The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 28, 1934, Page 1

\ = Forward Against Fascism and War to a Soviet America! Demonstrate In Thousands August 1 t! DAYS Only Are Left to Save ANGELO HERNDON from the chain gang. $1,758 Bail Is Still Needed. Total received $7,242. Loans to Bail Rush Cash or Liberty Fund Will Be Returned. Bonds to International Labor Defense., 80 E. llth St., New York City. Vol. XI, No. 180 => 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, X. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 10¥. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1934 PRESS RUN YESTERDAY. Make This Figure Grow - 43, 700 s WEATHER—Showers today; tomorrow (Eight Pages) Price 3 Cents AUSTRIA CRISIS SPEEDS WAR! Strike Meetings Barred As Troops Ride Minneapolis Scab Trucks ‘WAR DEPARTMENT SECRETLY PLANS BIG MANEUVERS WOODRINGLETTERTELLS ©. P. Leads Thaelmann NAZIS IN NEW ATTEMPT _ TO SEIZE CHANCELLORY CAPTURED IN FIGHTING OF COMBAT REHEARSAL | UNDER WAR CONDITIONS ‘Army Available Against | Social Revolution,’ Said Signer G.H.Q. STAFF CALLED: Whole U.S. Apparatus of Combat Groomed For Instant Action NEW YORK.—Acting Sec- retary of War Harry H. Woodring recently issued con-| fidential invitations to a care- | fully selected list of news-| paper editors to send repre- | sentatives to the War Depart-| ment’s “largest peace-time--officers’ maneuver iu New Jersey from Sep-| tember 2 to 8,” one of his lettezs, | reproduced on this page, reveals. | The town or section of the state; where the war maneuvers will take place is not announced, | These early fall military activi- ties, to be staged on a scale remin- iscent of actual World War scenes but a few months after the greatest “peacetime” review of the fleet by President Roosevelt, cast a glaring spotlight on the tireless prepara- tions of the Roosevelt administra- tion for “M-Day.” This “M-Day”| is the War Department's officially! designated day when telegraphic orders for instant industrial and| military mobilization will be flashed throughout the country. “The maneuver will consist of the concentration of the officer person- nel of General Headquarters and two Armies and the advance to and conduct of battle,” Woodring, Assistant Secretary of War, inform- ea the chosen newspaper executives whose special men will cover the! “battle.” “It is the desire of the War Department,” Woodring revealed, “in the conduct of this exercise to simulate the actual conditions of war as much as possible.” Woodring’s directions for the September “battle” maneuvers re- call his article in the an. 6. 1934, “Liberty” magazine, in which he boasted that the Army stands ready to trottle a workers’ and farmers’ revolution. In fascist style he wrote: “Our Army happens to be the only branch of the government which is already organized and available not only to defend our country, but to cope with social and economic problems in an emergency. It is our secret in- surance aganst chaos. “Let me speak frankly! If this country should be threatened by foreign war, economic chaos, or social revolution, our Army has the training, experience, organiza- tion and men to support the gov- ernment.” To this day, despite repeated questioning, no one in the Roosevelt Administration, including its head, the President, has repudiated Wood- rin’s fascist broadside. Woodring, in fact, remains in his important post, even in the teeth of War Depart- ment contract irregularities which came to the surface during the late Federal contract scandal. In this connection it is significant that Woodring, under the National De- fense Act of 1920, is charged with supervision and control of the great industrial-War Department network known officially as the In- dustrial Mobilization Plans. Woodring Wants Secrecy. On the day that workers, far- mers, intellectuals and all other militant opponents of imperialist war demonstrate throughout the United States against war and fas- cism, Wodring is notifying certain editors that “The correspondents will be quartered in camp at the Genere? Headquarters and will be oes to such regulation as would he case during actual hostli- ties.” “Tt is requested that no publicity tee given to\this exercise until after (Continued on Page 3) SECRET WAR MANEUVERS EXPOSED! | eae. TOTS. Weshington, D. C. ‘Deer ie, SE during actual hostilities. possible. the maneuver. optional) for a stay of une week in at will Py tranmitted to yu about the ‘ld Incl. The Amy is holding its largest peace in Mew Jersey from September 24 to Sth. The concentration of the officer personmel of Armies end the advance to and contuct of battle. Believing that this will be of national interest, arrangecents are being mde to the limit of available accoumodations to care for cor- Fesponionts representing the wire services and the main newspapers of the areas from which the participating hoedquarters will be dram. The correspondents will be quartered in camp at the General Beadquarters and will be subject to such regulations ac would be the cane It ie the desire of the dar Department in the eomduat of this exercise to simulate actual war conditions as much as We would be pleased to have you send a representative to cover His expense while at the manouver will be merely hiv nese bill for the seven days in camp, Sach acoredited correspondent should take with hin mufficiont clothing and personal belongings (typewriters Correspontents will be messed ot officers’ messes at about $1.50 per day. In order that necessary arrangenents can be made will you kindly fill out the inelosed applicetion blank and send it in by July 25th. equested that no publict sie of the first official rel Sincerely yours, fh a cone acting Secretary of me officer's menouver jonaiet of the a] Headquarters and two the field. Bedding will be furnishe.. @ given to this exercise until by the war Departuent which niddle of august. NG, | wer. Detroit Meat Strike Ends By A. B. MAGIL (Special te the Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich. July 27.