The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 26, 1934, Page 1

moe Workers to Mass at Open-Air Thaelmann Rally in Bronx Coliseum Tomorrow still Needed. Loans to Bail Rush Cash or Liberty ANGELO DAYS Only chain gang. Fund Will Are Left to Save HERNDON from the $12,134.04 Bail Is . Total received $2,865.96 Be Returned. Bonds to International Labor Defense., 80 E. llth St., New York City. Vol. XI, No. 178 => 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 Aet of March 8, 1879. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1934 DOLLFUSS DIES IN Make This Fign PRESS RUN YESTERDAY. WEATHER: Showers, warmer (Six Pages) ight at 7:30 ure Grow 42,900 Price 3 Cents NAZI PUTSCH COAST STRIKE FIRM WITH VOTE RESULT KEPT SECRET ry Ships’ Men Are Barred In Balloting “tinneapolis Drivers Re- ject Strikebreaking Arbitration Plans FEW TRUCKS ROLL Roosevelt Board Aims To Bar Militants as *Frisco Delegates BULLETIN MINNEAPOLIS Minn., July 25. —Governor Olson has just issued an ultimatum giving until noon tomorrow to settle the strike, Failure to settle, he says, means martial law and the taking over of transportation of goods by National Guardsmen. As a final basis of settlement he proposes: 1) immediate return to jobs; 2) ali workers to be re- instated; 3) an immediate elec- tion to determine the authority of the union to represent the work- ers; 4) an arbitration board of two from each’ side and a neutral chairman; 5) .arbitration as to wages to start at 5214 cents for drivers and 42% cents for inside men. SAN FRANCISCO, July 25. —Maritime workers contin- ued their strike along the Pacie Coast as unconfirmed reports, obviously originating in the N.R.A. offices, an- nounced that the longshore- men were overwhelmingly in favor of throwing all their demands into the lap of the Roosevelt Arbitration Board. Although no official announce- ment on the voting was made by Dr. Louis Bloch, secretary of the board, the reactionary Examiner stated that it had been reliably in- formed that the dockers had voted for arbitration. Returns from Seattle and Tacoma remain to be counted, it is reported. Seamen Excluded So far the seamen, firemen, mas- ters, mates, pilots and engineers— the men who man the -ships—have been excluded from the voting. The men on the ships are mem- bers of several unions. It was re- vealed today that the Roosevelt Board will attempt to execlude the majority of seamen from voting. “The board had yet to deter- mine how, where and who among the seamen should be allowed to vote in choosing representatives in collective bargaining,” said a local press report here today. It is obvious that the board will attempt to exclude the members of the Marine Workers Industrial Union, which represents the ma- jority sentiment of the seamen. Reactionaries Plan To Move In Andrew Furuseth and Paul Shar- renberg, reactionary leaders of the International Seamen’s Union, are attempting through the N.R.A. to act as the spokesmen for the sea- men, despite the fact that the ma- jority of the men have repudiated these leaders. It is clear that the N.R.A. offi- cials will use all their power to turn over the question of negotiation to these reactionaries. The Marine Workers Industrial Union demands that only an elected rank and file committee of the sea- men shall have the right to nego- tiate and that all questions of nego- tiation shail be referred back to the seamen for a vote. a eS te * » Minneapolis Strike Firm MINNEAPOLIS, Jtly 25—Federal mediators and Governor Floyd B. Olson, Farmer-Laborite, are still pressing for a strikebreaking agree- ment to break the strike of the truck drivers. Olson has threatened, under cover of sympathy for the strikers against the brutality of the police, to send 4,000 National Guardsmen into the city under martial law. The striking workers are firm in their refusal of all strikebreaking arbitration proposals offered by Ol- son and Father Haas, the Federal conciliator. Police are convoying some scab trucks, but the militant picketing of the workers has tied up the greater part of the city’s trucking. Right to Organize, to Strike and Picket NEW YORK. — The con- gressional election campaign platform of the Communist Party of the United States as) adopted by its Central Com-| mittee was made public today, |placing in the hands of the American working class a powerful weapon in their fight against the increasingly sharp onslaughts of capitalism on their elementary political rights and living condi- tions. The program addresses itself to the lsroadest toiling masses, who have felt the heavy hand of Roose- velt’s N.R.A., to embattled strikers braving police guns, to impover- ished farmers in the double grip of the drought and the banker, to small businessmen ruined by the “New Deal,” and to all those other constantly increasing numbers who face the same prospects. It enunciates clearly the belief of the Communist Party that this election campaign musi be “a start- ing point in the workers’ struggle for political power, for a workers’ government, for a Soviet govern- ment in the United States which alone will bring the present