The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 11, 1934, Page 1

Needed—$62 Yesterday's Receipts . Total to date 5 a Day $ 466.98 16,184.93 Press Run Yesterday—51,500 CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Vol. XI, No. 244 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at under the Act of March 8, 1879. New York, N. Y. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1934 (Six Pages) NATIONAL EDITION Price 3 Cents SPANISH WORKERS KEEP OFFENSIVE Revolutionary Uprising R ¢ Reported Near Croatian Capital MARINE STRIKE GAINS ON EAST COAST RADIO MEN] VOTE TO JOIN IN WALKOUT Shipping A Agents Try| To Place Scabs Aboard rd Ships PICKETING | SPREADS) 800 Telegraphists will Be Affected By Strike Vote The maritime strike remained firm yesterday, with gains being reported in several ports along the Atlantic seaboard. It was reported by the strike committee that} twenty-six seagoing ships and tug- boats are affected either fully or partially by the strike. Adding strength to the walkout, the American Radio Telegraphists | Association, 22 Whitehall Street, announced that the New York local organization had voted late Tues- day night to join the strike. The walkout of the radio men, Willard | Bliss, secretary of the organization. | said will perhaps affect 800 ‘opera- | tors on the East coast. Will Push Own Demands The radio men, who have elected delegates to the Atlantic Seamen's United Front Strike Committee say that they will strike in sympathy with the seamen and for their own demands. From one to three op- erators striking on a ship is suffi- cient to halt the sailing of the vessel Picket lines and flying squadrons were strenghtened considerably throughout the day. Whereas on Tuesday there were 500 men on picket duty on both day and night shifts at strategic piers on the New | Yozk -waterfront, yesterday the number of pickets atthe piers at | all times numbered more than 600. | Besides this, hundreds of other sea- | men and officers from the ships and | the beach were enlisted in the fly- ing squadrons which operated in| Manhattan, Brooklyn and New Jersey. Three Halls Guide Pickets | Pickets and flying squads operated | from three halls in Manhattan and | Brooklyn: 140 Broad Street, 505 | West Nineteenth Street, and 15 Unicn Stzeet, Brookiyn. The Ward Liner Havana, which was partially eae during the first | day of the strike, sailed with a scab | crew which was said to have been | supplied by leaders of the Interna- tional Seamen’s Union. Longshore- | men in Cuba, to which port the ship is bound, will be asked to take ac- tion against the vessel when she ar- rives there. \ New Ships Struck Shipping agents were reported to | be attempting to put a crew of | strikebreakers aboard the Olympic, | a Dollar Line tanker docked in Newark, N. J. Pickets say that the ship is still deserted. Additional ships reported affected by the strike yesterday were: the S.S. Tidewater, Bayonne, N. J., the Wheeler in Boston and three coal | boats at Newport News. Other ships which are either fully or partially struck are: the Lammot duPont, a duPont powder ship; the Steel Mariner, an Isthmian liner; the Ardmore, a Mallory Line freight- er; the Winding Gulf; the Diamond Cement; the Santa Elena; the City Service Missouri, a tanker; the Peten, a United Fruit ship. These ships are all in the New York Har- bor. | Boston Boats Idle mm addition to this the Dorothy Luckenbach and the Thomas P. Beale are struck in Boston, making it a complece tie-up in that port. | Five ships aze partially struck in Baltimore and five tugboat crews are out in Norfolk, Va, The crew of the Scan-York are out in Chester, Pennsylvania. D. Drummond, captain of the pickets in New York harbor, an- nounced that the following piers are being picketed: Ward Line, at the foot of Wall Street; Lucken- bach Line, Pier 42, North River; Dollar Line Piers, Newark, N. United Fruit, Pier 9, North River: International Mercantile Marine, Piers 49 to 61, North River; Mun- son Line, Pier 15, Brooklyn; Erie | Basin docks and the Tidewater docks at Bayonne, N. J. feamen from the S. 8. Tidewater, (Continued on Page 2) | \1 To ‘Daily’ Readers |GREEN MEETS the: ‘Conteal Committee of ey Mae Party decided to increase the number of editions of the Daily Worker from one to three and add two pages to the New York edition, it anticipated an immedi- ate and vigorous adyance in the campaign for $60,000. In the light of such expecta- tions, results in the past few days have been bitterly disappointing. The responsibility for keeping the im- proved “Daily” must rest principally with the New York district, which has thus far raised only $7,000 of a quota of $30,000. Discontinuance of the improved Daily Worker must therefore be announced for the end of next week unless results in the drive during the immediate present justify its continuance. CENTRAL COMMITTEE, C.P.U.S.A. OPEN LETTER IS ISSUED 10 SHIP OFFICERS The licensed officers’ section of the Atlantic Seamen's United Front Strike Committee, representing masters, mates, pilots and engineers from ships of the eastern