The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 4, 1934, Page 1

REICHSTAG DEPUTY TO SPEAK AT MADISON SQUARE MEMBER of the German Reichstag, until its dissolution by Hitler, will tell workers of New York and outlying districts the real truths underlying Nazidom’s internal upheaval at the Madison Square Garden meeting called for Friday evening by the Communist Party of New York. courts. Watch This Figure Grow From the mouth of a leading victim of Nazi terror workers will hear unparalleled revelations of Brown Shirt brutality and working class fearlessness in the face of torture, concentration camps and hangmen’s ARL BROWDER, Ford and Charles Krumbein will analyze the German events of the past few days. All possibile provisions have been made for the comfort of the masses of workers expected to attend Daily, ,QWorker 2s: Clarence Hathaway, GARDEN MEETING FRIDAY the meeting. The Garden’s giant refrigerating sysiem will be in full operation. Admittance prices as well as hot weather discom- fort will be reduced to a minimum. Tickets will be on sale at the box office for 25 cents, 40 cents and one dollar. James ONLY WORKING AMERICA PRESS RUN : i Bids trary 41,800 CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) es Vol. XI, No. 159 MF terrae 5 es mate Os 1 er, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 1934. WEATHER: Fair, showers bynignt (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents NAZI CABINET PREPARES FURTHER MASS SUPPRESSIONS Pacific Coast Bosses |NY Painters "Collapse of Reichswehr OpenLid on Fascism Is Vote Fraud Nearing’ Prepare Bloody Terror With Aid of Gov't Board 6 —___—_—_—— uw J, WARSHAL & SONS hen wear AntiRed Drive Begun By Industrial Association ASSAIL DOCKERS Strikers Must Have Help| of All Labor BULLETIN SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., July 3. —Large mobilizations of mounted | police scattered mass picket lines | along the Embarcadero here today “to test the temper of the growing | crowds of dock strikers” prepara- | Brand Statements in Capitalist Press as Unirue NEW YORK.—Election watchers of six locals of the Painters Brot! erhood branded as untruthful yes- terday statements appearing in the New York capitalist press that the elections of District Council offi- cers was orderly and honest and that the duly elected officers were Philip Zausner, D. Matzkin, Bloom, Goldweber and Rosen. The statement issued by the com- mittee of watchers said: “In the name of the official watchers in local Unions Nos. 261, | 442, 874, 905 and 1011, and also in the name of local Union No. 499, one of the largest locals in the D. C. No. 9, we wish to deny these statements, and present the fol- lowing facts: tory to a desperate effort of city officials to “open the port.” The | opening of the port was set for noon but long after that time the waterfront was as devoid of ship- ping activity es at any time dur- ing the strike. * | i | ! j | sooner romesne | Hi Above is a photostatic reproduction of an invoice of a Seattle arms agency which proves that the Seattle Chamber of Commerce supplied arms to gangsters on the docks to shoot down striking Iongshoremen and seamen. Murder of Docker Laid To Chamber of Commerce Records Show : Seaitl gt ie Comite Body Paid 5 Gastonia Mills for Arms, Munitions ei By BILL DUNNE HOLESALE raids, mass arrests, destruction of the workers’ press, and murder vy professional terrorists— his is what the Pacific Coast narine transport strikers and heir militant leadership will lace tomorrow if the “Industrial issociation’s” plans are carried out m the 2,000 mile strike front. — Forcible suppression of the mili- ant strike of some 30,000 longshore- nen firemen, seamen, waterfront eamsters, truckers, masters, mates ind pilots on the Pacific Coast from seattle to San Diego, has now been jlaced as the first point on their order of business by the shipping ‘mployers, their associations and he state governments involved. Mass support of the strikers on a jation-wide scale is needed to de- jeat this drive. The preparations for armed at- acks on the strikers and their o1- nizations by the Industrial As- <piation, the officer caste of the Aiwerican Legion, various fascist or- tions like the American Vigil- antes, the private armies of thugs recruited by the ship owners and (Special to the Daily Worker) SEATTLE, Wash., July 3—Shelby S. Deffron, the striking longshore- man who was shot to death by a guard at the Standard Oil docks, ) was killed by a gun and ammuni- Shut Down By | Striking Pickets GASTONIA, N. C., July 3.