The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 11, 1934, Page 1

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(SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of Mareh 8, 1879, BALTIMORE DOCKERS VOTE SUPPORT OF COAST STRIKE Vol. XI, No. 165 a ee WEATHER: Price 3 Cents Fair, v NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1934 (Six Pages) Dollar Line Sh Ship Group Urges Strike; Perkins in Marine Strikers Blocking Train Shipment Nazis Unleashing New Mass Raids; Fear Communists Seize 70 Communists| in New Raids As the Party Advances FOOD SHORTAGE Disarm Storm Troop Big Mass Meeting in || Chicago July 16th On Situation in Germany CHICAGO, Il, July 10—All funds raised at the mass meet- ing Monday, July 16, on the Ger- man situation will go to the Ger- Marine strikers and sympathizers near Portland, Oregon, force a freight train to return to its depot |Labor Sec’y Refuses to Condemn Use of Troops on Strikers SHIFTY CONFAB Pledges ‘Study’ on Farm Head of New Labor Board Refuses to Tdk On Death of Strik (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) __WASHINGTO: Y, July 10— yd Garrison, chairman of the $s Dodge on Killing of Two ‘President Adams’ Men May Walk Out in N. Y. Today LS.H. BACKS STRIKE Seatile Dockers Against . Labor Relations Regiments man Communist Party, John | : i Miter; : "| . & Lawson, district organizational || Without unloading. They smeared the rails with soap and foreed the train to come to a stop. | Labor Situation dean And Pee ee, Oe || Loading Scab; Cargo secretary, announced today. ea ‘i wi Root, Clark, Buckner and Bal- eee OONSTANCE, reopen’ Bob Minor, noted working class {| <—————-> ——___—_______— —| By MARGUERITE YOUNG lantine, a leading Wall Street (Special to ti Worker) July 10. — Indicative of the desperate fear by the Hitler officials of the activities of the Communist Party of Ger- many which daily assume greater proportions, 70 people were arrested here yesterday in a speaker, will speak on the signi- ficance of the recent German events, and their relation to the struggle for a Soviet Germany. | It is expected that the North Side Turner Hall, 820 North || Clark St., will be packed | N.Y. Mass Trial Nazi ‘Conwal' Paid Viereck $500 Monthly | | 5 STRIKERS SENTENCED TO TENERIFPFE, Canary Islands, July 10.—Five persons were sen- | tenced to death today for the kill- ing of a civil guard during a recent strike. DEATH Court Offiter| Eggs Mob on to Lynch Negro (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, July 10.— Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins today refused point blank to condemn the use of armed forces against the Pa- cific Coast Marine strikers, law firm, lined up today behind the machine guns and bay which are being used aga: we ts st. the t Coast “Alter hedging in reply to que tions the longshore: BALTIMORE, A conference of lor r adopted a progr: of action in support of the West Coast || marine transport strikers and it is expected that the men 2 vi ff the docks to- raid, charged with Communist ac- M 5 ] eKouah. vapcordine: to: Her ulin er will walk o tivity. artia aw Teapots rene a shell a Gide’ tind fond bao, {| MORDOW. Pee eae ae | Hitler Hack Boasts of | | Youth Dragged Through own admission a moment earlier, || Use of machine guns and bayo- ||™OrOF action af against the Communist Party, fol- lowing the recent Berlin police or- ToExpose Nazi Services to Nazis at Declared In Streets, Throat Cut, | “Up to the time the police w nets against strikers?” your | | Tespondent asked Garrison. mgshoremen are visit s of the A. F. of L. mari ie : . “I don’t want to express an der commanding instant death for Hearin | | Hanged in Public Sq. | guns, the strikers’ pickets maintain- to demand a general all shouting “Rot Front” in the | yneh Courts' pas 8 | D h oy. | 8 Mea order and the docks were very iirerteginoe Rn Pe \/7, the demand 1s refused the men streets, is a reflection of the stead- | BULLETIN | ute Strike| BASTROP, La, July 10—Bgged | Well policed; there was no damage |) sitenaing the men nabor Board's nea | ily advancing influence of the Com- nunist Party and its activities in the present crisis of the Fascist zovernment. The Fascist shat the Swiss Communist Party is involved in the organizational work. authorities assert | Noted Men + to Testify | July 16 As Murder | Tribunal Opens | NEW YORK.