The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 5, 1934, Page 1

¥ <S Close All the Shipping Halls Tomorrow! LONG the entire Atlantic Coast there is a tremen- dous sentiment among the marine workers for the clos- ing down of the boss-owned | maritime shipping halls to- morrow as the first move in the strike action. Mass strike among maritime workers on the Atlantic Coast continues to sweep on like a great tidal wave. This wave is swelling, engulfing and casting aside} and Silas | Victor Olander Blake Axtell, reactionary leaders of the International Seamen’s Union, and Joseph P. Ryan of the I.L.A., who leaped at the crack of the N.R.A. whip and decided to go into a “truce” huddle with the ship owners and call off the strike for which the men had voted. A general Atlantic Coast maritime strike is now on the order of the day. Seventeen thousand men from the ships have endorsed the call of the Joint Strike Preparations Committee to walk out for union conditions on October 8. Among these are included the entire membership of the Marine Workers Industrial Union on the Atlantic Coast, a large body of rank and file members of the I.S.U., two thousand members of the American Radio Telegraphists Association, hundreds of or- ganized and unorganized licensed officers, and on the docks there are the longshore- men affiliated with the Rank and File Action Committee of the Tmternational Longshore- men’s Association. - tn on Monday. But in the s gt into effect there is con- sidereble work to be done. The most important task confronting the maritime workers today is for them to see to it that thousands of or- ganized and unorganized sea- men and ships’ officers are rallied to the mass meetings that are being held in all At- lantic ports tonight to take up the question of closing by militant mass action all ship- ping halls and shipping shark agencies along the entire coast before Saturday night. This will be the first major step in the strike action. And coupled with this the demand must be raised for a central- ized shipping bureau in every port under the control of the rank and file seamen. A com- mittee has already been elected to lead the work of establishing these halls. The most important of these meetings will be held tonight at 7 o’clock in New York, the largest port in the world, at South and Whitehall Streets. This meeting will be the starting point for mass action which will culminate in a walkout on Monday. Abolition of the shipowner- controlled hiring halls and the setting up of centralized ship- ping bureaus—this will be the central issue of the strike. It was the central demand of the great maritime strike on the West Coast. It is the most burning problem confronting the marine workers today. The right to ship out of halls that are under the control of the men who work on the ships must be won and can be won in this strike. The first action in the great strike will commence tomor- row. Out into the streets all sea- men, all licensed officers! Close every shipping hall on the Atlantic Coast! mand a centralized ship- | was a: ping bureau! Prepare to strike October 8! sentiment | se men are all ready to| rt Dentod before the strike! Central Opera House, 67th Greet the New York Daily Worker! Sunday Night, October 7! St. & 3d Av. Vol. XI, No. 239% Step in Big Sea Strike Coast-Wide M aritime Walkout Scheduled To Start Monday NEW YORK.—Seamen under the leadership of the Joint Strike Prep- arations Committee moved yester- day to close down all shipping halls and shipping shark agencies along the entire Atlantic Coast tomorrow as the first step in the coast-wide maritime strike scheduled to begin on Monday. Mass meetings are to be held in every important ocean port in the East tonight to rally the seamen to close the halls. In New York the meeting will be held in the open air at South and Whitehall Streets at seven o'clock tonight. Similar meetings will be held in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk and other ports, Want Rank and File Control The Joint Strike Preparations Committee announced that» while acting to close the shipping halls the men will demand that central- ized shipping bureaus under the control of rank and file seamen | shall be set up in all ports and that |no men shall be hired for the ship- | ping companies outside these hails. Supporting the Joint Strike Com- mittee is the entire membership of the Marine Workers Industrial Union, the American. Radio Teleg- raphists’ Association, large sections of the rank and file of the Interna- tional Seamen’s Union, hundreds of licensed ships officers and the Rank and File Action Committee of the International Longshoremen’s Asso- ciation, Meet at Noon Today Among the imporiant meetings to be held today will be a meeting of longshoremen and seamen at 12 noon at Pier 61 on the West Side of New York where the question of joint action of seamen and long- | shoremen will be