The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 19, 1934, Page 1

SSS | _—_ TAKE UP COLLECTIONS FOR “DAILY” AT UNION MEETINGS Total to Date . e Yesterday’s Receipts . Press Run Yeste $19,297.99 --$ 316.17 rday—49,600 Vol. XI, No- > New York, ¥. Y., Daily <QWorker Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at under the Act of March 8, 1 NEW YORK, FRIDAY CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) » OCTOBER 19, 1934 NATIONAL EDITION (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents ‘LLD. GALLS ON S.P. FOR JOINT ACTION Five Ejected at Nazi Consulate in N.Y. NAZIS HIDE THAELMANN TRIAL PLANS | Fight to Aid All Anti-| Fascists Spreads in Many Cities NAZI LIES NAILED I. L. D. Forces Release| of Eight Pickets in Pittsburgh Five delegates from the National Committee for the Defense of Po- litical Prisoners, presenting a peti- tion demanding a fair trial for Ernst Thaelmann, German anti- fascist leader, were yesterday forc- ibly ejected by New York police from the German Consulate and the building in which it is housed at 17 Battery Pl. The delegation included a Meth- odist minister, a young woman pian- ist, and a playwright. Rev. George Weiss, the minister, is himself of German extraction and has receni- ly returned from a visit to the Reich. When he protesied to the forcibie ejection of Alfred H. Hirsch, national secretary of the Committee, he himself was seized. His avowed aim, beside calling for @ trial for Thaelmann, was: to pro- test. “the. treatment.of_ my own. friends and rélatives in Nazi. Ger- Other members of the delegation were Florence Samuels, pianist; Melvin Levy, whose pjay, “Gold Eagle Guy,” will open in New York next month; David Kinkead, jour- nalist, and Mr. Hirsch. Police of- ficers guarding the consulate re- fused, with the exception of Cap- tain William Higgins, to give their names. Nazis Evade Questions BERLIN, Oct. 18.—In the face of world-wide protest, Nazi officials have issued all sorts of piacating reports that the date of Ernst Thaelmann’s trial has not yet been set, that a formal indictment had (Continued on Page 2) ITALY'S PART IN KILLINGS [S REVEALED TURIN, Italy, Oct. 18—The sen- sational arrest on Italian soil of Dr. Ante Pavelic, leader of the Droatian nationalist organization of Tugoslavia, and his aide, Ugene Kavternik, charged with directing she assassinations in Marseilles, has drawn attention to Fascist Italy’s part in the deed, coupled with its war preparations against Jugoslavia. Pavelic’s presence in Italy certain- ly was not unknown to Mussolini, nor the reason for his residence un- der the protection of the Fascists. Mussolini has been utilizing various nationalist leaders in Jugoslavia in line with his war plans against Jugoslavia. Deed Planned From Three Places Coupled with the arrests by the French police of individuals claimed to have been part of the assassina- tion group, directed by Pavelich, head of the Croatian nationalist organization, “Ustasha,” the direc- tors of the assassination are now shown to have acted from three places: Germany, Hungary, and Italy, Since King Alexander was on his way t? Paris, with a view to strengthening the alliance of Jugo- slavia and France, which would have drawn the Little Entente DAILY WORKER, Remitting one hundred Section One Responds! 35 E. 12th St., N. Y. City: “Section One answers Krumbein for emergency contributions Stop appeal of Charles four dollars Stop Guar- antee to reach thousand dollars next Tuesday! New York Daily Worker must live Stop Section One Calls Upon all New York sections to save New York Daily Worker! JOE BRANDT, Organizer. Article Three The great octopus, the United | States Steel Company and its sub- sidiaries operate one of the most efficient, far-flung and relentless dustry. Mr. Charles W. Tuttle heads the spy system of Carnegie Steel which is U. 8. Steel’s most important sub- sidiary and he is accustomed to watertight secrecy. Upon reading this he may be’ mildly chagrined and will undoubtedly communicate with a number of offices. He will write to W. A. Furbeshaw who runs the stool-pigeons of Illinois Steel, to Vice Pres. Pentecost Mitchell of the Oliver Iron Mining Co. who fulfills the same function and to Mr. George Ruch of the H. C. Frick Coal and Coke Co. You may be sure that this reaches his elderly claws. His five-room office at the Carnegie Building maintains one of the finest current libraries on labor and radical activities in the coun- try. It maintains also another col- lection of an equelly useful sort. Room 1010 which adjoins Tuttle's office is marked private and never entered except through 1009. The keys are trusted only to Tuttle and his assistant. The spy reports in 1010 are contained in some 70 all steel cabinets, opened only by keys, about 20 double card files, also of steel, and in a safe holding about 50 single card files listed accord- ing to numbers. Should a