The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 22, 1934, Page 1

fl yidne Mass Meeting Opens Y. C. L. Convention Tonight Watch This Figure Grou Daily, QWork. New York Tran usport Workers NIZE (See Page Three Today) IN ORGA tm oF 400 CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Wel 51, Ne 3D, eben Se re eee NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1934 Weather: Cooler, posible showers Police Permit Refuse for N. Y. Thaelmann March @ Inspector Stalls Group Protesting Act of Uptown Station URGE PROTESTS Anna Schultz to Speak at Union Square Meet NEW YORK.—The Police Department has so far re- fused to grant a permit for the “Free Thaelmann” dem- pnstration and parade that will be held tomorrow, 9:30 z.m., at Union Square. Persistent requests for a permit have been turned down by the up- town police station Chief Inspector Valentine yesterday told a_ pro- testing commitee haded by Pauline Rogers of the Anti-Nazi Federation that he will take the matter ps adviseemnt. Officials say that the new policy | of the police is to issue no permits | for anti-Nazi or Nazi parades, The Anti-Nazi Federation is urg- ing all working class and intellec- tual organizations to immediately | send wires of protest to Mayor La-| Guardia and Commissioner O’Ryan demanding a permit for the parade. Meanwhile New York organiza- tions are mobilizing thousands of | workers for the demonstration | Workers will parade from Union Square to 17 Battery Pl. where a delegation will present demands for} the freedom of Thaelmann to the Nazi consul. At Union Square Ben Gold and) I. Potash, leaders of the militant Needle Trades Workers Industrial] Union, Herman. Mackawain of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, I. Rosenberg of the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union, Paul- ine Rogers of the Anti-Nazi Federa- tion, Erna Stams of the German Anti-Fascist Action and Max Be- EARL BROWDER, General Secretary of the Commu- nist Party, will speak tonight at the opening of the Young Com- munist League National Conven- tion at the St. Nicholas Arena. | Illinois Court Refuses Writ | For 1Li in Jail | Workers in . Hillsboro Jail on Hunger Strike Since Sunday | | (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, June 21.—The Su- preme Court of Illinois today re- fused a writ of habeas corpus for the 11 militant workers now being held in Hillsboro jail on charges of conspiracy to overthrow the gov- ernment. | The eleven are held on a total of dacht of the Central Committee of | $88,000 cash bail, and will remain the Communist Party will speak. |in jail till November, when the Ann Schultz, former secretary to| Grand Jury meets, unless @ mass Ernst Torgler and wife of John| protest campaign frees them, | Scheer, murdered by Nazis several} They are: Carl Gerulla, John months ago, will also speak at Union| Holland, Frank Prickett, Gordon Square tomorrow morning. | Hutchins, John Lapshanky, John} Spectacular floats and displays; Adams, Jan Wittenberg, George will feature the parade. Pioneers,| Reid, Victor Renner, Robin Staples each carrying a “Free Thalmann”| and Frank Panscik. Placard,- will be on roller skates.| Resolutions are flooding the Hills- Athletes will wear uniforms. | boro authorities, and the Hillsboro Needle Trades workers were yes-) | Journal recently published a long | terday urged to report to the union| list of organizations which had sent | |Sheriff Hands Prisoner, Browder to! Speak at ‘Arena Meet | Communist Youth from) All Over Country Plan Action NEW YORK.—The Seventh Na- tional Convention of the Young Communist League opens tonight | with the greatest assembly of revo- | lutionary youth delegates from all| over America ever to be congre- | gated in one hall. The convention opens at 7:30 p.m. with a huge mass reception given) by the Young Communist League in the St. Nicholas Arena, 69 W.