The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 9, 1934, Page 2

Page Two bn DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1934 ° ae bebe POO RBS 88 1 St PLTEEB AN 8 REVEAL NAZI PLOT TO KILL THAELMANN “WHILE ESCAPING” Disgruntled | Tro opers Bare Plans Committee Urges Flood Of Protests Be Sent : To Berlin PARIS, Aug. 8 that Ernst Thaelr leader of the G is now being cell to cell ar r in the last just bee: received by t onal Com- Mittee to of German Fascism here repo: to new per and tortures. But Thaelmann escape.” Thaelmann ) prison h neh party, is moved the Com- group of Nazis d at the recent as Lieutenant Sche! who joined the nger, The National Committee to Aid the Victims of German Fascism is: sued an urgent appeal today | all persons and organizations to send registered lett receipt re- R sg | qusted, to the Minister of Justice av agec ‘ at Be , demanding the safety of A Thaelmann, a public trial, an at- torney of his own choice, and im- Mediate information as to his whereabouts Unionists Protest ST. LOUIS, Aug. 8—The meeting addressed by Dr. Kurt Rosenfeld of that being subjected significance of reveals the Nazi while is in danger rce of the information is} are; na- Com- to | In the first picture the Negro Charles Krumbein, organizer of District (L. to R.) Clarence Hathaway, editer of the Daily Worker; Benjamin |- ‘Herndon, Fights On (Continued from Page 1) soon be finished gang.” off on the chain Berlin and Aneurin Bevan of| Denied Medical Aid in Prison London in St. Louis, had the en-| tm answer to a question on his dorsement of the Central Trades) present physical condition, Herndo: and Labor Union and A. F. of L told of being sick for a long time local unions. A resolution was/in prison, and denied medical at- adopted by the meeting demand-| tention. ing the liberation of Thaelmann and all anti-fascist prisoners in German “I was finally given a medical examination as a result of the de- jails. mands of workers and intellectuals yr am in response of the call of the ILD. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 8. — The| The results of the examination were Philadelphia Relief Committee for Victims of German Fascism has sent a letter to all Philadelphia A. F. L. local unions, requesting the passage of resolutions demanding Thaelmann’s freedom and the lib- eration of all anti-fascists in Hit- ler’s dungeons. CLEVELAND, Aug. 8.—Approxi- mately 100 Cleveland lawyers, in- eluding Judge Virgil J. Terrell of the Common Pleas Court, Sylves- ter V. McMahon, president of the Cleveland Bar Association and Common Pleas Judges Frederick D. Walther and Samuel E. Silbert adopted the following resolution after listennig to an address by Dr. Kurt Rosenfeld who is tour- ing for the National Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism: “We, a group of lawyers of Cleve- Jand, here assembled at the City Club, protest the brutal persecu- tion of Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Socialists, Communists and minority groups in Germany to- day and we request the immedi- ate release of thousands of prison- ers held in concentration camps without charges.” The resolution was sent to Hitler, Berlin, Ger- many. DETROIT, Aug. 8. — The Polish Chamber of Labor of Detroit pick- eted the German consulate with a representative from each of ten Polish organizations. While the Picketing was in progress, a com- M™ittee of three went into the con- Sulate to demand the release of Thaelmann and other prisoners. ‘The same day that this occurred a concealed, howeve: dition whitewashed.” “Were you deprived of papers, cigarettes d other comforts sent you by workers and sympathizers?” “Books and papers were r delivered to me. When cigarette: were delivered, the packages would be rifled of part of their contents. Copies of the Daily Worker would | be splotched with ink, or torn into | shreds before being given to me.” Mass Protests Saved Him is point, Herndon was asked and my con- s helped any by the mass protes of € and intellec- tuals, and if he ever got any news of the protest movement in his behalf. “The jailers would frequently tell me they were getting thousands of protest letters and telegrams ‘threat- ening’ them, and would angrily threaten to take it out on me, but they never dared to beat me, thus clearly showing their fear of the anger of the masses of white and Negro workers and intellectuals who were rallying to my defense. Occa- sionally I would be allowed to re- ceive letters and telegrams and even newspapers from which I got an inkling of what was happening on the outside.” “Do you see any connection be- tween your case and that of the Scottsboro boys?” he was next asked. Makes Appeal for Scottsboro Boys “Most certainly. The Scottsboro case is part of the systematic per- secution of the Negro people. The frame-up of the Scottsboro boys reveals the fear of the white ruling class confronted by the growing solidarity of white and Negro toilers. telephone campaign to the con-| tt is an attempt to smash this soli- sulate was organized. At least fifty darity, and isolate the Negro masses. organizations and _ individuals|Faced*by the world-wide fight for phoned the consul demanding the Safe release of Thaelmann. Laneaster Jobless Halt Sheriff’s Sale Eviction) LANCASTER, Pa., Aug. 8.