The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 19, 1934, Page 1

| | DAYS Only Are Left to Save ANGELO HERNDON from the Chain Gang. $15,000 Bail Is Needed. It Will Be Returned 14 Make This Figure Grow Rush Cash or Liberty Bonds to International Labor Defense., 80 E. 11th St., New York City. Vol. XI, No. 172 > » Daily,QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. FRISCO STRIKE SOLID DESPITE NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1934. PRESS RUN YESTERDAY. 42,200 WEATHER: Fair, warmer. (Eight Pages) FRANTIC SPLIT MOVES Price 3 Cents WORKERS 70 JAM SQUARE IN SOLIDARITY WITH STRIKE Defeat Splitting Tactics in Frisco! Smash Bosses’ Terror! AN EDITORIAL——————_— EACTIONARY union officials are attempting to betray the general strike. Edward Vandeleur, head of the San Francisco Labor Council, and his cronies, top leaders of the various Frisco unions, having failed to stra’ igle the general strike at the outset, have now aligned more openly with the employers and the government, and through hook and crook have Thousands of Rank and of L. To Attend Despit With Cries of Solidarity For West Coast Strikers | | File Members of A. F.} e Refusal of Officials Union Square to Ring Big Thilmann put through a resolution agreeing to end the strike on the basis of N. R. A. arbitration. Arbitration was rejected by the maritime workers before the general strike began. It was to defeat arbitra- tion and to force an agreement on the three basic demands of the marine workers that union men walked out on gen- eral strike. These labor misleaders, through packing a meeting with reactionary elements and refusing to allow a roll- call vote on the question, have cooked up one of the most shameful labor betrayal schemes in the annals of Amer- ican labor history. At the very time when the strike is extending to new (Continued on Page 8) Green Denounces Coast Strike as“ Unauthorized,” Condoning Boss Terror Disavows All Intention of Aiding Coast Strike in Scab Arguments; Weinstock Flays Statement in Wire CHICAGO, Ill., July 18.—In a strike-breaking state- ment whose servility to the employers at a time of nation- wide strike struggles has no parallel in the history of Amer- ican labor, William Green, President of the American Fed- eration of Labor, today be-> To Co-operate in Meeting NEW YORK.—Tens of thousands of workers are ex- pected to throng Union Square Thursday at 6 p.m. to voice their solidarity with the Frisco workers in the great general strike as final plans for the demonstration were completed today by the New York Provisional Committee in Support of the West Coast strike. ? A delegation of the provi- visional committee yesterday called on Norman Thomas and Harry Laidler, head of the League for In- dustrial Democracy, to invite them to speak at the meeting. No answer was forthcoming because of the ab- sence of both from the city. A def- inite reply was expected some time today. The Central Trades and Labor Council, at its executive committee meeting Monday night, ignored the communication from the provisional committee requesting it to join forces with the labor movement in @ common demonstration of solidar- ity at Union Square Thursday. When interviewed earlier by a com- mittee, James P. Quinn, secretary of the Central Trades and Labor Council, declared that the A. F. of L. had received no request from the strikers of the West Coast nor any instructions from William Green to take such a step. The executive committee of the Central Trades did not even consider the question at its meeting on Monday night. In no wise disheartened by this Communists See S. P. on Strike Unity Committee Proposes Joint Action for the *Frisco Strikers (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Ill, July 18—Under the slogan of “Support the West Coast strikers,” the Communist Party and Young Communist League District 8 today called for united action of the entire working class in a mass demonstration in Union Park, Ogden and Randolph, Saturday, July 21, 1 p.m. As this article is being written, a delegation from the Communist Party is visiting the Cook County Committee of the Socialist Party smirched the general strike of San Francisco, declaring it a “local strike without national sig- nificance” without any “authoriza- ” by the A. F. of L. His statement, seized eagerly by the capitalist press as a weapon ‘to poison the opinions of the masses of the country against the heroic 125,000 coast strikers, was timed, apparently with the greatest delib- eration, to coincide with the in- tensified efforts to split the Strike Committee, giving the reactionary A. F. of L. officials a platform against the left wing rank and file members. Condones Terrorism At the same time, Green's state- ment coincides with the open bar- rage of terrorism against