The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 15, 1934, Page 1

COLLECT FUNDS FROM YOUR SHOPMATES TODAY! nm r Saturday's Receipts 8 157.13 NA [ ION AL Thal te WS 17,501.65 4 4 % = Press Run Saturday—70,900 EDITION Vol. XI, No. 247 > * Daily <QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1934 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 8, 1879. (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents .L.D. URGES PROTESTS FOR BOYS ee RALLY AS THAELMANN MASS AT CONSULATE IN PICKET LINE TODAY, DATE SET All Anti-Fascists Called To Gather at Noon at 17 Battery Pl. FOR TRIAL C.P. ISSUES NEW CALL 10 ACCOUNTS OF FIGHTING ARE SUPPRESSED All Communication With Outside Severed by Fascist Regime ‘STRUGGLE GOES ON 6 | Walkout of 100,000 Seamen and 160,000 Longshoremen Seen (Special to the Daily Worker) ANTWERP, Oct. 14—A new strike wave is surging up in the shipping industry throughou‘ Europe, Africa and in the Far East. More than 100,000 Japanese seamen and 160,000 British long- shoremen are demanding wage increases. During the month of Septem- ber 6,000 dockers in Tunis (North. Africa) and 2.500 longshoremen in Gdynia, Poland, went on strike for higher wages. UNITED FRONT VOTES A HALT IN SEA STRIKE Individual Walkouts to_ Be Supported in | Three Ports ‘MEN NOT DEFEATED Plans Go Forward for E igid Censorship Clamped Down on All News From Spain ACES COURT! SAMUEL LEIBOWITZ NOT ADMITTED TO PRACTICE BEFORE U.S. COURT; SCOTTSBORO FIGHT IS BROADENED I.L.D. Appeal Urges All) To Unite in Campaign To Free Boys Harlem C. P. Holds Special Membership Meeting Tomorrow evening at the Finnish Hall. The Protest Drive Launched To Save Lives of Negro Boys PLAN DAILY RALLY ‘Lerroux Says Socialist ue Rocwaed {0"| PLAN aS “DRAWN UP | sane: w. Ford, sarem sec-| JONES JOINS FIGHT : ‘ Leader, Many Others, | | igger Struggles pee he | ; oraar eee tie Govier ites Only Immediate ip) | p ON SPAIN. Abe hoe ; 25,000 DYERS in the Future Broad .Conferences:. iin|| tor ‘an’ estactinny penoat || Afro-American Staff Can Save Life of Uals Li | AU Oitkes « Aslied To. ||: See gure monn tan tne Writer Pledges German Leader |2 New York Districts LONDON, Oct. 14—For more than 24 hours a complete censorship has PLAN STRIKE The Atlantic Seamen’s United | Front Strike Committee announced | yesterday that it had voted to adopt | Build Mass Actions announcement follows: “An Extraordinary General His Support “The murder of Ernst Thaelmann | been clamped down on all news! the tactic or organized retreat in the | Membership meeting of the Har- must be prevented,” says a state- ment of the Anti-Nazii Federation yesterday, calling on all those op- posed to Fascism—workers, iniellec- tuals, students, professional groups— to rally in a mass picket line in front of the German Consulate to- day at 12 noon, the day on which Erns: Thaelmann is to be tried by the lynch. tribunal.of, the Nazis, known as the People’s Court. Thus far the life of Ernst Thael- mann has been saved by the mili- tant mass protests and actions of the working class throughout the world and particularly in the United States. The trial of Thaelmann has een postponed from time to time or the past four months with the rbject of lulling to sleep the watch- rulness of the working class. In the past few weeks the campaign for the release of Ernst Thaelmann has slackened down. It is at this time that the Hitler government has chosen to put an end to Thaelmann, the heroic leader of the German working class. “Not a moment can be lost if we are to save the life of Ernst Thaelmann,” says the Anti- | Urge Unified Support | of Workers Struggles | The New York Disirict of the |Communist Party yesterday again | addressed an apveal to the City| | Executive Committee of the Social- jist Party for taking immediate |steps to effect united action jn \port of the Spanish workers. larly, the Young Communist League jaddressed an appeal to the Young | |Peoplés Socialist League. A letter | urging unity. in support of ‘the| | Spanish Revolution was also sent by | |the Communist Party District, Com- mittee of Buffalo to the Socialist Party in that city. The texts of) all three letters follows: October 13, 1934. City Executive Committee Socialist Party 7 