—The| textile workers at three Goldberg mills went on strike here today. “1—The duly elected officers to D. C. No. 9 are Louis Weinstock, secretary; L. J. Stevens, Frank Wedl, Zeller and Gouthier, business agents. Louis Weinstock received a majority vote in the following lo- (Continued on Page 2) Miller Furniture Workers Win Point in Fight on Hague NEW YORK.—A mass meeting to protest against the arrest and terrorization of pickets in Jersey City will be held here tonight at 8 o'clock in Irving Plaza Hall, Irving Pi. and 15th St. The meeting is being called under the joint auspices of the Furni- ture Workers Industrial the American Civil Union, the International Labor Defense and the Committee for the Defense of Political Prison- ers. * 6h ee Pravda Says It Will Fall) Under Blows of Revolution MOSCOW, June 3 (by radio). —| “The fascist dictatorship in Ger- many has received an irreparable blow,” says an editorial in “Pravda,”| central organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in an editorial devoted to the events in Germany. “This does not mean that it is deprived of all posgibilities for maneuvering. However, the events| of the last few days have proved | that the zenith of the achievement of social demagogy of the German fascists has passed, and it is: now} faced with a rapid descent to dange: with the brakes on. “In these days, German fascism} again exposed itself as an agency of finance capital. The class-conscious workers had clearly seen this before. | Now even the backward workers and other sections of the population have the possibility of convincing themselves of this fact. “The Hitler regime created for, finance capital inestimably moze favorable conditions for unscrupul- ous and unlimited exploitation of the proletariat and the. toiling ie & acwmc oe French Cable Says; U.S. program of further plunder of the toiling masses by the capitalists and landlords. Preparing Foreign Adventures “The German bourgeoisie is mak- ing desperate efforts to extricate it- self from the crisis on the bones (Continued on Page 2) MinneapolisUnions ? | | More Killings Chief Brings Thanks For Slaughter; Reported | Extraordinary Tension Grips German Masses | | | | |GUARD VON PAPEN | French Marshal Calls for Troop Concentration NEW YORK.—Extraor- linary tension is gripping the ‘masses in Germany as the full force of the bloody execus tions of the Storm Troop lead- ers is discussed in whispers, and more of the facts ara spread by word of ve INVESTIGATE NAZI TERROR Three members of the American Inquiring Clarence Darrow (left), Arthur Garfield Hays (center), and Dudley Field Malone, which yesterday ended a two-day session investigating the legal and political situation in Germany. Commission, Mysterious troon movements are fo- — cee neg TE ee ” oy |ing on in Berlin, cable dispatches | 5 e t Cedinet met ye: Thaelmann Is In Danger, 28° 2&3." 9 again today to discuss more measures in face of the crisis. Hitler after yesterday afternoon's |Cabinet meeting flew to consult | with President von Hindenburg at |his country estate in Neudeck. The expected dismissal of Vice-Chan- cellor von Papen, and his replaces jment by the Nazi Premier of Prus- | Sia, Herman Goering, did not take place at the Cabinet meeting yes- terday. Acting in the name of the Reichswehr, General von Bomberg appeared before the Cabinet meet- ing and in the name of the fas- cist ministers tendered his thanks to Hitler for his “determined and courageous action which saved the German nation from civil war.” Inquiry Asks His Freedom Chicago, New York, Liberals Say Nazi Court Philadelphia, In Is Murderer; Workers Protest Meets Protesting Arrested NEW YORK. — A cable warning} NEW YORK —A statement call- that the Nazis are planning to be- | ing for the freeing of Emst Thael- head Ernst Thaelmann, has been: mann, leader of the German Com- Union, | Liberties | . | | To Meet Friday ON) receivea by the Provisional Com-j|Mmunist Party, was issued by the . mittee for th Liberation of Thael-|American Inquiry Commission | mann. The cable, sent by Andre|the form of a preliminary report, enera Yl @ | Maireux, winner of the Goncourt |#¢ the close of its two-day session MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., July 3.