The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 24, 1934, Page 1

DAYS Only Are Left to Save ANGELO HERNDON from the Chain Gang. $15,000 Bail Is Needed. It Will Be Returned Make This Figure Grow PRESS RUN , Rush Cash or Liberty Bonds to International Labor Defense., 80 E. lith St., New York City. Daily ,<QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Vol. XI, No. 176 =>** Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 8, 1879 NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1934 YESTERDAY. . 43, 200 WEATHER: Fair, (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents PICKETS STOP SCAB TRUCKS IN MINNEAPOLIS Barbusse Cable Asks Immediate Funds for Thaelmann Defense U.S. BANKERS PLAN LOAN TO BOLSTER HITLER RULE % rs New Credits' Are Sought In Germany Bank of England Joins With Wall St. Agents To Aid Nazis BURDEN ON MASSES| Losses Would Be Placed On Toilers Under Plan Of Imperialists NEW YORK.—Plans to give fin- ancial aid and credits to prop up the tottering Fascist rule in Ger- many, are being made now by George L. Harrison, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, in cooperation with Montague Nor- man, Governor of the Bank of Eng- Jand, the Daily Worke: was re- liably informed today. Working with these two leading agents of American and British im- perialism are Hjalmar Schacht, President of the German Reichs- bank, and the capitalists who head the big German trusts, the I. G. Farbenindustrie (Dye Trust) and the Ruhr coal monopolists, Since it would be difficult for the banks to sell German bonds on the markets .now, it is being »planned to have the Government advance credits to German Fascism, thus providing that any losses thus in- curred will be thrown on the backs of the masses here. American and British imperial- ism thus become the mainstays of the fascist rule in Germany and the leading supperters of the Fas- cist attempts to crush the German proletarian revolution in blood. Finance Fascist Industry The initial credit granted by British and American imperialism to German Fascism will be to fin- ance the shipment of raw materials to Germany. A jeint credit to Germany—pref- erably to the big German industries —will be opened by the British and American bankezs—but under gov- ernmental guarantees so that the capitalists will not have to take any risks. The immediate purpose of the credit will be to pay off producers who want to ship raw materials to Germany. The credit agency will retain his lien on the materials while they go through the process of fabrication for re-export. The re-exports then will be shipped abroad and the proceeds used to redeem the original credits ad- vanced to finance the raw materials shipments. The value of the export goods will, of course, exceeded that of the raw materials. It is intended to use a part of this excess to pay American holders of the reparations Joans. As the first credits are re- deemed new credits will be opened to finance further shipments. British imperialism has already obtained an agreement that pay- ments would be made to British holders of Young and Dawes bonds. The State Department of the United States protested quickly that the British were being favored against Americans and the trustees of one of the loans sought to attach the revenues of the German govern- ment which are security against the Dawes bonds. The aim is to prevent the imme- diate loss to Wall Street and Brit- ish banks which now hold hundreds of millions of German commercial credits. Credits to “finance continued foreign trade,” to “oil the machinery of business and to get things started,” etc., are the entering wedge. Having gone so far the intention is to supply larger amounts in the form of direct loans of raw mate- rials similar to the American loan to China through which the Kuo Ming Tang is able to continue its war upon Soviet China. In this case cotton was advanced to the}! Chinese government; the cotton was sold in the market and the proceeds used to buy arms from American and European manufacturers, Huge “Free Thaelmann Meet” Held In Paris PARIS, Juiy 23. — A monster “Free Thaelmann” meeting was held in the Salle Wagram here a Saturday night. Henri Barbusse, and representa- | tives of the Communist Party of France and the Confederation Gen- eral du Travail Unitaire (French Browder, Stachel, Will Speak Friday At Thaelmann Rally NEW YORK.—Friday, July 27, is New York Thaelmann De- fense Day. On that day a mass demonstration for the freedom of Thaelmann and farewell banquet for Willi Muenzenberg, for ten years a member of the German Reichstag and leader of the German masses, will be held at the open air arena of the Bronx Coliseum, East 177th Street. The Workers’ Laboratory the- ater is rehearsing a_ special Thaelmann play; the WIR. band will play, and the united choruses will sing. The speakers are Earl Brow- der, Mother Bloor and Jack Stachel. Muenzenberg will speak on the. situation in Germany today and the outlook for work- ing class victory. Admission is 35¢ at the door, and 25c in advance. Muenzenberg banquet tickets must be returned or settled for not later than Thursday, July 26, noon, at headquarters of Na- tional Committee to Aid Vic- tims of German Victims, 879 Broadway. THIS IS VERY IM- PORTANT. Gang Tries To Lynch Henderson (Special to the Daily Worker) VINELAND, N. J., July 23.