The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 22, 1934, Page 1

DAYS ONLY are left in which to raise 10 the $15,000 needed for the appeals of Angelo Herndon and the Scottsboro Boys. Only $3,449 of this sum has been raised Watch Tor Daily Reports of the $60,000 FINANCE DRIVE to date. Rush contributions to International Labor Befense, 80 E. lith St. New York City. See blank on page four "ij Vol XI, No. 201 <»>™, of this issue. sogtBtered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Aet of March 8, 1879, Daily,QQWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1934 WEATHER: Cloudy. Today's Receipts . Total to Date (Six Pages) Price 3 sen RALLY FOR HERNDON TONIGHT \Cleveland AFL Auto Locals Call for One Industrial Union i Homes Are Resisted Wholagle i Arrests Fok, low Clashes Between Toilers and Troops BERLIN, Aug. 21—Workers in the suburbs of Berlin today counter-attacked picked Storm Troops sent to raid their homes and ferret out those who voted against Hitler in the Sunday plebiscite. The Storm Troops were making wholesale arrests when large numbers of workers began to drive them off. Many of the arrested victims being led to Nazi headquarters were torn from the grasp of the Storm ‘Troopers. Hundreds of workers came out of their homes when they heard the commotion in the streets and joined in the fight against the Nazi jailors, PARIS, Aug. 21.— Thousands of arrests of workers and others who dared to vote “No” in the Sunday] plebiscite, tortures and sluggings of others, are taking place throughout Germany, according to a report to- day of the semi-official French news agency, Havas, from Berlin. Most of the arrests have occurred in Berlin, though homes of opposi- tion voters are being visited by Nazi gunmen throughout the country, in Hamburg, Westphalia and other places. This clearly indicates that the ballots were marked, and that the Nazi butchers have been able to trace hundreds of thousands who had the courage to express their opposition to fascism to the extent of 7,000,000. The raids, arrests and beatings follow Hitler’s threat against his opponents just before his flight to his villa in Bavaria. BERLIN, Aug. 21. — Homes of Communists and Socialists are be- ing raided by Nazi thugs, terroriz- ing and arresting workers suspected of having voted against Hitler in the Sunday plebiscite. A special at- tempt is being made to jail and torture workers who painted signs on public buildings reading: “Vote for Thaelmann!” “Down with Fas- cism!” “Vote against Hitler!” Hundreds have been hustled off to concentration camps where they undergo severe tortures. The Gestapo (State Secret Police) is especially active, third-degreeing hundreds in the torture dives of the Hitler regime in Berlin. Nazi leaders boasted that they knew the names and addresses of those who voted against Hitler, and that the majority would be visited and would feel the wrath of the Nazis. Hitler’s forces are being organ- ized to visit the homes of tens of thousands. A Nazi convention which will deal still further with the question of terrorizing and attempting to stamp out the growing anti-fascist oppo- sition will take place in Nurem- berg, September 5. In view of the new terrorist cam- paign against all those who oppose fascism the greatest fears are felt for the safety of Ernst Thaelmann, held in a Nazi dungeon. The Nazis are particularly venting their fe; ity against those who é; d their support of Thaelmann, and as the so-called “spoiled” ballots show, nearly a million voters were ad- mitted by the Nazi Ministry of Heer to have cast their votes or Thaelmann. (See editorial on page 6) i Speed Signature Drive, Workers in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia Urged PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 21—Work- ers in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia were yesterday warned that the drive to place Communist candi- dates on the state ballot in Penn- sylvania was proceeding at too slow a ce. "To insure the Communist state ticket,” declared a statement issued. by the state campaign committee, “about 10,000 signatures must be secured by Sept. 1 to place our candidates for state office on the ballot. Report at the following headquarters: “Philadelphia: 46 N. Eighth St. “Pittsburgh: 2203 Center Ave,” . In ‘Daily’ Campaign For $60,000 Fund ITH operating funds exhausted and the project for a three-edition Daily Worker announced by the Central Committee, it is abso- lutely necessary that the call for $60,000 be met with prompt and vigorous action by our readers and friends. In reducing the number of finance drives to one each year, our “Daily” and the Communist Party place themselves in a precarious position unless individuals and organizations respond immediately. Leaders and all class-conscious workers must feel a thrill of accom- plishment when they learn that the many improvements of the past year have not