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

Yesterday's Receipts Total to date ..... Press Run Y esterday. Speed Contributions! $.. 514.44 . 16,699.37 51,200 , Vol. XI, N i Entered a6 second- Daily -QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST IN Ss matter at the Post Office at New York, M. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 1879. WORKERS HOLD NORTH SPAIN NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NATIONAL EDITION ATIONAL) OCTOBER 12, 1934 WEATHER: Fair. Price 3 Cents (Six Pages) “TL. D. Intensifies Mass Fight 1 To Save Scottsboro Boys ‘SEAMEN EXTEND TIE-UP ON EAST COAST SHIPS IN ALL MAIN PORTS ARE AFFECTED I. S. U. Leaders Provide Seab Crews for Struck Ships RYAN CALLS SCABS Hudson Again Calls for Closing of All Shipping / Agencies Seamen, masters, mates, pilots, radio operators and engineers held their strike lines yesterday with the) walk-out — still affecting 26 steamships and seagoing tugs in several Atlantic ports. situation was briefly as fol- Eight ships either fully or par- tially affected by the strike in New York harbor, Three ships’ Boston. One freighter and five seagoing | tugs affected in Norfolk. Va. Three coal boats struck in New- port Ne’ ships partially struck in Bal- | crews striking Cr _ of one ship out at Chester, | Radio Men Strike Ship The American Radio Telegraph-| ists Association, 22 Whitehall St., declared the S.S. Olympic on strike. The c of this ship struck early | this week. ‘The Texas Ranger, which was the first ship struck in New York har- By Harry Gannes | Associate Editor, Daily Worker 'VERY reader of the Daily Worker is inspired by the heroic armed struggles of the Spanish workers and peasants against the fascist Lerroux government. Great revolu- | tionary battles are maturing \throughout the whole capitalist | World. The united front of Socialists }and Communists in France is an- swering the fascist threats of the Doumergue government by more | determined mobilization of the workers. In every capitalist country, the bosses, faced with rising resistance | |of the workers, and the growing) crisis of their whole system, plunge | closer and closer to a criminal im- | perialist war as a way out. | * IN this situation, the Daily Worker sep a special role. For example, Special Role of ‘Daily’ of Struggles of Spanish Workers and Peasants Cited by Gannes Need for ‘Daily’ F unds Is Explained i in Appeal in Presenting News the capitalist press is deliberately trying to belittle the world-shaking ! events in Spain. The baseball scores, football scores are plastered all over the front pages, and in some in- stances, the fighting of millions of workers in Spain against fascism |is hidden on the second or other inside pages. Only the Daily Worker: gives the news and reports the significance |of the Spanish armed struggles. By coincidence, the first New York City edition in its enlarged form, with two editions, appeared on the very day that the fighting in Spain reached national propor- tions. Because of the enlarged edi- tion we were able to provide our readers with twice as much news as we would have unde: the old con-) ditions. At the same time, we were (Continued on Page 2) - BOSTONLABOR DEBATE BARES FIGHTS TERROR CORRUPTION IN SEA STRIKE BOSTON, Mass, Oct. 11—A mass | | meeting to defend the right of| workers to strike and to protest | against the terror raging in Boston | jagainst maritime strikers and strik- | ling workers throughout the country | | will be held -on Sunday, Oct. 14, OF AFL HEADS By Bill Dunne (Special to the Daily Worker) SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Oct. 11.—| The N.R.A. was brought out clearly | |as an anti-labor instrument in the | debate on the floor of the A. F. of ‘ACTS TO SPEED NEW APPEAL FOR TWO BOYS Exposes the Treachery of Samuel Liebowitz in Statement WILL NOT H HALT aD Lives of Youths Come First, Says ILD Barring / Controversy | The International Lebor Defense, | in a formal statement to the press. answering the charges of Samuel) Leibowitz and his announcement of his designation as defense counsel | for Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris, issued the following state- | ment: “December 7. 