The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 12, 1934, Page 1

Make This Figure Grow PRESS RUN YESTERDAY. 40,600 Daily .QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) AMERICA’S ON CLASS DAILY LY WORKDID NEWSPAPER Vol. XI, No. 166 @e* New York, N. ¥., Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at under the Aet of March 8, 1879 ‘ NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1934 WEATHER: Scattered thunder showers and warmer. (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents PORTLAND COPS FIRE ON STRIKING DOCKERS, WOUND 4 Rockefeller sr Publicity Agent Received $25, 000 From Nazis 50, 000 in Havana Youth Meet'Ivy ‘Lee Directs Hitler AFL Heads Pees t Board Saturday at Propaganda Policy HereSilent on Strike to Free Jailed Workers |Anti-Nazi ae a One Scab Killed; Four Street Cars Burn | in Fighting NEWSPAPERS CLOSE Political Prisoners Un- dergo Tortures HAVANA, July 11.—Over 50,000 workers at midnight answered the general strike call of the Cuban National Confederation of Labor de- manding the release of 126 political prisoners, many of whom are seriously ill in the Men- dieta fortresses. Severe fighting took place in various sections of Havana when police clashed with strikers. Four street cars manned by scabs were badly damaged by fire. Newspaper reporters, linotype operators on four newspapers, joined the strike along with workers on a number of bus lines and taxicabs. Many factor- ies were’ shut down by the strike. One scab street car conductor, Quintero Gutierrez, was killed to- day when he threatened strikers | with a revolver. | The political prisoners went on a hunger strike over one week ago in protest against their treatment and food. The Mendieta government, which had arrested a score of A.B.C, officers, was treating the Pro- Machado prisoners sumptuously while starving and torturing the revolutionary political prisoners. aor ieee 7 NEW YORK.—With orders to “shoot to kill on sight,” Havana po- Tice are searching for Joaquin Or- doqui, secretary of the Cuban Na- tional Confederation of Labor. At the same time, 126 revolutionary political prisoners are being held in a fortress and are in a desperate physical plight, many of them near death. Ninety-five have been on a hunger strike. The Trade Union Unity League and the International Labor De- fense have joined in issuing an appeal to American workers for immediate funds to supply med- ical attention to these imprisoned comrades who have been badly maltreated. All funds should be sent to the Daily Worker for | transmission to Cuba to aid our imprisoned Cuban comrades, Hathaway Will Speak Tonight on Germany BOSTON, July 11.—C. A. Hatha- way, editor of the Daily Worker, will speak here tonight on the meaning of the current political crisis in Germany. The meeting will be held in the Dudley Street Opera House, 113 Dudley Street, at 8 pm. He will explain the reasons behind Hitler's bloody “purging” of his party, and will outline its pos- sible effect in the near future. ‘Today we must lay the ground- work for tomorrow’s history. The spread of the Daily Worker today means a strong, well-organized force of militant workers, capable of stamping the dictates of the proletariat upon tomorrow's pages. “Your Daily Worker Needs Your Help,” Says Max Bedacht Comrades, today workers every- where must fight for their very chance to live. In this fight they need a voice, a defender of their cause, an organizer for their ranks, and a leader in their struggles! The Daily Worker is that voice, that or- ganizer, that leader! Let us make its voice strong! Let us multi- ply its fighting power! Comrades! The drive for readers is on. To work! Subscribe and win more subscribers! Our Daily Worker must double its circulation! This means your paper needs your help—now! Max Bedacht MAX BEDACHT, National Secretary, } International Workers Order, M. Bedacht |members of the Hitler Youth W all Street Piesidene s Mendieta, Wall Street's President in Cuba, who has un- leashed a new reign of terror against political prisoners as well as against all workers and peas- ants who resist his rule. Hitler te Tell Nazi Reichstag Of Butcheries Hitler Youth Refuse To Give Fascist Salute BERLIN, July 11—Wide discon- tent and revulsion over the whole- tent and repulsion over the whole- sale slaughters of his own duped followers continue to sweep through former Nazi forces, as Chancellor Hitler prepares on Friday to appear before a rump session of the Reich- stag, in an attempt to justify his butcheries. In Munich members of the Hitler Youth Organization are refusing to give the Nazi salute to their of- ficials, Herr Klein, Hitler Youth leader, in upper Bavaria, was forced to issue an order commanding the “to demonstrate in public the excellent relations between their organiza- tion and the Storm Troops and the Special Guard.” In an interview today with a cor- respondent of the Italian Fascist paper of Turin, the “Gazetta del Popolo,” Hitier declared that the slaughter of his henchmen was necessary in order to stave off civil war. He declared that his forth- cominb