The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 21, 1934, Page 1

ef Editor, S'Seces years ago on were murdered by the Vanzetti Murders” is HATHAWAY URGES GIGANTIC By CLARENCE HATHAWAY Daily Worker Wednesday, August 22, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian workers, State of Massachusetts. On this seventh anniversary, the pledge “No More Saceo- taken again by the working class of America. ATOR, ERND er n the Scottsboro boys, of Angelo Herndon, of Ernst Thaelmann, of Tom Mooney, and of all class-war prisoners, is the concrete expression of this pledge, and August 22 has been set aside especially as Scotts- bore-Herndon day. In New York, the workers and their sympa- thizers will meet and take this pledge, thoueands ON. SCOTTSBORO The demand for the freedom of RALLY strong, at the Bronx Coliseum, at 8 p.m. Wednesday, August 22. They will be addressed by Angelo Hern- don, young Negro leader of the white and Negro un- employed, just released on $15,000 bail from prison in Atlanta, still facing eighteen to twenty years on the chain-gang, and by other prominent working class leaders, Angelo Herndon is not yet free. The Scotts- boro boys still sit in the shadow of the electrie chair. dom. EE TOMORROW NIGHT This meeting must be made a tremendous out- pouring, a mass demonstration cause, to attend this meeting, , demanding their free- I urge all workers, all sympathizers with this and all those who are able, to make their support even more concrete by bringing contributions to the $15,000 Scottsboro- Herndon Emergency Defense tional Labor Defense. Fund of the Interna- Il DAYS ONLY are left-in which to raise the $15,000 needed for the appeals of Angelo Herndon and the Scottsboro Boys. Only $3,215 of this sum has been raised to date. Rush contributions to International Labor Defense, 80 E. llth St., New York City. See blank on page four of this issue. Daily .QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Watch for Daily $60,000 FINA Today's Receipts Total to Date . Reports of the NCE DRIVE $41.23 cans. R0BS8 — Vol. XI, No. 200 <> Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥, under the Act of March 8, 1879. NEW YORK, TUES Meat Price Up Nearly 7 Per Cent Wallace Wants Fascist ‘National Economic Council’ ROCKFORD, Ill., Aug. 20.) —It will be necessary to con- tinue to keep 50,000,000 acres, which were retired by the Ag- ricultural Adjustment Act, out of production, despite the drought and wide-spread hun- ger in the land, Henry Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, stated yesterday to a meeting of several thousand farmers at Camp Grant near here. In a brazen attempt to deny the starvation levels at which about 20,000,000 American people are liv- ing today and to justify the insane crop-destroying policies of the New Deal government, Wallace declared tha‘, “It is more necessary for the farmers to control output than fac- tories . . . you can’t expand a man’s stomach.” The Secretary warned against the expansion in the plant- ing of corn for 1935. Attempting to dissociate himself from the policies of the NRA, widely unpopular in the Middle West because of price increases, Wallace referred to himself as “an outsider” and not a voice of the Recovery Administration. Wants “Economie Council” What is regarded as an extremely significant statement was the dec- laration by Wallace that what the eountry needed was a “National Economic Council” to coordinate the work of the N.R.A. and AAA. This would be a small body that would make decision not only on national economic matters but also on foreign matters. This tremen- dous concentration of power in the hands of the ruling class is to be disguised, according to the proposal of Wallace, with representatives of “labor,” “agriculture” and the “con- sumer,” thus giving it a semblance of democracy. development of Wallace’s conceptions, it is recalled, was pre- dicted some months ago by the Daily Worker after the appearance of Wallace’s pamphlet, “America (Continued on Page 2) New Terror Threat Made By Hi tler See editorial on page 6 BERLIN, Aug. 5—A threat of greater terror in view of the huge opposition vote against Hitler was made today just before Hitler left for one of his numerous rests in the Bavarian mountains. “With customary Nazi speed,” Hitler declared, “every force would be used “to win qyer the last rem- nants of our people to Nazi So- cialism.” Privately many Nazi officials have admitted their disappointment and fear on the outcome of the Sunday plebiscite, which despite the most tho ly organized terror campaign resulted in the heaviest opposition vote since the seizure of power by the Hitler dictatorship. The opposition vote to Hitler doubled over the November plebis- cite on foreign policy. What the actual voting was, however, will never be known as the official fig- ures are issued by the criminal Nazi Ministry of Propaganda. However, even the manipulated figures issued by Goebbels shows a tremendous rise in the fight on fascism. More than 1,500,000 voters stayed away from the polling place, and nearly 1,000,000 “spoiled” their ballots. which in most instances meant the writing in the name of Ernst Thaelmann, imprisoned leader of the Communist Party of Germany. The election figures as issued by the Nazi ministry of propaganda, » (Continued on Page 2, AY, AUGUST 21, 1934 WEATHER: Fair, (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents JAPAN PREPARES 10 SEIZE SOVIET ROAD U. 5. Crop Limitation Will Continue Despite Food Veteran Hangs Self After Vain Efforts to Get City Relief NEW YORK.