The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 16, 1934, Page 1

aaa RAISE FUNDS AT EVERY WORKERS’ GATHERING! Yesterday's Receipts Total to Date . coos 8 1104.11 + $18,605.76 Press Run Yesterday—48,900 (vol. XI, No. 248 > Daily <QWorker NTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1934 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. under the Act of Mareh 8, 1879. (Six Pages) NATIONAL EDITION Price 3 Cents BOYS IN JAIL REPUDIATE LEIBOWITZ SECR CLOSED LYNGH ‘COURT REPORTED SI 1.200 Striking ECY ’ TTING NOW MASS ACTIONS URGED World Group Designates Oct. 10 to 20 as Days of Wide Protest CALLS FOR UNITY Appeal Urges All Anti-| Fascists to Join in Defense Moves BERLIN, Oct. 15.—The “trial” of @rnst Thaelmann, imprisoned leader of the Communist Party of Ger-| many, is scheduled to commence to- jay before the infamous “People’s | Court,” reliable information coming from Nazi sources and individuals close to the Hitlerite officials reveals. Since the recent official announce- ment that he would be tried soon, no word has come from the Nazi government. As is usual in the protedure of the “people's courts,” foreign cor- respondents and spectators are | barred from the trial room. Away from daylight asd the public eye, Thaelmann may now be facing the teriurers and hangmen who are his judges. | As the Central Committee of the | yerman Communist Party warned n a communication a few days ago, | ithis “is not a trial against Thael- mann alone, Out of the prosecution of Thaelmann a monstrous indict- ment of Communism itself is being built up. In the first place, the fas-| (cists wili try to justify all their bloody deeds of terror by a final! whitewashing, and in the second) place, they will attempt to play the part of saviors of Germany in the| face of Bolshevism.” | “Thaelmann will be faced with| hired tools, falsified records and documents, which will play a large role in the events of the trial. Among other things will be pre- ,)sented an infamous ‘plan of insur- ‘ rection,’ a clumsy forgery, which on ‘the face of it, pretends to be a docu- ment drawn up by the Central Com- mittee under the direction of Thaelmann about the beginning of | 1933.” | ; World Committee Appeals | PARIS, Oct. 15—Reaching out to | every corner of the world and au- dressed to thousands of groups, numerous political rarties, and in- numerable hosts of .adividuals hold-| ng various shades of opinion, a vroclamation of the International -Sommittee for the Liberation of Thaelmann and All Imprisoned | Anti-Fascists set aside ten days hroughéut the world, from Oct. 10 \j% 20, as international “Fight-for- / Thaelmann” days. | The International Liberation Com- mittee, after a conference with the ; International Red Aid, the World Committee Against War and Fas- \cism, the World Aid Committee of ,the Red International of Labor / Unions, and the World Youth Com- * mittee, published a ringing call of alarm: Unite Against Fascism “Just as in France, Spain, Italy and in the Saar all anti-fascists of every position and opinion banded together in the common fight against the common enemy, so the entire globe must rise up: workers, farmers and _ intellectuals, men, women and the youth, whether Communists, Socialists, Pacifists or Liberals, dissidents, Protestants, ,Catholics, in any party, union, poe front organization, or those ot organized at all—all must rise ip as one man against the shame of Hitler barbarism, against this hhangman’s madness in Germany, this fascist bloody justice, which swears only by its scorn, contempt and destruction of the thousand- year-old ideals of humanity. “Wherever in the world the propaganda of the swastika shows itself, wherever its business agents attempt to carry on trade, wher- ever a misguided athlete still dares to step into a sporting arena in the name of the ‘honor’ of the bloody swastika, where German ships tarry their freight or railroads dis- ee: 1,000 DEMAND FREEDOM FOR THAELMANN While more than 1,000 workers imassed before the German Consu- \late at 17 Battery Place yesterday |afternoon, a delegation représent- ing trade unions, fraternal and pro- fessional organizations mands on the local representatives of the Nazi government for the im- mediate and unconditional release of Ernst Thaelmann. Thaelmann, according to latest reports, was to face