East 15th. Street, New York City Comrades: We once more direct this appeal to you to consider with representa- tives of our Party, as soon as physi- \cally possible, the question of effect- | from Spain, as the government does | Piet since the revolutionary general strike not want actual reports of the con-/ tinuing of the workers’ armed strug- gles published abroad. All newspapers in England, which have had the closest contact with |». Spain, openly declare that they do D not have the slightest information on the present conditions in Spain and armed struggles began. Tele- |, phone communication for general) IN PATERSON PATERSON, N. J., Oct. 14—The 000 silk dyers of this area are eparing to strike on Oct. 25, when 5, pr their present agreemen® expires, un- (less their demands are granted. The dyers, organized in the Silk ind. Rayon Dyers and Finishers of ica (U. T. W.), are demand- use between London and Madrid) ing the closed shop, a 30-hour week, was shut off at 3°a.m. yesterday. | $1 an hour for men and slightly less Only occasional bulletins are issued) for women (on different kinds of by the Lerroux-Robles fascist gov-| work), ernment. One such bulletin declared thai | the labor unions in Madrid had | agreed to call off the general strike, | and the government announced everything would be “normal” by Monday. } The second report announced the arrest of Largo Caballero, president of the Socialist Party of Spain, who had long been sought by the gov- ernment. The government declared | that Caballero would be brought be- of the industry, This proposal was rejected these demands. ployers want to renew the present contract for six months and then tely on Roosevelt's Na‘ional Indus- trial Relations Board for a “survey” The employers have so far The em- rejected by the workers. Fifteen thousand broad silk work~ ers of the Paterson area are also demanding strike agains: discrim- ination and wage cuts which fol- four or which are struck in Nor- lowed the sell-out of the general | folk, two in Boston and one in New- textile strike by U. T. W. leader general Atlantic seamen’s strike, to continue the individual ship strikes | in various ports and to intensify the | organization of the seamen and all maritime workers to pzepare for furture struggles for higher wages, | shorter hours and a centralized | shipping bureau in all ports, | In announcing the proposal of the | committee te conclude the..general ‘coast-wide strike, Roy Hudson, | ;chairman of the strike committee, stated that the move was made} necessary on account of the wide- | spread strikebreaking activities of | leaders of the International Sea- men’s Union, who sabotaged the} strike by spreading confusing ru- mors aboard ships that the strike | was called off, and worked with the shipowners, police and company | thugs putting scabs on practically | | all struck vessels. i Not a Defeat | The committee decided to con- | tinue the strike on seven coal boats, | Port News. An appeal to rally to the defense! of the Scottsboro boys, against the | attempt of the Alabama lynch rul- ers to burn Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris, two of the de- fendants, in the elecirie chair on Dec. 7, was issued yesterday by the | International Labor Defense to all | friends of the innocent, framed-up Scottsboro. boys. | The appeal follows: To all friends of the Scottsboro boys: The Alabama Supreme Court has set the date of execution for Hay- wood Patterson and Clarence Nor- tis, Scottsboro boys, for Dee. 7— just 56 short days away. Last week Mr. Osmond K. Fraenkel, on behalf of the Inter- national Labor Defense, filed an ap- plication for review in these cases by the United States Supreme) Court, aimed toward the setting | aside of this lynch verdict. The} papers on appeal will be filed) within a few days. Main Question Is Saving of Boys There is only one question be- | that court. lem Section of Finnish Hall “All Party members section must attend “JAMES W. FORD, “Harlem Section “Organize: “Communist Party. 