The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 21, 1934, Page 1

‘ Make Saturday’s “Free Thaelmann” Ab Both LaGuardia and O’Ryan Must Go! AN EDI TORIAL OT the Communists, but Mayor La Guardia and Police Commissioner O’Ryan are “scurrying like rats for their sewers” today, to quot tion of Communists on May e the Daily Mirror’s descrip- 10, when it followed the lead of these baiters of the unemployed. La Guardia and O’Ryan had followed the lead of “Today,” the weekly financed by the multi-millionaire Astor, edited by Raymond trusted friend and advisor. Moley, President Roosevelt’s All of them called for and had planned and provoked a reign of bloody police terror against Communists and the unemployed. Mayor La Guardia had publicly de- nounced James Gaynor, elected spokesman of 130,000 un- employed and their families, as “a yellow dog.” The Daily Worker on June 2 exposed La Guardia’s secret conference with editors of the capitalist press at which he urged them to “1a; y off” the brutal acts of the police and demanded a censorship under police control. Today, a New York daily says, in the first reference to this secret conference made in any paper except the Daily Worker: “The Mayor thereupon staved off possible criti- cism from the press by summoning editors of all metro- politan papers [except the Daily Worker—Ed.] to a secret ‘emergency conference.’ “With an air of agitated apprehension he asked them not to criticize the, police for the savage attacks upon the unemployed, saying ‘Red’ agitators were bent upon getting the situation out of control.” WHY DID THE EVENING POST REMAIN SILENT FOR 18 DAYS? Mayor La Guardia, you organized the police attacks on Communists and other unemployed workers! On top of that, you organized a press censorship to conceal your fascist policy less. You, Mayor La Guardia, toward the hungry and job- are the “liberal” mayor who dares to call unemployed and their leaders “yellow dogs!” You dare not deny a single charge made by the Com- munist Party and its official organ—the Daily Worker! The New York Evening Post tries to exonerate you of guilt for your bloody conspiracy by demanding only the removal of the Police Commissioner you appointed! The Daily Worker says you both must go! There is the blood of unemployed workers on the hands of both of you! Your guilt is proven. No fake list of “reds” is going to divert the attention of the masses of unemployed against which you directed your murderous police attacks! will see to that. Under pressure of the cl: mitted political suicide—as lowers of capitalism do sooner or later. We lass struggle you have com- all you careerist camp__fol- Don’t you hear the angry rumble from the working class sections of this city? “Tt is time to go, I heard them say, I heard them say it’s time to go!” Cpond Jury Indicts Five ; May 26 Demonstrators; Ask HeavyB Workers to Hold Mass Trials of LaGuardia Administration NEW YORK.—The Grand Jury yesterday brought in additional chearges of “felonious assault” against five of the ten workers. who were jailed when the police at- tacked a demonstration at 50 La- fayette St. on May 26. Three indictments were placed against Jeremiah Lynch, Jack Pol- onious assault” charges were placed against JJerimiah Lynch, Jack Pol- Aski, Joseph Schindler and D’Amicis. In addition to the felonious assault charges which will be tried by jury, “riot” charges are placed against these workers, who will be tried at Special Sessions py three judges. Set High Bail All five have again been placed in jail. The district attorney is de- manding additional bail totalling $5,000 on Jenkins, and $2,500 each on Lynch, Poliski, Schindler .and D'Amicis. A third charge of “ma- licious mischief” has been placed against Poliski. Hearings on the new charges will be held today at 10 a.m., at General Sessions Court, Franklin and Center Sts., and bail will be set. Workers are urged to protest these vicious indictments which the Grand Jury has brought in by send- ing resolutions to La Guardia and to the trial judges and massing at the court house. Hold Public Mass Trials Public mass trials of all the in- stigators of the police attacks upon the jobless will be held throughout the city during the coming week. Mayor La Guardia, who ordered the blood-bath of the jobless; Inspector J, E. Wall, who ordered the police to attack the workers; Magistrate A. Dryer, who held the preliminary hearings and whose order to clear the court was the signal for another police attack; Welfare Commission- ers Hodson and Howe, and Police Commissioner O’Ryan have been asked to appear at these