The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 3, 1934, Page 1

—s Days left to raise $14,608 defense fund fer Angelo Herndon and the Scottsbore boys. $1,492 received to 29 = Rush contributions to International Labor De- fense, 80 E. 11th St., New York City. Vol. XI, No. 185 > 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, N. Y., under the Act of March & 1879. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUG T 3, 1934 WEATHER: Prohabie showers. Make This Fi PRESS RUN YESTERDAY. 44,400 igure Grow (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents FRISCO WORKERS IN RALLY DEFY TERROR Hitler, As President, Launches “Referendum” Terror UNITED FRONT ANTI-WAR PARADE TOMOR Call Issued To Meeting By T.U.U.C. Browder to Be Among Speakers At Madison Square Park PHILADELPHIA, August 2.—Cul- minating a long campaign of terror, wholesale evictions, discrimination in relief, brutal clubbings, Jim Crowism in neighborhood theatres and stores, the police have placed the Negro neighborhood about 22d and Master Sts. under martial law, with streets roped off, and workers ordered to stay indoors. NEW YORK—The Trade Union Unity Council yesterday issued a call to all unions of New York City to join the united front anti-war parade and demonstration called by the American League Against War and Fascism, The demonstration will be held tomorrow. Workers will assemble with banners and placards at 1 p.m. at Columbus Circle, 59th Street and Eighth Avenue. The marchers will move to Madi- son Square Park where a mass meeting will be held. Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party, will speak. Other speakers wil include Sam Nessin of the Trade Union Unity Council, Rabbi Ben Bokser, Mary Allen of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Irving Leuchter of the Young Circle League, and Louis Hyman of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union. Children will mopilize at 36th Street and Eighth Avenue. At least 2.000 Young Pioneers are expected to join the march at that point. The demonstration tomorrow will be a very colorful one, Nurses, hos- pital workers, medical students, members of the Civil Conservation Corps, veterans and other groups will march in uniform. Many con- tingents will have their own bands. Negro and white workers from Harlem will mobilize uptown and march to Columbus Circle in a body. The American League Against ‘War and Fascism reports that fifty preliminary outdoor rallies in dif- ferent parts of the city will be held tonight. The league issued a call yesterday for volunteers to come to the office of the City Central Com- mittee, 213 Fourth Ave, at 10 a.m. tomorrow to aid in preparations. Following are the mobilization points for organizations participat- ing in the anti-war demonstration tomorrow: Mobilization on Central Park West from Soth St. North to 86th St. 59th-60th St.—1. Workers Ex-Service- men’s League; 2. C.C.C. Protective League; 3. Nurses; 4. Hospital Workers; 5. Medical ; 6. Bellevue; 7. Social Workers; 8. Professional Alliance A.W. 10. Pharmacists Union. 60th-6ist St—I1. Marine Workers; Workers International Relief; 13. Associa- tion of Professional Emergency Employees; 14, Relief Workers; 15. United Action Gom- mittee. 62nd-68rd St.—16. Unemployment Coun- cils; 17, Women’s Councils; 18, Women’s International League for Peace and Free- dom; 19. Teachers Organizations; 20. Un- employed ‘Teachers Association. @8rd-64th St. — 21, Youth Branches; 22. Youth Olubs; 23. Young Oircle League; 24. International Workers Order, Youth Branches. 64th-65th St. — 25. National Student League; 26. Young Communist League; 27. Trade Union Youth Groups; 28. Labor Sports Union; 29. Foreign Language Youth Groups; 30, unaffiliated Youth. 66th-67th St.—31. Branches of the Amer- jean League Against War and Fascism, Neighborhood Committees American League Against War and Fascsim. 67th-68th St.—32. American Federation of Labor Locals; 33. Independent Unions. é8th-69th St.—34. Trade Union Unity League Unions. é9th-70th St.—35. Communist Party. ‘Toth-Tist St.—36. Anti-Fascist Organiza- tions; 37. Anti-Imperialist Organizations. ‘Tist-72nd St.—38. Friends of the Soviet Union. ‘iand-T3rd St.—89. United Front Support- ers; 40, Film and Photo League; 41. Arte; 42. New Workers Theatre; 43. Workers Laboratory ‘Theatre. TSrd-74th St.—44. Artists Union; 45. Dance Groups; 46. Pen and Hammer; 47. Pierre Degeyter Club; 48. Workers Music League; 49. Press. ‘74th-75th St.—50. League of Struggle tor Negro Rights. T5th-76th St.—51. Harlem Groups. 76th-77th 3. Toor. h St.