill 3 In France to Aid Fascists Toulouse Communis' and Socialists Act Together TOULOUSE, France, June 19— least two score police and Mobile Guards were among the nearly 200 injured in an all-night battle be- | tween the government forces and a united front anti-fascist demon- stration of Communists and So- cialists. Anti-fascists, gathered for counter-demonstration against the Fascist_ Patriot Youth who were | holding a banquet at a local hotel, | were driven from the hotel pr cincts by the Garde Mobile but Wall in Cuba, Carlos Mendieta, who has decreed the arrest of all Com- munist Party and revolutionary trade union leaders, Street's Puppet President [Mendieta Gov't ‘Jails 20 Trade. ‘Union Leaders |Opens New Terrorism} On Revolutionary | Workers HAVANA, June 19.—The Men- dieta-Wall Street puppet govern- ment opened its terror drive against | the Communigy Party of Cuba and the revolutifary trade unions by arresting 20 officials of the Cuban | National Confederation of Labor | yesterday, and ordering the jailing | of all other leaders of the union | t Party. The drive against the Communist | | Party and the revolutionary trade | union follows the shooting of 14 and} wounding 60 in Sunday's fascist A. B. C. demonstration by a faction of | | the A. B. C. The Communist Party | |and the Cuban National Confedera- tion of Labor had mobilized huge anti-fascist demonstrations against the fascist concentration, man Consulate in Chicago demand-| reformed their lines in Lafayette | ing the freedom of Thaelmann. | Boston John Reed Club | Demands “Free Thaelmann” BOSTON, June 19.—The John Reed Club here sent telegrams to the Nazi Ambassador in Washington | and the local consul demanding the} immediate release of Ernst Thael- mann and all other political prison- ers in Germany. New York Demonstration Next Saturday NEW YORK — “Strengthen the fight to free Ernst Thaclmann, heroic leader of the German working class!” So reads the first sentence of a statement issued yesterday by the New York District of the Commun- ist Party addressed to all Party members and sympathetic workers, The statement was issued as a special mobilization call for the giant mass demonstration Satur- day morning when workers will gather at Union Square at 9:30 a.m. for a march to the German consulate, 17 Battery Pl. “Report to your section head- quarters every day.” “Distribute the demonstration leaflets everywhere. Reach the shops, trade markets, union centers and the unemployed. Make special attempts to reach the Socialist Party and A. F. of L. mem- bers. Organize the workers every- where for the demonstration.” The Trade Union Unity Council also issued a call yesterday for all T. U. U. L. workers to turn out in full force Saturday morning for the “Free Thaelmann Demonstration.” Meanwhile the Anti-Nazi Federa- (Contimued on Page 3) 3 More Communists Ordered Beheaded By Nazi Butchers Fascist Fiends Speed Up Terror; Thaelmann Marked Next » BERLIN, June 19.—Three more Communists were sentenced today by the Nazi tribunals to have their heads chopped off on the framed- up charges of killing two policemen in Bulowplatz in 1931. Two more were sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment; one to ten years, one to six years, and three to_ four years. Three were freed. The recent increase in death sen- tences for Communists are delib- erately ordered by the chief Nazi butchers to terrorize the workers, who are intensifying their struggles against Fascism. The next victim the Nazis have Slated for the death penalty is Ernst Thaelmann, who is scheduled to come to trial soon after July 2, when the terrorist so-called “Peo- ples Court” opens. Only the most ccicrmined, broad campaign throuch tha world can force Thasimsnia’s reiease and save him from the Neaiaxmepe oy Place and fought stubbornly until after 3 a.m. this morning. The mounted Guard charged re- peatedly but the workers turned over automobiles and trucks to form barricades, tore the guards | from their horses and ripping iron | grillwork from fences and windows, fought back fiercely. Blazing Barricades Barrels of gasoline were set aflame and the fuel of captured automobiles and trucks was used | to form blazing barriers to rein- force the front line barricades and to ward off the murderous police attacks. Horses went down in the melee and the police were repeatedly turned back as the anti-fascists, awake to the imminent danger of assumption of power by the fas- cists in France, used every avail- able resource to hold off the armed government protectors of the fascists. One group, driven from the main square, hastily threw up barricades of paving stones from a smaller open place and arming themselves again made their last stand. Hundreds of the workers were arrested and over a hundred in- jured of both sides were treated in hospitals today. Frame Dexic| ‘Miner on Fake ‘Murder Charge | Coercion Forces Anti-| Strike Vote; A.A. Head | Approves (Special to the Daily Worker) BIRMINGHAM, Ala., June 19.