The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 27, 1934, Page 1

Build Workers’ Defense Corps Against Fascist Terror—Rally Against Imperialist War August 1 DAYS Only Are Left to Save ANGELO HERNDON from the chain gang. $9,900 Bail Is still Needed. Total received $5,100, Loans to Bail Fund Will Be Returned. Rush Cash or Liberty Bonds to International Labor Defense., 80 E. Vol, XI, No. 179 lith St., New York City. tered as second-class matter Sew York, N. Y., under the =™ Daily .QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) at the Post Office at Act of March 8, 1879, : Make This Figure Grow 42 2900 PRESS YES RUN TERDAY NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1934 WEATHER: Showers, wa ( ix Pages) Price 3 Cents IMPERIALISTS MASS FOR WAR Muenzenberg Talks on Austria At Thaelmann Rally Tonight ARMED FORCES RULE MINNEAPOLIS TO BREAK STRIKE OLSON DECLARES INY Painters MARTIAL LAW Vote Strike! AS 6,000 STAY OUT!” Friseo Dockers Vote for Arbitration—Seamen Barred in Ballot Portland Longshoremen | Reject State Hiring Hall Scheme MINNEAPOLIS, Ji This city was placed under the rule of bayonets today as martial law was declared by Floyd B. Olson, Farmer-Labor Governor of the State. The martial law declaration : stated that inneepolis was “in a | stote of insurrection.” Cne of Olson’s first acis, announced, will be to the operation of all trucks” and issue permits for the operation of those it deems necessary protection of the citizens.” This is an open act of strikebreak- ing supported by bayonets and ma- | chine guns. The strike, involving 6,000 striking truck men, is the second this year, the first settlement in May having turned out to be a trap for the men. “for the | Begins “Red-Baiting” The declaration of martial law. which brings 4,000 armed National Guardsmen into action as strike- breakers, in the strike of the truck- men’s union here, was cunningly calculated by Olson to appear in the interests of the strikers, with Olson issuing the order on the refusal of the employers to consider his pro: posal to “arbitrate” the pirikere ae de- mands. The bait of “arbitration” has been consistently offered to the strikers by Olson and the Federal conciliator Haas. With the issuance of the martial Jaw order, the employers, at the same time launched a typical “red- baiting” drive, “charging” that the strike is led by “Communists, im- ported disturbers and a handful of dissatisfied workers.” Men Fight First Settlement The declaration of martial law came after the employers had re- fused to accept the six points of- fered in the Federal “arbitration” plan. The truck drivers union, led by A. F. of L, officials in cooperation with Trotskyites, had offered to ac- cept the arbitration terms, it is reported. Two of the Trotskyites involved in_ working with the A. F. of L. officials, J. P. Cannon and M. Schachtman are reported to have been arrested. The truckmen were sent back to (Continued on Page 6) T.U.U.L. Meat Union Leads Strikers to Victories in Detroit DETROIT, Mich., July 26,—Firm militant leadership has already won victory after victory in the strike of nearly 400 sausage workers which started yesterday. Of twelve shops on strike, seven have alrady settled with the union, the United Sausage Workers Union, affiliated with the ‘Trade Union Unity League, granting nearly all the workers’ demands. Between two and three hundred workers are involved in the settle- ments, These workers are receiving wage increases of from ten per cent in the better paid shops to thirty per} cent in the lower paid ones. In addition, practically all their other demands, a forty eight hour week, time and a half for overtime, equal pay for equal work, no split shift, and recognition of shop committees and the union have been granted. Efforts are now being made by the rank and file strike commmittee to spread the struggle to other shops. ly 26.—| State Locals| Of S. P. Reject, TERROR CONTINUES) ‘United Front NEW YORK.