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antics! fj Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1934 © ery HERNDON) Must Be SAVED Assistant National Secretary, Trade Union Unity League eat $15,000 bail raised before August 3, Angelo Herndon, heroic young Negro organizer of Atlanta unemployed workers, will be sent to a horrible death on the chain gangs. Organized labor cannot and will not permit this hideous crime against the working class and the Negro people. is fascism in this country. It is part and parcel of the giant strike and unemployed struggles now sweeping the country, as Negro and white workers rally against the bloody attacks under the “New Deal” and the N.R.A. on their rights to or- ganize in unions of their own choice, to fight against wage cuts and rising living costs, against crop destruction and impoverishmen: of the farmers, and for the right to strike for their demands. A defeat for the mass fight to free Herndon will be a victory foc the growing fascist will be followed by new savage on- slaughts on the workers in Georgia and throughout the country. Al- ready in Georgia, the affirmation by the State Supreme Court of the chain gang sentence against Hern- don is being used as the spear-head for new violations of the rights of the workers, abrogation of free speech and assembly, resumption of the drive to burn in the electric chair the Atlanta Six—Negro and white labor organizers, among whom are Ann Burlak, national secretary of the National Textile Workers Union, and the Negro leader, Herbert Newton. I earnestly appeal to all trade unionists, to all the revolutionary unions, to all the rank and file of the A. F. of L. and the inde- pendent unions, to all sympathiz- ers with the working class to rush loans of cash or Liberty bonds immediately to the International Labor Defense, 80 East 11th St., New York City. The LL.D. guar- antees the return of all funds and Liberty bonés loaned for the Herndon bail. There can be no delay. Raise the question in your unions, and also make individual loans wherever possible. NEW YORK.—With $125 cash and a pledge to raise $500 within two weeks, the Cleveland district of the International Labor De- fense is the first to respond to the urgent call for $15,000 in loans of cash and Liberty bonds to pre- vent Angelo Herndon being sent | to the chain gang. Unless bail of $15,000 is put up before Aug. 3, Herndon will be rushed to the chain gang and certain death by the Georgia ruling class lynchers. What are the other LL.D. dis- tricts, the unions, the mass or- ganizations doing? Where are Chicago, Boston, Philadeiphia, Pittsburgh, the Coast districts, and the others? The LL.D. is issuing certificates guaranteeing the return of loans of cash and Liberty bonds for the Herndon bail. What will be the figure on your certificate? What will be your record in the fight to save Hern- don from the chain gang? RakosiDefense Demanded By U. S. Law yer BUDAPEST, July 17.—Demanding the right to defend Matias Rakosi, Hungarian Communist leader, David Levinsor, Temple College, Philadel- | phia, law instructor, today contin- ued his work of preparing plans for the defense. Levinson, who was a member of the Sacco-Vanzeiti Defense Com- mittee and the Tom Mooney Com- mittee, was refused permission to defend the Bulgarian Communist, Dimitroff, at the Reichstag fire trial, rebuffs which did not deter him from pressing for the same right in the Rakosi case. Rakosi, having served 814 years following his return to Hungary in 1925, was kept imprisoned when his term expired, and now faces vague charges connected with his activi- ties as People’s Commissar during the period of the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919. Theelmann Rally and Farewell Banquet To Muenzenberg, July 27 NEW YORK.—With a gigantic farewell banquet for Willi Muen- zenberg, internationally famous working-class leader, combined with a mass defense rally for Ernst Thasimann, Frau Wal- Jisch, and 6,000 other anti-fas- cist fighters facing death in Germany, “Ernst Thaelmann Day” will be celebrated in New York the evening of Thursday, July 27, at the Bronx Coliseum, E. 177th St. The banquet and mass rally will be held in the open air, with provisions for shelter if there should be rain. Banquet tickets are 60 cents each and are being sold only in advance. Admission tickets, without the banquet, are 25 cents in advance and 35 cents at the ‘door. HIGH COST OF LIVING A macs mecting of the High Cost of Divine Astcciation will be held tonight at! 8 pun, at the Downtown Workers Club, 11 Clinton Bt ) The fight to rescue | Herndon is a fight to repel growing | reaction and | Call All Witnesses to Police Terror in N. Y. Witne: NEW YORK 0 all police atta on all open-air meetings in recent period of s terror during have been t Union Square, , in Brownsville and all of the city, ave