The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 27, 1934, Page 2

ressanesse- Page Two ZAILY WoRKmn, 4EW YORK, FRIDAY. JULY 27, 1934 Communists to Meet War Threat With Mighty Aug. 1 Rally iasten Preparations ‘To Bring Masses Out In Greatest Numbers With Others Party in Industrial Centers Reports Program of Conferences, Mass Meetings, Local Preparatory Demonstrations NEW YORK.—Wi Central Europe hurtling faster and | Stack Gets They’re Calling Us ae Jail Term (Special to the Daily Worker) SEATTLE, Wash., July 26.—Wal- er Stack, organizer for the Marine | Workers Industrial Union, was sen- tenced yesterday to 90 days in jail. Other seamen arrested with Stack in raids on union headquarters re- ceived 30 day sentences Although 39 were rel ased, sev- faster toward imperialist war, Communist Party units all over }eral have been rearrested and no the United States pushed toward the mightiest August First demonstrations against America. Reports from many cities form of conferences, mass meetings. and neighborhood demonstrations. are going ahead at full speed. war and fascism ever seen in show that preparations in the fewer than four are being held for arses Meanwhile the long- shoreman voting on whether | they will return to work during ar- | bitration proceedings. The Communist Party has is- sued a cali to the dock strikers urg- are jing them to refuse to arbitrate on the hiring halls. By Limbach Thugs Slug Chain Gang for Herndon Furniture In Six Days Unless Bail Union Men Fund Grows by § $10°000 (Special to the Daily Worker) BOSTON, Mass., July 26—A group of gangsters strode into the office {and day room of the Furniture Workers Industrial Union Monday} night armed. with brass knuckles and | Everybody, Ruby Bates Writes Ples Pies. for Loans to Fund to Save Heroic Negro Leader—“It is Job of ” She Says NEW YORK,—Only one-third of the $15,000 needed to and splitting the heads of two oth-| free Angelo Herndon has been received to date by the In- police clubs, and attacked four | workers, knocking two unconscious | ers. When the cries of the workers | reached a trade board meeting in session in another room the thugs! | fled, leaving knuckles and bludgeons | behind. | | The attack is part of a planned| assault on the union by the fur- niture bosses, an atempt to head off the coming furniture strike. As | ternational Labor Defense. hand with only six days left needed to save him from the The Intenational Labor Defen: has. called on all its members, friends, and sympathizers to use this weekend to reach whatever sources they can to raise the $10,000 Only a litle over $5,000 is on in which to raise the balance Georgia chain gang. ladies an open letter to all workers and friends of the working class, appealing to them to come to the aid of Herndon. | Meanwhile, the terror drive con- ps vag unabated in Seattle and the |entire surrounding country. Mayor | Smith has stated that he will in- | tensify the drive against the Com- |munists. The Ku Klux Klan and Many thousands of cpt set been printed and are bei tributed in shops, homes Mea = the streets. The New York demonstration is expected to be the greatest. Work- |the news spread through the shops |the workers pledged to build up a strong defense against all attacks | against the union. | Local capitalist newspapers carried |false statements purposting to have still needed. The International La- bor Defense statement reads: “Wherever you are—at camps, at the beach, at home—wherever you come in contact with anybody Her letter follows: TB. “Fellow workers: “Only a few days are left for the ¥ working class to save one of its t heroic leaders, Angelo Herndon, - Imperialists Mass for the New War) ers will mass in Union Square, the (Continued from Page 1) traditional working-class rallying point, at 4:30 p.m. Prominent trade unionists, Negro and women speak- ers will address the demonstrators. 2 Demonstrations In Chicago Area (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, July 26.