The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 13, 1934, Page 1

—_————— ARRANGE HOUSE PARTIES NOW TO RAISE FUNDS! Yesterday’s Receipts . Total to Date . Press Run Yesterday—52,500 $ 645.15 . $17,344.52 Daily .<QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Vol. XI, No. 246 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 8, 1879. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1934 WEATHER: Fair, moderate winds. (Eight Pages) NATIONAL EDITION Price 3 Cents SCOTTSBORO BOYS WANT I.L.D. LS. U. Officials Supply Scabs to WORK a NORTH HOLDS FIRM AGAINST GOVERNMENT General Strike Effects | Tell As Supplies Become Short ALL SCABS HALTED. Revolutionaries Control | Railways in North and Ample Arms | MADRID, Oct. 12. — While in| Northern Spain the workers hero- | Ieally withstood all attacks of re- | Inforced government troops, in Ma- | drid itself strikers fought the forces | of the fascist Lerroux administra- tion simultaneously in several parts | of the city this afternoon. | In the capital city the work cd from different quarters. m the police and fascists. | call of the Communist and | t parties for a greater in-| ng of the general strike was | ed by the halting of scab | activity whezever an attempt has} been made to begin work again. The | effecti of the strike is at-| tested by the shortage of various foodstuffs, a shortage which at the same time directly proves that north Spain, the chief source of the country’s dairy supplies, is carrying out the revoluticnary general strike | to the full. The me: enary troops imported o haye been greatly in- to the fact that the is insufficient to cope with the powerful armed struggles of the workers, and the fact that} sections of the army and marines have already gone over to the reyo- lutionaries, and have actually aided them in setting up new soviets. Along the road of mazch of the mercenaries to northern Spain were abundant proofs that the workers had given more than blow for b» in fighting against the fascist Civi Guards, whole garrisons of whom had been overwhelmed in the ad- vance of the proletarian corps. Cabinet repor‘s that the had been ended in Malaga were un- | confirmed. Trains are carrying revolutionary reinforcements to Mieres and Oviedo. A rebel train was declared to be bombed and a hundred men lost. Meanwhile government pene- tration into northe:n regions was practically impossible, because all cities and towns are heavily forti- fied and large quantities of explo- sives and ammunitions are at the disposal of the revolutionists. In many places time-bombs were placed in the path of oncoming mercenaries. Soviet Metal Indusiry Made New Production Record in Sepiember | | | | (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Oct. 12, (By Wireless). —Metallurgy is gaining new achieve- ments every month, In September record figures w reached for the average daily production of pig- iron, steel and rolled products. Tae everage daily output of p:g-iron for September amounted to 35,000 tons, against 29,800 in June and 26,300 in March; for steel it was 27,800 tons against 27,000 for June and 24,600 for March. Felled products production cor. respondingly increased from 18,000 and 18.300 tons in March and Juns to 19.400 tons in September. A wide conference dealing with problems of irrigation and forest- eticn at the Steppe sections of the Volga region, which frequntly suffers from drought due to a number of climatic causes, was held at Saratov. The Conference was attended, amongst other delegates, | by representatives cf 100 collective farms which have already accom. plished much work in irrigation. At the conference an agreement of Socialist mutuel aid between co}- lective farms was signed. Collec- tive farmers from those collective | farms where irrigation work al- ready has been successfully accom- | plished will go as instructors on | building dams *nd conducting ir-| rigation channe!s | | | *\on capitalist newspap 1| Thaelmann, leader of the German |men’s Union, tock place Thursday Casey Urges Speed | To Save New ‘Daily’ Points Out How the Bankers, Big Merchants and Manufacturers Support Capitalist Press— Calls on Workers to Support Own Paper By James Casey Managing Editor, Daily Worker Two days ago the Central Committee of the Commu- nist Party issued a statement to the effect that unless the | $60,000 was decidedly and immediately quickened to justify the continuance of an eight-page paper, the Daily Worker would be forced by the end of next#——— ansieesinainn week to return to one edition of|affairs as not to be compelled to} six pages. For the “Daily” to be|make more than one appeal yearly | forced to take this step backward | to the workers for financial aid. because of the failure of its read- | Bosses Aid Capitalist Press ers and sympathizers and in the | Bankers, brokers, manufacture:s first place of the Party