The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 3, 1934, Page 6

; iS REIS RNID NEL. BNET NL LEE IDOE i Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1934 ° Daily,QWorker GRBTRN, ORGAN CONMUNEST PARTY LSA (SECTION OF COMMUNIST MATERMATIONNES “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC. Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone: ALgonquin 4- 7954. BY THE 50 E, 13th Dable Address: “Daiwork,"” New York, N. Y. Washington Bureau: Room 954 tional Press Building, {4th and P St., Washington, D. C. Midwest Bureau: 101 South Wells St., Room 705, Cheago, Til Telephone: Dearborn 3931. Subscription Rates: By Mail: (except M and year, $6.00; 6 months, $3.50; 3 $2.00; 1 Manhattan, Bronx, Fo and 39.00; 8 months, $5.00; 3 months, $3.00. Sy Carrier: Weekly, -18 cents FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1934 Defending Civil Rights URELY the wrecking raids, the depor- tation manhunt, and the gang violence which the employers let loose against the Pacific Coast strike makes the question of united front action of the workers imme- diate and urgent. Events since then, in Minneapolis, New York, and all over the country, have emphasized the urgency of this need for unity. Any really effective struggle to maintain the elementary rights of the working class requires joint action of all workers in mass demonstrations in the streets, in joint actions in the shops and unions. The united front is basically directed to getting the workers to join in actions, in struggles against the class enemy. It is mass actions which provide the real test of the united front. Because it is only mass actions that can defeat the forces of reaction. It is not difficult to see that any refusal to work toward joint struggle against the reactionary trampling upon civil rights inevitably aids this reaction. . . * HE necessity for emphasizing the mass action character of the united front is made even clearer by the announcement that Norman Thomas will speak on a nation-wide hook-up on “Civil Rights in the Pacific Coast General Strike.” It must be made clear that if such methods of fighting for the civil rights of the workers are not followed up by the organization of MASS ACTIONS, PROTESTS, DEMONSTRATIONS, IN THE STREETS, then they become a hindrance and not an aid to united front struggle for civil rights. And if it is a deliberate policy to restrict the struggle for civil rights to speeches, then this be- comes a method for keeping the masses from tak- ing the only effective means of defending civil rights—mass actions. ‘HE Communist Party has already proposed in two open letters to the Socialist Party that. ar- rangements be made for joint struggle against fas- cist reaction and violence. The Socialist Party National office has ignored both proposals. Speeches alone cannot and will never protect the civil rights of the workers. Only the organiza- tion of mass struggles, meetings strikes, demonstra- tions, etc. can do that. The final test of the sincerity of the Socialist Party defense of civil rights is whether it is ready to answer the letters of the Communist Party and meet with the representatives of the Com- munist Party for the practical, open, arrange- ments of joint action to defend the rights of the workers. , To work for the united front actions of the working class in defense of civil rights, against fascism and war—that is the only truly effective way to fight for the interests of the workers. The Mayor’s Gesture AYOR LaGUARDIA has announced the withdrawal of his administration’s at- tempt to foist a fascist-registration scheme on the trade unions, a move which was intended to crush the entire trade union movement in this city. The mayor’s statement is not a volun- tary one. He was literally forced to rescind this reactionary order under the terrific protest-pressure by the unions, by the thousands of militant workers in the various unions’ ranks. But this withdrawal is merely a formal verbal gesture. By no means does it signify any “purifi- cation” of the notoriously anti-labor Fusion regime. Proof of this exists in the fact that the Mayor has made no move against the newly-formed police rifle regiment, which has as its avowed purpose the training of guns on workers. This regiment of 1,200 rifle-equipped policemen continues to train for whatever bloody deeds the administration calls it to perform. It should be noted that the mayor did not rescind the union-registration order until mass pressure made him break his silence, his tacit approval of the measure. The best proof of LaGuardia’s real intentions and