The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 31, 1934, Page 1

\ 2 chain gang. DAYS Only Are Left ANGELO HERNDON to Save from the $4,614.60 Bail Is Still Needed. Total received $10,385.40. Loans to Bail Fund Rush Cash or Liberty Labor Defense., 80 E. 11th St., Vol. XI, No. 182 OUT AGAINST WAR [0 Will Be Returned. Bonds to International New York City. New York, N. ¥., under the Daily ,<QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) <M 260 BPM ed a5 second-ciass matter at the Fost Ofice at Aet of March 8, 1879. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, er Pe Ns ee 31, 1934 WEATHER: Fair, Make This Figure Grow PRESS RUN YESTERDAY. 42, 100_ warmer today. (Six THER: Yair, warmer todey. (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents LaGuardia Says Police Visa Order for Unions Must Sind 12,000 N.Y. PAINTERS JOIN IN GENERAL STRIKE New Walkouts Certain As Marine Workers Act For A New Agreement eo The Associate Marine Workers Ballot For Strike in City BUS MEN STILL OUT. 15,000 Knitgoods Work- | ers Have Demands | Before Employers NEW YORK —All painting jobs4 in this city were at a standstill as a general strike of Greater New York’s 12,000 painters went into ef- fect yesterday. A rising sweep of strikes was forecast as members of the Associated Marine Workers voted for strike and more than 15,000 knitgoods workers had their demands before the employers. The Staten Island bus drivers’ strike continued. The painters, members of District Counci! 9 of the Brotherhood of Painters, left their jobs and were registering throughout the day in| nine union halls. Plans for picketing in mass for- mation have been announced by the various locals and will take place today. Meanwhile the Police De- partment announced that it was taking steps “to prevent unlawful picketing.” Just what is meant by “unlawful picketing” the police have not made clear. It is obvious, however, that General O’Ryan, following his anti- labor politics, is cooking up a plan to terrorize the strikers with a big! showing of heavily armed police. | Answer to Threat The walkout is an answer to the Master Painters Association's threat to lock out all union painters to force a wage cut and an increase in the hours of labor. The union agree- ment called for the 7-hour day and the $9 wage scale. The Master Painters want to cut the scale down to $1 an hour for the eight hour day. Rank and file painters in the varions locals are putting forward the demand for $9 per day and the six hour day. Mr. Philip Zausner, who is now gracing the chair of secretary- treasurer of the Council through fraudulent voting in the recent elec- tions, who is now posing as the lead- er of the strike, has always given his support to the boss painters. After the last strike, when the em- (Continued on Page 3) Third Kohler Striker Dead From Gunfire KOHLER, Wisc., July 30.—A third workers is reported to have died as the result of the ferocious attack of deputies on the Kohler Co. picket line Friday night, when over one hundred workers were wounded, some seriously, and two killed out- right. Many more were hurt than was first reported. The city is under martial law. All roads leading into Kohler are blocked off by the national guards- men. Machine guns have been sta- tioned in strategic points of this so- called “model industrial village.” The picketing is continuing in spite of the terror. The Communist Party has distributed a leaflet to the strikers, which was well received. The leaflet pointed out that the responsibility for the murder of the two of former Governor Walter J. Koh- ler, owner of the factory, and on Schuelke, captain of the national guard unit of Kohler, who person- ally organized the thugs and gun- men for Saturday's attack. The slogan of the immediate arrest of Kohler and Schuelke on charges of murder was raised. The Communist Party is calling a mass meeting at Sheboygan, closest city to Kohler. Many of the strik- ers live in Sheboygan. Twenty-six trade unions in She- beygan voted to halt all work during the funeral of the two slain strikers, THE ‘DAILY’ ASKS ESULTS of the intensified ers, as the first and mos year, show conclusively that: ful; 2. Workers are looking SOME QUESTIONS campaign for 20,000 new read- + important step in the drive eS double the circulation of the “Daily” by the first of the 1. The drive can be success- for the truth about current struggles and only have to be reached to become readers; 8. Those Districts, Sections and Units of our Party, that have adopted an aggressive plan of attack and are carry- ing it through, are rapidly gaining readers Results further show that the Party has not yet mobi- lized its full forces for the Readers: campaign Must the struggles against war, fascism and lowered living standards be carried