Organization |and big department store owners | in New York to act promptly would|take the greatest care to nurture | be a severe blow to the whole | “their newspapers” and keep “their | militant workers’ movement in| newspapers” in a flourishing finan- | America. \cial condition. They care for their Having worked for many years | thousands of sheets which each day | it is easy|feeds metal poison to the masses | for me to understand why the Daily|of America even as mo‘hers who} Worker cannot possibly operate | fondle their own children. And so, | without the wholehearted and ready | the capitalist newspapers grow fat response on the part of the mem- | with paid advertisements and their | bers of the Communist Party, the | owners grow richer and richer, while trade unions, the mass organiza-|the workers take~wage cuts, are tions and the hosts of sympathizers | subjected to layoffs and always feel to its annual appeal for funds. In- | “lucky” to be permitted to prosti- | deed, it has always been surpris- tute their intellects for the sake of | ing to me that the Daily Worker) management could so conduct its| | PICKET NAZIPLAN TO FIRE. CONSULATEAT SEA STRIKE {TONMONDAY OFFICES FAILS In view of a cable communica-| A new provocation against the tion from the World Committee to | Atlantic seamen’s strike, which sea- Aid Victims of German Fascism | men lay directly at the doorsteps of confirming the fact that Ernst |leaders of the International Sea- (Continued on Page 2) working class, is scheduled for 0'ght when an incendiary who gave “trial” beginning next Monday, the |his name as Pat Rooney, attempted Anti-Nazi Federa’ion of New York |t0 set fire to the strike headquar- yesterday called on all organiza- | ‘ers at 505 W. 19th St. tions to elect committees in order, Clarence Lewis, a striking sea- to picket the German Consulate, 17 man, who sleeps at the headquar- Battery Place. jters, surprised Rooney as he was The pickets of the Metal Work- pouring gasoline on the wooden ers, Purniture Workers’ Union, of | steps outside the building sometime the English and Jewish Workers’) after 10 o'clock Thursday night. Clubs and of the League of S.ruggle | Rooney was trying to fire the steps for Negro Rights and the Commit- | With matches when Lewis fright- tee of the Unemployed Councils;ened him away by calling to a are scheduled to arrive at 11{/group of workers who were inside | o'clock in the morning before the | the strike headquarters that some- German Consulate. |one was trying to set fire to the Delegates of organizations, de- manding the unconditional release of Thaelmann and other anti-fas- cist prisoners, will meet nex: Mon- day morning at 10 o'clock at the offices of the Anti-Nazi Federation, 168 W. 23rd Street, in order to con- sult before going to see the consul. All organizations and individuals are urged to use every effort by sending resolutions, telegrams and le.ters to Germany and by flood- ing the German Consulate with telephone calls. Only the conceried effort of all anti-fascists and of all justice and liberty-loving individu- als and organizations can save Thaelmann and hundreds of polit- ical prisoners, scheduled tor tv:al in the new sessions of the Peoples Court, from the executioner’s axe. _C. P. on the Ballot iny New Hampshire CONCORD, N. H., Oct. 12,—De- spite intimidation and efforts by local election authorities to put le- gal obstacles in the way, the Com- mun'st Party has suceceded in plec- ing a State ticket en the ballot. More than 1,200 names of certified yoters have been submitted to the Secretary of State. The legal re- quirement is only 1,000. The State ticket consists of Mrs. Elba K. Chase for Governor; Mau- rice O. Hudson and Forrest E. Crawford for Congress im the sec- ond and first districts respectively. The success of the Daily Worker $60,000 drive means a better, larger newspaper. Donate and get dona- tions today. Send the money im- mediately to the “Daily,” | building. Lewis and another striker, Gethyn Lyons, dashed after the incendiary, who. tried to‘escape. As they caught Rooney he shouted, “I hope the house burns, I'll get you bas- tards yet.” The workers found sev- eral boxes of matches on Rooney and an anti-Communist clipping jfrom the New York Jcurnal. } Tried To Escape | Rooney tried to escape and kept | yelling, “Harry, don’t let them get/ |me.” But his accomplice failed to} | appear. Rooney's shouts attracted | ja couple of detectives who had been | eating in a nearby lunchwagon. | At the insistence of the workers | the detectives took Rooney to the| W. 20th St. i There he Mills Ho- | tel, Seventh Ave. and 36th St. Roo- | ney, it was d'scovered, has a pr yious police record. | Rooney's only explenation for his | actions was that the workers were trying to frame him. The worke: pressed their charges and he wes} held in custody. He was arraigned yesterday morning