manu- facturer be interested in learning about the career of say Carl Reeve who happens to have been engaged in organizing steel workers, Mr. Tuttle could furnish uncannily ac- curate details. A copy of his folder on Reeve is now in the Daily Worker office and Reeve himself will vouch for its precision. Shoud one care to check on the delegates to a certain convention of the Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union, Mr. Tuttle will present you with a numbered group picture of same, that is if he likes your credentials, The Picture here reproduced was taken the rank and file membership in tion. (Jugoslavia, Rumania, Czechosio- vakia) closer to French imperialism, Fascist Germany, Hungary and Italy, either individually or to- gether, utilized the services of the Croatian nationalists in their ef- forts to block these new moves. Heighten War Antagonisms Every new discovery in the prep- aration for the assassination height- ens the imperialist antagonisms in Europe, and is utilized for the re- ' shifting of the war ailiances, with French imperialism making every effort to make capital of the arrests in France and Italy. The Italian Government, which made the arrest of Payslicn and his (Continued on Page 2) gle policies against capitalism. The reactionary warnings of they were courting “illegality,” denunciations of an Abe Cahan, an O'Neal could not swerve the Socialist Party members from their honest search for a revised platform which would express their growing desire for a way to wage a real fight capitalism. The Communist Party feels that in this vital, militant feeling in the ranks of the Socialist Party is the guarantee that our unswerving desire for a working class united front will To every single Socialist P> voted for the Declzration ef Princi munist Party again extends in a profoundly earnest Edward Newhouse spy and blacklist systems in in- | E thing is unmistakably clear from the results of the Socialist Party referendum on the Dec- laration of Principles, which reveals a majority of This is, that there is a real left-ward move- ment among the rank and file of the Socialist Party, a real, class-conscious desire for militant class strug- Spy and Blacklist System Of Carnegie Cited as Most Far-Flung In Industry Charles W. Tuttle Heads Carnegie Steel Espionage and Secret Service at the Youngstown Convention by the time honored device of the philanthropic photographer offer- }ing to supply copies at a nominal price. Gets Reports Each Day No day passes without Tuttle's office alone receiving at least a dozen of these reports. He per- sonaliy rents six post office boxes. They are rented under assumed names and with the connivance of postal authorities. For instance, in Pittsburgh, P. O. Box, 1391 is rented for mail ad- dressed to one Walter Henry. This “Mr. Henry” also rents P. O. Box 471 under the name of R. M. Davis, as Well as other boxes. Neither Henry nor Davis is listed in the | Pittsburgh directory, which is un- usual for public spirited citizens interested in receiving all radical literature. Actually, the applica- tion on file for Box 1391 in the | Pittsburgh post office shows that |it was rented by one James W. Jones who gave his occupation as manager of the Art Novelty Co. at 1623 Grant Building. The mys- terious Mr. Jones is listed in the Pittsburgh directory but the Art. Novelty Co., though having its of- fice in the luxurious and obviously expensive Grant Buiding. neverthe- less does not seem to be looking for business in art novelties since neither the company nor Mr. Jones are listed in the telephone direc- tory. Pressed by the investigator, Mr. Jones refused to show one letter or (Continued on Page 2) 100,000 Motors Made In Gorki Auto Plant (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Oct. 18 (By Wireless). —The one hundred thousandth mo- tor rolled off the line today at the Gorki automobile plant. The great achievements of the plant may be seen from the fac: that the first 50,000 motors were released in the course of two years, the second 50,000 during ten months. favor of its adop- a Waldman that the anti-Soviet Wan we of the distortions of against American be achieved. member who the Com- WAIT SOUGHT TO DIVIDE PORT UNIONS Longshore, Teamster Unions Are Attacked in Injunction Plea SCAB DRIVE BEGUN Trade Board Action Seen As the First of Open Shop Moves The _ injunction proceedings against the Longshoremens’ and Teamsters’ unions, being pushed by the Board of Trade. the shipping companies and the Brooklyn Mer- chants Association, coming up to- day before the Supreme Ccurt in Brooklyn, the alliance existing between the longshoremen and teamsters, it was revealed from the contents of the writ by the bosses, This blow is meant to be as the first step in the open shop drive be- ing prepared by the empoyers, and if successful will mark a starting point for similar steps in every port. The