taken up. Yesterday a joint committee of licensed officers and radio operators presented their demands to the American Steamship Ownerg Asso- ciation in New York, Telegraphists Are Solid The Radio Telegraphists’ Associa- tion, with a membership of more than 2,000, through its president, Hoyt S. Haddock, demanded that dangers to crews, cargoes and pas- sengers on vessels of the American Merchant Marine be eliminated. The entrance of this strongly or- ganized union of radio officers into the maritime dispute and their 100 per cent endorsement of the strike set for Oct. 8 has aroused the en- thusiasm of the seamen along the entire coast, Warns of Danger to Life Among the demands of the radio operators are the elimination of duties other than radio operating, such as deckhand-operator, purser- operator and mate-operator. These conditions, according to Haddock, are of such importance to the gen- eral public that their continuation will most likely cost the lives of many persons in sea disasters such as the Vestris and the Morro Castle. Elimination of the twelve-hour day now in vogue on many vessels, a practice which also endangers lives at sea by preventing radio officers (Continued on Page 6) A.F.L. Chiefs Call Off Detroit Truck Strike (Special to the Daily Worker) ETROIT, Mich., Oct. 4—The A. F. of L, leaders of the Truck Drivers Union yesterday called off the strike of 2,500 truck drivers en- gaged in transporting automobiles in Detroit, Flint, and Cleveland, which started Tuesday afternoon. Al Milligan, secretary-treasurer of Local 299, said the strike had been “postponed” till Monday. Officials of the union will meet with the employers Monday morn- ing concerning the men’s demands, chief of which is increased wages in accordance with a _ standardized rate. The calling off of the strike nnounced after a previous fake announcement by the officials that nineteen of twenty-seven companies had agreed to their terms, Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. SCOTTSBOR Daily .QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Workers and Organization Delegates Greet N.Y. Daily Worker at Rally Sunday ! Contributed? APPEAL IS DENIE Milwaukee Labor Council Rejects Anti-Red Drive TO AMERICAN ATTORNEY FOR THAELMANN VISIT Nazi Courts Described | By Thompson, Member of Darrow Board By Harry Gannes NEW YORK, — Just returned from Germany, the prominent American attorney and member of the Darrow N.R.A. Review Board, William ©, Thompson, told the Daily Worker yesterday of his vain efforts to visit Ernst Thaelmann. imprisoned Communist leader. “From my interview with Presi- dent Renn of the Nazi People’s Courts, I would say this tribunal is in reality a throwback of the old Institution, determined to wipe out all opposition forces, primarily, of course, Communists,” said Mr. Thompson. Thompson told of his meeting with Dr. Emst (“Puizi”) Hanf- staengl, Hitler's chief Foreign Press agent, who came to this country for the Harvard alumni reunion last summer, : Interviewed Hanfstaengl “After arrane:ng an interview with Herr President Renn of the People’s Courts,” he said, “which was undertaken through a Herr Voigt, one of Minister of Nazi Propaganda Goebbel’s emissaries, I wrote a letter to Hanfstaengl. In that letter I told Hanfstaengl of the fact that the foreign press, par- ticularly the American and British, carried stories of the cruelty and inhumanity practiced by the Nazis against their prisoners. I advised Mr. Hanfstaengl that this impres- sion, if untrue, could be removed by permiiting a committee of inquiry consisting of representative men, to visit the camps, and giving them proper facilities to determine for themselves exactly what conditions are in the concentration camps. “Hanfstaengel never answered the letter, and claimed he never re- ceived it, though it was properly posted. The interview was arranged through my initiative, nevertheless. “He was somewhat excited and fidgety. He told me, when I out- lined my proposal to him for an impartial investigation committee that he wasn’t running a tourist agency to the concentration camps. Besides, he said, arrangements were being made to release some thou- sands of these prisoners and that this procedure would be disturbed by such a committee. “All I could get from Hanfstaeng) was an offer by his secretary to view the Nazi movie, ‘Horst Wes- sel’ which is the Nazi version of the life of the so-called poet Horst Wessel.” Mr. Thompson, a white-haired, (Continued on Page 2) 8 MADRID, Oct. 4—A call for an immediate general revolutionary strike, based on a united front of Socialists, Communists and Syndi- calists, is the answer to the nam- ing of a fascist cabinet headed by Alejandro Lerroux today. The eve of the tensest moment of the class struggle in the history of the republic finds the reacticn- ary concentration government of Spain preparing for civil war by feverish mobilization of its armed