—An attempt was made last night by a mob of “vigilantes” and klansmen to lynch Donald Henderson and Anthony Berra, organizers of the Agricultural and Cannery Workers Industrial Union here. The lynch attempt, incited by rich farmers and the local press, was thwarted only by the quick ar- | rival of about 25 workers and ae farmers, who rushed to the aid of the organizers beseiged in thefr | house by the lynch mob, to by the organizer, who was barri- caded inside of the house. The Vineland City police said they “had no forces,” and the borough police refused to send forces because Hen- derson s house is “out of our juris- diction.” Henderson’s only child, a boy eight years old, was so frightened by the mob that he had to be re- moved to the home of friends after- wards. The International Labor Defense has already organized a large group of local workers and farmers, ‘all armed, who have volunteered to go at a moment's notice to the defense of workers and their leaders. Party Leaders To Hear Stachel On Coast Strike New York district functionaries of the Communist Party will hear Jack Stachel, of the party’s central | committee, speak on the lessons of | the San Francisco general stzike and the attack on West Coast Party organizations at a meeting to be held at 7 p. m. tomorrow at Man- hattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St. Among those who have been in- vited to attend the meeting are unit organizers, members of section com- mittees and sub-committees, mem- bezs of the district committees of the party and the Young Commu- nist League, members of the Dis- trict Discipline Committee, secre- taries of leading fractions; party members who are full-time func- tionaries in trade unions, unem- ployed and mass ozganizations; na- tional party functionaries, bureau heads and editors of all party ‘Papers. Butte Mine Union Head Predicts That 15,000 BUTTE, Mont. July 23—The prediction that 15,000 workers in | the Butte section would join the! jniiners and smelter workers in a| general strike before August 1 was made today by Reid Robinson, secretary of the union of 5,000 T. U, U. L.), addressed the huge gathering of anti-fascists. copper miners who have been on strike for almost three months. Local police refused to send pro- | tection to the house when appealed | Will Strike By Aug. 1 Whitewashes Bosses, Blames Communists For Terror NEW YORK—In the face of | unceasing terror against Commu- nist and other working-class or- | Upton | ganizations in California, Sinclair, prominent Socialist and | candidate for the Democratic nom- | ination for Governor of California, virtually whitewashes the ship- | owners’ Vigilantes and tries to hold the Communists responsible for these fascist acts. In this he joins the capitalist press editors in their demand for the blood of the | Communists. Sinclair's statemen: came in the form of a wire in response to a request from the Daily Worker that he state his pesition on the reign of terror now raging in California and throughout the entire Pacific Coast against Communists and militant workers. “As a founder of the Southern California branch of the American Civil Liberties Union,” Sinclair's wire says: “My stand on freedom | well known to you. culties in defending the rights of diate freedom of speech, press and assemblage, and do they can to deprive others of those righis. The greatest polit- ical folly which men can commit in California today is to repudiate | our previous hard-won instruments | of democratic consent, including dum and recall. methods of dictatorship you in-| | evitably give impulse to Fascism, talist exploiters |a storm of popular rage upon your | | own heads, and make it impossible | |for friends of the workers to help them or you. It is true that blind | capitalist greed is responsible for this war in California, but it is also true that. blind Communist hate is responsible for your impo- tence in the s‘ruggle. American conditions require American think- ing and American methods of ac- tion. First and foremost of these is insistence upon democratic methods in bringing about our necessary social changes. “Upton Sinclair.” Sinclair's wire to the Daily Worker, it is clear, is more con- cerned with attacking the militancy (Continued on Page 3) Police Hurl Tear Gas At Tool Plant Pickets PARKERSBURG, W. Va.