—Carmelo Fazze- na, jobless World War veteran, hanged himself on Saturday af- ter four months of futile effort to get help from the Emergency Home Relief Bureau. Fazzena applied for aid in May and was put off with promises of investigation from week to week until his brother-in-law, James Augusto, 317 E. 108th St., took him to Mayor LaGuardia’s office to make a complaint. Mayor LaGuardia told Fazzena that he could do nothing, but re- fer him to the Department of Public Welfare. At Commissioner William H. Hodson’s office he was again referred to the Pre- cinct Bureau at 102d St., which oad denied him relief. He made a final visit to the Bureau office last Friday and was turned down. His brother- (n-law discovered him hanging in hs home on Saturday morn- ing. Thaelmann Signs Painted On Nazi Ship Anti-Fascist Slogans by Seattle Workers De- nounce Hitler SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 20.—The port of Seattle woke up Saturday morning to find huge “Free Thael- mann” and “Rote Front” signs painted on the sides of the North German Lloyd steamer ‘‘Schwaben,” and Nazi officials of the vessel foaming at the mouth with im- potent rage. Other signs painted along the sides of the Nazi vessel by indignant Seattle workers denounced the Nazi butcher regime in Germany for its savage persecution of workers, honest intellectuals and Jews. Seattle workers had daringly car- ried out their determination that no Nazi ship or official shall visit Seattle without meeting with the indignant protests of the working- class against the Hitler murderers, and had visited the vessel in a row- boat to paint the sogans and dis- tribute literature among the crew. Two of the crew, who were off by themselves, returned the Red Front. salute of the visitors. Others eagerly accepted copies of “Der Arbeiter” 8 Textile Strikers In Alabama Indicted BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Aug. 20.— The Madison County Grand Jury today brought eight indictments against textile strikers here. Al- though the specific charges are be- ing kept secret, at least seven work- ers are known to have been.in- dicted for picketing and carrying arms, One indictment is claimed against the kidnapper of Dean, United 'Tex- tile Workers Union organizer. Con- nor, American Legion leader, who has been indentified as one of the kidnappers, has not yet been served. Delegates Of Jobless Call Parley Conference August 30 to Map Big Drive for Workers’ Bill NEW YORK—To broaden the movement for the Workers Unem- ployment Insurance Bill, the Na- tional Unemployment Councils have called upon all working class organ- izations to elect delegates to a Na- tional Ararangements Committee, which will hold a preliminary meeting in New York on Aug. 30, and call a later national meeting of the full committee. The call will be directed to the General Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor, the international unions, state federa- tions of labor, central trades and la- bor bodies, independent and T.U. UL. unions, to all unemployed or- ganizations, to. the. Socialist, Com- munist. and Farmer-Labor Parties, and to organizations of women, youth, veterans and Negroes. The call by the National Unem- ployment Council proposed a na- tional action to be held in Washing- ton at the time of the opening of the next session of Congress. In preparation for this nation-wide action, all working class organiza- tions are urged to participate in the united front committee which will direct the campaign. To insure the broadest possible representation in the committee and at the action planned in Wash- ington in January, the National Unemployment Councils urge the setting up of similar committees in all principals centers at once, and for local united front conferences, demonstrations and marches based upon the local issues and demands and for the enactment of the Work- ers Unemployment Insurance Bill. Already state conferences have been held n many sectons, and plans dre under way for other united front conferences for the calling of county, state and local marches. In addition, conferences have been called by the A. F. of L. Rank and File Committee for im~ mediate action on the Workers’ Bill. Metal Workers Strike In Brooklyn Factory BROOKLYN, N. Y.—Workers in the Quantiproducts Machine Corp., 341 39th St., which is working on war dept. orders, went out on strike under the leadership of Local 301 of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union. The strike occurred when Mr. Bergman, owner of the factory, re- fused to deal with the Shop Com- mittee and the Union representa- tive, claiming that he wanted proof that they represented the men. He refused to listen to the workers’ demands. The strikers demand ten cents an hour increase in pay, time and one half overtime, division of work dur- ing slow season, and all grievances to be adjusted with the shop com- mittee and the union representative. The company is now making gun. trainers for the government. Stevedore Killed By Vigilantes West Coast Seamen Hit Blacklist as 300 are Fired from Liner PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 20.