in the Jefier. son Market Court on a charze of attempted arson and was-held in $2,500 bond. The International La- bor Defense is pressing the charge for the M.W.1.U., which is deter- mined to expose this provocation against the marine s‘rike. ‘AS soon as Rooney was arrested leaders of the LS.U. leaped to his defense. James J. Mayer, an at- torney of 119 W. 10th St., was re- tained by LS.U. offcials to defend |Rconey and Mr. Mayer indicated that the LS.U. treasury would sup- ply the bail to get Rooney out. The case will come up in the Jef- 1 (Continued on Page 2) 26 VESSELS ARE TIED UP ERS RENEW OFFENSI ¢ A.F.L. SCHEME GIVES UNIONS ALONG COAST NO AUTONOMY of Olander Spread Confusion SHIP’S CREW QUITS Relief Needed—Meeting Called for Sunday to Raise Funds Shipowners and leaders of the In- |ternational Seamen's Union were mobilizing all their available forces yesterday and intensifying their ac- tivities in a concerted attempt to stop the spread of the Atlantic mar- | itime strike. Ships were being visited through- out the day by I. S. U. delegates who told the men there was no strike and company officials of many lines were pasting up I. 8. U. placards stating that the strike was off, on the bulkheads of newly- arrived vessels, These acttvittes“ttrr-many cases | , dividing the seamen and confusing them, have caused considerable de mcralization among the men on the ships who had signed strike pledge | cards. In fact, the spread of the Strike was sericusly affected yster- day due to the scabbery of the gentlemen leading the I. S. U. I. S. U. Supplies Scabs Although 26 ships were affected by the strike along the coast yes- terday, several struck vessels have sailed with scabs abroad—scabs sup- plied by officials of the IS U. Meanwhile Victor Olancer, secre- tary of the I. S. U., has announced that he will continue to supply men for the struck ships. The Santa Elena, a Grace liner, which was partially struck by the Atlantic Sea- men’s United Front Strike Com- mittee, was preparing to sail -es- terday with scabs sent aboard by these misleaders of labor. While the Santa Elena prepared to sail, however, thirty members of the crew of the Western World, a Munson liner, walked off the | ship in Brooklyn and joined the strike. Picketing at the docks was in- tensified. Squads of pickets num- bering more than 700 were on duty | at the piers in Manhattan, Brook-| jlyn and in New Jersey both night | charters and day. All day long a squad of pickets U. S. Shipping Bureau remained reported that shipowners had ai- tempted to ship scabs to vessels that are on strike. Relief Mass Meeting In Boston crews of three ships are continuing their strike. The U. SShipping Bureau remained closed following the visit of a dele- gation of seamen to the establish- ment on Wednesday. Two more coal boats that are due in Boston harbor are expected to be struck when they arrive. To intensify the relief campaign for the strikers a mass meeting will be held on Sunday at 1 p.m. at the Central Opera House under the auspices of the Workers Interna- | tional Relief, which has set up three (Continued on Page 2) | Strikebreaking Tactic s| Official 4 Adeat Plan! Is Aimed to Combat Red Influence CONVENTION ENDS ‘Industrial Union’ Move Marks No Change in Aid to Bosses’ Policy | By Bill Dunne (Special to the Daily Worker) | SAN FRANCISMO, Cal., Oct. 12. —A decision of great importance, | no matter how it may be hampered in practice by officialdom, changed the basis of the A. F. of L. from craft unionism to industrial union- ism at the prolonged session of the 54th annual convention yesterday. This decision, admittedly taken as a result of an influx of industrial union resolutions from organiza- tions in all sections of the country and from unions in practically all basic industries, was said by a num- ber of union heads to be “necessary to prevent the spread of Communist influence.” The official phrase was | that “If we don’t organize these workers in industrial unions Communists will.” With this decision the 54th an- | nual convention came to an end. | Some sessions will still be held and officers have to be elected, but so far as major questions are con- cerned the convention is over. Em- bodied in the decision of issuing industrial charters in a number of industries were such questions as the enlargement of the Executive | NEW REPORTS AAA POLICY Council and the inclusion in it of | heads of unions in decisive indus- | tries. This issue was settled in| principle by the convention decision | and only the technical questions re- main, There will be little contro- versy over these. Specifically, the | convention decision instructs the | Executive Council to issue industrial charters in the Auto, Aluminum and Cement industries. I: is in- | structed to start a national cam- | paign for organization in the iron | and steel industries as soon as