The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 31, 1934, Page 1

Vote for the Only Party That Fights LANGUAGE PRESS: FOLLOW THE FINNISH AND “DAILY” STAFFS! Yesterday's Receipts .......... Total to Date . CONTRIBUTE! seeeees $1,315.22 - $29,585.74 Press Run Yesterd ay—44,500 Vol, XI, N 260 <>» Entered as second-class matter at New York, N. Y., under the Act Daily,QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) the Post Office at of Mareh 8, 1879. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1934 for Every Right of the Negro People --Vote Com munist! NATIONAL EDITION (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents 10,000 MORE DYERS PLAN STRIKE COAST STRIKE D LOCKED UP IN SOLITARY Workers Group Stays One Deportation With Writ Victims of the Roosevelt-Perkins drive against the foreign born, a trainload of deportees, many of them picked up because of their) militant strike activity on the West Coast, were herded on Ellis Island) under guard on Monday, to await deportation. Two of the workers, John Ujick| from Tacoma, Wash., who had come on the deportation train, and Chris Popoff, who has been on the island for 45 days, were put into solitary confinement yesterday by a Mr. Forman, an immigration official, for taking up a collection among the new arrivals to buy tobacco and other small items for the old de- portees, One of the workers, Ray Carlson, | @ Swedish worker from Tacoma, Wash., who had been active in the International Labor Defense there, was temporarily saved from de- portation by a writ of habeas corpus obtained by the Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born. The trainload of workers had been picked up all along the way) from Seattle to New York. Among the deportees are several militant strikers who were ordered deported for their activity in the great ma- tin strike on the West Coast. The prison train had barred win- dows which the workers were not al- lowed to open. Uniformed federal officers kept the deportees in close quarters. Among the deported workers is! Oscar Mannisto of Astoria, Ore. a| leader of the Finnish workers. He} | | | has been in this country for more than 25 years. He was forced to leave his wife and three children behind. s STEPS TAKEN © TO DEFEND 8 IN GEORGIA The National Executive Commit- tee of the International Workers Order, a cooperative workers insur- ance society, announced yesterday that it had taken steps for a na- tion-wide campaign to force the re- lease of eight of its members ar- rested in Atlanta, Georgia, on charges of possessing and distribut- ing insurrectionary literature. The charges are based on the possession of membership cards of the organization by the eight and on the discovery of working class litezature in the home of one mem- ber of the organization. The arrests occured on Oct. 14. The eight who were arrested are Fannie Aderhold, Julia Jones, Clar- ence Weaver, Will Moreland, Joseph Moreland, Edgar King, John Grant and Lucille Lawrence. Nathan Shaffer, secretary of the special committee of seven chosen to organize the defense drive in cooperation with the International Laber Defense has announced that the entire membership of the or- ganization’s 900 branches as well as the membership of other organiza- tions will be enlisted in the fight to defend the right of Southern work- ers to belong to working class or- ganizations. Preliminary defense steps already taken consist of telegrams sent to the eight Negro prisoners assuring them of the support of the I. W. O. and a vigorous telegram of protest to Governor Talmadge of Georgia. The message to the prisoners said: “Just learned of your arrest in cut- rageous raid and your being held without bail under charge of insur- rection. We pledge you our com- pletest support and will spare no effort to secure your unconditional freedom. Are taking all legal steps as well as all other steps necessary to fight this horrible outrage. Are also mobilizing tens of thousands of our members for the purpose of Securing unconditional release. We will carry on struggle to maintain right to organize into our fraternal benefit society everyone regardless ef race, color. sex, creed, political beliefs or religion.” The special defense committee has retained counsel for the arrested members in Atlanta and is prepar- ing to send a legal representative to Avanta from New York, ¢ |tain external features are sometimes Molotov Tells How 17 Years Have Made a New Electorate (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Oct. 30 (By Wireless). —Reminding the workers of the world of the great difference in sig- nificance between Soviet and capi-| talist elections, V. M. Molotoy,| chairman of the Council of Peoples’ Commissars, in an article