— James Conner, a union longshore- man, was shot to death and R. A. Griffin, also a union docker, was wounded here today when a band of armed men, obviously vigilantes, raided the I. L. A. hall where 35 members were meeting. The long- shoremen defended themselves against the attackers with a shower of rocks from behind hastily bar- Ticaded doors. SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 20.—Aided by officials the International Sea- men’s Union, the shipowners have unleashed a widespread campaign of blacklisting of militant seamen. When a President liner arrived in San Francisco from San ‘Pedro recently 300 union men were fired. The excuse given by the ship’s of- ficers for this was that “we have our own men here.’ The 8. S. Manina, a Matson liner on which the seamen are forced to work 12 hours a. day, docked at St, Helens, Orgeon, with several scabs aboard. The crew struck, de- manding the removal of the scabs and received the support of the Jongshoremen who came out on a sympathy strike. In a short time all the scabs were off the ship. A scab deck engineer accidently broke (Continued on Page 2) NRA Board Attempting to Foist Company Union on Minneapolis Drivers (Special to the Daily Worker) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Aug. 20.— Recognizing that the election order of the National Labor Board to de- termine who represents the truck- men is a move for a company union, drivers on strike are up in arms against it. Donaghue, Federal Conciliator, is attempting to get consent of leader- ship of local 574 to this election, so that it would look fair. The local is directing an appeal to the Central Labor Union for a two-day general strike in support of the drivers, which the C.L.U. has so far ignored. The Trotskyite leadership is fol- Jowing the old line of bargaining with the A. F. of L. bureaucracy, instead of making an appeal to the rank and file in unions and organi- zations and getting action over the heads of the A. F. of L. bureaucracy, A military order to close the market area till after election is in effect, mainly to prevent the drivers from any action during the period of preparation and holding of elec- tions. The Communist Party states that all talk and all appeals to leader- ship of C.L.U. and State Federation of Labor Convention, who are con- trolled by the political machine of the Farmer-Labor Party and strike- breaking Governor Olson, means only fooling the drivers and workers in Minneapolis and creating false hopes that by these means effective action can be secured, New York Challenges Entire | Country in $60,000 Driv . | Prepares to Raise $30,000 Before the Remaining Districts Can Matec This Amount, Committee Announces h By NEW YORK DISTRICT COMMITTEE, COMMUNIST PARTY, U.S.A. HE New York District Committee of the Communist Party hails, with great enthusiasm, the plan of the Central Com- mittee to make the Daily Worker secure. We regard the establishment of a special New York Daily Worker as of tremendous signifi- ‘cance to the New York labor movement. With the growth of the Communist Party, during this period of sharp class struggles, the plan to strengthen the of New York, to We pledge every effort to The District making use of a $60,000 and challenge the rest of the country in Socialist competition. In doing so, we shall make entire amount needed. Units and Fractions to at once place the Daily Worker drive first on their order of business, to | immediately plan and energetically push this drive, FULL ENERGY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT | throw all of their energy and en- | thusiasm into the $60,000 drive, ourselves to raise $30,000 of the be first to fulfill our half of the Committee calls upon all Party | | ll material received to date. | the | were arrested today by Manchu- Shortage _— \ Move Seen By Izvestia And Pravda Record of Negotiations Proves Aggressive Aim of Japan MOSCOW, Ang. 20. — Three more Soviet citizens employed on Chinese Eastern Railway kuo officials at the instigation of | the Japanese military. (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, July 20 (BY “Daily” is a revolutionary event of great signifi- cance. The New York District of the Party accepts and OF THE NEW YORK DAILY WORKER! DOUBLE THE CIRCULATION OF THE “DAILY” BY JANUARY! organ of the toiling masses... struggle . . New York District Committee calls whole-heartedly supports the appeal for the $60,000 So urgently needed to make the Daily Worker the agitator and ‘leader in the struggles that lie ahead. All Forces Into $60,000 Drive In celebrating the past 15 years of revolutionary . years of encouraging development for the Party of the militant working class... membership of the Party, upon the Party fractions, the trade unions and mass and language organiza- tions, upon the whole revolutionary working class their organizer, the upon the entire AMERICA? AIDING OUR ORGAN! REACH THE MASSES IN THE SHOPS, TRADE UNIONS AND MASS ORGANIZATIONS WITH THE DAILY WORKER FINANCE DRIVE! MAKE OUR “DAILY” WEAPON IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST WAR AND FASCISM! UTILIZE OUR “DAILY” AS THE RALLY- ING VOICE IN THE FIGHT FOR A SOVIET CELEBRATE THESE 15 YEARS OF COM- MUNIST LEADERSHIP AND STRUGGLE BY THE SHARPEST PARTY AND ITS OFFICIAL Be International Day of Struggle NEW YORK.