The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 30, 1934, Page 1

ag RM Readers of The ‘Daily’ Should Be Sellers, Too Pleas of Ford, Hutchins| ‘ and Staff Urge | Activity NLY if readers scattered | in every section of the country accept responsibility for the distribution of a rev- olutionary paper can such a paper, lacking financial re- sources, really have a circu-| lation apparatus. In the drive to| double the circulation of the Daily Worker and to get 20,000 new read- ers in two months it is therefore of great importance that the readers o, the paper themselves act as circula~ tion getters. Only such a mass selling force will make the appeals from James Ford, Grace Hutchins and members of the Daily Worker staff printed below bear fruit. JAMES W. FORD, Organizer, | Harlem Section, Communist Par- ty: “The Scottsboro-Herndon, the Thaelmann and the Cuba- Sanchez Campaign, demand the major attention in the Harlem Section, because of the National Negro liberation movement, be- cause of the large anti-fascist forces in the Nazi center of York- ville, because of the brilliant fight against growing fascism in Cuba and the fight for the welease of Comrade Sanchez, leader of the Porto Rican Communist Party. Without the DAILY WORKER it ‘would be impossible for us to ef- fectively lead these and other Struggles in our Section.” GRACE HUTCHIN: “We of the Labor Research Association find the Daily Worker an abso- lute necessity, It is the only paper that tells of the workers’ strikes and struggles occurring day by day all over the United States. The general capitalist press carries nothing on most of these strikes, or if there is any story on them it is only from the employers’ side. The Daily Worker should gain MORE THAN 20,000 NEW READ- ERS in the next two months.” Fe § CYRIL BRIGGS, well-known Negro writer, member of the Daily Worker Staff: “To double the circulation of the “Daily Worker” is to strengthen the fight for the every day demands of the toiling masses; the struggle for the free- dom of Ermst Thaclmann, Angelo Herndon, Tom Mooney, the Scottsboro Boys and countless other victims of class and national oppression. Every worker and sympathizer aiding this cam- paign is helping to broaden and sharpen the fight against growing fascist reaction in this country, against the bloody attacks on Negro and white workers fighting for bread and freedom.” DEL: — “The most eloquent answer to La Guardia’s police brutality would be a tremendous increase in the circulation of our working - class daily, thereby taking a definite step in placing the parasites where they belong; in the gutters of New York,” In New York, part of the drive is to get 200 new Red Builders to sell the paper at every important inter- section and workers neighborhood. Unemployed workers, men, women, boys and girls, can increase the cir- culation and make expenses by selling the paper. Apply to Wil- Vams, at 35 E. 12th St. (Store). Watch This Figure Grow 40,300. PRESS RUN YESTERDAY Vol. XI, No. 156 ->* Botered as second-eiass matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 8, 1879. * Daily “Worker ==an CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1934 wearner: Thunder showers, cooler. (Eight Pages) AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER ——= } Price 3 Cents Follow Up Herndon Victory! Raise Funds for His Release! AN EDITORIA bape mass fight for Angelo Herndon has won a notable vic- tory in forcing the Georgia courts to set bail for Angelo Herndon, heroic young Negro organizer of Atlanta unem- ployed workers, pending appeal against the savage sentence The power of mass protest, exemplified in this partial victory, is again demonstrated in news from Detroit today of the acquittal of James Victory, Negro worker framed up on a charge of attacking a white woman, and wrested from the lynch court by the International Labor Defense. Unless the International Labor Defense can raise a cash bail ot $15,000 within the next two weeks, Angelo Herndon will be sent to the chain gang and a notable victory turned ‘into a defeat. The Georgia ruling class has put every hindrance in the way of securing the release of this militant fighter of the working-class and the oppressed Negro masses, as evidenced in the high bail bond set by the court. Angelo Herndon is in an extremely grave physical condition as the | result of prolonged torture and neglect during the past 18 months and |more in Fulton Prison Towers. He must have immediate medical atten- tion and proper care if his