urg- ently requested to report at the office of Joseph Tauber, I. L. D. ey, 401 Broadway, Room , today without fail. 2,000 Protest Death Trial for Thalmann n Page 1) sectio: fight for the fredeom of Angelo Herndon and the Scottsboro bo; following an appeal by Richard B. Moore, of the International Labor Defense Witr included Dr. Kurt Rosenfeld, Germany's most noted | political defense attorney and for- }mer Socialist Minister of Justice in | the Prussian Cabinet, driven out of | Germany for defending arrested Communists; Maria Halberstadt, former German high school teacher, | Aneurin Bevans, Welsh miner and} British Labor Party member of Par- liament, and James Watterson Wise, editor of Opinion, and recently re- turned from Europe. Allen Taub acted as prosecuting attorney. Rabbi Benjamin Goldstein , as j chairman, opened the meeting with | |a brief outline of the purpose of | the Mass Trial, and the aims and| activities of the Anti-Nazi Federa- | tion of N. Y., under whose auspices it was held. | Detroit Thaelmann | Protest Saturday (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., July 17.—A Free Thaelmann, Anti-Fascist Rally will be held here Thurs- day, July 19, at Arena Garden, Woodward and Hendrie, with Dr. Kurt Rosenfeld, Willi Muenzen-| berg and Aneurin Bevan as the main speakers. This morning members of the Young Communist League dem- onstrated for Thaelmann’s free- dom with signs, when 94 German including fascist indus- docked at the D. C. ks, foot of 3d St. A delega- tion of the Auto Workers Union today visited the German Con- sulate and filed protests against | the threat to murder Ernst! Thaelmann. EVERETT, Wash., July 16.—| The Everett Local of the Inter-| national Longshoremen’s Associa- | tion passed a resolution de-| manding the freedom of Ernst) Thaelmann, at its meeting, on| June 26. | Sey Sine | LANCASTER, Pa., July 17.—A workers’ delegation from Lancaster | County will leave here for Philadel- phia to present demands on the | Nazi Consulate in that city for the freedom and safety of Ernst Thael- mann. The delegation will visit the Ger- man Consulate at 10 a.m. Thursday | morning. It will present a resolu- tion, endorsed by workers of Lan- caster, Lébanon and York, demand- | ing the freedom of Thaelmann and | | other political prisoners in Ger-} many. Members of the delegation | will join in picketing the Consulate. ies waa | DETROIT, Mich., July 17.—Ar- | Tangements hhaye been completed |for a gigantic mass meeting at| Arena Gardens, Woodward and| | Hendrie Sts. Thursday evening, | July 19 to hear the inside story of Nazi Germany as related by Dr. | Kurt Rosenfeld, former Social- Democratic Minister of Justice in| the Prussian Cabinet and member of the Reichstag; Aneurin Bevin, | British Labor Party member of Parliament, and Willi Muenzenberg, | prominent member of the Interna- | tional Committee to Aid Victims! of German Fascism. ‘Daity Worker Midwest Bureai) CHICAGO, July 17.—Freedom for | Ernst Thaelmann, German workers’ | leader, was demanded in a resolit-| tion adopted last week by Painters Local Union No. 637, with a mem- bership of 1,350, which voted to send the protest to Hitler, the Ger- |man embassy in Washington and jthe Consulate in Chicago. Local} | No. 637 is one of the three Chicago} painters locals which recently threw | out its reactionary leadership and) elected a progressive slate of of-| | fers. | The stubborn fight for the re- lease of Thaelmann is being car-| \tied forward by Chicago workers in | Spite of the police attacks against anti-fascist fighters. Three more workers were arrested Saturday | morning for picketing the German | | Consulate. Lincoln Park police are |making almost daily arrests for this eee but the pickets keep com- ing. | i * 6 om |_ PHILADELPHIA, July 17.—willi Muenzenberg, member of the Cen- | tral Committee of the heroic Com- | [them Party of Germany, will be | | the main speaker at a giant anti- | fascist rally, under the auspices of | | the Communist Party, U. 8. A, at| | Clauss’ Farm, in Frankford. The | |rally will take place at the Picnic | |of the united worke:s organizations | | Sunday, July 22. Hl | PHILADELPHIA, July 17.