—Anti-war demonstrations will be held in more than 25 Illinois and Indiana towns on Aug. 1, Partial reports that have reached the Midwest Bu- reau in the last week show that 25 meetings are definitely sc! and news of others being is pouring in daily. here, to attend the funeral of Doll- fuss. Troops are being mobilized on! the Czechoslovakian-Austrian bor- | « der, as well as on the Jugoslay, and | Swiss borders fronting Austria. A report from the province of Corinthia declared that Jugoslavian soldiers had fired across the Aus- trian border, and that Austrian troops had concentrated there as a result, In France, Premier Doumergue issued a declaration stating that France would take “safeguards” fo the “Independence of Austria.” At American Legionnaires are burning crosses nightly before workers’ | jhomes in Centralia. After several | |raids, the Police are threatening to smash the printshop in which the | “Voice of Action,” West Coast un- | employed workers’ paper, is printed. | The editorial board has announced | that the paper will appear on sched- | ule and has called upon all work- ers to protest against this threat. MuenzenbersTalks on Austria Tonigh |peen made by workers witnessing who can afford to loan cash or Friends, to save him from a living 3, 925 Is Net Circulation Gath! |. dd Mobilioe at After 5 Weeks of Drive Action; Relief Buro { © Dist. Show 50 P.C. of Quota the attack, creating the impression | that the affair was the result of a| | war between factions of Seren.) workers. ~ Bronx Joble obless NEW YORK.—The Bronx County } Liberty bonds towards the Hern- don Bail Fund, tell them what it will mean to allow the Georgia lynchers to send Herndon to the chain gang; tell them about the | heroic spirit of this young fighter; | tell them about the trustees— Corliss Lamont, Robert W. Dunn, and Anna Damon—whom the In- ternational Labor Defense has ap- pointed responsible for the repay- ment of all moneys loaned. Urge them to give whatever they can to save Herndon from certain death on the chain gang to free Angelo Herndon.” death on the Georgia chain gang which is one of the South’s most horrible ways of destroying the working class, particularly the Ne- groes, when they try to get bread from the relief bureaus for their families, is the job of everybody. The International Labor Defense must raise $15,000. “I urge you fellow workers, as a Southern worker who knows what it means to go to the chain gang, who has seen them right in her home town, to stand behind Angelo Hern- don, and bail him out so that he will be able to get medical attention ; ‘ley, 5 renc! yer eee | Uneniployment Council tod: —— before his health is completely wamuends of see © ee Seay Ae, ea aha A eee |upon all working class o:ganiza-| Ruby Bates, heroic witness for | ruined. CLEVELAND, July 26.— More mare elt perce? (Continved from Page 1) With nearly 50 per cent of the intensified drive period gone, the net | tions to mobilize their entire mem-| the nine Scottsboro boys, yesterday “RUBY BATES. than 70,000 leaflets, 10,000 stickers and 2,000 posters have been issued by the Communist Party and other organizations to mobilize the work- ers of this city for a great mass demonstration Aug. 1 against im- perialists war and fascism and against the police terror against militant workers. Weekly shop-gate and street cor- Martial law was declared in Aus- tria by Kurt Schushnigg, provisional chancellor, and more than 250,000 armed men of the Heimwher, police, and the army have been mobilized. All of Europe is seething with a/ quickening of war mobilizations, and | the imperialist masters are ready at| any moment to plunge the world} into a new imperialist slaughter. | and the day before yesterday to Dolifuss, may be repeated tomor- row in the Saar, in the Memel territory, or on the Franco- German frontier, The irresponsi- ble Nazi leaders, facing catastro- | phe in the economic, political and international fields, may explode a bomb which will set Europe and results of the campaign for 20,000 new Daily Worker readers is 3,925 | bership for a mass demonstration This is 6,000 short of the new reader figure we should have at | 0% Monday, to date. this time, clearly indicating that many districts, sections and units, as well as