The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 18, 1934, Page 1

| Some Questions for Mr. Wm. Green R. WLLIAM GREEN gets | about $20,000 a year for “representing” the workers of the American Federation of Labor. Yet what a spectacle he is as almost 100,000 Coast workers, mainly A. F. of L. mem- | bers, are facing bayonets in one of DAYS Only Are Left to Save ANGELO HERNDON from the Chain Gang. $15,000 Bail Is Needed. It Will Be Returned Rush Cash or Liberty Bonds to International Labor Defense., 80 E. lith St., New York City. Vol. XI, No. 171 >* the mightiest labor struggles in the country’s history! He keeps his mouth tightly shut | while the union members who pay | him his fat salary are fighting for | bread, for decent conditions of| work, for the right to organize. | Mr. Green! Why haven't you is-| sued a statement supporting the| epic labor struggle on the Pacific} Coast? Why haven’t you issued a call to| all the A, F, of L. unions to give| immediate support to this struggle of the union men on the Coast? Why don’t you call a special} meeting of the Executive Council to plan immediate financial and other aid to this life and death labor struggle of the Pacific Coast work- | ers? You acted fast enough in break- ing the steel strike, Mr. Green, taking an airplane from Washing- ton to accomplish this before the Steel Trust got hurt. Scores of A. F. of L. locals voted to strike in support of the Minneap- olis general strike. The A. F. of L. Rank and File Committee, speaking for thousands of A. F. of L. members, has issued a call in support of the General Strike in ‘Frisco. You acted like lightning in | breaking the Detroit auto strike, after you fastened an open shop code on the auto workers, Mr. Green! But now that the A. F. of L. union} members are facing the united forces of the employers and the government, you deliberately hide yourself, waiting an opportunity to} help defeat the strike. All that you have to say to the) press, is that you regretfully must admit that “the ‘Frisco situation will not be ended early.” Is that all the lives and welfare of the ‘Frisco workers mean to you? Is this vast, historic struggle just a “situation” to you that you would) love to “end early” so that the em- ployers could breathe easily again? Why don’t you openly pledge the full power of your office and associated unions to bring the em- ployers to their knees and give the Pacific Coast workers what they are fighting for: decent standards, union recognition, abolition of the hellish “Fink | Halis?” Workers in the A. F. of L.! now in every local for unity and support with the Pacific Coast gen- | eral strike! Let the employers.feel | the full power of labor! Sweep every bureaucrat aside! To the| side of our fellow workers! W.LR. Appeals For Funds for Coast Strike Nat’l Committee Asks Organizations for Financial Aid NEW YORK.—In response to a telegram from the Workers’ Inter- national Relief Committee, which is siding striking workers in San Francisco, and the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union Strike Committee, appealing for funds to provide strike relief to the workers in San Fran- cisco, the Workers’ International Relief issued the following state- ment: “The cause of the West Coast workers is the cause of the entire labor movement everywhere. i “This heroic struggle for the daily bread and butter of workers’ fam- ilies, for freedom of organization, must be maintained to victory by the determined aid of all sections of the labor movement “The many millions of American wage earners, their families and friends of all descriptions—profes- sionals, small shopkeepers, farmers, the productive masses of the popu- lJation—must back the fight on the Pacific Coast with effective soli- darity and material aid. “In the past major struggles of American labor, the Workers’ Inter- national Relief has given practical aid. It is again determined to use every humanly possible effort to stand behind the strikers on the West Coast by uniting in active solidarity organizations and indi- viduals in all parts of the country. In view of the existing situation, the Workers’ International Relief endorses the call of the ‘Pro- visional Committee for the Support of the West Coast Strikers, and calls upon all organizations and in- dividuals to join this,front of soli- darity and effective aid. “We greet the gigantic working- class solidarity of the West Coast workers! “We greet the San Francisco strikers and pledge to stand be- hind them to victory!” NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COM- MITTEE OF THE WORKERS’ IN- TERNATIONAL RELIEF. Prague C. P. Organ Awaits Reply to Its United Front Appeal PRAGUE, July 17—The Com- munist organ, Rude Pravo, -was awaiting today a reply to its appeal for a United Front Against War and Fascism. The appeal was directed to the Na- tional Socialist Party (eft bour- geois in Czechoslovakia, not Nazi), the Social - Democratic Party and the German Party. Observers predicted that the call would be declined. | passed without any word of Ernst | sons attending the Free Thaelmann | slavement of the working class and | ities, Daily ,AWorker (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1934 CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of Marek 8, 1878. 