The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 10, 1934, Page 1

Have You Contributed? Yesterday’s Receipts ...... otal te date Press Run Yeste --8 974.53 $15,717.95 rda —58,500 aily <QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) er Se ee ef NATIONAL EDITION Vol. XI, No. 243 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, M. Y., under the Act of March 8, 1879. Stalin SEAMEN’S STRIKE TIES UP 23 SHI "PICKET SQUADS PATROL DOCKS IN NEW YORK DESPITE POLICE GUARD Roy Huds. n ae redicts| Walkout Will Spread Tn Next Few Days Twenty-three steamships | and tugboats were lying idle at their piers yesterday inthe North Atlantic ports on the second day of the East Coast maritime strike. The Seamen’s United Front Strike Committee, at its headquar- ters at 140 Broad Street, announced that the following ships were on strike In New York harbor, the La Mott Dupont, a freighter of the Dupont Lines; the Steel Mariner, an Is‘h- mian Line freighter, Pier 29, Brook- lyn; the Ardmore, freighter of the Mallory Line, Cranes Drydock; the Winding Gulf and the Diamond Cement. There is a partial. strike on the S. S. Havana, a Ward liner. Boston Crews Strike In Boston crews of the Thomas P. Beale and the Dorothy Luckenback are s:riking. The crew of the Scan- York is striking at Chester, Pa., five ships are tied up in the port of Baltimore and five tugboat crews are out in Norfolk, Va. The Texas Ranger, New-Tex freighter, which struck in New York harbor on Saturday, sailed with a scab crew shipped aboard by lead- ers of the International Seamen’s Union. A call was issued by the United Front Strike Committee to strike the Texas Ranger at the next port of call. Picket Squads Active Throughout the day yesterday thirteen squads of pickets were patrolling important docks in Man- hattan and Brooklyn where the struck ships were tied up. There were pickets at piers 60 and 61 on the North River, where ships of the International Mercantile Marine dock. The Ward Line Piers of the Porto Rican Line and the Colombian Line were picketed on South Street. In Brooklyn the sea- men and licensed officers picketed docks in the Erie Basin and a num- ber of shipping halls on Union Street and Hamilton Ave. Heavy Police Guards All of the docks on the New York waterfront were guarded by ex- tremely heavy detachments of foot, mounted and radio car police. Es- pecially heavy was mobiliza‘ion around the Seamen's Church Institute at 25 South Street, which is being used as the main scab-herding agency for the ship- | owners. At the Standard Oil shipping of- fice, 21 Pearl Street, police and private thugs guarded the entrance , Fifteen private | sible in front of the | to the building. thugs were shipping office. Thugs Protect Scabs Special buttons are being issued | by this Rockefeller shipping com- | pany to strikebreakers. They must show these buttons when they sign | up for jobs. Four private thugs are | sent to escort every scab sent to the | ships. Meanwhile the boycott on the) LEGION HEAD TALKS AT AFL CONVENTION Mabey Faces Hostile Motion to Condemn His Scab Role By Bill Dunne THAELMANN CAMPAIGN IS |German C, P. MAPPED Addresses | | Urgent Message to He Gives Detailed E CPs OF US: A; LYNCH TRIAL SOON)! Only Intense Activity by | plete text of the interview of Joseph Stalin, secretary of | the Workers Can Save Leader BERLIN, Oct. 9.—In a communi- warns that Thaelmann’s life is in | extreme danger and outlines spe- cifically how the struggle, not only | for Thaelmann’s rescue, but for the | With H. G. Wells By (The Daily Worker herewith “publishes the only com- the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with H. G. Wells.) | Cable to the Daily Worker MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., Oct. 8.—Joseph Stalin, secretary today in No. 17 of the Journal “Bolshevik,” explained clearly to Wells the difference between the aim of the N. R. A. pro- }gram in the United States and the aim of cet con- NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1934 xplanation of Planned | |day on the France. AND BARTHOU ARE SLAIN © King of Jugoslavia fal French Official Shot Economy and of Fascism in Interview | Entering France FEAR NEW SARAJEVO. Police Sink jen Crowd, Injuring 20—Anti- “Red” Cry Raised MARSEILLES, Oct |thou, were shot and killed here to- | King’s | The fear was expressed through- (Six Pages) Says Roosevelt Cannot Institute Planned Economy in ‘RED’ DRIV IS STARTED BY F. J. DILLON 9. — King cation to the Communist Party of of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in an Lait ‘euler ae Jugoslavian |Successor to Collins America, the Central Committee of | . * . ey A military ictatorship, and the . the German Communist Party |interview with H. G. Wells, the noyelist, published | French Foreign Minister Louis Bar-| Opens Fight on All Militant Workers arrival in | By A. B. Magil | although “hot yet reported out. (Daily Worker Special Correspondent) SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 8.