—The strike of between 300 and 400 sausage workers which started Wednesday ended today with practically a hundred percent victory for the workers. The last of the twelve struck shops were compelled to yield to the demands of the militant United Sausage Workers Union, affi- liated to the Trade Union Unity League, which led the struggle. Other shop not involved in the strike also signed up on the unions terms in order to prevent a walkout, The overwhelming victory gives the workers wage increases of from ten to thirty five per cent, a 48-hour week, time and half for overtime, recognition of their shop commit- tees and other improvement. In addition the strike movement com- pelled two large companies, Ar- mour and Co, and Hy-Grade Packing Co., to promise the workers in their sausage departments wage increases equivalent to what those in the smaller shops had won. Rank and File Strike Issue NEW YORK—Painters of New | York District Council 9 of the | Brotherhood of Painters will make | final preparations for their general strike, which will commence Mon- day morning at a mass meeting that will be held at 10:30 a.m. at Irving Plaza Hall, Fifteenth Street and Irving Place. | Members of the various locals are preparing to elect strike committees to take charge of the strike. Philip Zausner, who _ illegally heads the Painters Union, has | Stated that the men will fight to maintain the same conditions as now prevail in the trade. The rank and file of the workers are demand- ing that the fight be carried on for the $9 a day wage scale and the 6 hour day. |. Every painter has been called on by the Painters Rank and File Protective Association to down tools Monday morning and come out on the picket line. Earn Expenses Selling the “Daily” Get Daily Worker Subscribers! —|by strikers is now occupied by ‘Painters Push With Victory, Fight to Ban. Mili tary | Politician dan and National | Guard Officer Reveal | Campaign Plans | (Special to the Daily Worker) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., July 27.— It took martial law to do it but | workers are now learning fast.) | Groups of workers on street corners today angrily express their opposi- tion to martial law and even to| Governor Olson. | True, Governor Olson still shouts against the Citizens Alliance, but | somehow his words are empty. They | don’t jibs any longer with facts of | life. He says that the Citizens Alliance | | is responsible. But the trucks of the | |bosses are moving. Whereas, until | yesterday no truck were on the | streets, today they move freely. | Until yesterday, pickets patrolled | the streets, large strikers’ meetings were held. Today, no pickets are in sight, union headquazters are prac- tically deserted and meetings are | forbidden. | This looks different from Oson’s | promises. This is not what the} workers had been led to expect. They had illusions, they thought that the troops were coming to aid the workers. | ‘The troops are here. They occupy every corner, rifles in hand. Military trucks patrol the streets. Break Up Picket Lines. Mounted machine guns occupy streets around the Armory. The area around the strike head- quarters, previously policed entirely Aid Actions Intensified Torgler Murder Report Spurs Anti-Nazi Activities NEW YORK.— Reacting to the reports of the murder of Ernst Torgler by the Nazi butchers and the increasing threat to the lives of | Ernst Thaelmann anid thousands of other political prisoners many, workers and anti-fascist groups throughout the country are} the | Nazi terror. Free Thaelmann rallies | intensifying the fight against are reported from many sections of | the country. 50 Chicago Pickets Jailed CHICAGO, uuly 27. savage police attacks on all Thaelmann actions in this Free city, with arrests of over 50 pickets, Chi- | cago workers are heroically pushing the fight for the freedom of Thael- | mann, with daily picket lines before | the German Consulate, protest de egations to the Consulate, and | scores of mass meetings and open-; air rallies. Arrangements were also made for a central demonstration before the Consulate, but in view of the enormous mobilization of police who blocked every corner leading to the buliding, the workers could not reach | the Consulate, but instead held two demonsirations nearby. One was completed withut interference, the| other was broken up by the police. Newark Meeting Today NEWARK, N. J., July 27. — An anti-fascist meeting to protest the (Continued on Page 2) guardsmen. A military air plane soars over the city. A strikers’ meet- | ing called for last night has been | prohibited. The Minneapolis Jour- | nal, mouthpiece of the Citizens Al-} liance held a provocative truck pa rade of a dozen trucks with Police | escort last night. “Red Scare” All newspaper trucks are moving as well as bakery, laundry, produce, | etc. The “Red scare” is being de-| veloped. Ads in the local papers| reproduce letters of Trotskyites. | Cannon, Schachtman are held in $100 bail. An anonymous Minne- apolis attorney has informed us: “There is a movement on foot which has as its aim raids on | Communist headquarters such as took place in San Francisco, Those friendly to this sort of thing being pledged to lend their support.” | In the face of the “Red scare,” the Trotskyite union leadership is silent. Today's Organizer, union daily paper, fails even to mention the arrest of Cannon and Schacht- man. The paper today, however, speaks out against martial law. “Martial law cannot help the strik- ers. It must help the bosses. Local 574 is opposed to martial law. Every step the troops take toward moving or helping move trucks is a blow at Local 574 and the strike. And be- cause of the nature of this struggle | blanks are; | hoods Ohio Ballot Campaign In Danger CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 27.— With only five days left to obtain 50,000 signatures to put the Com- munist Party on the ballot in Ohio, the District called for following ac- tions: (1) Check where all petition (2) organize special committees to comb the neighbor- reporting daily; (3) non- Clevelanders bring all filled in peti- tion blanks to the Youngstown | conference; (4) all units, sections, mass organizations take measures if your quota is not filled Saturday for complete mobilization of all forces Sunday till Wednes- | Gay; (5) take steps to have all peti- tions filled Wednesday, collect them and mail everything, registered, to the Party office. No section has fulfilled its quota land and Youngstown-Dayton, lead- ing. The following sections are endan- gering the Party on the ballot: sec- tions one, three, sixteen in Cleve- | (Continued on Page 2) land and Cincinnati, Akron, Canton. in Ger-| — Despite | special | | | | [Halt I Halt h August 1. Twenty years after the world slaughter that took ten million lives and untold suffering of the peoples of the world. Twenty years after the peoples of the world were tricked into the shambles of imperialist battlefields by the false promises, the illusions and treacheries of the world capitalist rulers and their Socialist Party servants. ‘wenty years after the war to “ the “war to end war.” Twenty years of lies and masses in 'y capiialist country, victor and But todi on this August 1, the dogs of imperialist war are again straining at the leash. The imperialist war makers, the bankers, the industrialists, the munition makers, the financiers, prepare once again to divide among themselves the loot of colonial and-imperialist plunder. . * nperialist War! AN EDITORIAL make the world safe for democracy,” tensified wage s IODAY, twenty years after, Italian troops are massed on the Alps at the Brenner Pass, ready to plunge bayonets into the bodies of the Austrian ‘masses, in the bloody effort to bolster the tottering rule of the Austrian houseenbes faced with the spectre of proletarian revo- lution. The Fascist murderers of Germany, Italy, Austria, face one another snarling for battle over redivision of imperialist loot. The victor powers of the Versailles Treaty, police their vassal states, and the allies of yesterday, now scheming day and night against one another, are arming for another Sarajevo which will send the masses into slaughter. “Britain, France, Italy, move in closer as the Fascist Reich hooks its clutches for the Anschluss with Austria. In China, bombing planes destroy villages. War lords from Japan are trampling the fields in Manchuria and Jehol, menacing the Mon- golian People’s Republic and the Soviet Districts of China. American, British and Japanese gunboats patrol the Yangtze River. American financiers and industrialists are the chief backers of the yet. Section eleven and two, Cleve- | Party. infamous Chiang Kai-shek government which hurls in vain its anti- Red mercenaries against the Red Army of Soviet China. : Central and South America sound with the clash of arms as British and Wall Street imperialism move their puppet governments in struggle against one another for the right to the sole oppression of the continent In Cuba, the rising tide of revolution is met by the fury of the native bourgeoisie and armed forces from American battleships. In the Pacific, American imperialism, through Roosevelt, girds itself for war in the imperialist scramble for the plunder wrung from the Chinese masses and for the crushing of the Chinese revolution. (Continued on Page 8) Mussolini Prepares For Air Invasion Besides Massing Troops MOBILIZATION IS ON All Capitalist Countries Of Europe Proceed With War Plans BULLETIN | BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, July 27. — Italian troops have invaded Austria near Villach, declared an uncon- firmed report here. | The Jugoslavian govern- ment is mobilizing its army for war. Soe oe HAPPENINGS IN AUSTRIA More than 500 have been killed |and thousands wounded in savage | fighting between the desperate Naz! | forces and the Heimwehr fascisi |armies led by Prince von Starhem- | berg. | Bitterest battles take place in the | provinces of Carinthia, Styria and Salzburg, with Vienna troops being massed for a drive to dislodge the {Nazis in a