trial before the infamous Nazi hangmen’s tribunal known as the “Peoples Court.” ‘The delegation which. called~ on the Consul was met by a heavy mo- bilization of police and detectives, who were prepared, on the slightest excuse, to employ Nazi methods of dealing with such delegations, fists and blackjacks, The Anti-Nazi Federation which organized yesterday's demonstra- tion, called on all working-class organizations to send delegations to the picket line, which will parade in front of the consulate during the entire week. These delegations are also to call on the Consul and present their protests in person. The following schedule of organi- zations for picketing during the remainder of the week was an- nounced by the Anti-Nazi Federa- tion: Today.—The Marine Workers In- dustrial Union, American League Against War and Fascism, Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, Food Workers Union, Workers In- ternational Relief, and Icor. Wednesday.—Shoe Workers Union. Alteration Painters Union, Finnish Federation, German Clubs and organizations, Friends of the Soviet Union. Thursday. — Women’s Council, Young Communist League, National Student League, Independent Car- penters Union, and Labor Sports Union. Friday.—International Labor De- fense, Office Workers Union, Work- ers Laboratory Theatre, Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League. Saturday.—International Workers Order, Italian Federation and clubs, and all other organizations, The Anti-Nazi Federation also urged that all working-class organ- izations adopt resolutions of protest and send them to the People’s Court in Germany, retaining a copy to be placed on file with the Anti-Nazi Federation. It also urged the immediate par- ticipation of all groups in the drive for a million signatures on a “Free Thaelmann” petition. Lists for this purpose can be obtained from the offices of the federation, 168 West 23rd St. Detroit Police Deprive Daily Worker Driver Of Automobile License DETROIT, Oct. 15.—A new at- tack on the Daily Worker was made by the Detroit police depart- ment Thursday when Steve Cojer- ean, assistant district Daily Worker agent, was deprived of his driver's license and placed on probation for a year for an alleged traffic viola- tion. The unusual severity of the pen- alty, which is generally resérved for fatal accidents, indicates that the police are determined to do all they can to prevent the distribution of the only daily paper in English that fights for the interests of the workers. The Daily is distributed by car on its arrival each day to various parts of the city, and with- out a driver's license Cojerean will be unable to continue this work. The International Labor Defense has entered the case and will fight for the restoration of Cojerean’s (Continued on Page 2) driver's license. made de-/ Miners MINE OWNED BY BRITISH CAPITALISTS |Demand of $1.50 Wage | Increase Opposed by Fascist Government |MEN DEFY TROOPS | a ‘Request 345 Coffins Be Sent Into the Mine After 96 Hours | PECS, Hungary, Oct. 15.—All| hope for the 1,200 miners here who | have threatened mass suicide if their wages are not raised from $2 | to $3.50 a week was abandoned late | today. | The Fascist government of Hun- | gary sent Socialist and reformist | trade union leaders into the mines | | to persuade the men to come to the | | surface, without at the same time granting their demands for higher | pay. At first the miners seized the | treacherous ‘allies of the fascist | government and held them as hos- tages, but la‘er released them. One of the governments’ mediators, Janos Estergayols, said not a word | | ageinst the British capitalists who | own the mine or the Hungarian | fascist government which drove the | miners to starvation and attempted suicide. He declared the “miners | |have become absolutely insane from | their awful experience.” | “They are determined either to | commit suicide by wrecking the | pumps,” he added, “or blow up the |mine. There is no hope for them.” | He said nothing about calling on miners and other workers through- out Hungary to strike or take some action in behalf of their brothers in this terrible plight. | Threaten Soldiers | The government attempted to} threaten the miners with wholesale Slaughter if they did not come out of the mine, and forget their de- mand for higher