mass organizations and unions, have failed to mobilize their | | memberships for this task. The circulation tables for the fifth»week of the drive show Connecticut, Minnesota, Boston, Newark, Denver and Fort Worth with 50 per cent, or more, of their quota. July 30, at 12 noon, at the Home Relief Bureau, 139th Street and Willis Avenue. While picketing the relief office Tuesday, nine workers were seized and sentenced to two days in jail. Helen Lynch, organizer of the Bronx Councils, and Fabry of the Irish Workers’ Club were each sentenced THAELMANN DAY! ANTI-FASCISTS, ATTENTION: tings are held nightly by| The siezure of Austria, long| Bead | a: ti Coiinist’ Party Units, Pisteen | planned by the Wascists in Gere | the. Whole world aflame again as New York, Detroit and Chicago, three of the Districts from which | t¢ fifteen days in jail. Brinig triers “Sar sanpseub se Derk ie: SIGAGNG Communist Party Un! sad 3 | in 1914.” : ; 5 In an attempt to smash the anti-fascist OPEN AIR RALLY shop papers aré being planned. jmany, is part of the Nazis’ war | “Nasi “Gammsay tind los 1th last | we must expect our bulk circulation, remain in relatively weal positi.ns, Neighborhood Organization ‘Against | Ma bd 5 plans, the next step of which was ‘ f ini. $ | although the latter two have shown a forward spurt in the past wevk i "Liv teh tet | litical ally—Mussolini—as a re-| ast the High Cost of Living, which is Baltimore Demonstration an attack on the Soviet Union. bitin of the Vienna putsch,” Muen- | after their late start. leading a struggle against the FRIDAY. July 27th, 7:30 P. M. BALTIMORE, July 2%. .—Negro | Apparently thwarted in this at- zenberg declared. But tomorrow the ahi i ii i x ‘i | bakery bosses for lower prices on ¥ . and white workers and intellectulals | tempt by the bitter conflict between .s Omaha, California, Birmingham, Kentucky and Florida show rer BRONX COLISEUM (E 177th) will demonstrate against war and|German and Italian fascism cover | oxpansionist senate chet eee ae nothing toward their quotas with the drive half over. This has jailed, 4 Lcd pare wen : fascism on Wednesday, Aug. 1, at| which shall sieze and control Aus- Nazi : ‘ been true of the first four during the drive period. Florida dropped 5 2» F : | zi party, may result in an ex- 4 sentenced to two days in jail. c beh City Ai ocd Plaza at . Le cog) bes une ple Piles Pah beagcetcd plosion in the Balkans or the Saar. from 12.5 per eent to nothing in the past week. As part of the LaGuardia cam- Hear: tary of the Philsdelpnia District, tions of the imperialist bandits see| Tile 18 confirmed by the Nasi mur- | paign against the unemployed, Ne- EARL BROWDER, Secretary, Communist Party, will be the sali soaker, "| an attack perry the Soviet Union, a oe ae ae, Eki ve eas Changes in Circulation by Districts Since July 16 Te ee aanies “tia uke Sr Uy Bi: A The demonstration is being) The close link-up between the| sine in Gzechoslovakia, and the Te- Today's Today's Increase or Increase _Pereents| University Avenue have been given seine Shara cp sete eel aha ele ip seems ore i ec 2 nee devi) bid te cent attempt on the life of a League DISTRICT ipisrtay Mon. /Eri, Decrease tas Birt at eviction notices, ordered out simply JACK STACHEL, revolutionary trade union of the Ghenmainist “Party and the German aniston to Vienna ete of Nations official in the Sear.” 1 Boston bey ne pepe es ae ae z pene Wey ea eee ‘ leader Young Communist League. handled the negotiations between|,Mwcnmenvers pointed out that | 2 New York city - 4 =8 ARSE racagged CaMVeOaE Eats ati ea WILLI MUENZENBERG co-workers of Ernst i * . i the Nazis in the Chancellory and | jy completely corroborated the | Per sia ci a “9 | of terror and repression by resolu- | Thaelmann, Torgler, and member of the Te Demonstrate In Flint ae Heimwher ee ae ambas- analysis and predictions made by | G:Pilieecee pax = tions and mass protest delegations | Central Committee of the German C. P. FLINT, Mich., July 25—The Au- | sador was recalled, and the Berlin! jie Communist Party of Germany leveland - a to Bronx Borough President Lyons | | 1 mstration against im- press