in Izvestia | discusses the significant change in the composition of the new Soviet electorate and dwells on the fact| that a new peasantry and a new class of intellectuals has been born out of 17 years of proletarian dic- | tatorship. | “Since Socialist forms haye oc- cupied a dominant position through- | out the national economy, not only workers and employees in the So- viet state but also peasants on the) collective farms have become the} direct builders of Socialist society,” | writes Molotov. “The Soviet elections, when their | tasks are thoroughly explained, | when at the same time a verifica- tion of the work of all Soviets is conducted, as well as a verification | of the relations toward them on the | part of the toilers—these elections| will serve as the most important! lever for further raising the role of | the Soviets in the construction o| socialism. 90,000,000 Will Vote “At this year's elections 90,000,000 voters will be able to participate. This alone eloquently speaks of the significance of Soviet democracy. The main basis of the achievements | of the Soviet regime are the achievements of the dictatorship of the proletariat of the U. S. S: R., climaxed in the Communist lead- ership of our Party. | Soviet Elections Are Class Elections | “The elections to Soviets in cer- compared with elections to bourgeois parliaments. Essentially these are altogether different matters. Or- dinarily now no one argues, not even persons hostile to Communism, concerning the class nature and pro- letarian essence of the Soviets. There can be no question of any group hostile to the Soviet regime daring openly to show its nose dur- ing the new Soviet elections. This in no way frees us from the obliga- tion to resist anti-Soviet attempts of the enemy and to expose at- tempts to put in the Soviets alien nonreliable elements who use the liberal phrases of all opportunists. “Our task lies in this, that the very composition of the Soviets re- news and replenishes the loyal dic- tatorship of the proletariat with new activists, especially from the men and women workers among the collective farmers, from the col- lective farm youth and from the non-Party masses. The confidence of the masses towards the Soviets as organs of struggle for the com- Plete liquidation of the remnanis of bourgeois classes and classes generally must be further raised, and the Soviets become more close- ly connected with the masses. Marching under the banner of these tasks and widely developing self-criticism in the struggle against short comings in the work of the Soviets means marching un- der the banner of Lenin and Stalin, marching forward without waver- ings against any and all enemies of e stake aes TWO SHOT ‘Copy of Letter F rom Haywood Pattersn to Ben Davis, Editor of Negro Liberator Ben Davis 2162 7th Ave, New York, N. Y. My dear Mister Davis: Haywood Patterson Kilby Prison Montgomery, Ala. Oct. 20, 34 Your encouraging letter has been received some few days ago and read with great interest, really it was more than a great pleasure to hear from you and to know that you and Mrs. Norris are well and back | in New York again now I am indeed very sorry to say that Mr. Leibo- witz is making a great mistake really He must be trying to deceive the wonderful I .L .D. or he just having a dream that I signed such papers I cant recall nor can I remember signing such papers nor neither do Mr. Leibowitz. As I understood the papers I did signed which means for him to continue in the case through the I. L. D. thats what I thought I were signing well I am Daffy I mean I am half crazy I just can realize and I must admit that I don’t know whether I signed such papers or not and if I did I didnt mean to do it intentionally. Now I am wanting you to write me just as soon as you receive this and tell me better things so that I will know better and again I dont believe the many mean things that I have heard about the I. L. D, I knew it is all lies. Now I am getting along as best I can. At the present hoping to hear from you real soon and thank a lot»for the offer but I dont need anything always HAYWOOD PATTERSON IN DENVER FERA STRIKE DENVER, Colo., Oct. » 30.