The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 12, 1934, Page 1

While day-to-day expenses of the Herndon-Seottsboro appeal and defense mount, the half-way mark toward the $15,000 needed has been passed with 37,517 contributed to date. Rush funds te International Labor Defense, 80 E. lith St., New York City. Vol. XI, No. 219 <> x Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. under the Act of March 8, Da aily “Worker CENTRAL ORGAN COM 1879. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) SEPTEMBER 12, 1934 WEATHER: Fair ee Campaign Story Yesterday's Receipts . Total to Date Press Run Yesterday . on Page Three $ 248.64 $3,698.11 47,800 (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents STRIKERS SMASH THROUGH MILITIA LINES: 3 MORE GOVERNORS CALL ARMED FORCES | Fight Aided On Soviets In China U. S. Arms Men Gave Military Aid Against Red Armies By Marguerite Young (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 11.— Out of the Pandora's box that the Senate Arms Inquiry has turned out to be, came evidence, today, that American munitions men wined and dined a Canton General visiting the United States presumably in search of weapons to use against the Chi- nese Workers and Peasants Soviets; that the American manufacturers violated American neutrality in the Chaco, and that they “wished” for a Chinese order involving what even they considered “questionable ethics.” The main emphasis was upon di- rect, bribing of Latin-American Gov- ernment officials by the firm of Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. In this connection the testimony showed that a Mexican general now sta- tioned at his Embassy here “always wants to be taken care of.” Witnesses testified, too, that they erican ministers and Com- partment. representatives “helpful” in these mat- ing the sale and pur- © of arms and munitions to reign countries. This direct proof that imperialist governments are mere errand-boys to the business kings of munitions and other industries was glossed over by the Nye-Vandenberg Com- mittee. Silent, wistful, doing little to de- velop the facts—much less the con- clusions workers will draw from them — the Senators irresistibly called up the thought of poor little Pand? ishing she hadn't opened has, i No “inquisitor” asked the big bad munitions men how many workers their governments had sent to the slaughter for profits in the wars re- ferred to in the testimony. Particularly, no Senator connected the ‘munitions men’s activities with the present Roosevelt policies— something the call for the Second American Congress Against War and Fascism declares “policies whose only logical result is war.” The irony is that liberal pacifists, who succeed in selling the Roose- velt supporters the idea that it would be a good stunt to investi- gate munitions, now find their own position toward war exposed in their own investigation. This happened dramatically today when Amelia Earhart and Ruth Nichols, famous pilots whose liberal pacifism is constantly being touted, telegraphed the Senate Committee that they were “shocked” to find their own names in the evidence. The Misses Earhart and Nichols were named yesterday by a J. Mi- randa, munitions manufacturer, who said he was “intimately acquainted” with them and hed found them “most useful in the pursuit of busi- ness"—the business, that is, of sell- ing war machinery. Nichols protested against this the interest of peace in which I am so deeply interested,” and Miss Earhart asserted she is “emphatically opposed to all that has to do with war and the activ- ities of the munitions make However, neither flyer denied the specific statement that Miranda made—that both fly his planes and are “always willing to tell anyone how good they are.” It is common knowledge that such flyers regular- ly receive pay in the form of price reductions, etc., in return for en- dorsing planes. Miranda implied that both girl flyers were willing to give these in- dorsements to munibions - buyers. They did not deny this, Chairman Nye, of the investigat- ing committee, said today that the “munitions trade just seems to be a racket that can’t be controlled,” since neutrality laws and embargoes “mean nothing at all to these men who profit by the sale of war im- plements.’ It would seem that the Senator hadn’t heard of the Sovict Union's Lee: for total disarmament, nor f the revolutionary anti-war strug- Sie to stop munitions shipments at the piers, and so on. ELECTION RALLY TONIGHT NEW YORK.—An eleciion cam- paign rally will be held tonight at 8 o'clock at 11 West 18th Street und>r the auspices of unit. 1-D, sec- tion 1. Carl Brodsky, Communist candidate for Assembivran in the eighth district. will sneak. — Daily’ To Publish Strike Resolutions of CCCP Saturday The Saturday issue of the Daily Worker will publish the resolutions of the Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party on the Minneapolis, Toledo and San Francisco strikes. ‘The edition will also carry a reply of the Central Committee to the Socialist Party National Executive Committee's refusal to join in a united front on imme- diate, specific issues. Orders for the Satutday edition of the Daily Worker should be placed at ones Bey ts as ae vases Nazi Congress Plans Murder Of Thaelmann Parleys at | Nuremberg Seek To Prepare Swift Execution NEW YORK.