public trials and defend themselves before ® court of workers, East Side workers will hold two such trials, one at the Marihattan| by Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St., and the other at the Neighborhood Play- house, 466 Grand St. For the first, workers will mass at Seventh St. and Avenue A, Monday, June 25, at 7:30 p.m. and march to the Manhattan Lyceum. For the other, workers will mass at Rutgers Sq., Tuesday, June 26, at 7:30 p.m. and march to the Playhouse, ail; All Jailed Rubber Industry For 30-Hr. Week To Submit Agreement To Rubber Industrial Trade Bodies AKRON, Ohio, June 20 (F. P.) — Union committees in Akron are completing their demands and pro- gram for the rubber industry and an industry-wide strike is seen as a distinct possibility. The proposed agreement, approved by the United Rubber Workers’ Council and by all Jocal unions hav- ing members in rubber factories, is said to include a 30-hour week, a guarantee of 44 weeks’ work a year and minimum hourly wage scales for all jobs and all crafts. The agreement will be submitted directly to the rubber industry trade bodies, instead of to the individual factories. ) Daily <QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Vol. XI, No. 148 <> * NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1934 Entered as New York, N ass ma EDITOR APPEALS FOR AID— Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, snapped at his desk, points out in the accompanying appeal the necessity of doubling the circulation of our paper and asks for 200 unemployed workers to join the ranks of the Red Builders and accept assignments to sell the “Daily” on busy inter- sections, Relief Workers Union Fights| Mass Firings Series of Meets To Lead To July 15th Strike Conference NEW YORK.—Mass firings of re- lief workers was ordered Monday by Commissioner of Welfare William Hodson. Fifteen thousand will be fired as part of the general La- Guardia attack upon the unem- Ployed. The remaining 110,000 will have their jobs in jeopardy as the Works Division of the Welfare De- partment “reviews” the entire pay roll to eliminate’ all but those who are in the “greatest need.” That this is just the prelude to further slashing of wages is indicated in Hodson’s statement. An attempt is being made to reduce all relief work- ers to Home Relief clients employed at forced labor. The Relief Workers League, rais- ing the workers’ demands for the $5 day, 4-day week; return of the time cut and union rates of pay for skilled workers; and the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, has called a city-wide membership meet- ing of all members of the Relief Workers League, members of sym- pathetic mass organizations who are working on relief jobs, and mem- bers of trade unions. The mass membership meeting will be held Monday, June 25, at 8 p. m, at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place. cee An important fraction meeting of all members of the Communist Party and Young Communist League working on relief jobs, at- tended by functionaries of the Unemployment Councils and all New York Section Organizers will be held tonight at 8 p. m., at Room 207, 35 E. 12th St, Party leaders and _ representa- tives of the District will be pres- ent. Preparations for the calling of a convention of delegates from all the relief projects for the pur- pose of a general strike on city work relief will be discussed. All Party and Y. C. L. members work- ing on relief jobs must be present. Comrades: E WANT to put before every reader of the Daily Worker one of tne most important political tasks confronting the Communist Party and every militant worker fighting for the revolutionary way out of the crisis. With the tre- mendous radicalization of the American workers, due to the smashing down of their living standards, the recent sharp strike struggles, due to the long list of shameful betrayals, the most recent of which are the auto and steel strikes, the | basis exists in this country for a rapid and tremendous increase of the circulation of the Daily Worker. The rapid steps of the Roosevelt regime, and all its hangers-on like the La Guardias, towards fascist attacks on the workers; the growing danger of a new criminal imperialist war, the growing anti- fascist upsurge in France and Germany, make it clear that decisive battles of the workers against capitalism are in the offing. * * . IX THIS situation we cannot afford to waste a moment in winning a mass circulation for our most powerful weapon, the Daily Worker: The recent 8th Convention of the Communist Party decided to throw all the