—State police hurled tear gas bombs and used their clubs wildly today in attacking a large group of strikers at the plant of the Ames Baldwin Wyoming Tool Works here. The State Troopers had been cailed to the scene last night, fol- | lowing the walk-out of union mem- | bers last Friday. | hurt, followed several unsuccessful | attempts of scabs to gain access to the factory gates. Machine guns have been set up on the company’s property. Coast Raids Reds’ Fault To Sinclair of speech, press and. assemblage is | Like all Civil | Liberties people I encounter diffi- | lend power to the reactionary capi- | and bring down, of the Pacific Coast workers and | Today's attack, | | in which several strikers were badly | Says Trial’ May Begin |U. S. Committee Urges | Quick Response To Paris Appeal NEW YORK. — An urgent appeal for intensified protest actions and the raising of | funds for the world-wide fight to rescue Ernst Thaelmann and other anti-fascist fight- ers, who are in imminent, daily danger of murder at the hands of the Nazi butchers, is contained in a cable from Paris busse, leader in the fight against fas- cism. It is addressed to Alfred Wagenknecht, Secretary ~ of the | National Committee to Aid Vic- | tims of German Fascism, reads as follows: “Immediate financial remit- tance to Paris Liberation Com- mittee essential. Situation in Germany such that Volksgericht Communists who themselves repu-} every‘ hing | ) evening | Day. (Hitler’s bogus “People’s Courts”) may any moment begin trials of leading anti-fascists. Thaelmann’s life, threatened. He lives today but who can tell about tomorrow. Therefore several definite under- takings we have decided upon must be carried out immediately, for which large sums of money are neeessaty. We call upon all to aid their utmost at this critical moment.” The National Committee added direct primaries, initiative, referen-| its appeal to that of Barbusse and By resorting to| the Paris Committee, saying: “The National Committee calls upon its city affiliates, all other organizations, professionals and all sympathizers, to put forth special efforts to secure contribu- tions, at shop gates, in neighbor- hoods, in meet’ngs or organiza- tions, so that a remittance may be sent to Paris immediately.” eS et ae German Workers Singing Societies Demand Freedom of Thaelmann PHILADELPHIA, July 23.—A resolution demanding the safe re- lease of Ernst Thaelmann, and of all other imprisoned victims of the Nazis was adopted yesterday by the Regional Convention of the Arbei- er-Saengavereine (German Workers’ Singing Societies) of the North- eastern United States. ‘aes Urge Mass Turnout Intensified Actions For Thaelmann Day NEW YORK.—Spurred by in- creasing threats to the life of Ernst Thaelmann, New York anti-fascists are rallying to the plans for a giant “Free Thaelmann” meeting and farewell banquet to Willi Mu- enzenberg, outstanding anti-fascist editor and publisher, at Bronx Coli- seum, East 177th Street, this Friday in National Thaelmann “Thaelmann’s Day must serve to raise the campaign for the lib- eration of Ernst Thaclmann and all anti-fascist prisoners, to a much higher level,” declares an appeai issued by the Anti-Nazi- Federation of N. ¥. “On this day (Continued on Page 2) At Any’ Time received in this country yesterday. | The cable is from Henri Bar- | noted French author and | and | i be te pty ease leaflet has been distributed at the meeting af Against Communism" at the Lincolm School on the CALIFORNIA FASCISTS TAKE THEIR CUE FROM THE NAZIS FASCIST FORGERY 4 CALL FOR PROTEST TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION” | “Bown With Cap tok | M@XICAN all FASCIST mov Ioot-Burn-Over throw all forms of GO and does not help the work: World meconid on and over | ur ricshts This outrageous forgery of a Communist Party leaflet was is- sued by the fascist League Against @ class. AC hrow to,gain thru. ACTIOK-Org Communism as “proof” of the “gangsterism and degeneracy” of the Communist Party. A fake =NeG@Yaz Foreing Born=and ALL Workers = leachers AN 4 STuden rs | Combat the rich, ®and notary public testimonial was | placed on the bottom to lend au- | thenticity to provocation. | | Painters’ (eneral Strike Looms Here NEW YORK. nee general strike of | painters loomed here following an/| announcement by the Master Paint- lers Association that after July 30 the 7-hour day will be abolished end the $9 wage will no longer be the union standard, On July 30 the Master Painters attempt to beat down the wages and increase the hours. Aiding the bosses in their move to |defeat union conditions, Phillip Zausner, who recently rode into office as secretary - treasurer of Painters District Council 9, by stuff- ing the ballot boxes, failed to isue a call for a general strike, but in- stead issued a leafiet calling for the locals to take a “stand” on the sit- uation. Zausner wants the mem- bership to think that the lock-out edict came as a susprise and that he is against it. is part of a deal made by Zausner and the Master