The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 18, 1934, Page 1

( Only $2,920 has been contributed to date to the $15,000 defense fund for the appeals of Angelo Herndon and the Scottsboro boys. Only 14 days are left. See biank on page six of this issue. Rash contributions to International Labor Defense, 80 E. llth St., New York City. Vol. XI, 198 é aogBntered as second-class matter at the New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879 Daily QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Post Office at NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1934. WEATHER: Fair, warmer PRESS RUN YESTERDAY Redouble Drive Efforts Next 2 Weeks 44,000 (Eight Pages) Price 3 Cents DAILY’ 10 HAVE THREE ED | Reactionaries Control Textile Wi TIONS: Socialist Aid USES SOVIETS Union With / JAPAN IN PROVOCATION CAMPAIGN ACC ® Mus husts PapersPrint Wild Lies Militarists Say U.S.S.R. Consul Organized Armed Raids (See Statement by Central Com- mitte of the Communist Party on Page 8) By Radio to the Daily Worker MOSCOW, Aug. 17. — The unbrided anti-Soviet cam- paign in Manchuria continues. Japanese-controlled Manchu- tian newspapers are trying to surpass each other in pub- lishing the wildest inventions against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Yesterday, for instance, all Har- bin newspapers, as if by order, pub- lished a sensational * report. with provocative accusations against the Soviet Consular Station at Pogra- nichnaye. on) n newspapers went so far as to accuse the Soviet Consulate, particularly Consul Stelmakh, cf nothing less than the organization of armed raids on the station of the Japanese military mission in Pogranichnaya and similar malic- | ious absurdities. Inspired Provocations This “sensational” invention of the Japano-Manchurian newspapers shoys that the provocateurs are not restricting themselves to raids on Women Anti-War Delegates Pledge Defense of Soviets NEW YORK.—Ella Reeve Bloor, chairman, and Mabel Byrd, secre- tary of the American Women’s dele- gation to the International Wo- men’s Congress against War and Fascism, yesterday made the follow- ing statement on hearing of Japan's new provocations against the Soviet Union: “While, we, the American delegation to the International Women’s Congress Against War and Fascism, were in Paris we wit- nessed a very dramatic incident. When it was announced that Japan had sent a threatening note to the Soviet Union, the entire gathering of 1,000 was aroused. Immediately and unanimously the women pledged to fight against all ship- ping of munitions to Japan, pledged to refuse to manufacture war materials in the shops and to unite men and women in a_ struggle against the manufacture of war munitions. We pledged interna- tional solidarity not only in words but in actions. “Now today, with the dark cloud of war again hovering oyer the Soviet Union, we, the American section of the International Wo- men’s Congress against War and Fascism, renew our pledge made in Paris to defend the Soviet Union and to mobilize all our energy, all our forces in behalf of the workers’ and farmers’ Fatherland. We urge the Avorkers.and peasants of Japan to join with us in defense of the only land where the toiling masses rule and to fight with the workers and peasants of the world against imperialist war and fascism, “ELLA REEVE BLOOR, Ch’man, “MABEL BYRD, Secretary.” Court Limits Is Started |Longshoremen Out— | Plot On to Rule the I. L. D. Ilegal | (Special to the Daily Worker) | SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17— Clearly showing that the dock | Workers have not been crushed by |the anti-union, anti-Communisi | drive of the police, the courts and |the open shop employers of this State, fifty longshoremen of Pier 39 walked out on strike here yesterday against the firing of two members of the working group. At the city court, in the mean- time, the attempt to frame-up Joseph Wilson, secretary of the local International Labor Defense, |goes on. The prosecution is at- tempting to stack the trial panel with a number of jurors used in | the conviction of Harry Jackson, | the marine union ozganizer. An attempt is being made +o | prove that the I.L.D. is an “illegai” body. Many witnesses of American | Federation of Labor unions will be the I.L.D, is a bona fide labor de- |fense organization. The legality of the I.L.D is not | the only issue in the trial. Joseph | Wilson, who is defending himself, | flung the question of the framing of Tom Mooney into the courtroom and placed on the record the ques- tion of the terror against the Com- munist Party. 