—} The miner arrested on Monday has | !been charged with assault, intent | | to murder and high robbery. | |No bond has been allowed. | Though W. C. Crawford, district | president of the A. A. (A. F. of L.) | | steel union charges that there was | co-ertion in the company elections under the N.R.A. Labor Regional Board, nevertheless, he states, “We | have no fault to find with the anti- | strike results. . . . We never be- | lieved that the steel workers of | Birmingham were in favor of a) strike.” Crawford simply wants recogni- tion of the union. Meanwhile the officials of the International Union of Miners, Metal and Smelting Workers keep the terms of the ne- | gotiations with the employers a se- | cret. | Steel Institute, AMERICA’S ON CLASS DAILY NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1934. Unify Forces of All | Steel Workers for| | AgeressiveUnionis (STATEMENT OF THE CENTRAL COMMITT COMMUNIST PARTY OF U. §. To All Steel Workers: Fellow Workers and Comrades: A.) President Green of the American Federati Mike Tighe, head of the Amalgamated Association, the Committee of Ten and a number of N. R. A. “conciliators,” were able to get the A. A. special Convention of June 14 to reverse the decisions of the April regular Convention, and to call off the strike. Green in Pittsburgh represented President Roosevelt. Behind him was the full power of the Roosevelt. administration and N. R. A. At the same time President Roosevelt jammed through Congress in the closing session his anti-strike, compulsory arbitration and company union bill. AM the high officials of the A. F. of L. and of the A. A., including the Committee of Ten, approved these anti-union, strike-breaking and anti-working class measures. President Green stated falsely that he was acting in the in- terests of the steel workers. He said that he was sure the time was coming when the steel workers’ wrongs would be righted but that the time was not here yet. He said that the time had not yet come to trike. The A. A. officials and the Committee of Ten took the same stand. President Roosevelt also claims that he had this law passed in the interests of the toiling workers. With so many prominent government politicians and “labor” people working in the interests of the steel workers, they, the steel workers, have a right to be suspicious. As far as these “friends” are concerned, the time to right the wrongs of the steel workers never comes. False Friends Who are these friends? How do they “help” the steel workers? What are the issues involved in the struggles of the steel workers that nave been hampered by the surrender of these official labor leaders, but which must and will continue until victory with the workers? Steel workers getting low wages, discouraged by mass unemploy- ment, working and living under the tyranny of company towns and company unions, had decided that the time for action had come. The delegates to the regular convention, expressing the sentiment of the rank and file of the A. A., especially the sentiments of the newly or- ganized stecl workers, voted to present a program of demands to the steel companies—and to strike if these demands were not granied. The demands worked out by the steel workers called for a hour day and five week, for a minimum wage and $1 per ho! for union recognition, for no discrimination against Negroes, for aboli- tion of the speed-up, for passage of the Wcerkers’ Unemployment In- surance Bill—H. R. 7598, now before Congress. The ke date was set for the middle of June if these demands were refused. The Steel and Metal Wexkers Industrial Union, acting in the interests of a united struggle against the steel barons, endorsed these demands and called for solidarity of all steel and metal workers in support of them. The great majority of the steel workers through- out the country supported these demands and were ready for action. The American Iron and Steel Institute, the High Command of the steel barons, did not even consider the demands of the steel workers. They fortified the mills, converted them into military barracks arid their warehouses into arsenals for arms and ammunition. They recruited their private armies of gangsters from the underworld of Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit and New York. They prepared for civil war against the workers and their organizations. They said that they would not deal with the unions in any shape, form or manner. They proclaimed the open shop and the company union policy again. They took “strike votes” of their employees—an unheard of procedure. They filled the press with statements that the steel workers had no grievances. They pointed to the fact that the A.A. officials had presented no demands except recognition of the union, They said that any grievances arising would be taken up only through the company unions. They said that the steel workers were completely satisfied with the present conditions. All of these actions and utterances of the steel barons and their American Iron and Steel Institute proceeded with the full knowledge and consent of the Roose- velt Administration and its N.R.A, labor boards, Roosevelt—Bosses Aide ‘The Roosevelt government and the N.R.A. had already given great help to the steel bosses. Roosevelt had signed the new steel code. In every part of the administration of the steel code, practically un- limited powers are given to the Board of Directors of the Iron and It has