| 66th St., where thousands of work- | ers, young and old, will gather to hear Earl Browder, general secre- tary of the Communist Party; Ben Gold, leader of the fur workers; Gil Green, national secretary of the Y. C. L, and others speak on the youth and the revolutionary move- ment. Negro Sharecropper to Speak A young Negro sharecropper from the South will tell of the life and death struggles of the Southern} farmers. Since the discovery by police of the identity of this boy would mean death upon his return, his name and home will not be re- vealed. | An unusual program of enter-/} tainment, “Strike Me Red,” by the Young Pioneers; Ukrainian dancers, youth chorus and a dazzling sport exhibition by the Labor Sports| Union, has been arranged. Closed sessions of the convention | will be held beginning Saturday | morning and until Tuesday evening. | Gil Green will give the main re- port for the National Committee, | to be supplemented by Lou Cooper | on trade unions. Harry Gannes, former secretary of the Young Communist League, will report the convention for the Daily Worker. | Banquet Saturday Night A special banquet for delegates prepared by the Cultural Council of the Co-operative Colony will be held at. 2700 Bronx Park East on Saturday at 8:30 in the auditorium. An elaborate dinner has been pre- pared. Admission is only 25 cents. Organizations are urged to send Coe re gaia (es Negro Who Walked With White Girl Lynched in Texas) Over to Mob of 200 | Detroit Enters Drive to Build Up Circulation ‘Red Builders Will Sell at Shae Colts Ford and Hudson Plants; Committees Named DETROIT, where Henry Ford reaps the profits of his toilers’ spinning, it is the Daily Worker which plays the principal role in exposing him, as it did when Ford and Murphy shot down the workers who came to Ford’s plant seeking work, two years ago. In the drive of the “Daily” to double its circulation by Jan. 1, with @ specific goal of 20,000 new readers in two months, the Detroit Dis- trict must play a tremendous part. How much longer will the workers of that city be fooled by their misleaders and by the Great Father in the White House? How much longer will they depend on arbitration boards and fake promises? That period of time can be es~ timated by the cir- culation of the “Daily” among | them. | The Detroit dis- | trict has therefore laid out a plan for three months’ work. The plan is good save that it seeks to gain of approx- imately 600 at the end of three months whereas if the new quotas set by the Central Committee are to be reached, a gain of 1,000 within two months must be reached. A District Daily Worker Commit- tee has been set up, and a Daily | Worker Committee of three will func- tion in each section. Each unit, furthermore, is to have a Daily Worker representative. | “Dailies” will be sold before the Ford and Hudson plants, at | street car junctions and at additional news stands, and posters will be | printed announcing at which stands “Dailies” can be bought. A | dollar commission will be allowed on every $6 subscription, and | every worker who begins a new route or sells the paper at shop | gates’ will receive a bundle of the papers for one month free. ~ | One of the best who sell “Dailies” in Detroit, Karamekas. He has been selling for three years and is regarded as the best sub-getter ‘The beacon of the Party, as of the whole working class in Amer- | ica, is the Daily Worker, and it must be brought to the masses. We | will watch Detroit for results. C.P. Farm Bill HitbyDrought, (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents Seattle Lumber Men Strike in Sympathy Secret Letter Shipowners’ SEATTLE CITIZENS’ EMERGENCY STRIKE COMMITTEE PRIVATE AXD tome Af 1954 - 1 erote you on May @ telling you something of the plane of this oometttse for the first phase of our campaign to cren the port of Seattle for the free and inde~ pendent movement of trade and ccemerce. Comitters have worked atght and day Every avenue of approach has teen exhausted in an effort to Lring abcut a asttlement. & campaign of paid advertising bas been conducted to explein the poaiticn of Seattle Dusiness to the people of Seattle. We are now, despite misleading statements given to the public, in a much worse aituation than when I wrote my last letter to you The position of the striking longs! complete aurrender of the Alaska lines t e4 Shop" operation. ie fortunately only temporary and was caly accepted teoause of the tion in Alaska. Union officials publicly state that they are “high! aves of thie situation and trust that »: ceptance of such “faverabl domination of all Seated "unfair® cunnot be sbi moan y by eane thet goods designat ed through thie port One of Seattle's largest manufacturers was approached yesterday by @ delegation representing three unions and requested to aign up @ “closed shop" agreement. It was intimated