—In the face of a resolution condemn- ing the activities of the American Legion leaders in the maritime! strike here, a resolution adopted by) the recent California State Federa+ tion convention, Chayges Mabsy, Legion vice commaffer and former Utah Goyernor, addressed. the con- vention today. The State Federation of Labor resolution is before the convention “Dear Friends, decisive stage. With Mabey appearing in the “The proceedings against the leader of our party, “As we learn from reliable sources, hi sai Ernst Thael- Wells imagined,-he said; that “in} the — question’! the United States, jing to Wells, had a keen effect on} “The old financial world,” he| “was crashing, and economic | life in that country was being re-)| mann, from now on passes into @ constructed in a new way.” | The bloody ruler of Jugoslavia jhad arrived in France to take up the question of war alliances, in view of the sharpening situation |final defeat of Hitlerism, can be | J REESE met PES }out Europe that the shooting of (Speci2l to the Daily Worker) | carried on in the most effective struction in the U.S. S. R. | Alexander agg Barthou may prove DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 9—The |way. The letter follows: Wells had recently visited the| j |to be another Sarajevo, the signal Snfounaertant ok ry dive 5. expel “To our Brother Party: United States. This visit, accord-| for a new imperialist slaughter. i all Communists and other militant workers from the A. F. of L. auto locals. was the first. official act of Francis J. Dillon, who has just been \ appointed to succeed William Col- bet Fascist Ital 4 : Awe tiggy ait acct aig ly afl lins-as A. F. of L. national organizer n AY Hin-the-~aiston portant conference with Premier | Gila tka to anit the blame the police | face of this issue and with a resolu- tion calling for the withdrawal of all union officials from tional Civic Federation also before the convention, introduced by taurant Employes Union, Matthew Woll, professional friend of the Legion and acting president of the National Civic Federation, appears to be in for some trouble. Condemn. Coughlin Father Coughlin, the radio priest, also came in for denunciation as an bpen shop employer today. This was an echo from the last convention when the Executive Council was in- structed to try to get him to employ union labor in his printing, and his other enterprises. The Council has reported that it could do nothing with him. Mabey appealed for. support of the campaign for the legions uni- versal conscription law. Red Scare Pushed He urged the convention to give a helping hand to the drive against “subversive radicals.” His reception was lukewarm even when pledged “full support to the organ- ized labor movement and its just | aim.” Gorman received a tremendous ovation before and after his speech. | perhaps the greatest given any one in the convention so far. pearance here and the tone of his | of a slightly more militant coloring | for officialdom. | There are some thirteen resolu- tions favoring industrial unionism in one form or another now before the convention. A large conference | of delegates from Federal unions is | taking place tonight and this ques- tion will be a major issue together with unemployment insurance. | the “Daily’s” Need For Financial the Na-| the | delegation of the Hotel and Res-| he} His ap-| speech doubtless expressed the need | Greater Circulation Will Decrease | after the deliberate and repeated ‘arises of profund reorganization and | |Barthou. As the automobile in e. delaying of the trial, the terrorist | the ceallon. FES plagnad economy, | which the two were riding had for the relator args in ie judgment of the ‘legal’ proceedings ‘that is Socialist economy. Is. there| |gone 150 feet someone directed a Membership of the locals from the will fall sometime in the course of | not,” he asked Stalin, thik cane | rain of bullets into the car, fatally reicdet thar oe abl: mid- | | wounding both men. em 8. ‘ = Oatebes): hea aes ac Sr Sener aE. BUTI. ReeNere | ready declared war onus,” he said, “Thaelmann will be faced with hired iools, falsified records and documents, which will play a large role in the events of the trial. Among other things will be pre- sented an infamous ‘plan of insur- rection,’ a clumsy forgery, which, on’the face of it, pretends to be a document drawn up by the Central Committee under the direction of Thaelmann about the beginning of 1933. There are two considerations which caused Hitler and Goering to | build up, out of the prosecution of Thaclmann, a monstrous indictment of Communism itself. The Aims of the Nazis “In the first place, they will try ©/ to justify all the bloody deeds of terror by a final whitewashing, and in the second place they will at- tempt to play the part of saviors of Germany in the face of bolsh- | vism. “The Hitler dictatorship hopes that as the National-Socialist |‘savior,” and through falsehood, | | hired tools and forged documents | it may present Thaelmann to the ; outside world in the light of the | leader of ‘Communist terrorists, in- | cendiaries, intriguers and traitors to | their country guilty of high treason.’ | “Thanks to the great interna- | tional movement of protest for our | brave comrade, Thaelmann, and | thanks to the real proof of prole- | tarian solidarity and the revolution- parties (for which we here wish to revolutionary thanks) dictatorship has been subjected to \heavy pressure from the masses of the world. This has been the most helpful act in developing the fight for the liberation of our party and for Comrade Thaelmann. “We now ask our brother section Aid, United States Shipping Board Bu-/} reau is complete. No capacity can be noted around this agency and no men are reported to have shipped out of it since the strike wes declared. I. S. U. Officials Herd Scabs Chief among the scab-herders are the officials of the International | Seamen's Union, who called off the strike last week without getting a single demand for the seamen. | At a regular business meeting of | the I. S. U., at 70 South St. on) Monday night, Gus Brown, a local I. S. U. leader, attempted to defend | his strikebreaking activities by stat- | ing that “it is the duty of every) union man to protect the ae | against radicals and take any job on any ship.” The meeting was closed hurriedly and no discussion was allowed. | Strike Growth Predicted Roy Hudson, chairman of the United Front Strike Committee, said yesterday that the results of the first day of the strike exceeded | (Continued on Page 2) | SEAMEN! STRIKE EVERY SHIP ON ATLANTIC COAST Response of crews of twenty- (Continued on Page 2) three ships and ary internationalism of our brother | record our full recognition and our | the Hitler | Washington and: Moscow?” Stalin replied: has a different aim from the U. S. S. R. The aim followed by Americans arose on the basis of economic dis- order, and economic crisis. Amer- icans want to get rid of the crisis on the basis of private capitalist activity, without changing the eco- nomic basis. They are striving to reduce to a minimum the devasta- ition and loss caused by the existing leconomie system. As you know, in our country, economic base, which was smashe4, jhas been formed an absolutely dif- \ferent, new economic basis. | “Even if the Americans of whom you speak achieve their aim par- tially, that is, reduce this loss to a minimum, in this case also they will |not destroy the roots of that an-/ archy which is inherent in the jexisting capitalist system. They pre- ‘serve that system which without fail must lead and cannot help {leading to anarchy in production. | Thus at best it won't be a question lof reconstructing society or of de- |stroying the old social order which | gives rise to anarchy and crises, but of restricting certain undesirable |sides of it, and limiting certain | excesses. “Subjectively these Americans | possibly think that they are reor- ganizing society, but objectively the} | Present basis of society is preserved among them. Therefore objectively no reconstruction of society will |take place, and planned economy | will not come about. “What is planned economy? What are its various features? Planned economy strives to abolish unem- ployment. Let us suppose that, while maintaining the capitalist system, unemplqyment can be re- | duced to a certain minimum. But | no capitalists will ever agree at any (ee to complete the abolition of unemployment, the abolition of the | reserve army of unemployed, whose AN ED with the workers. They broadcast the idea that "The United States | in place of the old | tugboats in five Atlantic ports to the strike call of the United Front Seamen's Strike Committee proves that they will no longer be fooled by the “truce” schemes of leaders of the International Seamen’s Union and the arbitration plans of the N.R.A. and the shipowners. After eighteen months of stalling by arbitration boards, after witnessing the strikebreaking maneu- vers of the LS.U. and LL.A. officials on both the East and West Coasts, the seamen have learned that only through a policy of united strike struggle under rank and file Yeadership, can the marine workers win better conditions on the ships and docks. Indeed, before the strike went into effect, the very fact that the Joint Strike Preparations Com- mittee was mobilizing behind it thousands of sea- men for militant struggle, forced the shipowners at least to pretend thas they were going to deal they were considering granting some increases in wages “to head off the strike under left wing leadership.” Fearing the temper of the men on the ships, the shipowners have mobilized all their agencies in a frantic attempt to break the strike. The capitalist press is doing its bit. The New York Herald-Tribune, in an attempt to minimize the walkout, states that the “Marine Strike Here Fails to Disturb Port.” This was printed at a time when the entire New York waterfront was an armed police camp and when patrolling 13 docks. Leaders of the I.9.U., resorting to Francis J. Gorman’s language, are announcing that their agreement to call off the strike without winning one single demand for the workers is a tremendous