—54, International Workers 12. American League Se — 52. International Labor Language Groups and Workers Clubs: ‘Teth-79th St—55. English; 56. Jewish; 57. German; 58. Russian; 89. Ukrainian; 60, Polish. 7oth-80th St.—61. Lithuanian; 62. Hun- garian; 63, Lettish; 64. Esthonian; 65. Roumanian; 68 Armenian, 80th-81st St.—67. Irish; 68. Italian; 69. French; 70. Spanish; 71. Greek; 72. Latin ‘American. 8ist-82nd St.—T3, Chinese; 74. Japanese; 15, Finnish; 76. Scandinavian; 77. Turkish; 78. Miscellaneous. I. W. 0. Drive to Begin CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 1— The membership drive of the Ohio district of the International Work- ers Order will be formally opened here by the second annual district picnic of the organization on Aug. 26 at Stop 25, Kinsman Road. ‘The organization is preparing for an attendance of 5,000. Movies and an extensive sports program 4s being planned, Last night police roamed the streets, arresting every Negro they could catch, and spreading the vici- ous rumor that Negroes had broke out in « race riot, Last night an especially vicious attack on a young Negro woman, added to the long list of provoca- tions and acts of terror, precipitated @ mass outpouring of 4,000 workers in protest. Police immediately swooped down on the neighborhood, began driving workers off the street, roped off the neighborhood and ar- rested seventy-five Negro workers in stores, on the street, as they got off trolley cars on their way home. 14,000 NEGROES DEFEND THEMSELVES AGAINST PHILA. POLICE ATTACK The young woman attempted to return a pound of sugar filled with ditt to a store keeper Edward Morton in the neighborhood. He started an argument, and kicked the pregnant woman in_ the stomath. This morning, Magistrate Eberhard permitted the store keeper to sign his own bail bond, while the woman was seriously ill in her home. The International Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Ne- gro Rights have arranged an emer- gency conference for Negro Rights for Monday night in the neighbor- hood, and are issuing calls to churches, clubs, mass organizations to send delegates. A mass meet- ing has been arranged for Saturday night, where the workers will or- ganize to carry on a campaign to force stopping of evictions, increase of relief for all, jobs for Negroes in neighborhood stores, and against the entire program of terror and discrimination against Negroes by police and their agents. Mass Protest Forces LaGuardia to Cancel Union “License” Order NEW YORK.—It took exactly six days of mass pressure and protests from unions and working class or- ganizations to break up Police Com- missioner O’Ryan’s fascist plan to register, photograph and issue Police visas to union leaders. Mass protest did the trick. Yes- terday Mayor LaGuardia was forced to order his sabre-rattling Chief to cancel the registration plan. Hardly had the order been is- sued over the Police teletype last Saturday requiring “responsible” unions to submit proper identifica- tions for their legally authorized representatives than a storm of or- ganized protest broke over the heads of the Mayor and General O’Ryan. American ‘Federation of Labor Unions, the Trade Union Unity Council of Greater New York and all its affiliated unions, the Com- munist Party, the International Labor Defense, the Civil Liberties Union and scores of workers’ or- ganizations bombarded the City Hall and Police Headquarters with protests demanding that the order be cancelled. The American News- paper Guild representing 8,000 newspaper men and women issued a vigorous statement through its secretary, Jonnathan Eddy, de- nouncing the police order as a fas- cist edict. “You will return copies of the let- ters of identification filed with you and the incident will thereby be entirely close,” said the Mayor to his Chief of Police when the pro- tests continued to mount. It was too much for the Mayor. He had to call off the plan, although on Monday supported it wholeheart- edly. In fact, Police Commissioner O’Ryan after he was ordered to cancel the order exposed its source. It came from the Mayor's office, O’Ryan told reporters yesterday. O’Ryan pointed out that the Mayor put his official O.K. on the plan be- fore it was announced. Thus both the Mayor and O’Ryan were guilty. Meanwhile, O’Ryan’s Rifle Regi- ment, a picked storm troop detatch- ment of the police force for strike duty, continues to drill in the ar- mories of the city. This latest fas- cist brain child of the LaGuardia- O’Ryan regime is under the fire of all honest trade union men and women. Organized labor, which has scored a victory in forcing the abolition of the visa edict, is now moving for- ward toward a great united fight for the abolition of O’Ryan’s Rifles. Picket Badly Beaten By Hired Gangster NEW YORK.