2,000 Protest | Death Trial | of Thaelmann | Giant Thaelmann Rally in Detroit on Thurs- day Night NEW YORK.—Another day has Thaelmann and the thousands of anti-fascist fighters facing secret trial and murder at the hands of Hitler’s hangmen judges of the new “People’s Courts,” which were set in operation last Saturday. oer we NEW YORK.—In shocked silence and seething indignation, 2,000 per- March, 1872! meeting and Mass Trial of Hitler and Fascism Monday night at the St. Nicholas Arena, listened with unwavering attention as eye-wit- nesses and close students of Hitler Germany unfolded a factual record of horror, of torture and mass mur- der of political opponents, of en- budged. violent destruction of its rights and trade unions, of rabid persecution of Jews, Catholics and other minor- of write-s and intellectuals and deliberate destruction of cul- AN EDITORIAL ORKERS of New York: Prepare for the greatest mass solidarity demonstration ever held in this city when you | fill,.Union Square tomorrow, July 19, at 4:30 p.m., in support | of the history-making general strike in San Francisco. The thousands upon thousands of workers on strike on | the Pacific Coast look to you for support. It is particularly fitting that New York workers should respond to the heroic struggle now taking place in San Francisco. workers have their own glorious traditions. of struggle. are familiar with the great and small strikes of the past two decades. Many of us, however, forget the great battles of an earlier day. New York Most workers Over 100,000 New York workers struck for the eight- hour day. The bosses resisted, determined not to accede to this demand. But the solidarity of the strikers was magnificent, unequatied in New York's history. For three long months the ranks held solid, adamant. Bricklayers, carpenters, plasterers, plumbers, stone cutters, stone masons, Painters, masons’ laborers, paper hangers, plate printers—none of them Finally, in June, 1872, the bosses—their backs to the wall—surren- dered. The eight-hour day was won. Today, with Pacific Coast Labor on the class battlefront, with 150,000 workers battling for their rights, New York workers should remember their own militant traditions and transform these traditions to living, effective action. Members of all unions, whether American Federation of Labor, Trade Union Unity League or independents, should flood the streets tomorrow afternoon. All out to Union Square tomorrow, 4:30 p.m.! ture. All Out on Union Square! Support B The General Strike! [ipa Sa apes Food for All Workers and Families In Frisco Make This Figure Grow PRESS RUN YESTERDAY, 46,100 (Six Pages) RACINE, Wisconsi American working class,” 40000 MOREIN COAST STRIKE ay Cities Paralyzed; New Troops Arrive; Marine Union Is Raided | Vanderleur, Over Bridges’ Vehement Opposition, | Sends Car Men Back, Permits Police | Cars To Be Repaired by Strikers “Glorious Inspiration” Wires | Wisconsin A. F. L. L. to Strikers (Special to the Da’ n, July cific Coast general strike “a glorious inspiration to the more than 400 delegates here at the Wisconsin Convention of the American Federation of Labor unanimously adopted a resolution pledging sup- port of the Pacific Coast strikers. This resolution was immediately Committee at San Francisco. ona as ve al ci ae BULLETIN PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July 17.—The Irish Workers Club hailed the Price 3 Cents ly Worker) 17.—Proclaiming the Pa- wired to the Strike | Act At the end of the testimony, the audience with one mighty voice voted condemnation of the Hitler murder regime, and a demand for the freedom of Ernst Thaelmann, Torgler and 6,000 other anti-fas- cists facing death at the hands of Hitler's new “People’s Court.” It also voted support for the mass (Continued on Page 2) N. Y. Unions | In Action on Frisco Strike Boston Rank and File Dockers Back *Frisco Men NEW YORK.—New York la- | bor is swinging into action to aid the cause of the San Francisco |ment of a provisional committee of representatives of the A. F. of L. unions, independent unions and T.U.U.L. unions and the an- nouncement of a monster dem- onstration at Union Sq. on Thursday at 5:30 p.m., to express New York labor’s solidarity with the heroic struggle of the ’Frisco workers. The provisional committee set up at a meeting at Yorkville La- bor Lyceum on the initiative of the A. F. of L. Committee for Unemployment Insurarte con- sists of the following members, who have signified their support for joint action to win victory for the marine workers’ de- mands: S. Friedman, secretary of the Carpenters’ Local 2090; R. Mayer, president of Carpenters’ Local 2090; B.