of the fact that his new statement is nothing but his usual empty demagogy, is that the terrorism against New York workers and jobless, so charac- teristic of his brutal regime, continues unabated. The Revolution Rises in Germany INDENBURG is dead. There is little H need to waste any time over the nau- seating heroics with which the bourgeois press, including the American papers, are surrounding the figure of Hinden- burg. His sole claim to historic notice was an undeviating servility to his ruling class masters. The ruling class of Germany, the industrialists, the junkers, the militarists, dangled this Prussian militarist before the masses as “personifying Ger- many,” as a political figure above the class struggle. In this deceit, they were aided by the leadership of German Social-Democracy which crowned its loyalty to the German bourgeois state by choosing Hindenburg as their candidate for president in preference to a working class candidate such as Ernst Thaelmann in the elections of 1930. This Prussian junker-militarist, let it never be forgotten by the working class of the world, was hailed not only by the German Socialist Party, but by Norman Thomas. as‘ the bulwark against fascism, as the defender of democracy! Hindenburg is the symbol which brands forever the policy of Social-Democracy, the policy of the “lesser evil,” the policy of paving the way for fascism through accepting the steady advance of fascism in the name of “democracy,” the policy of coalition with bourgeois parties on the “peaceful road to Socialism.” * . . INDENBURG'S death adds another factor to the growing political crisis in the fascist dietator- ship of the German bourgeoisie. The spectre of proletarian revolution drives the fascist cliques to ever more desperate acts. The glorious Bolshevik work of the German Communist Party, the Party of Thaelmann, steadily and surely bears its fruit in the growth of the forces of revolution. The bourgeois press speaks of Hitler “seizing more power” through taking Hindenburg’s office. On the contrary, the taking of Hindenburg’s office weakens, not strengthens Hitler’s position, since it removes one more possibility for political maneuver and deception of the masses. Hindenburg’s death increases the difficulties in Germany's foreign relations which have been brought to the breaking point by Nazi policies. The growing political crisis of the German bour- geoisie will drive them to even more murderous savagery against the masses than ever before, but this will even more narrow the base of fascist rule. The fascist ruling class of Germany finds its mass basis contracting under the impact of the deepening crisis and the blows which the toiling masses, led by the Communist Party, are directing against its bloody rule, * . . (OW more than ever, it is our duty to give of our aid and solidarity to the German proletariat in the fight against fascism, The fight to liberate Thaelmann and all anti-fascist prisoners is also the fight to smash fascism, to liberate not only Thaelmann but the entire German toiling popula- tion from the yoke of fascism. Hindenburg’s death means new revolutionary storms. The German Bolsheviks, trained by Thael- mann, have never left their posts. Supported by the proletariat of the world, they will wipe fascism off the face of the earth, A Real Test HE parade and demonstration against war and fascism to be held tomorrow will be an event of outstanding impor- tance and tremendous scope. Called by the American League Against War and Fascism, this rally has already enlisted the support and the promise of participa- tion of hundreds of varied groups—religious, poli- tical, cultural, social, trade union. All are united, however, on one main and indispensable point— their common determination to fight the militarist slaughter which threatens the world today. This danger looms giantlike as the forces of reaction—of dying capitalism, of fascism—move to- ward their last, desperate stand, willing to plunge all mankind into barbarism to save themselves and the rotting system they represent from its inevi- table defeat. The huge united front demonstration which will begin at 1 pm. tomorrow at Columbus Circle and march to Madison Square will be one of all organ- izations and individuals sincerely and honestly op- posed to the war and death-mongers. Those groups which have already decided to join should be repre- sented by their entire memberships. Other organi- zations which have not yet joined in this mighty movement should do so at once. With Europe an armed camp ready for war, with the introduction of fascist methods on a wide scale here in America, the historic significance and life-and-death urgency of tomorrow's demonstration cannot be minimized. Participation in the demonstration will be a real initial test of the sincerity, willingness and deter- mination of many groups to act—as well as speak— against fascism and war. in the Communist Party 3% EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Please send me more information on the Comme- mist Party. ADDRESS Woman Freed From Solitary Confinement NEW YORK.