added to the Daily Worker’s annual deficit. Step by step our “Daily” grows in size and strength, calling ever-increasing thousands of workers to the task of establishing the United States of Soviet America. This task must and can be speeded! Our “Daily” must adapt itself to the ever-increasing tempo of class struggle. It must develop according to the needs of the working class... needs that multiply with each wage-cut, lay-off and strike, with the rise of fascism and the threat of profit-wars. . To coordinate and accelerate the raising of the $60,000 so urgently needed by our “Daily” and the Party, the Central Committee has set a@ finance drive quota for each of the twenty-six Districts. These District quotas must, in turn, be broken down into Section and Unit quotas im order to balance the responsibility for this drive and assure the participation of every Party member and class conscious worker. Each District must see that all sympathetic workers’ organizations and trade unions, as well as their individual members, perform their share of the task of meeting their quota. All funds collected by and (Continued on Page 2) Rank and File Painters Kept From Meeting NEW YORK.—The painters’ strike entered its fourth week with the strikers rejecting a compromise agreement which was offered by the Regional Labor Board and approved by the Master Painters Association. A vote was taken on the compromise plan at Mecca Temple, Monday night, Prior to the meeting the rank and file strike committee of Local 499 of the Brotherhood issued a leaflet calling on the painters to accept no agreement unless agreed on by the majority of the membership through a referendum vote. The leaflet urged the removal of Phillip Zausner, il- legal secretary of the District Coun- cil, and for the election of a broad strike committee of three rank and file members from each local. Despite the fact that members of Local 499 were not permitted to en- ter the hall, the door of which was guarded by Mike the Bum, Al. Her- man, two other unknown thugs and four police, the leaflet had its effect in influencing the voting against the N.R.A. plan. Louis Weinstock, chairman of Local 499 strike committee, who was denied admission to the Mecca Temple meeting Monday night, Pointed out that Zausner’s state- ment about destroying the Master Painters Association if it did not come to terms with the Brotherhood was an attempt on the part of Zaus- ner to hide his connection with this bosses’ organization. Prices Rise 3.7 Percent In One Week NEW YORK.—Commodity prices rose to a new high Monday, accord- ing to the Journal of Commerce index published here yesterday. The Journal of Commerce, a lead- ing Wall Street organ, puts the index figure of prices at 125.5. Prices have risen sharply even in relation to last week. The index for August 13 was 120.9, indicating an increase of 4.6 in a seven-day period, or 3.66 per cent. In the meantime the narrowing of the home market is drastically shown by the decline in retail sales volume in the last week. The vol- ume of sales, reports indicate, have fallen by ten per sent as compared with August, 1933. That the actual amount of goods sold is consider- ably less than in the same period of last year is obvious since price rises have tended to keep dollar volume up. Steel production dipped to the low point of March, 1933, the na- tional banking holiday. It is oper- ating this week at 21.3 per cent of capacity, the American Iron and Steel Institute announced. This is a decline of one point, or 4.4. per cent, from the preceding week. The high this year was 57 per cent of capacity. Bituminous coal production also declined in the week ending August 11, having a daily average of 963,000 tons as compared with 969,000 tons daily average of the preceding week. In the same week in August of last year the daily average was 1,229,- 000 tons. WORKERS IN BERLIN SUBURBS FIGHT STORM TROOPS Raids On District Quotas Set Japan Gives NationalSACCO VVANZETTI DAY New Threat Conference To U.S.S.R. War Minister Issues a Declaration Over Alleged ‘Incidents’ TOKIO, Aug. 21—General Sen- juro Hayashi, War Minister Japan, issued a provocative declara- tion against the Soviet Union, call- ing for “strong representation to Moscow” over the alleged “inci- dents” on the Chinese Eastern Railway. Considered here as a definite threat of war, General Hayashi’s statement created a sensation, and showed the great advance of the Japanese war plans for seizure of the Chinese Bastern Railway. Three more Soviet citizens were arrested yesterday on the instiga- tion of Japanese militarists by the Manchurian authorities. As a pretext for his war-like speech, General Hayashi repeated the fables of Soviet planes flying over Manchurian territory. Minor, Mother Bloor To Speak at Meeting . For Paris Delegates NEW YORK.