capi- talist crisis to an end in a manner beneficial to the masses.” Mindful that the brutal fascist terror turned against strikers in San Francisco, Seattle, Toledo, Min- neapolis and Cleveland by govern- ment forces and the employers threatens all American workers who give organized expression to their resentment against New Deal op- pression the platform raises as one of its most important demands the right to organize, to strike and to picket. The adoption of the platform serves as the opening gun in local, state and national campaigns by the Communist Party heretofore un- parelleled in scope and vigor. The platform lists seven immedi- ate demands for improving the con- ditions of workers, poor farmers and small businessmen whose living standards and incomes have been drastically cut by the “New Deal” under the guise of bringing about “recovery.” The demands are: Against Roosevelt’s “New Deal” attacks on the living standards of the toilers, for higher wages, shorter hours, shorter work week, and improved living standards. Against capitalist terror and the (Continued on Page 3) Only Communists Fight For Relief, Washington Commissioner Declares WASHINGTON, July 25.—After a week's tour of breadlines and re- lief offices of Cleveland, Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit and Toledo, Dis- trict Commissioner George E. Allen, returned to Washington yesterday declaring that 98 per cent of the unemployed are anxious to get work that is not available. Allen, disguised in tattered clothes, stated that he had tried to get a job in 25 different places and failed everywhere. “I found out our employment system is wrong from beginning to end,” he declared, “I learned the power that the Communists have is gained princi- pally because they will listen to peo- ple who are down and out and will work for them and fight for them,” Allen declared. Return Thaelmann Rally Admission Funds Today NEW YORK—All funds from the sale of tickets of the free Thael- mann open air rally and farewell banquet to Willi Muenzenberg must. be brought to 870 Broadway not later than 11 o'clock tonight, More than 100 volunteer workers will be needed at the rally. All vol- unteers, who will be admitted free, should report at the Bronx Coli- seum on Friday at 10 a.m, Urges Toilers to Defend’ Communist Party Platform For Fall Campaign Spurs Fight on NRA Hunger Deal NEW PARIS REPORT | SUPPORTS STORIES ON TORGLER DEATH Vets Mass To Smash | Vigilantes 2,000 at Court House! Demonstrate Against Fascist Terror | (Special to the Dally Worker) | PORTLAND, Ore., July 25—Two | thousand war veterans, led by the Workers Ex -Servicemen’s League, heid a tremendous demonstration in the Plaza Park in protest against NEW YORK. — Information re- ceived yesterday from Paris tends to confirm the report: published last | Sunday by the Washington Sunday | Star that Ernst Torgler, German Communist leader and acquitted Reichstag fire defendant, has been murdered in his cell by the Nazi butchers. The National Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism, 870 Broadway, was informed by cable that there is much concern over the fate of Torgler in England, France and other European coun- tries. The Daily Mail of London reported about ten days ago that Torgler had been found dead in his cell. Inquiries subsequently directed to the Nazi authorities resulted in neither admission nor denial, but were met with semi-official ridicule. The fate of Richard Scheringer is not in doubt, He was brutally mur- the arrest of thirty-six workers in | the vigilante and police raid on the | Workers’ Bookshop and the Com- | dered in the period of bloody mas-| munist Party headquarters. | sacres, around June 30. This anti- I. W. O. Calls On Membership to Mass At “Free Thaelmann” Rally in Bronx NEW YORK.—The National Executive Committce of the Inter- national Workers Order called upon its entire membership today to increase their efforts in the struggle for the freedom of Thael- mann, and to mass at the demonstration at the Bronx Coliseum outdoor arena tomorrow, where Willi Muenzenberg, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Germany will speak. The I.W.O. statement follows: | “To all members of the International Workers Order in New York! “The bloody fingers of Hitler are reaching out for the life of our Comrade Thaelmann. The very crisis in his fascist party is making Hitler desperate. This crisis is also demonstrating to his masters, to the capitalist class of Germans t the proletarian revolution has not been defeated but is gathering its strength for the decisive battle. “That is why the life of Thaelmann is now in greater danger than it ever was. That is why our efforts to save Thaelmann must be more energetic than they ever were. “Friday, July 27th, at 7:30 in the evening, there will be a mass | demonstration against fascism and for the freedom of Thaelmann. The New York workers will assemble at the Bronx Coliseum at His Cai Is Captured In Uprising Forces Supported hy Fascist Dictatorship Seize Chancellory MARTI AL LAW RULES Danger Flares Higher of New Imperialist War as Troops Mass