—As the result of the protests of a delegation sent to Mayor LaGuardia by the Interna- tional Labor Defense, Helen Lynch, organizer of the Bronx Unemploy- ment Councils, who had been held in solitary confinement in the Female House of Detention on Greenwich St. for her refusal to submit to an internal medical ex- amination, was released Tuesday from solitary confinement. The protest also resulted in an order rescinding such an examina- tion for all female political prison- ers, for which the International Labor Defense, the National Com- mittee for Defense of Political Prisoners and the United Action Conference have been waging a vontinued campaign. The delegation, headed by Harry Alexander, of the I. L. D. legal Staff, and including Rose Horn and two other women who had been subjected to the same mistreatment in this prison, submitted proof of this mistreatment to LaGuardia, and promptly compelled him to re- scind these illegal prison regula- tions. A similar protest was made by the delegation to Chief Inspector Valentine of the Police Department against persecution of the pickets in the 174th St. consumers strike against Bronx bakeries. It was in connection with the struggle that most of the women were arrested, as well as in the picketing of a Bronx Home Relief Bureau. Helen Lynch, who continually fought for the special status of poli- tical prisoners while in jail, will be released from the jail at 4 p. m.,, Tuesday, August 7th, at the end of her vicious sentence of fifteen days FLOPHOUSE MEN ORGANIZE BUFFALO, N. Y., Aug. 2.—Action committees have been formed in- side the E, C. Lodging House, a flop house for single unemployed men here, and small victories have been won. A committee has been elected to place the men’s demands before <eaba oMveriatSiabtoadnas the board of supervis ~ imposed upon her by Magistrate Margolefsky for picketing of a Home Relief Bureau, for relief. The I. L. D. is calling on all workers to welcome her upon her release, Amter to Talk at York Jobless, Relief Meet LANCASTER, Pa., Aug. 2.—Israel Amter, national secretary of the ; Unemployment Councils, will speak at a mass meeting of unemployed and relief workers in York, Pa., on Friday evening at 8 p.m. The meet- ing will take place in the head- quarters of the Lancaster Unem- ployment Council, 19 East Newton Avenue. Saturday evening on the steps of the Courthouse. His subject at both meetings will be “Social and Unem- ployment Insurance and How to Get It. Amter will speak at Lancaster on; Imperialists Gird for War, Says Pravda But Proletariat Will Turn Fight Into Civil War (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW (By Radio), Aug. 2— The entire press here is almost fully devoted today to the 20th anniver- sary of the outbreak of the last im- perialist war; to its cause, and to the struggle against the prepara- tions for a fresh imperialist slaugh- ter. Together with numerous ar- ticles, the newspapers are publish- ing authentic documents exposing the real schemes of the inciters of war. The columns of the news- Papers are filled with figures, facts and illustrations of the four-year bloody slaughter and the results thereof. An article in Pravda, entitled “War Against Imperialist War,” Says: “Twenty years and a whole epoch divides us from the August days of 1914. But never will toil- ing humanity forget the monstrous slaughter organized by the im- perialist cliques—in the name of glory—but in the interests of ex- change, of kings, magnates, trust, capital and feudal dynasties, Imperialist Deceit All the wounds inflicted by the years of imperialist war have not up until now been healed. And what preposterous hypocritical reas- ons have not been utilized by the ruling classes for the purpose of driving workers and peasants to the battlefields! “German imperialism proyoked the war under the disguise of the ‘high’ aim in the struggle ‘against Russian barbarism’; the Tzarist regime in the name of the ‘de- fense of the slavs’; French im- perialism in the name of the ‘great ideas of democracy’; the gun manu- facturers of Great Britain in the name of ‘progress’ and ‘justice.’ “The whole of Europe is strewn with the millions of graves of vic- tims of the imperialist policy of the tuling classes. Endless rows of crosses are rising in all parts of the globe—Verdun, Champagne, the Somme, the Marne, Vogueses, Gali- cia, the plains of Poland, the Au- gustovo forests, the Carpathians, the Trans-Jordan Sands and the African jungles. Ten million men are lying dead. They were killed because German imperialists wished to rob their rivals. They were killed because British imperialists wished to retain their spoils and rob others. They were killed be- cause the interests of a small group of capitalists and landowners of France, Tzarist Russia, Austro- Hungary, Japan and the United States demanded it. Fear Revolution “They were killed because the bourgeoisie sought this war for safety from the.revolutionary prole- tariat. They were killed because the object was to drain the blood of the rising working class, main- taining power in a small group of ‘civilized’ exploiters of hundreds of millions of toilers in the colonies. They were being killed for over four years in the name of a ‘last’ war. This false capitalist legend was zealously advocated by bourgeois pacifists and social-democratic de- ceivers.” Continuing, the Pravda states: “Aren't the exploiters of all coun- tries of the capitalist world, which is shaking under the powerful shocks of the class struggle, now dreaming of fresh slaughter? U, S. S. R. Peace Policy “But the great Union of Socialist Soviet Republics is on guard. Bol- shevism gave to toiling humanity a powerful weapon against war. The peoples of the U. S. S. R. have created an invincible bulwark for peace. The great importance of the struggle of the U. S. S. R. for peace is recognized now as the most prom- inent by representatives of the most diverse circles of the capitalist world. This is testified to in state- ments made by Lloyd George and others, published today in Pravda. All pay tribute to the invariable Policy of peace of the Soviet gov- ernment, backed by the invincible power tothe country of Soviets. If the U. S. S. R. had not existed, the imperialists would already have long ago thrown the entire world into a fresh bloody abyss. “Scheming a fresh counter-revo- lutionary war, the capitalist. world is preparing itself for catastrophic defeat, because the entire world is rent into two camps. All that is best in humanity is already now gathering in the camp of socialism, for no fascist terror can save the inciters of war from a blow from the rear, from disintegration of their reserves, from their defeat at the front and on their own rear.” Soviet Road Men Seized By Japanese (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW (By Radio) August 2— The Pogranichnaya station reports that there, as well as in the nearest stations of the Chinese Eastern Railway, Japanese gendarmes have without cause recently arrested some Soviet citizens, employees and work- men of the Chinese Eastern Rail- way. Over 20 Soviet railroad employees were arrested for unknown reasons. The information on hand is that new mass arrests of Soviet work- men employees are being prepared. It is supposed that these arrests are part of the general plan of dis- organization of the Eastern line of the Chinese Eastern Railway, which Japanese and white guard elements have recently been carrying out with particular energy, IN THE NAME OF PROGRESS! FARMER -LABOR Gov. CLSON Murder Under Island Climax of Long Scheming By S. JUSTE ZAMOR July 28th marked exactly nine- teen years since the plunderous in- vasion of the Negro Republic of Haiti by the armed forces of United States imperialism. According to the opinion of the Haitian people the assassination of 351 prisoners and the shooting down of hundreds of other civilians on July 26 and 27 was directly en- couraged by United States capital- ists. Actually the very next day a warship carrying a large number of marines, headed by Admiral Caperton, dropped anchor in the harbor of Port-au-Prince. July 27 is a date which will never be forgotten by the Haitian people. Besides the flow of blood in all the streets, aside from the barbaric acts performed upon the bodies of the dead, two presidents of the country where assassinated that day. Since then the United States, in order to make us believe that it was be- cause of the disorder that the marines were landed on the Island on July 28, repeatedly bring for- ward the “savagery” which existed on the Island. But every one who has a little knowledge of Haiti's af- fairs and historical background