The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 23, 1934, Page 1

DAYS ONLY are left in which to raise 9 the $15,000 needed for the appeais of Angelo Herndon and the Scottsboro Boys. Only $3,662 of this sum has been raised te date. Rush contributions to International : Ww atch for ‘Daily Reports of the $60,000 FINANCE DRIVE Today's Receipts | i \ { Labor Defense, 90 E. llth St., New York City. fice blank on page four Vol. XI, No. of this issue, Entered as second-class matter at the Daily .QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1934 Post Office at 202 << xew York, N.Y, under the Act of March 8, 1879. WEATHER: Fair, cooler. Total to Date . x Pages) Price 3 Cents ‘CALIFORNIA SEEKS TO BAN C.P. AND LL.D. > | Picketing Closes All Projects Mitwniilian inal Deeatur Scenes of County- Wide Actions MILWAUKEE, Wis., Aug. 22.—Three hundred striking! relief workers stormed a South Side FERA project here today in an effort to stop twenty-five scabs from work- ing and to completely close} all the relief jobs. Scores of police arrived and slugged the strikers, arresting one. Pickets surrounded all the large F.ER.A. projects throughout the county. In West Allis the Common Council was forced to vote tem- porary suspension on all F.E.R.A. projects for the duration of the strike. Meanwhile, State F.E.R.A. Direc- tor William L. Coffey announced that the state quota for Wisconsin would” be doubled, adding 30,000 unemployed to the work relief lists. The order to increase the number on the work relief jobs was author- ized by Howard O. Hunter, regional director of the relief administration, it was announced. | i | | i] | Worker Midwest Bureau) CHii ICAO, Aug. 22.—Incomplete reports reaching Chicago indicate the development of a relief work- ers’ strike into a general strike in Decatur, Ill, About 1,000 workers on government relief projects struck Monday and conducted militant pic- keting, led by a united front com- mittee, in which the Unemploy- ment Council is a strong factor. Saturday, wires from Decatur stated that a general strike situation ex- isted. Organized by both organized and unorganized workers on _ various projects, the United Front Strike Committee called the orginal strike Monday, Aug. 13, to force the fol- lowing demands: 1—One hundred and_ twenty hours & month work at a minimum ef 65 cents per hour for common (Continued on Page 2) Leader of Farmers Is Kidnapped (Special to the Daily Worker) LUDINGTON, Mich., Aug. 22.— George Casper, an officer of the Michigan Farmers’ League, was kid- napped last night at a farmers’ meeting at the Custer Town Hall by a lynch mob, apparently organ- ized by the Roach Canning Co., of Scottsville, The farmers were demanding higher prices from the company for beans and pickles. No news has been received of the whereabouts of Casper since he was taken from the meeting. The farm- ers have protested to Sheriff G. Col- liers of Mason County and Attorney General P. O’Brien, at Mich., demanding that Casper be returned safely and that the kid- nappers be prosecuted. Metal Miners Name Militant Candidate For Union President SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug. 22—The delegates to the national convention of the International Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union (A. F. of L.) succeeded in nominating a rank and file delegate minated Robbert Brown of Butte, Monians: A referendum vote will be taken during the September of the local unions. All members of the union are urged to vote for Robbert Brown of Butte, Mont. Another Brown, the present presi- dent, Brown is running for re- election, and another reactionary named Peterson is also a candidate. A Red Builder on every busy pigeon leas ee blather Sictetectttp, of tha poesseneasi First Daily Worker Picnic in Fund Drive Is Set for Sunday NEW YORK.—With Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, as the speaker, the first major affair of the New York District of the Communist Party for the benefit of the Daily Worker $60,000 Campaign, will take place next Sunday at the North Beach Picnic Park, Astoria, Queens. A program of sports, dancing, concert and a performance by the Workers Laboratory group has also been arranged. ‘The picnic is a part of the So- cialist committee which is being participated in. by districts throughout the country in the efforts of each to be the first to reach the quota set in the drive. Tickets are 26c. The grounds can be reached by LR.T., BMT. and Second Ave. Elevated to Dit- mars Ave. and from there by bus. Truck Drivers’ Strike Ended By N.R.A. Pact Scabs'To Get Preference In Election Called By Labor Board (Special to the Daily Worker) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Aug. 22. —The strike of the Minneapolis truck drivers has been called off. The new proposals of the federal mediators and the employers were accepted by the leaders of truck drivers local 574. The agreement calls for a wage scale of fifty cents for the truck drivers and forty cents for the helpers. This scale is to stand until arbitration by the N.R.A, arbitration board. The agree- ment was proposed by P, A. Donoghue of the National Labor Relations Board. An election will be held, accord- ing to the