—Three hundred workers massed at the home of Harry Dommel here Mon- day, and stopped an eviction and sheriff's sale. Dommel worked in the city pav- ing department for many years, and was laid off six months ago with | many others. When he was finally given a relief job at the local air- port, he was fired after the first day | ‘because his son had just been given @ ten-dollar a week job. Dommel was first notified of the eviction last Thursday when welfare investigator Banzof told him not to have a crowd gather, since the eviction would not take place, and that he would be given until Sat- turday to get out. Workers mo- bilized by the Lancaster Workers Protective Association stopped the eviction. Classified YOUNG lady wants clean room, down- town, reasonable. Write Box 2, c/o Daily ‘Worker. LICENSE NOTICES NOTICE is hereby given that license number A-6363 has been issued to the undersigned to sell beer at retail under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 994 Columbus Av., New York, N. ¥. for of premises consumption. MEYER BOBICK, 994 Columbus Ave., New York, N. ¥. NOTICE is hereby given that license mumber B-1280 has been issued to the undersigned to sell beer and wine at retail mnder Section 76 of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 27-29 West 115th St., New York, N. Y.. to be consumed upon the said ‘premises ESTONIAN WORKERS HOME, Inc 27-29 West 118th St., New York, N. ¥, Relief | the Scottsboro boys, the ruling class \is gripped by fear and are resorting to the utmost terror in order to|Duyers then will be permitted to | maintain their plunder rule, which is threatened by the rising resis- tance of white and Negro toilers throughout the country. They are trying to clamp the lid down. The Scottsboro case and mine are in- terconnected. “For the first time in the South, |lynch justice hhas been challenged by white and Negro attorneys of the IL.D., by workers and intellectuals throughout the country and the whole world. Confident Workers Will Carry On Fight “But in spite of this terror, or- ganized struggles are going on. Good work is being done by the revolu- tionary forces in the South. The lynch lords are not successful in | terrorizing the Negro people. The | firm solidarity of Negro and white workers is shown in numerous strike struggles and in the angry protests of Southern white and Negro work- ers against my frame-up.” Herndon here stressed the neces- sity of raising the $15,000 necessary to carry the appeal for himself and the Scottsboro boys to the U. S. Supreme Court, and expressed the confidence that the workers and in- tellectuals who furnished the money for his bail would support the cam- paign of the I.L.D. for the $15,000 Appeal Fund. He declared that he would throw himself into that cam- paign as far as his physical con- dition permitted. To Speak In Harlem August 15 Two meetings have already been arranged for him in this city, Rock- land Palace, Wednesday night, Au- gust 15, and the Bronx Coliseum, August 22. Asked what he thought of the op- portunity to address the Negro people of Harlem, he declared he would use the ‘opportunity “to bring | | reporter for the capitalist press | hero is shown shaking hands with 2, Communist Party; also > 10, 000 C heering Negroa J. Davis, Jr., edilor of the Negro Liberator and former attorney for Herndon, and Robert Minor, veteran photo shows part of the vast throng working-class leader. The second im the south end of the main hall of the Pennsylvania Railroad station. L, D. Griffin, Harlem section of the I. L. D., is speaking te the thousands of workers. nd White Workers Take Over Terminal As Herndon Arrives “the les- home to the Negro mass sons of the pa 1 victory won by the workers in my ca: With the Negro reformist misieaders actively betraying the liberation struggles of the Negro people, it is our task to cor the Negro masses that the only way to themselys is through the close unity of white and Negro toilers in struggle against mass unemployment, misery, lynch- ing, terror, and imperialist war. nust get a clear picture of the cause of their oppression and of the class responsible for that op- pression.” LL.D, Warns of Fascism, Pledges Fight Following the press conference with Herndon, Richard B. Moore, national field organizer of the IL. D., pledged that organization to con- tinue the struggle to smash the chain gang verdict against Herndon and to rescue the Scottsboro