The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 29, 1934, Page 1

S -%atch This Figure Grow Daily <QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) ~ PRESS RUN YESTERDAY 40,2 00 ‘s Entered a6 second-class matter at the Post Office at {, No. 155 >* Mew York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1679 NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1934 WEATHER: Fair ——————EE~_———EEEESEese AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING CLASS DAILY EWSPAPER (Six Pages) Price 3 — LA. SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS SCOTTSBORO VERDICT. Milwaukee Police Club, Gas Workers Jail 61 in “Socialist” City For Picketing Workers Stop Trolleys; | Walkout Spreads To Busses FIRE HOSE USED Effort to Break Strike Through N.R.A. Board BULLETIN MILWAUKEE.—All attempts at street car service were halted at 2 p.m. today by the Milwaukee Electric Co., following the stop- ping of the street cars by thou- sands of demonstrating workers. Bus service was also halted. (Special to the Daily Worker) MILWAUKEE, Wis., June 28.—About 40,000 workers | participated in Wednesday night’s demonstration thru- out the city against the Elec- tric Utility and forced all! transportation to stop. | ‘The Socialist Mayor Daniel Hoan, | who had remained silent for three days, while the workers fought scabs, police, and armed gangsters in the streets, this afternoon issued a demagogic statement, that. “the Electric Company alone is solely re+ sponsible for the riots that have so far blotched the good name of this city.” But Mayor Hoan has not lifted a finger while the forces of the city government were clubbing and jailing strikers and pickets and upholding the company union and the scabs. Mayor Hoan’s statement, after three days of silence, is an attempt to cover up the strike-breaking at- tack of the courts, the police and the hired gangsters on the workers of Milwaukee. The workers, fighting for the ele- mentary right to organize into the union of their own choice, to strike, to picket, and against the company union, are opposed by the clubs and tear gas of the city police, and the city courts and jails, in this struggle. | Sixty-one were arrested and Chief of Police Laubenheimer, appointee of the Socialist Fire and Police Commission, demands the maximum penalty. They are held on open charges. ‘Twenty-six were injured, 14 po- licemen and detectives among them. Five of those arrested were women, who again played a leading role in picketing and fighting the police, scabs and imported thugs. In addition to the two huge dem- onstrations previously reported at the Kinnickinnic and Fondulac Ave. Barns last night, another one took place at the West Allis car barns where 12 street cars were wrecked and every pane of glass shattered in the barns. §. P. Rank and File on Line ‘Thursday morning efforts were made to resume car service, but few cars got out of the barns. Only one car got out of the Oakland Ave. barns, where militant picketing con- tinued. Another car that attempted to get out of these barns was com- pletely wrecked and the scab mo- torman and his guard were beaten up by the angered pickets. Hundreds of the rank and file of the Socialist Party and of the Workers Committee on Unemploy- ment have answered the call for united mass picketing issued by the ‘Trade Union Unity League, the Un- employment Council, the Commu- nist Party and the International Labor Defense, refusing to have their fellow workers split by their leaders. A direct appeal is being made by the “citizens committee” and company officials to Roosevelt to end the strike by promising ar- bitration after the sell-out. er ae MILWAUKEE, Wis. June 28.— Not a single utility vehicle was run- ning on the streets after seven (Continued on Page 2) Crisis Facts in Canada Blast Premier’s Boast OTTAWA, Canada (FP).—Al- though Premier Bennett has boast- ed that his policies enabled Can- ada to resist the economic crisis better than other countries, the erisis struck down industrial pro- duction nearly 60 per cent, as com- pared with less than 20 per cent in Britain. Canadian export trade fell 57 per cent, as compared with 37 Communists Lead Anti-Nazi Upsurge fascism in Germany! “The path of fascist dicta- torship is the path into catas- trophe, It is the opening of civil wars against the toiling people. It is the path to the battlefields of a more terrible mass murder than in 1914-18. “Fascism must die if the prole- tariat is to live!” Thus spoke Comrade Wilhelm Pieck, one of the leaders of the Communist Party of Germany, last December. Not a day passes when the capi- talist press does not now confirm these facts. Those miserable ene- mies in the ranks of the working class who could see only the black- est defeat for the proletariat in Germany are now hard set to ex- plain present events. Disintegration in Storm Troops The enraged and cornered beast of fascism, foreseeing its impending