resources of the revolutionary movement into a cam- paign to double the circulation of the Daily Worker in the shortest Possible time. All of the delegates to the convention, from the front line of the bitterest class battles in this country, decided that this was not a difficult task. All agreed it could and must be accomplished. As the first step in the realization of this campaign the Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party has decided that in the next two months, 20,000 new readers must be won for the Daily Worker. In New York, especially, there is an extremely favorable oppor- tunity for the quickest increase in the circulation of the Daily Worker. Let us point to one fact. The Daily Worker in New York has a cir culation of a little over 13,000. In the united front May Day demon- stration, behind the banners of the revolutionary workingclass, more than 100,000 workers marched. Can we say that doubling the circula- tion in New York, with the proper activity, is a different task? * . . E FACT it has been shown in the past few days that in many busy sections of New York the Daily Worker can be easily and readily sold to passers-by. What has been missing up to now is sufficient Red Builders to cover these important intersections. A list of 150 busy intersections in New York has been prepared by the Daily Worker circulation department, The Daily can gain im- mediately a greatly increased circulation through the recruiting of sufficient Red Builders, enough workers with courage and energy to Spend full time each day selling the Daily Worker at these strategic points, where tens of thousands of workers pass each day. * . . bea New York District of the Communist Party is concentrating on the task of obtaining these Red Builders in the shortest possible time. To ensure these workers making enough money to live on in this work at the start, and to give them an opportunity to build up @ permanent selling point, the Daily Worker has arranged to give the papers to them free for the first two weeks, later at a rate that will allow them to earn a living. The Communist Party units will help these Daily Worker Builders establish regular routes for distribution around their corners, We therefore issue this appeal to all our readers. Help us recruit 200 Red Builders, 200 men, women, boys and girls to step forward and accept an assigned station. If you are unemployed come down your- self. If not, get one of your friends who is out of work to undertake the job. Our readers can and must recruit 200 Red Builders in order to achieve the task of doubling the circulation of the Daily Worker in New York. All volunteers for the Red Builders job report at the City Office of the Daily Worker, 35 East 12th Street. Forward to 20,000 new readers for the Daily Worker in two months! CLARENCE HATHAWAY, Editor, Daily Worker. No Word from 11 Hunger | Strikers in Hillsboro, Il, NEW YORK.—No word has been jin some victories by the farmers received yet from the Hillsboro, Iil., prison, where eleven workers and farmers, held on a charge of “con- spiracy against the government,” went on a hunger strike three days ago. They went on hunger strike as a protest against the miserable condi- tions in the county jail and as a demand for lowered bail. Those held are: Carl Gerulla, John Holland, Frank Prickett, Gor- don Hutchins, John Lapshanky, John Adams, Jan Wittenber, George Reid, Victor Renner, Robin Staples and Frank Panscik. These workers, held for the November grand jury, face a maximum term of ten years in the penitentiary. They are being held in $8,000 bail each on a “conspiracy” law passed in_1919. Recent struggles for unemploy- ment relief, led by the militant Un- employment Councils, have resulted and workers. In Nokomis, a nearby town, workers forced the Council to reconvene.a session and rescind a resolution calling for practically martial law. Demonstrations have also forced the release of several workers arrested previously. Rather than grant relief, authori- ties have preferred to let loose a reign of terror against workers and farmers, The arrested workers were imprisoned on May 31, after they had been “rounded up” by police. A delegation of professionals from the St. Louis National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners who investigated the case have characterized it as “one of the worst examples of frame-up and discrimi- nation against workers’ organiza- tions on record.” Workers are urged to send pro- tests to Sheriff Saathoff, of Mont- gomery County, Ill. r LEADS HARLEM BUILDERS— Harry Gordon, organizer of the Red Builders in Harlem. Under the leadership of the Communist Party a drive is on for 2) more builders like Gordon so that work- ers in every section of New York will make the acquaintance of the | paper and find its purchase a simple matter. Hitler, Papen) Act to Smooth Differences. Meet to Discuss Ways'| To Crush Growing Anti-Nazi Hatred BERLIN, June 20.