The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 25, 1934, Page 1

| Court decision extends time limit for Herrden-Scottshoro Appeals — but day- to-day expenses are increased. — Only $8,868 contributed to date to $15,000 needed—Rush funds to International Labor Defense, 80 E. 11th St., N. Y. €. Daily .QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) Vol. XI, Ne. 204 <> New York, N. Y., Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at under the Act of March 8, 1879. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1934 Support Your ‘Daily by Aiding the $60,000 FINANCE DRIVE Today's Receipt’s Total to Date . $ 91.45 653.14 WEATHER: Fair, cooler (Eight Pages) Price 3 Cents USSR. 1. SENDS SHARP PROTEST TO JAPAN F ight Opened on Writ to Ban California Communist Party ® GallagherChallenges BROW DER, THOMAS EXCHANGE (The State Boston P: a arty Offices| Raided, Five are Arrested SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Aug. 24. — Leo Gallagher, famous labor attorney and candidate for the office of ‘Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on an in- dependent ticket, opened a vogorous fight here this week against the attempt of State Attorney Neil B. McAllister, who is campaigning for re-election, to obtain an in- junction in Superior Court of Sac- ramento County to restrain “the practice and teaching of Commu- nism and propagandizing by Com- munists.” Gallagher, whose candidacy for judge has the endorsement of the Communist Party, demanded that he be given notice of the time and place where the application for the injunction will be made in order that he may prove that no restrain- ing order or injunction should be granted. In a letter to the District Attor- ney, Gallagher pointed out that he was prepared to prove that the Communist Party does not believe ‘e, w teach, the doctrine of indi- vidual Yerror and expels from its membership any persons suspected of believing in or advocating any such doctrines. Gallagher further pointed out that he was prepared to prove that the Communist Party does not be- lieve in, or teach, the doctrine of sabotage and expels members from y its ranks who advocate such a || policy. ) Police Leadership of Vigilantes Proved. NEW YORK.—Concrete evidence that the police departments of Cali- fornia, working in conjunction with the Industrial Association, an or- ganization of California capitalists, are responsible for the violence and reign of terror launched on the Pacific Coast during the general strike and continuing after it had ended, This week's issue of the Nation, a liberal weekly, publishes photostat copies of documents sent by the (Continued on Page 3) Rail Workers Forced to Pay For Pensions WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 24.— The railroad companies were today directed by the Railroad Retire- ment Board to deduct 2 per cent of all employes’ earnings from the pay envelopes in the Railroad Re- tirement Act providing pensions for old employes. This act, passed by the last session of Congress, and backed by the Railroad Brother- hood unions, is far from satisfac- tory. A worker does not get a pension until he is 70 years old. The act calls for the workers Attorney Seeking Injunction Election Platform of Communist Party Is Now Available NEW YORK. — Announcing that it has secured official per- mission to conduct a tag day drive to raise $15,000 for the Communist election campaign, the New York district campaign committee yesterday announced that workers would begin box collections throughout the city this morning. Boxes have al- ready been distributed, the com- mittee said, to all sections of the Communist Party and branches of mass organizations. The permit, secured from the Department of Public Welfare, authorizes collections in stores, factories, shops, theatres, hotels, restaurants, railway stations, ferry houses and other public places, AFL Members To Protest Green’s Plan To Demand Return of Painters’ Charter at Meet Wednesday NEW YORK.—The charter re- vocation of Local 499 of the Paint- ers Brotherhood will be vigorously protested at a mass meeting of A. F, of L, members next Wednesday night at Webster Hall, 11th St. Ze Third Ave. “The declaration of the Execu- tive Council of the American Fed- eration of Labor calling for a red baiting and deportation drive within the A. F. of L. unions and the open- ing of this drive by the revocation of the charter of Local 499 of the Painters Brotherhood must call to action every A. F. of L. member,” said a statement issued by the A. F, of L. Trade Union Committee for Unemployment Insurance and Relief, under whose auspices the Wednesday conference will be held. The conference in New York will be held following the opening of the New York State Convention of the A. F. of L. in Rochester. It is expected to adopt resolutions