—) Union members here have voted to call a mass meeting for Friday to} of Anti-Fasc “Nazis to prize and chairman of the Interna-; tional Committee for the Liberation | , Teads: ehcad Thaelmann. |here yesterday afternoon. testimony. of authoritative { nesses, “We are constrained to conclude from the documentary and personal wit- that the forthcoming poli- in| Three more executions of outs standing figures Fascist Ger- many took place yesterday. Col. von Bredow, right hand man of the asst inated Gen. von Schleicher; , von Paren’s a nt who is said to have written the tion supplied by the Seattle Cham- ber of Commerce, it was charged here yesterday. The responsibility for the brutal, wanton murder of the workman Deffron was laid squarely on the shoulders of the city government, the shipowner$ and the Chamber Seven hundred workers struck. In addition, the Clara mill work- ers and the Dunn and Armstrong mill workers are on strike. Pickets at the latter mills have suc- ceeded in closing the plants, keep- ing superintendents and overseers JERSEY CITY, July 3.—Mass pressure of the members of the Furniture Workers Industrial Union and the labor movement in New York and New Jersey forced the National Labor Board to hand down a decision designating that all former employees of the Union The from entering the mills. The Goldberg workers struck against a decision of the State In- of Commerce, Shotguns, ammunition, grenades stevedoring companies proceeds pwith the full knowledge of the Roosevelt administration. | Attorney-General Cummings has just come to the aid of the employ- (Continued on Page 2) and blast billies to be used against the strikers have been sold to E. J. Friedlander by Warshal and Sons and have been shipped to the Chamber of Commerce in care of dustrial Relations Board, it was re- In 1929 these mills were involved in the great Gastonia strike which centered in the Manville Jenkes mill at Loray, Gastonia, led by the (Continued on Page 2) National Textile Union. ~ Parlor Frame Co, and its branches, the Miller Parlor Furniture Co., the Maujer Parlor Frame Co, and the Junius Parlor Frame Co., should be reinstated. Union leaders yesterday an- nounced that they would demand that the decision be carried out at once, discuss the calling of a general strike to enforce the settlement of the recent truck drivers strike. The leaders of the General drivers and helpers union declared in a statement today that the employers “Are deliberately voiding and de- laying-the carvying out of the agree- ment.” The agreement granted the strik- ers some concessions regarding speech mace by the Vice-Chancellor tical trials are wholly without force |on June 17 at Marburg University, _ |of law, and may fairly be con-|and Gustav von Kahr, Catholic ue Seger races ear a dae demned in advance,” the statement leader and priest of Munich, were cain t help ‘to halt “hehe | Feed befell Ss cul i must a Pp 4s | “Only the freeing of Thaelmann| At the time the Fascist Cabinet barbaric in a ot aed and the others similarly held on was meeting, the Reichsbank re- (Continued on Page 2) (ported efivines drop in the gold : reserves, the currency coverage be- CHICAGO, July 3.—Three pickets | A oo e. |that houses the Consulate, as well| MS only two per cent gold. ‘They carrying sij demanding the re- “ ined” thi: peel of mhasiacn mee arrested | 8S the two pickets pinched the| “explained” this to mean that there If he is murdered thousands of others including the writers Lud- (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) union recognition but did not grant the economic demands of the strik- ers. These concessions have now been taken from: the strikers, ac- cording to the latest repo:ts. The demand of the workers for a general Consulate. yesterday in front of the German | S@me Those jailed were Arnoid and) Elizabeth May and Robert Solley. | ©880 Two women workers were arrested | V° | Worker. At North and Harding and Chi-|°f currency, and Ridgway, large meetings | edmission of the first trickles of in- re held, which were addressed by fation that will bring new economic Saturday for throwing “Free Thael- | Hans Pfeiffer, Andrew Russo and havoe to Germany. day, as reported in the Daily | ¥@S not a further drain in the gold reserves but an increased issuance which is already an strike is high. “Legalize” Butcheries mann” leaflets from the building | (Continued on Page 6) Chicago Increases _ “Fair” Sales, but Sections Slumber ATHERING momentum for the two-month drive to reach 2,000 new “Daily” readers, Dis- trict 8 is making a more con- centrated effort to cover the im- portant hes to the gates of the World’s Fair. The latest report stated that sales were ex- pected to triple during the past week, While this shows some progres, it is for from the cir culation potential offered by the thousands of workers visiting Chicago this Summer. The Daily Worker should be made the official guide to the Chicago Fair. By doing this, the comrades in Chicago will be carrying out a basic revolution- ary task—that of interpreting waning capitalism’s proud dis- play in terms of human misery and want. Several of the most important sections in the Chicago district seam to have the idea that there is no pressing obligation to sce that 2,000 new “Daily” readers are secured in the two months allotted by the Central Commit- tee. This attitude must be cor- rected at once, if it has not already been done. Seventy-five thousand workers must be read- ing the Daily Worker by Janu- ary First, or the work of our Party will be seriously handi- capped, Next to New York, Chi- cago must lead in mobilizing our movement. With its thousands of unemployed and part-time workers, there is no excuse for failure. What is your answer, Chicago? AS A result of the events in Germany during the past few days, an ocean of blood has been unloosed between the fas- cist dictatorship and its mass base. The wholesale butcheries of the Storm Troop leaders, which opens the way for a more drastic carrying through of the program of German finance capital, will result in plunging tens of thousands of Storm Troopers and disillu- sioned members of the middle class into the ranks of the German revolutionary working class. The destruction of part of its own scum and filth by the Nazis is at the same time the anni- hilation of its unabashed social demagogy in the face of the tremendous sharpening of the catas- trophic crisis of German fascism. The full significance of the recent bloody oc- currences in Germany can be understood only by examining Hitler’s rise to power, and the class forces behind him. The fascist dictatorship in Germany came to power in the interest of finance capital with the support of the entire ruling class. In order to achieve mass support, Hitler dema- gogically and shamelessly made wholesale promises to the middle class, to the impoverished farmers, _ and even to the workers, On these promises of a Struggle against the Versailles Treaty, against “in- ternational capital,” garnered with the nationalist and Thauvinist agitation, covered with vague prom- ises of a “national socialism,” Hitler was able to organize his armed gangs, the Storm Troops, and win a large mass base among the petty-bourgeoisie, and declassed elements. The broad mass of the Petty-bourgeoisie, in the face of Hitler's glaring * promises, in the face of the sharpening economic crisis, and the prespective of a proletarian reyo- lution, swung to the right behind the Nazis. Their enthusiasm and hopes, their aspirations and ex- pectations, were whipped to a feverish enthusiasm. Socialist Leaders Split Workers’ Unity The Social Democratic leaders, in the face of this situation, had split the ranks of the work- ing class, opening the way for the triumph of fascism by co-operating with all of the capitalist governing forces who were already lining up with the fascist dictatorship. Every proposal for united action made by the Communist Party of Germany for a struggle of the workers against the rising fascist dictatorship was rejected by the Social Democratic leaders. They clung with the most criminal brazenness to their class collaboration policies, to support of von Hindenburg, Bruening, yon Papen and Schleicher, against the proletariat. : When the fascist Dictatorship first came to Power, it continued its shameless demagogy be- hind which it trojan-like carried out the dictates, the wishes, the program of finance-capital to the All N. Y. Party Members Asked To Help minutest detail. During the past year of fascist rule the wages of the entire working class were slashed 20 per cent, The standard of living of the whole toiling population was reduced tremendously in order to provide huge profits for the Krupps, Thyssens, the bankers, the big industrialists, the