fascist hero was a lieutenant in the Reichswehr up to 1930, when he was charged with high treason for Nazi activities in the German army. In prison he met a number of Com- munists, broke with Hitler and joined the Communist Party of Ger- many. After his release, he openly ex- posed Hitler, answered a number of questions directed to him by Na- tionalists and Nazis in a pamphlet, and was again condemned to prison for two years. When Hitler was called to power by the German in- dustrialists, Scheringer was still in jail and an attempt was made by Nazi leaders to win him back to their camp. He reiterated his sup- port of the German Communist Party and was thrown into a con- centration camp, where he was re- cently murdered. Trial af Negro Tenants Today In Bronx Court NEW YORK.—The Bronx Action | Committee Against Negro Discrimi- nation appealed yesterday to all workers to pack Municipal Court, 162nd St. and Brook Ave., Bronx, this morning at the trial of two of the 14 Negro families whom chauvi- nist Bronx property owners are try- ing to evict from their homes at 1636-40 University Ave. The committee was formed at the Bronx-wide Conference Against Ne- gro Discrimination held last Satur- day and attended by 72 delegates, representing some 12,000 white and Negro workers. The delegates all pledged their organizations to wage a relentless struggle against racial segregation and Negro persecution which they denounced as designed by the bosses to smash the grow- ing unity of Negro and white work- ers and hamper their struggles against intolerable conditions. The delegates also pledged sup- port to the campaign for the free- dom of Angelo Herndon and the Scottsboro Boys and adopted a reso- lution endorsing the Workers Un- employment Insurance Bill. Unemployed? Join the Builders! Get Daily Worker Subscribers! Red Volos Court Rejects Appeal | SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., July 25. —The Federal District Court of Ap- peals today rejected the appeal for Tom Mooney, who is still held in San Quentin Prison despite over- whelming proof of his innocence, and his recent acquittal on an in- dictment similar to the one on which he was convicted on the trumped-up charge of participating in the bombing of the 1916 Pre- paredness Parade in this city. The court ruled that the case still is in the jurisdiction of the State courts, which at the instructions of California corporations helped in framing Mooney. Meantime, Leo Gallagher, Inter- national Labor Defense attorney is in the city preparing an appeal to Governor Merriam for Mooney’s pardon. Mussolini Gives Some Good Tips to Hopkins ROME, Italy, July 24—Harry L. Hopkins, United States Relief Ad- ministrator, after a meeting with Mussolini, yesterday declared that he had discussed. Italian relief methods and learned “several good pointers’ from Mussolini, For Mooney The demonstration was held op- posite the Circuit Court, despite | | Warnings and threats from the o- | lice that all radical organizations | would be driven out of existence. In the courtroom where Judge Hendrickson held twenty of the| workers on charges of criminal syn- dicalism, a people’s jury, composed of five A. F. of L. members, two ministers and others, observed the proceedings and later denounced the court’s action as an obvious frame-up. Among those held on the syn- dicalist charge are: Dirk De Jong, John Weber, Earl Stewart—$1,000 bail each; Petrovich and Vaghn— $500 each; Den Cluster, Young Communist League organizer — $100, The City eCntral Committee of the League Against War and Fas- cism, composed of fifty representa- tives of trade unions, fraternal groups and workers’ organizations have worked out plans to defend workers against raids conducted by fascist forces. Workers’ mass organizations are meeting the fascist efforts to crush working class organizations with a courageous stand, arousing the in- terest, sympathy and cooperation of sections of ihe population hereto- fore inactive. . . Call Conference On Terror in N. Y. NEW YORK.—“It is of the great- est importance for all our trade unions to immediately protest the | vicious atack that has been launched against foreign-born workers by the government and the employers,” said Andrew Overgaard, secretary of the Trade Union Unity Council, yesterday. The T.U.U.C. issued a call to all its affiliated unions, to all inde- pendent unions to send delegates to an emergency conference against deportation and discrimination against foreign-born workers which will be held in Manhattan Lyceum, Monday, July 30. at 8 p.m. under the auspices of the Committee for the Protection of Foreign-Born. “In the general strike in<Cali- fornia the most vicious deportation terror has been let loose. Members of the Marine Workers Industrial Union and the rank and file mem- bers of the Longshoremen’s Asso- ciation, and other foreign-born workers participating in the gen- eral strike, are being singled out for deportation,” said Overgaard. “We urge all trade unions affili- ated to the T.U.U.C. and all locals of the A. F. of L. as well as inde- pendent unions to appoint delegates to participate in this important con- ference.” 