—Samuel Brick- man, member of Local 338 of the Fruit and Vegetable Clerk’s Union, was bruially beaten yesterday on the picket line in front of the Hy- man and Novick Store, 251 Schen- ectady Ave., Brooklyn, by a “Sailor” Hossi, a thug hired by the store owners to break the strike that has been going on at the store for two months, A union delegate told the Daily Worker that it is thought Brick- man has a fractured skull and is not expected to live. The Daily Worker inquired about the injured worker at various Brooklyn hospi- tals, but failed to locate him. Strike Threat Brings Reinstatement of Five NEW YORK.—Five workers who were fired from the A. Rosenberg clothing shop, 16 East 52nd St., were reinstated after the Custom Tailoring Workers Industrial Union thas threatened to call a strike in the establishment. The strike of 125 workers of Schanz, Inc. 745 Fifth Ave. is solid and picketing is being con- tinued. Preparations are being made by the union for a strike in September throughout the custom tailoring industry. Shop chairmen and active union members will meet at the union headquarters, 49 West 46th St., Monday, Aug. 6, to work out plans for the strike. W.LR. Camp to Be Open PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Aug. 2— The camp of the Workers Inter- national Relief at Lumberville, Pa., which opened during the past week-end with a special outing of Philadelphia workers will remain open for the entire summer. Or- ganizations and groups of unor- ganized workers will receive spe- cial rates. Individual rates are: Adults, $10 weekly and children from $5 to $7.50 weekly. “Ballotting” This Month Heimwehr Loyalty to Nazi Chief Called Doubtful BERLIN, August 2.—Moving swiftly to prevent the outbreak of new in- ner political struggles among Fas- cist ruling cliques, Adolf Hitler to- day made himself President of Ger- many by merging his office of Chancellor with the office made vacant when President Von Hin- denburg died this morning. In an attempt to terrorize the Population into a “ratification” of his new political moves, Hitler has caled for a “national referendum” which will be used to give some semblance of mass support for the Fascist regime. The referendum will take place some time between August 19 and 26. “The “referendum” will take place under conditions of growing terrorism, the method resembling the wholesale terrorization which marked the last “elections” in the Reich, % Will Call for of Bsked week of August 5-12 has been set aside as “Daily Worker Week,” when every Party member and sympathizers must enter the drive to complete the quota of 20,000 new readers and make its success a matter of personal responsibility. We know that the drive can only succeed if every organization and individual performs a share of the necessary work. Connecticut has gone over the top! Seven Districts have secured from fifty to one hundred and six per cent of their quotas in half the time allotted. Several Districts have |All Readers Into ‘Daily’ Drive! By GEORGE WISHNAK, Mgr., Daily Worker GEORGE WISHNAK substantial gains in a period of days. turned serious circulation losses into New York has trebled its Red Builder staff without cutting into the sales of those operating before the drive. At the same time, news- | stand sales have held up during | what is normally an off season. Boston, Chicago, Paterson, In- dianapolis and other cities have also jumped in street sales, prov- | ing that Red Builder activity is successful elsewhere. Workers, ready and willing to buy our “Daily,” pass street corners by the thousands. They do not read our “Daily” simply because we have not perfected our methods for reach- ing them. The same condition exists on the question of subscriptions. Where organizations and individ- ual readers have gone out inten- (Continued on Page 3) Thank-and File The death” of Hindenburg has been seized as the occassion for a renewed barrage of Nazi propaganda ‘yealling-for-“national unity,” that -is to say, for support of the policies of the: Fascists. Disputes Over Army The significance of Hitler’s quick |move to forestall any disputes over the new alignment of office on the death of Hindenburg is that with his new office Hitler now takes offi- cial command of the armed forces, including the Heimwehr, the highly trained picked troops of Germany. An oath of loyalty to Hitler was immediately administered to the Heimwehr by General Von Blom- berg. But