15 W. 126th St the Communist Party will be held Tuesday eve- ning at 8 o'clock sharp, at the of that LEIBOWITZ IS NOT ADMITTED IN U.S. COURT Samuel. Leibowitz has never handled an appeal to the United States Supreme Court and has not been admitted to practice before This information was ! The Internat 1 Labor Defense, which last week filed with the United States Supreme Court the application to appeal against the lyneh verdicts of the Alabama Su- preme Court sen‘encing Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris, two of the Scottsboro boys, to burn in the electric chair on Dec. 7, yes- terday further developed its plans around the appeal struggle. The defense organization issued a call to all friends of the Scottsboro boys to develop the broadest pro- test actions, conferences, demon- strations, parades, etc, with the chief objective of saving the lives of the nine innocent boys and forcing their release. Mean'‘ime protests rise from all strata of the opp: Negro people against the activ’ of William N. Davis and other Ni gro reformist leaders centered around Samuel S. Leibowitz, to dis- rupt the mass fight for the boys and deprive them of the militant defense conducted by the I. L. D. and which alone has saved them during the past three and a half continued to ssod received yesterday by Joseph Bred- jing united action between our par- | fore a court-martial for his par-| Francis Gorman. | “The organized xetreat which our| fore the Negro people, the white | Nazi Federation. years. “Al organizations, unions, shop|ties to rouse the broadest mass| ticipation in the armed struggles. Eli Keller, Lovestoneite manager committee recommended is not a/ workers, and their sympathizers, |SSY, chief of the legal matt ot. the |) nei claim ot Leipowite” a groups, individuals, are urged to | support to the embattled Spanish} yeony other arrests of Socialists|of the silk union, instead of pre-| defeat,” said Hudson. “It was a/ now. in connection with the Scotts- inal nieeog eager eae aoe group of Harlem ministers nthe send protest cables, telegrams and| Working masses, fighting with the| 454 Communists were also an-|paring the strike, wired Francis necessary step in the struggle for | poro case: ae ee eee oe ccton’ | Haywood" Patters resolutions to Germany, Washing-|8reatest heroism against the threat | nounced, Gorman for “permission” to strike, | better conditions on the ships. The| phe Scottsboro boys must be Supreme Court, at Washington, | ov ad retained Leibowitz as ton, and New York. A picket line | of oe and for a socialist All foreign correspondents in| Md, of course, Gorman would not | conditions against which the sea-| seq “They inna e tanibond- Hoa ‘ith the ILD. policy of | S0le attorney for :he appeals to the should be established around the |SPain. : | spain were notified that they would |£anction the walkout. There are}men are fighting still remain and) tionally freed. The Iynchers must ees bias tne oar ney ty | Supreme Court was repudiated by German Consulate, 17 Battery Place,|. Need we point out to you that | not be permitted to dispatch news| ™more than fifty silk shops already | the men generally have little faith) ot burn these Bare. laine that the boys are properly | poth boys, and the mother of Clar- for the entire week, Se years ced the one ge pee from Spain until further notice and | Striking in Paterson. jin the ae which are be- For thiee ahdis halt years the Se oa ee cestetien inter: ence Norris, in unsolicited letters to day. Delegations from organiza-|the Communist Party are fighting | t).+ their cables must be handed to = ing carried on by I. S. U. leaders : Tea ettinn tram Ena clkek on. Mr. Leib- | the I. L.D. These letters were pub- tions should be sent to the German side by side fusing their life blood| the military censor when the wires| Bill Dunne to Speak jand which will bring the marine Tee agi er the Mees To ene ace Qt. following | lished by the Daily Worker on Sat Consulate. Protest telephone calls |in the common struggle against the | are reopened. workers nothing. As a result of the ers ‘and their his claim that« the Scot urday. should be made to the German Con- | brutal landlord capitalist reaction. he A.F.L. Role | experiences in this strike, the com- People, the white w ; Jones Urges Support of LL.D |The mobilization of the broadest POP e aR on the A.F.L, Role | fs * | sympathizers all over the world, has fendants and their parents