doom, is capable of the most mon- strous holocausts. What disturbs it most at this time is that the very storm troops through which it unreliable props. The storm troops are being disbanded, in an effort to give the fascist hounds on top and more reliable murder bands. The mosaic of capitalist forces which went to make up the fascist gangs, such as the Steel Helmet and the Storm troopers are being smashed and rent by the threaten- ing catastrophe. While Roehm and _ Goebbels storm against ,the Steel Helmets, the monarchist veterans organiza- tion, which joined the united fas- cist front, they must at the same time carry on a fight against their own rank and file. Hitler steps into the breach in an effort to keep these forces from flying at each others throats. In an effort to drop all pretenses at demagogy, to come out more openly as a military dic- tatorship, the Hitler regime runs into the gravest dangers from its own mass forces. Masses Moving Into Action But these forces do not live in @ vacuum. They are connected with the toiling population, the middle class, with the poor farmers and agricultural workers. The great majority of the Ger- man people are moving into action against fascism, and the dynamic force in all of these actions is in- disputably the Communist Party of Germany. What the capitalist press mainly reports is the reflection of this struggle in the ranks of the Steel Helmet and the Storm Troops, because here in the most crying and alarming fashion the Hitlerites (Continued on Page 6) MOTHER KNOWS BEST— “Mother wants action, Why don’t you quit threatening to sell the Daily Worker and START SELLING?” This was, Mrs, Edwards talking to An- nabelle, 2 13-year-old Pioneer. So Annabelle became a Red Builder. She walked in Sun- day night and disappeared with 50 copies. In a couple of hours she said she had sold 39. Next night she hit a homer—50 copies taken, 50 sold. When we saw her she was hiking to the pressroom to get 75 copies for her third trip. Annabelle sells her armload in front of a Sixth Avenue cafeteria. ‘Taxi says. cess. per cent in England, Monday’s and 818 for Tuesday's Fascist Beasts Try to Heal Growing Rifts in Own Ranks to Stem Revolutionary Struggles By HARRY GANNES “@\HE revolutionary uprising of the German working class —that is the perspective in Germany. Party is the sole force under whose leadership the prole- | tarian revolution in Germany. will be realized. “Communists will conquer® | Anniversary of | came into power are now its most | an opportunity to reorganize new WILLIE WANTS A UNIFORM —Willie Sullivan is one of those fortunat back to a past of selling Daily Workers and can look forward to m future of the same. Chicago he always set himself a high quota, “I sold a lot of capitalist papers in a day,” he working class sheets in New York too—until last week when met Bessie Davis, Builder, easy it was for a hard-working Red Builder to make a living selling Dailies and do his part in the revolutionary struggle. So Willie came down to the Daily Worker office and is help- ing us make our drive a suc- selling Dailies here at 125th St. in Germany The Communist ADOLPH HITLER Leader of the Nazi butchers, The Communist Party of Ger- many is leading the struggle against his brutal rule. To Celebrate oth : LL. D. Tonight: Workers to Hear Report On Fight for Political Prisoners NEW YORK.— Workers delega- tions which visited prison wardens | and city officials to demand that class war prisoners be accorded the | status of political prisoners will re- port back to New York workers this Friday night at the Pageant. and Mass Meeting at Manhattan Ly- ceum, 66 E. 4th St., in celebration | of the Ninth Anniversary of the International Labor Defense. The delegations were ctganized by the ILD. from LL.D. branches, workers clubs, mass organizations, | trade unions, etc. The prison ward- | ens and city officials visited are: Mayor LaGuardia, Police Com-| missioner O’Ryan, David Marcus of | the Department of Correction, F. L. Moorehead of City Prison, Brook- | lyn; Lazarus Levy of Welfare Is- land, M. C. Breen of Reformatory | Prison at Hart’s Island; Robert Barr of City Prison in Manhattan, Lewis F. Lawes of Sing Sing, and officials of Tombs Prison and the Women’s Detention Penitentiary, Manhattan. RAID SYNDICALIST. HDQTRS. ZARAGOZA, Spain, June 28— Police raided anarcho - syndicalist headquarters here this week and ar- rested 66 workers AN ILL man worked Hitler's “Putzy” fellows who looks In his Communist ‘Jobless He was selling anti- a Read She showed him how sold 50 copies. thing to look “I'm going to keep on out, kid?” Annebdelle between and Lexington, But I want a headlines shouts: “Fine! Want sweater. I can sell more with a a copy?” sweater.” man.” From the 118 copies of last Thursday's edition of the Daily Worker sold by the 19,new New York City Red Builders recruited in the Daily Worker drive to double our circulation by January 1 and