—Socialist Party of- | ficials in Richmond, Va. and | Omaha, Neb., have just communi- cated their definite refusal to par- ticipate with the Communist Party in any united front demonstrations against war and fascism on Aug. 1 In the Omaha local, however, many rank and file Socialist Party members have pledged their aid in arranging the August 1 anti-war meeting despite the decision of the executive board. | In Virginia, the Socialist Party) decision was reached at a meeting | of the executive board, where the ; members voted against united front actions on the ground that the Na- tional Executive Committee of the Socialist Party, now no longer in office, issued orders forbidding any | arrangement of local united front | | actions. The Communist Party Committee, presenting the proposals, was not | given the floor. Despite this, the Communist Party of Richmond repeats its in- vitation to all members of the So- cialist Party to join hands with | the Communists in a joint mass meeting Wednesday, Aug. 1, 8 p.m at the True Reformers Hall, 608 N. Second Street. cept proposed united action on the following three points: 1, Against war and fascism; against war preparations. 2. For the freedom of Thaelmann and all other anti-Nazi victims of Hitler. 3. In support of the workers on strike in San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Minneapoiis and elsewhere in the general strike wave; against | police, repression and terror of strikers, | Plan Mie Send-Off NEW YORK.—A mass send-off meeting will be given the New York delegates to Albany on Monday, July 30, at 6 p.m., at pier 52 North River, foot of 14th St., the United and Unemployment announced to- day. The delegates, who with other working class representatives from New York State will present the demands of the employed, unem- ployed and relief workers to Gov. Lehman, for enactment by the spe- cial session of the state legislature, will meet at 114 W. 14th St., Mon- day at 4 pm. Richard Sullivan and Alexander Taylor, of the United Front Con- ference on Work, Relief and Unem- ployment, who are making a tour of up-state cities in preparation for the mass delegation, announced that the Schenectady County Unemploy- ed and Relief Workers Union had already elected 9 delegates to rep- resent its 1,000 members. Among the other organizations which are being contacted to elect delegates are: The American Legion, Car- penters Union, the Crusaders, In- dependent Political Club, Electrical Industry Employes Union, Bakers Union, Bricklayers Union, and the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. HOLD WORKERS IN BUS CRASH NEW YORK —Three workers of the Rialto Bus Corporation, whose bus crashed Sunday near Ossining resulting in the death of ninsteen persons and injuries to others, are being held as material witness cial of the corporation had tried to force a worker to lie about the condition the machine had been in at the time it started out from Brooklyn, The invitation which the Omaha} Socialist Party office refused to ac- | for Albany Delegates! Action Conference on Work, Relief | Monday Rank and File Leaders ' in Fight on Bosses and Zausner in answer to a lock-out edict issued | by the Master Painters Association. | Painters met Wednesday night. Re- | to down tools Monday morning, | Five hundred members of Local} 499 decided to elect a strike commit- | | tee of fifteen to lead the struggle. All activities in picketing, relief, _| organization and such are to be car- ried on by the local committee. tion of all other locals and of every rank and file member in developing a@ strong united fight against the employers and their agents, the | Philip Zausner crowd who are now | in the District Council illegally. | In other locals the membersii Pployers and decided not to extend mandate to the District Council to | conduct the strike, The strike movement is moving} | forward under rank and file leader- | ship. The Painters Rank and File Pro- tective Association is calling upon | “every painter, organized as well as | unorganized, to lay down tools on Local 499 is seeking the coopera- | | voted against the offers of the em-| NEW YORK.