pos- | sible. No New Policy at Top instructed also to issue for industrial unions in| | such “mass produc'ion” industries | as seems advisable. At the same It is |watched the shipping office of the| time, it is instructed to protect the |*Ssassinated in 1914, which was the | interests of existing craft unions. | Let no one think that the present bureaucracy of the A. FP. of L— the~ Brea VE Marine Strike IN MADRID LEIBOWITZ REBUFFED, LETTERS WRITTE ‘Daily’ Will Begin Series On Labor Spy System Beginning Monday the Daily Worker will start pub- lication of a series of articles which will expose in docu- mented detail the operation of the labor spy system ten- tacles reach into every important plant of American in- dustry. As a result of a thorough investigation conducted by a staff writer the “Daily” is in a position to present photostatic evidence revealing the far-flung activities of the most important stool pigeon and strikebreaking agen- cies, method of their underground work in the Communist \| Party and the trade unions the blacklist system of Cara- t “evieSteély the municipal espionage conducted in ‘work-+ ers’ organizations, copies of confidential instructions to spies as well as of their reports, the federal apparatus for snooping, their connections and backing. Every Party member, every trade union man, every worker who is interested in how he may avoid being put on the blacklist tomorrow or the day after should watch for this series and read it with care. “LINK HITLER) MAKES MEAT TOSHOOTINGS PRICES SOAR WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 12.— The economists of the A. A. A. ad- mitted today that meat prices have already risen from 30 to 40 per cent above their level in the first quarter of 1934, and said that re- tail meat costs would «ise another 15 to 20 per cent by next year. The Department of Agriculture tried to cover up the responsibility jof the Roosevelt administration for this attack on the workers’ standard ef living by shifting the blame to the drought. BELGRADE, Oct. 12. — Rioting flared up throughout Jugoslavia, | with demonstrations scheduled in front of the Italian consulates in Sarajevo and Zagreb, 9s the slain tyrant king's body was being taken to Split, Jugoslavia. At Sarajevo, where Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was pretext for the outbreak of the last jimperialist war, the rioting was the |worst. Inspired crowds wrecked des ati ecu. | shops of Croatian nationalists, and | with some additions to the Execu domed © -OF6atha nc” Cacholic tive Council, as is possible — has |" ~ changed its fundamental policy of | Churches. ; protecting the interests of monopoly | A bomb exploded in the post capital and the capitalist system | Office at Sarajevo. Troops were be- because of the adoption of this far- |ing mobilized throughout the coun- reaching decision. |try, ostensibly against the rioters, Its intentions are clear. Official-|>ut in reality to suppress any rev- dom does not intend to allow the|Olutionary struggles against the slightest semblance of rank and! fascist military dictatorship and to file democracy to creep into the new | Prepare for war. industrial unions it sponsers. This| The Jugoslavian press, as well as | is shown by the second part of the ,government-inspired orators throw | resolution adopted by the commit- the blame for the assassination on tee and the convention. the Italian fascist government. This section provides that the| Karl Radek, one of the edito | Executive Council has the power /of the Soviet newspaper ‘Izvestia,” (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 6) BLOCK OLANDER’S SCABBERY An Editorial ARITIME workers on the East coast should rally ) was retained by leaders of the International Sea- all their forces today against the leaders of the International Seamen’s Union, who have concen- trated every anti-labor force available to divide the seamen, confuse them and to break their strike by scab-herding on a large-scale basis. It should be clear now to everyone that the aims of the shipowners and Victor Olander are one—to break the strike. Not only are they attempting to gle by spreading false rumors aboard the ships that the strike is off and shipping scabs with police and gangster protection, but they also look favorably upon an attempt of an underworld character, Pat Rooney, to set fire to the New York West Side strike headquarters. Jemes J, Mayer, the attorney who is defending Rooney after he was caught red-handed pouring Gasoline on the steps of the strike headquarters, men’s Union. The bail for the culprit will also came from the same source, it was announced. No matter how great the crime, if it is for the purpose of breaking the strike and betraying the in- terests of the seamen, leaders of the 1.S.U. con- done it. The strike is seriously endangered by the ac- tivities of these gentlemen, They