forces. Opposing the troop move- ments, the restoration of the death penalty, and the outlawing of the general strike are the widespread preparations of the workers’ organ-. izations and the revolutionary parties, concrete measures of unity, ‘United Eonsral Strike Baéas| New Fascist Cabinet in Spain and the dizecting of the mass re- sistance into channels of effective revolutionary strike action. The present attempt at a fascist coup d'etat is the climax of a whole series of provocations centering around alleged, and admittedly false, charges of preparing for an armed uprising and the storing of large quantities of ammunition by work- ers’ organizations, The leading nist Party in exposing the fascist tactics of the bourgeoisie and in rousing the Spanish masses to the necessity of waging a united war against fascism from the start is evident. from its tremendous growth (Continued on Page 2) Used to Break Georgia Strike ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 4—The At- lanta Georgian, Hearst newspaper, admitted today that the National Guard forces in this State are being used to break the strike of workers in four iron foundries of the Rome Stove and Range Company at Rome. The newspaper said under a Rome dateline that “in a secret night movement 500 State milita- men moved into this north Georgia community today to bring relief to iron mill owners whose plants have been padlocked by a bitter eleventh week strike that has paralyzed the town’s second chief industry.” Bail Reduction Denied ATLANTA, Ga. Oct. 4—A re- duction in bail was denied today by Judge G. H. Howard in the cases of Annie Mae Leathers and Leah Young, who were arrested at the Exposition Mill for picketing in the textile strike and have since been held in bail of $5,000 each on charges of “circulating insurrec- tionary literature,” the charge on which Angelo Herndon and the At- lanta six were seized. The women conducted their own defense with spirit and determina- tion, (Continued on Page 2) ‘NationalGuard, Taking the witness stand, Textile Steike:: Picket Slain By Mill Thugs (Special to the Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 4. — Workers in Bridgeport, near here, are seething with indigna’ion after an attack of bullets and gas by private thugs of the Lees Woolen Company killed Elwood Quirk and injured an undetermined number of workers, including women and children. The thugs were escorting several automobile loads of bosses and scabs from the mills through a mass picket line, and opened fire when the workers surged toward the cars, Several pickets were severely burned by tear gas, while women and children in nearby houses were overcome. Quirk was shot in the stomach while more than 100 work- ers were preparing to give him blood in an attempt to save his life. Five of the thugs were arrested and spirited out to Norristown, as strik- ers and sympathizers formed angry determined masses in the streets. This morning they appeared to at- tend the hearing in Norristown, The Lees Company refused to re- hire several of the militant strik- ers aftr th Gorman sellout, and the strike was immediately resumed. Daily picket lines have been joined by workers of other industries, ~¢ Request role of the Commu- | NEW YORK, FRIDAY, oc TOBER 5, 1934 Of Green | Re fused ‘Musicians Bus Voie to, Put Letter ‘Into Waste Basket’ (Special to ‘the Daily Worker) MILWAUKEE, Wis., after heated debate has decided to reject William Green’s letter that asked for expulsion of Communists from unions. on motion. One delegate on the floor said, | “Green’s letter sounds more like it came from the United States Cham- ber of Commerce than from the A. | F. of L.” Another delega’e as! expel known Communists ranks as Green asks, what will we do about Democrats and Repub- licans?” Other delegates defended the Communists, pointing to the activity and aid of the Communist Party in strikes. When Green’s letter was filed, one delegate stated “It's not the kind of advice we want.” The American Federation of Mu- sician’s local 8, Milwaukee, decided ‘om our to throw anti-Communist letter “into the waste baske’,” and elected a committee to answer Green in a manner that will make his hair stand up.” Ncunah Ask Support To Picket Hospital NEW YORK.