—Chief Nazi Murderer Hitler met with Vice- Chancellor Franz von Papen today to discuss the sharp rift taking place within the top ruling strata of the fascist dictatorship made pubic several days ago through the so-called critical speech of von Papen, Von Papen’s declaration has re- ceived the endorsement of President von Hindenburg and partial ap- | Proval by Hitler, whose function| |now is to attempt to straddle the widening gap between two sections of the Nazi murderous ruling caste, | j each of which proposes slightly dif- | ferent methods of meeting the grow- ing mass upsurge against fascism. The talk about “reactionary, “right and left” groups within the| Nazi ruling clique is so much non-| sense, as both groups are funda-| mentally agreed on the basic aims} jof the fascist dictatorship. Von Papen and his backers propose a more flexible policy in view of the present sharpening difficulties con- fronting the fascists, proposing the possible grafting of a monarchy onto the fascist dictatorship. Further- more, the von Papen gang want to draw in the support of the petty- bourgeois, religious and Jewish bourgeois elements by offering them a certain worthless and formal means of “criticism.” The Nazi group against which von Papen’s main fire is directed is led by the fascist Minister of Propa- ganda, Goebbels; Rosenberg, Hitler's foreign “specialist”; Ernst Roehm, Commander-in-chief of the Storm Troops; Walter Garre, Minister of Agriculture, and Julius Streicher, Nuremburg district leader of the Nazis, leading figure in the anti- semitic progrom propaganda. These elements favor ways of meeting the growing economic catastrophe by a greater campaign of fascist dema- gogy. The latter group is closer to the rank ahd file of the Storm Troopers, who are beginning to feel, through wage cuts and rapid im- | (Continued on Page 2) under the Act of March 8, 187 Hathaway Appeals for 200 Red Builders|Tighe Accepts To Cover Every Important N. Y. Corne ———_—-—-—-—- PRESS RUN YESTERDAY Watch This Figure Grow 13,200 at the Post Office (Six Pages) — Price 3 Cents Strikebreaking Speci Minimum Code Cut by NRA to Bring Down Wages of Negroes FAYETTEVILLE, N. C. (FP.) —Permission to pay less than the code minimum for the in- dustry has been granted to the Central Spinning and Weaving Co. of Fayetteville by the Silk Code Authority. The company employs 300 Ne- gro workers. It claimed that it would have to close down if it were not permitted to pay a minimum of $10 a week instead of the $12 a week established by the code. A 60-day exemption was granted. Dimitroff Wires: “Fight for Thalmann” IN. Y. Rally Saturday; Nation-Wide Actions Increase NEW YORK.—George Dimitroff, intrepid Bulgarian Communist whose escape from the hands of the Nazi fascists was brought about by the mass pressure of the world pro- letariat, urged all anti-Nazi organ: izations and individuals to intensi: the campagn to free Ernst Thael-} mann and all ant-fascist prisoners} in Germany in a cable sent to the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners yesterday. The message reads: “World public opinion has won one great political battle against Fascism — the Reichstag Leipzig trial. Now we are confronted with another great task—to save Ernst Thaelmann, heroic leader of the German toiling masses, “It is impossible to remain neutral in this fight for Thael- mann. The fight to save Thael- mann is at the same time a fight to save thousands of other poli- tical prisoners in Germany. The results of this fight will determine our further struggle against Fas- cism. “To save Thaelmann is a mat- ter of honor for the international proletariat and the duty of every honest thinking person.” Mass organizations the city are preparing to support the city-wide “Free Thaelmann” dem- onstration called for Saturday, 9:30 a. m., by the Anti-Nazi Federation. The demonstration will take the form of a parade from Union Square to the German Consulate, 17 Battery Pl, where a delegation will present demands for Thael- mann’s release to the consul. Some of the organizations which have already urged their member- (Continued on Page 2) Starving, Part-Time City Worker a Suicide MUSCATINE, Iowa.