—Moving pictures of Ernest Thaelmann, German working class leader facing death at the hands of the Nazis, have been smuggled out of Germany and will be shown here on Sept. 19, 20, 21 and 22 at the Twenty- eighth Street Theatre, at 28th St. and Broadway, PARIS, Sept. il—Behind-the- scenes parleys at the Nazi party congress in Nuremburc the purpose of which is to organize the swift execution of Ernst Thalemann, im- prisoned Communist leader, are now going on, the World Committee to Aid the Victims of Fascism learned here yesterday. Thaelmann has been in jail for the last nineteen months. On Sept. 4 a preliminary confer- ence of provincial leaders was held at which Goebbels, fascist minister |of propaganda, announced the tasks of the coming winter. Attacking the campaign for the freedom of Thaelmann as “the Communist In- ternational’s pivot of anti-German agitation throughout the world,” Goebbels proposed speedy measures for doing away with Thaelmann and other political prisoners. He rec- ommended to the assembly a plan of “accomplished facts.” Under no circumstances, the Nazi minister warned, were there to be long poli- tical trials involving international press discussions and comments from all sources. Fears Another Leipzig His reference to long interna tional trials, it is pointed out, was obviously to the Leipzig trial of George Dimitroff, Ernst Torgler, Basil Taneff and Blagoi Popoff, Reichstag fire defendants who were acquitted after a lengthy trial. The new “People’s Courts,” Goebbels said, could operate as quickly as military tribunals. In a discussion, Julius Streicher of Nuremberg demanded that for every new development of the Jew- ish anti-German boycott, a Jewish prisoner shall be publicly beheaded. He further recommended the con- centration on terrorism against the German working class and its lead- ers. Favor Star Chamber The general sentiment expressed in the assembly was favoring the star-chamber work of the People’s Courts with exclusion of the public and any observer, particularly with regard to the Communist leaders and the other 600 hostages whose (Continued on Page 2) LABOR CONFERENCES TO AID THE TEXTILE STRIKERS AN EDITORIAL Panis | Rally Today Flying Squadrons Surround Mill in North Carolina; In Union Sq. For Strike iN. Y. Demonstration to Call for Unity With Textile Workers NEW YORK.—Workers of New) York will demonstrate their soli-| darity with textile strikers on Union| Square today at 4.30 p. m. The heroic struggle of hundreds | of thousands off militant textile | workers has aroused the greatest | enthusiasm among New York} workers, The organized and unorganized workers of New York City realize that the textile workers’ strike in- volves the most. vital issues of the working-class—the right to organize | into unions of their own choice, decent living conditions, and hu- man treatment. The workers of New York City have always been in the forefront in support of other striking workers and have gen- erously assisted the textile workers in historic strikes in Passaic and New Bedford. The militancy of the textile workers in the present strike, their determination to win their demands regardless of the terror and ruth- less murder tactics used by the bosses and the government to crush the strike, calls for the sup- port of every worker. The labor committee, representing A. F. of L. independent, and T. U. U. L. unions, which has organized this demonstration, is confident that tens of thousands of workers will respond and that this meeting will voice its vigorous protest against the terror, against the at- tempts of the officials of the United ‘Textile Workers to sell out the strike through arbitration, and will mark the beginning of a real mass cam- paign for relief to help win the greatest strike in the history of American labor. All workers, members of the A. F. of L., T. U. U. L, independent unions, organized, and unorganized, professional and intellectual work- ers are called upon to come out in masse to show their solidarity with the militant textile workers. The speakers will include Israel Amter, Communist Party candid- date for Governor; Louis Wein- stock, Secretary of the A. F. of L, Committee for Unemployment Insurance, and left-wing leader of the recent painters’ strike; Had- dock, president of the American Telegraphists’ Association; Dave Gordon, organizer of the Paper Plate and Bag Union; John Masso, Bevelers local of the A. F. of L.; Samuel Stember, leader of the strike of the Textile Trimmers; Moe Brown, one of the leaders of the Paterson silk strike; Ben Gold, sec- retary of the N. T. W. I. U.; An- drew Overgaard, secretary of the Trade Union Unity Council and Manning Johnson. WORKERS HONOR FRANK RYAN NEW YORK.