Reichstag speech would be a final balance of accounts. Economic Situation Worsens As the economic catastrophe in Germany grows worse and the food shortage more severe, conflicts are taking place in Hitler’s Ministry of Economics, Phillip Kessler was re- moved from office today by Kurt Schmitt, Nazi Minister of Eco- nomics, and replaced by Count Von der Golz. Von der Golz was the chief Nazi expert of labor in Po- merania. Over 150 foreign correspondents in Berlin are meeting today to pro- test the attack on their news re- ports of recent events in Germany made by chief Nazi poison propa- gandist, Goebbels. Another sharp attack against the foreign corre- spondents who cabled the news of (Continued on Page 2) Nazi Consul Rep. Dickstein, at Hearing, Admits Asking for | Warns Thaelmann Is in Grave Danger | NEW YORK. — New York young | Workers will mass this Saturday thunder their demands freedom of Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the German working-class and | veteran fighter against wage dis- crimination and super-exploitation against the young workers. The demonstration, called by the Youth Section of the American League Against War and Fascism, will be preceded by mass picketing of the Consulate arranged by the Youth Section of the Trade Union Unity Council in conjunction with the Youth Section of the League. Adult workers are urged to sup- port this action for the rescue of Thaelmann and other anti-fascist |fighters facing the Nazi axe. The *| demonstration takes Place two days before the date of the opening of Hitler’s bogus “People’s Courts,” reported postponed from July 2 to July 16. It is thus of the utmost importance that all organizations help to mobilize the youth and adult workers to come in masses to the demonstration, | Warns Of Danger To Thaelmann, Calls For Mass Outpouring Monday NEW YORK.—“The life of Ernst Thaelmann is in greater danger to- day than it has.ever. been. We can- not let down for one minute in our campaign. for the liberation of Thaelmann, the heroic leader of the German working class and all anti- fascists imprisoned and facing death in Hitler Germany.” This warning and call for action was issued yes- terday by the Anti-Nazi Federation of N. Y¥. which is organizing a huge Free Thaelmann meeting in the form of a Mass Trial for Monday, July 16, at 8 p. m,, at St. Nicholas Arena, 69 West 66th St. Prominent members of the Amer- ican Inquiry Commission will give testimony and will make the first report of the Commission, composed of eight prominent American law- yers, which condemned the Hitler |“People’s Courts” and called for |the immediate release of Thael- mann, in its preliminary statement. The thousands of anti-fascists gathered at St. Nicholas Arena next Monday night will give their ver- dict on the Hitler murder regime after hearing Dr. Kurt Rosenfeld, ‘Thaelmann defense lawyer, Aneu- rin. Beyans, of the British Labor Party, several German refugees, Maria Halberstadt, former German teacher, and Allan Taub as pros- (Continued on Page 2) “Daily” To Publish Honor Roll of Groups In Thaelmann Fight NEW YORK.—Within 10 days the Daily Worker will publish a special Roll of Honor listing all organizations throughout the country that have done actual work in the campaign to rescue Ernst Thaelmann, courageous leader of the German working- class and other anti-fascist fighters from the gory hands of the Nazis. ‘The list will be published in connection with the visit to this country of Willi Muenzenberg, member of the Central Commit- tee of the Communist Party of Germany. It will be sent to the German Communist Party for mass distribution in Germany to show German workers how American working-class organi- zations struggles are supporting their Reporters Take to Picket Line to Defend Their Guild By HARRY RAYMOND JAMAICA, L. I.—For the first time in the recent history of the American labor movement news- paper men and women, writers on the metropolitan dailies, took to the picket lines to defend their in- terests. The line was established yester- day morning in front of the offices of the Long Island Daily Press, 168th Street and Jamaica Ave., by members of the New York News- paper Guild to protest against an attempt of the publishers to destroy the Guild orzanization on this Paper. Headed by Heywood Broun, na- tional president of the American Newspaper Guild, and Jonathan Eddy, national secretary, the pick- ets, placards, patrolled the sidewalk in front of the plant, while the paper was being run off the press, The action was taken following a meeting of the representative as- sembly of the Guild held Tuesday night where it was voted to form picket lines, hold demonstrations and otherwise carry to the public the situation in the newspaper. Threatened With Firing Employes of the editorial staff of the paper had been told that they would be discharged or get de- “(Continued on Page 2) oon, at 12:30, in front of the Ger-| man Consulate, 17 Battery Place, to} for the} Free Passage on German Ship in 1932 NEW YORK.