1% Workers Indicted | On Coast subpoenaed who will testify that| | Of Communist Party, Making ‘Daily’ Secure During Year | Statement of the Central Committee, Communi Party, U. S. A. Sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) must be raised dur- ing the next three months by the Daily Worker and the Communist Party. Of the total fund, $10,000 is required by the Communist Party to carry on and extend its revo- lutionary work. The additional sum for the Daily Worker is needed for these four principal reasons: (1) To assure the continued publication of the Daily Worker. (2) To enlarge the Daily Worker to eight and more pages. (3) To publish three editions each day of the Daily Worker. (4) To give the workers and farmers not only a | revolutionary paper, but for the first time in America’s history to spread the message and spirit and underlying values of a revolutionary daily newspaper to every cor- ner of the United States. For this vital task the Central Committee calls upon | all workers and their organizations, and particularly upon | | the units, sections and districts of the Communist Party to aid to the full limit of their energy The celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of the Communist Party should, in the first place, center around assuring the security of the Daily Worker. It is the Daily Worker, more than any other single instrument, which daily expresses the leading role of the Communist Party in the workers’ struggles and advances our revolutionary struggle toward the seizure of power and the establish- New Strike |Celebrate 15th Anniversary Op | Of Strike - Head UTW) |Rieve Maneuver Leaves | “Ts 7. | Militants Without Choice in Vote A resolution was introduced at the U.T.W. Convention calling for a general strike in the silk | industry. By CARL REEVE NEW YORK —The reactionary leadership headed by Thomas Mac- | Mahon gained complete control of the United Textile Workers Union Executive Board at the election of officers yesterday afternoon. Thom- as MacMahon was re-elected to office with only twenty votes op- posed. Vice-Presidents Francis Gorman of Providence and William Kelly of | Phila., were re-elected without any opposition. The Socialist Party leadership, headed by Emil Rieve of Milwaukee, | played the leading role in the be- trayal of the militant delegates who | voted Thursday for a general cot-| ton strike of half a million workers. Rieve, until -the.last. minute, ap- peared before the convention, espe- cially in the caucuses of the dele- gations, as the champion of the “progressives.” Rieve let it be} known that he would run against MacMahon. Those militant delegates who understood that MacMahon, if re-j elected, would do all possible to pre- vent the carrying through of the| o Huge Parade Staffs as Man Of the three editions, two The first of the metropolit New York Daily Worker,” wil be off the press in the morning. Will Precede | Bronx Rally NEW YORK. — Final plans for} what is expected will be one of the} greatest workers’ parades in the} history of the Bronx, on August 22,/ when Angelo Herndon will be greeted at a city-wide mass welcome meeting in the Bronx Coliseum, ponents 8-Page City Edison: _ And Special National Issue to Begin Oct. I New York ‘Daily’ to Concentrate on City Labe* and Political News—Districts to Gain in Mail Issue—Casey to Head News aging Editor Three regular editions of the Daily Worker will be pubs |lished beginning October 1st. This is the newest and most far-reaching step which the | Daily Worker has yet taken in its development as a mass | paper of the American workers and farmers. will be published for readerg in New York City and the third will be a national issue. an editions, to be called “The 1 appear early in the evening for street sales and midnight newsstands, and the second will The regular national edition will be run in time to make the early mail trains out of the city. / the editions will be se: plete news sery The metropolitan ed appear in cight ages i six as at present. The national edi- tion will have six pages, More space, however, will be made available for news and feature material with the elimination of all New York City adyertisements and news of a purely local nature from the na- tional edition. Vital Step in History The change from one edition of the Daily Worker to three is the strike vote, were misled into sup-) have been announced by the Bronx (Special to the Daily Worker) porting Rieve. | the Chinese Eastern Railway but ment of workers’ rule. most important step in the develop- that they are preparing more ser- ious provocation azound the Soviet Consulate. Well informed Harbin circles as- sert there is quite definite proof that these provocatory newspaper reports concerning the Pogranich- naya Consulate were inspired by the Japanese military mission in Hazbin, Simultaneously with this out- rageous anti-Soviet campaign and the intensification of provocatory actions aong the Chinese Eastern Railway generally, the Manchurian poice have started a campaign against the cultural and co-oper- ative institutiors of the employes of the Chinese Eastern. Hinder Soviet Citizens Police, for instance, have issued & new order restricting the trade of the traveling co-operative shops running on the Chinese Eastern. These traveling co-operatives, in ac- cordance with the Manchurian po- lice order, must now get special per- mission for each journey, and sub- mit to other restrictions. This new provocation has the same aim as the others, namely, to create conditions making work on the Chinese Eastern Railway im- possible for Soviet subjects. The police order places employes of the railway in a very difficult position, because the traveling co-operative shops are the only means of sup- plying necessities to railway work- ers scattered at small stations in uninhabited localities. Mass Arrests of Soviet Workers Special to the Daily Worker MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., Aug. 17 (By Wireless)—Newspapers have pub- lished telegrams from Khabarovsk reporting that mass arrests of lead- Ing workers on the Eastern Line of the Chinese Eastern Railway took (Continued on Page 2) Red Builder Resists Thugs Who Beat Him Yo Halt ‘Daily’ Sales NEW YORK.