—The Irish Workers’ Club of this city has extended an invitation to all other working class, Trish and fraternal organizations to send representatives to a mass send-off tonight at 8:30 at the Irish Workers’ Club, 107 W. 107th Street, in honor of Frank Ryen, who was elected a delegate of the [Irish Workers’ Clubs of America to the Irish Republican Congress to be held in Dublin on Sept. 29. A Red Builder on every busy street corner in the country means a tremendous step toward the dictatorship of the proletariat! Solicit Subs for the “Daily” Main Demands In the Strike The textile workers, 1,000,000 strong, from Maine to Ala- || bama, are fighting for the fol- | lowing main demands as adopted by the recent convention of || United Textile Workers’ Union: || (1) Hours: Two shifts of 30 hours per week with no exemp- tions. (2) Differentials: The estab- lishment of four minimum wages: Unskilled, $13 per 30- || hour week; semi-skilled, $18 per 30-hour week; skilled, $22.50 per 30-hour week; highly skilled, $30 per 30-hour week. (3) Machine Load: The revi- sion of all work loads on the basis of reason and ordinary common sense. (4) Recognition of the Union: Reinstatement of all workers victimized because of union membership. (NOTE:—For detailed statement of wage demands for each category of workers and machine loads in each department see the Daily Worker of Tuesday, September 4.) Hosiery Mills ‘ToC lose Today In the South By Harry Raymond (Special to the Daily Worker) GREENSBORO, N. C., Sept. 11.— A flying squadron of 1,200 strikers swept through Kannapolis today in a 100-car motorcade in defiance of an official order of John Peel, U. 'T. W. U. leader, that the squadrons should be dispersed. Troops deployed across the streets to meet them were jeered as the squadron members who came from Gastonia, Salisbury, Mooresville and China Grove appeared in front of the Cannon Mills, where they urged the workers to join the strike. Preparations are being made to} strike at all High Point hosiery | plants tomorrow. Three of the) hosiery plants failed to open today, following the wounding of six pick- ets by National Guard bayonets last night. (Special to the Daily Worker) GREENSBORO, N. C., Sept. 11.— The greatest concerted effort yet attempted on the part of the forces of government and the top leaders of the A. F. of L. to break the gen- eral strike in the Southern area were made today. Military and deputized guard control was tightened in the main | mill centers in bo‘h the Carolinas, and John Peel, third vice-president of the United Textile Workers of America, followed his leader, Fran- cis J. Gorman, and in direct con- tradiction to the militant statement issued by him at the union head- quarters in Greenville, S. C., follow- ing the mass funeral at Honea Path, (Continued on Page 2) | of | convene tomorrow for | of voting financial assistance to the j ance to the United Textile Work Owners Meet With Roosevelt Board By Seymour “Waldman (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Sept. | of L., today postponed the confer- ence ‘of International A. F. of L. Union officers until the opening of the A. F. of L, National Conven- | tion in San Francisco in October. In announcing the postponement the conference, which was to the purpose textile strike, Green said that “plans have been altered so as to throw into the textile strike immediately the largest volume of support.” Gorman, who has been working here under the direct orders of Green, informed newspapermen that he was “very pleased with Mr. Green's announcement.” Since the day Green bawled him out for his 11, — Wil-| liam Green, president of the A. F.| premature statement that the In- | ternational Unions might strike in sympathy with the textile workers, | Gorman has never. strayed off the A. F. of L, reservation. “The national conference itself has not been abandoned,” said Green. “It will be held in San Francisco, instead, as a special or- der of business at the opening [Oct. 1—Ed.] of our convention. There is no doubt about the action that will be taken then.” Offers Excuse ‘The excuse Green offers for call- ing off the scheduled conference explains: “I have found that many officials of unions are about to start for San Francisco, tions of the departments of the A. F. of L. will begin next week. How- ever, much they would like to, they cannot change their plans. As a consequence, it has been decided to reach a number of organizations immediately by telephone and in in- dividual conferences in Washing- ton wherever possible. As an attempted face-saver, Green declared: “T am calling upon all national {and international unions, upon all State Federations of Labor and up- on all central bodies and trades councils to lend all possible assist at once, in advance of the Sa Francisco meeting. This strugg! igs of such immense importance that all organized labor must do every thing possible to assist in now elim- inating the abuses in the nation’s textile mills out of which this tre- mendous protest has grown. . . This strike will be won.” Newspapermen here were nearly unanimous in interpreting Green’s anti-strike-timed declaration as both a plea to employers to join the U. T. W. in their arbitration scheme and as a knife thrust at the growing sirike, ston Bureau) u— (Daily Worker WASHINGTON, D. C., Sep! A typical AF. of L, New Deal t strike settlement under the arbi tion terms of which the workers will be expected to hold the bag, today loomed as a distinct probabil- ity as some twenty cotton textile