life is to be saved for the class struggie and Negro liberation movement. In addition to the bail money, $1,000 is needed to print the appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court against the recent decision of the Georgia Supreme Court upholding the chain gang verdict. Funds should be rushed immediately to the International Labor Defense, Room 430, 80 East 11th Street. Save heroic Angelo Herndon from certain death on the brutal Georgia chain gangs! Rush contributions at once. bd | “Prop Thaelmann” Meets Monday to Hit Nazi Court Backs Meet for Jobless Insurance | T.U.U.C. Aids Fraternal Federation’s Rally at City Hall To day NEW YORK —The demonstra- tion for Social Insurance, to be held at City Hall at 1:30 p. m. today by the Fraternal Federation of Social Orders has been en- dorsed by the Trade Union Unity | Council of New York. Every member of such’ organi- zations as the International Work- ers’ Order, the Workmen’s Circle, the Elks, Odd Fellows, Sons of Italy, etc, are being urged to join the demonsitartno sh sh shesh she the demonstration in the demand for Government Social Insurance against sickness, injury, and death, In a letter signed by Rose Wortis, the T. U. U. ©. declared: “Unemployment and Social In- surance is one of the most burn- ing problems especially for the trade unions. We must therefore, join with the fraternal organi- zations to demand for the passage of the only unemployment insur- ance bill which really aims to bring relief for the unemployed workers, Bogus “People’s Court” To Convene for Trial of Anti-Fascists NEW YORK.—With the approach of July 2, the date set for opening of Hitler’s infamous fascist “Peo- ple’s Court,” New York mass or- ganizations are intensifying their preparations for mass demonstra- tions throughout the city on that day to demand the freedom of Ernst Thaelmann and other anti-fascists whose lives are in imminent dan- ger. The Anti-Nazi Federation of New York is leading the work of organ- izing @ series of demonstrations and rallies throughout the city on that day. Among the speakers will be Earl Browder, Secretary of the Communist Party of the U.S.A.; Robert Minor, James W. Ford, B dacht, Jack Stachel, Charles Krum- bein, Rose Wortis, Gil Green, Steve Kingston and Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker. Anna Schultz, wife of the mur- dered German working-class leader John Scheer, will speak at the dem- onstration at Intervale and Wilkins Ave. The Brownsville demonstration will take place at Hinsdale and Sut- ter Aves., instead of Pitkin and Hopkinson, as originally announced. The other demonstrations will take place at 10th St. and Second Ave., Rutgers Pl., Columbus Circle, 135th St. and Lenox Ave., 110th St. and Fifth Ave., 169th St. and Bos- (Continued on Page 4) of 18 to 20 years on the death-dealing Georgia chain gangs. | To Save Scottsboro 9 And Heroic Angelo Herndon ° See | LL.D. Appeals for Cash To Carry Fight to U. S. Supreme Court PREPARING APPEAL Wins Partial Victory in Herndon Case NEW YORK. — Setting in motion preparations for an ap- peal to the U. S. Supreme Court against the decisions of the Alabama Supreme Court upholding the monstrous lynch sentences against Hay- wood Patterson and Clarence Nor- ris, the International Labor Defense yesterday issued another urgent ap- peal for funds. The appeal was accompanied by an audited financial statement of collections and expenditures in the three-year fight to save the lives of the nine innocent Negro lads. Associated in the preparation of this appeal will be Osmund K. Fraenkel, who prepared the appeal to the lower court, Samuel S. Lei- bowitz, chief trial lawyer for the ILD. in the last two trials, who joined with Fraenkel in the argu- ment before the Alabama Supreme Court May 25, and Joseph Brodsky, chief I.L.D. counsel. The issues of the constitutional rights of the defendants, and the Negro people generally, which were violated by the systematic exclusion of Negroes from both grand and petit juries in Alabama, the preju- dice of the court over which Judge W. W. Callahan presided, and other constitutional issues will be raised in the appeal. In the case of Patterson, the ap- peal in whose case was thrown out (Continued on Page 2) Plant Dynamite in Garage of NJ Farm Union Organizers Henderson and Dahl Narrowly Escape Frame-Up BRIDGETON, N. J.