The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 6, 1934, Page 1

WORKERS—RALLY TO THE SUPPORT OF THE PACIFIC COAST STRIKERS! ORKERS of the ENTIRE UNITED STATES: The fullest support of the heroic struggle of the 30,000 Pacific Coast strikers is an immediate task for every worker and workers’ organization in the United States. The Pacific Coast ports are today the storm center of the fight of the workers of the United States for the right to strike, the right to organize and bargain collectively through unions of their own choice. The ship-owners, the government, and the A. Watch This Figure Grow 40,000 PRESS RUN YESTERDAY Vol. XI, No. 161 => * Entered a6 second-class matter a¢ the Post Office at New York, N. Y¥., under the Act of March 8, STATEMENT OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE, COMMUNIST PARTY, U. S. A. F. of L. leaders have failed in every maneuver to split the ranks of the workers and break the strike. The strikers saw through the strikebreaking proposal of Roosevelt’s “Labor Relations Board” that they re- turn to work without having won their demands, and rejected it. Now the armed forces of the government and the ship-owners have been hurled against the strikers, with the sanction of Roosevelt's “Labor Board.” Four workers are dead. Many are wounded. But the mass picket lines of the strikers are defending themselves, and successfully fighting back. A general strike of all Pacific Coast workers in all industries can break the terror, win the strikers’ demands, and go far toward winning the fight for the right to organize and strike. Marine workers of the East Coast and Gulf ports: A strike in solidarity with the Pacific Coast workers will guarantee their victory, it will strengthen your own position in the marine industry. Workers of the entire United States! Stay the hand of the fascist murderers; stop the killing of pickets Daily <QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) 1878, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1934 WEATHER: Cloudy, “| by the government forces! Wire protests at once to Governor Merriam of California against the police terror, against mobilization of the militia! Organize protest meetings, and strong solidarity actions! Pass resolutions in your organizations for the right to organize, strike and picket! For a general strike of Pacific Coast workers! For the spreading of the strike to the entire marine industry of the country! Support the picket lines of the Pacific ports with your organ- ized protests! AMEFICA’S ONLY WORKING CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER showers later. (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents ALL OUT T0 GARDEN MEET ON GERMA 16 Frisco Dockers Shot; MWIU Calls For General Srike Developments In West Coast Strike Sixteen persons shot by police gunfire, many seriously injured, several score suffering from minor injuries following a two-hour police attack on pickets. Governor Frank Merriam announces that he will call out Na- tional Guard. Roosevelt's mediation board sits with the Industrial Association and Waterfront Employers Union cooking up schemes to break strike. San Francisco building trades workers reported voting on gen- eral strike. Strike forces suspension of all work on San Francisco Bay Bridge in Rincon Hill district. Marine Workers Industrial Union issues call for general strike in U. S. marine transport. Pickets Shot, Gassed and? Clubbed- on Frisco Waterfront Marine Workers Union Calls- All Seamen, Dockers to Strike NEW YORK.—A call for a general strike in the marine industry was issued yester- day by the Marine Workers | Industrial Union, 140 Broad |St., to support the strike of 30,000 West Coast seamen, longshoremen, masters, mates, pilots, truckers and truck drivers. The call, which was addressed to all workers, crganized and unorgan- ized, in the marine industry, to members of the International Long- shoremen’s Association, the Interna- BULLETIN SACRAMENTO, Cal., July 5.— National Guard units in the San Francisco Bay region were or- dered this afternoon to stand by in uniform under arms, ready to go into action against the strikers. oe * SAN FRANCISCO, July 5. —Police guns blazed today on the waterfront as the Indus- trial Board attempted to cut its way through heavy picket lines of marine transport workers and break the mari- time strike which has been on since | tional Seamen’s Union and the May 9. Sixteen men were shot. One, a non- | foe gree tacuecieh Onion, Seer Tard aoubes: was Wounded | «The determied two-month strike Hart, a striker, was shot in the leg of the 30,000 Pacific Coast workers in and W. J. Wilson was severely| the maritime trades now faces the wounded in the thigh. John Beovich, | Combined military and police forces a striker, was