—A general strike of Of fascism, the open, brutal, painters will go into effect Monday | finance capital. | Down With Imperialist War! Holds War. SECR ET PARLEYS HELD BY POWERS IN AUSTRIA MOVE ———_—_——_————- AN EDITORIAL A new blood over all humanity! imperialist war hangs by a slender thread The fascist madmen of Europe have already mobilized hundreds of thousands of sons of the toilers and peasants |and are driving them to a new criminal slaughter in order \to attempt to save capitalism. Murder, civil war, wholesale butcheries are the weapons | chauvinist dictatorship of | Both Hitler and Mussolini, in desperate plight, are driv- Locals of the Brotherhood of|ing towards the enslavement of Austria, each for their own ports show that the men are ready | imperialist purposes, in order to attempt to stave off the doom of capitalism. Under the pretext of “preserving the independence” of Austria, all of the imperialist bandits, Great Britain, France, | Italy, are mobilizing their forces to further enslave the Aus- trian masses now under the heel of Austrian fascism. The German fascists in order to further their gigantic plunder plans have touched off the spark which at any moment may | explode the entire world into the most ferocious war in all history. WallStreet awaits avidly order to reap huge profits from blood. American imperialism will, very soon after the out- | break of war, plunge into it for its own robbery schemes. Workers, farmers, all enemies of war! Never have we been confronted with so drastic, so immediate, so terrible a danger of war. | the onset of a new war in the shedding of the workers’ Only the massing of the forces of all who oppose war, May Break ‘At Any Hour Throngs Ww ill] Hear Party Leaders in Open Air Bronx Arena NEW YORK.—The Nazi putsch jin Austria, the bearing of the Aus- | si trian events on the Germany, and the impen ace of war in Europe w cussed by Willi Mue; r of the Centra the Communist Party end for ten years Commur member of the German Reichsta at the mass rally and farewell ban- quet to Comrade Muenzenberg to- night at 7:30 in the open-air arena of Bronx Coliseum, East 177th Street. With the Italian and Jugoslavian armies mobilized on the Austrian | ation | frontier, with Czechoslovakia pre- | | paring to call its army to the colors, |and with the German envoy re- called from Vienna, the war clouds ‘ope have ketome eace over. Cen reat to the p: The disintegration of regime in Germany, the murders of June 30th but speeded up by Hitler's ruthless executions, make the question of “What is go- ing to happen in Germany?” more acute than ever. Comrade Muenzenberg, in a press interview yesterday afternoon, in- dicated his belief that the recklessly Hitler which has not been stopped by | Monday, July 30, gather in the as-| Of all who recognize that capitalism is the cause of war, of adventurist Nazi rulers of Germany | signed strike halls and transform | al] who know that only by a revolutionary | the Za | maneu er and Master Pain! ver into a genuine strike , | the six-hour day, for the nine-dollar | wage scale, for strict enforcement of the agreement, | (Continued on Page 6) | Veterans Will Mark Bonus March Killings NEW YORK.—Not as conquering heroes, but as victims of the New} Deal rank and file veterans will). march along Fifth Avenue tomorrow in protest against reduced pensions | and disability allowances, ‘The occasion for the parade is the} second anniversary of the killing of | Carlson and Hushka during the historic bonus march on Washing-| ton. The marchers will assemble at the Memorial Arch in Washington Square at the foot of Fifth-Avenue at 4 p. m. and will march to the Eternal Light in Madison Square | Paul Caccione, head of the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League today called on all vterans regardless of affilia- tion to join in the parade. | war can the bloody hand of the imperialist bandits be stayed. pinhole jes confronting them. against speed-up, humani | arouse his brothers to action. |is a desperate move to stave off the rising revolutionary up-| | cist bloodhounds’ war plans against the Soviet Union. ;| for the victory of the proletariat against their enslavers. KEZNOTING the drive for 20,000 new readers by September 1, the New York District has organized Red Builders to sell the “Daily” struggle against To defeat the war now threatening to burst » every Communist, every militant worker upon must | We must now begin to mobilize against our own im-| perialist masters who have, under the Roosevelt regime, | been preparing night and day for this war in order to in- sure the plunder of the rich bankers, the rich parasites who starve the American workers. The Nazis’ murder adventure in Germany and Austria surge of the German people. It is the first step in the Fas-| Our immediate duty is to strive by every means to rally the American workers against this onrushing war. We must arouse the workers to a revolutionary struggle against war NOW so that if we are unable to prevent it we can the more rapidly transform the new imperialist world slaughter into a civil war against capitalism, into a revolutionary battle August 1 this year is the 20th anniversary of the | (Continued on Page 2) |may unleash the dogs of war as the only solution of the boundless He “War may break out any day at the border of Germany. What happened on June 30th to Roehm, (Continued on Page 2) Anti-Nazi Meet Aided By Milwaukee Unions MILWAUKEE, Wis., July 25.