The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 4, 1934, Page 1

With Herndon Bail Scottsbore boys. Vol. XI, No. 186 Fund oversubscribed, 28 days are now left to raise $13,381 defense fund for the appeals of Angelo Herndon and the $1,619 Rush contributions to International Laber Be- fense, 80 E. llth St., New York City. received to date. => 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. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1934 PRESS RU YESTERDAY. Make This Figure Grow 43,000 WEATHER: Probaly fair. (Eight Pages) Price 3 Cents INo Outside Lawyer for Thaelmann Letter of Nazi Consul Says ‘Trial’ Will Be for ‘Treason’ NEW YORK.—Ominous reference || to the force of the “treason clause” |) in the Law of Criminal Procedure, | with a grim reminder that clause was vestigation against mann,” which “in- Ernst Thael- are contained in a letter Edward Lamb, prominent Toledo attorney, has just received “decisive” in the from the consulate at Cleveland, Further, the letter from the Fas- cis; German consul indicates that Thaelmann will be denied all op- portunity to consult with any out- side attorneys in his “trial,” as were Dimitroft and Torgler, despite the fact that even the Nazi law permits the use of outside attorneys on the request of the prisoner~ | The Fascist Court, the Nazi con- sul says, has the power to decide | all such questions. j Rush Execution Plans The letter, which came in re- | sponse to inquiries made by Mr. | Lamb regarding the status of the Thaelmann prosecution, reveals that the Hitler government is getting ready to go forward with its at- quick execution. The full text of lows: Mr, Edward Lamb, Atty., Suite 1014, Bd. of Trade Bldg., Toledo, Chio. Dear Sir: Your inquiry of June &th, 1934, to the German Embassy in Washington, D. C., regarding Ernst Thaelmann was turned over to me for reply. Please be informed that the preliminary Court investigations against Ernst Thaelmann have not been completed and that therefore the date for the main hearing could not as yet be de- cided upon. Concerning the defense, Paragraphs 137 and those following of the German Criminal Procedure, as well as Article I1I—Paragraph 3 of the law of April 1934 with reference to high treason and treason against one’s country, are de- cisive. In accordance, the ac- cused may have a foreign ad- yocate beside a German, pro- vided, that the Court which is uncurtailed to decide on such a proposition, gives its consent. Only the defendant himself, but not an outsider, can re- quest that a foreign attorney be employed for his defense. Trusting that this is the de- sired information, I remain, Very truly yours, (signed) F. von Alpen, Acting German Consul. It is clear that the pressure of world protest is now more than ever necessary to halt the execution plans of the Fascists. The fight for the right of Thaelmann to have a lawyer from another country must be wrung from the Nazis by a pow- erful campaign of world demand. Letters, telegrams, meetings, and other actions are ways in which the German Embassy and the Hit- ler Government at Berlin must be made to feel the demand for the freedom of Thaelmann. German the letter fol- Convention Demands Release of Thaelmann MILWAUKEE, Wis, Aug. 3— The nominating convention of the Communist Party for the tenth congressional district of Wisconsin, in a resolution sent to Hans Luther, Nazi consulate in Washington, pro- tested the plans of the Hitler re- gime to murder Ernst Thaelmann. Hailing Thaelmann as the leader of the German workers, the resolution condemned the plans to butcher Thaelmann, and pledged to arouse} the American workers to demand his unconditional release. Red Flag on City Hall; Communist Is Arrested CHICAGO, Aug. 3.—A red flag was flown from the City Hall in Benld, Ill. Adam Chura, well-known progressive member of P.M., Local 1 and Communist candidate for County Judge, was arrested and is being held in Carlinsville jail. The International Labor Defense is calling for his release and for the release of Sol Larks and Wilbur Wilson, arrested several days ago and being held on $10,000 bail, Seven weeks have passed since we began our drive to get 20,000 new jreaders by Sept. 1st for the Daily Worker. These have been important weeks in the development of the struggles of the working class against capital. These weeks have witnessed the most far-reaching labor struggles in the history of the American working class—on the Pacific Coast, in Minneapolis. Swiftly the Roosevelt government ; {builds its war machine, lets loose increasing