ports, is- sued an open letter to all ships’ of- ficers on vessels in the North At- | Jantic and Gulf ports urging them to join the maritime strike and come out on the picket lines for | their demands. The letter, which was issued in thousands of copies yesterday, fol- lows: | Fellow Officers: The United Front Strike Com- mittee, Licensed Officers Section, composed of elected rank and _ file representatives of the M.E.B.A,, U.L.O.A., the M. M. & P. and of the unorganized, has issued a strike call for demands which we have | submitted to the American Steam- | ship Owners Association on Oct. 4. | Inasmuch as the shipowners have | not met these demands, we call upon you to take strike action. In making your decisions, this committee wishes to draw your at- tention to our demands, a copy of | which can be had at our temporary | headquarters, 140 Broad Street; also from the licensed officers on the Picket lines. Gentlemen, we wish you to con- sider these demands carefully. You will note that they are just and that they are necessary for our im- mediate and future welfare, and for the welfare of the American Mer- chant Marine. Although the rank and file mem- bers of all organizations, through this committee, have submitted these demands to the M-E.B.A., the MM. & P. and to the U.L.OA,, urging these organizations to take joint action with this committee to (Continued on Page 2) A.F.L. GROUP IN N.Y. BACKS SEA STRIK ‘BOOS FOR TOBIN } |Session Cool to Citrine JQPPOSITION IN FIRST TEST A.F.L. Council Majority Seen To Be Slight in First Roll Call and Vladeck, Who Attack U.S.S.R. By Bill Dunne (Special to the Daity Worker) SAN PRANCISCO, Cal., Oct. 10.— The A. F. of L. Executive Council | faced the severest test it has yet met in this convention as thé first | roll call took place on the question lof the jurisdictional raids on the Brewery Workers Union by the | Teamsters, Engineers and Firemen. In this issue the question of in- ‘ALL MILITARY IS MOBILIZED INJUCOSLAVIA Nearly All European Cabinets Meet to Act on Situation French Government Faces Crisis as Result of Assassinations PARIS, Oct. 10—The full effect of the assassination of the |king Alexander of Jugoslavia snd French Foreign Minister Barthou has not registered yet, as cabinets and war alliances shook to their very foundations, while the king's body was being transported to the land where he was known for his murder and rapine. All Jugoslavia was tense, with | dustrial unionism is clearly involved. and to a considerable extent the | \roll call yesterday furnishes an lestimate of the voting strength on} this main question. The vote yes- terday afternoon came on the tech- nical motion to uphold the decision | of the 1933 convention which in es-| IT. aoe was intended to sustain the nds of the Teamsters and/ ie unions upon the Brewery Workers. The vote was 15,558 to sup- port the action of the Executive | Council in carrying out the Wash- | ington decision, and 9,305 against. The debate was acrimonious in the extreme and the vote shows that in this convention Green and the present Executive Council have The New York A. F. of L. Trade \only a technical majority, most of | Union Committee for Unemploy- the large and. decisive unions with ment Insurance and Relief an- industrial characters voing against nounced yesterday its full endorse- them. One exception to this is the ment of the strike of the Atlantic International Ladies’ Garment Coast marine workers under the Workers delegation, for whom Du- leadership of the United Front 'binsky cast their 1,500 votes in sup- Strike Committee. port of the raid on the Brewery “The New York A. F. of L. Trade Workers. Union Committee for Unemploy- | ment Insurance and Relief realizes,” | the committee stated, “that regard- less of union affiliation all marine workers should unite in order to | gain the demands which the marine workers have voted for. The com- mittee suggests the following course of action, which can insure the right kind of settlement for a vic- torious outcome for the demands of the marine workers. “First is the matter of arbitra- tion, which, in the instance of the Atlantic Coast strike, had already been voluntarily acceeded by the officials of the International Sea- Rank and Filer Applauded | James P. Dallas, rank and file delegate from the Cereal Workers | Union 19169, Seattle, received con- | |siderable applause ‘for his five minute speech describing the dev- | astating consequences in Seattle of the jurisdictional fight between the Brewery Workers and the other | unions. He said that it is the rank and file which bear the brunt of these senseless conflic’s for the per capita tax, and that only the union Officials and the bosses profit. He called for the removal of all offi- cials who persist in foisting these Suicidal battles upon the rank and men’s Union and the International file. Longshoremen’s Association to the shipping interests, even before the strike date, while on the Pacific Coast the workers were already at teh height of the s.rike, when these | same Officials forced the sell-out arbitration proposals