wages, but the militancy of the miners kept troops | from entering. The miners threa‘en | to kill the soldiers with pickaxes if they entered the pit. No soldiers | were sent down against the miners. | Declaring that it had to protec: | the investments of British capital- ists in the mine, and could take no | steps to complicate foreign rela- | tions, the Hungarian fascist BOv- | ernment declared it would take no | steps leading to wage increases. If wage increases are granted, government spokesmen declared, it would lead to similar demands from workers throughout the country, | they said. Ask for Coffins Sending up a request for 345 cof- fins, the miners, after 96 hours of famine, blackness and déath, re- mained adamant in their resolve to be through forever with a life which offered them nothing more than $2 a week and two days em- ployment. The fascist Hungarian govern- ment has inflicted wage-cut after wage-cut on the working popula- tion, and has characteristically | served the foreign, particularly Brit- | ish, imperialists by reducing the liv- (Continued on Page 2) Party Gets on Ballot In Utah Coal Center | CARBON COUNTY, Utah, Oct. 15.—The Communist Party has/ been officially notified that it will) be on the ballot in Carbon County in the coming election. This is the first time that the Party has been on the ballot in this county which is the coal mining center of Utah. It was in Carbon County that the National Miners Union led a strike in the summer of 1933 which was broken by the county and state governments at the request of the coal operators. Some of the offi- cials who led the terror drive against the strikers are running for re-election, among them, Sheriff S. M. Bliss, and David Parmley, chair- man of the County Commissioners. By voting Communist, the miners will give their answer to these tools of the bosses who directed the at- (tacks against the strikers. | SHROUDS THAELM LABOR BODIES Harlem C. P. Holds Special Membership MeetingThis Evening VOTE AGAINST GREEN'S PLAN Anti-Red Exp ulsions Assailed in Many A.F.L. Unions James W. Ford, Harlem sec- tion organizer of the Commu- nist Party, has issued a call for an extraordinary general mem- bership meeting this evening at the Finnish Hall. The announce- ment follows: “An Extraordinary General Membership meeting of the Har- lem Section of the Communist Party will be held this evening at 8 o'clock sharp, at the Finnish Hall, 15 W. 125th St. TEN os “All Party members of that TERROR, DENOUNCED section must attend. | Bao “JAMES W. FORD, . : J “Harlem Section Organizer, Unions in Boston and “Communist Party.” | NAZI TERROR RIFE IN SAAR SAYS REPORT Chicago Act On | Letter of Green City Central Labor Councils and local unions of the American Fed- eration of Labor in all parts of the country are rejecting the letter of William Green calling for ex- pulsion of Communists and militant fighters from the trade unions. The sweeping demand of the rank and file membership for unity in order to answer renewed attacks of em- ployers on workers’ wages and on PARIS, Oct. 15,—The Saar Com- unions, is the answer to Greens red mission of the World Committee to scare drive. Aid Victims of Hitler Fascism, lead-| The Central Labor Council of ing the world fight for the freedom) Seattle voted to file Green's letter. of Ernst Thasimann, has just deliv-|Im Chester, Pa. the Central Labor ered its report to the League of Na- | Council Also voted to file tne split= tions declaring “the terror and the! ting letter. The Newark Central menace of an armed coup d’etat| Labor Council had previously re- (by the Nazis) are making the polit-| jected the letter. Seattle mechin- ical atmosphere very tense in the/ ists, Local 79, filed the letter. Boil- Saar territory.” |ermakers, Local 104, voted to throw The Commission was composed of |'* in the waste basket. Lord Marley, deputy speaker of the} In Boston, Mass., Paperhangers House of Lords, England; Witiam | Local 258 rejected the letter of O. Thompson, well-known American | Green which calls for expulsion or lawyer and former member of the T@5k and file militants and Com- N.R.A. Review Board; Georg Brant- | Munists. ‘The motion of the sec- n Mass Su icide in Hun Michael Karolyi, ex-president of the Hungarian Republic. in 1918-19. Count Karolyi delivered the find- ings of the commission to the