The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 14, 1934, Page 1

4 ‘ ( “| *] APPEAL TO YOU: SAVE ANGELO HERNDON!” WRITES EARL BROWDER By EARL BROWDER General Secretary, Communist Party, U.S.A. F $15,000 in cash or liberty bonds are not raised by the end of July, Angelo Herndon will be put on the chain gang in Georgia on August 3. This is a fate worse than death. The life of ordinary chain gang prisoners is a life of torture and pain, but it would mean hundred- fold torture and pain for Angelo Herndon. The fact that Angelo Herndon, in jail and at his trial, acted as a free and upright man who does not beg for mercy, but even in the most trying situation defends the freedom of the working class, the freedom of the Make This Figure Grow 41,700 PRESS RUN YESTERDAY. Vol. XI, No. 168 > Butered as second-class matter at the Post Offies at "ew York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. suppressed Negroes, has earned him hundred-fold revenge by the thugs on the chain gang. Such men as Angelo Herndon have been the sol- diers of all great battles for liberation. Angelo Hern- don is a courageous soldier of the great army fight- ing for the liberation of the working class and of the oppressed Negroes. We can save this courageous man from unspeakable torture, if every one does his duty. Collect quickly the necessary amount and put it at the disposal of the International Labor Defense. The money which you thus lend against bond cer- tificates will be paid back. I appeal to you as urgently as I know how. Help save Angelo Herndon; help save a courageous fighter from the hell and torture of the chain gang! Daily -<QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1934 WEATHER: Probably fair. AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER (Eight Pages) Price 3 Cents FRISCO CITY STRIKE ACTION GROWS; MORE UNIONS OUT POLICE MURDER THREE DELEGATES IN RELIEF OFFICE A Serious Word to Socialist Party By EARL BROWDER General Secretary, Communist Party, U. 8. A. HE Communist Party recently addressed a letter to the Socialist Party Convention at. Detroit proposing imme- | diate, practical steps for the formation of the United Front | on the life and death questions that now confront the work-| @ ing class. | It was to defend and advance the best interests of the | working class that this proposal was made to the Socialist | National Convention. But the convention did not answer this proposal. In- stead, it referred the matter to the newly elected National Executive Committee. Up to the present moment, however, this newly elected National Committee, consisting of people under the leader- ship of Norman Thomas,. and considering themselves. “left wing” in contrast to the Waldmans, Cahans, Pankens of the | “Old Guard,” this new committee has also seen fit to wholly | ignore the United Front letter of the Communist Party. Thus far, there has been no answer, either positive or negative. * * * dpe Revolutionary Policies Committee in the Socialist Party which declares itself more to the left than even the Thomas wing supporting the new Declaration of Principles, has levelled stringent criticism against the Communist Party for our united front policy. This group accused us of fighting solely for a united | front from below—without the Socialist Party leaders and) against these leaders. ~ If by this is meant that we oppose that specious and) falae kind of “united front” which consists merely of endless (Continued on Page 5) ‘Hitler Tries | worse, Negro Widow Killed) In Brutal Attack on Cleveland Jobless Workers Shot in Back; Two Mons Dying; Terror | Launched Against Unemployment Councils; Call for Nation- Special to the CLEVEL D, Ohio, July CHIEF BUTCHER HITLER dered in cold blood today by police who shot into the hac! 5 workers from the Unemployment Coun- cils in the offices of the relief administration in the heart of the Negro neighborhood here today. lie seriously wounded in the hospital. ‘of a committee of 3 To Justify His An Italian worker, § bullet, was murdered before the eyes of the other work-| ers, as police stood over his prostrate body and pumped six shois into him. A Negro widow was killed, leaving | four small children of four to ten years of age, In Hysterical Speech Admits Crisis Is Growing Worse BERLIN, July 18—In a hys-| The Cleveland Press Bulletin ad-| terical’ and bombastic speech,| mits that the workers were sing chief Nazi Butcher: Hitler today|in the back fr behind, | strove with shrieking and shout-| “Andrew Masisk, 3505 Cedar Ave- ing to justify his wholesale slaughters of his duped henchmen before a meeting of a rump Reich- stag at Kroll Opera House. Without the slightest new con- tribution to the already published general statements of the Nazi leaders of “mutiny,” Hitler de- |elared it was necessary to smash the growing malcontents, and dis- | gruntled, plotting forees within |his own ranks in order “to save |the nation from bloodshed which would have cost the lives of tens of thousands.” He admitted that the economic crisis in Germany is growing and that discontent was rife throughout the land because nue, was shot in the back. His wife, Anna, also was shot.” This bloody murder of amen. ployed delegates from the Councils is the first result of the new policy | secretly adopted by the Relief Ad- ministration to smash the Unem-| ployment Councils by terror, The committee inside the relief offices were refused a hearing today. They then demanded to see the super- visor, who, in line with the new policy, called the police, The police rushed in, clubbing the