The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 8, 1934, Page 1

| 3 Workers! Join i in Defense of Our Spanish Brothers! Demonstrate at Spanish Consulate Tomorrow Have You Contributed? Saturday's Receipis .... Total to Date ..... Press Ren Saturday 65,700 -$ 404.85 $14,018.47 = Daily QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUMIST PARTY U.5.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) NATIONAL EDITIO! Vol. XI, Ne. 241 <% New York, N. ¥., under Gntered as second-class matter at the Post Office at the Act of March 8, 1879. NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1934 (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents SEAMEN OUT ON STRIKE TODAY ) Thedaatids in Cuba Quit \ Work As General Strike Looms ‘ARMED STRUGGLE SPREADS IN SPAIN WORKERS HOLD MANY CENTERS; PEASANTS RISE United Front of Armed Toilers Endangers Fascist Regime MADRID, Oct. 7.—A fierce battle is raging in Catalonia and around Barcelona, chief city of this newly proclaimed independent republic, with the workers and peasants continu- ing the armed struggles after the capitulation of President Luis Jompanys of Catalonia to the Madrid forces, Troops and warships are being rushed to Barcelona by the Lerroux fascist regime, in a desperate ef- fort to quel? this new outbreak, af- ter they thought they had defeated the movement for an autonomous republic of Catalonia. The fighting throughout Spain grows more severe and is spreading every hour. More than 350 are re- ported dead, and the wounded num- ber between three and four thou- sand, In Asturias, the northern indus- trial and mining district of Spain, the workers are battling most furi- ously and have established and are maintaining their rule in many towns. Thirty thousand armed min- ers were reported marching toward Oviedo in an effort to join forces with the workers in this city and defeat the Fascist armed bands. Fresh fighting has broken out in Gerona, one of the Catalan prov- inces. .Fierce Fighting in Madrid In Sabadell, a city of 40,000, 20) miles from Barcelona, the workers} have seized power, and are arming all toilers against the Fascist forces. In Madrid, the fighting has been especially severe in some-.of the most strategic centers of the city. ‘Twice, armed workers described as a “veritable army” marched from five directions on the Ministry of the Interior at the Puerta del Sol, but were reported to have been beaten back. At the same time, other groups of armed workers stormed the Bank of Spain and the Ministry of War, showing a con- certed plan to seize these centers held by the reactionary government. Efforts were also made to seize the Ministry of Communications in order to cut off the Fascist govern- ment’s contact with the rest of the country and to silence the lying re- ports of Minister Lerroux. General Strike Solid The general strike is hundred per cent effective. Rail- road traffic throughout the coun- try has been stopped, and the work- ers are mobilizing their forces to prevent the shipment of Fascist armed groups. The Lerroux gov- ernment called a conference of the Jeading merchants’ association with a view to forcing the opening of all shops. The rich merchants promised to do all they could to start business going, but it is ex- pected they will fail for the second time. The growing seriousness of the armed struggle for the fate of the Fascist Lerroux regime was shown by the order to recall Spanish troops in Morocco for use against the workers and peasants. The govern- ment has not yet used the regular army in Spain, fearing that many of the soldiers will go over to the side of the workers. The Foreign Legion and other picked troops at Ceuta, Morocco. are being rushed to Barcelona, in the hope that these forces, with slighter ties with the workers and peasants, will prove more reliable thas the regular army. Catalan Troops Join Strike The troops now garrisoned in Catalonia, particularly those in Lerida, aligned themselves with the revoluticnary general strike and de- clared they would not shoot down their brothers. Greater masses of peasants are ente: the armed struggle on the side of the workers and against the Fascist government. In Andalusia} the peasants captured the town of Jaen, provincial capital, and began still one} é Demonstration to Aid Spanish Masses Called Calling especially on all members of the Socialist Party and Young People’s Socialist League to unite with them in support of the fight- ing united front of Spanish Com- munist, Socialist and Syndicalist workers of Spain, the New York District Communist Party and Young Communist League y T= day issued a call for a mass dem- onstration of all workers in front of the Spanish Consulate, Fifty- Third Street and Madison Avenue, tomorrow at 12 noon. The statement of the C. B. and Y. C. L, follows: “Forming themselves into aint solid battalions, the workers and | toiling masses of Spain are fight- | ing to prevent the re-establishment | of the fascist dictatorship. Com- munist, Socialist and Syndicalist | workers are welded into a fighting united front. In 1931, Primo