—E£ar! General Secretary of the Commu- | nist Party of America, and James W. Ford, member of the Central Browder, | Committee, were called late yes- | Police Ready to Shoot! All Workers Resist ing Arrest Andrew Mc’! | gro farmer, dragged him from on by District Attorney F. W. Haw- | thorne, a lynch mob last night took Cloud, 26-year old Ne- Parish prison, through the streets | P: with a noose around his neck, slit Is his throat, and hanged his body to | and Assistant Secretary of Labor | then to property or to person: | Miss Perkins also revealed, in a} |general press conference, that she lis in regular communication with Sident Roosevelt regarding the} e, and with Archbishop Hanna |} first press conference smiled un- Henle ura ncn 3 3 Mile M: March= Pe spoke, local ‘Tear orga’ renuciaben | son, men the ih the towns along the Swiss-Ger- | a | terday afternoon to testify in a | (a an-oak tree in the public. square of|McGrady of the F-esident’s special i- s W. k Patterson off the b van border. Vogue wil te cider on by the | secret, session of the Congressional | “PorreRpam, july 10. — In an| this town. F 7 jstrike-breaking loif:shoremen labor OL—W OF KEL 'S | speaking. Patterson returned to the The government officials no | workers of New York City at a mass | Coerce investigating Nazi | ort to break the strike of dock| The mob, estimated at 300, tore|board. In other fords, she is the a speaker’s stand and took a vote of Ipnger attempt to conceal the fact | trial, Monday night, July 16, at st. | Taba otal And activities in the | Vorkers here, martial Jaw was de- | down a telephone pole and used it |clearing house be#yeen San Fran- | S] b P li the men. They unanimo: that the bloody snes to exter- | Nicholas Arena. Prominent wit- 3: 8 inns * . clared in the Crooswijk district.|to batter locks from four doors in ae i the President's iad ain wes 0 ice sa ort ve action of the union cninate the Communist Party has | nesses who appeared before the | Since yesterday workers have been ison. i vas engaged | Warshi president. yeen a dismal failure. American ney: Commission * will NEW YORK. Benker Kiep, New | resisting police efforts to smash the ia yetecne bit ie ite the jail | “What is your opinion of the use | Y Bot. Wie: Union. | prestiese ee Fear of the Communist Party | testify. Geeta eons Vie paid strike, Barricades were thrown up. | pistrict Attorney Hawthorne ar-|0f Vomiting gas, machine guns and Greatest. Outpouring | Patterson were azrested. Longshore- as the revolutionary vanguard of ‘The mass trial 1s timed for the ree Sylvester Viereck, Hitler’s| wiitary cordons were thrown rived and made a specch, openly |ayonets against strikers?” Your men, Negro and white, came in the German masses dominates the entire ruling clique in the Hitler government. Following the mass outbreaks of | unrest within the ranks of the Nazi Storm Troopers, and the secret dis- | banding of many regiments, it was announced today that the usual autumn army maneuvers will be opening of the new bogus “People’s Courts,” set up by Hitler to facili- tate the murder of Ernst Thael- mann, heroic leader of the German | working-class, and thousands of other anti-fascist fighters held in hideous torture in Hitler’s dungeons and concentration camps. The con- chief hack writer in this country,! $500 a month for at least four, months for spreading fascist prop-' aganda, it was brought out at yes-! terday’s hearing of the Congres-/ sional Committee investigating Nazi activity in the United States. Viereck said he was paid the money in cash for “advisory” about the district. clared that anyone resisting arrest or disobeying police orders would | be shot on sight. Schools were closed and the city was deserted. Amsterdam, where more than a dozen workers were murdered by | the Police and soldiers when they Serv-| protested a cut in relief payments, The police de- Today, Hawthorne expressing sympathy with the aims of the lynchers. “I sympathize with your attit- tude, but I’m afraid you'll get into trouble,” he said. refused to state whether he would prosecute the leaders of the mob. Sheriff | corr espondent asked Miss Perkins jafter she said, “It was a very or- derly and well-conducted strike.” “Well,” she hesistated, “they are “Then do you intend to come out publicly against the use of these weapons?” not tools that I would employ.”| | of Frisco Labor Buries Its Dead (Special to the Daily Worker) | SAN FRANCISCO, July 10.— jfuneral parade yesterday behind masses to defend Patterson in the |court. Patterson demanded a jury jtrial. The I.L.A. president was dis- jmissed when he asked for a station | house trial. | Patterson is now out on $100 bail Over 20,000 marched in the mass |and strike sentiment is spreadin~ rapidly along the waterfront. vening of the courts, first set f « a “The question of law and order | *e bodies of Nick Counderakis | W(t ig ates oN aE hee oe ee 1g, | 08,08 “German-American” rela Fs Fepeited Hiiet odie: The city | Campanian and two deputies (WhO) iy Gay Plays cer pats amar senae |and E.G. Sperry, the two workers | (special t» the Daily Worker It is understood that fear of fur-| according to advices from Germany.