—Robert Minor, vet- eran revolutionary leader and mem- ber of the Central Committee of Communist Party, will speak at a welcome rally given to United States delegates to the Women’s Interna- tional Congress Against War and Fascism to be held Friday evening at 7:30 o’clock in Webster Hall, 119 E. Eleventh Street. Mother Ella Reeve Bloor, chair- man of the delegation; Jessica Hen- derson, of the Women’s Interna- tional League for Peace and Free- dom; Clara Bodian, leader of the United Council of Working Class Women; and Equile McKeithen, Negro woman delegate from the Sharecroppers Union in the South, will also speak. The meeting is called by the New York Women’s Section of the Amer- ican League Against War and Fas- cism to welcome back fourteen delegates who returned last week from the Paris congress, 14.Groups Picket Cuban Consul Against Jailing Of Ordoqui and Ramirez NEW YORK.—Pickets represent- ing 14 Latin-American organizations yesterday picketed the Cuban Con- sulate, 17 Battery Place, demanding the release of Joaquin Ordoqui, sec- cretary of the Cuban National Con- federation of Labor, and Armando Ramirez, member of the New York Julio Mella Club and Communist candidate for assemblyman last year, Ramirez was arrested in Havana by the Cuban government while at- tending an illegal conference against war and fascism, A delegation transmitted demands of the picketing organizations to the Cuban Consul Miranda Que- sada, who promised to forward them to his government in Cuba. On the picket line was Ramirez’s wife and his two children. of | Decided On tion to Be Proposed at Sept. 16 Parley CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 21—A national conference of all automo- bile local unions for the establish- ment of one industrial union in the industry to take place here on Sept. 16, was decided on at a meet- ing of delegates from nine A. F. of L. auto local unions. The Fisher Body local of the A. F. of L. called the local conference of all automo- bile and auto parts locals for last Saturday. All nine A. F. of L. locals | of the city responded and sent delegates. In addition to calling a national | conference on Sept. 16, the local| conference of the Cleveland A. F. of L. auto local unions decided to} propose to the national conference the establishment of a temporary national committee to work out a complete program for a constitu- tional convention of all locals for the formation of one industrial union under rank and file control, throughout the industry. The -call.forethe national confer- ence is now being prepared and all local unions will be circularized and called upon to elect delegates to the national conference. The na- tional conference will also take up Gefinite recommendations to the national convention of the A. F. of L. which opens in San Francisco on Oct, 1, Bathrobe Strike Today Will Call 5,000 Out And Tie Up 3 Centers NEW YORK. — Five thousand workers in the bathrobe industry will strike this morning under the leadership of the Bathrobe Workers Industrial Union. The strikers will demand higher wages, shorter hours and recognition of the union. Officers of the union predict a complete tie-up in the industry in three major centers: New York City, Red Bank, N. J., and South Nor- walk, Conn. The strike will involve all shops producing robes, house dresses, pajamas and allied products. Strike headquarters have been es- tablished at Irving Plaza Hall, Man- hattan; Ideal Ballroom, 151 Knick- erbocker Ave.; Vanity Ballroom, 5218-20 Fourth Ave.; Flushing Man- sion, 1088 Flushing Ave. all in Brooklyn; and at 786 Grand Aye., Jersey City. 100 Liberals Protest West Coast Terror At Luncheon Meeting NEW YORK.— Heywood Broun, Theodore Dreiser, Angelo Herndon, A. L, Wirin, and Anna Damon yes- terday addressed a gathering of 100 prominent New York liberals who wrere guests of the American Civil Liberties Union at a luncheon in the Town Hall Club .to protest vigi- lante terror on the West Coast. Broun, in his speech called for an investigating commission to go to California. “And let’s not make it impartial,” he added. “We want a committee that will go out there years on the chain-gang. cance. against fascism and fascist lynch the ears of the lynchers: te coast!” “No more Sacco-Vanzetti Murders! Angelo Herndon, Ernst Thaelmann, smash fascist terror from coast By CHARLES KRUMBEIN New York District Organizer, Communist Party New York has a very special responsibility placed upon it in the Scottsboro-Herndon campaign. Tonight, at Bronx Coliseum, the work- ers and their sympathizers here will gather in district-wide meeting to greet Angelo Herndon, young Negro organizer of white and Negro unemployed, released from jail on $15,000 bail, still facing 18 to 20 The New York meeting to greet Herndon has international signifi- New York workers must let the ruling class know that they will permit no more Sacco-Vanzetti murders, that they will fight terror, and force the freedom of the Scotsboro boys and Angelo Herndon, and the West Coast victims. August 22, Sacco-Vanzetti Day, which has been set aside as Scotts- boro-Herndon day, must echo from New York a shout that will reach Free the Scottsboro boys, It must do more than that. It must through this meeting mobilize for greater struggle on these and other issues. meeting, raise a huge fighting fund for the International Labor Defense in its campaign to free these victims of fascist terror. It must, through this Minor’s Art To Be Shown At Banquet NEW YORK.