the authority of policemen, prosecuting attor- neys, judges and juries, as well as legislative powers, All together, the code gives the Institute absolute domination over all concerns in the steel industry and over buyers of steel, transportation agencies and m) WEATHER (Fight Pages) LY WORKING -/ NEWSPAPER F Price 3 Cents Fires Union Employees | Speeds NRA Shipping Code to Break Dock Strike on West Coast 1 the 1 code for the s ry todas ‘ ci freely a eral Johnson, N.R.A. Ad- || hoped thus to rator, won't have any union portant mai strike: | organizers wo around his of- || dent Roosev is understood t fice. Out they go, 5 ; Johnson Fires Green Promises Bosses Burial of the Steel Strike Will Take Any Trickery Roosevelt Regime Will Offer NO REPLY TO SMWIU Green, Perkins, Tighe Confer on Maneuvers By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, June 19.— sident Green of the Amer- can F zinning negotiations with the Roosevelt administration and sderation of Labor, be- Gov’t Worker For Union Tie charges Worker for Organizing Union | Di | in N.R.A. | (Daily Worker Washingron sureau) | WASHINGTON, June 19.— Two ours after an A. emplo! nion delegation protested aga the firing of a union A. Administrator Ge: nt and threatened to bo: | ears of a s nd and to fire a third union spokesman. | Johnsen announced action Green | was approved by | of the American Feder bor and by Claude Babcoc of the American ment Employes, I N.R.A. union is Lodge No. 91. John Donovan, the union pre | dent, declared in a statement: | “The little N.R.A. union has re- ceived the same dirty deal that | the automobile workers, the stcel | workers, and eyery other group of | workers who have gone to the General seeking justice have re- | ceived.” | Today the union officials called a | protest mass meeting and General Johnson, twitted by newspaper re- ers who were in an uproar of ngrily turned his back a@ question and exploded: “Now j listen, I'm not going to argue with you about this.” Green meanwhile denied that he | had sanctioned the firing. Both he and Babcock, however, told union leaders last night: “We will stand | behind you if we find it’s a case of | union di: ination.” Discrimination on Jo! | Questioned about the ig up | of a unicn ir. New Jersey factory of | which Johnson is president and part | owner, the general today again de- | nied responsibility, while reporters }all around him grinned. In this factory, Lea Fabrics, Inc, two (Continued on Page 3) | MEXICAN OIL STRIKE | MEXICO CITY, Mexico—Presi- dent Abelardo Rodriguez’ offer to personally mediate the strike of the Mexican Eagle Oil Company work- ers is a more direct step of the government to break the clared, con’ Utilities code, also pending. I hink the Shipping Code might Amalgamated Association of- ficials to bury the steel strike strike | t help of these labor in some in an arbitration grave, tod mil troubles.” ingly told the press that if the A. F. Asked whether he meant that |! o¢ 1, proposal for ‘‘settlement”. ia he thought the government could || rejected, he will accept a “settle- use the Marine Code’s provisions || ment” under the new Roosevelt for mediation boards and for || ceneral ¢ ve. Chaos hiring} to quell strik decla t Roosevelt Johnson replied, “Yes.” Frisco Unions Vote Today on General Strike Bosses Say They Willi Use Arms to Put Down Longshore Strike N FRANCISCO, June 19. — here have decided to port of the lor the answer of the or ing cless to an annou: the Industrial Association, through its president, Robert Forbes, that it |has accepted the challenge of | President J. W. Maillard of the San neisco Chamber of Commerce and will open the port by force of Tacoma and Portland have al- ready voted a general strike if trcops are called. | olution asking that relief be Ar hdrawn from families of strikers has been passed by the City and {County Federation of Women’s | |Clubs. The Women’s Auxiliary of | |the International Longshoremen’s | Association protested this action jand asked that the Federation per- | mit the auxiliary members to ad-/| | dress it. was given when in received by Swedish |men from the International of Sea- |men and Harbor Worke! not to load cargos in the West Coast ports. The instructions came in response to a cable sent to the I. S. H. from |the I. L.A | Reject Agreement in Seattle | SEATTLE, Wash., June 19.—Strik- ing longshoremen of the port of Seattle joined with strikers in the/ | other west coast towns in rejecting | the agreement to end the strike which*was signed in San Francisco the lives and destinies of the working class in entire communities. | when a previous proposal to have| by Joseph P. Ryan, head of the (Continued on Page 2) Secretary of Labor Bojorquez me- diate fared badly. | International Longshoremen’s Asso- ‘ ciation. Red Builders Bring Daily Worker to Harlem In Drive; More Sellers Needed DOWN ON LENOX AVE.—In Harlem the Red Builders’ branch is only three weeks old, already making Harlem conscious of the struggles the “Daily” carries on. Above is a Harlem Red Builder in action. Lenox Ave, is known in the capitalist papers as the place of the hot-cha, where the blue-singers sing bluer than anywhere in town. also a branch of the I. L. D., and it is a symbol of the fitht that the Daily Worker and the I. L. D. make for cod colo-ed notion of th> Sovth, that in Har- lem the Red Builders congregate there. the cpp but the Red Builders are But on Lenox Ave, is and ask ON THE PICKET LINE.