it is significant of the inner disputes among the fascists that one of the commanders of the Heim- wehr, Werner Von Fnitsch, has still made no public declaration of sup- port. An. authoritative source in the British Government declared that “there is considerable doubt whether the Reishsweher will be as loyal to Hitler as it was to Hindenburg.” George Lansbury, Parliamentary leader for the Labor Party of England joined in the universal chorus of praise which the bour- geoisie of all countries is heaping upon the Kaiser’s leading Junker- Militarist who ushered in the open fascist dictatorship of the German ruling class. “He was a great sol- dier,” Landsbury said, “after the war he appeared to do the best for his country.” Hindenburg was elected President of Germany by the support of the German Socialist Party whose lead- ers hailed him as the “best bulwark against Hitler.” Soon after his election he turned the reins of gov- ernment over to Hitler. POLICE ATTACK INJURES EIGHT PARKERSBURG, W. Va., Aug. 2. —Seven workers and a woman were injured here last night when state troopers charged into a group of Jailed for Six Months VINELAND, N. J., Aug. 2— William ©. O'Donnell was sentenced to six month in jail today on a framed-up charge of assault and battery growing out of his partici- pation in the Seabrook Farms strike. Two hundreds strikers and sympathizers were barred from the courtroom. Armed Forces Arrest Seventy In Minneapolis MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Aug. 2— Picketing continued throughout the city today, the roving truck drivers eluding national guardsmen in many cases to stop trucks. Seventy pickets were arrested today and fifty-three were held by the national guards. Adjutant General E. Walsh, who was named by Olson as military dic- tator in the Farmer-Labor gover- nor’s proclamation of martial law, issued a new order today which tightened the strikebreaking meas- ures of Olson’s troops. He said: “It shall be unlawful to obstruct, molest, delay, hinder, disturb, annoy or in- terfere in any manner whatsoever with the control, movement or oper- ation of vehicles of any kind or nature or the drivers thereof.” This order is aimed to strengthen the regulations against picketing issued by Walsh when he was called in by Olson. The military returned the strike headquarters to the drivers’ Local Union 574 today. The settlement proposed by the employers today in- cluded the retention of scabs and stated: “No employer shall be re- quired to return to employment any man now out on strike who is defi- strikers at the Ames-Baldwin- Wyoning Shovel works. The state Police used guns, clubs and tear gas. Over 500 are on strike nitely known to have been an active participant in unlawful acts in the (Continued on Page 2) Checks Plans of Bosses, Thu ESTER SRE RIES ela | | | Painters’ Strike Leadership | Committees of Locals| Relief Food Poisons Children | Condemn Moves of Zausner NEW YORK — The classic New Deal method of strike-breaking is being applied vigorously but with little effect to the strike of the 12,000 New York painters. Although boss painters, gangsters, the N.R.A, and the illegal Zausner leadership of the Painters Brother- hood have formed a broad united front of reaction aainst the strike, there is another united front—the united front of the rank and file painters—which is growing stronger as the strike continues. It is this united front that is breaking thru the barriers of the New Dealers, that is making it uneasy for the Zausner crowd and has thrown the Master Painters Association into a cold sweat. One can rest assured that in the private chambers of Mr. Philip Zausner, the gentleman who has taken it upon himself to negotiate settlements over the head of the rank and file, there was consider- able wailing and gnashing ef teeth when he received the report yes- terday that members of the Brother- hood of Painters had united with members of the Alteration Painters Union and were picketing the Sheridan Square Hotel at 72nd St. and Broadway. Not Good for Bosses Horrors of horrors! This was sure- ly against the official policy of the strike-breaking leadership of Dis- trict Council 9! Such a united front is not good for the bosses, nor is it good for Mr. Zausner. Zausner, seeing the rank and file taking control of the situation, is anxiously looking forward to a date he has down at 45 Broadway next Tuesday with the ladies and gen- tlemen of the N.R.A., where an at- tempt will be made to end the strike on the basis of the Master Painters’ proposal—$1 an hour and the 8-hour day. This would be a (Continued on Page 2) Nation-Wide Scottsboro-Herndon Drive to Be Launched at N. Y. Conference Aug. 8 NEW YORK.