agreement, under the supervision of the Regional Labor Board, to determine the rights of local unfon 574 to represent the drivers. Ths election will allow those who remained on the job and have been scabbing, to vote. It will mean the blacklisting of the most militant strikers. The employers are trying to establish a form of company union through this elec~ tion. The Trotskyite leaders of local union 574 spoke for two hours to induce the strikers to accept this shameful settlement, After staging a show by calling on the Central Labor Uinon and the State A, F. of L. convention for a two-day pro- test general strike, which was de- nied by these bodies, the Trotsky- ites delivered the final blow to the truckers’ strike. They did not even attempt to broaden the strike by appealing directly to the rank and file of the union, for strike, over the heads of the A. F. of L. bureau- racy. Communist Candidates In Pennsylvania Face Danger of Elimination PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Aug. 22.— With the deadline for filing nom- inating petitions fixed at Sept. 1, less than 50 per cent of the re- quired ten thousand names have been submitted to the State cam- paign committee of the Commu- nist Party, it was announced to- day. Plans for meeting this emer- gency will be mapped at a city- wide meeting of Communist Party members tomorrow night at 8 o'clock at 1208 Tasker fitreet. sive effort to put the signature drive over the top. Petitions should be obtained at once from local election campaign headquarters and circulated, 20,000 New Readers by Sept. Ist.! Earn Expenses Selling the “Daily” 4,000 Quit In Bathrobe Factories Strike Ties Up Three Centers of Industry In Three States NEW YORK.—Four thousand workers of the bathrobe industry walked out on strike yesterday in New York, New Jersey and Con- necticut under the leadership of the Bathrobe Workers Industrial Union. From the Manhattan strike headquarters at Irving Plaza Hall, Irving Place and 16th Street, it was announced that workers from 64 shops, six of which were pre- viously unorganized, had registered early in the day. ‘The strikers are demanding in- creased wages, shorter hours and recognition of the union, on Wien NORWALK, Conn, Aug. 22.— Thirteen members of the Bathrobe Workers Industrial Union were ar- rested here today and booked on “breach of the peace charges” when they went to Royal Robes Inc. mill to call the workers out on. strike. When policemen failed to drive the organizers from the area of the plant, reserves were called and 13, mostly women, were arrested: They went off in the patrol wagon singing working class songs. In the jail the workers sang so loud that city employes ceased work. Among those arrested was Frank Baldino, union organizer. ec Poh Tw RED BANK, N. J., Aug. 2— Dominick Mantel and Ralph Vacca, organizers for the Bathrobe Work- ers Industrial Union, were ar- rested here and fined $25 for “dis- turbing the peace” when they called on workers to join the gen- eral bathrobe strike. Freedom For 2 Fuss Of Nazis Sought Here NEW YORK.—Hearing on the ‘writ of habeas corpus in the case of Friedrich Beyerbach, refugee’ from Nazi Germany, has been postponed until Tuesday, Aug. 28, the Committee for Protection of Foreign Born announced yesterday. At the same time it revealed that Nazmi Jamiel, anti-fascist worker arrested while picketing the Ger- man consulate at a “Free Thael- mann” demonstration on July 14, hhas been ordered deported by the immigration authorities. Irving Schwab, attorney for the committee, who is representing Beyerbach, plans to see the Labor Department in Washington to re- quest right of asylum for Beyer- bach as a political refugee. The committee is fighting for the free- dom of both anti-Nazi workers. Bloor To Describe Paris Anti- Fascist Struggle Tomorrow NEW YORK.—How the anti- fascist forces, many of whose number are recent refugees from Nazi Germany, are working in Paris, will be related by “Mother” Ella Reeve Bloor, veteran Amer- ican revolutionary leader recent- ly returned from the Interna- tional Women’s Anti-War Con- gress in France, at a meeting of the delegates at the Webster Hall, 119 E. 11th St., tomorrow night, Others who will speak at the meeting will be Robert Minor, member of the Central Commit- tee of the Communist Party, Jessica Henderson, of the Wo- man’s International League for Peace and Freedom; Clara Bo- |) dian, secretary of the United | Council of Workingclass House- wives; and Equile McKeithon, Negro woman delegate of the Alabama Sharecroppers’ Union. Youth Groups. for Thaelmann Young Workers to Mass At Consulate At Call of Y.C.L. NEW YORK.