1934, is the date set |for the execution of Haywood Pat- | terson and Clarence Norris, two of | | the Scottsboro defendents. pee controversy which would t from world-wide attention erie fixed on that date or impair | the world-wide struggle whieh must ia ite ie to prevent this legal Alabama would be a Makan vor the defense of the Scottsboro boys and a blow at the cause of Nee liberation and would merit the pest condemnation. “In the ars then, of ing to render now, as we have ever since the beginning of our connec- tion with the Scottsboro cases, every | aid and assistance for the purpose |of saving the lives and winning the freedom. of these innocent vic- tims of Southern white ruling class n | justice, we have instructed our at- torneys, Joseph R. Brodsky and/ Osmond K. Fraenkel, to immedi- continu- | REGIMENTS GO OVER TO WORKERS: NEW SOVIETS ARE ESTABLISHED, REVOLT SWEEPS THROUGH LAND General Strike Is Firm--Communists Are in Forefront- ‘Loyal’ Troops Sullen-On ly Barcelona in Goverment Hands -in North ANT ITALIAN RIOTS INCITED INJUGOSLAVIA Saveriuiint. Inspires Demonstrations All Over Country WAR FEVER RISES liealy Mobilizes Troops to Move to Jugo- slav Border (Special to the Daily Worker by International Press Correspondence) | he eee | ZURICH, Oct. 11 (By Wireless).—A wholesale series of desertions of entire infantry BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, Oct, 11.| regiments and marine corps to the side of the revolutionary workers, as well as a rapid —Serious riots against Italian of-| spread of the movement of revolt against the Spanish fascist government, was reported avi d against gies a a pres | this afternoon by. telephone by our special correspondent in Spain. jare occurring throughout | eae <i 5 ¢ Of Northern Spain only | country. | ; In Ljubjana, speakers inspired Barcelona is in the hands of government forces, all other cities and towns flying the red flag. \by the government whipped up an anti-Italian fury, charging Mus- CI. and Y.C.L, Call solint with having plotted the |Gijon was recaptured by revolu- ‘murder of King Alexander, and | | tionary troops made up of work |fnanced its realization. ‘Mussolini | and two companies of infan which had gone over to the pro= letarian ranks. In Campo, also in Asturias, new Soviets were set-up with the aid of fifty marines. All along the co2st is the brains behind the assassina- tion,” declared speakers who were sent into the crowd to whip up a war ‘frenzy, ‘and Itely is morally \responsible for the assassination.” All Workers to Aid Spanish B rothers ‘The crowd then attacked the | from the decks of battleships the Italian consul and beat him red banners could he seen flying severely. Only Jate intervention by from public buildings and num- erous barricades. Everywhere over Spain the “loyal” troops marched sullenly and unwil- the police sayed him from serious injury or death. In the following appeals the Communist Interna- Similar demonstrations are going tional and the Communist Youth International call upon on in all parts of the country, par- 2 g : lingly toward newly established ticularly in Zagreb, Sarajevo and the world working class.to rally immediately to the sup- Soviets, often slowing their pace to Liubjana. 5 a ‘ r ji : -y three miles an hour. In Madrid, Chbiaa: where the most serious| Port of the Spanish workers in their rev olutionary strug- {the capital city itself, fighting incident occurred, is only fifty miles gle against fascist reaction, particularly addressing broke out in the barracks, while from the Italian border. Recently near this frontier at Bologna, Mus- |solini declared, spe*king to an as- lsembly of 5,000 Italian officers. |gathered for war mancuvers: i iali + Hy soldiers and marines in the nearby their appeals to the Socialist workers and to the Social | cubtirbs: anne tain: walted ariel eaiate ist International. | for the outcome. Yesterday a similar appeal was addressed by the | Reds Hold The Communists, together with } bor, is at sea with a scab crew sup- L. tional ti he | ately make available to Samuel B.