had - ‘ beet sulate. i i plete exposure of the strikebreak eden the hand of the’ lynchers, |given him power of attorney as the An appeal for all actual friends October 15 must ring with Anti- Nazi protests from all sections of ‘possible mass movement of support here is a decisive question to the | Detroit Building Trades | in This Strike Wav ing role of the I, S. U. leaders, the | rank and file from the ships will be | has kept these boys alive. This fact sole attorney to handle the appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court against of the Sco.tsboro boys around the I. L. D. was is to rally ued yes- New York City. Every anti-fascist : Workers Strike Brewery | or _,,| better able to carry on their strug- | !s uncontested even by our enemies. Tir tO: Co imposed on | terday by William N. Jones, mem= is urged to come to the mass pick- (Continued on Page 2) LOS ANGELES, Oct. 14.—Bill/ cies in the future. Our retreat js| We repeat what we stated on Patterson and Norris. Brodsky's| Per of the staff of the Baltimore ating demonstration at 12 noon. Or- ganizations should bring their ban- ners and placards, crying out: Ernst Thaelmann Shall Not Die!” The schedule for picketing fol- GAG RULE Construction Projects (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 14.—The A. F. of L. Building Trades Coun- Dunne will.speak at the Los An- geles Workers Forum, at 230 3S. Spring Street, next Sunday night. Dunne will report on the 54th an- nual convention of the American |a short step backward in order to | get a better foothold to go forward | into greater struggles.” LS .U. Chiefs Brought Scabs During the course of the strike 28 | Oct. 11—the main question is now as it has alwways been with us, the saving of the Scottsboro boys, the struggle for th2 basic civil rights of the Negro people that | letter and the clerk’s reply follow: “Oct. 11, 1934. | “Mr. Charles Elmore Cropley “Clerk of United States Suprei me Afro-American, one of the leading Negro papers in this country. Mr. Jones declares “As I regard that it would be one of the greatest tragedies in the ows: - |cil has called a strike of all Build-| Federation of Labor. This report|ships were tied up, but on practic-| afe involved in this case. Court struggle for Negro righ's in this Today — Metal Workers Union, ing Trades workers at the Eckhardt} will develop and treat with the |ally all occasions the ships were able| Any controversy which would de-| “Washington, D. C. country to divert or destroy the Furniturie Workers Union, English "| and Becker Brewing Co., Orleans| broad background of the role of the|to sail with scab crews supplied by| tract from world-wide attention | “Dear Sir: tremendous influence set up by the ola Ly “Please inform me whether Mr. | International Labor Defense around and Jewish Workers Clubs, League of Struggle for Negro Rights and the Unemployment Councils. Tomorrow — American League Against War and Fascism, Needle Trades Union, Food Workers Union, Marine Workers Union, and the Icor, Workers International Relief. Wednesday—Shoe Workers Union, PARLEY’S END SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Oct. 14.— The American Federation of Labor Convention adjourned here wi-h the and Winder Streets. following the action of the Plumbers’ Union in calling its men off the job. The Piumbers’ Union acted when one of its members was fired for refusing to work overtime for straight pay and to purchase his own materials, both of which are in violation of the union agreement. American Federation of Labor in the strike wave now going on. Dunne’s appearance, under the auspices of the forum, is by ar- rangement with the Daily Worker. A large part of the proceeds of the meeting will go to the Workers’ Press Cc erence for the Daily's $60,000 drive. the I. S, U. leaders who worked closely in cooperation with the ship- owners and their shippng halls along the waterfront. Morris Wei:berg, a seaman arrest- ed while in the act of preventing a scab from boarding a ship in New| being fixed on the date of Dec, 7,| or impair the world-wide struggle which must be developed to pre- vent this legal lynching in Ala- | bama, would be a weakening of| the defense of the Scottsboro boys | and a blow