—Jack Mandelbaum, 2000 Daly Avenue, Bronx, a Red Builder, was beaten by two uniden- tified men at Claremont Parkway and Third Avenue when he defied their order to stop selling the Daily Worker. A policeman who appeared on the scene made no effort to arresi Mandelbaum’s assailants but or- dered him to leave the intersection and threatened to arest him if he persisted in selling the Daily Worker there. Mandelbaum said yesterday to the circulation manager: : “T am going back there . again. but this time with the support of the members of the Middle Bronx Workers’ Club and the local branch of the International Labor Defense.” Picketing in Bread Strike NEW YORK.—The decision of Supreme Court Justice Samuel H. Hofstadter, announced Thursday stating that consumers have a right to picket against exorbitant prices of food, is actually an, attempt to limit the picketing of various Bronx bakeries now going on, officials of the 174th Street Neighborhood Organization, the body leading a strike against the high price of bread in the Bronx, declared yes- terday. “At the same time,” one of the oranization’s officers stated to the Daily Worker, “the decision of Justice Hofstadter is a partial vic- tory. It is a legal recognition of the fact that a fight against the high price of food—one of the forms of which is bread strikes—is mount- ing. However, it was declared, the picketing, according to the court’s decision, is restricted, pickets being permitted only from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The most important times, neigh- borhood people say, are the shop- ping hours, before nine in the morning and after 6 in the evening, when house wives generally pur- chase fresh bread and rolls. The strike was begun five weeks ago when three bakeries, Max Julian, Inc., Miller Brothers, and SACRAMENTO, Aug. 17.—Seven- teen workers were indicted yester- day on the charge of criminal syndicalism in court here. Among those against whom the indictments were drawn are Pat Chambers, or- ganizer of the Cannery and Agricul- tural Workers’ Union; Caroline | Hougardy. All seventeen had been arrested jin the coast-wide man-hunt for ; Communists and organizers of mili- tant tzade unions begun by West Coast open shop interests during the general strike. the Kleinburg Bakery broke an agreement with the 174th Street Neighborhood organization to main- tain the price of bread at 7 cents a pound and rolls at 18 cents a dozen. Prices were raised one cent a pound on bread and 2 cents a dozen on rolls. N. R.A. Raises Prices Again Neighborhood workers see the winning of this strike as particu- larly important since the new N. R. A. code, which went into effect August 13, raises the price of bread to 9 cents a pound and rolls to 24 cents a dozen. A victory now will defeat the proposed rise, workers feel. The neighborhood organization has urged workers organizations in the neighborhood to report to the headquarters of the 174th Street organization, at 1841 Bryant Ave- nue, for picket duty. Comrades, the Daily Worker is indispensable for the | Section of the International Labor At the last minute, Rieve, in | Defense, which is arranging the ment of the “Daily” since its in- Decker, Nora Conklin and Warnick | entire working class. Worker is needed. of the crisis. policies. workers. The income from An improved and enlarged Daily The attacks on the toiling masses, the workers, farm- ers, the Negro people are increasing. Living conditions are being further undermined with each succeeding day The civil rights of the masses, the right, to organize, to strike, to picket, to hold meetings is being restricted. The Roosevelt administration is clearly headed toward fascism and war as its way out of the crisis. such a situation the workers must fight to retain their own organ, the Daily Worker, to expose the plans and activities of the bosses, and to develop and lead their own struggle against Roosevelt’s hunger, fascist and war In The Daily Worker lives only with the support of the daily sales does not sustain the paper in the absence of a heavy advertising revenue, suci as piles up profits for capitalist-controlled papers. It has been the direct contributions from thousands of work- ers and their organizations which have enab!ed us to fight on for more than ten years—never missing a single issue. The Central Committee is confident that the workers and the Party units and committees will respond this year as they have responded in the past. During the past year the paper has improved in con- (Continued on Page 2) an obviously pre-arranged deal | with MacMahon, withdrew from the elections. Instead, MacMa- hon called him to the chair and it was Rieve