on by word of mouth, unaided by a far-flung newspaper with its amplified voice? How would a mass circulation of the “Daily” have affected the course of the recent general strike? What is your Party organization, mass organization or trade union doing to mobilize its entire membership into the drive? Is the splendid showing of one District and the poor showing of another a matter of geography, luck or amount and kind of effort? Are all workers’ meetings in your city covered with the “Daily?” Do you get subs from friends and shopmaies? Have you renewed your own sub? Can you sell a bundle of 5 to 25 “Dailies” to friends and shopmates? Have you asked one jobl less to become a Red Builder? Has your Unit increased its bundle order? Is every member of your Unit in the circulation drive? Are you waiting for the over? revolution to put the “Daily” Vienna Regime, ‘Victorious,’ Badly Weakened By Putsch VIENNA, July 30.—Considerably weakened and shaken by the Nazi uprising which it had crushed ex- cept for a vand of insurgents near the Jugoslavian border, the Fascist and pro-monarchist regime of Chancellor Schuschnigg and Prince von Starhemberg today opened the trial of the Nazis accused of killing the late Chancellor Dolifuss. Otto Planetta, former army offi- cer, and one of the band of 147 who siezed the Chancellory admitted he fired the shot which killed Doll- fuss. He declared it was an indi- vidual act in revenge for having been discharged from the army. This is clearly an attempt to cover up the real instigators of the putsch in Germany. War Moves Go On The lull in the Austrian civil war between the Fascist groups by no means brought with it a similar quieting of war moves of the vari- ous powers surrounding Austria. An unconfirmed rumor from Munich stated that 100 Italian soldiers had crossed the border into Austria and entered Innsbruck on the pretext of guarding the Italian consulate, A desperate effort was made by @ band of Nazis to rescue Dr. Anton Rintelen, former Austrian ambas- sador to Rome, who was arrested for his complicity in the putsch, and who is now in the General Hos- pital suffering from a bullet wound in the lung, said to be self-inflicted. Rintelen, according to reports from Vienna and Rome, turned over to Hitler all of the secret information he received in Rome on Italian fas- cism’s maneuvers in Austria. He was for a long time the confidant of Mussolini. The attempt to spirit Rintelen from the hospital failed, @ number of the Nazis being ar- rested. More Plots Afoot Meanwinile, the Austrian govern- ment has not expressed itself on the newly appointed German envoy, von Papen, but ii now seems he will not be acceptable, as both Mus- solini and his puppets in Austria regard von Papen’s choice as a tricky move of Hitler to further his anschluss (union with Germany) efforts. Delegation In Protest To Mayor Waldman, Socialist, and J. P. Ryan Accept Czarist Scheme | LABOR FIGHT SUMMARY Twenty-two union and labor representatives protested to Mayor LaGuardia against the attempt of the Police Department to register union leaders. Joseph Ryan, president of the Central Trade and Labor Council said, “It is perfectly proper that the police should organize a unit to take care of the Reds. It is a police matter,” he said, “some- body must stop these Communists from running riot, and it is per- fectly proper for Commissioner O’Ryan to take the matter up. The labor movement must be rid of the Communists.” Louis Waldman, Socialist lead- er, is satisfied with the Mayor's interpretation of the fascist order. General O’Ryan admits that the plan will handicap unions. NEW YORK. — Mayor La Guardia placed an informal stamp of approval on the ar- bitrary fascist police edict for the issuing of police visas to union leaders. The police or- der for the establishment of a labor union rogues gallery still stands. Confronted with a mounting mass protest throughout the city against | this step toward police trade union- ism, the Mayor at a conference at | City Hall yesterday said that he feared the order was “susceptible | to. misunderstandings.” In an attempt to hedge around the order and at the same time support it, the Mayor said that the police “are not issuing the identi- fications, but will recognize them.” Therefore, according to the Mayor, one cannot be considered a “recog- nized union leader” unless he has a visa in his pocket with the bear- er’s picture and the official stamp (Continued on Page 3) Johnson Flies To Halt New Meat Walkout CHICAGO, Ill, July 30. — The sentiment of the packing house workers in all the big plants here for a sympathy strike is so strong that A. F. of L. officials are having increasing difficulty in keeping the men in check. General Johnson is reported en route to Chicago by plane to fore- stall spread