at the cause of Negro | (Continued on Page 2) Samuel S. Leibowitz, of New York City, is a member of the Bar cf the United States Supreme Court. “Respectfully yours, (Signed “Joseph R. Brodsky.” Office of the Clerk Supreme Court of the United States the Scottsboro case, I urge all ac- tual friends of the Scottsboro boys to sand solidly behind the fight which has been and is being so vig- orously waged by this organization in their behalf. y 2] that any new movement d at this time when there is sta ‘ 2 laiteration Painters Union, Finnish) (am, ,Ccoperation, | Proposals or RCo ee Washington, D. C. an actual crisis will be a terrible eleratinn, German ‘Cinbarmod arpa tans otra aroun, ce we [epee ee ee Tp eT — $e “Oct. 12, 1934. | mistake. No other group is pre- ganizations, Friends of the Soviet) 51, delendtea ftrvhig’ ek th 5 TT | “Joseph R. Brodsky, Esq., pared to carry out the militancy Se en oma as eeeete SEAMEN’S NEED TO STRUGGLE REMAINS 22°" "0 Sac G2555 Thursday — Women's ouncil, H i j “Dear tion ment and Social Insurance aa “Replying to” your inquiry of ‘Young Communist League, National Student League, Independent Car- (H, R. 7598) and against Green’s ee the 11th instant, you are advised calls were re= é red scare, were ruled out of order. ROP as : PEGA ee ae RR | ras : " * Union, and the Labor | A * ~ that- an examination of the roll | ceiys " Daily Pea onise _ The convention re-elected Will-| It Took Bosses, N.R.A., mass discontent of the seamen had |I.S.U. officials broadcast statements, Unity Gains of Seamen attorneys iailed to reveal dd fac segs! peace at bebidas elle Ag td forced the I.8.U. officials to issue ato the ships at sea, informing | Mr, Samuel S. Leibowitz has pledged full support for the two- Friday—International Labor De- fence, Office Workers Union, Work- eleventh term as dictator of the reactionary A. F. of L. bureaucracy’s 'US.U. and I.L.A. Chiefs strike call. The sentiment of the workers was reflected in the mass them of the “truce,” stating that the strike was “called off,” and to Will Help Lead Next admitted to practice fisted policy of the LL.D. of mass sure plus the best legal defense 5 Theatre, Workers Hi H i | “Yours truly, ers Laboratory Theatre, Workers) polices. ‘Together with Green, an to Check Strike Te tested fora autiat dlsrenicd Atle, genie: call Gastied ‘by. Fight to Victory Sc eee nes cen Hae "Baturday--International’, Wotkers| “crest. vfraruonacy — execute eye strike. Final proof of the willing-|the reds.” All ships were closely ’ : | “By (signed E. P. Cullinan, James Devis, a Negro worker of Order, Italian Federation and Clubs council was set up. New meml By R. B. Hudson ness to struggle is shown by the| guarded on entering port to pre-| created confusion and hesitancy in “Assistant.” | Philadelphia, in a special delivery C. all other organizations, ‘Schwab Gets ‘Mercy’ for Bank Embezzler PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 14.— Charles M. Schwab appeared in Federal Court here last Monday to plead mercy for Ellis S. Shelly, who embezzled $85,000 while president of the First National Bank of Wil- liamsburg. So effective was the tearful ap- peal of the steel baron, that Fed- eral Judge R. M. Gibson let the thief off with a two-year sentence. Schwab, infamous as the pioneer included John L. Lewis, of the U. M. W. A.; David Dubinsky, of the I. L. G, W. U.; George Berry, of the Printing Pressmen; W. L. Hutch- eson, of the Carpenters; Edward J. Gainor, of the Letter Carriers; Harry Bates, Bricklayers, and Dan- jel Tobin, Teamsters. All of these new members have long records as betrayers of strikes of the workers. All are of the same class collaboration, no-struggle stripe as Green. Dubinsky for years has been a leading figure in the Socialist Party, and his election sets the seal on his united front with Green, In addi ion to these new mem- bers of the executive council, all the Secretary, Marine Workers Indus- trial Union, and Chairman of the Atlantic Seamen’s Strike Committee October 8 resulted in the largest seamen’s strike since 1923. Twenty- right ships in five ports were af- fected by the strike call issued by the United Front Strike Commit- tee, which included the American Radio Telegraphists