fascist violer.ce against the working class, its trade unions and its revolutionary vanguard, the Communist Party. General Johnson incites lynch hysteria against all militant work- ers. Roosevelt’s Secretary of Labor Perkins organizes a manhunt for “dangerous aliens,” similar to the Palmer raids in brutality and ruth- lessness. In New York, LaGuardia’s Police chiefs want to register all trade union representatives as the Czar used to do. Rising class battles, a working class that shows every day that it is learning how to fight back the By CLARENCE HATHAWAY offensive of the Wall Street mon- opolist plunderers and is learning the meaning of the revolutionary way out of the crisis—this is the situation in which the Daily Worker —— CLARENCE HATHAWAY Editor of Daily Worker jstrives for new readers. | The Daily Worker is a powerful weapon in the fight for better con- ditions, for the right to organize, picket and strike. The Daily Worker, like the “Pravda” of the Bolsheviks, jis organizing the toiling masses |for the setting up of a new govern- jment, a Soviet government, a gov- |ernment of workers and farmers. | In our fight against capitalism, jagainst the whole Roosevelt pro- }gram of imperialist war and fas- |cist reaction, the building of the circulation of the Daily Worker is a strategic anc vital task. Without @ growing circulation we will not be able to fulfill our revolutionary tasks. The Daily Worker must get its 20,000 additional circulation by | Sept. 1. | Six thousand new readers a day have recognized the value of the “Daily.” Fifty new cities have been added to our mailing list. Six dis- tricts have reached more than 50 per cent of their quotas. Wherever the attempt has been (Continued on Page 3) Meat Strike Spreads To Exchange Men (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 3.+The stockyards commission market opened yesterday afternoon in an attempt to smash the strike of the livestock handlers. The Commis- sion house employes union, local 519, immediately struck, refusing to work with scabs. The union officials did not raise any economic demands of their own. The Amalgamated Associa- tion of Butchers Union (A. F. of L.) has not changed its picketing tac- tics and is not carrying on mass picketing. All reports indicate the deter- mination of the handlers to stay out until the demands are won. The livestock handlers remain out solid. There isa big mobilization of police. ‘The Packinghouse Workers In- dustrial Union issued a leaflet today calling on the workers to prepare for strike for the following de- mands: Twenty per cent increase in wages, the 45-hour week, elimi- nation of speed-up, efficiency ex- perts, time and a half overtime, recognition of the union, and aboli- tion of company unions. General Johnson, in spite of con- trary statements to the press, stepped into the negotiations yes- terday. The press claims he was invited to participate by the union as well as the company. Negro and White Join New Orleans Anti-War And Unemployed Meet NEW ORLEANS, La., Aug. 3— More than 1,000 Negro and white workers, mobilized by the Unem- ployment Councils, demonstrated at the relief station at Carondelet St. here August first, demanding in- creased relief. The workers demanded that the 15,000 “unemployables,” sick, blind. mothers and children, who were cut off the relief lists on Aug. 1 at the order of the F.E.R.A. be im- mediately returned to the relief lists. Despite police attacks, Jane Speed, speaking for the Councils, continued to address the meeting, pointing out how relief cuts are given while billions are spent for war prepara- tions. Alice Pratt, an unemployed Negro, was pushed off the stand by the police, who dispersed the meeting jwhen she declared: “Negro and white workers must stick together in the fight for relief.” Twenty thousand new readers by Sept. Ist means 20,000 addi- tional recruits for organized class struggle. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Aug, 3.