—Faith- |ful to the fascist-terror policy against anti-fascist fighters, Magis- trate Roberts yesterday held six) Workers in $1,000 bail each for fur- | ther hearing on the trumped-up | charges of unlawful assembly, breach of peace and breach of or- dinance. The six workers were ar- rested Saturday when police broke up the most militant anti-fascist demonstration in the city’s history |in front of the German Consulate. The International Labor Defense has started a campaign to raise the | bail, and mobilize the workers | against this flagrant violation of their rights of assembly and protest. | and reinstatement of all workers | discharged for union activities. | creases within ten days; the right | RED BUILDER TALES Troop: \ NI palo Qe 3 my THE ROLE OF THE “DAILY” FoR THE Love O'MIKE, StoP BEFUDOLING Yoursetr / by del Government Works Chicago U. Heads HERE- READ THe REAL STORY OF “HE GENERAL STRIKE ANC WHAT Ur MEANS ‘To You! Y. C. L. and Pioneer members! Join the Red Builders for a Red Summer! Apply 35 E. 12th St. (store). s Ordered To! Unions in Action Frisco Press in Minneapolis Strike On Frisco Strike Wild DriveonReds (Continued from Page 1) termined strikers and workers in} sympathy with the strike. They} jeered and booed the guardsmen. | The public statement of Olsen, | Farmer-Laborite governor, follows “The important question now is the preservation of law and order. | Troops are in readiness for that purpose. I propose to use every resource at my command to pro- tect the citizens of Minneapolis. All farmers must be permitted to | g) sell their products in Minneapolis. “The Minnesota Department of Agriculture will assist them in such marketing, and whatever physical protection is neded will | be furnished them. I will not | take sides in the strike nor will | I hesitate to discipine either or both conflicting groups if circum- stances require. Conciliatory ef- forts will be continued and I hope the employers and employees will | arrive at a fair and early settle- | ment of their disputes.” This speech already indicated | Olsen's strikebreaking intentions. | His statement is identical with the | statement of Police Chief Michael | Johannes, well known for his ter- ror against Minneapolis workers, who also declared that police are “impartial” in strikes. As in the May drivers’ strike, extra thugs are being mobilized by | Johannes, but this time they will| wear police uniforms recently pur- | chased by the city administration. | Leaders of the Central Labor | Union are silent on what they plan | to do in connection with the strike. | . 8 * Strikers Force Alabama | Textile Mills to Close HUNTSVILLE, Ala. July 17.— Striking textile workers here Today: | forced the shutting down of the Fletcher Cotton Mill shortly after | a State-wide walk-out of textile workers. In great masses the workers ad- vanced on the plant, calling to the workers who were still inside to come out and join the strike. Po- lice and special deputies, armed with machine guns and _high- powered rifles, were called to the scene by the frightened bosses, but they arrived after the plant had been completely closed. Twenty mills were forced closed by the strike in Anniston, Florence, Jasper and Cordova, as 18,000 tex- tile workers joined the strike and| walked out. All the mills in the large textile centers upstate were reported shut. Thousands more workers are expected to join the walk-out before nightfall. Workers are demanding a 30- hour week, $12 a week minimum wage, elimination of the “stretch- out” system, recognition of their union, the United Textile Workers, Carnegie Steel Barons To Answer Demands “Shortly” PITTSBURGH, July 17.—Officials of the Carnegie Steel Company will reply to demands of the Duquesne Lodge of the Amalgamated Associ- ation of Iron, Steel and Tin Work- ers “shortly,” they announced to- day. They refused to reveal the nature of their answer. William Spang, chief of the Du-/| quesne Lodge, threatened a strike if the Carnegie Company refused to answer the demands for collec- tive bargaining. Michael Tighe, president of the | Amalgamated Association, advising Spang to go to the Carnegie offi- cials in person for his answer, said: | “When we receive Mr. Spang’s | report, and if it involves a re- fusal to bargain, we will submit the difficulty to the new steel relations board.” | * * * Sait Lake City Packing Workers Win Concessions SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July 17.—Sixty striking workers of the Salt Lake City Cudahy Packing Company returned to work today, after being guaranteed wage in- | to select their own representatives to negotiate with the company, and no discrimination when back on their jobs. Green Reports on YCL Convention Tomorrow NEW YORK.—Gil Green, Na- tional Secretary of the Young Communist League, will report at an open membership meeting called by Section 2, Y.C.L., on the Seventh National Convention of the Young Communist League. | The meeting will be held at the Spartacus Club, 269 W. 25th St., Thursday, at 7:30 p.m. All young. workers, members of trade unions, Y.P.S.L., ete., are cordially invited. Discussion will follow the re- port. CARPENTERS MEET TONIGHT | NEW YORK.