—A request for State Troops to crush the mi itant strike led here by the Agr:- cultural Workers Union was filed today by the County Prosecutor with Governor Moore. If the State Troops are not forthcoming, then the National Guard would be called out, the county officials threatened. eer Te (Special to the Daily Worker) VINELAND, N. J., June 29.—A monstrous provocation against the Seabrook Farm workers, out on strike under the leadership of the Agricultural and Cannery Workers Industrial Union was narrowly averted yesterday by the finding of two cans of dynamite planted in the garage of the union organizer, Elinor Henderson. Seabrook has instituted a reign of terror on the farm that is unpre- (fi Secretary of Labor Perkius, who is working with the stril breaking longshoremen and steei “arbitration” boards, Sets Up New Roosevelt | Scab Board MILWAUKEE PICKET KILLED; TRAFFIC HALTED Funds Needed At Once —— | Building Workers Vote For, Sympathetic Strike; 100 Jailed; Hoan Does s Nothing Crime Records Sent West by Plane BULLETIN (Special to the Daily Worker) MILWAUKEE, Wis., June 29.— Hundreds of gangsters and thugs | are being broucht to Milwaukee Creates Series of Boards | To Break All Strikes Thru “Arbitration” By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Dally Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, June 29.—Presi- | dent Roosevelt will create, probably | late today, a new National Labor Board to dispose of all general com- Plaints by workers which do not threaten great strikes in basic in-| dustries. This was learned today as a special steel arbitration board composed of three hifalutin’ “neu- trals” long experienced in arbitrat- ing labor grievances to death turned ‘to in the office of Secretary of La- bor Frariced’ Perkins. Announcing that international officials of the Amalgamated Asso- ciation (A. F. of L.) “examined... . in minute detail” the presidential order creating the Steel Board, and agreed to every point, beforehand, Secretary Perkins late yesterday de- clared the Steel Board set-up would settle the strike “for the present” and would meet the resolutions of the two A. A. conventions. Asked about the economic demands of the April A. A. convention, and whether these demands would be settled by arbitration, she replied: “They could be arbitrated, but I couldn't say they would be arbi- trated by the board in advance of collective bargaining.” Roosevelt substitute for the Wag- ner bill—negotiation, possibly “elec- tion” maneuvering, and, after long preliminary dickering, arbitration. Observers generally agree that President Roosevelt means to com- plete, before starting on his long vacation cruise, a foundation for a complex arbitration machine de- (Continued on Page 2) cedented in this part of the country. Five company gangsters have black- jacked, shot at and otherwise ter- rorized the workers in order to smash the strike. The workers drove these thugs off the farm through their united mass action. This latest attempt to smash the strike which would have sent at least four union organizers to jail for long terms if successful, Elinor Henderson, Donald Henderson, An- thony Berra, and Vivian Dahl plus the local strike leaders was averted by the purest accident. Vivian Dahl discovered the dynamite in the garage when she went there to look for some oil, It was hidden under} some papers on the floor. Enough | was planted to have blown up a | Mayor Hoan Ms | York police offi This clearly indicates the new} policy under the multiple boards | which are to be created under the large public building. | by bus from Chicago and other Bergoff Ships Rinicn to ‘Break Streetcar Strike Armed Thugs with Len Daily Worker hibit Roosevelt Aides Arrive! | Mayor Hoan; Asks What, centers and dumped at the Lake- | side Power Plant. A heavy picket line was at once thrown around both hotels in the heart of the downtown sector. was apprised 24 hours ago that gangsters are be- ing brought into the city. NEW YORK.—The Bergoff De- tective Agency, 2 Columbus Circle, shipped a band of 18 professional gunmen by airplane yesterday af- ternoon to the Milwaukee strike zone to slug, shoot and terrorice the streetcar strikers. Leaving the Newark Airport around 2 o'clock, the gunmen were due to arrive in Chicago and from this point they were to embark for Milwaukee. Among the 18 gangsters were many with long criminal records for acts of thuggery. Some of them are reported to have been carrying guns. Among the gunmen were such notorious characters as “Slimy Dick” Kane, “Two Gun Jim” O'Donnell, “Peggy” Hobart, “Windy” Ryan, Jack Regan, “Mush” Gordon, Tom Crogan and Willie Sterns. A man known as “Wease stein is reported to