shot in the neck. of the state and local governments, Many shots were fired by police | the armed guards and professional in the vicinity of Rincon Hill, and| Sttikebreakers hired by the water- several houses were struck. front employers. The papers carry Governor Frank Merriam further | the news of fierce attacks made on accentuated the reign of terror| the members of the ten unions who against the strikers by announcing | are striking for higher wages, better that he would call out the National| working conditions and union rec- Guard. ognition, and on the thousands of Police violence was renewed today | unemployed who refuse to scab and who aid in the militant mass pick- eting that has closed the ports. --“The strike is on a 2,000 mile front—from Vancouver, B. C. to San Diego, California. All marine traffic is tied up. “Victory for the strikers means better wages and working condi- tions for all workers. “The ‘Labor Relations’ Board ap- (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 2) 11 Red Builders Added in Boston; Bundle Jumps 150 OSTON, which lost 43 Daily Worker readers during the first ten days of the drive to get 20,000 new readers in two || — |Held in Solitary, Tear j boys and after Saved From Gallows Guards Beat Scottsboro Boys in Jail Gas in Cells, Com- mittee Finds . | THEODORE JORDAN | Mass Presiite Wins Partial Victory, Fight By JOHN HOWARD LAWSON (Special to the Daily Worker) BIRMINGHAM, July 5.—After a| long talk alone with the Scottsboro | investigating the charges made by them, our delega- | tion is unanimously convinced that they are being shockingly - perse- | L D S cuted in jail here. |e Lie - Saves Sheriff Hawkins curtly refuses to remove the seven prisoners from| d. F solitary confinement or permit them | Jor an rom to have even a few moments of daily | exercise in the court where other | prisoners get fresh air. | The Gallows Hawkins says, “I feel that they are | being treated alright and I don't want to be interfered with or dic- tated to.” The boys have been in solitary since March 23, the ae being a knife alleged found on Andy Wright during exercise hour,, Goes on for Release Andy says he never had a knife, but took it from another prisoner who was attacking his brother with it PORTLAND, Ore., July 5—The) mass fight of Negro and white) workers for Theodore Jordan won| a notable victory this week when | Governor Meier was forced to com- mute to life imprisonment the lynch | death sentence against the Young Negro worker, framed-up by offi- | cials of the Oregon and Pacific Railroad on a charge of murdering a railroad dick. A 30-day reprieve for Jordan was won several weeks ago, when sev-| eral delegations of white and Negro workers visited the Governor and other officials with demands for the freedom of Jordan. At the end of | the 30-day period, Jordan was re-| sentenced to death. The commuta- | tion order of the Governor follows iad campaign of furious protests by} a throughout the state. The International Labor Defense, | | wach has been conducting the de- | tense, following the betrayal of Jordan by local N. A. A. C. P. lead- ers, declared today that the fight for the unconditional release of Jordan will be continued. The I. L, D. called on all workers and or- ganizations to send resolutions to Governor Julius L. Meier demand- ing the immediate, unconditional release of Jordan. $30,000 Needed to Save the Scottsboro Boys and Herndon August 31 has been set as the date on which Heywood Patter- son and Clarence Norris, two of the Scottsboro boys, will be electrocuted—aunless the working- elass stops the lynchers from carrying out their determination. Angelo Herndon, young Negro leader of white and Negro un- employed, will be sent to e on the chain-gang with- in the next three weeks unless he is bailed out. Answer the lynchers and the supreme courts in Alabama and Georgia! $15,000 in cash or liberty bonds must be raised at once to bail out Angelo Herndon. $15,000 must be raised immedi- ately to take the appeals in the Scottsboro and Herndon cases to the U. S. Supreme Court. Rush funds and contributions immediately to the national of- fice of the International Labor ; Defense, Room 430, 80 East 11th St., New York City. Certificates will be issued by the LL.D. for the Special Bail Fund for Herndon, guarantee- ing the return of this as soon as JES the bail is released | knowledge that tear gas has been pumped into boys’ cells and that they have been beaten. The sheriff says, “No tear gas has been used to my knowledge. Maybe they’r gas- sing them upstairs right now but I don’t know it.” _ Three weeks ago Charlie Weems, one of the boys, was beaten unmer- cifully for having a working class book. Both he and the Wright and that the ales saw this hap- pen. Questioned on this, the sheriff replies, “I'm not interested in how he got the knife. He had it when I saw him; that's all I care about.” The sheriff similarly disclaims ali (Continued on Page 2) 'Thaelmann in Nazi Killings j the past week. INo Word er! Another Communist Is) Murdered Ir Cell | By Nazis NEW _ YORK.