pro- testing against Green's offcial drive on the left wing members of the unions and to demand directly from the convention the reinstatement of Local 499 of the Painters Brother- hood, Members of the Brotherhood will meet at Manhattan Lyceum Tuesday night to demand that the charter of Local 499 be restored at once. Although the revocation of the charter does not mean that the members of 499 are expelled, it is a vicious attack on the militant sec- tion of the union, inasmuch as it will break up the local and dis- izibute the members among other locals. The painters are demand- ing that the local union remains themselves to contribute 8 per cent | intact. of their pay to the fund. This means that the railroad workers, already impoverished by part time work and high cost of living, will contribute $30,000,000 to the pen- sion fund. The railroad companies give the balance. The railroad companies, however, have been contesting the constitu- tionality of the Railway Retirement Act, in the federal courts, in order to escape payment of even this meagre and inadequate pension. The Act was to go into effect on August 1, and payments of pensions 800 Striking Workers Stop Machines as Rank and File Raise Demands (Special to the Daily Worker) MILWAUKEE, Wis., Aug. 24— Picketing of the Geuder, Paeschke and Frey plant by 3800 striking workers continued to keep produc- tion at a standstill as the strike leadership began secret negotiations the bosses. to begin Feb. 1, 1935, but the court] with fight will delay payments, it is expected. The railroads plead “poverty” in spite of the fact that the net op- erating income of the Class 1 roads was $70,000,000 in the first half of this year, or 46 per cent more than the first half of last year. VOTE WALKOUT HARTFORD, Conn., Aug. 23.— Workers in the Colt Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Co. voted to strike “subject to call’ early in September unless a wage increase of 25 per cent and seniority rights are granted, ATTEND THE ‘DAILY’ PICNIC TOMORROW! The workers are striking for thirty per cent increase in wages and recognition of the union, The em- Ployers want a company union. Striking workers are dissatisfied with their leadership, which failed to call all workers of the local out on strike, The local has presented demands to the National Company which produces the same material as Geuder, Paeschke and Frey, but officials of the company are stalling. The rank and file workers are demanding a broadening of the strike committee from five to fifty, @ mass meeting of strikers, no|are settlement on promise of arbitra- tion and granting of demands be- fore returning to work, spreading of strike to the National Enameling Stamping Co., and stronger pickct lines backed by other organizations, including unemployed. These de- mands will be discussed at a meet- ing of the strikers Saturday, | between your Party and ours, it) Socialist Leader Sends! Reply to First Letter of Browder NEW YORK.—Norman Thomas, Socialist Party leader, has sent a letter to Earl Browder, general sec- retary of the Communist Party, in) answer to his recent letter suggest- | ing a discussion of the proposals made by the Communist Party for united front actions against war and fascism and on other specific issues facing the American working class. His letter follows: “Aug. 21, 1934, “T beg to acknowledge recefpt of your letter. I expect to take up the entire matter at the meeting of the N. E. C. of the Socialist Party over Labor Day. “My own personal feeling is, as I} have said many times before, that) enormously desirable as united ac- tion is against war and Fascism and for certain specific measures | cannot be achieved if your Party | still regards it as primarily a| weapon to destroy the Socialist | Party or for leadership. The basis | of a united front is good faith. This does not mean that each party may not reserve its right to criticize the other and to appeal for support for itself. It does mean that we have to keep to fair play in the way in which we fight and especially in the field in which we are cooperating. Neither you nor I would altogether | agree with Sidney Hook, though’ possibly for somewhat different rea-| sons. Nevertheless I think he made an able statement of the.case, as T see it, in a recent issue of the Mod- ern Monthly which, if I remember correctly, he called “Social Fas-: cism.” “This letter, of course, is an ex- pression of my personal point of view. Official action will have to be taken by the N. E. C. “Fraternally yours, “(Signed) NORMAN THOMAS.” Whereabouts Of Thaelmann Is Demanded NEW YORK.