author of the writ be- | ing presented in behalf of the em- Ployers is Walter Gordon Merritt, considered the shop legal advocate in the coun- try. “The chief base for the argu- ment of the employers are laws against “combinations and con- spiracies.” The unity between these two basic unions is regarded as the most serious threat to the “free | movement of freight in the port of New York.” Although Joseph Ryan, President of the International Longshoremen’s Union, Martin Lacey, president of the Transpor- tation Council, and officials of 26 local unions are named in the suit, the injunction is aimed at the thousands of workers members of the unions, as it seeks to restrain the unions from interfering with the movement of cargo through non-union workers. serious crimes listed against the longshoremen is refusal to handle goods hauled by non-union team- sters. The move of the employers is arousing the renk and file activi- ties in the unions as many work- ers are beginning to see that Ryan's no-strike policy spells an open shop in the industry. Philadelphia Meeting To Go Over Drive Top PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 18.—Phil- adelphia’s guarantee to raise its quota in the Daily Worker $60,000 drive tonight, will be taken up at the mass meeting and concert ar- renged for that purpose, at the Broadway Arena, Broad and Christ- jan Sts. Philadelphia's quota is $3,500. It’s Present total is $2,528.17. Moissaye Olgin, editor of the Freiheit, will be the main speaker. The program includes the Freiheit Gesangs Ferein, a violin solo by Gabriel Braverman and perform- ances by Amelia Babad of the Artef and by the Workers Laboratory Theatre of New York. Vote Red Against the Menace of | Fascism! AN the Communist Party have the greatest respect for the militant feelings of the workers who supported the Declaration of Principles, we do not have any illusions about the document itself, It is precisely because we respect profoundly the desire of the Socialist Party member for a mil- itant program that we feel it our duty to point out those fatal weaknesses in the document which meke if something different than that for which the So- cialist Party members are looking. But whatever ovr opinion on the Declaration, there shoul’ be nothinz that can stov us from find- ing practical ways of uniting our forces in the im- mediate fights that face us all as American capital- are primarily aimed at | outstanding open | One of the} EDITORIAL and comradely way its open hand for joint action against the immediate menaces that confront the American working class—the wage-cutting drive of the employers, the speed-up and intensified ex- ploitation of the N. R. A. codes, the fight for trade union democracy, the right to strixe and picket, against the menace of fascist reaction, against the government policies which are slashing the real wages of every worker in the country. I. L. D. Needs $5,000 To Defray Expenses Of Appeal for Boys An urgent appeal for funds to defray expenses of the appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court for Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris, Scottsboro boys, whose legal murder is set for Dec. 7th, was issued yesterday by the In- ternational Labor Defense. I. L. D. attorneys last week filed appeal papers with the U. S. Supreme Court. The sum of $5,000 must be raised imme- diately for expenses involved in the appeal. All organizations and individuals are urged to rush contributions to the In- ternational Labor Defense, 80 East lith Street, New York, The I. L. D, is the only organization authorized to defend the boys, according to the sworn state- ments of the boys and their mothers in answer to the forces trying to disrupt the defense. C.P. IN IOWA WINS PLAGE ON BALLOT | Negro Is Nominated for | First Time in History of the State DES MOINES, Oct. 18.—Defeat- ling all attempts to keep it off the | ballot, the Communist Party here |has- placed a full State ticket in |the field for the Nov. 6 elections. For the first time in the history of the State, a Negro is running for office, Robert Conroy having been nominated to run for Lieu- tenant Governor. The placing of the Communist ticket is giving the capitalist par- ties plenty to worry about. There is tremendous disillusionment with the Roosevelt “New Deal’ among the farmers. who thought that Roosevelt's farm program would vase their crushing burdens of debt. The Communist Party platform demands: direct cash relief for all less; no taxes on farms and in- comes below certain levels, begin- ning with $3,000, with heavy taxes on large incomes and rich farm- ers, and cancellation of all mort- gage debts. 20,000 Armed Jehol Workers Fight Against Japanese Occupation * (Special to the Daily Worker) SHANGHAI, Oct. 18 (By Wire- less).