—Richard Scher- | inger, German officer and former | Nazi who turned Communist, was . * reported among those murdered in | Congress in the wave of bloody killings during Flensburg _ The murder of Scheringer greatly | aa increases the fear that. Enst Thael- | HOMES RAIDED mann, leader of the German Com- munist Party, has been killed in the | bloody wave of Nazi butcheries. | U.S. Bondholders Irked | Scheringer was formerly a lieu- tenant in the Reichswehr who was| at German: British Pac arrested for spreading Nazi propa- |fanda in the army. While in jail] BERLIN, July 5.—Hitler’s | he fraternized with Communists and | |came to see that the only salva- | tion for Germany lies in the pro-| action today, letarian revolution. He wrote an open letter to his rank and file friends in the Nazi movement calling on them to quit the Nazi ranks and join with the Communists, Scheringer went into hiding when Hitler came to power but was soon recognized and jailed. Only an intensification of the campaign to free Thaelmann can keep him from being murdered in his jail. Workers are being urged | by the National Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism to send Lichterfelde, the military pos’ where wholesale slaughter: ever be published, according to thi Nazi officials. and among the disgusted middl (Continued on Page 2) firing squads again went into) the on the outskirts of Berlin| have already taken place. No names of the butchered Nazi officials were issued; and no list of names of those shot during the past five days will Faced with a tremendous mass discontent, and ominous rumblings | in the rank of the Storm Troopers class masses who formerly followed | the Fascist rulers, the chief Nazis called an emergency congress in NY TONIGHT! F ormer Reichstag Deputy To Speak; Nazi Firing Squads Nazis Hold Emergency [ Again in Action Browder, Hathaway, Ford and Krumbein to Ex- plain Events in Germany; All Proceeds To Go to German Communist Party NEW YORK.—Has Germany’s bloody week saved Nazi- dom from collapse? Have Hitler and his industrialist mas- ters successfully entrenched themselves against the grow- t| ing wave of mass resentment behind the dead bodies of their erstwhile henchmen? Can Hitler trust the Reichswehr any more than he can storm troops which he dissolved because he feared to as repeated] see them armed? shootings could be heard at} These and scores of other burning questions will be dealt with tonight at the Madison Square Garden meeting called by the Communist Party to present its analysis and its position on the current German crisis. Scores of workers from Bridgeport, Philadelphia, Newark, Jersey City, Stamford, New Haven and other out- ®lying cities will attend. The meeting is regarded by | the Central and District com- mittees of the Communist | Party as one of the most im- | portant political events of the year. t | ‘Ss LC | ee Party Members Are Urged To Volunteer e As Garden Ushers The arrangements committee of tonight's Madison Square * r Flensburg, on the German-Danish || Garden papers called ie ae | The importance of the Minneapolis | border. Around 80 delegates were || sent the Communist analysis of || meeting is further enhanced present, though 30,000 of Hitler’s|] the German crisis announced |} by the announcement that picked soldiers, the Schutzstaffle,|} jast night that volunteers are |) . . Drivers Fight patrolled the strests: urgently needed to. serve ag || ON¢ Of the chief speakers will The main questions to be taken up || ushers and to aid in the distri- || be a leading deputy in the are the catastrophic crisis facin: Strike Pact Communist Party Calls, For Re-Strike To Win Demands BULLETIN MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., July 5. —An ultimatum to the Commu- nist Party not to use any slogans referring to the betrayal of the recent truck drivers strike in the | parade against N.R.A. arbitration here Friday, was issued by Wil- liam Brown, President of Drivers Local 574 and Myles and Grant Dunne. The three Trotskyites threat- ened gangster tactics if any ban- ner criticising their actions in the recent strike would be carried. They refused to allow a speaker of the Communist Party, or any | measures to take in order to stav fascism. executioers. Von Papen’s hom was raided and searched. will | Saar commissioner. Instead of Goe- ring taking his place, it is stated b; high Nazi officials Chancellor. Panic Spreads Panic is spreading among th economic measures being taken b: the