—“Where is Thael- mann?” the National Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism has asked in a call broadcasted through- out the country, “Since June 30th nobody has heard anything of the fate of Ernst Thaelmann and of his anti-fascist fellow prisoners,” the call continues. The appeal urges that letters, tele- grams and other protests flood the office of the Minister of Justice of Germany and Chancellor Hitler in the campaign to free the impris- oned Communist leader, who has been a prisoner of the Nazis for the last eighteen months. Among the immediate tasks for workers’ and professionals’ organ- izations here, the National Com- mittee’s statement declares, is the formation of a delegation to visit Germany and see Thaelmann and other anti-fascist prisoners. The call, in part, follows: “Since June 30th nobody has heard anything of the fate of Ernst Thaelmann and of his anti-fascist fellow prisoners. Six weeks ago an iron clutch of complete isolation has closed around the German dungeons, Nobody knows what hor- rors are stored within their blood stained walls. While hundreds of Nazis were murdered on June 30th in order to keep down rebellion in Hitlers own camp, it is feared that a wholesale slaughter of unknown dimensions took place among the 165,000 political prisoners of Ger- many. “The world is learning by mere (Continued on Page 2) AFL Locals of Miners And Carpenters Back Workers’ Social Bill NEW YORK.—Three locals of the United Mine Workers of America and one local of the Brotherhood of Carpenters are the newest A. F. of L. locals to add their names to the growing list of endorsements to the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. The U, M. W. A. locals to endorse the Workers’ Bill in the recent past : local 6147 of Besco, West Vir- ginia, Local 6106 of Meade, West Virginia, and local 2399 of Daivy- town, Penna. Carpenters Local 299 of Union City, N. J., recently en- dorsed the Workers’ Bill, adding its name to the more than two thou- sand A. F. of L, locals which have (Text of United Front Pact Signed by French Socialist and Communist Parties NEW YORK.—Following is a translation of the United Front agreement entered imto July 27, 1934, by the Communist and Socialist Parties of France, translated from “L’Humanite” of July 28. PACT OF UNITED ACTION The Central Committee of the Communist Party and the permanent administrative commission of the Socialist Party are activated by the will to crush Fascism. It is clear that this aim can only be attained by the united action of the working masses having definite objectives of struggle. The interest of the working class requires therefore that the Socialist Party and the Communist Party organize this joint action against Fascism. In the presence of the danger which Fascism represents for the laboring population, organized attempts by the armed bands against the proletariat, the Communist Party and the Socialist Party recognize the necessity of carrying out in a joint accord the action agreed upon and they hereby indicate the means and conditions: 1—The Socialist Party and the Communist Party (of France) sign a pact of united action by which they pledge to organize in common and to participate with all their resources (organizations, press, mili- tants, elected delegates, etc.) in a campaign throughout the country, having for its aim: a—to mobilize the working class population against the Fas- cist organizations, for their disarmament and dissolution. b—For the defense of democratic liberties, for proportional representation and the dissolution of Parliament. c—Against war preparations, d—Against the decree-laws. e—Against the Fascist terror in Germany and Austria; for the freedom of Ernst Thaelman and Karl Seitz, and all other anti-fascist prisoners. 2—This campaign will be carried out by means of joint meetings ‘in the greatest possible number of localities and enterprises, by means of demonstrations and open-air counter mass-demonstrations, thus assuring the self-defense of workers’ meetings, demonstrations, organ- izations and their militants; and always watching that the psycho- logical, material and moral conditions are so combined as to give them maximum scope and force. The campaign against the decree-laws will be conducted with the same means (meetings and demonstrations), but also applying the methods of agitation and organization suitable to the realization of a broad action of struggle against the decree-laws. If in the course of this joint action, members of either Party come to grips with fascist adversaries, the adherents of the other Party will lend them aid and assistance. 3—In the course of this action, the two Parties shall reciprocally abstain from attacking and criticizing the organizations and militants participating loyally in this action. Second a | of Communist Leader Published NEW YORK.