— Floyd Olson, Farmer Labor gover- nor, made a new move to break the truck drivers’ strike today in a statement setting the deadline’ for the end of the strike at midnight tonight. Olson pretends, in his statement, to scold both sides, the employers and the unions. He commands the end of the strike, threatening to re- call all. permits for trucks, except those for transportation of actual necessities. such as mill, ice and kindred commodities. He also em- phasizes the fact that the national guard will take very drastic action hereafter against picketing. This move by Olson is nothing else than an attempt to ram down the throats of the drivers an agree- ment which is even worse in sub- stance than the one accepted by the strike leadership in the May strike. Leaders of the Central Labor Union, Roy Weir, Cramer, Emry, Nelson and others, while on the one hand sabotaging the spreading of the strike to reinforce the drivers, are on the other hand using the Labor Review, official organ of the Central Labor Union, to whitewash Olson in his strike-breaking actions. The Trotskyite leadership, the Dunne brothers and Skoglund have as yet failed to say a word against the Cramers, Roy Weirs and Nel- sons, Instead they are in agreement with those people who have set up an intermediary committee of Ol- sonites to negotiate with the Citi- :zens’ Alliance in an attempt to get Some wording of the agreement that would save the face of the Dunne- Sokoglun leadership even if it would not mean any material gain for the strikers. The Communist Party is now ini- tiating a drive to get mass delega- tions from union and working class organizations to see Governor Olson Monday at 10 a.m., placing the de- mand before him to withdraw the (Continued on Page 2) PORE RES SEER TROOPS GO AS OLSON ORDERS STRIKE TO END Dockers Oust Seabs From Hiring Hall PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 3—Union longshoremen have made it under- stood that only union men shall get jobs through the so-called neu- tral hiring halls that were estab- lished following the settlement of the west coast strike. One hundred and fifty union longshoremen drove 40 scabs from the hall today. The union men were attacked by a large detail of Police who were summoned for early duty because of the visit of President Roosevelt. The hall was ordered closed by} Police Captain Harry Niles and no further efforts were made to hire longshoremen during the day. The clash between the union men and the scabs occurred when the! Scabs banded together and attempt-* ed to march on the hall. Scebs at- tempting to hide through the halls by coming there individually were stopped by the union men. Although the hall is called “neu- tral” by the shipowners the long- shoremen have made it a point that no one but union men will ship through it. Italy Acts for War ROME, Aug. 3.—Italy has made another move in the tremendous aircraft construction activity of the imperialist powers. It was made known today that Muasolini has appropriated $100,000,000 for “ex- traordinary expenses” for the ad- vancement of Italy’s aircraft pro- gram. A similar appropriation decree, also made public through the official gazette, provides for the expenditure of 354,000,000 lire, ap- proximately $28,320,000 for further Schemers Fight Over Visa ‘Order’ Mayor, O’Ryan, Union Reactionaries Try to Shift Blame NEW YORK. — While Mayor La Guardia and Police Commissioner O’Ryan are busy tossing the re- sponsibility for the feated fascist labor visa order from one to another like a football, the Joint Board of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America looms high in the conspiracy. Upon the Joint Board rests a heavy share of the responsibility for the police trade union scheme. In- deed, the Amalgamated Joint Board is thoroughly behind the scheme and Mr. Schlossberg, with all his protests, cannot deny the fact. When charges and _ counter charges began to be hurled at each other by the Mayor and the Police Commissioner, the truth leaked out. La Guardia, O’Ryan and leaders of the Amalgamated—all are respon- sible for the fascist edict. When thieves fall out honest men get their due. In this case the anti-labor forces had a disagree- ment over who should shoulder the responsibility for the police order. United pressure of organized labor brought about~a rift inthe ranks ofthe enemy and thus made pos- sible the early defeat of the measure. It is clear that the responsibility for the fascist edict does not rest on the shoulders of one individual person. The capitalist class is re- sponsible. But the chief responsi- bility lies at the doorsteps of the perpetrators of the plan. The Mayor, first of all, is responsible. The Police Commissioner is respon- sible, The Leaders of the Joint Board of the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers are responsible. The culprits have been caught in the act. Steel Workers Forced To Vote for Bosses in Company Union Poll DETROIT, Aug. 3.