wealthy land- lords. Germany was turned into an armed camp preparing for the most criminal adventures of the imperialist robbers, for a new imperialist war for territorial conquests, especially at the expense of the Soviet Union. Walked the Road to Disaster ‘The economic policy of fascism, the policy of finance capital, brought Germany to the brink of @ catastrophe. Internally, starvation was increas- ing for the masses. The state funds were handed over to the bankers and landlords. The huge landed estates were subsidized, and consolidated at the expense of the poor and middle farmers. All forms of social insurance and relief were cut down dras- tically to provide more profits for the financiers, more expenditures for war. The middle class were victimized and shoved on the road to bankruptcy for the sake of bettering the conditions of the big instructed by the District Secretariat to report to their section headquarters immediately for a mass Party meeting on the German situation te be held The entire membership of the Communist Friday evening, July 6 in Madison Square Garden. Party in New York City and the vicinity has been | Hundreds of thousands of these leaflets have been printed and the widest possible circulaticn must be given them. Party members living in distribution of leaflets advertising the Communist |Coney Island, Brighton Beach and outlying resorts should report immediately at the nearest sectton. Hitler’s Bloody Butchery Brings Fascism’s Doom Closer AN EDITORIAL industrialists and bankers. The lot of the small business man was made worse. The intellectuals, the professional men found the promises made to them turned to ashes; women were degraded, and the Jews were made to suffer perszcution, pogroms and economic discriminaticn, Its open war program, its chauvinist attacks, iso- lated Germany, sharpening all of the contradictions among the imperialist powers, and plunging the country to the precipice of war. The foreign trade was being systematically destroyed; German credits were undermined; the whole currency system was brought to bankruptcy. This was the situation on the eve of the present gory events in Germany. The foreign policy of fascism had thrown a virtua] economic blockade around Germany more devastating than the hlock- ade during the last World War. With a bankrupt treasury, the petty-bourgeoisie could see that the dreaded inflation was sweeping upon them. The lying promises of Hitler and the Fascist Dictator- ship could no longer cover the worst catastrophe that was already engulfing Germany. Discontent began to sweep through the ranks of the Storm Troops, the very armed bands of fascism recruited out of the ranks of the petty- bourgeoisie and young unemployed workers for the rise of the Fascist Dictatorship to power. The Communist Party of Germany, which the fascists with blood and fire vainly had striven to destroy, began to win greater and greater support among the Social-Domocratic workers, becoming the universally acknowledged leader of the grovring fight to overthrow the criminal fascist dictatorship. Before the wholesale slaughters of June 30th (Continued on Page 6) Hitler took steps to “legalize” the | bloody butcheries since June 30th, and issued a decree declaring that |hereafter all Storm Troopers sus- | pected of being involved in “revolt plots,” would be handed over to the regular courts for trial and puns (Continued on Page 2) Big Scottsboro Rally Today In Negro Harlem | Youths Demand Free- dem of Boys, Hern- don, Thaelmann | | eda | NEW YORK—July 4, Indeven- |dence Day, will be celebrated by |New York young workers and stu- |dents in the only prover spirit. by |@ — revolutionary demonstra | against ruling-class tezror and for the freedom of the nine innocent Scottsboro boys. The jemonstration, called by the | Young Communist League, will be | held in the streets of Harlem, start- jing at 10 a. m. today from 126th | St. and Lenox Ave. Speakers will |include I. Little, District Organizer \of the ¥. C. L., and Lou Cooper, leader of the Trade Union Unity Council youth committee. In the last few days dozers open ais meetirgs have been held by the ¥. C. L. Fifty thousand | Isafiets have been distributed by the | League, and a like number by or- | ganizations of adult workers who jare supporting this action for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys. » ? Slee eee : 4