get 20,000 new readers within the next two months, the number of sales rose to 210 for Friday's edition, 963 for Saturday's, 738 for edition, | Longshoremen’s NATHAN GOOD—Nathan Gross- went to the pier and shouted compliments— and his brother in law him, Nathan came ic Builder. We tound him traveling the Boardwalk at Brighton Beach. “My first wight, ‘Thursday, 1 and Saturday morning I cleaned out a hundred. off, “one customer told me the workers in the factory in Weekskill are gusted with their workin; ditions, They want action and the Daily. They've looked three weeks for a Daily Worker sales- Priests Aid Anti-Labor Dock Board Dunne Exposes Hanna’s Connection With Coast Utility Bosses (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, June 28.— An-| other church dignitary was hustled into the strike field by the Roose- velt, government to a small workers’ struggle when the Reverend Francis ; J. Haas, prominent Catholic Church | spokesman of Washington and a member of the National Labor Board, was ordered today to the scene of the Milwaukee carmen’s strike. The National Labor Board announced that its mediator now there, Major John D. Moore, re- ported “improved prospects for set- tlement.” It was Haas who sidetracked an Ambridge Steel delegation, prevent- ing their story of terror even from receiving consideration by the full labor board. It was Haas who re- ceived the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union delegation at the beginning of the national steel strike negotiations, and tried to pump the men about their plans. | President Roosevelt's national | Labor Board to break the Pacific Coast longshore- ® Call Free Thadliiann Meets Over Country on July 2 Veterans’ Delegation to Visit Thaelmann NEW YORK.—A series of mighty “Free Thaelmann” | demonstrations and _ rallies! will be held throughout the country on July 2, the date | set by the Nazi butchers for | the bogus “People’s Court” to begin operations, with Ernst Thael- mann slated as its first victim. | In New York City, demonstrations | and street rallies have been called | jointly by the Anti-Nazi Federation | of New York and the American | men’s seven-week strike by direct compulsory arbitration, prepared to go into action yesterday, The Presi- dent's appointees on the board are: | The Rt. Rev. Edward J. Hanna, | Archbishop of San Francisco, who | was a power behind the scenes in| the breaking of the Pacific District Council, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers’ strike in 1912-13, chairman. O. K. Cushing, who has served as attorney for Rudolph Spreckles, multi-millionaire sugar producer, and Edward F. McGrady, Assistant Secretary of Labor, former A. F. of L, organizer, who boasted of get- (Continued on Page 2) Hungarian Prisoners On Hunger Strike for Freedom of Rakosi VIENNA, June 28—Fifty po- litical prisoners have gone on hunger strike in Hungary as a protest against the death sen- tence threat to Mathias Rakosi, Hungarian Communist leader, according to a dispatch from Budapest. The Hungarian prison admin- istration is making great efforts to suppress all news of this fact. The hunger strike has been on for more than a week already. The prisoners are being forcibly fed. * NEW YORK.—An open city conference to demand the free- dom of Mathias Rakosi will take place tonight at 8 o’clock, at the Labor Temple, 243 E. 84th St., League Against War and Fascism, | for Monday at the following points: Rutgers Sq., M. Katz, speaker. 10th St. and 2nd Ave., Carl Brodsky and Schiller. | Columbus Circle, Bill Dunne, Oakley Johnson and Anna Damon. 110th St. and 5th Ave., Herbert Benjamin. Yorkville—s6th St. and Lexing- ton Ave..Erna Stamms, Emanuel Levine, Otto Durick. Harlem—135th St. and Lenox Ave., Herbert MacKawain and R. Hamilton. Bronx—Wilkins and Intervale Aves., Almazov. Bronx—169th St. and Boston Road, Louis Hyman. Grand St. Extension, Rogers and Sam Nessin. Brooklyn—Pitkin and Hopkin- son Aves., M. Epstein and Norman Tallentire. Brooklyn—Utica Ave. and East- ern Parkway, Pat Toohey and Cabot. Brooklyn—Borough Hall, noon. At noon July 3, a demonstration will be held in the needle trades district at 38th St. and 8th Avve. All organizations are urged to rally their membership in hundreds and | Pauline at (Continued on Page 3) riba ie etre aes SEES JAPANESE PLANE EXPLODES HSINKING, June 29-—-Two Jap- anese officers were killed Tuesday and their aeroplane blown to bits when a bomb exploded as they made a hard landing. The bombs were, presumably, merely carried for the ride, as their Room 14. These Red Builders 4 More Red Builders = 20,000 New Readers WIND BLOWS crk in his Workers for about a month arrived Nathan now, and she’s a member of tense. fired ces?” we asked. “I go to d said he lines on street corners,’ she, na I sell them.” would want more? ‘ Friday night Street about the Scottsbo1 Here's some- buy the paper from ALL Red Gorman restaurant and sold into,” he ke