The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 5, 1934, Page 1

PARTY LEADERS SPEAK ON GERMANY AT MADISON SQ. GARDEN FRIDAY Earl Bro speaker at against his ing him, wder, general secretary of the Communist Party will be chief the Madison Square Gar- den meeting on Nriday night to explain the German crisis. Comrade Browder will analyze Hitler’s bloody stroke henchmen and its effects on the sections of the German masses which Hitler had fooled into support- Watch This PRESS RUN YESTERDAY Figure Grow 41,300 Vol. XI, No. 160 => * C. A. Hath Worker, will bloody days workers who struggle for Thaelmann. away, editor of the Daily | point the lessons which lie in German events of the past few | the thousands of are expected to mass in for Madison Square Garden on Friday. He will outli ne the need of intensified the freedom of Ernst James W. date for vic the Madison character of the hands of re- president national election, and a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, will also teke a leading part in on Friday night, revealing the true Ford, Communisi candi- in the last Square Garden meeting Nazidom’s “purging” at firing squads. Daily ,QWorker © CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1934. WEATHER: Cloudy Charles Krumbein, District Organ- York, will be workers not fear of hot t working full for the meeti and one dollar. izer of the C Garden’s huge cooling system will be ommunist Parity in New the chairman. He urges to absent themselves for weather discomfort. The blast. Admittance prices ng are 25 cents, 40 cenis, AMERICA’S ON CLASS DAILY LY WORKING NEWSPAPER (Six Page y, showers later, s) Price 3 Cents West Coast Dock Strikers Smash Police Attempt | To Move Scab Cargoes| 1 Dead, Many Wounded in 2-Hour Attack on Pickets VOMIT GAS IS USED Strikers Throw Bombs Back at Cops (Special to the Daily Worker) (See Editorial on Page 6) SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., July 4.—Efforts to move| cargo from struck ships with} trucks escorted by police failed today as strikers over- turned five trucks, demolished one, fired another, and scat- tered loads of rice for two blocks along the’ waterfront. Six hundred police could not get the scab cargo through the militant line of thousands of fighting long- shoremen and sympathizers. Scab drivers were hauled from| trucks and beaten as the strikers| battled police who attempted to cut) a way through the line. | The face-saving claim of the In- dustrial Association that 18 round trips had been made was exposed as a lie. Workers Defend Selves Nine police were on the large list of injured when workers hurled rocks to defend themselves against the tear gas and gun fire from policemen. A mass peket line halted the state-operated Belt Line Railroad. The management admitted its help- lessness as the workers of the rail- road, who are under “yellow dog” contract, quit work. Ready to Call Troops Governor Merriam announced that troops are ready to respond immediately. Indications point to ‘Thursday as the probable time at which military force will be re- sorted to by the desperate shipping owners. Chief of Police Quinn has re- sponded to the insistence of ship- pers that he open the waterfront by saying he is helpless and that nothing less than an army can stem the tide of working-class militancy which has been the answer to the murderous drive of the shipping in-| terests. The newspapers here are| emphasizing his helplessness as sroof of the need for troops. | Meanwhile pressure is again be- ng exerted through the Roosevelt Board to make the embattled long- shoremen submit to arbitration. Furuseth, A. F. of L. seamen’s union official, engineered a makeshift meeting of strikers on the water- front at the height of the battle against the police. The meeting (Continued on Page 2) Denver Figures Its Altitude in New Readers for ‘Daily’ In the drive to double the cir- culation of the Daily Worker by Jan. 1 and to get 20,000 new readers in two months, Lee W. Lang of Den- ver is rising to heights. A window cleaner, Comrade Lang ac- quires a cus- _ tomer every time he goes up a flight, So far, he has picked 10 ‘ * new readers La out of the Ee heavens. Sales throughout District 19, Denver, are 328 copies a day. Denver’s quota calls for an in- Worker Booster Club has been formed. Harry Koerner is the new “Daily” agent. The club sells 75 daily, 210 Saturdays. Teel Sie 4 This week’s tables on the drive show a ss in circulation. While some districts have gone ahead, their work is being cancelled by sluggish activity elsewhere. Study district figures on inside page ... then act and keep on acting! This is a drive, not a midsum- mer night’s dream! . (Special to the Daily Worker) VINELAND, N. J., July 4— Donald