-— At| least two workers were shot and | scores injured today when police | fired thirty shots into a mass picket line which sought to stop work on | F.E.R.A. projects here. The strik- | ers, some of whom were from near- by Arapahoe County, where all projects are shut down tight fol- lowing a strike in Englewood, drove | in a motorcade to stop all work | in the Denver area. As the strikers mingled with the workers on the project at South Platte River, police attacked and attempted to arrest several leaders. | |At the intervention of the strikers | and workers, police fired a round, | aiming at the leaders. One man, Sam Brown, was shot in the hip. Patrolman Marshall Stanton said that he had shot a man in the stomach; the wounded man was not found and was believed to have been rescued by his fellow strikers, As the workers re-assembled their ranks, police sped into riot cars and attempted to break up the motor- cade and march. One police car, headed full speed into the workers’ ranks, swerved as the workers re- fused to give way, and crashed into a filling station, injuring two po- licemen, In nearby Arapahoe County, about 3,000 workers are affected by the walk-out of 600 in Englewood following a cut in wages from $45 to $18 a month. The strikers de- manded the removal of Relief Di- rector Shawver, who, to make a good record, the strikers claim, re- turned unexpended money as “sur- plus” rather than spend it for needed relief. Schotl children have the working class, genuinely fight- ing for the victory of Communism.” been denied free lunches and win- ter clothing has not been issued, A.F.L. Leaders in Fall Elections Again Prove to Be Foes of Workers By Carl Reeve This cooperation to stifle the struggles of the workers was dramatized by the speech of Pres- ident Roosevelt the night before Green made his report to the convention. This speech, calling for “an industrial truce” and an end of strikes, was highly praised by Green in his speech the fol- Green reiterated the complete sup- port of his official family for Roosevelt's New Deal and the N, R. A. He “criticized” some pro- visions of N. R. he wanted to “fight” these bad provisions within the N. R. A. machinery itself, by securing greater representation on N. R. A. boards. Ye Executive Council of the American Federa- tion of Labor, controlled by William Greeh and his bureaucratic machine, in carrying through its “non-partisan” policy in the present election cam- paign exposes itself once more as the enemy of working class policies on all fronts. convention of the A. F. of L., also controlled by Green’s machine, went a further step in the in- corporation of the A. F. of L. officials as a part of the New Deal, N. R. A, employers’ boards. The convention marked a consolidation of the Socialist Party leaders as a part of the Green, A. F. of L, leadership, and brought forward the definite link of the Lovestonite renegade and the Muste followers as a part of this misleadership. Green’s No Strike Policy The A. F. of L. convention, ficials, endorsed the expulsion against the Communist Party and the militant The convention repeated workers in the unions. the policy of no strike; of capita ing the same interests, of cooperation between the employers, the government and the A. F. of L. officialdom, The recent | lowing day. strikes, File Committee. packed with of- | drive of Green Green. 1 and labor hav- |idear doe ts The Rocsevelt Government, compuls3-y arbitration and with Green's ccop- eration, defeated the demands of the auto, steel, textile and other workers, was backed fully by He praised German's sellout of the tex- tile strike. He praised Mayor Rossi of San Fran- cisco, butcher of the San Francisco strikers, and U.S. SEEKS TO SMASH A&P UNION WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 30.— An attempt to satisfy the union smashing campaign of the A. and| P. company is being made here by the National Labor Relations Board, which proposes to engineer an “employes’ election to determine collective bargaining,” it is report ed. Such an election, dominated by the rabid anti-union firm, would be engineered to result in a| decision against the seven unions which are now striking against dis- crimination in Cleveland and Mil- waukee A. and P. stores. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 30.— The A. and P. company selected Cleveland as the first place to launch its union-smashing drive be- cause the company is known to have made less profits in Cleveland than in other points. The A. and P., which locked out 1,900 em- Ployes and closed its stores rather than recognize the A.F.L. unions, made net profits of $20,478,000 in the year ending Feb. 29, 1934 and a net profit of $22,732,000 in the year ending Feb, 28, 1933. The company on Sept. 1, this year, paid an extra dividend of $1 per share of common stock in addition to the regular quarterly dividends. But in Cleveland the company did not make these colossal profits. The seven A. F. of L, unions began picketing the A. and P, stores here after many union mem- bers were fired by the A. and P. company in its efforts to maintain its low wage anti-union policy. The strike now affects Milwaukee stores of the A. and 2. Workers an‘ consumers are urged to picket all A, and P, stores throughout the country, A. codes but