—For the first time since anti-Fascist ac- tivity was launched in this city, the Federated Trades Council joined in |@ militant action when they took | part in two mass meetings held here jlast night for Willi Muenzenberg and Kurt Rosenfeld. The Council had previously siven | public endorsement to the meetings | | and sent to them an official com- mittee of observers. The Socialist Party remained bitterly aloof Rosenfeld received an extremely cold reception at the hands of the Mayor Hoan and other Socialist | officials whom he visited. Despite this many members of the Socialist Party attended the two meetings one | of which consists of 1,000 persons] “and the other of 350. Districts! Build Circulation With Model Red Builder Plan! HY does a Red Builder function? First, he applies to the District ‘Klein Seized With Hudson In Virginia (Special to the Daily Worker) | NORFOLK, Va., July 26.—Police ed into a ing of long- shoremen and seamen here last |night and arrested Roy B. Hudson, | national Secretary of the Marine anes Industrial Union, and Joseph Klein, Communist organ- |izer, Both were held in $500 bail on charges of vagrancy. The meeting was arranged by the | Marine Workers’ Industrial Union {to hear. Hudson report on the West | Coas: maritime strike. In breaking up the lice claimed that the condemned. meeting, building po- was Hudson to Speak In Philadelphia | PHILADELPHIA, July 26.—Roy Hudson, national secretary of the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union, who was arrested in Norfolk yes- terday, will be the chief speaker at a mass meeting in support of the striking longshoremen and seamen Coast on Friday at 8 ver Hall, 701 Pine St Sireet Cap | Men Strike In Omaha OMAHA, Neb. July 26.—Street ear service halted here today when 400 employes of the Omaha and walked out on sirike. The car men walked out over the jers. J. M. Parker, International | Union Vice-President, denounced the strike, calling it an “uneuthor- ized thing” and a “wild cat strike.” | The local unions executive com- | mittee stated that the cause of the strike was the result of the arbitra- | tors award during recent negotia- tions for wage increases and union recognition. The operators got a | slight increase in wages, but the shopmen got no increase in pay. | Union recognition was won | the carmen last Apr’ | United Front Formed | in Porto Rico to Fight | for Workers’ | | NEW YORK.—The United Front Committee against Porto Rican dis- | eal, cultural, ganized a campaign for a | Rican workers, throughout the city to rally |suppert of all worker: ageinst discrimination cn home Te- lief and the refusal of landlord to rent their apartments to Port 3 Rican workers, the LaGuardia administration will | be asked to defend its policy of re- of workers. Council Bluffs Street Railway Co.| heads of the National Union lead- | by! Rights) ‘ crimination, composed of 23 politi- | fraternal and church | groups, in a meeting here, has or- | 4 joint | tension, The most drastic war preps | Struggle for the rights of Porto | 2rations, however, are going on in lief discrimination before a court | Mussolini Sends 32,000 Troops to Border and Balkans Mobilize Fighting’ in Austria Civil War Flares Between Nazis and the Fascist Heimwehr Forces SUMMARY OF WAR MOVES Mussolini, after calling a council of war, orders 32,000 soldiers to the Austrian borders. All army, navy, and air forces in Italy are mobi- lized on a war basis, ready for immediate action. Representatives of the three leadinz imperialist powers of Eu- Tt21¥ aH4 Gritsin, are meeting secretly in Wondon, preparing the next move in Aus- tria. Hitler is reported to have gone to Munich, 120 miles from the Austrian border, to supervise the Nazi activities and war prepara- tions. Nazi troops are mobilized for war. Sporadic civil war is going on in various cities in Austria, par- ticularly in Styria, between Nazis and the fascist Heimwehr forces. Jvros! a. Crechos's Switzeriend and the A der, All the canitalist countr of Europe, while spontin peere phrases, are rapidly mobilizing for | war, | VIENNA, July 26.