is trying to hush up his con-! | cae iy Mayor LaGuardia. | pect: wat wil ba ald in Heeare~| nection with the gutachilsty and Nabi a Ree oni Genres ee peor Ermer i | ne NOE PRS UOT Wh] RALLY TO THE DEFENSE OF i | - 4 re is | * | Fn id mont | Tt 3b, Soom we cee ctcins; | able IE was ile firen oonvichion. that | 16 Renu” pakecs rd | Ship’s Crew Pledges Wy ERNST THAELMANN AND ALL Peer. Se Pint, Vath a wea laren ae ak ph i ae ist |. monarchist restoration or the re- | 12 Seattle ; -4 | a | OTHER IMPRISONED ANTI-NAZIS ere Ase Wer. sb Bik Sohbet roughout Europe | vival of the Weimar Republic was | 13 California 10 To Prevent Munitions cism, 2706 St. John St. that the present events in Austria out of the question in Germany to- | pe ; = . ae 5 Connecticut 22 * * 2 Ais" Viekis Conttuten Ligh pea — than a day. “Only a workers’ and peas- | 16-North Carolina __ 9 Shipments In Wartime Program: Pe. Fem Contermes ih war eet fast imperial-| ants’ government, supported _ by | Elon: ae EL =4 Saas rt Will include other prominent speakers; W. I. R. eae, N x aay aoe “Reports from Munich are contra-|/@'8¢ stoups of the middle — ime 3 10 NEW YORK. — A resolution | Band: Workers Chorus; New Dance Group, and preliminary youtl confe: ea 3 : ° “| could and would succeed the Nazi! 20 Fort worth - 3 against imperialist war has been : i against war and fascism will fe ry the ae cs eet in the regime,” he said. | 2 St. Louis e i adopted by the whole crew of | Workers Laboratory Theatre. held Sunday, July 29, at 2 pm., at|next step regarding Austria. One’ Banquet Climaxes Thaelmann Day | 22 West Virsinis - : ey a the motorship “Alcycone” as one | Hall, 881 dispatch says that Hitler flew t | 28 Kentucky - —~ MW = the Fast Side Workers’ Hall, pe ee rt flew to! rhe farewell banquet for Com- | 94 Louisiana WW 1.8 of the steps in mobilizing work- | Special Farewell Banquet for Comrade Munich in order to stop the Nazi! i : 7 Broadway. é foteés white Fk * owi|tade Muenzenberg is planned as the | 25 Florida fs 2 a ers for struggle against war on | WILLI MUBNZENBERG Bere a SOF tne en nay ee | eAabed CHEN On & LER noe, | cultuiniation: of Thablmann Day .ao-| % Seth Dakpts == pa ‘a pis the international anti-imperialist | aes er oes tee eae a ae an it raha pie on, Aus- | tivities in New York. The net pro- = Xf war dey, August 1. | Young Communist League to youth | tria. Another says, he has gone to| ceeds of this mags rally will be TOTAL 49,495 4490 1,167 3,925 19.6 The resolution follows: ||| Admission including meal 60 cents. — General Admission 25 cents and adult fraternal, trade union, | cultural, political and student or- ganizations. DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY Office Hours: 8-10 A.M., 1-2, 6-8 P.M PHONE: DICKENS 2-3012 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet. Pitkin and Sutter Aves., Brooklyn Maximilian Cohen. Dental Surgeon 41 Union Sq. W., N. Y. G After 6 P.M, Use Night Entrance 22 EAST 17th STREET Suite 703—GR. 1-0135 I. J, MORRIS, Inc. GENERAL FUNERAL DIRECTORS 296 SUTTER AVE. BROOKLYN Phone: Dickens 2-1273—4—5 Night Phone: Dickens 6-5369 For International Workers Order QUALITY BAKING CO. 44-19 Broadway, Astoria, L. I. J. and 7. DEMIRJIAN, Props. Oriental Famous Shashitk Bread delivered at all Picnics within a day's notice HARLEM WORKERS PATRONIZE INTERNATIONAL RESTAURANT and BAR 322 Lenox Avenue - New York Bet. 126th and 127th Streets NEEDLE WORKERS PATRONIZE SILVER FOX CAFETERIA and BAR 326-7th Avenue Between 26th and 20th Streets Food Workers Industrial Union PATRONIZE Southern and West Indian Markets 201 Dumont Ave. — 325 Livonia Ave. BROOKLYN, N. Y, Dickens 6-979 Munich merely to observe the situa-| | tion at close range. The mad, desperate struggles of| the fascist dictatorships in Ger- many, Italy and Austria, beset with catastrophic crises, fearing the growing upsurge of the proletariat, are plunging into a new imperialist slaughter. While all shout cries of Peace, the armies of all European capitalist countries are on a war footing, and in many instances, as in Germany, Austria, Italy, Czecho- Slovakia, Jugoslavia are already |troving