to them that in teing declared on the “unfair® list their product could not be handled by union truckers ur longshorewen The paramount question t# not recognition of untore or of pages but the foroing of the "closed shop" on a public service utility, which, in turn, seans the aisation and virtual control of ALL SRATTLE BUSINESS. It is the much-heralded surr gapital to labor - 20 far as Seattle te concerned. Are we going to take it lying tema? Our Mayor is now carrying on negotiations trying to arrange @ settlement under which this port and city may operate. Pailing in this, the shippers demant that they be given their lawful protection #0 that they may Fro with the opening of the port eooperaticn of our Mayor, cur Pel Departaent end the Sheriff vcreement Lodies will ke augmented to a great extent and fon given. Thin ccenittee bas undertaken the task of providing « fund cere, necessary eq Fs and 6 vast prount of oat of the plapned operation is approximately ® contingent fund of $280,000 eust be rrevided at once Mush of the equizment was purckased from the first fund, wbich is now near depletion Your parttetpation in this fund feary Your Pinance Committee ursements and you are assured turned to each subscriter pro- confidential Very truly yours, scree. COUR, 2EAT SECRET LETTER sent out by shipowners’ and business men’s committee in Seattle, Wash., telling of a plan to use violence against the longshoremen to break their strike. portionately futserilers* remes will te b With Longsh Industrial Steel Union Sell-Out Before Perkins SMWIU Wires Opposi- Forces Hearing on Steel p Soke Somer phe oremen Attempt to Open Docks Fail As Strikers Halt Freight Traffic MAYOR LEADS SCABS Letter Calls for Violence Bosses’ Secret (Special to the Daily Worker) SEATTLE, Wash., June 21, —Faced with an unprece- dented mobilization of armed police, the longshoremen’s strike has spread to the lum- ber industry. Four hundred lumber workers in the city of Longview strvek in solidarity with the stevedores. First attempts to open the Seattle waterfront failed as strikers sat on the tracks in front of a locomotive dispatched to switch freight cars and | refused to mov The locomotive was backed away. Throughout the norih~est region the air is charged with strike senti- ment. A delegation representing the Unemployed Citizens’ League an- nounced that it will appear before the Central Labor Council to. dee mand that a general strike be called. . Mayor Leads Strikebreakers Strikebreaking preparations here | are under the personal guidance of | Mayor Smith, who has mobilized a large number of city and state police and vigilantes to patrol the strike area and terrorize the workers. Police are spraying gas on workers in the streets “just to try out their ap- Paratus.” Meanwhile the Northwest Strike Committee passed a motion to or- ganize a West Coast Strike Com- mittee to lead the strike of all marine workers along the entire coast. Shipowners, in a frantic attempt | to break up the strike, have organ- ized a so-called Seattle Citizens Emergency Strike Commitee under }the chairmanship of Alfred H. | Lundin. The committee, with head- quarters at 215 Columbia Street, has issued a secret letter to manu- facturers calling for the raising of | $250,000 to pay thugs and buy | equipment (arms) to break the strike. Strikebreaking Letter Who Stop Auto Electric Men! headquarters, 131 W. 28th St., at | resolutions. ® a. m. tomorrow. The United Council of Working Women urged all working women and housewives to come to Union Square tomorrow and participate in the demonstra-| (Continued on Page 2) Nazi Terror Against Communists in Saar SAARBRUECKEN, June 21.—Po- lice removed Communist Councilor Detjen from a council meeting yes- terday when he criticized the Nazi Mayor's political methods of push- ing an agenda through. ‘When the Council voted approval of the ejection of the Detjen, Com- munist deputies walked out in pro- test. Socialist deputies followed. Italian Paper Editor Faces Libel Hearing NEW YORK—The case of Tito Nunzio, editor of L'Unita Operaia, revolutionary Italian ianguage newspaper, comes up in the Crim- inal Court in Brooklyn, 120 Scher- merhorn St., at 9 o'clock this morn- ing. Nunzio has been called to court on a libel suit against him for hav- ing exposed several swindles com- mitted by Mr. Ingargiola, an officer of the Independent Order of the Sons of Italy, whom he charged with misusing funds belonging to that order. Due to this exposure in L’Unita Operaia, Ingargiola was expelled from the recent convention “of the Order. All workers are being urged to pack the courtroom this morning. GUNS—NOT CHERRY BLOSSOMS SHANGHAI, June 21—Governor of Shantung, Han Fu-Chu, has ordered all students to take military training during summer vacations, it was learned today. Japan Increases Military Budget by Over $30,000,000 TOKYO, June 21.