° Davidoff, presi- dent of Paperhangers’ Local 490; N. Rosenberg, business agent of Cleaners and Dyers Local 18,- 232; H. Gordon, president of Papare Plate and Bag Makers Union Local 107; N. Lurie, sec- retary of Suitcase and Bag (Continued on Page 2) 2 DIE IN HUNGER STRIKE WARSAW, July 17—Two Com- munists at Wronki prison died on hunger strike, it was announced today. general strike with the establish-| general strike and requested the strike committee that they raise de- mand for liberation of Tom Mooney who is a victim of the interests Olson Orders Troops to Minneapolis As Truck Strikers Close Market Textile Strikers F Force Alabama Mills To Close; ee? t Woks Other Strikes in Danbury, Salt Lake City; Walk-out of Duluth Drivers Looms BULLETIN BALTIMORE, Md., July 17.—About 800 truck drivers went on strike today, demanding an agreement on wages and hours. * * * DULUTH, Minn., July 17.—A new truckmen’s strike loomed in this, Minnesota’s third largest city, as the Duluth Truck Drivers’ and Helpers’ Union called a mass meeting for tonight. Strike feeling ran high among the workers, despite the “arbitration” promises made by E. H. Dunningan, Federal mediator. “Trouble” was predicted within 24 to 36 hours if the employers failed to meet the is ein’ wage bic sg recognition demands. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., July 17.—Strike pickets here were halting trucks attempting to enter the city today, as the wholesale produce market was completely closed follow- | ing the walk-out of over 6, pon Pruckmen at midnight last | night. Mayor Bainbridge’s request | for troops was granted by Governor Olsen, who had them ordered to the strike scene today. One battalion of the 151st Field Artillery of the Minnesota National Guard were ordered mobilized and | stationed in Minneapolis. When the announcement made at the truckmen’s meeting last night that unemployed work- ers would help in the strike picket- ing, it was loudly cheered. The jobless are to register for picketing at the Unemployment Council headquarters, 212 Hennepin St. Petroleum, ice, milk, breweries and city drivers are still left work- | ing by the strike leadership, who promise that all drivers will be called out after Wednesday. The union leaders also reported that negotiations with the petroleum companies for separate agreements continue. National Guardsmen with bayo- nets drawn were already marching through the city. The streets were lined with de- (Continued on Page 2) was | Gov't Plots With _ Bosses To Deport Strike Leader Justice Departm ent Planning New Attack on Coast Strikers WASHINGTON, July 17. — De- partment of Justice officials were today considering plans for the ar- rest and attempted deportation of Harry Bridges, longshoreman and member of the San Francisco Gen- eral Strike Committee. Statements by J. Edgar Hoover, Director of Investigation of the De- partment of Justice, indicate that the department has received re- quests from West Coast employers for such action, and that the de- partment was ready to move as soon as it received instructions. Food kitchens like these have | Francisco workers. This one is in been set up by the striking San the Embarcadero, set un by long- | shoremen on the famous waterfront street. In Secret to Roosevelt Keeps Constant Touch; Army Ready in By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., July 17— strike a blow against the great Pa. cific Coast general strike and wit! elaborate federal strikebreaking machinery under full steam, a grim and tight-lipped official Washing- ton today settled down to watchful waiting. The White House let it be known it is under pressure from big busi- |ness’ anti-labor Chambers of Com- merce for President Roosevelt to go |to San Francisco at once to direct the smashing of the strike. There are no indications, however that he has decided to do this. able that he will first let Senator | Wagner make a complete co-or- dination of the strikebreaking forces | on the coast and see what he can | do to mect the tidal wave of the | strike. To Use Army Recurring suggestions that federal troops might be used reached a| climax today when the Washington | News, liberal Scripps-Howard chain | champion of the New Deal, carried this startling contribution: “Food supplies for strike- blocked citizens and for the strikers themselves will be guar- anteed by the Government, it was learned. Fulfillment of this prom- ise may result in use of federal troops.” Toward this suggestion that the armed forces might be sent to break the strike under such a fake hu- (Continued on Page 2) With the Army and Navy ready to| It is prob- | Ships’ Radio ‘Men, Seamen Break Strike Picket in N, Y. ™ Ryan Attempts To Hold | Longshoremen Back from Striking NEW YORK.