|‘War is in the air, and may break Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Ar | at 8 p.m. at Old South Mecting| national convention, over the| ate ? the Socialists, are again in the | plied by leaders of the International | 45, lreport of the Executive Council on | Leibowitz, upon his notificetion that !cut at any minute. We must pre- | Tht va) = 7 PNR RS Sees ‘ Reatiews UfiGE: use under the auspices of the the defendants have so requested, | pare. not for tie war of tomorrow, United States to the Socialist Party. Workers every forefront of the strike leadership \International Labor Defense. |results under the N.R.A. and its Representatives of the I. L. D., | program of the next steps for the the Atlantic Seamen’s United Front |labor . movement. The Executive | Strike Committee, the New England | Council’s report consisted ma‘nly of and of the revolutionary movement as a whole. The general strike was renewed with unusual vigor everywhere. In Strikebreakers were put aboard| the S.S. Lammot duPont, the strike , committee reported, and the ship is where, particularly Communist and Socialist workers, should strive immediately, without a moment’s delay, all papers necessary in preparing | but the war of today!” the cases of Haywood Patterson and Italian Troops Mobilized — Clarence Norris fo: appeal to the| Italian troops are being mobilized Pa at sea bound for Galveston. The Havana, a Ward liner, which was partially struck during the first of the strike, is on its way/ |Committee for the Defense of Po- | |litical Prisoners and the Commu- | nist Party will speak. an attempt to get legislation, and showed the servile position of fed- eration officialdom. The devastating United States Supreme Court. “We have already retained Mr. | Walter H. Pollak, outstanding con- for local united front action in support of the heroic Spanish workers. Protest meetings and demonstrations should be carried through at once. to proceed to the Jugoslavian | der, and the danger of war grows | more ominous each hour. Malaga and Alicante the general strike became powerful and firm and in Madrid workers of every day | - | stituti 7 y The semi-official Jugoslevian Condemn Police Attacks effects of the labor officials’ co- | stitutionel lawyer, the attorney who _ 2uE Rigs 3 , street-cleaners nS- to Havana, Cuba, the strikers having) ii ‘operation with the N.R.A. was|had successfully argued the first | newspaper, Pravda carried a heavy- At the same time the Socialist Party should be | ‘Tade, walters, street-cleaners, trans been replaced by strikebreakers. cee: I Lee otk Spnguneig eG brought out in the debate, | appeal of the Scottsboro boys in type streamer across its front page cradle ty Wiaue Heat aia and Gocialist. Conanuniat and ae so heeeiokg adit : eat Ryan Enlists Scabs 6, pointed that a large num~| "Following the debate on the/|the United Staves Supreme Court, | charging Italy with having inspired a secu ee me The S.S. Santa Elena, which was partia struck, had seabs aboard her yesterday and was prepared to sail. iner, with strikebreakers, The Atlantic Seamen’s United Front Strike Committee charged that most of the shipping of scabs aboard the struck vessels was done by leaders and delegates of the In- ternational Seamen’s Union. Leaders of the 1S.U. admitted to the press that they were called upon several times to supply men for the ships declared on strike. These heads stated openly that t supplied the men requested by aie} ber of marine workers, including fishermen are now on strike in Boston and ‘that police attacks | against the strikers is being inten- | sified. Among the attacks cited are | at the headquarters of the organ- ization at 12 Hayward Pl. yesterday. | 21 Jailed In Charlestown “Twenty-one arrested in Charles- town protesting against butcher Hitler’s cruiser, Karlsruhe, s'ill face and students arrested for speaking | against Hanfstaengl, Hitler’s part- | 5 ner in crime, who, by his ‘antics at | | Harvard, hoped to drown out the | N.R.A. the convention again took up the building trades dispute. Sec- retary Maloney of the Adjusiment Committee reported in favor of ac- and bricklayers unions will be ad- | mitted to the Building Trades de- partment and their officialdom will take over the devariment as the result of the convention decision reached by a roll call vote, a big majority was piled up against Presi- six months in jail. Nine workers | dent McDonough and his supporters. | A new set of reactionaries will re- place the old. The vove was 19,398 to 3,866. Then began a convention strug- | (Continued on Page 2) to once more take charge of the appeals in that court. Two-Fisted Policy faced with the appeal to the United |States Supreme Court in April, | 1932, we retained Mr. Pollak, who successfully argued that case; there- | lafter when we were faced with =e] retrials we looked about for a ci petent trial lawyer and _ final a |selected Mr. Samuel S. Leibowitz. “We selected him only after he jegreed to vigorously defend these cases in line with the policy of the (Continued on Page 2) strii Against the