of the strike of the 800 livestock handlers, which has crip- pled the yards. William Collins, organizer of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North Amer- ica witheld the call to the 8,400 workers for a sympathy walk out. The men are waiting for word to come out, ® Are Rushed By Britain Baldwin Tells Commons of 1,304 More Planes | For Air Force LONDON, July 30—Admitting that war is rushing on headlong in Europe, and that the British gov- ernment is now preparing for that war, Stanley Baldwin, Lord Presi- dent of the Council, declared in the House of Commons today that) Britain would speed its plans for| increasing the air forces. Baldwin announced that the | British air forces would be increased | in four years from 844 to 1,304| planes. Actually, Britain now has more than 3,000 fighting planes, and the increase will be much greater than that publicly stated by Baldwin. Neither will British im-| perialism wait four years to com-| plete its plans, in view of the openly expressed conviction of} Baldwin that war is near. Arguing for the increased air force, Baldwin said: “Since the days of the air arrived old frontiers are gone. When you think of the de- fense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover.) You think of the Rhine. That. is where our frontier lies.” The significance of this state- | ment, that Fascist Germany is now | the frontier of British imperialism, | |is shown by Baldwin's virtual sanc- | tioning of German Fascism’s right) to re-arm “because of her absolute | defenselessness in the air.’ Baldwin further declared that air | |War maneuvers would soon take} | place in England, involving 47,000) | persons, and including the co-oper- | aiee of local government authori- | | ties and public utility corporations. One of the reasons given by| | Baldwin for the increased air arma- | ments was the program of the Roosevelt government for adding 1,184 planes to the naval service of the United States. Various Labor nwmbers of parlia- | ment declared their “regrets” at/ the new steps for arming announced | by Baldwin, saying it tended “to en- | courage a revival of dangerous and wasteful competition in prepara- tion for war.” They added nothing, however, to the Labor Party’s declaration that it would support British imperial- ism in a “defensive” war. No Papers In Dublin As Printers Strike DUBLIN, July 30—Newsboys, | supporting the strike of Irish news- paper workers, today refused to sell English and other papers. The Free State is left virtually without any newspapers, due to the effectiveness of the strike and the support given to it by the newspaper boys. Street car, restaurant and laun- dry workers are considering going out on a sympathy strike. | DESTROY ELECTION SIGN SAN DIEGO, July 30.—Vigilantes, sometime past midnight and ap- parently with police protection destroyed the Communist Party election sign announcing the candi- | dacy of Pat Chambers for United | States Senator, Sam Darcy for Gov- ernor and Stanley Hancock for State Senator. jing, 852 Eighth Ave., War Plans Workers Throu shout us To Demonstrate Protest At War and Fascist Plans CHICAGO POLICE RAID “UNION HEADQUARTERS, GET COPIES OF “DAILY” (Daily Worker CHICAGO, Ill, July leaders postponed the scheduled walk out of stockyards butchers in support of the Live Stock Handlers strike today. While the walkout remains a possibility for this after- noon, butchers were sent into the | wards this morning. Extraordinary measures are being taken by the bosses and police to prevent the left wing and other militant organizations from gaining any influence among the strikers. Following the arrest of two leaders of the Packing House Workers In- dustrial Union Friday, the State's | Attorney's: police raided the head- quarters of the Union;-seized liter- ature, including five hundred copies cf the Daily Worker and rifled the desks for “incriminating docu- | ments.” The raid was a sorry flop, how- ever, as the most damning evi- dence secured was a leaflet calling | for a united struggle in support of | the Austrian workers. The arrests and raids followed a/ meeting of stockyard workers called by the militant union to prepare for a general walkout in the yards The Chicago Tribune yest 30.