—Earl Browder, gen- eral secretary of the Communist Party, yesterday replied to Norman Thomas's letter of Aug. 21 as fol- lows: | “Aug. 24, 1934, “Your letter of Aug. 2lst in an- swer to ours of the 17th received and has been given careful attention, “You did not answer directly our proposal for preliminary conversa- tions directed towards removing as far as possible any obstacles there may be, to a positive decision on the part of the N. E. C. Inasmuch, how- ever, as you took this asion to give a restatement of « > of these obstacles in your letter, we assume that you prefer to accomplish through correspondence the same objective we had in mind. Although we are of the opinion that direct conversation would be more speedy} |and effective, we are prepared to do! what is possible in this direction by | the medium you choose. “You state the chief obstacle is | |the opinion of many Socialist Party leaders that the Communist Party regards united action “as primarily a weapon to destroy the Socialist Party.” This opinion is incorrect The Communist Party regards | united action as primarily a weapon | to protect the immediate needs of | the workgrs and other toiling ele- ments of the population, to defeat the attacks of the capitalists upon their living. standards and civil Tights, and to prepare the masses through their éxperiences in the struggle for the tasks involved in moving forward to greater aims. The Communist Party’s attitude to- ward other Parties and groups is de- termined by their contribution to- ward achieving these aims. In the presence of an admitted mass starv- ation, unity of a powerful united movement to compel the adoption this Winter of adequate federal unemployment and social insur- ance is a primary purpose of our proposal. ‘While of strike-breaking are being com- mitted against the working class, Nevertheless, each Party, outside of this joint action, will maintain its complete independence to carry on its propaganda, without injury and insult to the other Party, and to assure its own recruiting. As to united demonstrations, they should be exclusively devoted to the common aim and not be transformed into debates of controversy over the doctrine and the tactics of the two Parties. 4—Each Party pledges to suppress any insubordination or delin- quencies which might develop within its own organizations regarding the joint action engaged in. A coordinating committee, composed of seven delegates of each Party, will be formed in order to arrange the common plan and the character of the joint demonstrations. This Committee will have to cope with litigations or conflicts that may arise. The decisions of this Committee will be recorded in a joint report, prepared in common, and com- municated to the workers. Chicago I.W.O. Increases Quota As Drive Is Pushed For ‘Daily’s $60,000 Fund CHICAGO, Aug. 23.—Applause greeted the rejec- tion of a quota of $500 tentatively set for the Chicago In- ternational Workers Order in the $60,000 ‘Daily’ drive. A. H. Case, of the I. W. O., insisted that the organiza- tion be given a quota of $1,200, promising that even this amount would be surpassed. Socialist competition in this Daily Worker Drive will not be con- fined to the Districts in Chicago. Dupring a recent meeting, Section 4 challenged Section 1 of the Communist Party to competition to fulfill their quotas and pledged to raise sixty per cent of its quota by October 1, The section organizer of Section One replied by saying that his section would not only accept the challenge but would be first of any section in District 8 to fulfill its quota. Cleveland Section Issues Challenge Section 1, Cleveland, has challenged Youngstown and Akron. It has further decided to “set up a commission of 2 at each of the sections to meet at the time of the District Conference, to draw up a formal contract of competition. That this contract include finance quotas, Daily Worker sales, Daily Worker subs, Saturday bundle orders, as weil as points contained in the political activity connected with the 15th Anniversary of our Party.” District 5, Pittsburgh, has proposed that every unit shall set a quota of not less than $3.00 to be raised by mass meetings and house parties for the Daily Worker, “Bring Drive Into Factories” “But the task of every member of the unit,” continues the proposal, “4s to bring the Daily Worker drive into the factories and mass organi- zations. That is why only a small quota is proposed for the unit proper, but the units quota includes quotas of the local mass organization in the territory of the unit. The same applies to the section committee, namely that they shall set a minimum quota of $15.00 or more to be raised by Section Daily Worker affairs. The Galiup section, New Mexico, of District 19, has challenged the Helper, Utah, section to beat it in reaching their quotas of $75.00. The section expects to raise its quota in full by Sept. 6. In Connecticut one of the plans is to call conferences in 9 cities and | states, jarmed thugs, organized by and co- | Operating