victory. At the same time these leaders are acting as scab herders—shipping strikebreakers aboard the struck vessels. | ing 20. people. Joseph Stalin labor market to ensure low paid | arrested. workers. Here then is already one} hiatus in. ‘planned economy’ | bourgeois society. in | ing supposes that output increases in|to be a Czech. those branches of industry whose products are particularly needed by} the masses of people. But you know! that under capitalism the enlarge- | the ment of production takes place from other motives, that capital gravi- tates towards the branches of econ- |omy where the rate of profit is bigger. a Capitalist to cause himself loss} and consent to a lower rate of profit | for the sake of requirements. Without getting rid} On Sunday, an alliance principle of private ownership in the means of production you cannot) create planned economy.” Wells that “if the country as a whole economy, and if the government | | and the socialism will be introduced | in the sense in whch it is understood | |in the Anglo-Saxon understanding | | of this word.” cialism’ mean? individual representatives of capi- regulating principle (Continued on Page 2) —! ITORIAL Then, there is the Seamen’s Church Institute, the business manager of which, Wesley Westerman, has openly admitted that he will ship scabs and lend a vigorous hand to strikebreaking. The United Front Strike Committee, facing these difficulties and odds, but armed with the authority of the thousands of men who have signed the strike ‘pledge cards, is leading and spreading the Strike. Every ship struck, every action on the waterfront, is compelling the shipowners to con- sider the just demands of the seamen. Further actions will force them to grant concessions to the seamen. To the degree that the strike is spread—to that degree will the demands of the maritime workers be won, The one thing that the shipowners and | their agents, the leaders of the IS.U. and the | LL.A. fear, is that the strike will be spread. They do not want to see more ships striking. They do | not want to see the longshoremen join with the | Police Injure Twenty The police immediately shot into the crowd indiscriminately wound- One man was seized | by the police, beaten over the head + | with a sword and shot dead. His | name was said to be Kalem Petrus. It is claimed he was the actual as- mision is to put pressure on the | sassin, though scores of others were A hue and cry has gone up claim- that Communists |the deed. The person shot dead by “Moreover, planned economy pre-| the police as the assassin was said Yugosiay-Italy Relations Tense Ever since the slaughter of the fascist dictator Dollfuss of Austria, relations between Italy and Jugoslavia have grown extremely tense, with the imminent possi- | bility of the outbreak of war. cently Mussolini declared that the You cannot ever compel/| Italian army must be ready for the war of todey against Jugoslavia. Mussolini satisfying public| speech directed to France in the Balkans, of capitalists and abandoning the| particularly against Jugoslavia. The visit of King Alexander was un- doubtedly an effort of the French imperialists to make a war alliance | agreed with much that| inimical to Italian fascism, and it Stalin said but suggested, however, | is likely that Mussolini had a hand in the assassination of King Alex- accepts the principle of planned | ander and Premier Barthou. One of those wounded by the po- little by little and step by step be- | lice in their indiscriminate firing gins consistently to apply this prin-| at the crowd assembled to view the ciple, then in the long run the fi- | king's arrival, was General George, nancial oligarchy will be destroyed |@ member of the King’s entourage. Anti-“Red” Terror Looms ‘The Doumergue government is | preparing a campaign of terror | | against the Communist and So- | STALIN: “But what will this ‘so- | cialist parties on the drummed up At best some re- | charges that a Communist had as- straint for the most unrestrained | sassinated the king. It will be remembered that when talist profit, some increase in the | the French President Doumer was in national | Killed in May, 1932, by a Russian who were in open revolt against (Continued on Page 2) | “and they have been successful in destroying part of our organization. We will ferrete them out, however, and drive them out of our labor unions,” Does Not Fight Pay Cuts While attacking the militant rank and filers, Dillon said nothing in criticism of the open shop auto companies who have taken advan- tage of the Washington settlement, put over with the active aid of the A. F. of L. officialdom, to drive the workers into company unions and intensify their efforts to smash all genuine trade unions. He made no mention of the fact that wage cuts have already been started in a number of plants and that a general offensive against the living standards of the auto work- ers is being prepared for the re- sumption of production next year. He did-indicate, however, that in the auto industry, as well as else- where, the