—Results of the recent balloting in the company union elections at the Great Lakes Steel Corp. here, subsidiary of the National Steel Corp., show that a large proportion of the ballots were defaced by the workers in protest. In one department eleven ballots were marked: “We want the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union.” Every one of the 3,000 workers at this plant was compelled to vote under threat of losing his job. The candidates consisted of superinten- dents, foremen and straw bosses. An election committee of workers was supposed to count the ballots, but only one of the workers was pres- ent and the actual counting was done by superintendents and fore- men. The militant Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union has a group in this plant and is taking steps to broaden its organizational work and set up a local. Farmers Trounce Nazis BRESLAU, Germany, Aug. 3. — Three farmers at Distelwitz faced Nazi “justice” today because they resisted the petty bureaucracy that carries the Hitler terror into the villages and out to the farms, The three farmers had beaten Labor Front investigators who came to get evidence of anti-social naval construction. conduct—and got it, recently de-| |Communist Party in the South, wa: |confiscated by Birmingham police | yesterday, ater they had been tipped off by a stool pigeon, Two workers who were loading |the papers into a car were 3 rested. One was Israel Berlin, who had been sentenced to six months jon the chain gang and fined $100 |the day before for distributing Au- |gust First leaflets, and was out on bail pending decision on a motion for a new trial, made by the Inter- national Labor Defense, The other arrested worker was Fred Keith, Jim Mallory, editor of the South- ern Worker, announced that a dup- licate issue would be brought out immediately, and plans were made | tali BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Aug. 3.—|for a wide ribution. The entire August e of the| The charge against Berlin was Southern Worker, organ of the| Criminal anarchism.” The prosecu- tion quoted the follo from the le was made on the strength of this statement: “if you (ie. the capi- el do start a will unite our ranks agains and use the guns you give us to drive you from your seats of power. and take for our own this land which we built.” Workers and workers’ organiza- tions all over the country are being urged to enter their protests against | this new attack on I. Berlin, for the quashing of the indictment of John | Howard Lawson, and for an imme- diate s‘op to the raids upon worke homes. Send all protests to W. O. Downs Commissioner of Public} Safety, Birmingham, Alabama. | ig statement Vigilantes Plan Terror In New Jersey VINELAND, N. J., August 3 Terrorism similar to the wrecking “vigilante” gangs that ran amuck against workers’ organizations on the Pacific Coast is being organized here with the open cooperation of the authorities headed by the Mayor Samuel S. Gassell. A committee to “combat Commu- nism” was formed after a meeting of rich farmers with the Mayor in City Hall, with elements active in the Ku Klux Klan participating. ‘This is the scene of a recent at- tempt to lynch Donald Henderson, organizer of the Agricultural and Cannery Workers Union, who was active in the recent successful Sea- brook Farms strike. Alarmed at the growth of the union, the rich farmers here, led by Seabrook, wealthy farm owner, are attempting to incite the smaller farmers against the union and all working class organizations, partic- ularly the Communist Party. Vivian Dahl and Elinor Hender- son were the subject of an attempt- ed dynamite frame-up recently when “vigilantes” left a parcel of dyna- mite in their garage. Wholesale arrests of active union workers have been taking place under the direct incitement of Seabrook, who con- trols the political life of the entire county. United Railways Workers Meet PARIS, Aug. 3—Railway union representing groups affiliated with the Socialist and Communist Parties met today in an effort to work out a practical program for joint work in the everyday struggle. This was the first meeting of union men following the recent con- clusion of a United Front agree- ment between the parties, and will point the way to a collaboration be- tween the rank and file of these parties that should prove indepen- dent of the lazger political struggle. Tunnel Accident Kills Two MULHOUSE, France, August 3.— Two workers were killed and four injured on a tunnel construction job here today when a drill struck some nitrogiycerin left from an un- completed blasting operation in a pocket of the tunnel wall. Reception to Be Planned At Scottsboro Hern- don Conference NEW YORK.