—Thé Independent carpon- | ters Union will held its régular member- chip meeting on Wednesday, July 18, 7:30 | dustrial Union; Ben Gold, secre- |ganizer of the (Continued from Page 1) Makers Union; Elmer Brown,} Typo Union No. 6, chairman of| the Amalgamation Party; M. Rosenberg, secretary of the! Amalgamation _Party, Typo. Union No. 6; I. Redler, president | of Painters Brotherhood Local} 121; Frank Wedle, secretary of Painters Local 499; W. Bliss, As- sociation of Radio Telegraphers; I. Rosenberg, secretary of United and Leather Workers’ ; Jay Rubin, general sec-| retary of the Food Workers’ In-} tary of the Needle Trades Work- ers Industrial Union; J, Baxter, secretary of the Marine Workers Industrial Union; J. Perlow, sec- retary of the Furniture Workers Industrial Union; J. Lustig, or- Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union; NEW YORK.—James P. Quinn, secretary of the Central Trades and Labor Council of Greater New York, told David Gordon, representative of the Provisional Committee for Support of the | West Coast Strike, that the La- bor Council would not back the demonstration in support of the | strike on Thursday. The Commit- | tee announced that it would carry | the call for support of the strike to the local unions. | Charles Krumbein, district or- ganizer of the Communist Party. Plans for the Union Sq. soli- | darity demonstration on Thurs- day will be the most important | question before the committee when it meets tonight at 6 p.m. at the offfices of Local 2090, at 243 E. 84th St. A call has been} broadcast by the committee to all A. F. of L. and independent unions, to the Socialist Party, to the Central Trades and United Hebrew Trades to send repre-| | sentatives to this important | meeting. A delegation of lead- |ing trade unionists will call on| the Socialist Party at its head-/ | quarters, on the United Hebrew | | Trades and the Central Trades | and Labor Council to appeal per- |sonally to these organizations to | throw their support in a com- | mon front to help gain a victory | for the West Coast strike. | The Provisional Committee has announced its intention to set up relief machinery for aid for the West Coast strikers and is preparing a conference for this | purpose. | | ' Boston Rank and File Dockers Back Strike (Special to the Dally Worker) BOSTON, Mass., July 17.—Painted | on the docks here are several slo- gans: “Strike! Don’t “Scab!” Sentiment to take action on the docks to support the West Coast general strike is very strong here, but leaders of the International Longshoremen's Association are working hard to stop any solidarity action. Three hundred longshoremen at- tended a meeting in Faneuii Hall jast night, but no action was taken because the rank and file were not allowed the floor and the meeting was hurriedly adjourned by the leaders. Offictals of the union openly op- posed taking any strike action on the East Coast, stating that the “reds would stampede the strike vote.” “The meeting did nothing,” | said John J, Doolin, International Vice-President of the LLA. “We | | yoted on nothing, but sentiment | of the members is to support the | San Francisco strike,” Irene Rockwell, 23, and Harry Marks, 24, were arrested for dis- tributing leaflets to the marine workers. Peter King, organizer for the Marine Workers Industrial Union, was waylaid early this mevaing by Steven O’Malley, president of Local 800 of the ILA. and a group of thugs and hurled through a plate glass window of a South Boston meat market. King required hospital attention for back lacerations. Timothy Donovan, one of the |men who attacked King, was ar- | rested for assault. Warrants are being sought for the arrest of O'Malley, who léd the attack, ee ey Ship Crew Sends Funds to Strikers NEW YORK.—The Ship Commit- tee of the §.8. Santa Maria of the Grace Steamship Lines announced yesterday that 14 members of the crew donated $9.66 to be forwarded to the Rank and File Strike Com- mittee in the San Francisco gen- eral strike. ie hye Longshore Committee Calls for Action NEW YORK.—The Rank and File Action Committee of the In- ternational Longshoremen’s Assdci- ation issued a call yesterday to all) longshoremen to come to the dem- onstration in Union Square at §:30 D.m., ab its headquarters, 820 Broadway, New York City, By BILL DUNNE (Continued from Page 1) son, The reactionary section of the strike committee here is. un- doubtedly heavily involved in dickerings with Acting Governor Merriam, who hopes to be elected this fall and with the Roosevelt administration leaders. The fin- est sample of the anti-red propa- ganda and example of the split strategy of the employers is to- day’s front page editorial in the Call-Bulletin: “Where do you stand? “The Communist Party today is out in the open as directifig the strike that endangers the lives of more than a million persons in San Francisco and the Bay area. “Through the columns of the New York Daily Worker, organ of the Communist Party in New York, a section of the Communist Inter- national, credit for this revolution- ary move is taken by the Party. “And if additional evidence might be needed, Earl Browder, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in America, has announced that 1,200 Communists are ‘directing the workers of San Francisco in the logical path of a better life.’ “This makes the alignment: “Acknowledged Communists— | 1,200. “Misled by 48,800. “Total on strike—50,000. “Where do you stand? “The statement by Browder strips the strike situation bare. It will surprise the 50,000 workers who have paralyzed the life of San Francisco and endangered the health of more than the mil- lion people. “Their leaders have frequently denied that any Communistic ele- ment was involved in this strike. “What have these leaders to say now—now that this Communist official insists his group is respon- sible for this strike and that “‘A hundred San Francisco's lie ahead of America’?” “And what will 48,800 San Fran- cisco workers, who so reluctantly quit their jobs to participate in the greatest act of mass violence San Francisco has ever known, do? “The Daily Worker editorial will be found in another column. “The lines are formed now and the 1,200 Communist agitators are openly arrayed against one million three hundred thousand men and women who have no responsibility and never did have any responsibil- ity for any of the conditions behind the strike. “They are arrayed, too, against the families of the strikers. The families will suffer even more than others because their bread winners have been without income for so long. “This general strike is VIO- LENCE. Violence never succeeds. It sows future bitterness but never wins a victory. “This strike is UNJUST because it inflicts its injuries on hundreds of thousands of innocents who had nothing but good wishes toward the propagandists — striking longshoremen and San Francisco workers with proper grievances. # “Tt cannot be anything but un- just because it hurts only the mass of people and never the ones whom the Communistic fomenters wish to injure. “The 48,800 men on strike never intended to ravage and destroy the city of which they are so proud. They never envisioned the suffering and paralysis of our common life | that has come upon us. “They never wanted San Fran- cisco to be the battleground of the violent struggle that exists today. They could not have dreamed that they-were. in voting to strike. the dupes of Communists directed by a New York Communist Committee. “And what will they do now? What will their leaders—their real, old, and trusted leaders—do? “Will they continue this strike, this violence? Or will they go back to their work, lift the heavy bur- den from their San Francisco, and country. .. go about the adjustment of their) “y¢ oi be noted from the above | differences like the reasonable men they have always shown themselves to be? “They are not Communists, they have no common part with Com- munists, they do not need to be Communists to achieve justice and fair dealing for themselves in San Francisco? “Will they allow Communists to push them into a situation into a struggle from which no victory can arise for either side? “Or will they turn against the boastful Earl Browder, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Com- munist Party of America, and re- buke him by returning to work? “Our Coast labor leaders have al- ways hotly denied that this strike is Communistic. They have denied it because they did not know the facts. “They did not know that they visional Committee for the Support of the West Coast Strike. All labor organizations and unions have been urged by the committee to come out in great numbers to this demonstration and declare solidarity with the West pan, Thursday, called by the Pro- Coast strikers. 4,000 File Past Bodies of Two Killed by Cops Enraged Cleveland Toil- ers Plan Giant Mass Funeral Wednesday (Special to the Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 16— Nearly four trousand Negro and white workers filed in to view the| bodies of Salvatore Arzenti and) Vinnie Williams, murdered unem- ployed workers, as they lay in state at the Unemployment Council center, 3631 Central Ave., Sunday. Pennies, nickels and dimes flowed in for the mass funeral, to be held Wednesday, July 18th, at 12 o’clock noon. Meanwhile scores of street meetings were heid all day Satur- day and Sunday in protest against. the police massacre on bloody Friday. “Discover” Record Against Victim In the face of increasing resent- ment against the police massacre on Friday, today’s newspapers have “discovered” a mysterious holdup record for Arzenti. The Republican machine produced two “witnesses” who identified Arzenti as one of a trio of men who held up the beer parlor of Ulysses Vozzay alias Dan | Ricci, last December 19th, and shot Ricci. gthe necessity of inventing some sort of criminal record for this mur- dered unemployed worker shows that the efforts of the city admin- istration to whitewash the police and blame dead Arzenti for the | shooting of Mrs. Williams have not convinced ‘the enraged workers of