de Rivera, fascist dictator of Spain, was overthrown by the revolution- | ary masses. Today, the most re- actionary forces are“ concentrating in order to set up a new fascist dictatorship that will force the workers to submit to the hunger and starvation program of the Spanish landlords and capitalists. “The workers are answering this onslaught with a revolutionary general strike, in which the united front of the Communists, Socialists and Syndicalists has been achieved. The workers are taking the only | (Continued on Page 2) Kharkoy Workers Hail The Third Anniversary Of Huge Tractor Plant KHARKOV, Oct. 7 (By wireless). | —On Oct. 1 the toilers of Kharkov celebrated the third anniversary of the opening of the Kharkov tractor plant. The workers of the plant and the young engineers have completely mastered the technique of the com- plicated manufacture of these trac- tors. Now, every six minutes a new tractor leaves the conveyor belt. Each day the factory turns out 145 tractors, producing during the three years of its existence 80,000 tractors. During nine months of this year the factory produced 31,000 trac- tors, or 40 per cent more than dur- ing the same period last year. The annual program for 1934 is already Whielinerial Trial Date Nazis tsavouse Death Verdicts As Court Speeds Case PARIS, Oct. 7. — The trial of Ernst Thaelmann, who has been in a fascist dungeon since the advent of Hitler to power, has been defi- nitely set for Oct. 15, according to a report of the Legal Commission of the International Committee for the Freedom of Thaelmann and All Anti-Fascists, just issued here. In the report it is emphasized that in spite of the numerous con- tradictory announcements coming from official Nazi sources, no state- ment has been forthcoming con- cerning the grounds for accusation or any guarantee of a free choice of a defense counsel. In connection with the emergency of the situation the Legal Com- mission is*keenty-aware that-the-so- called “People’s Court” is ever in- flicting harsher penalties as time goes on. In the last few days four executions have heen recorded. | | Ernst Torgler, who by every legal | formality has been pronounced free, is still held imprisoned. The Legal Commission voted to support, with all the means at its command, the approaching Con- ference of International Jurists, scheduled for October; its entire material wil be at the disposal of the Conference as well as of the in- ternational public. The report carried the signatures of 15 famous lawyers. Observers Will Give Eye - Witness Accounts Of Great Textile Strike Eye-witness accounts of the heroic struggle of the textile strikers will be given tomorrow night at Irving Plaza Hall, Irving Place and 15th Street by rank and file leaders and experienced observers who were in the thick of the battle in New Eng- land and elsewhere. The speakers will give their re- ports in a symposium entitled “We Saw the Textile Strike’ arranged jointly by the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prison- ers and the Committee for the Sup- port of Southern Textile Organi- zations. Among the speakers will be Ann Burlak, secrtary of the National Textile Workers Union, Carl Reeve, associate editor of the Daily Worker, Martin Russak, writer and rank and file textile organizer; Mary Heaton Vorse, Myra Page, and Walter Petras. Reeve will also speak at a meeting on the textile strike in Springfield, Mass. on Oct. Reported Hathaway Points to Additional News in Stressing Campaign By C. A. Hathaway Editor, Daily Worker Comrades: You are now reading the first issue of the Daily Worker, appear- ing today, for the first time, in three editions. This is the National Edition which you will note, though | st ‘ill a six-page paper, contains | these improvements: An added page of news on strikes and struggles, stories, new features made possible by dropping out New York City ad- vertisements and local news. Your “Daily” is today able to deal with our national concentra- tion points, with the countrywide struggles of the working class in a better fashion. The advance of the “Daily” is also marked by two edi- tions in New York which appear today in eight pages. __ This new improved “Daily” will find its way"to two opposing catips.” It will reach the strongholds of the | enemy, where each forward step |of the revolutionary movement is ; greeted with hatred and dismay. | These lines will be read in the ranks of the A. F. of L. bureaucracy | scheming the death of the seamen’s strike, by the whole company of capital’s lackeys, by the rich plun- | derers and oppressors of the masses, letting loose increasing terror | against the workers; smashing | strikes and mapping with Roose- | yelt the road to Fascism and war. The rulers will see not only the present improvements but their | promise. They know a popular | daily means a growth in circula- | tion, in power. | In the camp of the struggling | workers the new “Daily” will be | greeted with the joy that welcomes | reinforcements wherever unem- ployed masses are fighting for food and shelter, where white and black workers