have seen to it that struck ships have sailed, and in so doing they are helping to maintain non-union conditions on the vessels. Marine workers! Be on your guard! Don't allow the leaders of the 1S.U. to divide | you! | Strengthen your picket lines! | Drive the labor misleaders from the waterfront! Take control of the situation yourselves! Spread the strike! defeat the strug- The effects of the drougni which were but the logical culmination of jthe agricultural policies of the ad- | Ministration, are described in 2 spe- cial report of the Department of |Agriculture issued today. The re- |port shows that the drought is “the |most widespread and devastating in lits effects of any ever expericneed |in this country.” It refutes the re- \cent efforts of the Administration to play down the ravages of the disaster. The report says that the d will reduce the nation’s livestos the lowest level in more th years. Not only will of caitle, sheep and ho; |reduced bus the livesteck will |much thinner because of tine sh: age of feed brought on by the cur- tailment policies of the A. A. A. The report in its 40 pages de- scribes how the livestock in the drought area have hed to go on subsistence rations. It fails to men- tion that this is due to the policy of the Administration which re- )fused to provide adequate fodder for the stricken animals. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace indicated that the Adminisiration continue its present policy of |restricting the supply of meat de- |Spite the rise in meat pric In order to force the slaughter of |imals in the territory unaffocie jthe drought, he threatened |farmers in these regions by ig that their livestock would ke forced to “go on a diet.” ight to 5 n num be greatly be RELIEF LISTS RISE WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.—Tho number of families on relief rolls throughout the country had jumped from 3,890,000 in July to 4,000,000 in | August, Federal Relief Adminisira- (tor Hopkins zeported today. N BY CLARENCE AND HAYWOOD PATTERSON REVEAL NORRIS Unsolicited Messages Authorize the I.L.D. to Proceed QO. K. FRAENKEL ACTS Notes Written After Leibowitz Claimed He Was Retained Unsolicited personal letters written by Clarence Norris and Heywood Patterson, two of the Scottsboro boys now in Kilby prison, arrived here yesterday at the offices of the International Labor Defense expressing full ar fidence in the I. torneys, and utter the claims of that he bac re from the boy: from the case, Accordingly, the I. L. D., who had thi: c lar their intention of turning over the records of the case to Leibo- witz upon the declaration of aims,” in accordance~ with t¢ policy cf the I. L. D. not to per the slightest obstecles of lezal di pute to ham the cause of sav- ing the boys, erday challenged Mr. Leibowitz’s right to take any further action in the case. Leibowitz had already formally and suddenly withdrawn from the case on Oct. 4, when he suddenly claimed that he had received the boys’ “authorization.” Finds Leibowitz Action “Shocking” The letter of Clarence Norris, for whom Leibowitz and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and 4 groups pretended to Oct. 8, i alleged nd complete con- L. D. and its at- e received is a full repudi witz's claims. “I was indeed shocked at the statement that Mr. Leibowitz made,” Norris wrote to Osmond K. Fraenkel, an LL.D. attorney in charge of the appeals in the caze. “Tam sur2 by Mr. Brodsky appointing you and Mr. Pollak ta handle my case on the appeai to the U. S. Sunreme Cou was did for the best.” Haywood Patterson, in his letter ation of all of Le’ to Osmond K. Fraenkel, written on Oct. 10, after Leibowitz sent his personal representatives on a secret mission to the bo; reaf- Ss and firms his faith in the poli skill of the I. L. D. “We are looking forward with great confidence that you will put forth every effort possible onward in getting the cases before the Supreme Court .. . I am greaily sorry that there was a little dis- eement between Mr. Leibowils and yeu ail and of hi sent to agree to you all opinions I am with hopes that Mr. Leibowitz will change his attitude and be agree able now I want you all to know that I have the same faith and courage that I have always had.” These letters written when =the boys were alone, after Leibowitz’s representatives had left them;- in- dicate that whatever went on be- tween the boys and Leibowitz was under no circumstances construed by them as repudiating the I. L. D, The International Labor Defense has sent all the necessary papers to he Supreme Ccurt, Mr. Fraenkel ed, and the fight to win the dem of the boys will go forward with renewed determination. full text of the letters of to the I. L. D. lawyer, and witz follow: nce Norris say that I was indeed to receive your much ed letter after not hears ing from you for some time. It (Continued on Page 5)