boys and Ernst Thaelmann from the clutches of the ruling class mur- dere! “This attack upon Angelo Hern- don, following the Scottsboro frame- up and the murder of Negro and white strikers in Alabama, the Gulf Coast, etc., is an evidence of rising fascist terror which strives to des- | troy all the constitutional rights not only of the Negro people, but of the white masses, as well,” *Moore | pointed out, “The fight to free Herndon sym- | bolizes the fight against fascism, for |the freedom of Ernst Thaelmann and all class war prisoners. “The LL.D. will continue to mobi- lize the ma: for the fight against | fascism, for the freedom of Thael- }mann, Herndon, the Scottsboro boys, and Tom Mooney, for the de- fense of the persecuted Negro people and oppressed white workers.” | Speculators to Profit By Spain’s Farm ‘Aid’ | MADRID, Aug. 8—With farmers }and farm workers starving from this year's bumper crop in all ag- ricultural products, the government has put into effect an order au- thorizing growers to borrow up to 80 per cent of the value of their | crops at 5 per cent interest. | The double joker seen by ruined farmers was that prices have sunk to record low levels, and under the spur of necessity they have already sold their crops to grain buyers. The | hedge their investments by the new decree. Olive oil stcoks are so large that it has been proposed to cut down | olive trees. | While millions of farmers struggle |against these conditions, the gov- | ernment issues press communiques | showing that 8,916 families have |been placed on the land by the | “Republican” government. | Intellectuals and artists, too, face | starvation, Theatre musicians are on strike for higher wages, demand- ing 12 pesetas ($1.65) per day. | Catalan Textile Hiosous | Lockout 4,300 Workers BARCELONA, Spain, Aug. 8.— The Catalan Textile Association | (employers) have voted to lock out 4,300 textile workers following weeks |Of labor troubles. | Aroused workers at Hospitalet, a textile town, stormed the local plant and occupied it. Frightened oper- | ators sent for the Catalan Labor | Advisor (similar to New Deal Labor | Boards) who succeeded in persuad- ing the workers to return to their | homes. Textile and other workers in Catalonia are among the most class conscious and militant in Spain and have borne the brunt of the battle for the proletariat throughout the struggles under the monarchy and republic. | | DES MOINES DEMONSTRATION | DES MOINES, Iowa.—About 250 workers attended the Aug. 1 anti- war demonstration on the library lawn here, called by the Communist Party. Speakers represented three other groups besides the Commu- | nists. NEW YORK.—For more | These were the workers— to greet Angelo Herndon, you on his arrival from the Fulton Tower prison in Atlanta on the 6:45 train Tuesday evening. They ac- corded Herndon, out on $15,000 bail and facing a sentence on the Georgia chain-gang, a rousing joyful wel- come such as has rarely been given to any working class leader. A group of outstanding workers’ leaders was at the Pennsylvania | Terminal to greet him when the| train arrived — a delegation which} included Earl Browder, general sec- retary of the Communist Party; C. A. Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker; Charles Krumbein, district Communist Party organizer; Robert Minor and James W. Ford, of the Central Committee of the Commu- nist Party; Richard B. Moore and Anna Damon, of the national office of the International Labor Defense; Benjamin J. Davis, Jr., LL.D. lawyer | in the Herndon case and now editor | of the Negro Liberator; MacWeiss, of the Young Communist League; and Ben Gold, secretary of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union. Masses With Banners While this delegation waited on the platform, more than 500 others milled about the track entrances on the level above, and over 9,000 work- ers packed the south half of the| main hall upstairs, | These workers had begun arriving Singly and in groups, behind red banners and placards bearing the names of their organizations, long | | | before “the IL.D. special” pulled} into the station. They surged |through the main hall, laughing and joyfully expectant, anxious to catch a glimpse of the heroic young Communist who had spent 19 months in the Atlanta jail—anxious to show their devotion to and soli- darity with the young man who had defied the southern lynch bosses and courts in his efforts to save| these Scottsboro boys. As the train bearing Herndon and Joseph R. Brodsky, chief I.L.D. at- torney, and Rev. J. A, Martin, At- lanta Negro minister, roared into the station, special guards and po- licemen shunted the crowd to an entrance away from the one where Herndon was to appear. But a Ne- gro porter, who had read of Hern- don’s fight in Georgia, spotted the deception and immediately rushed to Anna Damon’s side. “Not this