—Union | Midwest Bureau) taking its cue from Vigilante at- tacks against the San Francisco strikers, hed a direct incite- 3 8 ES s ments to attac' quarters in Chicago. | The article calls for reviving the | union league clubs as _ terrorist groups to drive “agitators” out of the city. The Tribune verbally yearns for the good old days when copper heads were tarred and feath- ered or ridden on a rail, and states that “among many of the mem-/| There has been dis- cussion of . . . renewing the old} methods” thefounders applied successfully against subversive agi-| tators.” butchers’ walk out, svirit among the strikers for general strike is on the | increase. Two hundred or more |men were around the gates this | morning. A striker told the reporter of | working 15 hours a day for hours pay He had hopes the strike | | Was taking on new life and would spread, 10 | Minneapolis Troops Press Action to Break Up Strike MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., July 30. —The National Guard took more stringent measures to break the strike of the truck drivers here to- day, putting into effect court mar- tial under war time methods for any infraction of 800 military edicts to all civilians. Admitting that the National Guard has issued more than 4,000 military permits for operation of commercial trucks, Adjutant Gen- eral Ellard Walsh, head of the troops, stated that trucking busi- ness has been restored, under the martial law to 70 per cent normal. Today Walsh issued orders for more stringent dictatorship of the military, tightening the martial law inaugurated by the Farmer Labor | governor, Floyd B. Olson. Picket- | ing has been prohibted by the Na-| tional Guards and over 1,000 have | been arrested for infraction of et military orders since the troops | entered last week. Six thousand | truck and taxi drivers are on strike. The National Guard leaders d clare that those arrested fro now on will be confined in a tary stockade which has been structed by the National Guar Seven prisoners were housed in th stockade yesterday. They were later | released. RAID WORKERS’ BOOK SHOP SAN DIEGO, July 30—The San Diego ‘red’ squad t Workers’ and Students in the Social Problems Forum build- | Angus Dryesdele, librarisn, who wes alone in the shop. He wes beaten in jail and charged with criminal syndicalism. He is out on $1.000 bail supplied by the International Tabor Defense. Sirilehttakers Flee As Troops Leave, But strikers rests on the shoulders |” Strike Goes on By BILL DUNNE SAN FRANCISCO, July 28 By Mail)—Behind the re-appearance of an advertisement today for strike-breaking longshoremen and winch drivers in the local papers over the signature of the Water- front Employers’ Union is a story of working-class solidarity marked by grim humor which, like so other recent acts of Pacific Coast workers, sets a new record in the American labor movement. In and around the I. L. A. head- quar‘ers and those of the Joint) Crouch Wins Release By Bold Self-Defense REIDSVILLE, N.C., July 30.—Paul Crouch, District Organizer of the Communist Party, who was arrested Saturday In Danville, Va. on a “vagrancy” charge was released tcday as a result of militant self- defense in the bosses court and scorcs of protests from workers or- ganizations. Dismissal of the “vag- rancy” charge against Crouch is in important victory against the fas- cist terror here. Unions there is loud and ribald | laughter. Stroliing by the offices of the Waterfront Employers’ Union and Get Daily Worker Subscribers Worker, Canvass friends shopmates, Strike Committee of the Maritime! Frisco ‘Dathees Laugh at Outmancucered Bessa ae those of the Industrial Association one hears low moans of exquisite The longshoremen and their mili- tant leadership haye once more out-maneuvered the employers and their various agencies—including the President's “mediation” They voted to go back to work—but they did not say when. They have not gone back to work and they are not going back te work until the votes of the sea- men and the other eight maritime workers’ unions have been regis- tered. There is great grief in Gideon and the supply of balm in Gilead, augmented hy the end of the gen- longshoremen to return to work, has again reached a low point. | Strike-Breakers Leave Docks Most of the strike-breakers on | the docks left hurriedly when the troops were withdrawn. Most of. I :| hurriedly sought other fields. {eral strike and the decision of the’ the remainder left when the special police were discharged. The rest of them, having great confidence in the veracity of the Waterfront Em- ployers’ Union and the local press, believed that the union men were going back to work Saturday, and Longshore work is a hazardous occupation even in normal times. Strike-breaking longshore work, without the protection of troops and special police, under present condi- tions, undoubtedly involves special and additional risks of which in- tense nervous s‘rain is not the least. So the employed on the waterfront took it) on the lam. There has been no un- | seemly rush to answer the ads for strike-breakers which state, con- | trary to the formal facts, that | “strike conditions _ prevail.” strike has been called off. With | the greatest regard for all formali- | Stevedore’s Solidarity Is, Called Landamrk in Labor Annals ties the longshoremen voted to re-| turn to their jobs. But no cargo is being loaded or unloaded by union men, Proletarian Solidarity The waterfront workers are giving | one of the finest demonstrations of proletarian solidarity and discipline ever seen in a labor struggle in this country. Such a demonstre- tion, after 80 days of bitter strike strike-breaking patriots | strugzle, after the cold-blooded be-| trayal of their strike by the offi-| cially recognized leaders of organized labor,” could be unde: | taken and carried out only by leadership that (Gontinued on Page 3) SE EE I A One AN Re a Sc I Shapes Plans For Congress * ‘To Fighi War. NEW YORK.