upon the strikers. “Second—I. S. U. and I. L. A. members should form rank and file groups in every llocal, on every ship and dock and convince the marine workers to go out on strike over the head of the arbitration dic- taias of the I. S. U. and I. L. A. officials. “Third—I. S. U. and I. L. A. members should demand the imme- diate convening and frequent hold- | ing of union meetings. At these (Continued on Page 2) Tobin was met with thunderous boos when he boasted of the in-| creased membership of his union | and said it was genuine member- ship and “not the kind of rubbish that is coming in here now from) some of the other unions.” Tobin |may have been referring to the rank and file in general, but he | seemed to be looking at the cloth- ing workers delegation. In any event he was booed in a manner that no official of a big union has met in an A. F. of L, convention for years. under the auspices of the Socialist Party, together with B. Charney | Socialist Party leaflet advertising | (Continued on Page 2) STRIKE THE NEW SHIPS ARRIVING TODAY! 'ODAY is the fourth day of the Atlantic maritime strike, Several ships are due to clear the quaran- tine station and the customs during the early hours and dock at the New York piers. Aboard these ships are crews who do not know that the strike is on. They have been advised by radio bulletin while in the middle of the Atlantic or off the coast that the strike has been called off. This was the work of Victor Olander and Silas Axtell, leaders of the International Seamen's Union, who agreed with the N.R.A. and the shipowners to have no strike, to continue the 18-month-old iscussion on the seamen’s demands—in short, to throw the whole matter into the hands of profes- sional arbitrators and thus defeat the demands of the men on the ships. Already this work is being undone by the rank and file seamen who have struck 26 ships, despite the no-strike order of the 1S.U. leaders, to victory. can force shipowners to grant all of their just de- mands. The united front of the maritime workers must AN EDI It must be further undone today when the ad- ditional ships arrive from sea, Every one of these ships should be met with fly- ing squads the moment they dock. Today is the day to spread the strike to more ships in New York harbor and all harbors along the Atlantic Coast. The number of struck ships, which is increasing gradually as the strike moves on to new stages, can be increased considerably today. The more rapidly the strike is spread, the quicker the shipowners will be compelled to grant conces- sions to the seamen. They don’t want to see their ships struck, lying idle at the piers. profits for the shipowners, Additional tied-up vessels today will mean that they are just one step closer By spreading the strike the seamen Struck ships mean a loss of Francis J. Gorman, who sold out | the textile strike, spoke last night | |Viadeck at the Labor College. A_ revolutionary. uprisings reported from the central districts of Zagreb, the Croatian capital. |soldiers have been mobilized | throughout Jugoslavia, on orders of the three regents who are to rule for the new ll-year old King Peter Hundreds =f Croatian na~ | tionalists are fiéeing into Austria to escape the threat of massacres in revenge for the assassination of | Alexander. Nearly all European cabinets are meeting to take steps in the present grave situation throughout Europe. |The Italian press, despite its pro- | testations of “sorrow,” could not conceal its satisfaction over the death of the French ally, and the Possibility of serious struggle in Jugoslavia, which Mussolini feels will further his war plans for the invasion of Jugoslavia. In»Germany, also, the press could not hide its joy at the death of Foreign Minister Barthou. British Cabinet Meets The British cabinet met early to- |day to discuss the Jugoslavian sit- uation. No statements were given | out. Nearly all the armies in the Bal- | kans, and in the countries surround- | ing Jugoslavia are being mobilized. Italian troops have been rushed to the border of Jugoslavia. A cabinet crisis has developed in France, with demands that those who failed to protect the king be ousted and the cabinet reorganized. Prime Minister Doumergue has taken over the portfolio of Foreign Minister, and is said to be making preparations to go to Italy for the conferences Barthou had originally scheduled with Mussolini to discuss Italo-Jugoslavian relations. It was freely stated in all of the | European press that *he assassina- | tions would reshuffle all of capitalist | | Europe’s war alliances, with precip- \itate steps to gain advantage in the face of the danger of the imminent | outbreak of war. In Paris, the police are carrying on a campaign of raids and terror- ism against all Croatian nationalists | and Jugoslavian fugitives, Hundreds | have been arrested and questi¢ned them with the assassination. Passport Was Forged ‘Thus far, however, Petrus Kale- men, the dead assassin, was shown \to have acted singlehandedly, It | (Continued on Page 2) TORIAL also be strengthened on another front. t