—Preparations for a monster mass meeting at which the workers of New York will greet Angelo Herndon, young Negro or- ganizer who has spent the past two years in Fulton Tower prison in Georgia, will be one of the chief points in the Scottsboro-Hernden Emergency Conference to be held here on August 8. This conference, which is the first of a series of conferences to be held all over the country and which will point the way for a nation-wide | campaign, will take place in St. | Paul’s Church, 249 West 132nd St. Because of the systematic abuse which Herndon received at the hands of jaiers in Fulton Towers, he will have to undergo medical obser- vation and treatment for a period after his arrival in New York. His first public appearance will be at a mass meeting, which the New York Emergency Conference is taking the initiative in arranging. The latest news of Herndon’s condition, and the story of his release from Ful- ton Tower, will be told at the con- ference. Plans will- be laid there for a struggle to obtain Herndon’s final and complete freedom, and the freedom of the nine Scottsboro | boys. | _A central point in the Emergency Conference will be the launching of ‘ ' New York Mass Meeting to Great Angelo Herndon a@ nationwide campaign for the passage of the Bill for Negro Rights and the Suppression of Lynching. This bill, based upon a draft sub- mitted in May, 1933, by 5,000 Scotts- boro marchers to the President and to Congress, is designed to put teeth into the 13th, 14th and 15th amend- ments to the Constitution. It would make discrimination against the Negro people, in any walk of life, a crime to be punished by imprisonment or by death, ac- cording to the seriousness of the of- fense. In clecr and uncompromis- ing language, the bill declares that “every person participating in a lynching is declared to be guilty of murder in the first. degree and upon conviction shall bs punished by death,” August 8 Meeting Will Launch Nationwide Campaign President Roosevelt and Congress last May met the Bill for Negro tempt. The plans that will be laid down at the New York Emergency Conference will be designed to break through tha: wall of indif- ference and force the bill through Congress. It is planned to obtein one million signatures for the bill, to bring it befcre every working- class and every Negro organization, and to force every leader, every of- ficial, to take a stand for or against | the bill—that is, for or against the Rights with indifference and con-! jinto another war.” jemployed workers receiving relicf in jlllinois are to be herded into state jthe Illinois Emergency Relief Com- Gorky Invited To Attend U.S.) Anti-War Meet NEW YORK? Maxim Gorky, | Romain Rolland and Madame Sun | Yat Sen have been invited to attend as fraternal delegates to the second United States Congress Against War to be held at the end of September in Chicago, it was announced yesterday by the Amer- ican League Against War and Fas- cism. A statement calling on all or- ganization, trade unions, farm groups, churches, youth leagues, veterans, students and professionals of different political beliefs to rally their forces in a united front against fascism and war was issued by the National Committee of the League. The signers include Rob- ert M. Lovett, Dr. Harry F. War Lincoln Steffens, Roger Baldwin, | Earl Browder, Prof. George S. Counts, Dorothy Detzer, Annie EF. Gray, Malcolm Cowley, Rev. A. Clayton Powell, Jr., William Spof- ford, E. C, Lindemann, Rabbi Ed- ward L. Israel, Langston Hughes, Louis Weinstock, Prof. Colston E. Warne and LeRoy Bowman, The statement in full: “Two recent events of world im- portance—the war danger as exem- plified by the Austrian situation and the San Francisco general strike—impels the American League Against War and Fascism to call immediate attention to these dan- ger signals and rally all people against the menacing rise of the forces of Fascism threatening to destroy the last remnants of demo- cratic rights, as the prelude to unloosing the horror of a new world war. In our cwn country| we are witnessing government sup- port of company controlled union. and the assistance rendered Cali- fornia industrialists by the govern- ment in attempting to transform San Francisco into an open shop town. “A generat terror has been let loose there against the strikers, jailing hundreds of workers and their sympathizers, raiding union! halls, smashing newspaper plants and offices, even raiding churches and cooperatives who had expressed sympathy for the strikers. This is leading