|°'"crhe: money hal received: from. the| as the appearance of an armed | were also presen at the attack On! responsible for that,” she tossed Fe lered on the picket line by ALTIMORE, Mr. July 10—A ther resentment and outbreaks in|In q preliminary report, the Amer- camp. the jail and the subsequent fiendish back, “and I certainly shan’t give Police gunfire. Forty thousand / meeting was called yesterday in the army are the cause of this ac- tion, although the government. gives | the danger of forest fires as the reason, Convokes Reichstag Also indicative of the immense upsurge of unrest and disillusion- ment among the population is the sudden announcement) that Hitler will convoke the Reichstag this Fri- day to give a public “explanation” to the masses in an attempt to sol- idify the rapidly waning prestige of the Fascist government. ican Inquiry Commission condemned the courts as instruments of lega- | lized murder and called for the re- lease of Thaelmann, Chief among the prominent wit- nesses who will testify is Dr. Kurt Rosenfeld, former Minister of Jus- tice in the Prussian Cabinet and Thaelmann defense lawyer, who (Continued on Page 6) First of Hillsboro Consul was not entered in Viereck’s | (Continued on Page 2) Resentment at the | Amsterdam workers throughout Holland. is spreading | murder of the | lynching, declared they “recognized (Continued on Page 2) Into the Factories -- Into the Shops! Workers in all industries are awakening to the roie of the Daily Worker in the fight for higher wages and better working conditions. But the “Daily” has not yet reached the mass of toilers who are ready for a militant program of organization | them public advice on the sub- ject.” Another correspondent asked her whether she would suggest the (Continued on tinued on Page 2) Not Sign Union Republic | Will | massed at the headquarters of In- | ternational Longshoremen's Associa- tion when the pro ion began. sidewalks. I was the of San Francisco. | halted, Street to Dugan’s Undertaking par- lors. to join the demonstration. | Hundreds of workers massed on the greatest | labor demonstration in the history During the march all traffic was The procession covered a distance of three miles up Market Masses of workers left their jobs | Five | front of the headqu: of International Longshoremen’s Asso- ciation to lay the basis for calling a general strike of longshoremen in the eastern ports in solidarity with the west coast strikers. Members of the I.L.A. were called jupon to demonstrate at the docks where the S.S. Absoroka, a ship carrying scab cargo from the west coast, is berthed. Ship Committee Urges Strike By Ship Delegate No. 327 Goering, Hitler’s right hand man against the exploiting bosses. At this time, when their struggles A hundred workers of the McLaren| BOSTON, Mass., July 10. — The end Prussian Premier, will also against Roosevelt’s Raw Deal are reaching a hot pitch of re- ¢ r e e m e n t and Christy projects walked off the|ship committee of the President speak the same or the next night. Ul Freed on Bond sentment, it becomes imperative that the “Daily” be placed in job and joined the march. At the| Adams, a Doller liner, due in New Food Shortage In the meanwhile, a serious food shortage faces the masses as Hit- ler’s tariff policies in favor of the big Prussian landowners have re- duced the food supply. In addition, drought and early frost have aggravated the situation. For some time previous to this, grave food shortages have been growing among the masses as the price of butter, fats and meats rose sharply under the impact of Hit- AsProtestsPour In Workers Appeal for Aid to Return Militants to Their Ranks (Daily Worker Midwest Burcau) CHICAGO, Ill, July 10.—The the hands of every worker. This is the object of the drive for 20,000 new readers in two months. Red Builders are needed! Unemployed and part-time workers, here is your chance to serve the working class Steel Co. Refuses to Renew Contract; Strike News WARREN, Ohio, July 10. — The relations with the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin | Workers (A. F. of L.) and for the | Republic Steel Corporation, third | largst in the country, severed its! funeral away, where the body of Coundeo- nist honors. the Presidio by war veterans. Samuel Darcy, rict organizer of the Communist Party, tional Labor Defense, and repres: | tatives of the Sparticus Club, 31 ing at the grave, told of the untir- parlors many hundreds/ y rakis was buried with full Commu- | Sperry was buried at | Elaine Black, organizer of the Interna- York tomorrow, is urging the men | found means of transportation toto strike in support of the Pacafic Cypress Lawn Cemetery, five miles |Coast strikers and for the immedi- ate withdrawal of the last 10 per cent wage cut. Last Sunday port delegate Coe, of jthe Marine W ‘s Industrial | Union, waS arre: when he came aboard the ship to dis lets calling for suppo: cific Coast strike. J: 3 boatswains mate, and William S: er, a seaman, both Dollar Line lick ‘ v y K e dead | 5, ler’s economic policies. first of the 11 Hillsboro prisoners |first time in 20 years refused to)! revolutionary work of the dead | spitties, appeared against Cos Through all this, Hitler, in face) was released on bond Saturday. meet with union officials to discuss|Comtade. He answered the are |prosecuting witnesses. The cai of the danger of a revolutionary| Frank Pansick, Communist member mobilization call to picket the} y.; postponed. outburst flaring up at unpredictable moments, is making preparations to be able to flee the country at short notice. His for a vacation near the Baltic