Henderson, national or- ganizer of the Agricultural and Cannery Workers Industrial Union, was jailed today on charges of conspiracy and disorderly con- duct. Bail was fixed at $3,500. Authorities are searching for Elinor Henderson, Vivian Dahl, Lief Dahl, and other active strik- ers. Striking workers held a suc- cessful meeting on the struck Sea- brook Farms today, prot at- tempted organization of a Vigil- ance Committee, The strikers demand mainten- ance of the thirty cents an hour seale provided in contract signed by Seabrook Farms. The strike commitice called on all workers and working class or- ganizations to send _ protests against the arrest of Henderson to Justice O. Leslie Downs at Bridgeton, N. J. Move to Oust Zausner at Meet Tonight Rank and File Painters Demand Weinstock Be Seated Instead NEW YORK. — Rank and file members of several locals of the Painters’ Brotherhood will appear at the meeting of District Council 9 tonight to demand that Philip Zausner, who stole over 1,500 votes from Louis Weinstock and claims to be the elected secretary-treasurer of the Council, be ousted and that Weinstock, duly elected secertary, be seated. The painters are also demanding new elections. A committee of painters have in their possession piles of evidence showing that the elections last week were fraudulent and improper. This evidence wfll be presented at the District Council when the demand for Zaysner’s ouster will be made. Hundreds of members of the union have signed petitions stating that votes were stolen by the Zausner men. The workers signing these petitions are demanding that Zaus- ner get out and that Weinstock, the rank and file candidate, take office at once, ATLANTA, Ga., July 4.— Georgia politics revolves around the Ku Klux Klan and the Men of Justice. These fascist gangs are closely in- terconnected; although both groups are numerically small at present, they have enough sup- port and prestige to be openly courted and flattered by politicians, and they are responsible for the spectacular and bloody campaign of red-baiting which is now going on in Georgia. Angelo Herndon is caught in this web of politics; the attempt to pin a death sentence on the Atlanta Six, and on three other militant work- ers for whom warrants have been issued, is all parts of a cynical poli- tical game—to capitalize on the prejudice against the black race which exists among backward sec- tions of the white workers and farmers. Assistant Solicitor General John H. Hudson has been chosen as an excellent instrument to do the actual dirty work in this campaign —for the simple reason that he is |Typical NRA Measure; | ‘Longshore Board Scab Weapon Against Dockers | All of Labor Must Back Stevedores By BILL DUNNE E Roosevelt administration and its various agencies is engaged today on the Pacific Coast in the most brazen and ambitious piece of strikebreaking that has yet featured its anti-working class activities in the series of strike movements against company unions and hunger wages. The armed offensive against the Pacific Coast workers rises out of the general forcible offensive of the employers to challenge attention of the whole working class. ‘The Daily Worker yesterday, call- ing for nation-wide support of the | Pacific Coast strike, predicted with | absolute accuracy the development of a new phase in the joint strike- breaking activities of the U.S. De- partment of Justice, the Relations” Board headed by Arch- bishop Hanna, and the Industrial Association formed by the water- front employers. Armed Assault Featured All papers today feature the armed attack on the San Francisco strikers by a force of police esti- mated at 700 mounted and foot, the city fire department, and the profes- sional armed guards recruited by the Industrial Association. Similar attacks are in progress in Seattle, Portland and Bellingham. A U. S. warship with guns unhoused and ready for action has moved in- to San Francisco harbor. News. stories give the details of the struggle. Here it is necessary to fix attention on the manner and method by which Roosevelt’s “Labor Relations” Board works hand in hand with the strikebreaking vio- Jence of the employers and the po- | lice: The Associated Press which yes- terday broadcasted the news vnat Attorney-General Cummings had ruled that the employers were under no legal with their striking employees, says today under a San Francisco date- line: “A few hours before the trouble began, the board asked the 27,000 Pacific Coast strikers to return to work and submit their grievances to arbitration.” Can anyone fail to understand the meaning of this? At the very moment when the In- dustrial Association, backed by the city and state governments, was about to launch its armed attack on the workers, Roosevelt's board (Continued on Page 2) ANGELO HERNDON an hysterical fanatic who will stop at nothing. Hudson is starting out on a campaign of legal lynching to which he sets no limits. He him- self told us that he makes no dis- tinction between liberals and radi- cals; “They're all too liberal for the “Labor | compulsion to negotiate | Shows But Slight Gain in Drive Labor’s ‘‘Friend” Assistant Secrctary of Labor Edward J. McGrady, now doing his part as a member of President Roosevelt’s Longshoremen’s Board | created to smash the militant dock strike, Food Prices | Soar; Relief May Rise 28c Retail Prices Go Up | 13 Per Cent Over June, 1933 | NEW YORK.