who wielded the gavel when MacMahon was elected. Undoubtedly the demand of the textile workers for strike is so | strong that MacMahon will find it extremely difficult, if not impossible | to head off a strike. The strikes | are already spreading daily. Mac-| Mahon’s executive board has been categorically instructed to call the strike before Sept. 1. In this posi- tion, MacMahon will try to remain in the leadership by going along and calling the strike, if pressed hard, and trying to end it at the earliest moment. The textile workers must now at once organize their forces for strike, not only in cotton but in the en- tire textile industry. The organiza- | tion of strong united front mill! committees in each mill, with every department represented, to lead the | strike, is a necessary safeguard against MacMahon’s attempts to put a brake on the struggle. The Lovestonite leaders, Keller, Rubinstein, Herman, etc., who made left sounding speeches at the con- vention, when it came to a show- down, did not put up one of their leaders as a candidate against Mac- Mahon, although they were assured parade in conjunction with other working class organizations. All groups have been invited to join in honoring the memory of the murdered working-class heroes, Sacco and Vanzetti, on the seventh anniversary of their legal murder. The anniversary is being com- memorated throughout the country as National Scottsboro Day in the mass fight to save and free the nine Scoitsboro Boys and to smash thi chain gang verdict against Hern don. Many organizations already expressed their intention of participating in full force. The parade will start at 7:30 from two points: 161st Street and Pros- pect Avenue, and St. Paul's Place and Third Avenue, in the heart of the Bronx Negro territory. air meetings will be held at these Ave, and Claremont Parkway, Wil- kins and Intervale Avenues, and Southern Boulevard and .Trenton Avenue, where will converge. The open air meet- ings will start at 7 oclock, and will be addressed by prominent speak- ers, including Leon Blum, recentiy jteleased strike leader; Helen Lynch, | tion, Bronx unemployed and Sadie Van Veen. leader, A Red Builder on Every Busy Street Corner in the Country Means a Tremendous Step Toward the (Continued on Page 2) Dictatorship of the Proletariat! Browder Urges United Front of Struggle Against Reaction at Youth Congress After Tho By JAMES LERNER NEW YORK. — Finding them- selves isolated from a movement that they could not. control, the fascist elements of the American Youth Congress, in session at New York University, left the majority of the delegates to work out a fighting program for the needs of American youth. Starting from five round-table discussions through general pic- nary sessions, visitors were treated to a remarkable picture never be- fore seen in the United States. young Christians, young Socialists and young Commists, pacifists and those who are ready to use arms for the overthrow of capi- talism, gathered together, tossed aside differences which have in the past frequently Brought need- less disunity, and, step by step, laid the basis for nation-wide youth actions against unemployment, war and fascism on a minimum program. While the so-called Central Bu- reau of Young America, led by a | “pipe-smoking” Miss Tima, daugh- j ter of an Abyssinian prince, show- ered the press with futile cries that they had been tricked by the reds, the credentials committee elected by: the delegates reported that 79 organizations, with dele- gates coming from 16 different States, were present at the Con- gress. There were 31 national or- ganizations represented. The to- tal membership representation at the Congress was announced as 1,700,000 young men and women. More Delegates Desert Fascists Included in these organizations, besides those previously mentioned, are the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Fisk University, National Municipal League, Zionist youth and many All through the sessions new Cele- gates arrived, who had orginally remained with the fascist Uma ;8roup. As they witnessod the un- jfolding of the fascist group the ‘sincere representatives were re- other of a sim‘lar broad nature. |: pulsed and returned to the Con- gress. Among these was the dele- gate from the National Protes- tant Church youth groups, who could not stomach Ilma’s militarist plans, and one from the Transient Camps of New Jersey. The latter delegate had been picked by the federal government to come and show how wonderful. these camps are. He did the oppos:te in the Congress. Among the first resolutions voted Unemployment Insurance Bill, de- nunciation of the transient camps and C.C.C. camps, demanding vo- catioffal training for all youth be- tween the ages of 16 and 20, and abolition of child labor. Plan National Yeuth Congress But one of the most important steps taken was that of instruct- ing the Continuat’ons Committee to be elected at the close of the Congress to. call a huze American You'h Congress, with renrssenta- tives from shops and the farm, were those endorsing the Workers! as well as all organizations here, in Washington, at the opening of Congress on Jan. 15. This