The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 3, 1934, Page 1

ae / o o e ‘Madison Square Garden Meet To Explain German Crisis Watch This PRESS RUN YESTERDAY Figure Grow 40,400 Vol. XI, No. 158 —=>* Daily,QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Bntered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879 NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 3, 1934 WEATHER: Showers, cooler. AMERIC: CLASS DAILY *S ONLY WORKING NEWSPAPER (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents ' STREET FIGHTING, CANNON FIRE REPORTED IN GERMANY; EXECUTIONS MOUNTING; HITLER, HINDENBURG IN CLASH N. A. A.C. P. Silent On Herndon, Atlanta Six Cénferenee Votes Down Resolution Against Fascism ADA WRIGHT SPEAKS Newton’s Speech Struck) From Record (Special to the Daiiy Worker) OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., July 2.—Bowing, perforce, to the mass sentiment for the) Scottsboro defense, the 25th) Annual Conference of the} National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, meeting in this city, ac-| corded the floor to the Scottsboro | Mother, Mrs. Ada Wright, to make | an appeal for the nine innocent | Scottsboro boys facing legal massa- | cre, August 31 under the recent de- cision of the Alabama Supreme | Court. | This is the first time Mother Wright, or any other Scottsboro Mother, has been permitted to make an appeal for the boys at any NAACP. meeting, controlled by its top leadership. Mother Wright spoke for almost an hour, describing Aer European Scottsboro Defense Tour in com- pany with the Scottsboro martyr, the late J. Louis Engdahl. Com- menting on her enthusiastic recep- tion in the Soviet Union, she briefly described the successful solution of the national question by the prole- tarian revolution and told how the national minorities, formerly op- pressed under the tsarist regime, are now enjoying full equality— economic, political, cultural. She | appealed to the delegates to join| the united front fight to smash the lynch verdicts and force the release of the nine victims of capitalist djustice. Minority Resolution Against Fascism Defeated The conference is attended by less than 100 delegates and visitors. After'a hot debate on a minority resolution against fascism, the reso- lution was referred back to the Resolution Committee and killed, The resolution was vigorously de- fended by Charles Houston of ‘Washington, who exposed the wide- spread discrimination against Ne- groes under the N.R.A. codes. It was opposed by Walden of Atlanta f and other Negro democrats. A majority resolution mentions the Scottsboro case, but fails to propose united front action with y the International Labor Defense and the revolutionary white and (Continued on Page 2) Start Contest for New Red Builders In New York City Ew YORK.—A contest to recruit new Red Builders has been an- nounced. Every one bring- ing in five new Red Build- ers who stay on the job every day for at least one week, will be given a snappy Red Builder sweater. Those recruiting 10 new Red Builders will be given a week free in one of the camps, including all expenses. The contest is open for two weeks. Uremployed and part- time workers! Earn ex- penses selling the Daily Worker on busy street cor- ners. Join this fast-grow- ing group of youngsters and oldsters. Apply Daily Worker, 35 E. 12th St. (city office), any day between 3 and 5 p.m. The plan and report from District 1 in the cur- rent drive for 20,000 new readers is published on another page of today’s Daily Worker. Boston is starting to look ’em over after one strike has slipped over the plate. The first ten days of the two-month drive shows a drop of 43 Teaders, Not so good! Browder to Explain German Events at Friday Meeting What is the meaning of penings in Germany? What questions will be given to th Charles brown terror the turbulent week-end hap- is happening now and what may happen in the near future? The answers and the Communist analysis of these e largest mass of workers it is possible to assemble in one time and place on Friday evening, July 6 in Madi- son Square Garden. Krumbein, district organizer of the Communist Party will preside. Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker; Earl Browder, and James Ford will be the chief speakers. An understanding of what is happen- ing in Germany underneath the pall of is of the utmost importance in the fight of American workers against war and Amer- ican brands of fascism and to free Ernst Thaelmann. The Daily Worker and the Central Committee of the Communist Party urge that wherever possible working in the international struggle class organizations and individuals should arrange to send delegations or to attend this important meeting. Outly- ing cities in New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania like Newark, Philadelphia, Jersey City, Stamford, etc., should elect delegates or choose them informally. ILD GivesFacts On Scottsboro To Roosevelt Demand That President Intervene As Wilson Did for Mooney NEW YORK. — A detailed and documented report on the Scotts- boro frame-up and the various lynch trials to which the njne in- nocent Negro lads have been sub- jected, has been sent to President) Roosevelt. by the International Labor Defense. The report demands presidential | intervention to protect the constitu-| tional rights of the Negro people} and for the freedom of the nine young victims of the Alabama lynch courts. It quotes the precedent set by Woodrow Wilson in the Mooney case, under pres- sure of protest actions by the revo— lutionary workers of Leningrad, led by Lenin, ‘The report is accompanied by the printed transcript of the record in the Patterson and Norris trials, weighing 11 pounds, a complete transcript of Judge Horton's decision admitting the preponderance of evidence in favor of the defendants, together with a summary of the same and a copy of the letter sent to Gov. Stephens of California by President Wilson in 1918, through which he intervened in the Mooney case because “the case has assumed international importance.” Compares Case To Hitler Terror Reviewing the facts of the case and evidence presented in the three trials, the growing fascist lynch terror directed especially against the Negro people, but from which the white workers are suffering tor- ture, prison and death also, the statement links the whole persecu- tion of the Negroes and of white workers with the Scottsboro case. Describing the terror against the) (Continued on Page 2) Mass Firings and Layoffs in Chicago Steel 4,000 Fired In South Chicago Alone, Steel Paper Admits (Daily Worker siiGwest Bureau) SOUTH CHICAGO, July 2— Sweeping layoffs, for which the Amalgamated Association's leaders sell-out paved the way, are driving thousands of workers out of the mills here to face hunger and | misery. Out of fifteen to eighteen hun-/| dred normally employed in Repub- lic Steel less than 300 are now working. The 38-inch mill in Illi- nois Steel is closed, hundreds of workers are being thrown out of ev- ery plant in South Chicago, and all indications are that the lay-offs are only beginning. Even the Daily Calumet, steel- trust-controlled sheet, admits that 4,000 steel workers in South Chicago have been fired since the betrayal of the strike movement. The paper also states that thousands more are doomed to joblessness, and that the stagger system will be introduced, with about two days’ work a week for each steel worker. Most of those fired are youth, hundreds of whom were hired dur- ing the strike scare as potential scabs, Since they are no longer needed to break a strike, they are being ruthlessly thrown on the scrap heap. The Communist Party and the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union are both holding open air mass meetings almost nightly, mo- bilizing th unemployed steel work- ers to fight for adequate relief. SENTENCE COMMUNISTS TOKYO, July 2.—The charge against 45 Communists who were sentenced to from 2 to 15 years im- prisonment on June 30, was viola- tion of the peace and of public or- der, it was learned today. Jackson Park Jim-Crow Rules Smashed by Chicago Workers (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, July 2. — Jim-Crow lines of years’ standing were smash- ed sky high on the Jackson Park Beach Sunday. Negro and white workers mingled, played and swam together, in the “white” part of the beach. Enthusiastic cheers greeted speakers from the League of Strug- gle for Negro Rights and the Young Communist League when they called for unity of white and Negro workers. The day started on the beach as every other day, with the Negroes herded off to one end, isolated in the worst part of the swimming place. A group of Negro and white workers, led by Leon Hess of the L.S.N.R. and Helen Appleman of the Y.C.L. went to the Jim-Crow roam and held an open air meet- eis At the conclusion of the meeting, Negro and white went to the white part of the beach, where they were greeted with cheers. Games were started, and dozens of the white workers and children joined in the fun. After the games and a swim another meeting was held, with good response. Large numbers of the Negro Liberator were sold to the crowd. Workers held another beach party on the Oak Street Beach. When a group of Italian fascist hoodlums tried to intimidate the Negro work- ers, other Italian youth came im- itely to their rescue. The Negro workers remained. The Lily Whiters scored their only victory of the day when they attacked and drove off the Lincoln Park Beach a group of Negro chil- dren, members of the Young Pio- ers have been greatly slashed Show Fraud By Zausner |Over 100 Affidavits Show Votes Stolen From Weinstock NEW YORK.