The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 1, 1934, Page 1

Day Only Is Left to Save ANGELO chain Needed. Loans Bail Rush Cash or Liberty to gang. Total Fund Will HERNDON from the $2,400 Bail Still received $12,600. Be Returned, Bonds to International Labor Defense., 80 E. llth St., New York City. Vol. XI, No. 183 => Daily,QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1934 PRESS RUN YESTERDAY. 42.200 Make This Figure Grow WEATHER: Fair. (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents RALLY AGAINST WAR TODAY! Workers Organize Own Committees in Spite of, Zausner NEW YORK.—The paint- ers’ general strike, involving 12,000 workers, which began here on Monday, is rapidly going over into the hands of rank and file leadership. Despite attempts of Philip Zauner, hated leader of the union, who wormed his way into the of- | fice of secretary-treasurer of the local district council of the Painters’ Brotherhood through fraud and trickery, to keep the rank and file from gaining control of the strike, Locals: 499, 490, 848 and 892 have elected rank and file strike com- mittces. Only one local of the 12 in the entire district council has endorsed Zausner as the leader of the strike. All locals that have not yet elected tank and file committees are look- ing to the four locals which set up their own committees as the guid- ing force of the strike. Mass Picketing Yesterday painters from various locals mass picketed six painting jobs throughout Greater New York with banners and placards. Work was halted on these jobs. More than 1,000 strikers attended an enthusiastic strike meeting in the Labor Temple, 243 E. 84th St., \s the afternoon. Louis Weinstock, chairman of Local 499 strike com~- mittee, was given a tremendous ovation when he outlined a plan for full rank and file control of the strike. A representative of the Workers’ International Relief was applauded when he pledged full support to he strike. Philip Zausner stands now like a zeneral without an army. On Mon- lay night he went to the headquar- s of Local 892 and called for a picket parade. Only six members vaised their hands in response to ais plea. But when Max Schurnan, rank and file leader, called for pic- seting all the hands in the hall shot up. Zausner Henchman Ousted Further evidence of Zausner’s de- cline could be seen yesterday. One »f Zausner’s henchmen, I. Mandell, same to the Labor Temple to regis- ser the strikers. Strikers told him shat there would be no registration intil he got out. The rank and file zommittee continued with the regis- tration. In Local 892 when Zausner took the floor to attack the rank and file leaders he was promptly howled down by the membership. In Local 848 Zausner’s chairman attempted to adjourn the meeting before the members had elected their strike committee, but the members sat tight, reopened the meeting with a new chairman and elected their committee. Although representatives of the rank and file strike committees had advised the Regional Labor Board shat Zausner did not represent the membership of the union, he ap- peared yesterday before the board as the representative of the strikers. | Rank and file committee members were not invited to the meeting, in spite of the fact that they had asked to be present when Zausner aad the hearing, The strike continues strong and firm, Preparations are being made for mass picket demonstrations shroughout the city today. The painters are demanding the seven-hour day and $9 a day as the unien scale. Kuliguuis Workers Voting for Strike As Bus Strike Ends NEW YORK.—As workers of the Staten Island Coach Company were ending their strike yesterday, turn- ing their demands over to an arbi- trator, 15,000 knitgoods workers were voting in Manhattan, Brook- lyn, Newark and Union City to strike for shorter hours and in-/ Needle | creases in wages. The Trades Workers’ Indus‘rial Union will ask the leaders of the Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Industrial Union to agree to set up| local accepted the offer. a joint rank and file strike com- mittee to lead the struggle. © Tick Drivers Picket Despite Troops’ Order MINNEAPOLIS, July 31— The National Guard arrested 16 pickets today and held them for trial by court martial. Mass picketing has been called for to- morrow morning by the union in an effort to stop all trucks from operating. A National Guard squad car, while chasing strike pickets, | erashed into a sedan, killing its | driver and injuring three guards- men. | MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., July 31— | Striking truck drivers, finding that jthe policy of their leaders of beg- | ging Gov. Floyd Olson for favors jhas failed, were out os picket lines today in spite of the orders of the | National Guard against picketing. | Olson, the Farmer Labor Gover- nor, stood exposed as a_strike- breaker when he rejected the plea of the leaders of the truck drivers local 574 that his national guards shall move no more trucks for 48 hours while the military permit system could be reorganied. Instead, Olsonfi in a speech last night, made |it clear that trucks will be given | adequate protection by the troops, Adjutant General Ellard Walsh, military dictator of the city, gave additional permits todayfor all wholesale and retail grocery trucks | to operate. Thus the national |guard is now escorting approxim- | atey 80 per cent of all trucks. The leaders of the drivers local | reactionary leaders of the Central Labor Union to take sympathy ac- j ton. They have not taken any con- crete steps to b:ing about the spread of the strike. The leaders of the Local 574 have called for a final | showdown tomorrow without havi: jtaken steps to prepare the broad | masses of workers for such action. At an open hearing of the Wel- fare Committee of the City Coun- cil today forty thousand signatures were presented demanding the removal of Police Chief Bain- bridge Johannes, Jack Carson, district organizer of the Communist Party was one of the speakers. The acts of Governor Olson, he said, as well as of Johannes, aim to stop_ effective picketing. The issues are the right to organize, to strike, and to picket. The workers are fighting to picket effectively so that they can win their strike. Mayor and Dubinsky Hobnob While Police Order Labor Visa NEW YORK.—The reason Mayor LaGuardia could not be found in his office last Saturday when the infamous police order for the regis- tration of union leaders was issued was because the Mayor was hob- nobbing at the time with certain union leaders. The Mayor spent his week-end at the Unity House at Forrest Park, Pa., the summer resort of the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment work- ers’ Union, with the reactionary Mr. David Dubinsky, president of the I, L. G. W. U., and Ex-Com- missioner of Immigration Mr. Ed- ward Corsi, the man who was re- sponsible for the deportation of militant workers under the Hoover regime. The Mayor was surely in good company. Certainly nobody in the Mayor's pariy had any kick against the police visa system of General O’Ryan. Laundry Men on Strike For Union Recognition NEW YORK.—Workers of the Primrose Laundry, 33 Belmont Ave., and the R. and S. Laundry, Van Singeren Ave. and New Lots, Brownsville, are striking for recog- nition of their union, Local 135 of the Laundry Workers International. A committee from the Com- munist Party came to the local and offered to support the strike. The Picketing is being continued in front of both plant, | | | For Action Members Vote 2 to 1 to Join Communists in United Front NEW YORK.—Socialist Party workers meeting in the regular membership meeting last night in the 2lst Assembly District Branch in Brooklyn adopted by a vote of more than two to one a resolution calling upon their leadership to form a united front “with all class conscious groups and parties, irre- spective of all past differences to the end that in the emergency cre- ated by the deepening crisis and collapse of capitalism working class | unity may be accomplished.” | The membership further re-| quested that a copy of this resolu- tion be sent to the National Execu- | tive Committee of the Socialist | Party recently elected at the De- | | troit convention, with a recommen- | | dation for early consideration and | action thereon, This resolution was presented to the Socialist Party branch by Mer- | ritt Crawford, one of the board} members, who was prominent in the | election campaign two years ago | | when Hillquit, Waldman and Solo- mon were running for office. Menace of Fascism Attempts to postpone action on this resolution were defeated, Roger Cornell, candidate for State Sena- tor, favored the resolution in the voting. The resolution points out that it |is increasingly evident that an or- ganized campaign of terrorism and violence is being launched against militant workers of every kind in the heroic efforts now being