mass upsurge of workers, soldiers and peasants, the landing of 2,000 Foreign Legion aires and the conversion of battice Syndicalist workers are jointly shedding their blood in Spain. Surely here_the Socialists, Communists and all workers must give full support. The Daily Worker urges the assassination of King Alexan- der. “Our national enemies killed our King!” declared Pravda. As part of the Jugesievian war ‘Joseph P. Ryan, president of the|the arrest of pickets, beating of |CePtance of the recommendation for “Our policy of defense is a two- | mobilization, 27 military vlenes were) that the appeal of the Communist International be acted See eee ata ane | International Longshoremen’s As- |Strikers, arrest for distribution of |20mitting carpenters, bricklayers | onan the best fie cpa made ready to take off at the han- upon immediately. ina eee ae sis : y sociation, has replaced the 50 long-|handbills and newspapers and) and electrical workers into the |Plus cur main weapon, widest mass | gars at Zemum. : 5 | s _ f w with the min: ager 2 Age ey rhe abid pa ae = | shoremen of eal 808, who steuck| threatened attacks on strike leaders. | Building Trades Department. pressure. So far as court proceed-| The Jugoslavian “parliament” | ge pecially is We a atthe i caper ata Dek ma nets ay at ots ber oes | at Pier 2, Erie Basin, in sympathy| “The right to free speech and to| Naw Reasons ings are concerned, we select the! gathered in extraordinary session| verialist war confronting the toiling masses of the whole Tenicet anor Tere ane ae rit 3 2 aerate fitted for the par- to witness the taking of the oath) world is it y t hiev ited front actions of So- i ROrts Sapnish reace h the seamen on the | demonstrate is constantly violated,”| Electrical workers, the carpenters | attorney best ‘0 witness the taking world is it necessary to achieve united front actions of So. ys Shag said a representative of the I. L. D, ticular job in hand. When we were | by the three regents, who will rule | tion. | lin the name of the li-vear ola | “ialists and Communists against war and fascism. Immedi- King Peter II. | ate action is imperative. In France, the police are raiding | . . . eS aa “TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE SOCIALIST INTERNA-. | arrested scores. Two Jugoslavians, TIONAL! | charged with being implicated in| “TO THE TOILERS OF ALL LANDS! police and deputy sheriffs | the plot to kill King Alexander “The fascist-monarchist reaction in Spain has hurled all ed pitket lines ut the Arenas | were azrested, and ere being que: tioned and tortured by the French | The police claim one of the armed strength of the army, the nayy and the aviation con sil pany here today. IRIN ioral The movement in the tex= | Police. has begun, with strikes Siate Police Attack Mill Pickets as Silk Strike Wave Grows LANCASTER, Pa., Oct. 11.—Pin= | (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 2 shipowners. ‘ | we 2) New Jersey as well as Penn- Scab Agency Advertises | ivania silk 1 Seventy silk It was also pointed out by Hoyt shops are on strike in Paterson, Haddock, president of the American| Radio Telegraphists Association, | tha the Sherwood Detective Agency, | rious strikcbreaking agency, had | din the New York Amer-! Samuel Leibowitz and the Defense of the Scottsboro Boys AN EDITORIAL N. J. The fight began when he Arohn- son company announced its Christ- jane, plant would resume operations With scabs, but the Coatsville mill icon for wireless operators. ould jremain shut down. The i Roy Hudson. chairman of the HE efforts of the militant working class forces | the boys. The Daily Worker pledges iiself to spare Leibowitz, in turn, has asked the I. L, D. and | the Nesro masses will not retire from the case. oe A gee ot ome See OTL eer ae cane | and the Negro masses to cave the lives of the | no effort in arousing the masses for the boys’ de- | Josevh Brodsky, its chief counsel, to turn over all | Mr. Leibowits will find that it is eacy to “oust the ended, waite “7 es: in spreading the” strike wee. to| nine innocent Scottsboro boys have encountered fense. id the records in the case within two days. Communists in Scot 'sboro Case” in newspaper var PARA E close all agencies on the waterfront | 2¥ obstacles in the treacherous alliance of the at- .: rs . The I. L. D., in view of the need for quick action | headlines, but in life the Communists, and around Spanish Ww orkers Press thet are supplying scabs for