gle against the rotten leaders of the LS.U. should | be intensified and strengthened in every respect. For these gentlemen are acting as the chief herders | of strikebreakers for the steamship owners. | . have announced openly | | | Delegates of the I. ship from the port of New York. that are struck and picketed. stopped once and for all, ‘ADMIT WAR DANGER, tyrant | by the police in an effort to connect | that they will ship men on the struck vessels. In fact, they have shipped scabs aboard the S.S. Texas Ranger and have aided the shipowners to clear the officials were attempting to ship men on other ships These open acts of strikebreaking must be | But only the seamen, and especially the rank and file members of the 1.S.U., can stop these acts of scabbery. Not only should the ships be picketed, but also the offices of Mr. Victor Olander and his assistant, the debarred lawyer Silas Axtell. No strikebreakers should be allowed to appear C.P. Asks S. P. To Join GOVERNMENT "In Solidarity Actions CRISIS GROWS For Spanish Work kers DESPERATE | Earl Baoan nt General Aerreiary: of the Communist | |Party, U.S.A., yesterday sent a letter to Clarence Senior, {half of the Spanish workers. The letter, a copy of which was sent to Norman Thomas, follows: “The heroic struggle of the Span- ish working class against the Fas- cist reaction demands our imme- diate response. In Spain the united front of Socialist, Communist and non-party workers is offering blood and lives to halt the reactionary |forces threatening the whole world | Their fight is also ours. While our | Spanish brothers and sisters are united on the. barricades, can we in the U.S.A. any longer hesitate to at least unite in solidarity ac- tions in their support? “The Central Committee of the Communist Party calls upon the na- tional executive committee of the | Socialist Party to unite with us in @ joint call to the American work- LACK OF FOOD: LIFTS PRICES IN GERMANY BERLIN, Oct. 10—Credit ar- rangements between Germany and Great Britain are, according to the latest reports, now falling to pieces and the food shortage is causing prices to skyrocket far beyond the reach of the impoverished popula- tion of Germany. | There is already a huge gap ex- isting between German and foreign food prices. | Whereas during last year official figures showed a rise of 7% per cent in food prices, the rise is several | times this. figure for many of the | chief foods consumed by the work- ers. Wheat in Liverpool costs $27 a ton and $79 a ton in Germany. Rye in Rotterdam costs $22 a ton, in Germany $73. Pork in Chicago costs $3 a hun- dred-weight, in Germany $18. Butter in Copenhagen costs $31 for 200 pounds, in Germany $101. Bacon in Copenhagen costs $42 for 200 pounds, in Germany $73. Eggs in Copenhagen costs 2 cents each, in Germany 7 cents. These high prices, which mean terrible suffering in a country where | wages average a little more than $5 a week, are of absolutely no benefit to the small peasants. Hundreds of thousands of peas- | ants are bankrupt as a result of | the drought, high rent and taxes, | the exactions of the money-lenders, and the manipulations of the mar- ket by dealers and wholesalers. | Many workers ,nave set them- selves a quota of $1 a week for the “Daily” $60,000 drive. How much are you giving? Pennies, dimes, | quarters—send as much as you can! |The Daily Worker depends upon i you! The strug- | is the question Yesterday 1.8.U. ditional food is Every worker, from, no matter workiig class to This strike is ers for a series of mass demonstra- | Police and tions in all important cities, under, on the waterfront. | secretary of the National Executive Committee of the So- |cialist Party, urging immediate united front action on be- our joint auspices, to protest the bloody pogrom of Fascist-monar- chist reaction in Spain and to e: press sympathy and solidarity y the struggling workers and peasants “In every district and city we are calling upon our Party to make sim- ilar proposals to the corresponding committees of the Socialist Party. “Can we allow more precious days and even months, to slip by, while the whole capitalist world is drift- ing ever more rapidly into Fascism and war, without a serious effi to build a united working class front? “We call upon you for immediate favorable action. “Fraternally, “CENTRAL COMMITTEE, “COMMUNIST PARTY, “EARL BROWDER “General Secretary.” FORD PLANT FIRES 15,000 IN DEARBOR By ea B. Magil (Special to the Dally Worker) DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 10.