made by American labor, organized and unorganized, to obtain better work- ing conditions, a living wage and the recognition of its right to col-| j lective bargaining, and that this) movement of America is clearly in- | dicative of the rapid development of an American Fascism, which, as the bloody history of German, Ital- |ian and Austrian Fascism pla | shows, menaces all workers a) | irrespective of political faith or af- | | filiation. | It then calls for joint action. In Omaha, Nebraska, members of the Socialist Party have pledged aid (Continued on Page 2) \Socialists Join Fight In Freeing Communist BRIDGEPORT, Conn., July 31— Sam Krieger, section organizer of the Communist Party here, who was jailed on testimony of “Socialist” Mayor McLevy and police officials for his leadership in a demonstra- tion last March, was released Sat- urday. The campaign to free Krieger and Sparrow, who was released after serving one week, involved a united front activity of Socialist rank and file workers and Communists. | Prominently active in the campaign to free Krieger was Kieve Liskovsky, | Socialist Selectman, who acted as j treasurer of the committee. Many | Socialist Party workers, as well as |some Socialist city officials, made | anonymous contributions and took | part in meetings arranged by the “Free Krieger Committee.” FOUR NEW BUNDLES. — Indianapolis, Ind—Four new bundles of 25 “Dailies” each have been ordered and routes established by Comrade Mar- tin McClay, Edward Haley and James Douglas. JUMPS 10 TO 70.—Fairmont, W. V.—In three ,months, Dis- trict 22 has built the sale of the “Daily” from 10 to 70 | copies daily and 175 Satur-| | day, in addition to individual | subscribers. The Party mem- bership is being mobilized to. meet West Virginia’s quota of | 5. P. GROUPS IN UNI Rank and F ile Gain 21st Branch Leadership in Strike 1n Brooklyn Of 12,000 Painters Discipline esl At Meet Today All Party and Y.C.L. members, and all sympathetic workers are urged to maintain the strictest proletarian discipline at the great anti-war demonstration today. This must be a determined militant fighting demonstration of the New York working class. The seriousness of the situation demands that all picnicking at Union Square be forthwith dis- continued. All discussion groups and promenading must stop. This is to be a fighting revolu- tionary demonstration against war and fascism. Proletarian dignity, revolutionary self - im- posed discipline and militant seriousness is required to make this an effective demonstration. NEW YORK DISTRICT SECRETARIAT COMMUNIST PARTY. ‘Tensions Rise As Hindenburg End Nears BERLIN, July .31.—New political | developments loomed in Germany as President Von Hindenburg, aged 86, lay at the point of death. Hindenburg, elected with the sup- port of the Social-Democratic Party, as a.“democrat,” appointed Hitler Chancellor in 1932. His death will introduce new ten- sions and antagoriisms among the fascist cliques disputing for com- plete control of the State apparatus. Having been built up as a states- man above the issues of political Struggle, Hindenburg’s death will necessitate new maneuvers on the part of the fascist parties to stem the rise of proletarian revolution in Germany. Hitler has taken an airplane to| the bedside of the Kaiser’s Field- Marshal, who turned power over to his hands, The German press, anticipating |574 have merely been begging the| growing attack upon the labor | pindenburg’s death, is now seeking to create an atmosphere of “na- tional” crisis with Hitler as the “successor” who “will save Ger- many.” F ida Movil As Thaelmann “Trial” Nears NEW YORK.—With the trial of Ernst Thaelmann and 6,000 other antifascist fighters slated to begin on Saturday before Hitler's new lynch tribunal—the bogus “People’s Courts,"—an urgent appeal was is- sued yesterday by the Anti-Nazi Federation of New York for funds for the fight to rescue these politi- cal opponents of Hitlerism from the Nazi axe, “Funds are needed for their de- fense and liberation,” the appeal states. We urged all organizations and individuals to turn in their tag day boxes immediately at the Anti- Nazi Federation, 168 W. 23rd St. Free Thaelmann petition blanks should be filled out and turned in immediately to the Anti-Nazi Fed- eration.” Get Daily Worker Subscribers! Earn Expenses Selling the “Daily’ | Fighting Sectors Gain on “Daily” Drive Front! are going to Booth, Grant Town, Everettville and Rives- ville. ON BUSY STREETS.