knows differently. The armed in- vasion of Haiti on July 28 by the U. S. was primarily the utilization of a long-awaited opportunity to seize control over the Island. Wall Street Maneuvers For a long time Wall Street had manoeuvered in attempts to get a footing in Haiti. In 1847 the U. S. made the first attempt to acquire control of the harbors of Samana Bay, on the eastern coast of Santo Domingo, ‘and of Mole St. Nicholas, on the northwestern coast of Haiti for the purpose of establishing naval bases. In 1891 Admiral Gharardi headed a large fleet at Port-au-Prince, sent by the U. S. to negotiate with the Haitian gov- ernment for the yielding of Mole St. Nicholas. The Haitian government refused to discuss the matter. We see that the reason given as the excuse for intervention cannot be taken at face value. Since the landing of the marines on the Island the Haitian masses have witnessed the most barbaric and tyrannical crimes. The marines have attacked women in the streets. If men dared to come to the rescue of these women they were either shot or beaten up. The homes of the people were raided, the people thrown out, while the marines took possession. No house was exempt from these atrocities. Martial law was declared all over the Island. At night, after 10 p. m. no one was allowed to keep a light on in his home, Charlemagne Peralt In 1919, the day after a quarrel among several civilians and gen- darmes over gambling, a man named Gabriel led a group of seven men and opened fire on the headquarters of the gendarmerie at Hinche. Im- mediately all persons who were in any way connected with politics prior to the intervention were put under arrest. Among these was Charlemagne Peralt, an intellectual and revolutionary leader before the American occupation. He was forced to walk bare-foot through the streets, and placed in prison. One morning an American official of high rank came to the prison for inspection. He saw Charlemagne, called him over, and said, “You, nigger, go get that shovel and clean the stable.” While Charlemagne was cleaning the official kicked him twice. Without a word Charlemagne picked up the shovel and smacked the officer across the face. The of- ficial dropped to the ground un- conscious. had been Charlemagne, who U.S. Completes 19 Years of Plunder, Rapine, Marine Occupation of Haiti prison because of his reputation and popularity on the Island, had also been given the right to go out of the prison at any time without be- ing escorted by gendarmes. He utilized that right at this time. He walked right out in the face of all the guards, who had no idea of what had just happened inside. He went into the country, mobilized all the men he could find, and organized a revolt, which lasted for nine months, until he was betrayed, and shot in the back by a marine who had painted his face black, Reign of Terror What horrors the Haitian peasants then went through! Their farms and homes were burned by the marines under the pretext that the marines were chasing out the hid- ing rebels. Any individual seen walking on the roads was immedi- ately characterized by the marines as a “caco” (rebel) and was either shot down or arrested and beaten to death, The outstanding leader of these tortures and terrors was an official named Lintz. He later became one of the heads of the cotton planta- tion at St. Michael de Latalaye. That madman had a police dog which he used in his atrocities. It is quite consistant for the ser- vants of Wall Street to come out with all sorts of statements in the capitalist press attempting to dis- tract the minds of the people from the real situation by telling the masses how much good the U. S. had done for the colonies and semi- Wall Street’s Seizure of granted certain privileges in the| Exploitation of People Matched by Brutality of Military tyrannical oppression being used on the masses. The bourgeois newspapers are carrying all sorts of news about Haiti these days, except that con- cerning the political and economic situation in Haiti. Now the U. S. is busy creating an intense antagonism between Santo Domingo and Haiti. Santo Domingo, a country which has less than one-third the population of Haiti, has been armed to the teeth and has been provided with many modern bombing planes. In Haiti, the United States has organized a huge army with all modern equip- ment, but no airplanes. ‘The strategy is to put the two countries on the same fighting and military strength. Santa Domingo has al- ready made an open statement de- manding that Haiti return some portion of land which she claims belongs to her. These