are struggling together and organizing into revolutionary unions for a better life, wherever the masses are battling the thinly dis- guised oppression of the Roosevelt new deal there will be a better Speed Drive Funds For the New ‘Daily’ |Mass Welfare Main Issue, Amiter States By Milton Howard “Lehman is a Wall Street banker whose firm is now coining millions {in Milk Trust investments. La- |main job is to act like a ‘friend of the people’ while he guarantees |the Wall Street bankers their $120,- }000,000 annual interest payments. |And the Socialist, Charles Solomon, promises much, but has fairly well- | Oiled connections with Tammany and Fusion, and is frightened to death of breaking any nice capi- talist laws, especially when they concern mortgage and bond pay- ments to private investors.” It is Israel Amter talking in the \office of the Communist Party Elec- tion Committee. Tall, lean, with the energy. of an old veteran in many class battles, Aniter, the Communist candidate for Governor of New York in the present elec- tion, is one of the “Old Guard” that had the historic honor of the United States, the American Talking to him in the office of the Election Campaign Committee | on the issues and plans for the | | coming elections, I thought of him | as I first saw him on a windy day | lin March, 1930, when I was one of and Bob Minor and William Z. Fos- ter launch the Communist Party fight for unemployment insurance and cash relief. It wasn’t so “fashionable” then to talk about unemployment insur- ance. The bright professors and economists of the capitalists, the liberals and the “theoreticians” of the Socialist Party were still dream- ing of a quick emergence from what they still call hopefully, the “depression.” It was then that I saw the New York police smash into the ranks fighting spirit. | We have the three-edition im- | proved “Daily.” Let it not die in its cradle | Workers know the improved | “Daily” will add greatly to the def- icit, already $1,000 a week. They | mus‘ know, too, that only the suc- | cessful raising of the $60,000 fund will rescue the “Daily” present financial entanglement and make possible its continued publica- tion. The three-edition paper is being started even though the returns in| the $60,000 drive, so far, do not | t warrant if. It is being published | s because of the faith of the Daily | Worker in its class-conscious read- | ers. The movement has failed thus far from its | 26 for the Daily fulfilled 77 per cent. owners, and to the N.R.A.: SEAMEN ments, and the 44-hour week. hours in all departments. manning scale. For centralized shipping bureau: elected committees of seamen, born workers. Recognition of the Ship Commit of the workers’ choosing. LONGSHOREMEN (Continued on Page 2) a half for overtime. To All Scamen and Licensed Officers, Greetings: The day has arrived. The strike of all seamen and licensed officers sailing to and from the At- lantic and Gulf ports, goes into effect TODAY— October 8. The following are the demands which have been worked out by the men and presented to the ship- For the eight-hour day on all ships and depart- Seventy-five cents an hour overtime after eight Fer 33 per cent increase in present U.S.S.B. Against discrimination of Negro and foreign- One dollar an hour; six-hour day. Time and Worker. of longshoremen, sentatives of the Don’t be misi is controlled by The strike is ON. (Cniy the tees and unions as we have had Nineteen twenty-nine working conditions. Control of hiring halls by elected committees LICENSED OFFICERS Licensed officers have also drafted their demands and presented them to the shipowners through the joint strike commitiee. The shipowners were given due notice that un- less these demands are granted before October 8, the STRIKE WILL BE DECLARED. The ship- owners have failed to give an answer to these de- mands or to even meet with the duly elected repre- LS.U. officials, with the shipewners, who declare that the strike is called off! out by the men ean call off the strike.) The 1S.U. truce offers the seamen nothing ex- cept more promises and more investigations such already resulted in the auto, steel and textile work- (Continued on Page 2) CALL OF THE JOINT workers. led by the truce declared by the not called off. THE STRIKE IS granting of the demands worked for a long time, and which have ers being betrayed. of the jobless with swinging clubs and blackjacks, meking a rush for | Amter, Miror and Foster, Amter, together with Minor, Fos- ter and Harry Raymond. spent six jmonths in the hideous Welfare Island jail for this “crime” of de- manding food and adequate pro- tection for the starving workers and their families. “Yes,” he says slowly and earn- estly, “it was we Communists who first flung boldly into the teeth of the Wall Street bankers the de- |mand that they cough up some of | their yctten profits to feed the tarving families of the werkers. My jrunning for governor of New York |Guardia is a slick demagogue whose | founding the Communist Party of | section of the world party of Lenin. | |a huge crowd of thousands who had | |packed Union Square to hear him | S to ppage | Complete In Santiago |Communication Lines | Deserted — On Busses Stopped HAVANA, Oct. 7.