the Com- munist Party and all radical mass organizations in San Francisco, justifying this terrorism and the calumnies of the ship-owners that the strike was “engineered by out- siders.” Green, who gets $20,000 a year from the workers of the A. F. of L. for “representing” them, had not one word to say in his statement on the demands of the strikers or one word of criticism of the em- ployers, or the calling of the Na- tional Guard against the strike. He did not express any desire that the strikers win their demands. Urges Return to Work Disavowing any intention of giv- ing the thousands of striking A. F. of L, workers the slightest assist- ance in their fight with the mil- (Continued on Page 8) News Flash (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., July 18.—After their delegation had been muzzled and then kicked out of the office of County Welfare Superintendent and P.W.A. Administrator Ballen- ger, Detroit police this afternoon attacked a militant picket line of 700 relief workers who were demon- strating outside. The picket line was part of a demonstration of 2,500. Mounted police rode brutally into the crowd of Negro and white workers, men, women and children with them, while cops on foot chased after them with drawn clubs, displaying revolvers. One Negro worker was trampled down by a mounted policeman and then taken away in a police car. splitting tactic of their bureaucratic Officials, thousands of New York rank and file members of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor prepared to take part in the demonstration under the leadership of the A. F. Rank and File Committee. The committee called on all labor organizations today to send wires of protest against the raids and at- tacks on left wing headquarters to the Governor and Mayor and to de- mand also immediate withdrawal of troops from the strike area. The committee wired the General Strike Committee in San Francisco urging the committee to join in the protest. against the attacks on left wing headquarters, pointing out that this attack was designed to split the unity of strikers and weaken the/ strike. | The New York Trade Union Unity Council yesterday called on all of its members to support the provisional committee demonstra- tion and urged them to take part in it. The United Shoe and Leather Workers’ Union also issued a call to its membership yesterday to sup- port the demonstration. Governor Langer, Who Politics, Calls State Troops To Keep Control BISMARCK, N. D., July 18—A “law and order” governor who re- fuses to obey the law has pro- claimed martial law throughout the state of North Dakota in an effort to hold on to his remunera- tive office in the face of a Su- preme Court ruling for him to quit. The unlawful law-enforcing gov- ernor is William H. Langer, who has instituted. a reign by might in Stole Relief Money for a fight to keep the Lieutenant- Governor Ole Olson from taking over the reins of office in compli- ance with a decision of the State Supreme Court. He hes called 1,200 National Guardsmen and state militia. Langer was convicted of steal- ing money from Federal relief workers for political purposes. His conviction was upheld by the State Supreme Court, who ordered him out of office. and the Young Peoples Socialist League to ask their participation in this solidarity demonstration, Delegations will also visit trade unions and locals of the Socialist Party to get their support. In South Chicago, the Marine Workers Industrial Union is plan- ning a demonstration in support of the Great Lakes Tug Boatmen’s strike when the.next ship arrives from Buffalo, Workers Act To Support Frisco Strike Seamen Walk Off Ship in N. Y. in Support of West Coast Men NEW YORK—Declaring solidar- ity with the great general strike on the West Coast, 16 seamen walked off the S.S. President Harrison, a Dollar Liner, in this port yesterday. The men who walked off are members of the Marine Workers Industrial Union. . 8 8 A. Parrett and C. Frazer, two seamen who were arrested aboard the President Adams and lodged in the Hudson County jail in New Jer- sey, charged with assault on the high seas because they led a com- mittee which presented demands to the captain of the ship, have been released from jail. The ship committee reports that the crew of the President Adams (Continued on Page 8) Meet July 24 In Chicago, Ill. Demonstration July 28 | at Nazi Consulate | in New York CHICAGO, Ill, July 18.