with the police, | ginning openly to appear in strikes |to carry out the earlier phases | |of Hitler’s methods. Even the cap- | | italist press no longer conceals the |war danger. | good with the use of troops in four and extra-legal bands of are be- So sharp and in- creased is the danger that every day of delay in bringing about the most powerful united struggle against this danger adds to the hazard of being engulfed by it. We regard the united front as primarily a weapon to meet this Situation, and not as anything else. A “The essence on the problem of good faith and fair play can be found in determining concretely what is necessary to fully carry out a particular action. This in turn is determined by an agreed-upon set of demands (such as we have proposed recently, but subject to mutual determination) and methods of carrying out joint actions in very concrete terms. The Communist Party is prepared for the effort to arrive at such an agreement. The; Communist Paty is prepared to demonstrate its good faith in any | agreement for a united action by the only method through which faith can be demon- strated, by carrying through the agreed upon action with all of its) energy. It is prepared to join with all other participants in such ac- tion in condemning any breach of agreement or failure to carry through the action agreed upon. The Communist Party is prepared upon the basis of agreed-upon united actions to conclude an agreement for restraining and establishing limitations upon mu- tual criticism between the co-operat- ing organizations during the course of the action. “Our immediate task of achieving united action would not be aided by entering on a discussion of the ar- ticle to which you refer, written by Sidney Hook. In this field there are certainly numerous possibilities of disagreement rather than agree- ment. We do not propose to bring the subject of this article into the discussion; we will deal with it in another place and manner. “We understand that your letter is an expression of your personal point of view. Undoubtedly, however, th’s point of view is not confined to j Yourself and will be a considerabie factor in determining the officiel ac- tion to be taken by the National Executive Commitiee. The Commu- nist. Party is prepared to carry this backed the Workers tose cabeqie| to have in each city a large affair, In other districts similar plans are in Insurance Bill, progress, \ correspondence further if you agree upon the value of it, with a view we write, colossal crimes | Holds Gove sree For Prococatiolll Election Tag Days to Raise $15,000 Begin in N.Y. Today NEW YORK.—The State and congressional election platform of the Communist Party is now available, according to an an- nouncement made yesterday by Agitprop department. It urged workers and farmers in the State to order the printed platform for distribution among a million people, | The statement declared: | “This is the platform of struggle for the immediate vital needs of the masses of workers and farm- ersy of the Negro people, the war | veterans and ex-servicemen, and the clerical and professional em- ployes.” Independent « ‘Unions Meet On Unity Plan of |Representatives 60,000 Work Toward Joint Action NEW YORK.—A preliminary con- ference of unions outside of the American Federation of Labor was held at Irving Plaza, ‘Thursday night, to consider joint action in the struggle against company unionism, for the right of all work- ers to be organized in unions of their own choice, and for mutual aid and co-operation in the struggle to secure better conditions. Seventy-five accredited delegates representing thirty-four unions were | duly seated at the conference. These | delegates represented a membership | of more than 60,000 workers. After an exchange of opinions, | | the confezence decided to set up! |a committee consisting of repre- sentatives of all the organizations to spread the movement for uniting these organizations, to plan a large jcontennnre in the near future to which all unions outside the A. F. of L. will be invited, and also to/| plan immediate joint action on some of the immediate issues con- | fronting these unions represented. | R. Page, of the Independent Smok- | ing Pipemakers’ Union, was elected | temporary secretary. Fur Code Authority Balks at Discussion of Work Conditions WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 24.