Cleveland. All eyewitnesses testify that Arzenti was killed before Mrs. Williams was shot. > aa ese) 4,000 In Mighty Protest at City Hall CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 17—Four thousand workers massed yester- day before the City Hall to protest the murder by police of Arzenti and Mrs. Williams at the relief station Friday. One hundred and fifty (official figures) were at the City Hall and would only allow 200 work- ers to enter the Council Chamber. The Council refused to allow any of the workers the floor, but agreed to meet with a delegation of three after the regular meting. A. Onda, head of the Unemployed Councils and Communist candidate for County Commissioner, exposed the aim of the administration in un- leashing the terror against the un- employed. were being lured inte a trap from which there is no escape except through chaos and disaster. But their eyes are now open. The truth about this strike has been proved to them by Communist Browder himself. “They can do nothing now but lead their workers out of this trap and back to civilization once more, back in a truly logical path of a better life. “Reprinted from New York Daily Worker, Communist organ in the East. “‘For victory in the genera strike. “The general strike is on in San Francisco. “‘Overwhemingy the workers in San Francisco have rejected every effort of the small group of de- crepit misleaders who fought to stave off the general strike in sup- port of the Marine and Dock Workers. es “Tn every port of the United States the Communists are urged to take the lead in the most ener- getic campaign to extend the dock and seamen’s strike to cover the whole country. “‘Now is the time for the East, South and Gulf ports to join their brothers and win for themselves recognition and better conditions. “Never in the history of the country has there been a more favorable opportunity for all ma- rine workers to walk out and win what for many years they have been striving for. “Every ounce of energy, every step should be taken to spread the marine strike to every part of the example of the method by which the strikebreaking campaign is being conducted that it implies that the workers have no grievances and no demands, but that the whole cause of the trouble lies with Com- munist agitators. In view of this, it is necessary more than ever for the Daily Worker and the whole labor press to emphasize the economic demands of the long- shoremen and all the marine trades. It is certainly clear from the quoted editorial and all the immense amount of similar but less plain spoken material that the striking workers will be defeated only by isolating the Communists temporar- ily. The goal of the whole cam- paign is to make it either extremely difficult or even impossible for the Communists to function until the strike has been broken, BED SPRING MAKERS MEET TONIGHT NEW YORK.—A meeting of all iron bed spring makers will be held tonight at 8 p.m. at 108 East 14th Street under the auspices of the Furniture Workers In- dustrial Union, Classified COMRADE wants to buy small, light car cheap. Write details to A. A., 0/0 Daily Worker. | Plan Strategy ‘To Break Strike (Continued from Page 1) manitarian pretext, War, Navy and | Relief officials maintained the) | strictest silence. All replied to per- | sistent questioning only, “We don’t | | know anything about it. We don’t | know where the suggestions came | from.” Secretary of Labor Frances Per- | | kins, still constantly in communi- | cation with President Roosevelt and | the Pacific Coast, cancelled her | regular press conference, her | spokesman giving notice that she} was too busy to talk to newspaper- men. This was in line with a visible clamp down on possible leaks of the government's strategy. The Na- tional Labor Relations Board re- ferred all press inquiries to the La- bor Department, saying it was tem- porarily without a publicity spokes- man. In fact, the absence of the head of the Board’s publicity staff has been seized as an opportunity to take a whack at the several press employees who made the mistake of releasing too baldly accurate in- formation on some of the anti-labor actions of the old national labor board headed by Senator Wagner. The news that General Hugh S. Johnson, union-busting administra- | tor of the N. R. A., had landed in ‘Frisco brought from many close to | official circles here gasps of fear that he will queer the government's strike-breaking effort by a charac- | teristically frank braying of his anti-union, anti-labor attitude. It didn’t comfort anybody official that, while Johnson talks of negotiations in ‘Frisco if he is “needed,” his own employes in N. R. A. headquarters here sent a delegation of their union representatives to the new national labor relations board to- day to make another protest against Johnson’s personally firing the union president