—Chicago anti-fascists are organizing a giant United Front meeting for the free- dom of Ernst Thaelmann and thou- sands of other anti-fascist fighters in Germany who are in daily, im- minent danger of secret trial and | speedy execution by the new Hitler | “People’s Courts,” which were set | in motion last Saturday for the | openly admitted purpose of organ- | izing a new blood bath in Germany. | The meeting which will be held July 24, will be addressed by Dr. | Kurt Rosenfeld, former Socialist | Minister of Justice in the Prussian Cabinet, Aneurin Bevan, Welsh miner and member of Parliament, and Willi Muenzenberg, former Communist member of the Reichs- tag. The Chicago Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism, which has been an important force in re- peated struggles of Chicago anti- fascists at the German Consulate, is arranging the meeting. “he present situation in Ger- many will be discussed, | Call for Delegates To Farewell Banquet For Muenzenberg NEW YORK—All workers’ and anti-fascist organizations are urged | to elect delegations to the “Free Thaelmann” Rally and Farewell Banquet for Willi Muenzenberg, in- ternatianlly famous anti-fascist leader, at the Bronx Coliseum, East 117th Street, Thursday July 27. Tickets for the banquet are 60 cents and are being sold in ad- vance. Admission ticleets, without the banquet, are 25 cents in ad- vance and 35 cents at the door. The banquet and rally will be held in the open air, with provisions for shelter in event of rain. Almost 20,000 Out | In Textile Mills Thruout Alabama (Svecial to the Daily Worker) BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 18.— The textile strike is spreading in| the state, with 6,500 workers out at | Huntsville after mass picketing} closed the Fletcher Mill yesterday, while special deputies with rifles and machine guns failed to stop the pickets. Other main strike centers and the approximate number of men out are: Florence, 2,100; Birmingham, | 1,200; Gadsen, 2,500;; Anniston, | 2,500; Alabama City, 1,500. | These, together with the strikers | at Jasper, Cordova, Albertville, Gun- | tersville, Winfield and other towns | brings the total number to about | one-half of the state’s 35,000 tex- tile workers. Over 30,000, it is predicted, will be out by the end of the week. Picketing is going on at the Avon- dale Mills here. evening, | 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 Bosses’ Reign of Ter ror Aims to Smash Strike; Gov't Aids Gang Raids Gov’ment Secretly Aids Mob Raids on Communists AIDS PROVOCATION Roosevelt Hasn’t Any| Objections, Perkins Interview Reveals By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D.C.,| July 18—Definite informa-| tion that the Department of | Labor condoned in advance| the raiding of union and rad- | ical headquarters and the ar-| rest of hundreds in San Fran- cisco yesterday came to your co:- respondent today. Secretary of Labor Frances Per- kins denied this but at the same | | time admitted that her forces “in- | | vestigated” Harry Bridges, militant leader of the striking longshoremen, to see whether he was deportable. They found that Bridges is here | legally. Official Strike Breaking These high spots came out in a day filled with evidence that the Roosevelt government's policy in breaking the American labor move- ment’s greatest struggle to date is now open Hitleresque suppression. Today's developments included: 1. President Roosevelt messaged “the public” that he has confidence Want Gov Board To Name Head: of Unions STRIKE HOLDS FAST Vandeleur and Casvy Maneuver With Bosses To Break Strike BULLETIN PORTLAND, Ore., July 18.— Forty workers were arrested and a quantity of literature seized when police raided the headsuar- ters of the Communist Party here, Mussolini’s Cops Jail | Shippers 3 U. S. Strike Leaders of World Cruise Liner | GENOA, Italy, July 18—Mus- Solini’s fascist police arrested three leaders of the crew of t American Dollar world cr liner President Hayes last nig afcer 150 m T lougshoremen Saa Francis The seamen first struck ai sca on Sunday morning, the ship ten hours. they struck in port and the of- ficers of the ship, unable to handle the situation, calied 1 the Italian fascist harbor militia and police, who boarded the chip | and arrested three strike leaders, The ship sailed for Marseilles last night. (Special to the Daily Worker) SAN FRANCISCO, July 18.— | The majority of the workers are enraged against the vandalism be- ing practiced against the Com- munist Party by police and fas- cist mobs. The prestige of the Communist Party is higher than ever. A mass movement to defend the Communist Party against attacks has begun. Stories in the capitalist press saying that striking teamsters were part of the falding parties is not true. They were plain- clothes thugs, some of whom were pianted among the teamsters. Vigilantes ordered the Western Worker printer not to print any 1,200 Seattle Workers Halt 9 Scab Ships Repel Mounted Police; | Officials Try To Stem | Gen’lStrike Demand | Communist material, but this will | | mot stop the appearance of the BULLETIN | special strike issue. All facts indicate that the mem- bers of the raiding parties are members of Mayor Rossi's Com- | SEATTLE, Wash. July 18.