—Unable any longer to bear the cries of their five hungry children, Howard Wells, 45, part-time city employe, wife, Clara, 44, walked hand in hand and his into the ‘ippi River. Wells died, and his wife, unconscious, was pulled from the river. The State Unemployment Council of Iowa is conducting a vigorous investigation of the relief system and of the county relief authorities. ship to mobilize for the parade are: Trade Unior Unity Council, Com- munist Party, International Work- ers Order, National Student League, Of Roosevelt Gov't; Aided Monopolies By SEYMOUR WALDMAN Daily Worker Washington Bureau ‘WASHINGTON, June 20, 1934— The Seventy-third Congress of the United States concluded its labors sraseedeomadleg passing President Roosevelt's strikel and Spying substitute trie for the more ROE ATS approving the formal compul- sory arbitration Dili - Crosser &mendment to the Railway La- bor Act. It ' §, Waldman earned the praise and congratulations of the President. 73rd Congress Executed Hunger-War Plans Obeyed Wall St. Orders | ment insurance tegislation, refused to guarantee the small bank de- Posits, refused the bonus to the vet- erans, shied away from even the superficial Wagner-Costigan “anti- lynching” bill, turned down the harmless Connery 30-hour week bill and wouldn’t even risk bringing up for discussion the mild anti-Jim Crow resolution of Oscar De Priest, Negro Republean machine Repre- sentative. Expecting a Roosevelt veto, it played for the small farm- ers’ vote (those who haven't been forced into “recovery” bankruptcy) by passing the Frazler-Lemke Bill which grants a six year extension of time, under the bankruptcy powers of Congress, to distressed farmers for payment of their existing debts and mortgages and to permit them to retain possession of their prop- erty, under control of the courts, during the. period of adjournment. It even helped out the big business Building and Loan Associations by buttressing their mortgages under the guise of a much-publicizec Tt refused to enact unemploy-' “Housing Bill,” which does not ap- ply to the individual owner. All this was what caused one of the important conservative Senators to celebrate to such an extent that he could hardly stand up during the closing minutes of the session. Oth- ers held their liquor better. Big Navy Bills Passed When it came to imperialist war preparations, the financiers and in- dustrialists wrote their own ticket. This ticket totalled nearly two bil- lions of dollars for a navy “second to none” and an army to meet “in-| ing vasion” and domestic “unrest.” In fact, one of the records established by the Senate was its passage of the $352,000,000 War Department Appropriation Bill within two and a half minutes. Other things of tihs nature included the $325,000,000 appropriated for conditioning youths in the War Department-controlled Civilian Conservation Corps camps. The label read, “Forest Conserva-, tion.” Similar achievements were scored in the international field. The Sen- ate ratified the new treaty with Cuba, which has been ballyhooed for and wide as the generous donation to Cuba of “true sovereignty,” “true independence,” the repeal of the right to intervene, and so on, and So on, It did all this, but in news- paper headlines only. The articles ‘underneath the headlines did say that the United States retained the right to its naval base at Guan- tanamo Bay, Among other rights, according to answers given by a high State Department official dur- & press conference, is the right to intervene whenever American “lives and property” are threatened, or, more specifically, when Amer- ican imperialism, in the form of the National City and Chase National Banks, is threatened by a Soviet Cuba, The question about a Soviet Cuba startled the stiff-necked offi- cial—just returned from Cuba. ee 'HE Rooseyelt-Chamber of Com- merce-Jim Farley-run Seventy- third Congress set out on its fascist road with the setting up of the Na- tional Industrial Recovery Act, billed by its employer sponsors and its servile strikebreaking A. F. of L.