—Hundreds of young workers and students are expected to rally today at noon before the German Consulate, 17 Battery Place, in a mass picket line, to demand the freedom of Ernst Thaelmann, Ger- man Communist leader, imprisoned | by the Hitler regime. The picketing | has been undertaken under the ini- tiative of the New York District of the Young Communist League. “The fact that International | Youth Day, September 1, a day when the youth of the world dem- onstrates against war, is so close to us, adds to the importance of this picket line,” a statement of the Y.C.L. District Committee declares. “The international traditions of the day of struggle against war and fascism can receive no better in- Spiration than the fight to free Ernst Theelmann, the great Ger- man anti-fascist.” All workers and students are urged to participate in the picket- ing, the Y.C.L. statement concludes. The Thaelmann campaign and the sending of a delegation to Ger- many in order to get the facts on the fate of Thaelmann and other political prisoners, will be the main order of business at a full dele- gates’ meeting of the Anti-Nazi Federation, to be held Friday, at 8 p.m., at 168 W, 23rd St. Among the other questions to be discussed will be the election of delegates to the Second Congress Against War and Fascism, to be held in Chicago Sept. 28, 29, and 30. _ in Germany will be given. | lic opinion of the Soviet Union. | regarded otherwise than as an in-| Picket Today apanese Military C Clique P Pushes Frenzied Anti-Soviet Drive ERA WORKERS STRIKE IN 2 STATES FOR MORE PAY ® ae Incitement ‘LEADERS OF W WORKERS FACE PRISON TERMS; I. L. D. HEAD CONVICTED Acts Cited By Izvestia Soviet Paper Declares | That Japanese Jin, goists | Expose Themselves (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Aug. 22 (By 2 —A continued frenzied anti-Soviet | campaign is being pursued by the! newspapers of the Japanese mili-} tary clique in Tokyo, and still more | | by the papers these military men maintain in Manchuria. Their provocations against the Soviet Union are characterized by a total lack of restraint, and they push for breaking off of all nego- tiations, favoring the use of all kinds of threats “‘to frighten” pub- “This fact,” writes Izvestia, So- viet newspaper, today, “cannot be tensification of the aggressive in- tentions towards the Soviet Union. The Japanese frequently complain about the ‘insincerity of the Soviet Side.” We have no grounds to ac- cuse the Japanese military Party of jnsincerity.’ In their ‘sincerity’ these people have reached a stage of self-exposure, Openly Threaten Seizure “Their press openly threatens war or seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railway, if the Soviet representa- tives refuse to make further con- cessions, “The difference in price de- manded by the Soviet government and the price offered by the other side is approximately equal to $10,000,000. The most zealous Jap- nese newspaper warriors threaten war over this sum, It is sufficient to mention this fact to draw the con- clusion that these people have com- pletely lost a sense of reality, and that they expose themselves before public opinion of the world better than the most cunning anti- Japanese propaganda could. “It is sufficient to mention to the masses of people of the world, to public dpinion of the world which understands what the seizure of the railway belonging to others means, what the danger of war means etc. It is sufficient to men- tion the single fact that the Jap- anese military clique menaces the most profound convulsions over $10,000,000, for all people capable of thinking to say: For the Japanese military clique the question is not $10,000,000 but of seeking a pretext (Continued on Page 2) A.F.L. Committee To Protest Green’s Drive NEW YORK.—A mass meeting to protest against William Green’s new drive against Communists in the trade unions will be held in Webster Hall on Wednesday, Aug. 29, at 6:30 p.m. under the auspices of the A. F. A report on the latest developments of L. Committee for Unemployment Insurance. ~® Two Districts Spur ‘Daily’ $60,000 Drive By Boosting Quotas The honor of etna! te the a sitet al district to send in a district con- tribution in the $60,000 drive for the Daily Worker goes to Boston! Boston has sent in $186.05! To two other districts goes the credit for being the first to an- nounce that they have increased their quotas. Cleveland has increased its quota from $3,009 to $4,000 and Phila- delphia has increased its total from $3,500 to $4,900! | “We accept the challenge of the Pittsburgh district,” Philadelphia. telegraphs | ary movement “We are sending $250 as a start!” This is a sample of the Socialist Competition that is needed if the plans for the new Daily Worker are to be achieved! But not only must all districts fill their quotas—ALL DISTRICTS MUST TRY TO RAISE THEIR QUOTAS! * * Detroit has accepted the challenge of the Cleveland district and though it has not officially raised its quota from $3,000 it has promised to contribute $4,000 to the “Daily” fund. District 9 in Minnesota has accepted its quota of $800 and the Bus Strike Spread May Tie Up City (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, Aug. 22.— Chicago's bus strike is becoming a steadily more powerful movement with in- creased activity of pickets, brutal police attacks, and steps towards a sympathy strike by street car and elevated men. Pickets on a number of streets stoned busses and forced them to halt. However, busses still continued to run. It is reliably reported to the Daily Worker that the places of striking bus drivers are being taken by ex- Yellow Cab drivers, who have been recruited as scabs. The Yellows and the motor coaches are controlled by the same company. Under the strike breaking hand of the Regional Labor Board hearings on the strike were held iui re- sults. The bus drivers are striking for union recognition and reinstatement of fired union organizers. Rank and File Prepares for A. F. L. Convention Urges That t Militants Be. Elected To National A.F.L. Congress NEW YORK.