— | Every available policeman was ; Visional Committee in support of that “common sense will prevail,” given a baseball bat at police headquarters, this afternoon, and ordered to Pier 41, where strikers were halting trucks driven by Radio Men Voting By) . . . Short Wave To Spread) SEATTLE, Wash. July 18—strik- 6 ing marine workers and sympathiz- | Strike to Seven Seas ezs numbering 1,200 stormed pier 41 | | here today to halt the loading of SAN FRANCISCO, July 18—The | Dine ships by scab labor. general strike spread to the seven | The strikers were attacked by seas today with radio men aboard| guards equipped with tear gas ships voting by short wave radio to | bombs, join the walkout. | The workers quickly got out from | The radio men are members of | under the clouds of rea: gas, re- the American Radio Telegraph As- | formed their ranks and began pick- sociation. eting pier 40, where ships were also | Principles upon which the strike | being loaded by scabs. They hurled vote was taken were short waved | many of the bombs into the water. al. over the globe. Members of the| Police, in attacking the strikers, Association picked up the message| used a specially equipped auto-| in far away ports and sent their votes back to Friscc over radio. (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 2) | Bergoff Strikebreaking Agency Is Scouring N. Y.) for Men To Scab on West Coast Strikers | NEW YORK.—How workers here | entered the transportation bus, and} are being rounded up for strike-| Was informed. by the other men | breaking activities in San Fran- Te etek’ mauiece poe | cisco was described by Georges An- | spake, a former A. F. of L. man, who longshoremen. The Bergoff De-! tective Agency was assuring them reported his experiences to the Pro- Anspake exposed the scab herder | the West Coast strike yesterday. __ to those in the bus and ‘o the crowd Anspake told of having been| that gathered, and the rat finally stopped at 23rd St. and Broadway | closed the door and ran off. An-| and asked if he wanted a farm job/ spake warned the workers: “The| in San Francisco. Transportation, | buses are patrolling the parks and| maintenance and $6 a day were to; the Bowery to pick up men for proletariat upon tomorrow’s pages. be provided. Suspiciously Anspake | strike-breaking.” plenty of protection. \j mittee of 509. By BILL DUNNE (Special t> the Daily Worker) SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., July 18.—Gangster and police terror, timed to coincide with the efforts of the reactionary union leaders to bring about a split in the marine strike forces by jamming through a special resolution dropping all demands and turning every- thing over to arbitration, swept through the Bay counties yes- terday and all last night. Arrests are variously estimated from two to three hundred. At this writing it is impossible to give exact figures. Directed at the Communists, the raids, sluggings, complete wreckage of halis and homes, smashing of all typewriters and equipment and mass arrests carried out by uniformed police, special detachments of Legionnaires reinformed by Bergoff gunmen, failed of their purpose. All night long special patrols spied on hotels and rooming houses looking for ‘outside agitators.” They found none. The Communist Party dis- trict workers are all still on the job. Large amounts of literature are ‘ing distributed, including a special ion of the Western Worker. Eleven places were raided and wrecked yesterday and last night. Latest figures are 200 arrested last (Continued on Page 2) What Is the Role of the Communist Party in Frisco General Strike? Y the Savage Attack on Communists in San Francisco? All the fury, all the venom of the West Coast slave-driving class, of the rich para- sites and their hangers-on, of the Roosevelt regime, is aimed at the Communist Party. Why at this stage of the inspiring San Fran- cisco general strike do the capitalist dogs bark and tear most furiously at the Com- munist and militant working class fighters? What is the role and function of the Communist Party in the West Coast strike, in all the battles of the American working class against their exploiters? For nearly five years now, the American capitalist class has been starving nearly 16,000,000 workers and their families, who are unemployed. They have been mercilessly slashing wages, in order to protect their profits. The Roosevelt government speeded up this process through the N.R.A., stooping to the most lurid lies in order to fool the workers into accepting the vicious N.R.A. codes, wage cuts, worse conditions. From the very beginning of the present drastic eco- Bomie crisis, the Communists ware ie the lees 2a Bes, for relief for the unemployed, forcng the