operators, led by George Sloan, president of the employers’ high- (Continued on Page 6) where conven- | [Sethaies Seek MM) AN EDI Close the Lawrence Mills! TORIAL STRIKE in the Lawrence textile mills is still lacking to make the strike 100 per cent effective in New England. The textile workers from Low ell and nearby centers showed the greatest eagerness to march in mass picket lines to pull out the Law- rence mills, But Gorman, U. T. W. strike head, cancelled the plans for these marches, which would have surely shut the mills tight. The Lawrence workers are eager to fight for better conditions. They know that the recent Lawrence Woolen Mills shut-down was really a lockout to stop the strike. This lockout must be turned an end of the killing stretch-out! Workers of Lawrence! into a strike for better wages and Your fellow textile workers call. upon you to join them in the greatest textile strike which has ever gripped the industry. wages and better conditions from the bosses! workers are weakened. United in one great 100 per cent strike, you Lawrence workers will | win your strike! ‘Workers of Lowell and other New England textile towns! let your mass marches to Lawrence be stopped by any obstacles. Your united strength, together with theirs, Divided the textile Do not Let your fellow workers in Lawrence know that you are with them, and that they belong with you. Organize Carry bauners, shout slogans, @ mass march on Lawrence! and organize mass picketing! Win the Lawrence workers for the strike! This is essential to win your strike! cent! Shut New England 100 per Six Injured. As 1,000 Picket’ Lancaster Mill! (Special to the D: Worker) LANCASTER, Pa., Sept. 11.—A flying squadron from Lebanon and Reading, comprising more than 300 into town at 6j workers, stormed a. m. today. Picketing at the Stehli Silk Mill began at once, The major- ity of the Lancaster police force and State troopers were called out as the pickets grew to 1,000. When the police tried to break up the picketing, a fight began in which seven workers were arrested, Pat Quinland, United Textile Work-* ers organizer, included, and seven others injured by State police, who were brought in despite Pinchot’s promise not to use them to break up picketing. The plant was still going with 50 percent of the force of yesterday. close the Stehli mill. At a strike meeting last night, Harry Davis, in behalf of the Work- ers Protective Association, presented $2.18 collection. Later he went out- side and sold ‘Dailies’ to strikers, who were glad to get them. The trial of fourteen textile work- (Continued on Page 6) Y. C. L. TEXTILE MEETING NEW YORK.—The Sec-' retariat of the Young Communist League yesterday called all YC. L.; members in the textile industry to a meeting at 8 o'clock tonight in the Workers Center, 50 East 13th Street, Room 205. The call was addressed to members in the silk, hosiery, trimming, cotton and all other branches of the industry. Shops Shut as Keller Balks In Paterson (Special to the Daily Worker) PATERSON, N. J., Sept. 11.— Silk workers here have already been on strike a week, and still the dyers have not been called out. The only reply that Eli Keller, A. F. of S. W. official, gives the workers is that they are having a conference. Silk and dye workers alike, who are tired of hearing Keller talk about conferences, are demanding that the dye shops be closed down ;immediately. They realize that a complete victory cannot be won in Paterson unless every shop—brcad silk, jacquard, throwing plants—are all shut down. Five silk shops were closed this morning by a militant flying squad- ron organized by young silk work- fers and aided by Paterson members ; Attempts will be made today to} of the Young Communist League. Another squadron picketed the large jacquard plant of John Hand & Co. for several hours. The strikers were ‘told that this plant would close to- | night. | A rank and file committee of 15, jelected at an opposition meeting Monday night, is going to a m ing of Paterson jacquard isieee t to demand tha continue strik th nt the stcike be sp still open is learned today t! Peter It wa oo Horn, head of the bo: Authority, had sent a wire to Pat son manufacturers last week adv ing them, if they wanted to keep mills open, to wire the Governor of New Jersey and ask for militia, as joes been done by the Governors of North and South Carolina. will win better | and dye! | Calaned the terror against the textile strikers, heretofore confined mainly to the Southern otrike areas, spread to New England. The situa- tion is reported “increasingly tense” in the cap- italist newspapers, which means that they are now preparing “public opinion” for blocdy attacks on the workers. Rhede Island state troopers fired on pickets before the mill of the Sayles Finishing Co. at Sayles- ville, wounding three strikers with buckshot‘, frac- turing the skull of a fourth worker with a tear gas bomb, and gassing hundzcds, both strikers and iyztanders. In Connecticut state troopers attacked stvikers bofore the Powdrell-Alexander mill, clubbing and gassing hundreds of workers. Scores of militia have now been ordered out in preperation for further murderous assaults on the