—Aithough the} nation-wide general strike called by | the Communist Party of Cuba and} the National Confederation of Cuba |was scheduled for midnight, tens of | jthousands are already out through-| jout the island. i The stoppage is complete in San- tiago. Telephone and telegraph lines are deserted and bus line: in the interior are paralyzed. spite of the troops pa ae the | streets, soldiers who attempt to run} the street cars are treated as scabs by the workers. All sugar centrals in Guantanamo region and the Central Gomez Mena are out on strike. Pressure among the masses for a| general strike is so great that the) reactionary leaders of power and} light, street cars and water supply workers have been forced to de-| | clare for stoppage. The striking of the Havana Port workers, as well as the workers ‘n j all public ut transportation | and newspaper: | Since the masses see in the general strike a blow at the government, | | popular enthusiasm is growing to| revolutionary proportions. In} \Italian Youth Carry on |Fight Against Fascism and War Preparations, ees Sel | MILAN, Italy, Oct. 7.— While | Mussolini has just declared pre- conscription training to be a duty, }even for children of eight years of age, the Italian werking youth is! | carrying on a determined struggle, | by means of numerous spontaneous | actions, against this method of} preparations for war. A few examples of such resistance, taking place recently, may be given: In a town in Lombardy the officers | of the militia gave an address to) | 140 participants in the military a | liminary instruction courses, | \ecalled upon them to join the al | cist youth organization. Only three | young men responded. | | In Padua hte whole of the partic- | |ipants in the course of preli minary | military training refused to join whet | Fascist Youth. | | In Turin the participants in the} | preliminary military training made | @ unanimous demonstration, forcing | | the authorities to accede to their| demand for free underwear. In an-| other town the young men under-| going this training refused to march | to a distant drill ground, and then} arrived there by agreement one hour | too late. Their protest ended in| their being allotted a nearer drill) | ground. In another place the y youth | WIR to Ope SHIPS IN COAST AND GULF PORTS n Marine Sirike Feeding Halls Feeding centers for striking mari- ZS time workers will be opened at four ints along the New York water- | front this morning by the Workers | Internationa! Relief. The centers will be located at the following addresses: 505 West Nineteenth Street. 140 Broad Street. 15 Union Street, Brooklyn. Twenty-fifth Street and Eighth Avenue, All trade unions, workers fraternal organizations and clubs have been ) asked bythe Workers International Relief to begin at once to collect food, clothing and money and bring all contributions to the above cen- ters or to the central office of the W. I. R., 870 Broadway. To aid the marine strike, the W. I. R. has urged all workers organi- zations to arrange affairs where funds will be raised for strike re- lief. Credentials for those wishing | to collect relief will be issued at the Broadway headquarters of the W. IR. The Workers International Relief, working with the Joint Strike Prep- arations Committee, is mobilizing all forces sympathetic to the work- ing class to support the marine strike. Cooks, dishes, doctors and nurses have been secured. Trucks and cars are needed. Food, clothing and medicine must be supplied and | money to buy food for the strikers | must; be on hand. “The working class of San Fran- cisco united the longshoremen and seamen, “said a statement issued by the W. I. R. yesterday. “They sup- | ported them, they saw them} through. The marine workers | |depend upon you to do the same | thing now. “You can set up relief committees in your neighborhocd to support the maczine strike. language, women’s associations, Un- | employment Councils, youth and sports organizations—in all of these |you can set up functioning com- mittees. Marine workers will gladly | speak at your meetings. On Oc- tober 12, 13 and 14 there will be tag deys to support the strike. There is so much you can do to help this strike. “Please send your contributions is only another phase of the fight | demonstrated conjointly with the| to the Workers International Relief, to feed the masses, the fight for jtheir welfare and their class in- (Continued on Page 2) STRIKE COMMITTEE The Pacific Coast seamen and longshoremen struzgle offers the best proof both of the men to struggle for their the same time that through arbitration the work- ers can gain nothing. After two ing, their conditions are the same. organized mass struggle can the workers force the shipping interests to consider and mands, Already the shipowners are compelled to speak about wage increases in order to prevent the spread By striking we can actually compel of the strike. them to grant our full demands. SHIPS