lands are located in the northern part of Haitt. Despite the intense unemploy- ment in Haiti, in spite of the in- ability of the governent to provide jobs for the starving population, we get the news that the Senate has voted an increase of ten dollars to every military official on the Is- Jand. Understand, ten dollars is the average monthly earning of the white collar workers in Haiti. It is very simple to see why there is censorship on the revolu- colonies, and at the same time con- cealing all the facts about the tionary press, which would dare to come out with these facts. Ship inate Plunder Millions As Roosevelt Gives Subsidies By Labor Research Assn, Mail subsidies amounting to hun- areds of millions of dollars have been handed out by the United States government to shipping companies, many of which are in- volved in the present strike. In fact no country in the world is as liberal with aid to its merchant marine. | Since the Jones-White law of 1928, the Postmaster General has signed small contracts with at least 45 shipping companies calling for payments of over $300,000,000 in ten years. A fraction of this huge sum would actually cover the “services” rendered. Thus the companies who received contract payments of nearly $90,000,000 in the last five fiscal years would have been paid approximately $13,000,000, or about one-seventh of the actual sum paid them, had their vessels carried mail on a weight basis. In 1932 such payments to the Lykes line alone exceeded by $93,000 the book value of its ships! Although contracts are supposed | to be awarded by competitive bid-| ding, practically all the bids ap- proximate the maximum rates per mile permitted under the law. The Lykes Line, for example, received in five years mail subsidies total- ling over $1,500,000, although with- | out these subsidies its net profit for the same period would have amounted to $324,600. 1 Another handout to shipping} companies comes through govern- | ment loans for the purpose of ves- | sel construction and improvement. | These loans are made at lower than prevailing interest rates. The U.S. Shipping Board -has estimated that over $33,500,0000 in interest had | thus been saved shipowners. | In defense of these subsidies it is said that they are intended chiefly to continue specified steamship lines rather than to compensate ship owners for carrying mail “A merchant marine is a factor of . . . in war,” writes John C, deWilde in national importance | will ‘oreign Policy Reports, March 14, 1934. | But these subsidized companies have paid enormous profits, divid- ends, salaries and expense accounts with money allegedly for the up- building of the merchant marine. H. H. Hebermann, president of the Exports Steamship Co., drew in two successive years well over $300,000 annually in salaries and expenses. | Salaries, dividends and increased stock values totalling nearly three million dollars were received by Harry H. Raymond of the. Colum- bian Steamship Co. between 1920 and 1932. Net profits of over $7,000,000; were raked in by the Admiral Oriental Line, owned by the Dollar Steamship Lines interests, from 1922 to 1932. Only $500 in cash had originally been invested in the Admiral Oriental Line. R. Stanley Dollar received com- | missions of nearly $700,000 for pur- chasing vessels from the U. S. Ship- ping Board for companies in which he was an official! And with three other individuals—J. Harold Dollar, H. M. Lorber and Herbert Fleish- hacker, banker-boss of California politics, and one of the imprisoners of Tom Mooney—he profited to the extent of over $14,500,000 from three government-subsidized lines be- tween 1923 and 1932. The Oceanic Oriental Navigation Co., of which Roger D, Lapham is president, has four mail contracts calling for $10,500,000 in ten years. MEETING IN ST. LOUIS ST. LOUIS, Mo., Aug. 1—Unions of the Trade Union Unity League and other working-class organiza- | tions will hold a “trade union sol- | idarity” pionic on Sunday at the | Forest Park Pienic grounds. Daniel | Richards, new secretary of the Trade Union Unity League here, speak on the present strike wave and the N, R. A. On the World Front yy HARRY GANNES Naval Arms Race Preparing “Disarmament” News from New Zealand {ome TIME in April or June, 1935 (depending on wheth- er Japan or the United States gets its way), a world naval arms conference will be held. in the interim, however, thera is no hesitation in speeding naval armaments for the rapidly approaching new imperialist world war. Hardly a day passes now when the various big naval powers do not maneuver for war alliances, or