The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 21, 1934, Page 1

— a PATTERSON, FROM SICK BED, APPEALS FOR HERDON BAIL | By WILLIAM L. PATTERSON National Secretary, International Labor Defense T THIS moment the Scottsboro-Herndon and the Thaelmann campaigns, the strike struggles all over the country, and especially the marine workers strike and the general strike on the Pacific Coast, Labor Defense. It is particularly a blow to me that at such a moment illness should have forced me to retire from active service in the I.L.D. and the revo- lutionary movement. The doctors tell me that it will be several months before I can resume this active service, and my own knowledge of my physical con- dition surely verifies this statement. In this situation, I want to call upon the ranks of the 1.L.D. and upon every organization and person sincerely opposed to fascist suppression, for intensified activity in the Scottsboro - Herndon-Thaelmann campaign. Carry forward the most vigorous fight in support of the struggles of the marine w vorkers, and the most in- tensive participation on the defense front in the vital struggles of the workers Angelo Herndon must be over the whole country. freed! Send funds and Liberty bonds immediately for the $15,000 bail, to the national office of the I.L.D., Room 430, 80 East 11th Street, New York City, which will issue certifi- cates guaranteeing return of all loans for this pur- pose. The Scottsboro boys must be freed! Rush funds for their appeals and the Herndon appeal for the urgent defense. Intensify the mass struggle for 4ngelo Herndon, the Scottsboro boys and Ernst Thaelmann, Build the 1.L.D. in these. struggles into @ powerful mass organization. Act without delay in this crucial emergency. DAYS Only Are Left to Save impose new and growing tasks on the International 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. 11th St., New York City. Vol. XI, No. 174 & ,, Mew York, N. ¥., under Daily -<QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1934 Mntered as second-class matter at the Post Office at the Act of March 38, 1878. WEATHER: Fair, warmer. Make This Figure Grow PRESS RUN x. 46, 600 YESTERDAY. (Eight Pages) Price 3 Cents TERROR RAGES ON COAST Police in Trucks Pour Bullets Into Minneapolis Strikers The Roosevelt Government Leads Strike-breaking Forces AN EDITORIAL MBINING acts of fraud and trickery with acts of van- dalism and thuggery, the ruling class of California and their lick-spittles of the Vandeleur stripe in the labor unions have succeeded in strangling the general strike. | But they have not succeeded in destroying class solidarity | of the San Francisco workers behind the marine strikers. These labor misleaders—Mr. Vandeleur, Mr. Casey and others—uniting with Mayor Rossi and his fascist hordes of Vigilantes, uniting with the shipowners, the N. R. A. strikebreaking board and the murderers of workmen, have concluded through the adoption of this resolution one of the most shameful betrayals of the American working man in recent history. The bosses could not defeat the general strike by themselves. All | the state troops and the hoodlum gangs, all the brutal fascist terror of the capitalists could not break the strike. The bosses needed allies inside the labor movement to finish the job. And they found these allies in the top leadership of the various unions. * * * B= they could not find sufficient allies in the leadership of the maritime strike. There is a rank and file leadership here, and this leadership has decided to fight it out to a finish for their just demands. Although the betrayal of the general strike has removed from the maritime strike front an important section of reserves and has considerably weakened the fight against the open shop on the water- front, the fight against the open shop is not lost. The fight can be won by bringing new reserves into the struggle, by appealing directly to the rank and file of the unions throughout the country to give added support to the strike and by spreading the marine strike action to the eastern ports. The fact that the workers of Portland are considering general strike action in support of the maritime workers shows clearly that the strike is not defeated, but that it is possible to spread it to ever greater proportions. * * ‘HE strikebreaking line-up in the whole situation should now be quite clear to all workers. Leading the forces of strikebreaking is the Federal Government. Indeed, it was none other than General Johnson, field marshall of the NR.A., who in. a radio address called for a fascist pogrom against Communists in California, It is interesting to note that acts of vandalism and violence against workers’ organizations reached their greatest height following the General's appeal for lynch law in the Bay Region. This same General now announces himself as the chief of all nego- tiations. In order