—The monstrous legal murder of Sacco and Vanzetti still fresh in their memory, thou- sands of New York workers will mass in Bronx Coliseum, East 177th Street, at Tremont Avenue tomor- row night, on the seventh anni- versary of the electrocution of these two working-class heroes, to carry forward the mass fight to rescue Angelo Herndon and the Scotts- boro boys from the murderous claws of the same ruling class which sacrificed Sacco and Vanzetti on the altar of greed and exploitation. Outstanding leaders of the rev- olutionary movement will partici- pate in this commemoration meet- ing and mass welcome to Angelo Herndon, another hero of the working-class, temporarily rescued from torture and death on the no- torious Georgia chain gang. Hern- don, who will be the main speaker, will be greeted by Clarence Hath- away, editor of the Daily Worker; Harry Haywood, national secretary of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights; Ben Gold of the Needle Trades Union; Bob Minor, veteran Communist leader; Ben Davis, edi- tor of the Negro Liberator and Herndon’s defense attorney; Gil Green of the Young Communist League, and Ruby Bates, courage- ous Scottsboro defense witness who (Note:—Comrade Ordoqui, sec- ‘retary of the Cuban National Confederation of Labor, sought by the Mendieta government and the fascist bands who have sworn to murder him, from his hiding Place in Havana has sent this special message to the readers of the Daily Worker.) ; (Special to the Daily Worker) By JOAQUIN ORDOQUI Secretary, Cuban National Confeder- ation of Labor HAVANA, Aug. 20 (By Cable) — On my behalf and on behalf of the tens of thousands of workers in the Cuban National Confederation of Labor I wish to thank the Daily Worker for the splendid campaign it has carried on for my freedom, which means not only my personal! graph, radio and postal workers, |agogy of the freedom, but the struggle against the fascist bands of Wall Street who want to decapitate the revolu- tionary Cuban workers in their fight for better conditions and against American imperialism. In Cuba at the present time, we witness, on the one hand, the dis- integration of the Mendieta gov- ernment as shown by the exit of two ministers of the Menocalista faction, the struggle of the ABC agents against @he Mendieta gov- ernment, and the inability of the government to cope with the grow- ing economic and political crisis. On the other hand, we observe a new wave of militant strikes in the cen- tre of which is the workers of the communication, telephone, tele- The demands of the workers is for three months’ back pay. The widespread character of this strike is shown by the fact that the mes- senger boys and all other employees have joined the struggle. The depth of this new wave of strikes is characterized by a great sym- pathy and solidarity movement on the part of the railroad workers in clear across the island from Oriente to Pinar del Rio. The revolutionary opposition groups in the railroad trade unions are displaying great. activities to coment this solidarity with the com- munication workers and lead it into. a united and broadened strike movement. A symptomatic factor is the dem-~ trade union j eo Sacco-Vanzetti Day to| ; Hearing Ordered in Herndon Appeal; Masses to Rally in Bronx Tomorrow ANGELO HERNDON braved the hatred of the Alabama lynchers to go to Decatur, Ala., to repudiate the infamous “rape” frameup against the nine Scotts- boro boys. A torchlight parade in the Bronx will precede the meeting in the Coliseum, with thousands of work- ers marching behind the banners of their organizations to the Coliseum meeting. FS cab andy |Georgia Supreme Court! | | Puts Appeal Motion on Its Calendar ATLANTA, Ga., Aug. 20 — The Georgia State Supreme Court, sit- ting in special session, today or- dered the motion of the Interna- tional Labor Defense for a re- hearing of the appeal in the An- gelo Herndon case to be filed for the next regular session of the court some time this fall. This decision assures the defense an opportunity for a hearing on the motion to reopen the appeal on the grounds that new constitu- tional questions were raised by the Supreme Court itself in its deci- sion upholding the sentence of} Herndon to eighteen to twenty | years on a chain gang on charges | of “insurrection.” While this development is purely a technical step in court procedure, it presented an important new op- portunity to press the mass fight for Herndon’s freedom. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED NEW YORK-—A call for volun- teers to distribute important anti- fascist leaflets this morning has been issued by the City Committee Fascism, 213 Fourth Avenue, near 18th Street. Volunteers should call for the leaflets after 5 p.m. today. Spread of Strikes in Cuba Cited in Letter from Ordoqui reformist leaders [Comrade Ordoqui is a railroad worker himself]. They have declared themselves already, under the pressure of the masses, in favor of a solidarity strike, but wtih a definite aim of passing over the economic demands of the rail- road workers themselves. Their aim is to limit the strike purely to a sympathy strike, so they can call the railroad workers back, without a fight for their own demands. Parallel to this movement of solid- arity of the Cuban workers we sce the preparation of the port workers, especially of Havana, preparing for a general strike for their own de- mands, the chief of which is the re- duction of the loads. Our perspective is, with the ty- sympathy and solidarity in the port workers of the United States and of the whole Caribbean areas, a solid- arity which we always are assured of receiving from our brothers of other lands under the heels of yankee imperialism. All these strikes are findng a fertile soil among the broad popula- tion in Cuba. The petty-bourgeois are showing support to the strike movement. The gasoline consumers are protesting against the exor- bitant prices and taxes charged by the U. S. oil trusts and the Men- dieta government. They are forced to pay as high as 42 cents a gallon. The Chase National Bank gets 16 cents of every gallon sold in order to pay the interest on the graft ing up of all the ports, we will find |loans advanced to the bloody but- ‘ cher Machado. The slogan of these people is a reduction of 50 per cent in the price of gasoline. The slogan of the Communist Party of Cuba in this connection is the repudiation and cancellation of the grafting loans of the Chase Na- tional and National City Bank of New York. Facing these developments of growing struggles of the Cuban masses, the terror and the applica- tion of fascist methods, especially munist Party, have been intensified. The Communist Party is gaining wider sympathy among the armed forces, especially typified by the fact of the League Against War and/ against revolutionary trade union | leaders and members of the Com-|8 mass youth rally to support the | wireless). — Japanese impe- \rialism is preparing to seize | the Chinese Eastern Railway, owned jointly by the Soviet Union and Manchurian au- thorities, by armed force, Pravda and Izvestia, Soviet news- papers, charge. The Soviet Union has repeatedly offered to sell the railroad to the Japanese, whose armies dominate Manchuria, and the puppet govern- ment of Manchukuo, but the Jap- anese have refused the final, low offer of the Soviet Union, moving rapidly to armed ventures. TASS, official Soviet news agency, yesterday published an annihilat- ing rebuff to the Tokio disrupters on the negotiations for the sale of the CER. TASS declared the Japan-Man- churian authorities are attempting to lay responsibility upon the U. 8S. S. R. for suspension of negotiations. However, the entire world is able now to judge who really is respon- sible for this suspension, who it is who manifests an unyielding atti- tude and aggressiveness As is clear from the published TASS report, the USS.R., during the whole time of the negotiations manifested a far-going compliance, Suffice to say that while the U. 8, 8. R., during the negotiations, re- duced her demands for redemption of the C.ER. from 250,000,000 gold rubles, or 625,000,000 yen, repre- senting the real cost of the railway, to 160,000,000 yen, or about 56,000,- 000 gold rubles, the Japan-Mane churian side raised its offer of 50,- 000,000 to 120,000,000 yen, or alto- gether by 70,000,000 yen. Notwithstanding the fact that the (Continued on Page 2) Youth Rally To Back Bronx Bread Strike NEW YORK.—Daily picket lines in front of Grossfeld’s Bakery, be- tween Daly and Vyse Avenues on 180th reet, are evidenced of workers’ determination to keep bread prices down and prevent them from rising to the impossible N. R, A. code levels. Encouraged by the partial victory legalizing consumer-picketing in the decision forced by mass pressure and militancy from Judge Hopted- ter “as a safety valve in these troubled times,” the Neighborhood Committee, which is leading the fight, points out that the limitation of picketing hours is a violation of the workers’ rights and a trick which aids the bakery bosses. The committee plans to expose this and fight to legalize picketing at all hours that customers come to buy, from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. Every night hundreds of workers throng the corners and cheer the speakers of the Neighborhood Com- mittee. These rallies almost reg- ularly culminate in enthusiastic mass picket demonstrations of hundreds of workers, young and old. On Thursday, August 23, §:30 p.m, bread stvike will be held by the re- ‘cently formed Provisional Youth Section of the Neighborhood Com- mittee, Children are planning — (Qlontinued on Page 2), roller skate parades with signs and other actions, q /