door,” he whispered. “That one, over there.” Hoisted on Shoulders As Herndon appeared he was im- mediately hoisted upon the broad shoulders of Bob Minor, and his brother, Milton Herndon. A Negro worker appeared out of the crowd and joyfully pressed a large bouquet of fiery red roses into his hands. Herndon, balanced above the mass | of workers about him, took the flow- ers in one hand. With his other hand he waved to left and right his white Panama hat, the joy of the assembled workers reflected on his face as—his health, impaired by his long incarceration and tired after the long train journey —smiled a | | | By EDWIN ROLFE evening the huge Pennsylvania Railroad Terminal belonged to the militant workers of New York City. through which he was carried out into 32nd St. close behind, closing the pathway as soon as he had passed. ; Communists, Herndon was borne tured the street, just as for an hour w knowing how powerless they were sentence to the Georgia chain gang, lines of four, Broadway, where they turned south, than an hour on Tuesday 10,000 of them—who massed ng Negro Communist leader, | The crowd surged A young worker, in his excite- ment, fell against two old matronly working-class women. Turning to- ward them to ask forgiveness, he | aw they were crying. “I’m sorry,” e shouted to make himself heard, | putting up his arm to shield them from the crowd. “Oh, it’s not you,” | they cried, pointing to the frail fig- | ure on Minor’s shoulders. “It’s not | you!” The tears caught the cor- | ners of their lips, upturned in broad smiles of joy. Traffic Stopped On the shoulders of outstanding across the street to an empty parking ground. Here for fifteen minutes he waited, meeting mem- bers of the delegation, resting, waiting for the car which was to carry him to a comrade’s home, to rest, All of these leaders were known to him by name and by deed —but most of them he met person- ally in this little parking space for the first time. Outside the parking ground the massed workers cap- before his arrival, they had made he Penn Terminal theirs. Police, to dispel this happy, determined throng, stopped traffic on-32nd St., between Seventh and Eighth Aves., while photographers clicked their cameras and~Herndon, in the center of a human circle held intact by linked arms and hands, stood wait- ing for the auto which took him away to quiet, to the recuperation he needs before again facing the Southern courts in the I. L. D.’s appeal against his 18 to 20 years’) Once Herndon was in the auto the workers fell back again, clear- ing a lane through which his car could pass. Again, as the auto, moved on, the lane was closed, and the crowd followed behind down 32nd St., going spontaneously into disciplined march formation, in as they reached “Scottsboro Boys Shall Not Die” Singing and shouting “Free An- gelo Herndon!” and “The Scotts- boro Boys Shall Not Die!” they swept into Union Square just be- fore dusk, immediately set up a speakers’ stand on the south end of the square near the Army recruit- ing station, and immediately opened a meeting. Only once was a speaker inter- rupted. That was when the car carrying Herndon was recognized as it pulled up to watch the meeting on Fourth Ave., before Klein’s de- partment store. The workers left the meeting, rushing across the wide avenue. For several minutes all traffic halted, before a mass of men and women more effective than any red traffic light. But again the ery of “Discipline, com- happy answer to this welcome. As he was carried up the marble stairway into the main hall of the terminal, black arms and white were held up, thousands of them, as cheers echoed through the station and the workers sang the Interna- tional. Rush to Shake Hands The same workers who a few minutes before had applauded, Mike Walsh and F. D. Griffin, of the Harlem I.L.D., when they predicted how great the demonstration would be when the nine Scottsboro boys would arrive in New York, raised their voices now in deafening cheers. They rushed forward about him, eager to shake his hand, to hold their placards shouting “Welcome!” before his eyes. But deep voices boomed “Dis- cipline, comrades, discipline!” and the crowd fell back, opening a path | | ‘Tompkins Square 6-7697 Dr. S. A. Chernoff GENITO-URINARY ‘Men and Women 223 Second Ave., N. Y. C. OFFICE HOURS: SUNDAY: Williamsburgh Comrades Welcome De Luxe Cafeteria 94 Graham Ave. Cor. Siegel St. EVERY BITE A DELIGHT MEET YOUR COMRADES AT THE Cooperative Dining Club ALLERTON AVENUE Cor. Bronx Park Fast Pure Foods Proletarian Prices ® trades,” turned them back to the meeting. Several speakers kept the crowd listening tensely on the square until dark. The words of Bob Minor set the spirit of the meeting. Some of his words, sentences, remained with the workers when they boarded the subways for home. “We assembled a short time ago at the Penn