into position for battle. | The Hitier regime in Germany | feeling its approaching doom at | the hands of the enraged German | People, led by the Communist Party | of Germany, is ready to fling all of Europe into a bloody struggle in a last desperate effort to save capital- ism, | COMMENTS ON SPORTS ” And | Tennis outdoors, the assignments were an hour or titles. | |T%° or three weeks ago the New New York Committee on the| Use of Leisure Time—a committee | appointed by the New York City branch of the N. R. A—delivered itself of an illumtnating document on the uses of facilities for sport in New York City. These uses are abysmally inade- quate. Indoor and outdoor sports are suffering horribly. Baseball, tennis and soccer are among the chief victims. There is only one baseball dia- mond for e 42,000 people— when there should be at least one for every 6,000. Hundreds of applicants, the com- mittee reported, are being turned away from participation in these ‘sports. It is all something which the Labor Sports Union has reported on numberless occasions, ae dea is all something which a letter from Jerry. Arnold, one of our sports editors emeriti, calls to mind again. Comrade Arnold’s state-/ ment is on tennis. He blasphemes | the idea of America winning in the | Davis Cup matches. aaa | . 4 MERICA isn’t even partici-| pating,” he tells us. “The only part of America that is represented is a few stars brought up to tennis maturity on | banquet will include Earl Browder, | Banded to Comrade Muenzenberg for | | transmission to Germany to aid in the fight for Thaelmann’s release and in the anti-fascist struggle. The banquet will also be a send- off for the 31 American delegates of the International Women’s Con- gress in Paris, beginning early next month. Other speakers at the rally and General Secretary of the Commu- nist Party, Mother Bloor and Jack Stachel, Secretary of the Trade Union Unity League. The new Thaelmann song printed in Wed- nesday’s issue of the Daily Worker will be sung by combined mass choruses of the German Singing Society, the Freiheit Gezangferein and English choruses. The Work- ers Laboratory Theatre will present a special Thaelmann play, a bottle of sweet cream. “Fer what is really the situation in America? “It is volleying on half-hour assignments in weed-dotted dirt courts and meadow-like courts of the public parks. “It doesn’t make much difference whether Shields and Woods are the best amateurs in this country or not. What I do insist is that there can be hundreds of better players—if there would be an equal opportunity for development for everybody who likes the game. of New York City, for instance, thousands of dubs, mediocre Players and good players, rush home from work Saturday after- noon, dress hurriedly and are off to the park courts for a couple of rounds of tennis. “Wait on line for an hour or more. Handed a half-hour as- signment for play. Play a half- hour. Wait another hour. Play | another half-hour. Wait another | hour. Then it gets dark. This is | tennis in New York. That is, tennis for workers. “This is tennis for workers in New York. Cost—83 a permit. Each player must have a permit. | Play doubles—$12 for a court—a half-hour at a time, This js ten- nis for workers, EDITOR'S NOTE: The first column shows the total circulation by districts of the Saturday edition. subscriptions. to Friday editions by districts. shown in these t This figure includes bundle orders, newsstand sales and ‘The next column shows the average daily circulation of the Monday The discrepancy between the total circulation, as columns and the total daily press run as shown in the “ear” on the front page is due to the fact that the press run includes large special one- day bundle orders, whereas the table contains only permanent orders. run contains unsold and returned copies, the tables only paid circulation. The press The following is the rule in regard to the column “Increase or Decrease’: If the total permanent daily increase in 4 district is 200 and besides this the district boosted its Saturday circulation by 600 the figure in the column would be 300, being