committee, | and with drawn guns, shot to kill. The relief office where the bloody murders were made, is at 2100 E. 40th St., in the heart of the Negro neighborhood, and a few bloc did | up in arms at the vicious coal Protests Balk Jersey City Cop Terror Acting Mayor Concedes Right of Workers To Picket JERSEY CITY, N. J., July 13— The crushing effectiveness of mili- tant, well-organized mass protest again become evident when Acting Mayor Arthur Potterton announced today that the city administration had decided to “modify its policy” toward the pickets of the Furniture Workers Industrial Union and other organizations now conducting strikes in the city. This poticy has consisted so far in ruthless arrest of pickets or other workers who dared to engage in any open action to defend their working conditions or their right to organize, Potterton admitted that the ad- ministration’s reluctant about face which he accompanied by hypocri- tical denials of police terror, was the result of a barrage of postcards sent to city hall from all parts of New Jersey. ‘The postcards were printed and issued ty the New Jersey State Commitee Against Terror and for Workers Rights organized by the International Labor Defense and other local New Jersey workers’ organizations, ‘The rank and file of American Federation of Labor unions in New Jersey, added their weight to the campaign by compelling the Cen- tral Labor Council to pass a resolu- tion against Hague’s police terror. Meanwhile members of the United Shoe and Leather Workers are planning to set up pickets at the factory of the Globe Shoe Company, 45 Morris St. Members of the Up- holsterers International Union, Local 92 and those of the International Wood Carvers Association have joined the Furniture Workers In- Council Fight Labor in Ohio 10,000 Win | Victory In Columbia County; Build Party By JOHN STEUBEN (Special to the Daily Worker) YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, July 13— As a result of the activities and struggles led by the Unemployment Council in East Liverpool and Wells- ville, forced labor was abolished throughout Columbiana County. The estimate of the committee in charge of the campaign to abolish forced labor, is that about 10,000 workers were freed from forced labor. In addition to this victory, the following demands were won: milk for children of unemployed; Unem- ployment Council representatives to go together with relief investigators to all that demand relief; 400 fami- lies were given shoes; many fami- lies got stoves, blankets and other minor demands. The Unemployment Council be- came so popular that even a mem- ber of the City Council applied to the Unemployment Council for more relief. Up to two months ago the Ohio Unemployed Léague had the strong- est unemployed organization in East Liverpool with 2,000 members. At present there are none, with many rank and file league leaders join- ing the Unemployment Council. The main task of the Unemploy- ment Council today is to initiate a mass recruiting drive; to form coun- cils in other parts of Columbiana County; to esablish a broad united front movement with other unem- ployed organizations in the coun- ty; to popularize the victories; to expose the local politicians and their | stool pigeons who raised the red} scare; and to increase the campaign Spikes Forced various groups in Germany \not understand the program of the | National Socialists. He tried to slur over the growing anti-fascist (Continued on Page 8) from the Cleveland File Company, where 35 unemployed workers, who | took part in mass Lieatee | to smash | (Continued on n Page 2) for more relief and for the Work- dustrial Union in their strike, ers Unemployment Insurance Bill. The capacity of our Red Press is a quarter-mil- lion copies of the Daily Worker per night. But now it turns out only between ferty and sixty thousands. A quarter-million copies of the only daily working class newspaper in the United States represents a small number in comparison to the millions of work- “Free Thaelmann” Actions In New York City Saturday, 12:30 Noon—Demon- stration and Mass Picketing of German Consulate, 17 Battery Place. Saturday, 5 Demonstration Brooklyn, and Pe: ia at Rutland and Rock | Way. Monday, 8 P. M—Mass Trial of Hitler and Fascism at St. P. M.—Parade and Brownsvillk in Nicholas Arena, 69 West 66th Street. Wide Protests Daily picketing of German Consulate, 17 Battery Place. Daily Worker 13.—Three workers were mur- Try Two other workers Op ens am. psoas, floored by Thalmann Today a police | —— Workers Deinénatente| Call vs Protest Today at N, Y Nazi Consulate Meets T onight “XEN YORE — the “Fe elmann’ emonstration this noon before the German Con- ite, 17 Baite: y Place, takes In Pittsburgh © Basten Pc | serrate as a result of the n Workers Aroused By | from Germany that the opening 3 ? | of the Hitler “People’s Courts” Police Terror, has been set forward to today. : Ernst Schmidt, young German Shootings refugee from the rror, will be one of the pi ‘ipal speakers | (Special to the Daily Worker) at the demonstration, which will PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 13,—| begin at 12:30 noon. Other spenk: South Side workers will gather at| ers include Nate Bruce, Negro the corner of 25th and Sarah Sts.