Association, the Marine Workers Industrial Union, as well as the elected dele- zates of unorganized seamen and 1 large body of licensed ocffiers, Only the united efforts of the shiv- owners, the government and the T.S.U. and LL.A, officials succeeded in preventing the seamen from de- actual response to the call for a strike. Everywhere the workers were determined and ready to en- ter into a mass struggle in order to remedy their grievances and win the right to organize. N.R.A. Engineered “Truce” With the west coast strike still fresh in their memories the ship- owners spared no effort in trying to prevent the strike from taking place. It was the National Recov- ery Administration that engineered the “truce” between the shipown- ers and the 1.S.U. officials. When this “truce” with its prom- ises of negotiations and arbitra- tion failed to prevent the strike from starting. every possible meas- vent word of the strike reaching the crews. Each ship was literally flooded with joint statements of the 1S.U. officials and N.R.A. authorities that the strike was called off. These statements were distributed by the LS.U. officials, the shipping sharks, the police and the shipowners themselves. Inadequate strike preparations (most of the ships coming into port had been at sea during the period prior to the strike, and most of the ships which had endorsed the strike call were at sea when the strike went into effect) as well as the) weak organization on the ships} (few ship committees) mad it ad-) the ranks of the workers, checking | the spreading of the strike on a mass scale. | Efforts to spread the strike re-| sulted in groups of militant workers | walking off the ships, This took| place even when the I. S. U. and} I. L. A. leaders deliberately sowed Detroit Labor Official Gets 3-Year Jail Term (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich. Oct. 14.— A confusion, with the help of the gov-| other A. F. of L. bureaucrat has) ernment, and sabotaged the organ-/pheen caught helping himsclf ization and preparation of the strike, despite the sentiment union funds. to| Joseph Hakspacher,!Goid miners in the Sierra region Of | financial secretary of Metal Polish-| west of Sacramento are on strike (Continued on Page 2) ‘400 California Miners | Strike for More Pay; | Close Big Gold Mines SACRAMENTO, Cal, (F.P.)= the majority of the seamen for| ers Union No. 1, has just been sen-/for a wage increase from $4.50°to strike. tenced to from three to five years/$5 a day. More than 400 workers In the face of this confusion and} in Jackson Prison for handing him- jare out, closing four of the state's the consequent lag in the strike|self a “dole” of $2,000 out of mem-| most famous mines. - movement, © the had no alternative but to recom-| strike committee bership dues. Hakspacher was active in break- the mend a retreat. The sirike commit-' ing the strike at the Motor Products Uni | Tho strike is being conducted by. Mother Lode Miners Union, ion dredgemen, employed on gold sss : | in importing f eign fh as a old members were re-elected, in-|veloning the strike on a mass basis|ure was taken to weaken the ditionally difficult to combat and | tee called for a retreat in order! plant in April. He is one of the dredges on rivers of the region, have weapon for sorrel ee sisel {tts cuding Matthew Woll, acting head |'n all posts, and marching forward /ctrixe by the most oven strike- | expose the measures taken to smash | that stronger forces could be mobil-| smaller fry of the A. F. of L. ofi- called a special meeting to take a dustry. pare a leniency on the ot the fascist, stool-pigeon outfit, |‘o complete victory. breakin measure>. | the strike. ized for a more effective struggle|cial family, who evidently didn’t sympathetic strike vote. There are grounds that Shelly was a protege| ‘he Civic Federation. Frank Morri-| The readiness of the seamen for venting it from sp ~*~ | These combined attacks of the l know the ropes of labor racketeer- 2'-t 200 dredgemen in the strike of his! son was re-elected secretary, strike action was widespread, The/icoming effective on ali ships. | shipowners and the I, S, U. fakers (Continued on Page 2) \ing and got caught. (area, a \ t ; é f | ‘li, a NA A A “a ae we