our own country on the road to Fascism. In Europe the! Austrian and German situation is developing rapidly in the direction of another imperialist war. In the U. S., the increased funds for mi- litary training, the billion dollar naval program, the currency and trade wars is leading us directly To Register All jobless | On Chicago Relief Lisis. (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO Ill, Aug. 3—All un- or federal “employment services,” according to a statement issued by mission. While the move is disguised by talk of making the “client” self; suppo: ting, the creation of an easily | tapped reservoir of labor will ob-' viously be of great value to cm- ployers in time of strike. The Illinois State Free Employ- ment office is now recruiting scabs to break the possible stzike of live | complete equal rights for Negroes. Stock workers, OPPONENTS OF WAR 10 MASS FOR PROTEST MARCH TODAY SPEED “DAILY” DRIVE! Birming ham P Slice Parade Line Seize Entire Edition Will Cover Of Southern Worker 2” Blocks From Columbus Circle Groups Will Go to the Madison Sq. Rally NEW YOR K.—More than 77 organizations and groups of workers, students and pro« fessionals, some with mem- berships ral thousand, will mass today at 1 p.m. along Central Park West from Columbus Circle and 59th St. to 86th St. for an anti-war and anti-fascism march called by the American League Against War and Fascism. With bands playing and banners roclaiming their opposition to the prepara‘ions of the Rooseve! government and the growing f: terror against workers, the den strators will march down Eighth Ave to 26th St. and then east to Madison Square Park where a mass meeting will be held. numbering Ss The United Council of Working Class Women and Housewives of Greater New York aaa the Needle Trades Workers Industtial Union yesterday issued calls to their mem- berships urging them to mass in full force for the demonstration today. “The fight nst war and fas- cism is the { for the existence of our trade u . for the right to strike and picket for better condi tions, and for the right to live like decent human beings,” the N. T. W. I. U call read. Browder, Ford to Speak The American League yesterday issued a list of speakers who will address the mass meeting in Madi: son Square Park. The list include: Earl Browder, Communist Party James W. Ford, League of Struggle for Negro Rights; Louis Hyman, Needle Trades Workers Ind i Union; Ralph Read, Congregational Church; Bishop McConnell, Meth- odist Church; Mary Allen, Women's International League for Peace and Freedmo, Norman Tallentire, sec- retary of the City Committee of the American League Against War and Fascism; I. Leuchter, Young Circle League. H. Baxter, Marine Workers In- strial Union; Rabbi Bokser; tee for Unemployment Insuran R. Evans, Women’s Committee; P, Caccione, Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League; Lou Cooper, Young Com- munist League; James Gaynor, United Action Conference for Work Relief and Unemployment, and M. Himoff of the Youth Committee, Arming for War The American League issued a atement yesterday calling on workers and sincere opponents of war and fascism to rally to Colum- bus Circle today. The statement reads in part: “Twen'y years after the World Wer America, Britain, France, Italy and Japan are spending immense sums on war preparations, greater than ever before in peace time, The U. S. has appropriated one billion five hundred million dollars for the 1934-35 war budget. The British government proposed to double their air fleet in one year. Stanley Baldwin, potential Mussolini of. Britain, announces this week that British frontiers are now on the Rhine. The collapse of the capital- ist governments in Central Europe, Nezi_ murderers running wild in ja and Germany persccuting, Killing workers and murdering each being the threat of war nearer. The madman Hitler has seized suoreme power on the death of von Hindenburg, thus adding another torch to the flames of the approaching war danger. “Workers, students and profes- sionals of New York will answer the war plans of the bosses and the fas- cist development of the American government of the N.R.A., by pour- ing into the streets by the thou- sands this afternoon. All out! Fight War! Defcat Fascism! Demand AH Arms Appropriations for Unem- ployed Relief! Stop the Internas tionel Traffic in Arms! Step Trans- revtation of Munitions! Kill the War Mensters! Kill Fascism! Demonstration in Boston Today BOSTON, Aug. 3—An indoor mass meeting to protest against United (Continued on Page 8) vA