im- portant decision was accepted unanimously, laying the basis for continued united action between the Young Peoples Socialist League, Young Communist League and the other organizations pres- ent. The resolutions were not vague declarations, but insisted on local united actions of all groups present, to win relief for the youth. Differing from four other speak- ers including Norman Thomas, Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party, brought a clear Marxien analysis of the only way out of the crisis, by the path of revolution, to several hundred dele- gates and visitors to the First American Youth Congress at New York University last night. In a crowded assembly room, rep- rosentatives of American uth were congretuieted by Browdez on their having smashed a potentially mas Endorses Workers’ Bill and Promises Unity fascist movement guided by the fed- eral government. They were told by several speakers that unity es- tablished here was a sign of im- pending general unity of the entire American workingclass. Thomas Promises Unity Thomas, who spoxe for the So- cialist Party, and the other speak- ers reccived the greatest amount of applause when they spoke of the necessity and possibility of unity. |Nerman Thomas specifically en- dorsed the unity achieved at the Youth Congress, and surprised the audience by announcing that the unity attained in France would be duplicated in America. He stated that the unity proposals of the Communist Party would be consid- ered by his party on Labor Day week-end. Themas also endorsed the Workers’ Unempleyment Insur- ance Bill, H. R. 7598. and representatives of the Farmer- Labor Federation and New Ams took up the question of unity. “Unity of struggle against reaction Browder, speaking after Thomas | is good,” he declared, “and there- fore the unity established here by the youth is significant. It has re sulted in the smashing of a fascist movement.” Commenting on the possibil and necessity of unity, Browder ex: plained, “Certainly the need for unity is going to force everyone who attempts to lay claim to leadership of the working class to be ready for unity or be thrown aside.” Browder Urges Struggle The leader of the Communist Party then took up the position of the speakers who had disparaged the necessity of fighting for i mediate demands in favor of a very Vague explanation of the need for a “new social order.” Only the Communists, who are revolutionists, insist upon struggling for the im. mediate demands of the people. !“Mr. Thomas mentioned that the so-called: Lundeen Bill was the best unemployment insurance measure, Why wasn't this bill, the Workers’ (Continued on Page 2) have | Open | points, as well as at Washington) the two parades/ crease from four to six pages last August. Since that time, as a result of the more popular character of the paper and an intensified drive in the districts of the Communist Party, the circulation of the Datiy Worker has been doubl With the plans now under way ii expected that the circulation of the “Daily” will continue to but at a much more ravid tempo than in the past, The New York Daily W: r will strive to’ cover fields hitherto in- adequately treated, especially the New York City trade union moye- ment, strike struggles, municipal politics, the activities of the La- Guardia administration, Tammany Hall, as well as the other political groups, the problems of relief, hous= ing, schools, etc, A special city staff is being form- jed at the present time which will deal with these problems. Included is staff will be Communist who have an_ intimate knowledge of the life of the New York trade union movement. Con- | tinuous exposes will also be made | by special investigators who will esent the s y of city corrup- strikebreaking by official as well as private agencies, and tine | cover the m nd the “ree |lief” ad |, James C: | toz of the Daily Worker, will be in |charce of the enlarged staff with |the title of Managing Editor. He | will work in close touch with and |under the leadershin of Clarence | Hathaway, the editor of the Daily | Worker. Improved National Edition While New York readers will fina [the “Daily” a more effective and popular paper when the new changes take place. workers in other cities will see their own prob- jJems better vresented with the im- proved national edition of the Deily Wor'er. Following the esteb- nt m Bureau jot th sittee | its organization last October, has provided readers of the paper with seme of the most vital news thot has been published, the “Daily” is |vlanning to extend the work of its us in other cities, paticularly the centers of basic industries. More materia! will hereafter be | published from the Chicago, Detroit ond Pittsbursh brreaus of the Daily Worker, and efforts will be made to obtain reguler corresnon- dence from Clevelard and other important industrial centers. Pub- |lication of this increased volume of news will be made nossible by the exclusion of advertising and news ef a nurely New York character from the national edition of the | Daily Worker. Regular News Service | Additional general news will he {also made available to the Daily jin (Continued on Page 2)