—The policy of the militant rank and file in the Ameri- can Federation of Labor Unions for the Fifty-fourth Annual Conven- tion of the A. F. of L. was given yesterday in a statement of the A. F. of L. Trade Union Committee for Unemployment Insurance and Re- lief. The statement was prepared by the National Executive Commit- tee following its meeting in Detroit on August 11 and 12. “On Oct. 1, 1934. there will take place two important meetings of the A. F. of L. in San Francisco,” says the Rank and File Committee.\“the Fifty-fourth Convention of the A.| Nn. F. of L. and the Third A. F. of L. Rank and File Conference. The Fifty-fourth Oonvention is being called at a time when hundreds of thousands of workers are in action battling against the lowered wage standards imposed by the N.R.A. codes, and for higher wages to meet the rapidly rising living costs. The present great wave of strikes are aimed against the N.R.A. machinery against company unionism, which has come in the wake of the N.R.A., and for the right to organize and | ror. join a union of our own choice, The convention takes place in. a city which has just been the scene of a major class battle between labor and capital. Betrayals Through N.R.A. “On the eve of this convention it is clear from the records of these apse great strike wave Py ee for greater workers which will the workers in the ‘The last convention of the A. F. of L. laid down this policy of be- the statement continues, when Green backed up General Johnson’s anti-strike speech at the convention. Since that time Green and his fellow officials have followed a sae of agreeing to starvation . A. codes formulated by the They have betrayed the steel workers’ demands, and their strike on June 16, and be trayed the auto workers last April. Green signed the infamous auto pact, which instituted the merit clause and legalized the open shop. There A. F. of L. leaders accepted the lower wages in the codes for the Southern workers (the wage differ- ential, saddling particularly the Ne- gro workers with even lower wages. Green Split Workers Unable to halt the strike waves, the Green bureaucracy have headed strikes In order to betray them through deception and treach- ery, and by pzeventing sympathy strikes, thus splitting the workers’ ranks, The statement quotes J. Tobin, head of the International Teamsters Union, who declared, “This International Union will not sanction a sympathy strike, nor will it in any way, shape or manner ap- more and more government control of the unions, outlawed strikes, and agreed to N.R.A. arbitration which increased speed-up, instituted the stagger system and strengthened the company unicns, They have bar- gained away the rights of the work- ers and co-operated with the em- Ployers and the government in the prove the violation of a signed con- tract.” The statement continues, in part: “In line with these strikebreaking policies, the A. F. of L. reactionary officials must share the responsibil- ity for the defeat of many struggles, for the growth of company unions in the alarming figure of five million planned attack of the N.R.A. on the workers conditions, which was ac- companied by union smashing ter- Green and Tighe in this manner members. “Considering the interests of the employers before thos> of the work- ers, they have fought unemployment and by supporting the » Wil Hold Geen Meeting In San Francisco During Sessions Wagner-Lewis Bill now seek to cheat the workers out of real un- employment insurance at the ex- pense of the government and the bosses, as provided in the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insur- ance Bill. “Within the locals, the reactionary Officials continue their policies of expelling and suspending the unem- ployed from the locals for non-pay- ment of dues. Every semblance of trade union democracy is being sup- pressed, while gangsterism and rack- eteering to aid them in maintain- ing their power and control are rampant. “At this time when the gap be- tween the reactionaries and the rank and file is widening, and the rank and file are launching inde- pendent struggles, the A. F. of L. chiefs are preparing the ground for a purging campaign, which in line with the fascist attack on the work- ers in the West Coast will deliber- ately set out to weed out and separ- ate the militant fighters from the ranks of the A. F. of L. Already expulsions have started, reminiscent (Gentinued on Page %, Foster Hails Minor on His 50th Birthday NEW YORK.