the in- crease per day added to the Saturday increase divided by 6, or averaged over the week. 69 Fur Shops Setile With Industrial Union NEW YORK—Fur continuing to strike for July in- creases. Already 69 with the Fur Union, granting union conditions. shops. have settled Workers Industrial increases and workers are|be held this week. The election ob- jection committee will meet today after work. The joint trade board will meet at the same time. Shop chairmen and delegates of the various trades will meet tomorrow night after work at Irving Plaza A number of union meetings will Hall. «qT used to be $1 a season. two long. But that was before 1929. Since then it had risen from $1 to $2—then to $4. Now it’s $3— thanks to LaGuardia and the lower appropriations for tennis courts. “Of course, you don’t need to buy a permit if you don’t want to. You can pay a dollar an hour—at a/| game. private court—if you've got the cash. Or you can slip the park as- signment-giver half a buck for an hour and he'll let you have an as- signment behind the door. SaaS “But this is graft! the other parks, too. Cpa es ‘ courts aren’t as smooth at Seabright or Forest Hills. The backstop has a lot of holes in it. Nobody to chase your worn out balls that sail two or three courts down. No newspaper reporters to | ask you how it’s done. No audience | to applaud politely when you make | | a good shot. “That's American tennis, * . . |e E tennis of Woods and Shields is the tennis of the wealthy playboy. Tennis in the South when it's cold. Tennis in the North when it’s warm. Tennis indoors, ~~ i} | William Fuchs “We, the entire crew of the motorship “Aleyone” at a meet- ing held on June 29, condemn the war preparations of the Roosevelt government and de- mand all war funds to be turned over to the unemployed. “We will refuse to transport any ammunition in event of im- perialist war. We support the proposals of the Soviet Govern- ment for complete disarmament. “We are opposed to the capi- talist way out of the crisis through wage cuts, terror, and war and we stand united for the immediate enactment of the Workers Unemployment and So- cial Insurance Bill, for all war funds to the unemployed. “Long live the struggles against imperialist war!” ELEVEN SIGNATURES, Unemployed? Builders! Earn Expenses Selling the “Daily” Get Daily Worker Subscribers! Join the Red in advance, at door 35 cents. — In case of rain meeting held inside CAMP WINGDALE, Swimming, Fishing and urdays, 10 a.m., 3 and 7 p.m. Cars leave daily at 10:30 a.m. from 2700 Bronx Park East. UNITY NEW YORK HAS ROOM FOR YOU AGAIN! Boating on Lake Ellis (Labor Sports Union Lifeguard) See Our Red Vodvil Team—Berenberg & Jacobson — Open Air Theatre — Hans Fisler Trio — Dances — Sports — Fun Fridays a Sat- Abgonquin 4-1148, Camp store charges city pric Tournaments and “That kind of tennis isn’t a sport, It’s a vocation. MR He ok “QTARTING tomorrow the “Amer- ican Davis Cup team” plays England for the “world’s champion- ship.” It ought to be an exciting “But I dont care who wins, And neither should my fellow dubs. “For workers and public parks tennis players have no father- land!” Comrades, your endorsement! 1981 DAILY WORKER CALENDAR WANTED—Will any comrade who has & copy of the 1931 Daily Worker cal- Sh Me a. 8 — consisting of pages spare same, pes Wing it ey eal it immediately to Manager, Daily Worker, 50 E. 18th St., New York, N. Y. Sports Program Extended Camp NITGEDAIGET BEACON-ON-THE-HUDSON, NEW YORK IS PLANNING A GRAND VACATION FOR YOU! :: Music :: Theatre FRIDAY: Gala Campfire—You'll like the camp paper, the play, chorus, etc. SATURDAY: RED DANCERS in interesting repertoire. and WE ARE PROUD TO ANNOUNCE A SUNDAY LECTURE BY EARL BROWDER General Secretary of the Communist Party Rates: $14 a week. Cars leave from 2700 Bronx Park East daily at 10:30 A.M. On Fridays and Saturdays at 10, 3 and 7 P. M.—Estabrook 8-1400. (Direction: Edith Segal.) Workers School Save Herndo INTERNATIONAL n LABOR DEFENSE Raise Money PIG NIC Attend... Dancing — Games Refreshments Concert Sunday, July 29th From 10 AsM. to Midnight Astoria, L, I. — Admission 25e \ nie