be in c The strikebreaki have been so’ Ep- Be ing job is seid to ited by an ec named Vickey, By HARRY RAYMOND NEW YORK—Rank hood won another round in the | Hotels located | where they are being housed are | the Antlers and Morrison Hctels. | Painters Score Victories In Fight Against Zausner { and file | slate are Lewis J. Stevens members of the Painters’ Brother- | Frank Wedl, both nominated for the | fight against the corrupt Zausner/| leadership of District Council 9. Zausner’s request that the Gen- eral Executive Board revoke the char-er of Local Union 499—a move to get the rank and file candidates out of the way—was denied due to! trol. pressure of the| | Weinstock of being a disrupter, the | eventually kill it. Today at the polls the painters| raising of the red scare by the Zaus- | will have the opportunity of deliver-| ner crowd did not fetch the rank ing a solar-plexus knockout to/and file around to Zausner’s side. Zausner, and thereby clean the Dis-| Members of the union were tired trict Council of the chief agent of | of being gypped and hoodwinked, the tremendous membership. the bosses. Elections of officers of the D. trict will take’ place toda candidate for opposing § Zausne! painter, is Louis Wein of Local 499 and leading fighter er rank and file control, Union democ- racy and union conditions. Other| | With the aid of gangsters whom he | Worker, formation on the sending of gun-| {men to Milwaukee, sent the follow- | ing wire to Mayor Hoan: Power Plants Picketed3 Thousands. on Streets in All Strike Areas STOP RACINE be Fs To Try To Break Strike BULLETIN MILWAUKEE, Wis, June 29.—The demand of the workers of Milwaukee for a general strike was so strong late this afternoon that the American Federa- tion of Labor officials were forced to issue a statement — that unless their demands are met by 8 o'clock Steps He'll Take | NEW YORK. The Daily | upon receipt of reliable ‘Reliable reports reaching Daily | Worker here state that Bergoff | Detective Agency, New York | trikebreaking agency, has just sent group of 18 armed thugs to | ¢ for use in Mil- . Person known iD: harge. Among others are Two Gun Jim O’Don- | nell, Peggy Hobart and other un- | derworld characters. Daily Work- er wishes to inform you of this be- fore arrival of these gunmen and wishes to know what steps you will take to acquaint Milwaukee workers of this and to protect strikers against thugs attacks stop appreciate immedaite reply. C. A. Hathaway, Editor Daily Worker NEW YORK.—The follow- ing wore was received just be- | BULLETIN RACINE, Wis., June - street car and bus service halted in this city today pickets in automobiles the street cars and buses. motormen™ and conductors fore the Daily Worker went | STed thelr vehicles. | ble i | By E. G. CLARKE MILWAUKEE, WIS., JUNE | ___ ‘Sreciel to the Dally) Weskeeiiaes 29 423p | MILWAUKEE, Wisco C. A. HATHAWAY, DAILY WORKER, ARMED THUGS NOT TOL- June 29.—All street car bus traffic is completely TION HAVE ADVISED cuter | 22 strike, with tens of OF POLICE. sands of workers picketin DANIEL W. HOAN |:ar barns throughout the % | despite the fact that they hi who at present in Chicago. | 7e@dy stopped all cars from. Vickey, not having funds to finance} One hundred thousand the job, is revorted to hav- got in| | without means of transpo: touch with Bergoff. There is a big demand is | we 's for a general strike. 7 | five delegates of the building. | crafts, representing 6,000 wo voted to strike Monday mor sympathy with the street |and bus drivers, if their strike is accepted by the r Trades Council and the strike ] | ers. There is also a report candidates on the rank and file| Sasoline filling station w and | Scheduled to strike on July The union leaders through 4 torney Payway issued a stat me agent. months Zausner, | post of busin: During the pas' Paid out of the union treasury, car-| “We do not need any sympat ried on a merciless fight against any | | and all moves on the part of the! also celled off a mass meeting membership for rank and file con-| night and are pursuing a policy attempting to narrow down Slanderous statements accusing | Sttike to the street car men, Spread Picket Lines The thousands of 4k | workers spread their picketing | night to the Lakeside Power vhere Eugene Domagalski, 24, w gS dues to Zaus-| killed by live wires. In the forced to w uBen ee more were arri a! ete . ur including r Zausner's | and deputies. | were tired of pay ner and then end nine several g The highway barricaded by deputy sheriffs wh were surrounded by 2,600 cet. , | The power plant is si (Continued on Page 2) | steel wire fences, topped r then made a desperate Call Is Issued for Second Anti-War Congress, September 30th barbed wire. The plant is an arsenal. Seven thousand marched on the plant in suppo the pickets. High-powered hose > NEW YORK.