Builders. I’m glad of that, be- copies ‘to the German waiters. cause now that we have the As they pay up they told him Fleischmann drive I’m especially anxious not to be led astray by the that we sell 2 lot, But we nickname Naziville. He could Harlem. y don’t have a chance.” George Borax sold the highes' in the six days, althcugh he worked only a few hours each day Nathan Grossman sold 272, altho Aim sold 226. All the new Red Builders, of course, receive 25 free papers a night for the first two ‘call at the City Office, Daily Worker, 35 E. 12th St. for assignments. FRANCES TELLS 'EM—Fran- ces Bugg has been selling Daily the International Labor De- “How do you sell, Fran- to the houses and shout head- them all about the paper. tell the workers around 12th and Angelo Herndon. But they . The workers ought to know the Daily; and with only a few Red Builders around they is no official bombing carried on. MITLER’'S TEETH — To the tune of 15 copies of the Daily an hour John Caraway offsets the damage the preachers in his family do to workers. And he sells them in what's sup- posed to be a Naziville—York- ” said ville, a German district in the Who upper East Side. “My first “I tell tip out 1 parked myself in I front of a defunct benk, A bee idea?” In the process of pulling the Nazi tiger’s teeth in Yorkville, John sailed into a ro boys sell a plenty, they said, Next night, on a stroll up 25 blocks of Broadway, John sold 22 copies. “Antg! says he, “I was just STROLLING!” He sold 378 need more Red Builders in t mumber of papers. ugh he missed one night. Harry weeks. New Red Builders should |dotlars of union fund: |Sters to intimidate rank and file Live ERNEST THAELMANN Heroic leader of the German Communist Party, facing sum- mary trial and death at hands of Nazi barbarians, through the newly created “Peoples Court.” (Special to the Daily Worker) LOUP CITY, Neb. June 28— Seventy-three-year-old Mother Bloor, beloved leader for 50 years of workers’ and farmers’ struggles in this country, weakened physically by her ten-day confinement in Hall County Jail, Grand Island, col- lapsed yesterday afternoon in the court room, Mother Bloor had refused to leave the jail until the Booths, Ne- gro workers, were released, although a Socialist farmer had put up ball for her, Mother Bloor is on trial with six others on trumped up charges of “inciting to riot’ and “unlawful as- sembly” growing out of the demon- strations of farmers and workers in solidarity with striking girl poultry | pickers of the Ravenna Fairmont Creamery and Produce Co., probably the worst slave driving concern in| the West. Despite the sweltering heat here, | the courtroom is packed daily by | workers and farmers. Floyd and Lauretta Booth, the two Negro defendants, returned to their place this afternoon in de- fendants’ row, after burying Floyd’s father, who died as a result of shock and threats by fascist gangs to lynch the Booths. The second torrid day of the trial opened this morning at 8 o'clock, in an effort to allow the State to get in as much dirty work as pos- sible before the arrival of the farm- ers from outlying districts. The state rested at 11:15 this morning after putting on about 20 witnesses. Thugs, hired to attack the strik- ers and farmers and workers aid- s of Both Threatened by Lynch Courts 73 -Year Old Mother Bloor Collapses at Nebraska Trial ing their struggle, testified that CLARENCE NORRIS One of the Scottsboro Boys, they were thoroughly trounced by workers and farmers. They admit having blackjacks, but claim they were deputized as sheriffs and that the farmers had blackjacks, too. The prosecution is now centered on Carl Wicklund and Harry Smith, whom the fascists are trying to con- vict, although Smith has not been arrested. The defense opened its case at 12:30, with defense witnesses tear- ing to shreds the perjured testimony of the prosecution’s thugs. Mother Bloor is again in court today, and | apparently standing up well against the heat. Elections in Three Painters’ Locals in New York Tonight NEW YORK.—Tonight, prior to the general elections in the Painters’ Union, there will be elections of officers for Locals 261, 1011 and 905. The following are the rank and file candidates Local = 261—Max _ Botwinick, vice-chairman; A. Kroop, record- ing secretary; I. Schiller and A. Jorgman, council delegates; A. Brownstein and A. Lipshitz, trus- tees; L. Gorman, treasurer. Local 1011—Sam _ Rosenthal, council delegate; Lois Blacker, recording secretary;. J. Lotker, vice-chairman; D. Gold, trustee. Local 905—Sam Bogerad, chair- man; E. Brown, recording secre- tary; J. Lubelson, treasurer; J. Lenoff, council delegate; William Rubenstein, trustee. Rank and File Gain Strength ‘On Eve of Painters’ Elections NEW YORK.