to win the maritime strike it is necessary for the mass of workers in the trade unions to repudiate all attempts of the N.R.A. officials to take any of the matters of the strike in their hands. The N.R.A. must be approached as a strike-breaking agency and treated as such by the workers. The maritime strikers and the militant leaders of the longshoremen and seamen, the Communists and left wing workers, are not against negotiating an agreement with the shipowners as the bosses and their press say. They are against arbitration with the marine strike broken, They are against turning the destiny of the strike over to the Roose- velt Mediation Board, which represents the shipowners. ‘The capitalist press says that Communists and militants are against ending the strike. This is a downright lie. The Communists want to end the strike with the unions in control of the hiring halls on the waterfront, with union recognition and improvement of conditions. Greedy shipowners, of course, do not want such a settlement. And the N.R.A. is backing the shipowners. The troops are backing the ship- owners. Reactionary union leaders who put their stamp of approval on the back to work resolution are backing the shipowners. * - * * Yani working class must unite stronger than ever before against the shipowners and the betrayers of the strike. All support that can be mustered must be thrown behind the heroic marine workers who have refused to be trapped by the betrayers. Funds should be rushed to marine strike committee through the Ma- | rine Workers Industrial Union, 140 Broad Street, New York City. All ships coming from the West Coast ports must be met by picket lines in the East Coast ports. Demonstrations in support of the marine strike shoud be continued all over the country. Every local union should immediately pass resolutions in support of the strike and give active assistance on the picket lines. The maritime strike can be won with the combined support of the American working class. Committee to Back Coast Strike Urges United Aid state and federal government against ittee for the Support of the| Militant labor organizations as an Comme ne Sue attack on the whole trade union ‘West Coast strike, consisting of rep- SaBVeRiEKE: _ Tesentatives of A. F. of L, unions, | ~tadependent unions, and T. U. U. L.| The statement follows: OSes an bigot tek oe “More than a hundre dthousand tioris, issued a statement yesterday ® calling the New York workers to workers on the West Coast affiliated form a broad united front to pro- with the A. F. of L. independent vide fnancial and moral support, to| ade unions and T. U. U. L. organi- the marine workers, who continue zations laid down their tools to sup- their struggle, and branding the} port the justified di di terror and attacks of the comabioed | : iran saad forces of the vigilantes and city,! NEW YORK.—The era (Continued on Page 2) ¥ "|Many Hurt, Several May Die, Report Rey. Haas Trying To| Put Over Arbitra- tion Swindle (Special to the Daily Worker) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., July 20. —Trucks with police armed with shotguns and high-powered rifies rushed through the picket lines of striking truck drivers today, firing indiscriminately into men, women and children. Many were wound- | ed some are expected to die. Troops ordered out by Goy. Olson, Farmer-Laborite, are occupying the streets armed with mounted machine guns, while thugs dressed in uniforms, patrol the entire wholesale district. While the strikers were being shot down in cold blood by the military and thugs, Rev. Haas, representing the new Labor Rela- tions Board, continued his efforts to strangle the strike on the basis of having the men return to work and leave all questions of wages, conditions, etc., to arbitration. Haas has been holding confer- ences yesterday and today with employers. 'S.P. Office in N. Y. Rebuffs Unity Offers Ignores All Communist Delegations; Party Renews Invitation NEW YORK.—In an official state- ment issued today, the Commu- nist Party, New York District, re- vealed that its efforts thus for to effect a United Front against the menace of war and fascism in this country have thus far met with the stubborn refusal of the Socialist Party to meet with any delegation or Committee of Communists sent to discuss the question. The statement, however, reaffirms the eagerness and willingness of the Communist Party to meet with any | group of Socialists at any appointed place for serious discussions on ways and means for forming United Front actions on August 1 and against reaction. The full text of the statement | follows: The New York District Committee | (Continued from page 2) PROTECTING THE Army tanks and National DOLLAR (?) LINE Guardsmen carrying out their real purpose—guarding the interests of the rich against the workers. Above shows tanks drawn up before the Dollar Line docks at San Francisco during a tense moment in the strike. Morgan Firm Won't Admit Cable on Hitler But Get Code Messages on New Political Crisis NEW YORK.