number of towns and | villages. Bombardment was reported | audible from the Jugoslavian border | near the province of Styria, Austria. Mussclini prepares for air inva- sion of Austria, besides mobilization of 48,000 soldiers. Wall Street sources claim Italian troops have already crossed the Austrian border. War mobilization continues in all capitalist countries of Europe. Hitler, in an attempt to cover his | part in the Austrian butchery, ap- points Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen as temporary envoy to Aus+ | tria. He also dismisses Habicht, German leader of the Austrian Nazis, and prevents Alfred Frauen- |feld, commandant of the Austrian Legionnaires, from making an an- Communist Candidates ‘2c! enersy into the fight, Offered Vigorous Aid To West Coast Siri SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., July 27. —How Communist candidates for public office in this state devote their energies to the West Coast | Strike movement is told in the July 23 issue of the Western Worker, | weekly organ of the Communist | their |are taking the lead.” | The article then cites the example rked tire- |of Darcy himself, who | lessly in general strike. activity. ce in strike by the Western Worker are: Pat Chambers, candidate Sam Darcy, Communist candidate for Governor, is quoted by the paper as saying: “Our Party can proudly show the Mansfield, | bership, workers of California that its mem- Carson, like disciplined soldiers, Congressional | have answered every call to put’ strike at numerous mectine- L Marine Workers Industrial Union. _He Covers the Ase sll ONGSHOREMEN, sailors, ships’ firemen and all cther waterfront and marine workers are numbered among the readers of the Daiiy Worker because of the work of Red Builder William J. Clay on the West Side waterfront of New York. Above are three shots uf Clay on his route. A seaman himself, Comrade Clay hails from Cali- fornia, where he engaged in previous struggles of the marine workers. Coming to New York, he was assigned as literature agent for the Starting with a sale of ton Daily Workers a day, he now averages one hundred, and each year he sets a | quota for himself which he has never failed to meet. From May to September, 1933, he sold 3,500 pamphicts; 250 copies of Labor Unity; 300 Labor Defenders and 200 copies of the New Masses (then a monthly). His method on the job is to watch for articles about longshoremen and marine workers in the “Daily” and bring them to the attention of the workers along the docks of West St. paper, as is shown in the pictures “More Red Builders are needed He makes the “Daily” their above. on the waterfront.” he adds. “Not Sales Jump from 10 to 100! Red Builders Needed! only in New York, but throughout the country, The workers are sym- pathetic, All we have to do is to reach them.” The recent struggles on the West Coast, culminating in the gen- eral strike, have grea‘'y increased his sales. “They ail want to know what's going on and t*ey are beginning to learn that the ‘Daily’ gives them the right dope.” Workers in other industries! Unemployed and part-time workers! Spread the “Daily” on the waterfront, as well as emong all industries! Apply for an assignment as a Red Builder at 35 East 12th St. (in store). Our | | candidates, who have been chost sen | continue to spread through Germany preciscly because they have proved|and Austria, mettle in previous struggles, q| Other Communist candidates en- activities as listed for United States Senator who toured) the agricultural regions collecting | funds for the general strike; Stan- ley Hancock and other imprisoned Communist candidates in San Diego | | who turned over their prison relief funds to the general strike; Minnie candidate, | who urged support for the general | nounced radio speech. Hunger and the danger of faming Attempt Second Putsch VIENNA, July 27. — Nazi forces, dressed in Heimwehr uniforms, in- filtrated into the center of Vienng and attempted another putsch and seizure of the Chancellory, but failed when the Fascist Heimwhel seized hundreds of them. The alarm of the new putsch was the occasion for a heavy mobilizae jtion of reinforcements | throughout with machin¢ |guns bristling out of the window! and on the roofs of all important buildings, Troops Rushed to Provinces VIENNA, July 27.—With all of the capitalist powers of Europt massing their troops for war, tht | Austrian Nazis had run amok it three provinces today attempting t¢ seize government power for @ pro German fascist government, whilt |the pro-Italian von Starhember# | fascist regime mobilized all itt | troops to wipe out their fascist con‘ | tenders. All troops in Vienna were rushe¢ into the provinces in order to wres! | from the Nazis a number of vil! | lages they were desperately hold! ing. The dead already numbers ove} 500, and thousands have beet | Wounded. The von Starhember{ | forces, it appeared, had the uppe |hand, contrelling all means of com; | munication and transportation, witl the Nazis fighting wildly in an isolated fashion. | In an interview with the Asso | ciated Press correspondent the Nag }leaders in Vienna disclaimed re | Sponsibility for the uprising, claim jing the local forces were actin} without connections from their cen! tral leaders. This is just anothe attempt to shift blame for the well planned war moves of the Hitld (Continued on Page 2)