League of Nations Secretariat. The commission heard in Saar- brucken and other Saar towns forty witnesses belonging to all strata of the population, individuals without any political affiliation, members of the trade union movement, members jonly three votes. Winokur led the | attack on the letter, pointing out that the attack on the militants is @ blow at the fight of all the work- ers for their demands. | ing, Senator of. Sweden, and Coun: |Tetary to indorse the letter received | Boston Amalgamated Local 1 j Voted to reject the letter and in- | structed its executive board to an- | swer Green as to why it is rejected. | Many Boston locals dumped the let- PATTE STATE Workers! Rush _ Funds to ‘Daily’ TO ALL READERS: The $60,000 drive of the Daily Worker is at a critical stage. Less than one-third of the fund has been raised with two months of the period set toward the goal gone. Thousands of dollars are needed immediately. The Central Committee has already been forced to announce that the three-edition paper will have to be discontinued on Elec- tion Day, unless the status of the drive changes. Contributions are needed today from every reader of || the Daily Worker, to avert this calamity. Every reader should make immediate collections? “Mass organizations, || trade unions, workers’ groups—-fill your quotas now! Set next week aside for parties and affairs for the Daily || Worker! Answer this appeal with an immediate flow of | \} funds! MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE, DAILY WORKER. RALLIES BACK SCOTTSBORO VOTE TO HALT APPEAL FUND ANN ‘TR RSON AND NORRIS IN SWORN MENTS STATE ONLY THE LLLD. HAS RIGHT TO CONDUCT | Heil Hitler. Chicago Local No. 637 of the 1 Painters Rebuke Green Painters, Decorators and Paper- hangers wrote Green a stinging re- buke, and its recording secretary, Elmer Johnson, on instructions of |the local, sent a copy of this letter to the Daily Worker. The letter mm Chicago Painters Local 637, which has 1,360 members, declares, “We believe that local unions who 1 carry out your instructions by expelling members and particular: Fe e discriminating against certain po- seen a miner whose eyes, 5 T : : can Rua back Gee aoe en ita parties or militants PURE: heavy wounds, invalidating him for| thetic to Communist doctrine will work in his former occupation. The | "0! Strengthen the ranks of organ- commission spoke to the former | 24 labor against the attacks of musical director of the National So- '2¢ employers. We believe that this cialis’ Party, Wilhelm Hillebrand of Practice wall create further dissen- Rentrisch, who has abandoned the|. 14 ie shes tee Hesuh ena tee Hitler organizations and was at-| employers.” = tacked and beaten up one night by} The letter of the Chicago painters National Socialist gangsters with|then shows that terror against the iron bars, knives and rifle butts. | strikes now going on is raised to Everywhere the commission was|bpreak these strikes under cover of able to establish the amazing brutal-|the cry “revolution” and “Commu- ity of the volice towards all outrages| nism.” The letter condemns the committed. The officers were always attack of William Green on the San late and declared after arrival tha’ | Francisco general strike and de- they could do nothing to trace the|clares that hed it not been for criminals responsible for the attack. | Green’s attack, the heroic strikers A Catholic priest referred to acts|could not have been defeated. of intimidation and permanent su-| The textile strike, too, could have pervision by the Nazis upon the sus- Deen won, the letter states, had the leaders not called it off. The let- | ter concludes, “We stand unalterably | ed to expulsions of workers trom our locals because of political connections or opinions. of the different political parties, clergymen of the different religions, women, youth and leading intellec- tuals, writers, editors, research workers, etc. Evidence of Tortures It had opportunity to see a 60- year old and 56-year old woman with the horrible traces of Nazi violence and stabbing, inflicted upon them because of their refusal to say The commission has (Continued on Page 2) Lerroux Censorship Clamps Lid on News From North of Spai in LONDON, Oct. 15.