177th Street, to manifest their determination that Thaelmann shall be freed and that Hitlerism shall be crushed under the weight of reyolutionary wo! ing class action “Comrade Willi Muenzenberg, member of the Central Committce rmany, member of the Reichstag of the Communist Party of Ger which Hitler dissolved when he c: speaker on this occasion. “Comrades of our Order! Come in mass to this demonstration.” 4.00 Strike PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia, | July 25.—It was officially an- : nounced here by the Austrian Legation that Chancellor En- gelbert Dollfuss, fascist dic- jtator of Austria, died as the jresult of wounds received in |the fighting when Nazis | setned the Chancellory in Vi- ame into power, will be the main Stockyards At Detroit | Meat Shops Demand Wage Increases and Recognition of Union Strike Call Union States It Plans| Wide General Strike | | | | | if Scabs Remain By A. B. MAGIL | CHICAGO, July 25.—A gen- (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., July 25.—Be-| eral stockyards strike will go tween 300 and 400 sausage workers|into effect 100 strike-| struck this morning under the lead-| breakers, hired yesterday by the ership of the militant United | 75, MR A a plod a Sausage Workers Union, affiliated) MOP Stockyards officials, are unless Face Wider 72" """""" . Danger of War Flares ROME, July 25.—The danger ot war flared higher today with be- tween 50,000 and 100,000 Italian soldiers massed at the Austrian bor- der ready to march in to save the regime formerly headed by the de- ceased Fascist dictator Dollfuss. Mussolini declared today that “action was the necessary solution” of the Austrian situation. It is stated that Mussolini will not re- sort to a protest to Berlin, but may order his armies to march at any moment Chancellorv Seized to the Trade Union Unity League.|immediately discharged. This] VIENNA. July 25.—Nazi armed Mass picketing began at 5 a.m. j|was the declaration made by s. backed by the fascist dic~ The strike was voted unanimously | ctrike leaders today as Federal|tatorship in Germany today, at an enthusiastic mass meeting last| ang state officials rushed joint|through a putsch, seized the fed- night at Swiss Hall, Canton and | preparations for sell-out ‘“arbi-| ta! Chancellory of the Dollfuss Gratiet Aves. attended by 400| tration.” fascist regime, and until 5 p.m. workers from 16 shops. The work- ers’ demands are: Wage increases | of from 20 to 30 per cent, a 48-hour | 85 J. Courtney urged the stock~| week, time and a half for overtime,|¥Y@™ds bosses and union leaders equal pay for equal work, no split|t® meet with him in a confer- shift, recognition of shop commit-|€nce, Secretary Carl Steffenson tees and the union. of the Regional Labor Board of Strike May Spread | the N.R.A. was en route here At last night’s meeting workers|from Wisconsin. from shops that had not been con-| Work was at a standstill at) tacted before were present, many of | the yards following the walk-out them joining the union. It is prob-| yesterday of 1,600 workers, able that within the next 24 hours| members of the Live Stock Com-| the strike will spread to additional mission Men’s Union, Local 519, shops. Nat Ganley, T. U. U. L.|and Local 517 of the Live Stock Organizer, reporting for the negotia- | Handlers Union. | demands with the excuse that if the | Y@™4s es t the ee 105-des | big packing companies will increase | 8T@® eat, company bosses en: wages, they will do so too. | listed white collar workers to Representatives from all the shops | S¢4b on the strikers. The scabs, | took part in the discussion, women | however, new to the work, could) playing an especially prominent| mot stop the deaths of several) role. A fighting spirit prevailed and| hundred unattended cattle.| there was not a dissenting vote| About 50,000 of the cattle in the) when the strike vote was taken.| yards are government-owned. | Frank Roth, President of the union) While many thousands of cat-| acted as chairman, tle were on their way here from] the drought-ravaged areas, oth-| While State’s Attorney Thom-| By AAA Program and Record Heat By MILTON HOWARD ay the impersonal murder of the drought, Roosevelt is adding the organized, scientific murder of the government. Agents of Roosevelt are now moving through the devastated areas, slaughtering cattle, and burying them in quick-lime sand- pits rather than turn them over to the impoverished millions in the farmlands who feel about their throats the bony fingers of hunger. In Arcadia Nebraska, after the slaughter of white calves, two to five months old, the choicest veal and baby beef, unemployed workers and starving farmers were repulsed by Federal Drought Relief Agents, when they demanded this meat for themselves and their families. Acting on orders from the Drought Relief Administration at Washing- ton and the Department of Agri- culture, the Federal agents drove Small Farmers Ruined) ; Relief men were ordered to shoot and bury them under quick-lime. Despairing of any aid from the Federal Government, farmers are U.S. Agents