—One million) us s, starting at 7.90 signatures calling for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys and Angelo Herndon and the enactment of the Bill for Ne- gro Rights will be the goal of a broad campaign to be launched nationally at a mass con- ference to be held here August 8, Announcement of the call for a series of Emergency Scottsboro- Herndon conferences to be held all over the country was made here today by the International Labor Defense, League of Struggle for Negro Rights and the National Committee for Defense of Political Prisoners. The New York city-wide con- ferences Wednesday evening, Aug. p. m. at St. Paul’s Church, 249 West 132nd Street. Noted Negro and white workers, intellectuals and sympathizers will attend the August 8 conference which is expected to show the way for the rest of the country in the Mobilization of 1,000,000 signatures {to the largest petition of the kind ever assembled by workers in this country. i Churches, clubs, fraternal organi- zations, professional groups as well as Mass organizations have already indicated they will send accredited delegates to the August 8 con- ference. Some of the organiza- tions, who have no meetings sched- uled between now and August 8, will be represented by a few of mitted to listen to the deliberations of the conference. T. U. U. C. Endorses Call Calling attention to the nation- wide campaign of terror against workers, the special terror meas- ures against Negroes, and La- Guardia’s fascist attacks on work- ers and especially on Negroes, the Trade Union Unity Council has sent out a call urging all unions affiliated to it to take part in the conference. The call signed by Andrew Overgaard, general secre- tary, says in part: “The Trade Union Unity Council calls on all its affiliated organiza- tions to immediately raise this question in each and every trade board, in each and every shop, and to send its official delegates to this their active members and officers. The general public will also be ad- 4 { conference against lynching and fascist frame-ups. The T, U. U, C. calls on all its unions to take this communication in the most serious manner and be certain to be repre- sented by at least two delegates from each union in order that this may be one of the most powerful united front demonstrations against the terror and for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys and Angelo Herndon.” The organizations sponsoring the conference have called on all other organizations which have not yet done so to elect their representa- tives to the conference immediately. A call for a fight for the lib- eration of Ernst Thaelmann by all who are behind the struggle for freedom of Angelo Herndon and the Scottshoro boys will be as (Continued on Page 2) gs and Zausner. Pay Pat Si STAPLETON, N, Y., Aug. 2—| Four young children of a ©. W. A. worker were taken to the Staten Island Hospital Saturday suffering from poisoning caused by eating canned roast beef given out by the Home Relief Bureau. The father, John Nitta, and two other children, were treated at home for food poisoning. N.Y. Garment Strike Move Is Attacked NEW YORK.—As 15,000 knitted | garment workers move toward strike action, forces are being mobilized | from two points to smother the | movement. The first attack on the strike movement comes from the manufacturers; the second from the leaders of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, who} claim to be the sponsors and lead- ers of the movement. The manufacturers are attacking; the strike through the Metropoli- tan Knitted Textile Association by threatening to close the New York plants and move out of town, and by establishing company unions in| plants remaining in the metropol- itan area. David Dubinsky, union leader, is aiding the manufacturers | by juggling the strike demands so that the chief issues are either con- cealed or confused and by attempt- ing to pin the hopes of the workers on the strikebreaking Regional La- bor Board. The plan of the manufacturers was brought to light at a meeting} of the Metropolitan Knitted Textile Association held Tuesday night at) the Hotel New Yorker, where Morris | J. Solomon, of the Davis Yarn Co. of Brooklyn, and L. L. Balleisen,) Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce Industrial Division Secretary, were | the principal speakers. Mr. Balleisen offered to aid the employers to establish “shop” (com- pany) unions. In addition he prom- ised “full police protection.” He| offered