—Declaring that food | prices have increased since January, | 1934, Edward Corsi, director of the Home Relief Bureau, yesterday de- clared that $150,000 was needed each | month to ailow for food rises and to | care for the increased applicants for relief. Corsi said that he was “fighting” | to increase food budgets by four per cent. Such an increase would give a family of five exactly 28 cents over present relief figures. New num- bers of unemployed are applying— and in most cases turned away—at the rate of 1,500 applicants for re- lief daily. Corsi declares that food prices have increased four per cent since January, 1934. Price increases com- piled by the Research and Planning Division of the N. R. A. and the Domestic Commerce Division of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce show an incvease of wholesale prices among 1784 items (Continued on Page 2) a7 In Thaelmann Appeal ist es HENRI BARBUSSE, Internationally famous French | author and leader of World Con- gress Against War and Fascism Barbusse In Appeal to Free Thaelmann To Save Thaelmann Is| To Save Ourselves, || Says Noted Author | | NEW YORK.—From Paris, Henri | Barbusse, . internationally famous author and chairman of the World| Congress Against War and Fascism, | sends the following ringing appeal | to the workers of the world to save Ernst Thaelmann: “Thaelmann must be freed! If} the enlightened workers of the} world become aware of their re- sponsibility to mankind and of| their collective power, Thaelmann| will be freed. | “The German State has become a state of mortal disease. It is the duty of the entire world at least to limit. its destructiveness. Let the mad men, the Schleichers and the Hitlers, destroy each other. But when a man like Thaelmann, who belongs to mankind, and whose life | has been a single effort to bring} light and truth to his brothers, is} menaced by this disease of Ger-| many, all of us are threatened. | “To save Thaelmann, is simply to} Save ourselves.” | ing tables. Only eight districts show a Action Imperative---2nd Table Eee. of the expected forward spurt, this week's figures for the | 20,000 new reader drive show but a desultory gain over the preceed- A total net increase of 50 new readers shows that the ac- | Gertie Reinis. tivity of the past two weeks has accomplished little more than to check : the circulation drop in a number of districts. gain over the week ending July 25th, Eighteen districts show a decrease. Only 3.5 per cent of the total quota has been reached to date! Milwaukee is temporarily in the lead, with 82.5 per cent of its quota, but this gain was almost entirely due to increased bundle orders | (Continued on Page 2) By JOHN good of this country,” said Hudson, his voice trembling with excitement, as he shouted insults at our delega- tion and accused us of being “an- archistic, Communistic lousy bums.” It is therefore perfectly clear that Hudson is demanding the death penalty for people whose political ideaas he knows nothing about. He himself stated that he considers the American Civil Liberties Union a Communistic, illegal organization; and it is safe to assume that any- one representing the Civil Liberties Union in the State of George would be liable to arrest and that the pen- alty asked would be death. Visit to Herndon This fascist official is responsible for Angelo Herndon’s conviction; and Hudson's influence is strongly felt in the prison, where Herndon is subjected to every possible indig- nity in an effort to break his spirit. When our delegation called on Herndon, we were seated in a row while Herndon was placed in a chair facing us about ten feet away. He was surrounded and closely hemmed in by a thoeatoning group of prison attendants. In the back- ground half a dozen hard-faced HOWARD LAWSON thugs, obviously Hudson’s men, were loitering, evidently memorizing the faces of our delegation for future reference. During the whole half- hour interview, someone in another part of the prison was singing 2 monotonous song of which the words were indistinguishable except for the