Station,” Minor said, “to meet a train coming from At- lanta, Georgia, On it was Angelo Herndon, whose name is today known throughout the world. “Herndon was 19 years old when he stood up in a Georgia court and proclaimed himself a revolutionist, a leader of the Young Communist League... . Ten years ago there was no An- gelo Herndon. There was no Today we have hundreds—they spell the unity of black and white workers throughout Amer- ica! . . . If you honor this in- spiring unity, you should honor the Communist Party, which is re- sponsible for it! Herndon is only a boy in years, barely old enough to cast his first vote, yet he has already shaken the entire South! - Without the Communist Party, there could not have been an Angelo Herndon, ... Yes, com- trades, fellow workers, 5 “Four years ago a freight train stopped at Scottsboro. That train eut a deep gash through the South that will remain until we have a Soviet America!” DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY Office Hours: 8-10 A.M., 1-2, 6-3 P.M PHONE: DICKENS 2-3012 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet. Pitkin and Sutter Aves., Brooklyn Dr. Maximilian Cohen Dental Surgeon 41 Union Sq. W., N. Y. GC After 6 P.M. Use Night Entrance 92 EAST 1th STREET Suite 703—GR. 17-0135 — WORKERS WELCOME — NEW CHINA CAFETERIA Chinese Dishes -—— We American Dishes 25e 848 Broadway vet. 13th & 14th st. WHERE Our Comrades EA’ RAPOPORT'’S DAIRY and VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT 93 Second Ave. N. Y. City ANDWICH SOLS “Toxca 101 University Place (Just Around the Corner) Telephone Tompkins Square 6-9780-9781 black leader of white workers, | lPihne Made For Banquet To Bob Minor NEW YORK. — A banquet in honor of Robert Minor, veteran Communist leader and candidate for Mayor of New York City in 1933, will be held Aug. 30, at Irving | Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St. It \is being arranged by the New York District Committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. All trade unions, fraternal organ- izations, clubs, mass organizations, shop groups, sections and units of the Communist Party and Young Communist League are being urged to send delegates to the banquet. Reservations should be made to the Robert Minor Banquet Committee, 50 E. 13th St., Room 500, New York City. Admission is 75 cents. rganizations are asked to keep the date open. Clothing Workers Call Special Meeting Today NEW YORK.—A special meeting of all rank and file members called |by the Rank and File Committee | of the Amelgamated Clothing Work- ‘ers of America will be held this | afternoon at 4:30, The meeting will consider plans for a fight against impending wage cuts and also plans for a struggle to win wage increases to meet rising living costs. ELECTROLYSIS SUPERFLUOUS HAIR ON FACE PERMANENTLY REMOVED Results Guaranteed — Personal Service METHOD ENDORSED BY PROMINENT PHYSICIANS Will give treatments to unemployed free every Friday from One to Four jo 171W.7ist St.at B’way| C,H. Landis oye anaicott 2.01 Fight Planned To Halt Coast ‘De portations NEW YORK.—Delegates of the Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born will meet tonight at 108 E. 14th St., to lay plans for a campaign of protest to effect the release of 20 workers now being held in Angel Island for deporta- tion as a result of their activities in the San Francisco general strike, The New York committee will launch a barrage of 25,000 postcard protests to Mayor Rossi and to Governor Merriam. Tonight’s meeting will also lay plans for a petition drive to win the right of asylum as a political refugee for Theodore Eggeling, Ger- man anti-Fascist seaman. Anti-Nazis Will Hear German Editor Speak At Picnic On Sunday NEW YORK.—An outstanding feature at the anti-Nazi picnic on Sunday, at North Beach Park, As- toria, Queens, will be tite speech of Dr. Franz Hoellering, former editor-in-chief of the “Berliner Zeitung am Mittag,” who just ar- rived from Germany. Hoellering will give a clear analysis of the last events in the “Third Reich.” The anti-Nazi picnic is being «r- ranged by the Anti-Nazi Federation and the Anti-Fascist Action Com- mittee. A theatre group, a dance group and the Labor Sports Union will present numbers. This affair, which is to raise funds for the vir~ tims of German Fascism and tine fight against the Nazis must be made a real mass rally of anti-fas« cist workers and intellectuals, It must become an impressive counter rally to the Nazi meeting which took place on Tuesday. | | | | TOBACCO WORKERS TO MEET NEW YORK.—With the new To- bacco Code and the Philadelphia tobacco workers strike up for dis- cussion, the open meeting called by the Tobacco Workers Industrial Union for tomorrow night is ex- pected to be of unusual interest ta all workers in the industry. 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