| assistant Secretary of the New today at 8 p. m. for a mass protest | York District of the International meeting in connection with the| L@bor Defense. brutal assault on Edward Sosnowski, | PE tat tantly ag 19, by Patrolman Chapman Monday | the demonstration which is called night. | by Youth Section of the American Residents on the South Side are| Deague Against War and Fascism. Mass picketing of the Consulate will precede the meeting. part of the J. & L. induced reign| * | of terror against even the smallest | \Hitler’s Hangmen Named congregations of werkers, in whic! h | 4 Sosnowski’s front teeth were knocked | For “People’s Court” vut ‘when Chapman charged into a| NEW YORK.— Ominous reports} small group of young workers. The|from Germany indicate that the | assault was climaxed by Chapman|date for the opening of the Hitler (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 2) Circulation Is Grist For This Mill! ers who should use the “Daily” in their strugsles for bread and wazes. Right now it is cssential that we get 20,000 new readers by Sept. 1. This is your press, comrades, and it is you who must feed it. Only new readers by the tens of thousands will make the road of our press the read of the m'titant | working class. i Court to! Hackmen Strike In Support of Dock Workers Slow Paralys of Industry Creeps Over City as Walk oe New Thousands W ‘ 2l to the Daily SAN FRANCISCO, July 13.—While militiamen, cops and strikebreakers march along the Pacific Coast waterfront from San Diego to the Canadian line, the labor movement marches with greater determination rd the general | Strike in support of the striking marine workers. Resides all union marine workers, Francisco's teamsters, slaughterhouse workers, boilermakers and iron workers, wholesale housé empléyes, taxi drivers, butchers are striking. | | Pickets on the highwa i Worker) ton San have cut off effectively the entry of produce, food and freight into the city by motor he K. Pickets Today ‘ Hit Departure Pi ‘Of Scab Ship 2° ie ee ee | on the streets. The hackmen came out following a stirring appeal for «3 | Strike action made at a taxi driv- | ers’ meeting last night by Harry | Bridges, chairman of the maritime | strike committee. Wholesale butchers, Distribution of goods in the Mass at ae at 7 A.M.; 200 on Line To Aid *Frisco Strikers who struck aaa | yesterday, will be joined by the re= NEW YORK. — A mass picket | tail men tomorrow line of seamen and other sym-| Street-car men are voting today pathetic workers will ring the en-| and may take immediate action. A race is now on between the militant elements, centered in strike committee, and the reaction- ary elements of the Labor Council and the Strategy Committee of Vanderleur, trance to the S. S. Virginia from | 7 am. today as the West Coast | scab ship prepares to leave the, port at 11 o'clock. All workers are heing urgently headed called upon to mass at W. 21st St. and West St. to express their Coast strikers. Yesterday a militant picket line of about 200 seamen, led by the Marine Workers Industrial Union, of the International Longshore- men’s Association, marched back and forth in front of the entrance to the pier while the bosses herded 1a number of Negro longshoremen to work. After holding an open air meeting across the street at- tended by over 200 workers, the seamen formed the picket line shouting slogans of : “Support the (Continued on Page 2) Police Chief Asks National Guard in Tobin, AFL. Teamster Head, Fails To Pre- vent Strike Vote MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., July 13.— ‘The Minneapclis truck drivers voted to strike in direct defiance of the erders of International president J. Tobin, of the A. F. of L. Tesmste! Union. Tobin denounced all tho: who favored a strike. He raised t red scare in an unsuccessful at- tempt to forestall a strike vote. The local officials of the Team- sters Union, including Myles Dunne. Trotskyist, secretary of the local union, tried to delay the strike, and succeeded in delaving the time set for strike until Monday at mid- strike in support of the drive: Chief of Police Michael Johan- nes has issued a statement that ho strike opens, Guard, solidarity with the fighting West | and the Rank and File Committee | Minneapolis Strike night. The workers of Minneapolis | are strongly demanding a genera! | favors martial law the minute the | and has requested | the Farmer-Labor gevernor, Floyd | B. Olson, to call ont the national | | seven, by | O'Connell and Kidwell who have been warning against the general strike. The militant section is win- ing despite appeals by the strategy committee to postpone action. In Alameda County 3600 Emer gency Relief workers voted to walk out in support of the maritime workers. Pickets are on all highways lead- ing into the city. All trucks are stopped and inspected. Only those carrying hospital and medical sup- plies are allowed to pass. Gasoline supplies are running low as no retail gas deliveries are be- ing made. t Maneuvers of the Roosevelt com- mittee to get the workers to return to work and accept arbitration and to vote through secret ballots under the committee’s auspices to deter- mine who represents the strikers | has not got a chance. The strike is sweeping on accompanied by the highest enthusi end confidence among There a the week rs. indications that by an area of perhaps (Continued on Page 2) || Special War Articles | To Feature July 28th Issue of Daily Worker | horizon—20 years aft Read the special ar cles on ist war and the way to 28th issue of the ill be devoted ally to articles by leading members of the Communist. Party analyzing the war dan- ger and the tasks of the work- ing class in the struggle to combat. it. This issue will be the special mobilizat:on issue for the huge | printed unless districts send cach payments with their or- ders. Order at once! EI RE ESTES IS