—In a rous- ing call “to all opponents of | war and fascism,” the Amer- ican League Against War and Fascism has just broadcast a a call for the Second U. §, Congress Against War and Fascism, to be held in Chicago, Il. on September 28, 29 and 30 of this year. “Our own country is ever more deeply involved in the world drift towards war and fascism,” warns the statement, which is signed, among others, by Dr. Harry F. Ward, as chairman, Robert Morse | Lovett, Lincoln Steffens and Earl! Browder as vice-chairmen. | | The text of the call follows: | Call to the Second U. 8, Congress | Against War and Fascism, Septem- ber 28, 29 and 30, 1934, Chicago, Dll. To All Opponents of War and Fas- cism: War and fascism are menacing monunc FE. WARD the United States and the entire world. Events of the past year have fully confirmed the estimate of the issues voiced by tie great U. S. Congress Against War and Fascism held in New York City on September 30- October 1, 2, 1933, at which a broad united front was unanimously created. This unanimous Congress, consisting of 2,616 delegates from 35 states, representing a cross-sec- tion of anti-war and peace organi- zations in the United States, in- itiated the first American mass movement against war which has already struck root in all sections of the country. Now more than ever before, gathering war clouds cast their shadows over the earth. In every capitalist country the menacing rise of the forces of fascism threatens to destroy the last remnan’s of democratic rights, as the prelude to unlocsing the horrors of a now world slaughter! Our own country is ever more deeply involved in the worid drift toward war and fascism. The judg- ment was expressed by the U. S. Congress Against War that the Roosevelt military and naval pol- icies inevitably lead to imperialist war, and his economic policies to fascism in America. That judgment is confirmed by the billion-dollar naval program, the increased funds for military training, the currency and trade wars, the growth of monopoly business, restriction of the right to strike and the govern- ment’s support of company-con- trolled unions. Only a conscious and militant mass movement organized from below on the basis of the program adopted last year at the U. S. Con- gress gainst War, can check this steady drift toward war end fas- cism, Only the power of the aroused macses in taking these issues into their own hands will halt the war | makers end budding Americen fas- cists. { Already the work of the American | League Against War and Fascism, small as it is in less than a year, proves the wide response to this fight. Our delegation to Congress to oppose war appropriations, the LINCOLN STEFFENS students’ ani ‘ar strike which stirred the entire country, the hun- dreds of local and regional confer- > ences, the enthusiastic support that | has developed fer the magazine} “Fight’’—all demonstrate that hun-! dreds of thousands are avakening| to the imminent menace of war and| fast » and will follow a clear lead for united struggle. The National Committee of the League, elected at the great Con- gress Against War last October, therefore heartily carries out the decision then made to hold, in a year, a Second United States Con- gress Against War and Fascism. The Congress is hereby called to take place in Chicago, Ill., on ant) tember 28, 29 and 30, 1934, | The basis of representation will be | the same as thet adopted by the | first Congzess, namely: | Delezates should be clested | from all local groups and ors: zations opposed to war and fas- | cism. Every orgonized greup is entitled to one delegate for its organization, plus an additional | delegate for every 250 members | in Arms Against Union Wage Se. NEW YORK —Repr of the B. M. T. rail turned down a proposal company union to accept | Promise from the the form of a two per ¢ duction from the 10 per 1932, When the company u ficlals came in with the the men let it be knot they were ready to fight weg? scale, Th? motcrmen have threatened to take action if the full 19 per cent cut is not Te- turned, i A bulletin issued yesterday by the Transport Workers Union urged the men to ; noth- {nk less than full return of the cut. : (Continued on Page 4)