— Supporting | general strike on the West Coast, | |the American Radio Telegraphers’ Association, with a membership of 1.500 licensed radio operators, has} sued a call to all its members ar- | riving from the Pacific Coast to leave the:ships at once. The Association will set up picke’ and manned by strikebreakers, Hoyt S. Haddock, spokesman of the or- ganization, said yesterday. Three operators of the S. S. Santa | Paula, a Grace Liner which arrived | here Monday, walked off the ship in solidarity with the West Coast | | men. Marine Union Picketing The Marine Workers’ Industrial | Union will intensify its activity on | the waterfront, and has issued a call} |for all workers to aid in picketing | ships due to arrive from the West | |Coast. ‘The M. W. I. U. has pick- eted all ships arriving from the West | | Coast. The ships due io arrive are: the | Jacob Luckenbach, from Seattle; the Minnesota, from San Francisco, and the San Vincente. Ryan Would Halt Action Fighting hard against the spread- ing of the strike to New York, By BILL DUNNE (Special to the Daily Worker) | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. j July 17.—The splitting stra- 'tegy predicted in earlier dis- patches is now being carried out with the greatest energy as the general strike became | effective today in Oakland} and all the Bay Counties. | is the most intense | | | | | now trying to smash Pacific Coast labor. (Special to the Daily Worker) SAN FRANCISCO, July 17, —The general strike wave swept higher today as 40,000 more workers of various in- dustries joined the army of labor now battling in the mightiest strike in the annals of American labor. All the East Bay cities are now completely paralyzed, drive upon Communists ever| with Oakland, Berkeley, Ala- seen in this vicinity and es-|meda, and nearby territory pecially upon all in the atcha | wholly shut down. leadershin known to be or Ali Key route trains, fer- |suspected of being Commu-| ries, and car lines have |nists. | Stopped. the | Arbitrary raids and arrests, | During this forward move destruction of headquarters|°f the strike wave, the Na- by ‘roving gangs operating tional Guard troops have been with police knowledge and co- | augmented to the astonishing operation in the Oakland re-| | number of 5,000, with 1,500 ordered lines in front of all ships loaded |r gion, has now been followed by the | raid upon the headquarters of the | Marine Workers Industrial Union and arrests to the number of 200, | according to the local press. Simul. | taneously, new maneuvers for an | agreement to submit all questions | to arbitration without guarantees | and an immediate return to work | jare being carried today by the politicians of the big capitalist par- | ties within the Central Labor | Council. | In this way the employers are working for a split in two di-| rections, that is, between the) revolutionary workers and their leadership in the strike and be- |tween the stronger elements of honest and militant workers, and that weak section, affected most |by the employers’ propaganda and unprecedented display of armed force. Their is al- most unbelievably vicious while the publicity of the strike com- | will | to stand ready for immediate duty, There is open talk that there is every likelihood that these troops be used against the strike. Soldiers and marines of two bat= tleships as well as police have sur- rounded the wholesale marketing district, with police standing on every corner of the city. Send Car Men Back Striking a direct blow at the gen- eral strike, the reactionary leaders like Vanderleur today ordered the | street car men of the municipal |lines back to work. Vanderleur, who heads this union, has ties with the Rossi machine, and offered the feeble excuse that a strike would deprive the car men of their pension rights. Aid Police Against the proposal of Harry Bridges that the strike committee provide for feeding places on a non- profit basis, the A. F. of L. officials decided to permit 50 more restaur- ; ants to open, despite the vehement Joseph P. Ryan, president of the | mittee is compromising and cer- |International Longshoremen’s As-| tainly not very effective eigaines mi ec) sociation, whom the strikers over- the large numbers of rode when he attempted to put over | class people made uncomfortable the shipowners’ plan in San Fran-| by the strike. There is likewise Cisco, said that he did not expect|here a great concentration of| any strike action here. There is, movement within the I. L. A. for a| sympathy strike in the East. | Federal forces headed by Sena- (Continued on Page 2) however, a mounting | tor Wagner and General John-| To Ali Trade Unionists and Rank-and-File Members of the A. F. of L. and the Socialist Party! To All Honest Intellectuals and Professionals! To the Negro People! The First of August will mark the twentieth anniversary of the outbreak of the