—The works of Rob- ert Minor, veteran revolutionary leader and artist, will be exhibited at the banquet given in honor of his fiftieth birthday Thursday, Aug. 31, at Irving Plaza, Irving Pl. and 15th St. The exhibition will be arranged by John Reed Club artists. It will consist of political cartoons and drawings that made Minor famous as one of the foremost revolution- ary cartoonists in America. Delegates are being urged to ap- ply for reservations immediately at the Robert Minor Banquet Com- mittee, Room 501, 50 East 13th St. Admission is seventy-five cents. Hathaway Will Speak At Daily Worker Picnic NEW YORK.—Clarence Hatha- way, editor of the Daily Worker, will speak at the Daily Worker Pic- nic Sunday at North Beach Park, Astoria, L. I. The picnic is the first major affair in the drive for a $60,000 sustaining fund for the Daily Worker. A program including plays by the Workers Laboratory Theatre, con- cert by the Workers International Relief Band, dancing and mass singing has been arranged. Special dishes at city prices have been or- dered for the lunch and supper menus. The picnic will start at 10 a.m. determined to get the real facts.” and will last until midnight. New Union Ban Order Given in N.Y. NEW YORK. — Picketing by | unions or labor groups opposed to | the American Federation of Labor was declared illegal yesterday in an executive order issued by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia yesterday. The Police Department, it was understood, would receive orders to stop picketing by independent unions. Mayor LaGuardia’s order was is- sued in connection w#h the pick- eting of the Loew's Theatre's by the Allied Motion Picture Opera- tors Union, an independent or- ganization. The Mayor's order was construed yesterday by militant union leaders as an attempt to halt all militant trade union activity in New York and a follow-up of LaGuardia’s re- cent anti-union registration edict which was defeated by the pressure of the labor movement. at Andrew Overgaard, secretary of the Trade Union Unity Council, announced last night that a del- egation of union leaders and mem bers will appear before the Mayor in City Hail today for an explana- tion of his latest order and to de- mand the right to strike and picket. I. L, D. MEMBERS CALLED NEW YORK.—The District Com-| mittee of the International Labor Defense issued a call yesterday to! all members urging them to be at the Bronx Coliseum today at 5:30/ p.m. for special work. The Communist Party Answers the Provocations of William Green the Trade Unions. difficult problems. The workers are facing new attacks on their wages at the hands of the steel magnates, the textile barons, and talists. Does Mr. Green call upon the workers to fight these exploiters? No! He calls for a fight against the Communists. cuts? Not even Mr, Green would dare to make this charge. Every worker knows, even those who still know but little about Communism, that the Communist Party always fights for more wages, tor better conditions for the workers, ‘The bosses are making a drive to weaken the trade unions and to spread company unions. Does Mr. Green call upon the workers to make war on the bosses who force the workers into these com- Pany unions? No! He calls for a war against the trust, the auto other big capi- surance? No! Communists, who stand and who have always stood in the forefront of the fight against company unions. The workers are facing a new winter of stiffer- ing due to unemployment. upon the workers to fight for unemployment in- He calls for war on the Commu- nists, who have initiated and developed the largest Movement ever known in this country for unem- Does Mr. Green call ! STATEMENT OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE, COMMUNIST PARTY, U. S. A. _— GREEN, speaking for the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor, announces a new, determined drive against Communists in This is the answer which Mr. Green gives to the American workers who are now faced with most Ployment insurance—for the Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill, This Bill has already been en+ dorsed by thousands of A. F. of by many State Federations of Labor, and by a num- ber of International Unions affiliated with the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, including tile Workers Union at its recent convention. The bosses answer the workers’ gles with vigilante terror, deportations, arrests, club- bings, military