made it clear that He deplored He attacked the A. F. of L. Rank and which, through honoréd guest at the convention. He fought to maintain the Jim Crow traditions RELEASE OF THAELMANN Workers Spoil DeValera Greeting to New Nazi Envoy to Ireland | DUBLIN, Oct. 30—Marring and overshadowing the cordial welcome | | by the de Valera government to the | |new Nazi Minister, Wilhelm von | | Kuhlmann, yesterday, was the dem- | | onstration of the Irish workers for the release of Ernst Thaelmann, | imprisoned leader of the German | | Working class, and against the Hit- | | ler butcher regime. From the moment the Fascist yon | Kuhlmann left Dublin Castle until jhe was whisked away, very much | disturbed, in an official car, the | | workers of Dublin flung into his face the demand that Thaelmann and all other anti-fascist prisoners | ie Germany be released. i A worker rushed up to von Kuhl- | mann as soon as he walked out of | | Dublin Castle and presented him | | with a petition demanding the re- | lease of Ernst Thaelmann. An Irish | |cop tore the petition out of his | | hand and saved the Nazi this em- | barrassment, | “Trial” Reported Postponed —_| PARIS, Oct.. 30.—The Interna- | tional. Release Commit*ee has reli- able information from Berlin that the German Fascist government, in | view of the public indignation | | Shown abroad, and of its own inner | | Political difficulties, is hesitating about. commencing the trial of Ernst Thaelmann, although the | Preliminary inquiry is concluded {and the indictment drawn up, and | is inclined to postpone the trial again till a “more favorable time.” The latest political even‘s also | Tender it difficult for a number of | jurists to appear personally at a/ | conference for the defense of Thael- mann on the date fixed. In order | to insure the Participation of all jurists who have promised to take | | Poned until Nov. 10 to 12. | At the same time the Interna- tional Jurists’ Commission has been | formed, which will meet immedi- | ately should the Hitler government | suddenly decide to bring up Thael- | mann for trial. This commission is composed of: Barcikovski (Poland), | Branting (Sweden). Campinchi | (France), Victoria Kent (Spain), | Morro - Giafferi (France), Pritt | England), Sekanina (Czechoslo- | | vakia), Torres (France), van T’Hoff | Stolck (Holland), and Vermeylen | (Belgium). Boston Anti-Nazis in Court | (Special to the Daily Worker) BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 30.—The | Interna‘ional Labor Defense is con- | ducting a mass campaign to force | District Attorney Foley to continue | |the appeal hearings for sixteen | anti-Fascists, arrested in connec- | tion with ihe demonstration against | | the visit of the Nazi cruiser Karls- | |ruhe on May 17. The appeals | against the conviction of the six- teen workers was suddenly set only |a few days ago for today in the | | Pemberton Square Court, Boston. | | _A similar campaign is being con- | | ducted for the release of six anti- Fascist students sentenced to six months each for demonstrating against the visit of Ernst Hanf- staengl, Nazi emissary. to Harvard University several months ago up Jim Crow locals. gagged. Green opposed federal un nored. Resolutions for democracy against the N. R. A. as an agen ployers, against racketeering, for e and other rank and file resolutions, tionary decisions and satisfy the unionism, But this resolution up! craft unions will be protected and | of the A. F. of L. leadership, and upheld the right of international unions to bar Negroes and set All the rank and file resolutions, which dealt with the major problems now facing the workers, were killed in committee, or defeated on the floor | after their spokesmen were steamrollered and surance in any form, and the mass demand for the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill was ig- | Negro workers, for dues exemption for unemployed, An attempt was made to gloss over these reac- ution to “organize the unorganized steel and a so-called resolution on industrial ciples of craft unionism, stated that all existing | declared that new “vertical” unions (to be formed in al.minum, auto and cement), w Pittsburgh Is Ready! Special to the Daily Worker PITTSBURGH, Oct. 30.—The Buro of Dist. 5 accepts the challenge of the Cleveland District, issued through the “Daily” on Oct. 24 and calls upon all units, sections and mass organizations to mobilize their members and the thousands of sympathizers in our district to complete the District quota in the shortest possible time—and Ahead of Cleveland. Especially does the buro call upon New Kensington, which has registered only 6 per cent of its quota, and McKeesport, which has completed only 4 per cent. Hazelwood Section has not yet entered the Daily Worker campaign. It is in the zero column. In this same category are the Hungarian, Ukrainian, Czecho- Slovak and Greek Buros. The District Buro calls upon the Hazelwood Section and these language buros to take emergency measures to answer Cleveland by making a quick advance. JACK JOHNSTONE, C. P. District Organizer, Pittsburgh. LONDON NAVY PARLEY NEAR A COLLAPSE LONDON, Oct. 30.