Sea are evidence of this. Communist Leaflets Call for Anti-Fascist Struggle A leaflet distributed in many thousands of copies by the Berlin district of the Communist Party of Germany, just before the bloody executions of the past week, ap- (Centinued on Page 2) Call General Strike In Cuba to Liberate 95 Labor Prisoners HAVANA, July 10—To force the release of 95 political prison- ers who are on a hunger strike, of the Village Board of Taylor Springs, was freed. Workers of Montgomery County raised the $10,000 bond in order to return this militant fighter to their ranks. Pansick is expected to launch an intensive drive to get bond for his comrades remaining in jail. Another hearing on bond will be held next Thursday and it is be- lieved that at least one more of the 11 will be released on that day. The mass protest campaign con- ducted by the International Labor Defense is still going forward, and protests are pouring into Hillsboro. The I. L. D. is asking all organiza- tions to send sen! to Sheriff Saathoff, Hillsboro, Il. New Arrest Ordered Under Raw Illinois Syndicalist Law renewal of contracts. The company declared it severed relations, “be- cause of the danger that the man- agement of the Amalgamated may pass into the hands of the radical element known as the rank and file leaders.” Seer eee: St. Paul Officials Split MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., July 10.— Officials of the St. Paul Drivers ai Helpers Union have told the Minne- apolis drivers they will not join the Minneapolis union in any walk-out. These officials took similar splitting neapolis truck drivers. A general | strike vote is to be taken Wednes- day unless the Minneapolis truck | drivers demands are met. S.K.F. Strike Ended PHILADELPHIA, July 10—The times by large numbers of police, is action in the last strike of the Min-| strike of the S.KF. workers, who} have been attacked a numbe: of} returned. Coundeorakis’ brother made an ried following the playing of the International. Roosevelt Board continued today, | next. Yesterday Harry Jackson of the | Marine Workers Industrial Union | (Continued on Page 2) | Communist Candidates | Assured Places On (Special to the Daily Worker) | LEWISTON, Maine, July 10. waterfront on Thursday and never | inspiring speech about the work of | his brother. Coundeorakis was bu- | req. Hearings of the strikebreaking | with the longshoremen coming up| startled the hearing by exposing | Maine Election Ballots The two company stool pigeons are 1g to defend their action by saying that Coe and the Marine Workers Industrial Union are both But this is exactly the same jery that the shipowners are raising agaitist the 30,000 heroic marine | strikers on the west coast and their argument therefore does not go over (Continned on Page 2) Strike Movement | Shows Growth in Various Sections The following is a summary of the major strike developments throughout the United States to- day: Longshoremen and seamen —|] throughout Pacific coast. Farm workers, Bridgeton, N. J. Onion weede= McGuffey, Ohio, Tire workers, Akron, Ohio. Poultry slaughter house work- ers, New York. Truckmen may strike at Min- neapolis and St. Paul. Limestone mill workers, Bed- @ general walkout was called for ‘The Communist Party today filed its midnight today to last 24 hours by the Cuban National Confed- eration of Labor. Bus and taxi drivers have al- ready declared they will join the strikes, and the majority of cigar and other factory workers are certain to walk out. oi) eee . nomination petitions for candidates Fort Worth Carmen To Strike |, the state elections with the Sec- FO) retary of State. There were many RT WORTH, Texas, July 10—| nundreds of signatures to spare on The street carmen have given 8) the petition lists to insure for the strike ultimatum to the company./.eq candidates a place on the bal- They will strike unless their de-| tot. mands are met. ‘The Socialist Party in Maine has CHICAGO, IL, July 10.—Zllinois’ criminal syndicalism law was in- voked against another worker yes- terday, when a warrant was eae for Charles Hulscher, Marine, Il, charging him with advocating the overthrow of the government. This is the sam echarge which * ; i been unable, until now, to get the|] ford, Ind. The railway brotherhoods have || Serves as the legal alibi for holding 1300 Strike in Fall River | required number of signatures and || Thread company employes, Fall also threatened strike, declaring || the 11 Hillsboro defendants in jail. FALL RIVER, Mass. July 10.—| it is becoming doubtful whether they || Rives, Mass. The warrant was issued by Jus- tice of the Peace Joseph Walter at the request. of State Attorney Les- ter Geers of Madison County. that the railway management is not living up to the wage agree- ment. The 1300 employes of the American Thread Co, walked out on strike today demanding recognition of the} union, will be able to qualify their slate in the state elections. Tugmen on the Great Lakes. School teachers, Old Forge, ba. Fur workers, Danbury, Conn. (More Election News on Page 3)