ihe | torney, Samuel Leibowitz, with persons who from STERDAY the morning capitalist newspapers | in appealing the verdict of the Alabama Supreme | them the masses, will continue with greater energy struck ships. “The chief of the strikebreakers,” Hudson declared, ‘is Mr. Victor Olander, secretary of the International Seamen’s Union.” Hudson pointed out that the strike committee was mobilizing the sea- men, especially those who are mem- bers of the I. S. U., to drive Olander and his assistants from the water- front. Radio Men to Fight Company | At the outset, go forward. Their lives must be tional Labor Defense entered the the face of Leibowitz’s treachery. therefore, the beginning of the case have secretly sabo- — iaged or openly fought the boys’ defense. But the defense of these nine innocent boys must been the first consideration ever since the Interne- 1931. This must be the first consideration now in the Daily Worker, headlines: saved. This has case on April 8, carried a siztement by Samuel Leivowitz under “Leibowitz Ousts Communists in Scotts- boro Case,” “Reds Told To Dro» Scottsboro Case,” ete. The statement indicated that Leibowitz, con- spiring behind the back of the International Labor Defense, and aited by a certain group of boot- licking Hariem preachers and other reactionary white and Negro misleaders, had secured statements from two of the boys, Heywood Patterson and Clar- Court that the ‘wo boys, Patterson and Norris, must | to build up the mass defense. Thaelmann Campaign die on December 7th, to the United States Supreme * es | MADRID, Oct. 11—That the ger the boys’ lives by any delay in meeting the statement is the following: “The Communists It will make available all the | have from ‘he start of the case exploited the de- fendants in order to raise funds for red activiti and by stirriny up trouble between black and white in the South have jeopardized the Negroes’ lives.” We ungquelifiedly brand Mr. Leibowitz as a liar! Spanish workers’ campaign for the of Thaelmann goes on sterm of revolutionary is evidenced by a heavily- petition sent ‘o Paris from* atorney’s request. Tecords at once. Furthermore, the I. L. D. attorneys are offering their full co-operation to Leibowitz in preparing the Supreme Court appeal and are urging the con- e first signature and greeting | f ence Norris, giving him full power to carry on their | ctitutional lawyer, Walter H. Pollak, who was to We challenge Leibowitz to show where one penny irom the former German The American Radio Telegraph-| ‘Peaking for the Communist Party, endorces un- | further legal defense. handle the appeal for the I. L. D., fo offer aid to | Of Scottsvoro funds were used for any other pur- 1 of Seville. ists’ Association, members of which | quelifiedly the statement of the International Labor By what shady methods these statements were | Leibowitz. The I. L. D. could not do more. This | Pose than for the Scottsboro defence. “The German republicans of voted to strike wherever the seamen | walk out, announced yesterday that Defense. We urge every worker, every we ‘orkers’ organiza- obtained is not now known. It is clear, however, that the two boys, isolated as they are in their | Spain send their warmest solidarity again proves that the International Labor Defense ings to the International Re= As for the charge that the Communists were jeopardizing the lives of the boys by “stirring 17 | | ourt, immediately declared that it will not endan- MONG other assertions made by Leibowits in his if | | | Retions Which now Tas] : Ppleces the fight for tne lives of these nine boys | Phy eS ee ato ane ‘conta | {in to realize that now, moze than ever before, the | prison celis, subjected to false charges, deceitful | before every other consideration. trouble between blacks and whites in the Sout eee Apiengt an bears launch a drive agains: the Barber success of the boys’ def: en our ability | maneuvers an“ tremendeus pressure, gave letters At the same time the I. L. D. serves notice on the exact opposite is the truth. ang for the genet SR ee (Continued on Page 2) to arouse a pews uneempromisinely vl mass. movement committed to the fight for the freedom of defense to Leibowitz authorizing him to conduct their legal dom mar yred by (Signed) OTTO ENGELHARDT, ‘Under Communist leadership the fight fer the fascism.’ (Conismued on Page 6) Mr. Leibowitz and those reactionary forces behind | him that the militant working class movement and |