Painters in Decem- ber, 1933, when Zausner promised the bosses the 8-hour day and the $1 an hour rate providing the bosses promised to support Zausner’s re- election. * Zausner had turned the whole matter over to the locals, where he hopes by gangster methods like to divide the workers and defeat jthe strike movement. Must Be on Guard ‘The painters of New York must now be on their guard more than ever kefoze. Their very existence i: at stake. The only correct answe- to the lock-out is the general strike (Continued on Page 2) will lock out all union men in an| But the lock-out | those used in the recent elections} Forged “Communist Leaflet” Circulated By — San Diego Fasci ists As Prelude to Raids | Commanuniee st Party Tasca | Exposure of Faked Provocation | SAN DIEGO, Calif., July 23.—A}| most vicious provocation against | the Communist Party here is the form of a forge leafiet is being circulated by the fasc:st |“League Against Communism.” | Purporting to be issued by the Communist Party and signed by a| | fake notary public, “Mary 8S, John- ston,” “a true copy of original hand-bill,” the leaflet with in- tentionally mis-spelled words, calls upon “all workers, teachers and students, Mexican—Negro—Foreign Born... to arm—fight—rape—loot, burn—overthrow all forms of gov- | ernments.” Using the fascist methods of Hitler in the Reichstag fire, where an arson plot was falsely attrib- uted to the German Communists, these California fascists sought to incite an attack on all Commu- nists. { Just as in other cities on the West Coast where police worked hand-in-hand with fascist hood- lums in smashing workers’ meeting rooms and burning and _ looting, | | San Diego police raided the Work- ers Center, 852 Eighth Ave., and) | arresting all Communist leaders on | sight. Preparations to raid the | center followed immediately on the | issuance of the vicious, provocative leaflet. They arrested Paul Shapiro, Young Communist Leazuc organ- izer, and Ray Berquist, ‘onal | Student League organizer. Both (Continued on Page 3) | Sell-Out Leaders Openly Reveal Role of Treachery By BILL DUNNE SAN FRANCISCO, July 23. | —Many if not most of the be- trayals in American labor struggles have been more or less accidental or organized on the spur of the moment. The San Francisco betrayal 5 mned in advance. It was | deliberate. The “real leaders of organized labor'—as Mayor ssi of San Francisco and the press call them— have begun to talk. Secrets are being told. There is a wonderful a atmosphere of good fellowship even | How Frisco Strike Betrayal Was Planned though there is no honor among the members of the cabal which conspired to “go along” with the general strike demanded by the resolute workers of the ten mari- time trades unions headed by Harry Bridges in order to betray it. The potent drug that is distilled by the process of fraternization with the great has gone speedily to the heads of the “real leaders of or- ganized labor.” Fawning on Farley, wrangling with Wagner to divide the ranks of labor, shaking hands with General Johnson and giving clavering approval to his fescist de- nunciations of Commun! honestly militant ~ working ljezders from whom Ryan, Vande- leur and Company were unable to alienate the rank and file of work- ers, these “gentlemen's gentlemen” of the American robber class are making some revealing statements. First on the list of loose talkers j is one Jcseph Patrick Ryan—Na. tional President of the Interna tional Longshoremen’s Association, In trying to select the most im- portant and characteristic of his re- cent utterances one suffers from an embarrassment of riches, Perhaps the statement most indicative of the defeatist conspiracy—practically without parallel in the annals of the American labor movement—to deliver a mass strike movement into the hands of its class enemies, is that contained in Ryan's telegram to Mayor Rossi published in the/ San Francisco News for July 20: “As one gocd pal to anot! wish I were with yeu. It will a! come cvt all right.” Little comment is needed on this effusion. It is directed to the) mayor whose police shot and killed two members of the union of which Ryan is president, and} wounded 32 more by gunfire upon | Confirmed by A. F. L. Misleadors |! unarmed pickets. 1 It is directed to the mayor, whose police protect the fascist bands now beating up striking members of the LL.A. If Harry Bridges and the mari- time trades strike committee do |not have photostatic copies made of the San Francisco News’ story 3s able than we If Ryan thinks away with this kind of stuff jly because General Johnson | mounced Bridges in his speech yes- | i (Continued on Page 3) | ne Pes nen NNNRE | following the bloody June 30 e | in a statement published to | of the Reichs Communist Estimate Is); Reichstag Fired By | Nazis, SaysS.A.Man LONDON, July 23.