—Ivy ee publicity agent for the Rocke- feller interests and for the Pennsylvania Railroad, was paid ; $25,000 in cash by the I. G. Parben Industrie, the German | Dye Trust, for advising high Nazi officials in Seay how to conduct their propaganda*—————— campaign here. This information was brought out yesterday at the hearing before the Congressional Committee investigating foreign | propaganda in this country meet- ing in the Bar Association Build- ing. Lee had received the money un- der a verbal agreement with Max Iigner, managing director of the German Dye Trust, but had cred- ited the first installment of $4,500 of this sum as coming from the Swiss I. G. Farben Co, Lee Prepared Nazi Articles Lee was paid the money for ad- vising the status of American pub- lic opinion toward Germany on the Jewish question, on the arma- ment question and on the finan- cial policies of Germany. He had actually prepared ar- ticles to be sent to Germany for approval hy von Papen and other | Nazi officials. These articles were then to be used as information sent from Germany to American press cor- | fespondents and other channels | lof news for public consumption | here. In one of these, an article on armaments, Ivy Lee's office had sent an accompanying letter ad- vising how to further the Nazi propaganda here. “Could not a suggestion be made that Mr. von Ribbentrop, Nazi | Saar?” John D. oil tyrant, whose publicity agent, Ivy Lee, works for Hitler, too. Rockefeller, decrepit Commissioner of Armaments, un- dertake a definite campaign to clarify the American mind in the disarmament question, and that Mr. von Papen undertake a simi- | Jar effort in reference to the| the communication to the German Dye Trust said, “Also, could not arrangements be made whereby each of these | gentiemen should speak over the radio to the American people™orn these points? Furthermore, each (Continued on Page 2) Zausner Plans Sell-Out With Boss Painters Local Unions, Rejecting Machine Rule, Demand New Elections NEW YORK.—Rumors were cir- | culated in New York that Zausner's | (Secretary of District Council No. 9 | of the Painters Union) pay-off to the master painters for helping him into office again will be a wage cut from the $9 scale to $8 and exten- sion of the working hours from | seven to eight, Zausner is carrying on the nego- tiations with the master painters behind the backs of the member- | ship. Today he came out with a | statement that he rejected the of- fers of the master painters. This rejection is pre-arranged and agreed upon, Fearing that the rank and file delegates in the council will expose these maneuvers, his ma- chine rejected five duly elected council delegates last Thursday. The local unions, one after the other, repudiated the unconstitu- tional elections and are demanding that new elections be held imme- diately. The local unions will not accept agreements reached between Zausner and the master painters. The rank and file in the local unions will reject any attempt on the part of the bosses to cut wages or increase working hours, The majority of the painters on the da¥ of the election voted for the program of the rank and file, which calls for the six-hour day and the $9 wage scale. The rank and file in the local unions are preparing for a mass demonstration against the Zausner machine. Police Attack Picket Line In Phila. Cigar Strike PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July 11— The brutal beating of two women and the arrest of four others on charges of inciting to riot and breach of peace resulted yesterday when police and thugs attacked the mass picket line of 300 women workers on strike at the Royalist Cigar Company here, in an attempt to bring a group of scabs into the Plant. Holding their ranks solid in the face of the police attack, the Strikers prevented the scabs from entering the factory. All the arrested strikers, includ- ing Eleanor Tersi, secretary of the strike committee, were released this morning, The strikers, most of whom are members of the Tobacco Workers Industrial Union, are demanding wage increases and recognition of their shop committee AAA, Drought Cut Crops Near 25 Year Low Means Huge Profits To Big Landlords, Speculators WASHINGTON, July 11—Due to} Roosevelt's drastic destruction of| acreage and crops, as well as the) effects of the drought, one of the smallest grain crops in years ap-| pears to be. facing the country. This will mean huge profits for) those who already have grain or| can buy it, such as rich farmers or grain speculators. ‘This will mean higher prices for bread for consumers, Roosevelt's A.A.A. program . has destroyed at least 15 per cent of the wheat crop and higher propor- tions of the corn and cotton crops. With the drought, the present crop is estimated at being 38 per cent of normal. It is only the im- mense carry-over from previous years that prevents the situation from becoming grave. This carry- over, which has been hanging over the market, and is in the hands of wealthy speculators and grain com- Mpls $ Strike NRA Secret as Deadline} for Drivers Nears (Special to the Daily Worker) MINNEAPOLIS, July 11. — The question of wt the truck driv- ers will