— Representatives of the Fur Workers’ Industrial Union fought an all-day battle here today to compel discus- sion at the Fur Code Authority hearing of working conditions and | wages in the industry. | The new hearing on the fur code} was called under the pressure of | widespread dissatisfaction with over- time, contract work in sweatshops | and the 40-hour work week, The| Code Authority, however, sought every loophole for avoiding discus- sion of these subjects, despite the | militant insistence of Ben Gold,| Irving Potash, Joseph Winogradsky and six other representatives of the | Pur Workers’ Industrial Union. Assistant Manager Goldstein of the Joint Board of the Interna- tional Furriers’ Union, also present, joined the Code Authority in pre-| senting technical reasons for avoid- | ing a discussion of the grievances of the workers in connection with ‘the code. TOLEDO AUTO-LITE PROFITS TOLEDO, Ohio (FP). — Earnings | of the anti-labor Auto-Lite Co., of | Toledo strike fame, for the six} months ending June 30, increased | approximately 400 per cent over the| same period last year despite the strike, company officials have an- nounced. Net earnings this year were 77 cents a share of common stock as compared with 19.1 cents a share in 1933. of preparing in the most concrete | be finally officially acted upon. “We repeat our offer of direct conversations to this end. “Fraternaliy yours, “EARL BROWDER, |chukuo forces, form possible all the issues thet must | Full Text of Statement by Soviet Union Is Published (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Aug. 24 (By Wireless). — Exposing the plots and provocations of the Japanese militarists against the Soviet Union, and sharply | protesting the warlike ac- tions of the Japanese-Man- Ambassador Yureneff of the Soviet Union yes- |terday handed Foreign Minister Hirota a vigorously worded note. The full text of the Soviet note follows: “Soviet citizens, employees of ae pee ese Eastern Railw: mostly g responsible posts, have seis arr eaten on the Eastern line of the eas arrests practically deprived the Eastern line of the C. E. R. of its leading staff, and tly impeded further work of the line, which, in spite of all difficulties created by local authorities and the absense of the necessary guard, continues to function, thanks only to the heroic \efforts of the railway employees, | mainly Soviet citizens. “In order to justify these unlaw- ful and causeless arrests of Soviet employees, absurd accusations are |being fabricated that they allegedly organized attacks on Japanese mili« tary missions, bandit raids on trains, and train wrecks, perpetrated rob- beries, murders, kidnaped railway employees, and members of their families, etc. “Such accusations, whose lack of foundation is quite evident, are of- ficially supported by the Japanese War Office and representatives of the Foreign Ministry. “Not limiting themselves to arrests of employees of the C. E. R., and absurd charges against them, the | Japan-Manchurian authorities bring |the same charges against official institutions and representatives of the U S. R. Manchuria, neme- ly, agi the viet consulate and the consul himself, the Pogranich=- naya station, and also against the staff of the special Far Eastern Red Army. “The Soviet government regards these actions, which coincide with the actual break by the Manchurian side of the Tokio negotiations for the sale of the C. EB. R., as causing | disorganization in the work of the railway, and coarsely violating the U. 8. S. R. rights under the C. E. R, agreement. “The Soviet government. especially points out that the Japanese war office, in an official communique dated Aug. 17, permitted itself the | unheard-of statement that ‘orders regarding perpetration of train wrecks and raids were issued by the special Far Eastern Red Army,’ to which the Japanese War Office as= cribes the leadership of bandit de= tachments to the C. E, R. through some actually non-existent organi« zation of Soviet employees on the Cc. E.R. ‘The Japanese War Office accom= panies these assertions with state- ments of an aggressive nature against the U. S.S. R. The Jap= anese government cannot fail to un- derstand that such statements of the Japanese War Office, which late- ly become more frequent, coupled churia, are a sign of increasingly ageressive intentions of some official Japanese circles. “Regarding the Manchurian aue thorities and the Japanese governs ment to be responsible for said ac= tions, the Soviet government has instructed me to protest. “The government of the U. 8. & R. counts on the Japanese governs ment drawing all necessary conclus sions.” Food Prices Continue to Rise as Merchants_ Predict New ney NEW YORK. —Food sy have climbed considerably the past year, continued their ward trend yesterday. Officers the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company estimated that a prices have risen 13 to 25 per ce Avril. Pork loin, w os ich brought 11 cst 25 cents yesterday. | The price of ham rose from re 18 cents. Butter was quoted on the wholesale market late yet at 28 cents, an inerease over year's price of five and a half The price of eggs rose from 27. “General Secretary, C. P., U.S. A.” a dozen to its current price 34 with the aforesaid actions in Man=”~ iN : J