—Picketing of the Tsrael Zion Hospital, 4810 Tenth Ave., Brooklyn, was resumed yes- terday by members of the Nu: and Hospital Workers League against the dismissal of two nurses | who resisted the inhumen working conditions to which they were sub- jected. Officials of the League yesterday called on all sympathetic workers in the neighborhood and in other parts of Brooklyn to join the mass picket line which will circle the hospital tomorrow and Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. Bronx Women Fight High Prices of Meat NEW YORK. — More than 1,000 workers at a meeting called by the | Upper Bronx section of the United Council of Working Class Women and the Local Action Committee | voted on Thursday to support a consumers’ strike against the high cost of chicken and meat. Yesterday dozens of meat markets were being picketed. Strike head- quarters are at 683 Allerton Ave, SPEED FUNDS TO WIPE OUT DEFICIT! Readers: Because of the dangercus!y slow pace of the present drive, the Management Committee of the Daily Worker deems it essential to give all readers the details of the paper’s income and expenditure, so they will realize how disastrous it would be if the campaign for $60,000 should fail. The great bulk of the revenue form of advertising. We don’t get of the capitalist paper comes in the it for reasons known to our readers. The “Daily” exists on the pennies gnd dimes of the working class, its only master. is insufficient to maintain life. contributions, To study the running expense: The revenue the “Daily” receives from circulation To exist it must ask for outright ‘s and income of the Daily Worker is to understand how difficult it is to put out a working class news- paper. Each week on the average the scriptions, $536; bundles, $2,083; advertising, $430. “Daily” receives this income: Total $3,050. Sub- Each week it must pay out these amounts: Composition, engrav- ing, press, paper and ink, $1,871; Editorial wages, telegrams, news services, photos, Washington Bureau, etc., $1,021—postage for National edition and circulation costs, $774—Office wages, rent, electricity, etc., $417. Total, $4,083, The difference—THE LOSS—is $1,034.20 a WEEK! Is this weekly loss or deficit In comparison to the past it is low. the deficit was $1,800 weekly. scandalously high? Yes and no! In 1932 with a four page paper In 1933, by economies, it had been cut to $900. With the increase to six pages the deficit mounted to $1,034. deficit must again be increased. The deficit is high if we realize that with an circulation it could be cut by two-thirds, With the increase to an eight-page New York paper the merzace of 10,000 In spite of the deficit, by credit and loans, the Daily Worker is able to continue publication for months, but then comes a dangerous crisis. This is the situation today. Although the Daily Worker Finance | Drive is well into its second month, less than one-quarter of the necessary $60,000 has been raised. The drive is in great danger. Are we to take this to mean that the working class will not | support its own paper? Such a meaning is impossible! Only the loyal sacrifices of the working class have enabled the Daily Worker to come _ out every day—to organize and lead the struggles of the working class | for ten years, What has been lacking in this campaign 1s the active participation of every reader of the Daily Worker, every Communist Party member, every class-conscious worker. Therefore the Daily Worker calls on its friends to act immediately in the interests of the $60,000 fund. Will you see that your unit, union, fraternal organization, collects money, holds affairs for the Daily Worker? Will you ask your shoprvates, your neighbors to con- tribute? Will you send your own contribution? The new Daily Worker will be on the streets Sunday evening. To maintain it is a paramount task facing every reader of the Daily ‘Worker, Help in the big push to the $60,000 goal! DAILY WORKER MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE, George Wishnak Hyman Colodny William Blake George Hochberg NOTE:—Another stetement by the Management Committee, show- ing in detail the additional costs of publishing the three edition “Daily” with two eight-page New York editions, will appear in tomorrow's Papen Don't miss it!—-Editor, et. 4.—Mil- | | waukee Federated Trades Council The letter was filed “If we! Hav e You Yesterday’s Receipts $ 202.79 Total to Date $12,087.84 Press Run Yesterday—46,700 WEATHER: Fair (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents SEAMEN CLOSE SHIPPING HALLS TOMORROW @ Act Is First NAZIS REFUSED PERMIT. ‘SETS EXECUTION | DATE FOR DEC. 7 Plans Are Completed || For Big Mass Rally | To Hail the ‘Daily | | NEW YORK.—Workers organization delegates to mass meeting to greet the New York Daily Worker, which will be held Sunday night at the Central Opera House, 67th St. and the | and Third Ave urged to come promptly. ‘nz for | which plans com- |} ill start at 8 o'c'oc's. will bring con- || tributions from their or- ganizations for the Daily |} || Worker $60,000 drive. Many re- quests have ady come in from workers and from workers’ groups for autographed copies |) | of the first cdition. The auto- || ') graphing will be done on the | y, editor of the James Casey, managinz editor of the pap: Charles Krumb: tive board of the Needle Trades || Workers Industrial Union, will || be the speakers. | Sellout Bared' ‘By AFL Heads By BILL DUNNE (Daily Worker Special Correspondent) | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Oct. 4.