—Fif- teen thousand workers were laid off at the Ford River Rouge plant to- day. This cut the force in half and reduced production to 800 cars a day. This. mass lay-off comes at a time when in Dearborn, controlled by the Ford Motor Company, as well as throughout Detroit, unem- ployed workers are having their budget cut, as well as their clothing, light and gas allowance, in accord- ance with the program for slashing nearly $500,000 from relief expen- ditures proposed by the State and County emergency relief depart- ments. Under the leadership of the Unemployment Councils struggles against the cuts are developing in various parts of the city. Three hundred workers this morning held a militant demonstration at the | Scotten Relief Station, demanding a twenty per cent increase of the proposed cut, an immediate five dol- lar emergency order for every re- lief applicant, cessation of third degree methods and the long wait- ing to which welfare dependents are subjected’, and recognition of the unemployd committees. The demonstration was addresed | by John Pace, secretary of the | Unemployment Councils and Com- munist candidate for Congress in | the Sixteenth District, and by rank | and file workers. “I will not contribute to the Daily Worker $60,000 drive,” asserts Mr. Ralph Easley, The Daily Worker can get along without Mr. Easley! | But it cannot get along without the | contributions of the working class. | Send your contributions today! They should be driven from the docks and from the labor movement forever. + The seamen kmow how to do this. be done in a vigorous manner if the strike is to be terminated speedily and victoriously. Another one of the main questions in the strike And it must of relief for the strikers. Every day hundreds of new strikers must be fed. The Workers International Relief so far has been able to take care of every man on strike in New | But there is relief needed for other ports and ad- York. needed for New York. no matter what industry he comes what political party he supports | or belongs to, should consider it his duty to the aid the strike by contributing to | the strike relief fund at 870 Broadway. in the interest of all the workers, Support it and help spread it, | old Armed Masdes Maintain Control Over Many Seized Cities BIG BATTLES LOOM State Saar Parente a3 Workers’ and Farmers’ Power Grows MADRID, Oct. 10.—With the -rev- olutionary general strike in its sixth day, fighting continued to spread throughout Spain, as the workers firmly remained in control of many of the towns and cities which_they seized in the armed struggles, Bi ig itself more openly on the monarchist forces, the anti- republicans, clericals and rich land< owners, the Lerroux-Robles fascist government admitted that it ex+ pected still greater attacks from the Madrid workers and from the workers sy Peasants throughout the cou Sporadic fighting continued to go on in Madrid. The government-ad- rr that it has not begun to cow he workers, whose forces are un- deren @ process of stronger or- ganization for more determined at- os against the government cen- ne workers’ forces in Madrid are well armed, with hundreds of ma- chine guns in their possession. A food shortage is rapidly de- veloping, and the crisis of the gov- ernment grows more desperate every hour, as news filters in from all provinces in Spain indicating that most of the reports of the “defeat” of the insurgent forces are so many lies The workers’ and peasants’ forces are massing for a huge battle soon in an effort to overwhelm the Fas- cist government's forces. The government is arming all of the monarchist, clerical and fascist forces, dropping pretenses of Re- publican parliamentary government, Foreign Legionaires from Morocco are being distributed to strategic centers for the big battles the.gove ernment momentarily expects. Each day of the lack of decisive advance by the government forces Plays in the hands of the armed workers, who are strengthening their forces, arming more and more workers, constantly weakening the confidence and fighting capacity-of the government authorities. In an effort to terrorize the workers, the Council of War--at Zaragoza condemned twelve workers to death on the charges of having been implicated in the Syndicalist uprising of last December. These workers were prisoners and thé reason for the death sentence at this time is a move of révenge against workers who shot down Qtvil Guards during the present struggle against the fascist regime. 4 More Anti-Fascists _ Beheaded in Germany? Red Aid Presses Fight BERLIN, Oct. . 10—m thetast three weeks four more German-antle fascists were executed by the axe, Two fighters against Fascism, Hans Voith and Frederick Rapior, mounts ed the hangman's scaffold at-Dorte mund. The worker, Hans Schide was beheaded in Hagen, af@ i Elbing on Sept. 18 young Gregor Meissner, a member of the Catholic sport organization, Deutsche—Juge endkraft, was murdered. In the face of this new series of executions the International Réd Aid, in a strong appeal to “every anti-fascist, calls for intensifying every effort to free the many im~ prisoned anti-fascists who stand in immediate danger of losing > their lives. Especially is the call for thé: mo- bilization of all forces directed to saving the 50 anti-fascists who, thrown into prison long ago, now are sitting in death cells awaiting execution. It is the cry of putting an end to these executions which must be raised throughout all lands, | __The success of the Daily Worker $60,000 drive means a better, larger newspaper. Donate and get donae tions today. Send the money ime | mediately to the “Daily.” ate!