—Preparations for the Second National U. S. Congress} Against War and Fascism have now} |been launched by the American League Against War and Fascism, | | it was announced today. The Congress, which will meet in| Chicago, Ill., on Sept. 28, 29 and 30, | 1934, will have 5,000 delegates from | every part of the country and from scores of organizations, the arrangs- | ments committee declared. The first Anti-War Congress took | place last year in New York City,| | In‘spite of postponement of the | ; | First demonstration ever held Trade (atcons Endorse Rally—Will Score O°’Ryan Attacks MINOR TO SPEAK New York Mobilization Points for March Announced NEW YORK.—An answer to the war moves of the im- perialists in Europe and to Roosevelt’s frenzied prepara- tions for mass slaughter here ;will be hurled by thousands of New York workers tomor- row, August 1, the historic interna- tional day of struggle against bos- ses’ Wa-, wher they gather in Union | Super at 430 p.m, Especially will the demonstrators reply to the new fascist attacks on trade unions by LaGuardia leaders by police. Repo: trade unions and mass organ: indicate that the demonstration tomorrow will be the greatest August in organiza- this country. | Workers’ |tions are preparing to resist to the ‘bitter end the fascisation of their organizations and the militariza- tion of police as direct encourages ments for a world imperialist war. Robert Minor To Speak Robert Minor, veteran Com |leader, will be the main spe: |Union Square. Minor will speak in |the name of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Charles Krumbcin, district organ- izer of the Communist party, Carl Brodsky, Communist Pazty election campaign manager, and other well- known leaders from trade unions and mass organizations will also Tomo:row’s demonstration at Union Square will climax several weeks of intense preparations to mobilize workers in defense of their rights. Workers are realizing more and more every day that they must strike a vital blow against the growing of imperialist war and the 7 increasing moves toward fas- |cism, twin brother of war, being made by Rocsevelt and La Guazdia, Parade to Union Square Union Square tomorrow will be the converging point of thousands of workers and their organizations after they parade from various parts of the city in a demonstration against imperialist war and fascism. The downtown section of the Communist Party is calling on the we eae of the East Side to mobilize St. and Ave. A. at 3.30 p.m, 3) (Continued on Page ‘Protest Raids And Arrests OnWest Coast NEW YORK —Letters and resolue tions vigorously protesting gov- | ernment- inspired fascist raids on ‘kerc’ organizations on the West Coast and the arrest of hundreds of militant workers, were forwarded has the coxaplets | The | confidence of the rank and file,| gates, etc., wih more than 3,000 delecates o: yesterday to Secretary of Labor, | every political party, trade unions,| Frances Perkins, by the American Pacitisy: grolips, ete. | Civil Liberties Union, the National With the menace of imperialist} Committee for the Defense of Po- war a grim reality, and with the | litical Prisoners, the International Roosevelt government rapidly mo-|Labor Defense and the National bilizing for war, the Congress calls| Committee for the Protection of upon every person in the country | Foreign Born. who is willing to fight against the| A protest list with space for sig- repetition of the miseries and hor- | natures is being jointly distributed rors of the last imperialist world|by the American Civil Liberties | war to join in the fight against im- | perialist war and fascism. Unions, mass org nization: | ternal groups, Union, International Labor Defense, General Defense Committee of the bo LW League for Industrial De- National Committee for of Political Prisoners and ional Committee for Non- urged to take up as soon as po | sible the question of elec ing Ss. Ios gates to the Second Cong For further information on dele- ons believing in free write to the American: the right cf labor to organize, to | League Against War and Fascism, | sign the petition and get others to 112 E. 19th St., New York City, jSign it.