and police brutality—in short, with Does Mr. Green call upon the workers to organize to resist this terror? No! calls upon the government to use more force, more military power against the workers. He calls for the deportation of foreign-born workers; he calls for a war against the Communists, are in the forefront of the defense campaign for fascist measures, the victims of this terror, getters See L, local unions, the Communists the United Tex- growing strug- He cratic rights of who were and ma This is a denial of the most elementary, Mr. Green, in his statement, declares it to be the intention of the Executive Council to drive out of the unions. He goes even further. He proposes to bring the government into the unions to aid in enforcing the strike-breaking Policies of the bureaucrats. He invites the gov- ernment to use the weapon of deportations against foreign-born workers who dare to oppose him. He opens the doors wide for more violent gangster at- tacks on the rank and file to block the formation of rank and file opposition groups. demo- the A. F. of L. membership. It clearly shows that Mr. Green and his colleagues aim to introduce fascist methods as the means of suppressing the growing militancy of the rank and S'S) lantinued on Pogs 2) TO SEE MASS ACTIONS ~ FOR WORKERS’ FREEDOM Constitutional Conyen-| Rally Tonight to Fight Terror, Says | Krumbein 'Torehlight Parades Will | Precede Meeting in Bronx Coliseum NEW YORK.—In a mighty mass welcome to heroic Ans gelo Herndon tonight at Bronx Coliseum, East 177th Street at Tremont Avenue, Negro and white workers and intel- lectuals will commemorate | the seventh anniversary of the death of Sacco and Vanzetti, murdered working class heroes, by raising higher the banner of struggle for | the freedom of don, the Scotts- | boro boys, Tom Mooney and other |class war prisoners in the United States, and Ernst Thaelmann and | the thousands of anti-fascist fight~ ers facing death in Nazi Germany, The meeting will be preceded by a@ giant torchlight parade through the Bronx, with thousands march< ing to the Coliseum behind the ban- jners of their o1 izations. The | parade, with two bands and a loud | speaker truck, wil at 7:30 pm, | from 161st Street and Prospect Ave., and St. Paul's Place and Third Ave., | converging at Tremont Avi id Southern Boulevard. The 174th St, Neighborhood Committee, which has been conducting the militant bread strike in the Bronx, is the latest organization to express its intention of participating in full force. Herndon, temporarily rescued |from the Georgia chain gang by the | protests and sat fices of the work- jing class in r his $15,000 beil, | will be the main speaker. He will |be greeted by working cl Clarence Hi: Daily Worl tional secretary of ¢ gipeants of Struggle for Negro Rights; Ben Davis, editor of the Negro Liberator and one of Herndon’s defense at- torneys; Gil Green, of the Young Communist League, Bob Minor and Ben Gold. Ruby Bates, key Scotts« boro witness, will be among the speakers. Nat Stevens, district secs retary of the International Labor Defense, will preside. Proceeds from the meeting will go towards expenses of the appeals of the Scottsboro boys and Herns don; $15,000 must be raised for this purpose within the next few days, the LL.D. points out. Scottsboro Mether in Chicago Today CHICAGO, Aug. 21.— Mrs, Ida Norris, _ Scottsboro mother, and David Poindexter, militant Negro leader of the unemployed, will be the main speakers at the Saccos Vanzetti commemoration demone strations in this city tomorrow at Union Park, Ogden Ave. and Ran< dolph, and at 5ist St. and Prairie Ave. Both demonstrations will be held under the auspices of the In- ternational Labor Defense and will begin at 6 p.m. Moore Speaks In Cleveland Tonight CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 21.— Cleveland workers will commemorate the death of Sacco and Vanzetti and raise anew their demand for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys and Angelo Herndon tomorrow at an ine door mass meeting at the Woode land Center, 46th and Woodland. Speakers will include Richard B, Moore, national field organizer of the International Labor Defense, and William Sandberg, of Cleveland, | | | Parade Today in Newark NEWARK, N. J., Aug. 21.—Newark workers will commemorate the death of Sacco and Vanzetti with a huge parade and demonstration tomore row for the freedom of Angelo Herndon, the Scottsboro boys and Ernst’ Thaelmann, leader of the German working class. The parade will start at Broome and West Kinney sireets at 6 p.m, and will be followed by an open< air meeting at Somerset St. and Waverly Ave. After the demonstration a bans quet will be held at 52 West St. in honor of Tom Scott, militant worker just released after serving 18 months in jail for his activities in the South River strike two years ago. The action is being held under | (Continued on Page 2)