strik is still hanging in the air in spite of the fact that only five hours are left until the since ths last pa- meeting of the driv- be taken. rade and m the city, the leadership of Driver: national arbitrator and Governor Olson. Up to now there was not as yet issued a clear statement by the union leadership as to the progress of negotiations. is scaring employers to the exten where the local press, controlle them, the Tribune, Star, Journal and the fascist scandal sheet, Saturday Press, are full of agi pe | and threats against the strike, The press already demands of | Governor Olson the promise using armed force against th ers. The press also appeals to thi workers in a lying, demagogic man- | ner, stating: “A general strike is self-destructive. It defeats its own purpose, In a general strike the strikers strike against themselves,” and “such a strike impos and greater hardships on the work- | ing class than it does on any other class.” The Jocal press has also. raised the réd scare in an attempt to split the workers and confuse the driv- ers with the idea that they get Communist leadership through the Dunnes and Skoglunds, who are faithfully following the policy of the A. F. of L. burocracy and Farmer Labor Party leadership. Wage Question In Background The leadership of the drivers is again pushing the question of wages into the background in negotiations with the employers and the labor board in an attempt to be able to play up as a great victory to the drivers any concession in recogni- (Continued on Page 2) | 5 Oil Strikers Held After Talking To Scab Driver PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July 11.— Five of the 700 striking Gulf Oil Company workers were arrested last night when they attempted to taik to the driver of a scab truck, who immediately signalled a police car. At an arraignment before Magis- trate Hamberg they were held for further hearing. Three other strikers were arr after they had disarmed a sc sted who iron crowbar. Seven hundred inside workers at the Girard Point refinery of the Gulf Company walked out some ten days ago, demanding wage increases, the reinstatement of fired workers, and the continuation of the seni ity system of hiring additional workers from the list of former em- ployees. They were joined last week by almost 150 drivers, and their ranks have been strengthened by the walkout of the Gulf service station attendants, who are making panies now becomes very p-ofitable. similar demands, meeting, where a strike vote will | jot his 60-year Count ers and all the labor movement in lemigre, is bi Local 57, has been in conference | with the Regional Labor Board, the | enone ‘The sentiment for a general ee collects huge 2 | the | onets Ss more | threatened to attack them with an/ Tries to Stifle illionaire Widow 4 Funds for Plots US } Provides Intervention NEW YORK.—Using the old American ky, white gui organizing inter- against the Soviet it was revealed today. | The Count, who is about 39 years | old, and noi a citizen of this coun try, has just reached Paris from Harbin where he had dealings with the Japanese. His wife, Vonsia’ vention troops Marion B. Ream, who| dividends from the} labor of workers in the pork -and steel industries, is furnishing the| dough to provide bullets and bay- | to “liberate iSussia” and re- store the blessings of capitalism ‘N.Y. Dockers Dog Wake o | Set Pickits a at t Dry Dock and at Shipping Offices NEW YORK.—Activities in sup- port of the West Coast marine strike are on the increase in New York. Yesterday 100 seamen, longshore- men and workers from other trades picketed the Morris dry docks at the foot of 59th St. in Brooklyn, where the S.S. Virginia, Panama Pacifie liner, which brought scab cargo from the West Coast, is lying. A picket line was also established in front of the offices of the Inter- national Mercantile Marine at Pier 60 on West St., where the company is attempting to ship a scab crew for the Virginia. All. picket demonstrations are | under the leadership of the Marine Workers Industrial Union and the Rank and File Committee of t International Longshoremen’s As* | ciation. Mass Demonstration Friday On Friday noon there will be a mass picket demonstration at Pier} | 61, 2ist and West Sts. where the | Virginia will dock after she comes out of dry dock. All workers in New York are urged to attend this dem- | onstration. When the | Dollar liner, docked in J a committee of 20 members of the jcrew presented demands for in- | creased wages to the captain. Two seamen, leaders of the commit were arrested and thrown into the ship’s brig. Picketing of International Mer- cantile Marine offices will continue today. Workers wishing to aid on the picket line have been told to report at 155 West 21st St. any time during the day. President Adams, y City a| | the dec | into the s' Scab Vessels. ‘Keep Negotiations With General Strike rtland Railroaders Turn Back Train for Pickets | RED SC ARE RAISED Po More Unions Support General Strike PORTLAND, Ore., July 11. |—Police fired on striking maritime workers wounding | four longshoremen. Strikers