—The rank and file | of the Painters Brotherhood con- tinued to pile up evidence yesterday to prove that Philip Zausner stole | over 1,500 votes from Louis Wein- | | stock, the rank and file candidate for the office of secretary-treasurer of District Council 9, | Late in the day it was reported |that petitions had been signed by | painters in a number of locals de- |manding new elections, Philip Zausner, who claims he | won the elections by a majority of | 477 votes, has said that he will take | office at the District Council meet- | | ing that will be held Thursday. The | seating of Zausner, however, will be challenged by Louis Wein- |stock and the majority of the | Brotherhood membership who voted | for Weinstock. At the 84th St. Labor Temple a committee of union members and lawyers of the International Labor |Defense and the Civil Liberties Union were taking testimony re- garding the conduct of the electors, which showed that Zausner received a majority vote by packing the polls with gangsters who repeated yotes and refused ‘to. allow. legitimate members Of the union to vote. The rank and file movement to annul the elections has spread to a majority of the locals. It is almost certain that there will be very little per capita tax paid-to the District Council if Zausner seats himself at the head of the Council. Over a hundred affidavits were drawn up yesterday stating that the elections were carried out in a fraudulent manner. Testimony at the hearing in the Labor Temple yesterday showed that the dirtiest work was done by | Zausner’s mobsters in locals 442, 874, 905, 261 and 1011. The elec- tion commitee in these locals were |controlled by the Zausner gang. | It was testified that in Local 261 | more votes were cast than there are eligible voters. Witnesses stated that 50 gangsters | forced their way to the voting ma- | chine of Local 874 which was lo- | (Continued on Page 2) \Seabrook Farmers’ Strike Spreads as Thugs Slug Pickets Farm Workers Fight Against 17 Cents an Hour Scale (Special to the Daily Worker) BRIDGETON, N. J., July 2.—Fol- lowing the militant struggles of the 400 farm workers now taking place on the picket lines around the Sea- brook Farms, more than 150 workers, consisting of the entire force of the Deerfield Packing Company, voted *o join the strike against Seabrook. These workers demand an_ in- crease over the 17 cents an hour wag scale now in force. The State police and the Na- tional Guard have been mobilized for a reign of terrorism against the strikers. More than 50 State troop- ers have been called to protect scabs. Thugs have been hired to slug the pickets, The Seabrook Farm strike is being led by the T. U. U. L. organizers, Elinor Henderson, Vivian Dahl and Donald Henderson. The workers on the Seabrook farm won increases of 15 to 30 cents an hour in strike in April. The present sirike is against the orders of the employers to re- duce the pay to 17 cents an hour. Seabrook is the largest corporation farm in the East. Last week dy- namite was planted in the garage of the union organizers. Public Schools Need $16,000,000 to Carry On During Next Year NEW YORK.—In order to reopen with adequate facilities in the Fall, about $16,000,000 will be needed by the public school system of this city, according to a statement made yesterday by George J. Ryan, pres- ident of the Board of Education, and Dr. Harold G. Campbell, super- intendent of schools. This sum represents the deficit in State and city appropriations for education, oot the La Guardia administration, o ‘Witnesses Hitler Continues Savage Butchery Of Own Troops; Forced Laborers And Peasants in Fights With Nazis Three known dead and one “missing” Nazi leader are shown above. Ernst, former head of the Reichsbank, » commander of the Berlin storm troops, was shot; Dr. Schacht, ing; von Schlei is reported miss- executed by a icher, former chancellor, was shot “while resisting arrest” and Roehm, storm troop commander and Hitler's pal and sweetheart, was firing squad. “Daily” Receives No Reply to Cabled Inquiry Dock Guards Kill Striker In Seattle Police Patrol ’Frisco| Waterfront; Bosses In- crease Violence SEATTLE, July 2—Dock guards fired on striking longshoremen at} the docks of the Standard Oil Co. | at Richmond Beach killing Shelby S. Daffron, a striker, and injuring several. Following the shooting a battle ensued in which several of the guards were hurt. | The strikers were