—The new Japanese military budget will exceed the present one by at least $30,000,000, it was learned today. The war department has spon- sored the making and showing of propaganda films which will at once begin to prepare public opinion for .intensive military The eleven workers are now on a hunger strike, which began Sun- day, in attempts to force better food, a reduction of bail and other de- mands. Arrested After Relief Meet They were arrested May 31 after demonstrations of farmers and workers had wrested several relief concessions from authorities. The Illinois statute under which the charges against these 11 work- ers are being brought makes it a crime for anyone openly to advo- cate, by word of mouth or writing, the formation or overthrow of the government by violence or other unlawful means, and provides a penalty of imprisonment ranging from one. to ten years. Immediate protests should be sent to Sheriff Saathoff and State's Attorney Hall, Montgomery County, Mlinois. Nazi Shipwreck Kills 4 Women, Hurts Many STAVANGER, Norway, June 21. —Four women are dead and many passengers are being treated for serious injuries following the wreck- ing of the North German Lloyd liner, the Dresden, when it struck a rock in the shallow Hardanger Fjord last night. Three women were lost when a lifeboat capsized as it was being lowered to the water following the crash. The bodies of two were re- covered, while another died later of her injuries. The ship carried more than 1,000 passengers. Many were war veterans from the Saar region at sea for the first time. | KIRBYVILLE, Texas, June 21.—j Sheriffs today handed over a Negro boy, Son Grigg, to a mob of white lynchers who tiéd a rope around his neck, hung him to a tree and fired 17 bullets into his suspended | body. Grigg had been arrested after he had been seen walking with a white girl. After the Negro was lynched, his body was tied to an automobile and dragged on the road for miles. The officers say 200 men stopped their car seven miles from Kirby- ville and at the point of guns forced them to give up their prisoner. They say they were taking Grigg to an- other jail for “safe-keeping,” after they had been warned a lynch mob was forming. ILD Denounces Terror Of Fascist Latvia in | Cable to Dictator NEW YORK.—A protest cable to President. Kviesis, Riga, Latvia, against fascist terror and brutality, was sent today by the LL.D. and a number of Lettish, Estonian, and Lithuanian organizations. The cable, written in Lettish, reads in translation: “Free worker-peasant deputies and all political prisoners. Down with brutal terror, down with death laws for workers, down with fas- cism!”” Introduced As ‘Self and 3 Kids Congress Ends Clause: Killing A. A. A. Taken Out; Supported by United Farmers (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) WASHINGTON, June 21—The Farmers Emergency Relief Bill, drawn up by the Communist Party and endorsed by militant farm or- ganizations all over the country, was introduced in Congress at the end of the session, as H.R. 9967. The bill was introduced by Terry Carpenter, a representative from Nebraska, admittedly as a result of the pressure put on him by the 30,000 members of the Nebraska Farm Holiday Association. Carpenter, who is a candidate for Governor in the fall elections, put the bill before the house in the closing minutes of the session. sie oom CHICAGO—Henry Puro, Execu- tive Secretary of the United Farm- ers League, issued a statement on the bill today, from which the fol- lowing excerpts are taken: “The U.F.L. is dissatisfied with the changes made in the bill. The A.A.A., which the original bill would abolish, is designed to ruin the poor farmer, to drive him off the land by foreclosure and evic- tions. . . . However, while the sec- tion killing the A.A.A. was eli- minated, the Farmers Emergency Relief Bill (H.R. 9967) is the only Farmer Kills “T Had My ‘New Deal’,” He Writes to Paper SYRACUSE, N. Y., June 21.