—With the ex- ception of only a few brief heavily censored reports. which ive no news of the workers’ armed strug- gle in the north of Spain. the Ler- roux-Robles fascist government has allowed no news to come through here on the revolution»ry general strike, which it declared would end today. Hundreds of Socialists and Com- munists are being arrested. follow- ing the imprisonment of Francisco Largo Caballero. leader of the So- cialist Party of Spain who faces ecurt-martial. The goverrment is taking drastic fascist measures against all work- ers’ organizations, d2stroyins their ithe right to strike and against ar- bitration beards.” 20 Per Cent Relief Cut ‘Ordered in Lorain, Ohio LORAIN, O., Oct. 15.—Relief | budgets to each family here have been cut 20 per cent, bringing the grocer order for a family of four to $3.02 for ten days. Fresh meats, fruits, and vegetables are not per- |mitted on the grocery order, and rents, gas and clectricity are not paid. All grocery orders must be worked for at the rate of fifty cents an hour. The United States Steel Com- pany, with one of its largest plants here, has thus far succeeded in smashing every attempt of the | Workers to form a union. Every attempt hy the workers to establish @ Council or Worker's Club is bit- terly fought by the steel company. vress, and declaring it will annul the “strike law.” making strikes il- legal, subject to severe penalties, ter into the waste basket. | We stanc | for democracy in the unions, for} SEA STRIKE | ‘ass meetings of seamen in| | Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore | endorsed the proposal of the At- | lantic Seamen's United Front Strike | Committee to discontinue the gen-} jeral ship strike and continue in-| | dividual strikes along the Atlantic | Coast. It was learned yesterday that| strike action of the seamen had forced the United Fruit Company to increase wages of able seamen from $55 to $60 a month. Sea- men also report that several ships’ in New York harbor, which had previously paid low rates, are now | paying the shipping board scale of $62.50. Two meetings of seamen, one in| Philadelphia and the other in Bal- | timore, were addressed on Sunday by R. B. Hudson, chairman of the} Atlantic Seamen’s Strike Commit- tee. The men agreed that the major task confronting them at the present time is to build strong ship committees on the vessels, to recruit | additional members into the Marine | Workers Industrial Union, to build) a strong opposition in the Interna-| tional Seamen's Union, to oust the | corrupt strixebreaking officials and | to build an effective united front of | thhe rank and file to lead future/ struggles of the men on the ships.) During the discussion in Phila- delphia it was proposed that a ten-| tative future strike date should be) set for Atlantic Coast seamen. It was also suggested that a united | front conference of Atlantic sea-| | men should be held at an early} date to discuss all questions perti- | nant to the marine industry. Hud-| son announced that these proposals | would be referred to the seamen | in all the Atlantic ports. | Reports arriving at the united) front seamen’s headquarters at 140) Broad St. state that the dock work-| ers, seamen and shipyard workers | in Mobile, Ala., are discussing the) question of united strike action for | pay increases, shorter hours and union recognition. | A mass drive for a centralized shipping bureau controlled by the | rank and file seamen is under way | in New Orleans, R. B. Hudson re-| ported yesterday. Picket lines were | set up in front of the U. S. Ship- | ping Board Hall and crimp agencies | and despite several Picketing continued, NEED URGENT The broadest and most energetic mass action, at this crucial mo- ment in the Scottsboro case, to prevent the lynchers from carry- ing out their death verdict against Clarence Norris and Haywood Pat- terson, was called for today by the International Labor Defense. At the same time, the urgent need for funds to carry on the legal defense and the mass cam- paign to save the Scottsboro boys was stressed. Money is needed more urgently every day, as only 55 short days remain before the date of December 7, when the Ale- bama Supreme Court has decided the two Scottsboro boys must dic. the I, L. D. announced. The broad united front of de- fenze for the Scottsboro boys must be established everywhere, in citie: towns, and states.