word “nigger” which was endlessly repeated. This young hero of the working class paid no attention to these sur- roundings. He spoke easily and calmly, with almost superhuman disregard of the brutal stupidity which surrounds and threatens him. Herndon definitely states that he has not received medical attention. He was asked whether it was true that treatment had been offered him at the time he was examined and x-rays taken and that he had refused such treatment, and he em- phatically denied that such treat- ment had been offered or refused; all this with his many ja‘lors lean- ing over him. When Herndon charged that a leaking toilet had been above his cell for a long veriod and had been hastily mended the day before a medical inspection was made of his cell, the jail engineer, Hitler Reduces Storm Troops; Nazi Envoy Calls Cops On Anti-Fascists Refuses to See People| Protesting Thaelmann’s Imprisonment PHILA. TRIAL TODAY Jamaica Anti-Fascist Faces 3-Year Term (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, July 4—) |Herr Rudolf Leitner, Coun-| sellor of the German Embassy and ranking official in the ab- sence of Ambassador Hans Luther, yesterday called on the capital police to prevent | a Negro and white International | Labor Defense delegation from en- tering the Embassy to present their “demand to Hitler for the immedi- ate and safe release of Ernst Thael- mann, leader of the German work- ing class, and head of the Commu- nist Party of Germany.” “There's nobody here,” one of the embassy staff told the waiting group. He slammed the door in their faces. “Dr. Schurz told us they didn’t want to see anyone,” a policeman barked. “Come on, keep moving,” he | added. Will Refuse to See Delegates ‘When asked by your correspon- dent, over the telephone, whether | he will continue to refuse to see the Thaelmann protest delegations, | Leitner replied emphatically, “Yes.” | “I understand that the Ameri- can Inquiry Committee on Nazi practices sitting now in New York | has invited the German Embassy to send a representative to tes- tify.” “What paper do you represent?” “The Daily Worker.” “I don’t know anything about it,” Leitner replied hesitatingly. “Are you going to continue to ignore the invitation?” “Yes, we are ignoring it,” Leit- | ner shot back, a little excited. | Yesterday's delegation is the sec- ond one refused admission to the | embassy. On Saturday a united | |front group, including a Trepresen- | tative of the Young People’s So-} cialist League and the Unemployed Council was given a similar recep- tion. S. Black, Negro representative of the I.L.D., headed the delegation. Others were L. Williams, Negro or- | ganizer of the J. Louis Engdahl | branch of the LL.D., Mary Mc- Cleave, Negro; Mildred Egan and “The police department are work- ing hand in hand with the German | Embassy to deny us our constitu- | tional rights,” Williams declared to} the press, The LLD. statement, addressed | to Hans Luther, read: “In the name of thousands of | (Continued on Page 6) Angelo Herndon Is Adamant In Face of Terror Unleashed Against Negroes By Fascist Gangs and State Officials | JOHN HOWARD LAWSON | open Series on War Set-up | of NRA by Waldman Begins on Saturday The Blue Eagle is the color of battleship grey The N. R. A. drives toward war at breakneck speed. Roosevelt is the greatest war- making president the United States ever had. Seymour Waldman, Washing- ton correspondent of the Daily Worker and an authority on the N. R. A. and war, presents con- clusive evidence to support these statements in a sel of articles on “The War Set-up in Wash- ington” beginning next Saturday in the Daily Worker. | Here’s plenty of ammunition to fight the huge war-propaganda and preparations of the N. R. A. government. Don’t miss this series! 'Ex-NRA Aide Hits Jailing of Hillsboro 11 Thompson Urges End of Terror Against Unemployed (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, July 4.—W. O. | Thompson, who recently resigned |from the National Recovery Re- view Board, attacking the N.R.A. as an instrument of monopoly capital, today sent the following demanding that he stop the fas- cist attacks against Illinois work- ers. The complete letter follows: Governor Henry Horner, Executive Mansion, Springfield, Ill. Dear Sir: On various occasions you have expressed your horror at the butcheries and denials of hu- man rights in Germany. I urge you now, Mr. Governor, to take a decisive stand against grow- ing fascist violence and suppres- sion of liberty in Illinois. In Montgomery County, violation of liberty has reached its peak. Peace officers, and mobs organized by local business men are using open terror in an attempt to smash and suppress the Unemployment Councils and the Communist (Continued on Page 2) that a laundry was located on the floor above, and that there had been leakage of dirty water. Kept in Death Cell Herndon had been continuously kept in the cell with condemned | prisoners waiting to be electrocuted. The authorities make the curious defense that this is not technically a “death cell” and it simply hap- pens to be used for Negroes who are condemned to die; the fact that Herndon is forced to occupy this cell is also merely a coincidence. In the treatment of Herndon, the influence of Assistant Solicitor Hud- son is clearly indicated. It is ad- mitted that all reading matter sent to Herndon is submitted to Hudson, who keeps everything which fits with his curious idea of “insurrec- tionary” literature. As a test case we brought with us “The History of the American Working Class,” by Anthony Bimba, and demanded a definite answer from Chief Jailer Beb Holland as to whether or not the bock would be promptly de-/ livered. Mr, Holland thumbed over '‘he book, and stated that he would Bill Turner, denicd the existence c! a toilet above the cell, but admitted | (Continued on Page 6) Nazis letter to Governor Horner) this judges | in Accord With | British Gov't On | Moratorium JOBLESS RANKS RISE |Financial State Wor: | Inflation, Looms | BULLETIN NEW YORK.—July 4.—Uncon- | firmed but well informod rumor from Berlin had it today that H. H. Dieckhoff, section director in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, may replace Hans Luther as Ger- man ambassador to the United States, NEW YORK.—After four bloody days of wholesale butcheries, the fascist govern- ment of Germany attempted to consolidate its narrowed position by taking drastie measures to lop off great sec- tions of the Storm Trops, and to meet the tremendously sharpening economic crisis. No statements were issued on the results of the conference between Hitler and President von Hinden- burg yesterday at Neudeck, except the declaration that Vice-Chancel- lor von Papen, who was under 2: {Test at his home, guarded by @ Picked Hitler troops, would not. ze- | sign. . | The Nazi officials declared that | only 47 were executed, but no lists of names has been issued, and may never be issued in order to cover up the wholesale slaughter: In Accord With Chamberlain | In order to attempt to strengthen | their foreign position, the Ger | Fascists came to an agreement | Neville Chamberlain, British Ct cellor of the Exchequer, providing | that the Dawes and Young Plan in- | terest payments would be made, and that the British government would drop the threatened clearing house which was to tie up all German credits in England. How this agreement will effect the whole moratorium scheme of bondholders and bankers in the United States and France was not Stated, but it is evident that in re- turn for full support for German arming and war preparations, the fascists have made concessions to the British bondholders. The agreement with Britain is undoubtedly an effort to attempt to ease the catastrophic economic isis in Germany, which will be sharpened by the recent events, | Out of the 2,000,000 Storm Troopers | forced to take “vacations,” it is ane nounced in official quarters in Bers | lin that only 400,000 would return, | to be taken into the picked armed | troops of the fascist regime. The other 1,600,000 face unemployment |and complete elimination of the | contributions they previously re« | ceived. Besides, most of the 22 des | crees passed by the Hitler regime | during the four bloody days are aimed at the rank and file of the | Storm Troopers. The decrees limit | their power, cut them off from their usual source of funds, and coms | pletely reduce their standing in the | fascist dictatorship. Unemployment Will Grow There is not the slightess doubt that the ranks of the unemployed | will grow by leaps and bounds now in the present crisis. Count von | Schwerin-Krosigk, Nazi finance minister, has’ already declared to } the big industrialists that the | “forced” employment measures would be greatly res'ricted and that the employers could hire and fire in accordance with the needs of their business. This will immediately eliminate many followers of the | Nazis who were temporarily placed in jobs in the campaign “against unémployment.”’ | The special commission for im- | port of raw materials, and the new | proposals to limit all imports tothe | amount exported, will greatly re- | strict the import of foodstuffs and other necessities in Germany, greatly increasing the prices of all necessities of life. Besides, it will greatly undermine the present | badly hit foreign trade of Germany, Nazi Finances Worse The financial situation of the fascist government is rapidly growe i | (Continued on Page 2) t