—Revolt against the corrupt Zausner leadership of Dis- trict Council 9 of the Brotherhood of Painters which flared up recently in many of the locals continues to spread on the eve of the elections. Already locals 849, 490, 499 and 51 have defeated the Zausner group by electing rank and file Council delegates. Philip Zausner, the ex-boss who hired men on a Brooklyn job in 1932 and paid them below the union scale, is attempting to head off the election of Louis Weinstock and other rank and file candidates by packing the polling places on Sat- urday with hired thugs, painters report. Weinstock is the rank and file candidate for the office of secre- tary-treasurer opposing Zausner. Zausner, unable to deny the charges made by the Rank and File Painters Protective Association that he was an “unfair boss’ in Brook- lyn, that he spent thousands of to hire gang- union men and that under his Iead- ership conditions on jcbs have be- come worse then ever, with union men working far below the scale, X\ |now plans to take the elections by hook and crook. As 40,000 Rout Scab: Court Sets August 31 for Legal | Lynching; Workers Speed Fight, For 9 Lads and Ernst Thaelmanr ILD Appeals for Fund: To Immediately Appea Monstrous Decision CALLS FOR PROTEST | Court Ignores Proof oi Boys’ Innocence BULLETIN ~ NEW YORK.—An imme- diate appeal against the monstrous decision of the Alabama Supreme Court will be undertaken, the In- ternational Labor Defense announced last night, at the same time appealing for an intensification of the mass fight to save the Scottsboro boys and for funds to pre= pare and conduct the ap- peal. It urged that protest telegrams be sent at once from organizations meetings to the Alabama Supreme Court and Gov, B. M. Miller, both at Mont. gomery, Ala., and to Pres- ident Roosevelt, demanding the immediate, uncon tional and safe release o the Scottsboro boys. * * * MONTGOMERY, Ala., J |28.—The lynch death dicts against Haywood / terson and Clarence } sWere uphelp today b | Alabama Supreme Cou a unanimous decis’ |high court of the Ala |talists and landlords set jas the date for the leg. cf the two innocent Scott |fendants, following the c defeats by world-wide mass jof four previous attempts 1 | the boys in the electric chai Follows Herndon Decision | The Alabama decision fol | within a few weeks the infamo decision of the Georgia Suprem | Court upholding the sentence of 1, to 20 years on the chain ganj against Angelo Herndon, and pay ing the way to reopen the attemp to burn Ann Burlak, Herber Newton and four other labor ot ganizers in the electric chair, - Patterson and Norris were first two of the nine boys to re-tried under the decision wres from the U. S. Supreme Court the world-wide mass fight ag the hideous frame-up, mock and death sentences against ¢ of the Negro lads. The presenw, cision throws all nine boys into t.. shadow of the electric chair, The court actually ruled on the appeal for Clarence Nottisethe appeal for Patterson was out entirely on the pretext that it was filed outside of the limit of the days allowed, although a@ nota- on the Decatur decision, in | Judge Callahen’s own handwriting, dates the decision as cf Dec, 6, 1983, the day he passed sentence of déath against Patterson. Counting from An offer of the Civil Liberties| this date. the appeal wes filed in Union to send representatives to act as observers to the polls to check up on fraudulent voting was turned down point blank by Zausner. In a letter to the Civil Liberties Union Zausner remarked cynically that “the District Council is prepared to provide every conceivable safeguard for the proper exercise of the fran- chise of each and every member of our union at the coming election.” This “proper right” can only be time. Attorney General Knight, however, raised the phoney techni- cality that it should have been filed within 90 days from the date of the jury’s verdict, Dee. 1. This d« ulent contention was evidently fi:p- held by the court. Court Ignores Facts to Upho™ Verdicts “We find no error to reverse,’ Alabama lynch tribunal ruled guaranteed by the painters massing4 day, denying the appeal of thr at the polls tomorrow to act as watchers and halt any attempt of the Zausner crowd to win the elec- tion by trick and fraud. The rank and file candidates running against the Zausner gang are: Louis Weinstock for secre- tary-treasurer, Lewis J. Stevens and Frank Wedl for business agents. The election of these candidates will be a icng step toward the 6- hour day and the 5-day week, the $9 wage scale and strict union con- for the rank and file can- didates will be a vote against gang- sterism and racketeering. ternational Labor Defense an: noring the open prejudice of judge, prosecutor and the all- jury at the re-trial of Patterso’ Norris in Decatur, Ala., last F ignored likewise the testim: Ruby Bates, former star p: tion witness, repudiating he vious testimony as perjury on her by state officials, az admission forced by the indig. of workers and intellectuels Judge James A. Hortori, who sided at the first re-trial of F son, that the evidence was whelmingly in favor of the ¢ 4 OEE.