— Claude Reynolds, 44 year old farm- er, looked out through the windows , of his house at Waterloo, saw the drought-parched acres of his farm, and thought bitterly of the hunger of his children, and the apparent hopelessness of ever getting any re- lief from the authorities. After spending a few moments writing a letter which he posted outside, he rose quietly, got his old rifle, and walked to where his three sleeping children lay, underfed, and exhausted from the heat. He shot each one through the head, set fire to the house, and then turned the gun upon himself. His letter appeared twelve hours (Continued on Page 2) bill that has been put before this Congress that is in the interests | of the poor farmers. It does pre- vent foreclosures and_ evictions and cancels the debts of the poor farmers. . . . “The United Farmers League Convention will undoubtedly en- dorse this bill and will organize a beved mass campaign to make it a law.” | tition to Green-Tighe ; the | President Betrayal (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., June 21—| Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins announced last night she will give the Steel and Metal Workers In- dustrial Union “a hearing” in con- nection with the negotiations be- tween the government, American Federation of Labor and Iron and Steel Institute officials to sell out the national steel strike. The S.M.W.L.U. last Tuesday tele- graphed Perkins, as well as Presi-} dent Roosevelt, declaring it is op- posed to the Amalgamated Asso- ciation (A. F. of L.) sell-out propo- sal for settlement, and demanding an invitation to participate in the negotiations here. Asked what her reply to the wire was, Perkins said: “We will give them a hearing.” “Does that mean you are inviting the S.M.W.1.U. to participate in the negotiations, as they demanded?” she was asked. She replied, “I don’t know. We'll hear them and the next step will be determined then.” While Miss Perkins technically was placed in complete charge of steel negotiations, through Roosevelt's announcing she would act for him, N.R.A. Ad- ministrator General Hugh S. John- son still has a finger in the pie. Johnson's closest associate and con- stant advisor, N.R.A. Counsel Don- ald R. Richberg, is conferring regu- larly with Perkins and chairman Wagner of the National Labor (Continued on Page 2) 5 |three A. F. of L. To Strike Tues. In Milwaukee |Sentiment for General Strike Grows Among Workers (Special to the Daily Worker) MILWAUKEE, Wis. June 21— The Federated Trades Council, em- bracing all unions of the city, adopted a resolution at its meeting, pledging moral support to the strike which the A. F. of L. union workers of the Electric Company have sched- uled to start Tuesday at 4 a. m. The Council voted to appoint a committee of three to confer with| unions which have representation among the Electric Company employes and arrange a public demonstration in front of the public service building, where the Electric Company has of-| fices, a few days befroe strike. The Unemployed Councils also promised to join picket line. Milwaukee Local No, 494s of the International Brotherhood of Elec- trical Engineers, will vote tomorrow | night on the proposal for a city-| wide walk-out of all union elec- triclans in Milwauke in sympathy with the strike order issued for Tuesday by the A. F. of L. union! men of the Electric Company. A similar vote on a sympathy | strike will be taken soon by the Operating Engineers Union, To Terrorize Lodges of AFL Steel Union By CARL REEVE ILLOWING their betrayal of the steel workers at the recently concluded convention of the Amal- gamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, the Committee of Ten of the A.A. and the district leaders of the A. F. of L. steel union -supporting them, have taken the field in an attempt to “sell” the no strike decision of the convention to the A.A. members. Reports fromi aay % Coniimitiee'of of Ten Tries the A.A. lodge meetings since the| convention show that these sup- porters of the Tighe-Green conven- tion decisions are not having much luck, Among the rank and file members of the A.A. there is a general dis- gust for the action of the conven- tion which called off the steel strike and petitioned Roosevelt to set up an arbitration board of