—Mr. James D. Mooney, General Manager of the | Morgan-controlled General Motors | Corporation refused to discuss the | sensational coded cable his firm re-| ceived yesterday, reporting “Hitler arreste and “Germany in tur- | moil.” His nearest assistant, Mr. P. o.| es however, issued a categori- | cal denial that any such cable had been received by Mr. Mooney. “We received only two ordinary | business cables yesterday from Ger- | many,” Mr, Junion declared, in re- sponse to questions put to him by the Daily Worker. Continuing the discussion, how- ever, Mr. Junion remarked that his company had just been ad- vised that all was “quiet in Ger- many,” the company apparently having received political as well as business communications from Berlin. General Motors Corporation, a billion dollar company now domin- ating the automobile industry. is one of the most powerful of the J. P. Morgan industrial empires, with international affiliations and connections, particularly in fascist Germany. ‘The Morgans have been powerful supporters and backers of the pres- ent fascist government in Germany, since Hitler and the fascist govern-| ment have protected the invest- | | (Continued on Page 2) Funds Needed at Once To Aid Coast Strike NEW YORK.—Due to the raid- ing of the Marine Workers In- dustrial Union headquarters in West Coast cities by fascist gangs money needed immediately to support the marine workers’ strike must be sent to a new address, Bring or mail money to 140 Broad St., New York City, head- quarters of the union in Niw York, from where it will be for- warded safely to the Coast. Ryan Reveals ‘Betrayal of Frisco Strike Reactionaries Headed Strike with Aim of Smashing It NEW YORK.—Joseph P. Ryan, president of the International Long- shoremen’s Association and also | president of the Central Trades and | Labor Council of Greater New York, admitted at a meeting of the Coun- cil held in Beethoven Hall that the Central Labor Council of San Fran- cisco headed the general strike in order to betray it. Ryan, who personally attempted to call off the maritime strike, was overridden by the rank and file of the marine workers on the West Coast, and the strike was continued un \> rank and file leadership. But when the rank and file of the vari- ous unions had decided on the gen- (Continued on Page 2) Police, Hired Plant; Gov't Sympathy " Action With | | Carmen Considered | By Other Trades | By BILL DUNNE (Special to the Daily Worker) SAIN FRANCISCO, Cal., July 20.—The strike of Mari- time Workers headed by |Harry Bridges continues. i The Market Street Carmen, members of the Amalgamated Association, have voted prac- Marine Strike Holds Fir Firm; Frisco Streetcar Men Vote Against Returning to Work Gangs, Wreck All Union and | Communist Halls; Burn Western Worker Manhunt On For Militants SAN FRANCISCO, July renewed outbreak of strikes in Seattle and Port- land, the ship-owners, hired thugs, and police, all up and down the Coast, broke loose in a new series of raids, raging day and night through the streets in organized gangs, wrecking meeting 20.—Faced with a | places, homes, union halls, and printing plants in a reign of “‘red-baiting”’ lynch hysteria strong- ily reminiscent of the war days of 1917-18 and of the notorious Palmer raids in 1919. tically unanimously against | returning to work. A com | £ pany union formerly dom | inated the situation but shortly be- | fore and during the general strike |the A, A, was organized. | The men haye made demands for | higher wages and working condi- \tions. The car lines are being oper- jated, however, with strike-breakers | under police protection and so far | there has been no attempt to picket the car bans or lines. Further sym- |pathy strike action in support of | |the carmen is a possibility. The statement in previous dis- patches that there was no real de- sire to return to work on the part of the rank and file involved in the general strike even in face of the barrage of employer propaganda, the organized red scare and the deluge of demagogy and threats with which the press has been in- undating the working class, is con- | firmed by the closeness of the vote | in the strike committee on the question of the return to work. The vote was 174 against a return to| work and 191 for. The workers were | betrayed but not defeated. There is |small comfort in the situation for the open shop employers, the press, | the local union bureaucrats or the | Roosevelt administration. The hang- | ers-on of the employers are vent ing their anger on the Commun Party and all organizations sus- | jpected of ommunist sympathies 4 | (Continued c on “Page 2) | Defend the Commu HERE is not a capitalist newspaper or radio station that is not now pounding vicious