CREWS Declare your shin on strike as soon as it reaches | leaving your ship, elect your delegate to the United Front Strike Committee. the strike headquzricrs and resister. port. Before bers vete for strike a: united front. nd bring the LICENSED OFFICERS | On ships where the crews walk of, tak: joint action with them for your own demands. | RADIO OPERATORS | We recommend you endorse the strike call and | unemployed women, who had marched to the drill ground under | |the slogan: “We want bread and work.” ‘ SEAMEN AND OFFICERS! STRIKE ALL SHIPS TODAY! of the readiness demands and at Continue the months of wait- Only throzgh grant their de- | (Signed) Ceme to IS.U. I. 8. U. into the mem- nds of Edward Droletts declared October Sth. and close every scab agency. support to the strikers and help win the demands and a Centralized Shipping Bureau in all ports. LONGSHOREMEN Support the struggle of the seamen and refuse to work any scab ships. Follow the example of the seamen—take power into your own hands. ject the truce of Ryan and fight side by side with the scamen for your own demands. ATLANTIC COAST JOINT STRIKE ‘d Bliss and four cther delesates from 870 Broadway, New York City, im- This strike will be won united front of the mediately, through a working class.” vote for joint action with the seamen in your mect- ing. UNEMPLOYED SEAMEN coastwise boycott on all shipping Make it 100 per cent Give full Re- PREPARATIONS COMMITTEE. Hudson, Chairman. th sates, elected by the unorganized seamen, and four other delegates elected by a croup of 20¢ organized and unoryanized off-e~- Hareld Baxter and four other elected delegates from the Marine Workers Industrial Union, In your trade union, | IClose Shipping Halls, | Fight I. S. U. Move | To Stop Walkout BULLETIN More than 1,000 seamen, shins’ firemen, cooks, stewards and 1 censed officers, meeting yestevday afternoon in Irving Plaza Hall, | 15th St. and Irving PI. unanimously to bezi time s' ¢ this mornin | York under the leadership of the Joint Strike Preparations Com- mitice, Mass meetings of seamen }and licensed officers in all | important seaports along the Atlantic Coast voted yester- day afternoon to strike all ships in the Atlantic and Gulf frorts today under the leader- p of the Joint Strike Pr ions Committce. One crew, the crew of the S. S. Texas Ran, which docked at Pier |23, North New York, on Sat- jurday, is already on strike. When |the ship docked, delegate Eric Bell of the Marine Workers Industrial Union, boarded her and issued the |strike call. The entire crew, includ- ing three engineers and the. third mate, packed up and walked off. Picket Line Establishec | A picket line was established in front of the pier, but police came and said picketing was illegal. Nine the policemen escorted Bell from ship. Despite the denial by of the workers’ right to pickets in squads of five continued to patrol the area around Pier 23 keeping a sharp lookout for scabs. Delegate Bozo of the Interna- tional Seamen’s Union, came to the | ship with a bodyguard and shipped lone scab, an ordinary seaman. Bozo later went to the Seamen’s Church Institute lookikng for a boatswain and three able seamen, but was ‘driven out of the building by en- raged seamen, who denounced him as a strikebreaker. The S. S. Texas Ranger is now anchored off the Statue of Liberty without a crew. Shipping Halls Closed The drive to close down the ship- ping balls was successful on the New York waterfront. The Park- hurst Agency on Broad St. and a | United Fruit shipping crimp at 54 West St., were closed down by com- mittees of seamen on Saturday morning. When Parkhurst heard the committee was on iis way to his establishment he immediately | closed his office. Another committee visited the U. S. Shipping Boa: ment agency, and ad cials not to ship any men telling them that all men applying for berths on ships should be referred |to the Rank and File Centralized Shipping Bureau Committee at 140 Broad St. Towboatmmen Urge Strike A group of New York Towboat- men issued a call yesterday to all members of the Associated Ma-= lrine Workers to demand that the | organization go on record for the strike. The call urged that the rank aaa file towboaimen force Captain | Mal head of the orgsnizat-on, to call a meeting of all towbcatmen in New York harsor to unite’ the towboaimen ¥ the seamen and lonyshoremen along the entire At= jlantic Coast for united strike ac- | tion today. | During the week-end a heavy guard of police, detectives and radio jcar officers milled around the Sea- men’s Church Institute where a | large shipping agency is in opera- | tion, A committee of seamen who | went to the Institute on Saturday to urge the sailors to boycott the | hiring hell were not permitted by the officers to enter the building. | Delecaticons visited numerous steuronts and bars on the wat “ and demanced the proprieto"s | tear down pitcards put up by lead- jers of the International Seamen’s Union, which stated that the str \is called off. Seamen declared t> >t they would boycott all establish- a govern= ‘d the offi- (Continued on Page 2)