—Buf- falo, N. Y.—Gilbert R. Bass writes that no effort is being made to sell the “Daily” on Main Street, Buffalo’s busiest thoroughfare. Instead of be- moaning the fact, Bass, to- gether with another young | worker, has ordered a bundle | of 25 papers. They will cor-| rect the situation. Both want | Red Builder sweaters. i . * . SELL TO FARMERS.—Mass, | 75 new readers. New bundles | Mich,—“It is very essential,” Builder and has ‘ordered a|in record time | ! S. P. LOCAL JOINS UNITED FRONT CamdenS.P. A ‘ t B ° d FIGHT BOSSES’ WAR! FIGHT ADVANCING FASCISM! ccep S 1 Join in the United Front Demonstration For Unity - - Against War and Fascism . . | x on Wednesday, August Ist; 4.30 P.M. 19d: 20th Anniversary of the World War : Court House Plaza, Camden «.-Speakers... Sociakist Party of America Communist Party of U. S. A. ‘Morris Stempa Donald Henderson and Representatives from Trade Unions Workers of Camden and Vicinity: 1934 Socialists to Demon-| strate With Commu- nists Against War CAMDEN, N. J., July 31—In the | heart of one of the most important | war industry areas in the country, | the Socialist Party local here and| the Communist Party have ar-| ranged a joint dollars for war preparations while millions of unem- ployed stil face sta demonstration | against war and fascism to be held| tomorrow. | The formation of this united front came about as result of the| invitation sent by the Communist! Party, following the lead set by WORKERS OF CAMDEN: Let us fight together! Make this demonstration a mighty protest against war and Fascism! «+. Let Us Raise Our Voices .. . Defense of the Rights of the Workers to Organize, to Strike, to Picket! —Against Fascism and the Attempt to Smash Workers’ Organizations! —Demand the Use of All War Funds for the Unemployed! Unite Against All Bosses’ War! Defend the Soviet Union—the Only Workers’ Government! —For the Release of All Political Prisoners in Germany, Austria and America! ; SOCIALIST PARTY OF AMERICA (Camden Branch) COMMUNIST PARTY OF U.S. A. the Central Committee of the Com-| munist Party which sent an open} letter to the Executive Committee of the Socialist Party propostng | nation-wide joint actions against the menace of imperialist war and| fascism. | The united front meeting which | will be held at Court House Plaza | in Camden, at 4:30 p.m., will have | Bas oes as its main speakers, Morris | Stempa of the Socialist Party and Sh O’R 9 O “d . Donald Henderson of the Com- if munist Party. | Ow Ss yan Ss nt er Accept Five Points | ; The five points on which the | N t A d t h oes Socialist Party accepted the pro- Ss oO ime a | ugs posals of united front pre . | Ss rs ot eoe ere Gell. Weer en Rca atte | NEW YORK.—That Police Com- | racketeers and gunmen. from the 2. Against fascism and the at- |missioner O’Ryan’s order for the|unions, Potash cited a declaration tempt to smash workers’ organ- | “voluntary” registration of union) made in open court before Magis- izations. , jleaders was not aimed at eliminat-| 3. Demand the use of all war jing racketeers from unions, but that | ney Markovitch on July 18. Maz funds for the unemployed. |the New York police authorities are|ovitch, who was defending two no- 4. Unite against all bosses’ war! | Defend the Soviet Union—the only | world elements against the workers,| Jules Meresky, charged with carry- workers government! was charged yesterday by Irving| ing all kinds of dangerous weapons, 5. For the release of all political |Potash, secretary of the Needle|declaved in court that the au- prisoners in Germany, Austria and |Trades Workers Industrial Union. thor sie had advised the thugs to ees! | “The flimsiness of the excuse of-|57™ themselves. None of the au- Camden is in the heart of South| fered by Police Commissioner| Potties have denied this. ; Jersey, area, of many heavy war in-|o'Ryan and Mayor LaGuardia that|, Protests against the police regis- dustries such as munition plants,|the order seeks to detect and elim- ‘tation order were sent to Mayor | chemical factories, textiles, and the |inate racketeers and gunmen is ob- LaGuardia and the Police Commis- | scene of a terrorist drive against the | vious to anyone who has knowledge pee SU caer eae working class and the Communist |or recent developments in New ea os pen ape eagt of Fo PDonald Hend Pe Ace oul LAR Aro haar ternational Ladies Garment Wor | ‘son, eo Ba a rr s G Vor Vodaleers aE the, united “teat ahi. It is common knowledge