for his organizing activities. The union president, John | Donovan, was dismissed by Johnson | two hours after Donovan led a dele- | gation to protest against the oust- ing of another union member for) union activities. Johnson then} threatened to “box the ears” of an- other N. R. A. union representative, Roosevelt Heads Strike-Breaking The whole policy of the Roose- | velt government thus far is to main- tain a fiction that it is keeping | “hands off” the strike—while means of breaking the strike are fran- tically relayed to Roosevelt. One distinct possibility is that Senator Wagner may try to put) over the decasualization plan. This plan to decasualize long- shore labor, produced by the De-/ partment of Labor for incorpora-| tion in the N. R. A. Shipping Code, | would increase the effectiveness of blacklists against militant men. It would set up an “authoritative and impartial” agency to register all longshore labor. ‘Through this agency all longshore labor would be hired. Send Gov't Strike Breakers Two more Federal strike-breaking lieutenants were speeding West to- day to join Senator Wagner and the other government forces there. One of them, P, A. Donahue, of the Labor Relations Board, is the same official who was sent to try to break the street carmen’s strike. To inquiries about reports that the Department of Justice has sent additional agents into the San Francisco Bay area to rout “agita- tors,” the Department spokesman would say nothing. The War De- partment likewise refused to com- ment upon the reported mobilizing of troops in the area, one official declaring, “We won't turn a wheel without the President.” Federal relief officials still main- tained they would supply food to all, including strikers. Their spokes- man said they received several tele- grams from R. C. Branion, Califor- nia State Relief Administrator, who is distributing supplies financed by the Federal Agency, reporting “con- ditions are very much improved.” Asked to explain this, they replied | it referred to food conditions. 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STATIONERS and UNION PRINTERS Special Prices for Organizations 29 EAST 14th STREET New York City ALgonquis! 4+3356—4-8843—4-7823 Comrades Patronize JADE MOUNTAIN American & Chinese Restaurant 197 SECOND AVENUE (Bet. 12th and 13th St.) Brighton Comrades Patronize Parkway Food Center Fish Market 3051 Ocean Parkway Corner Brighton Beach Ave. NEEDLE WORKERS PATRONIZE SILVER FOX CAFETERIA and BAR 326-7th Avenue Between 28th and 29th Streets Food Workers Industrial Union Back Jim-Crowism On City's Beaches Rockefeller Institutior Threatens National Student League By BILL ANDREWS (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Il, July 17—Full support of Jim Czowism on the beaches was officially given by leading officials of the University of Chicago last week. National Student League leaders were told that if they raised the issue of strug- gle against segregation, the organ- ization would lose its charter and be driven underground. Students, some of whom had been arrested at a beach party of Negro and white workers and youth, on July 8th, had placed posters on school bulletin boards advertising the party of July 15th. Permission was secured for this posting from the college information office. /e (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) Hoodlum Attack on Negroes Reported CHICAGO, July 17. — Attempts by a fascist hoodlum armed with }@ knife to incite a lynch attack against an anti-jimcrow ‘beach party in Jackson Park Sunday failed when workers mobilized to defend the participants. Police had previously attempted to. dis- rupt the party by arresting 11 white workers for fraternizing with their Negro fellow workers. Following the arrests, about 10 hoodlums, led by a member of the National Guard, started to abuse the Negro workers present. On July 29, a mass parade from the Negro district around Wash- ington Park to Jackson Park Beach will be held under the leadership of the Youth Section of the League ot Struggle for Negro Rights. The parade will start at 1 o'clock at 5ist and St. Lawrence. 40,000 More Join West Coast Strike (Continued from Page 1) niture in the place and beating one of the men found there. Raid Union Offices Joining in these Fascist raids are the San Francisco police, who today raided the headquarters of the Marine Workers Industrial Union, ssizing more than 69 and holding them for arrest. The atmosphere is tense with the threat of more police raids which are expected at any moment, Communist Party leaflets which are appearing regularly on the docks and in the strike area are seized eagerly. The Western Work- er, Communist weekly, is now the official organ of the strikers and is quickly grabbed wherever it ap- pears. A special edition appears tomorrow. 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