—/ The main thing that has come out of the convention of the A. F. of L. so far, after sessions now in their sixth day, is the admission forced from San Francisco and California labor officialdom that, contrary to all statements by President Green and the Executive Council, and the press of the employers, the strike of the West Coast Maritime Unions} and the general strike in San Fran- | cisco and the Bay Counties in sup- |} port of these unions, was not de- ‘eated. | Edward Vandeleur, chairma’ the San Francisco Labor Co and recently eé' the California State Federation of | Labor to the 54th Annual conyen- | tion of the A. F. of L. said in his | opening rema:ks to the convention: “San Francisco, as you know, re-! |cently has had some trouble, but I lam very proud to state to you that| |we returned our organizations to| their employment without any trouble, and that all contraciual | relations with their employers were | saved. There was never another | case of that in the history of the f |and the united strength of labor in San Francisco, of which no other city in the United States can boast.” Edward Vandeleur is by no pos- sible stretch of imagination an ac- tive advocate of the general strike jas @ main weapon of organized | labor. Vandeleur does not dare to tell the working class in the Bay Coun- \ties.and the organized workers baa the United States, pooriy rep: jsented as they are by the official | |deiegates to the 54th annual con- | vention of the A. F. of L., some-} | thing that these workers them-| selves do not believe, ie., that the} strikers and unions on the West Coast in the Maritime Trades and those involved in the general strike in the Bay Counties were defeated. Now we come to Mr. Paul Schar- renberg, Secretary of the California | State Federation of Labor and a leading light in the Interna’ional Seamen's Union. Mr, Scharrenberg stated, accord- ing to the stencgraphic record of the first day’s proceedings of the convention: “I am again happy to report | Bat ed president of | pn jWorld and it shows the solidarity | B LL.D. to Take Case of First 2 Tried to U. S. Supreme Court MONTGOMERY, Ala., Oct. 4. — The Alabama Supreme |Court, sitting in the old Con- |federate slave capital at Mont- today denied a on the appeal Decatur lynch wood Patter- two of the ro boys, and as the date for their legal murder. The Internations! Labor Defense immediately an- nounced that the fight for the lives gomery, Ala., re-hearing against the edicts against son and Claren nine innocent Sc: fixed Dec. 7, {and freedom of the boys would be taken to the U. 8S. Supreme Court, The decision of the Alabama Sus preme Court followed directly on the heels of the arrest and frame- up of two men in the South, on charges of “attempting to bribe” Victoria Price, the lene State wite ness on whose unsuppor' despite the repudiation original ccerced testimor Patterson and No re-cor ted in Judge “Sp: lahan’s court in Decatur. of The two events dovetail so neatly into each other as to completely expose the ’Frisco Strike frame-up nature of the “bribery” charges. Osmond K. Fraenkel, who han- dled the appeal to the Alabama Sus preme Court, will be assoc’ Walter H. Pollack in car: fones! to the U. S. Supre the U. S. Supreme Court, when thi world-wide mass protesis forced that court to order a new trial for for the nine Negro victims of Southern lynch courts. The I. L. D. appealed to all wok- ers, intellectuals and organizations to immediately intensify the mass fight for the safety and freedom of the boys by organizing mass meet- ings and other protest actions, and sending protest telegrams ‘and res- olutions to Gov. B, M. Miller of Alabama, President Roosevelt and the U. S. Supreme Court at Wash- | ington. Detense Claims Struck Out In a decision rendered last June °8 the Alabams Supreme Court h-d upheld the lynch verdicts of the tur court against P. and Norris, Its present rulini up- (Continued on Page 6) Only Mass Pressure Can Put C. P. on Til. Ballot CHICAGO, Ill., Oct. 4—The Il- lincis Supreme Court has refused an application for a writ of mane damus to force the governcr to lace the Communist Party on the State ballot. Court actions ar> hausted. The issue is definit to Governor Horner, whose op; tion to Communists is well known, His old stand of liberalism is come pletely discredited. “Mass pressure is the Party’s only hoped,” said A, Guss, Communist campaign manager. He urged that protests be sent to Horner and to Secretary of State Huges, Spring- field, Illinois. Tigers Win DETROIT.—The Detroit Tigers rallied behind the seven-hit pitch- ing of Lynwood “Schoolboy” Rowe, pitching ace, today and nosed out the St. Louis Cardinals in a tense 12-inning ba‘tle by the score of 3 Bill Walker was the losing More than 44,000 fans saw @ champions play. The series is now tied at one game each. The next game will be played in St. Louis tomorrow. RHE. (Gontinued on Page 2). St. Louis...011000000000-273 Detroit ....000100001001-3 70 Ni