picketing the| Standard Oil docks where ships were | being loaded by scab labor when they were attacked by the guards. About 100 seamen and longshore- men stormed a dock. Meanwhile the strike, which began May 9, continues all along the coast. The strikers look with great | suspiicon upon the Rooseeylt Board which is hard at work attempting} to get the men back to the docks) and ships on the basis of an agree- ment which is favorable to the ship- owners and not the maritime) workers. The men have given authority to) the rank and file strike committee | to speak for them and have repu- diated Joseph P. Ryan, Andrew Furusyth and other leaders of the A. F. of L. maritime unions. As part of the terror campaign | of the shipowners and the state) against militant strikers, Forrest W. Udy, member of the Marine Work- | ers’ Industrial Union, and his wife, | Stormy Protests Greet Threats to Life of Anti- Fascist Leader NEW YORK.—Cabled in- quiries regarding the fate of Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the German Communist Party, sent to Europe by the Daily Worker yester- day, brought no replies. Sunday s dispatches from Stockholm, and all the news from Germany make clear that he is in immediate danger of being murdered. Every stage of the Nazi dis- integration makes the dan- ger more acute for the man who would be freed by the masses to take the leader- ship of the proletarian forces. Only a ten-fold increase in the world-wide pressure by the masses can stay the murderous hand of the Nazi madmen. NEW YORK.—With reports from| Stockholm that Goering, who threatened the murder of Dimitroff, der of Ernst Thaelmann, the mass on Fate of Ernst Thaelmann ‘Witness Tells of Daily Peril to Thaelmann \Inquity by. Noted Men | Gets First-Hand Word of Tortures NEW YORK.—Conclusive, first- | hand evidence that Ernst Thael- mann, leader of the German Com- munist Party, is being mistreated | and torcured in a Nazi prison was | yesterday laid before a body of | noted American men sitting as an | unofficial court to determine legal | and political conditions in Ger- | Many. Testimony by several witnesses mann is in imminent danger of be- ing executed either by sentence of the “Peoples’ Court,” the new Hit- ler mechanism for expediting the murder of anti-fascists, or even be- fore the trial, in secret. Seated as ‘udges in the “court” were Clarence Darrow, noted law- yer; U. S. Senator William Costi- |gan, Arthur Garfield Hays, Dudley Field Malone, George Z. Medalie, | Roger Baldwin, John L. Elliott and Raymond L. Wise. | Thaelmann to Be First Victim Fear that Thaelmann would be | the first victim of the Nazi axe un- jis preparing the immediate mur-| der the “Peoples Court’? was ex-| | pressed by Hays after Dr. Kurt brought out the fact that Thael-| ; Goering Slated for Von Papen’s Post As Vice-Chancellor | CIVIL WAR LOOMS |Hindenburg Threatens | Army Against Hitler | i BULLETIN BERLIN, Juiy 2.—It is reported that the dope-fiend Nazi premier ' of Prussia, Hermann Wilhelm Goering, is slated to succeed | Franz von Papen, monarchist, as | Vice-Chancellor. Von Papen is expected to be ousted today or to- morrow when Goering will take his place. This move will sharpen the battle between President yon Hindenburg and Hitler, with the threat by von Hindenburg that he ~ay! call upon the Reichswehr |18}an Army) to back up von de. |, iad * . “NEW YORK.—Hitler’s fe- rocious, murderous attacks against his own duped follow- ers in the Storm Troops, con- | tinue with unabated savagery as a stream of contradictory and conflicting reports of |Mounting armed struggles come out |} of Germany. | A rigid censorship has been | clapped down. The Austro-German | border, over which many of the | Nazi leaders were fleeing, has been shut. Execution squads work inces- sently, and though the official figure of the slain is put at 60 for Berlin alone dispataches to capital- ist newspapers throughout the world state that over 200 have been shot down. Hundreds have been arrested. The quiet. of the grave which Hit- ler and Goebbels in their statements and broadcast to the world claim rules Germany, according to the latest reports, is punctuated by ar- | tillery and machine gun fire. Travelers who last passed over | the Austrian frontier declared they | heard constant artillery fire while | passing from Passau to Munich om | their way out of Germany. Fight ing between storm troopers and the | picked armed forces of the Nazi re- | gime, the Schutzstaffel, is going on | in many parts of Germany. In | Munich, a report states, machine |gun fire raked the National Gal- | leries, which is near the Brown | House. It is now confirmed that all occupants of the Brown House, central