bosses by gigantic mass demonstrations to grant some measure of relief; constantly fighting against the cut in relief, leading the fight for unemployment insurance. The Communist Party was in the lead, fighting against wage cuts when William Green and other A, F. of L, leaders sat down and signed an agreement with President Hoover in 1930, allowing the bosses to slash the wages of the American working class 50 per cent. Under the Roosevelt regime, only the Communist Party pointed out what the N.R.A. would do—that it would help the big trusts, the Rockefellers, Morgans, Fords, Mellons, and that it would hurt the workers. The Communists declared that the N.R.A. promises to the workers were lies; that only by organizing their own forces and struggling militantly would the workers win improvement in their conditions, and union recog= nition, * * . ARE Communists now in the leadership of the San Francisco general strike? Certainly every Communist in the city of San Fran- cisco, in the whole country, is in the front ranks of the Sens | etry Aehiing w ere tae bans to exh yp vor ers’ demands. The Communist Party members are the first to declare to the workers that it is the bosses that raise the cry of insurrection and revolution in this strike to befuddle the issues, to try to terrify the workers that the Communists want something different than what the workers want. This lie is deliberately spread. The Communist Party never conceals its main goal and its day-to-day struggles. In the San Francisco strike the Communist Party members are not fighting to achieve the revolution in this general strike. The Communist Party urges the workers to hold their ranks solid, to fight against all betrayals, and to stick to win that for which they came out—the right of the dock- ers to control of the hiring halls, union recognition, improved living conditions, The Communists declare that the granting of these demands should be the basis for ending the strike— nothing less and nothing else. Why do the exploiters of labor yell that this is revo- lutionary, that the Communists are the culprits who want the workers to win the objects of the general strike? Because the bosses fear the strength of labor. They do not want to grant the workers the slightest _ conceusiag. They fear the general strike, if t-wina whet the workers are fighting for, will establish the workers in a stronger position than ever before. They do not want the workers to gain anything. They want the workers to go down in defeat. They want to insure con- trol over the conditions of the workers. The most un- flinching, the most loyal, the most persevering fighters against the bosses and for the demands of the workers are the Communists. That is why, when the bosses want to smash the strike, they arrest 350 workers in San Francisco and charge them with Communism. That is why the rich bloodsuckers, who live in wealth and luxury while the workers starve, organize their vigilantes, their fascist murder gangs to attack the Communists. The bosses feel that if they can smash the Commu- nists, the best fighters of the workers, then it will be an easy matter for Vandeleur and his gang of betrayers to end the strike with a victory for the bosses. It becomes a thousand-fold more clear that the Com- munists are the vanguards of the workers’ interest in this Strike, as they are in all strikes in which they take | part. The bosses, in order to insure their profits, in order | to keep the workers’ wages low, in order to preserve their slave rights of hiring and firing at will, will go to any murderous length, and particularly against the Pie <3 ge) rf Every worker throughout the country should know that the attack against the Communists concerns them, because the bosses feel if they are successful in smashe ing the most militant leaders of the workers, they can then turn their fire against every other section of the working class. That is what Hitler did, that is what Mussolini did, In order to protect their interests, in order to fight back the fascist attacks in the United States, every worker, whether Socialist, A. I. of L, members, unore ganized, no matter of what race or religion, should pro= test against this brutal terror. * . . HO Are the Communists? The Communists are part of the working class, They are the marine workers, the miners, the steel workers, the shoe and needle workers, farmers, intele lectuals, every worker who is convinced that the caple talist system is bringing misery to the entire working class, and that it is necessary for the working class te organize its own reyoluticnary working class party te fight for the every day needs of the workers and ule timately to replace the capitalist system by the rule of the workers. The Communists will not and cannot be (Gontinued on Page 4).