—Harry Gordon's usual stand is on 5th Ave. and 125th St., a part of the avenue that the blue-blooded boys and gitis who make merry in the dens of sin have no knowledge of, save perhaps when their real-estate agent calls their attention to an eviction he has accomplished,—but when there’s a strike Harry brings the “Daily” where it belongs, on the picket line, to encourage the strikers, Here he is on 125th St., selling the “Daily” in front of Blumstein’s, Harry is the leader of the Red Builders in Harlem and he is concentrating on getting his quota of Red Builders in the drive to put 200 on every important inter-section of New Yerk in the next two months. Men and women werkers, boys and girls, who wish to aid the “Daily” and also make expenses are urged to follow the example of this Red Builder, particuiarly today during the campricn to get 20,909 new readers within the next two months x. Come to the Daily Worker City Office (store), at 35 Williams, . = ay ¥e for ye 19,000 of them East 12th Street Builders Willie Cai Central Park. THE CAMPBELLS ARE COMING.—Like other Red of the law for seiling the Daily Worker. ago he was arrested for selling the Daily Worker in “The next time,” said the judge, “You | won't get off so easily.” When we went to snap this picture we observed, again, how the law works. Camp- bell, a young Negro boy, was selling the Amsterdam News; and the cop on the beat had to be fair. he kicked the latter off the corner (and the boy was | gore before we could do anything for him) and then | he tried to chase Campbell. But Campbell romained. While the cop looked on we snapped Campbell. mpbell has felt the majestic arm | Two weeks | First far. | further neglect this Bill in the face |of the national calamity brought would over a to put settlement “nct too hard” for the A. F. of L, to accept. President Roosevelt ress that the inder the new substitute for the Vagner bill, must not be expected too soon, The matter of election machinery is the real problem in the whole s' ion, the President explained, and he wouldn't promise y could be held s y in all plant an indu: or even within ten days. The Department of Labor's spokesman couldn't give any ane swer when asked by your corre- spondent what Secreta Perkins replied to the Steel Metal Workers Industrial Union's -tele= gram demanding an invitation .to participate in the negotiations and warning that its 15,000 members and the majority of the rank and file of the A. A. oppose the Green proposal. The Secretary was away, it was said. Secretary Perkins and Chairman Wagner of the National Labor Board were called to the White House to talk over setting tha Wagner Bill substitute in action, apparently particularly in connece tion with the steel situation. President Green conferred today with Miss Perkins and with other international officers of the A, Aj} President Mike Tighe, Vice-Pres- ident Thomas G. Gillis and Eds ward W. Miller, and Secretarys | Treasurer Louis Leonard. oss Proposal Same N.R.A. Administrator Johnson again emphatically pro- claimed that the A. F. of L. settle- ment proposal is almost identical with the one which Jonnson and the Iron and Steel Institute pro- posed, and which was rejected by the convention committee with great verbal protest. The A. A. proposal was laid be- fore Perkins in formal terms. She said after a morning conference that they merely tried to come to some agreement as to its meaning, They were to meet again late to- day. The A.A. proposal calls for: An “impartial” board of three to handle complaints and mediate disputes; “elections” under the supervision of the Board to de- termine collective bargaining rep~ resentatives; and direct negotia- tions between management ad rep- resentatives of workers to settle grievances regarding wages, hours and conditions. Farmer Convention At Minneapolis To Fight for Relief Push Communist Party Farm Bill As Only Drought Relief CHICAGO. Ill, June 19.—Dele« gates from about 20 states will meet at the First United Farmers’ Léague National Convention at Minneap= olis June 22 to 25. “Our convention is being held just at the time when millions of farmers are confronted with the worst drought in the history of the coun said H. Puro. acting na- tional secretary of the U. F. L,, who has just returned from South Da- kota, where he spent about“Ane ek investigating the drought situs jon and helping the U. F. L, state aders to map out the plan to fight for relief and push the endorse- |ment of the Farmers’ Emergency Relief Bill. “Our convention also will take up an energetic fight for the enact- ment of the Farmers’ Emergency Relief Bill, launched by the Com- munist Party and already endorsed by the National Executive Council of the United Farmers’ League. U, F. L. locals and other militant farmers’ organizations have been too slow in taking up this Bill so It would be criminal if we about by the A. A. A. destruction program and the unprecedsnted Groughi,” says the U. F. L. acting secretary, _