three. The rank and file steel workers which I talked to in Pittsburgh, in the Monongahela Valley (McKeasport- Homestead section) and in Youngs- town section, recognize the decisions of the A.A. convention as a sell- This is reflected also in the fact that in the lodge meetings of the A.A. this week in Clairton, McKees- port, Braddock, Duquesnne, etc., the attendance at the lodge meetings fell off sharply, in some lodges more than half. In some lodges, as in Clairton and the National Tube at McKeesport, as soon as local offi- k on the Green- ‘aval, a number of workers walked out of the meet- ng. See Betrayal of “Progressives” The members of the A.A. can now see that the Committee of Ten, which was elected at the April con- vention of the A.A. to wrest leader- ship from the Tighe machine and to lead a strike over Tighe’s head, is now supporting Tighe 100 per cent. Forbeck, chairman of the Committee of Ten, issues daily press statements praising Roose- velt and against any strike, state- ments which are no different from those issued by Tighe and Green, The chief argument of the local leaders of the A.A. supporting Tighe ‘and the Committee of Ten, is the same as the argument of Green. “Now is not the time to strike,” these leaders are telling the A.A. lodge members. In a lodge meocting in McKeesport the local official of the A.A. report- ing on the convention, said: “How | many of you are willing to go out | on the picket line now”? Of course, no steel worker present was foolish enough to raise his hand, and ae A.A. officials used this as an argu-! ment that they acted correctly in| calling off the strike at their con- | vention. At the National Tube Co. lodge in McKeesport the A.A. organizer | said: “I want to talk about this! question of Green and Tighe sell-/ ranks and to kill all strike senti-| ing out the worker: There was loud applause. “No,” he said, “That’ 8} what the radicals say. I want to} answer this. These radicals ask a) the time for action, You would be Green-Tighe Steel Sell-Out Protested By Rank and File in Local Unions ‘Dia Not Prepare Strike; Now Say, “‘We Are Not Prepared” defeated if you struck now. is no time to strike.” | got up and walked out. These A. A. machine men are buliying and terrorizing the steel} workers in order to demoralize their ment. In the Braddock lodge meet- ing of the A. A. (of the large} Thomas rail mill) about 200 work- (Continued on Page 2) This } Workers then | A copy of the secret letter, which fell into the hands of the strike committee says: “Our mayor is now carrying on | negotiations trying to arrange a settlement under which this port and city may operate. Failing in this, the shipowners demand that they be given their lawful protec- tion so that they may proceed with opening the port. With the complete cooperation of our Mayor, our Police Department and the Sheriff of King County, the law enforcement bodies will be augmented to a great extent and this protection given. This com- mittee has undertaken the task of providing a fund to pay for these additional officers, necessary equipment and a vast amount of ingjdental expense. The estimated cost of the planned operation is approximately $5,000 per day, and | a contingent fund of $250,000 must be provided at once. Much of the equipment was purchased from the first fund, which is now near depletion.” Aluminum Union Votes To Strike if | Code Is Not Changed (Speci*l to the Daily Worker) NEW KENSINGTON, Pa., June }21—The Aluminum Workers Un- ion, Local 18,356, voted to strike j unless the proposed aluminum code sets a minimum wage of 50 | cents an hour; 2,757 voted for the strike with 14 against. The Alum- inum Company of America asked for 37 1-2 cents an hour minimum in_ the code. The wage now paid by the Alu- minum Company of America, con- trolled by the Mellon interests, is | 44 cents an hour since the strike of two months ago. Before that the minimum was 40 cents under the blanket aluminum code (tem- porary). Three thousand five hundred are employed in the three Aluminum Co. piants in Arnold, Logans Ferry and New Kensington, Pa. In all three plants the union has locals. | Hitler Gets Big Profits | From Gov't Paper VIENNA, June 21.—Chanczilor | Hitler got the greater part of the |neariy 4.000.000 marks profit carncd | by the Voelkische Beobachter les’ year, the Oesterreichische Abend today. zeitung reported