his advice and leadership) in the work of building company} unions. | Morris Rubinger, president of the | Metropolitan, offered a plan for moving the factories out of town. } An emergency committee of 20 manufacturers was set up. This} committee, according to the manu-| facturers’ statement, will have the power to give permission for plants to open which have formed com- pany unions. Meanwhile leaders of the I. L. G. W. U. are playing around with the strike demands. This charge was | brought by the Knitgoods Workers’ Industrial Union. “One day the I.L.G.W.U. leaders say they are fighting for the 35,- fighting for the 30-hour week.” said a statement issued by the Knitgoods Workers Union. “On the day the general strike was decided upon the IL.L.G.W.U. jleaders called in the Regional Labor Board to break the strike. “We know from experiences in sans (Continued on Page 2) ~@ | | terror here last night. | meeting | ers \hour week; then they say they are| 180 Awatt Decisions Of Courts Western Worker Out ou Streets Again in Special Edition SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.,. Aug. 2.—A mass meeting at- tended by 700 persons, and addressed by speakers for the Communist Party and the International Labor Defense as well as other prominent individuals, broke through the It was called by the Anti-Fascist League. The Western Worker, West Coast organ of the Communist Party, whose offices and printing plant were raided and destroyed by vigi- lantes two weeks ago, was on the streets today in a special edition and is selling rapidly. Of the hundreds of workers ars rested, 120 are being held for trial, and sixty are held pending ap- peals from convictions. Of these, fifty are held on deportation charges by Frances Perkins’ federal agents. Twenty-eight are being held in Sacramento on criminal Syndicalism charges. Last night’s meeting was held in the Knights Red Branch Hall despite police intimidation and cancellation of the permit for the in the city-owned Polk Hall. Harry Jackson, Marine Work- Industrial Union organizer, Leo Gallagher, International Labor Defense attorney, Sara Bard Field, and Erkine Scott Wood were among the speakers, Federal injunctions restraining city and state authorities from making further attacks against the Marine Workers’ and other work- ing-class centers have been taken out. Civil suits for damages and return of property from these cen- ters are pending. The first jury trial, that of Harry Jackson, began today with the selection of a jury. An urgent appeal for funds to be sent directly to San Francisco was made by Joseph Wilson, district secretary of the International Labor Defense. A minimum of $2,500 is needed immediately ta carry on the defense of those ars rested, he announced. These funds should be sent directly to the International Labor Defense, Post Office Boz 1127, At the same time the I. L, Dy urged the intensification of the national campaign of protest against the arrest and deportation pro- ceedings, to be addressed to Gove ernor Frank Merriam, Sacramento, California, and to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, Washing- ton, D. C., to support the struggle for the freedom of the West Coast strike prisoners. Labor Council Condemns Raids (Special to the Daily Worker) SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2—An indication of the rising popular reaction against fascist excesses by the so-called vigilantes is the action of the Santa Clara Building Trades Central Labor Council Tuesday night in passing a resolution con< demning attacks and raids on | workers’ homes and headquarters of their organizations. This is especially significant since it was in San Jose, the county seat, that lynch action was endorsed by ex-governor of Cali- fornia Rolph. It was in San Jose where the wave of terror reached its lowest point of sadistic destruc- tion of homes and offices of suse pected communists. | Livestock Exchange Tries to Open With Scab Handled Stock CHICAGO, Ill., Aug. 2—The Chi- cago livestock exchange voted ta resume trading today, for the first |time since the livestock handlers' |strike, now in its ninth day. The commission market will be dealing in-scab handled shipments. ‘The Regiona Labor Board is hold- ing conferences in an attempt t¢ end the strike. General Johnson spoke here today but did not mens tion the livestock handlers’ strike A leafiet issued by the Amalga: ;mated Association of Butchers calli on the workers to prepare for strike. This leaflet is in conflict wit the top leaders of the union wh¢ are trying to prevent the spreading of the strike OW