—Information received here regarding the long continued battles going on in Jehol Province between Japano-Manchurian troops and Mongolians show the most desperate resistance against the attempt of the Japanese to occupy Mongolian territory. A the present time pitched battles are going on in the region of Chengteh. According to news dis- patches here the Mongolian detach- ments are composed mainly of workers in the salt marshes and number 20,000. During one battle Mongolians shot down four Jap- | anese airplanes, ism unleashes more and more its against the toiling population. We of the Communist Party are aware that the Socialist Party members who voted for the Dec- laration are looking for a program of militant strug- gle against capitalism. We also are ceztain that an overwhelming majority, including many who op- posed the Declaration, are in favor of joint action. And even if the Socialist Party memoers do not agree with us, even if many will never agree with us in our main policies, this does not mean that there must be any obstacles to joining hands now in the day-to-day struggle for those things about which there cannot be any disagreement—the fight for the defense of the daily welfare of the working- class, in the bread and butter struggies against the capitalist employers. We consider it our cuty to prove to the working class that only the policies of Communist Inter- national, the Party of Lenin and to final victory ever capitalism. But we do not make e for joint it is because we still have agreement with us a tion. On the contrary, these differences that the need for prerequi impoverished farmers and city job- | AFL LOCALS, LABOR BODIES, SCORE GREEN Plan To Oust Meiibers| of Communist Party Rejected in Ohio Kalamazoo Labor Body Bar Plan Local unions of Federation of Labor and labor bodies continue to vote down the letter of William Green which calls for ex- pulsion of Communist and militant workers from the trade unions. Three A. F. of L. locals in Cleveland, rejected the letter. The Kalamazoo, Mich., Federation of Labor, reje Green's letter, as did the Grand and Painters local 37 of Detroit. In Cleveland the locals reject- ing the letter are: the River- side Lodge of Asscciation, consisting of the Otis Steel Workers, Painters Local 765 and the local of the Metal polish- ers. When the letter was read at the local, militant members took the floor and called for rejection, and | that the Executive Council..of the! A. F. of L, be notified accordingly. In the discussions at these local | mestings the growing iced a the Cleveland unions for unit the rank and file against vine treacherous and arbitration poli- cies of the A. F. of L. executive council, were openly expressed. Many other locals in Clev yeland, | while not following such aggressive action, merely filed the letter with: | out taking action to put into ef- fect. Green's order for expulsion of | all known ‘yieaivi einai Police ‘Slag Unemployed | Communist Candidate For Gov. in Michigan (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 18.—Con- munist election campaign, police | yesterday afternoon arrested John} | Anderson, Communist candidate for | Governor, at Willis and John St. Anderson is being held for in- vestigation and was turned over to Federal Immigration authorities. When Attorney Tucker of the In- ternational Labor Defense presented | Anderson's citizenship papers to the | immigration authorities he was in- formed that they were not holding him. Despite this fact, Andev$on has not yet been released. The Com- munist Party has sent a sharp pro- test to Police Commissioner Hein- rich Pickert. Under Pickert’s re- gime the police have been making a practice of picking up militant workers and holding them without any charges. The Communist Party and the International Labor De- fense are planning to take steps to end these attacks. Every Communist Vote Is the Vote of a Worker Prepared to Fight For His Rights. Vote Red Against the Menace of Fascism! SOCIALIST PARTY REFERENDUM AND UNITED FRONT ruthless attacks Comrades of common daily st: and fascism. E HAVE basic tion. the working class? On the que: sible! diately what he mzans reactionary agres Stalin can lead ac- the united front PAINTERS SCRAP IT ES and Grand Rapids Union |» the American | Rapids, Mich., Metal Polishers local, | the Amalgamated | tinuing their attacks on the Com-| What does the Declaration of Principles say the most vital of the political questions which face ion of the fight against war, the Declaration merely proposes a general strike—if po: And Norman Thomas, in a statement imme- after the Detroit Convention, made clear A. F. of L. trade union lead (which they never will), if the war | “an offensive war” (Continued on Page 6) ere UNITY IN FIG HT TO SAVE THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS TOBE TAKEN UP OCT. 24 Praises the LL.D. | Ruby Bates SCOTTSBORO MASS MARCH TOMORROW | The Harlem Section of the cans|| | munist Party on Wednesday after- |noon swung its full forces