—-The prelimi- nary naval arms conferencé here is speedily drawing to a catastrophic collapse. The Japanese delegation is today again conferring with the | American representatives, but this | #4 the citizenship of all marchers is recognized on all sides as a mere formality, as unsurmountable bar- riers have been raised to any dip- lomatic agreement. The consequences, freely discussed here in the capitalist press, are the complete rupture of the 1935 Naval Arms Conference, the scrapping of the London 1930 Naval Treaty, and the opening of the bitterest a arms race, leading rapidly to war. | Besides, the conference marks a Japanese delegates came to London with the express purpose of end- ing the London nayal treaty on the basis that the Roosevelt regime had opened a drastic naval arms buiJd- ing race. The Japanese delegates first carried on their conversations with the British representatives, outlining their demands for full naval equality, an elimination of the 5-5-3 ratio (that is, five battle- ships of the line for Britain and the United States as against three for the Japanese), and the recog- nition of Japanese special interests in Manchuria and in China. The Japanese press reports that it will send a note to the Roose- velt government the middle of Noy- ember outlining further its naval proposals, and offering means for reconciling the conflicts betwen Ja- pan and the United States. The outstanding feature of the preliminary conversations has been the support by British imperialism to the proposals of the Japanese naval delegates. The chief aim of the British is to force a united front with Japan on its main pro- gram of war against the Soviet Union. American imperialism, long ap- prised of the Japanese proposals, has been rushing its war building Program, unions. ment calling for employment in- in the unions, icy of the em- qual rights for duct any fight were squelched. ployers’ set-up, rank and file held the prin- employers, who supported, and will be directly controlled by Green’s Executive Council. ter was even empowered to appoint officers and administer the finances and policies of these new man” -f the unions and employers. encouraged the increasing fascist tendencies of the government by accepting the increased government control of the trade unions, and refusing to con- terror against strikers. Ployers have launched a wage cutting drive and are bringing forward the company union, under N. R. A. auspices, Green supports this whole em- UPSTATE CITY JAILS, BEATS MARCHERS (Special to the Daily Worker) ALBANY, N. Y., Oct. 30.—Police in Albany today declared that they would “check the criminal record in the three columns of the State | Hunger March, who today neared Albany to demand Winter relief and jenactment of the Workers’ Unem- | ployment Insurance Bill. | (Special to the Daily Worker) POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., Oct. 30 —The New York City contingent of the State Hunger March to Albany ere returning toward Poughkeep- | sie today after having been held in | ai rf ig : a | | part, the conferen s be s¢- |reshifting of war alliance through-| that ctiy’s jail yesterday and force' He seas beet Dow | out the world, particularly among | to leave the city under police es- | the leading imperialist powers. The | cort. | Arriving in Poughkeepsie Mon- |day, the Hunger Marchers and the workers of the city held a mass meeting and demonstration. De- manding that the city make pro- visions for feeding and housing the delegation, the entire group of | marchers proceeded to the Mayor's | office. In need of food, blankets and |shelter, while a biting wind lashed |their bodies, the marchers refused to leave. An indignant assemblage | of local workers backed up their | demands. | Many Beaten in Jail Informed by Police Chief Land that the Mayor was not in, the marchers set up a picket line. Re- fusing to leave until they were fed, Ene marchers were lal arrested at | 3 o'clock in the afternoon, many | were beaten by the police, and all were held until 7 o'clock, when they | the city under police escort. The marchers proceeded to Camp Nit- | gedaiget, where they were fed and | housed for the night. | The marchers from- New York | City expect to reach Albany tonight, and a two-day conference with the delegates from the entire State will begin. A