Bury Cattle As Thousands Starve in Drought Area = the town where Emergency Work] driving in their basic herds to be! Soviet Union Triumphs | The general strike would be bought by the Federal agents at! about $3-$4 a head and slaugh- tered. From Nebraska, comes the report Since the drive for 20,000 new veaders for the Daily Worker began on June 19, the strikebreaking tri- umvirate of Roosevelt - Johnson - Green has given the American working class a graphic demonstra- tion of how the New Deal lays the basis for open fascism. During the past 30 days, hundreds of thousands of workers and their families have been told in so many words: “The rights of the working class mean the right to starve and keep your mouths shut!” During this period of general rtrikes, the administration, the N. the herds to the sandpits outside R. A, the A. F of L. bureaucracy 1 ) Bigger Party Effort Needed to Put Daily Worker Over Top and the capitalist press joined hands in a Dance Macabre that spattered the blood of workers from coast to coast. Those four powerful organs of capitalist propaganda, the press, radio, newsreel and pulpit, played their customary role of liars and vilifiers of the working class. All this while, only one daily newspaper in English rallied the | workers in support of the strikes, | exposed the sell-out tactics of the | labor-fakers and arbitration boards | and urged the continuance end! spread of the strikes until all de- | (Continued on Page 2) ers were being shipped to Ten- e for pasturage or being ightered. News of the strike held up cattle shipments in many midwestern cities. | declared immediately if strike- breakers, hired yesterday, were not discharged, union officials declared. A sympathetic strike Over Drought In Caucasus held the Cabinet imprisoned while | Heimwehr, police and army forces made preparations for a bombard- ment of the building to release the imprisoned rulers, Telegraphic reports from Prague, Czecho-Slovakia, state that Doll- fuss was killed in the fighting, and that Major Emil Fey, one of his henchmen, was wounded. This has not been confirmed. But if is an- nounced that President Miklas ap- pointed Dr. Kurt Schusnigg to suc= ceed Dollfuss as Chancellor, which |aives credence to either Dollfuss’s | death, serious injury or resigna- tion. Confusing revorts are being pub- lished on what is actually transpir- ing in Austria in the battle between the two fascist gangs for control of the government. Martial Law Prevails Austria is in a state of alarm, with martial law declared in Vi- enna, and other cities, as sporadic fighting goes on between the Nazis and the Dollfuss Heimwehr forces. The latest announcements state that the captured Cabinet members (Continued on Page 2) Vets Demonstrate Against Vigilantes NEW YORK.—The second anni- versary of the murders of Hushka and Carlson in the Bonus March of 1932 by the Hoover Administration that the choicest cattle, the result of years of careful bresding, are now getting the knife as thousands of small farmers, penniless and without any aid from the Govern- ment, are driven.to surrender their stock—and with it all their means of livelihocd. In Spencer City, Nebraska, small farmers, helpless without the aid of government in fight- | ing the drought, are arriving with their cattle, where Federal agents strike the following bargain with them—the government will buy the catile which they can no longer feed. But, in return, the Federal Government expects them to reduce the crops and the num- ber of horses, driving them still deeper into poverty. ‘HE drought is blind and im-j| arming the fascist bands preparing | partial. It strikes in the United States, ruled by a capitalist dic- -- (Gonginued on Page 2). was not allowed to go through |yesterday by pussyfooting union |heads, who withheld the order for such a strike on the promise that. only union weighers would man the cattle scales. | Preparations for picketing are | under way. The strikers demand a 40-hour week, better working conditions and the reinstatement of union men who were fired as soon as the strike rumor spread. FRANCOIS COTY DIES PARIS, France, July 25.—Trancois | Coty, the leading financial back: ef the French fasci wealihy pe! fume manufecturer, died today of pulmonary congestion. Coty spent millions of francs for a fascist dictatorship in France. He had built a huge subterranean fort, filled with all sorts of weapons and ammunition, 0 ---——~ i will be commemorated by a parade and demonstra‘ion on Saturday at 4 p.m. The line of march begins at Washington Square Park. The veterans and the supporters of the veteran movement will march to the Eternal Light Monument, Madison Square, 23rd Street and Broadway. Several active veterans of the first Bonus March are now in the city. All participiants of the first |Bonus March are urged to report |to the National Headquarters of the W. E. S. L., 799 Broadway, Room |523, New York City or to any of the following posts in New York | City. | | Post No. | New York. Post No. |New York. Post No. Brooklyn, | 1, 203 East 15th Street, 191, 69 East 3rd Street, 204, 579 Broadway, NORE, | /