behind | the preparations for the Scottsboro- | Thaelmann protest parade and demonstration tomorrow afternoon, rallying 3,000 workers, mainly Ne- | | groes and Latin Americans, in a |mighty preliminary march thro |the streets of Harlem, ending with | jan overflow mecting at Park Pal-| ace, 110th St. and Fifth Ave | Three thousand persons inside the | hall, and 2,000 on the outside, heard | I. Amter, Communist candidate for | | Governor of New York; James W. Ford, Communist candidate for Con- | |gress in the 2lst District, and other | |speakers call for a united front Struggle to prevent the legal mur-| der of the Scottsboro boys on Dec. 7, smash the forces seeking to dis- jTupt the defence fight at vais crit-| ical period, and wrest Ernst Thael- | mann, leader of the German work- | {ing class, from the Nazi “People’s | Court,” which is now planni: his | |murder through a fercical “trial.” in which he is deprived of all rights of counsel, etc. Leaders to Speak Amter called on all New York | | workers to pour into the streets of | Harlem tomorrow in a de ned | effort to save Thaelmann and the Scottsboro bo: Saturday's dem- | onstration will start at 2 p. m., at | 126th St. and Lenox Ave., with Clar- | jence Hathaway, editor of the Dail | Worker and Communist candida |for Congressman in the Seventh |District (Brooklyn) s peaking] (Continued on Page 2) | | is so urgent, so pressing. the Socialist Party, it is in our | ruggles that we will find the an- | swers to the <uestions that confront us. We cannot | permit our. differs: in the day-to-day struggle against the immediate attacks of tho enemy, against the danger of war mees on program to separate us criticisms to make of the Declara- on the | will not (which the bourgeoisie will al- by “possible.” He means if | workers of the Quaker and Fi: | the Quaker | mittee of si | to be plac |All Groups Are Urged to Send Delegates to Sunday Rally The New York District of the In- ternational Labor Defense has sued an appeal to the Spciate Party for prevent the southern ipncherd burning v Clarence free all the Scottsboro boys. The following letter was sent to the New York City Executive Com- mittee of the Socialist Party: “December 7 has been set aside by the Alabama Supreme Court as the date of the execution of aywood Patterson and Clarence Norris, two of the nine Scot boro boys who have been framed up on the usual charge of rape “Now, on the eve of the appeal before the United States Supreme Court, southern Bourbons, _ to- gether with all enemies of the working class, have intensified their vicious campaign against the Scottsboro boys. This cas has become of greatest im tance to the entire working cl; and particula for the Negro people. The ca: has become a symbol of the gro liberation States, against Jim-Crowism, segregation, Particularly now, it is important that all working class organiza- tions and friends of the oppres: Negro people join in one mighty effort against the concerted at- tempts of the Alabama lynchers in discrimin: (Continued on Page ALLENTOWN SILK STRIKE MAY SPREAD ALLENTOWN, Pa., Oct. 18. — Betrayed by the Gorman leadersi in the General Strike, 150 on Page 2) man mill here, are entering the seventh week on strike, but with ranks solid. In the meantime wage cuts of from 10 to 20 per cent at the Pyramid. iron Warp. Cedar Crest | and Tuscon mills indicate that-the Strike may spread The workers of the Quaker-and Eissman mills were locked ouf=be- cause they had gone out whem=the general strike was called. After being locked out a week, the basses offered them 6 looms per weaver. (Prior to the strike each worl looms.) This workers flatly SS jected, and declared the shops on strike, until the pre-strike condi- tions were granted. Wages were from $7 per week to $20. The six loom offer has now been with- drawn, but was replaced with a flat shops meet together, al= though the Eissman shop is mainly organized into the A. F, of L. while workers are independ- ent. The strike is under. the lead ership of a joint rank and file com- The workers are | now cont that the general s'rike was a grand sell-out. by the A. F. of L. leaders and the Winant although the A. F. of, ep harping that. the strike and praise Gorfhan x workers of other shops | are rallying splendidly to the sup- port of the strikers, with finaneial con‘ributions, and the outlook for-a victory is good. COATSVILLE, Pa., Oct. 18—With bann: flying, four-hundred Aron= cohn silk strikers marched to the relief hi uarters and demanded on relief. This is the ss demand upon the relicf authorities ever experienced in these parts, and they were forced the promise that everyone need will be granted relief. march was the reply of , to the attempts of the Aronsohn bosses to starve them back to work. The workers are fol= lowing this move with mass pick ing at the homes of Benjamin Aron- sohn and the other members of the firm, greatest m: