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Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1934 Daily .QWorker GRETRAL ORGAX COMMUNIST PAATY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST NTEREATIONNOD ments of protest to be wired to the White House and California and to the press. Above all, the working class, in its trade unions, in its shop committees, in its fraternal mass or- Willi Muenzenber g scien in tn rons Pay or mot em (Chief Speaker at me ae oe ae un vag |ANU-FaScasE, Meet | Stop the march of fascism! raids! Stop the organized lynch incitement! Act immediately! | SEEING RED! By Burck On the World Front | By HARRY GANNES | Int’l Strike Solidarity | An Unsavory Visitor | Brown Shirt Mutiny A Lesson from “L’Humanite” America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE INC., 50 E. 13th PUBLISHED DAILY COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., New York, N. ¥ Mass Rally, Friday July| 27th, at Coliseum, | Green Stabs theWest | At 8:00 P.M. Coast Strikers | NEW YORK—Willl Muenzenbere, | | leader of German working class or- | eoqrang Mr. William Green, president | #nizations, former member of the of the American Federation of Labor Reichstag, will be the chief speak- | |er and guest of honor at the Anti- has issued a statement on the general strike. Street ne: ALgonquin 4- 7954. | ree | {NSPIRING in the San Fran- |" cisco general strike are the swift expressions of interna- tional solidarity actions. On the Facific coast, from Van- couver, Canada, to Colima, Mexico, the marine and coast workers pledged their solidarity in the struggle, and immediately be- | Fascist Mass Rally to be held in |in the open air at Bronx Coliseum, | Friday, July 27, at 8:00 p.m. Agencies have been established at convenient points in New York City to care for the flood of in- quiries and applications for tickets, it was announced by the New York} Anti-Nazi Federation and the Na-| tional Committee to Aid Victims of | FRIDAY, Y 20, 1934 ® Mr. Greeti disavows the entire labor movement on the Pacific Coast. Failing to note the fact that the great strike is a life and death struggle of the West Coast workers Workers! Stand By the ; j Communist Party! | rance, for Negro and war of “outsiders” against | the Communists spring e ranks of the American work- ers, the steel workers, the marine workers. The Com- ts outside of the interests They come forward as the s members of the working class he forefront of the struggles workers are waging. The drive | against the Communist Party is leadership of the workers’ the workers of their mili- bing by isolating the Communists, by | g the Communist Party, the bosses | government hope in this way to launch a | offensive against the entire working e terror against the Communists is, there- r agai the entire American working e Commit { Party calls upon the American in every industry in every city to mobilize rike in San Francisco and of , the Party of the American militantly the combined the bosses, and the mi: to launch a ascist offensive of de- the entire American working class tacks of the bosses and the gov- er 1 port of the advance guard of the work- ght of the Communist Party to on its work in the interests of the of the fascist efforts to crush it, Party by joining its ranks! of the American workers OMMITTEE, PARTY OF THE U.S. A. . ° 1 Unite Against Boss Terror! ee the reports of the Pacific Coast strike area it is brutally clear that an immense wave of fascist violence has been let loose against striking workers and their militant leaders. The hideous days of the infamous Pal- mer raids of the post-war years have again arrived. stinct of organized hooliganism 1orant, degenerate element underworld purveyor of ry now find official en- ment from the Roosevelt and t of the hired m courag: government Governors, crooked Mayors, the press In every city, town and village, and up to the leading Officials of the Roosevelt government, now openly, brazenly, and unrestrainedly call for lynching-bees against the Communist Party all over the country. The air of this country is filling with the vast clouds of fascist poison. * * * r. IS no only the Communist Party and the working class which is menaced by this mon- strous fascist violence, whose headquarters are the White House. It is every decent, nest, healthy element in American life that is menaced by the mob violence and reactionary brutality of the “vigilantes” and the organized gang raids. Every civil right, every honest intellectual feel- ing, every vestige of what is progressive in this country, faces extinction at the hands of brutality and ignorance organized and encouraged by the Federal, State and Municipal governments. For in their fury against the Communists who lead the daily struggles of the working class against the yoke of capitalist hunger and wage slavery, the capitalist employers are now trampling on and violating every elementary and democratic right. It is precisely with just such gang raids against the Communist Party that the ferocious bands of Hitler and Goering strode to the seats of their bloody power in Germany. IS up to every h t person in America to face the fact now t fascism, with everything wile that makes its name hateful, is now advancing with seven league boots before our very eyes. It is only in the most tenacious, bitter defense of the everyday civil rights against the organized government forces of mob brutality that the march of fascism here can be halted. It is the most solemn duty of every single hater of fascist reaction to proceed at once to the nearest telegraph office and wire immediate protests to Governor Merriam of California, Mayor Rossi of San Francisco, and President Roosevelt at Washington, D. C. It is absolutely necessary for every union local, every mass organization, club, association, ete., to meet at once for the planning of protest meetings, and for the wiring of protest resolu- tions to the above-mentioned people demanding the immediate stopping of all anti-Communist raids and the withdrawal of all troops from the strike area. Intellectuals, professionals, students, writers, artists, and scientists must bombard the above officials with telegrams of indignant protest at the organized mob violence against the Commu- nist Party and the strikers. Leading writers and intellectuals must get to- saders to crush the Commu- | n the Communist Party with iron pro- | @ether at once for the signing of combined state- > against the open shop policies of the shipowners. Mr. Green speaks for the shipowners when he says that the strike “is local in character, possessing | no national significance.” The national importance of the strike has al- ready been indicated by the capitalists themselves, ‘The very fact that Hugh Johnson, Senator Wagner and the President’s Assistant Labor Secretary Mc- Grady were rushed to the scene of the struggle; the very fact that troops have been called out; the fact that a United States Army officer sits in Mayor Rossi’s strikebreaking conferences—all this shows clearly the capitalist government considers the strike as one of no small national importance. What Green is attempting to do is to keep the workers in the A. F. of L. unions from understand- ing the national importance of the strike and to hog-tie them in such a manner that will prevent them from rallying to the support of the movement. Green said that “At no time has its (the A. F. of L. leadership's) counsel or advice been solicited or its services requested.” Here Mr. Green is telling an obvious fib. The rank and file of the unions have time and time again requested that the A. F. of L. leaders declare their support of the strike. This they have flatly refused to do as Mr. Green is refusing to do today. Indeed, Mr. Green sent one of his advisors to San Francisco some time ago, but his advice was not the kind the strikers were looking for, so they promptly repudiated him, This advisor was Mr. Joseph P. Ryan, presi- dent of the International Longshoremen’s Associ- ation, who tried to get the maritime workers to accept the shipowners arbitration scheme, which would mean returning to work on the open shop | basis without a single demand won. Despite the fact that the majority of the work- ers involved in the strike are members of the A. F. of L., Mr. Green says that the “American Federation of Labor is not directly involved.” Now that Green has repudiated the vast mem- bership of the A. F. of L. unions on the West Coast it would be Only right and proper for the membership likewise to disown Mr. Green and stop sending money to the National Office for Mr. Green’s salary. Mr. Green and his agents are the forces within the labor movement that are attempting to smash the fine solidarity of the West Coast workers and thus make it easy for the shipowners to put over the open shop system on the waterfront. The rank and file of the A. F. of L. should strengthen this solidarity throughout the country and defeat Mr. Green's attempt to strangle the strike. With the mass of the A. F. of L. workers behind it the strike can be won. Resolutions should be introduced in every local union denouncing Green as a strikebreaker and an enemy of labor. A. F. of L. workers should say to Mr. Green: “Get out of the labor movement. We ourselves will decide as to whether strikes have national Significance or not. We will give our support to the general strike whether you like it or not.” The Cleveland Shootings ILEVELAND workers, turning out by the thousands for the mass funeral of the two unemployed workers shot down by police last Friday, registered their grim determination to fight against the murder of workers demanding bread and the right to live. The protests of the Cleveland work- ing class against the killing of these two workers, against the cold-blooded action of police, who fired into a delegation of 45 men, women and children in the Prospect Branch of the Cuyahoya County Relief Association, must roar across the country. Workers and their organizations throughout the country, all honest intellectuals and opponents of fascist terror, must protest this bloody outrage. In the murder of the Negro woman, Mrs. Vinnie Williams, and the Italian worker, Salvatore Ar- zenti, is a tragic symbolism. The ruling class and its governmental instruments murder both white and Negro workers, just as it condemns to starvation and misery the workers of all colors and nationalities, native and foreign-born. The police bullets have welded the growing soli- darity of white and Negro workers, of native and foreign-born in hot lead. It was a united working class that answered this latest police attack, despite the efforts of the Negro reformist leaders to sabotage the movement, at the behest of the banker-controlled City Council of Cleveland, the employers and bourgeois politi- cians. The workers of Cleveland and of the whole country must answer these bloody attacks by an intensified struggle for adequate unemployment relief at the expense of the bosses and their goy- ernment, against discrimination against Negro and foreign-born workers, for the Passage of the Work- ers Unemployment Insurance Bill, H.R. 7598, and for the use of all war appropriations for unemploy- ment relief and payment of the veterans‘ bonus, Every Cleveland worker and organization should tally behind the preparations for the August First demonstration in Public Square against Hunger, War and Fascism. Answer the bosses’ terror by increased mobilization in the struggle for your every-day demands, for bread, for freedom. Build the fighting United Front against War and Fascism, eo Join the Communist Party | 38 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Please send me more information en the Commu- mst Party, NAME, |German Fascism, cosponsors of the | rally. Willi Muenzenberg is today a leader in the fight to a finish to end |the German Fascist regime. As publisher of anti-fascist newspapers |and magazines and of “The Brown Book of the Reichstag Fire and Hit- |ler Terror,” as well as the sec- |ond Brown Book, “Dimitroff versus | Goering,” Muenzenberg has struck |heavy juronalist blows at the Hit- ler regime by enlightening world public opinion. Will Analyze German Situation The burning questions of today and tomorrow will be answered by Muenzenberg, and timely topics will be covered in a dynamic analysis. He is known as the most brilliant orator of the German workers’ movement. Preparations are being made to seat 15,000 in the Coliseum. The rally will be in the name of a@ conference of organizations and individuals to hear reports on con- | ditions under German Fascism and to demand those 10,000 innocent men and women held as hostages by the Hitler and Dollfuss fascisms be liberated. Tickets for the rally cost 25 cents in advance and 35 cents at the door, <A limited number of ban- |quet tickets are on sale at 60 cents, | which will include the dinner also, | but will be sold in advance only. Tickets may be secured at the following places: National Committee to Aid Vic- tims of German Fascism, 870 Broadway. 168 West 23rd St. Workers’ Book Shop, 50 East 13th St. Workers’ Clubs, 80 East 11th St. Workers’ Cooperative Apartments, 2700 Bronx Park East. Needle Trades Industrial Union, 131 West 28th St. International Workers Order, 80 Fifth Ave. Hungarian Workers’ Club, 350 E. Bist St. German Workers’ Third Ave. Workers’ Book Shop, 369 Sutter Ave., Brooklyn. German Workers’ Club, Myrtle Ave., Brooklyn. Warden Refuses to Give Mooney Wires (Continued from Page 1) Club, 1501 1370 | addressed. Please wire us collect on this matter. “DAILY WORKER.” This message finally brought a reply from the warden, who wired: “Your revolutionary and sedi- tious telegrams that you insist be handed to Mooney and McNa- mara will under no circumstances be delivered to them, therefore do not expect a statement from them through me that you de- mand as to the reaction on the glorious general strike now going on, Such disloyal and Commu- nistie communications are not delivered to prisoners. “JAMES B, HOLOHAN, “Warden.” Thus, making himself the judge of “disloyal” communications, the warden refuses to deliver a wire to Tom Mooney, barring him from communicating a message to the workers on the Pacific Coast strug- gle. The refusal to turn over the telegrams to Mooney and McNa- mara is a continuation of the sys- tematic persecution of all political prisoners in San Quentin, and par- ticularly of Tom Mooney. Mooney has continuously been deprived of the regular prison rights because of his courageous conduct in prison and his vigorous denunciations of the capitalist interests which keep him confined. The International Labor Defense yesterday let it be ‘known that it would wage a fight to compel the prison authorities to cease their campaign of persecution of Mooney and the other political prisoners in | San Quentin. | New York Anti-Nazi Federation, | ‘The General Strike (Continued from Page 1) jagainst Communists and militant strikers. The Mayor's Committee met to discuss further action against the strikers. . “Every Communist agitator will be run out of San Francisco,” said the Mayor, “This is going to be a continuing policy.” The qey union in the situation is the Teamsters Union, headed by Michael Casey, a dyed in the wool reactionary. The Roosevelt Media- tion Board and Frisco city officials are concentrating on the task of getting the teamsters to return to work. Used Split Tactics As the Daily Worker pointed out yesterday the attack on Communists was designed to split the honest jleadership away from the mass of strikers and thus turn the whole situation over to the reactionaries over whose heads the workers voted for general strike. The marine workers realize that if they accept the Roosevelt arbi- tration plan they will be defeated jon their main demand—the right to maintain union controlled halls. The arbitration plan aims at estab- lishing the open shop on all docks and ships. While the leaders of the unions | were announcing that they will or- der the men back to work, marine workers, teamsters, street railway workers and taxicab drivers were expected to remain out regardless of the decision of the committee tonight. ‘The only railway service operating is the municipal service on Market Street. All cars of this service are operating under heavy guard. The first car was escorted by four auto- mobiles filled with officers armed with shotguns and tear gas. It also had a motorcycle escort. 30 Police Escort Car Thirty officers saw it got away from the barn and along its entire route were other officers. Police rode with the motorman and con- ductor. The geting away of a few cars from he barn under such heavy police protection was not considered a serious break in the strike front. It was more of a show, an attempt to make people think that the strike is over. Communiss Hit Decision Communists, against whom the shipowners and the city state and federal governments have launched their main attacks, are urging the strikers to refuse to accept the deci- sion of the reactionary leaders and demand to demand to vote on | all questions of strike settlement. The Communist Party has pointed Misleaders Call Off 10,000 Cheer Freed Canadian | | gan to raise funds for strike relief, In Yokohama, braving the fero- cious terror of the Japanese war lords, the Japanese seamen distrib- uted leaflets calling on workers in Nagasaki, Kobe, Osaka, Yokohama, and other ports, to refuse to handle scab cargo and to demonstrate their solidarity with their American brothers. The Italian workers under the iron heel of fascism, also, saw the splendid action of the crew of 150 American workers on the Dollar Line ship President Hayes, who walked off at Genoa and were at- tacked by the Fascist militia. TTO BAUER, Austrian Socialist leader who brags about his pres- ervation of the capitalist regime in Austria in the revolution of 1918, and who pleaded on his bended ‘knees that Dollfuss accept Social- ist cooperation for a two-year gov- ernment by decree, just when the fascist cannons were being unlim- bered against the Austrian workers | in February, is reported on his way to the United States. Not long ago Bauer wrote.an ar- ticle in the Brno (Czechoslovakia) “Arbeiter Zeitung,” declaring that Leaders; To Aid Thaelmann (Special to the Daily Worker) TORONTO, Canada, July 19.— Ten thousand people crowded Standard Theatre here last night, despite torrid heat, wildly acclaim- ing Tom Hill, Malcolm Bruce and John Boychuk, released Commu- nist leaders. The meeting unanimously adopted resolutions demanding the freedom of Ernst Thaelmann, heroic leader of the German working class, threatened with secret trial and death by the new Hitler “People’s Courts,” and the release of Tim Buck, Secre- tary of the Canadian Communist Party, and Tom Ewen, two of the Kingston Seven still held in jail. The meeting was addressed by Smith, General Secretary of the Canadian Defense League; Sime, of the Workers’ Unity League; Mc- Lachlan, a Nova Scotia miner, and a German worker. The speakers dealt with the present situation in Germany, the vital need of -devel- oping a huge mass protest move- ment to save Thaelmann as Dimi- troff was saved, and to strengthen the campaign for the release of! Buck and Ewen. Although inroads of prison life on the physique of the released ‘comrades were plainly noticeable, their marvelous spirit set the audi- ence afire with enthusiasm. Each | comrade, in fighting vein, pledged | undying allegiance to the cause/ of the working class. The horrible | conditions in Kingston Peniten- | tiary were reviewed by the re- leased comrades, who stressed the importance of building a huge united front for the release of| Thaelmann, Buck and Ewen. They paid a glowing tribute to the Can- adian Defense League and the rev-| olutionary organizations for their} splendid work in mobilizing the ctruggles which forced their re- lease. Through the speeches rang the defiant note that despite bour- geois attempts to suppress the Communist Party, the Communist Party lives and is today stronger and firmer than ever. On the same day, 7,000 workers | at a picnic demonstration wildly acclaimed the release of the com- rades,; and registered their deter- mination to win the freedom of} Thaelmann, Buck and Ewen. | Boychuk, one of the released) Communist leaders, was greeted by a band playing the International and wild cheering. With Red Flag} upraised in his hand, Boychuk made a spirited address, pledging to devote all his time in behalf of the working masses. The rally was also addressed by Comrades Beckie, Buhay, Ewen, Chopovick, Stefinit- sky and others. Map Detroit County Wide Relief Strike (Continued from Page 1) beaten up and had to be taken to the hospital. Hundreds of workers, answering the call of the Relief Workers Protective Association, had left their jobs at noon and marched to the County Welfare Building at Jefferson and Ran- dolph to voice their demands for immediate withdrawal of the re- cent cut in hours; $16 a week mini- mum on all relief jobs; a 25 per cent increase for all workers on direct relief, no discrimination against single, Negro, foreign-born or women workers, the right to organ- ize, reinstatement of all fired for opposing the cut, and unemploy- out to the workers that to accept arbitration afer the srikers return, as proposed by the Roosevelt Board would be to loose all demands of the strike. The workers have been advised by the Party to continue the strike under rank and file lead- ership and to carry on negotia- tions only while the workers are out on strike. ment insurance to be paid by the employers and the government. John Pace, Secretary of the R. W. P. A. in opening the conference, pointed to the growth of the mass struggle against the cuts and against the new cuts that the County Emer- gency Relief Administration is planning August Ist. He proposed in the name of the Committee of 25 elected at the first conference July 12 that another conference be held August where the question of a countywide strike will be considered. A high point of the conference was the report of the delegation of five which had gone in to present the demands to CERA Administra- tor Ballenger while the demonstra- tion was taking place. The mem- bers of the delegation, Taylor, a Negro Worker, McKenzie, Fanning, Martin and Samuels, told how ef- forts had been made to split and weaken their committee, After discussion from the floor, a series of proposals, including the calling of the next conference on August 2, and the organization of struggles on the job, was unani- mously adopted, ¥ It was decided to send a com- mittee to the Mayor and City Coun- cil to protest the police brutality and present the demands of the re- lief workers, All U.S.S.R. Celebrates 11th Anniversary of Constitution By VERN SMITH (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW.—The ‘entire press here is devoting much attention to the celebrations attendant on the eleventh anniversary of the constitution of the Union of So- cialist Soviet Republics adopted in July, 1923, In an interview with representa- tives of the foreign press here, President Kalinin declared that the essence of the Soviet constitution can be expressed very briefly—sup- pression of the bourgeoisie, liquida- tion of capitalism and the building of Socialism. Therein, _ strictly ‘| speaking, lie the essentials of the entire policy of proletarian dicta- torship, Kalinin said. Soviet Constitution Expresses Workers’ Power “Therein is the cornerstone also of the Soviet constitution,” Kalinin told correspondents. “In connection with my post,” he said, “I often speak with foreigners. Very often they ask me the mean- ing of the basic structure of our constitution, I reply in such cases that the idea is simple. The con- stitution of any state is designed for the interests of the class which is in power. The chief thing is who is in power. The U. S. S. R,, so far, is the only country in the world where power is in the hands of the working class and the Soviet con- stitution is a direct, clear expression of the dictatorship of the prole- tariat. “The Soviet constitution gives full freedom to toilers of all nation- alities whom Czarist Russia doubly strangled and the hundreds of thousands, and millions of organ- izers of Socialist construction and fighters for proletarian ideals came originally from these nationalities. “The Soviet Constitution, express- ing the dictatorship of the prole- tariat, gives the toilers of the U. S. S. R. an opportunity for a united front of all nationalities under the hegemony of the working class to build, grow, strengthen themselves and conquer. We are spending scores of millions of roubles for health protection, education and advancement of the workers. Such is the Soviet Constitution. “Thirty million people, almost one-sixth part of the whole popula- tion of the U. S. S. R., is studying at the expense of the state in reg- ular schools from the first grade to universities—such is the Soviet constitution. There is not and will not be unemployment in Russia. In the Soviet Union the working day is seven hours and not ten or 12 as in the old Russia or as in the “democratic” countries of capital- ism. “We have created new branches of industry,” Kalinin continued, “while Soviet tractors are furrowing virgin land in all seven republics. Consitiagon, { Gives Full Freedom to All Toilers The collective farms are leading scores of millions of people toward bright, well-to-do lives. This new life is already being felt compre- hensively by millions. “Old Russia occupied one of the Jast places in industry, agriculture culture. The U. S. S. R. has quered cr will conquer all in- dices, not only culturally but tech- nically, Such is the Soviet Con- stitution of the U. S. S. R. because in the Soviet Union the Party of Lenin and Stalin has raised to life such forces from the life stream of the workers and peasants or scores of nationalities within its borders as no other country, save one with it was necessary to reorganize the Social Democratic Party of Austria because the former members by the thousands are flocking into the Communist Party of Austria. Ce" ae ITLER’S disbandment order to the Storm Troopers is not work- ing. The Storm Troops in many cities outside of Berlin insist on wearing their uniforms as a sign of protest against Hitler's orders, and against the whole bloody but- chery, as a protest against growing hunger and terror. For example, the “Neue Zuercher Zeitung,” of Zurich, Switzerland, writes: “It is generally noted that in the South of Germany, after the ban on Storm Troop uniforms during the month’s holiday, the Storm Troop men still wear their brown uniforms, or part of them. In sev- eral towns, particularly in Karls- ruhe, arrests have been made by the police, eee 'HE answer of the Storm Troop men is that they have no other clothes to wear. By this means they enter a double protest — against their miserable lot, being without food and clothes, and against Hitler’s orders to disband. Recognizing, now, that he cannot safely disband the Storm Troopers, since they are mutinying against the order to doff their uniforms, Hitler is forced to change his tac- tics. He now says he will allow the men to wear their uniforms, but they will be “reorganized.” Only one-third of the 2,500,000 will be retained, and these will be dis- armed, eee EANWHILE, wholesale flights of former Nazi supporters are re ported from Germany and sur- rounding places. The Budapest newspaper, “Pester Loyd,” reports that Storm Troop leaders arrived in Switzerland by the dozens. For several days, the ferry from Sass- nitz to Tralleborg, Norway, has been packed with from two to three hundred fleeing Nazis at each trip. In South Maren, Czechoslo- vakia, a balloon landed with sev- eral former high officials in the Hitler government, whose names the police would not divulge. They carried with them 32,000 marks of state funds, ites sea UR French comrades have not only set us a splendid example on how to achieve the united front against fascism, through the fine examples of anti-fascist actions of Socialists and Communists, finally forcing the National Council of the Socialist Party to accept the Com- munist Party united front offer, but also in the speed with which they are spreading the Communist Party organ, “L'Humanite.” In the five days from June 30 to July 5, 3,000 new subscribers were gained. Party sympathizers played a leading role in gaining these new subscribers, Recently a general strike of all workers in the Hummeni district of Czechoslovakia ended in a complete victory for the workers. All work- ers walked out against the emer- gency decrees, and for a raise in wages and for health insurance. The strikers marched in a body to the town hall. Three leaders of the Communist Party of Czecho- slovakia were arrested, but this could not terrorize the workers, and demands. Call Youth Conference Against War, Fascism BUFFALO, N. Y., July 19—A pre- liminary youth conference against war and fascism will be held on Sunday, July 29, 2 PM. at the East Side Workers Hall, 881 Broad- way. The conference will make plans for mobilizing the youth of Buffalo against hunger, war and fascism and will raise demands for the free- ing of Ernst Thaelmann and other a proletarian dictatorship, no other world power save Soviet power, can raise.” political prisoners in Germany. The conference is called by the Young Communist League. they finally were granted all their