headquarters of the Nazis, | were mowed down at Hitler's or- ders when he arrived there early on Saturday morning. Hindenburg,s Position Unclear Werner von Fritsch, chief of the fight for the liberation of Thael-| Rosenfeld, former Prussian Minis-|Reichswehr was reporetd arrested, mann and other anti-Fascist pris- oners in Germany took on ad tional militancy yesterday, with “Free Thaelmann” demonstrations throughout New York and in many | ter of Justice and well-known de- | fender of political prisoners in Ger- | many, told how these courts would | work. “The Peoples Cour: was set up as Mrs, Lee Udy, were arrested and ; other cities, and continued picketing) a means of revenge after the ac- sentenced to 60 and 30 days respec- | tively after they were convicted in| Judge Oldson’s court on a charge of having clubs in their house. The Udys denied they had weapons in their home. Mrs. Udy, who has two children, was cooking in the hall of the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union (Continued on Page 2) Mexican Communist Receives 6,406 Votes In Spite of Terrorism MEXICO CITY, July 2.—Gen- eral Lazaro Cardenas was elected president by over a million votes to- day, his nearest opponent register- ing 17,000. The terroristic methods of the National (Counter) Revolutionary Party made it practically impos- | sible to obtain-a recorded vote for) candidates opposing Gencral Cal-| les’ choice. | In the face of the terror Herman | Laborde, Communist candidate, ob- tained 6,406 votes, only slightly less | than the number conceded to the well-publicized Adalberto Tejeda, former governor of Vera Cruz. |to give er | gram that the thugs were on their (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 2) Daily Worker Forces Hoan To Order Arrest of Thugs NEW YORK.—Prompt action of the Daily Worker in exposing the fact that the Bergoff Detective Agency, 2 Columbus Circle, shipped thugs with police records to Mil- waukee by airplane last Friday, to be used against the street-car strik- ers, forced Mayor Daniel W. Hoan to order the arrest of the gangsters. The Socialist Milwaukee Leader of June 30 reports that “tweniy- three New York and Chicago strik: breakers brought to the city by air- | plane were being brought into police headquarters from various parts of the city late today for questioning j under vagrancy charges.” The Socialist papcr, however, fa: edit to the Daily Wor for informing Mayor Hoan by tel: way to the city. The paper states that “the arrests were made upon demand of Mayor Daniel W. Hoan, who had gotten a/ York. - a | Hp from New York of the gang’s | departure from that city.” | Mest of the gangsters were ar-| rested at the Hotel Republican, Others were found quartered in the Hotel Schroeder. Among the 23 arrested, many were found to have long crime rec- ords. The men are reported to have admitted that they were hired by Bergoff. After being held several hours by the police, the gangsters were taken ito the®station, where they were | jeered by a crowd of workers and | ordered out of town. | Among those arrested were “Wea- sel" Epstzin, “Two-Gun” O’Donnel and Jaceb Speizer, Eddie Klein end | Tom Grogan, who were in Milwau- kee working for Bergoff, were not | arrested. Several of the gangsters have already arrived back safely in New As | which shows the growing rift be tween the picked Nazi armed forces, and the army, despite all of General von Blomberg’s honeyed declara- tions of “good relations” yesterday, Permanent Sessions of Cabinet The Hitler cabinet is in constant session as the crisis of the fascist dictators! continues to grow more serious every hour. Fear and be- wilderment is pervading the dis- | banded Nazi forces, and the sharp- |est resentment is spreading espe= | cially among the lower officers who | previously were paid by the Hitler gang, and are now being plunged | into the ranks of the unemployed |Witn death threatening them at the | slightest sign of action against Hit= |ler’s orders. Terror holds the population in the large cities, as many of the stores are closed; street cars have been shut down, and the main lines of the subways have ceased to run, according to reports from various capitalist news agencies. The Nazis have already printed food and clothing cards, as the threat of a goods shortage rises and starvation begins to hover over the whole |country. Cables to Wall Street tell |of the inevitable onward sweep of |the much-dreaded monetary infla- |tion and bankruptcy. les among the and peasants are be: i and come through despite | rship. There is little doubt |that there is the most tremendous activity among the ranks of the toiling population, under the leader= (Continued on Page 2), ~@ ‘ oman tj