| officials as labor's “new charter of tights.” At the showdown it re- vealed itself as the program under which company unionism was legal- ized, many thousands of workers Jed into shooting range of the em- Pployers’ machine guns, the standard of living of the majority of work- ers systematically lowered, the dis- crimination against the Negro and woman worker cemented in the mould of the code structure. This Roosevelt Congress ended its anti-labor program by implementing the privately maintained spy sys- tems of the employers with govern- j ment boards to investigate the “is- sues, facts, practices or activities” of workers which “are burdening or | Obstructing, or threatening to bur- den or obstruct the free flow of in- terstate commerce.” This provision, declared the American Ciyil Lib- erties Union, “will tend ... to out- law all militant labor groups critical of government policies or desirous of | jany change ip the economic status of ‘Wall ‘Street Slashed Real Wages, Intensified Moves to Fascism quo.” Or as Senator Wagner, the chairman of the strikebreaking Na- tional Labor Board, phrased it in calming jittery Tories inclined more to unvarnished machine guns than |to guns camouflaged by demagogy, “the substitute measure which the President has proposed is designed simply to meet the most serious and immediate difficulty. . . . Let me add that nothing could be more fallacious, in my opinion, than the claim that legislation of this sort | is directed against industry.” Compulsory Arbitration Intent on preventing “a host of ike threats and other labor dif- iculties” which would demand presidential intervention” this sum- mer, Senator Clarence C. Dill guided (Continued on Page 2) al Board Steel by Bosses Pleased Perkins’ Work With Tighe TIGHE LEAVES D. C, Must Face Resentment of Workers in Lodges WASHINGTON, D. C, June 20. — Michael Tighe, president of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, with a group of |understrappers, having coms pleted the dirty work of col- |laborating with the N. R. and the steel mill owners in halting the steel strike, left here today for the Tri-State steel area. They have agree to throw the fate of the thousands of steel wi ers into the hands of a s) work board that will be under guidance and control of t Deal” government, the chief object of which is to try to save capital- ism by beating down the standards of living of the American working | people. Miss Frances Perkins, Roosevelt's vabor Secretary, the guiding spirit in the strike-breakine conferences with the Tighe crowd, was con gratulated highly by the steel barons for the job she has just completed. But the final page of the history of the steel workers was not written yesterday in Washington. This his tory will be completed in the mills by the workers in the open hearths, in the blast furnaces, in the rolling mills. Strike sentiment is still strong in all sections of the steel industry, It is in the steel towns—in Pittse jburgh, Johnstown, Youngstown, Gary, Birmingham—here the final decision will be made and not in Washington by the N. R. A. Tighe will have to answer many questions about his activities in Washington when he gets back to the steel region—that is, if he dares to show up at the meetings of rank and file steel workers. In the locals of the Amalgamated, workers are strengthening their rank and file throughout | movement for the inevitable strike, Browder, Gold Signed: “GEORGE DIMITROFF.” | Speak at YCL Convention Mass Meet Friday Will Welcome Communist Youth Delegates NEW YORK—£arl Browder, gens eral secretary of the Communist Party; Ben Gold, leader of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, and Gil Green, national sec= retary of the Young Communist League, will address the first ses« sion of the Seventh National Con- vention of the Y. C. L., which opens with a great mass meeting and en- tertainment in St. Nicholas Ave., 69 W. 66th St., Friday night. The mass meeting will officially welcome the delegates. many of whom have travelled thousands of miles from all parts of the country, With reports that mass organiza< tions are buying large blocks of tickets for their members, the meets ing Friday will see a packed hall of workers and young workers. The | price of the tickets have been seh. at 25 cents, with a reduction of 20 ~ per cent if tickets are brought in | block. A special program of entertains ment, including “Strike Me Red,” by the Pioneers, Ukrainian Dancers, youth chorus and a spectacular . sports exhibition by the Labor Sports Union. - The Arrangements Commities urges all organizations to contribute immediately in order to help defray expenses of the large delegations from distant parts of the country, Send all contributions to Arrange- ments Committee, in care of the National Office of the Young Com- munist League, Post Office Box 28, Station D, N. Y. C. Montana Police Chief Resigns When Faced With Strikers’ Charges ANACONDA, Mont. (FP).—i Police Chief Osborne of Anaconda- has resigned rather than face charges brought by striking miter, that he had used his office to 1 gunmen for the Anaconda Mining Co. When the union me showed up with their evidence - |quit rather than face trial,