Fascist government to meet th: {conflicts with other the debt moratorium. and clothing supplies and runnin; (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 2) Germany, and what further terrorist e off a revolutionary upsurge against | | Houses in Berlin are being raided | for arms, and other victims for the | It is now declared that the Vice-Chancellor be ousted from his position, | though he will retain his post as that Rudolf Hess, close associate of Hitler, and | Colleges | his chief advisors, will be made Vice- | States convened at the National) cism’s position in Gonnany a population in view of the drastic imperialist powers over retaliatory measures on Foodstuffs bution and sale of literature at the meeting. All party members are urged to volunteer. They should report, to their respective section organ- izers or organization secretaries in the Garden not later than 4:30 p.m. for assignment. g | German Reichstag until the time of its dissolution by Hit- | ler. The entire proceeds of the meet ing will be contributed to the il- legal Communist Party of Germany, it has been announced, to aid it jin the intensified struggle and ey Fs | Propaganda which German events NSL National Plenum |of the past few days have made m | Hammers Out Program [7 eee iy speak Earl Browder, general secretary of the American Communist Party United | will offer a general analysis of Fas- e ry NEW YORK.—Delegates from | throughout the Student League, 114 W. 14th St.,| elsewhere and the perspective for yesterday to open the secend plen- | international struggle against the um of the League. |fascist menace. C. A. Hathaway, According to repjorts of Joseph | editor of the Daily Worker, will deal Cohen, national secretary, there are | With the immediate situation in |Germany, its causes and Possible | effects. James W. Ford will discuss the e y 2,725 dues-paying members. | The plenum will discuss ques- | tions of line and organization and | relation of the struggle to free ses perspectives for building the| Angelo Herndon and en Scottsboro g | Student League into a mass or-| boys to the international fight for | ganization in the colleges and high| the freedom of Ernst Thaelmann ' schools, and other victims of the Brown ter= | ror. months, now reveals what acti- vity can do, Its latest bundle order is for an increase of 150 copies a day. It is building Red Builders. A membership meeting was held — © wid weaknesses of the district discussed. In response to a call for Red Builders, ten young workers, five boys and girls, re- sponded. Besides these enthu- siasts, a newsboy selling capi- talist sheets at this Party meet- ing, also volunteered to sell the “Daily.” Credit for being the first new Boston Red Builder, however, goes to Sam Rosen, a Dorchester Pioneer, who came to the Boston Daily Worker office and an- nounced that he wanted to join the Shock Brigade. “I have been reading about the activities cf the New York Red Builders,” he said, “and I want to do my part for the Daily Worker.” The Red Builders are starting a Red Builders Club. The Red Builders have pledged themselves to double their num- ber in a short time! Systematic street sales must be permanently established in Boston! Kurt Rosenfeld Exposes Fascist Lynch Justice By ROBERT HAMILTON IGHT shining lights of the Amer- | ican bar seated behind a long table on a raised dais. Clarence Darrow, the chairman, slumped wearily in his armchair, flanked by Senator Costigan of Colorado at one end, Dudley Field Malone, big- shot Democratic lawyer, at the other. The well-dressed audience (admis- sion by ticket only) listen intently to the eye-witness stories of Nazi brutality and terror told by the refugees from Germany and the noted foreign witnesses who had come from Europe to testify. The American Inquiry Commission in- vestigating conditions in present- day Germany is in session. It is a testimonial to the tre- mendous force of the world-wide anti-fascist movement that these lawyers were sitting in judgment at all. Not one of them is a Commu- nist, of course; most of them are bitter enemies of Communism. The most that can be said for some of + 8 R= BUILDER Sweaters, aprons and caps will be available in a few days. Districts or individu- als may order these now or write for information about them, ? | der assumed names and the chair- These witnesses were refugees from their native Germany and would face and deported to the land of Hitler. stand was Dr. former leading Social-Democrat and Minister of Rosenfeld had been the most promi- nent attorney in political trials in| Berlin police headquarters after the Germany — Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, Levine, Max Hoelz, and the Communist fighters on the bar- ricades in Berlin on May 1, were among the famous