were picketing the railroad tracks where locomo- tives were moving freight to Police rode ahead of the locomotive in a flat car firing The sirikers answered the gun- | fire with a hail of rocks and were successful in their aim of stopping affic on the railroad. When the ght was ove> the crew of the train decided to take the train back into |the freight yards. | Those wounded by the police fire were: E. W. Eatty, wounded in the neck; Peter Stevenson, received four wounds; W. Huntington, shot in the arm, and Bert Yates, grazed by a bullet Following the shooting a meeting of the City Council was broken up |when Matt Meehan, member of che | Northwest Strike Committee, rushed into the room, waving a_ shirt stained with blood from one of the wounded men and shouted: “The blood of these men is on your hands.” * oie SAN FRANCISCO, July 11—While the Roosevelt mediation board was | attempting to break the strike of the maritime workers by forcing down their throats an arbitration scheme, the workers were prepar- ing to answer the troops, police, Roosevelt Board, Labor Strategy Board and all agents of strike- breaking with the general strike. One hundred and twenty-nine unions were ready to respond to the strike call. Attempt To Raise Red e | Seare In Seattle SEATTLE, July 11—The news- Papers are attempting to raise ihe red scare following a fight between police and striking marine workers | in which a deputy who was scabbing was killed. Workers are picketing the Ger- man Consulate, demanding the re- hee of Ernst Theelmann. Michigan Lahor Defense | Protests Killings DETROIT, Mich., July 11—The International Labor Defense of the state of Michigan in the name of 5,000 members telegraphed the fol- lowing protest to Governor Me; of California: “Governor Merriam, “Sacramento, Cal. “Five thousand members protest (Continued on Page 2) New Jersey Farm Strikers Win Wage Demands; Vote Support of Henderson, Union Organizer (Special to the Daily Worker) BRIDGETON, N, J., July 11.— Striking farm workers here, led by the Agricultural and Cannery Work- ers Industrial Union, returned to work today after more than two weeks of struggle against terrorism, with two of their main demands granted by the wealthy Seabrook Farms. The 30 cents an hour wage scale provided for in the April contract and for the maintenance of which the strikers were fighting will be continued, and the employers pledge that there will be no discrimination against strikers in re-hiring. Despite all false reports to the contrary, the strikers followed the lead of Donald Henderson, one of the organizers of the union, in overwhelmingly rejecting the pro- posed “impartial” labor board to “arbitrate” further disputes. The strikers voted four to one against the Board. The Agricultural and Cannery Workers Union, affiliated with the Trade Union Unity League, remains as strong as ever, with the Strike Committee of fifteen elected by the j oe | Donald Henderson confidence and support in the union organizers, Donald and Elinor Hen- derson, and Vivian Dahl. Vigilantes Attacked Hend n workers themselves issuing a public | Statement maintaining the greatest | Contrary to press reports issued from here that the strikers sought ; |exposure of to atiack Donald Henderson for his the proposed labor board, the only expressions of vi lence against Hendersen came from “vigilantes” and rich potato grow- ers who were planted in the crowd. The reign of terrorism again: the strikers and union leaders con- tinues, with hired thugs and “vi lantes” still patrolling the farms, following a brutal tear gas attack yesterday. The union will hold a series of protest mestings against the terrer- ism which Seabrook and the wealthier farmers of the region launched against the strike. clear that on the first violation of the wage scale or on any evidence of discrimination, the workers will Workers Industrial Union. A leading part in protecting the Seabrook interests was played by here by Secretary of Labor Perkins. The full statement of the Strike | Committee of the Seabrook stri ers follows: “The strike committee, with an The Strike Committee makes it} again strike, under the leadership | of the Agricultural and Cannery, the Federal Conciliaior Moffit, sent | |overwhelming vote taken at the |mass meeting of the strikers on i | Somes Farm yesterday, has of- ficially voted that all union mem- bers and strikers return to work, The main demands of the workers on strike have been won, and the strikers return to work on the basis of this, victory. “The strikers voted to accept two of the proposals offered as a result of the conference between Moffit, Seabrook and Hurowitz: “1. That the workers return to work on the basis of the old wage scale of 25c and 30c per hour, and under the conditions existing prior to the strike, as determined by the terms of the contract entered into by Mr, Seabrook and the Union on | April 10. “2. That the workers return on the definite understanding that they will be re-employed | without discrimination and that | all present -eifiployees will be (Continued on Page 6} PPC RP RI eR Ba EAE ROS ca