that ers Union, the Alteration Painters | war demonstration, was recently ar- |t2¢keteers and gunmen are not of- Union and the Office Workers | rested in the Seabrook Farms s e. ficials of labor unions which they) ynion. | and menaced by a lynch mob of Ku | °minaie, but are the ‘power behind) Orrick Johns, author and poet, the throne. In pointing out that the police re making no effort to eliminate sent letters of protest against the | Klux Klan “vigilantes.” | Solidarity Grows | In Reading, Pa., the growing soli- | ¥ darity of Socialist and Communist | _ | workers of this city in the struggle | jagainst war and fascism received) REPORTS STRIKE ENDED | State Troopers Called practical illustration last night in| a series of neighborhood meetings) SAN FRANCISCO, July 31—The| 4, Albany Delegates | Present Relief Demands in preparation for the United Front | capitalist press here reports that the fees a bape ry falanee ; ¢ | maritime workers have ended the ose Bush, section organizer of| .,_. RURAL | the Communist Party here, spoke strike and have returned to work, | Rikewe eae last night invitation bef: the | But at the time the Daily Worker | aD OF ec ‘ last night on invitation ore We} | troopers, armed with night sticks, Northeast Branch of the Socialist} went to press it was no: learned | patrolled the state capitol today as Party on “Building Socialism in the| what decision had been arrived at|150 delegates from trade unions, Soviet Union. All tie meetings | py the striking marine workers. and relief workers, unemployed, pro- were ane aye by Communist | The fascist anti-radical drive | {¢Ssional, white collar. workers and and Socialist workers. : a : |farmers’ organizations sought to continues. In a last-minute cam-| present demands to Gov. Lehman paign speech, Gov. Frank Merriam, | for relief and the enactment of the ican nom- | Workers’ Unemployment Insurance the Police Commissioner. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July 31—An anti-war demonstrations will be held ‘i on Reyburn Plaza tomorrow at 4| candidate for the Republ Bill p.m., with Herbert Benjamin as| ination in August, stated in San| se i chief speaker. The Communist |Jose that he would protect the) Police Chief Smurl ued gas Party and mass organizations are | Tights of agricultural workers, but | bombs to the police as the 150 dele- being mobilized. |that the state would “continue its| gates began their march from the ; war on Communists and radicals.| Workers’ Temple to the State Cay The honest hard-working labor man | itol. Scores of police patrolled the Loc. perce eel MEETS will not make unreasonable de-| entire line of march and the head- F |mands. The courts and our i quarters where the workers me . NEW YORK. — An important} gration officials will deal w Goy. Lehman turned down the meeting of Local 9 of the Interna- | cthe: After applying this demands: of: the. délegation tional Ladies Garment Workers|of radicalism, Merriam warned) 7 0 eo i | The delegation, ‘headed by the Union will be held after work to-| farmers they-must allow workers night at Webster Hall. ‘organize and bargain collectively. United Action Committce on Work, | Relief and Unemployment, ich |initiated the conference, placed de- ;mands calling for the enaciment of |the Workers Unemployment Insur- jance Bill and additional relief before Gov. Lehman for enactment by the | special session of the state legisla- writes Harry Alanin, Secre- | bundle of 25 papers daily and |" delegation headed by William tary of the Mass Daily Worker | 50 Saturday. Fox, of the A.O.P.EE., and Michael A “4 ao | Davidow, of the Relief iia sitesaate ae Daily | Se ei League, which placed similar de- orker sprea to ‘arms mands before the Now Y¥ City >| ACTION CHALLENGES. — | aaministration, were refused where we have found people who have never heard of the ‘Daily’, To popularize the ante oe res readers, half subs. Ike Hawk- Helbel Gants to “order the | 2S District Daily Worker | aie tvinncing “in. part of | ABent, also reports that these | Picts Fabaerintion Pete » + [comrades ordered 500 extra aie aes i ‘copies of the Anti-War Issue. Shirt Factory here were injured to- sae : fe 4 ae | Brownsville action is a chal- |i When pulite abtecked:the pickas BOYS, GIRLS, SELL.—Provi- lenge to other Sections in Dis- |jine, using tear gas an ! dence, R.f.