for advantages in the forthcoming naval conference, the third and probably the final one since the im- perialist war. The central issue in the naval arms race. between the United States, Japan and Great Britain is control of the Pacific markets and colonies. ‘SPECIALLY since Roosevelt came to power has there been a colos- sal naval arms race, putting all past building programs into the shade. Here is what the situation is with regard to the United States, Japan and Great Britain, Roosevelt has shown a passionate zeal in building a navy for Wall Street. In 1933 he utilized $388,000,000 of N. R. A, funds for the navy. The 1934 ses« sion of Congress passed the Vinson Bill providing for the construction of 102 war vessels, including a heavy cruiser, five light cruisers, an air- craft carrier, 65 destroyers and 30 submarines. Japanese naval experts declare that the cost of these ships will be from $590,000,000 to $1,000,< 000,000. In 1931 the naval appropri+ ations stood at $350,000,000; in 1934 and 1935, for the two years, they have jumped to over $900,000,000, In other words, Roosevelt is getting ready for a naval “disarmament” conference, $5 |APANESE imperialism hasnt let its navy slideaways grow rusty either. While in 1931-32 the naval appropriations for the fiscal year stood at 220,000,000 yen, in 1934 the figure jumped over 100 per cent to 480,000,000 yen. This provides merely for “replacement” programs. The published budget, also, does not give the actual naval expenditures. Though the Japanese do not have an N. R. A,, their war lords know how to conceal war expenditures. British naval appropriations which stood at over $250,000,000 in 1931, have jumped to over $300,000,- 000 in 1934. All of this, of course, is within the bounds of the London Naval Treaty, but it also puts an end to the treaty because naval arms building does not stop there, and with a new con- ference comes a new race for war supremacy. Sie oat IT TAKES a long time for news to be mailed from New Zealand, but we have just received the June 23 issue of the “Workers Weekly,” official organ of our brother Party in that country. They report some splendid international solidarity ac- tion of the Auckland harbor work- ers in support of the Frisco marine strike. When the luxury liner “Monterey” arrived in Auckland from San Fran- cisco she was welcomed by mass Picket lines. Seamen, dockers, un- employed workers massed to prevent unloading of the scab ship. “The Auckland Taxi Drivers,” says the “Workers Weekly,” also pre- sented a strong front and no taxis were available when the ship berthed. “A taxi that happened to be cruising about near the wharf gates was hailed by a party of well-to-do American sightseers. They were about to enter when a roar went up from the pickets. This gave them a fright, and out they jumped, and the taxi hurried away without the fare.” ent Shee ESIDES, the cooks and stewards on about four other ships on the Frisco run, inspired by the Frisco strike, began to draw up their own demands and were preparing for a strike at the time the “Workers Weekly” went to press. “The solid front of the Auck- land Watersiders and Seamen,” comments the “Workers Weekly,” is a great expression of interna- tional solidarity. The fraterna) support of their fellow workers in the U. S. A. will give great moral strength to the Frisco Watersiders who are putting up a desperate struggle against the effects of the N. R. A. of President Roosevelt, which the New Zealand Labor ay have given so much sup- “The Communist Party was the leader in giving the call for in- ternational solidarity of action against the Fascist attacks of the ‘Blue Vulture’ of President Roose- velt. “The great response with which the call met is a fitting reply to the propaganda of National Self- sufficiency carried on by the La= bor Party reformists.” | Workers and Students Picket Empire Hotel; Hit Jim-Crow Policy NEW YORK—Workers and stu= dents began picketing the Empire Hotel, 63 Broadway, yesterday after Juanita Baker, young Negro woman, was refused service in the coffe@ shop of the establishment. Miss Baker went into the coffee shop of the hotel yesterday to buy lunch, but was told curtly by the manager that ““We don’t serve Nes groes.” Students of a C. W. A school upon learning of the Jim+ Crowing of the young woman com+ menced picketing the place at onc& A delegation of the students went to the headquarters of the Leagut of Struggle for Negro Rights, 11 W. 135th St., and asked for leaders ship in their fight to force the hotel management to treat Negroes on ait equal basis with white people,