incitement against Communists and the Communist Party. The vindictiveness and ferocity of the raids and anti- nist Party! Fight Terrorism AN EDITORIAL The second is to surround the Communist Party with such a mountain of filthy slander and falsehood as to per- mit the employers and their governmental apparatus to drive the Communist Party into illegality. Communist propaganda now coming from the White House agents of Roosevelt as well as the coarse bootlickers of big capital, Governor Merriam, Mayor Rossi of San Francisco, and the Mayors of Portland and Seattle, indicate that or- ganized terrorism against the Communist Party is from now on the recognized policy of the Roosevelt government. * * * IHERE are two easily recognized objectives in the latest drive of the propaganda machines which do the bidding of the capitlist class in this country. One is to demoralize and discredit the historic general strike of the ’Frisco workers through a foul attempt to depict the rtling class gang raids against the Communists and revolutionary unions as coming from the workers on strike, In both of these purposes the brutal shipowners and monopolist exploiters will not succeed. For if anything bursts through the lies of the capitalist press, it is the revelation that every action of violence, every raid against the Communist and Marine Union headquarters, was cold-bloodedly en- gineered by the shipowners with the co-operation of the police. It is the very shipowners who pay the marine workers stave wages, drive them in the hellish “Fink Halls,” who are the organizers of the “vigilante” gang raids against the Communists and the Marine Workers Union. For these blondsuckers recognize (Continued on Page 8) An organized man-hunt, coast-wide in its pro- | portions, has been instituted by the whole Governmental ma- hine, led by the police, and secret service, for all persons in any way connected with radical unions, mass organizations or the Communist Party. As part of this savage terrorism against all militant elements in the marine strike, the printing plant issuing the Western Worker, organ of the Communist Party was burnt to the ground as a warning to all other printing plants not to accept printing orders from the Communist Party. All through the night, hired thugs and “vigilante” hood- lums, with the active assistance of the police and govern- ment officials, swarmed through the streets in special “brick (Continued on Page 2) General Strike|Dock Strikers ‘Looms; Troops Defy Bombs of In Portland Seattle Police Strategy Board Stalls 2,000 Battle Mounted as Rank and File Plan Cops’ Attempt To Big Walk-Out Load Scab Cargo —— | (Special to the Daily Worker) SEATTLE, July 20.—Police today 3 _ |hurled tear and vomiting gas bombs POR TEN: Ors aay rs jinto the ranks of 2.000 striking Union labor moved toward the gen- llongshoremen, injuring scores of | eral strike as state troops number- | workers. ing over a thousand camped 10; The 2,000 strikers were gathered miles outside the city threatening to|at Piers 40 and 41, where attempts advance on the waterfront with ma- |had been miade to load scab ves- chine guns and light howitzers. —_| sels, when 300 police, goaded on by The troops were called by Gov- Mayor Charles L. Smith, demanded ernor Julius L. Meier, at the behest | their dispersal. When strikers re of the shipowners and owners of | fused to budge from their position, | lumber mills. the ordez to hurl the bombs was After issuing a statement criticiz- | given. ing the Governor's action an’ term-| As the excruciatingly painful and |injuricus |midst of gas-bombs exploded in the the strikers’ ranks, many of them surged forward to battle with the cops. Against the swing- ‘ing clubs, horses and bombs of the to step into the situation.|police, strikers used sticks and But the rank and file of the union | stones. Many of them, seizing the are raring to go and it is almost | bombs before they exploded, hurled certain that if the troops come into | them back into the faces of the ing it the “most mons‘rous thing} that can happen in the waterfront strike.” the labor strategy commit- tee stalled for time and suggested | that Senator Wagner would be) the city the union members will | police. override the top leaders of the| Several sirikers were hurled into unions and Senator Wagner and|tne water; many; overcome, lay |come out in a general strike. | The troops were accomp2nied by a special company carrying tear {toxic gas and vomit gas. Othe: |companies carried automatic rifles. and howitze:s that shoot cne-pound,; Hundreds of strikers and sym- | shells. |pathize:s were gassed, three hurt Harry S. Green, a contractor, was, badly enough to need immediate fone on the piers, prey to the s' hooves. As the rickets’ lines under the heavy attack, ght trains carrying cargo were |moved on to the piers. 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