workers. Ip all other parts of New England state troopers lf and local police are arresting pickets, beating up workers and preparing, by means of provocation, for violent attacks on and murder of strikers. In the South, in all areas, the militia, local police, sheriffs, and armed company gunmen are following up toeir murder of ten strikers with a general reign of terror. . * * ‘HIS increasing terror against the textile strikers, ing as it does the fundamental rights of all the right to organize, to pi to hold freely, ctc- immediate solida ket places added emphasis on the it the textile y acticns wi ‘The Communist Party urges the organization of such actions on the broadest united front basis, with all militant workers, Communists, Socialists, A. F. of L. workers, taking the initiative in organizing sup- port for the strike in every locality across the 1 entire nation. Clearly, all workers, in all sections of the country, textile and non-textile, should quickly swing into action if victory for the textile workers is to be won, * . * Wwe propose LABOR CONFERENCES in every locality, conferences which will unite all workers’ organizations, trade unions, cultural and fraternal bodies, unemp!oyed organizations, co-cperatives, etc., and the local Communist and Socialist parties in joint solidar: actions Wish the strikers. Pre joint committees c2n be set un even in a day to initiate such conferences. Such LABOR CONFERENCES opinion of the Communist Party, in the concentrate their major attention on rallying the broad mass of the should, workers in solidarity ‘actions with the strikers, in protest mass meetings and demonstrations imme- diately, and in sympathetic strike actions, including @ general strike, if the brutal attacks on the textile workers continue. Such Labor Conferences should also undertake at once the organization of relief for the strikers. Food collections and collections of cash for relief purposes should be undertaken, appealing to all workers, to farmers, to small business people. The need of the strikers for relief will soon become acute. Further, such conferences should take up ex the defense te workers arrested, P- for active participation on ‘the picket lincs the The t britic o: the working class as a will be a victory for every can win only entire working class. We urge the calling of joint labor conferences everywhere to rally the masses for They worker, with our heip, with the heip of the Mass Picketing Ties Up Industry in New England; Green in Maneuver Bars Aid to Textile Strikers > Tie 8,000 at Saylesville Miil—Three Shot By Sheviffs (Special to the Daily Worker) PAWTUCKET, R. I., Sept. 11— More then 8,000 strikers and sym- pathizers were at the Saylesville mills this afternoon. Two men and one woman were shot by sheriffs. It is obvious that the | hired thugs want bloodshed, as | they shet into a peaceful crowd. Workers were still arriving Jate in the afterncon. One worker shot last ni na critical con= dition. The Governor has ordered the guardsmen to be ready. Mass picketing closed three | more mills in Pawtucket. Workers broke through police lines at Saylesville and pulicd out scabs. By Carl Reeve (Special to the Daily Worker) LOWELL, Mass., Sept. | first Lawrence textile wo: |the general strike wi situation. W. U. has called on the work entered the The bBo 3 of this plant to strike in a solid united front regardless of union affiliation and to picket this and other mills, Mill Owners Push Terro:. The mill owners took steps for more aggress further jthree N jcalled out tr ee in Governor rs A Rhode Island; Governor Barr, Dem- ocrat just re-elected in Maine, and Lieutenant Governor R. C. Wilcox of Connecticut, called out compan- ies of National Guard troops at some key mills in these three states, The Arligton Mill in Lawrence was heavily patrolled by police yes- terday and this morning Postponed Marches Last Week t the Duck Plant in Lawrence y U police ae Lawrence not to p y mills not on strike. These U. T. W. organizers last week postponed marches which the workers were organizing on Lawrence. Now the Lawrence city government is forced to agree to the picketing because a strike # actually on at the Duck Mills. In addition to the National Guard called, mill owners con- tinued to deputi ee cm WN to and else- Biedenkapp in Lawrence Fred Biedenkapp, leader of the 1931 textile strike. speaks at @ “}mass meeting of the N. T. W. U. in Lawrence tomorrow at 7:30 p.m, at the Italy Grand Hall, 109 Oak St. The T. W. U,, in calling this meeting, urged’ Lawrence workers to strike for the 30-hour looms and increased wages, less and reduced machine load, week, work= ers to 36 urges them ‘organize strike committees in your mill. Now is the time for united action of all Lawrence workers. For united ac- tion to win the workers demands.” Protective Head Calls Police In Lowell today the president of the Textile Workers Protective Union (independent), Edward Cote, made another of his vicious daily j attacks on mi it workers (He one of inted in Ioafies i the Commu- so far in his sicol- m tactics as calling upon the Lovet police and asking them to immediate solidarity action | (Continued on Page 2) > ssiaiibesias a rine