—A Nazi Storm | Trooper who. fled from Germany ts has fully confirmed previous la- tions of the responsibility of Hitler and Goering for the Rei g fire in the Daily Herald. It will be remembered that the Nazi regime which is now seeking to murder Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the German working class and head of the Communist Party, | utilized the Reichstag arson to de- | mand death sentences against Ernst | Torgler, German Communist leader, | and the three Bulgarian Commu- | nists, Dimitroff, Popoff and Taneff | —a move that was defeated only | by the world-wide imass protest. | The refugee Storm Trooper, E. Kruse, with membership No. 134,522 | in the Storm Tro declare that is the “last sur ig member. fire gang.” Kruse, is now in Switzerland. He is said | to have been a personal servant of | Ernst Roehm, late commander of the Storm Troopers, who was among | those murdered by Hitier on June | 30. The Daily Herald gives ais | story, as follows: “Kruse says that on Feb. 10, 1933, ' Roehm, Heines and Ernst, all later | | shot in the clean-up, had selected | a ‘group of eleven reliable S. A.|? {Storm arpa men, who were sum- One S. A. ; fused to take the oath ar taken away again. “Kruse gives the names of all the | | other nine men, and explains how | van der Lubbe [the Dutch youth} who was later beheaded on a charge | of having set the fire] was told he} would be arrested and sentenced to! satisfy public opinion, but later would be released secretly and sent | was and never heard of | palace {General Goeri ian Minister], walked th: the underground passage to Reichstag, and were shown the the} places where they would have to Place inflammable material. “Kruse says that of the thirteen men involyed, one after another mysteriously disappeared, excepi | | Roehm, Heines, Ernst and two S. A. one named Nagel, a friend of| es, and himself. the end of June, by the chance t not in Roehm’s Strikers Use Cars to Bar | Scabs’ » Work | Want Ww orkers to Keep Truce As Bosses Open Traffic MARINE STRIKE HOLDS West Coast Unions Take Vote on Forced Arbitration STRIKE SUMMARY Labor misleaders tricked Oak- land teamsters to return to work, but west coast longshoremen and seamen continued their strike as the Roosevelt Board ballyhooed heavily for arbitration. On the scene are 1,009 regular troops. In New York, Joseph P. Ryan, reactionary longshore union head, announced his glee at the out- come of the San Francisco gen- eral strike. The prediction was made by Butte, (Mont.) mine union heads that by August 1, 15,000 other workers would join the 5,000 miners and smeltermen who have | been on strike for the past three months. Five hundred additiona heavily- armed National Guardsmen were moved into Minneapolis to aid police in guarding sex trucks. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn... July 23. —After a quiet week-end, foll ing the brutal shooting of strik- ers and sympathizers on Friday, today was marked by further ma- neuvers by Father Francis J. Hass to settle the strike. At the same time despite no ap- parent efforts by strike leadership to spread the strike, the workers left their jobs and fhe laundry and dyeing workers voted to strike temorrow mozni City track were calied cut by the unien, which threat to tie up ga: mendous sent: spreading of sti ers are obviously werkers back. Mayor Bainbridge and Police Chief Johannes, in the name of law and order, are providing con- voys today for trucks, openly sid- ing with truck owners. Governor Olson charges Johannes with re- sponsibility for the shootings of Friday. The National Guard is being kept off streets but is ready in Fair Grounds and Armories for use, hory: , if needed. MINNEAPOLIS, July 23.— Truck strike pickers stopped 'movement of all city garbage trucks here today. The pickets blocked the road with a long line of cars. While Governor Olson has than 4,000 additional National reserves: strike zone, for the e, but the lead- holding the G (Continucd on Page 2) : Greater Speed Is Urged in Ohio Signature Drive (Special to the Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, Ohio., July 23. — The secretariat of the Communist |Party in District 6 today issued an appeal to all Party members ti not to incting petition sig- d to a e Communist, ef a place on the stte | candidat | ballét. The deadline for submitting the petitions to state authorities is August 1. “Every Communist and every sympathetic worker must realize by now the need for immediate action to get Comunist candidates on the ballot in this state. There is only one way to g2t those signatures — thet is to go out and get them from ye tens of thousands of ene ers who have been pitch by the re- in Cleveland, by mont’s apathy to isht-suffcrers, by all the crushing applications of the New of June 30 thei he suceeded in| Deal which have ground worker and escaping the Leader's (Hitler's) vengeance, y | poor farmer alike deeper and deeper into economic misery, ;