wo:king class heroes whom he had defended. Rosenfeld was the lawyer who had accompanied Ernst Torgler to the An American Commission Inquires Into the Nazi Terror — | Charles Krumbein, district or- ganizer of the Communist Party will |be chairman of the meeting. An elaborate cooling system | will insure perfect comfort within the hall. them is that they are more oz less liberal in viewpoint. And yet, here they were sitting as an unofficial court in the dignified, colonial hearing chamber of the New York County Lawyers’ Association. Mass pressure, you see, makes itself felt even in the most unexpected places. Refugees Testify The witnesses file up to the stand with the glare of flashlights and camera clicking focused on them. Some of the witnesses testfied un- man of the Commission had to warn the newspaper photographers against taking pictures of them. Clarence Darrow and (right) Arthur Garfield Hays, members of the American Inquiry Commis- sion who called for Thaelmann’s freedom. \ The first major witness on the The first major witness on the Kurt Rosenfeld, Justice in Prussia. law is diabolically designed to mak: ceztain that the opponents of .hi of the court. two justices and three reliable 1a; a majority for a death sentence. Flays Nazi “Laws” law. secret; its verdicts can be executet Reichstag fire when Torgler boldly entered the lion’s mouth to protest the Nazi charge that the Commu- nist Pa:ty of Germany had burned the Reichstag. As Rosenfeld gives the details of his legal and political career, the members of the Commission lean 5 r ‘ 1929, forward visibly impressed. It is| discretion. obvious that they consider him one of their kind. It is “Doctor this” and “Dostor that,” but Rosenfeld Plunges into the heart of his analy. sis of the so-called “People’s Court. He quotes from the official text of the “People's Court” law, showing that every single provision of that ~ Thrt means that munist defendant is able to defen himself befcre this Nezi court, | the law even more drastic. Nazi regime can be speedily and| effiicently convicted and executed. | He cites the fact that the defendant before the so-called “court” cannot choose his own lawyer, and that there is no appeal from the verdict He proves that by the very composition of the court— Nazis, appointed by Hitler himself— Not a single one of the guazantees | for due legal procedure accorded even by the laws of other capitalist countries, and by the laws of. pre- Hitler Germany, is left in this new Its hearings can be held in within 24 hours; and what is most | advantage of the unsettled condi-| significant of all is the elastic pro-| tions of viso that the Nazi Minister of Jus-| murder to put him out of the way. tice can exchange the court pro-| cedure of the law itself at his own! if, | even under this lynch law, a Com- the | Hitlerite Justice Minister can make Rosenfeld then tells the Inquiry quisitor. Commission that Ernst Thaelmann, | leader of the German’ Cemmunist ; ‘Terror “Without Prece-. dent in the History of Civilized Nations” ‘Railroad Men Act For Six Hour Day In Chicago Shops CHICAGO, July 5.—Aroused into with no opportunity to see anyone,| action by the mass lay-offs taking not even a lawyer. No indictment] Place in the Chicago shops on the has ever been shown him—he is| Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, simply being kept prisoner until the| workers in Machinist Helpers Lodee Nazis judge the time is ripe to hang| 915 went on record to start a ficht him. Rosenfeld adds that the pres-| for the 6 hour day on the C. & N. W. ent wave of assassination rolling| The visited machinists lodge 479 over Germany makes the danger to| which approved their action, calling Thaelmann’s life greater than ever| of a huge mass meeting to start the d| before, as the Hitlerites may take| fight against lay-offs, and for the 6-hour day. This action was stimulated as a | result of a leaflet issued last week Dudley Field Malone tries to make | Lee estte te ne W. Unity. Commits some anti-Soviet capital out of| °°, % ee eee | Rosefeld’s testimony, trying to elicit | Brotherhoods. Unity Movement: EHS | leaflet predicted the lay-offs and q| from him admissions that the “Nazi| called thi kK t ii terror is no worse than the violerce | he vo ae of the Soviet regime.” But Rosenfeld | ‘nt action as the only way to pro- is too keen for his Tammany in. tect the gains made through the He testifies that the ter- strike ballot and to fight the speed- up and lay-offs, refusing to give up any jobs for the benefit of = come panies profits, Party, is slated to face this lynch| court as Public Enemy No. 1 of the} Hitler regime. He relates that Thaelmann has been held in solitary y| confinement for over 16 months, random executions and) LContinued on Page 6), te E