—William Z. Foster, chairman of the Communist Party, U. S. A., yesterday sent a greeting | to Robert Minor, veteran Commu- nist leader, on the latter's fiftieth birthday, which will be celebrated Aug. 31 with a banquet in Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St. The statement follows: Greetings to my good comrade and friend Bob Minor upon his 50th birthday. The great revolutionary storm that will destroy capitalism is fast brewing. Its premonitory lightnings and thunder-claps are already to be heard all over the world. Nor can the capitalists’ fascist terror or their resort to war forestall the overthrow of their ruinous regime. Faster than even we realize it the proletariat is marching on to world revolution, with the U. S. S. R. at its head. It is a time when the Communist International is rallying to its ban- ners the best fighting elements, get- ting ready for the accomplishment of the workers’ great revolutionary task. Nor are the masses in capital- ist America failing to give ample sign that they are taking to the} Same revolutionary road as the! workers in other countries. | It is a time when the Communist Party, U. S. A. is celebrating its} 15th anniversary. The name of Bob | Minor is interwoven in the history | of our Party. As a part of the Party leadership he has participated in all of the major struggles of the} American working class in this| Period. On the picket line, leading the struggles of the unemployed, championing the cause of Negro lib- eration, and fighting in the anti- imperialist struggles, Bob Minor has never faltered, in the face of danger fzom the capitalist state, and has suffered beatings, arrests and jail sentences in the cause of the work- ing class. It is very fitting, there- fore, that the 50th anniversary of Bob Minoz is celebrated together with and as a part of the 15th anni- versary of our Party. Bob Minor is of the fighting stuff necessary to give leadership to the workers in these crucial times, His life of struggle is an inspiration to the youth of our movement. May he enjoy many more years of health and service to the proletariat. Grect- ings to this veteran Communist} leader! | (Signed) WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. | A Red Builder on every busy street corner in the country means | a tremendous step toward the | building, dictatorship of the proletariat! Intense National Drive Needed To Smash State Terror (Special to the Daily Worker) SACRAMENTO, Cal,, Aug. 22, — While the cases of 26 workers charged with “vase grancy” continues here, with a committee of six defendants conducting the defense, seventeen of these face criminal syndicalism charges on six counts, with a possible sentence of from six to eig our years each | if convicted The state counts on these charges to illegalize the entire revolution- in California, as many of the prisoners are candie dates of the Communist Party in | the present election campaign, and all are functionaries in militant working class organizations, Those under indictment are Pat Chambers, Martin Wilson, Caroline Decker, Nora Conklin, Albers Hougrady, Jack Warnick, Jack Crane, Loreen Norman, Norman Mini, Fred Kirkwood, Lee Hung, A, G. Ford, Luther Mincy, W. H. Hufs : | fine, Harry J. Collentz, John Fisher, (Continued on Page 2) | and Mike Plesh. Intense Campaign Needed The Sacramento prisoners are held in two cells, fourteen in each, For two weeks they had no blankets or beds, but slept on the concrete floor. The toilet was a hole in the floor in the middle of the cell. One young Chinese boy was beaten repeatedly in an attempt to make him say he was foreign-born, whereas as a matter of fact, he was j born in the United States. He has now been taken to an insane asylum in Stockton, his nerves shattered from the torture. but those who know him, know also that he is not insane. A most intensive against this torture, and against the criminal syndicalism prosecu+ tions, on a national scale, is neces« sary, to break the terror in Sacra- mento. Protests should be addressed PE See id Merriam, Sacramento, alll campaign (Special to the Daily Worker) SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 22—A hand-picked jury of four women and eight men, several of them Political _office-holders, found Joseph Wilson, organizer of the In- ternational Labor. Defense, guilty of “vagrancy” here yesterday. Municipal Judge Frank T. Deasy, candidete for a post in the Su- perior court, gave him the max- imum sentence of six months. This conviction, following the similar one in the case of Elaine Black, I.L.D. secretary, are counted on by the state to outlaw the Inter- national Labor Defense. Both are being appealed, however, and a mass campaign is under way to force recognition of the legal status (Continued on Page 2) Navy Awards Contracts for ll Warships WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 22.— A naval construction program to put naval forces of American im- Pperialism above that of any other country was officially set into motion today with the awarding of ship building contracts for 11 wars ships costing $51,106,000. Besides the eleven to be con- structed by private firms, thirteen ether vessels in this year’s program will be built by the Navy Depart. ment at its own Navy Yards. Among the awards was one for two heavy cruisers to the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., at Kearney, N. J. These ships are to | be of 1.850 tons each and will cost $3,946,009 apiceo. The Federal Ships it_is recalled, is a sub- ary of United States Steel, in turn controlled by J. P. Morgan banks, Five other private concerns, be= side the Federal Shipbuilding, got wards, owen