mass meeting will be held | tonight at 8 o'clock at the Odd Fel- lows Temple, Beaver St., to which all workers have been invited. The lat- Since the ccnvention, Green has issued a state- the government to act as “chair- Green has against the government’s armed At a time when the em- Green Supports Employers’ Parties It may be expected, therefore, that in the pres- ent election campaign, the A. F. of L. officialdom would fully support the political parties of the are carrying on the anti-labor drive under the slogan “no strike truce,” an anti- (Gontinued on Rags 6) «+ | were released and forced to leave | EPORTEES HERDED IN N.Y. | MILITANTS 90,000,000Buildersof Socialism IRISH DEMAND Go to Soviet Polls Next Month EXPECT BIG DYE STRIKE EXTENSION 30,000 Are Out As New Negotiations Come to Abrupt End (Special to the Daily Worker) HARTFORD, Conn, Oct. 30.— One hundred and twenty-five workers of the Peerless Silk Mills in Rockville walked out on strike~ yesterday against discrimination. Mass picket lines are in front of | the shop and no scabs have en- | tered. Mr. Fine, the owner of this mill, has two mills in Pater- son and is in partnership in mill# in Putnam, Conn. Fine has shop connections in many other cities. Workers are warned to watch out | for the sending of material from | the struck mill to other mills, By George Movus PATERSON, N. J., Oct, 30,—With the employers offering only 64 | cents per hour for 46 hours a weck, | negotiations in the strike of 30,000 } dye workers again came to an abrupt jend. From all indications the | Dyers Institute (employers) is set upon a policy of smashing the 100 per cent unionization in the indus- | try and the strike may prove to be jan extended, bitter battle. As a first step in answer to thia hallenge of the employers, the | Federation of Silk Dyers and Finishers announces that the striké | will be spread and calls are being jissued which by Friday will affect | 10,000 more workers in dye houses | in Shamokin, Sunburry, Williams- |port and Allentown of Pennsyl= vania; Belvidere and Oxford. of | New Jersey nd the Perennial | Piece Dye Wo! ‘s in Rhode Islantt, ‘This will make the tie-up 100 per cent nationally. The rejected proposals for set tlement likewise provided for a La- bor Board to which all complaints }on discrimination and firing were | to be brough Mr. Baldan: secretary the Federation, in his s this | morning on the breaking off of the relations has, however, not stated if this was one of the points agree- able to the union, Experience with the Winant Board, after which this board would be patterned, shows that it is an instrument through which thousands are locked out, evicted, and is now the | cause for another wave of strikes |in the textile industry. Several Thousand Picket This morning the main picket line of several thousand, proceeded | from plant to plant, concentrating Jat the Globe-Skein Dye Works, | | where several scabs were soon | cleaned out. | It is reported that Benjamin N, | Squires, secretary of the National Relations Board, is flying to Washe | ington in another attempt to medi= ate. of Militancy Halts Swindle The chief obstacle to Gorman, who is angling to incorporate the dyers into the same enslavement to the Winant Board that the rest of the textile workers have been swindled into, is the militancy of the dyers who have from the out- set made it plain that they will not go back to work until they themselves vote for the settlement. | The leaders of the union have | promised that no settlement will take effect until the workers in ev- |ery shop discuss and vote on it. But the militant spirit is threatened by the actions of Anthony Ammirato, President of the Paterson local of the dyers. | Speaking before this morning's meeting, he launched a vicious at« |tack against the militants in the strike ranks, while praising the pd- lice and urging the members |ma‘ntain their “co-operation.” Hé |urged workers not to boo the po: lice. “In Passaic and Union City, he said, “where our workers do not have the correct attitude toward the police, they have lots of trouble i ing the picket lines. The police | are not our enemies, they have give en us cooperation and will continue to do so if we continue behaving on | the picket lines.” | After stating that the union ig \ready to negotiate with the em= | ployers at any time it is called, Am= |mirato urged open gangsterism against the militants. | While Ammirato launched his |atteck against the Communists, at |the very same meeting inside | hall, leaflets announcing an elec= | tion rally with Norman Thomas, | Socialist leader, as speaker, were | being passed around. Also an S. P, publication, which didn’t even have Is word on the strike, was being dise tributed,