—Leonard Carbone, | trict 5 and if aceepted should & oho ager a member of the Y. C. L.,/assure Pittsburgh of mecting ote ae m wants to do his part as a Red | its quota ef 300 new readers mecting’ by LaGuardia today A mass meeting will be held at Irving Plaza, Thursday, August 2, at 8 pm.. Police Club and Gas Eight Woman Strikers Pittsburgh, Pa.—Brownsville | Section enters the drive, set- ting itself a quota of 100 new YORK, Pa., July 31—Eight women strikers picketing the scveral weeks, w | resulting until the police attack to- I dav. = & lWorldwide trate Guy Van Amringe by Attor-| directly aiding and arming under-/torious thugs, Alfred Matthews andj police order to both the Mayor and 31.—State | at Phylbyrne | | union, TED FRONT Meetings | Projected Mass Leaders to Speak At N.Y. Gathering in Union Square | NEW YORK.—AlIl over the . | world) workers, farmers and | intellectuals demonstrate to- day against imperialist war and fascism. Today is the international day of struggle against these bloody twin brothers of capitalism. Into the streets, in marches, mass meetings demonstrations, the raise their voices in 7] will rotest Hundreds of meetings are sched- uled ighout the country in many cities and towns. The meet- ings are called by the Communist Party and ome cases by a united front of s ral organizations. N. Y. Demonstration At 4:30 New York will undoubtedly see the mightiest August First demon- ion in its hist Becoming more and more aware of the danger of world war and incensed at the headlong drive toward war spurred on by the Roosevelt N. R. A, regime, many thousands of workers will pour..into Union Square at 4:30 p. m. from different parts of the city. The growing fascization of the | LaGuardia government in its at- | tack on trade unions, and militar- ization of police for use against striking workers has awakened thousands to the sham of LaGuar- dia’s “liberalism” and the crying need for a united struggle of mili- tant action. | Roosevelt's demagogy, too, has been laid open and the filthy en- trails bloody posed. nouncing of war preparations and terror against workers ex- The Woodring letter an- record-scale army ma- hed in Saturday's the fleet maneuvers in the Pacific, the demand of Wall Street for an air fleet ‘cecond: to none” in face of a similar demand by British imperialists, and the situ- ation in Central Europe have stirred the toiling masses to the acuteness of a second imperialist slaughter. Unions Answer Call | And New York workers are re= sponding to the call of the Com- munist Party for immediate, mili- tant action against war and fascism. The Needle Trades Work- ers Industrial Union will march into Union Square after meeting at 36th Street and 8th Avenue at 4 p.m. The Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, the Food Workers Indus- trial Union, the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, the Marine Workers Industrial Union, and independent and A. F. of L, jlocais are mobilizing their member- ship for the demonstration today. | Yesterday the marine workers and workers from Sections 1 and 3 of the Communist Party held a preparatory August First march along the waterfront frem White- hall St. to West 18th St. Nurses and hospital attendants are also preparing to add their pro- test today against imperialist war and the needless slaughter of mil- lions of workers. Roy Hudson Will Speak In addition to Robert Minor and Charles Krumbein, organizer of District 2 of the Communist Party, Roy Hudson, national secretary of the M. W. I. U., who was recently released from jail in Virginia while returning from the West Coast strike area, Richard B. Moore, act- ing national organizer of the In- ternational Labor Defense, and Rose Wortis, assistant secretary of the Trade Union Unity Council, and John Little, district organizer lof the Young Communist League, will 5; | Carl Brodsky, election campaign | manage: of the Communist Party, | will be chairman of the meeting. | Thousands of leaflets issued’ by | the Communist Party and by trade unions and workers’ organizations |are flooding the city with calls for | workers to come to the demon- | stration. | “Fill Union Square at 4:30 p.m.! Demonstrate against imperialist war and fascism!” the leaflets urge. UNION HEAD HELD FOR | A.B.C. RIOT HAVANA, July 31.—Joaquin Ordo- qui, Secretary General of the C. N. |O. ©. (Con ‘acian Nacional Ob- » Cubsn2}, Communist led labor indicted and held with- » bail todty on a charge of “hav- = incited the attacks” on the A. | B.C. demonstration of June 17th, ‘which led to a mi of deaths.