imperialist World War. In the sixteen years that have passed since the so-called Armistice, the bosses and their gov- ernments throughout the capitalist world have been very busy preparing feverishly a new and even more colossal world slaughter. Exposed before all eyes now is the demagogy of the League of Nations, the various “Peace” Courts, and the farcial “Disarmament” Confer- ence. Exposed as a hollow mockery is bou:geois pacifism, which has aimed with illusions of war- proof capitalism to deaden the struggle of the masses against imperialist war. It is now clear to all, by the war of im- perialist intervention raging in China, by the war in Latin American, by the open race for arma- ments, by the gathering war clouds over Europe and the Pacific, that the “peace” set-ups—blatantly praised as guarantees against future wars, have proved to be a monstrous sham. Capitalism itself has confirmed what the Communist Party Pointed out from the first. There is no peace- time under capitalism. What goes by that name is merely a breathing spell between one war and the next. All the peace contraptions of capitalism are, therefore, nothing but downright maneuvers and deceptions on the part of the imperialist Powers to screen their rapid preparations of the new war. The race hatred war is the desperate effort of the boss class to get out of the crisis by saving the capitalist structure of society. * . * 4 Kar bosses’ efforts to get out of the crisis in the capitalist way express themselves at the same time in a war at home against the working class. | Unite in a Common, Solid, Proletarian Fighting Front Against Imperialist War and Fascism on August First! | APPEAL OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE, C. P,, U. S. A. The American bosses and their Roosevelt regime have launched against the American toilers the of- fensive of the New Deal, the offensive of wage-cuts, mass unemployment, brutal suppression of strikes, destruction of crops, foreclosures and evictions of ruined farmers; the offensive of fascist oppression, lynchings, heinous police brutality, imprisonment and torture, commands to shoot to (ill against strikers, the suppression of the most elementary democratic rights. Under the cloak of Public Works, the N. R. A. is functioning as a gigantic war measure to sacri- fice in the interests of the bankers and indus- trialists the lives of the new generation of Amer- ica’s young toiling manhood. Workers, do you know that up to May of this year almost $750,000,000—close to a quarter of the | Emergency Public Works Fund—had been allotted by Roosevelt for direct and indirect war prepara- | tions? Do you know, American workers, that the | total appropriations for direct and indirect war | preparations under the Rooseyelt regime reach the | Staggering figure of over one anda third billion dollars? Do you know this, strikers of Milwaukee, Toledo, San Francisco, you who were met with rifie-fire for demanding a living wage, you millions of unemployed whom the bosses’ government re- fuses to grant so much as a cent of unemployment insurance? . . . ee is today only one land that rises as a force for peace. That land is the Soviet Union, the land where there is no unemployment, where the warkers rule—the land of Socialist victories which is the fortress of the world working class. The Soviet Union alone has sincerely and consistently brought forward a police of disarmament and Peace —a policy which the impezialist governments would Not, could not, accept—for war cannot end while capitalism lasts. The imperialist drive to war is fundamentally the drive for the attack upor the Sovict Union, the (Continued on Page 6) | | Protests of Bridges. Over Bridges’ strong opposition, the same officials voted to permit | the striking sheet metal workers to repair the police cars, the very cars which are being used against | the strikers. | The General Strike Committee is | mow composed of one delegate from Jeach A. F. of L. local. | Stir Fascist Provocation To an unrecedpented degree every | radio station, newspaper, and pulpit jis being mobilizei in a concerted | campaign of villification and cal- umny against the Communist Party. The newspapers feature flaming headlines and editorials warning | the workers against being “mis- | guided” by the Communists, and | proceed to incite open Fascist vio- lence against the Party and headquarters. This incitement to mob violence has already born fruit in an organ- its | ized attack on the headquarters of | the Communist Party with a gang | of hoodlums wrecking all the fur- (Continued on Page 2) All News of Frisco Strike Is Prohibited By Chile Government SANTIAGO, Chile, July 17— The Chile government today prohibited every newspaper in the country from publishing a single word about the San Fran- cisco strike. Great fear is expressed that the great strike in the States might spread here. F a]