—After defeat- ing the Nazi putsch in Vienna and a series of Nazi uprisings through- out Austria, the Austrian fascist regime, headed by Prince Ernst von Starhemberg, leader of the fascist Heimwehr, today tightened its grip over the country, cementing still ther its alliance with fascist nwhile, following the assas- ation of Chencellor Dolifuss yes- day by the Nazis who captured the cabinet at the Chancellory, feverish war mobilizations have been going on throughout Europe and especially in countries border- ing Austria. The most severe fighting took place in Stjtia where the Nazi forces fought the Starhemberg gov- ernment tro: for. control of a number of villages. The number of been announced but dead has not they he Nazi press. which wed complete knovl- ch in Vienna, now ng with mizht and main responsibility for the shooting of Dollfuss and the at- tempt to replace the pro-Mussolini fascist regime of Dollfuss with a | pro-Hitler fascist government, State of War Tension All of Europe is in a state of war | fascist Italy. There Mussolini has - » helq | Called together a war council which MS gill eect area rs al TT decide on the next step, the s in the fignt | 7 force of th? cou mobilised, four di sions of 8.000 men each having ‘ready proceeded to the Aus’ border. | Whether they will cross oy al na the An open trial will be held where | der or not, is not clear at this dom Mussolini himself is proceeding to | Vienna, according to latest reports | (Continued on Page 2) following the discovery that an offi- | on crowded intersections of the world’s largest city. When the drive was opened, 30 Red Builders were attempting to reach a population of more than seyen millions. Today, New York has more than doubled this number and has increased its street sales by approximately 1,500 copies per day. On June 21, Comrade Hathaway made an appeal for 200 Red Builders. This was followed by advertisements in the “Daily” and the capitalist press. Stories and pictures were obtained showing Red Builders in action. Appeals were made to the Y.C.L. and other organ- izations. Red Builders were offered prizes for recruiting new Red Builders. Every possible method was employed to mobilize, train and hold a staff capable of spreading the “Daily” from the Bronx to the Battery and from the waterfront to Brownsville, or Section Office. He is then enrolled and assigned to a busy location, For the first two weeks, he is given 25 papers free each night (above this number he pays 7/8c per copy). For the second two weeks, he pays 7/8c (half-price) for all papers. Thereafter, he pays 1%ec per copy. He is provided with a Red Builder cap and apron or sweater. (New York is arranging an affair to pay for uniforms.) He is then given a copy of “How to Sell the Daily Worke~.” He is Placed under the supervision of a Scction captain, Every night he receives a list of slogans from the news. Then he goes to werk. More Red Builders are needed! Every metropolitan and industrial area must be covered with this vanguard. Apply to the Daily Worker Agent in your city, or write to 35 FE. 12th St. New York. A Red Builder on every busy intersection guarantees at least a quadrupled circulation! 9 The Gould Foundation, first to| ———— start the policy of refusing children | Philadelphia Thaelmann Rally of Porto Rican workers the use of summer camps will be exposed at| PHILADELPHIA, Pa, July 26— | Willi Muenzenbe: rg, member of the these meetings. | Editor In Court Today NEW YORK.—Tito Nunzio, editor jof the Italian workers paper m Frankiort-on-Main, | Unita Operaia, will appear in speak in Philadeipaia Saturday, Brooklyn Municipal Court, Sheridan | and Smith Streets today at 10 a.m., to answer a $20,000 libel suit brought against the paper by Professor Isola, | of the Independent Sons of Italy. The meeting which will be a city- wide free Thaelmann rally, will be held at the Broadway Arena, Christian and Broad Sts. July 28, at 8 p.m.