A. F. of L. bureaucracy would exeit all efforts toward put- ting into effect the no-strike pro- posal of President Roosevelt. “Federation members in this area will conduct their collective bar- gaining with a minimum of con- fiict,” he said; “we will avoid strife where possible and above all else will see that the law of the land is obeyed.” Dillon's statements are undoubt- jedly directed against the militant rank and file movement which is \ spreading in the A. F. of L. auto locals and which is calling a na- |tional conference in Michigan on Novy. 10. Forced Collins Removal The removal of Collins, President Green’s special! emissary, was due to the overwhelming demand of committed Re- made a urging and (Continued on Page 2) seamen in a sympathy strike. Knowing the trickery of the A. F. of L. leaders, the seamen should further strengthen their ship committees and the longshoremen their dock com- mittees. Spread the strike. Workers in all trades, members of all unions, organized and unorganized workers—this fight is your fight. Join the seamen on the picket lines. Pass resolutions in your local union supporting the strike. Contribute to the strike relief fund. Help close the scab shipping halls. The longshoremen have been held back from striking for their demands by Joseph P, Ryan's “truce” pact. But the “truce” pact has won nothing for the dock workers, Already longshoremen of Local 808 have overrode Ryan's plans and have struck in sympathy with the seamen. Longshoremen! Follow the example of the men in Local 808! Strike with the seamen! Spread the maritime strike! the rank and file of the auto locals | Price 3 Cents RKERS HOLD NORTH SPAIN US. PS Cites Breakdown ALEXANDER TROOPS EXHAUSTED: Of Old Social Order FASCIST PARLIAMENT And F; ight f for New IN DESPERATE SESSION Foreign biou Thrown Against Workers As Guards Give In MADRID, Oct. 9. — Pro- tected by machine guns and soldiers and momentarily exe necting the onrush of revolu- tionary forces, a _ fascist ‘rump” parliament sat in the Cortes today deliberating on the last available means of attack on labor in a life and death struggle to save Spain for capitalism. All railroad employees between 20 and 38 years of age were mobilized as soldiers in a special railway regi- ment, the penalty for non-compli- ance to be court-martial for desez- tion under the war-time penalties of life imprisonment or death. While 3,000 Spanish Foreign Le- gionnaires hurriedly imported from Moroceo scattered through the country. ina -frantic attempt to cover the area deserted by the de- feated and exhausted civil guard, heavy artillery raked the city of Gijon from battleships ranged along the coast. Official reports from Madrid state that all efforts to dis- lodge workers’ rule from Gijon have | failed and that observers still saw the red flags flying from the roofs of public buildings. Fragmentary news that the revo lutionists were defeated in Oviedo, in the Asturias, where the heaviest section of the government troops are concentrated, have not been substantiated. ¥rom all authoritative accounts the workers are still in possession of the city, which con- tains the largest ammunition fac- tories and warehouses in all of Spain. In certain cities, such as Seville and Barcelona, the strike has sub- sided in strength, but throughout the provinces of the Asturias and northern Spain generally the strike is continuing and growing steadily. All stores and business in Madrid were halted by the intensity of the strike, while in Ujo and Mieres workers not only everywhere en- forced the strike but held contrél of the towns, in spite of the attacks of the mercenary troops. HerndonUrges Mass Fight for Scottsboro 9 By Angelo Herndon BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. 9.—Ths |State Supreme Court of Alabama jhas again decreed the legal murder |of Heywood Patterson and Clarence Norris, Scottsboro boys. The Court of Alabama has set the date of this murder for Dec. The state has said so, but the masses of the United States,the Negroes, the white workers, and their friends, have the final deci= sion in their hands. | The masses in this country have already, under the leadership of the International Labor Defense, prevented this murder for three jand a half years. They have done this in one of the greatest, most heroic struggles ever carried on in |this country. They have done it with the support of the millions of toilers mobilized by the Interna= tional Red Aid all over the world. We must do it again. We must now raise a greater campaign than we have ever done before. As the bosses see themselves frustrated on every side in their determination to legally murder the Scottsboro boys, their determination grows jalso. Every day that goes by means |that we must develop a bigger | campaign. | We cannot be content with just |continuing a general campaign for |the Scottsboro boys. Every in- dividual, every organization that is jnow doing anything in this cam- paign, must be spurred by the ime \mediate danger to the Scottsbore (Continued om Page 2)