< Every element friendly to the defense, must be drawn into action to force the U. S./ Supreme Court to accept the ap- Plication for review of the cases which has been filed by the I. L. D., and to reverse the lynch decisions of the lower court. Parades, demonstrations, ings, and protests of every must be organized everywhere. “Now, more than at any previous time, the shadow of the electric chair hangs over the Scottsboro boys,” the I. L. D. said Money to conduct the Scott defense should be sent directly the national office of the Interna- tional Labor Defense, Room 610, 80 East 11th St., New York City. No other organization, it was pointed out, has the right to coi- lect money for Scottsboro defense except the I. L, D. meet- sort Poincare, War-Time President of France, Is Dead in Paris PARIS, Oct, 15.—Raymond Poin- caze war-time President of France, died here this morning. Poincare’s last political post was Premier in 1929, at the time of the severe financial crisis in France. He Was an extreme reactionary, favor- ing the utilization of fascist arrests the | Measures against the French work- ing class, led a ich, |AL’ DEFENSE |Mothers of Both Are | Present As Two Boys Sign Affidavits PLOT IS REJECTED Mothers of Two Other Defendants Affirm Faith in LL.D. Sworn statements asserting their unshaken faith in the International Labor Defense and their firm de- sire to have the I. L. D. continue in charge of their defense were re- | ceived by that organization yester- day from both Hi ‘ood Patterson and Clarence Norris, and from the mothers of Olin Montgomery and Ozzie Powell, two of the other Scottsboro defendants “I want my pres appeal in the | United States Supreme Court ‘to be handied exclusively by the Thver- ational Labor Defense. f wii atcept any lawyer they think proper to handle my case,” } terson declar statements, repudiating the trick maneuver of Negro misleaders to teke the defense out of the hands of the I. L. D. and put Samuel S. Liebowitz in charge instead Mrs. Montgomery Denounces Misleaders A bitter attack on the Negro mi leaders whose la attempt to dis- rupt the defense now centered around Leibowitz's effort to oust the I. L. D. from the case, is made by Mrs, Viola Montgomery in a statement sworn to before a notary public in Atlanta, Georgia “I have no faith in those beig preachers them at all. I won't want around my boy. Those big down’t tare anything about folk or our children,” Mrs, mery declares. “They closed their church doors in our faces too many times because e. we are poor I no just how the S been fighting for these nine ck n. I no the lynchers has S wanted to kill our childr which the I. L. D. has stopped. That is w I am one hundred per cent with the I. L. D. Everybody that believe in right and justice join hands with me,” Mrs. Montgomery appeals towards the close of her statement William Patterson Cables Appeal { the same time an appeal to “rouse millions of Negro and white workers to save the Scottsboro boys from the chair,” and to “give be- trayers of fight no quarter.” was received from William L. Patterson, ional Secretary of the I. L. D., ho is now in a sanitarium in the Soviet Union, recuperating his | health, shattered by his energetic activities in the world-wide fight for the lives and freedom of the Sccttstoro boys. J. Louis Engdahl, Patterson's predec as head of the defense organization, had died in the course of the struggle, a (Continued on Page 2) Negro Ministers Pledge To Support Philadelphia Jobless Demonstration PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 15— Rept of the Unmploy- ppeared before the 2 f 490 Negro ministers which had delegates at the recent conference on u ployment here. and after outlining the program of the Council, eeded in having two elected to the mass delegation |which will present relief deaands jto the City Council Thursday. Rev- erend J. D. Berbcn ~as unanimously elected as a speaker at the deme onstration to be held a Reyburn Plaza, Saurday, Oct. 20 at 2 pm. | After the election of the delegates Jand speaker, 2 Democratic poli- | ticlan jumped to the ficor and dee nounced the mass demonstration. | After the conference groups of the Negro ministers pledged their full support to the Unemployment jCouncit's fight against discrimina- |tion and evictions, and pledged to joRn representatives at the demons Stration Saturday,